As always, things have a way of just making me type them. This time, its in the Category Naruto. -shrug-

Anyway, if you're one of the people waiting for "Secrets not meant to be told", please be patient with me. There are a lot of things hating me with that story at the moment.

Original Summary: You've got two bored groups of the opposite sex eager for the best Summer vacation ever. By evil twist of fate (and some meddling from a familiar perverted author) they find themselves sharing one beach house. Personalities clash and chaos ensues.

Perfect Opportunity;

The well-known author (and Peeper) of Kohona (and current Police chief) strolled down the park, thinking to himself.

'Alright, so I only need about 1,000,000 yen(about 8,200 in US cash). Its isn't that big a deal...' He tried to reassure himself. But, no matter how much he tried to be optimistic, he couldn't shake the fact that he didn't have squat to begin with, so, of course, it IS a lot.

He slapped his face. 'Who would have known Tsunade, the legendary SUCKER, would have beaten me so bad! And of COURSE she has to go so hard on me... man, how am I going to come up with the cash..."

Thinking about it, for some reason his mind wandered to Kakashi, the english teacher of Kohona High. Then when he thought of Kakashi, he thought about that thing he was always frickin' doing. Reading Icha Icha Paradice. HIS book.

'Hmm... I always make around 350,000 yen off of it each book from the first couple of weeks, depending on how good it is. All I need to do is make a series of several great ones!' He rubbed his chin. 'But how do I do that? I will need some great inspiration for that..."

He bowed his head and sobbed inwardly. "If only I didn't buy that damn Beach House. I wouldn't be in this debt. I would have paid it all off for all I know." He murmured out loud to himself. "Damn that Tsunade. She IS the legendary Sucker. She should be more forgiving then this. And then she had to go and charge me interest."

And through all his financial suffering, he walked past this small group of boys he recognized from the High School. He paid them no heed, and was just about to run home and collapse on his bed and sob pathetically when he heard a conversation that would start on a brilliant plan.

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"We neeeed to go somewhere..." The blond knuckle-headed ninja whined. "I don't wanna waste our summer vacation doing absolute crap."

"Shut up, dobe." His best friend, Sasuke, brushed him off, although you would question their relationship sometimes, how he treats Naruto.

"But Naruto does have a point." His other friend, Kiba, agreed, scratching his dog Akamaru behind the ears. The pup was panting from the heat, his tongue lagging to the side. "Last summer sucked. The only thing we really did was sit in front of the air conditioner and play chess. And I hate chess."

"That's only because you lost every time." Shikamaru, the lazy-ass, but way smart ninja sighed. He was leaning against the lone tree that shaded them all.

It was a particularly hot day today, and that meant that not only was Naruto being more whiny and irritating then usual, but that they were also less resistant and more in the direction of Pineapple head over there. LAZY.

But just because they weren't as hard to push-over, didn't mean that their attitudes were more in the easy-going state. It was just way too much effort to beat the crap out of Kiba and Naruto. My God, they really were are like Shikamaru, huh?

"You say that, but you don't really know what to do in the first place." Sasuke said to Kiba, turning his head from them, trying to shake the fact that he himself ached to be doing something. True he needed to train in order to beat his bastard brother for the first time ever (The Uchiha family owned a large dojo, and, of course, Itachi was the best), and he always pushed himself for that fact.

But, alas, you just can't beat teen adolescence.

"Hn..." Naruto folded his arms, pouting. "Well, teme, do YOU have any bright ideas?" He demanded.

"Your the one who wanted to go somewhere, why are you asking me?" Sasuke raised an eyebrow at him. "I honestly couldn't care less."

'Damn him and his logic.' Naruto thought to himself. His pout deepened, and his attention, however little it may be, turned towards the one person who hadn't been thrown into the conversation.

"Nejiiiii..."

The boy, 17, and slightly older then the rest of them, was leaning against the same tree as Shikamaru, with one foot resting against its trunk.

He opened one eye and looked at the seemingly suffering Naruto, who had poured all his will-power into the kicked puppy-dog look.

Of course Neji was unaffected. He closed his eye.

Naruto tried once again. "Neeejiiii..."

Neji rolled his eyes internally and got up to look at him directly. "What?"

"What do you think?"

"I don't care." Neji assumed his previous position.

"Awww... come on!"

Shikamaru sighed. "Your pathetic Naruto."

"Hey! I got an idea!" Kiba grinned. "Remember 2 years ago at the beach?"

"When Teme got one hell of a sunburn falling asleep in the sun when we switched his sunscreen for lotion then put coconuts over his chest?" Naruto grinned. "That was hilarious! And Sasuke refused to swim for the next month."

Sasuke scowled. "Not only did I peel for weeks, but I bruised my knuckles badly from beating the shit out of you two."

"So, what's your point?" Shikamaru avoided the near beating by changing the subject. It would be too troublesome to tear them apart.

"SOOO, we should do that again! Even Neji over there said he had a good time."

"Only because you wouldn't stop bothering me until I did." Neji huffed.

"Even so, none of us have a beach house, or, for that matter, a way to get there." Sasuke reasoned, being the barer of bad news.

Kiba and Naruto, who was in high spirits at this point, was run over several times by the big 18-wheeler of reality. "Oh yeah..."

"Aw man, that's right."

"We only went last time cause Kakashi-sensei let us use his..."

"And after what happened last year, he ain't gonna let us again."

And this was where Jiraiya decided to pop into the conversation.

"Did someone say that they needed a beach house?" All the teenage heads involved in the conversation turned tin the direction of the 50 year old with long, white, thick, and mangled hair.

"What's it to ya, old man?" Shikamaru asked.

"Ero-sennin?" Jiraiya cringed. Of course, it was Naruto. He was the only one who was not afraid of him. I mean, he calls him "Old Pervert", for God's sake, regardless of the fact that he could arrest him and put him in jail for harassment.

"Um..." He glared at the oblivious blonde."Well... I happened to be in the business, and since I'm not going to be using it all summer, I thought, what was the harm in renting it?" Jiraiya shrugged lamely.

"Well, that's convenient." Neji mumbled.

"Hold up. I need to see a picture of this thing." Kiba protested.

"Hold on a sec, I had it here somewhere..." He said, reaching into a pocket and fished around. "Oh, wait, here it is." He said, and presented a Kodak. "Look. It's nice, right?"

They gazed at the photo. Even Neji and Sasuke were impressed. "Wow, it's HUGE!"

It was 2 buildings of two floors each, connected by one long building one floor high. It was surrounded by an abundant garden blooming with color and you could see the ocean behind it go as far as the eye could see, or at least as far as the photo could see, anyway.

The building itself had beautiful tiles and decorated carved walls. It was classy, and now that Jiraiya was looking at it again, he remembered why he bought the troublesome thing in the first place.

"Nice, huh? Its got 14 rooms, and the all of the window-side ones have balconies. Its just a 5 minute walk to the beach too!" He grinned. He was starting to enjoy himself. 'Maybe I should have gone into the real estate business.' He thought to himself.

"What's that thing in the middle?" Naruto asked, pointing to the smaller building connecting them both.

"Oh, that's the bathroom. There's only one, but its pretty big. It's got a hot-spring in it and everything."

"Ho, sweet." Kiba said to himself.

Naruto bit his lip. No doubt it was convenient, and it was, by the way Ero-sennin put it, very cool, but it would probably be waaay too expensive for him, even if they did split the bill. "How much?"

"That's the beauty of it, its really cheap. I just want you to take care of it and keep it clean for the summer." Jiraiya beamed.

Naruto broke into a wide grin. "Then, we'll take it!"

"Terrific." Jiraiya slapped a pair of keys and contract into his hand. "I'll be around to uh... take rent and make sure you don't destroy the place." He nodded his head, as if to convince himself of that too. Then he turned on his heel, and walked casually, or, at least he tried to, down the path.

Naruto closed the keys in his hand and broke into a wide grin, turning to his friends. "We're going with your plan after all, Kiba!"

"You've forgotten our way of transportation." Sasuke said, taking the contract and searching for the address. "We can't exactly take a train there. Its way too far out into the country."

Naruto closed his eyes and swam into deep thought, but Kiba beat him to it. "Doesn't Neji got a driver's license? I mean, he IS kinda older then us."

"Oh yeah, that's right!" Naruto agreed, grinning once more.

"Its called a Learner's Permit." Neji informed them. "It MEANS that I am allowed to drive anywhere..."

"Perfect, you can drive us."

"BUT," Neji glared at the boy who interrupted. " I need to be with an adult of 18 or older."

"Well, that sucks." Naruto thought again, and came to a quick decision. "Hey, isn't Lee 18?"

"Yeah." Sasuke confirmed, "But there is only so much 'Youth' that I can take from one person."

"Yes, same here." Neji added. "Hiashi had him over for dinner several times because he was favorite of Gai-sensei. Hiashi kept saying that I 'should be more like him'." He shuddered.

"Let's not think too much about it, and just bring the bastard." Shikamaru decided for them. "It's too troublesome."

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'Well, that was easy.' Jiraiya thought, rubbing his neck as he walked down the path. 'Now I've got two sources of cash flow. The boy's rent money, and the inspiration I can get from them.'

He passed a group of women in their middle 20'ies, gossiping about some manga. Gravitation or something like that. 'I'm not usually one to make Yaoi, but it'll probably bring in more from the female population..."

And then he spotted a small group of girls, whom he also recognized from the Kohona High school. "Or maybe... I won't have to."

Aaaand, that's a wrap! And for my first time at Naruto, I feel pretty confident in it. Over-used plot, but I've made my own personal twist to it. Betcha no one's ever thought of Jiraiya using them for stars in his next book. If someone had, I'll be crying in that corner right there. -points-

Anyway, sankyuu for reading. I'll be more reliable in my stories from now on (I hope).

As always,
Alena Rio