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Chapter Sixteen- Pictures

"KAKASHI-KUN!" Kagome said she had been woken up extra early by Naruto making lots of noise next door as he got ready to do something the he called 'survival training'. He told her he had to get ready and that he'd come by for dinner and tell her how it went.

'Oh no, it is her.' He grunted and ran a gloved hand down his face when she stuck herself to his back, again. Kakashi thought if he ignored her, that she'd eventually get bored and go away.

"Where are you going?" She asked curiously hitching a ride on his back swinging her body upside down only using her legs, on his shoulders, to keep her from falling off of him. Her eyes immediately were drawn to the two shiny bells hanging near his waist. Suddenly she remembered the promise she had yet to fulfil to Kirara.

"Somewhere. Don't you have anything better to do then bother me?" Kakashi had given in. Her constant swinging around on his body was making him unbalanced. Plus her feet were inches away from kicking him in the face. Having a fat lip underneath this mask did not look attractive, not even on the most handsome shinobi.

"Now~ that I think about it. Un, you're right. I'll catch you around some other time Kakashi-kun. Then we can spend lots of time together, just the two of us. I'll even cook you your favourite dish." Kagome said jumping onto a nearby rooftop holding the bells behind her back.

'How does she even know what my favourite dish is? I'm glad she wasn't assigned to be on my squad.' Kakashi thought as he continued on his way. He supposed he had made the group of three wait long enough. He was going to use the same teamwork test that he used on the other kids who were all mindless morons. The ones that were trash, who did everything that he asked them to. Kakashi's eye became a happy upside down 'U' at the thought of it, he had the bells right-...where were they? Did that girl-? Iie, he must have dropped them somewhere or left those ones on his other pants. Luckily he always carried spare ones around. He had a lot of these small bells lying around his house since also used them to train his kawaii shinobi dogs.

"Kagome you've decided to save- I mean ahah join us in our training!" Miroku said as the young girl skipped her way over with a giant grin on her face.

"Not really I just came here because Kirara is here and I have something for her," Kagome dangled the two shiny bells in front of the neko's face. Kirara's red eyes immediately lit up with happiness and she purred as she rubbing her head all over Kagome's hand. "Sango can keep these two bells for her? I don't want to lose them again."

"Sure just put it into my pouch, it's over there by that tree. Iie, not that one, the one to the right of that tree you were just at...no your other right," Sango directed watching as the two bells were placed into her red pouch that she kept a lot of other things. Looking at the river Sango took in a deep breath and stepped onto its surface again walking around before slowly starting to sink. "Well at least I have gotten much better..."

"Hey Sango-chan, huh? What are doing splashing around in the river with all your training gear on? You'll get sick or catch some sort of disease." A girl with two buns on the side of her head asked walking over. She wore her hitai-ite so that it covered up her forehead like Sango and Miroku did.

"Training..." Sango murmured purposely sinking her body in the water so she was deep enough to blow bubbles. She just needed to keep a constant flow to her feet. It was easier said than done for her. It was so frustrating, that's why she strayed far away from ninjutsu preferring to prefect her taijutsu style.

"Tenten, my love!" Miroku cried rushing over and squeezing the girl against his body in a bone crushing embrace. Tears were streaming out of his eyes as he swung her body around in a huge circle. "Oh how I've missed seeing your lovely face and hearing the sound of your melodious sweet voice. It's been too long since we've parted our separate ways, far too lon-"

"Baka!" Tenten slammed her fist into the underside of the jaw sending him flying up into the sky. "You're the only reason why don't come and visit Sango-chan more often."

"-and how you speak such unfavourable words to me." Miroku said lying on the ground in a twitching heap as he rubbed the underside of his jaw. He was lucky that he was used to getting beaten up by Sango on a daily basis that an uppercut like that just didn't hurt him anymore. He believed he had grown slightly immune to the pain dealt to him by angry women.

"That's because you deserve them! How many times do I have to tell you not to touch me before you get it through that thick skull of yours? IT'S A WONDER HOW YOU WERE ABLE TO GRADUATE, SINCE YOU HAD ONE OF THE LOWEST SCORES OUT OF THE OTHER KIDS!" Tenten hollered a tick mark on her forehead pulsing rapidly as her fists shook at her sides.

"Tenten-san are you alright? I heard your youthful yells from our training area I came to see if you were in any danger." A person who looked strangely familiar to someone a younger Kagome had met a long time ago way back when. He appeared a lot younger from the last time she saw him but still stylish as ever.

"Gai-sensei!" Kagome announced laughing as she jumped on top of the boy, who toppled over to the ground from the sudden assault. He looked up confused at the child who was sitting on his stomach giving him a big toothy grin.

"Iie! My name is Rock, Lee! Gai-sensei is my sensei...you really think I look like him?" Lee asked his eyes shining with stars. What this small child had told him here today was the best thing that had happened to him, since his birth- he had been mistaken as Gai-sensei!

"Hey who is the kid?" Tenten asked jutting her thumb in the direction were Kagome was sitting on top of her team mate. 'How could Lee not think that he looks like Gai...I don't understand why he tries so hard to look like him in the first place. He's not exactly the best role model to get girls to become attracted to him. No girls throw themselves at Gai-sensei's feet to worship the ground he walked on. He's a nice guy and all but that would be the day.'

"Oh that's the genin that was placed onto our squad. Her name's Kagome and she just graduated from the academy. She passed Ebisu-sensei's test yesterday." Sango fondly said smiling as she got out of the river.

Blue eyes narrowed at Lee, who gulped. "Wait, soooo you're saying that you're, not Gai-sensei? But you're wearing all of his stylish clothes that he wears! So you must be an imposter!" She used both her hands to tug at his thick eyebrows thinking that they would be ripped off. This boy's aura even reminded her of Gai and that was just creepy. If his aura had a mouth it would be screaming 'determination' at the top of its lungs to the high heavens above.

"ITAI!" Lee jumped back holding onto his thick beautiful eyebrows then pointed down at the girl on the ground that was looking back up at him curiously. "What do you think you're doing to my most striking feature that has been sanctified upon my face?"

"LEE-KUN! I heard your youthful cry of pain and hurried over as soon as I could! Are you alright Lee-kun? I don't know what I would do with myself if you got your handsome self harmed!"

"Gai-sensei!" Kagome jumped on him tackling the man she was sure was Gai, unless there was another person that looked like him. "Do you remember me?"

"Kagome-kun? IT IS YOU! I would never forget your spirited blue eyes and the youth that burns so brightly in your body! LET ME HAVE A GOOD LOOK AT YOU YOUNG CHILD," Gai said standing up and grabbing the small girl underneath her arms holding her at an arm's length away. "You're sniffle all grown up from when I last laid my most fetching eyes upon you! Kagome-kun, answer me honestly I have to know- where have you been all this time?"

"Training with my Obaa-chan sir!" Kagome said laughing then struggling to breath as her body was crushed against Gai's chiselled chest and his muscular arms.

"Gai-sensei you know her?" Lee asked his eyes widening with amazement, 'Gai-sensei is really cool he knows everybody! He is also admired and loved by all.' He wanted to be just like that when he was older.

"Hai, she joined me in my training for a couple of days many years ago then she disappeared and I vowed to myself that I would someday meet her again! AND HERE SHE IS! This is the girl you must thank, for she is one of the reasons I decided to be a Jounin sensei!" Gai turned her girl around and shoved her into Lee's open arms so he could dance around cheering, click his heels together and cry his 'manly' tears of pure happiness.

"Tch. Why do I even bother to come here and misuse my time trying to train when all you do is run off? Do I need to shove a dog cone on your heads to keep your attention in one place?"

"Neji-kun! My saviour," Tenten said with a wide grin on her face, she had to admit it. Her heart sped up whenever she saw him. Being on his team made her gain feelings for him it must be as he like to refer to it as 'fate'. She had heard about certain parts of his life- well mainly it was about his unconditional hate for the main branch family of the Hyuuga clan. Yet she was still able to manifest undeniably strong feelings for him. "You're here to save me from Miroku aren't you? "

"Hyuuga." Sango hissed jumping out of the water with a splash so she could be at eye level as she glared in Neji's direction grinding her teeth together in anger. She took more pride than she should in being slightly taller than him.

"Che," Neji clicked his tongue to the roof of his mouth at the disgusting scene of Lee holding a young girl in his arms. This was the same young girl who willingly hugged Gai. He slowly turned his body to face Sango who was sending a heated glare in his direction. Her entire body was dripping wet and her training gear clung to her body more than it usually did. If Neji was anyone but himself, he wouldn't have been able to stop himself from blushing at the sight. "Sakimitama."

"Grrrrr," Sango growled under her breath the way he said her last name, making it sound demeaning and not worth the oxygen it had wasted. She still hadn't blinked and continued to glare at him. "Shouldn't you be somewhere else?"

"I honestly don't get why those two hate each other so much." Tenten with a sigh dragging her eyes away from the bickering match, what really surprised her was the fact that Neji even bothered to reply to Sango. Tenten rolled her eyes she'd never get those two.

"I don't get why you hate me." Miroku said holding on tightly to one of her legs rubbing his face against her pant leg rapidly.

"I TOLD YOU NOT TO TOUCH ME!" Tenten yelled kicking Miroku's body away before angrily stomping off dragging Lee and Gai-sensei behind her. "Come on you two we're leaving before that boy decides to touch me again!"

"Kagome-kun! Make sure you continue to stay so fresh, exciting and YOUTHFUL-!" Gai said merrily, just then his head was dragged over sixteen large rocks each of them whacking the strange man in the head, knocking him out cold.

"Bye Kagome-san it was nice meeting you I'll see you around," Lee said giving the good guy pose as he was dragged back into the forest with Gai and when Lee turned to give his sensei a grin he noticed that his sensei's eyes were closed and his tongue hung out of his mouth, "GAI-SENSEI! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?"

"I walked on water using my chakra, when I was only six," Neji rubbed his achievement in her face. He didn't know why he did it. He supposed it's because he liked it when her eyes were on him- even if they did look like she wanted to tear him limb from limb. If he knew any better she probably could do it too. "That training exercise is simple." He had to fight down any sort of feeling he had for her. Instead he acted arrogant around her because he knew that eventually, when the time came he'd have to marry another Hyuuga- one of his cousins. There was so much inbreeding going on it was another one of the things he loathed about the clan. It was his destiny though and his path he had to follow bitterly until the end.

"Well not all of us can be so naturally talented like you Hyuuga this may come as a shock to you, but some of us actually have to work hard to be achieve the things that they want!" Sango yelled huffing as she turned her body away from Neji crossing her arms over her chest as she glared down at her reflection glaring back at her on the water's surface. 'Stupid training exercise, I'll show him.' She stepped out onto the water's surface and walked around looking in Neji's direction with a triumphant look on her face, that was, before she started to sink.

"Tch. You need a constant flow." 'Why am I giving her advice, no one was there when to help me when I learned how to do it. I've had to do everything myself since father-'

"Don't you think that I already know that! What do you think I'm trying to do, I'd rather be doing something else than sink into this river!"

"When you sink that means you need to send more chakra to the bottom of your feet. Do not over compensate otherwise you'll be wasting your chakra." Neji said his eyes narrowing then darting over to this squad's new teammate to assess her. She appeared to have no special talent, looked and felt- weak and was quite short. This wasn't a possible opponent he would want to fight; it would definitely be a waste of his time. Those were his thoughts as he roughly shoved his hands back into his pockets before walking back from the direction he came from.

"Di-did my ears deceive me or did Neji-san actually give you his advice? As in he wanted to help you learn the same training exercise that he's known ever since he was six." Miroku asked looking in her direction with his mouth wide open.

"Sounded like it." Sango grumbled punching the water to distort her reflection sending the liquid spraying everywhere as she climbed out. 'I don't get him at all why is he trying to help me? Is it because he thinks I'm too stupid that I can't figure it out by myself...ugh.'

"Even though I know you don't like him one bit. I still think you should take his advice, he sounds like someone who knows what they're doing." Kagome said looking at her upside down friend, since she was lying on her back.

"Fine, but none of you are to speak of this ever that means you're going to keep your lips from flapping around Miroku," Sango said stepping out onto the water again and when she started to feel herself sinking she sent a little more chakra to her feet. From that point on her face was scrunched in pure concentration as she tried to keep her chakra at a steady rate. There was some trial and error, but in no time she was keeping herself from getting wet. "I can't believe I'm doing it and I'm not going to get wet this time!" Sango was making her way along the river bank and for the first time she stepped back onto dry land without getting soaked, until Kagome ran up and pushed her in. Then she ran away from Sango who sputtered out the water before yelling, "GET BACK HERE KAGOME, YOU LITTLE GAKI!"

"-and then Kakashi-sensei told us that we should quit being ninja's all together- so Sasuke ran at him and then Kakashi-sensei pulled out a kunai and told Sakura to kill me so that Sasuke wouldn't die- I thought that she was really going to kill me- then Kakashi-sensei told us about teamwork and I was still tied up to that log anyways so then Kakashi-sensei is like after lunch you'll get another chance- 'don't give Naruto any food because I am the rule' or something like that- I just told them not to worry about me even though I was starving because Kakashi-sensei told us not to eat- then Sasuke offered to give me his bento- but then Sakura gave me hers instead then Kakashi-sensei made this big explosion and he was yelling at us and he told us we passed- and said that we were the first team that he ever had passed before!"

"Sugoi Naru-kun!"

"That test seemed kind of like ours. Except instead of bells Ebisu-sensei used his glasses." Sango said gathering up all the dishes and placing them in the sink because it was her turn to do the dishes this week.

"I suppose all Jounin sensei test their team for teamwork. Communication with other people is very important more than ever on missions," Miroku said bringing up his hand to hold onto his chin before remember that he could get acne from the oils on his hands. "You must be exhausted from today Naruto."

"Hai I am. If it wasn't for Kirara though I would have had to find a way to untie myself from the log because everyone forgot about me and left!" Naruto yawned and stretched out his aching body before making his way to the front door. "Well I'll see you guys later. I'm going to go to bed early my butt's really sore too from Kakashi shoving his fingers up there like that...thousand years of pain...stupid supreme taijutsu technique…"

"That didn't sound right... anyways Miroku when do you suppose Ebisu-sensei is going to get back from his mission?" Sango asked from the kitchen area over the running water and the clanking of dishes.

"A couple more days or maybe two weeks at the most, a jounin-sensei with genins that have less than two years experience aren't usually given missions that last a month or more. The Hokage-sama knows that jounin-sensei need to come back as quickly as they can, so they can keep an eye on their genin team. Why do you ask?"

"Just wondering when we can ask him when we get our next mission. I feel like leaving the village and fighting some bad guys. After all Kagome here hasn't been on one yet and if we're lucky we won't have to do any of those boring 'D' class missions."

"A mission, that sounds dangerous and fun!" Kagome said excitedly her whip like bruises were slowly showing signs of healing. "You know what I suddenly feel the need to train all this adrenaline is running through my body now. Don't wait up for me." 'I'm going to fight against my kage bushin clones again after I saw Naru-kun beat up Mizuki this has become by favourite way of training myself those reiki attacks really hurt.'

'He looks really tired.' Kagome thought as she loomed over Sasuke's face. It was all scrunched up in obvious pain. In her hands she was holding the envelope of pictures; she had kept four of them. One of them was a younger Kagome sleeping on a futon with Sasuke (since there were a quite a few of them), the one that she had framed was Mikoto and her with Sasuke dressed up like a girl and the last two was the one's she had taken recently were Sasuke and Naruto were lip locked and then the after math were they're choking and holding their necks. It was attractive.

A hand suddenly shot out and grabbed onto her wrist 'that is going to leave a mark' it was getting increasingly more painful every moment passed. When she could no longer bear the pain Kagome sent out some reiki waves. She would usually use that type of reiki heal people, but in this instances she made Sasuke relax, before he snapped her wrist. Slowly she felt Sasuke's grip loosen and soon she was easily able to slip her arm well out of his grasping range. Rubbing her bruising wrist with her other hand, she ventured into the kitchen grabbed a plastic bowl and placed it onto his head before going back in the kitchen. There she decided she would wait for him to wake up. After all she had come here to look through the pictures with him, it had been a couple of days now since they had been developed. So that she wouldn't get bored while she waited, she decided to make some salmon onigiri [rice balls].

"What's with you and places bowls on my head?" Sasuke asked his eye twitching as he dropped the bowl into the sink before sitting at his table where Kagome was happily munching away on a salmon onigiri. He remembered waking up in the hospital bed the day before Kagome told him that she had to leave, with a bowl covering his head too.

"It's funny," The window that she had opened in the kitchen blew around her hair a little bit. "I heard about your team passing Kakashi-kun's test, congrats."

'Why does she refer to my sensei as Kakashi-kun?' Sasuke wondered as he bit into an onigiri then he remembered why they passed. Kakashi-sensei had told them that after lunch they could try again but they were not allowed to feed Naruto. Then for some strange reason Kagome's voice floated in his head saying 'I'd never let you starve if I could help it Naru-kun. You need your strength for after lunch Iruka is going to be testing us.' That's when everything clicked in his head and why he had offered that dobe his bento box. He was the one who had ignored Kakashi's command that was the reason they had passed. "Un and… ari-gato."

"Douitashimashite? [You're welcome?]" Kagome was confused why was Sasuke thanking her for? She may never know. "Oh! I got the pictures developed off of your Kaa-san's camera yesterday! I wanted to look through them with you. Unless you're busy training today. It's okay if you are-"

"I can always go train later." Sasuke found himself cutting her off 'how come I'm changing my normal training routine for her- it's just because I'm interested in the pictures that's it. It's not because I want to spend time with her...is it? Iie, I'm interesting in the photos.'

"Okay let's go sit out front. I keep forgetting to tell you that your house is stuffy you should at least open a window once in awhile," Kagome said as she placed all the dishes in the sink and picked up the envelope full of pictures. She closed her eyes as a cooling breeze brushed past her and smiled it felt good to be outside in the nice warm sun her legs dangled over the side of his porch. "Here you can flip through the pictures. I can just look over your shoulder."

"Itachi was able to master the sharingan when he was eight and when he was ten he became chuunin. Then he became a jounin and shortly after that he became an ANBU leader when he was only a mere thirteen year old! Only one year older than I am now." Sasuke said angrily as he flipped through the first couple of pictures that were of a young Itachi receiving his titles, standing with his father. He crushed these photos into a tight ball and threw them as far away from him as he possibly could. They were only painful reminders that Itachi was still stronger than him and what that bastard had already accomplished.

"What's the sharingan?" Kagome questioned she had heard this word thrown around a couple of times when she was younger, but she had absolutely no idea what it meant.

"It's my clan's kekkei genkai [bloodline limit] it's an ability that allows the user to read and defeat all types of jutsu. The name 'sharingan' literally means copy wheel eye because that's what it does, it can copy an opponent's technique by just seeing it once." Sasuke said rather gruffly shoving his clenched fists into his pockets. He wanted to run off and go train harder than he had ever before now, just seeing that bastards face again just made him want to...

"Sasuke…I think that's the most I've heard you talk...well to be honest, ever!" She said as she tried to lighten the mood. "That means you'll also get this 'sharingan' am I right?"

"Hn. It only appears in a select few members of the Uchiha clan" 'so that means even then it might not appear in my eyes...damn that Itachi...'

"Hey this kid in the picture, is it you?" She asked with a small laugh as she held up the pile of pictures displaying the one on top that he hadn't even looked at. It was Fugaku who had colossal bags under his eyes looking absolutely disheveled as he tried to console a much younger Sasuke who appeared to be bawling his eyes out screaming at the top of his little lungs while he tore out Fugaku's hair with tiny chubby hands, the photo must have been taken by Mikoto.

"Hai." Sasuke looked at the picture and as his eyes scanned the scene, he calmed down and he pulled his hands out of his pockets and took the pictures out of Kagome's hands. He had almost forgotten what his Chichi-ue had looked like. The photo behind that one was of him pouting angrily. His small face was entirely red, his hair was styled into a bowl cut and his Kaa-san was in the background holding a pair of scissors looking at her son very sheepishly and apologetically as he looked like he was on the verge of bursting out into tears.

"That's why you never liked it when someone mentioned 'bowl cut' when we were younger."

"Un…" He flipped through the pictures quicker now, there were pictures of birthdays with Itachi in them and he didn't want to see that face of his. Sasuke stopped at a picture were a younger Kagome and Sasuke were snuggled together on a futon sleeping peacefully blissfully unaware that someone was taking pictures of them.

"You'll like the next pictures. I remember those one's being taken." Kagome innocently said with a grin on her face, she was glad Sasuke did not get up and leave without seeing the rest of the pictures. She had actually contemplated removing all the ones with Itachi in it, but that would seem suspicious on her part. It would make it seem like she had something to hide.

"You guys, did this to me when I was asleep?" Sasuke muttered expertly flipping around a photo, using two fingers, of him in a dress. 'My Kaa-san must have wished that I would be a girl when she got pregnant with me.'

"Un! Your Kaa-san was really fast when she dressed you up one second you had your normal clothes on the next you were in a dress then we both made your hair look like that together."

Sasuke flipped through the last couple of pictures, one of them that he had gotten a good glimpse at was a seven year old him practicing the goukakyuu no jutsu while his Chichi-ue hid up in a tree and watched him. He didn't know that his father had been there watching him the entire time… He thumbed through the rest of them but prior to him getting to the end his attention was drawn away from the photos and went to Kagome who had hopped off the porch.

"If you're looking for the picture that was taken where you're kissing Naru-kun it's not there. I've hidden it away were no one will ever find it!" Kagome said she knew what Sasuke was looking for as he quickly flipped though the rest of the photos.

"What do you plan to do with it?" Sasuke carefully placed the pictures back into the envelope.

"Probably blackmail you guys or I'll eventually forget where I've hidden it; either way it's one or the other." Came her truthful reply, she look up at the sky. The clouds had started to darken tremendously as they hung over Konoha ominously, it was spooky looking.

"That's reassuring," Sasuke mumbled to her as he briefly went back inside his house to drop the pictures off, so that he knew they were safe and he could look through them again later. "How did your jounin test go to see if you could be put onto a squad? Since Iruka-sensei said that you passed and Kakashi-sensei said that only 10 genin were going to make it?"

"Hmfpt, it was nothing like the test Kakashi-kun gave your team with the two bells." Kagome said sitting back down on the stairs to Sasuke's house, using her leg she propped up her arm on top of her knee and leaned her face against her hand looking at all the empty houses.

"How so?" 'She said it again Kakashi-kun. Why does she refer to him as such? Not- that it matters to me because it doesn't! How did she get that bruise? It looks like it's in the shape of a hand. Somebody must have grabbed her wrist roughly-'

"First off mine wasn't a test with the rest of my team. I was tested by myself. Miroku said it probably was because I was already too familiar with my teammates. Sango said I must have played a prank on him when I was younger and it was payback. Before you ask, I was placed onto their squad and their- well I guess it's now 'our' team leader's name is Ebisu-sensei."

"Then how were you tested?" Sasuke was only asking these questions because he was curious about learning how the different methods jounin instructors had.

"I had to get his yucky looking circular sunglass off of his face, I guess it wasn't that hard," She said with a shrug of her shoulders looking back to see Sasuke's obsidian eyes looking directly into hers. "He was just making me angry the way he talked about Naru-kun but by the end of the fight he changed his views and I broke his glasses. He owes me an all I can eat ramen from Ichiraku Ramen because I bet him that if I won, he'd have to!"

"What were the stakes at?" He just wanted to know…how a jounin thought.

"Nothing all that bad... if I won, I'd be accepted on his team and get an all I can eat ramen paid in its entirety by Ebisu-sensei. If he won then I'd have to quite being a shinobi I think his exact words were, 'but if you fail, not only do you have to go back to the academy but you won't be allowed to become a shinobi ever.' Now that I think about it, that doesn't even make sense. He said he would send me back to the academy but I wasn't allowed to become a shinobi." Kagome said in the same exact harsh tone Ebisu had used. Then she laughed at the expression that Sasuke was giving her that clearly was asking 'are you stupid?' she had to look away. "I suppose I'm luckily I won."

"He must be a weak jounin if a mere genin, fresh from the academy could beat him on their first attempt." Sasuke concluded that had to be it.

"Un, I guess so. I didn't really get to see him go all out because whenever I could I would attack his arms, that way he wouldn't be able to use any of his jutsus on me."

"Surprisingly smart, for someone who hangs out with Naruto so much."

"I'll just pretend I didn't hear you didn't say that."

"I can say it again, surp-" Sasuke soon found Kagome behind him with her hand covering his mouth, muffling the rest of his words.

"You may not know this but Naru-kun has actually been practicing very hard every single day. He straps himself down to his bed and does tons of sit ups and he hasn't asked Sango, Miroku or I to help him with learning his jutsus," Kagome said before removing her hand once she felt that Sasuke wasn't going to say something rude about the hyperactive blonde. "He even made this doll to look like Kakashi-kun and I walked in on him one time when he was beating the stuffing out of it. Becoming a shinobi has changed Naru-kun it's made him…serious and he hasn't even asked me to play a prank with him since! I've been so bored these last couple of days."

"Che," Sasuke looked off to the side, why was she always so quick to defend Naruto, it was probably because she liked him- what did that dobe have that he didn't? An annoying laughing, orange clothes, a messy apartment that smelled like- okay let him rephrase the question. What did Naruto have that he wanted, absolutely nothing….except maybe Kagome spending most of her time hanging around him, but- that was only because- uh crap- okay this one, he couldn't make up an excuse for. "He'll always be a loser in my books."

"Sasuke…" The tone in her voice had changed from its usual happy one got his attention. "I've been meaning to ask you, but there never seemed to be an appropriate time for my question. You don't have to answer if you don't want to but, what did Itachi do to you after I passed out?"

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