Shade- Idea just popped into my head while watching Naruto on YouTube.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

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Two Months

Three days after the event, the bells had died down, and the voices had quieted; the people of Konoha were starting to go back to their usual routines after the large hoopla that had occurred just that past Sunday. All the flowers were still alive even after being out of water for longer than desired, and they held the land together like a photo remembering the beautiful moment in these people's lives forever to come. A woman stood where she had just been several days before, and breathed in a deep fresh air filled sigh, and cracked a smile. Twiddling with her fingers as a nervous gesture, she couldn't help but feel anxious for her leaving Konoha, even if for only a month or two. Hm, she smirked at the statement, ''a month or two', not very decisive are you Asuma?'

She turned back around, and looked at her village, just bouncing from the cool weather of spring, they were about to enter the hotter season of summer, where the streets were filled with tiny children eating strawberry pocky chasing after their mothers who were shopping for dinner. They were about to enter the season of parties, with fireworks and decadent food and beautiful dress… too bad she was to miss most of it. Taking a deep breath once more, she closed her eyes and brought her face to the morning sun, she had never been happier.

"Hey…" At the sound of a voice, she lowered her head and opened her eyes. Once again, she smiled.

"Asuma," She found herself coming into a natural feeling of comfort, and took a few steps forward to meet her husband where they had stood at their wedding.

"Are you ready Kurenai?" Asuma grabbed her by the arm in a playful manner, and looked into her eyes for a response. She nodded while trying to hide her teeth, but it was unsuccessful when Asuma wrapped his arm around her shoulder, and began to walk back into the village.

Later

"Sensei! Sensei! Wait!"

Back in the middle of the village, a large crowd was forming around two people who were about to set off out of Konoha. At the sound of the small voice, Kurenai turned to her left, and smiled at the sight of her students.

"Yes, Hinata?" Crouching down to the girl's level, she looked into the pure white eyes of the Hyuuga heiress.

"Um, I just wanted to," the shy girl brought her hand up to her mouth and looked down at the ground, realizing she had also caught the attention of several other people in the crowd, including one Naruto Uzumaki.

"What Hinata's trying to say, is that we all wish you well, and hope you have a good time on your honeymoon!" Kiba, the more boisterous of the Team 8 genin, spoke loudly while standing in between his two teammates. Akamaru barked in some sort of agreement with his master, appearing just out of his hood.

"Hm, hm, well thank you all. I'm going to miss you, and I hope you won't stop your training just because I'm gone." Standing back up, Kurenai looked back down at her students and saw that they would still work their hardest even while she was gone.

"Well, we should head off now if we want to get to that B&B in time for lunch." Asuma turned away from his own team and looked at his wife, more than anxious to leave. However, just as he had said his statement, his attention was turned back to one of his students.

"Lunch? I didn't get to have breakfast, I'm so hungry." Choji bent over and hugged his knees, rocking back and forth, just imagining the wonderful foods his sensei would be eating at the bed and breakfast. Asuma chuckled slightly, as did others in the crowd.

"Don't worry Choji," Asuma started to say as he placed a firm hand on one of Choji's shoulders, "I'll bring you back some good food, okay?" At the words, Choji shot back up with fire in his eyes and spoke of how he would hold his sensei to his word.

"Jeez, Choji, is food all you ever think about? You should be wishing Asuma-sensei a happy marriage!" Ino whacked Choji in the back of the head and folded her arms.

"Yeah, Choji, at the wedding, all you could talk about was the cake." Shikamaru spoke monotonously, and yawned soon after, having this meeting be too soon in the morning for him.

"Hey Asuma, what all is there to do at a bed and breakfast for a whole month?" Kakashi stood directly behind Asuma's students and spoke with an odd and obvious intention, successfully getting an angry scowl out of him.

"Kakashi…" It was Kurenai who spoke in her husband's defense, and gave Kakashi an angry glare.

"Kakashi-sensei! That's horrible!" Sakura stood to his left, and held her fist up at him, annoyed at his blatant rude statement.

"Oh come on little one, they're married now. It's high time we had little Asuma and Kurenai shinobi running around! How adorable that would be!"

The whole crowd couldn't help but give a great big sigh to Guy's words, and felt a little bit embarrassed for the new couple.

"Come now everyone, these two need to get going. They can't have a honeymoon with us still around." Tsunade, or Lord Hokage as most everyone called her now, stepped forward in the crowd and looked at the new husband and wife. "Take care you two, and don't worry about a thing while you're gone. Your teams will be taken care of and missions will be fine as well, just have a great time on your honeymoon." Giving a genuine smile to the two, she set her hands on their shoulders and led them toward the outskirts of the village, walking to where the gates stood.

As the two walked off in the face of the morning sun, they waved back at their comrades with one hand, while their remaining ones sat contently in each others grip.

Once the couple was finally out of sight, Tsunade turned to the crowd and asked to speak to Team 8 and 10. As everyone else dispersed, going back into the flow of the rest of the village, the six preteens stayed behind and waited for their Hokage to speak.

"We are all very happy for Asuma and Kurenai, but we still have you all to think about. Those two are expected to be gone for at least a month, if not two, so I have arranged for temporary teachers to come and train you while in their absence." Tsunade stood, and waited for the reaction. Shino and Hinata made no visual reaction to the news, but Kiba had somewhat of a displeased face, but said nothing. Shikamaru and Choji as well made no reaction; Shika because he was tired, and Choji because he was hungry. Ino on the other hand, made her feelings known.

"Another sensei? How's that gonna work? We won't be used to a new sensei!"

"Don't worry, I have asked two very skilled ninja to come and train you. Missions are slow, so all you'll really be doing is your normal training regime, but have a specially appointed jonin watching over you." As Tsunade tried to convince Ino, she saw that it was working because Ino didn't attempt to argue any more.

"Well who's it gonna be? I can't think of any other free jonin in this village who are willing to teach us, let alone two." Shikamaru spoke up, starting to get slightly interested in this situation; of course that interest would probably go away within the next few hours.

Tsunade made a slight smirk, "They are not of this village. I have asked two friends from other villages to come here. Don't worry, they're completely trustable, and know what their talking about when it comes to being shinobi, you'll be in good hands." As she spoke, Tsunade glanced down at Hinata and saw the nerves on her face. It appeared she didn't want another teacher. "They're also completely harmless; just don't get on their bad sides. They should be arriving sometime tomorrow, so you can take the rest of today off." Tsunade was finished, and was about to walk off, but another question filled her ear.

"Do these ninja know each other? Are they from the same village?" It was Shino; it seemed he was interested as well.

"Hm, no, they've never met actually. But I'm sure that won't raise any issues. Now, go off and enjoy your free time." At her words, the six young ninja turned around and went off into the village. As a wind blew through the Hokage's hair, she started to think for the first time how these two personalities would interact with each other. 'But it doesn't matter,' she thought, 'because they won't be around each other while they train their teams.' Becoming slightly eager for the arrival of the two ninja, Tsunade took in a deep breath of the wind that hit her face. 'I haven't seen either of them since they were merely genin. I wonder what they are truly like now.' As she turned these thoughts over in her mind, the Hokage started back toward her village.

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Shade- Not sure where it is exactly going, but I'll make it work. This always happens to me, I always think a story in large depth over the course of weeks or months, and end up writing one I only thought about for a couple of days. Oh well.

Oh yeah, the situation in this story isn't going to exactly follow the storyline in the anime. I'm having Tsunade be Hokage, but I'm having all the village be normal, Sasuke may pop up a couple times but completely normal. I haven't seen too many episodes after the chunin exams so I don't really know how all the characters fit together while Tsunade is Hokage.

Review if you wish, I would appreciate any commentary on your part.