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Teamwork, chapter 6
yes, I KNOW, Saro, but Teamwork talked to me and um ;_; I'm going to bed now really. promise.
So i'm not too sure of the characterization at the very end, but i was running out of steam, so tomorrow i'll read it again and maybe edit. But for now it's an adequate enough end for this scene, I guess.
As always blatant OOC, grammar, lack of logic, plz point them out. I know some of the logic in this chapter is probably not all that logical seeing as i'm teh sleepy. plz gimme a hand ;__;
Naruto's quick check revealed them standing side by side in front of the far wall and pointing stuff at each other. The tone of their low voices indicated more seal talk, which made him groan; but Sakura-chan's left hand was cupping Sasuke's right elbow, and when he reached up to fix the curve of the preliminary sketch, he did it with his left hand instead of pulling away. Good boy.
Must be nice to be ambidextrous, Naruto reflected as he returned upstairs. Sasuke didn't use his left hand often outside of battle, but with a little prompting, Naruto was sure there were plenty of uses they could get out of him.
Entertaining himself with dirty thoughts, he went back to work on the next room. Really, this time! The second they were in the clear, he would molest them both. It had been way too long, and wasn't it ridiculous to jerk off so often to fantasies of them both when he would have just needed to reach out and touch? Yes. Yes it was. It was completely ridiculous and he was done suffering from blue balls night after night. And he wouldn't let them wriggle out of it again!
"Are you trying to clean this table out of existence?"
Naruto blinked down at the table, and then up at Sasuke, who was standing in the doorway with an eyebrow arched. Naruto glared at him; Sasuke blinked slowly, as if he didn't know that he was a cockteasing bastard-prude.
"So, how was the mini-date?"
Sasuke grimaced briefly. "It wasn't a date at all."
"What, no kisses?" Naruto demanded, aghast.
Sasuke looked away briefly, and then glared at Naruto. "If a kiss is enough for you to make anything into a date..."
Aha! They so had. "Nah, but it's a good start." Naruto grinned back, and let go of his cleaning rag so he could reach out and pat Sasuke's head in approval. "Good boy."
Sasuke dodged, of course, and slapped his hand away. "Don't start, I'm not in the mood. Come on."
He turned on his heels and stepped away. Naruto made a face, confused. "Going where? Doing what? I thought you didn't need me in the dojo just yet."
"No, outside. I'm going to put up the barrier."
"Oh, alright." Naruto wiped his hands on the rag and followed him down the stairs and out of the door. "What do you need me for?"
Sasuke shrugged. "Check the houses, look for intruders."
"... Why would there be intruders?"
Sasuke gave him a sidelong glance as he paused before the front door. "Apart from the two meddlers? Yesterday you weren't under watch, as far as I know. We don't know if you are today."
Naruto huffed at the reminder. "I wish they'd stop tailing me all over the place at random." Well, really, he wished they would just stop tailing him at all, but if he couldn't have that, it would be nice to KNOW when they were tailing him at least. But then that probably defeated the purpose.
"You're not going to get that for a while after tonight," Sasuke pointed out cynically, and opened the door.
"Yeah, but hiding a conspiracy's harder. When I sex you up, I'll only need to close the blinds for privacy."
Sasuke twitched and his head whipped around to glare at him. "What?"
Naruto grinned, hands joined behind his head as he started strolling down the street, keeping an eye out for intruders. "Well, I wouldn't want to shock little grandmas with eagle eyes who were innocently doing their laundry at the other end of Konoha, right? They could get a heart attack or something. It would be a real massacre! All over the village, grandmas falling dead from the shock."
Sasuke growled, a muscle in his jaw jumping. "Sex, sex and sex. Do you ever think about anything else?"
"Yep. Fighting. Betcha 'bout half of the grandmas would be found with smiles on their lips. That's the way I want to go, I think. Spying on good sex, if I can't kick the bucket by having good sex myself."
"Naruto..."
"Yeah, dying on the battlefield sounds good on paper, but really, death by sex is the way to go."
"Naruto. Don't make me kick you in the face."
Naruto laughed at his grouchy tone and faintly twitching eyebrow. "Spoilsport. You know, if I didn't know better I'd think you were shy. Hell, you'd give Hinata-chan a run for her money. At least, even if she wasn't direct about it, she still asked for what she wanted." He was going to end his tirade with 'and you want sex, repression-boy, but you'd die before asking for it', but Sasuke interrupted him.
"... She asked you out?"
Naruto made a face as the conversation was redirected. He hadn't meant for it to go down that way. "Kinda, yeah."
Sasuke's eyes narrowed. "Really."
Naruto turned away from the building he was surveying to give all his attention to Sasuke. He really hadn't expected that tone from him. "Not now! It was at least two years ago. She wasn't even with Kiba yet."
Sasuke gave a dismissive grunt; Naruto rolled his eyes. Of course Sasuke wouldn't care about Hinata-chan's love life, not even because he knew Naruto did. He only cared that she didn't ... er. Wait. Sasuke, possessive?
"You were such a hornball back then, it's strange you didn't jump on the occasion."
"Heh. Thought about it, but... no one likes being 'instead of', you know? Hinata-chan would have known I still liked Sakura-chan best." He grinned, suddenly, and nudged Sasuke's side with his elbow. "Besides, I just knew Sakura-chan would notice I'm supposed to be the man of her dreams, eventually."
Sasuke arched an eyebrow and regarded him coolly. "Did she?"
Ow. Bastard. He knew Sakura-chan still loved Sasuke best, there was no need to rub it in. "Well, sorta, yeah." A pause; a grin. "One of the men of her dreams, at least."
Sasuke looked away.
Naruto chuckled warmly, and nudged him again. "You know, I think I like it better this way." He didn't have to be 'instead of'; and he didn't have to lose Sasuke either. Infinitely better. "So, how was that kiss?"
Sasuke glared, again. "Exhibitionist, and now voyeur. Why am I not surprised."
"Hey! You make it sound like I'm perverted -- oh wait."
Sasuke rolled his eyes. "Stop clowning around."
Naruto stuck his tongue out at him, but did as suggested. They had a job to do.
They separated when they reached the wall; Naruto wandered through the compound, looking for intruders, as Sasuke stopped and touched things and frowned a lot. Naruto suspected him of not knowing exactly where the trigger tags were situated. Sasuke advanced slowly; Naruto searched in an S pattern so that he would come back to the outer wall regularly, and always ended up close enough that he could strike up another bout of conversation.
Mostly, it was perverted stuff, but Sasuke took to completely ignoring him, and since the only other living things Naruto had found so far were stray cats and rodents, it got a bit boring.
So when, on his next sweep, he noticed that Sasuke was now methodically smearing blood on an old tree, he just had to pause and stare. "What are you doing?"
"Activating," Sasuke replied absently as he shaped a hand seal. "Did you find anyone?"
"Just a mama cat and her kittens. I'm not chasing them off, she'd eat me."
"Hm."
Sasuke really didn't sound all that interested, in either the cats or the conversation. Naruto sighed heavily. Well, maybe if he wouldn't chat about random things, he would talk about the barrier. "So... Does this thing work with anyone's blood, or just an Uchiha's?"
"Just an Uchiha's," Sasuke replied distractedly. A kanji lit up on the bark, gleamed briefly and disappeared; Sasuke leaned back, regarding the spot in silence for a few seconds before he turned away, apparently satisfied.
Sasuke proceeded to the next segment of wall; Naruto went back to his patrol for another loop, dragging his feet a bit. If there really was someone else inside the compound, and they were good, Naruto wasn't about to find them that easily. If they were smart, they'd be following the two of them, or else staked out by the house or something. Still... perhaps he'd get lucky.
When he came across Sasuke again, Sasuke was smearing more blood onto yet another tree. Naruto tilted his head. "Er. Are they all stuck to trees? Why not the walls?"
Sasuke shrugged. "There are mirroring tags hidden on the walls, but the trees are the ones stocking chakra."
Naruto joined him and peered up at the tree. "Oh. Kinda cool that you don't have to power it yourself, but how the hell does that work? Trees aren't really alive -- or they can't produce chakra at least."
Sasuke rolled his eyes. "How do exploding tags explode? They're just paper and ink."
Naruto scratched his head. "... Wait, I knew this. I think."
Sasuke rolled his eyes, again; Naruto kicked at him, and was disgruntled when he dodged.
"As long as they work, why should I remember how they make them? It's not like I could make mine anyway, I'm a field ninja, not a... tag-supplier ninja or something."
Sasuke gave him a look that meant 'Why do I always get dragged into the stupidest conversations with you?' "They're infused with chakra, and then a simple spell is applied to them with special ink. It's the same chakra and ink for any type of tag -- fire, smoke, flash -- but the spell makes the effect different. The trees work on the same basic principle."
"... Duh. So then why don't everyone do this? Use trees?"
Sasuke hummed thoughtfully. "I suspect some do -- there must be a reason why Konoha has trees growing everywhere. But it's not as easy as that."
Naruto looked curiously at Sasuke and his sudden, suspicious lack of scowl. These days, it was rare when he didn't sound put-upon when he had to explain something to Naruto. The whole mess with Sakura didn't improve anyone's mood or patience, and Sasuke already didn't have a lot to spare, really. Naruto found himself loath to waste this sudden mood shift.
They strolled down the street in companionable silence; Naruto watched Sasuke as he cut his fingertip open with a kunai and did his thing with the next tree. He felt a little at a loss, though; it was just plain weird that Sasuke hadn't pointed out yet that Naruto wasn't doing his part of the job. "If there's anyone out here, I'm not gonna find them," he justified guiltily.
Sasuke nodded, and looked unsurprised. "Of course."
"...Of course?" Naruto made a face. "Hey, why did you ask me to come along if I was gonna be useless?"
Sasuke turned away and started walking again; for a few seconds he didn't answer, and Naruto frowned. What, no snipping back?
The silence didn't feel companionable so much as ominous, suddenly.
"I put you down as my next of kin."
Naruto stopped dead in his tracks. "... What?"
His back still on Naruto, Sasuke snorted and his voice turned insultingly slow and deliberate. "If I die, you get my stuff."
Snarling, Naruto jumped forward and grabbed Sasuke's shoulder, forcing him to turn around to face him. "What the FUCK?! I thought we had the whole seal thing under control -- you and Sakura said it wasn't very dangerous after all!"
Sasuke's face seemed carved into stone. "If we're cautious, and if nothing unexpected happens. It's just in case, Naruto."
Naruto grabbed Sasuke's collar with both hands and gave him a shake. "No, not 'just in case'! You're not dying ever, so shut the fuck up! What the hell, we'll just find something else--"
Sasuke snaked an arm under Naruto's and mirrored his hold, tugging him even closer so he could snarl in his face. "It is NOT that dangerous and I didn't tell you just so you could freak out at me! I don't plan on dying. I know we can make it work, and we're going to. Alright? Shut up."
Naruto tightened his grip, teeth bared. "So why are you telling me this now?"
"Because if I die and the child isn't mine, I want you to raze this compound to the ground. Don't allow anyone to take anything from it. Just raze it. And then sell it, or rebuild a little house for you and Sakura, or whatever. Hell, you can turn it into an amusement park if you want for all I care."
Naruto loosened his double hold on Sasuke's collar; he didn't let go, though, because this was probably as close to a bear hug as the bastard would ever let him get. "Damn it, Sasuke..."
The Uchiha looked away, leaned back. "I know some people came and stole furniture and random crap from people's houses before. It's disgusting, but it doesn't matter. I just don't want the compound to stand here like a fucking ghost town until the village decides that my corpse is cool enough for them to start looting it for clan secrets."
"Sasuke, you dumb fuck." Naruto reeled him right back in his personal space, leaned even closer, forehead to forehead. And then he smiled, even if the very thought hurt. "Sure. I'll make everything go up in flames. You goddamn pyro asshole."
He didn't let go for a few seconds; just looked into Sasuke's eyes and watched him stare back. He thought about saying something -- 'sure, you rat bastard, anything for you'. Perhaps 'I'll die before I let you check out on me.' Perhaps even 'you're so far under my skin you'll tear me up if you leave now. So don't. Just don't'. Maybe 'I love you', but then again, maybe not quite, he didn't know.
And then, reluctantly, he let go.
"With our luck the kid will be yours, just you wait and see. And I'm not teaching her Katon."
Sasuke's eyes narrowed; not seriously, though. "Really."
"Nah, Katon sucks," Naruto retorted as he crossed his hands behind his head and grinned. "I'll teach her Kage Bunshin and Rasengan -- that's way more than enough to get out of anything."
Sasuke rolled his eyes; he was smirking. "One trick-pony."
"Hey, pony yourself! I know way more than one trick."
"You're right. Two-tricks pony."
"You're just jealous, because you've got to remember tons of tiny things that don't even work half the time, but MY techniques are always enough to get out of everything!"
Sasuke's smirk widened slightly. "Except when they aren't."
"Oh, shut up!"
A moment of silence.
"...Pony."
Naruto tried to snap back something, prove Sasuke wrong and win the stupid argument, he really did; but he was laughing too hard for it to come through.
So i'm not too sure of the characterization at the very end, but i was running out of steam, so tomorrow i'll read it again and maybe edit. But for now it's an adequate enough end for this scene, I guess.
As always blatant OOC, grammar, lack of logic, plz point them out. I know some of the logic in this chapter is probably not all that logical seeing as i'm teh sleepy. plz gimme a hand ;__;
Naruto's quick check revealed them standing side by side in front of the far wall and pointing stuff at each other. The tone of their low voices indicated more seal talk, which made him groan; but Sakura-chan's left hand was cupping Sasuke's right elbow, and when he reached up to fix the curve of the preliminary sketch, he did it with his left hand instead of pulling away. Good boy.
Must be nice to be ambidextrous, Naruto reflected as he returned upstairs. Sasuke didn't use his left hand often outside of battle, but with a little prompting, Naruto was sure there were plenty of uses they could get out of him.
Entertaining himself with dirty thoughts, he went back to work on the next room. Really, this time! The second they were in the clear, he would molest them both. It had been way too long, and wasn't it ridiculous to jerk off so often to fantasies of them both when he would have just needed to reach out and touch? Yes. Yes it was. It was completely ridiculous and he was done suffering from blue balls night after night. And he wouldn't let them wriggle out of it again!
"Are you trying to clean this table out of existence?"
Naruto blinked down at the table, and then up at Sasuke, who was standing in the doorway with an eyebrow arched. Naruto glared at him; Sasuke blinked slowly, as if he didn't know that he was a cockteasing bastard-prude.
"So, how was the mini-date?"
Sasuke grimaced briefly. "It wasn't a date at all."
"What, no kisses?" Naruto demanded, aghast.
Sasuke looked away briefly, and then glared at Naruto. "If a kiss is enough for you to make anything into a date..."
Aha! They so had. "Nah, but it's a good start." Naruto grinned back, and let go of his cleaning rag so he could reach out and pat Sasuke's head in approval. "Good boy."
Sasuke dodged, of course, and slapped his hand away. "Don't start, I'm not in the mood. Come on."
He turned on his heels and stepped away. Naruto made a face, confused. "Going where? Doing what? I thought you didn't need me in the dojo just yet."
"No, outside. I'm going to put up the barrier."
"Oh, alright." Naruto wiped his hands on the rag and followed him down the stairs and out of the door. "What do you need me for?"
Sasuke shrugged. "Check the houses, look for intruders."
"... Why would there be intruders?"
Sasuke gave him a sidelong glance as he paused before the front door. "Apart from the two meddlers? Yesterday you weren't under watch, as far as I know. We don't know if you are today."
Naruto huffed at the reminder. "I wish they'd stop tailing me all over the place at random." Well, really, he wished they would just stop tailing him at all, but if he couldn't have that, it would be nice to KNOW when they were tailing him at least. But then that probably defeated the purpose.
"You're not going to get that for a while after tonight," Sasuke pointed out cynically, and opened the door.
"Yeah, but hiding a conspiracy's harder. When I sex you up, I'll only need to close the blinds for privacy."
Sasuke twitched and his head whipped around to glare at him. "What?"
Naruto grinned, hands joined behind his head as he started strolling down the street, keeping an eye out for intruders. "Well, I wouldn't want to shock little grandmas with eagle eyes who were innocently doing their laundry at the other end of Konoha, right? They could get a heart attack or something. It would be a real massacre! All over the village, grandmas falling dead from the shock."
Sasuke growled, a muscle in his jaw jumping. "Sex, sex and sex. Do you ever think about anything else?"
"Yep. Fighting. Betcha 'bout half of the grandmas would be found with smiles on their lips. That's the way I want to go, I think. Spying on good sex, if I can't kick the bucket by having good sex myself."
"Naruto..."
"Yeah, dying on the battlefield sounds good on paper, but really, death by sex is the way to go."
"Naruto. Don't make me kick you in the face."
Naruto laughed at his grouchy tone and faintly twitching eyebrow. "Spoilsport. You know, if I didn't know better I'd think you were shy. Hell, you'd give Hinata-chan a run for her money. At least, even if she wasn't direct about it, she still asked for what she wanted." He was going to end his tirade with 'and you want sex, repression-boy, but you'd die before asking for it', but Sasuke interrupted him.
"... She asked you out?"
Naruto made a face as the conversation was redirected. He hadn't meant for it to go down that way. "Kinda, yeah."
Sasuke's eyes narrowed. "Really."
Naruto turned away from the building he was surveying to give all his attention to Sasuke. He really hadn't expected that tone from him. "Not now! It was at least two years ago. She wasn't even with Kiba yet."
Sasuke gave a dismissive grunt; Naruto rolled his eyes. Of course Sasuke wouldn't care about Hinata-chan's love life, not even because he knew Naruto did. He only cared that she didn't ... er. Wait. Sasuke, possessive?
"You were such a hornball back then, it's strange you didn't jump on the occasion."
"Heh. Thought about it, but... no one likes being 'instead of', you know? Hinata-chan would have known I still liked Sakura-chan best." He grinned, suddenly, and nudged Sasuke's side with his elbow. "Besides, I just knew Sakura-chan would notice I'm supposed to be the man of her dreams, eventually."
Sasuke arched an eyebrow and regarded him coolly. "Did she?"
Ow. Bastard. He knew Sakura-chan still loved Sasuke best, there was no need to rub it in. "Well, sorta, yeah." A pause; a grin. "One of the men of her dreams, at least."
Sasuke looked away.
Naruto chuckled warmly, and nudged him again. "You know, I think I like it better this way." He didn't have to be 'instead of'; and he didn't have to lose Sasuke either. Infinitely better. "So, how was that kiss?"
Sasuke glared, again. "Exhibitionist, and now voyeur. Why am I not surprised."
"Hey! You make it sound like I'm perverted -- oh wait."
Sasuke rolled his eyes. "Stop clowning around."
Naruto stuck his tongue out at him, but did as suggested. They had a job to do.
They separated when they reached the wall; Naruto wandered through the compound, looking for intruders, as Sasuke stopped and touched things and frowned a lot. Naruto suspected him of not knowing exactly where the trigger tags were situated. Sasuke advanced slowly; Naruto searched in an S pattern so that he would come back to the outer wall regularly, and always ended up close enough that he could strike up another bout of conversation.
Mostly, it was perverted stuff, but Sasuke took to completely ignoring him, and since the only other living things Naruto had found so far were stray cats and rodents, it got a bit boring.
So when, on his next sweep, he noticed that Sasuke was now methodically smearing blood on an old tree, he just had to pause and stare. "What are you doing?"
"Activating," Sasuke replied absently as he shaped a hand seal. "Did you find anyone?"
"Just a mama cat and her kittens. I'm not chasing them off, she'd eat me."
"Hm."
Sasuke really didn't sound all that interested, in either the cats or the conversation. Naruto sighed heavily. Well, maybe if he wouldn't chat about random things, he would talk about the barrier. "So... Does this thing work with anyone's blood, or just an Uchiha's?"
"Just an Uchiha's," Sasuke replied distractedly. A kanji lit up on the bark, gleamed briefly and disappeared; Sasuke leaned back, regarding the spot in silence for a few seconds before he turned away, apparently satisfied.
Sasuke proceeded to the next segment of wall; Naruto went back to his patrol for another loop, dragging his feet a bit. If there really was someone else inside the compound, and they were good, Naruto wasn't about to find them that easily. If they were smart, they'd be following the two of them, or else staked out by the house or something. Still... perhaps he'd get lucky.
When he came across Sasuke again, Sasuke was smearing more blood onto yet another tree. Naruto tilted his head. "Er. Are they all stuck to trees? Why not the walls?"
Sasuke shrugged. "There are mirroring tags hidden on the walls, but the trees are the ones stocking chakra."
Naruto joined him and peered up at the tree. "Oh. Kinda cool that you don't have to power it yourself, but how the hell does that work? Trees aren't really alive -- or they can't produce chakra at least."
Sasuke rolled his eyes. "How do exploding tags explode? They're just paper and ink."
Naruto scratched his head. "... Wait, I knew this. I think."
Sasuke rolled his eyes, again; Naruto kicked at him, and was disgruntled when he dodged.
"As long as they work, why should I remember how they make them? It's not like I could make mine anyway, I'm a field ninja, not a... tag-supplier ninja or something."
Sasuke gave him a look that meant 'Why do I always get dragged into the stupidest conversations with you?' "They're infused with chakra, and then a simple spell is applied to them with special ink. It's the same chakra and ink for any type of tag -- fire, smoke, flash -- but the spell makes the effect different. The trees work on the same basic principle."
"... Duh. So then why don't everyone do this? Use trees?"
Sasuke hummed thoughtfully. "I suspect some do -- there must be a reason why Konoha has trees growing everywhere. But it's not as easy as that."
Naruto looked curiously at Sasuke and his sudden, suspicious lack of scowl. These days, it was rare when he didn't sound put-upon when he had to explain something to Naruto. The whole mess with Sakura didn't improve anyone's mood or patience, and Sasuke already didn't have a lot to spare, really. Naruto found himself loath to waste this sudden mood shift.
They strolled down the street in companionable silence; Naruto watched Sasuke as he cut his fingertip open with a kunai and did his thing with the next tree. He felt a little at a loss, though; it was just plain weird that Sasuke hadn't pointed out yet that Naruto wasn't doing his part of the job. "If there's anyone out here, I'm not gonna find them," he justified guiltily.
Sasuke nodded, and looked unsurprised. "Of course."
"...Of course?" Naruto made a face. "Hey, why did you ask me to come along if I was gonna be useless?"
Sasuke turned away and started walking again; for a few seconds he didn't answer, and Naruto frowned. What, no snipping back?
The silence didn't feel companionable so much as ominous, suddenly.
"I put you down as my next of kin."
Naruto stopped dead in his tracks. "... What?"
His back still on Naruto, Sasuke snorted and his voice turned insultingly slow and deliberate. "If I die, you get my stuff."
Snarling, Naruto jumped forward and grabbed Sasuke's shoulder, forcing him to turn around to face him. "What the FUCK?! I thought we had the whole seal thing under control -- you and Sakura said it wasn't very dangerous after all!"
Sasuke's face seemed carved into stone. "If we're cautious, and if nothing unexpected happens. It's just in case, Naruto."
Naruto grabbed Sasuke's collar with both hands and gave him a shake. "No, not 'just in case'! You're not dying ever, so shut the fuck up! What the hell, we'll just find something else--"
Sasuke snaked an arm under Naruto's and mirrored his hold, tugging him even closer so he could snarl in his face. "It is NOT that dangerous and I didn't tell you just so you could freak out at me! I don't plan on dying. I know we can make it work, and we're going to. Alright? Shut up."
Naruto tightened his grip, teeth bared. "So why are you telling me this now?"
"Because if I die and the child isn't mine, I want you to raze this compound to the ground. Don't allow anyone to take anything from it. Just raze it. And then sell it, or rebuild a little house for you and Sakura, or whatever. Hell, you can turn it into an amusement park if you want for all I care."
Naruto loosened his double hold on Sasuke's collar; he didn't let go, though, because this was probably as close to a bear hug as the bastard would ever let him get. "Damn it, Sasuke..."
The Uchiha looked away, leaned back. "I know some people came and stole furniture and random crap from people's houses before. It's disgusting, but it doesn't matter. I just don't want the compound to stand here like a fucking ghost town until the village decides that my corpse is cool enough for them to start looting it for clan secrets."
"Sasuke, you dumb fuck." Naruto reeled him right back in his personal space, leaned even closer, forehead to forehead. And then he smiled, even if the very thought hurt. "Sure. I'll make everything go up in flames. You goddamn pyro asshole."
He didn't let go for a few seconds; just looked into Sasuke's eyes and watched him stare back. He thought about saying something -- 'sure, you rat bastard, anything for you'. Perhaps 'I'll die before I let you check out on me.' Perhaps even 'you're so far under my skin you'll tear me up if you leave now. So don't. Just don't'. Maybe 'I love you', but then again, maybe not quite, he didn't know.
And then, reluctantly, he let go.
"With our luck the kid will be yours, just you wait and see. And I'm not teaching her Katon."
Sasuke's eyes narrowed; not seriously, though. "Really."
"Nah, Katon sucks," Naruto retorted as he crossed his hands behind his head and grinned. "I'll teach her Kage Bunshin and Rasengan -- that's way more than enough to get out of anything."
Sasuke rolled his eyes; he was smirking. "One trick-pony."
"Hey, pony yourself! I know way more than one trick."
"You're right. Two-tricks pony."
"You're just jealous, because you've got to remember tons of tiny things that don't even work half the time, but MY techniques are always enough to get out of everything!"
Sasuke's smirk widened slightly. "Except when they aren't."
"Oh, shut up!"
A moment of silence.
"...Pony."
Naruto tried to snap back something, prove Sasuke wrong and win the stupid argument, he really did; but he was laughing too hard for it to come through.
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Just my two cents. ::shy grin::
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... except I am not a ninja and I have no idea how to counter them efficiently. And I have to create OCs and stuff and aurgh!! Maybe I'll make a post asking for people's help or something. XD The OCs really aren't all that important on the plotline as people, so I really need to figure out their techniques first.