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Girlfriend.

Kiba had a hard time believing that the oblivious Naruto of all people would get himself a girlfriend. Even as he heard the rumors that were quickly spreading around Konoha, it was hard for the young man to believe that Naruto had some secret girlfriend. After all, Naruto was an open book who didn't really care to keep secrets. They would all be pretty shitty friends if they didn't even know that Naruto was in love with a girl.

"Yeah, I don't believe it." Kiba denied Sakura with a wave of his hand.

"It's not a lie, they went to the hot springs together, and they're about to go on a lunch date. Come on, don't you think it would be fun to spy on them?" Sakura really needed Kiba's nose so that they could track Naruto better, since Hinata had passed out and was still out cold. "Actually, where is Akamaru?" Sakura noted that Kiba's canine partner was nowhere to be seen, which was odd since they went everywhere together.

Seeing one without the other was really rare.

Kiba waved her off.

"Akamaru is relaxing at home, that whole Akatsuki fiasco really tired him out. Isn't that right Shino?" Kiba asked the quiet bug user next to him. The two of them were hanging out, mostly because Shino would throw himself a pity party if he didn't get invited to some things at least sometimes.

Shino looked at Sakura.

"I believe you, but I see no reason why we need to get involved. Why? Because what Naruto does with a girl is none of our business." Shino stated his belief in her story, but also his own reluctance to step in and do anything. It didn't matter to him if Naruto dated somebody, though he was a little upset that Naruto wasn't dating his own teammate Hinata. That being thought, Naruto was his own man, and he didn't have to date a person just because they had feelings for him.

Sakura sighed in annoyance and touched a palm to her head, because the rumor mill had been turning full speed. At the moment, the news that Naruto had a secret girlfriend was spreading around all of the civilians in Konoha. The ninja were hearing it too, but most of them knew that other ninja prefered to keep their personal affairs private.

As Naruto's friends though, they were allowed to snoop into his personal life.

"She's really cute, I mean, Naruto dating a cute girl. Don't tell me you aren't interested in how THAT happened?" Sakura really wanted their help, it would seem.

Kiba shrugged.

"Dude's got a good personality, and he's really strong. It's not really hard to think he would find a cute girl to like him, I mean, Hinata digs him." Kiba deadpanned at Sakura. There were a few cute girls that he could name that liked Naruto, so he didn't see the big deal in another cutie liking the blond haired fool.

Sakura looked at Shino.

...

"Naruto's actually very attractive, if it weren't for the Kyuubi, I'm sure he would have had a girlfriend a long time ago. Why? Because-"

"Yeah, yeah, I don't need the reason why." Sakura made a waving motion with her arm, denying Shino the ability to explain his reasons once more.

Hopefully Tenten was having better luck.

-With Tenten-

"Come ON guys, don't tell me you aren't even slightly interested in this... at all!? I mean, this is Naruto we are talking about. He's about as nuts for training as you are Lee, no offense." Tenten raised her hands up when she realized she could have been a little offensive. Her own teammates weren't exactly getting just how amazing the situation was.

Naruto, with a girlfriend, who he was having sex with. If that wasn't something that they needed to spy on, to see if this girl was good enough for him obviously, then they weren't doing their jobs as good friends.

"... He didn't tell us though, we should respect his privacy as fellow men. I'm sure Naruto-kun will introduce us to his lover when he feels comfortable." Lee spoke as he did what seemed like his 900th pushup of the work out session.

Tenten palmed her head.

Rock Lee was easy to get excited, but she forgot that he was also a very honorable man at heart. While the boy would love to go and spy on Naruto, he wasn't the type to do it. He would respect Naruto's right to privacy, while giving obvious hints that he knew about the relationship and supported it... all while trying to be discrete, but without actually being discrete.

She looked at Neji.

"... Come on Neji, Naruto really respects you, like a lot. Don't you want to return the favor and make sure his girlfriend is a good match for him?" Tenten knew how much Neji respected Naruto, and how he admired his younger friend. If there was anyone she could count on to help her, then it would be Neji.

Neji raised an eyebrow.

"Naruto's a better judge of character than any of us. He even helped me change myself for the better. If he loves this girl, I'm sure there is something special about her. After all, when it comes to people... his eyes are even better than mine." Neji closed his eyes and smiled. Even when he was lost in darkness and self-pity, it was Naruto who pulled him out of his shell, and showed him a world of light to enjoy. Naruto saw something inside of him that even he didn't know was there.

This girl must truly be something special if she had captured Naruto's heart, and though Neji was saddened by the fact Hinata didn't get with Naruto, he was still happy for Naruto as his friend. He saw no reason to want to try and mess with the relationship, not when all he wanted for was his friend to be happy.

"Gah! You guy's are SO unhelpful! They're having sex, that means it will only be a matter of time before Naruto had kids with this girl." Tenten shouted out in frustration.

This was important!

'Well... there was the priestess... Shion, who offered Naruto sex... Actually, I don't know if she and Naruto...' Neji vaguely remembered the priestess who offered to carry Naruto's babies, so that she could pass on her powers to the next generation. The girl had been quite infatuated with the blond ninja, and Naruto did promise to help her. It wouldn't surprise Neji if Naruto actually did have sex with her. "... This girl, is she blonde, with a slim figure, and..." Neji couldn't say it out loud, so he gestured to his chest.

"She's blonde, and she has a petite frame... she has really nice thighs and legs though... but she isn't that huge in the bust. She's got around my size, but a little bigger." Tenten didn't have a problem understanding Neji's meaning at all. She knew her teammate was as shy towards the sexual end of things as they came.

Lee and Neji shared looks.

Other than the blonde hair, that didn't sound like Shion to them.

-With Kurenai-

"So, Shikamaru, did you hear the rumor floating around?"

Kurenai asked the younger man as he helped her water her flowers, she had went outside the walls of the village, and picked some more for her window garden. Seeing as she was 8 months pregnant, she was sitting down on her couch and looking out the window. She had two young men, Shikamaru and Choji, both helping her out at the moment.

"Rumor?" Shikamaru asked.

He didn't really pay attention to rumors.

"I think she's talking about the one about the BBQ place reopening soon, that rumor made me really happy. Are you craving BBQ Kurenai-sensei?" Choji asked her, interupting her before she could answer Shikamaru.

She laughed a little under her breath, though since it was mentioned she did kind of want to go get BBQ now.

"Before I came here, I was helping my Dad. I didn't really talk to anyone today. It's usually a drag to listen to rumors anyway." Shikamaru shrugged his shoulders, not really caring about the rumors of the civilians all that much. He watched as Kurenai got to her feet at a sedate pace, before she walked over to the window and smelled the flowers.

"Our resident knucklehead seems to have gotten himself a secret girlfriend. They were seen going into the hot springs together, and some people said they were even talking about their private life. I don't have much to do right now, so I was just kind of listening in on other's conversations as I walked around today." Kurenai smiled as she looked up at the sky.

She was happy for the blond.

She knew how great it was to find somebody who made you happy, even though she lost the one she loved, she still fondly recalled her memories of him. To know that Konoha's hero had found himself somebody to love was good news.

"... I feel sorry for Hinata." Choji seemed saddened for the girl.

Kurenai frowned.

"So do I, I was really rooting for her... sadly, love is like a battlefield. There are always going to be winner and losers. I'm still rooting for her, not all relationships work out. What do you think Shikamaru?" Kurenai asked the local genius, and he shrugged.

"Women are too troublesome. I'll never understand them. Hopefully, it isn't just some girl who likes him because he's famous." Shikamaru would hate to have to try and convince Naruto to leave this girl, because of her using him. Kurenai laughed when he mentioned his thoughts on women, mature enough to know that he didn't really mean those words, and if he did it wasn't because he hated women.

He just found everything troublesome.

"We should spy on them!" Choji declared.

...

"That's too much effort. Wouldn't you gather get some BBQ?" Shikamaru asked Choji with a knowing smile when two stomachs rumbled. Both of the boys looked at the pregnant woman, who smiled with red cheeks.

"That sounds good right now to me too."

-With Kakashi-

"Have you found anything Inoichi?" Kakashi asked as he looked at Kabuto's incased body, with Inoichi placing a hand on the corpse's forehead.

In the room with them were several other ninja, including the man's own daughter Ino, though she had been sworn to not reveal anything that she heard here. She was helping him use his jutsu at the moment, because it was so much harder to go through the memories of a corpse. So Ino was currently using her medical ninjutsu to keep Kabuto's brain as active as she could, healing it, so that he could look into the memories.

"I've found plenty, and most of it's pretty disturbing. I'm sending you the bills when I got to a therapist later. This man has seen and done some disturbing things, to himself and others." Inoichi was a little more pale than usual.

"I mean, he is Kabuto."

Ino's comment was noted.

"That said... It would seem the Akatsuki member with the orange mask... it planning on stealing Pain... Nagato's Rinnegan eyes in about a month. He's also been gathering an incredible army of things called... White Zetsu. I have the location of the army... but... we're going to need a lot of help to take down an army of this size." Inoichi was very unsure of what to say to Kakashi. There was no doubt that war was on it's way if they didn't do something soon, like contacting the other Kage from the other villages.

Kabuto had discovered the true leader of the Akatsuki, and his plans to declare war on all of the villages, which was disturbing.

Kakashi narrowed his eyes.

"Naruto isn't going to like that. Naruto and I will go and speak with Konan, she will know where the Rinnegan is. With any luck, she will let us seal away or destroy the eyes before they can be used." Kakashi had a simple solution to that problem. Destroy the eyes, though using them for their own purposes was great for military power, destroying them was the best bet for the long run. Anyway, if his own sharingan took so much power, the only person in the village strong enough to use those eyes was Naruto.

Naruto would never be the type of person to take the eyes of somebody who died for a noble reason, once and enemy or not, and implant them into himself. The blond wasn't a greedy ninja, who sought the power of others.

"Still, I would like to keep looking though Kabuto's memories some more. These are just some of his most recent memories. If I dig deeper, we may learn even more good info." Inoichi shivered when he thought about going back in there.

Kakashi placed a hand on his shoulders.

...

"I'll pay for your therapist."

"Holy shit guys, guess what I just learned! Naruto, the little brat, found himself and honest to goodness FUCK BUDDY!"

The door shot open, and Anko came running in with a red face, out of breath after running for who knows how long. With Kabuto dead, she had been called back to the village from her mission to track him. As she was passing through the gates, she had heard the guards talking about Naruto's secret girlfriend, and she had to share that information with as many people as possible.

"Naruto has a girlfriend!? Why am I only now hearing about this!? Sorry Dad, but Naruto having a lover is gossip I can NOT afford to miss out on! I've got to go and tell Sakura, she is going to freak out!" Ino got up and started to run towards the door. Kabuto was dead, and it wasn't like there weren't other medical ninja able to help out. But gossip about Naruto dating was something she needed to find out while it was fresh, before the story got anymore twisted than the truth.

Anko nodded her head.

"Ino!"

'Girlfriend? Naruto... oh, she's talking about Yami... well, I'm keeping my hand out of this cookie jar. I'll let Naruto clear this misunderstanding up.' Kakashi realized right away what was going on, and who the rumor was started about. At the same time, he wasn't going to be the one to clear this all up, even though he could do it.

Naruto more than likely made this mess, so he was going to clean it up.

Chapter End!
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