A/N: This was inspired by the sudden review by TheRealDeal44

Not that any one else who left a review isn't important, you all are but I am just too damn lazy to name everyone right now so I do apologise for that, I promise to do 'Thank You's another day.

Okay, so some interesting action as well as useless stuff and it is slightly more serious than previous ones but I'm trying to keep the balance between... well, you know, or not, who cares :D

ENJOY!

Chapter twelve

"Guys… Do you think we'll ever get bored of waiting here for Kakashi? Do you think we'll ever learn that nine times out of ten he'll never show up on time?" I asked one bright and early morning.

"There was that one time…" Sakura mused and it was true, one morning we decided to show up late like Kakashi… We had run around the outer wall of the village, I had lost count at twenty-five and that was around mid morning and I couldn't feel my legs for a week, that was highly disconcerting, you just imagine your leg flapping around like a piece of plastic, making that sloppy flap noise… Okay, that was a terrible comparison, erase disturbing image!

I read too much yaoi in my other life!

"Do you have fleas or sumthin'?" Naruto asked as they noticed I was scratching at my hair like a dog would at its head as I slowly lowered my arms.

They'd gotten used to me slowly, I have been trying to be more serious, especially concerning our missions and Naruto unconsciously trying to kill himself just when I was doing better than him but he never notices that Sakura is always ahead of me so come on!

"Not that I know of… wanna check?!" I asked, shoving my hair in his face as he pushed me away with a slight smile of amusement.

"Ah. My cute little genin are playing are they?" Kakashi appeared in a puff of smoke as Naruto and I calmed down slightly.

"Actually we were training." I said proudly as Kakashi's eyebrow raised.

"And how exactly was that training?"

"Training Naruto in personal hygiene." I said as Sakura held a fuming Naruto back who looked more like a raging monkey instead. "Sensei, I have a question." I said as Kakashi was watching me again, he'd cooled down a lot around me and we still have our little rivalry thing going but it was more playful bantering now.

"Sasuke… Is it about a hypothetical scenario again?"

"No."

"A question as to supposedly unnatural things like mine and Sakura's hair?"

"No."

"A question of our sanity?"

"Hm… it might be a little involved we might just touch on it."

"Then what is it?" Kakashi asked.

"Why don't we have our own theme song?" I asked, crossing my arms with a pout as Sakura squealed Naruto almost fell over and Kakashi seemed to be in that moment when you take in a breath trying to figure out how you feel.

"Ninja who have theme songs are dead ninja." Kakashi deadpanned and I shook my head violently, I think Sasuke's perfect never looks perfect anymore and just looks like a savage's.

"No, like a team thing like we can sing it just before we go on missions and shit." I said.

"Sensei, can't we just leave him behind again like last time, tied to a stump?" Naruto asked and I could see the temptation gleaming in Kakashi's eye. Oh hell no! I learned how to do that stupid rope untying jutsu thing so no more tying poor little Uchiha Sasuke-chan to a tree or anything else long and pointy… Wow, I must be having with drawls from my yaoi.

"Actually, I am rather curious." Kakashi spoke up as Naruto groaned and Sakura had a little bit of curiosity in her eyes even as she tried to turn the whole idea down. This is what I liked about Kakashi, he knew how to go along with it and annoy Naruto as much as he annoys us and Sakura too.

"Okay, so Naruto does this over and over again." I said, making a sort of beat box thing with my mouth as Naruto gave up and joined in. "And Sakura is going to do this bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, buuum kind of thing." I described as Naruto carried on and Sakura tried it out as I threw in my last bit and I stopped, Naruto and Sakura following along. "Then Sensei, you suddenly say 'Master Ninja theme Song' and ta da!"

"Okay then… Let's give it a shot." Kakashi said with a cheerful eye smile as Naruto rolled his eyes and began his beat, then I followed in and then Sakura came along then suddenly… "Master Ninja Theme Song!"

"Oh my god that was amazing!" I grabbed Kakashi's flak jacket and stood on his stomach, yelling it to his face with wide eyes.

"Sasuke… Padded white room."

I was standing by a tree, leaning my arm against it and looking cool with lidded eyes. It was a deal, if they said those three little words then I promised to revert to something more normal, more Sasuke-ish.

"Kakashi, do you have our mission?" I asked coolly as Kakashi pulled a scroll out of his pocket.

"Okay, your mission today is… Catching the Daimyo's Wife's cat, named Tora."

The mission description was barely out of Kakashi's mouth as I began to stalk off, wanting blood, cat blood.

"I'm going to murder that cat." I muttered. "Naruto, hurry up, I need your trap skills, tonight we're eating cat!"

"Hell yeah, let's get it!" Naruto yelled, jumping up with a fist, a scary grin on his face.

"Cruelty to animals!" Sakura yelled after us with anger.

"Um guys, we're supposed to return it alive otherwise we don't get paid." Kakashi said pathetically slouched over, scratching the nape of his neck.

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Okay, I have been in this tree every damn day as well as excusing myself from missions straight away but Kakashi seemed rather eager today to leave and give in his mission report. Maybe today is the day where everything starts? I've said that every day since three months ago…

I'm supposed to notice other ninja in my own village aren't I?

Probably…

Do I have the training?

Probably not, Kakashi can be a lazy teacher when he wants to be.

"Ouch!"

Ah, my 'Sasuke Senses' are tingling!

Okay, Naruto is yelling, more yelling, charging in, slipping on an imaginary banana peel, more yelling, Sakura incapacitating, Kankuro pulls back and queue my beautifully round rock I have been carving for the last few weeks.

"Hey cat suit, what are you doing in our village?" I asked, throwing my little friend up and down, yup, I also started another rock while I was here, it was fun, it makes pretty fairy dust that I'm planning to somehow sneak into Kakashi's smoke clouds.

"SASUKE-KUN!" Sakura squealed as I smirked slightly, lol, it's like my own announcing theme song. Oh, and Temari is totally blushing, she so has the hots for me.

"Ah, another guy who pisses me off." Kankuro groaned and I rolled my eyes.

"Oh please, don't act like you're better than me, you're just a genin too and you are clearly outmatched in an unfamiliar surrounding so…" I pulled a raspberry with a V for victory flipped over and pointed over my shoulder with my thumb. "Jog on."

"Kya! Sasuke-kun!" Actually, it's more like a siren than a theme song.

"Hey punk, get down here! I hate show offs like you the most." Kankuro said, taking his mummy off of his back.

"Kankuro, stop it."

Queue creepy emo jinchuuriki number one of the Ichibi, Sabaku no Gaara!

*Random crowd applause*

"You're an embarrassment to our village." Gaara added coolly. Oh yeah, I so totally chose the right day for this! "Losing self control in a fight, how pathetic. Why do you think we came to Konoha?"

"Listen Gaara, they started it and…"

"Shut up, I'll kill you."

Ooh… Kitty got pwned.

"Sorry to you guys." Gaara looked at me, I felt like I was watching one of those zombie movies where they put those dead like eyes contact lenses in, his eyes were like that but green which was cool but totally unnerving when they were still alive and moving as he disappeared into sand (so cool might I add) and appeared down by his apologising teammates. "It looks like we got here too early but we didn't come here to play around." Gaara said as he turned and began to walk away.

"Hey Gaara." I called as all of them stopped, Kankuro and Temari looked freaked and Gaara just looked at me coolly as everyone else watched with confusion. "You're here for the chunin exams right?" I asked, jumping down as Gaara turned fully back towards me. "Uchiha Sasuke… Remember it."

"Uzumaki Naruto, believe it!" Naruto bellowed and Sakura punched him as Temari seemed to roll her eyes.

"Oh, I'd remember his name too, it might be useful in the future." I said, activating my sharingan ominously.

"Let's go." Gaara said, letting his eyes stay on me for a while longer before he jumped off with his team. My sharingan caught the movement but I didn't make any sudden moves… The team from Sound were watching me.

'So Orochimaru has been in this village this long so far.' I wondered to myself as I heard Naruto and Konohamaru and his friends talking as Sakura walked over and touched my arm, I deactivated my sharingan.

"Sasuke-kun, are you okay?" She asked with general worry in her voice.

"You're stronger than you think Sakura." I said as she gasped and blushed and I gave her a slight smile. "You and Naruto are my teammates I can trust with my life… This is just the beginning." I said seriously to her before jumping off.

I needed to clear my head. I haven't felt this serious for years, including my past life. I didn't want this life to be as sad and as depressing as my last life because I know everything but after Haku and seeing that Sound team… It's like watching your favourite cartoon come to real life and realise there is way more feels in everything than you thought before, it was just a stupid cartoon show, nothing real but…

"This is real… and who knows how much longer I will be here, possibly Sasuke's entire life." I said to myself, I should really stop referring to myself in third person from now on.

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"So this really is where all of you hang out…" I said out in wonder, entering the mission's room, the smaller one up stairs, not the one the Hokage usually uses like seen in Shippuden in the first arc. (Referrence chapter thirty four page thirteen ;) )

People stared, they always stared but I recognised Genma, Anko even and even Hayate (mental note to save him) then Kotetsu and Izumo who looked like they were on a lunch break in the corner by the water cooler with Iruka sitting at the desk with other people, probably representatives of the daimy or council or something.

"Sasuke? It's rare to see you around." Iruka asked as I walked straight up to his desk, looking around, he didn't have his usual spunk and that was when I remembered he probably had that argument with Kakashi about the exam nominations, this was going to make it worth it.

"I came looking for you actually Iruka-sensei." I said, feeling slightly awkward with my hands in my pockets, I never really interacted with him much before this whole fiasco started so yeah…

"Do you need something?" Iruka asked as I snapped out of my musing.

"Actually… Do you know how the smoke of a ninja works when they use the body flicker jutsu?" I asked as Iruka blinked, eyes going wider and wow, that scar was really out there.

"Why do you ask?" Iruka asked, seemingly interested at why I was interested in such a technique. I took a sack out of my pocket, looked around as I opened it before tilting it so Iruka could see inside as his eyes widened. "What is that?" he asked in wonder as I zipped it back up.

"Dust from rocks…" I said as Iruka had a small smile playing on his lips. "I know you were a troublemaker like Naruto back in the academy and as a genin and right now I want to hit Kakashi with it." I said, an evil smirk on my lips.

"Kakashi huh?" Genma sauntered over, his senbon clicking in his teeth. "I'm so in." He smirked and I smiled back evilly.

"I need to know how the body flicker works so I can get it in Kakashi's smoke and make it sparkle with this stuff, it will be extremely satisfying and spectacular." I said and Genma's eyes took on an interested glint.

"You know we can't Genma-san." Iruka protested weakly as Genma looked at Iruka who was looking like a kicked puppy, damn that bastard, what did he say to him to make such a wonderful person (I'm guessing here, Naruto loves him so yeah) so upset and put down about themselves.

"It was wrong for what Kakashi said to you during that meeting." I said to Iruka as his face lit up with surprise and Genma's eyes blinked wider with surprise as well as I grinned. "I promise it will be fun to watch and I have enough of this stuff for this to happen for days even if he teleports everywhere all day."

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Kakashi had shown up late… Predictable but he didn't teleport in and it was so hard not to laugh because I knew the reason why, apparently Genma had a bone to pick with Kakashi too and readily helped Iruka and I in our plans.

He handed us our chunin exam applications and walked off again, I just HAD to follow. Around the corner, he checked around quickly before making the hand seal and disappeared, glittery dust flew everywhere as the smoke dissipated quickly and I was rolling on the floor.

"Kid, you really are a damn genius." Genma said, coming out of the bushes with a grin of his own.

"I have been meaning to get him back and this will be priceless because soon enough he'll forget and teleport away, the rumour mill will be running for weeks." I grinned as Genma held out a fist which I bumped.

"If you have any more ideas, come to Iruka-sensei and I and we'll make it happen."

"Actually…" I hesitated, should I, shouldn't I? Hm…

WHAT. THE. HELL.

"Can summoning contracts be altered? I think Kakashi summoning a giant floating green balloon dog may just be the icing on the cake." I asked and I knew that more ninja will soon get in on this as well because making fun of Kakashi was just too good when he tries to act so cool about it.

"I'm sure we can find a way without causing a risk when he goes on missions. Tell you what, I'll butter Iruka-sensei down and he can help us with barriers and seals so we don't get him killed on a mission."

"Perfect."