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Echoing against the tiled walls with grand pictures, the men of the usual group were scrubbing their naked bodies while some were changing or already soaking themselves in the hot herbal water. The room was quite grand and big in favour of the Seventh Hokage who normally traps himself in the Hokage office.
Finishing their work slightly later than expected, Naruto and Shikamaru stepped into the vapour-filled with their own buckets of soaps.
"You're late, o' great Hokage-sama!" Kiba yelled from the bath.
Naruto rubbed his head apologetically "Haha, sorry guys. Just that this guy here wants the work to be more perfect so..."
"That was far from perfect honestly…" Shikamaru sighed as he sat down for a quick wash. True to the blonde's words, he did finished them an hour earlier but only to receive eye twitching from SHizune and Shikamaru for his usual messy handwriting. It was even more troublesome than reading Shikadai's lazy writing if forced by none other than Temari.
Naruto glared at the Nara who cared less about it. He then noticed the amiss.
"Eh, where're Sasuke and Sai?"
"Over here."
Naruto turned to see the two seemingly identical dark-haired men walking into the bath in a yet different manner. While Sai greeted the rest with his usual smile, Sasuke simply nodded with his normal 'hn'. Glad that most of them were at his sight, he began counting which he realized.
"Shikamaru…Sasuke…Sai…Choji…Kiba…who else isn't here?"
Kiba grinned while resting against one corner "If you're talking about Lee, he's still training his clone kid but he said he'll come here soon."
"Haa…and who else…?"
"You're forgetting Shino. Man, he ain't gonna be happy to hear that, Naruto." Choji replied before rinsing with the last bucket of water.
"Ahhahaha, you're right." "Ahah, he'll sulk from the moment he finds out about this…"
Chatters were overheard from the other side, which were noticeably female. After hearing for a while, Naruto and Choji got shocked with the former voicing out his shock.
"Wait a sec! They're here!? H-How!? Why!?"
"Well…I was with Ino while Shikamaru-san called me."
"And Temari asked me why am I out of the Hokage dungeon."
Naruto turned his head to the Uchiha who was quietly scrubbing sand and dirt but obviously avoiding the Uzumaki's stare. Well, the entire male chamber knew that one person could only rally all the girls…no, women in one place.
Chattering in the other side was six closely acquitted women of different backgrounds. Sakura struggled to tie her hair with the heavy vapour wetting it. She then gave up by tying it low with the tip touching the water, much to her annoyance.
"Woahhh, sooo nice…" Ino stretched out with the hot water easing her tense muscles.
"Haa. I thought it was something urgent in the hospital when you suddenly called me out of the blue." Sakura sighed heavily, thinking of the heavy workload left to be checked and signed later on.
"Mooo, Sakura, you should relax abit."
"Ino, you do know that it's the dry season now and more people are getting sick."
Tenten interrupted "Sakura, I agree with Ino. You should relax and trust your kouhais more. I'm sure they can survive without their precious Haruno-sensei for a day."
Sakura was shut in silence. Hinata simply smiled while Temari and Karui were enjoying the hot spring as their favourite spots. Seeing that everyone could only gather in times like this, Sakura let go of her muscles to soak deeper into the water until Ino asks for the beans.
"So Sakura, how many times did you do it with Sasuke-kun?"
The pink head rose in shock "Ha…Ha!? What are y-you…!"
Ino snickered slyly "Come on, since Sasuke-kun came back, you're all smiley the whole day with this aura we all know of."
"S-So what!? That has nothing to do with you still!" Sakura proclaimed. She always gets flustered whenever that subject comes out and Ino just likes to tease her about it.
"Ah, come to think it, you were wearing quite new bra and underwear. What? Trying to lure the beast out of the Uchiha?" Karui joined in with a snicker, which Ino favoured.
Sakura unknowingly tensed her shoulders up. It was actually her last to wear because she kept on forgetting to put the rest out of laundry in the past few days, since her husband came back. Whenever it was the heat or her emotions that reddened her cheek, the two long-haired vixens were not going to let her go on that.
"We-Well, it-it's just that I haven't dried the rest yet. Nothing else!"
"Hhhhmmmmm…"
"At least the ones I have here are better than some of you." Ah, she just have to say that.
"What was that, Uchiha? Just cos you got nicer ones doesn't mean you got big ones hn?"
Those words then stroke a nerve in Sakura "Ma, Karui-san, at least mine has better designs than yours right now."
"What's that, you Uchiha fox!?"
"Come again, you Akimichi hog!"
The pink and red heads clashed their foreheads with their teeth gritted and eyes throwing daggers at the other. It was known that Sakura and Karui have a so-called competition on the size of their busts and this day is the same as always. The other four could do nothing but to watch their mental fight in the steamy bathhouse.
"Ehmmm, should we stop them?" Hinata wondered.
"Let them be. They'll cool down with the water here." Temari commented.
"And I'm the one who's used to fight with Sakura about busts." Ino sighed at the past.
"Hm, but how did the subject change again?" Tenten wondered the same as others while the mental fight continued.
On the other side, the men were caught off guard by the women's change in topic. Naruto turned to the Uchiha who appeared to be shutting his eyes tighter than just now. After recalling Ino's words, he then realized something and taunted the Uchiha.
"Hmmm, so you were doing 'it' the whole time you're back…"
"Shut your month, dobe." With a sudden shot of the onyx glare behind the dark locks, Naruto backed off to knock the similarly-uncomfortable Choji. No one would have thought of hearing such things in their short breaks and the then-silence was broken.
"At least Sasuke's is bigger than yours, Naruto." Sai sarcastically commented out of the blue.
Naruto then stood out from the water "YOU WANNA GO THERE AGAIN, SAI!? ARGH, WHAT'S WITH YOU AND INO IN THIS…!?"
"YOU'VE GOT A PROBLEM WITH ME AND MY HUBBY, HUH!?"
Ino's shout reached Naruto across the rooms which ignited a familiar fear in the Hokage. Sai simply kept that annoying smile of his while Shikamaru sighed.
"Can things get more troublesome than now?"
Then, whispers outside caught the men's attention.
"Nehne, isn't the one with the weird hair colour the best?"
"You've got bad taste. I prefer the curvy blonde."
"Huah! You're going for curves? I'll up for the black one with the big bust!"
"Shutup! If you guys keep talking, we'll be seeing stars instead of…"
A hand suddenly grabbed one of the boys by the neck. Before the choked one retaliated, he and his other friends were petrified by the emerging demons from the shoulders of five men. Their fears became worse when they recognized the one choking their leader.
"Ho-Hokage-sama!"
"Instead of what, may I ask?"
"W-well w-we-we…" spoke the one who said his comment first. With his angry aura emerging, the four boys shivered in fear while female screams were heard along with a collapsing sound. The men rushed out of their room with towels wrapped around their hips. Much to their concern, the female counterpart of the group appeared one by one with bathrobes on. Naruto then grabbed his wife on the shoulders after seeing her.
"Hinata, are you alright? Did they peek!? Argh, I'll get those brats..."
Hinata held onto Naruto's entire arm to stop him "I'm fine, Naruto-kun. We just rushed out to check what's going on."
"Huh? It wasn't from your room?" Chouji asked.
"Of course not!" Karui placed her hands on her hips.
The next scream came out of the room after theirs. The adults rushed into that room, only to see four unfamiliar girls. Ino immediately called out the familiar one.
"Mirai!?"
A shaggy black haired girl turned around to see her late father's old team "Ino-neesan!? Shikamaru-niisan!? Also Choji-niisan!? Why's everyone doing here!?"
"Same goes to you. What's going on here?" Ino asked.
"My friends and I were about to change when the roof suddenly collapsed. If I'm not wrong, it was something green…"
All the adults except Sasuke, Sai, Temari and Karui stoned in shock with a memory of the past came about "DON'T TELL ME…!"
Something rose from the debris which shocked Mirai and her friends, only to reveal himself as the Green Beast…
"Lee?!" Tenten shouted.
Shockingly but familiar, Mirai's friend with light blue hair immediately grabbed Lee by the collar and started shaking aggressively "How DARE you peek on us!? You really have guts, huh, you dirty old man!?"
"Y-you're mistaken! I was just training on the rooftop and suddenly fell into here. Honestly!" Lee denied with effort.
A short-haired blond then spoke up "Mhm, here of all places?"
"JUST ADMIT IT, YOU GREEN PERV!" The light blue hair girl continued her act upon Lee.
Even though it was just the same, Naruto and the rest could not bear to save Lee as they were caught up by this déjà vu. In midst of the commotion, the earlier group of buys tried to make their way of escape.
"Come on, now's our chance." One whispered.
"Dang! Can't see Mirai-chan's today!"
"Yeah, all thanks to the big dudes there."
"Who the hell wants to see old ladies anyway?"
Suddenly, their movements were stopped by a sudden grip on their shoulders and a familiar aura. They turned around to see five women with flaming eyes onto them. While they were scared of their lives, Sakura's eyebrows twitched as she asked politely.
"What was that again, you say?"
All left was the never ending screams of pain worth ten years and sighs from the men, woman and girls.
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This' prob the longest I've written here. Some of u might b confused abot the deja-vu thing. If curious, refer to Naruto Movie 6 prologue.
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