"Again? This is getting ridiculous!" The hokage said slamming the documents in her table as she stood up in rage. "How could an emergency be going on for so long? And why Naruto?" she said with a sigh, resting her head on her hand, "Tsunade-sama, please calm down! "Shizune said frightened that the fifth might break the table, again, and the pig in her arms oinked in agreement. "Why not just refuse? It would be better anyway if Naruto stopped going out of the village unprotected every month…." She asked in hope of hearing what she want, which was something like "yeah, you are right", but that was only hope and she already knew the answer before she even asked. "Yeah, I know… " Tsunade said with a sigh as she fell back into her chair, "But Naruto said himself this is very important, even if details can't be completely explained. Besides, is good if it keeps his mind busy and away from Sasuke and Akatsuki for a while. Oh, and he told me that if he is ever in danger he'll just… " She was unable to finish the sentence as she heard two strong knocks on the door, which she was expecting, "Come in! Oh, Naruto, just in time. A mission for you again, like always it's from…"

In another place in the village, as Neji investigated the ever so mysterious mission, and Naruto was accepting it, Kiba was making a certain small forest a bit more levelled, as he was destroying tree after tree with all his might. "Stupid Naruto", he thought to himself, "So he got a boyfriend eh? That's a load of bollocks! I know it!", and with that in mind he broke another tree down, which fell loudly on the ground, " I could make him happy! Stupid, stupid, STUPID!" And as he was about to punch another tree, someone jumped to his side and grabbed his wrist. "What are you doing, Inuzuka Kiba?" A ninja wearing a big hood and shades, which made his face pretty much impossible to see, stood at the side of the furious ninja, who got his arm free with one violent swing.

"What do you want Shino?" Kiba asked turned his head to the side not to look at his companion in this time of rage and shame. "What is your purpose destroying this place? What is going on? " Shino asked in the same calm voice that he always had, "What would you know?" Kiba snapped and, with a quick turn, he grabbed his friend by the collar "What would you care? You who never loses his cool and is always able to see everything without being affected by his feeling!", he asked, satring deeply in the black lenses of the shades that hid the eyes of his teammate, "Were you not so blind, now more than the usual because of your anger, you would realise that many people, including me, care about you, I happened to care a bit more." Shino replied ignoring Kiba's intimidation. "You care more? Don't give me that cr-" But before Kiba could finish, Shino put his hood back and quickly shut the angry ninja with a kiss. Caught off guard Kiba couldn't react as his mouth was being invaded by a tongue that wasn't his own, deepening the kiss, making it passionate. Finally understanding what was going on, Kiba pushed Shino away and tried to catch his breath back. Usually he would punch and shout at him with all his might, after all Naruto was the only one for him, always! But right now the anger, the sadness and the lust made him stop caring about anything and next thing he knew he had Shino pressed against a tree as they exchange kiss, one more passionate than the other, soon clothes started to fall into the floor, leafs were falling as the tree started to shake, and, driven by the heat of the moment, both boys gave in to their most deep desire.

Meanwhile, as the night was almost over and the sun was about to rise, Sakura was taking a stroll around the village, she had a lot in her mind lately, and was so deep in thoughts that she was startled when a blond ninja jumped in front of her, making her fall back with a gasp. "Wow, are you ok Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked as he helped her get up, hoping not to get punched in the process, "Yeah, I'm alright, I was just a bit distracted." She accepted his help and got up, with a bit of a serious face, controlling herself not to shout or punch him in the stomach, then she smiled, "Thanks Naruto. But, where are you going this early? Is it another one of those missions?" She said looking a bit worried. "Yeah", Naruto said with half smile as he scratched the back of his head, "It's an important mission so I have to go, but I'm sure it will be over soon". Sakura didn't belive that one bit, and holding her left arm and looking down she expressed her worries, "But you always come back so exhausted and looking more like a zombie than a ninja….",than she looked up, meeting his eyes, " Are you sure you don't want me or Sai to tag along?, but he simply smiled, "Oh, it will be fine Sakura-chan, I just get a bit tired cus I work extra hard to come back as soon as possible! Besides, this is such an easy and close by mission that it will be over before you know it!", and after saying it he pulled a guy-sensei pose, which Sakura couldn't help but laugh.

Seeing that she had lost this argument and nothing would change Naruto's mind she gave up and just showed a refreshed smile, "Same old Naruto", she thought as she waved good bye to the blond ninja that rushed out of the village. As he vanish from sight she gave a small sigh and decided to go see her master for a bit of training or maybe a mission, but as soon as started to walk away a new guest arrived, Neji, the genius from the Hyuga clan, everyone was up so early and SO busy! But she just gave a smile and politely started talking with him….

Finally the sun had risen, not much, just enough for the day to start, as people started to open up their shops, taking kids to school, or simply watching them go to school, cleaning the house, going to check for missions, or simply enjoying the beautiful new day that had just start, well, that is for most people, that's because for a certain ninja the previous was yet to be over, since he spent all his night stalk, I mean, investigating his beloved, only to find so little. The mission was from a very small village, ally of Konoha, not too far away from the village itself, details were top secret, to Sakura at the very least, and Neji had no time to investigate other people, time for a new strategy, one that needed his pride to be swallowed a little, one he wasn't comfortable with at all. And for that he was going to need someone he could trust, of course. At first he considered Hinata-hime, but it would be cruel to her since they loved the same person and someone that faint when near their beloved one is not much of a help at all. The second option would be Lee, and a third option didn't come to mind so he would have to do it. "Knowing him, he is probably training or warming up as he call it.", Neji thought, and with that in mind he rushed to the training ground.

And indeed, in the training ground the Ninja was working hard on his training as he kicked high in the air, always keeping count. "1049, 1050, 1051….if I can kick 2000 my feelings will be surely return by the one I love! …1061,1062….", he said as he got more fired up and sped up, but Neji soon jumped out of the woods and Lee lost focus and balance, and almost fell back, but didn't, not that he got mad, he just laughed it off. "You are more and more like Guy-sensei every day, I swear…." Neji said as he covered his eyes with his hand, finding it too embarrassing to watch, but Lee only gave a Guy-sensei pose, "Thanks Neji!", Neji looked at him, a drop of sweat going down the side of his face as he could see Lee's teeth even shinning, "Anyway….", he decided to change subject, "Lee, you are in love with Sakura-san, are you not?", he asked in a very calm voice but very abruptly and Lee, not expecting that at all, got extremely red and very embarrassed, "Wow, that was unexpected", he said fidgeting, but Neji still looked serious, "Well, yeah, I still do I guess, but I kinda moved on because she is all about Sasuke and them there is Naruto who's always by her side….", he started to rant a bit but the Hyuga wasn't patient enough to wait till he finished his everlasting nonsense, he was there for a reason and would rather they could stick to the subject. "So that's how you deal with a unrequired love? You find someone else?" Neji asked again cutting Lee off, just when he was saying something about Guy-sensei and noodles, and god knows how he manage to go so far away from the original topic, but Lee was caught by surprise again, and had to wait a bit this time to answer, still blushing.

"Neji, are you in love is that it?", It was Neji's time to blush, "And it's a one-sided love isn't it? So you came here to get some advice from me is that it?", Lee asked, being friendly and a bit concerned, but Neji glared at him with all his might, regretting to ever decide to come, this was far too embarrassing, a genius like him shouldn't be taking advice from a loser, yeah, he should just turn his back to Lee, go home, rest and forget this whole thing, after all things were just getting worse and worse, for his pride. But he really loved Naruto and he was very inexperienced in love, so he swallowed his pride once more, and blushing a little he looked to the side, "So what if it is?", Lee giggle a bit, but explained himself before he got killed by the Hyuga, "I'm sorry, is not funny, is just I never expected you to come to me for advice. You see, since I decided to move on and forget Sakura I started to like someone else, a guy at that, you would probably find it ridiculous and disgusting, but I never managed to get him to understand my feelings and I know he will never love me, so I guess I don't have any good advice for you, sorry."

Neji was looking at Lee, perplexed, he never imagined Lee to be in the same situation as him! Since the chunnin exam, years ago, he been a bit nicer to Lee and start to think of him as a friend and not just some loser he got stuck with for missions purpose, but even so he never noticed him being troubled by such situation. "Oh, I didn't know…." He said, being truly understanding, "Did you at least try to confess?", Lee giggle again, and started to scratch his cheek as he looked to the side, embarrassed, "No, there was no point to it….Even though we are in the same team he never noticed it any way….", Lee replied, finally confessing his love for his teammate. The next minutes felt as if the world stopped, everything went quite, not even the insects and birds dared to make a noise, Neji was stupefied by the revelation of Lee being infatuated with him and Lee was nervously hearing his heart beat go as fast as a racing car as he wait for Neji reply. After five minutes of silence, both staring down at floor, Neji finally said, "I'm so sorry Lee, all this time and I never noticed your feelings…and now that I know I have no idea how to not hurt your feelings…", he then raised his head to look at his friend only to see a few tears starting to show, "So I was right….thanks Neji, that was a nice of you, I don't feel too bad now", Lee replied as he tried to smile, but tears kept on coming, and Neji hugged him tight and he just crumbled in tears and hiccups.

Meanwhile, far away from the drama, I mean, far away from the couple of broken heart ninjas, Naruto quickly jumped from tree to tree, rushing to his destination, eager to meet his lover. Yes, this mission was a fake that him and his beloved created to meet in secret, and they could only do it once a month, and they would only have two days for themselves, and it was very troublesome but it was worth every minute. But they had to be very careful, for the akatsuki was still looking for the kyuubi-boy and Naruto was alert every minute of his way there, but worse came to be he got a special scroll that would let him teleport to the toad mountain, he had to beg to get this scroll and without it this meetings wouldn't be possible, well, not possible to be so private, after all besides Naruto and his lover only two other ninjas knew what was happening. Just thinking about meet him,jumping into his arms being holding him tight, kissing his soft lips, looking at his eyes and seeing him smile, al that made Naruto speed up even more! Not too long after he finally saw the shape of a small house in the distance, it was small and simple, but it was easy to put a barrier around it to hide so no one else besides them would see it, and at the door a silhouette of a man. As Naruto got closer, with a huge smile in his face, the silhouette started to take a better shape and colours and he was finally able to see who it was, Shikamaru!

Next: Kiba regrets his actions but Shino want him to face reality, Neji share his tragedy with Lee, will him be able to help? Naruto bf finally revealed, but something is wrong….