Sasuke wondered through the market, wondering why the hell he had to be troubled to do this. He scowled at nothing in particular. He really should be training; Hinata was busy training with her father and her cousin, Neji. Sasuke glared at a couple of girls nearby who were staring at him. It was a gorgeous Saturday; Sasuke was annoyed at how many people went out around mid-morning. Sasuke paused at the vegetable stall to haggle with the old couple about prices. The jobs the team had been taking didn't pay great, and were very mundane.
Sasuke left the stall with a bag dozen tomatoes, some leaks, and various of things Hinata demanded. I really am used to Hinata doing this for me, Sasuke acknowledged. Every week on Saturday mornings before the sun was fully up Hinata would go shopping at the market, and she had quickly learned to pick up the foods she deemed he should eat or he wouldn't bother.
When he first moved out Hinata became extremely busy with some clan ordeal, during that time Sasuke dedicated all of his time to studying new techniques and training endlessly; he was obsessed with getting stronger. Sasuke ate simple plain meals, onigri, and tomatoes. He rarely slept, didn't eat healthy enough, he became pale; he squinted often from reading in the dark and spoke to almost no one.
Hinata found him a month later passed out on his living room couch, still in the day before' clothes filthy from training, he was bloody and bruised. His fridge was fucking pathetic; he was going in a downward spiral of self-destruction. Sasuke was snapped out his reminiscing when he heard several ear-shattering shirks, he glance behind him and saw a bunch of stupid girls. His left eye twitched; honestly didn't they have a life? He quickly slipped in a dark alley and skillfully hopped the wooden fence in the back of the ally before leaping on to a nearby roof. From his perch Sasuke watched the girls run around and get confused. It was a mix of a ninjas as well as civilians. Sasuke scoffed, they called themselves ninjas? Sasuke left thinking of his stupid Sensei and teammate.
Sasuke had never wanted to strangle Naruto as much as he did now. His head pounded as Naruto was freaking out, his yelling made everything worse. They were wasting time, time they didn't have if they wanted this to work. It's Hinata's fault, he reasoned glaring at her unconscious form, insisting we with Naruto and not just grab a bell ourselves. Sasuke's eyebrow twitched as he finally tuned back into the real world, and listening to Naruto.
"I killed her! No, no, no!" Naruto practically screamed, shaking Hinata's limp body, "Wake up! Wake up! I'm sorry I called you weird!" Naruto dropped Hinata and grabbed his head with both hands, "What do I do? What do I do?"
"Naruto." Sasuke said icy cold, as he watched Naruto stop and slowly turn to face him. Naruto gulped heavily, it amused Sasuke how scare of him Naruto really was. Naruto opened his mouth, but Sasuke was pissed. Sasuke grabbed Naruto by the collar of his jacket and pulled Naruto towards himself, his punch sent Naruto into a tree; denting the tree. "Finally." Sasuke muttered grateful for the silence that followed.
Sasuke kneel next to Hinata, leaned down to her ear, "Hinata, I cut off Neji's hair." He smirked; he had actually cut Neji's hair while living with the Hyuuga's. Granted it was only a couple of inches and nobody outside the family noticed. "I used you're sewing scissors."
Comically, Hinata shot up. "You did what!" Sasuke had realized when they were seven that while Hinata had adapted to not being shy around him, she was still insecure around pretty much everyone else. Sasuke was the only one who could make her angry, it was sometime he found more entertaining than beating up Naruto. "I can't believe you Sasuke! Do you know how much trouble I was in for that!" Hinata's voice was raised, but it wasn't yet a shout. Sasuke watched Hinata clam down as Naruto picked himself off the ground, rubbing his jaw.
"Are you two ready?" Sasuke watched Naruto's face pale at his heartless tone. Hinata, however, used to Sasuke's lack of caring about anything or anyone; straighten up.
"You have a plan, right?" Hinata asked; probably ready to supply at lease a working plan. She never did well with making strategy on the spot. Sasuke scoffed, "Obviously."
They made a semi-circle and began to plot.
Sasuke breathing was heavy and his body was tired. Rotating his shoulders, he straighten up and headed back to his house. Sasuke never bothering leaving the Uchiha compound to train, since the compound had several training areas. It had taken him months to clean up the whole compound. The Hokage had people clean up the aftermath of the massacre; but dust, age, mold and mildew had attempted to take over. He's eyes swept over his backyard, there was a patch near the furthest east corner that got the most sun where his mother's garden used to be, the opposite corner where his brother and he used to train, and the middle of the yard had bald patches from his father's fire jutsu where grass could never grow again. Sasuke ended through the back of the house, heading to the kitchen for some water.
Sasuke flopped down next to the table with his drink, to find this notes and books set in care piles to the side and a small scroll on the other side of the table. Hinata, his mind supplied, she must have stopped by while I was training. Hinata was the only person he ever allowed in his home, and that took a lot of time for him to allow. He broke the seal with indifference, unrolling the scroll he skimmed it before tossing it unceremoniously back on the table. Sasuke glared at the scroll before heading off to shower. He'd deal with it later. He passed the team picture he had set on his desk in his room, they actually had little issues when taking it, besides Naruto complaining. Kakashi had insisted on paying for it to celebrate their passing his test; although he and Naruto had skipped out on them the day of the survivor test at dinner just before the bill came.
Hinata had walked home with Sasuke after Kakashi finally let them leave. She ended up making dinner for the both of them, claiming now that they were on a team he had to start eating meals with nutritional value. They had decided to study different strategy tactics. Sasuke had ended up teaching Hinata the sign to break out of genjustus, they would have to ask Kakashi to help if they wanted it to work in actually battles. They had beef curry and Hinata had made a small cake, which Sasuke wouldn't touch.
Kakashi was standing in a medium sized clearing, reading his book, seemingly unguarded and bored. A rain of shuriken and kunai came at Kakashi from opposite sides of the clearing, slashing through Kakashi's face and neck. 'Kakashi' disappeared in a puff of smoke; nothing more than a clone. The real Kakashi jumped down from a nearby tree, book in hand, he scanned the area mentally complimenting how well they hid. Naruto burst out of the underbrush at that point and attacked Kakashi with several of his clones. They sparred for several minutes, until Naruto was pulled underground and buried to his neck. Sasuke jumped out at that point and attacked Kakashi as well, he hopped Naruto would use his brain and get his clones to get himself out.
Sasuke tried a few different combos to get a bell. He threw a punch at Kakashi, who merely used the back of his hand to block, Sasuke grabbed Kakashi wrist and used his momentum to throw Kakashi a few feet; he annoyingly landed on his feet in a crouched position. Sasuke threw several kunais at Kakashi while he prepared a kick to the side of Kakashi's face, Kakashi slid under Sasuke and went for Sasuke's open back. Sasuke cart wheeled away from Kakashi's kunai, and activated another trap. This one swung a large log at Kakashi, it hit and Kakashi disappeared and a log fell to the ground.
Kakashi attacked from above, he tried to tackle Sasuke who cut Kakashi's arm with a shuriken as he barrel rolled away. Sasuke threw a punch at Kakashi, which was blocked, then amid a kick at his face forcing Kakashi to use both hands, before he was tossed into a tree. Damnit!, Sasuke climbed back to his feet, I was able to touch it, but he threw me the second he realized it. Sasuke used his Katon: Gōkakyū no Justu; he could hold it for quite some time. Kakashi seemed to under estimate his abilities when it came to his Grand Fireball Justu, he had some small burns when he fled the flames. Hinata dropped into her Hyuuga style, and ran at Kakashi, who had just gotten out of the fires reach. He quickly dodged her first strike, and then proceeded to keep just out of her reach. After a few minutes Hinata got frustrated, she threw some shuriken then charged at Kakashi from the left. Kakashi grabbed her wrist and made a sign, leaves from the surrounding area spun around her making her shoulder length hair lift.
Sasuke knew the signs of GenJustu, and hopped it had nothing to do with spiders, otherwise Hinata would flip. Naruto had gotten himself unstuck, by some miracle, and nodded at Sasuke. They gained up on Kakashi, who had pulled his book back out.
Naruto created a bunch of clones and they all attacked Kakashi with the real Naruto and Sasuke. Sasuke kicked Kakashi in the chest, forcing him back a few feet. Kakashi ducked the two Naruto's who attempted to attach themselves to him, they disappeared in smoke. Sasuke aimed a kick at Kakashi's head, but ended up putting his foot through one of the clones of Naruto. All the Naruto's stared at him, "Hey! Don't hit me!"
"Shut up Baka!" Sasuke glanced around looking for Kakashi, until one of the Naruto's punched him in the face.
Sasuke turned his face, glaring death at the Naruto that hit him. Sasuke stabbed it with a kunai and blocked another Naruto's shuriken. The Naruto's ganged up one Sasuke, who took them out one at a time. A Naruto kicked Sasuke in the chest, hard enough to launch him into the air; Sasuke did a backflip and landed facing the tree line. He noticed Hinata had gotten out of the genjustu, good he thought distantly. Kakashi had appeared between Sasuke and the five Naruto's left. The Narutos went in for a blunt attack, while Sasuke spun around and did his Katon: Gōkakyū no Justu. Sasuke was careful to not kill the real Naruto who's jacket wasn't all the way zipped up, so Sasuke could tell the difference. Sasuke stopped the Justu and kicked Kakashi in the side while Naruto punched him from the opposite side. They sparred for a few more minutes before Kakashi straighten up and clapped. What? Sasuke was confused, is he taunting us? We don't have much time left, better used this to our advantage. "Very good. I'm surprised you all worked together." As soon as the words left Kakashi's mouth, the timer went off.
"Sasuke, Naruto." Hinata spoke from the left side of clearing, she held the two bells in her left hand and had a few burn marks on her hands and face. "Here." She threw each of them a bell, leaving her with none.
Sasuke caught the bell and smirked at Hinata, while Naruto fumbled his and shouted, "We did it!" over and over. Kakashi looked at all of them, "Everyone eats lunch…..except Hinata." With that Kakashi disappeared.