[Fic] And We’ll Laugh About It

[branchandroot]

Cross-post from my archive.

Fandom/Arc: Avalanche, Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Hatake Kakashi, Tsunade, Uchiha Sasuke, Umino Iruka, Uzumaki Naruto
Summary: Takes place during Chapter Seven of Half Without Another One. While Sakura is gone her boys fret and try to distract themselves and take care of each other.
Meta: Drama, Angst, Humor I-3
Wordcount: 4272

The third time Naruto blew up his study room trying to separate out the fox's chakra from his own once he'd already expressed them, Tsunade didn't even yell. She just gave him a narrow look, hands planted on her hips, and called for Iruka-sensei.

Read: And We'll Laugh About It

Comments

[hokuton_punch]

Ahhhhhhhh Naruto and Sasuke, you poor left-behind boys. XD YOU ARE TOO CUTE AND I LOVE YOU.

... oh gods I don't want to know what happened in Hidden Stone DO NOT WANT TO KNOW DDDDDDDDDD: but I'm glad it made Naruto and Sasuke hug because awwwwwww hugs

[annotated_em]

Oh, boys. *dotes* Although Sasuke not wanting Sakura to see horror? Ouch.

[edenfalling]

I will attempt to be thoughtful and coherent at you tomorrow when I am less zoned out on not-enough-sleep. For now, please know that I think this is awesome and I loved it. :-)

[theodosia21]

The medical jargon made me laugh, and Sasuke and Naruto were so adorable, which is delightful after reading chapter 7. ^_^

But this bit:

“You’d never do it,” he said quietly. Naruto would never, ever countenance or perform or let be performed the operations he’d seen the results of up in Stone. And Naruto still insisted he was going to be Hokage, and, even if that didn’t work out, at this rate the idiot was looking to be Konoha’s top medical ninja after Tsunade. So that was all right.

And this bit:

Maybe it was even a good thing Sakura was out on her own mission, right now, because otherwise she might have been the one sent to Hidden Stone. It could have been her who saw the results of one too-charming medical researcher’s experiments, cared for now as best their village could manage for however long they would live. He didn’t want her to ever have to see something like that. Not her, not Naruto, they shouldn’t have to look horror in the face.

Ouch. I hope he doesn't have problems with Sakura once she comes back and they find out what she's been doing!

[mitsuhachi]

Oddly, one of the things I'm liking most about this is the way that Sasuke isn't just the team firemage here--though he certainly still enjoys blowing things up--but actually a quite skilled genjutsu specialist. I laughed and laughed at him giving all of naruto's clones different illusions. <3 Also, d'aww. Boys--you have such strong bonds. I love the way you can feel that but there's still always this jagged hole there where Sakura should be and it tears at them even as they just cling to each other tighter because of it. I just.<3

I loved seeing Sasuke and Ino interact as adults, as peers who work to protect the same village, who understand each other even if they're not close, instead of children who can't even really see each other. It's really cool to see the way that develops.

And if it did happen, the way his gut knew it might well, if it did… well, it wasn’t like Sasuke hadn’t seen horror before. He’d help as best he could. Oh man, sasuke. My heart. I really hope that's foreshadowing for the next chapter. D: Naruto the mednin will never ever stop making me grin though. A lot a lot a lot.

And kakashi's little thing at the end, with hoping he isn't getting anyone else he cares about killed--the fact that you can tell he legit DOES care about her, not just in an afterthought kind of way but seriously, same as the boys (though I still get the feeling that Sasuke is special, but that's different. That's clan). It's such a little thing, but I love it lots.<3