shopping and a close encounter
Chapter 2: shopping and a close encounter
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The next morning Sasuke woke up after the best sleep in her life, ‘wait, I’m still a girl?’ she looked down and saw that she, indeed, was still female and that the technique had held through the night. ‘Well, I can drop it now, and take care of business, or…’ curiosity got the better of her and she ended up not canceling the technique.
Blushing after her morning routine Sasuke thought ‘Hmm, it’d be pretty suspicious if I went out in my normal clothes, I need to find something girly so people don’t question me... yeah, so people don’t see through the technique.’ she struggled but eventually found something in her closet that was androgynous enough to work. She was wearing a simple tunic in a dark blue with black pants that were almost a second skin, athletic wrapping went around her chest to hold her girls in place. ‘If I do this again, I’ll need a bra.’ she looked over to the mirror in her room and smiled. She felt better than she had in a long time, but refused to attribute it to the technique, ‘It’s probably just because I slept really well last night and that's because I have been away from home for so long.’
She had decided to take her time and wandered about the village, both enjoying the anonymity that the technique afforded her, and in amazement at how nobody saw through her disguise. ‘This is insane, if I’d tried the same thing with a normal transformation technique I’d be up to my eyeballs in ANBU by now. I’ll have to talk Naruto into selling it, or at least the transformation variant that makes up the base of it. He could make a lot of money if it was put into the technique archive.’
She was in an area she rarely frequented, the shopping district, and was shopping a bit for her new form, because ‘if I ever need to use it again it’ll be good to have something to wear.’ she was getting more and more used to the anonymity and had enjoyed the day out. Deciding on dinner at a yakiniku place she quickly arrived there and was shown a booth. She slipped into the seat facing the door, after all, paranoid habits run strong.
This was when her first real test happened, as team 10 entered the restaurant. She saw them enter as she was waiting for her food to arrive, and unfortunately saw that Ino had noticed that she recognized them. ‘Shit, she’s such a busybody that she’s almost sure to come over here, hopefully she won’t figure anything out.’
Just like Sasuke had predicted as soon as they had ordered their lunch Ino got up and made her way to her booth “Hi! I noticed you recognized us when we came in, but I have no idea who you are, can you refresh my memory?”
‘Shit, need to think of something quick,’ “Uh, I’m Kazaguruma Mika. We were in the same class in the academy, but our sensei gave us an impossible final test because he didn’t want any students.”
She gave a thoughtful look, “Huh, I don’t remember you, but there was an inordinate amount of girls in our class thanks to Sasuke-kun being in it.”
Sasuke rolled her eyes internally ‘yeah and wasn’t that a bunch of bullshit’ but said’ “there were way too many girls in that class that had no business being ninja.”
Ino laughed, “Yeah, I bet at least half of them only wanted to get a piece of the Uchiha fortune.”
Sasuke couldn’t help but snort, “There is no Uchiha fortune, yeah, the clan was wealthy before its destruction, but funerals, cleaning up the aftermath, and general maintenance is expensive. I’d be surprised if there’s much left by the time I’m of marrying age.”
Ino raised an eyebrow, “So, you were trying to marry him until you found that out?”
“What? No! It’s just... I looked into it because of all the gossip I heard. Though none of the idiots I told believed me, probably thought I was lying to get them to quit their pursuit.”
It was then that Sasuke seemed to be saved by the waitress coming by with her meal. She thanked her then said to Ino, “It was nice talking to you, but I want to start I’ve only got so much time before I need to be home.”
“I’ll see you around, Mika, have a good lunch.” Ino walked back to her group and started berating Shikamaru for sleeping at the table. Her Sensei, the Hokage’s son, Sasuke thought, asked her a couple questions and shot a look at Sasuke before resuming looking at the menu.
‘That look did not bode well. Better finish fast and hope I can get somewhere to change back quickly.’ she sped up her eating, mainly being more efficient with the grill and eating it at a medium rare instead of the medium well she liked best. Finishing quickly she left enough on the table to cover her bill and left with her bags in tow.
She was swift in heading home and was very paranoid about being followed, stretching her awareness to its limits, without Sharingan activation because that would give her away, and was mildly surprised to make it home without being stopped by team 10’s jounin teacher. ‘Heh, probably Choji’s fault delaying everyone trying to find out if they were really an All-you-can-eat place.’ she brought out her purchases and stowed them in a closet quickly before dropping the sexy technique thinking that the Jounin might have tracked her home.
Sasuke suddenly felt off, almost like his body proportions were wrong. He shuddered ‘Did that technique do something to me? Releasing it should have just put me back into my true form. I-I’ll need to find naruto tomorrow and ask him about it. Maybe it’s just a side effect or something and will fade soon.’ Sasuke ran himself a bath, hoping it might help with the gross feeling he now had. He noticed his reflection in the mirror and shuddered a little, the image there didn’t seem right anymore for some reason. He washed off and got in the tub as fast as he could, but it didn’t really help how he felt. Sighing, ‘well, I’ve already got this feeling, and if it is caused by releasing the sexy technique then reapplying it won’t do anything but maybe make me feel better, because I’m not going to be able to sleep like this and I need to be well rested if I’m going to deal with Naruto without throttling him tomorrow.’ he raised his hands out of the water and held the ram seal before a poof and he was a she again. “Ahhhh,” she relaxed into the bath. She really hoped that the feeling she had as a guy was just a side effect and would wear off. A rebellious thought hit her, ‘but I’ve always not liked looking into mirrors.’ she chose to ignore it, for now, and just enjoyed the bath.
She got out some time later and decided that Ino’s teacher wasn’t going to track her down, at least not that day, and went into her closet to grab her newly acquired nightgown and laid down for another, hopefully, restful night’s sleep.