Woohoo! chapter 29! I had a lot of fun writing this one. I hope you find it as entertaining as I do. ;)

Chapter 29

"No, noooo, NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Joe dramatically fell to her knees and threw her head back so it faced the sky as she cried out in anguish.

"Jeeze, it's not that big a deal." Alasia walked up and stopped next to her, crossing her arms. She was looking up at the Hokage mountain as she addressed Joe on the ground.

Joe jumped up and animatedly pointed at the mountain. "Not bad, NOT BAD! It's the worst thing in the world! SAKURA'S DAD'S HEAD IS THERE INSTEAD OF MINATO'S! DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!" She stood there in the same position, breathing heavily.

"Why would Naruto's dad have his head on the mountain? It's not like he's Hokage." Sasuke commented. He quirked his eyebrow and tilted his head to the right ever so slightly. Joe snapped her head in his direction. Quickly she ran over to him and grabbed the front of his shirt and shook him violently.

"Sauke bloody Uchiha don't you EVER question Minato's greatness! Out of all the people in this village, he is the most qualified TO BE HOKAGE!" Naruto came over a pealed Joe off the raven. Alasia and Sakura were both sweat dropping at the scene.

Joe then turned and grabbed Naruto by his jacket. "Quick Naruto, to your dad's house!" Then she took off in a random direction, dragging poor Naruto behind her. "Wait Joe! You don't know where to go!" Alasia yelled as she ran to follow her crazy friend.

Sasuke leaned over and whispered in Sakura's ear. "You have some interesting friends." In reply, Sakura chuckled, "Yeah, you could say that."

Eventually Alasia, Sakura, and Sasuke found Naruto and Joe outside of the ramen shop. Both smiled sheepishly when the group walked up to them.

"What did you do?" Alasia asked suspicious of the looks Naruto and Joe had on their faces. Before they could answer, a chorus of growls came from their stomachs.

"We got hungry but we don't have money." Naruto scratched the back of his head and chuckled.

"All that running didn't help much." Joe added with a smile. Alasia and Sakura both shook their head at the same time and said," What am I going to do with you?" Sakura and Alasia looked at each other, surprised that they had said the same thing at the same time. Joe and Naruto busted out laughing and Sasuke smirked at the scene playing in front of him.

"Well since you are so hungry, I'll pay for ramen. My treat." Sasuke said as he walked into the shop, leaving the group shocked.

"Okay, nice Sasuke is a little hard to get used to." Alasia said. Everyone nodded in agreement, their eyes still wide.

Once inside, the group found Sasuke and sat down. The restaurant was bigger than before. There were now tables other than the counter. Since the group was somewhat big, Sasuke took the liberty of picking a table. Sasuke sat by window with Sakura on his right. Alasia sat across from him and Joe sat next to her. Naruto sat on the end of the table between Sakura and Joe.

"So I'm guessing the dobe wants ramen. What do you guys want?" Joe and Alasia sat there and stared at the friendly Uchiha. He looked back at them with one brow raised. "What, you guys are looking at me like I have to heads or something." He said.

"Or something." Joe replied. Naruto snorted behind his hand, trying not to laugh. Joe raised her hand and Naruto high-fived it. Sakura sent them both a glare. Joe turned to Alasia to see her reaction when she saw Alasia was laughing behind her hand as well. Joe held up the victory sigh high in the air.

"All right, I'm lost. What just happened." Sasuke asked.

"Don't worry about it." Sakura sighed.

The group finally got around to ordering their food. Naruto and Joe got into a ramen eating contest that Naruto won of course. It was close though, Naruto only won by one bowl.

"I can understand the dobe eating that much and it not affecting him. You on the other hand I didn't expect to be able to since it doesn't show." Sasuke winked. Alasia tablepalmed, since facepalming didn't seem good enough for that moment. Naruto spit out the broth of his ramen and Sakura groaned. Joe closed her eyes and looked up, "Oh God! Sasuke flirted with me! And then he WINKED!"she yelled. Sasuke sat there, confused as hell.

"Don't worry about it Sasuke. They just aren't used to you being so . . . well anyways, just give them time. They will get used to it soon." Sakura assured him.

"They are worse than how you and Naruto were the other day." Sasuke replied. He was referring to the time Naruto and Sakura first came.

After Joe and Alasia composed themselves, they finished dinner and left to walk around.

"So what's the plan?" Joe asked.

"We could go train for a little bit." Sasuke suggested. Since no one had any other idea, they went with that one. They all headed down to the training fields where team 7 had their first test with Kakashi.

"So who spars with who? There are an odd number of people." Alasia asked.

"You guys can fight. I will stand by and heal any injuries." Sakura replied. Then she added, "How about Sasuke verses Alas-"

"No! I get Duck-butt this time!" Joe cut in, remembering when they faced off the last time. Alasia laughed, also remembering the last time.

"Okay Joe, calm down. You can fight Sasuke and I will fight Naruto." Joe fist pumped into the air, " Yeeeessss!"

"Aw come on! You still want to fight Sasuke instead of me!" Naruto pouted.

"Sorry Dobe. Guess she just likes me better than you." Sasuke smirk as Naruto growled in frustration.

"Actually, I really don't want my butt kick by Naruto. The guy is as strong as hell! Have you seen him in sage mode! At least with you I know it will be a piece of cake." This time it was Naruto laughing at Sasuke when the Uchiha scowled at a smirking Joe.

"We'll see about that." Sasuke replied. Joe's smirk widened.

"Is that a challenge?" She asked, getting in a fighting position.

"Maybe." He smirked back, doing the same as her.

"Well I guess Sasuke and Joe are going first." Sakura said. The next thing everyone new, Sasuke and Joe ran at each other, throwing a series of punches and kicks. Both were dodging with a degree of grace and style making them equally matched. Then both jumped back, catching their breath.

"Not bad." Sasuke said.

"Same for you." Joe replied.

Sasuke smirked. "Try fighting against this." He quickly activated his sharingan.

"Seriously, you're gonna bring that out. Fine then!" Joe activated her glowing eyes. Thanks to Alasia's encounter with Itachi, Joe knew that the sharingan wouldn't work on her so long as she had her glowing eyes activated. Hopefully the side effect wouldn't be as bad.

Sasuke activated a Genjutsu in order to trap Joe and end the fight quickly. To his surprise, Joe wasn't effected.

"What?" He glared at Joe as she stood there with her hands on her hips and with a cocky grin plastered on her face. Then he saw how her eyes were glowing a bright blue.

"What are you doing with your eyes?" He asked.

"Honestly I don't know what the heck it is. What I do know is that with this I can see all physical weaknesses and can see through jutsus. Oh and the sharingan has no effect on me." Joe replied.

"Hn."

"Hey guys! Is there any rules about what we can and can't do?" Joe called over to the group watching.

"Yeah, don't kill him!" Alasia called back and laughed. Joe grinned gave a thumbs up. "Got it!"

Of course no one was paying attention to the small smirk Sasuke had on his face. He was planning something. When Joe turned back to face Sasuke, he was gone.

"What the-

"Maybe you should be concentrating on me." Sasuke whispered in her ear from behind. Joe's eyes widened in surprise. Before she could react, Sasuke had spun her around and pinned her to the ground. He held her hands on each side of her head and leaned forward so that their faces were only centimeters apart.

Joe glared up and the raven above her. "What are you doing Sasuke?" Joe growled out.

"Just having some fun." He smirked. He slowly got closer, never braking eye contact with her.

The group watching had a range of emotions. Naruto's jaw had dropped and his eyes were bulging out of his head. Sakura was blushing like crazy and she had her hands covering her face as she peeked out from in between her fingers. Alasia stood there completely weirded out and was on the verge of stepping in and stopping it.

Just as Sasuke's lips touched hers, there was a loud poof and a puff of smoke where Joe was. Next thing he knew, Sasuke was flat on his stomach and had a weight pinning him down on his back. He looked over his shoulder to see what it was. On his back was Joe sitting cross-legged and buffing her nails on her shirt with a smirk on her face.

"Aren't Kagebunshin great?" Joe had a gleam of triumph in her eyes as she looked down at the raven under her. "Looks like I win Duck-butt!"


So what did you think? I know this one was a little short. Sorry about that. I hope you enjoyed it. :) please review! They are my fuel to keep writing! :D