Date: July 2nd, 2011

Time: 1105

Location: MCRD Parris Island, South Carolina

POV: Sasuke Uchiha, USMC Recruit

Can't… fucking… breath. That is about the only thing I can think of as we make our way through the gas chamber. Now it's not like the shit the Nazis did to the Jews during the Holocaust, cause it's tear gas, but that still doesn't mean it sucks. I know Shikamaru, who a few weeks back the Drill Sergeant gave him the name of Autumn, as he fell from his bunk during wake up call, is right in front of me, with Naruto behind me. We slowly make our way to the light at the end, the exit, we can finally breathe clean air. We are all coughing up a storm as the sunlight hits us, and our eyes slowly adjust.

"Choji fucking move it." Shikamaru says as we reach the door. We rush out, where the Drill Sergeant is yelling at us.

"DON'T FUCKING TOUCH ME TONS OF FUN. MOVE TO YOUR RIGHT AS YOU COME OUT." I barely make out what he is saying as we all pile out of the room.

"Fucking Christ." Naruto says as he hunches over behind me.

"Look at the bright side. We have a week left." Shikamaru says between breaths and we nod.

"WHAT WAS THAT PRIVATE AUTUMN?" Oh look, the Drill Sergeant wants to join the conversation.

"Nothing sir."

"We were talking about how we will miss you after we leave boot camp sir." Naruto chirps in, getting a look from Shikamaru that I can only describe as murderous intent. I look at the Drill Sergeant, and what looks to be the world's smallest grin… wait. Holy fuck, Naruto managed to make the bastard grin.

"Well, if that's the case, you can always come back and do another round of boot camp." He responds, in probably the nicest tone I have ever heard from him. "Listen up maggots, I'm in a good mood, so I'll let you walk over to the mess hall for lunch, except you fatty, you still gotta run." We all sigh, except for Choji, and we take our sweet time to arrive at the hall. We eat and head back out to training. Another obstacle course, crawl under barbed wire as they fire blanks over our heads. Keep your head down, treat it as if it's the real thing. I finish it quite easily, and look back to see a roadblock in the form of Choji getting caught in the barbed wire. Once that's over with it's to the kill house, a two story building with five different sized rooms on each floor. Once again, luck is on my side as Naruto, Shikamaru, Neji, and I are put together. We are armed with M4A1 Carbines and M9 Berettas. One side of the entrance is Naruto and Neji, the other side is Shikamaru and I. " You have 15 minutes to save a hostage. Put a flashback through the door and clear each room until you find them. GO." Naruto grabs the doorknob and cracks the door open just enough for me to toss a flashbang in, and he closes it. Once the bang goes off he pushes it open and fires at a steel target across from the door. I rush in behind him and take out a target to the right as he checks our left.

"Clear left." He calls to the rest of us.

"Clear right." I respond when others join us.

"Neji, take point."

"Got it." He heads to a door to the left of the first target. He heads left and fires a couple rounds as Shikamaru heads right and does the same. "Clear left."

"Clear right." We head in and see two doors.

"Okay, Sasuke, you and Shikamaru take the right, Neji and I will take the left."

"Copy that, you want point or shall I." Shikamaru asks as he takes a quick look at the ammo in his M4.

"Go ahead. I'll take point next."

"Suit yourself." He says before kicking a door down and taking left, nothing. I head in, nothing. "Clear left."

"Clear right." We head to the door at the end of the room. I take point and rush in as so does Naruto on the other side. I fire shots into a target in the far right corner and Shikamaru takes shots at the one on the right. Neji hits one to our left and Naruto, his rifle doesn't fire, so he quickly swaps to his M9 and fires three rounds into the one on our right. "Clear left."

"Clear right. Hold up, gotta check what's wrong." Naruto says as he pushes hard on the mag and tries to pull it out to no results, so he turns it to face the ejection port down and pulls the charging handle back and releases it. He shoulders his rifle and fires a shot. "Okay, we're good. I'll take point up the stairs."

"You sure you want to do that, taking your rifle just jammed."

"Fair, Sasuke take point."

"Stack up, on me boys." Everyone falls behind me and we slowly make our way up the steps, Shikamaru and I have our guns on the second half of steps and Naruto and Neji have theirs on the part watching the steps we were currently on. I reach the top of the first set and see a target watching over it, so I fire a couple of rounds into it. "Steps are clear, moving up." I call out as we make our way up to another door. I open it slowly and take out a target to the right of the door, before swinging it open to take out the other one in front of the door. "Room's clear." I say as Neji steps in front of me.

"I'll take point, fall back a bit."

"Understood." I fall back in line behind Naruto and take the rear of the line.

"We have five left." Shikamaru says as he looks up from his watch. Shit, how did 10 minutes go by so fast? Probably didn't help that Naruto had a malfunction to attend to. In a real life situation, any slip up, whether in your control or not, can cost a civ their life. I think to myself as we quickly make our way, taking out targets before reaching the final room. Naruto takes point, with me behind him, and everything goes slow when he pushes the door open. He shoots a target just behind and over a woman, who is on the ground. I take a target to the left out as Shikamaru comes in and takes out one on the right.

"Clear left."

"Clear right."

"Good, Neji grab her, we are leaving." Naruto says as he steps onto a little patio thing and kicks a rope off it. Neji, now carrying the stand in for a hostage, walks over to it as Naruto heads down to secure the bottom. Neji goes next and the two of them rush her to the finish line as Shikamaru and I head down.

"They could have waited for us." Shikamaru says as we sprint to the finish.

"Tell me about it, at least we finished the course in time." I respond as we catch up.

"Good work Marines, and with 1:30 to spare. Head over to the range for weapons training." The woman says before walking over to reset the drill.

"Thank you mam, and don't call us Marines, not yet at least." Naruto says as she reaches the top of the ladder she is on.

"If you wish private." She responds as we make our way to the range, where I trade the M4A1 for a M40A3 bolt action rifle, fitted with a 12x50 sniper scope. I pull the bolt back and load the five 7.62x51 NATO rounds into the internal magazine and close it.

"Neji, care to spot me?"

"Sure thing." I hear him setting down something heavy over at the 25yd range before walking over to the 200yd range where I lay on the ground, and lays prone next to me, so he can see through the spotter scope. "Target is 200 yards out, as you know, wind is going left to right, about two miles per."

"Not much to change in terms of windage, going one mil up to account for distance."

"I hear you, where am I looking?"

"Aiming dead center, bullseye on the body."

"Understood… alright, fire when ready."

"Going hot." I flip the safety off and breath to calm my nerves before squeezing the trigger. It's a movement ingrained into my memory from countless times hunting with my father and or older brother. Bring the handle up to unlock the bolt, pull the bolt back, watch to make sure the spent casing flies out of the receiver, push the bolt forward to chamber a new round, and put the handle back down to lock it back in place.

"Hit, smack dab in the center." Neji shouts the confirmation. I pull the trigger again, and repeat the motions. Again, again, and again. The last round I put in the head. "Five for five, I think."

"I know I did, HEADING DOWN 200." I shout and Naruto, who is at the 100yd range gives a thumbs up.

"You're good. I'm gonna inspect my rifle real quick." He responds as he pulls the magazine out and checks to see if a round is in the chamber. Before separating the upper and lower receiver. I and the officer overseeing the range walk down to check the target, and set a new one up.

"Two holes, one much larger than the other." I comment as everyone starts to file in. So I swap the M40A3 for the M4A1. Standard stuff, getting used to your weapon so you can reload while having bullets fly over head, and firing controlled bursts, as to not burn all your ammo. That was until we heard Private Beater Jerkins scream out in pain, as the genius to his right left his finger on the trigger and shot him in the foot.

"WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK." The Drill Sargent walks up and rips the guy a new one as Naruto, Shikamaru and I run over to give medical attention to Jerkins foot, or what we could give him. Calling him about everything in the book, even adding some new stuff to said book in the process. That's when he slapped the private. "LISTEN HERE YOU LITTLE SHIT BAG, GIVE ME A HALF HEARTED REASON AS TO NOT DISHONORABLY DISCHARGE YOU RIGHT HERE AND NOW." Once the Drill Sergeant said this, the kid snapped and sucker punched him and mounted him, and started to try and kill the old guy. I look over and see Neji grab him and straight up suplex him off the Drill Sergeant, and Choji drags the Sergeant away and joins the others in beating the guy to a pulp. An actual medic comes in and takes over for us as we look up and see the carnage next to us.

"HEY." Naruto barks at the other, and is able to get them to stop. "The fucker is out, no need to kill him." He says as the Military Police shows up.

"We'll take care of him, all of you return to your barracks." We do as we are told, the barracks were dead silent, that was when one of the younger DIs walked in, and we all shot off our bunks and went to attention so fast it was as if God himself was our Drill Sergeant and we were all some kind of bible thumpers.

"At ease." He walks around for a bit, looking us all over before stopping in the middle of the group. "Listen up, I will be taking over the duties of your Drill Sergeant for this last week of your time here. And within the following days, you all will be asked to give your side of the events that just transpired" He looks down at his watch. "Go get dinner and return here for your hour of RnR, understood?"

"Sir yes sir." We all replay before he sends us on our way.

"Man, I can only imagine how that guy's parents are going to react." Shikamaru says as he sits down with some food.

"They'll probably beat him to a pulp worse than the others did." Naruto responds, taking a swig of his diet soda. "And I can't wait to get out so I can drink an actual soda."

"That's why I drink water. And like every parent ever, It'S bEtTeR fOr YoU." Neji says as he stops putting food in his mouth to hold up said small bottle of water.

"Yeah and it tastes less like ass when it's warm." I add. "Still doesn't last very long though." Once we finish eating and head back to the barracks. I lay down on my bunk, I remember a time where I didn't like the thing and had to force myself to sleep, but now I'm glad they gave us these. I lay there, looking at the bottom side of the bunk above me.

"Hey, hey buddy." I look to my right and see a guy holding a small bag with something dark greenish, gray in color.

"The fuck you want?"

"Want some weed?"

"The fuck, no."

"You sure?"

"Yeah. Besides, you'll get busted with the shit eventually so why even try selling that shit here?"

"Cause I'll make hella bank." As he says this, the new Drill Sergeant and two members of the Military Police barge in and grab him. "Hey man, I didn't do anything."

"Then what the fuck is this?"

"His." He pointed at me, and pissed me right off. And so I shot up out of my bunk.

"Listen her you fucking pot head, your lucky I don't punt your head higher then that clown you call a daddy was when he made a ballon animal out of the circus' only condom and knocked up that mega slut you call a mother." I yell at the top of my lungs, before Naruto grabs me and holds me back.

"Calm down private." The DI says as I start to regain my composure. "We have security footage of you getting this shit from your pal. And he told us everything when we picked him up early this morning." His expression changes as soon as they tell him his partner is under military arrest. "So I thought. Everyone hit the sack." They walk out and turn the lights off. Everyone heads off to sleep, but I don't, still kinda pissed about what just happened. "Two fucks getting dishonorable discharged in the time span of two and a half, three hours. How fucked is this week going to get?" I think to myself before eventually falling asleep.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: If it wasn't obvious, the last two chapters aren't 100% accurate of what happens in basics. But I thought I would say it just to make sure. But anyways, I'll be skipping the graduation and heading right to their first deployment. Hope you'll stick around and until next time.