[Fic] It’s Just That Any One of Us Is Half Without Another One Is You – Chapter Ten

[branchandroot]

Cross-post from my archive.

Fandom/Arc: Avalanche, Naruto
Characters/Pairings: Chiyo, Haruno Sakura, Hatake Kakashi, Hyuuga Neji, Kankurou, Maito Gai, Rock Lee, Temari, Tenten, Tsunade, Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto
Summary: In which Gaara is taken by Akatsuki and Kakashi's and Gai's teams are sent to aid Hidden Sand to get him back.
Meta: Drama, Action, Fluff, I-4
Wordcount: 6494

Sasuke gave up on logic, as he so often had to around Naruto and just shook him. "Shut up and listen to me," he said, low and deadly. "I am not letting you run yourself right into ambush. Understand? Not by those bastards and not because you were too unbelievably bullheaded to Stay. With. Your team!" Three more hard shakes punctuated that, and Naruto finally blinked at Sasuke like he knew who was in front of him.

Read: It's Just That Any One of Us Is Half Without Another One Is You - Chapter Ten

Comments

[mitsuhachi]

I love how you've got Sakura playing with Shikamaru. In a universe where she's allowed to be as smart as she is, I could see the two of them having the /weirdest/ friendship, in that way where sometimes you don't even care who the other is as a person because you're so happy to have someone you can talk to on your own level. I love Ino and Naruto sparring, and Sasuke pretending pretty badly that he's not totally going "MINE *HISS*" at the mention of people trying to take Naruto, and Mastermind!Sakura--have I mentioned recently that the way you write sakura kind of makes me flail with glee.

Almost immediately, as he’d half expected, he had a teammate snuggled up on either side. D'awwww, team seven. D'aww. <3

And Fuunotora is back! \o/ Most awesome OC. And Lee getting to be awesome.

Also, out of curiousity, is this in the same universe as you BB fic? Cause your Neji. Mmm.

[branchandroot]

It is the same universe, yes! That fic is the flipside of this one.

*grins* I do think Shikamaru and Sakura are totally into the "we are brain-geeks together" solidarity thing. And definitely also the "oh thank god s/he will get it" thing.

And oh goodness, I /love/ getting to write Sasuke being possessive. He's so cute about it! Especially when he's trying to pretend he's not, because it's true, he's /really bad/ at that. Everyone goes "awwww" over him and he gets all grumpy and lays his ears down flat, and that just makes everyone go "awwww!" even more.

[mitsuhachi]

Quickly, because you made me lol so hard. <3 Now back to the stuff I was actually supposed to be drawing. >.>

[branchandroot]

*squeaks over the adorable* OMG, that's totally it! *laughs helplessly*