A/N: Natsu: *finally gets his magic back*

Natsu: *immediately starts blowing shit up in spectacular fashion*

It was inevitable you guys.

Now I just gotta figure out how to get him out of all the trouble he just blasted his way into.

Also honestly this chapter needs more Naruto.

But we'll make up for it next time.

Some pictures available on the Wattpad/AO3 versions of the chapter!

Thanks for reading!

"This is so stupid!" Natsu turns and storms away, stubbornly focusing on putting one foot in front of the other, until a sudden spell of dizziness sends him crashing to the ground.

Sasuke catches him at the last moment, and Natsu scowls up into his stupid face.

The Uchiha scowls back. "I'm not the one doing this."

"Inoichi said he'd put me in chakra suppressants if I tried to go make Sakuni stop though, so it's not my fault either!" Natsu protests, jerking himself from Sasuke's arms and stepping away. Even just that little bit of distance is enough to make him feel tired, and.

No. Just no.

He spins back around to glare at Sasuke. "We need to fix this!"

"The Hokage said we have to wait for Jiraiya."

"Screw that! You don't wanna wait either right?!"

Sasuke doesn't respond, but Natsu can practically feel his agreement.

"Besides, if we fix it, then they can't keep us in this stupid place anymore!"

It's a safe-house, supposedly, is what the Hokage told Natsu when he first woke up here a couple hours ago.

Naruto isn't even allowed to visit unless he comes with their sensei and whenever Natsu thinks about it, something dark and furious curls in his stomach.

He's pretty sure it's not even that Oro-guy's influence, because the way the entire village treats Naruto pisses him off on principle.

Not that anyone believes him.

Except Sasuke, but Natsu's pretty sure that's because it makes Sasuke angry too even if the Uchiha won't admit it.

Fire flickers between his clenched fists, and Sasuke sighs, Sharingan spinning slowly as he stares.

"I'm fairly certain they're keeping us here more because they haven't caught Orochimaru than anything else."

"Then we just-!" hunt him down ourselves, Natsu almost says, but.

That's exactly what got them into this mess, even if they had no way of knowing what would happen.

And Natsu's magic is back, as strong as ever, but Sakura-chan's body isn't conditioned to handle it, he remembers hurting himself with that one attack against the Kusa-guy.

Sasuke stares at him as though he knows exactly what Natsu wanted to say, and Natsu's pretty sure it's because Sasuke thinks the same thing himself a lot.

Even if it's for different reasons.

"We don't even have a training field." Natsu eventually mutters, kicking at the wall. It's just a tiny house with no doors leading out - as though that could stop him - and three small rooms: bed, bath, and kitchen, with a small hallway connecting them.

Natsu's pretty sure Earthland has prisons more spacious, and he hasn't even been here a day.

Sasuke grunts in response, spinning a kunai on one finger. They didn't try to take any weapons, which Natsu supposes isn't how a prison would do things, but even if he wanted to practice there just wasn't enough space to throw - the size of the rooms meant even he could hit the target perfectly every time.

"If we pulled everything out of the bedroom there might be enough space to spar." Sasuke grumbles after a moment, glaring back towards the doorway.

"I don't think it'll fit in the hallway - we'd have to put it all in the kitchen." Natsu spins to lean against the wall, arms crossed. "What d'ya think they told Kizashi-san and Mebuki-san? I mean, I guess it's not safe to let them into the mindscape if they don't even want me going in, but still…"

"Hn." Sasuke sits down, tossing his kunai and catching it idly.

That gives Natsu an idea.

"Y'know... if we blew up the wall between the bedroom and the kitchen we'd have enough room to actually do some stuff - there's nothing against it that can't be moved."

Sasuke catches his kunai again and looks up, Sharingan eyes boring into Natsu's. "They probably won't like that," he says cooly, and Natsu grins sharply back.

"Well they should have given us enough room to train then. Not our fault!"

The Uchiha smirks, standing again. "You gonna pass out if we split up to move everything?"

"As if!" Natsu turns towards the kitchen, glaring with determination as he starts to move.

The dizziness rushes up not five steps through and he catches himself on the wall, panting. "I'm fine!" he barks when he feels Sasuke step closer, because this whole mess is stupid and he refuses to let some ridiculous magic brand stop him from doing whatever he wants.

Sasuke starts walking in the other direction and spots flicker in Natsu's vision, but he ignores it, puts one foot in front of the other, bracing against the wall until he finally gets into the kitchen. Moving the two shelves from against the bedroom wall is harder than it should be, every step making the world spin around him, but he finally gets the dry foods rack situated by the fridge, and the cabinet set between the stove and the far wall before finally stumbling back over and collapsing as he waits for Sasuke. He leans there against the wall connected to the bedroom until he feels the Uchiha stop moving around as well, which only takes a few moments more.

"Good over here." The Uchiha says, voice muffled, and Natsu pushes himself to his feet. All the important kitchen stuff is clear, so he calls out a warning to Sasuke, lights up his fist, and punches.

A number of squiggly markings light up with a flash, and he hears the Uchiha yelp in surprise. When he steps back, the wall is completely fine.

Tch.

He feels Sakura-chan's presence start to grow stronger in the back of his mind. Scowling, he rests both hands on the wall and lets the fire surge, carefully holding Sakura-chan's own chakra back.

The markings appear again, and Natsu keeps the fire going until they start to flake off and disappear.

"What are you doing?"

Natsu grins, and when the last of the marks disappear, he steps back and punches the wall again.

This time, his fist goes through, and from there Sasuke helps from the other side and they pull it apart, a pile of rubble growing between them.

"There were seals." Is the first thing Sasuke says when they finish, staring at Natsu. "You melted them."

Natsu laughs, stretching his arms over his head. "Yeah, I broke some fancy custom seal on Kizashi-san's bathtub too. Apparently they don't like me! But we've totally got enough room now, right?"

"The ANBU should have shown up by now," Sasuke mutters in response, staring at the remnants of the wall. Natsu scoffs.

"Please. I only broke the ones on this wall, I didn't touch the others. So unless they're being perverts they probably haven't even noticed."

"How'd you do it?"

Natsu shrugs. "Honestly I'm not even sure how your guys' seals work, I didn't even mean to break the one on the bathtub. I just lit this one on fire until it snapped."

"I can't believe you broke tou-san's tub! You never told me that!"

"Ahaha, I'm pretty sure he got it fixed, don't worry about it Sakura-chan!"

Sasuke sighs. "She's awake again?"

"Yep! But I'm pretty sure she was awake earlier, just not, y'know, here."

"A girl needs some time to herself!"

"Yeah, Lu-chan says stuff like that too. You guys are weird. We gonna spar?"

The tomoe in Sasuke's eyes spin faster, and that's all the warning Natsu gets before the Uchiha attacks.

Even with the wall gone and the furniture in the bedroom rearranged, there's still barely enough room for them to have even a half-way serious taijutsu fight.

"We could… destroy the hallway one too… for a bit more room." Natsu pants during a brief pause. Sasuke glances at it, then nods.

"Just leave everything by the toilet alone."

"Yeah, yeah, I know." Natsu shakes out his hand, grimacing when the flesh around the curse-mark tenses painfully.

At least Sasuke's isn't somewhere that messes with his fighting, he grumbles to himself as he puts his hands against the other wall and carefully burns out the seals. Once they're gone, it's as easy to destroy as the first one, and then they're left with a wide space, broken up only by a single pillar in the middle.

Sasuke launches into another attack as soon as they agree it's good, and Natsu scrambles to keep a defense against the Uchiha's onslaught.

"Sasuke-kun's so amazing, right?" Sakura-chan cheers.

Natsu's pretty sure it's unfair to cheer on Sasuke when it's her body getting all bruised, but understanding girls is hard on a good day and he's pretty sure Sakura-chan is weirder than most, so he just throws himself more into the fight.

Just because Sasuke's eyes give him a stupid advantage in taijutsu doesn't mean Natsu's gonna accept losing!

Natsu and Sasuke are arguing over how to make dinner when they hear the wall grind open.

"What did you do?" Kakashi-sensei's voice rings out, disbelieving, and they trade glances.

Sasuke crosses his arms, smirking, clearly projecting an air of 'this was your idea' and Natsu nearly restarts their fight before Kakashi and the ANBU step into the kitchen area.

Naruto's just behind them, hands slapped over his mouth as he clearly tries not to laugh, and Natsu can't help grinning back at the blond, though his eyes stay on the masked men.

"Why." Kakashi says, completely deadpan.

"There were seals on these walls." one of the ANBU retorts, and Natsu gets the feeling they're glaring at him under the mask.

"The ceiling should have caved in." The second ANBU says, tilting his head up to look at it.

"Wha-?! I didn't touch those seals!" Natsu yelps, jerking his gaze up as well. "They should hold it up on their own right?!"

"The seals are inter-connected. Destroying one of them shouldn't be possible without destroying all of them. It's a failsafe to make it harder to break out." The first ANBU says, running fingers down the nearest wall.

The seal-scribbles light up, glowing all around the walls, as well as the ceiling and floor. The ANBU turn to stare at each other for a moment before they start signing back and forth, fingers flying fast as handsigns.

Naruto leaps forward to tackle-hug Natsu once they do, sending him stumbling into Sasuke, who scoffs audibly as he steps backwards to watch them crash to the ground.

Natsu's pretty sure a stray rock from the walls digs into his spine.

"You guys are okay! They moved you when I went to get some food, and then no one would tell me where, I had to find sensei and bother him until he went to Jiji who said I wasn't allowed to go alone… It was creepy!"

"Maa, Naruto-kun." Kakashi crouches down, ruffling the blond's hair as he makes eye contact with Natsu. "I do believe we need to ask some questions, or the ANBU will get twitchy. Ne~?"

"B-but!"

"We can still stay a little bit after. Also, I think your food is burning."

Natsu yelps, wiggling out from under Naruto to rush to the stove and yank the pan off the fire.

"How did you destroy the seals?" one of the ANBU asks as Natsu tries to salvage his and Sasuke's poor attempt at stir-fry.

Natsu shrugs. "I just lit 'em on fire, s'not like it was hard."

"Aa. With your bloodline?" Kakashi asks, and Natsu turns from his sad poking of the stir fry to look at him.

"It's not a bloodline! Anyone can learn it if they start young enough!"

The ANBU exchange more signs with each other, before the first turns back to them. "We will inform Hokage-sama of this development. You may stay until sunset." They both sink into the ground, and Kakashi turns a baleful eye on their dinner.

"Let's see if this can be salvaged, ne~?"

Natsu trades sullen glances with Sasuke, but steps away from the stove.

The Uchiha just offers a 'hn' in reply.

"Wow, you guys are a mess."

No one puts their walls back, which is nice, but they make Natsu burn up a whole bunch of seals too, which is annoying.

At least after the first couple times.

He tries to explain that he just lights the seals on fire, but no one believes him, so a couple ANBU make him burn a whole bunch of things again and again and again looking for some special trick they aren't gonna find because Natsu doesn't do anything special.

Even Sakura-chan starts to grumble at the ANBU after the second day, so Natsu knows they're being idiots.

By the time the third day comes around though, Natsu's gone straight past annoyed and into downright frustrated.

"There's no way I'm staying in here for two weeks." He hisses at Sasuke.

"What are you going to do, break us out?" The Uchiha snarks in return, and Natsu groans.

"Better than just staying here. I mean, what're they gonna do? Throw us back in?"

"Probably send us to an actual prison."

"Psh! We'll just break out of that too."

"Please don't, I don't want to be a criminal!" Sakura interjects, and Natsu groans.

"Okay we can't go to prison. But would they really send us there just for leaving? I'm bored out of my mind!"

"You're getting better at taijutsu," Sasuke offers. Natsu tilts his head back to glare at the Uchiha.

"Only because your eyes are cheats." He retorts, before rolling over to his stomach. "Besides! Breaking out won't even be hard, we're not that far underground so all we gotta do is blast through the ceiling and then we'll be outside."

Sasuke looks contemplative for all of a moment before he masks it. "The ANBU will be on us within moments. How exactly are we going to outrun them?"

"I dunno. But at least it would be more fun than fighting each other for the twentieth time today."

A pensive look crosses Sasuke's face, and Natsu knows he's won. He tries not to seem smug about it, because Sasuke totally will change his mind if he does.

"When we get in trouble," the Uchiha says after a moment, "I will make sure everyone knows this was your idea."

"Yeah yeah, show me which parts of the seal I need to burn to get us out without triggering the alarms."

Sasuke stands up and activates his Sharingan, bringing one hand forward to gently channel chakra into the wall.

"I'm pretty sure this is the alert thread, and I know this one is the power-channel. You break either of those and we won't even make it out. I think that one over there is one of the grounding partitions, so if you hit that it'll probably explode. There's some that look vaguely like storage seals, but I don't know for sure… anyway, those are these. Avoid them too."

"Wow you aren't leaving me with anything," Natsu grumbles as he climbs up onto the dresser to press his hands against the ceiling.

Sasuke keeps an eye on the seal, sharingan eyes tracing every pulse of light as Natsu's fire washes over the markings.

Somehow, nothing blows up.

They wait a couple minutes after Natsu finishes, just in case, but no ANBU appear either.

"We are going to be in so much trouble. You know that, right? When you guys get caught they won't let you be alone again, you'll probably have an ANBU in the room with you next time watching everything you do this is such a bad idea-"

"It's alright Sakura-chan! Besides, at least if they do that we'll have someone in here who actually knows how to cook-!"

"I know how to cook! But do either of you listen to me? Of course not! Idiots!"

Natsu chuckles nervously. "It's not like we completely ignored your recipe-"

"There were no tomatoes. Your recipes suck."

"Tomatoes don't go in stir fries!"

"L-let's just break out, yeah?" Natsu says, sliding the first dresser away from the wall. Sasuke grabs the second to put side-by-side so Natsu can brace himself easily as he brings down the ceiling.

"You're only going to have one shot," Sasuke says as he perches half-way up the wall, "if you don't break all the way through to the surface, you won't have any time for a second blast."

"I know, I know, but Sakura-chan says this is the most likely place, and you and your magic eyes agree. I can totally do this. Stop nit-picking!"

"You're going to burn my arm, aren't you."

"Only a little bit, Sakura-chan! It'll get better!"

He focuses then, grabbing his magic and building it up in his arm until it nearly starts to burn, the faintest hints of smoke starting to form over his knuckles.

He punches up, striking the ceiling and releasing all the fire, vaporizing the first layer of stone and exploding everything above it. The dressers crack beneath his feet from the force and he yelps, leaping up to catch at the rock, some of it still molten and steaming. He sticks to it with chakra long enough for Sasuke to leap on his back then scrambles up, trying to focus as much as possible on not burning.

They tumble out of the hole a moment later, Natsu's hands slightly red from grabbing so much super-heated rock but not damaged, and he pushes himself to his feet as soon as Sasuke rolls off him.

They make it barely two steps before the ANBU show up in a flurry of leaves, barely-visible shadows against the night-shrouded street.

Natsu cracks his knuckles with a grin.

"Wait- you aren't- NATSU DON'T YOU DARE!"

"ANBU-san, fight me!" He hollers, leaping at the closest one.

Sasuke facepalms behind him.