Chapter 7: Frustration

Sasuke continued to glare heatedly (pout) at Naruto for about a minute and then poked his tongue at him, facing away and crossing his arms with his ears still and facing forward. The blond shinobi poked his tongue too, his face an angry red.

"How mature kitkat..." Muttered Naruto sneeringly while expecting a reaction from the other boy.

"That's it, nya!" Sasuke turned around to face the blond, his visage crimson red and his eyes shut, but when he opened them Naruto wasn't infront of him anymore. Instead there was the big, mean, furry, and drooling hound looking directly at him, its snout just a few inches away from his face. Sasuke's eyes widened as he paled.

"Nyaaaaaaaargh! It's gonna eat me!" Sasuke yowled as he swiftly jumped to his oblivious silver-haired sensei's shoulders digging his claws on Kakashi's locks, his tiny claws digging into the poor man's scalp. The jounin widened his visible eye a bit and raised his gaze as Sasuke clung to his head and he felt his slight trembling on the back of his head. The pink-haired kunoichi and the blond shinobi looked at a frightened Sasuke hissing and clawing at the dog that calmly sat a few feet away. Kakashi sighed.

"Fine, I'll walk your dog Sasuke; Naruto will carry yours, Sakura. You carry Sasuke." The jounin ordered wanting to end this as soon as possible. His students nodded obediently as her sensei carried Sasuke and shoved him in her arms fixing his messy hair. Naruto was too amused to complain, the cat-boy in the other hand, was too busy staring nervously at the dog, his tail bristled, his ears flat on his head, and his claws still out. He crept up to Sakura's head and buried his claws in her hitai-ate.

After what felt like hours of non-stop hissing and screaming of the now youngest student, team 7 arrived to the Hokage's tower and gave the dogs to theirs respective owners. Sasuke slid carefully off of Sakura without letting go of her leg, just in case. He poked his tongue a last time at the brown hound, when he thought he was safe enough; the calm dog though, came closer to him and licked the boys face with his own big, wet tongue. The dog's eyes widened curiously as Sasuke suddenly yowled hysterically and jumped to the ceiling of the Hokage's office digging his claws to the ceiling. Everybody looked up inquiringly at the little kid as he shivered fearfully above their heads, turning his head slightly to look at the brown 'beast'. "Looks like there will be no more dog walking missions for you, ne Sasuke?" Tsunade teased amusedly at the trembling ninja.

"Tsunade-sama, please," Kakashi begged tiredly at the Hokage, "leave Sasuke alone."

"Fine, you may leave. You'll have tomorrow free, too." The blonde lady dismissed the four ninja with and annoyed tone. "I have to continue my research anyways."

"Hai!" Kakashi, Sakura and Naruto answered, and turned to leave, before they remembered that Sasuke was still on the ceiling.

"Oi, Sasuke, let's go!" Naruto commanded the nekomimi, but the boy didn't even budge. He kept a death grip on the ceiling and his eyes shut. Kakashi then appeared with a puff of smoke behind Sasuke and pulled him off the ceiling, and then re-appeared at the door. "Mah, let's go." The Uchiha kept a death grip on the jounin's vest as he eyed nervously at the hounds. When the four members of Team 7 exited the building the raven relaxed a little, but kept his grip on his sensei's vest as strong as ever. He cuddled against the man's chest and buried his head in it. The jounin looked sympathetically at his student and gently petted his hair. He widened his grey eye a tiny bit as he heard his student purr, and beamed again.

The other students stared curiously at their teammate and teacher as they kept walking. Naruto lowered his gaze ponderingly. The scorching sun's rays burned his tan skin as they walked through Konoha. He could hear the villagers running busily from one place to another and the kids playing joyously through its active streets. A small rock caught the blond's eye and he started kicking it as he strolled along his team. His plan was a total fail, Sakura still loved the Uchiha and he couldn't do anything about it. He did love teasing the raven though, Sasuke was very cute and laughable, but it just wasn't the same. This pathetic little guy would just ignore the blond while he brought all attention to him with his cute face and his cat-like behavior, or worse, he would cry like a baby to get even more attention. It was so annoying! He had to find a way to make Sasuke-teme pay!

His mind rushed through all the possibilities, as he thought of thousands of pranks –some smarter than others, some crazy and some lame. He couldn't think of anything worth trying... He eyed his rival hatefully again and saw him purring contentedly as both Sakura and Kakashi petted him. How dare that bastard!

Sasuke leaned blissfully into Kakashi's touch as he purred in happiness. He willingly enjoyed the attention he was getting, but suddenly his ears perked up and his tail twitched in alarm. He felt a deathly stare to his right and looked towards it while his unaware teammate and sensei continued pampering him. His curious obsidian eyes met cold cerulean and blinked. His ears folded downwards and he shivered as he felt the blond's dangerous aura, cuddling slightly closer to his sensei.

"Naruto! Don't look at Sasuke-kun like that!" The suddenly wary kunoichi barked. "He's done nothing to you. He's just a cute little kitten." Sakura kept petting the raven as Naruto's blood boiled.

"Yeah, you're right, Sakura-chan, he's pretty cute." He admitted deceivingly as he reached a hand towards the Uchiha and pulled one of his ears making the raven whine in pain. Sasuke bit down hard on Naruto's hand. The Uzumaki screamed in agony and tried to shake his hand free in a futile attempt as the raven held on stubbornly to his sun-tanned hand.

"Aaaah! Let go, bastard!" The blond shoved the raven away with his free hand and looked at it with teary eyes as he rubbed it trying to lessen the pain. He had a deep bleeding wound. "See? He's evil!" The blond pointed an accusing finger to the raven.

"Sasuke-kun, that was not nice!" Sakura scolded the raven as he pouted and looked away. "Hn." "Ugh, whatever, I'm going home!" Naruto huffed and stormed away holding his sore hand.

Sakura sighed, "I shoulg go too, it's getting late. Good night Sasuke-kun, night sensei." The kunoichi waved a hand happily at them as she went home.

"Hmmm, maybe we should go back, too." Sasuke yawned and nodded as he let go off Kakashi's vest and they walked home in silence.

When they arrived home, Kakashi prepared dinner and they ate. The man then took a bath and Sasuke got in bed. He would have liked to take another bath- he didn't like feeling dirty- but his cat instincts refused to get near the water.

He yawned sleepily besides it being early and curled in a ball as sleep overtook him.

After his bath, Kakashi went to check up on the boy and was surprised to find him sleeping. He smiled to himself and turned the lights off, "Good night, Sasuke."

The jounin then went to his own bedroom, he read his favorite orange book for a while and then turned his own lights off and went to sleep. Neither of them noticed the pair of eyes staring carefully as they slept.

I'm really sorry for not updating in so long! I had a little complication... But here is the new chapter! I don't like it that much, but I figured it wasn't fair to make you wait for so long. But don't worry :3, some action's in the way. I just didn't want to make it too quick.

I haven't had much time, but I'm also working on my Pokemon and Naruto crossover thingy. =.= It's a lot of work, I'm thinking of the Pokemon each character will own and designing a new region based on Naruto's Universe. If you have any ideas, suggestions or requests for these or any other stories, or you find any mistakes please let me know ^.^!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of it's characters.

Btw: I'm not a native English speaker.