Yeah yeah Dont own it.


Naruto happily slurped his ramen with his friends. The rest of the town was in a hustle and bustle, worried something about a missing princess, King Arashi Kazama's daughter.

"Hey, what do you think happened to the Princess anyways?" Kiba asked. Everyone looked his way. "I mean like, what happened to make her run away like that?"

"I don't know, who cares anyway? The only ones of importance are the Princes..." Ino notioned. Naruto rolled his eyes.

"Aren't dating Shikamaru?" He asked thumbing over to the guy sleeping next to his full bowl of ramen. "Damn he's lazy. Hey, Shikamaru, can I have your ramen?"

Shikamaru's brown haired head bobbed. Naruto squealed in excitement finishing his bowl and taking Shikamaru's. Excitedly, started slurping it down.

"Lazy, but incredibly sexy!" Ino said. Shikamaru buried his face into his arms. Naruto stopped mid slurp. Mischeviously, his eyes narrowed and he looked over. Shikamaru's ears were a bright red.

Everyone laughed. Naruto set down money on the counter for his original three bowls and Shikamaru's. He sighed. "I'll see you guys later I gotta go help Iruka around, with the raised taxes, we need all the money we can get."

"You're-You're not going to become Robin Hood are you, N-Naruto?" A stuttering female said. Everyone spun around. Hinata, a girl who they would randomly spot in the village and had become rather good friends with stood there covered in dirt.

"What happened to you?" Kiba asked.

"I-I was trampled in all the commotion." She said.

"Aw, you poor thing." Ino said and started to pat Hinata off. Naruto came over and helped her. This commotion was getting out of hand. Naruto couldn't help but think someone was seriously going to get hurt. "You okay, hurt anywhere?"

Hinata shook her head. Ino head her at arm length, inspecting her. "You sure?" Ino asked again.

Hinata nodded, "Yes."

Ino smiled and brought the small girl into a crushing hug. "You're so cute!"

Hinata blushed, "T-thank-you...Um, Naruto, um I-I have somemore fabric, can-can I, um, can I use you as a man-a man-"

Naruto laughed, "Of course, but later, I have to go help out Iruka." Naruto examined the clock, "Oh, shit! Should of been there five minutes ago! Meet me at my house at five, you know where it is right?"

Hinata giggled and nodded. Naruto flashed a smile and ran off. Kiba watched Naruto go and looked at his spot. "Hey, Naruto left his bag!" Kiba stated and dashed over and opened the pack.

"Kiba!" Ino scolded, "Don't go through Naruto's stuff!"

"Hey look! Who's that kid?" Kiba said, pointing to a person in a picture. Ino blinked and joined Kiba's hovering over the picture.

"I don't know, but Naruto was so cute as a kid! But he's even cuter now!" Ino said taking the picture from Kiba to Hinata.

"Hey," Kiba and Shikamaru said. Shikamaru glared in the direction Naruto left in.

"Ah, Shika honey, he's only cute, no where as god damn sexy as you are." Ino purred and pecked Shikamaru's cheek. Shikamaru blushed and buried his head in his arms again, but Ino brushed them off the counter and sat in his lap.

Hinata examined the picture. Naruto had been holding the camera up, as a kid no older then seven or eight, he had his tan arm wrapped around another kid that was pale, the same age, and had dark bluish black hair and his dark almost black chocolate eyes stared into the camera. The kid's smile was slight but still there, and Naruto was grinning wickedly, his bright sky blue eyes shut tight in this estatic way, his whisker scared cheek in merry bubbles and two pale finger made bunny ears behind his blonde mess of hair.

She knew who the other kid was in the picture. She hadn't ever seen him smile, though. Maybe a smirk when he was in deep thought about something, but too see a genuine smile was probably more rare then an extinct species.

Hinata went over and grabbed Naruto's messenger bag, "I-I'll bring it to him when, I go to his house..." She slipped it over her shoulder. "W-why don't we go pratice fighting in t-the fields, I-I haven't had good exercise in a while."

The others nodded.

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Naruto rounded the corner. He saw Iruka's distress face looking in his direction. "Hey, Iruka!" Naruto waved and ran over. "Sorry, I'm late!"

"Why'd you run away, Naruto?" Iruka asked. He curiously looked at Naruto's clothes. He could of sworn he was just wearing over-alls.

"What are you talking about? I just ran from eating ramen with everyone. Oh! And Hinata's coming over later to use me as her mannequin." said Naruto.

"Okay, must of been me... Help me move these logs out, so we can cut them for Nanaka-san," commanded Iruka. He easily lifted a log and then another. Naruto followed Iruka.

"Say, why did you think that I ran away?"

Iruka glanced back to his son. Naruto's curiousity was written all over the his face. The look made Iruka laugh a little. "I was talking to you and you said, 'sorry wrong peasent,' and ran off around the corner."

"Huh? I never said that." Iruka shrugged. Naruto continued to curiously eye his father figure's back.

They walked in the grass, towards a tree trunk with an ax in it. Naruto smiled. It was a little warm, but it was the end of the summer and soon fall would come and he would turn sixteen and become a man. He would be able to work more jobs to help Iruka out and he'd be able to find someone to fall in love with.

The thought of finding someone to love made Naruto giddy. He wasn't very popular with the town folk and he'd played alot of unruly pranks when he was younger. His unknown pass haunted him, but he survived, living his life now to the fullest.

Iruka set the wood up and sliced the ax through it. Naruto smiled at his father figure and went to get the rest of the wood. He grabbed some of the logs and started to walk back.

"Dobe." Naruto jumped as the nickname was breathed down his neck.

"What the hell, Teme!" Naruto yelled dropping the logs and throwing a punch at the boy. The boy dodged and threw one at Naruto who caught it and kicked him in the stomach.

"Dammit, Sasuke!" said Naruto as he collected the logs again.

"You've gotten better, Dobe." Sasuke said, smirking, crouched over and carrying his stomach. He could feel the guards eyes watching him and Naruto. It made Sasuke want to laugh at them. Their face were filled with horror as they saw him get beaten by some girly boy who was about a head shorter then him. But then again, they could probably think Naruto was something else.

"That, or you just suck."

"I'll suck on you." Sasuke whispered.

"Bastard!" Naruto said.

Sasuke chuckled, with a smirk, as he held his bruisising cheek. Naruto could punch pretty hard. Grabbing some of the logs, Sasuke trotted next to Naruto.

"You know, dobe, your manhood is coming up." Sasuke said. He eyed Naruto reaction.

"And which one would the gutter shit be thinking of?" Naruto said watching ahead. Iruka brought the ax up and in a swift slice brought the ax down and split the log in two.

"I wish I could say your dick, but I'm willing to go slow for you." Sasuke said. He slowed his pace a step and eyed Naruto's ass for a moment before streaming his sight up his back. Shifting the logs to his left arm, Sasuke slowly drew his finger from Naruto's tail bone, up his spine and a tickling squeeze on Naruto's neck. Naruto's hole body shivered.

"Ah! Shit! Bastard! Don't do that! And could you get any lower?!" Naruto shouted after dropping the logs at his feet.

"I would love to." Sasuke said, reaching for Naruto's butt as Naruto bent over to collect the logs. Naruto stood straight and slapped Sasuke's hand away.

"God. Dam-"

"Oh, Naruto! There you are!" Iruka shouted from his position infront of the stump. Naruto grumbled. He crouched down this time and picked up the logs and stood up.

Sasuke graciously ignored the glare headed his way and waited for Naruto to stand before following him over to Iruka.

"Oh, Sasuke-san. It's been a while. Where have you been?" Iruka asked. Naruto dumped the logs onto the pile and set on up for Iruka to cut.

Iruka let go of the ax and corrected his posture for a moment. "Ah! I'm getting to old..." He muttered. His formed hunched and he held his back. Sasuke noticed this and looked for Naruto reaction. Naruto's eyes were filled with timidity.

Sasuke felt a motion in his stomach. "I've been everywhere. Why don't you just go do some of your errands. Naruto can go get the rest of the logs and I'll chop them."

"No, I couldn't do that to you Sasuke-san." Iruka rejected. Sasuke shifted his eyes towards Naruto's face. Naruto was looking to Iruka with an almost abandoned puppy look.

"It's fine. I'll do it, free. I haven't worked out in a while. It'll be worth it." He said. Iruka slowly nodded.

"Alright, thank-you." Iruka said. He straightened out his apperance and head back into the crowd.

Sasuke eyed the log and ax. They were just there and Sasuke really hated chopping wood. A pain in his ass. Blowing a breath he started to yank off his shirt, but a light pull made him look over.

Naruto stood there, looking down with Sasuke's dark peasent shirt pinched between his thumb and index finger. Heasently Naruto's face floated upward to meet Sasuke's eyes.

"Thank-you, Sasuke. He's alot older then alot of fathers with kids my age, cuz...y'know, he adopted me off the streets and his back has been on his case for that last week or two...So...yeah...Thanks..." Naruto said. Sasuke couldn't help but see the sparkle in Naruto's eyes or the heavenly smile on Naruto's face.

Sasuke's stomach did uneasy flip-flops.

Smirking off his dazedness he leaned into Naruto's face. "Well, do I get a kiss?"

Naruto grimaced, but all the smae reached to his tippy-toes and placed a kiss on Sasuke's cheek before running to get the rest of the logs.

Sasuke took a step back and reached for his cheek. He hadn't expected that. A punch or a kick maybe, but the kiss was nice...and warm. Nice and warm and stomach flipping. Smiling, Sasuke stripped of his shirt and grabbed the ax.

He had the unexplainable urge to chop wood.

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Hinata set down her knives and took a large gulp of water from her canteen. They had been sparring for a hour or so. She looked to her wizard watch. Amazing little portable things could tell her the time everywhere she went.

Amovement caught her eye. A fox was going threw Naruto's bag and there was a large black wolf standing protectively behind it. The little fox wiggled out of the bag with a bright yellow banana. It grabbed the banana and tried to rip the thing open. She laughed and by the strange sound that came from the wolf she guessed it did to.

Getting from her spot she walked over tot he two. She vaguely remembered Naruto telling her of a wolf with a cut across one eye that glued it closed and a fox with a cut ear. As she got closer she got the wolf's attention.

It looked et her through it's left eye, slightly growling. She hestitated but got closer to the little fox. She crouched down and the fox notice her presence. It hopped behing the wolf peeking around it like a shy child.

Chuckling, she opened the banana with her knife and peeled it. Grabbing the bag she left the banana on the ground. The little fox stumbled from behind the wolf and sniffed the banana before grabbing it and taking it to share with the wolf.

"Hey, Hinata!" Kiba called before tackling her to the ground. "I gotta go help out my mom. She sent Kaju to come get me. Ino and Shika went on a date, found a note on the tree over my stuff."

Hinata nodded. Kiba left in a hurry and she looked over to the spot where the fox and wolf were. They were gone. She turned around and started to walk. She thought of the picture.

It was Sasuke. He had never really said anything. It was just 'Hn.' End of sentance. She had never seen him smile either. Just a smirk when sometalked about a prank, as if he found it ironic anyone would do such a thing. But even then his eyes didn't seem to warm.

She heard a sound and looked up before she was tackled to the ground.


I know I shouldn't but i HAVE TO... I'll get rid of it if it doesnt get good stats...