Naruto debated his decision for only a few more seconds before reaching his conclusion and making a shadow clone. “This is probably the best course of action,” he said, “If this whole thing blows up in my face it’s easy enough to reverse, and besides since I’m going to get to see what it’s like being top dog in our age group, it’s only fair that Sasuke sees what it’s like to be the loser ‘dobe’ at the bottom of the pecking order.”
Taking the air can and approaching the clone who had received his orders and was waiting obediently for Naruto to begin, the blonde placed the mask over the clone’s mouth and injected Sasuke’s air into him. It was an odd sight as the clone blew up and then shrunk back down creating a near exact replica of Sasuke. The only difference was that this Sasuke had blonde, duck-butt shaped hair and his clothes had also morphed. The design was exactly like Sasuke’s only instead of a blue shirt and sandals they were bright orange like Naruto’s jumpsuit. The Uchiha-Uzumaki’s bandaged leggings and white forearms had also changed to become a nice shade of blue.
Naruto was in awe of how cool he looked when crossed with Sasuke. The clothes were awesome and he was willing to be that Sasuke would get way more girls if he showed off a little more orange. Or at least so Naruto thought.
“Back on track though,” Naruto said as he addressed his clone, “Suck my air out and put it into Sasuke’s body ok?”
“Hai!” The Naruto-Sasuke clone saluted and he put the air tank over Naruto’s mouth and sucked the blonde’s air out. It was an odd experience for Naruto, it was as though someone was sucking out his entire soul to the point were it was almost painful and the blonde would probably scream if someone randomly walked up to him and tried this on him, but he was prepared.
Nearly as quick as Naruto’s world went dark, he woke up again. This time though he felt a bit different. Looking down he saw that he was wearing a blue shirt and some short white shorts. He could also make out some dark blackish-blue hair framing the edges of his vision.
“Yosh!” Naruto shouted with delight, “It worked!”
He froze instantly when he heard Sasuke’s voice coming from his mouth. It was so odd to talk like Sasuke and even weirder to hear him shout “Yosh!” Naruto quickly looked around to make sure that no one had seen him before retrieving the air tank from the clone. He placed it over the blonde’s mouth and sucked Sasuke’s air out, watching as the clone returned to a regular version of Naruto.
Naruto was about to put Sasuke’s air into his body when he thought of a better idea, “Wait, Clone, knock me out and put Sasuke’s air into my body. When he wakes up make sure you’re gone and you’ve hidden the air tank. It’ll seem more like I have no idea what’s going on if Sasuke find’s me unconscious.”
Not missing a beat Naruto’s clone nailed Naruto in Sasuke’s body right in the gut before he could even brace himself. The blonde now dark haired boy slumped to the ground unconscious while the clone picked up the air tank and placed it over the empty Naruto skin suit. He pumped the air into the suit and as soon as it was finished he took off before Sasuke could fully wake up and spot him.
-- Sasuke’s POV
Sasuke groggily opened his eyes feeling slightly off. It felt as though he had suddenly gotten weaker and shorter as he sat up. Glancing down he noticed that he was wearing one of Naruto’s hideous orange jumpsuits. “What the hell am I wearing? This better not be another one of Naruto’s stupid pranks.”
The moment he spoke those words his eyes darted around looking for Naruto. Then it dawned on him that the words were his and he was talking like Naruto. Quickly removing his forehead protector he shined it up and used it as a makeshift mirror. He saw a pair of bright blue eyes and a whiskered face staring at him. Somehow he was an exact replica of Naruto.
“What the hell is happening,” Sasuke thought, “Kai! Kai!” he shouted trying to dispel whatever genjutsu someone had placed on him. It was no use however and so he got up to his feet since it was no use sitting on the ground wondering what to do. Finally his eyes happened upon a dark haired boy in blue laying unconscious in the corner of the alley.
“My body,” Sasuke muttered walking over to it. He picked it up and started building hopping towards the Uchiha compound. He was going to get to the bottom of this and until he did, his body was going nowhere.
-- Naruto’s POV
Naruto woke up once again when someone threw cold water all over him. Stunned for a moment before he shook the water out of his long dark hair, Naruto quickly surveyed his surroundings. He realized that he was tied to a chair in a dark room with a single bright lamp overhead: the classic interrogation scene.
“Alright you,” Sasuke in Naruto’s body said, “Talk, I want answers and I want them now. Why the hell do I look like the dobe!?”
Naruto realized that Sasuke had apparently not reacted too well to finding out his place swapping with Naruto. Maybe having the clone knock him unconscious wasn’t such a good idea. Quickly feigning ignorance the now onyx-eyed ninja shouted, “What the hell are you doing clone! I don’t even remember making you but if you don’t untie me from this fucking chair immediately, I’ll make you wish you were ever spawned from my imagination.”
”Hmmm, looks like the dobe and I really did switch places and he’s not someone else. This still doesn’t help my predicament though.” Sasuke thought. Returning his attention to Naruto, the blonde was about to slap his teammate when he realized that if he slapped him he’d really be slapping himself. Instead he decided it would be best if he tried talking things out for once.
“Listen up dobe, I’m not a clone. It’s me Sasuke and I’m in your body, and somehow you’re in my body. We need to get to the bottom of this,” Sasuke said.
“I’m you? Cool!” Naruto exclaimed freaking Sasuke out when he saw how idiotic he looked when Naruto was whooping and hollering in his body.
“No, you idiot this isn’t cool,” Sasuke said. “Don’t you have any clue what happened?”
Naruto pretended to think for a moment, “Well I was looking for Kakashi-sensei to see if he could help train me but then someone came out of nowhere and hit me in the back of the head. The next thing I know, I’m tied to this chair and you’re shouting and throwing cold water on me… jerk. Why don’t you untie me already?”
“Because I’m not sure that I want to yet,” Sasuke said causing Naruto’s jaw to drop. “If I let you out, you’ll look like a complete idiot like you usually do, only you’ll be doing it in my body that means I’ll look like an idiot!”
“Oh come on I’m not that bad!” Naruto whined.
“Yes you are,” Sasuke replied simply.
“But wait! Sasuke if you leave me sitting here for weeks on end, then what happens we switch back? Your muscles will all have gotten weak,” Naruto tried to reason.
“Hn,” Sasuke grunted while pondering that argument. It wouldn’t be good if he got weaker over time. It would delay his revenge on Itachi and he knew he was already behind enough on that. So he could either turn the blonde loose in his body and hope he didn’t make too big of a fool of Sasuke or he could keep him locked up and sacrifice vital training time he could spend preparing his body for Itachi.
There was also the possibility that this was some huge elaborate scheme concocted by Naruto. That would be really odd but Naruto was a trickster and a cunning one at that, no matter how stupid he tended to act. What to do… what to do…