Hey Everyone, sorry this chapter is late. I have had a bunch going on recently from an out of town bachelor party for a good friend. I've also been dealing with a lot of stuff with getting the student pub I run set up for the start of this coming semester. So I'm sorry that this chapter has been delayed. Enough about that though, because the chapter is at long last here. I am planning on getting the next two chapters out before the 15th, so look forward to that.

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Anyhow, without any further ado, I present to you Chapter 13.

"Naruto" - Person/Summon Speaking

"Naruto"- Person Thinking

"Naruto" - Jutsu

"Naruto" - Boss Summon/Demon Speaking

"Naruto"- Boss Summon/Demon Thinking

Chapter 13 – Wounded Pride

Naruto stood in the training ground listening to his sensei's explanation for how to do the tree walking exercise. He waited till his teacher finished and set his teammates to start while Naruto just stood there. "What're you waiting for Naruto; you need to work on this exercise as well."

"Umm sensei, in case you forgot, I already know how to do tree walking." Kakashi sweat dropped at this as he looked towards the source of the excited giggling he had just heard. He turned to see Sakura already having completed the exercise, he hadn't been surprised, as he had assumed that she would have good chakra control, seeing how limited her reserves were.

"Good job Sakura, if you want you can practice it a few more times, but that is the lesson for today so don't stress yourself too much." Sakura smiled and nodded at this, she found it odd that Naruto hadn't tried to run up the tree, but what worried her more was how Sasuke had glared at her when she did it on her first try, "No Sakura, you can't let Kakashi-sensei see you act this way, get to practicing, and then head home…"

Naruto was still staring blankly at his teacher, "So sensei what do you want me to do?"

"Hehe, sorry Naruto I forgot you had already learned tree climbing… I guess I could send you to try water wal-"

"I know that one two sensei, and how to circulate chakra through by body purposefully to keep me warm if I need." Kakashi hearing this rubbed the back of his head, he mentally berated himself for forgetting that Naruto had been working on his chakra control. He stood there for a few moments trying to think of what he could have Naruto do when an idea came to him.

"Tell me Naruto, do you know how to detect and dispel genjutsu?" Naruto smiled at this, genjutsu was one of the areas he had never had any luck with, and apparently it was a trait shared by his whole clan. So any chance to learn how to deal with genjutsu was a chance he wouldn't pass up.

-With Sasuke-

"Damn it, why is this so hard? Naruto and Sakura made it look so easy, how can I be having so much trouble with this." Sasuke was staring up at the tree he had been practicing tree walking on. The marks from the kunai his sensei had given him ran around an eigth of the way up the tree. He glared at the tree Sakura had been running up and still couldn't understand how she had managed to get it on her first try. He had been at it for hours and still hadn't gotten anywhere. Grunting again he ran towards the tree.

-With Naruto-

Naruto was sitting on the ground grumbling, he hadn't been having any luck detecting the genjutsu his sensei kept placing him under, it always took him far too long for him to recognize them. He was getting frustrated, and it wasn't something he could work on with his clones on his own. If he knew a few genjutsu he might be able to practice on his own, but he didn't so his only time to work on it was with Kakashi, and he wasn't making much progress.

Finally after another 2 failed attempts at recognizing genjutsu Kakashi started speaking again, "Well Naruto, it seems we've finally found your weakness, you apparently have no talent for genjutsu."

Naruto gritted his teeth at this and swallowed his retort; no matter what he did he couldn't detect the genjutsu, granted he'd only been at it for the past few hours, but he thought he'd of had some sort of idea how to go about it by now. Staring glumly at the ground he addressed his sensei, "Then what do I do sensei?"

"Well you can always still learn how to dispel the genjutsu."

"What good is that if I can't detect them?"

"Well maybe you'll get better at it later, but for now-"

"Wait sensei, couldn't I use a seal to detect the genjutsu?"

"A seal?"

"Yeah, I know I read something about detection seals in my family's scrolls, so couldn't I use one of those?" Hearing this worried Kakashi, detection seals were highly advanced fuinjutsu, and as much as he wanted to have faith in his student's abilities, he had only started studying fuinjutsu a few months ago.

"Naruto, what you're talking about his highly advanced fuinjutsu; I don't think you're ready to be doing that sort of thing yet." At this Naruto's face fell, he knew that he probably wasn't quite at the level he should be at to try the seals, but that sort of thing wasn't going to stop him, all that he could think about currently was how he could make that seal work.

"I can do it sensei, I've been getting way better at my seals recently, and I've even started making my own explosive tags." At this Kakashi's eye widened in horror, if there was one thing he was worried about his young and rather unpredictable student doing, it was creating a supply of explosives. Sadly his fears only increased as Naruto continued to speak, "But the funny thing is that they always feel warm, I think I might have made a mistake on the sealing matrix, but I don't know where." At this Naruto was holding out an explosive note towards his sensei, and Kakashi grabbed it out of his hands.

Immediately noticing the warmth, Kakashi began to panic, it was a common mistake when someone inexperienced would create explosive notes, it was exactly as his student thought, and it was leaking chakra, however, if Kakashi knew Naruto at all he was willing to bet that his student hadn't only made one of them, which meant he had a large supply of volatile explosives on him, "Naruto give me all the notes you've made."

Naruto noticing the rushed sound of his sensei's voice unsealed a rather large stack of the explosive tags and held them out towards his sensei. "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu." Naruto was somewhat surprised when his teacher used the technique, and almost argued with the grabbing all the explosives and running full speed towards the lake. Naruto's shock however skyrocketed as his sensei began running through a very complex series of handsigns, "Suiton: Suiryūdan no Jutsu!" Naruto could only watch in awe as a giant dragon made of water launched itself out of the lake at the clone carrying all the explosive notes, but it was the second when the dragon collided with the clone that quite literally sent all the remaining members of team 7 in the training ground to the ground.

On the moment of impact, all the explosive notes went off, it had been Kakashi's intent to destroy them, but he had hoped his chakra wouldn't set them the tags off, but unfortunately it did. The explosion caused a huge amount of water to be sent off in all directions, and the fiery plume went up at least a hundred feet. Kakashi was torn between being impressed by the sheer destructive capability of the notes, and horror at the thought of what would have happened if they had gone off on a mission.

It took almost a minute for the ringing sound to leave Kakashi's ears, and eventually he looked over at his blonde and red haired student, who had a look torn between awe and worry on his face, he was about to speak when another voice sounded from the forest, "What was the hell was that?" Naruto and Kakashi looked over to see a rather haggard looking Sasuke leaning with one arm on a tree with a panicked look on his face, Kakashi seeing his state decided to address the Uchiha first, "I was just demonstrating to your teammate how dangerous it is to get ahead of oneself in their studies."

Sasuke just stared blankly from his sensei to his teammate with wonder, whatever had happened had sounded like a huge explosion, and the fact that the clearing was covered in water combined with the look on Naruto's face told him that his teammate had done something obscene, he wanted more details, but he was still struggling with getting over what had happened between him and Naruto earlier that day, so he ended up just shrugging his shoulder with a huff, "Sasuke, I'd recommend you head home, and get some rest for tonight, we're meeting back up again tomorrow for some more training, so get some rest tonight." Sasuke nodded at this and made his way off, he had a lot to work through tonight, and he wasn't even sure how to go about getting the answers he wanted, he could always demand that the civilian councillors who doted on him in hopes to gain his favour could shed some light on his teammates progress, but he doubted that they would know anything. It seemed like it would be up to him to find out everything he could about his mysterious teammate, and he would start by finding out anything he could on Naruto's clan.

-Back with Kakashi and Naruto-

Kakashi had spent the last few minutes lecturing Naruto on the dangers of faulty seal matrices, he had decided to go with being upset at his student for now, he'd be more rational later, but damn it that explosion had been massive. It was then that Kakashi felt a chakra spike, and turned to see the Hokage emerge from the forest in full combat gear with a full squad of ANBU on his heels. Naruto watched as his surrogate grandfather slowed down his approach and slowly walked up to them, when he addressed his sensei, "Hatake-san, what was the cause of that explosion, there is panic across the village; people are worried we are under attack… Report, what happened?"

Naruto hung his head hearing this and Kakashi spoke, "Well, I was discussing fuinjutsu with my student Uzumaki Naruto, when he revealed he had begun attempting to create explosive tags," Kakashi paused as he saw a worried look cross the Hokage's face, "he revealed to me that he had been having some troubles with them, which he claimed to believe was caused by their leaking chakra. Upon examination I saw that this was the case, and as such were highly dangerous, not to mention potentially volatile. I confiscated the stack of tags he had, and went to destroy them."

"If that's was what happened then what caused the explosion Hatake-san?"

"Well Hokage-sama, I assume what happened is that my chakra managed to fully destabilize the explosive tags, causing them all to detonate the instant my jutsu made contact. Resulting in the massive explosion you all no doubt heard. The water covering the clearing was also a result of the technique, but that is what happened Hokage-sama."

Naruto watched as his surrogate grandfather looked from his sensei to him, then back to Kakashi, then back to him, then back to Kakashi, and finally back to him before letting out a loud sigh, "Naruto…" Naruto just hung his head, he knew he was going to get yelled at again, he hated feeling like an idiot, he used to get it all the time, but he was different now, he was already giving himself a hard time for it, but he had asked his sensei about what was going on with his explosive tags to be safe. He had been trying to check if they were dangerous to him. Well he now had his answer, and he felt like an idiot for it.

"ANBU you are dismissed, it is obvious that this was just an accident."

The ANBU nodded at this but stopped when they heard another voice speak up, "It's a shame you all looked good in orange." Naruto hadn't known what had caused him to speak up, but he figured that no matter how mature he grew he would always have a bit of his pranking nature with him, so he grinned slightly seeing all the ANBU lose their footing.

"What'd you say brat?"

"Nothing ANBU-san, absolutely nothing." The Hokage chuckled at Naruto's antics and waved the ANBU off. Kakashi couldn't help but smirk slightly underneath his mask and wave comically as the squad of ANBU all disappeared in poofs of smoke. It was quiet for a moment before Sarutobi finally spoke.

"So Naruto, you have been dabbling with some of the more dangerous parts of fuinjutsu I see." He saw Naruto's head drop again, and regretted the tone he had used.

"I'm sorry Jiiji; I wanted to get someone's opinion on why my tags weren't working properly… I didn't mean to cause you so much trouble…" Naruto raised his head slightly to see the Hokage giving him a soft smile.

"Naruto you did nothing wrong, and while I'm sure Kakashi would have preferred you telling him you were going to try and make explosive tags, I am glad you brought it to his attention when you found out something wasn't quite right." Naruto felt relief at this, he hadn't wanted his surrogate grandfather to be upset with him, "However, Kakashi you should know better than to introduce a foreign chakra to unstable seal matrices…" The change in the Hokage's tone caused Kakashi to get a bit worried, "But seeing as no one was hurt I'll forget about this little incident. Are you done your training for the day Kakashi?"

"Yes Hokage-sama, I was discussing some things with Naruto, but after the last incident I think it would be a good idea to call it a day, Naruto Team 7 is meeting up again for some more training tomorrow, so be here the same time as always."

"Ok Kakashi-sensei, sorry about the explosion…"

"It's alright Naruto, next time you want to make explosive tags though, please ask me first and I'll help you with it."

"Really? Awesome, thanks Kakashi-sensei, next time my explosive tags will be perfect."

"I know they will, see you tomorrow Naruto, Hokage-sama." With that Kakashi disappeared in a puff of smoke leaving Naruto alone with the Hokage.

"Damn, I need to learn how to do that." The Hokage smirked at Naruto before placing a hand on his shoulder.

"Well seeing as your done training for the day, how about you and I get something to eat I promised I'd have dinner with Konohamaru and I'm sure he'd be happy to see you there, he seems to have taken quite a liking to you."

"That'd be cool Jiiji; I can tell you all about my last mission, and all about my training."

-Later that Evening in the Uchiha Compound-

Sasuke was currently sitting in his clan's library; he had been trying to find out anything he could on his teammate's clan. Kakashi had told them once that the Uzumaki Clan had once been a powerful clan, and seeing as the Uchiha kept records on most of the other clans they had encountered he figured they might have something on his teammates clan. Every step he had taken into his clan's library had been a blow to his pride, his pushing himself further into the place to try and find out something that could explain how his idiot teammate could have gotten so much stronger.

What Sasuke hadn't expected was to find dozens and dozens of books on the Uzumaki Clan. The sheer amount of books would fill up a bookcase; he also didn't understand why almost all of them were stamped as property of the Konoha Archives. He had subdued his curiosity about that, but he still didn't get why his father would have had so much information on one other clan. He had started by skimming their titles and it had gotten even more confusing, there were books about the laws of some village known as Uzushiogakure, there was information on the royal family of Uzu no Kuni, there were 12 volumes of the Uzumaki Clan law, each penned by the clan head at the time.

Sasuke had hoped that he would find a book telling him if the Uzumaki Clan had any special powers that would explain his teammate's rapid improvement, but so far he hadn't found anything on that. He was worrying his search might be in vain. He was actually debating asking his idiot of a teammate about his clan, but he didn't know if his pride would ever recover from something like that. Sasuke just couldn't understand how his teammate had changed so much. The thing that upset the young Uchiha most though was how casually his teammate went about questioning what he had spent his three months doing. It just rubbed salt on the wound; he didn't know what he had been thinking with the light training he had done over their break. He had assumed that as soon as they got a Jōnin instructor, the man would just teach them dozens of jutsu, but here they were with the first actual thing their sensei was teaching them, and both of his teammates had already done it, not only that the one he had expected to hold them back the most had apparently completed the next training exercise as well.

-Training Ground 7 the Next Morning-

Naruto was making his way through the trees towards his teams designated training ground; he had upped his weights that morning and as such was struggling to move at a good speed. Stopping outside the clearing he sat down on a branch and took out some of his scrolls to read. He was going over different sealing matrices for explosive notes; he was planning to ask Kakashi for help with them later. Putting away his fuinjutsu scrolls Naruto decided to read through his BINGO book, and brush up on his knowledge of missing-nin.

It wasn't long after that Naruto was brought out of his readings by the sound of someone falling to the ground. Jumping over to the source of the sound Naruto found his teammate Sasuke picking himself up off the ground and making another run at a tree. Apparently he was still working on the tree climbing exercise, and judging from the state he was in he either hadn't gotten much sleep, or had woken up even earlier than Naruto to train himself.

Deciding to hold off on messing with his teammate Naruto sat down again to watch Sasuke attempt to run up the tree a few more times, when he heard the Uchiha muttering something that sounded like 'damned Uzumaki'.

Hearing this Naruto decided to let his presence be known, "What were you saying about my clan Uchiha?" Naruto's voice had caught Sasuke off guard causing him to lose concentration and once again fall off the tree, laughing at the sight Naruto jumped down from the branch he had been standing on, and landed next to Sasuke. "Good job there teme, you're really getting it."

Sasuke could hear the obvious sarcasm in his teammate's voice, and snapped back at him, "Shut up dobe, I have nothing to say to you." At this Naruto put on a hurt look before responding.

"But teme, what'd I do wrong?" Sasuke could tell that Naruto was just messing with him, and tried to reign in his temper and shut out his teammate, sadly for him after a few minutes of being ignored the blonde spoke again, "What's up with you teme, are you excited for our appointment with your fan girls, I've already dropped the photo off at the printers, I decided to have around a hundred printed up so we could hand them out before we leave on another C rank mission."

Sasuke's jaw dropped at this, seeing as he had completely forgotten about the wager he had lost. Trying to find a way out of it he turned back to his teammate, "We're doing no such thing dobe; you can't actually expect me to hand out autographed posters just because I signed some piece of paper?"

Naruto could of course hear the indignation in his teammates voice, and debated taking out his camera to capture the Uchiha's face when he dropped the next bomb on him, "Actually Uchiha, I can. You see after training yesterday I met up with the Hokage for dinner, and Jiiji signed off on the agreement you signed, so you don't have a choice about it." Naruto smirked at the horrified look on his teammates face, and laughed maniacally for a few minutes.

"Don't worry Uchiha, it'll just be a quick trip to your fan clubs clubhouse, and then you'll be free to go." Sasuke's horrified look changed to one of abject terror as he imagined walking into the lair of his fan girls.

-Across the Village-

At the same time Naruto was having his conversation with Sasuke, a certain blonde and red haired clone was sneaking into the Yamanaka Clan's home. After a brief look around the property the clone entered through one of the windows on the second floor, and found himself in the room of one Yamanaka Ino. Grinning beneath his mask at his own success, the clone placed a package on the young kunoichi's nightstand before dispelling itself.

-Back with Naruto-

Naruto had to hold back a cheer upon learning that his clone had completed its mission. He had ordered his clone to inform the Yamanaka heiress of what would be happening that afternoon so that she would have time to gather as many Uchiha fan girls as possible. If he had known the time of their monthly meeting he wouldn't have needed to use the gossip queen of Konoha, but he knew that once Ino found out what would be happening word would quickly spread.

Naruto walked away from his defeated teammate and sat against a tree pulling another book out of one of his sealing scrolls. He was skimming through the books and thinking about how ingenious his plan was. He had initially planned on just having Sasuke help him hand out the posters, but after hearing it would cost him 500 ryo for each full size poster he decided that it would be far better to have the fan girls buy the signed posters for 2000 ryo a piece. Naruto had never placed too much value on money, but when he realized what a golden opportunity this was he couldn't resist.

Above all he couldn't wait to see Sasuke's face as he charged the fan girls for the posters, imagining the face his teammate would make proved to be too much for Naruto and he burst out laughing again. "DAMNIT DOBE, SHUT THE HELL UP!"

Naruto looked back towards his teammate to see he had apparently fallen from the tree again. Deciding against laughing at the Uchiha's misfortune Naruto decided he'd offer his teammate some advice. "Teme, you want some advice?"

Sasuke turned and glared at the blonde and didn't answer, seeing his stubborn behaviour Naruto just shrugged and got back to his reading. Overall the day wasn't particularly, after Kakashi and Sakura arrived, Kakashi took them on a simple D rank mission to work on their teamwork. The mission was the standard fair for D rank missions; they were required to chop lumber at a farm on the outskirts of Konoha. Once the mission was completed, Kakashi bid farewell to his team and told them that they'd be going on a C rank mission the next day. This news was well received by Naruto and Sasuke, while Sakura seemed nervous.

Noticing that it was surprisingly early still Naruto decided that he'd head back to the training ground with Sasuke. After around half an hour of reading and chuckling as his teammate fell out of trees Sasuke finally lost his temper, "What the hell dobe, why are you still here?"

"Well Sasuke, I thought it would be obvious, I don't have a whole lot to do until our appointment with you fan club so I figured I'd just wait around."

Sasuke glared up at his teammate, "Then why aren't you training dobe, trying to gloat that you've already got this stupid tree walking thing done."

"Umm, why would I gloat Uchiha, I already offered to help you. If I wanted to gloat I'd teach your fan girls to do it, then you'd never be able to get away from them." Hearing this Sasuke couldn't help but shudder at the thought of the hordes of girls running up walls, he had to agree that he'd be hard pressed to ever escape from them again.

Turning away from his teammate Naruto pulled out another book when he felt one of the clones he had running errands pop. Apparently the clone had seen Team 8 return from a mission, which meant Naruto, would have a chance to catch up with Shino before he left the village again for another potentially long mission. He'd have to remember to find Shino after his teammate's unfortunate afternoon.

Another hour passed before Naruto heard his teammate address him, "What are you even reading dobe?" Naruto closed the book again and threw it down to his teammate. Reaching up, Sasuke caught the book out of the air, "The Rise and Fall of Uzushiogakure" Sasuke was surprised by the book, after all he hadn't expected his classes dobe to be reading up on history of some old village. "What're you reading this for dobe, doesn't seem that interesting." Sasuke was rather surprised at the reaction of his teammate.

Naruto launched himself out of the tree at Sasuke and grabbed the book out of his hand, "It's one of the only books I could find that talks about my clan teme… It's all I have to know them by… so I'll keep reading it till I've memorized every damn line in it." Sasuke much to his own surprise actually felt sympathy for his teammate. He knew exactly what it was like to lose his clan, and in his moment of sympathy he thought of all the books on the Uzumaki Clan he seemed to have for some reason.

"I have some stuff on your clan." Sasuke didn't know why exactly he told his teammate, but for some reason he couldn't help but feel guilty over it, at least he knew all about his clan.

"What? How? Why?" Naruto stopped almost immediately when he realized what it meant. He remembered the time he lost his temper with his teammate on the day of their team selection, he had snapped at the Uchiha because he learnt that his father had gotten rid of almost everything on the Uzumaki clan, and hearing Sasuke say he had them meant that the man never destroyed them, but just hid them. It took all of Naruto's will to not snap at his teammate. "Uchiha, give me the books."

Sasuke was surprised by his teammates turn from being seemingly happy to sounding angry and couldn't help but ask about it, "What's up with you dobe, why're you so pissed." Naruto struggled to control himself, he knew he shouldn't be directing his anger at Sasuke, but it wasn't like his father was alive to direct his anger at, so he took a few minutes to calm himself down, he knew he'd probably have to negotiate with his teammate to get the books, and he couldn't afford to snap, otherwise Sasuke would probably just blow him off and refuse to let him see the books.

"Sorry, I get kind of tense when it comes to my clan, could I have the books on them please?" Sasuke had watched his teammate as he struggled to reign in his temper and was still confused by it, but realized he now had a bargaining chip, and he knew what he was willing to trade the books for.

"Well then Uzumaki, it seems like I have something you want. I can't just give them to you though, so I propose a trade."

"Oh really, and what trade would this be?"

"I'll give you the books, if you destroy that agreement that says I have to go through with this afternoon." Sasuke went pale just imagining having to walk into the lair of his fan girls, and figured if anything would get him out of it, this could be it. Naruto on the other hand was torn, he had a chance to get books on his clan, and learn more about them, but he'd have to give up his prank, he thought for a moment before he came up with what he thought would be a way to get both things he wanted.

"I can't just tear up the agreement Uchiha, it's a legally binding document of Konoha, and it has the Hokage's seal on it." Sasuke went pale at this, but Naruto continued, "But I can keep your fan girls away from you during it, and help keep them away and I'll give you a hint that'll help you with the tree walking exercise."

Naruto was rather proud of his negotiating; he would probably just make a bunch of clones to guard Sasuke from the fan girls as he collected the money for the posters. It wouldn't be too much work. Sasuke on the other hand was worried. He had thought that his offer would get him out of his current predicament, but he knew that if the agreement had been signed by the Hokage then they could get in serious trouble for destroying it, but he also wasn't particularly confident in Naruto's ability to keep the fan girls away.

"How are you going to keep them away from me dobe?"

Naruto smirked at this and went through handsigns quickly, "Like this, Tajū Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Naruto's smirk grew wider underneath his mask as Sasuke's jaw dropped at the sight of several hundred Naruto clones puffing into existence. "Will this be enough security teme?"

Sasuke didn't know what to say and could only stare, he'd seen Naruto create the solid clones before, but never that many of them, and it just seemed ridiculous to him that anyone could create an army of themselves. The sight brought on another of Sasuke's internal arguments, he was torn between having to once again admit that his teammate wasn't useless or weak like he thought, and frustrated that he didn't have the power to do it. In the end though Sasuke knew that if he wasn't able to get out of going into the lair of the fan girls then he'd prefer to at least have an army guarding him. "Ok dobe, you've got a deal, now what's the secret behind the tree walking?"

Naruto congratulated himself at his successful negotiations and turned to his teammate, "Lie down and put your feet up to the tree and channel chakra into them. The trick is to find your comfort zone, if you use too much chakra you can sort of feel the heat of it in your feet, and if you use to little your feet will just sort of feel tingly and slip down the stump, so just find your comfort zone, it'll make it a whole lot easier."

Sasuke stared incredulously at his teammate, "Seriously, find my comfort zone?"

"Hey you asked for the hint, that's it, it's up to you if you want to use it."

-Some Hours Later in the Lair of the Fan girls-

Sasuke was currently sitting behind a desk with a rather imposing stack of posters in front of him. He couldn't help but glare at the image of his blushing face, he didn't know how or when, but he was going to get back at Naruto for forcing him into this. He and Naruto had arrived slightly before any of the fan girls, and Naruto already had a table set up and waiting for them. He looked over to his side and saw Naruto holding a money box, and couldn't help but wonder why he had it, and then he saw Naruto put a sign in front of them, "Autographed Posters, 2000 Ryo" Sasuke's head dropped reading this, leave it to the village's infamous prankster to make money off his misfortune, oh yes, someday he would get Naruto back for this.

Unfortunately his thoughts were disturbed by the sound of a high pitched scream and he turned in horror to see his fan girls pouring into the room. He nearly bolted right then when he felt Naruto grab his arm, then make a handsign. The room was suddenly lined with Naruto clones, with something like 40 standing guard around the table. Seeing the clones move in to stop the fan girls from getting too close he sighed with a bit of relief.

Naruto looked at the growing mass of fan girls and couldn't help but smirk again, oh yeah he was going to make a killing today.

-With Sakura-

Sakura was currently lying on her bed at home, she had been having a hard time dealing with her disappointment of how the day had gone, she had had team training, and a mission, both of which went well. Then they heard that they were going on another C rank mission tomorrow which had her worried, and to top it all off, she had gotten a message from Ino telling her that her precious Sasuke-kun would be signing autographed posters of himself at fan club headquarters today. She nearly cried at her misfortune, she normally would have gone in a heartbeat but still remembering the lecture from her sensei she restrained herself, she knew that if her sensei found out she had been acting like a fan girl she would be kicked off of team 7, and she wasn't going to lose her place as a kunoichi, so she resolved to pack for their mission, and then get a good night's sleep.

-With Naruto and Sasuke-

It had taken a grand total of two hours to sign and sell all the posters, Naruto had only had a few incidents with people trying to get through his clones, but after he removed the offending fan girls from the building, without their posters everyone else seemed to understand not to mess with the clones.

Sasuke however was getting more and more worried, as many posters as Naruto had printed, the line of fan girls never seemed to end. What was worse was that Naruto wasn't going to let him leave till all the posters were gone. He at least was thankful that Naruto wasn't taking the bribes from several of the fan girls to get closer to him.

Unfortunately all hell was about to break loose as Sasuke signed the last poster and it was given to another girl, when she decided to yell out that she had gotten the last one. The room had gone silent, and both Naruto and Sasuke suddenly got very worried. There was a brief moment of silence before cries of 'Sasuke-kun' could be heard all throughout the room. As if they were a single entity, the horde of girls rushed towards the table where Sasuke and Naruto were, and were barely held back by the wall of clones. "Well Uchiha, I think it's time we take our leave." Sasuke didn't even bother to reply as he jumped up behind Naruto and started running after the blonde around the perimeter of the room, where Naruto still had clones stationed. The two boys managed to burst out of the building to see a horrifying sight, there were even more fan girls standing outside the building, and as soon as they saw Sasuke, they charged.

Fearing for his life Sasuke took off; Naruto was surprised at how fast the raven haired boy was moving, and worked to catch up. After a few minutes though Naruto noticed that the horde seemed to be surrounding them, and unfortunately for Sasuke they managed to hear them into a dead end. Naruto had to suppress a laugh seeing the look of horror on his teammates face, "Hurry up teme, unless you want to get caught we've got to go."

"Where are we supposed to go, we're cornered?" Sasuke's voice was full of panic, and Naruto couldn't really blame him seeing the look of horror in his teammate's eyes.

"Damn it teme, we're going up the wall." With that Naruto took off up the wall. Sasuke managed to get control of him and ran towards the wall as well. He hadn't managed to master the technique yet, but he had actually found Naruto's tip to be surprisingly helpful. As the two ran up the wall they could hear the cries of protest from the horde. Naruto had nearly reached the top when he heard a shout of surprise from Sasuke, and he turned to see Sasuke had slipped and was starting to fall. Naruto was torn between letting his teammate fall into the hands of the horde.

Sasuke was convinced that his life was over, he had never seen this many fangirls after him, and now he was falling straight into their arms. It was a bitter moment for Sasuke as he resigned himself to his fate, but thankfully for him, he felt a hand grip his wrist, and saw Naruto had managed to grab a hold of him, with a show of strength, Naruto tossed the Uchiha the rest of the way up the building and ran up after him.

Naruto arrived on the roof to see a panting Uchiha, "T-thanks." When Naruto heard that he was shocked, he never suspected that Sasuke would thank him for anything.

"No problem, I may screw around a bunch, but I wasn't about to be an ass and leave you to your doom, after all doesn't Kakashi-sensei say those who abandon their comrades are worse than trash."

Sasuke only nodded dumbly thanking kami that he hadn't fallen into the hands of the horde, "Now then, how about those books?"

BAM, done chapter 13. I hope you guys enjoyed it, cause I thought it was a fun chapter. I am sorry I couldn't fit Hinata in this chapter, I had planned on having her in it briefly, but unfortunately the chapter went on longer than I had thought so I couldn't fit her in here. I hope you guys enjoyed the humor in this chapter, and I'm hoping you guys liked all the character development. It's been a while in the making but I have finally managed to get some major character development with team 7. Also in case you guys are worried don't worry Sasuke and Naruto aren't about to become friends or anything, but I felt that this chapter provided me with a lot of opportunities to help the characters along, so that they at least aren't so confrontational.

I'd like to remind you guys about the photo album for my story. The link in on my profile because fanfic doesn't like me trying to put links in my chapters, so please check it out and let me know what you think about the pictures. As I mentioned I'm planning on having out 2 more chapters within the week, so look forward to that, because things are about to get more exciting.

Also as a final request, please leave a review if you enjoyed it, I know I always say it, but it makes my task as an author all the more rewarding to hear what you think of the chapters, so please review and let me know what you thought.

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~FeJazz