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[beachlass]

If anyone is talking to Sasuke, could you please tell him I need my brain back, as I have homework to do. Thanks.

As the third member of the ANBU team turned and flitted through the trees to report that the threat had been dealt with; Naruto squatted, and tilted his head to look up at Sasuke.

 

Stupid Naruto. Stupid fox mask… honestly, didn’t someone control what ANBU members put on their masks? It was hardly dignified, grinning like that, matching what Sasuke just knew was a wide and scary-cheery smile underneath.

 

“Alright! Bodies to burn, and then home for ramen. What kind of ramen should we have tonight Sasuke? Do you think Sakura and Lee would join us? I think I might start with some curried ramen, and then…”

 

Sasuke tuned him out effortlessly, (given the long practice he’d had doing so). He watched with mounting irritation, as Naruto gathered up the bodies, and threw them messily in a pile. Mounting irritation, and mounting something else… damn…. Focus on the irritation, not the way the late afternoon light made the blond hair sticking out from the grinning mask glow. Not the way the shadows from the leaves played across the muscular arms and shoulders. Not the way…

 

“Naruto! You’re disposing of the bodies all wrong.”

 

“Oh, excuse me, Mr. There a Wrong Way and Then There is An Uchiha Way of doing everything. Not all of us had the benefit of body disposal apprenticeships with Kabuto.”

 

“I can dispose of these ones, or I can dispose of you, loser.”

 

“Ha! Like you’d have a chance with me! You didn’t even eat anything other than that stupid tomato sandwich today. And you didn’t even try the ramen. And you may think you’re all that with your fast moves and creepy eyes, but I kicked your butt last week, and I’ll do it again. Bastard.”

 

Sasuke rolled his eyes behind his mask. (And honestly, when he said he wanted a quiet animal, he hadn’t expected a mouse. Didn’t anyone control what went on ANBU masks? He didn’t look at Naruto, stretched out on the forest floor in a sunbeam. He didn’t look at the muscles shifting underneath the black shirt. He sighed, and started disposing of the bodies.

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