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A/N: Yeah...sorry people, I said I'd have an update ready really fast for you all, but unfortunately my bunnies (bunnies sob for a few moments) left me and I had a terrible headache so I was unable to write for nearly an entire week...That and I decided to watch Rurouni Kenshin...which stopped me from writing somewhat as well XD And for those of you who have not seen the series yet, I highly suggest you should watch it, it rocks even this Ero-sennin's socks. Hm...well, I'm not all too happy with the amount of Naru x this chapter's selected female pairing in it, but it shall become more over time...Also, I'd like to thank all the reviewers and readers, my Beta, who has checked everything this chapter, Lilya-chan for being a great source of inspiration for this chapter when I needed it and of course, Yumi-chan for being my muse as always :) So without futher notes...I have to say what I always do

Now on with the story!


Chapter 8: I Spy With My White Eye

"Hello, Mitarashi Anko speaking..."

"Yo, Anko-sensei." Naruto replied, a smile forming on his face out of happiness that the purple headed seductress was home.

"Naru-chan!" Anko yelped in delight and it sounded like she wanted to jump through the phone and tightly hug Naruto.

"Yeah, yeah...It's me..." Naruto said grinning sheepishly and rubbing the back of his head, "Anko-sensei...I need your help with something."

"My help...? Oh, hold on a second Naru-chan..." Anko said and Naruto could hear her lay down the phone for a moment, "Ah! Yes! Yes! That's how I want it! That's great! Yes! Greatest performance I've seen yet! I like it! Yeah!"

Naruto took the phone away from his ear and stared at it like it was about to unleash the Kyuubi upon him, "What the heck is she doing...?"

"Sorry about that Naru-chan..." Anko's voice sounded clear and normal through the receving end of the phone again.

"Er...Am I interrupting something? I think I'll call back later..." Naruto said as his eyes twitched and a shiver ran down his spine.

"No, no! You're not interrupting at all! Hold on, I have some guests, I'll go kick them out of my house..." Anko said and a moment of silence followed.

"Alright guys, it's time for you all to leave now...I've got Naru-chan on the phone, who apparently has some important matters to discuss with me. Great performance, I'll let you guys know if I want to see you again or not." Anko said, her wireless phone pressed against her shoulder as she opened her door to lead her guests out of her house.

"You, work a bit on your performance, but I like what you can do with your balls..." Anko said as the juggler passed her by, who kept on juggling the entire way and gave her a small nod in reply.

"Was I hot enough for you, hot stuff?" A firebreather said and exhaled a circle of fire to show his 'skills' off one last time.

"Not hot enough, keep walking." Anko said and kicked the firebreather out of her house.

"Was my performance good enough?" A little girl dressed up like a clown asked as she looked with big pleading eyes at Anko.

"I liked it, be sure to come back to me when you're older." Anko winked at the small girl, who rose a wide grin on her face and then rushed after the rest of the performers.

Anko closed the door behind them and placed the phone back to her ear, "Are you still there, Naru-chan?"

"What in the name of the Kyuubi was she doing before I called her...!" Naruto awkwardly stared from the corners of his eyes at the phone, "Eh...Yeah, yeah...I'm still here..."

"Alright then..." Anko jumped onto her bed, supporting herself on her elbows and moving her feet rhythmically up and down, "What was this thing about needing my help with?"

"Well er...you see...I think the other sensei's already ehm...explained certain things to their subordinates and er...well...since it's kind of embarrassing to ask any of them I'd er...ask you...about those kind of...things?" Naruto asked as he stretched his collar a bit with one finger.

"Ah...I see..." A devious smirk formed on Anko's face, "You to have the talk with me, right Naru-chan?"

"Eh...Yeah..." Naruto said and scraped his throat before silently awaiting Anko's reply.

"Well, you do have to know that no one, and with that I really mean no one, does the talk the way I do the talk...Also no one can do it better then me, huh?" Anko smirked and unconsciously also winked 'at Naruto'.

"Ehehehe...I doubt that they would know it better than you, Anko-sensei..." Naruto replied, "You nympho...ah I'll leave it at just 'nympho' for now..."

"Oh! I just love it when you call me sensei!" Anko's smirk widened and for a moment there Naruto thought she'd squeal, "Then when will you be here for...the talk...?"

"Eh! At your place you mean...! C-Can't we have 'the' talk over the phone...?" Naruto asked wide eyed, hoping that he wouldn't have to go and run into the seductress' lair to get the talk.

"Sorry, but it's my way or the highway, Naru-chan..." Anko said and then teased Naruto a bit more, "Or...We could do it at your place...In the bathroom...Underneath a nice hot shower...Both wearing absolutely nothing..."

"Ahahaha! No, no! Your place, huh? Sure! I'll be there in er...whatever time it takes me to go from my place to yours!" Naruto said and continued laughing nervously.

"That is alright...I'll see you soon then, Naru-chan..." Anko said his nickname in a way that she was sure that he'd be shivering, one way or another, which Naruto as a matter of fact did as he hung up.

"I'm so dead..." Naruto stated as he looked over his shoulder to talk to no particular person, since there was none present in the room, and in addition he cried a pair small waterfalls.

About fifteen minutes later, Naruto was standing in front Anko's apartment and was recondsidering whether to do this or not, "Ah man...What the heck am I doing...! But I need to know!...Oh well it can't be that bad right...it's not like she'll kill me...intentionally...Well, since I'm here anyway, let's get it over with..."

Naruto knocked on the door and waited for it to be opened. The door slowly was opened from the inside and Naruto would've seen a fairly normal apartment hallway.

Would have, because his vision was obstructed by Kurenai, who wore a rather loose shirt that exposed one of her shoulders and other then that, just her panties. Not to mention Kurenai apparently didn't feel like bounding her breasts or wearing a bra as her rack was at least ten times bigger than what they normally were.

"Ah, We already expected you to come, Naruto-chan..." Kurenai said as she leaned against the door to let Naruto in.

However, Naruto just stood there frozen stiff with his mouth open before he quickly turned around and tried to run away, "I'm sorry! Coming here was a mistake! Bye now!"

Kurenai sighed and grabbed Naruto by the back of his collar, "You're not going anywhere other then here, Naruto-chan...Anko was looking forward to having you over, so you'd do best by coming inside..."

"Aah!" Naruto yelped as Kurenai pulled him into the apartment and closed the door behind him.

She crossed her arms as Naruto looked pleading over his shoulders at her, "Damn it...Look at what she's wearing...I'm going to die if those two get their hands on me...oh wait...when they put their hands on me...They already have me trapped here...Unless I jump out the window and...I'll save that as a last resort..."

Kurenai placed her hands on Naruto's shoulders and pushed him forward, "Come on, Naruto-chan...Anko is excited enough already...don't make her wait much longer..."

"Er...Yeah, yeah..." Naruto grinned sheepishly at the red eyed jounin and slowly walked into the living room.

"Anko, Naruto-chan's here." Kurenai announced and continued walking towards Anko, who was currently with another purpleheaded woman.

"Yo Naru-chan!" Anko grinned widely at Naruto, whose jaw just dropped to the floor then and had trouble breathing.

"Anko-chan! Don't stop..." The purple headed woman moaned.

"Ah sorry, sorry Yuu-chan...Be with you in a few..." Anko took a moment to look at the woman that sat on her, "Minutes...?"

"If you keep this up it will be more like hours!" The woman complained.

"Even though I know you'd like that, we don't have hours...Let's quickly continue then, huh?" Anko smirked and pulled the woman closer to her.

"I have died and end up in Ero-sennin's heaven..." That was Naruto's last thought as blood shot out of his nose and he passed out once he had hit the floor.

Naruto's eyes slowly opened up, the world still being a blur to him and he groaned.

"...Naru-chan?" Anko's voice reached his ears and he could faintly make out the purple color of Anko's hair and the creme color of her trench coat.

"...Naru-chan..." Her voice ran through his head again as his vision took it's time to sharpen until he completely could see Anko.

"Eh...What happened?" Naruto asked the purple headed seductress.

"Well, I guess you can't handle seeing such a thing as that just yet, huh? You passed out...for a good five minutes I guess..." Anko replied with a casual smile.

"...I see...Thanks for at least covering yourself up..."

"Well, what fun would it be to have you pass out over and over again until you die from bloodloss...?" Anko replied with a smirk on her face.

"Where's Kurenai-sensei...?" Naruto asked as he tried to get up, noticing he couldn't and could tell why, he had been restrained to the bed, "And why the hell am I tied up like this!"

"Nai-chan is keeping Yuu-chan warm for me right now..." Anko smirked wider at Naruto, "And these restrains are for incase you planned on jumping up and running back into the other room...We wouldn't want you to interrupt Nai-chan and Yuu-chan's fun and pass out again, now would we?"

"Alright, alright! I understand! I won't run away or run into the other room! Just untie me!"

"No..." Anko smirked at him.

"Eh!...W...Why not...?" Naruto was almost to afraid to ask her and realised he was right about his fears as Anko crawled over him, heading towards his face.

"Because, I haven't forgotten that kiss you gave me this morning, Naru-chan...That's why...I decided that I should at least play with you a little before giving you all that I know and teaching you how to use that knowledge..." Anko tenderly traced with her index finger over Naruto's jaw.

Naruto turned his face away from the jounin, but Anko just made him face her again, "Don't worry, Naru-chan...I won't break my promise of leaving it just at hugs and kisses..."

"Right...And Ero-sennin isn't the writer of the Icha Icha Paradise series..." Naruto glared at Anko as she lowered her face, getting her lips closer to his.

Anko stroke with her hand through Naruto's hair as their lips momentarily met. She pulled away from him and leered at him with her ever seductive look, "Hmmm...I'd like to do more of that, but right now I can see it written all over your face, 'Yeah, yeah, just kiss me already and get it over with so we can get down to business', huh?"

Naruto grinned widely, "I see you start to figure out how I think, huh?" "Not that I like it, you nympho..."

Anko lowered on him once again and kissed him, this time asking, or perhaps in her case it was demanding, entrance to his mouth. Naruto, realising that she would have total controll over him since he needed her for something, obediently opened his mouth and let the seductress have her way.

"Alright then..." Anko said after breaking the kiss and she started to untie the blonde.

"Heh, about time you released me..." Naruto said after he was released, loosening his wrists and any other limb that had gone slightly numb from the restraints.

"Then are you ready for the talk now?" Anko asked as she leered at Naruto.

"Of course! That's why I came here in the first place!" Naruto retorted as he crossed his arms.

"Well then, Naru-chan...I'm going to teach you the basics." Anko said as she spread Naruto's legs wide.

"B-basics!" Naruto looked with wide eyes at the seductress as she crawled up between his legs, resting her back against his chest.

"Yeah...the basics..." Anko said nearly whispering, sending a shiver down Naruto's spine.

She then abruptly took her trench coat off, revealing her naked body that she covered up with it, "Anko-sensei's Sex Ed. 101 has started!"

"GAAAAAH!"

That night, Naruto had his first real near-death experience as he lost more blood then Zabuza did in his final battle.

However, luckily for him, Anko and her two female playmates were able to rescue him from a certain death by a blood transfusion and Naruto learned more about the female anatomy then Jiraiya would've learned from peeking at naked girls in the hot springs his entire life.

After his 'sexual education lessons' with Anko, Naruto stumbled back home.

"Damn it...She really overdid it this time..." Naruto muttered as he removed the patch that covered the area where the needle for the blood transfusion once sat.

"I wonder though, how the heck did she get my medical record and knew what bloodtype I had...hmm...Oh well, she saved herself from becoming a murderer by killing me...I wonder why the heck that fox bastard didn't start leaking his chakra out to fasten my blood generation..." Naruto said to himself as he jumped up a building to make sure he wouldn't hit anyone that passed by him, seeing how he still was a little light headed from all the bloodloss.

Not to mention that thinking would just hurt him too much right now, after all he had to process and remember a lot of information, since he didn't want to lose any of it and go to Anko for her lessons again.

Once Naruto reached his apartment's rooftop he stopped for a minute, letting his blood flow freely through him. He already felt a whole lot stronger again and figured that his amount of blood was being close to the amount it was before he visited Anko.

Naruto snickered, "Ehehehe...I guess I can always talk to Temari about this stuff now if I'm in doubt about certain matters...At least now I know something and won't have to randomly ask her 'Temari, can you give me THE talk?'...She'd probably laugh and...explain it to me! ...God damn it...Oh well, I doubt she'd do it on the same level as Anko..."

Naruto took a deep breath in and then quickly jogged to the front of his apartment, heading back inside where it was warm, a different kind of 'warm' than he experienced earlier tonight. Walking through the hallway, he could see only a faint light still burning in the living room, making him realise that Gaara and Temari were back home again and that they didn't find a hotel with vacancy.

He walked into the room, finding only Temari present and on his bed with a small red book in her hands, entitled "Icha Icha Paradise".

Temari noticed Naruto's presence in the room and leered towards the young blonde with a devious smirk on her face, "Yo, Naruto no Echii..."

"No! It's not what you think! Wait a damn minute...Why are you reading that book!" Naruto's mouth hung wide open and he pointed towards Temari, who had the book actually open and was most likely done reading about one eighth of the entire novel.

"That's my line...I thought you were innocent but apparently you are more naughty then I thought you were..." Temari gave Naruto a wink before slightly giggling.

"I told you, it's not like that!" Naruto yelled and still pointed accusingly with his index finger at Temari, "But why the heck are you reading it!"

"It's fun." Temari said and continued giggling.

"That book isn't supposed to be fun for people of our age!"

"Why do you read it then...?"

"...Er..." Naruto was at a loss at that question for a moment and then he vigorously shook his head, "I don't read it!"

"Oh...What do you use it for then?" Temari leered suspiciously at Naruto with a huge smirk on her face.

"Training!" Naruto let out before he realised it and quickly slapped his hands in front of his mouth and stared at Temari. The wind mistress slightly blushed and then bursted out into tears of laughter.

"No! It's not what you think it is! Ero-sennin said Yondaime read that book! He told me it would be good training!" Naruto lied the last part, but he had to save what was left of his dignity.

"Oh yeah, this sure is 'good training'!" Temari said between laughs and then started quoting from the novel, "Oh Mia-chan, are you sure this is right? Even though I long to see your big to see your big rack I..."

"Aah! What the hell do you think you are doing!" Naruto yelled and dived at Temari to snatch the little red book out of her hands.

A breath was abruptly forced out of Temari as she lifted her arms up to keep the book safe, but in doing so Naruto roughly fell on her stomach.

"Oh, Kai-san! If we are caught in the act by my father, we will both die no matter what! So take me and take me hard, my..." Temari continued to quote but Naruto managed to snatch the novel out of her hands.

"Oh come on, Naruto! It's funny!" Temari loudly said with a smile on her face as she reached out for the book in Naruto's hands, making the blonde shinobi roll over and lie on her lap instead of on top of Temari's stomach.

"The hell, it's not funny!" Naruto said as he reached out with his arms as far away from Temari as he could.

Temari rolled away from underneath Naruto in order to gain full movement once more and Naruto took this chance to dive off his bed and somehow put the book away from Temari's grasp.

However, Temari thought different about the matter as she jumped on Naruto to stop him from escaping with the book. The two of them fell face down on the ground, where the struggle for possesion of Jiraiya's beloved novel continued.

"Come on, Naruto! Give me the book!" Temari said as she reached out for the book that Naruto held out with one hand.

"I won't let you read it!" Naruto replied as he tried to stretch out futher and crawl away from underneath Temari.

"Naruto...?" Temari calmly asked him and Naruto calmed down for a moment as well.

"...Yeah?"

"Are you...ticklish?" Temari asked with a wide smirk on her face.

"Ehm..." Before Naruto could even think about whether he was or not, he bursted out in laughter as the wind mistress started to tickle his ribs, "Ahahaha! Temari, stop it! That's cheating! Hahahaha! Temari!"

After a few more moments of being tickled, Temari finally received the opportunity to snatch the small red book out of Naruto's grasp, as he clutched onto his stomach, trying to stop her from tickling him. The instant Temari had grabbed onto the book, she rolled off Naruto and jumped up, facing with her back towards Naruto.

Just as she snapped the book open again to give Naruto more quotes from the (in)famous novel again, Naruto jumped her back, making her stumble towards Naruto's bed and both of them fell onto it.

"I won't let you read that book!" Naruto lashed at the novel, trying to smack it out of Temari's hands, but he failed miserably.

"Why not? It's funny!" Temari retorted as she jumped onto Naruto so he wouldn't be able to try again.

"It's perverted!"

"Not if you only take all the 'perverted' parts as a joke..."

Naruto's struggles stopped and he blinked at the blonde from Suna, "What's that supposed to mean?"

"Well you see, this novel IS perverted, if you take the events in it like you were actually experiencing them on your own...Eh..." Temari slightly blushed, "Yeah that's it...but if you take it all as fiction and just as something funny and laugh about it, then you won't even picture the...even in your mind, because you will be too busy laughing."

"...I guess that could work..." Naruto blinked and then pointed an accusing finger at the wind mistress, "But it's still perverted because it's hard not to picture things when you read them!"

"Just imagine all the characters having weird and funny lil' voices and then I'm sure you'll just laugh and not even thoroughly think about it then...That's what I do..."

Naruto crossed his arms and tought about it for a moment, "Well... I guess you could do it that way..."

Temari raised a smile at him, "Good, I'm glad you are understanding what I mean...How about we read it together?"

"Eh!" Naruto turned slightly red in his face, "What! Together! Why!"

"Because..." Temari slightly blushed and averted her eyes from Naruto, "It will probably be easier for both of us...Some stuff in this book is hard not to think about and all...If we read it together we will laugh more and ehm...I don't think we'd dare think about it in a perverted way then..."

Naruto questioningly blinked at Temari, wondering for a moment why she reacted like this, before figuring out it must be because she just admitted that she thought some perverted things earlier, "Alright then. I don't read that fast so please tell me if you think something comes up that is almost guaranteed to make me think perverted things."

"Sure thing." Temari smiled at the young blonde and got off him, "I'll just go and change into my nightgown."

"Why that?" Naruto rose from his bed and blinked at the wind mistress, "You don't need that to read, right?"

"Naruto, do you have any idea what the time is?"

"Ehm...Probably...Just after midnight?" Naruto replied without even bothering to take a glance at the clock.

"It's nearing 1 AM already..." Temari replied, pointing towards the clock as she did, "So once we get too tired to read, I want to instantly go to bed and sleep..."

"Ah, I see...Then I shall go put on my pyjamas as well." Naruto jumped off the bed and then waited, "Er...Are you going to change in the bathroom or should I?"

Temari smirked at Naruto and then got up from Naruto's bed as well, "I'll go change in the bathroom."

She gathered her needed belongings and then headed into the bathroom, shutting the door behind her before locking it. Naruto unconsciously let a smile crawl up on his face before he turned back towards his bed, lifting the blankets up to grab his pj's from underneath it.

After throwing the small pile of nightly clothes on to his bed, Naruto quickly stripped down to his boxers. He picked up the small pile of clothing and then he noticed something was wrong about it.

"Huh? What the? Hm?" Naruto looked confused at his pyjama pants, noticing that his nightly shirt was missing from it.

After quickly putting his pyjama pants on, Naruto lifted the blankets and started searching for his shirt, "What the hell? Where is it? I know it should be here..."

"Not here." Naruto checked at the end of his bed for his shirt.

"Not here either!" Naruto said as he lifted his pillow.

"Nor here..." He said after looking if it had fallen between the edge of his bed and the wall.

"Or here! What the hell is going on here!" Naruto yelled, once he confirmed that his pyjama shirt wasn't even under his bed.

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"Akamaru, come on...It's bedtime, boy..." Kiba called out to his dog that was still up and active in the large backyard at the Inuzuka residence.

Akamaru loudly barked in reply and Kiba noticed that his trusted canine companion was busy with something, "Huh? You found something weird earlier today and are playing with it right now?"

Kiba put his hands into his pockets and walked towards Akamaru, "What have you found?"

Kiba hunched over and Akamaru dropped a drool covered piece of fabric into Kiba's lap, "Ow man, you drooled all over it...hey, this somewhat looks familiar..."

Akamaru barked something in reply as Kiba held the torn fabric between his thumb and index finger, on one of the few parts that wasn't covered in drool.

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"Damn it...It just disappeared..." Naruto said as he sat down on his bed with his arms crossed over one another, "What the hell...how does something like that disappear all of a sudden..."

Naruto heard the bathroom door open and a moment later Temari's voice called out from behind it, "Naruto, are you done changing into your nightly clothing?"

"Eh..Y-yeah! More or less!" Naruto quickly replied.

Temari walked out of the bathroom and as she headed back into the living room, she asked, "What do you mean 'more or less'?"

She stopped walking once she saw Naruto not wearing his shirt and Naruto quickly replied again before she got the wrong idea, "Well...I can't find my shirt..."

"I see. Oh well, it's not like I'm not used to seeing male skin..." Temari replied nonchalantly, walking back towards Naruto.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, when growing up with two little brothers you tend to see a lot of the male anatomy sooner or later in your life." Temari raised a smile at Naruto as she sat down on their joint bed.

"I see...Well I'll just go put on a t-shirt or such..." Naruto said and got off his bed.

"No need to, I could use the extra warmth." Temari replied, making Naruto turn around and blushed at Temari.

"N-no! Don't think I'll do anything weird o-or something! It's just that when wearing clothing it isolates the warmth mostly between your body and the fabric! I'd be topless right now too...if you weren't a guy, that is...Not that I'd do such a thing with a girl that easy either! It's just that..." Temari decided to abruptly shut up and look away from Naruto right then.

"Ehehehe..." Naruto grinned sheepishly at the girl and rubbed the back of his head, "It's alright, I understand. If you really don't mind me like this, then I guess it's ok."

Temari slightly blushed and stood up from the bed, allowing Naruto to slip underneath the blankets and sheets before she joined him. She picked the little red book with one hand up from the bed and wrapped her free arm around Naruto's waist, causing the blonde shinobi to turn his head towards her and stare at her with a blush appearing on his face.

Temari blushed back, "S-sorry, Naruto...It's just easier to read together this way..."

"Ehm...It's alright...It's just that it kind of startled me..." Naruto said smiling as he averted Temari's gaze, "...Holy crap...She looks extremely cute like this..."

"Well ehm...I'm sorry...Can you scoot a little closer? Makes it even easier you know...and..."

Naruto grinned at her, "Yeah, yeah. I understand. You know, this is the first time I ever had something like a bedtime story."

Temari's blush instantly faded and blinked at him, "You never been read to before? Not that I'm going to do that I mean...Sure I can quote it all but like ehm...it's kind of embarrassing, wouldn't you say so?"

"I know, I know...but yeah...This is probably the closest I've ever come to being read to. Not that it matters, really! I can read just fine by myself!"

"I almost forgot...He's just like Gaara...Well Gaara still had me, Kankurou, Father and Uncle Yashamaru for a while...but other than that they're both the same...they both grew up in solitude...Never been told a bedtime story...I think I haven't done that for Gaara yet either...That solitude...It must have been more awful then I could possibly imagine..." Temari thought as she stared at Naruto, who just blankly looked at her.

Naruto was surprised, as he found himself suddenly embraced by Temari in a hug, "T...Temari?"

"Tell me Naruto..."

"Y-yeah...?"

"How much did you read of the novel?" Temari smiled at him as she let him go and just rested her arm around his waist again.

"Huh? Ehm...I guess...I kind of stopped reading after the first view pages due to certain bloodloss..." Naruto grinned at her and scratched his whiskers, "Why did she hug me just now?"

"Ah I see...Well, I guess I'll just give you a summary of what happened up until the point where I am then." Temari said and started turning pages in the novel until she turned the last page that she finished reading before Naruto came back home.

An hour and a half, a lot of laughter and moderately perverted conversations after almost every chapter they finished later, Naruto and Temari were reaching the peak of the story.

"Oh..." Temari said and placed her hand in front of Naruto's eyes.

"Temari! Come on! I bet it's just something funny like the last couple of times!" Naruto complained, but made no attempt to remove Temari's hand from his eyes.

"No, I think that this time it might actually be too much for you from how this starts off." Temari replied as continued on reading.

"Hm, it was just starting to get good again...Like it really turn out to be something that's too much for me...Yeah ri-..." Before Naruto could complete his sentence, Temari's hand slid off his eyes.

Naruto surprised towards the blonde kunoichi for a moment, only to see blood trickle out from her nose and fall back down on the bed.

"Oi, Temari!" Naruto said as the wind mistress lost consciousness, in an attempt to keep her from fainting.

"Damn it...Looks like it really was THAT bad after all...Come on, Temari...Wake up!" Naruto shook the blonde a couple of times, trying to snap her out of it.

Not getting any response from the girl, Naruto pouted and crawled over her, sitting down on her lap and shaking her more furiously back and forth, "TEMARI...! COME ON! TEMARI! I CAN'T DO THIS ALL NIGHT, YOU KNOW!"

Just then Naruto could hear the door close and he automatically turned his towards the hallway and found himself staring into Gaara's eyes, that we narrowed upon the blonde.

"Yo Gaara, can you help me out with your sis here?" Naruto asked the redhaired boy, whose eyes twitched in reply.

"What the heck are you doing with my sister?" Gaara replied and Naruto's eyes slightly widened in surprise, looking down towards the unconscious blonde below him.

"Ah! This...! This isn't..! Really! I wasn't really doing...! We were just...!"

"Sabaku...!" Gaara's sand formed a hand and raced towards Naruto.

Not really knowing what to do, Naruto did what he used to do when he was a little kid, throwing his hands in front of his face to shield his head.

A couple of moments passed and Gaara's sand still hadn't reached him yet, Naruto peeked at the red head and found the giant hand of sand waiting in front of him.

"Ehm..." Naruto managed to let out as he lowered his arms and looked at the Kazekage, who glanced back and forth between the clock that was present in the room and to his teddy bear on the couch.

"It's late..." Gaara stated and then paused for a moment, "Remind me to kill you in the morning..."

"Er..." Naruto said as Gaara retracted his sand, placed his gourd on the ground, picked up his teddy and laid down onto the couch, "Sure..."

Naruto blinked and stared at the red headed Kazekage until he could hear him softly snore, which didn't take that long. He dropped down onto Temari's unconscious body, who didn't even react to the sudden fall of the other blonde, "What a day..."

Naruto looked up to Temari, whose nose had long stopped bleeding, but she was still unconscious, "Temari, don't be mad at me for falling asleep on you..."

With that Naruto closed his eyes, said a little prayer in hope that he'd have a nice rest, that Temari would gently put him off her if she regained consciousness and that Gaara wouldn't kill him in the morning, falling asleep almost immediately after his prayer.

The following morning, Naruto woke up to find himself in Temari's arms, who apparently had awoken from her unconscious state during the night, as there were no traces of blood on her upper lip.

Naruto carefully slipped out of Temari's embrace, trying his best not to wake the girl up. He rose from his bed and looked outside, where he found a beautiful blue sky and a bright shining sun.

Naruto grinned, as if to greet the new morning and he was surprised to find out that he actually felt quite energetic this morning. Without disturbing the deep slumber Temari was still in, Naruto jumped over her and quickly gathered his clothing for today, or at least what he needed to wear for staying in during the morning.

While he took a shower, Naruto couldn't help but grin widely, "This is the best nightly rest I've had all week."

With the grin still stamped onto his face, Naruto headed back into his living room after completing the first part of his morning ritual and was wearing his standard orange pants and a black t-shirt with, of course, his hitai-ate wrapped around his forehead once again.

Naruto took a small spin and then walked into the kitchen to prepare breakfast for him and his roommates. While waiting for the Ramen to be done cooking, Naruto looked over to his roommates and he suddenly remembered what Gaara said last night, "Uh-oh...That might be bad...Ehm...I hope he forgot or something...!"

Three minutes later, Naruto served the ramen cups and figured that they'd most likely need something to drink with it. He pulled his fridge open again, took the milk out and filled three glasses with the cold fluid before rplacing it back in the fridge.

Naruto took a large serving plate from the kitchen cabinet and placed one cup of ramen, a glass of milk and a pair of chopsticks on it. He took the plate and walked over to the coffee table, where he placed the plate on and then turned towards Temari.

Naruto softly shook Temari back and forth, trying to wake the blonde up, "Temari, wake up...I've got breakfast for you."

Slowly, Temari's eyes slightly opened and she turned her head towards Naruto, "Morning teddy...You're up and bright this morning..."

Naruto, who was still grinning, grinned even wider, "I know, I feel really energetic! Anyway, breakfast is ready."

"Alright, alright..." Temari turned her head back around and closed her eyes again, "I'll be out of bed in a minute or five..."

"Why do you need to get out of bed?" Naruto asked as he grabbed the serving plate and walked back towards Temari again.

"...How else am I going to-..." Temari wanted to finish her sentence, but she stopped talking the instant she felt Naruto put something down onto the bed.

She looked over to where her breakfast was and she spontaneously sat up and was fully awake, "Oh my god Naruto! Do you have any idea how much I love this!"

"You do? Well I just felt rather energetic so I decided to..." Naruto stopped as Temari hugged him and gave him a kiss on his cheek, making him blush a shade of red.

"It isn't perfect, but I really love having breakfast on bed!" Temari stated, though it was rather unnecessary for Naruto since he got that idea by now, "Now I can just be warm and comfy while eating my breakfast."

Temari took the plate and picked up her chop sticks and immediately after saying a quick 'Itadakumasu', she started her meal.

"Hehe...I guess she can be very gentle...I hope Gaara is just as happy...Er...well...Aside from getting a kiss on my cheek from him as well, that is..." Naruto thought as he rubbed the back of his head.

Naruto went back into the kitchen, grabbed another glass of milk and a cup of ramen and brought the two items to the coffee table.

"Naruto..." Temari said as Naruto reached out with his hands to wake Gaara up.

"Yeah?" Naruto asked in return as Temari swallowed the noodles that were in her mouth.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you...Not unless you want to take a flying trip over the village that is..."

Naruto blinked at Temari, "But if I don't wake him up, his ramen will go to waste..."

"Alright, just leave it to me...Just cover your ears."

"Huh? Why th-?"

"GAARA! WAKE UP!" Temari yelled at the top of her lungs as Naruto quickly tried to diminish the sound by pressing the palms of his hands against his ears.

Gaara rose from the couch and turned towards Temari, "What is it?"

"Breakfast." Temari pointed out the cup of ramen and glass of milk on the coffee for Gaara.

"I see..." Gaara replied.

"Y...Yo Gaara." Naruto said, grinning sheepishly and rubbing the back of his head.

"Naruto..." Gaara said as he eyed the blonde, "Something wrong?"

"Ehehehe, no nothing really. How about you...?" Naruto asked warily.

Gaara crossed his arms and was deep in thought for a moment, "Other then that my slumber was ended prematurely, I guess not...Should there be something wrong?"

"N-no! Not at all! Enjoy your meal!" Naruto said and quickly ran towards the kitchen to eat his own meal, "It's a miracle! He doesn't remember!"

"Hmmm..." Gaara hummed and brought his first up loosely up to his chin.

"What is it, Gaara?" Temari asked between two bits of her breakfast.

"I don't know...It feels like I should do something, but what is it..." Naruto started sweating, a lot as a matter of fact.

"Ah, it's probably nothing important if you forgot it..." Temari replied and continued eating.

"I guess so..." Gaara said and continued his meal as Naruto let out a sigh of relief, "Safe..."

A few minutes later, they were all done with their meals and were now just silent for a few moments.

"I should really get less sweet with Naruto...I might give him the wrong idea...I mean...just now when he gave me breakfast..." Temari thought as she stared at her empty cup of ramen.

"Why is it so god damn quiet all of a sudden...Something's weird..." Naruto thought as he looked at his two roommates.

"I know I forgot something...What was it...hmmm..." Gaara thought as he closed his eyes and crossed his eyes.

"So..." Naruto said, trying to break the ice and suddenly, someone loudly knocked onto the door of Naruto's apartment.

"Who in the world could that be?" Naruto and Temari said simulatneously, Temari smirked at Naruto and he smiled back at her.

"I'll go see who it is." Naruto stated as he got up from his seat and walked towards the front door.

When he opened the door, Naruto faced two colossal men who he recognised.

"We're here to pick Uzumaki Naruto up!" Colossal man number 1 said.

"Uzumaki Naruto and Kazekage-sama!" Colossal man number 2 added as he flexed his equally colossal muscles and pressed his knuckles against each other.

"You guys are..." Naruto said as he blinked at the two men.

"Maito Gee!" Gee said and struck the nice-guy pose.

"And Maito Laim!" Laim added and then struck the same pose as his twin brother.

"How did these weirdos find out where I live..." Naruto eyed the two Maito brothers awkwardly, "How did you guys find out where I live?"

"Onii-sama told us!"

"Onii-sama did! He also said that Kazekage-sama would be here!"

"He did! We must bring Uzumaki Naruto and Kazekage-sama to Onii-sama!"

"Er..." Naruto took a step away from the two brothers.

"Did I hear someone mention 'Kazekage-sama'...?" Gaara asked as he walked to the door.

"Aniki! Look! It's Kazekage-sama!" Gee stated.

"And this is Uzumaki Naruto!" Laim added.

"We shall take you to Onii-sama right now!" Both of the Maito brothers stated as they picked Naruto and Gaara up.

"O-Oi! Wait a damn minute!" Naruto struggled to get free.

"Onii-sama told us to bring you immediately!" Laim stated, being the one that held Naruto firmly in his grip.

"Aaaah! Gaara! Do something to free us of these maniacs!"

"...I would but my sand is in my gourd...And I don't see what's so bad to listen to an apparently important message from one of Konoha's Jounin..." Gaara replied calmly, hanging over Gee's shoulder.

"Then we shall now be on our way!" Gee exclaimed.

"AAAAH! Temari! Save--!" Naruto yelled but the door was slammed shut and Naruto's cry for help was abruptly shut off.

Temari blinked at the door, "Well, I guess I'm alone for a while..."

"What to do, what to do?" Temari looked around the apartment to figure out what she could do in her moment of being alone.

"Ah I know, I'm going to take a shower and then..." Temari abruptly turned red in her face and softly snickered as she had a devious look in her eyes, looking towards the front door, "I guess I could walk around naked for a while...Kind of exciting to do it in someone else's place...Better carry my fan around...Don't want Naruto or Gaara to see me like that...Nemar-kun on the other hand..."

Temari snickered some more and then softly squealed before heading into the bathroom to take a nice shower.

Naruto looked annoyed at his apartment, that was now already a bit away from him. He groaned, "Damn...What is this all about...I hope Temari's not too confused about this happening all of a sudden."

"Don't worry...Temari will probably just polish her fan or something while we're away...I'm more concerned about what it is that I've forgotten...I still can't quite place it...It's...irritating me." Gaara stated.

"Ehehehe! I bet it's nothing really! Nothing, I'm telling ya!" Naruto grinned sheepishly at the red headed Kazekage, "Damn it...Maybe this day is not as beautiful as I thought it would be..."

A while later, the two Maito brothers stopped in front of a house in the centre of Konoha.

"We have arrived!" The brothers cheerfully announced as the opened the door with and put Naruto and Gaara inside.

"Er..." Naruto looked around in the hallway, finding a LOT of green stuff along with some turtles here and there.

"Go on forth!"

"Onii-sama is waiting for you two in the next room!"

"...Right..." Naruto replied as he and Gaara were forced by the brothers to walk onward.

Naruto was still studying his surroundings and he found a couple of pictures along the way.

One of when Gai was just a genin himself, "He looks just like Lee...or Lee looks just like him..."

Then after that came one with Gai and his team, Lee and Gai striking their nice-guy pose and Tenten and Neji standing slightly away from the two but smiling nonetheless. The next picture had Team Gai in chuunin clothing, most likely taken immediately after they had become chuunin. The final picture was with all four of them, Neji being in Jounin clothing, and Naruto noticed that it was taken recently.

At the end of the hallway there was a door, at which they stopped and the Maito brothers opened it for them, "Please enter!"

Naruto exchanged an awkward look with the two Maito brothers and then stepped into the room, where more people were already gathered.

Neji sat crosslegged on the ground and appearing to be in some sort of meditation, Shino was having an intense silent conversation with one of his bugs, Kiba leaned against the back wall, Shikamaru was lazily staring at the ceiling, Chouji was, what else would you have expected from him, eating chips and Lee was brimming with energy between his sensei and Kakashi, who was reading his Icha Icha Paradise novel.

"Ah! The final guests have arrived! Now we can begin!" Gai exclaimed and struck his nice-guy pose.

"Er...Begin exactly what?" Naruto asked as he looked around the gathered group.

"Sit down and I can start explaining!" Gai exclaimed and Lee bursted out in flames, "Ooooh! Gai-sensei! You're so hip when you explain things! It's so youthful!"

Naruto groaned as he and Gaara joined the other on the floor, "...Why do I get the feeling that this is for something really stupid..."

"First of all, I thank you for coming here on such short notice! Your youthfulness is amazing!" Gai exclaimed and received murderous glares from most of the young men present.

"Next, I'd like to know if any of you want to ask a question!" Gai exclaimed and Naruto raised his hand, "But, it must not be about why we are here! That question will be answered soon enough!"

Naruto lowered his hand and then rose it back up again, "Or how long this will take! The springtime of youth does not wait!"

Once again Naruto lowered and raised his hand, this time getting an actual direct response from Gai, "Yes Naruto-kun? You have a question?"

Naruto groaned as Gai struck another nice-guy pose, "Kakashi-sensei...Were you dragged to this place as well? If not get us out of here or something..."

"Well...I think I recall Gai waking me up early this morning for some 'important talk he had to give to all the youthful men in Konoha'...Also, I figured that this is the best hiding place from Hokage-sama's missions so I can read my Icha Icha Paradise in peace..." Kakashi replied, not even removing his eyes from his novel.

"Imporant talk, huh?" Naruto repeated and then nodded his head.

"Yes! It is very important! That is why we gathered all of you here!" Gai exclaimed.

All of a sudden, there was a sort of earthquake and the door that Gee and Laim blocked was swung open. Everyone looked towards the entrance to find the white haired Sannin, Jiraiya, standing there looking rather pissed off.

"Boss!" Gee and Laim exclaimed at seeing their employer, "What are you doing here!"

"That's my line! You two are supposed to be at the shop!" Jiraiya yelled at the two Maito brothers and exaggeratingly pointed with his finger at them.

"But Boss! We're trying to stop more perverts from becoming one!" Gee exclaimed.

"It's our duty to stop all perverts!" Laim added.

"Then why is the store being overrun with them right now, huh!"

"AAAAAAH! ANIKI!" Gee yelled.

"ANIKI!" Laim replied at least equally as loud, if not louder than his brother.

"There are perverts there!"

"Yes they are there!"

"We must fulfill our duty to the world!"

"Indeed we must do that!"

"ANTI-PERVERT SECURITY---!" They both yelled and flexed their colossal muscles, "MOVING OUT!"

"Ichi, ni, Ichi, ni..." The two brothers chanted as they marched past Jiraiya and out of Gai's house. Jiraiya let out a deep sigh in relief that the two brothers headed back to his store, before it's reputation was ruined.

"Oi...I think I'd rather be in Temari's shoes right now..." Naruto whispered to Gaara.

"You like polishing fans as well?" Gaara asked in return without even turning towards Naruto.

"No, but she's definetely in a better situation than us right now..." Naruto replied and then looked back out in front of them.

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"Ah...Hot showers are just the best...Well, a bath is even better, but unfortunately I don't have that luxury..." Temari said to herself as she walked out of the bathroom, not wearing a single piece of clothing as she was home all by herself.

"Better get my fan though...Gaara and Naruto might be home any minute..." Temari said as she walked back towards the living room to get her fan.

Just then the front door was opened and out of pure surprise to the sudden sound, Temari turned halfway around.

"Naruto, are you...?" Sakura asked as she stepped into the hallway and found herself looking at a fully nude Temari.

"Home?" Sakura finished her sentence as she blushingly gasped at Temari, who has exactly the same reaction as Sakura.

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"Yup...She's definetely in a better position than us." Naruto nodded to himself.

"Alright then! Now that everything has been quieted once again, we can start what I called you all here for!" Gai exclaimed.

"Yeah...It was quiet..." Naruto muttered, forming a grin on Shikamaru's face, who obviously heard Naruto's little remark.

"I've gathered all of you here because Konoha's beautiful flowers are blossoming!" Gai exclaimed.

Shikamaru sat up and looked dully towards the green clad jounin, "Ehm...Aren't flowers girl stuff...what do we men have to do with flowers...? It's such a troublesome subject, I don't want or need to know anything about..."

"I'm not talking about normal flowers!" Gai struck the nice-guy pose again, "I'm talking about all the young female flowers!"

Shikamaru's dull expression spread out to most the guys in the room, aside from Neji and Shino.

"Ehm...Gai? I think it would help a lot to tell them you mean the girls of their age, or even more importantly, their kunoichi team-mates...Haruno Sakura, Yamanaka Ino, Hyuuga Hinata and Tenten...Ow and if I'm not mistaken Temari of the Sand..." Kakashi stated, still having his eyes fixed on his novel.

A light bulb was lit on above each of the young men's heads, in understanding that their that their female team-mates, and Gaara's sister, were 'blossoming'.

"Ah! Kakashi! Your replies are always so hip! You always manage to get through to them!"

"Hm...? Did you say something?"

"OH MY GOOOOD!"

Gai blabbered on about something about Kakashi's 'hipness' before turning back towards the crowd of young men in front of him, "Anyway, my eternal rival is right! Your female comrades of youth are blossoming at a rapid pace! Yesterday when my adorable and youthful student Lee and I went to give our team's Tenten a good morning visit, we found her and all the other girls wrapped in unyouthful clothing! With their real clothes piled onto the floor! There even was a blonde young man with them!"

All the eyes were turned towards Naruto and even though Naruto didn't notice it, Neji was the only one who glared at him.

"Wha-what! That wasn't me!" Naruto quickly replied, waving his arms energetically, "Tell them, Gaara! I was out training all night! It couldn't be me!"

"Damn it...At this rate I might be unmasked!" Naruto cursed in his mind as he looked around the crowd.

Surprisingly, it was not Gaara who saved Naruto's skin but Gai, "That's right! It wasn't Naruto-kun who was doing unyouthful things with our beloved female comrades! I found him familiar but I don't know who that man was, doing such unyouthful things with our youthful female comrades!"

"See! It wasn't me!" Naruto replied and noticed that Kakashi and Jiraiya were eyeing him, "Ero-sennin, you'd better not sell me out...and why is Kakashi-sensei looking at me like that?"

"Now then! We shall discuss what you all need to know about your blossoming kunoichi friends! And then we choose who shall watch over each one of them so they won't end up with a pervert! But first, the talk!" Gai exclaimed.

"EH!" Naruto yelled, momentarily gaining everyone's attention once again, "We're going to have the TALK! I went to Anko-sensei for nothing! All of that for...nothing!"

About half an hour later however, Naruto realised that Gai's version of the talk was not exactly flawless, as he had to correct the Jounin after almost every sentence.

Jiraiya was grinning widely and beaming with pride that his student had such a wide knowledge of women, not even bothering to correct Gai himself as he took far too much joy out of seeing Gai get corrected by Jiraiya's blonde student.

After that half an hour, all the guys basically asked and discussed everything with Naruto as Gai and Lee let their youthful flames burn, swearing that they'd be hipper than both Kakashi and Naruto and one day will surpass them in knowledge of a certain matter.

"So-so-so! Tell us again Naruto! What happens then!" Kiba said with an excited and moderately perverted grin on his face as he drooled and panted like a dog.

"Yeah, yeah...You know when you are like...throwing with a water balloon back and forth with another person?" Naruto asked and Kiba nodded in reply, "Well, it's kind of like that, when the water balloon explodes in your hands that is and that's ehm...well...I guess that's the best comparison I can give."

"Naruto, I have to point out that a water balloon that snaps if quite different from that...I mean, a water balloon is most of the time completely filled with water and a much larger amount than..." Shikamaru stated in a matter-of-factly tone, but got interrupted by Gai, "Alright! That's enough for the talk! I think Naruto-kun has proven to be more passionate with the flames of youth then I am! But I shall not lose to Naruto-kun! I shall become more youthful than anyone else!"

"Oowaaaah! Gai-sensei! You're so youthful when you say that!"

"Alright then! Now for who is going to watch over which youthful blossoming kunoichi! Aburame Shino and Inuzuka Kiba will watch over their team-mate! Nara Shikamaru and Akimichi Chouji do that as well! Kazekage-sama can watch over his sister I assume! Then Neji and Naruto-kun will watch over my team's Tenten!" Gai exclaimed as Neji threw Naruto a glare from the corner of his eyes.

"Gai-sensei! Does that mean that I...!" Lee exclaimed with wide-eyes.

"Yes my adorable youthful student Lee! You shall be the one to protect your youthful blossom Sakura from every pervert!" Gai exclaimed and struck the nice-guy pose, "So take your chance and win her over my youthful student!"

Lee pinched his eyes tightly shut, clutched both his fists as tight as his eyes as a wide smile formed on his face.

"YOOOOSH! THE SPRINGTIME OF YOUTH SHALL PREVAIL!" Lee exclaimed and litterally flew up and through the ceiling.

"That's my youthful student! We shall use your youthfulness to restore my first floor ceiling! And the second one! And..." Gai exclaimed as a sound of impact to a thick piece of metal could be heard from way above, "It seems that we must also use your youthfulness to restore my youthful weights that keep me youthful!"

"Hai! Gai-sensei!" Lee exclaimed from all the way up at the attic.

A couple of minutes later, Naruto and Gaara were walking back towards Naruto's apartement.

"Damn...All that for just this..." Naruto let out a deep sigh.

"Yeah...Yet somehow I have the feeling that this is related to the thing I forgot...Hmm..." Gaara closed his eyes as he kept on walking.

"Hahaha! Really! How could this have to do with something that you forgot! You didn't even know we were going to have this!" Naruto sheepishly laughed at Gaara as they kept on walking.

"No...I'm almost sure it is related to this..." Gaara replied and continued to ponder.

Naruto grinned sheepishly at Gaara as he took a step away from him, just in case Gaara would remember it this time.

"Hm...I guess I'll find out what it was eventually..." Gaara stated as he opened his eyes again.

"Yeah...eventually." Naruto replied, "And hopefully when I'm not around!"

"Hey, Gaara. I just remembered something that I must do." Naruto stated as they passed by a street that led to the mainstreet of Konoha.

"Alright then...now only if I could figure out what I have forgotten..." Gaara replied.

"You can find your way back to my apartment, right?" Naruto asked as he already turned to head to the mainstreet.

"Hn? Yes, I think I should manage to find it again..." Gaara replied. as he stopped and turned around to look at Naruto.

"I'll see you around noon then. Don't start having lunch without me!" Naruto said before he ran off to the mainstreet, heading towards his favourite place in all of Konoha, Ichiraku's Ramen.

Upon entering the ramen stand, Naruto was given a warm welcome by Ayame, "Naruto! Hey! How's it going?"

"Yo, Ayame-chan. I guess everything's just fine." Naruto smiled at his favourite ramen making girl as he took a seat.

"The usual for you, Naruto?" Ayame asked as she walked back to her cooking noodles.

"Yeah, of course! Er...Mind if I pay you back later? Don't have money on me right now..." Naruto said after realizing was abruptly taken out of his house and his Gama-chan wasn't in his pants all the time.

"Hm? Well...Alright then...Just keep it quiet...My father is busy in the back for a while so don't mention it and just ONE bowl of ramen for you..." Ayame whispered to him.

Naruto smiled for a moment, then nodded at her and she continued to make ramen, handing Naruto a bowl of his favourite flavour some time later.

"Ayame-chan...Can you help me out today?" Naruto asked as he was half way done with his bowl of ramen.

"Hm? Help you out? What do you need my help for? I thought you arranged everything?" Ayame blinked at Naruto in confusion.

"Well er...I...uhm...I guess I just want to talk to you about some stuff that happened these past two days and all...plus I need your help with something that I haven't really figured out yet..." Naruto rubbed the back of his head and grinned at Ayame.

"Well hurry up and finish that bowl so we can get going then." Ayame smiled politely at Naruto.

Naruto quickly ate, or rather devoured the last half of his bowl of ramen and placed it back on the counter, "Done!"

"Alright then..." Ayame said as she quickly washed her hands and then dried them even faster, "Father, I'm heading out for a while with Naruto-kun! I'll be back later!"

"Alright, I'll cut it out of your pay again!" Ichiraku-san replied from the back.

"You greedy old man..." Ayame threw a quick glare at the door that lead to the back of the ramen stand.

During their walk towards the Ichiraku residence, Naruto gave Ayame a quick summary about what happened these past two days.

"And last night I had a date with Sakura-chan!" Naruto said cheerful, but not all too loud.

"So you finally was able to go out with her...What was it like?" Ayame asked smiling.

"Er..." A flashback of Sakura kissing him briefly ran through Naruto's head, "It was...nice..."

"Nice, you say hm? So tell me what happened that was so...nice." Ayame winked at Naruto and her smiled grew bigger on her face.

"Ehehehe..." Naruto blushed as he sheepishly grinned and rubbed the back of his head, "We uhm...yeah...we...kissed...a lot..."

Ayame giggled at Naruto's shy reaction, "Well wasn't that just really nice?"

"Yeah, yeah...ehm...You know I also had the talk..." Naruto said trying to change the subject, though once he realised what he was turning it in to he mentally slapped himself, "Idiot! Why are you mentioning that! That's hardly better then talk about your...kissing experience with Sakura-chan!"

"Oh? With who did you have...the talk?" Ayame leered towards Naruto in curiosity.

"Eh...Hey, look! We're here!" Naruto announced loudly to point out that they had reached their destination, "Either answer to that question is probably bad...but I don't want to lie to her..."

Shortly after, Ayame and Naruto were up in Ayame's room and as Ayame lied back down on her bed she decided to ask again, "So tell me already, who did you have the talk with?"

"Ehehehehe...Can we skip this subject?" Naruto asked, sheepishly grinning at Ayame.

"Oh no we won't skip this subject! Tell me! Was it 'Sakura-chan', she's a medic-nin after all..."

"Ehm...No it wasn't Sakura-chan..."

"Was it with your sensei then?"

"No, not with my sensei..."

"Then who!"

"...Anko-sensei..."

There followed a moment of silence in the room after Naruto's statement and that silence was really awkward, until Ayame shot up from her bed and broke the silence, "What!"

"Ehehehe...Anko-sensei gave me...the talk..." Naruto repeated, blushing out of embarrassment.

"Naruto, have you not only lost your mind but also your virginity due to that...that...woman!"

"No! Besides at the time I couldn't think of anyone else that would have so much...knowledge about that subject! I only figured out I could ask Temari after I had that talk with Anko-sensei!" Naruto flushed a deeper shade of red.

"What about me!" Ayame replied and blushed slightly red as well for saying such a thing.

"Er..." Naruto blankly stared at her and blinked a couple of times.

"What? I can give the talk very well too...I am as a matter of fact quite experienced with ehm...certain matters..."

"Neechan...No offense, but I think Super Fuzzy Eyebrows could even give the talk better then someone as innocent as you..."

Ayame's eye twitched as she narrowed her eyes at Naruto, "Oh, so I'm too innocent to have proper knowledge to give you the talk, huh?"

"Ehm...Ayame-chan...Why are you looking at me like that?" Naruto asked as he slowly backed away from Ayame.

However, before Naruto's brain could process that it happened, Ayame had grabbed him, thrown him onto her bed and sat on top of him.

She held Naruto slightly up by his shirt and her eyes still twitched as she spoke in a dark voice that wasn't like hers at all, "My experience and knowledge...I will show you it..."

A while later, Naruto was strolling down the streets of Konoha once more with his shoulders hanging in defeat and scratches all over his face, though those were already rapidly healing with the Kyuubi's chakra "Damn it...Looks like Ayame-chan knows about as much as Anko-sensei...But did she really had to go and give me a thorough explaination of what it ment if a girl was a domiwhatchamacallit...Who the heck would enjoy that kind of stuff...?"

Naruto looked up ahead, seeing one of the gates of Konoha standing wide open and travellers coming in and leaving through it, but that wasn't what caught his eye.

"Sakura-chan..." Naruto said as he saw the pink haired kunoichi standing near the gate, staring to the world that lay beyond it and not moving a single muscle.

Naruto put on an annoyed face, since he realised that he was talking to himself before and now 'answered' his own question. He looked at the kunai pouch that was always wrapped around his pants, "...I guess that can wait for a moment...It's just a small detour anyway..."

"Good morning, Sakura-chan!" Naruto yelled as he walked up to his team-mate.

Sakura turned around and Naruto noticed a faint sign of sadness in her eyes, but it fainted away nearly instantly when she saw him, "Morning, Naruto. What are you doing all the way out here?"

"Ehehehe...Just walking around a bit and stuff. Just finished a bowl of ramen at Ichiraku's." Naruto smiled at Sakura, almost tempted to go to her and hug her, but he'd rather not get punched in his face, "What about you, Sakura-chan?"

"I..." Sakura looked towards the gate for a moment and then back towards Naruto, "Well, I was just completing my morning ritual I guess..."

"Hm? Morning ritual?" Naruto asked, curious to find out what that had to do with coming all the way to one of Konoha's gates, seeing as he house was no where near it.

"Yeah...the last two and a half years I've always come here in the morning..." Sakura replied as she looked towards the ground.

Naruto looked up towards the gate and then realised exactly why Sakura had come here every morning, so he lowered his head and looked towards the ground as well, "Sakura-chan...I...you..."

"Naruto...can I..."

"Sakura-chan!" Sakura looked up towards Naruto and saw that look that always was in his eyes when he was promising something, that look of pure determination, "I will definetely bring Sasuke back to our Village! I promised you, and I do not go back on my word!"

Sakura smiled warmly at him, "I know you will bring him back...but ehm...can we...talk for a moment?...If you're not too busy that is..."

A few moments later they were sitting on a bench and just silently staring into the empty space in front of them.

"I..." Sakura broke the silence, making Naruto turn his head towards her, "You know...I'm having mixed feelings right now...so I guess I need to talk about them..."

"Hm? Mixed feelings?" Naruto repeated and Sakura nodded in reply, "Yeah...I don't know really what to do...I...I love Sasuke...I really do..."

Sakura bit her lower lip a moment before continueing, "But now...I met this guy...Ever since I actually have seen him there was this spark that was lit within me...I...I think I love him as well...But, I also love Sasuke...even though he isn't here with us right now..."

Naruto momentarily smiled to himself, knowing that he was most likely that other guy, "Well...I can't help you choose really..."

Sakura smiled sadly and lowered her head a bit, "I know that...and I'm sorry I have to talk to you about all of this since you..."

"No, I'm actually happy that you are even willing to talk to me about such a thing." Naruto replied with a smile at her.

Sakura looked surprised at him and bit her lip again, Naruto could notice that tears were forming in the corners of her eyes, "What's wrong Sakura-chan?"

All of a sudden, Sakura hugged Naruto and started crying, "I'm sorry, Naruto...Time and time again I've hurt you...You promised me you'd bring the one I love, that you'd bring Sasuke back and I just fall in love with someone else...I"m really the worst...Especially since I know that you..."

"Sakura-chan." Naruto interrupted Sakura, "I promised you that I'd bring Sasuke back and I'm going to keep that promise no matter what. Even if you choose that other guy over Sasuke then you'll still consider Sasuke as one of the people that you treasure...I know that you wouldn't want to see your first love get hurt...no matter what...It's one of the things I understand very well..."

Naruto slightly pushed Sakura off him and grinned widely at her, "But that really surprised me! I never expect you to hug me all of a sudden, Sakura-chan!"

Sakura looked with wide eyes at him as he stood up from the bench and started walking away, "Though I'm kind of used to it with Temari living at my place right now, next time you hug me don't cry, alright?"

Sakura blinked once with her eyes, shaking the last tears out of her eyes as a lightbulb went on in her head, "Naruto! Wait! I want to...!"

"Later Sakura-chan! I've got some things to take care off, so I've got to go now!" Naruto yelled as he started running and jumped onto the rooftop of a nearby building.

"I want to ask you something..." Sakura whispered once Naruto left.

Once Naruto was sure that Sakura wasn't following him, he flicked five kunai out of his kunai pouch that all had a piece of paper wrapped around them, threw them towards the small wall on the next building and then he transformed into 'Nemar' once again.

"Alright...Time to distribute these things." Naruto said as he quickly picked up the five kunai and headed on.

After a while, Naruto was down to one kunai and was back at his apartment, "Alright...this is the last one..."

Naruto held the kunai ready, took aim and once the kunai soared through the air, Naruto quickly changed back into his normal self. As the kunai pinned itself into the door post with a soft thud, Naruto started casually walking towards his door and he begun his act.

"Huh? What's this...? Why is a kunai sticking out of my door post?" Naruto asked out loud in a casual tone as he took the kunai out.

He blinked at it and then opened the door, shouting into his home once the door was open, "Temari, looks like someone has a message for you!"

As Naruto headed into his apartment, looking 'puzzled' at the kunai and piece of paper with Temari's name on it, Temari walked up to him, "What is it?"

"I don't know...It's a kunai with a note..." Naruto said, carefully handing Temari the kunai.

Temari looked suspiciously at Naruto, which made him raise an eyebrow at her, though in his mind he was looking at her with wide-eyes, "Why is she looking at me like that! Does she think it's from me! Or does she know it's from me! How could she...?"

Temari took the piece of paper of the kunai, opened it and started reading.

Dear Temari,

I'm sorry I couldn't take you out for a date last night, but I had little time to prepare, so my decision was a quick one.

Unfortunately, I'll have to let you down today as well.

However, tomorrow I'll have my date with you and I hope I will have come up with a nice idea for our date by then.

I wanted to take you out today, but I couldn't come up with anything that I found perfect for the two of us.

I did find something like that with one of the other girls for today, so please don't be too mad at me for not going out with you today.

I'm looking forward to our date tomorrow, I hope you are too.

From Nemar with love.

P.S: I'll pick you up in the afternoon, if not then it will be in the evening around 7.

A smile crept onto Temari's face as she closed her eyes and she pressed the small note against her chest.

"Ehm...Temari? Are you alright?" Naruto asked as he looked at the blonde girl.

"Yeah...I'm alright...Just having a feminine moment..." Temari replied and continued to hold her position like that.

"Oh...Ok." Naruto replied and blinked at the wind mistress.

Temari breathed deeply in and then out once again and half a second later, a loud squeal echoed through Naruto's apartment.

She opened her eyes again, a slight blush appearing on her face as Naruto carefully removed his hands from his ears, "I take it is good news?"

Temari nodded as she pressed the note tighter against her chest, "Uhuh, he's such a sweetheart! Ow, I can't wait untill it's tomorrow! I wonder who he picked for today though..."

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"Hello, Neji speaking..." Neji said as he picked up the phone.

"Neji, Hi! It's me." Tenten's voice came cheerfully through the receiving end of Neji's phone.

"Hey, Tenten. Is everything alright?"

"Yeah, everything is going just fine. Right now I'm just slipping out of my undies and getting ready to take a bath..." Tenten replied as she untied her buns.

Neji blushed and scrapeded his throat before replying, "Ah...really, huh? Is that why you are calling me? To have company while you are taking a bath?"

"Well if you don't mind talking to me for a while..." Tenten replied with a smile on her face as she headed into the bathroom.

"...I guess I have some time to spare..." Neji replied as he sat down on his bed.

"Hold on Neji, got to put the phone down so I can quickly set everything up and then slip into the bath..."

Neji heard Tenten put the phone down, followed by a couple of other sounds he couldn't make up, aside from the water flowing into the bathtub.

"There we go..." Tenten said as she picked the phone up again.

"Have you slept well?" Neji asked her to get the conversation started again.

"Uhuh, Lee or Gai-sensei didn't wake me up this morning so I slept very well..." Tenten said and then slightly blushed, "What about you...? I mean, after yesterday morning hehehe..."

"Yeah...I slept just fine as well..." Neji replied as he turned slightly more red in his face from his memory of seeing Tenten that way, "I must admit, I'm glad I'm talking to Tenten on the phone and not face-to-face right now...Those perverted thoughts would be the end of me, one way or another..."

"Aha...So, did you dream about me?" Tenten asked as she stopped the flow of water that was filling the tub.

"...No..."

Tenten slipped into the bathtub and let out a moan that was as soft as possible as the warm water engulved her body, "You're a bad liar, Neji."

Neji coughed, "I'm not lying..."

Tenten's smile widened as she placed the phone on the edge of her bath and put it on speaker mode, "You sure...Because from what I remember...you saw me in quite the daring outfit...Should I start questioning your sexuality, Neji?"

"...May I be so kind to remind you that I passed out because of that...My sexuality needs no questioning..."

"So you haven't even thought the teenie tiniest bit about me like that?"

"...I haven't..."

Tenten slipped down futher into the bath, "Alright, I was just wondering about that...Hmmm...Bathing is nice, isn't it Neji?"

"Yes, I guess you could call taking a warm bath 'nice'..."

"Ah...You should see me right now...Hair untied and wet from the nice warm water...A blush on my face from the warmth...by entire feminine body being warmed up by the water...that same water that is caressing my soft skin with each motion I make in the water..."

"Tenten, are you trying to corrupt my mind?" Neji asked, his eyes twitching as his face was as red as a tomato, "Because you are doing a fine job at that..."

"Ehehehe...Maybe I am...or maybe you just forgot I just lo---ve teasing you..."

"If that's all you want to do, then I'm going to hang up..." Neji replied, "...Well...actually...I wouldn't do that abruptly but still do it in the end..."

"Hehehe...No, no...I called you for another reason as well..."

Neji's interest in the conversation was fully back now, "Oh? What is it then?"

"Ehm..." Tenten frowned and stared at the phone for a moment, in which Neji wondered why she went silent, "Tenten? What is it? Do you need my help for something or...?" "Way to go, now she might think you were thinking perverted once again...so much for being a genius..."

"I'm sorry Neji, but I can't train with you this afternoon..."

Neji was as shocked as he could be about hearing such a thing from Tenten, "You can't? How so? Do you need to do your groceries or something? I could help you out with that and then we could train together...Or is it something else I can help out with?"

"Thanks, Neji. You are too kind sometimes...and only sometimes." Tenten added quickly as she smiled and the blush on her face turned into a deeper shade of red, "Unfortunately I'll be out on a...date...all afternoon so..."

"...What?" Neji calmly asked

"I'm going out on a picnic date this afternoon with Nemar-kun...So, unfortunately I won't be able to train together with you this afternoon."

Neji dropped the phone out of his hands out of pure shock and he gasped for air.

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A couple of hours later, Naruto was standing as his alter-ego in front of Tenten's door with a picnic basket in his hands, "I'm so in debt to Ayame-chan for going through the trouble of preparing most of this...She gave me a lot of stuff...I wonder if it will even all be gone by the end of the day..."

Naruto knocked on the door and Tenten's reply came from the other side, "Hold on, I'll be right there!"

A few moments later, Tenten opened the door and smiled at Naruto, "Sorry, needed to clean up the weapons I couldn't take with me incase of a sudden attack. I don't like being a weak defenseless girl..."

Naruto on the other hand, wasn't really smiling but rather awestruck about the kimono that Tenten wore at the moment. It was sky blue with, on the part that covered her legs, a white pattern that lead up to a white dragon that rest just above Tenten's left breast.

"Wow..." Naruto managed to let out as he still stared at Tenten, "Pull it together! Sure she looks beautiful...but let her know that!"

"You like my kimono?" Tenten asked as she did a little spin around, Naruto noticing that there was another pure white dragon on her back, resting on her right shoulder blade.

"Saying I 'like' it would be an understatement." Naruto said as he blinked a couple of times.

Tenten slightly blushed and looked away, tracing a circle over the floor with the tip of her right foot, "Thank you, I see you decided to go casual, but I like it just as much...Well, shall we get going then?"

"Ehehehe...Of course...I'm sorry for my looks but I haven't gotten that much special clothing...mostly the same stuff...I guess I should buy some new clothing sometime soon..." Naruto rubbed the back of his head, "Or rather figure out how to henge in to many different types of outfits!"

"Alrighty then...If you ever need help with selecting your clothes, let me know and I'll help you buy them." Tenten smiled at Naruto as she hooked her arm with his, "Let's go then."

"Yeah, if I'm stuck on whether to buy or to not to buy, I'll ask you for help." Naruto replied and Tenten giggled slightly as she closed her door and locked it.

As they headed off, the two shinobi did not notice that they were being watched by a certain Hyuuga prodigy, who was none other then Neji.

Once Naruto, who was now obviously in his disguise as Nemar, and Tenten turned around the corner, the young Hyuuga prodigy headed up to the roof to follow them from up high instead of behind them.

Once he reached the rooftop, he quickly sneaked to the edge and looked down upon the street that lay below him and there he found 'Nemar' and Tenten just heading out of the apartment complex.

"I really know a great park here in Konohagakure, that's where we are going." Naruto said with a smile on his face, "Well...It's because of Sakura-chan that I know it...but I didn't really see that much of it last time...ehehe...I hope we can do more then just have a picnic there..."

"If it's too crowded, we could always go to a forest that I know..." Tenten replied smiling at Naruto as she wrapped her arms around his.

"Ahahaha...Well, we'll see about that..." Naruto gave Tenten a sheepish laughter and rubbed the back of his head, "I don't think I want to be in a non-public area with any of the girls...well, aside from Hinata...She's too shy to even think anything...Then again, I might be wrong about all of them when it comes to that..."

"That guy...He has seduced Tenten already this much that she willingly wrapped her arms around his...However, they are going to have a picnic...in a park, which means that there are enough places that I can use for hiding myself from their view and enough opportunities to sabotage this 'date' of theirs...Alright, I can do this...!" Neji thought as he had his fists raised up to chest height.

He looked towards his fists and blinked for a moment before smirking and using his left hand to push his right fist down, "I think I've seen a bit too much of Lee's antics..."

"So, you're an orphan too, huh?" Naruto asked Tenten, who nodded in reply, "Yeah...My parents died on a mission when I was still very little...I only have one picture of my parents holding me as a baby...You know, I really look a lot like my mother!"

"Hm? Really, huh? Your dad must have been super lucky then. I mean, if your mother was as good looking as you are now, I'm almost sure that guys were punching eachother in the face to try and win her over." Naruto stated and as he did, Tenten flushed red in her face and averted her gaze from him, "Now you're just flattering me..."

Naruto laughed, "I'm serious though, I never expected that you could look as charming as you do right now."

"Mou, stop it already! You're going to make me die out of embarrassment!" Tenten smiled at Naruto, who smiled back at her.

"You know...I think you are one of those...ehm how did E-...I mean Jiraiya-sensei call them? A femme fatale or something like that? You know, a woman that seduces men with her looks and can kill them just as easily as she seduces them...I think that was it...Hm..." Naruto said and rubbed his chin in thought.

Tenten stared at Naruto for a moment and then gave him a warm smile, "I guess it's a compliment, huh? Thank you. However, in battle my looks don't help me out one bit."

"Huh? Really? I guess they don't really have taste for women then..." Naruto remarked, making Tenten flush red once more, "But I'm sure that in some S-ranked infiltration mission, you'd be sure to succeed."

"You really know how to make a girl blush, don't you?" Tenten asked blushing and stopped walking, which made Naruto stop as well.

"Uh? Eh...I guess I do it unconsciously ehehehe..." Naruto rubbed the back of his head and grinned widely.

"Thank you..." Tenten said and gave Naruto a kiss on his cheek.

Naruto turned red and looked half shocked, half surprised at her while Neji, who witnessed this from up on the rooftops, was just plainly frozen up out of shock.

He quickly regained his composure however and narrowed his eyes at the blonde, "I'll make this date go to hell..."

Unconsciously, Neji let out a thirst for blood, though he could feel it himself and quickly dropped down onto the roof.

"Hm?" Naruto looked up towards the rooftop of the building diagonally next to them.

"What's wrong?" Tenten looked confused towards Naruto, who quickly broke out in a grin and rubbed the back of his head, "Nothing really, I just thought I could feel a thirst for blood directed at me."

"Oh...Maybe it's some vampire..." Tenten replied and leered towards Naruto.

"D-don't be foolish! It's broad day! Vampires are creatures of the night!" Naruto said as he laughed nervously.

"But just maybe, it's really desperate and wants to at least have a last meal before being burned by the light of the sun..." Tenten put on a scary vampire-like face and 'haunted' Naruto, "If I was a vampire, I'd target deliciously looking blondes as well..."

"Ehehehehe...I don't think you'd want my blood, really..." Naruto slowly backed away from Tenten.

"Hm, I don't know...I heard that doing certain things with blood can be quite the experience..." Tenten threw her arms around Naruto's waist and leered at him again.

"Ahaha..aha...ah..." Naruto laughed as he warily eyed Tenten, "No doubt about it...That bloodlust was hers!"

"Just kidding." Tenten said and gave Naruto a big wide smile, "Now then, let's hurry up before the food starts rotting away or something..."

"Not that it matters to a vampire..." Naruto remarked and snickered.

"Hai, hai...Now, let's hurry up before I turn into a vampire and suck your blood out." Tenten said and started dragging Naruto onward.

"I bet you'd like that, wouldn't you."

"Of course I would like it." Tenten replied and giggled.

"That was close...I had almost been caught...I'd better watch it from here on out...I must be as swift as a ninja...Hn, Like a ninja..." Neji thought as he jumped back up and quickly followed Naruto and Tenten to the park.

Not too long after that, they reached their destination and Naruto and Tenten were setting up their little picnic site on the grass. Though, it was mostly Naruto setting everything up for Tenten and then the two of them simultaneously sat down on it to start their date.

Neji, on the other hand, was hiding behind one of the trees not too far from Naruto and Tenten's picnic spot and he was plotting on what his first mission would be to bring this date to hell.

"Let me see...What can I do to ruin this date...Hm...I think it's best to first use my abilities as a shinobi to get up in that tree behind Tenten and that Nemar guy...Gather data about what they are planning to do and then act accordingly...Alright...I can do this! I shall bring this date..." Neji looked at his raised fists, "...I've seriously got to find myself some other men than Lee and Gai-sensei to socialize with..."

"Alright...Now then...Let the mission commence..." Neji told himself and jumped up, flying over the tree he was hiding behind and towards the tree behind Naruto and Tenten.

Naruto, who just opened the picnic basket to take out some onigiri out, noticed a large shadow fly over them and he looked up towards the sky.

"What's wrong?" Tenten asked as she looked towards Naruto, who was still staring at the sky.

"Just now...There was this huge bird that flew over us.." Naruto stated as he blinked.

"Huh? Bird? You sure?" Tenten blinked at him and then joined him in looking up towards the sky, "I don't see anything..."

"Hm...That was weird...I really saw the shadow of a big bird flying over..." Naruto stated as he stopped looking towards the sky and offered Tenten some onigiri, "Onigiri?"

"Hm? Yeah, thank you." Tenten said as she accepted the offer and took the onigiri out of Naruto's hand.

Neji was now sitting in the top of the tree and concealed his presence from the two, carefully paying attention to their words and actions, "That guy isn't some half-assed shinobi...Though he didn't know it was me, he did noticed my being though I was as going through the air as swift and concealed as possible..."

"The weather sure is nice for a picnic..." Tenten sang as she scooted closer towards Naruto, who was leaning with his back against the trunk of the tree behind him.

"Ah, it sure is...I'm glad that spring came this early." Naruto said smiling as he looked up towards the clear blue sky.

"Me too..." Tenten said as she leaned against Naruto's chest.

"Eh..." Naruto looked at her and slightly blushed.

"What's wrong? You don't mind, do you?" Tenten raised a warm and sweet smile at him.

"Eh...Not really..." Naruto said and scratched his cheek, where normally his whisker birthmarks would have been.

"Tenten never wanted to sit with me like that..." Neji thought as he looked with twitching eyes at the two below him, "Alright, that's it...I'm going to do something about this...I just need to have them distracted from the food or something..."

"Nemar-kun...?"

"Yeah?"

"Can I...ask you a favor...?" Tenten said blushing.

"Hm...I guess you can..." Naruto replied and blinked at the girl that was resting her back against his chest, "Please let it be something normal! Please let it be something normal!"

"Could you..ehm...feed me my onigiri?" Tenten asked with a blush on her face as she looked with big eyes at Naruto.

"Ehm...Yeah, sure." Naruto replied smiling, "She's really cute...I guess Tenten wouldn't want to do anything with me right now...well maybe a kiss...or maybe not...I guess I'll have to wait and see..."

Naruto took a plate out of the picnic basket, placed his own onigiri on it and then took Tenten's onigiri, feeding it to her in small bites.

"This guy..." Neji's eye twitched as he reached for his kunai holster and then stopped, "No...That is not the answer...Calm down...I can take this as an opportunity to use THIS!"

Neji took a small bottle from underneath his robes that was filled with a red substance and had a label that read 'Extra Hot Hyuuga Sauce'.

He took the lid off and postioned himself in such a way that he could most likely get a few drops onto Naruto's onigiri, "Careful...If you miss then you'll be in trouble...Just focus...and let a drop or two fall onto it..."

"Alright now, open wide and say aaah."

"Aaaaaaah." Tenten said and closed her eyes as Naruto moved the the small bite of onigiri towards her mouth.

"Now's my chance..." Neji thought and carefully tilted the small bottle so that the fluid inside could run out.

After a few drops fell out of the bottle, Neji turned the bottle upwards again so that it wouldn't all fall out. He saw the drops fall down and eventually saw that all but one drop had fallen onto the onigiri, "Perfect...That one drop won't even be noticed by them...Now...When Tenten will return the favor of feeding that Nemar guy, he'll have a taste of my family's secret sauce and it will be so hot that I don't have to do anything else to ruin this date...Hmph...My love for Tenten shall prevail!" Neji raised his fists again and clutched them tightly.

He looked down towards his fists again, placed the bottle back into his robe and then sighed, "I'm going to beat Lee up for acting like this for so many years...It's starting to affect me..."

By the time Naruto was done feeding Tenten her onigiri and Naruto grabbed his own from the plate, Neji's sauce had already soaked deep into Naruto's onigiri.

"Alright next one." Naruto said smiling at Tenten.

"No...You bastard...That is yours...You need to eat it...Don't feed it to Tenten!" Neji bursted out in his mind while he narrowed his eyes at the two below him.

"Don't you want some too?" Tenten blinked at Naruto who just picked a small piece of his onigiri and held it ready to feed it to her.

"It's alright, we'll take turns feeding each other then or something." Naruto said as he moved the small bit of onigiri towards Tenten's mouth.

"Alright...Aaaah." Tenten said as she opened her mouth and then closed her mouth around Naruto's fingers.

Naruto flushed red as he felt Tenten's tongue run over his fingers and the onigiri and he noticed that Tenten was turning an even brighter shade of red then he had ever seen Hinata do.

"Eh..." Naruto and Neji both thought as they blinked at Tenten.

Tenten opened her mouth and instantly a tower of flames came out of it, scorching Naruto's face before he could even scream in surprise.

"Ouch..." Naruto let out as he blinked at Tenten and Neji couldn't help but raise a smirk on his face, "Well...That turned out better than I had planned..."

"Nemar-kun! Are you okay! I'm sorry! That onigiri was just so spicy that...!"

"Or maybe not..." Neji thought as his eyes twitched.

"Ehehe...Don't worry about me. I think I've been through worse than this...See, I'm not even hurt!" Naruto said as he dusted himself off.

"But what was up with that onigiri...It was really, really spicy..." Tenten said as she looked at the onigiri in Naruto's hand.

"Hm? Really, huh? Let's see then...Tenten, you'd better duck incase it really is this onigiri." Naruto said as he moved the onigiri towards his mouth.

"Yes...Yes...That's it...Eat it...Eat it!" Neji thought as Naruto opened his mouth.

Naruto took a small bite and Tenten looked questioningly at Naruto, "And...? How is it?"

His face turned red and he quickly swallowed the bite he had taken, muttering one thing as sweat broke out on his face ,"Water..."

"Hm?"

"I need...water..."

Tenten gritted her teeth and nervously looked around the park, searching for a small fountain or something like that.

"Ah! There! There is a small lake over there!" Tenten pointed out towards the lake behind a few trees.

Naruto didn't wait another moment and jumped up, rushing towards the lake that lay hidden behind the trees.

As the lake came into his sight, Naruto leaped up and exhaled the tower of flames that the spiciness of the onigiri had created.

"Wow! Amazing!" One of the kids, who were playing near the lake, said as he saw Naruto's tower of flames.

"Damn it...What the hell is in that onigiri...Ayame-chan, maybe you should stick just to cooking ramen..." Naruto said once he landed and quickly ran to the lake to drink from its crystal clear water and get rid of his thirst.

"Nemar-kun? Are you alright?" Tenten's voice reached Naruto's ears as he drank from the lake.

"Yeah, I'm alright. That was one hot onigiri..." Naruto said as he got back up.

"Uhuh...Why did you put spices in it anyway?" Tenten asked and tilted her head to the left as she looked at Naruto.

"I didn't...Honestly, I am not that good at making food so I had the onigiri made by a good friend of mine..." Naruto sheepishly grinned at Tenten and rubbed the back of his head.

"I guess your friend tried to be funny then with the spices..." Tenten said and placed her fists against her sides, "Well, let's hope the rest of the onigiri isn't like that..."

"Hm...Yeah...Oh well, I have other food and drinks with me..." Naruto said as they walked back to their picnic site, "I think I have ice-cream with me...Do you...?"

"Love it!" Tenten threw herself onto Naruto, making him fall down onto the ground.

"Ehehehe...I see..." Naruto smiled at her.

"So...What flavor did you bring me?" Tenten asked smiling warmly as she laid her arms on Naruto's chest and rest her chin on them.

"Ehm...I don't know really...I guess we'd have to check..." Naruto blinked and turned his head towards their picnic site.

"Well, I guess you learned one thing about me just now...I LOVE ice-cream. Even more than I like you." Tenten said with a blush on her face and winked at him.

"Then how much do you like me? And what do you like about me?" Naruto asked her.

Tenten blinked at him for a moment and stared at him, "It's hard to tell how much you love someone...but I guess I can tell you what I like about you."

"When you first wrote me that letter...I was really moved...I knew I'd like you for who you are...even though you weren't who I tho-...no hoped you were, I'd like you...Your words...the way you described me...I..." Tenten blushed and averted Naruto's gaze for a moment before turning on a big wide smile to hide her blush, "But I still don't know you well enough, so I want to get to know you better to see if you really are like that or not."

"She's really nice...and more gentle then I thought she could be..." Naruto thought as he smiled at her, "Then, how about we learn more about each other while eating some ice-cream."

Tenten gave him a warm smile in reply and got off him, helping him get back up on his feet.

Meanwhile, during the time that Tenten lay on top of Naruto, Neji was in moral conflict while he listened to Tenten and Naruto's talk, "Am I really going to do this? Am I really going to mess with Tenten's favourite nourishment...?"

"Come on, you have to do this! She'll start thinking that she has different tastes than him!"

"I am a nobleman and a genius, I can't stoop this low! Even the Main House wouldn't do this!"

"That guy is trying to take away the girl you admired for ages..."

"But I am above this! Surely I must know a way to make Tenten mine!"

"She is lying on top of him because he has ice-cream..."

"...Sabotage it shall be then..."

Hours later, Neji was sitting behind his desk with furrowed eyebrows and was currently writing in his journal.
February the Seventh of my 16th year of existence.

Today, I learned a lot more than I usually do.
Some were good things to know, mainly the things about Tenten, while others were things I most likely did not want to know...
For instance, today I learned what it feels like to be a drop-out at something, for I fail at sabotage.
Apparently, it is not in my Hyuuga blood to sabotage, as I failed miserably when I tried to sabotage Tenten's date with a blonde guy named 'Nemar'...

I tried a lot of things like bribing a couple of kids that were playing ninja to take that Nemar guy as their sworn enemy and I even tried messing with my love's favourite nourishment, ice-cream, and yet still I couldn't make the date come to an end.

In the end, however, I am glad I at least tried to sabotage it as the things I learned about Tenten today, were worth more than the price of failure.

I've decided that I will fight for Tenten, for it appears that she has not yet chosen that Nemar guy as the one she wants to cherish and love...
Another thing I decided, is that if anyone ever tells me I am a genius at everything I do...I'll beat them to death.

Neji took a moment to pause his vigorous writing and looked around the room, using his Byakugan to see if anyone was watching him right now.

Tomorrow is another day, and I think I will try to ask Tenten out for a date. Of course, I shall not openly admit it is a date, for I do not wish to make my current relationship with Tenten...awkward.

Also...I think I will dye my hair blonde...Tenten seems to fall for blondies...

Meanwhile Naruto was heading back home from his date with Tenten and had a smile on his face.

"I really like Tenten, she's funny, sweet and she can also stand up for herself...And she can even be scary at times." Naruto thought and snickered as he remembered when a bunch of kids interrupted them when she was just about to give Naruto a kiss.

----Flashback no jutsu!----

Tenten slowly moved closer towards Naruto's face, closing her eyes more and more with each moment she drew closer to his lips with her own.

"Haaaaa!" A kid's voice interrupted them and ran over their picnic blanket, disturbing their moment.

"Take this!" Another kid yelled.

Tenten sighed and Naruto smiled at Tenten as they again looked into eachother's eyes and drew closer upon each other until the kids rampaged over their blanket again, "Come back here you nuke-nin! I'm from Konoha's ANBU and I will beat you dead!"

"Just try me you ANBU-guy!"

Tenten clutched her fist and counted to ten in her head before wrapping an arm around Naruto.

Once again their lips came close to one another, but due to a certain kid that tripped and crashed into the two of them, Tenten ended up kissing Naruto's shirt instead of his lips.

"Ah...I'm sorry..." The boy apologizied.

"You..." Tenten clutched her fist and turned around, fuming with anger and rage.

"Eh..." The boy and his friends nervously looked towards the enraged Tenten, who jumped up.

Tenten shoved both her hands underneath her kimono and as she drew them back out, revealing four kunai in each hand, the kids' eyes went wide before blood shot out of their nose and they flew a couple of yards away from the couple.

"Come back here you brats! You will face my wrath for interrupting one of my precious moments with Nemar-kun!" Tenten yelled as she ran towards the kids with the kunai ready in her hand.

"Ehehehe...I don't know what's scarier...Her anger... or the fact that she just pulled eight kunai from underneath her kimono and had them with her all this time...Poor kids...fainting from seeing just a tiny bit of skin on Tenten's stomach..." Naruto said as he grinned and rubbed the back of his head.

----End of Flashback no jutsu!----

Naruto snickered again and as he reached the rooftop of his apartement, he popped out of his disguise as Nemar.

"Ah...Even though that happened, the date was nice...I'm really glad I chose Tenten right now...I hope Temari is feeling ok though..." Naruto said to himself as he walked over the rooftop, heading towards the front of his apartment.

All of a sudden, Naruto heard a diabolical laughter from every direction, stopping him in his tracks.

"Who'se there?" Naruto asked as a shiver ran down his spine, making him clutch his fists and get ready for possible combat, "Show yourself...I know you're there..."

"It's been not too long ago since you heard me boy and you've already forgotten me...?" The demonic voice surrounded Naruto.

Naruto's eyes went wide as the laughter he heard before was repeated, "How...unfortunate..."

Naruto fell down to his knees and started screaming in agony as red chakra erupted from his body. He clutched onto his head as the chakra flew around him and was surrounding him like a spiral of chakra.

Slowly his screaming died out as he fell down to the floor and before passed out, Naruto could faintly see the head of a fox in the tornado of red chakra.