Back again! Hope you're ready for a little bit of everything, because it's pretty much all in here.

Except for the good old-fashioned Spirit Violence.

That's the next part, i think. XD

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"Rei-Reeeiiii, can we get up NOW?" Naruto shouted up towards Rei's room. They were currently sitting in the darkened living room, in two chairs, back to back.

Time Out.

For hitting Kei with a gong and spitting noodles out all over her floor.

If they tried to get out of their Time Out Chairs, Yoshi would make them pay. They found THAT out the hard and extremely unpleasant way.

"Suuuuure," Rei groaned from her room before they heard the rustling of paper. She was probably going over notes with Kei, trying to find a way to break the curse.

They stood up with sighs of relief, but then Naruto suddenly froze mid-stretch. "...Loon?"

"Huh?"

"...How are we gonna change clothes?"

She froze as well. "...We just won't."

"But Lu-naaa, these are my only other change of clothes! I don't wanna dirty them up in that grimy Manor of Sleep, Miku JUST washed them for me!"

Luna sweatdropped. "You sound like such a...a chick."

His temple throbbed. "I am NOT. I just don't wanna have to listen to Miku sigh and say 'You shoulda been more careful, Naruto. I manage to not get MY clothes dirty, Naruto.' and then you double-team on me by being all, 'I KNOW, Miku! I never get my clothes dirty either. Which is funny since I do all the WORK, DON'T I, Naruto?'. So THERE."

He then slipped off his shirt, making Luna's arm fling upward with it. He grinned as her cuffed hand accidentally whacked against his abs, making her neck turn red as she spastically tried to remove her hand.

"I know, I'm irresistable, aren't I?"

Her temple throbbed, and she turned away as he finished changing clothes.

"HEY, NO PEEKING!"

"NARUTO, I DID NOT PEEK AND YOU KNOW IT!"

He shushed her. "Shut up, I'm trying to piss off Ky!"

Luna blinked. "...Oh." So he really DIDN'T see me peek? That's good. I really shouldn't be so damn curious...


She held up a finger threateningly as she grabbed her pajamas. "Don't you DARE peek at me."

Naruto rolled his eyes. "You act like I've never seen you naked before."

"Yes, well. I like to block that little memory out, if you don't mind."

"I do mind, actually. That's one of the best memories of you since you first showed up and started torturing me that I've GOT up here," he muttered, tapping his head for emphasis.

Luna's neck turned red again, but then she smirked. "Oh, you're right. I guess you HAVE already seen it all before, so what's the harm, eh?"

I bet I can make him pass out in under five consecutive minutes.

She slowly unbuttoned and unzipped her jeans before sliding them off rather deliberately. Naruto was turning redder and redder by the second, and she smirked again. "You don't have to look if it's making you so uncomfortable."

He snapped out of it, shaking his head quickly and waving her off. "Tch. Who you callin' uncomfortable? If anyone here's uncomfortable, it's you!"

"Oh, yes. I'm TOTALLY..." She paused to slide off his jacket, then Miku's, and slowly unbutton her shirt. "...Uncomfortable."

He made a weird noise, attempting to fan his face as discreetly as possible. Luna tried her best not to laugh as she unbuttoned the rest of her shirt and slid it off. She pretended not to notice Naruto openly staring at her, from her neon lime green underwear to her equally colorful bra.

Luna bit her lip absently before fingering her bra strap, cocking her hip in thought.

"Jeez...I don't quite feel like sleeping in a bra tonight..." She maneuvered so her back was to him, moving her hair over her bare shoulder to expose her whole back. "Naruto, do you mind...? I can't reach that well, and I need two hands to do it, so seeing as we're handcuffed...It'd be REALLY helpful if you undid the clasps for me."

"Eheh-eheh-ehahahahahahahaaaa..." THUD.

Luna ended up falling to the floor and landing on top of him, thanks to the handcuffs and gravity, but still grinned smugly. "Three minutes, fifteen seconds. Keeled over with a perverted nosebleed. New record!"


She somehow managed to get him onto the couch, and took the opportunity to slip on her pajamas in private before smacking him in the stomach.

He lurched upright with a grunt. "What, what happened?"

Luna sighed. "We have another problem."

"Another? You mean BESIDES the fact that you're fully clothed now?"

Her temple throbbed. "Ignoring that...How the HELL are we gonna sleep like this?"

They both scratched their heads at that one, until a slow grin spread onto Naruto's face. "Well...I can only think of ONE way..."

She eyed him suspiciously. "To be honest, I am seriously intimidated by that look on your face right now."

He smiled innocently. "Luna, I do believe we're gonna have to sleep together."

BAM!

"Ow! NOT THE WAY YOU'RE THINKING!"

"IT BETTER NOT BE!"

"SHUT UP DOWN THERE!" Miku and Rei called out. Kei just groaned. Apparently his eye had swollen to the size of an apple over the course of three hours.

Luna sighed and ran her free hand through her hair. "Then what way do YOU mean? I wasn't aware there was any other way..."

"I'll show you."


He pulled her by her part of the handcuff as he sprawled out on the couch, and she reluctantly did the same.

Naruto waved his cuffed hand in the air and slowly draped that arm around her waist, pulling her as close as possible.

She was using all her self-control not to act on her defensive impulses; she was pretty sure she was trembling with the effort.

"Jeez, I'm not Ky. I'm not gonna violate you or anything."

"If I were you, I'd be quiet for a moment, unless you want a bullet lodged inside your skeletal structure."

Naruto immediately shut up, waiting tensely as she took deep breaths and squeezed her eyes shut.

This was ridiculous. This was rather childish, and immature, and totally unprofessional of her.

Then again, so was beating the guy she was ordered to protect over the head with a mailbox.

Finally, Luna let out a whoosh of air, breathing normally. "Okay. Okay. I apologize...I am not used to this."

"Oh, what a coincidence. Neither am I."

"Yes, but I doubt you would attempt to shoot me in this instance."

He shrugged. "Probably not. But I don't have as many...'wounds' as you do. So I guess I wouldn't even have the thought cross my mind."

She stared at the wall for a really long time before sighing heavily and muttering so quietly he almost didn't catch it, "...I, uh...I'm sorry."

"Luna says sorry. This most be a historical moment. For what?"

"Treating you like I do. Beating up on you with mailboxes, smacking you, throwing gongs at you..."

"Eight times out of ten, I deserve it," he pointed out, making her laugh.

"That's true. But that doesn't give me the right to be so immature and unprofessional."

Naruto laughed and shook his head. "Loon, you still don't get it."


"Get what?"

"What life's all about."

She couldn't turn to face him at the moment, so she settled with giving the wall a strange look instead. "And you do?"

"Yep."

"What's it about?"

He paused to shift a little, making his hand move from her side to her stomach, which made her suck in a breath and ball up her fists.

She hoped he didn't notice.

"Stuff in life...You either laugh about it, cry about it, love it, or hate it. To save a lot of time and effort, you might as well laugh about it and be totally immature, right?"

Luna nodded slowly. "Naruto, don't let this go to your head, but I think you might be right for once. Considering I've never felt love before, nor do I wish to, I guess laughing about it is my best option..."

Naruto sighed, and she knew he was rolling his eyes. "You and love. I don't get it. How can you be so sure about it?"

"How can YOU be so sure about it?" She shot back.

There was silence before he replied, "Because I'm feeling it."

Her eyebrows shot up at that. "..O-Oh?"

"Yep."

"..."

"For ramen. I miss it so much, it's insane!" He whined.

BAM!

"DAMMIT, LUNA, HOW CAN YOU BE ANGRY AT THAT?"

She shrugged, making his arm rise and fall a lot more than she liked. "I don't really know, I just am. Take it like a man!"

"A manly man," he corrected.

She sighed and shook her head. "Yeah yeah, whatever you prefer."

There was a long silence, and when she was almost positive he was asleep, she started taking deep breaths again.

Why couldn't she get the flippy queasiness out of her stomach? It was driving her insane. Luna decided to blame this all on Naruto. Why not? She blamed everything else on him when she was pissed off.

Being in the Manor, the queasy feeling, her now-re-broken finger, global warming...You name it, she's blamed it.

And since she couldn't recall a prior time she felt these flippies, Naruto was the perfect suspect. He probably put something in her food.

Yes, that must be it.

Then again, was it possible to put fluttery flippy things inside cooked food? Or maybe it was a drug?

He'd find a way. He always found ways to do the most impossible things.

Stupid Naruto. Drugging her like that. Luna had just somewhat-stilled the flippies when he suddenly asked, "What the hell's wrong with you NOW?"


She froze, and had to ball up her fists again to keep herself from tensing up any further. "Why do you have to constantly speak at the worst possible times?" She asked in a clipped voice.

Naruto shifted again, almost deliberately it seemed, making his hand slide further up her stomach. She hissed in a breath, the flippies coming back three times worse. "You jerk, why'd you do that?" She growled.

"Experiment. Loon...Am I making you nervous?" He asked, laughter clearly heard in his voice. She huffed and folded her arms, knocking his hand and arm off.

"Of course not! I-I just...I don't know what I am supposed to do."

"Do?"

"I've never done this before!" She snapped defensively. "I didn't even know what 'sleeping together' meant at first, for crying out loud, until you showed me!"

"That's fine, you're fine. I haven't either," he assured her.

"Well then how do YOU know what to do?"

"Well...Partly because I've known Sakura and Ino for YEARS..." She couldn't help but grin at that one, picturing poor Naruto having to listen to them talk about stuff of this nature.

He gently pulled at her arms, unfolding them, before sliding his arm back around her. "And partly because I'm the master at winging it."

"How do you...'wing it'?"

"You go with what you THINK should happen."

"With...what I think?"

"Yep. As long as it doesn't involve bodily harm towards me," he replied brightly.

She thought about it for a minute before nodding. "What I think should happen if it were us, or any boy and girl?"

He laughed. "It'd probably be less harmful for all those involved if I answered 'any boy and girl'."

She nodded again. "Okay. That means you can't hold anything I do against me."

"Promise."

Luna cautiously leaned into him, shifting a little and moving her arm against his arm. He sucked in a breath as if about to speak, making her immediately say, "Remember, you promised!" as if her life depended on it.

"I know. I was gonna say 'My turn'."

"...Oh."

"My turn."

"Your turn."

He moved his head so hers was under his and started rubbing her arm with his thumb. She felt herself flare up before thinking, Wait. This is as if we were ANOTHER boy and girl. It's not as if we'd ever do this as ourselves.

So she didn't even need to calm herself. Luna closed her eyes instead. She decided this other girl would really enjoy the other boy doing that to her arm.

"Is this the part where they sleep?"

"I dunno, but I sure as hell am."

She nodded, eyes still closed. "I guess I will see you in a little bit, then."

"I hope so."

He was playing the role of another boy extremely well. She was impressed. And extremely contented.

Maybe handcuffs weren't...the WORST punishment in the world.


They awoke with Kei. So naturally, Naruto immediately pitched a fit.

He even stomped his foot. "No. No. NO NO NO NO! NOT YOOOU! NOT NOW!"

Luna gave him a strange look. "What makes now a worse time than any, Naruto?" He groaned. "Be-CAUSE, WE WERE JUST- ...Nothing, nothing, I just..." He made a little whiny noise. "I DON'T WANNA HIDE, OR TAKE YOU TO THE BATHROOM, OR HAVE TO DEAL WITH BRITNEY WANTING ME AND MY HOT BODY!"

BAM!

"Ow! Lu-naaaaa, I was panicking! IS THAT SUPPOSED TO CALM ME DOWN?"

"No, THIS IS!"

BAM!

"THAT'S THE SAME THING!"

"Oh, sorry."

BAM!

"How was that?" She asked sweetly. His temple throbbed. "...Excellent."

"Good! I aim to please."

Kei shook his head in amusement before continuing down the hallway they had woken up in, while Naruto grumbled under his breath, "...You're doing a really damn sucky job so far."

"WHAT'D YOU SAY?"

"U-Uhhhh, I said your hair looks especially red today!"

"Yeah, that's what I THOUGHT!"

They had just turned the corner when Britney appeared in front of the door to her room. "You'll be back..." She whispered.

Luna and Kei both looked immediately at Naruto, who looked like he had just seen his death.

...Which he basically had.

He gulped. "U-Ummm..."

Luna tapped his shoulder. "I think she was talking to YOU."


Naruto seemed paralyzed with fear before smirking and holding up his hand. Luna's was immediately jerked up by the cuff, and her jaw dropped to the ground.

She hadn't even noticed they were still cuffed together.

"...No. No. NO. NO NO NO NO NOOOO! I'VE HAD TO DEAL WITH ALMOST EVERY DAMN GHOST IN THIS BITCH!"

Kei just sweatdropped before placing his hands on Luna's shoulders. "Don't worry, I'll be right behind you. No ghost will DARE touch you."

Naruto's temple throbbed as Kei smiled at her, making her blush. "Oh no. Ky the Magnificent's on the hunt. Britney must be shaking in her boots."

"NARUTO," Luna warned, but he went right on ahead.

"And jeez, what's with the hands on the shoulders? What are ya, her coach? If you're gonna put some moves on her, at least make 'em good ones!"

BAM!

"Gah!"

"He-" BAM! "Was performing-" BAM! "A kind-" BAM! "GESTURE, NARUTOOO!" BAM! "SOMETHING OF WHICH YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT, BEING A PERVERTED, INSENSITIVE, STUPID...IDIOTIC...DUMBASS!" BAM! BAM! BAM!

"KYYYY, HELP MEEEEE!"

Kei simply smiled innocently. "Luna, I believe Naruto has someone waiting for him."

She stopped mid-swing to grin evilly. "You're exactly right, Kei! C'mon, Naruto, let's go meet your soooouuulllmaaaateee!"

He clawed at the wall, flailing around comically as she dragged him along. Finally, he sighed miserably and accepted his fate.

"..Oh, noooo," he whined.

Okay, maybe he HADN'T accepted his fate.

Luna rolled her eyes. "C'mon, Naaaa-ruto. Be a man. A MANLY MAN."

"A MANLY MAN!" He agreed before flinging open Britney's door and charging, dragging Luna behind him.


At first they didn't see anything, but Luna felt a spiritual pressure lingering nearby. Naruto looked around carefully. "You stay behind me. A ghost is coming."

She sweatdropped at his sudden protectiveness before cocking her head. "How do YOU know?"

He pointed at her chest before slowly edging forward. "Your necklace. It starts glowing every time a spirit shows up. I notice these things, ya know."

Luna nodded slowly. "Wow. Even I didn't notice that. I'm impressed."

"Don't be. Us guys stare at chests all the time. It's kinda hard NOT to notice when your necklace starts glowing."

BAM!

"OWWWW!"

"KEEP IT MOVING, YA PERVERT!"

"I...am a man. A manly man. A MANLY MAN WHO HAS NEEDS, JUST LIKE KY!"

BAM!

"Don't you pull the Gender Card, Naruto Uzumaki!"

"What, you haven't seen him staring too? Jeez, Luna, it's a way of life. A fact of nature. Instinct. Pure male drive on which we have no choice but to act. A natural occu-"

"SHUT THE HELL UP!"

"Why...Are you ignoring me, my love?" Britney suddenly asked out of nowhere, making them both jump.

Naruto looked paler than that fugitive she and Becs once encountered from Albania. Which was definitely saying something.

"U-Uhhhh...I'm...Sorry?"


She appeared suddenly, hunched over in front of her mirror stand. She slowly turned to look at Naruto and Luna, though her face was draped over by her hair.

"How dare you. How DARE you let your affections wane away from me, to give them to this...this...promiscuous urchin!"

"PROMISCUOUS URCHIN?" Luna repeated with a menacing eye-twitch.

"Loon, she's a ghost, I think you've already won here. Besides...We all know you couldn't be promiscuous even if you tried!" She simply folded her arms across her middle and huffed, making Naruto jerk to the left.

Britney stood, her kimono swishing, and pointed at Luna. "I...I've seen you around..Your younger self.."

"Unfortunately, so have I," Luna grumbled under her breath. Britney slowed to a stop, and they both could just TELL she was giving Luna the most intimidating glare possible.

Her necklace sure was glowing up a storm NOW.

"She told me you have come to keep my Akito away from me. Away from the mother of his child. You filthy wretch! Do you have any idea how long I've waited, how long I've DREAMED for this moment?"

"I can honestly say I do not," Luna replied calmly.

"Centuries. CENTURIES. Can you count that high? Over a hundred years, according to your younger self. She told me the date is 2002."

"Well, she was wrong. It is 2010, actually," she corrected.

"How the hell are you so calm?" He hissed under his breath.

"Because, lucky for your 'lover' over there, bullets won't affect her," she replied.

Naruto's temple throbbed. "Lover. Ew."

"EVEN NOW, you ignore me? How DARE YOU, Akito! HOW DARE YOU! AFTER ALL WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH!"

The two teens gulped, and Naruto dragged her out of the room. "Time to go, time to go!"


They went through the first door they saw, the one leading downstairs to the room in which they found that Ghost Groper Clan Member bleeding to death.

But not before Luna heard Britney sob out, "Why are you doing this to me? Didn't you say you loved me?"

Before she could stop herself, she was turning them back around and heading for Britney's room. Naruto was caught off-guard for a second, and she was about to open the door when he dragged her back down the stairs at the last possible moment.

"What the hell are you DOING?" He shrieked.

Luna glanced up as they heard the door open and Britney call out, "Is someone there?".

Naruto struck his defensive stance again, but the door soon shut again, and they both sighed in relief.

He glared at her. "Are you TRYING to get us killed?"

Luna opened her mouth to reply, but nothing came out. She finally just sighed and shook her head. "It was just...something she said...It reminded me of something I used to ask myself. I wasn't thinking clearly."

"Chyeah, no kidding," he muttered moodily. He still sounded a little worried, and she smacked him upside the head.

"Ow!"

"Stop worrying about me and mind your own damn business! Didn't I tell you it'd cause you nothing but trouble?"

He rubbed the back of his head moodily before stomping off, dragging her with him. "I'm starting to believe that."