Third person POV
Sasuke looked up upon hearing Naruto's voice, a contemplative look passing through his eyes. After barely a moment of contemplation, the raven gave a small, giddy smile and immediately skipped away from Orochimaru, like nothing had ever happened. Both his action and facial expression seemed wrong to the extreme. Simply unnerving.
But nobody seemed to really notice. At the sound of Naruto's voice, Sakura, who had been completely out of it for a while, slowly stirred. When she returned to her senses she looked up at the blond, eyes slowly regaining their luster.
"Naruto!"
Sasuke quickly, almost comically, schooled his giddy expression, and struck a typical 'I'm too cool for you' Uchiha pose, nose in the air. Although it seemed kinda characteristically like an Uchiha, it was suspiciously exaggerated...
"About time you showed up, dobe."
Sasuke spoke with a smirk, which soon dimmed as his eyes widened ever so slightly in realization. As if as an afterthought, Sasuke gave an awkward attempt at his usual go-to response for everything.
"...hn."
Very smooth cover-up, one must say. Very smooth.
But Naruto certainly didn't notice a thing.
"Yah, it's me. Sorry, I kinda forgot the password..."
Sakura, apparently feeling much better, snorted.
"Yeah no kidding, you idiot."
Naruto gave an embarrassed grin, but was jolted out of it when he heard Sasuke's voice. Sasuke was suddenly leaning against a tree, looking weak and fatigued, his face showing an aggrieved expression.
"Naruto, *cough*, you came just in time..."
Everybody just froze. Nobody even questioned how someone who was perfectly fine and welcoming Naruto back with a smirk had, in the span of a few seconds, been reduced to leaning heavily against a tree, looking weak and coughing blood like some terminally ill person. Sakura was worried to the extreme about her crush being hurt, Orochimaru was simply once again shocked far beyond speechlessness while Naruto seemed to feel confused. Something seemed wrong, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it...
Inside of Sasuke's mind, Cei was just giving herself mental high-fives, praising herself endlessly on her faultless acting.
I totally deserve an Oscar!
Looking up at Naruto with teary eyes, using Sasuke's inborn beauty to the extreme, she donned the image of a weak, wronged and aggrieved white lotus.
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Nebula's Echo (a Naruto Fanfic)
FanfictionWhen you die, is it eternal sleep that awaits you? Maybe you'll go to heaven or hell and spend the rest of eternity there. Or, just maybe, you'll get... reincarnated. That's what happened to me. I was pushed into another world by a seriously misinfo...
