The characters in this fan fiction are property of Masashi Kishimoto, Viz Media, Shonen Jump and the others, I do not own any part of the Naruto manga/anime series. I am not nor have I ever made any money of Naruto franchise.

This is a fan fiction that focuses mainly on Naruto and Temari but the rest of the characters are deeply involved as well . Many things about this story are the same as in the current continuity of the Naruto manga/anime while some things are vastly different, enjoy!

Chapter 3: …But love is downright complicated

Despite Naruto burning the egg-white omelet on his first try, he succeeded on his second attempt, although the toast ended up slightly more dark on one side. Temari was however please with the effort he made to keep his promise of making her breakfast, and didn't care that he failed first, she knew he had done well, either way.

Of course the morning hadn't gone completely smooth. With both of them half-asleep, neither of them seemed remember the other was there and came out of there rooms about the same time in their pajamas, Naruto in his boxers, and t-shirt, Temari in a shirt and panties. Needless to say that when they saw each other they quickly raced back into their rooms, faces red. They met each other in the hall a few moments later, this time with more clothing on.

"Uh.. Good morning Temari.." Naruto said, with slightly red cheeks, as he avoiding eye contact.

"Um.. Hey there,… Naruto, good morning.." She replied, her face also red. " Ok, how about we ignore what happened and start fresh, sound good?"

Naruto gulped and nodded, trying to get the image of Temari in her underwear out of his mind. He wasn't a pervert, just a healthy teen boy, so it wasn't his fault. "Yeah, let's do that, Temari, shall we go get breakfast?, I did promise to make some"

She agreed and they went on their way, down the stairs. After breakfast, Temari decided, mostly due to Naruto bugging her to due so, that would go and begin his wind chakra training. They used the map Naruto had done up with his clones, to find the training area.

"Holy crap, it's huge, Temari!" Naruto exclaimed, spreading his arms outward. "It's like 3 squad 7 training grounds combined."

"Yes, it definitely is big, almost to big," Temari said, looking around. " This was probably the grounds that was used by a large group of ninjas at once. Are you ready to begin…Naruto?"

She looked over and saw him using his Rasengan against some small trees. " So impatient… Naruto get your butt over here, now!"

Naruto stopped what he was doing and ran over too her, skidding to a stop by her. "Here and ready, ma'am!" He said with a salute.

Temari grinning and shook her head. "You can be so weird sometimes, Naruto.. Your lucky your kind of cute."

He sputtered slightly at the comment but managed to keep his blush to a minimum , after a moment he said, " So… so what are we doing first?… Temari sensei?"

"Just stick with Temari, smartass" She said, smiling. " Were going to go back to basics, Naruto. First, you need to sharpen your Chakra, and use it to cut a leaf in half, with as clean of cut as possible. So, grab a leaf of a tree, and hold it by the stem."

He nodded and grabbed a leaf of the nearest tree. He held it by the stem as instructed and focused his chakra, like Asuma sense had taught years ago. After a moment, a dozens of deep cuts appeared in the leaf, before he cut it almost in half diagonally.

"Hmmm… not bad, but you waste too much chakra, and you took too long to cut it in half" Temari said, looking at the pieces of leaf. " But all things considered, it's a good start. Once you get better you may wanna think about getting battle fan like I use or some other wind manipulating weapon, in order to manipulate your wind chakra, and unleash some very powerful attacks in the process"

"So, cool!" Naruto exclaimed, balling up his fists. " I can't wait to learn some awesome moves! Hehehe!"

"One thing at a time there, ramen boy." Temari said, smiling at him. " I'm not teaching you anything until you get a lot quicker and more accurate with your wind chakra release ."

"But Temari!" He pouted. " Why not?"

"Sorry, but you need to control your wind chakra better first, so that you actually do more power attacks" Temari said, in response, while holding her hand on her hip. " And by the way, that pouty face doesn't work on me, so give it up"

He folded his arms and mumbled about unfair woman, while she laughed at the spectacle. One minute he acts like a grown up that's wise beyond his years the next like a 5 year old… at least he's got a fun personality, she thought to herself.

"By the way Temari, are you going to go visit Gaara and make-up boy ." Naruto asked, serious once again. " There are leaving tomorrow, and you probably wont have as much time to visit them after were…you know,… married…"

Temari thought about it for a second. It's true she hadn't spent a lot of time just relaxing with her brothers, since the end of the war. She was too busy dealing with diplomatic related things, that had her running all over the village.

"I think I'd like to do that… you don't mind?" She asked, looking back at him. "I would like to see them again before they left.."

"Not at all , if I had family I know I'd want to visit them, especially if I wouldn't get to see them again for quite a while" Naruto said, in a sad manner.

"Naruto…." Temari said, feeling sorry that outside of the Hokage, he hadn't had any family most of his life. "You have me now…, and further more, Gaara and Kankuro, or as you call him, make-up boy could be considered your brothers now as well"

"Hmm I guess your right, I have brothers! This is so awesome!" Naruto said , cheering up. "I have a grandma and now two brothers,…. and soon a wife too… I'm really happy, you know?"

"I'm glad to hear it, being gloomy doesn't suit you." Temari replied walking up to him and resting a hand on his shoulder. " Were all here for you, so don't you forget that, knucklehead."

"Will do!" He replied grinning. "So why don't you get going, I have training and other thing's to do as well, you know"

"Really now?, ok then, I guess I'll see you later, Naruto" She replied, putting her battle fan on her back, and walking away. " I'm not sure how long I'll be gone, but I'll try to get home around dinnertime. Bye, Naruto"

"Bye Temari!" he yelled, as she walked off, down the path to the front gates.. " Now then, first things first. I promised to train with Tenten, and then I gotta find a way to set up a great date with Temari, like Grandma Tsunade and big sis Shizune told me too"

"I'll figure out the date thing later, now I gotta go meet Tenten!" Naruto said, as he ran to lock up the front door.

Afterwards and hopped into the trees and leaped from branch to branch toward the main part of Konoha.

As Naruto went off to train with Tenten, Temari decided to visit her brothers, Gaara and Kankuro, before they left the village, and Naruto had suggested. She went straight to their hotel and nodded at the guards. "Is Gaara and Kankuro around?" She asked them.

"Yes they are, Lady Temari, please go in" One of the Guards said, and stepped aside for her.

She walked and found Gaara doing paperwork at his desk while Kankuro was fixing some joint's on one of his puppets. The both looked up when she came inside , and greeted her in different ways.

"Hey, how's it going sis, is blondie behaving?" Kankuro asked, smirking at her.

"Don't be an idiot Kankuro… even if it is very hard for you to do" She replied smirking back. "Everything's fine the most part."

"For the most part…?" Gaara inquired putting his paperwork aside. "Is there.. something wrong… problems perhaps?"

"Not really, I mean he did damage my battle fan beyond repair yesterday, but it's fine" She said, casually as she sat don on a free chair.

"He …he broke your battle fan?" Kankuro asked in surprise. "Did.. Did you kill him?… need help burying the body?"

"No I did not kill him, Because A, it wasn't entirely his fault, and B, he went through lot of trouble to buy me a exact replica of it for me to replace it" Temari said, crossing her arms. " I should be used to it by now, but you know, it feels …cold, compared to the sand village"

"So…you and Naruto ..made up?" Gaara asked, standing up slowly.

"Yeah, he might be a goofball… but at the same time he's seems to be a really sweet guy" Temari said, smiling. "I'm almost tempted to thank the sand council for this. Without this marriage thing, I might have missed out on getting to know him"

"So…your ok with this whole thing?" Kankuro asked, carefully, well aware of Temari's temper. "I thought you'd be pissed"

"Oh believe me I am,.. As the training fields at Naruto's house…or I guess OUR house now, can contest to." Temari said, scrunching her eyebrows. " But there's no sense in being mad at Naruto or the Hokage… it's not their fault, that belongs to the Sand Council, the Leaf Council, and that traitor Danzo. Their the ones who did this, though even now I don't understand why, given how much he apparently hated Naruto"

"Hmmm… Well it's good to know you two are getting along more or less" Kankuro said, going back to his puppet.

"Yeah it is, I guess" Temari said smiling. " I wonder what are future holds…. No doubt with the number one most unpredictable knuckleheaded ninja at my side, it's going to be very interesting"

"I am certain he will make you.. Happy, Temari" Gaara said, folding his arms, " He did make it a promise afterall. He never breaks a promise…"

Meanwhile in the Hokage's office Tsunade was half doing her paperwork and half pushing it off onto Shizune to do for her. The door to her office opened and Shizune came in holding a numbers of papers with a strange look on her face.

"Shizune? What's wrong?" Tsunade asked, setting down the mission report she was skimming over.

" Since it was revealed to the other clan heads about Naruto's marriage and status as the only surviving member of the Namakaze and Uzumaki clans, there are a few other clans that apparently aren't happy with Naruto marrying Temari and want him to marry girls from their clans instead." Shizune replied walking over to the desk with the papers and setting them down.

"Which clans are involved in this argument ?" Tsunade asked raising an eyebrow.

"A number of them, actually." Shizune said looking at one of the papers she had brought in with her. " The Hyuga clan demands him to marry either Hinata or Hanabi Hyuga, the Aburame clan asks that he marry Shino's cousin, Akira, and the Yamanaka clan believes it would be good for Naruto to marry Ino."

"Three clan fighting the marriage rights to one blond knucklehead…" Tsunade said, putting her elbow on the desk and resting her chin on her hand. "Obviously there all denied, do they really think they have a shot?"

"Apparently, yes." Shizune said, with a worried expression on her face. "In fact all of the clan leaders I just mentioned have made appointment s to see you and discuss this… all at the same time.."

Tsunade slammed her face down onto on the desk in frustration. "Uhhhg…. Stupid bickering dumbasses!…" She said , her face flat against the desk top. "Fine… what time are they going to be here?.."

"Umm… looks like in about 15 minutes" Shizune replied, with a sympathetic look on her face. " sorry, lady Tsunade, I just got this paper myself"

"How is it Naruto can cause my headaches when he's not even here?" Tsunade asked rhetorically, as she picked her head off the desk.

Shizune just smiled nervously at her. And didn't know what to say in reply.

"Are they already here waiting to start the meeting by chance?" Tsunade asked, in a depressed tone.

"Um, I'm not sure but I can go check the waiting area, if you like." Shizune said ,walking to the door.

"By all means do" The Hokage replied, opening a drawer on her desk. "And If they are there, bring them up so we can get this shit moving along"

"Um, yes of course, Lady Tsunade" She replied walking out the door and closing it behind her.

As soon as she left, Tsunade pulled out a storage scroll and activated it. Out popped a small bottle of sake which she eagerly took a big gulp from. "Ahh.. Nothing like some fresh, relaxing sake to calm you down before a no doubt ,stressful meeting." She said to herself before she heard faint foot steps coming towards her office . " Shit, must be Shizune with the clan heads… better put this away for now, I'll need it afterwards"

She quickly resealed the sake into the scroll and put it back into her desk, and just in time as the door opened just as she closed the drawer.

"Ahh you're here, welcome, Hiashi Hyuga, Shibi Aburame, and Inoichi Yamanaka" Tsunade said, in as a polite voice as she could muster. "Have a seat and we'll begin"

The three took there seats and waited for the Hokage to start.

"Before we begin, Shibi, may I ask where the Aburame clan leader is and why your substituting for him?" Tsunade asked, in curiosity.

"He is unfortunately dealing with the rebuilding of our clans diminished Kikaichu insect colonies that were lost in the war and could not make it." Shibi replied in the usual soft spoken Aburame way. " As the second in command of our clan, I was sent to in his place"

"Very well, then we can begin now" Tsunade said. " The reason for this meeting is do to all three of your clans claiming that Naruto Uzumaki should marry into your clan instead of marrying into Temari's family. Will go from left to right, so we'll start with you, Hiashi."

"Thank you, lord Hokage. There are many reasons why he should marry into my clan, including his lineage as being the last of highly praised Uzumaki clan, and the Namakaze clan. He is also related to you and the Senju clan in general, making him the great-grandson of the first Hokage, the great grand-nephew of the second, the son of the fourth, and the grand son of you, the fifth. He's related to 4 out of the 5 Hokage's of this village, that means he should marry into clans from here, not another village" Hiashi stated, with arms folded and his face calm and stoic.

"As fascinating as that history lesson is, I'm already quite aware of these things" Tsunade said, folding her hands together and putting them on the desk. " Tell me why he should marry into your clan in specific"

"Of course, outside of keeping his bloodline contained within the village, Naruto's positive influence has changed both my daughter Hinata and my nephew Neji for the better. Before, Hinata was scared of everything, wouldn't try, barley made it to Genin, could barely speak with out stuttering and had no confidence what so ever. But Naruto changed that, and now she is strong, confident, and is back on track to be the next clan head." Hiashi stated, looking forward. " If they were to marry ,then just imagine how far she could go, and I now no about Hinata's massive crush on the boy, which she's apparently had since before the ninja academy. He obviously cares about her as well, so it would be a perfect match for them"

"I see… well what about you offering either Hinata or her younger sister as potential fiancés? Hinata at least makes sense, but Hanabi is…. 11 years old! That's nearly a 6 years difference in age!" Tsunade said, in outrage. "You expect him to marry a 11 year old girl?… why on earth would you want that anyway?"

"In nobility, is often the case that girls are married off to men that are sometimes as much as 20 or 30 years older, in this case a mere 6 years is hardly that bad." Hiashi said, calmly. "Besides, Hinata only has about a year left before it's decide whether or not she becomes the next clan head. If she is deemed unworthy, then it will fall to Hanabi upon her 18th birthday. As such, the council will no doubt push for her, the next clan leader, to marry Naruto instead of Hinata."

Tsunade sat back and tried to absorb the information Hiashi had given her. It was true that she couldn't interfere in clan traditions such as, marrying daughters to older males, and that keeping the bloodlines of both the Uzumaki and Namakaze in the village would also be seen as important if this case was brought to the attention of the fire lord. Still she hadn't even heard from the other two clans yet, and had to consider their views as well.

"I see your point well, lord Hyuga, but I can not make any decision with out the fire lord's input, besides, I also need some input from the Yamanaka and Aburame cans as well" she finally said, after a few minutes. " Shibi Aburame, your next"

He nodded and began. " Much of what lord Hyuga stated is quite true, however , besides us having always been supportive of him in council meetings, the Aburame clan can uniquely sympathize with young Naruto . As while he has but one presence living inside of him , my clan's bodies are host to the presence of millions of insects, and are much like him in that regard."

" You too, make some good points," Tsunade admitted, " Finally, Inoichi you can have your say now"

"Thank you, my lady. The reasons Naruto should marry into my clan are as follow, first, my daughter Ino will be the next clan head and is his age. Secondly, she has spoken about how amazing he is ,and how …cute .. He is since his return to the village from his nearly three years long training." Inoichi said, clearing his throat afterward. "Now, another thing to consider, is that as a clan of mind walkers, we would be skilled in assisting him with any mental anguish from dealing with the 9 tailed fox he carries"

"Once again you a good point , however in your case from what I understand, your daughter Ino was one the many children who tormented him as a very young boy. Just because her opinion of him has changed for the better in more resent years, doesn't erase her cruelty towards him." Tsunade said, looking at Inoichi. " I'm sorry, but I must look out for Naruto's best interests. Even though I couldn't stop his marriage to Temari in the first place, I do have input about this particular situation, and I believe that aren't benefits to him marrying into your clan for you to justify your position. Your clan has no say in this as of now, I'm sorry"

"I see… 'sigh', very well, I will take my leave, lord Hokage." Inoichi replied, standing up, and walking out the door.

"Now as for you two.." Tsunade said, looking at Inoichi and Hiashi. " If you still wish to challenge this marriage, I'm required to send a message to the fire lord, wait for a reply, which may take between several days, and several weeks. Further more, this will require me to send a message to Suna council, informing them of your challenges, and put the current marriage plans of Naruto and Temari on hold as well"

Hiashi spoke up at that moment. "Perhaps there is another option we haven't considered…. One which will make all the involved parties satisfied" He said, rubbing his chin." Since Naruto is the last of both the Namakaze and Uzumaki clans.. Does he not qualify under the clan restoration act?… He could marry Temari, as well as into the Hyuga and Aburame clans at the same time…. I have no doubt it won't be long before the Leaf council thinks of activating that act for him anyway..."

Tsunade only grumbled under her breath in response. A minute later she finally spoke again. "Once again you bring up a point ,however, this entire thing will still require third party guidance from the fire lord. And since I take it your both serious about going through with this challenge, I need to send a message to him. Are you both in agreement to this?"

Both Hiashi and Shibi nodded wordlessly to her.

"Fine" Tsunade sigh, " I'll send word in tomorrow's mail run, and for now I need to attempt to think about all that was said here and consider things somewhat until I get word from the Fire lord"

The two clan leaders then both stood up, bid her farewell and left. As soon as the door closed she collapsed onto the desk. "Uhhhg… Shizune, why do so many people insist on making both my life and Naruto's life, so damn complicated?"

"I'm not sure, Lady Tsunade" Replied Shizune, who had been quiet the entire meeting. "So what are we going to do anyway?"

"Not a damn clue… but at least I've brought us about 3 or 4 weeks.." She replied to her assistant.

"3 or 4 weeks?… but I thought you said it would take between several days and several weeks, which implies a maximum of 2 weeks, not 3 or 4" Shizune said, confused. " Why would it take so long, Lady Tsunade?"

Tsunade grinned at her and said, "Because I'm going to have one of my Anbu deliver it, and take a slow and very long detour to get to the fire lord, and then another detour on the way back. That way it will stretch the mission out to 3 or 4 weeks"

"I see…but what can you do in 3 or 4 weeks to help Naruto, that you can't do in 2?" Shizune asked, almost afraid of the answer.

"Don't you worry, I have it out planned out…" Tsunade said, still grinning. "…Trust me"

After nearly two hours of training with Tenten, which mostly centered on the uses, strengths, and weaknesses of several different weapons, they decided to call it a day. To be more accurate however, they stopped because Might Guy, Rock Lee, and Neji had showed up telling Tenten they had a mission. They bid each other farewell and went their separate ways. Naruto walked through town, with his hands behind his head, thinking. I still need set up this date thing, like Grandma Tsunade and Shizune-neechan told me too, … but I've never been on a date before so what do I do for a date…

Not noticing where he was walking he ended up in front of the flower shop owned by Ino's family. Hmmm… Ino's a girly girl, I bet she'd have some advice on dating… better then no one, I guess.

He opened the shop door and walked in finding Ino standing behind the counter, looking bored. She looked up when the door open and saw Naruto come in. "Hey there , Naruto" She said, giving him a smile. " Never thought I'd see you in here, don't you usually pick your own flowers?"

"Yeah, I do , but I'm not here for flowers, Ino-chan" He said, walking up to her. " I.. need your advice on something"

"My advice?" She asked, quizzically. "Sure, what is it about?"

"Well it's about setting up the perfect date…" He started to say, but he barely got that out before Ino squealed like a schoolgirl.

"O my god, oh my god! Who is it , who are you dating? Did billboard brow finally say yes? Is it someone else?" Ino asked in one breath, her eyes twinkling .

He reached out and put his hands on her shoulders. "Calm down Ino-chan sheesh! No it's not Sakura-chan, and if I tell you absolutely cannot tell anyone, besides Sakura-chan, who already knows" He said, calmly. " Do you agree?"

She took a deep breath and nodded. "I promise… now tell me, tell me, tell me!"

Naruto groaned and began to regret coming into the shop. "I though you were more mature then this Ino, I mean you usually are"

"Huh?… well, maybe your right.." She relied blushing from embarrassment. "Sorry about that… I'll be calm and mature, so go on, who's the lucky lady in the great Naruto Uzumaki's life?"

"I'm not that great! … but as for who it is,…it's Temari of the Sand village" Naruto replied, putting his hands in his pockets.

"The blond girl who's always hanging around with Shikamaru?" Ino asked, in surprise. " I never would have seen that one coming, that's for sure… so how did you two, you know, hook up?"

"it's a long story… and one I'll tell you some other time, now about that advice…" he said, trying to get her back on subject. "Will you help me plan a perfect date for her or not?"

"That should go without saying, of course" She replied putting her apron on the coat hook and closing up the shop. "Come on, we'll head back to my house, I only have about 15 minutes till my lunch hour break anyways. Well discuss things there"

"Um ,ok sure, lead the way, Ino-chan" Naruto stated, following her out the back door and down the street.

After walking for a few minutes they stopped in front of a two story, light blue house. "So this is your house, Ino-chan?"

"Yup! ,Lets go in, Naruto" Ino replied, walking up to the front door and opening it right up. "Come on, hurry up , if you want advise, then get a move on"

"Um… right. Your sure your parents won't mind you bringing home a boy… especially me?" he asked, hesitantly.

She stood in the doorway, and looked at him. " Relax… A, your just a friend who's getting relationship advice, and B, my parents know that your not the nine tailed fox, Naruto" Ino said, smiling. "Now come, on stop stalling"

He gave her a smile back, and walked inside with her. Her dad, Inoichi was writing up a mission report. He looked at them as they entered the living room. "Ino, I see your on your lunch break.." He said, putting paperwork down. "And you brought Naruto here?… I hope your not trying to date him so you can use his status as a hero to boost your popularity…"

"Dad!" Ino yelled. "I am not trying to date him, or use him like that.. Sheesh.. Naruto's my friend for crying out loud!"

"Alright, alright.. I believe you… so then what are you two up to then?" He asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Simple, I'm helping him set up the perfect romantic date!" Ino said, holding her hands together, with a dreamy look in her eyes. "I wish I had a guy to take me on a romantic date!… is it too late for you break it off with her?"

"Ino!… relax. Are you going to help me or just make googly eyes at me?" Naruto asked, with a tiny red tinge on his cheeks. " I could always ask someone else…"

"No wait , I'll stop!… There's no one better at this type of thing then me!" She said, pleading " Don't take away my fun…I mean my, love of helping people.. hehehe"

"Right…." Naruto said, shaking his head. "Typical Ino-chan… well come on what should I do for this date?"

"Um.. Just out of curiosity, who's the special lady, Naruto?" Inoichi asked,

"Well uh, it's .." Naruto said, nervously. "Her name is… "

"Temari from the sand village", dad" Ino replied for him. "This is going to be there first date, both with her and in general and he's asked me for help"

"Huh… well I need to turn in this report to the Hokage, so good luck with that" Inoichi replied, walking to the front door. "And don't try anything….adult like.. I trust you, but I'm still a father."

"Dad, Naruto is not some perverted creep, he's a gentleman who would never try anything like that!" Ino yelled at her dad..

He exited the house, but poked his head back in momentarily . "I was talking about you, Ino…" He said, with a small grin, be closing the door.

Ino ranted and raved about her dad, while Naruto just grinned to himself. After she was finally done she took him into the living room and she sat down on the couch. "Ok, have a sea and we'll begin planning your ultimate date!" She said, smiling. "Come on sit, I'm not going to bite….unless your into that kinky type of thing, that is"

Naruto sputtered out a no way, while Ino just laughed at him. "Ok, jokes aside , are you ready?"

"Yeah" Naruto said, sitting down on the couch. "Lets do this"

Ino grinned and rubbed her hands together. "Ok, so the first thing you wanna do is…"

A hour or so later, Ino had indeed help him come up with a amazing date, as she had promised, though some of her ideas were a bit.. weird.

"… and remember, even though this isn't a fancy dinner, make sure to open the door for her, pull out her seat for her, be polite, and don't eat fast either." Ino said, as Naruto walked out her front door .

As he gave a wave as he ran off ,she remembered she had to get to the hospital for her shift, and fast.

"Shit! I'm going to be late!" Ino said to herself, as she locked her door and ran down the street. "And I gotta change the sign on the flower shop door too!"

She quickly ran into the flower shop, put up the closed sign , lock the door, and ran on her way to the hospital. A few minutes later, she arrive, with 2 minutes to spare.

"Ha!, made it!… hmm?… Hey billboard brow!" Ino said, as she noticed Sakura, signing in for her shift as well. "Looks like I'm not the only one cutting it close, huh?"

Sakura looked over at her, but only made a " uh huh" sound before she signed her name and grabbed her nurse's jacket.

"Hey ..what's wrong Sakura?… you seem.. really quiet today" Ino said, as she signed in and grabbed her own nurse's jacket. "Are you ok?…"

"Yeah.. it's nothing, really" Sakura said, talking absently. " I'm fine, let's just go to do our rounds."

"Wait a second there, Sakura!" Ino said, grabbing Sakura's arm. Tell me, what's wrong or neither one of us is taking a step forward.."

"…."

"Sakura… is it about something?"

"..no…"

"Someone?"

"…..maybe…"

"well, …tell me already" Ino said, letting go of Sakura's arm.

"I just…. Naruto is…uh.. dating, Temari from the sand village now." Sakura , said, facing away from Ino. "I'm just ….concerned about him that's all, just as a friend"

"Yeah I know, I helped him come up with a perfect date for him and Temari at my house earlier." Ino said, to her. "We just spilt up and went our separate ways right before my shift started… wait .. ARE YOU JEALOUS OF HIM AND TEMARI?"

"….. Of.. of course not, it's nothing like that Ino, really!" Sakura said, waving her arms in front of her. "I'm just … I don't know… maybe I'm a little jealous.. But, maybe it's just because I'm so use to having him by my side…"

"Sakura… he'll still be by your side , I mean, he's your teammate and friend. Having a girlfriend's not going to change that" Ino said, giving a smile that turned into a grin. " Though I have to admit, he is pretty hot these days… too bad I didn't get a change to bag him.."

"Ino!.. Sheesh… I don't wanna talk about it anymore ok, let's just get to our shift before Lady Tsunade finds out" Sakura said, turning back around. " Nut your right, … he is pretty good looking.. Too bad I didn't give him a change sooner, myself.."

"Well if he ever breaks up with Temari, you and I will have our chances, then" Ino said grinning still. "Right?"

Sakura gave her a strange, almost sad look, and replied, "Yeah.. Right.. Come on.. Get to the west side of the hospital ,and I'll do my rounds on the east side…"

She then walked off, leaving Ino there standing, confused. Why that look from you, billboard brow?… is there something I don't know?… she thought. Not knowing what else too do, and nor wanting to get in trouble, she decided to leave it alone for now, and get to work herself, but intended to talk to Shizune or Lady Tsunade about it later.

Elsewhere , far a way from the leaf Village, Madera Uchiha had mostly recovered, at least enough to walk around using crutches.

"This waiting is … so fucking irritating!" Sasuke yelled, punching a practice dummy. "Aren't you healed enough to train me yet?.. Or did I kidnap that medical ninja to treat you for nothing?"

"Calm down, Sasuke! My injures were quite severe thanks to the nine tale brat, remember? I will take time" Madera said, sharply. " For now, practice mastering the use of the new Susanoo-Final Amaterasu technique I created and taught you… and soon you'll have a powerful ability at your disposal.. So stop whining and get to work! An Uchiha does not complain, remember that!"

Sasuke growled in Madera's direction but didn't say anything, instead, he walked out the door, and headed to the training area.

As he activated his Mangekyo Sharingan and built up his chakra to activate the Susanoo , all he could think about was the not so far away day, when he would finally kill Naruto .. Along with the rest of the Leaf village. And I'll watch the village burns to ground , with it's villagers screaming for help , despite there being no one left ,to come to there aid!

Sasuke started to snicker at the thought.. And then went into a full blown laugh. "Hehehe…. Hahahaha HAHAHAHa!"

And his insane laugh rang out through the area, as he trained and plotted his ultimate revenge.

End of chapter 3

To be continued in the , chapter 4:…Jealously can be a real (pink-haired) bitch

This is my second fan fiction story, so please read, enjoy and review