(teamwork) tidbit from chapter 5, scene 2~

[askerian]

I wrote more than that, actually, but I don't wanna share right now because i'm cruel and evil and still figuring things out. :p



Over the next two weeks, his resolve to behave like a professional was sorely tested.

Along with the usual weeding and gardening ("... Splash me with mud again and DIE."), delivering messages, food and heavy items all over Konoha ("betcha I'll be done first!"), carrying old women's purchases ("Such a handsome and well-behaved young man. Tell me, do you know my granddaughter Emi? She's about your age and..."), they also had the good luck of collecting kunai lost by academy students during a field trip ("How the HELL did that land there?"), assisting the teacher of the five-year-old kids ("It's like herding cats..." "I'd rather BE herding cats!" "... Sasuke... tell me ours will take after Shika and just stay put all day..."), and babysitting/bodyguarding the nephew of some noble or other during a trip to an amusement park ("Naruto, damn it, you don't spank your customer!" "Spoiled brat deserved worse! He was only pretending to cry anyway." "Yeah, but his parents aren't pretending to dock our pay, you retard.").

Then Hokage-sama needed her library sorted out and the subjects of her scrolls noted down ("Oh wow, that's really gross. Look, Sasuke!" "... Get that scroll out of my face if you don't want it stuffed up your ass." "Less flirting, more lifting, brats -- you still have these crates to do."), and then it was laundry at the hospital ("oh, OWW, they've put electric fences around the water tower!" "...I wonder why, moron." "... Oh, right. Uh... Sasuke..." "Less whispering, more sheets hanging, boys! And I better not see you using these laundry baskets for anything untoward, alright?" "What?! We weren't --" "Oh, you weren't inappropriate, but them foxes, they're all perverts, you can't trust 'em. Guard your rear, child." "...You want your rear guarded, Saaaasuke-kun?" "Oh, shut up -- and don't even think about it."), and then it was replacing orderlies at the senile old ninjas ward ("well at least there's not too many of them --" ZING "--but who the HELL thought they should get to keep shuriken?!" "You don't want to deal with the paranoia they work themselves into when we try to take their weapons, kid. You don't. They haven't lived so long because they're -- watch out!" "... Shower. Where." "... Uh. At least the bedpan was changed a few hours ago?" "SHOWER. WHERE.")

Sasuke did his very best to stay professional, though he sorely missed Sakura at times. Competing with Naruto could make the most tedious physical tasks entertaining, and Naruto never got hurt when Sasuke felt like not talking and tuned him out, but there were moments he wondered how they could do anything without her to play the diplomat between the two of them. They play-fought, even knowing that there were moments when it wasn't appropriate, about as often as they fought seriously, with cutting words and fists to the face -- and they were both too stubborn to apologize afterwards.

And she was the only one who actually knew anything about the hospital and its residents -- or, hell, the only one who had any nurturing instincts at all, not to mention actual patience -- and she was too busy kicking the shit out of things to keep the crazy old coots at bay. Did he look like a goddamn nurse to the sadist who gave these missions out?

Comments

[ktoth04.livejournal.com]

hehehe!
teamwork!
<3

[edenfalling]

I like the idea of a ward for senile ninja -- and of course they get to keep their weapons! *dies of laughter*

[valles-uf.livejournal.com]

It is an amusing thought. Of course, I'm more amused that the nurses likely get hazard pay - not for the reason Sasuke would guess, but, to borrow from Terry Pratchett, because in a profession most of whose practitioners die young, they have lived to become very, very old.

Ja, -n

[askerian]

hehehe ^__^ hazard pay = god yes. the elderly ninja must be so very lethal and tricky to live that old XD

[askerian]

heh, well, they have to do SOMETHING with them. The ward wouldn't be big, though -- can you imagine the odds of a ninja working that long in the field? They'd usually go back to civilian life or at least to administrative stuff...

... a whole life of war and intrigues and murder. heh. that would make them so interestingly fucked up by that age.

[valles-uf.livejournal.com]

*points at Kakashi*

[muffytaj.livejournal.com]

Poor kids, getting all the yucky jobs. But very amusing, and yay for a bit of Sakura appreciation! And yay for shiny new fic *grins*

[complexphoenix.livejournal.com]

Herd of five-year-olds = WAY worse than a herd of cats, all right. The water tower! *cracks up* "Foxes are all perverted and Sasuke's rear must be protected from the ebil Kyuubi" - *laughs self to death* Senile ninjas- *big silly grin*

Professionalism? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Professionalism is for guys who don't have rivals that need sniping at :P

And now I get me to bed at 5 in the morning.

[askerian]

hehe ^_____^ glad it amused you *cuddlesquish*

[animeprincess.livejournal.com]

o_o ..... no WONDER nobody attacks the old senile ninjas! bedpan Shuriken!

[askerian]

hahaha XDDDDD lovely phrasing.

[animeprincess.livejournal.com]

X3 can't even change their own depends, but damn if anyone attacks em. cause nothng's worse than a senile ninja who's had creamed corn and fiber and can wing a bedpan with ease.

[windshades.livejournal.com]

Yay! You wrote more teamwork!
I loved this, especially the last three paragraphs--the interplay between the boys and the people around them and Sasuke thinking about how the three fit together.