AN: Yeahhhhh.. I had to split this chapter into two too -curses longness of chapters- xDD anywayyy here it isss...


Kiba trudged to his locker the next morning, dark circles under his eyes, and the incessantly crying baby hanging from his backpack.

"Oi, Kiba!" Naruto waved from down the hall as he ran over to his friend. "What happened to you?" he asked, noting the other boy's disheveled appearance.

"Won't. Stop. Crying." Kiba explained pointing to his backpack. "It's been crying since the first second Reiko-sensei turned the program on. And then last night Natsu left it at my house so I didn't get any sleep."

Naruto sweatdropped and grabbed the baby out of Kiba's backpack, and immediately the baby stopped crying and started cooing before falling asleep.

Kiba gaped at Naruto, "NARUTO! YOU'RE A GENIUS!" he exclaimed.

"I know." Naruto said, a smug smirk on his face.

"Hey guys!" Natsu chimed, skipping down the hall to Naruto and Kiba.

"Nooo!" Kiba wailed, grabbing the baby from Naruto and running to Reiko's classroom before Natsu could do any damage to the baby.

"What's with him?" Natsu asked Naruto, who only shrugged in response.

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"Lee! No SPANDEX!" Haku wailed for what seemed like the millionth time.

Lee pouted, "But Haku-san! Spandex is youthful!"

"No! No SPANDEX! No YOUTHFULNESS!" Haku cried, clutching at his new blue wig, pulling it off his head in the process.

"Your wig came off Haku-san." Lee noted helpfully.

"I know!" Haku snapped irritably.

"Aye, aye, calm down…" Lee said putting his hands in front of him in defense. "So, about the spandex…"

For a moment, it looked as though Haku might explode, before an eerily calm expression pasted itself across his face. "Suuure…" he sang, "But I get to do the hair!"

"YOSH! Let's do it!" Lee exclaimed, running off to find Gai-sensei and see if he had an extra spandex suit for the baby.

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Tenten glanced down at the plastic baby in her arms rather wearily, hoping it wouldn't cry again. "Normally I like kids…But this thing's a demon." She thought.

And as though it could read her mind, the baby immediately began crying, causing the brunette to face-fault and quickly scurry to Reiko-sensei's classroom so she could deal with the babies for the school day.

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"Gaara…give me the baby…" Sakura said patiently, trying to pry the red-head's hands off of the baby.

"…Nooo!" Gaara inwardly wailed, "This baby understands me!!!"

"Gaara…we have to give the baby to Rei-sensei."

Gaara just stared at the frustrated looking girl in front of him, wearily loosening his grip on the baby.

"Thank you." Sakura said sweatdropping.

"I feel so empty." Gaara inwardly sobbed.

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"I still don't believe you and Nara just 'sat there'." Kankurou said, eying his sister suspiciously.

Temari's eyebrow twitched, "Oh yes, Kankurou, he got down on one knee and proposed to me and we're going to elope tomorrow."

Kankurou sweatdropped and decided not to question his sister anymore in case she decided to murder him.

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Shikamaru shook his head, "This project is so troublesome."

Naruto sweatdropped, "Honestly it isn't that bad."

'Oh please, it's horrible!" Kiba cried.

Haku nodded in agreement, "At least you're not stuck with a spandex-obsessed freak with horrible hair!"


"Sasuke-kun!" Ino squealed draping her arms around the boy's neck.

"Go away!" Sasuke wailed trying to pry the blonde girl off.

"So have you figured out who you're going to ask to homecoming yet?" she asked as though she hadn't heard him.

"Not you." Sasuke responded.

"Oh, it's ok Sasuke-kun! You don't have to hide it from me anymore!" She exclaimed snuggling closer to the boy.

Sasuke's eyebrow began to twitch, "Ino! Get the hell off of me!" He growled.

"Aw, ok…" Ino said pouting, "I'll be waiting anxiously for you to ask me to be your date!" she exclaimed, skipping into the school.

"Ino! Come back!" Chouji wailed, panting as he ran after his project partner.

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"So did Naruto ask you to homecoming yet?" Kaiya asked Hinata, playfully nudging the shy girl's shoulder.

Hinata shook her head, poking her fingers together.

"Well I'm sure he will!" Kaiya said cheerfully.

Hinata inwardly sighed, "I hope so…Although I think he wants to ask Sakura-chan…"

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Naruto walked next to his pink haired friend, sneaking glances at her from the corner of his eye, "Mah! I wanna ask Sakura-chan to homecoming, dattebayo!!!" he inwardly exclaimed.

Sakura, noticing a glance from Naruto turned and looked at the blonde boy. "Ehh?" she thought, "What is it, Naruto? My hair's not coming out of my hat is it?" she asked worriedly, hands flying to her beanie.

"No, no, Sakura-chan!" Naruto said reassuringly. "But I was wondering—"

He was cut off by a grumpy looking Gaara coming over. "Sakura…What'd you do with the baby?" he asked simply.

Sakura blinked. Those were the most words she'd heard him speak. "Um. Uh…Ehh…I…" she stuttered, still shocked that he had spoken.

Naruto looked from Gaara to Sakura and back again.

"Well?" Gaara asked impatiently.

"Oh! Um, I gave it to Reiko-sensei, remember?" Sakura said, recovering.

Gaara grunted in response, walking away.

"He did that on purpose, dattebayo!" Naruto complained.

"Bye Naruto!" Sakura waved, walking into her next class.

Kiba smirked, walking over to the sulking blonde boy, "You should really just ask Hinata, you know." He commented.

Naruto merely nodded in agreement.

"Meh, don't be so glum about it…" Kiba advised.

"I'm not!" Naruto denied.

"Whatever you say."

"I'm not! Besides, I bet I could get a date faster than you, dattebayo!" Naruto challenged.

"Oh please, what kind of challenge is that? I can easily beat you." Kiba boasted.

Sai suddenly popped up between the two boys, "I don't see what you guys are stressing over. You should be manly men and not have one date, but five! Like me!" He exclaimed.

"You're disgusting." Kiba sweatdropped.

"It's not my fault I'm a girl magnet." Sai said cheerfully.

Kiba shook his head.

"It's not fair!!!" Naruto wailed, pointing at Sai, "WHY DOES HE GET FANGIRLS AND I DON'T?!"

"Because you don't have a—" Sai started before conveniently being cut off by the bell signaling the start of the school day.

"I hate him…" Naruto sulked as Sai walked off.


AN: Poor Sai, so misunderstood.. xD on that note, I end this chapter! -disappears in puff of smoke-