Hey, everybody! Sorry I took so long to update, but I've been writing a challenge fic for one of my reviewers, and I completely forgot. Go ahead and flame me, I probably deserve it. I'd like to implore you all to read my new fic, Glass Wings. It's currently the only story with the pairing of Naruto and Inuzuka Hana! W00T! And yes, I have changed the name of this story to Precious People. I hope no one minds. If you do, flame away! I really don't care. I'd also like to thank every one of my reviewers, I love you all and please keep reading. Alrighty, on with the fic!

Precious People

By ScionOfKyuubi

Chapter Seven

Flashback

Naruto stifled a yawn. It was two in the morning, and he'd been up all night, putting in place the mother of all pranks. Even with his rather illustrious career of pranks, this one definitely topped painting the Hokage monument. Of course, the shopkeepers had looked at him rather oddly when he'd bought eight buckets of glue, twenty pounds of glitter, and eighteen yards of ribbon. Heh heh. Now to finish putting the bull in baa-chan's office. Oh, man, her expression is going to be priceless. The fox-like ninja grinned evilly. She'd never see it coming.

Seven-thirty AM

Tsunade grumbled, becoming uncomfortably aware of the sun in her eyes. I knew I should have had the windows face west instead of east. She began to turn over, but froze when she heard a soft snorting emanating from the corner of her office. As she lifted her head, she heard a snicker, followed by a few seconds of silence. When her head was fully up, she realized that there was a bull in her office.

A very large bull.

And Naruto was right behind it.

Holding a kunai.

Oh shit.

The next events would only be recalled later, and with some imprecision.

Naruto swung the kunai in an arc of silver, catching the bull in the hindquarters with the flat of the dagger. The bull let out an animal scream, and charged the first thing it saw, which was, not coincidentally, Tsunade. Fully awake, she leaped over her desk, vaulting the enraged animal and landing next to her door.

She felt a tripwire trigger a trap, and she dodged to the right-

Only to catch a small avalanche of glue as it poured out of the eight buckets stuck on the ceiling. The bull charged her, Naruto having leaped through the open window when she jumped over her desk. She immediately ran out the door-

Falling right into another trap as what must have been twenty pounds of multicolored glitter was dumped on her from a pressure-plate trap right outside her door. Now festooned in glitter, she charged down the stairs-

Only to be wrapped in a crapload of riboons that were cleverly hidden with a genjutsu on the stairs.

She erected a wall of earth around the door of her office with a quick Doton jutsu. She then ran down the stairs, intent on murdering a certain blonde Genin.

Current time- 10:30 AM

Naruto was laughing like a maniac, having been running from ANBU and Tsunade for three solid hours now. Most of the ANBU were lying on the side of the roads, gasping for breath and holding their sides as Tsunade continued chasing the half-demon shinobi. She wasn't really mad anymore, but she really wanted to punch him for the four-part prank he'd pulled off on her. She still had glitter and glue on her, but most of the ribbons had come off already, and she still couldn't figure outhow the hell he'd gotten a live bull in her office.

"Just stop running, brat! I promise I'm not going to hurt you…much!"

"Give it up baa-chan! You're never going to catch me, so just stop trying! I can run all day, but you can't!"

"That's what you think, brat! When I catch you, I'm going to hit you so hard, you'll land in Rock Country!"

"Come, on, hag! You've got to admit it was hilarious!"

"Actually, it wasn't! And just how on earth did you get a bull in my office without Shizune noticing?"

"That's for me to know, and you to keep wondering about!"

"BRAT!"

And so the chase continued…

On the sidelines…

Kiba, Ino, Sakura, Kakashi, and a few non-ANBU shinobi had been watching the Hokage chase some strange ninja around the village for three hours. From Tsunade's appearance and the things she was yelling, he'd clearly pranked her. Ino, having woken up two hours after the little "event" in the hospital, didn't remember Naruto's changed appearance, and she'd been the only one who'd seen it. So no one knew it was the blonde prankster. Then the talking started…

"Five ryo says it was Naruto."

"Are you high, Kiba? Naruto-ku--- I mean, NARUTO is still in the hospital." Dammit, that's twice I've done that…

"Ino-pig, did you just call Naruto-baka Naruto-kun? I thought you were all about Sasuke!" Oh man, juiciest gossip EVER!

"Shut it, Forehead. It was just a slip of the tongue." I hope…

"Actually…I think Kiba is right." Hmm. Naruto and Ino? Nah.

"Eh? How so, sensei?" That would be some good gossip, though...

"Because I just heard him call Hokage-sama Old Hag. There's only one person alive who can call her that. And I walked around town with Naruto yesterday, so I know he's not in the hospital."

"WHAT! HE'S SUPPOSED TO ALMOST BE DEAD! WHY THE $! IS HE OUT OF THE HOSPITAL?"

"Geez, try a little louder, Ino, I don't think they heard you in Lighting Country."

"Shut up, dog-boy. When I visited him yesterday, and he looked like a living corpse, all wrapped up in bandages."

"…And you were visiting Naruto-baka yesterday why, Pig?"

"I visited everyone yesterday, Forehead. Naruto just stuck out in my mind because he was so badly injured."

"Hmph. Whatever, Pig. I bet you've got the hots for him."

"SAY WHAT! Is that an insult, Forehead?"

"So what if it is, Pig?"

"Hmm. You're right, Forehead, I do have the hots for him. In fact, I'm going to go to his hospital room right now and declare undying love for him."

"WHAT!"

"In, fact, he already calls me Ino-chan…and I think I heard him call me Ino-hime once. So stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Forehead."

THUD.

"Dude…did Sakura just faint?"

"No, stupid, she's narcoleptic. Of course she fainted."

"Hm." What's narcoleptic?

"Hm." What a moron.

"Hm." Apparently, Sakura can't take a joke...At leastI think that was a joke.

"…So, did he really call you Ino-hime?" Kami, I hope not.

"No." I wouldn't complain if he did, though. OOH! JOKE IDEA!

"Oh." Thank Kami...

"He called me Ino-tenshi (angel)." This'll be good.

THUD.

"Nice one, Yamanaka-san. You just knocked out two ninjas without even touching them."

"I try."

"….Did he really call you…"

"No, Kakashi-san."

"Oh, good. I was afraid I was under a genjutsu right now."

"What, you don't think I could get him to call me Ino-chan?" OLD PERVERT!

"Wait a minute, I never said that." Oh, crap...

"You do! Well, guess what, Kakashi-san­, not only do I bet I can get him to call me Ino-chan, I bet I can get him to do it in three days or less!" OH YEAH!

"Um, okay. Two ryo." What just happened here?

"Deal!"

And so the wheels of fate began to turn…

Chapter Seven END

All right, I know it was crap, flame away.

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