To the Gandhara, again, in what I intended to say with Shino… Shino doesn't exactly strike me as a bad guy, but he's somewhat selfish, to a reasonable degree, though it doesn't show through too much. He desires attention as much as anyone else, or perhaps a little… just recognition. However the sentence was intended to indicate how he was annoyed at how much Kiba and everyone else he generally associated with were all concerning themselves with Hinata and ignoring other people. He was annoyed with himself for thinking in 'terms of Hinata' because it was what everyone else was doing in his view and, honestly, he didn't care for it. I don't think he honestly dislikes helping Hinata, he's just disheartened seeing as how everyone is dealing with it, especially Kurenai because she's his sensei still in a matter of speaking and is favoring one party over all others. I think Shino likes things to be very systematical because of his connection with insects and when individuals arise in the way they are they look attention starved to him, and get too much of it. However to him it's like he's being discriminated against because everyone else is getting that kind of attention now. He doesn't understand how, even though he's intelligent it's hard for him to make the essential connection that he needs to speak up with his own desires if he wants them. Or, even worse, he might simply be too dispassionate to them to speak up. Also, I read over what you said, then the chapter again, and I agree. I seriously misportayed that, I think I jumped the gun… for that reason:

If you'd like to I'm updating Chapter 6 after this review, the last few paragraphs will be changed to better suit what I desired to show. My apologies, and hopefully it's an improvement.

At the same time I'll try to keep my updates to one chapter a day.

It was at least a billion letters later for Naruto, most of them from the obvious people, some of them not. Sakura had done her share and made a plethora of letters all with frilly paper at the edges, small drawings of hearts and such and requests for him to get better, teasing him about missions she'd done, all the training. To Naruto's surprise, however, his body hadn't degenerated in the least from his hospital stay and thus he stuck his tongue out at her when she next came out. She smacked him upside the head and screamed at him about teaching his young 'rival' perverted jutsus. He reminded her he had a horrible headache and barely avoided getting clobbered.

Kakashi had seen him and just sat there for the longest while waiting for Naruto to say nothing. When Naruto started talking about ramen whilst reading a letter he found, next moment when he looked up, Kakashi had disappeared mysteriously. Iruka even came and congratulated him on an amazing recovery. Naruto grinned and was amazed when Iruka presented him with a large box of cup noodles. With the presentation of noodles Naruto's eating in the next few days was fairly obvious. Iruka later regretted it as various doctors took their time to reprimand him when he came over, nauseatingly learning that Naruto had ate ramen for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for as long as had been possible. "Malnutrition," one of them had started, "Is an extremely bad thing right now for Naruto. Ramen is not a healthy meal. It's not even a healthy meal once a day. Or week. In fact when the kid gets cancer I'm blaming you."

This semi-humorous comment left Iruka grumbling. Tsunade had made time as well to explain in a letter that Naruto's sickness would be compensated by an increased amount of missions for him when he finally got out of the hospital. He scratched the back of his head on reading it and sighed. Kiba had even wrote a few letters to him, all of them horribly confusing to Naruto because he felt that they were trying to tell him something he was missing completely. Shikamaru had came in with Chouji to apologize for 'failing him'. Shikamaru looked like a mess in Naruto's opinion, he'd been injured in the battle too it seemed. Naruto sighed and had told him that it was his own mistake, and that Shikamaru's plan had been flawless. Chouji nodded in a supporting manner. Shikamaru looked slightly better after that. When he left Chouji began explaining how Shikamaru took it on himself far too much never to fail unless it was at his own expense. He frowned and asked Chouji to make sure Shikamaru knew that the injury Naruto had sustained was fully Naruto's own fault and his fault alone.

The injury, for that matter, had been hard to understand at first till Naruto had it explained to him by both a medical ninja and an ANBU. He couldn't help but feel slightly special that he was dealing with ANBU so much. The doctor explained the medical portion to him… that being he'd came in drowning with spinal fractures caused by overexertion in various parts of his spinal cord. When Naruto asked what that meant the doctor simplified and went on to say that he had enough ink in his lungs to slowly kill him, but not enough for him to outright drown on. His spine, meanwhile, had vaguely experienced the same thing Lee's had. Small chips had formed and his back had been broken. Somehow through the extensive healing his condition was stabilized when an artery was torn open due to the ink, something that they still hadn't quite figured out. His amazing recovery was 'under contained research' by others. When Naruto asked what had happened with 'Sai' the ANBU explained as slowly as possible, as if trying to teach a profoundly retarded child the concept behind chemical compositions.

Despite being insulted by the tone Naruto listened to the awkward abilities possessed by the child he'd fought, how the ink had literally been injected into him. The details confused Naruto so he ignored them in favor that, in his own mind how it was vaguely like 'how Gaara controlled sand'. He felt vastly less stupid when the doctor looked just as confused and skeptical as he did. The ANBU, wearing the mask of a hawk, shrugged slightly, pulled his hood down, and walked off. Naruto has shrugged a bit and went back to reading letters.

Some of the letters he'd gotten were odd. His perverted sensei, which was getting more and more vague in-between Kakashi and Jiraiya, the latter of which the one he meant, went on about his experiences at the hotsprings using Naruto's 'Sexy no Jutsu'. Later Naruto learnt he'd been accidentally given one of Jiraiya's notes for his book. Jiraiya had replaced the page with his actual letter which requested that he get better and so on, however Naruto had shouted him out. The third oddest in the pile had been from Gaara, which read:

'Naruto,

Hope you don't mind if I write this a bit informally. Generally I would avoid such, but I heard of your condition and I admit I am in debt to you for your actions earlier. In short I believe I can sum up my debt in the following statement:

Just tell me who you need dead and I will make sure to get on it personally.

Get better,

Gaara'

Naruto had outright been surprised by what he hoped to be a joke from Gaara, though he found for a split second it was a very, very tempting ordeal. He sighed and put the letters down after that. The next letter in his list was written in a nervous manner and just puzzled him:

'I really hope you get better, Naruto, sorry I wasn't of more help then or now. They say you'll be okay, though, so I'm happy. I hope when you get back to normal you'll do good in your training again. I left you a small gift, I hope it's not too stupid. I wanted you to read this first. You can ask your nurse for it, I think.'

It wasn't written as a letter, which didn't surprise or bother him, but it was the lack of a name that perked his curiosity. Where there appeared to have originally been a name the writer had marked it out with ink so there was absolutely no chance of figuring out what the name had been in nearly a phobic manner. However he was curious and actually hit the button to call the nurse to his aid he was so curious. She seemed annoyed at first, but then nodded at his request for the gift, pulled open a drawer in the room, and handed him a small gift box. Before she left him to pull the ribbon off him he asked her who had left it off she said Kiba, but added that he'd made a point to tell her that it wasn't from him.

No one else had left him a gift, which he found odd. Anyone that had a gift and grinned and stuffed it in his face, but that hardly annoyed him. Rather he gladly took the gifts and ripped them open, sniffed around in the box, then proudly pulled out what was inside. However in the small box he found something that completely surprised him. Of the various gifts he'd managed to receive it had to be the most dressed up, covered in translucent paper with a small note on top:

'Hope you like it.'

Slightly redundant, Naruto felt, but it was a gift and he grinned before beginning to pull away the paper. Undoubtedly he'd be complained at later for leaving a mess of paper all over but the gift came first. When he finally dragged it out of its casing he looked at it for a long time before just being surprised on the whole ordeal It was obviously expensive, he remembered seeing them down at one of the shops close to the ramen sellers in the window. The small crystal was fragile but not horribly fragile, with a small picture of the Konoha headband engraved into it. He looked at it for the longest time before setting it carefully aside on the table with his other gifts. He didn't dislike it, it just seemed odd, out of place for him.

He pondered over who would send him such a gift, it looked more like a personal item in his opinion, something of great value to someone. Furrowing his brow he couldn't discern the origins of such an object, still it meant a lot more then the edible gifts he kept getting. Later that day he gave up on his pondering and went through some more letters. It was just a few hours before he told himself he'd sleep that he got to the final message that, by far, was the oddest one he'd seen yet. Glancing it over it seemed meticulously constructed:

'My Great Friend,

I would like to state how great an honor it will be to meet you again! Perhaps our similar grudges will work together, after all I do owe you something, don't I? Don't fret over it, you need not make plans for I shall be as prompt as possible, as I understand the annoyances of waiting for some great event. You will see a short period of remorse followed by death, so it won't be horrible. If only I could express the difficulty of finding you. Of course, it's only what you know I need and not so much what I need to know as what I want to know.

For Later Times,

X-san'

Naruto looked at the letter for a long time before finally deciding to hide it. It obviously was malignant, intending his harm somehow, purposely jeering and threatening him. He had no clue whatsoever who could possibly aim for him in the manner they were, but he knew they were indeed intending something to occur, and that bothered him more then just mildly. When someone entered the room he quickly hid the letter, the door creaking open slowly and then hitting the small rubber stopper to keep the doorknob from creating indentations on the wall. Naruto grinned, "Hey, Lee! Came to see me finally?" Lee just grunted.