Fixing It All Up

"It looks… lovely." Was the only thing that Hansuke could say which earned him a smack on the head from Jin and a disapproving nod from Shadow. But Anju had to agree with him to a certain point. The compound was huge and it looked like nobody had lived in it for thousands of years with the dangling webs, broken wooden panels and the rusty roofs; the place was in a serious need for a repair. As soon as she stepped foot on the lot, Anju could sense a cold dread surround her, she agreed in the end to take the place like she had told Tsunade she would to support her family but it didn't mean she liked. The necklaces warm touch around her neck gave her some confidence and she grabbed on to it to reassure herself that she was doing the right thing. After a while at looking the place over from the outside they family made themselves walk in. It was larger than she thought it would be and she certainly was surprise to find a huge wall surrounding the place. It was almost like a mini village hidden in the centre of the leaf. Exploring deeper into the maze of the small town, Anju couldn't help but feel goose bumps run up and down her arm. She had heard about the whole massacre that had happened down these very streets and the idea that one person could turn against their whole family like that made her feel cold. In the very centre of the compound lay the main mansion where she was expected to live. The place seemed less run down then the others for some reason. Cautiously, she approached the place with great care, it may have looked fine but she didn't know what the internal structure was like. Pushing the door aside she entered, carefully watching the shadows in case anything jumped out at her. As expected the whole house was covered with dust and the furniture was covered in white cloth. After a quick inspection of all the rooms she quickly left, meeting with everyone else who had been examining the other houses.

"The houses don't seem that bad, a little cleaning and a new fresh coat of paint should get rid of the worse of it." Jin suggested and everyone nodded in agreement. They quickly set to work, grabbing the necessary items from the early market this morning. They set to work, dragging the furniture out of the places and given them a good clean and check overs, replacing some of the roof tiles that badly needed replacing and dusting the whole area. The whole place must have looked like it had a whole gas ball floating above it from the amount of dead materials that were flying around the place. All of them had divided into different chores to help quicken the process up. Anju job was to replace the worse looking roof tiles. So far it had gone well and the height had given her a nice view of the forest that surrounding the whole area.

"Hey guys!" A loud voice boomed over the whole area. It distracted her from her day dreaming long enough to look down and see a whole group of people looking up at her from the street. The person who stood at the very front of the whole crowd was none less than the one and only; Naruto Uzimaki.

"What are you guys doing here?" Anju called back down as she jumped down from what she was doing and went to greet them. Everyone was there. All of the rookie nine plus Team Gai had come to see her and all of them held buckets of paint, brooms or anything other cleaning material you could ever think of. Before anyone else could say anything, Gai stepped forward.

"We've come show our strength of friendship by helping replenish your new home for the bloom of such health does not happen every day." The man smiled at her, his pure white teeth beaming in the light. Everyone that surrounded him had large sweat drops fallen from their heads, except for his mini self who was holding on to his every word. Anju just forced a smile on her face and prepared to look grateful – even though she had no idea what he had just said.

"That's very sweet of you guys but you don't have to give up your time for us." At the mention of the whole group, everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at the group, giving them a quick wave before turning back to the tasks at hand.

"Don't worry Anju, we want to help." Sakura was quick to point out and everyone waved the tools in their hands in agreement (except for Kakashi who just mumbled something behind Icha Icha Paradise) everyone laughed, every single person seemed happy to be here, even Shikamaru; which was achievement in itself.

"I don't know what to say." Was all she could blurt out in the end because of all the emotions that were stuck in her throat?

"Well don't say anything and scare them off, we could use all the help we can get." Jin shouted over to her and Shadow roared in agreement. Soon everyone was off to work, including the fifty shadow clones Naruto summoned to start working on the other buildings further near the walls. Everything was going well and the houses were soon fixed, repainted and republish quicker than anyone imagined. However, Anju senses soon picked up suspicious in the area and the odour was defiantly coming from Ino and Sakura. She first picked up on something strange when she saw both them talking in hush tones with Tadashi. At first she tried to put it to the back of her head (telling herself that they were all just flirting with each other) but she soon found them disappearing and reappearing all of the time and always in and out of the house.

"Does anyone know what those two are doing?" Anju couldn't help but was ask out loud finally. The people that heard her just looked at the two female kunochi and shock their heads; they knew well that you never cross woman when they're up to something, especially if it was those two who were involved. They knew if it was girl business then you stayed as far away from it as you could and kept your head down.

"Why don't you just lip read them, I'm sure you'll be able to find out then?" Shikamaru suggested and every male specimen around him casted him a look that read 'shut up' worrying that they would get dragged into this.

"If I could I wouldn't be in this situation in the first place." Anju snapped back before stomping off to another rooftop that needed repairing – though she might of accidently destroyed some tiles in the process- during the middle of work she looked up at the site that everyone had transformed from haunted town to perfect living environment. Now she didn't feel so weird living in this place. But it still left her with the question what the hell she was going to do with this place. It was too large, sure she knew she was expected to pump out babies to secure the bloodline (the very thought of Danzo saying that shock her to her very core) but it wasn't like she was able to have five hundred at once. She needed to find some way to use up all this space. Of course her family were doing their best to help with the situation, there was an old blacksmith shop that Hansuke was interested in reforming, Jin was hoping to fix one of the apartments into a vets plus animal rescue shelter and Tadashi was going to be living in one of the houses near her. Though she had an idea what she was going to do with one of the farm like houses near the back but she still hadn't decided how she was going to transform it in secret yet. An orange blur caught her attention out of the corner of her eye. "Shadow clone or the real one!" She shouted out when he was in ear reach. Whoever, he was stopped what he was doing instantly and turned towards her. Anju decided she really hated shadow clones. They were just too similar to the real one and not just the way he looked, the way they held themselves and acted like them as well.

"Shadow Clone!" He called back, a huge grin edged on every corner of his face. Anju could feel her stomachs doing back flips just looking at the man that stood before her but she quickly pushed away the feeling as soon as it came.

"Can you help me with this one? The angles are different so it's making it hard for me to fit it into place without slipping away." Her questioned was soon followed by a wider grin then she could ever possibly imagine and was soon beside her. Helping her to hold on to the rectangle bricks as she secured them on to the roof. With his help she was able to get it done in half the time like everything else that needed to be done today. "Thanks for the help Naruto, I need to get to everything else." She smiled at him as she collected her stuff together and was about to go on to the next job when the shadow clone reached out and grabbed her gently around the wrist.

"Actually, every thing's finished, we're all meeting back at the main house." He quickly informed her but only left Anju a little confused. How does he know that? He's been with me the whole time, she wondered to herself and had to assume there was some kind of link between clones and the main person. She nodded anyway to inform him that he got the message and he disappeared in a puff of smoke. I'm never going to get use to that, she thought, shaking her head clear as she headed towards the huge crowd that was gathering. Her suspicious were once again aroused when she sure the mischievous looks on Sakura and Ino's faces'. Uh oh, was all she could think and before she could make a run for it, the two friends had a solid grip on either side of her arm and dragged her inside the main mansion. As soon as her eyes settled on the inside of the house she mouth honestly fell on to the ground. The place had totally transformed, the place and been redecorated and style with the original furniture but some other stuff she was sure hadn't been there before. However, she was not given a chance to examine anything since she was dragged all the way upstairs. Once she was at the top she was ordered to close her eyes and follow the sound of their voices.

"Have you got your eyes close?" Ino asked for the third time since five steps ago. Anju sighed but nodded her head once again in response. "Okay and open." Directly on the order, Anju eyes flew open and she felt like she had fallen into a fairy tale world. The room was decorated with soft blues, greens and yellows to design the whole room into a beach. One of the floors had actually been painted into a view of the sea and for a second, she felt like she was actually there.

"This room is amazing." Anju cried out and she leapt on both of them as she pulled them both into a hug. All of the girls laughed and she finally let them go. "There's just one more thing I had to do to make this room complete." She smiled and both girls shot her curious looks at her. Before they could ask she shot of and jumped on the bed and lightly bounced on it.

"That's it?" Ino asked sounding a little disappointed, though Anju seemed to think differently.

"I've always wanted to try this!" Anju cheered as she collapsed back on the soft quilt. She was soon joined by the two other girls joining her on the bed and she quickly had to raise her arms over her head to make sure nothing was slammed in to it. They were all laughing their heads off for the rest of the day.