Naruto and Sakura's Controversial Prank

"Why use paint when you can use genjutsu?" -Sakura to Naruto, upon planning to deface the Hokage Monument

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Naruto wiped the bead of sweat from his forehead. That sneaky Sakura! Forcing him to tear hundreds of sheets from his notebook and sticking them to the giant stone faces of the Hokages!

All while she sat there at the top sunbathing!

And he worked hard on those sheets too! It felt like a waste to have spent five minutes per looseleaf paper to draw each "perfect seal," only to have the sheets get wet with dirt and mud as they stuck to various parts of rock noses, eyes, chins, cheeks, and hair.

Sakura, being the nerd she was, knew the humid air of this day would wet the moss and moisture on the Hokage Monument. It saved them the work of using glue to stick the seals to the stones when the environment did all the work. All Naruto had to do was slap a few pieces of paper over the stone heads and they stick automatically. It's either that, or chakra has the tendency to stick and genjustsu seals are filled with chakra.

She couldn't see what was so hard about it or why Naruto was so frustrated. I mean, it's not like he's the one doing the work for the genjutsu anyway. That unappreciative roach. Sometimes I wonder why I even help him.

Nonetheless, the fact that they learned tree-walking early on certainly helped.

"YATTA! SAKURA-CHAN SAKURA-CHAN-SAKURA-SAKURA-SAKU-SAKURA-CHAN-CHAN-CHAN I FINISHED YIPPIE I'M SO AWESOME YOU SHOULD SEE-"

"SHUT UP YOU IDIOT!" Punch.

Naruto was knocked off the middle of standing horizontally on the stone face right after pasting on the last of his sheet, but Sakura swooped down and grabbed his hand, her other hand clinging on the nose of the Yondaime Hokage with the little chakra she has. Her body felt stretched and her dress was getting torn as she held on to Naruto's life with one hand and the chakra-augmented rock with her other. Crap I hit him too hard at the worse location possible.

Then they fell.

Cha! Since you're doing so spectacularly, might as well go the whole way, right?!

She released Naruto, he can handle himself, and formed a hand seal mid-fall before the distance from the seals grew too large.

"Release!"

Suddenly, all the paper tags vanished in smoke and...

The four stone heads reshaped themselves.

Shodaime Hashirama Senju → Sasuke.

Niidaime Tobirama Senju → Itachi. (This came as a shock to him when he saw it.)

Sandaime Hiruzen Sarutobi → Sakura.

Yondaime Minato Namikaze → Naruto.

Then they ran.

They got split up in their frenzied escape, but that only ensured they weren't caught by the authorities.

Sakura wanted her stone face to be between Sasuke's and Itachi's but Naruto had insisted her face to be beside his. Naruto also insisted that Sasuke's face be the furthest from his own face after realizing that there was no way he could convince Sakura to leave Sasuke out of it. So Sakura's face was beside Itachi's. That was their only intent in the placement of these faces, but of course Konoha did not see it this way.

They did not believe children pulled this off, and thus thought it was a message or metaphor for something else, caused by rebel groups or something.

After all, everyone's reactions were mixed in dilemmas and panic.

Civilians wondered whether the shinobi were fooling around or the leadership roles switched.

Certain people gaped they saw the 4th's face being replaced by his son's.

For the first time in his lifespan, Kakashi dropped his orange book in utter shock. Thus, he lost it somewhere among the crowd and the controversy. Thus, he would be late for his daily Obito mourning at the Memorial Stone. When Kakashi is late, he is very late. (Psst. Hint. Important foreshadowing here!).

Also, the entirety of the Uchiha clan stared shocked at the sight of Uchiha faces being on the Hokage Monument.

But not in a good way, as it seemed like they were being mocked. Specifically, they were outraged at Tobirama's face being replaced by Itachi's, since Tobirama was the worst Hokage in the Uchiha's opinion.

And the worst part, for the 3rd Hokage especially...No one really recognized Sakura's face. There were lots of girls with long hair and exposed foreheads. Sasuke, Naruto, and Itachi's hairstyles were distinct and anyone who knew them could tell what the reshaped stones represented. But not quite for Sakura. Even if the Hokage sent out a search party to find someone with those features, there were too many of those in the civilian population.

Maybe whoever pulled this off just slapped on some random girl's appearance, seeing how Sarutobi was still an alive Hokage.

Sarutobi pinched the bridge of his nose and clamped his teeth down his smoke pipe. Obviously Naruto didn't have the brain to do this. Itachi most definitely didn't do this. That left Sasuke Uchiha.

It was time for a talk for that prodigious and precocious boy that he formerly reserved only for Naruto.

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Somewhere in the Uchiha clan, a few old women stared at Sakura's stone monument in faint recognition, but no way in hell were they going to report their sweet little girl.

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