Hi!

I would like to thank those who did review, (and sulk at those who didn't.) It really made my day!! This one is going to be longer! Sorry for taking so long!!!

Disclaimer-thing: I do not own Kakashi or any of the characters in Naruto, wish I did.

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Kakashi POV:

Hmmmmm... strange. You would think my students would have figured it out by now, but I don't see an angry Naruto charging down the path, his rasingan all fired up, so, I guess not...

Speaking of angry ninjas, where is Tsunade? I figured she would come barging down here with her slug-thing and beat me till I was in an inch of my life, heal me, than repeat until she ran out of chakra, and a killer hangover wouldn't make a difference. Maybe she's planning something super evil?

I thought about that one for a while.

What super-evil thing could she do? Send a fake challenge card to Guy? Mess with Iruka's head again to make him think that I like him? Or... no... she wouldn't be as angry to do THAT would she? She would have to be more than blood thirsty to do THAT.

I got out of my deck chair, which is more complicated than it sounds, being that I wasn't the only one in the chair.

Now BEFORE you get your dirty little minds up on some perverted fantasy, It was my talking dog, Pakkun. He was sleeping quite peacefully on my lap, and I didn't want to wake him up. Okay? Sheesh.

After I dexterously extracted myself from the chair, I finally noticed the rustling coming from the bushes. I sighed and threw two kunai at the bushes, I would have thrown more, except that Tsunade probably sent a gennin team to catch me, so that I couldn't go full out. and if I killed anybody, she knew I would feel extremely guilty.

Someone erupted from the bushes, in answer to my kunai. Ah well, too late kid, I was already halfway to my shack.

Hey, wait, is that Lee? Damn. Where there's Lee, there's Guy.

"Ah! My eternal rival! I am sorry to interrupt your much-needed vacation, but the Hokage needs you immediately!" said Guy from behind me.

I groaned. My 'eternal rival' is really a pain.

"SUBSITUTION JUTSU!" I yelled right before Guy embraced where I should of been. Whew. Close one.

From the safety of the tree I was sitting in, I lifted my eyebrow, sighed, and said "Uh, yeah. Guy, could I ask you for a favor? Could you and Lee just forget about this mission?"

"NO! It would be un-youthful to do so! Besides! You convinced the great Hokage when she was drunk! Only someone who is un-youthful would take advantage of the drunk!"

I sighed again. Guy was rather dense, wasn't he? "Okay, look." I said. "How about this: you leave or else I'll tell Lee and the Hokage about just how you got permission to do all those 'youthfulness is life' speeches."

Guy gaped. "YOU WOULDN'T! NOT IN THE NAME OF YOUTHFULNESS!!"

"You're right. Not in the name of 'youthfulness'." I replied, as I looked around for Lee. I may know Guy's secrets, but Lee's? Nope. None except for the one involving a teddy bear and Ino...

About 5 ft. away in a cave

"HE IS WAY TOO CLOSE!" yelled Kisame

"Yes, I know, but what will happen if one of the leaf villages top ninjas goes missing around this area? And what if they actually listen to the locals?" said Itachi "they will overrun the hideout and find way too many clues." He looked at Kisame "And you don't want to lose the beach, do you."

Kisame shot an evil glare at Itachi and then sighed and said "you're right. But YOU'LL miss the seashells."

"hmf. Whatever. We've got to get rid of him. Soon."

Sorry, GTG!! pronto!! Thank you for reading! Sorry about the cliff hanger.