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THERE'S NO CHAPTER THIS WEEK IM SORRY!

My school does trimesters, which means that since spring break is next week, I have my second round of FINALS this week. This means that I don't have time to type anything up this week, but I am writing in my free time! To make things up to you people, the next chapter is going to be a double length of Ino-Shika-Chou goodness/weirdness. Also Telepathy. And beautiful chaos. Ino is never allowed to be bored, ever, and Sasuke is adorably attached to his depth perception. Expect this chapter by the end of March.

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To make up for this, there are a few things happening in this fic! Most of these changes will be detailed at the start of my next chapter, but here's the short list:

- Chapters now include fic recommendation

-Terms in the dictionary will now carry over for 5 chapters

-GRAMMAR ERRORS FIXED

-Boruto & Himawari's ages will no longer break the timeline (that's the 13's job)

-Omake added to Tenten's chapter detailing her relationship with Team Gai & my headcanon for her family.

-Until further notice, all future chapters will open with a tragic flashback detailing how someone died, feel free to skip these if you choose.

Also here have an omake about Izumi & Itachi because man people are so happy that they are together and let it be known that I am too. They, however, are still on the fence.

Also, side note - where Izumi is concerned, I intend to stick to anime canon just because I know it better & most people are more familiar with it. However - Itachi's light novels are some of the best ones, 10/10 recommend. This means she was killed by Tobi in the first timeline, and that both of her parents died in the Kyuubi attack rather than just her father. Where she lived after this is unclear in the anime but Sasuke is a meddling little brother who just wants nieces and nephews, damn it.

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Omake

As class let out for lunch, Izumi practically skipped out of the academy building, a bento in her hand. Her hair was set in a single, low ponytail over her purple dress, and she was so ready for the day to be over. They were going over the basics of the mission ranking system, and what kinds of missions were placed where, which sounded fascinating, it did, but Izumi had heard it all before. Her father had worked in the mission desk before he died in the Kyuubi attack along with Izumi's mother. She had heard it so many times that she was fairly sure she could recite it in her sleep. When Izumi reached the entrance to the academy yard, however, she blinked in surprise.

Normally, Itachi would wait for her by the entrance, since his class got out about five minutes before hers, and then the two of them would eat lunch together, and he would inevitably steal all of Izumi's dango. She was... mostly numb to this pain, but she swore that someday she would take her vengeance. She just... wasn't sure how yet. (Izumi didn't mind when he stole the dango, she swore!) A quick glance around showed that Itachi was nowhere to be seen, so she approached Daikoku Funeno, Itachi's sensei who was sitting at a table by the door, flipping through the textbook with a grin on his face.

"Um... excuse me, Daikoku-Sensei, did you see where Itachi-kun went?" She asked, rolling back and forth from her toes to her heels so that her whole body bobbed up and down, a strange physical tick she had picked up sometime after moving in with Itachi's family. The man looked up from his book over at her, and she found herself smiling with him, whatever was making happy just seemed to be infectious.

"Oh hello there little lady, yes I did. He went into the yard, something about someone he was avoiding?" He commented, and a frown crossed Izumi's face. Itachi wasn't avoiding her, was he?

"Thank you, Daikoku-Sensei!" She gave a quick bow of thanks to him before she headed out the door, and ran straight into Shinko Inari - a girl three years Izumi's senior. She doubted the girl had any idea who she was, but maybe she would know Itachi? "Um, excuse me, Shinko-san? Do you know where Itachi is? He's the other Uchiha in my class and-"

"Whoa there. No need, I doubt there's anyone left in Kohona who doesn't know who doesn't know who Itachi is after what he did during the Kyuubi attack." Shinko stopped Izumi as she began to describe Itachi. The Uchiha girl's cheeks flushed a pale pink. (She only remembered a specific thing Itachi did that night, and it had everything to do with saving her life and less to do with a Genjutsu.) "I saw him heading over towards the shuriken training grounds, but he was acting real shifty - like he was hiding something."

"Thank you, Shinko-san!" Izumi called as she moved towards the training grounds. If Itachi didn't want to see her, he'd at least have to tell her why. She rounded a corner, and there was Itachi, sitting on a bench, his bento in his lap and another next to him, unopened. He looked up and smiled at her.

"Izumi-chan! There you are, come and join me!" He patted the seat next to him. She blinked in surprise but moved to join him anyways. In silence, she sat down but paused before she opened the bento.

"Itachi-kun, why were you avoiding me earlier?"

"Avoiding you? I was never avoiding you!" He blinked in surprise.

"But-" Izumi moved to protest, but he poked her in the forehead and continued speaking.

"I was never avoiding you. Sensei made the announcement today that I'm going to be graduating early today, and the fangirls and fanboys have returned in full force - nothing I do could saw them to leave me alone, so I fled here and I trusted you to find me."

"Oh. Now I feel silly." Izumi smiled and leaned into him as she opened her bento to find a pile of dango staring back at her. She blinked in surprise before turning in disbelief to look at Itachi. He smiled back at her.

"I did say I'd pay you back someday, didn't I-"

"Itachi! He's over there!" A shriek went up, and Itachi visibly deflated and the playful expression fell off his face. (That was something special, for when it was just the two of them.) Izumi grabbed both their bentos, flashed him a silly grin, and promptly pulled Itachi into a tree. They stayed there until the end of lunch when the rabid fan-people went inside.

"Thank you, Izumi."Itachi leaned forwards, and pressed his lips against hers before leaping out of the tree. He stole a piece of dango from her as he left, but she couldn't bring herself to care. She fell out of the tree with none of the grace of a shinobi, but the whole word felt like it was a little bit out of focus, and Izumi had never been happier.

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And now, that's done!

I ship them so much.

help.