Still don't own Naruto...T.T

Part 1

Chapter 2:

Pool Party!!

Awhile later, the "everyone" Valerie mentioned turned out to be Valerie, Itachi, Mikayla, Sasuke, Hannahh, Deidara, Keyanie, Kiba, Akumaru, Sasori, and Konner.

Taking a count of people, and dogs, Valerie sighed. "Well...This wasn't what I meant by everybody...," she said. "But I guess Hinata, Shino, and Neji can't help it if they're on a mission."

"Not to mention Sakura, Tenten, and Ino," Mikayla added.

"Gai-sensei, Kakashi-sensei, and Kurenai-sensei are out on missions too," Hannahh told them.

"Asuma-sensei went on a mission with Chouji, Shikumaru, and Lee," Keyanie informed.

"And Temari and Kankuro are busy helping Gaara with Kazakage things," Konner finished.

"So I guess this is all we have, for now?" Kiba asked and everyone nodded. A smile split his face. "Eleven people makes a perfect small party!"

"Kiba! You always know what to say!" Keyanie shouted and kissed him smack on the lips. He blushed slightly.

"You should really get the whole blushing thing trimmed down," Keyanie told him. "We're getting married soon."

"Alright then! We have to go change!" Konner cried and all the girls linked hands and walked inside. The boys, of course, already had their shirts off and swimming trunks on.

Awhile later, nearly all of them bugged their eyes out as girl after other filed out of the house. Now, they have obviously not seen girl's in swimsuits at all (unless you were a certain Hatake Kakashi who had read Come Come Paradise Books of Jiraya's "Research" since the age of sixteen to his age now of thirty-four, but he hadn't changed a bit, appearance and personality wise) for their reaction was complete and total awe. Well, except for a couple. For instance, Sasuke and Deidara would never look at Valerie like that for they consider her a sister. Deidara would never look at anyone but Hannahh like that cause he considers everyone else family. Itachi would NEVER dare look at Valerie like that for fear of her catching on to his liking of her. Some things can never change.

So the party began! Everyone was in the pool, except for Itachi, Valerie, and little three year old Sasori (who was sitting on Valerie's lap) who were sitting with their legs in the water, on the edge of the pool, under the waterfall. Valerie loved kids so when Sasori didn't want to go into the "scary pool", she stayed up with him, and Itachi being Itachi, sat with them too.

"Sasori-chan, why don't you want to go in the pool?" Valerie asked.

"Is it because Valerie with her hair down scares your pants off?" Itachi questioned, earning a nudge from Valerie with her elbow.

"No. Cause it's big and scawy (scary) and fweezing (freezing)!" little Sasori told her. "Sasori no like big pool!"

While Valerie talked to Sasori and Itachi, everyone else was splashing away in the pool until, not noticing the three not in the water. Until...

Kiba splashed water to Keyanie so many times she finally held up her hand in surrender.

"Kiba! I surrender!" she shouted. She was wiping the water away from her eyes when she noticed the three outsiders under the waterfall.

"Awwwww!" she cried. "That's so cute!"

"What's cute? My muscles?" Kiba asked, flexing his arms at her. She gave him a playful splash of water.

"No. Look at that!" Keyanie said, pointing at the group under the waterfall. Kiba followed her finger and found what she was looking at.

"Oh. My. GOD!" Kiba squealed before Keyanie shushed him. Slowly, they got everyone to notice the two.

"Oh my gosh! That looks so cute!" Mikayla and Hannahh said together.

"They look like a little family!" Konner pointed out and they all agreed.

The boys didn't want to admit that anything was 'cute' being the men that they are but they had no further adjectives in their dictionary to describe it so they just nodded at the comments and kept quiet.

Meanwhile...

"Sasori-chan, do you wanna try and go the the water here?" Valerie asked. "It's not so big or deep. You can just splash in it, see?" She splashed some water at Itachi and he splashed back.

There was a small puddle, big enough to wade in. It went up to Sasori's small knees.

"Only if Oni-chan holds my hand!" he chirped. Valerie nodded and she picked up the little red head and started walking off to the small puddle.

As soon as she got away, Sasuke and Mikayla pulled in, taking a seat next to Itachi.

"Cute, isn't it?" Mikayla whispered. Itachi nodded.

"Nee-san, you should ask her to marry you and adopt little Sasori as your first child!" Sasuke suggested.

"No, I couldn't...," Itachi told them.

"Why not? Hannahh and Deidara are getting married in three months, in July!" Mikayla told him.

"And besides, me and Mikayla are planning a wedding in a couple of months, if Kayla would just make up her mind on where to have the wedding that is!" Sasuke said, nudging Mikayla.

"Okay, I'm sorry that I can't decide between here or someplace in the Snow/Spring country so let me decide!" Mikayla shouted.

Valerie was bending down, letting Sasori dip his hand in the water to test it out first.

Kiba and Keyanie managed to sneak into the conversation.

"Our wedding's going to be in a month, right here!" Keyanie told them and Kiba nodded.

"Gaara and I would happily marry each other when he's not busy," Konner said behind them.

"We still have to talk about that," Hannahh told her. "I will not let my friend be neglected like this! Bad things happen when that happens!"

Konner sighed.

"Itachi, trust us, she likes you and you like her, so be the man and tell her!" Deidara told him.

With that, Sasori was sitting next to Valerie, splashing away.

Hannahh slapped Deidara in the back of his head.

"Ow! What was that for?" he asked, rubbing the back of his head.

"Don't tell Itachi to be a man when you're afraid of clowns!" Hannahh told him.

"Oh come on! You're afraid of them too!" He told her.

"I'm a girl. You are a guy. Which should be more afraid of what?" she asked. That shut him up.

"Nice one Hannahh!" Konner cried, hi five-ing her.

"I met Valerie when I was five and she was four. We became best friends after our parents, when they were alive, introduced us when they moved into the nearby house besides ours." Itachi closed his eyes to remember everything he could about that day.

Itachi was just a mere five year old at the time and was busy training in his backyard when his mother came in.

"Itachi! Come here for a moment sweetie!" she cried. Itachi loved his mother, so he dropped everything that he was doing and ran up to her.

"Kaa-chan!" he cried, running up to her. "What is it, Kaa-chan?" he asked. Itachi would do anything for his mother, no matter what, as long as it made her happy.

His mother just smiled and took his hand in her's. They walked out in front of the house where they met three complete strangers standing right outside of his door.

"Itachi, this is the Kunimura family who just moved in next door," she explained. Remembering his manner's, he bowed to them to show respect. "Welcome to the neighborhood!" he cried.

As Mr. And Mrs. Kunimura went on about how cute and well mannered he was, Itachi noticed something. Behind Mrs. Kunimura was a girl around his age, clinging tightly onto her leg.

"Ano...Who is that?" he asked curiously.

"This is our daughter, Valerie. Mind you, she's kind of shy," Mr. Kunimura explained.

"Irasshimase ( I'm pretty sure this is a word often used for welcoming someone in Japan...I don't know Japanese, but I wish I did...So you might want to recheck that...) Valerie-chan!" Itachi said after his mother gave him a slight look.

"A-A-Arigatou Itachi-kun," she squeaked.

"Itachi, why don't you take Valerie to the park while we talk?" Kaa-chan asked.

"...Hai...," he said unwillingly. He didn't like at how hesitant and fearful she was, but if his mother wanted it, he'd do it. Itachi started walking her to the park. She was hugging a teddy bear timidly the whole time. When they finally arrived at the park, they sat down in the sandbox together.

Itachi went off to buy some sweets for him. He later returned with a bag of candy each. Valerie looked at the bag slightly confused.

"Don't worry, it's just candy," Itachi told her.

"Candy?" she repeated.

"What? You haven't heard of it?" he asked.

"Well no. It's just that my parents think that kids should eat healthy foods, not sugary sweets like candy," she told him.

Itachi held the bag in front of her. "Take it. No one's watching, they won't know."

Valerie reluctantly took it. Opening it up, she was about to put the candy in her mouth when they heard a cry.

"Gimme my candy! Gimme it! It's mine!" a little blond boy around their age cried.

"Forget it. Freaks like you don't deserve candy!" an older boy cried. The younger one pounced on him and he pushed him down.

"I'm Uzumaki Naruto and I'll be Hokage on day so watch it watch you do or you'll regret it!" Naruto cried. They both started pulling at the bag until it burst. Candy rolled around everywhere.

"Look what you did now you monster!" the older one shouted while Naruto started crying.

Itachi was going to walk up to that older boy and give him a piece of him mind but he remembered Valerie, and being as timid and scared she looked, she probably wouldn't like it. Turning to face Valerie, he realized that she was gone.

"Valerie-chan?" he cried.

"Oi," a voice he recognized at once shouted. He turned around to see Valerie standing in front of Naruto, holding her teddy bear and bag of candy, eyeing the older bully.

The bully didn't hear here.

"OI!" he said louder. This time, she caught his attention.

"What do you want?" he sneered.

"You shouldn't be mean to kids half you size," she stated.

"Tch. How can a pipsqueak that IS half my size like you, tell me what to do?" he asked. "Now go home! Go home and run to your Mommy, Little Girl!" That did it. She threw the teddy bear at his face, and jumped on him. Sitting on top of him and grabbing the front of his shirt, she said, "Pick on someone you're own size!" The older boy, now frightened, pushed her off and started crying while running away. Itachi was awed. He saw something he didn't see in her eyes before. The Valerie he first saw was a timid, shy girl that had a shine in her eyes that just told him that she was afraid of everything, but the one he saw just now, was completely different. Her eyes were full of confidence as she took down someone older than her.

Valerie brushed herself up as she got up. Naruto had long since stopped crying.

"Here you go," she said, handing him her bag of sweets.

"Thank you!" he cried. That was all it took for her to smile, and that was what caught Itachi. A smile so innocent and pure, he wanted her to stay like that forever. That was how they met, and that was how Itachi fell in love with her.

"We even stayed together when she joined the ANBU and as a new recruit, I was assigned her squad leader. We started off as friends, then best friends until now. I don't know if she likes me like a friend, or if she likes me as more than one," Itachi told them. Everyone was silent. Itachi was right. Nobody knew if Valerie liked Itachi as a friend or more than one. She's not the type to go and say, "I like so and so!" Like most of them do.-

There was a group sigh that caught Valerie's attention.

"What are you guys doing?" She asked innocently.

She didn't move from her spot for fear of something happening to cute little Sasori.

"Uh...We were just talking about..." Kiba started, at loss to find any words.

"We were...Just talking about... whether or not we should bring Sasori-chan with us to Suna!" Keyanie cried. This earned her a slap in the back of her head from Mikayla.

"We can't have a little kid with us on that three day trip!" she hissed.

"Well that was all I could think of in such short notice!" Keyanie whined.

"I don't know if that's such a good idea...," Valerie whispered.

"Valee-oni-chan! I wants to go to! I don't wike (like) staying at the orphanage. It's bowing (boring) with nothing to do!" Sasori cried. He gave them all a teary face.

"Can't resist...cuteness...," Kiba whispered.

"Teary face...Too much!" Mikayla said.

"Must...Fight...Against...Cuteness!" Konner cried. When a small tear trailed down the red head's face, everyone ran to the cute little guy, Valerie getting to him first. (Well, she was just right there while everyone was a ways away)

"Alright Sori-chan! You can come!" she cried.

"We'll take good care of Chibisuke! (shorty if I recall...I don't speak Japanese, I only get a few this and thats from reading English translated Manga and subbed anime)" Kiba shouted. Everyone was hugging the cute red head one way or another.

With that, Sasori gave a secret smile.

Since they were going to Suna the next day, the guys were staying at their house. Too bad none of them gets to stay in a room with the girls though. They don't know them like that yet. The only exception to this was Sasori who got to bunk with Valerie, and the rest of the boys, well...

"Hope you guys are comfortable!" Hannahh cried.

"Hardly," the boys said in unison as they unrolled their sleeping bags. Deidara was fluffing a pillow and Kiba and Akumaru were trying to get settled in. The girl's smiled as the guys got ready to sleep.

"Good night!" Hannahh said, bending over Deidara and kissing him in the forehead. The same process repeated to all of the boys.

"Night, night!" Little Sasori said, Valerie picking him up and walking up the stairs with him. "Sweep tight! Don't let the bed buggies bite!" The last they saw of the red head before Valerie took him up the stairs, was an innocent smile on his face. Poor little Sasori didn't know that all of the guys were jealous of him or...did he? (He didn't )

Every girl couldn't resist. They just had to stop by and say good night to the little red head.

"Good night Sasori-chan!" the girl's voice echoed all the way down the stairs.

"Oh to be young, cute, and adorable...," Deidara sighed.

"Night night, Sori-chan," Valerie whispered.

"Night night...," little Sasori said before falling asleep.

The house was quiet and still, a silence that lulled the ninjas to sleep.

HI! I'm sorry if my chapters seem to be getting shorter but no worries! A lot more chapters will be coming up! I'm glad I have at least SOME free time since it's summer, but when school starts, who knows how long it will be before I even think about an idea for a new story. Oh, if you have an idea for a story, please do tell! My brain isn't working right right now...

Well anyways, feel free to make any story requests. If I find that story interesting enough to right about, I'll make sure to do that! But I can't write about stuff I don't know, so if you have any good animes or something in mind, I'll try to watch it! I've seen and/or played these anime or video games:

Naruto

-Naruto Seasons 1-9

-Naruto Shippuden

-Naruto Movie 1, 2, 3

-Naruto Shippuden the Movie

-NaruXSaku (NO SASUxSAKU! SPOILER COMMENT AHEADDO NOT READ UNLESS YOU READ MANGA I'M STILL MAD AT SASUKE FOR KILLING ITACHI!! T.T iIF IT WASN'T FOR MY FRIEND, HE WOULDN'T EVEN BE IN THE STORY!! Itachi is my FAVE character!

BleachI

-Almost all Bleach episodes, except some from the Hueco Mundo Arc

-IchiXRuki (Sorry IchiXHime lovers but I HATE that couple! I also hate the HitsuXHina couple, oh, and don't even go to Hitsugaya and Matsumoto, that is just not right...) RenjiXRuki, and you might think I'm crazy, but HitsuXRuki is on my fave list as well...JOIN THE HITSUxRUKI ARMY! XD!

Final Fantasy

-Crisis Core (ZackXAeris/Aerith) GENESIS RHAPSODOSFAVE

-Advent Children (TiffaXCloud) -KADAJ IS MY FAVE CHARACTER

-Final Fantasy X (YunaXTidus)

-Final Fantasy X-2 (YunaXTidus, ShuyinXLenne, RikkuXGippal)

-Final Fantasy XII (BalthierXFran, AsheXVaan. Reks and...Ashe's husband in the beginning that I forgot his name, are my fave characters)

Inuyasha

-All Inuyasha episodes (The last episode didn't seem...Satisfying...

-All Inuyasha Movies (Now THOSE are some great movies!)

-InuyashaXKagome

Prince of Tennis

-All Prince of Tennis Episodes

-All OVA episodes (EXCEPT for 20 since I can't find subs for that...T.T)

- (FUJI IS MY FAVORITE CHARACTER! EVERYONE LOVES FUJI! At least...I think...Everyone else is in my top ten too, no worries! Fuji is currently number one on the NUMBER ONE list)

Noir

-All episodes

Noein: To your other self

-All episodes

-(HarukaXYuu is my favorite)

Death Note

-All episodes (didn't watch the movie/specials yet...I really didn't like the ending of the series)

-There really wasn't much of a couples thing in this series...

Xenosaga

-Xenosaga episodes I, II, and III (I think they should continue the series!)

-(ShionXchaos fan...Shion deserves someone better than Allen and Jr. is all MOMO's! KOS-MOS I consider more like chaos's friend...)

Blood +

-All episodes

Still watching the movie (But I like the regular episodes better, even though the ending didn't seem satisfying either...Can't get everything in life)

-( A SayaXKai fan. They aren't actually siblings and I do think that Kai showed feelings for her...)

Avatar: The last Airbender

-Almost all of the episodes and Movie (I'm a Zutara fan so all of you Kataang fans, don't leave any nasty comments and YES I know that Kataang happened! But there seems to be a lot more Zutara in Book 3 and the Movie. This is just a guess but I think they are still continuing the series cause Zuko still has to find his mother...)

PLEASE NO CRITICISM ON MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS AND OR THE COUPLES THAT I LIKE/ HATE! -thank you! XD Well, that did a good job with lengthening the chapter! XD! Read on and review!