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Droplets in an Ocean
"Anonymous asked: Prompt: that time when Little Uzushio!Naruto broke Something Important while experimenting with fuuinjutsu. Like local space-time. Or physics."
You Break It, You Bought It
“You know,” Sakura began as her long pink hair floated into her face. With a huff, she blew it up-ish and out of her sight. “When you said you had an idea, I figured it was a good one.”
Naruto sputtered. He was upside down though, floating just a little bit higher than her, so Sakura figured she was safe from his flailing for a while yet. “Hey! It was a great idea!”
There was a sharp cough, sounding suspiciously like ‘dumbass’, from the third member of Team 7 who was drifting somewhere below them. Still above the treeline for the Forest of Death though, and far out of reach of any wire length on hand. Sasuke kept his arms crossed and glare firmly intact as he twirled slowly on his side like a pig on a spit.
“Oh can it, Uchiha!” The blond growled, twisting over himself, “I didn’t see you offering up any solutions when we were being attacked by a crazy Sannin!”
“At least I didn’t break gravity, idiot.” The Uchiha replied, unruffled. One of the forest’s giant tigers floated past, scrambling to try and reach the ground and ended up tumbling head over tail with a yowl.
Sakura sighed with sympathy. They may have at least stopped moving upwards over the hours, but they certainly weren’t dropping either. Below them, a team of Chunin let out shouts of surprise as they too were caught up in the weightlessness of Naruto’s botched fuinjutsu. “Stop it you two. Fighting won’t help us now.”
The kunoichi glanced around, watching the other teams also adapt to the sudden lack of gravity. Shouting was prominent. One shout was louder than the rest, perhaps a half kilometre away and just slightly below them, “Uzumaki! What the hell did you do?!”
Naruto flushed red and shouted back at the top of his lungs, “Shut it Dog Breath! Why do you assume this was me?!”
Narrowing her eyes, Sakura could make out the tumbling forms of Team 8. Kiba was in fine form attempting to swim his way back to the ground even as he replied, “Because it’s always you! What crappy fuinjutsu were you trying this time?!”
“Didn’t I tell you to shut it?!” Naruto huffed, and folded his arms with a scowl. One of Kiba’s teammates must have done something, because the Inuzuka was quiet after that.
Silence descended over Team 7. Sasuke, to the surprise of all present in their little area of sky, broke it first. “How much chakra did you put into that working?”
Reassuring exactly no one, Naruto was slow to reply. “…A lot.”
Sakura blinked, mind racing with the implications. What had her great-grandfather said about this in his scrolls? With fuinjutsu? She had read it twice since she learned she was going to be on a team with an Uzumaki and an Uchiha. The working could only last as long as it had energy in it. This was why many fuinjutsu required ceremonies to rejuvenate the workings, usually during spring or fall festivals. Uzumaki seals, even experimental ones like the one Naruto used, tended to be very efficient. So if Naruto had thrown even a quarter of his Uzumaki reserves into this… she groaned aloud. “You mean to tell me we’re stuck up here indefinitely?”
“Not indefinitely.” Naruto defended. His drift continued. “We have to come down sometime.”
“That is the definition of ‘indefinitely’.” Sasuke replied dryly, still spinning.
Somewhere in the distance, more people were shouting on the ground. One rang clearer and louder than the rest, full of motherly wrath and perhaps, maybe, just a smidge of demonic intent, “UZUMAKI NARUTO! YOU ARE SO GROUNDED!”
Sakura watched her blond teammate go from healthy tan to Uchiha pale. “Oh shit.” Naruto murmured.
Sasuke smirking probably didn’t help. “That sounds like Aunty.”
“You mean, Uzumaki-sama?” Sakura added coyly. She risked looking down to the ground- the red hair of the Seals Corps was apparent even from the great distance. One looked like they were glowing red. “It is.”
“You guys are so mean.” Naruto whined, waving his arms hard enough that he started rotating the other way. “My mom’s going to kill me and you all don’t care.”
The floating Uchiha snorted, “Saves us from doing it ourselves.”
“So mean.” Naruto pouted, “It’s not like I meant for this to happen. That seal wasn’t suppose to do this. And it did take care of that crazy snake guy!”
The kunoichi of the team tilted her head, pulling herself into a sitting position in the air, “We don’t even know what happened to him, so I don’t think that counts.” Sakura sighed again. “I can’t believe you broke gravity.”
“I didn’t! I just… tweaked it a little is all.” Came the half-hearted defense. If Naruto had anything else to add, it was lost when a red translucent chain gripped him by the ankle and yanked him downwards.
Sakura watched her teammate plummeted back to earth, shrieking as he went. Other Chunin-hopefuls were shouting as they were unceremoniously yanked back to earth. She shook her head, “We can agree to never let him forget this, right?”
Sasuke arched a brow even as another chakra chain, this one blue, rose up and wrapped itself around his torso, “Yes.” Then he too was gone, pulled back to the ground in a somewhat more dignified manner than his teammate- more shout than shriek.
Sakura sighed once more as a chain wrapped around her, and dropped her back to sweet, solid ground.