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The small group of friends had finally arrived at the local orphanage, three looking annoyed, one looking murderous, and the last one not noticing. "This is going to be so much fun!" somehow, Sakura's tone of voice made the others forget that they were either annoyed or in a killing mood. Instead making them self conscious of the fact that they were going to be taking care of children!

"Please, Sakura, you've said it like a million times. Knock it off!" Poor Neji had considered joining Naruto, who was beyond furious with the pink haired girl, on his murderous glares. She had somehow latched herself to Sasuke, making the blond mad. As they reached the doors and knocked, a young woman greeted them, she had long black hair, and black eyes.

"Oh, you must be the people that the academy send to help me and Miss. Goodwill, please come in!" The group entered and saw kids running in a circle around an older lady, she had gray hair and looked very tired. "Miss. Goodwill, the people that are going to help us today are here." Miss. Goodwill lifted her face and smiled kindly at them.

"Oh, yes, thank-you for coming, Miss. Akane and I need to do somethings, the schedule is on this paper, we must be going now. See you at about eight-thirty, goodbye for now!" She said and both ladies were gone, Ino looked over the schedule and read it aloud. "Nine, kids will do some activities and paint, twelve snack time, and others things, it also says that the kids should be in bed at eight. This doesn't sound so bad." Ino smiled at her teammates, who looked uncertain.

"Whatever." Neji said looking around the place.

"Hey, guys?" All turned to look at Naruto with questioning eyes, "Where are the kids?" He asked and they stared at him for a moment before running off in different directions, where in the whole damn world were the kids! They were there just a moment ago, and now they were gone! The group separated trying to find them and after a awhile Neji, Sakura, and Ino were back to were they had started.

"Did you find them?" Ino was trying to catch her breath while the other two shook their heads. "Aug, were could they be! Hey, where is Naruto and Sasuke?" they looked around them, but didn't see them.

"Maybe they were able to find the kids." Neji said, both girls agreed as they now looked for their missing teammates. When they stepped outside to the playground they were able to hear the voices of Naruto and Sasuke, they made their way towards the swings and spotted the missing kids and teammates. "There you are, what are you doing?" Neji asked arching a brow.

"Wister. Nawuto and Wister. Sasuke awe telling us a stowy!" A small girl with pigtails said in a very cute voice. The others children agreed with their friend. Suddenly two kids started to cry, Ino and Neji were besides them in no time.

"What's wrong?" Ino tried to shush the girl, but the girl only cried harder.

"Hey kid, what's the matter?" Neji also tried to quiet the other girl, this time the kid was able point to the source of their fright, both teens followed the direction and they were surprised that the small kid was pointing at the annoyed pink haired girl. "Sakura? Why are you scared of her?" Neji asked her.

"She… is t-he wiwch." They couldn't understand her because of her crying.

"She's the witch from the story!" An older boy suddenly exclaimed and immediately the kids started to scream and cry.

"What? I'm not a witch!" Sakura was glaring at the now crying children, "who gave you that idea!" The screaming and crying stopped and all pointed at Sasuke and Naruto. "Naruto!"

"What! Sasuke had the idea to add a witch to the story, not me!" Naruto pouted glaring at his Sasuke, who tried to act innocent, and placing his arm around Naruto's shoulders he said. "Oh, but you enjoyed hearing it." he winked and the poor blond blushed like crazy, without warning Sasuke kissed Naruto on the lips, but quickly withdrew, after all they did have an audience.

Neji and Ino stared at each other and then at the kids who were very quiet and still, you had to be an idiot to not have seen that! They turned to look at the pink haired girl, but she wasn't looking! Sakura sensed someone staring at her and turned around to find Sasuke and Naruto blushing like there was no tomorrow, and the children with wide curious eyes, both Neji and Ino glaring at her with annoyance. "What?" only one thought was in the two teens' minds.

Damn, she's hopeless!

The five teens walked inside, mentioning for the kids to follow them, there were ten kids in total, six were boys and four were girls. When they reached the activity room the five 'grownups' didn't know what to do next.

"...So, what now?" Neji asked, while leaning against the wall, no one answered him.

"How about we let them paint?" Naruto suggested after a long time, pointing at some cans of paint.

"Whatever." Both Neji and Sasuke responded, looking very bored. So, Ino started to set up things for the kids to start painting, Naruto was helping her by getting the brushes out. Suddenly Sakura grabbed Sasuke's arm, she was smiling widely and her eyes were sparkling. Sasuke raised a questioning brow.

"Sasuke, why don't we go and prepared some snacks, I'm sure the kids will be hungry after a while." Her voice was sweet, too sweet for the blond boy's liking, he immediately glared at the pink thing, how dare she grabbed HIS Sasuke? The brushes he had been getting out were now in a deadly grip. Neji stood from his position on the wall, walked towards the murderous looking blond, and grabbed the brushes from the deadly grip, saying that they still needed them.

Meanwhile, the raven haired teen didn't know what to do or say. "Well, um," yep, his mind wasn't working anymore. Naruto was furious, he needed to think of something, fast, but what? His murderous expression turned to a mischievous one, and he bent down to whispered something to a small boy. The expression of the kid went from being confused to a happy one, then he quickly run off.

"I'm waiting!" The girl said, still grabbing onto Sasuke, who didn't know what to do, he was about to give in. He then glanced at Neji for his help, but the long raven haired teen shrugged and gave him a look that said, 'don't-even-look-at-me-for-help' he then glanced at Ino, but the blonde girl was still busy setting things up. His only chance was his blond, when he gaze at him, he was surprised to see him smiling, a mischievous glint in his eyes. The next thing he noticed was a small boy standing besides the blond, holding something on his hands.

"So, do you agree?" Sakura was still waiting, and just as he was about to say yes, the small boy started to run towards them, Sasuke's eyes widen seeing exactly what the boy was carrying, and luckily was able to move away just as the green paint hit Sakura square on.

"What the heck?" The pink, now green, haired girl shouted. All was quiet, then Ino started to giggle, soon she was laughing so hard that tears had started to fall down her eyes. After some moments all were laughing, "Shut up, is not funny!" she glared at them, except at Sasuke, "Naruto!" The green girl pointed accusingly at the blond.

"You planned this, didn't you?" The blond tried to act innocent.

"Now, Sakura, you don't have proof that it was Naruto who did this." Neji said, "oh, and one more thing, you may start considering cleaning up before the paint dries." The girl didn't need to hear more, and was gone with angry footsteps.

"Hey Sasuke would you help me prepare some snacks?" Naruto flutter his eyelashes, Sasuke smirked and nodded. Both left, leaving Ino and Neji to help the kids.

"Hey Neji can you help me?" Ino asked the teen, he nodded and soon the kids were painting. After awhile, a small girl with pigtails walked towards the two teens and asked their help with her picture. She wanted to know what color would go better with the flower she had painted.

"I think that blue would be good." Neji said, looking at the drawing.

"Na, I think that yellow would be much better." Neji glared at her, Ino doing the same.

"Blue is better."

"Yellow is."

"Blue."

"Yellow."

"Blue!"

"Yellow!"

If someone were to hear the calm boy argue about the background color of a child's painting they would say that the world was ending, they would also say that hell froze over, because the calm teen was loosing his cool, literally! They were so deep in their arguing that they didn't acknowledge that the girl had stood up from her seat and had walked towards her friends, she whispered something to them that made some giggle and others laugh.

"This is getting us nowhere!" Ino said after awhile of shouting yellow and blue, no one won. "Hey kid why don't…" she glanced in the direction that the girl was 'supposed' to be, "Where the hell did she go?" Neji shrugged, "now, we're going to get a bad report and we're going to fail!" the stress was getting to her.

"Calm down, lets get Sasuke and Naruto to help us." They stood up and turned around, only to find themselves surrounded by the 'missing' girl and her friends, they were holding something in their hands. Neji's eyes widen when seeing what exactly they were holding, "Don't you dare…." That was all he was able to say before seeing red, literally! Red, pink, green, blue, purple, and many more different color of paint were dumped on them.

"This... can't be happening." Mutter Ino. The couple choose that moment to return with snacks on hand, when they saw their 'multi' color friends they started to laugh.

"Shut. Up." Neji warned, but his warning was ignore by the laughing teens.

"Sorry, but you look… pretty!" and they laughed even harder, Sakura choose that moment to return.

"What did I miss?" She asked seeing Naruto and Sasuke laughing, and Ino and Neji looking ready to kill someone.

"Not much, just that the kids made a wonderful painting!" They laughed again, after everything was pick up and clean, they started to eat their snacks.

"I'll be right back." Sakura announced, as she stood and headed towards the kitchen.

"Who wants cookies?" Naruto asked, all the kids cheered, and they started to hand them the chocolate-chip cookies, there was enough left for them to eat, making sure to leave enough for Sakura.

"Naruto, you have chocolate on your lips." Sasuke said, eating his cookie.

"Oh, thanks." He was about to wipe it off with a napkin, when Sasuke stopped him, confused he looked at his Sasuke, who smiled and wordlessly kissed him. The children were too busy to noticed, Ino and Neji shook their heads, a smile on their faces. The couple would had kissed longer, was not for a loud 'thud' that made them stopped. They glanced at the two teens, which shrugged, then they all looked at the kids, but they weren't doing anything. Then, they glanced at the kitchen door, and were surprised to see Sakura on the floor, she had fainted!

"Oops, our fault." Sasuke said hugging the blond, who in turned blushed crimson. The others just stared at the fainted girl.

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