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(teamwork2) chapter 6, scene... i forget.
beginning of the next scene. I was trying to finish it before posting, but blargh, got distracted for two hours and now Sakura and Naruto are refusing to be cute and I'm ze sleepy. So... blah.
Not sure if the action is clear, or if something is lacking, and some of my choices of words make me doubt a bit. Hrrm. Suggestions plz?
Once he was done with the library, Naruto strolled into the Hokage's tower, casually waving hello to the guards at the bottom of the stairs. They didn't stop him. They never did unless Tsunade had specifically requested not to be disturbed; and even then she had to add "on pain of death" to make them try with any real conviction. He guessed that being known as Tsunade's Official Likeable Annoyance had its perks.
He passed a few people in the corridors, but at this hour, everyone was working. The door to Tsunade's office was closed; he could hear voices in the other room that she used to stock medical stuff and books and scrolls.
Well, damn; that was where he needed to be. He still remembered where she had made him and Sasuke put away stuff during one of their D-rank mission, and the scroll in question was memorable; he'd used its illustrations to gross out Sasuke. Once he was in the file room, he could find the scroll quickly, provided the old hag hadn't arranged everything all over again. But if she was in the file room -- damn it. And he couldn't really come back in the middle of the night when she was gone.
He was still hesitating over the road to take when Sakura's voice rang out. "Yes? You can come in, you know."
With a guilty start, Naruto reached for the half-open door, and grinned at her as he popped his head in. "Hi, Sakura-chan!"
"Oh --"
"Sakura? Who's here?" Tsunade asked, her voice muffled by the closed door to her private file room.
"It's Naruto, Hokage-sama," Sakura called back before turning to smile back at him. She still looked kind of puzzled, though. "What are you doing here?"
... Okay, keep as close to the truth as possible... "Bah, Sasuke sent me to get him stuff because he's too lazy to move his ass, and I decided that he could wait a bit while I said hello."
Sakura wasn't really telling them much about her special training, so he gave a curious look at her workspace. She was standing in front of a low table, with squiggly markings painted on it; there was a tail-less dead lizard belly-up right in the middle. There were other critters in jars and aquariums lined up along one of the ends of the table; Naruto stepped closer to peer at them.
"Eww, gross," he commented cheerfully. "Sakura-chan the mad scientist. So what are you doing, sticking fish fins on its tail stump?"
She rolled her eyes at him, though her attention was back on the lizard, and her hands had started glowing green again. "Shh. If you can't stay quiet--"
"--I'll boot you out," finished Tsunade as she emerged from the file room, startling him into nervous laughter. "I might even boot you out right now if you don't stop distracting her. Sakura?"
Sakura was biting her lip, frowning in concentration. "Still holding it, Hokage-sama."
"Good. Second stage now," Tsunade ordered as she dumped a pile of scrolls on her desk and turned briefly to go close the door of the file room.
Naruto was too busy staring at the scroll he wanted -- right under the new pile of scrolls! Damn it! -- to pay much attention to Sakura's second stage.
Which was why he missed the start of Sakura's sudden lunge, and why the feel of a cool, squirming body zipping up his neck and into his hair made him scream like a little girl.
Then, of course, he lost his balance because he'd been in the middle of an about-face to look at Sakura, and her desperate grab for the suddenly very alive lizard only managed to put him even more off-balance.
"... Ow."
"You're picking that up, Naruto," Tsunade informed him wearily, as he sat up against the desk and rubbed at his bruised hip. Naruto groaned, glaring at all the stuff he had managed to knock off the desk on his way down -- oh. Oh. Oh yeah.
"Wait -- are you hurt? Let me see," Sakura asked, pushing away from the table on which she had sprawled and circling it.
Hee, she was so sweet, it was just a bruise, but getting her healing hands on his body -- wait ack no! She would see what he was doing! "Nah, nah, it's alright, Sakura-chan, I'm already all better." He grinned -- a bit nervously -- at her over the edge of the desk, and turned away to pick up the scrolls, heart speeding up. Tsunade was still watching from the other side with her hands on her hips, disgruntled, but with a little luck -- now where had the green scroll gone?
"Hurry up, you lazy brat."
"I'd be faster if your office wasn't full of other stuff! How am I supposed to know what was already on the floor or not?" he grouched back, crawling around to hunt down the scrolls.
There, green scroll! He crawled closer -- guhh, please make them not notice --
"The lizard!" Sakura dove under her table to catch the -- tail-sporting, now -- reptile. Naruto thanked the deities watching over him and picked up the scroll, moving to slip it in his jacket.
There was another green scroll hiding behind a pile of paperwork. Same white and gold edges; the rope holding it closed was pale brown instead of white and he couldn't remember which was the right one. Ohfuckdamnit.
"Put them down, you're going to drop them, trying to hold so many at once," Tsunade commented as she swooped down and negligently picked up the second green scroll.
"... Aha, Uzumaki Naruto would never be so --" ... so... ick. Why did his usual automatic boasting have to fail him now, whyy?
"Clumsy?" Tsunade replied, smirking just a little bit.
Pouting, Naruto got up and went to dump his armful on the Hokage's desk. He could feel the first scroll slip down his vest and settle against his belly. Did it look weird? He couldn't glance down to check -- maybe he could feel it? Be discreet -- but he'd been turned away too long. Pasting another grin on his face, he turned to face them, and prayed for it not to show.
"So, when will you be done with Sakura-chan?"
Sakura was busy stuffing the lizard in a glass jar with a grim smile on her lips; she didn't pay him much attention, apart from a quick smile at her name.
"Let me see the lizard first," Tsunade asked, reaching out to take the jar from the girl.
Naruto leaned closer, poking at the glass curiously. "Did you bring it back to life or what? I thought it was dead... Oh hey, it was missing its tail, wasn't it?"
Sakura huffed in a 'You're stupid' way, but she was also grinning, so he just grinned back.
"I was trying to combine holding a stasis with regenerating a missing bit. Of course, with such a small animal, it's easier, and lizard tails naturally regenerate, so it was more of a matter of giving his body a nudge, but I think I've found the trick now. Hokage-sama?"
Tsunade peered at the lizard for a few seconds longer, then nodded. "Indeed. It's almost time for my next appointment, so I'll let you go now." She rolled her eyes. "No doubt that Naruto will make himself a nuisance and you won't accomplish anything anyway."
"Hey, I wouldn't!" Naruto protested.
Tsunade wasn't listening to him; she was still talking with Sakura. "Don't forget to practice that trick during your meditation. I'll see you tomorrow."
Naruto waved and started toward the door as Sakura bowed to Tsunade. The second he was out of sight, he had a hand up his jacket, and the green scroll safely tucked away in one of his inner pockets with the other scrolls he'd borrowed from the library. When Sakura joined him in the corridor, he was able to smile much more naturally.
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In unrelated news, someone's got to explain to me how a fic being a multiparter means it doesn't count as NC-17. Maybe they meant that a multiparter can't deserve the NC-17 in each and every chapter -- oh, wait, still doesn't make sense. Oh well. *shrug*
Oh, hey. Chan = anything with pre-teens. Guess that rules out anything that happens pre-timeskip then. I wonder if bestiality is allowed?
Not sure if the action is clear, or if something is lacking, and some of my choices of words make me doubt a bit. Hrrm. Suggestions plz?
Once he was done with the library, Naruto strolled into the Hokage's tower, casually waving hello to the guards at the bottom of the stairs. They didn't stop him. They never did unless Tsunade had specifically requested not to be disturbed; and even then she had to add "on pain of death" to make them try with any real conviction. He guessed that being known as Tsunade's Official Likeable Annoyance had its perks.
He passed a few people in the corridors, but at this hour, everyone was working. The door to Tsunade's office was closed; he could hear voices in the other room that she used to stock medical stuff and books and scrolls.
Well, damn; that was where he needed to be. He still remembered where she had made him and Sasuke put away stuff during one of their D-rank mission, and the scroll in question was memorable; he'd used its illustrations to gross out Sasuke. Once he was in the file room, he could find the scroll quickly, provided the old hag hadn't arranged everything all over again. But if she was in the file room -- damn it. And he couldn't really come back in the middle of the night when she was gone.
He was still hesitating over the road to take when Sakura's voice rang out. "Yes? You can come in, you know."
With a guilty start, Naruto reached for the half-open door, and grinned at her as he popped his head in. "Hi, Sakura-chan!"
"Oh --"
"Sakura? Who's here?" Tsunade asked, her voice muffled by the closed door to her private file room.
"It's Naruto, Hokage-sama," Sakura called back before turning to smile back at him. She still looked kind of puzzled, though. "What are you doing here?"
... Okay, keep as close to the truth as possible... "Bah, Sasuke sent me to get him stuff because he's too lazy to move his ass, and I decided that he could wait a bit while I said hello."
Sakura wasn't really telling them much about her special training, so he gave a curious look at her workspace. She was standing in front of a low table, with squiggly markings painted on it; there was a tail-less dead lizard belly-up right in the middle. There were other critters in jars and aquariums lined up along one of the ends of the table; Naruto stepped closer to peer at them.
"Eww, gross," he commented cheerfully. "Sakura-chan the mad scientist. So what are you doing, sticking fish fins on its tail stump?"
She rolled her eyes at him, though her attention was back on the lizard, and her hands had started glowing green again. "Shh. If you can't stay quiet--"
"--I'll boot you out," finished Tsunade as she emerged from the file room, startling him into nervous laughter. "I might even boot you out right now if you don't stop distracting her. Sakura?"
Sakura was biting her lip, frowning in concentration. "Still holding it, Hokage-sama."
"Good. Second stage now," Tsunade ordered as she dumped a pile of scrolls on her desk and turned briefly to go close the door of the file room.
Naruto was too busy staring at the scroll he wanted -- right under the new pile of scrolls! Damn it! -- to pay much attention to Sakura's second stage.
Which was why he missed the start of Sakura's sudden lunge, and why the feel of a cool, squirming body zipping up his neck and into his hair made him scream like a little girl.
Then, of course, he lost his balance because he'd been in the middle of an about-face to look at Sakura, and her desperate grab for the suddenly very alive lizard only managed to put him even more off-balance.
"... Ow."
"You're picking that up, Naruto," Tsunade informed him wearily, as he sat up against the desk and rubbed at his bruised hip. Naruto groaned, glaring at all the stuff he had managed to knock off the desk on his way down -- oh. Oh. Oh yeah.
"Wait -- are you hurt? Let me see," Sakura asked, pushing away from the table on which she had sprawled and circling it.
Hee, she was so sweet, it was just a bruise, but getting her healing hands on his body -- wait ack no! She would see what he was doing! "Nah, nah, it's alright, Sakura-chan, I'm already all better." He grinned -- a bit nervously -- at her over the edge of the desk, and turned away to pick up the scrolls, heart speeding up. Tsunade was still watching from the other side with her hands on her hips, disgruntled, but with a little luck -- now where had the green scroll gone?
"Hurry up, you lazy brat."
"I'd be faster if your office wasn't full of other stuff! How am I supposed to know what was already on the floor or not?" he grouched back, crawling around to hunt down the scrolls.
There, green scroll! He crawled closer -- guhh, please make them not notice --
"The lizard!" Sakura dove under her table to catch the -- tail-sporting, now -- reptile. Naruto thanked the deities watching over him and picked up the scroll, moving to slip it in his jacket.
There was another green scroll hiding behind a pile of paperwork. Same white and gold edges; the rope holding it closed was pale brown instead of white and he couldn't remember which was the right one. Ohfuckdamnit.
"Put them down, you're going to drop them, trying to hold so many at once," Tsunade commented as she swooped down and negligently picked up the second green scroll.
"... Aha, Uzumaki Naruto would never be so --" ... so... ick. Why did his usual automatic boasting have to fail him now, whyy?
"Clumsy?" Tsunade replied, smirking just a little bit.
Pouting, Naruto got up and went to dump his armful on the Hokage's desk. He could feel the first scroll slip down his vest and settle against his belly. Did it look weird? He couldn't glance down to check -- maybe he could feel it? Be discreet -- but he'd been turned away too long. Pasting another grin on his face, he turned to face them, and prayed for it not to show.
"So, when will you be done with Sakura-chan?"
Sakura was busy stuffing the lizard in a glass jar with a grim smile on her lips; she didn't pay him much attention, apart from a quick smile at her name.
"Let me see the lizard first," Tsunade asked, reaching out to take the jar from the girl.
Naruto leaned closer, poking at the glass curiously. "Did you bring it back to life or what? I thought it was dead... Oh hey, it was missing its tail, wasn't it?"
Sakura huffed in a 'You're stupid' way, but she was also grinning, so he just grinned back.
"I was trying to combine holding a stasis with regenerating a missing bit. Of course, with such a small animal, it's easier, and lizard tails naturally regenerate, so it was more of a matter of giving his body a nudge, but I think I've found the trick now. Hokage-sama?"
Tsunade peered at the lizard for a few seconds longer, then nodded. "Indeed. It's almost time for my next appointment, so I'll let you go now." She rolled her eyes. "No doubt that Naruto will make himself a nuisance and you won't accomplish anything anyway."
"Hey, I wouldn't!" Naruto protested.
Tsunade wasn't listening to him; she was still talking with Sakura. "Don't forget to practice that trick during your meditation. I'll see you tomorrow."
Naruto waved and started toward the door as Sakura bowed to Tsunade. The second he was out of sight, he had a hand up his jacket, and the green scroll safely tucked away in one of his inner pockets with the other scrolls he'd borrowed from the library. When Sakura joined him in the corridor, he was able to smile much more naturally.
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In unrelated news, someone's got to explain to me how a fic being a multiparter means it doesn't count as NC-17. Maybe they meant that a multiparter can't deserve the NC-17 in each and every chapter -- oh, wait, still doesn't make sense. Oh well. *shrug*
Oh, hey. Chan = anything with pre-teens. Guess that rules out anything that happens pre-timeskip then. I wonder if bestiality is allowed?
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YOUR ICON SCARES ME SO BAD!
o.O
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naturally?
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*squishes him* Such great characterizations. ♥
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#^^# thank you~
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Hope you get a good rest! *hugs*
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Chan = anything with pre-teens.
huh? what does that mean...?
Hello
(Anonymous) 2008-08-22 05:28 am (UTC)(link)Re: Hello