A/N: People! Sorry to make you all wait! This chapter is 13k words, freakin longest chapter i've written in my life so far! Enjoy it! It shall save your eyes from fat ayame in the last naruto filler (cries at memory of seeing a fat ayame-chan) Anyway, really sorry to make you all wait...Guild Wars, School and some personal matters were like getting in the way. I know I'll get most likely a lot of comments about this chapter (both good I hope but I know some bad too...) and I just want you all to know, I'm a Lee fan and I like the guy, but making fun of him is exactly that, fun XP. Also, I know Tenten isn't completely like the way she is in this chapter caus I'm a Tenten fanboy but I do believe she CAN be like that at times. now before I let you who faithfully read this A/N read the chapter, some info about the next chapter since I'm too lazy to type it down below at the end XD Ow! And mad props to GGLucas! who helped me check a lot of errors in the chapter (my dictionary on the pc is like...broken...and wordpad doesn't spell check...sigh...anyway, he deserves the props for correcting the errors I make when writing late at night for you all)

EDIT: (coughs...) Ahem...As it appears I made a huge, or rather funny mistake on something in this chapter XD Thanks to 'Name:' for pointing it out not too obviously but stil doing it and to JohnnyG for correcting me...I shall try to get my brain functioning properly again soon enough XP

Next Chapter: Continuation of this one! Gaara and Temari arrive in Konoha! (Kankurou might join later...if needed be) and ehm well...Naruto goes and sweep the ladies of their feet. I'll write it ASAP but irst I want to write another chapter of Life of the Uchiha and also write out a Bleach Urahara x Yoruichi oneshot I had in my mind so...those come first, sorry

Now on with the story!

Chapter 4: The Fox and the White Eyed Princess

Anko trailed her finger over Naruto's jaw, "Don't forget me Naru-chan..."

She then kissed Naruto with a passionate kiss, letting her hand run over his body. Anko backed away from him after breaking the kiss standing with her back towards Naruto, "I WON'T let you..."

Snakes shot out from the sleeves of the orange kimono she was wearing and crawled up over Naruto's body, who started to panick. The snakes pulled him down onto the ground and held him there, unable to move a single muscle no matter how hard he tried to break free.

Anko kneeled down at the end of his feet and rubbed her hands over his upperlegs from in to outward, repeating the process a couple of times. She crawled over Naruto's body until they were face to face.

Naruto gulped as Anko loosened her entire kimono with one swift motion of her hand. Just as it dropped open, Anko pressed her body onto that of Naruto's and again kissed him with passion.

"I won't allow it..." She whispered in his ear after breaking the kiss and started making a trail of soft kisses back towards his mouth. Once she reached his mouth, he could feel her hand grab onto his pants.

"Let's get it on. My. Little. Fox." Anko said as she sat on top of Naruto.

Naruto's eyes shot wide open, staring at the ceiling of his own room as sweat drops rapidly dropped down from his head. He looked down his bed, noticing no one there and he dropped his head back down on his pillow in relief.

"Geez again...same as last night...well at least this time I didn't wake up multiple times..." Naruto told himself as his head fell over to the right, looking towards the clock that hung in his kitchen.

"Six AM...I guess I could start my morning training extra early..." Naruto said as he let out a yawn, "But now I just want to rest my eyes for a few more minutes..."

Naruto roled back over and closed his eyes and just as he relaxed and started falling asleep, the phone loudl rang, making Naruto wide awake.

"God damn it...It's freaking early...Hang up already..." Naruto told who ever was calling him as he put his pillow on top of his head.

However the ringing wouldn't stop so Naruto jumped up from bed, picked up the wireless phone he had bought on returning from his trip with Jiraiya and jumped back into bed. He found it necessary to have since he could get ready to head out and talk to whoever would call him when he was getting ready.

"Hello...?" Naruto asked after he dug back under his sheets. He hear loud and heavy panting coming troough the receiver from the phone.

"...Hello...? Who am I... talking to?" Naruto asked, now with a little hint of bein afraid in his voice.

"Naruto..." A woman's voice panted through the phone.

"...No that would be me. Or wait! Are you like the future or past me in Sexy no Jutsu form!" Naruto responded, his brain wasn't working very well early in the morning when he just had a rude awakening.

"Naruto, it's me, Tenten..." Tenten sounded slightly annoyed.

"Ah Tenten..." There followed a moment of silence betwee both of them.

Tenten who was sitting on the edge of her bed, still catching her breath, suddenly needed to hold the phone away from her ear, "WHY THE HELL ARE YOU CALLING ME ON FREAKING SIX AM!"

"Sssht...Not so loud Naruto..." Tenten replied as she dropped herself down on her bed as Naruto growled in reply.

"Well...why are you calling me?" Naruto asked.

"I did it." Tenten's reply sounded.

"Tenten! What the hell! Why are you telling me that! Wait! With who! And did you do it safe!" Naruto shot up from his bed.

"...Naruto, what in the world are you thinking about me. Who would I have s-...More importantly, why would I call you to tell you that?"

"Beats me, you just said 'I did it'..." Naruto replied and then muttered, "Stupid Anko...stupid Ero-sennin's Icha Icha Paradise..."

"Oh god no, I didn't do it. Unless Neji suddenly like jumped on top of me and..." Tenten went silent as a blush formed on her face.

"Tenten..." Naruto replied, "Just so you know, you kinda woke me up and I'm feeling like an ass at the moment so I'm going to tell Neji about your fantasies about him..."

"I do not fantasize things about him! And please Naruto don't do that...Or perhaps my kunai will be needed to persuade you..." Tenten threatened.

"Gah...I'll be quiet...What DID you do then?" Naruto said grumpy.

"I send a reply to that letter."

At hearing this Naruto's mood turned about ninety degrees and he sat up in bed, "Heh?"

"I just rushed to the postal office that was opening, I worked all night on that letter and wanted it out today."

"You...have been writing that letter alright?" Suddenly Naruto felt sorry for acting grumpy towards her.

"Uh huh. That's why I was panting, I had been running really fast to be the first there..."

Naruto knew she thought it was Neji who had wrote the letter he hand send her, but it was still he who would receive it and not Neji, "What did you write...?"

"I...I can't tell you..."

Though Naruto knew he'd find out anyway he was still curious,"Oh come on, I won't tell Neji that I know a thing."

"Well...ok...I wrote that...I was really flattered by how he thought of me...Then...I wrote about the hunch I had that it was Neji and asked if he could tell me whether it was him or not by now...If he wasn't then I wanted to know what he looks like and...stuff...you know...so I knew him a bit better before agreeing to going out on a date or...something...Then...I wrote that whether he was or wasn't Neji didn't matter because...his words make me warm up inside and..."

Naruto was silently listening to her, even after she didn't continue talking.

"Naruto? Are you still listening!"

"Huh? Yeah yeah, I was just waiting for you to continue..."

"...Really?"

"Ofcourse! You were saying that...his words make you feel warm inside or something right?"

"Hm...yeah...Naruto...? Can I...ask you something?"

"Yeah?" Naruto replied somewhat insecure about what she was going to ask.

"Do you think...Neji... likes me?" Tenten asked, staring at the ceiling, wondering how Naruto was going to answer.

"I don't know...He doesn't show emotions other then just what shows that he cares about someone as a friend at least...But he hugged you yesterday, right? And you two are always seeing each other, training together and stuff..." Naruto replied as he laid back down on his bed.

"Yeah but he only hugged me because I asked him..." Tenten said disappointed as she rolled over onto her right side.

"Hey, I think I just had an idea to help you...at least...somewhat of an idea..." Naruto replied.

"Huh? Help me? What is it!" Tenten asked excited as she slightly rose up from bed.

"Eh...You and Neji either way are close friends, right?" Naruto scratched his wiskers, "Uh huh."

"Then...You can ask him about almost anything and he's willing to do a lot for you as a friend?" Naruto continued his questioning, "...I think so."

"Then why won't you have him like promise he'll speak the entire truth when you ask him a couple of questions and then ask things you want to know from him, including the way he thinks of you." Naruto grinned proudly of his plan.

Tenten blushed, she knew it would be hard to have Neji do such a thing, "...Thank you, Naruto...I'll give it a try though I'm almost sure it won't work...If it does I owe you one though."

"Well at least you could always try to find out some interesting stuff about him before asking him that." Naruto grinned widely.

Tenten let out a small giggle, "Yeah then I could always tease him a little bit here and there. Thanks for the idea Naruto. Are you home tonight? I want to call you when I have tried to get it out of Neji and let you know how it went."

"Er...I don't know. Most likely I will be but I'm not sure...Otherwise you can call me tomorrow morning...Though not as early as today!"

Tenten laughed a little bit again, "Alright I'll see when I call you. Bye Naruto."

"Bye Tenten." Naruto said as he hung up and let out a sigh.

"'His words make me warm up inside', huh...? According to Ayame-chan I mostly said what is written in the letters...So, Tenten likes me? I really need to learn how to talk like Ayame-chan writes."

"But you know..." Naruto said cheerful to himself, "At least I know I'll be getting one reply. Can't wait to read it. And since I'm wide awake now, Let's eat and start morning training!"

Naruto cheerfully threw a fist into the air and snickered.

Feeling rather energetic at the moment, Naruto jumped out of bed took a quick shower, quickly cooked some ramen for himself then headed out with the cup and a pair of chop-sticks in his hands.As he ran down the stairs, he ate as much ramen as possible and once he headed out of the apartment the cup was nearly empty.

After quickly finishing what remained of his lovely ramen, he threw away the cup and the chopsticks and headed onward towards the training area.

"Yo Naruto-kun! You seem energetic today! Your spirit of youth is burning wildly!" Both Lee and Gai exclaimed as they ran along with Naruto.

"Fuzzy Eyebrows? Super Fuzzy Eyebrows-sensei? What are you two doing?" Naruto blinked at the two green spandexsuit wearing men.

"Isn't that obvious Naruto-kun? Morning training to help Gai-sensei keep his youthful youthfulness!" Lee answered and struck the nice guy pose while running.

"I promised Kakashi that if I had lost this time that I'd go and follow my young adorable strong student Lee for an entire day to get the feeling of his youthfulness and then defintely beat Kakashi next time again!" Gai said as he struck the same pose, blinding Naruto now that both 'Beasts from Konoha' made their teeth sparkle in the sunlight.

"So, you lost huh?" Naruto asked, just because it didn't seem like he normally would also do such a thing anyway.

Gai pouted before beaming up again, "But I will definetily beat him next time!"

His teeth sparkled again for a moment before both of them stopped their posing and continued on running normally.

"What about you Naruto-kun?" Lee asked as he looked curious towards the blonde shinobi.

"I'm heading out for morning training." Naruto grinned widely, hoping that for once his teeth would sparkle and annoy them as well.

As a matter of fact, his teeth did sparkle and Lee and Gai were squinting with their eyes from the light that it emitted.

"Such huge sparkle! Naruto-kun! I must beat that sparkleness of yours!" Lee exclaimed as Naruto's teeth still sparkled.

"That's the spirit Lee! You shall outbeat Naruto-kun's teeth sparkles and proof that you and I are the most youthful persons here in Konoha!"

"Ossu!"

"Let's go, Lee!" Gai dramatically pointed out forward into no particular direction as his teeth sparkled again.

"Ossu!" Lee exclaimed as his teeth sparkled for a moment as well before both of Konoha's Beasts ran off at an unfollowable speed.

Naruto shrugged and let out a sigh, "I really don't understand what's up with them..."

As Naruto steadily started getting closer towards the training grounds, he saw Lee and Gai again. However they weren't running this time and Naruto could see why.

"Ooow...That's gotta hurt..." Naruto thought as he looked at the telephone pole that now had the print of Lee bend into it and Lee who was now lying down on the ground.

"Lee! Hang in there my youthful student!"

"My nose! My beautiful youthful nose!" Naruto heard Lee crying.

"All he hurt was his nose from that...What the...?"

"Don't worry my adorable student! I'll get you to Tsunade-sama to have your youthful nose restored into it's previous youthfulness!" Gai picked Lee up and sat him onto his back and rushed towards the Hokage's Tower, assuming to find Tsunade there at this time in the morning.

"Really, Those two get weirder every time I see them...And to think I have one of their suits lying in my closet back at home..." Naruto shook his head and headed on towards the training area.

After running a little while, he finally reached the training area where had first become a genin and there he found Sakura leaning on one of the three treelogs facing away from him.

"Ohayo Sakura-chan!" Naruto cheerfully greeted Sakura, waving his arm energetically in the air.

Sakura turned around towards Naruto and he noticed the somewhat sad look on her face before she flashed a smile at him and waved back, "Ohayo Naruto, You're up and bright early in the morning."

Naruto ran over towards her,"I could say the same for you, Sakura-chan. I thought the training area wasn't being used at this time so I headed out extra early."

"Ah...I'm not using it really...Just...thinking and all..."

"You looked sad before you saw me, I could tell. Sakura-chan...What were you exactly thinking about?" Naruto asked, realising it might be about Sasuke since she was standing at the training grounds where the three of them had become genin.

"Hihi." Sakura gigled and stuck her tongue out at Naruto, "Nothing to worry about really. Ever since I've become Tsunade-sama's student, I've grown in popurlarity. At this time I've been asked out by several guys for Valentine's Day...I even received a love letter...So I was just reflecting here on some past decisions and all."

"Damn it..." Naruto hung down his shoulders in disapointment, "Tsunade-obachan's students get respected and popular...and Ero-sennin's students mostly get zero popularity until they reach a certain level, like the Yondaime Hokage...Maybe I should've tried to convince Tsunade-obachan to train me or something."

Sakura whacked Naruto around the head,"Baka, Jiraiya-sama might be a dirty old pervert and a lot of other things according to Tsunade-sama, but he's still one of the Legendary Sannin. He is the one that brought forth the most powerful shinobi Konohagakure has ever known. You shouldn't just say things like that."

"Hehehe. I know, I know. He has thought me a lot while we were away. But he isn't really good if you want to be popular and all..."

Sakura slightly laughed at hearing this, "Don't worry Naruto. I'm sure people will still like you even with Jiraiya-sama as your sensei. Well I've got to go now. I still have a letter to bring to the postal office. Good luck with training, Naruto."

"See ya Sakura-chan! I'll show you my new jutsu once I'm done with it!" Naruto yelled as Sakura headed off.

"Looking forward to it!" Sakura replied before facing back forward and heading off.

Naruto quickly turned around and jogged onto the training field, heading towards the small forest near the river that ran near the training area. Once there, Naruto took out the picture of Jiraiya and Yondaime he had carefully placed in one of his pockets the night before.

"Geting his face right shouldn't be that hard...But coming up with my own clothes and voice is going to be more troublesome...Also keeping Henge up under most circomstances and for at least 10 hours are things that are going to be needed for this to work." Naruto nodded to himself.

He decided to first go with just a normal look, trying to get a voice that seemed to fit Yondaime's looks and from there on working out on different clothes.

"Henge!" Naruto exclaimed, performing the single seal.

When the smoke cleared up, Naruto noticed that he was slightly taller then usual, just as he wanted.

The first thing he examined then were his clothes, "Alright, A dark blue shirt, dark red konoha mark on it, blue pants like Kakashi-sensei wears and most other shinobi in Konoha. Casual clothing set, succes! Now lets have a look at how I did my face..."

Naruto walked over to the river and glanced down on the water, looking at the image the water reflected. He took out the photo and held it next to his reflection in order to compare the two, "Alright! Another succes now all that's left is..."

"My voice." A cheerful I-have-nothing-to-worry-about-in-the-world like voice came out of Naruto's mouth, "Ah crap that wouldn't fit Yondaime one bit nor would it really fit his looks."

Naruto hung his shoulders down out of disappointment and let out a sigh as he releashed the Henge no Jutsu.

"Alright let's come up with a different voice." Naruto spoke confidence into himself and used Henge again to change into the same looks as he just had, hoping to have it alright this time.

"Yo, I'm Nemar." Naruto said with a laidback and relaxed voice, "How the hell did I think up a Kakashi-sensei voice?"

Naruto tried to get a different voice once more, "Yo, I'm Nemar." "Oh my god! Now I sound like Ero-sennin!"

Just then Naruto heard someone approaching the training grounds and quickly shot back behind a tree.

"Gai-sensei! Naruto-kun isn't here!" Lee sounded like he had a broken nose.

"I know my adorable yet now injured student! I guess we'll have to use our youthful spirits to find Tsunade-sama on our own now that we didn't find her at her office early in the morning!"

"Gai-sensei!"

"Lee!"

"Gai-sensei! My nose! My nose!"

"AH! Lee! My student! What have I done to you! Let's find Tsunade-sama quickly and heal your nose!"

Once Naruto heard the two rushing off with their 'youthful spirits', he headed back towards the river. Again he tried to perfect a voice that would seem to fit Yondaime's looks, "Yo, I'm Nemar." "AH! NOW I SOUND LIKE FUZZY-EYEBROWS! DAMN IT!" Naruto exploded in his mind as he heard what voice he used for henge this time.

"Alright, this time I'll get it. A voice that deep and dark...Focus...Focus...Focus..." Naruto closed his eyes, focussed on Yondaime's looks and a voice to match it.

"Henge no jutsu!" Naruto said and after another loud poof, he tried out his voice once again.

"I'm Nemar." Naruto said and blinked, "Hey this one doesn't sound that bad at all...Let's try some more phrases..."

"I'm sixteen years old, resident in Hidden Village of Leaf. Nice to meet you." Naruto said, his voice sounding like one that could be serious, funny, happy, understanding and sad when needed be.

"Finally got the voice right...I guess." Naruto said as he looked at his reflection.

"Don't be afraid, I'll protect you no matter what." Naruto said in a serious tone, liking the way the words rolled out of his mouth, he continued on to the next type of speech in his mind.

"You know that you'd do the same in my position." Naruto said and then laughed heartily, again satisfied with how he sound.

"I really had a great time today, I hope you did too." He flashed a grin, that reminded him somewhat of his own but it didn't matter really.

"I don't know what it must be exactly like for you...but I think I do know how you must be feeling..." Naruto closed his eyes at the end, nodding once to himself, being satisfied that his voice was good for any emotion as a voice could possibly be.

"Now let's try to keep this up until noon and all of that while working hard on perfecting Rasengan." Naruto told himself.

He was getting slowly better at having the chakra randomly rotating in one hand, but it was still far weaker then his own version that he used with help of his Kage Bunshin.

As Naruto closed his eyes and focused chakra in his right hand, a funny thought crossed his mind, "Heh maybe now that I look like Yondaime, maybe I'll perfect the Rasengan as well."

Naruto opened his eyes and looked at the rotating blue orb of chakra in his hand. It was rotating but only in a few directions that could obviously be seen. Wanting to figure out how powerful it was this time, Naruto thrusted his palm into a nearby tree, "Rasengan!"

As the orb hit the trunk of the tree, it didn't last very long before shattering and leaving a mark behind.

"Just as I thought...I still suck at controlling it with just one hand..." Naruto let out a sigh, "Oh well, better train deeper inside the forest in case anyone plans on coming to this specific training ground and hears me training, only to find someone they've never seen before...most likely."

Naruto put his hands in his pockets, looked around twice and then jumped into the deeper part of the forest. Just as he left, the tree he had hit with his Rasengan cracked and fell back, landing on a tree directly behind it without making a sound other then the leafs rubbing against one another.

As Naruto had told himself, he trained until noon, in other words, he stopped training when his stomach loudly growled out of the need for food. Satisfied with the result of being able to keep Henge up all the time until then, Naruto popped back to his normal looks and headed towards Ichiraku Ramen.

He arrived there soon enough, being greeted by the old man as usual, "Welcome Naruto, The usual I presume?" He asked jokingly as her knew Naruto would most of the time order his favourite ramen.

"Ofcourse. How's business today?" Naruto asked grinning widely.

"Ah we've made enough profit in the morning. Surprisingly because usually you are one of the few that come and eat ramen in the morning..." Ichiraku-san said as he rubbed his chin in thought.

"Well anyway, let's get your ramen up and ready. Ayame, Naruto will have his usual ramen." Ichiraku-san stated as he turned towards his daughter, who was busy preparing more ramen since around lunchtime, usually more people would drop in.

"Ah, Good afternoon Naruto-kun." Ayame smiled at Naruto as she turned around to him.

"Good afternoon Ayame-chan. How are you?" Naruto asked grinning widely.

"Good,. Ow! That reminds me! Father, do you mind if I leave for an hour with Naruto-kun after he's done eating his ramen here?" Ayame slapped her hands together in and begged her father.

Ichiraku-san looked towards Naruto, who looked slightly dumbfounded back towards him and then Naruto's stomach loudly grumbled. The old man flashed a grin at Naruto, "Well it looks like Naruto plans on staying here for a lot of bowl so you'd better get to work then. Though that hour is coming out of your pay ofcourse."

"Thank you!" Ayame tilted her head and smiled at her father, "You greedy old man, you already decided to cut out of my pay for the hours I missed on that date with Naruto..."

"Hehehe..." Naruto grinned sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head, "Wow, I sense a weird atmosphere here...Someone's plotting something or stuff like that."

Half an hour and eight bowls of delicious Ramen later, Naruto finally had his stomach full.

"Ah...I'm stuffed...Ramen is extra good after training..." Naruto slouched and let out a sigh of joy and relaxation.

"Then, Let us be on our way Naruto-kun." Ayame said as she walked over towards him from behind the counter.

"And you're leaving me behind with eight huge dishes to clean up?" Ichiraku-san asked as he looked at the pile of dishes he had to clean up from Naruto's lunch.

Ayame stuck out her tongue at her father and grabbed onto Naruto's hand, "Come on Naruto-kun, let's go."

As Ayame abruptly pulled Naruto from his seat, he needed to start running after her, "Oi! Take it easy Ayame-chan!"

After pulling him after her for a block, they slowed down a bit, "What's the rush anyway?"

"Don't you want to see if you've gotten any replies?"

"Eh...This fast?" Naruto said before the thought came to his mind that he'd at least be able to read, "Well I'm certain there is ONE reply but I don't think we need to hurry for it so much, right?"

"Well I want to read them too you know. And besides we need to write replies to the replies."

"Then, will an hour be enough?"

"Let's hope so, else you are on your own." Ayame winked and playfully stuck her tongue out at Naruto.

As soon as they arrived at Ayame's house, the mailman did as well, handing a bunch of scrolls to her before heading on to the next house.

"Naruto-kun, could you open the door for me?" Ayame asked, as she had her hands full on multiple scrolls.

"Eh...sure, Where's your key?"

"It's in my left pocket."

Naruto reached in her left pocket and Ayame slightly turned read as hand gently ran over the thin fabric that was between his fingertops and her leg.

"Ah there it is." Naruto grinned and pulled the keys out, unlocking the door the next moment.

"Thank you."

Once inside they put the scrolls on the table, Ayame sorted them out and then handed four of them to Naruto, "These belong to you. Looks like it's more than you expected, Naruto-kun. Let's go up to my room so we can start writing as soon as we finished reading all of them."

"Wow...I got four replies." Naruto blinked at the scrolls and as he followed Ayame to her room, he wondered what was written within them.

They sat down across each other on Ayame's bed,"Well open the first one then." Ayame smiled at him, wanting to know the replies herself as well.

Naruto took a scroll and let the others just rest on Ayame's bed. With a quick and swift movement, he opened the scrolls and read the first few lines, "It's from Tenten."

"Well come on, tell what it says."

"Ahem, Alright here goes..." Naruto replied and scratched his throat.

Dear Nemar-kun,

To sum everything up what your letter did to me, I melted instantly.
However I do not know what to reply really...I have an idea about who you are but I might as well be dead wrong about that.
Either way, whether you are him or not doesn't really matter, I still like the way you are from what I could tell from reading your letter.

I...Never really thought someone would think like that about me. I even cried after I finished it! Isn't that just silly of me! Hehehe... But...I just want to know this first... I want to know if you are Neji, because I think you are Neji.

If so, Neji...I'd love to go out on a date with you...All you had to do was ask me in person...
Oh god now I'm starting to cry again! Sorry...kind of emotional at the time I'm writing this...Don't really know why...

And...'Nemar-kun', even if you aren't Neji...I want to meet you then...I want to see if you are just as kind and sweet and...well all the other things I think about you at this moment.

If you really are someone like that then I'd gladly go out with you on a date at least once.
After that we'll see what happens, right?
Please write back soon, I'm anxiously awaiting your reply.
Love,

Tenten.

"Hm, well it looks like she really likes that Neji person as well." Ayame's first reply to the letter sounded.

"Yeah, I guess so. I didn't expect her to cry at the end of reading that letter though." Naruto scratched the back of his head, "I kinda feel bad for making her cry."

"Oh come on Naruto-kun! She cried out of joy that the letter was so sweet and directed at her! Even though I wrote it, it were your thoughts and feelings for her as well."

"Hm...Yeah I guess you're right about her crying out of joy rather than being hurt or something. Still I don't really like to see a girl cry or something." Naruto grinned widely.

"Alright. So we'll have to set something up for you and Tenten to meet then. But we'll discuss those matters later, on to the next letter Naruto-kun!" Ayame said as she shuffled over to his side, leaned her head on his shoulder so she could read the next letter with him.

"Ah..." Naruto looked over to Ayame's face next to him, "Wow, she really looks pretty..."

"Naruto-kun, what's wrong?" She asked as she looked with worry in her eyes at him.

"Ah! Nothing at all! Let's open the next letter!" Naruto waved his hands energetically and grinning sheepishly before opening the next letter.

"Alright...this one is from Ino." Naruto stated as he looked at the sender's adress information.

Dear Nemar-kun,

Just so you know I'm going to give you a couple of questions right away that I want answered.
Why? Well because it's important for me to know and so you instantly can write that in a reply to me.
Well let's start the questioning then.
How tall are you? I don't want to go out with some giant guy that scares the crap out of poor little old me.

How old are you? If you're some perverted old man I'm going to hunt you down and have arrested!

What color are your eyes?

What color is your hair?

How much do you weigh? Sorry, but if you're too fat then well...we wouldn't just match, I'm kind of thin you know and I don't believe really in the whole 'Opposites attract' thing...

What size shoes do you wear?

And since we're on the topic of clothing, what are all your other clothing sizes? Maybe I could get you something cute then on our date and all, hehehe...

Ow! And...what...eh...hm...is the size of yo...

"HOLY CRAP!" Naruto cried out as he threw the scroll away from him like the Kyuubi's claw just snapped out of it, trying to kill him.

"I think she wants to go out with you." Ayame nodded and then started giggling.

"...I got that alright...She's probably Anko's prodigy or something..." Naruto said and let out a sigh.

"Oh! That date! How did it go!" Ayame asked excited to know about Naruto's date last night.

"I'd rather not talk about it but if you really want to know, I'll tell you later." Naruto grabbed the next scroll and opened it.

"Oh! This one is from Sakura-chan!" Naruto sounded excited once more once he found out the next one was from Sakura.

Dear Nemar-kun,

I don't really know what to say...I'm flattered by your letter.
But I'd rather not go on a blind date...But I do want to meet you!
Ehm...Well...This is kind of embarrassing to say but...recently a lot of guys kind of started asking me out and all...
I think I've grown a bit too popular for my own good, wouldn't you say so?

Anyway this might sound a bit bitchy or...whatever but, sorry, you have to go and stand in line along with every other guy that wants a date. But like I said before, I DO want to meet you. Maybe...Maybe if I get to know you a bit better then I'd go out with you, but not right now without even having the slightest idea about you.

So please, tell me where I could meet you...And it better be a public place or else you are in a lot of trouble mister! I AM the Hokage's apprentice you know...just so you know who you'd get on your ass when you try something weird with me...
Anyway, please let me know where and when...
Buh-bye!

Haruno Sakura

"Ow...Sakura-chan doesn't want to go on a date with me instantly...also I have more competition then three years ago..." Naruto pouted.

"But, she wants to meet 'you'. If you give her a good first impression, she might reconsider about whether or not to have a date with you." Ayame said reassuringly to Naruto.

"Yeah! Then I'd better get ready for such a thing! I'll show you my amazing jutsu after this last one!" Naruto cheerfully picked the last scroll.

"It's probably from Hinata...A letter from Sunagakure takes a bit longer to arrive here..." Naruto stated as he opened the scroll, confirming that he was right and that the last letter was from Hinata.

Dear Nemar-kun,

I'm truthfully honoured that you think of me this way. I was surprised when I got the letter, no one ever send me a letter like this... I even fainted just because of...well...who I thought it was.
I'm sorry, please forgive me, but I...can not go out with you.

I really hope you aren't hurt too bad by this but...there is someone who I already love with all my heart. And...and no matter what you say I won't change my mind about him. I love everything about him.

His beautiful blonde locks...His shining blue eyes that are filled with joy most of the time...his strong will to become strong and protect his loved ones. But, I just faint every time I'm near him...I doubt he even thinks of me as more than just another friend...
I really love him no matter what though! Even...even if he...

So that's why I can't go out with you Nemar-kun. If he'd see us and he did have even the slightest feelings for me then I'd hurt him terribly and I never want to hurt him.
Please forgive me and I hope we can still meet each other and be friends if you want to.
Sincerely,

Hyuuga Hinata

"Hinata likes someone? Wow I never thought of that..." Naruto rubbed his chin in thought.

"Naruto..."

"Hm? What's wrong Ayame-chan?" Naruto looked confused towards Ayame who was rereading the letter again.

"Think about it for a second. Who do you know with blonde hair and blue eyes?"

"Ehm...Yondaime Hokage has that but I don't know him personaly and he's dead..." Naruto tapped his chin in thought.

"Naruto didn't you used to say Hinata always faints around YOU?" Ayame emphased the last part hoping to get through to him.

"Ehm...Yeah she does that a lot, don't really get why though..."

Ayame placed her hands on his cheeks, turned his head towards her mirror and tried to ask him again, "Look in the mirror Naruto-kun...Who do you know with blue eyes and blonde hair? And who does Hinata faint around?"

"Er...me?"

"That's right. You."

Naruto blinked at his reflection a couple of times and then he slightly jumped up, "HEEE! ARE YOU TELLING ME HINATA LIKES ME!"

"Correct." Ayame stuck her tongue out at Naruto in the mirror.

Naruto jumed up from her bed and started freaking out, "But how! When! Why! What should I do! Oh god! Hinata! She likes me! What the!"

"Oi Naruto, calm down." Ayame got up from her bed and held Naruto still, "It's obvious isn't it. You can go out on a date with her. And if all goes well and you like her enough you two can go dating."

"But what about...Ino and Sakura-chan and Tenten!"

"We need you to meet all of them as 'Nemar-kun' so you can still go out with them if needed be and all. Listen up. We'll just write one letter that is directed at all the girls and tell them you'll be meeting them on a certain time and place or something...Also if Temari sends in a reply later we have always the chance to have 'Nemar-kun' meet her later since she's in Sunagakure anyway...Understood?"

Naruto nodded and Ayame let go off him as he had obviously calmed down.

"Then, I can meet all of them tomorrow." Naruto flashed a grin.

"Huh? How so?" Ayame looked confused at Naruto who was still grinning.

"I already figured out who to henge in and all. That's what I wanted to show you."

Ayame smiled warmly at Naruto, "Well go ahead then."

Naruto cracked his knuckles, "Alright...Here goes..." He smirked and formed the 'henge-handseal'.

Naruto didn't even need to speak out the words anymore and just transformed into Yondaime Hokage, with his own set of clothing. Ayame blinked and stared at him as the smoke slowly vanished.

"I'm Nemar. Nice to meet you." Naruto said and instantly, Ayame's eyes seemed to sparkle as she slowly stumbled forward towards him.

"Is something wrong Ayame-chan? You look...different."

Ayame got as close as her body could to Naruto, who eyed her kind of awkwardly as she stared into his eyes.

"Ayame-chan?" Naruto placed a hand on Ayame's arm, something he regretted a moment later as Ayame squealed as loud as humanly possible and then fainted into Naruto's arms.

"What the...?" Naruto thought as he picked Ayame up and carefully laid her down on her bed.

A couple of moments later Ayame slowly opened her eyes again.

"Ayame-chan? Are you alright? You just passed out just like that." Naruto blinked at her, still being in his Yondaime form.

"Naruto...?" Naruto nodded in reply.

Ayame squealed again, this time less loud then the last time, jumped onto Naruto and brought him down on the floor.

"KAWAII!" Ayame exclaimed as she looked looked at Naruto's face again, before dropping her body onto his and tightly hugging him.

"You're so cute! Not to mention extremely hot!" Ayame gave Naruto a kiss on his cheek,"Hug me Naruto! Kiss me Naruto! Anything!"

Ayame squealed again and rubbed her cheek against Naruto's. Naruto slightly pushed Ayame up, so he could breath normally at least, "Eh...Ayame-chan? Do you know what you are saying?"

Ayame stared into Naruto's confused eyes, that were looking awkwardly at her as well, and she flushed red, "Ofcourse I do. You're the hottest guy right now I've seen in a long while."

"Well, I guess Yondaime's was as good looking guy as Ero-sennin said then." Naruto grinned sheepishly, not really sure where all this would lead.

"Really...You look so cute, Naruto-kun." Ayame let out a sigh and rested her head on Naruto's chest, "I wish that guys like him were more common..."

"Ano...Ayame-chan?"

Ayame tilted her head up and looked at Naruto, "Yeah?"

"Even though I like you complimenting on the succes of my new Henge no Jutsu, we still have to write those letters..." Naruto said before adding softly, "...and it's kinda hard to breath with you pressing the life out of my body..."

Ayame sat straight up on Naruto, putting all of her weight onto Naruto's stomach, "What was that! Are you telling me I'm heavy!"

"Ah! Ayame-chan!"

"Don't 'Ayame-chan' me! You're saying I'm fat!"

"You aren't! But you're pushing the life out of my body!"

"If you were at least just a bit man you would be able to resist a feather light women like me!"

"Ayame-chan!"

"Oh no your not going to pass out mister! Not because of just my body!"

"Naruto-kun?"

"Alright then, Time to give CPR to the hotty." Ayame smirked and got off Naruto to give him CPR.

"AH! ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT! I'M ALIVE AND WELL! NO CPR! I NEED A GOOD NIGHT'S REST!" Naruto jumped up and looked scared at Ayame who was sitting on her knees next to where he was just lying.

"...I...give you...bad dreams?" Ayame asked and Naruto could notice the obvious sadness in her voice as well.

"No, no. that's not it. Really. Though I'd rather not say what it is though, but you don't give me nightmares! At all! Unless you maybe like put on a very scary face and jump out of the dark all of a sudden or something..." Naruto said as he sheepishly smiled and rubbed the back of his head.

Ayame blinked at Naruto, though she was happy she didn't give Naruto nightmares, the other thought of that he did dream about her began to sink in.

"Oh my gosh! Naruto!" Ayame pointed at his face as she stood up rather abruptly with a look of shock on her face, "You mean you..."

"Huh...what?"

"You mean you actually dream THOSE kind of dreams about me!"

"Huh? What kind of dreams?" Naruto looked clueless towards Ayame, who slowly backed against the wall, gaining a bright red shade on her face.

"I don't know what to say Naruto...Should I feel honored or be afraid..."

"...Mind explaining me what you are thinking...?" Naruto asked innocently, "She couldn't possibly think or predict I had the dream about her like I did...right?"

"You had a dream about you being a young prince and me being a princess, being locked up by an evil old wizard, didn't you!"

Naruto dropped down on the floor and got back up, "Yeah and it was disturbing because there was a lot of pink in it..." "Well the pink part wasn't really a lie...I mean...She was crawling towards me and...the background was pink with yellow and shiny sparkle thing and such...Wonder where I got that image from...hmm..."

"Naruto, I didn't know you dreamt those kind of things..." Ayame said smiling politely at him, "Now let's hurry up and write a letter. I have an idea for it so let's hurry up and write that letter. Ow! And go visit Hinata-chan later today as well and ask her out or something to see if it's really you she likes."

"Hehehe...That might be awkward...I think she'll just faint again and I doubt her family would like it very much...You know, old Hyuuga customs and all..." Naruto rubbed the back of his head again as Ayame walked over to her desk.

"I don't care about none of that, just go. It's a mission." Ayame said and stuck her tongue out at Naruto.

"Mission, huh..." Naruto let out a sigh, feeling Shikamaru's most common thought going through his head, "This is going to be troublesome..."

An hour later, Naruto's heart was pounding as he was standing in front of a door, back in his normal Naruto looks instead of Yondaime's, staring at the scroll he was holding in his hands.

"Haruno Residence." It read on the name plate that was crafted onto the front door.

"I'll be going out now mom!" Naruto heard Sakura's voice yell from inside.

"Crap!" Naruto quickly dropped the scroll onto the floor and quickly ran away.

Just as the door opened, Naruto dissappeard around the corner and Sakura noted the scroll lying on the floor as she nearly stepped on it.

"Huh...A scroll? For who is it?" Sakura said as she picked it up from the ground.

"For: Haruno Sakura, Yamanka Ino, Hyuuga Hinata and Tenten..." Sakura read out loud and blinked at the scroll.

Naruto ran as fast as he could, incase Sakura still noticed him going around the corner.

His pace did not slow one bit until he was far away from Sakura's house, to be precise, near the Hokage's Tower, "Damn, that was scary...If she had seen me I'd be in lotsa trouble..."

Two particular green suited men then got Naruto's attention with their loud voices.

"Hokage-sama is amazing with medical jutsu, isn't she my adorable student Lee!"

"Hai, Gai-sensei! She is truly amazing! I barely feel pain in my broken youthful nose!" Lee saluted his sensei.

"And she's burning with youth as well! Lee! I think I'm going ask her hand in marriage so we can have many youthful children!"

"Eh..." Naruto walked up towards the duo, "Gai-sensei, you...really considering to ask Tsunade-obachan to marry you...?"

As Naruto look dumbfounded towards Gai as he struck the nice guy pose, "Ofcourse I am! She's brimming with the spirit of youth and therefor she is the only woman worthy to marry my youthfulness!"

"Gai-sensei! Can I be the big brother to all your youthful children!"

"Ofcourse Lee!" Gai said pointing his nice guy pose at Lee and his teeth sparkling once again, "We'll adopt you right away!"

"O-Ossu!" Lee straightend up again and saluted once more.

"Now I shall go back inside and ask Tsunade-sama to marry me!" Gai said and headed back towards the Hokage's Tower.

"...Oh boy...Who should I feel more sorry for, Tsunade-obachan being embarrassed by him or Gai-sensei for getting punched in the face by Tsunade-obachan..." Naruto let out a sigh.

"I refuse!" Just as Gai was about to head into the tower, Anko's voice came yelling out of it followed by a flying Jiraiya with a red hand print on his face.

Jiraiya knocked into Gai, sending the youthful noble blue beast of Konoha fly back as well, gasping for air and soon they both landed ontop of Lee who fell hard face down on the ground as he tried to turn around and escape the flying men.

As they lay down on the ground, steaming off from their high speed and Anko's slap to Jiraiya's face, said female jounin took a step out of the Hokage's Tower and pointed towards Jiraiya, "I'd never go out for dinner with a dirty old lech like you!"

Naruto blinked at the pile of men in green and the Ero-sennin lying on top of both of them, only to realise a second later that Anko could see him. Before he knew what happened, Anko was behind him with her arms wrapped around him, "Yo Naru-chan. Do you feel like having a second date with lil old me?"

Naruto carefully turned his head towards the widely grining Anko. She had his full attention, but that was mainly because he thought he felt some crawling over his back.

"Jiraiya-sama! What are you doing! I was just about to declare my pure and youthful love to Tsunade-sama and ask her hand in marriage!" Gai shouted, drawing Naruto attention back to the three men.

Jiraiya jumped off them and pointed at Gai, "You were about to what! Like Tsunade would marry a guy like you!"

"Ofcourse! She's burning with youth and so am I!"

"You'd drive her nuts!"

"No I wouldn't! I'd have her carry my youthful babies!"

"Even though she looks like twenty she's over fifty! She can't have babies!"

"Oh yes she can! Her youthfulness will make sure of that!"

"My nose! My nose! It's bleeding again!" Lee wailed in between the two argueing men.

"My...They're so loud..." Anko said as she looked with one eye towards the men and held her other one shut, "How about we go to...Naru-chan?"

Anko noticed that Naruto was missing from her hold and thus she was holding nothing at all and saw Naruto running for his life.

"Sorry Anko-sensei! I have something else to do! Maybe we'll chat again...like in my next life!"

"Naru-chan! Don't leave me with these goofballs!" Anko cried out.

"Sorry can't hear youuuuu!" Naruto yelled and ran around the corner.

Meanwhile the heated argument between Gai and Jiraiya reached it's climax.

"Alright that's it! I'll show you that Tsunade wants someone that isn't some crazy lunatic!"

"What was that! Am I crazy! I'm burning with youth! I can not be crazy!"

"The hell you are!" Jiraiya quickly formed a couple of handseals as the soil underneath Gai's feet began to soften and sink the Noble Blue Beast of Konoha into it.

"Ah! That's unfair!" Gai said as he tried to pull his feet out.

"Like I care!" Jiraiya said and then quickly ran into the Hokage's Tower, passing by some chuunin and jounin that were on their way to do their own business.

As he reached Tsunade's office he slammed the door wide open, "Tsunade!"

Shizune jumped at the sudden entrance of Jiraiya while Tsunade just looked dully at him, "What is it this time Jiraiya..."

Jiraiya jogged over towards her in sennin-style, surprising Tsunade when he kneeled down besides her and took her hand, "Will you marry me?"

Shizune gasped in shock as did Tsunade and a cold breeze passed through the room as Jiraiya awaited Tsunade's answer.

Meanwhile Naruto had run all the way to his next destination, the Hyuuga compound.

Catching his breath from his escape from the, for him at least, ever scary Anko, Naruto glanced into the Hyuuga's courtyard to see if he could find the Hyuuga heiress. Unfortunately Hinata was nowhere to be found, but Neji was making his through the courtyard, which was a plus for Naruto.

"I'm lucky...I'd hate to go and ask Hinata's father for being accepted into the compound...He looks so strict and perhaps like...overprotective or something..." Naruto thought as he quickly headed towards Neji, "Yo Neji!"

Neji, who was just about to enter a different part of the compound turned around to face Naruto, "Naruto? That's a surprise...I never thought I'd find you visiting the Hyuuga compound..."

"Ah...Well you know..." Naruto sheepishly grinned and rubbed the back of his head, "I kinda...came here to see Hinata...Do you know where she is?"

"Hinata-sama...?" Neji blinked a couple of times at Naruto, "...She's in the second garden. Most likely taking a swim in the small lake we build there, as it has become her second favourite activity...I'll show you the way."

"Second garden...?" Naruto looked dumbfounded towards Neji as he followed him to where Hinata was.

"Yes. We have two gardens, and as a matter of fact also two courtyards...One is open and is able to be viewed by the 'public' that climb over the compound walls...The other is more...concealed from nosey outsiders and is a place of recreation for most of us. Hianta-sama likes to go and take a swim there from time to time."

"I see...Your uncle must have enough money for such a thing." Naruto nodded.

Neji glanced towards Naruto, "...We're here."

Naruto looked forward and saw a path leading through various vines, "Eh! It looks like a jungle there! How am I going to find her!"

"Don't worry, it might not look like it but we used some spray from the Aburame clan to keep annoying and dangerous insects away. Also the plants there are all harmless. The small lake Hinata-sama is most likely at, is easily found. And since I have some matters to attend to, I'll leave you to find Hinata-sama on your own." Neji stated and headed off.

Naruto gulped and then walked the path ahead of him, pushing away the vine that obstructed the entrance to the garden. His worries and fears of the dangerous looking garden soon vanished as he was greeted by beautiful exotic flowers and singing birds from the trees.

After wondering over the path for a short while, it widened and a small creek joined it with water steadily heading towards a single direction. Figuring the water lead towards the lake where Hinata was supposed to be, Naruto decided to follow the creek and see where it lead.

A little over a minute later, Naruto found the lake he was searching for yet the young Hyuuga heiress was nowhere to be found.

"Damn. Looks like I missed her..." Naruto said as he was just about to turn around when he heard the splashing sound of water.

Hinata rose up in the centre of the small lake, water still dripping of her hair from her dive out of it.

The water drops that fell off her shined in all the colors of a rainbow due to the sunrays that managed to pierce through the roof of vines and leaves, Naruto being amazed by the sight and spoke his thoughts out loud, "Wow...How beautiful..."

Hinata's face turned into a state of surprise at hearing the familiar voice and she turned towards the direction of which the sound came from, "N-Na...Naruto-kun?"

"Yo Hinata." Naruto grinned sheepishly at the young lady from the Hyuuga clan and rubbed the back of his head.

Her face flushed red as she realised Naruto was really standing there, "Naruto-kun...He's...he's really standing there...I'm not dreaming!" She thought and then something else hit her in her mind.

"Kyaaa!" Hinata screamed yet not too loud and quickly dropped down into the water until it covered all the way up to her mouth as she blushed a deep shade of red.

She followed him with her eyes as Naruto walked around the shore of the lake, "Wow this really is a pretty sight...Hope you won't mind if I'll just jump in."

"Eh?" Hinata let out as Naruto grinned widely at her with his usual grin, "Naruto-kun...is going to...oh my..."

Hinata flushed a deeper shade of red as Naruto began to take off his clothes, turning around not to face him.

Naruto stripped down to his boxers and then dived into the lake and spoke up once he stuck out above the surface once more,"Wow! This is amazing! The water is so good!"

Hinata shyly nodded and Naruto made his way towards her enjoying the lake's pure water as he did so, "Oi, Hinata. I came here to see you so at least look at me."

She nodded once again and shyly looked towards Naruto that was now standing really close to her. Hinata put her hand towards her lips and took a slight step back, scared of fainting if she stood too close to Naruto.

"You came to...see me?...W-why?"

"Well I've got something to ask you." Naruto grinned and rubbed the back of his head again.

"A-ask me!...Wha-what is it?" Hinata asked, growing more nervous every second.

Naruto blinked at Hinata, who was turning brighter red as time passed as well.

"Listen, It's really important to well...both of us so please don't faint around me like you usually do!" Naruto grabbed a hold of her hands, pulling her look up towards him as she blushed so badly that she felt like fainting, but she refrained from that by biting on her lower lip.

"I...I'll try my best...Wha...wha...what...d-d-do..." Hinata stumbled over her own words as Naruto still hold her hands and her mind was longing to find out what it was he wanted to ask her.

Her mind had already imagined the possible situation being her over reacting to something like this while the question would be, "Could you lend me some money! I'm short of my regular nine bowls of miso ramen!" and then her reply would be disappointment yet only saying his name.

Naruto stared into her eyes and knew that she was about to faint as she averted her eyes and trembled ever so slightly.

"I...wanted to ask if..." Naruto started, hoping she really wouldn't pass out halfway during his question.

"Y-yes?"

"If you wanted to go out with me... tonight...?"

Hinata's mouth dropped open, her hands fell out of Naruto's and she felt her entire body go numb. The red shade on her face disappeared and she felt light headed as her entire face went pale white and her body swayed back and forth, before her eyes shot towards the heavens and she passed out.

"Oi! Hinata!" Naruto had caught the out cold Hyuuga girl in his arms, hoping that she heard his question at least and remembered it.

"Come on, let's get you back to solid ground so you won't drown huh...I can't hold you here forever if you're going to pass out continuoesly or something..." Naruto whispered to Hinata, who was still passed out, as he wrapped an arm around her and started swimming back to the shore with her.

"Oneesan, I've come to..." A young girl's voice reached Naruto's ears, making him turn towards the entrance to the lake he had previously been as well.

There he found a girl that resembled Hinata a lot, only with sleek long hair and a more slim body then Hinata's. She stared towards Naruto and he stared back at her until she yelled loudly, "Oh my god! A pervert! What do you think you're doing to my oneesan!"

"Huh..." Naruto looked shocked towards her as the young girl start running over the water towards him, "NO! This is a misunderstanding! I'm not a pervert!"

"I won't listen to your lies!"

Just then Hinata woke up, noticing her sister charging towards her and Naruto, not even paying mind that Naruto was holding her and sped forward to stop her siter from hurting her love, "Stop Hanabi, He's a friend of mine."

Hinata pulled herself out of Naruto's arms and stopped her sister by pulling her into the water.

"Geez...How was I supposed to know something like that, oneesan?" Hanabi pouted as she was now floating in front of Hinata in the water, "Besides what was he doing holding you so weird for then?"

"H-holding me!"

"Sorry Hinata, you passed out so I wanted to take you to shore so you wouldn't drown or something...uh..." Naruto stared towards Hinata's back.

"T...thank you N..Naruto-ku..."

"Don't turn around!" Naruto quickly spun around and pointed towards her with one arm, "Y-your top..."

"Heh...?" Hinata looked down to her bikini top along with her sister and noticed that it had been untied on the back, making it partly float in the water and yet still holding onto her behind her neck.

Hinata shrieked and Hanabi pointed at her sister's bikini top and then at Naruto, "See! He wanted to do H stuff to you!"

"No I don't! Now hurry up and tie it up already so I can turn back around!"

Hinata flushed red and turned her back towards Hanabi, "Hanabi...would you please...?"

Her younger sister let out a sigh and helped her sister out.

A while later, Hinata and Naruto were standing on the shore and Hanabi was swimming in circles. Hinata had a towel wrapped around her shoulders and offered another towel to Naruto, "H-here...You c-can use this one...Naruto-kun..."

"Thank you Hinata." Naruto smiled warmly at her as he took the towel and dried his torso with it before laying it over his shoulder.

"Eh...ehm...you're...welcome..." Hinata said in a whisper.

"Do you... remember what I asked you before you passed out?"

"Ehm...you..." Hinata said as a shade of red once again appeared on her face, "asked me out?"

"Yeah. So are you available tonight?"

"I'd love to go out with you...I mean Yes! Ofcourse! I have time! Kiba-kun and Shino-kun haven't scheduled training or something! Nor does my father or...something." Hinata was nervous, and for the first time she actually was talking really fast, not knowing what kind of responses to give to Naruto.

"The only point is I don't really know where to take you...Since I kinda feel like eating ramen tonight and I don't want to take you out to something like Ichiraku's ramen..." Naruto grinned sheepishly.

"..E-Eating r-ramen...w...with Naruto-kun...w-would be nice as well..."

"Nah, I'd just be stuffing my face and it wouldn't really be fun for you at all..." Naruto replied grinning widely.

"Fun...for me?"

"Come to think of it I don't know that much about you other then that you are a sweet girl." Naruto tapped his chin in thought as Hinata blushed bright red.

"Ne, Hinata...What would you like to do with me?"

"Wha-wha-what I'd like to do with...Naruto-kun?" Hinata's face turned as red as a full grown tomato as a train of thoughts went through her mind of what she'd like to do with him.

Naruto looked surprised towards her as she started mumbling a lot of things, looking away from him and sometimes glancing at him.

"Hey I know something. Why don't we just go and see what we can do like start off with a walk through the park and then see if we can find something fun to do while we get to know each other a bit more!" Naruto proposed.

Hinata mumbled a couple of more things, glanced less then a second at his boxers before turning even brighter red in her face and then she snapped out of it as Naruto's words sank in, "Ah! uhm...y-yes...I'd like to g-g-et to know you a bit...better..."

Naruto grinned as he quickly dried the rest of his body with the towel and got his boxers as dry as possible before slipping back into his clothing.

Hinata held a finger against her lips and still blushed as Naruto was done getting dressed again.

"Then I'll pick you up at seven, if that's alright with you." Naruto stated and Hinata shyly nodded.

As there was a silence between them, and Naruto didn't know really what to say, he decided to take a closer look on Hinata, who was still in her bikini.

"Wow...Hinata is quite good looking...I never noticed it with the clothes she wears but she really has a nice figure..."

Naruto took Hinata's hand away from her face and tilted his head to the right and then to the left as they Hyuuga Heiress looked surprised towards him.

"S...Something w-wrong...Naruto-kun?" She asked hestitantly.

"Hinata..."

"Y-yes...?"

Naruto let his eyes wander over her one last time before realizing how fast Hinata fainted and thus he decided to flash his wide grin, "Ah Never mind. I don't want you to faint again really."

"Eh...?" Hinata let out as Naruto dropped her hands and walked past her.

"I better be going now. See you tonight." Naruto stated as he continued walking onwards.

"W-wait! N-na..Naruto-kun...!" Hinata said as she hurried after him.

"My sister really acts weird sometimes..." Hanabi told herself as she continued swimming in the lake.

"What's wrong Hinata?" Naruto asked once Hinata had caught up with him.

"Eh...ehm...w-would N-Naruto-kun...w-wait for me to...get dressed a-and...then...p-perhaps..." Hinata said fidgeting with her fingers before adding softly, "...spend some more time with me...?"

"Well I don't really have other plans for today really...Well not until seven tonight." Naruto flashed a grin at Hinata, "Sure, I'll wait for you and all."

Hinata looked with wide eyes at Naruto and blushed before heading on to Hinata's room where she could get dressed.

"Wow...She really does like me I guess...I thought it was normal for her to act like this around all guys except maybe Kiba and Shino right now...but she really blushes a lot more around me then around other people..."

They reached Hinata's room and the entire way they hadn't spoken a word to each other, yet the silence between them wasn't awkward. When Hinata headed into her room and closed the door behind her, Naruto leaned against it and waited a few moments before speaking up, "Hinata?"

Naruto waited for Hinata to reply before continue to speak up and after a second or two she finally did, "Y-yes Naruto-kun...?"

"Do you think...that I'm scary?" Naruto asked as he remembered what Ayame said on his date with her about that Hinata might be scared of him and that it was because of that she passed out.

"N-no...Ofcourse n-not...Na-Naruto-kun...isn't scary...Did N-Naruto-kun think that...I thought of Na...Naruto-kun as a...scary person?"

"No." Naruto smiled widely, "It was just that might be the reason why you faint every time I'm near you...that or the other thing I had in mind. And since you don't find me scary, it is the other thing, right?"

In her room, half dressed Hinata flushed red and waited for Naruto to say more, wondering what he'd say.

"I know what it really is...but it's still too soon to let you know so, sorry Hinata..." Naruto grinned to himself and spoke up, "That you faint because the power I'm radiating! Must be a lot of pressure to feel for some girls!"

Hinata hung her head down in disappointment,"...Naruto-kun..."

Naruto chuckled for a moment and then Hinata smiled to herself before giggling a little bit.

"Oi, what's so funny!" Naruto asked grinning, though Hinata didn't see the wide grin on his face and thought he was mad at her.

"S-sorry...N-naruto-kun...I...I didn't mean...I wasn't...please...d-don't be m-mad o-on me..."

Naruto blinked at hearing Hinata almost burst out in tears and then knew exactly what would cheer her up.

Laughing heartilly before speaking up again would most likely do the trick, "Weird girl. I wouldn't get mad at you for being happy. I guess it's one of the things I like about you. Always wanting to spread love through the world and make sure everyone's happy."

"I...I'm sorry..." Hinata said in a soft tone but loud enough so Naruto could still hear it.
"Baaaakaaaa." Naruto said playfully, "No need to apologize. Just hurry up and get dressed. If you take too long I'll have to go again."

"Done!" Hinata said as she quickly pulled the door open. Naruto who was leaning against it fell back by loss of the support to his back and fell on top of Hinata.

"Geez...That was quite a surprise...I didn't expect you to be in such a rush." Naruto said as he got off Hinata and rubbed his sore butt before flashing a grin at her.

"S-sorry..."

"Ah don't worry about it. I'm more worried about hurting you then getting hurt myself from such a thing." Naruto said as he got up and dusted himself off before helping, although she didn't really need it, Hinata up from the floor as well.

Hinata flushed red, still feeling the warmth of Naruto's body on her own as Naruto just grinned at her and rubbed the back of his head.

"Well...er...Let's get going or something, right?" Hinata only shyly nodded in reply.

As they walked back out to the courtyard, a silence hung between the young heiress and the blonde as it did before.

"Oi Hinata! Naruto! What are you doing here!" Sakura yelled from the entrance of the Hyuuga compound.

"Sakura-san?"

"Sakure-chan?" Naruto said at the same time as Hinata, the only difference being the addition to Sakura's name and Naruto's eyes widening, "Ow crap! I forgot that she'd go and visit all of the girls!"

Just then Ino walked up next to Sakura, looking rather annoyed at the world of some reason and followed behind her was Tenten, who looked constantly at the ground.

"What are you all doing here?" Naruto asked, pretending not to know why they were here.

"None of your business Naruto..." Ino said and stuck her nose up in the air.

"Oh boy, she really is annoyed...Yesterday she was all friendly and stuff and today she's like this...man am I glad I'm not 'Nemar' right now..."

"Tenten, do you mind telling me why?" Naruto asked grinning at Tenten, as he considered Ino to be far too annoyed or pissed off to try once again, "I'm sure it isn't because of me or Hinata for that matter, right?"

"Actually Naruto..." Sakura spoke up before Tenten could even reply and looked at the scroll.

Just as Sakura wanted to state that they were there for Hinata, Tenten interrupted her, "Where's Neji, Naruto!"

"Neji...?" Naruto repeated as Hinata looked confused towards the weapons mistress.

Tenten's eyes saddened for a moment before she abruptly ran past Hinata and Naruto and into the courtyard.

"Oi Tenten! Wait up!" Naruto called after her before running after her.

Sakura blinked at the two for a moment then turned towards Hinata, "Hinata we came to get you as we have a message for you and...well...Ino, Tenten and myself as well apearantly..."

"Huh...?" Hinata said dreamy.

Naruto ran as quick as he could after Tenten, who ran through the halls of the Hyuuga pound in search of Neji. He didn't know what really made him run after Tenten in the first place.

Maybe to stop her from getting more heartbroken then she already was. Then again, maybe he'd be in the way of her confession to Neji in a few minutes and have the Hyuuga turn the girl down because Naruto was around and he didn't want to lose his 'reputation' or something.

A countless number of possibilities ran through Naruto's head what could be the situation in a couple of minutes, yet there was one he didn't think even about. Tenten stopped at the end of a hallway and Naruto stopped a feet or two behind her.

"Naruto..." Naruto heard her say and he decided to listen to what she wanted to say to him.

"I'm...an idiot, am I not?"

Naruto's face looked stunned for a moment then he grinned widely with his usual fox grin, even though she couldn't see it, and placed his heads behind his head "What are you saying? You're no idiot. I'm supposed to be the biggest idiot of them all and you are way smarter than me. All that distance calculating and stuff with weapons. I'd never be able to do that. Your smart Tenten."

Tenten turned around to face Naruto and streams of tears ran over her cheeks, "That's not what I'm an idiot for...I'm an idiot for believing that he'd actually write something like that..."

Naruto blinked at her, pretending not to know that Neji wasn't the guy that wrote her a love letter and that it wasn't in fact Naruto himself who did so, "You found out it wasn't him?"

Tenten stumbled forward and suddenly hugged Naruto and cried onto his shoulder, "I wanted it to be him so badly...I'm an idiot."

"Then...If you like him why won't you just say so?" Naruto asked as he looked down towards Tenten who still let tears run freely onto his shoulder.

"Don't be foolish..." She cried, "A guy like him would just coldly ignore any confession...And...and...I don't want to lose him as a friend..."

Naruto placed his hands on her back as she softly sniffed before resting his head on hers and closing his eyes, "It's alright...sssht..."

Tenten's sniffing stopped but she still continued letting tears run from her eyes onto Naruto's shirt.

Unnoticed by the two young shinobi, a certain Hyuuga from the Branch Family stood around the corner with his Byakugan activated. He saw the two hugging each other and he had only been there for a split second, missing the fact that Tenten was crying out on Naruto's shoulder.

Shocked to find the two of them here, he gritted his teeth tightly, not moving from his spot.

"Alright let's head back to the others...ok?" Naruto whispered.

Tenten softly nodded and let go of Naruto, who in return let go of her, though he held a arm around her shoulder for comfort to make sure she'd feel alright and the two of them walked back towards the others.

Unknown to them, around the corner on the other side, Neji tightened his grasp on a scroll. A second later he threw it up into the air and with a fierce swipe of his feet, snapped the scroll into two.

"To Ten..." One half said as the other half read the remainder of the person who it was adressed to, "Ten."

With anger raging through his body, the young Hyuuga Prodigy turned around and fiercely walked back towards his room.

Meanwhile Naruto and Tenten were making their way back towards the courtyard. Tenten felt relieved and was already joking around with Naruto though her apology about wetting his shirt was sincere, "I'm sorry I made your shirt wet Naruto."

"Hehe. Don't worry about it. I bet it felt good to let it all come out or something like that. But you know. Even though that guy isn't Neji, you still liked what he said in his letter right?"

Tenten grinned shortly at him but her grin grimaced before she spoke up, "Yeah...But I'm not the only one he likes...He also likes Sakura, Ino and Hinata..."

"Well...er...maybe he just doesn't know which great kunoichi to chose! I mean your all really great and stuff!"

Tenten stared at him for a second and then started laughing at him, "Thanks Naruto I appreciate the compliment."

Realising what he just had said, Naruto waved his hands energetically, "I...I don't mean it that way! Really! I just think you all like...gotten a whole lot stronger since two and a half years ago! That's all!"

"That's another compliment Naruto." Tenten said still snickering about Naruto feeling embarrassed for complimenting her and the others.

Tenten's laughing was the thing that made Hinata, Ino and Sakura take notice of the two approaching the rest of them.

"Ow...This is a surprise..." Ino said as she noticed Tenten's sudden cheerful mood and the large wet stain on Naruto's shirt.

"Huh? What is?" Naruto asked.

"Naruto...Why didn't you tell us Tenten was your..." Ino said teasingly as she raised a pinky at him.

Tenten slightly blushed as did Naruto as he looked with wide eyes at Ino and Hinata shyly towards Naruto.

"N-No we're not..." Naruto replied, "Well at least she is in a slightly better mood now as well..."

"Oh...really, huh?" Ino said teasing as she nudged Tenten who just looked moderately annoyed towards Ino.

"Na-Naruto-kun?" Hinata stuttered as she looked Naruto, who looked back at her at this point.

"No, really Hinata. Tenten and I are friends, nothing else!"

Sakura decided to join Ino in teasing her blonde team-mate as appearantly he was getting quite embarrassed from the situation, "Ow...Why are you apologizing like that towards Hinata...maybe do you like Hinata then."

"Sakura-chan! Not you too! I don't like Hinata!"

"...Na...Naruto-kun..." Hinata said as her eyes saddened.

"N-no! Hinata! I do like you! You're my friend!"

"Oww...Was that a confession I just heard Sakura?"

"Ahh...I wonder about that too, Ino..." The two girls grinned wickedly at Naruto.

"N-no not a confession, no-not at all! Come on Sakura-chan you know I like you!"
At this point, Tenten decided it was time to give some payback, even though Sakura had to be the victim, "My...Sakura...I believe that WAS a confession..."

"No it wasn't..." Sakura glared menacingly towards Tenten.

Naruto's eyes shifted back and forth between all of them before he jumped back and made his famous seal, "Looks like I have no choice then."

The girls looked up towards Naruto in confusement, wondering if he was actually going to fight them.

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Naruto shouted and four clones were created, "Hug version!"

The girls' mouths hang open as the final two words ringed through their ears before they let out an echoed reaction of surprise, "E-Eeeeeeeeeh!"

"Alright everyone let's go!" Naruto commanded his clones, who started charging towards the girls.

Hinata was the first one to be hugged by one of the Naruto clones as the other girls jumped away in time. As the clone cuddled Hinata, her face shot a shade of bright red while the other clones tried to hug the remaining girls.

"Saaaaakuuuuraaa-chaaaan!" One of the clones sang as he nimbly evaded Sakura's punches.

"Get away from me Naruto!"

"Inoooooo! I'm going to hug youuuuuuuu!" Another one sang as Ino desperately tried to slice the clone to pieces with a kunai she had flinged out of her kunai bag.

"You are so dead Naruto!" Ino said with a smile on her face.

"Ah! Naruto! Stop it!" Tenten said as she tried to escape the clutches of one of the Naruto clones as well.

"Hehehe...This is my great 'new' escape technique!" Naruto said proudly as he stood in the centre of the hugging, or trying to hug, frenzy.

"Naruto! I'm so going to get you for this!" Sakura said as she finally had been caught by one of the clones' hugs.

She was unable to punch him in the face or anywhere else because she knew her fist wouldn't stop there and she'd just end up hurting herself.

"Hehehe...I know, that's why it's my ESCAPE jutsu! Bye all! Ow and see you tonight Hinata!" Naruto said, though the young Hyuuga girl was unable to hear the last part since she was too caught up in the hugging, and then he waved Hinata and the girls off before he started running away from them as Ino had finally been caught as well.

When the distance limit between Naruto and his clones had reached, the clones popped off leaving the girls behind.

"Naruto...You are so going to pay for this!" Sakura yelled, shaking her fist in anger even though Naruto was long gone.

"Oh come on cheer up Sakura." Ino said smiling, "Be glad he didn't take after that perverted sensei of his. That was kind of fun. Though being caught was less fun."

"I guess that lightened our moods pretty much huh?" Tenten said smiling along with Ino.

"Really you guys..." Sakura let her shoulder hang in disappointment, "I thought you were with me on this..."

Ino and Tenten giggled and Sakura shortly after joined in as Hinata shook out of her moment of bliss when she realised the Naruto clone was gone and now all she had to do was wait until tonight.