A/N: Yo people, long time no see...longer then usual I guess ehehehe...Sorry for not updating earlier but school stuff and such...you probably know the drill...I planned on updating on Valentine's Day but I didn't have the chapter done back then...And I realised that this probably is going to take atleast two more months to finish so yeah...anyway not much else to say other then that next week I'm off so expect an update or two within a weeks time. Also again thanks to all of you who reviewed and thanks to my beta GGLucas and ofcourse thanks to my muse, Uchiha Yumi who helped me come up with some funny situations for the next chapter ;p Er...Lessee...what else can I say...? Sorry for the ending! Don't kill me for it you guys XD! Else you won't be able to read on XD And ehm...Hmm... the title of the chapter is somewhat off I guess...but it's just what seemed to fit the chapter the most...Hmm...Anything else to report? Don't think so really...soo...

On with the story!

Chapter 5: Seduction by Ramen! Temptation of Sand!

Naruto was lazily heading towards the Hyuuga compound, still having plenty of time before his date with Hinata.

Normally he would have just stayed at home, eat another cup of instant ramen before heading out to meet up with someone, rushing his way while doing so.

But this time Naruto wanted some time to wander and think about what would have happened with all the girls after he ran away as fast as possible from the Hyuuga estate.

"They were all there...From the looks of Ino and Tenten, they already had heard the letter's content...Tenten was disappointed that it wasn't Neji to say the least...And Ino...hm...I wonder what she was annoyed about...Maybe that I liked more girls then just her? Hmm...Probably...Hehehe I wonder what their reaction will be when I show my Yondaime Henge to them." Naruto grinned widely to himself, feeling satisfied with how his new technique worked out so far.

"But, who should I go for first...I can't possibly rally them all up again or something...That would most likely backfire for me..." Naruto sighed, "I know! Sakura-chan should be the the first one to impress! And then uhm..."

"N-Naruto-kun?" A voice reached his ears.

"No I don't need to be impressed after all I..." Naruto said out loud then looked towards the direction of the voice.

"Ah! Crap! I was lost in thought so much that I nearly walked past here!" Naruto yelled when he saw Hinata shyly looking around the corner of the Hyuuga compound entrance way.

"L-lost in thought, huh...what w-was N-Naruto-kun t-thinking about then?"

"Ah...Nothing important..." Naruto grinned and rubbed the back of his head, "More importantly Hinata! What's the time! I'm not late for our date, right!"

"N-no...Naruto-kun...isn't late for our...date." Hinata said in nearly a whisper.

"Aaah...I'm glad...I left extra early but when you got me out of my thoughts I wondered if I had walked too slow...or something like that, you know." Naruto sighed in relief.

"I g-guess I'm the one who's early...Hanabi...wanted me to look good for our...date...and so she went out of her way to like...help me get some clothing and all..."

Naruto tilted his head up and still noticed that Hinata was still hiding everything but her head, "Really? Then why won't you show it to me then."

Naruto flashed a grin as he walked towards her and Hinata shyly moved away from her hiding place.

He tried his best not to show his astonishment when he saw her, but failed miserably.

Hinata wasn't wearing anything out of the ordinary, but the kimono she was wearing just seemed to make her shine like a bright star.

It was white with a silver fading shade over it, sparkling when light reached certain points on it and it was accentuating every curve on her body.

He circled a couple of times around the shy girl, who seemed to be continuesly be following him with her eyes.

"D-does...Naruto-kun...like it?" Hinata shyly asked when Naruto stopped in front of her.

Naruto looked into her eyes, which made her blush even more, and then he trailed with his eyes down and when he saw a slight hint of cleavage he felt two sharp eyes piercing trough his skull.

Shooting his eyes immediately up, he noticed Hinata's father glaring towards him and radiating intent to kill him, Naruto gulped and look back towards Hinata's eyes.

"N-Naruto-kun?" Hinata was about to turn her head to look in the direction where he had previously been looking at.

Naruto quickly put his hands on her shoulders, "Y-yeah, It looks great Hinata! Come on let's go!" Naruto moved to her back and start pushing her forward, even though it wasn't necessary since she walked out of her own free will.

Once he was sure that they passed out of Hiashi's Byakugan's field of vision, Naruto stopped pushing Hinata and walked beside her, letting out a sigh of relief, "Man...Her dad is scary as hell..."

"N-Naruto-kun...?" Hinata said as she shyly looked at him.

"Hm?"

"Y-you look g-g-g-good...too..." Hinata said and then softly added, "Like...you always do..."

"Hehehe...Thanks Hinata You really DO look good as well." Naruto sheepishly grinned and rubbed the back of his head.

As Hinata blushed more, Naruto decided that it was up to him to keep her talking and make sure that she doesn't feel miserable afterwards.

"Ehm...Hinata?"

"Y-yes?"

"What do you think of having a walk in the park with me or something...? You know, since it's all quiet and stuff there so we can ehm...get to know eachother better in peace there."

"Eh..eh..." Hinata stumbled over her words and tried to gather her words, "Pull it together Hinata...You're here WITH Naruto-kun...HE asked you out...HE wants to get to know you more...Atleast show him you want to spend time with him!"

Hinata shyly gave a slight nod, deciding that she would stop for now to try and say, 'I'd love to Naruto-kun.'

"Alright then, Next stop, the park!" Naruto smiled at Hinata, "I hope she'll losen up a bit or else I still won't be able to know a lot about her at all..."

As they headed towards the park, there was a large silence, with Naruto looking towards Hinata every now and then and the Hyuuga girl looking back half a second at him before looking straight ahead again with a huge blush on her face.

"Alright then. I guess it's up to me to get her talking! Now let's see...something to break the ice..."

"So Hinata?" Naruto started, stil formulating a plot to break the ice in his head as he spoke.

"Y-yes?" Hinata replied, averting her gaze from Naruto's eyes mostly.

"That girl this afternoon, was that your sister?" Naruto said and mentally slapped himself for doing so, "Idiot, Ofcourse it was! Er...Well atleast it got the conversation started...hopefully."

"Y-yes...Th-that was Hanabi, my sister...Wh-why did N-Naruto-kun want to know?"
"Alright! The ice has been broken to bits! Now just properly answer er..." Naruto scratched his head and grinned at Hinata, "Ah, Just because she reminded me a lot of a younger you and all. Though she's less shy and all but both of you still look just as good."

"N-Naruto-kun...y-you t-think I...look g-good?" Hinata asked blushing crimson.

"Ofcourse. It's not like you er...have warts or a crow-like nose...or look like any nasty witch or something...So yeah! You definetely look good!" Naruto said cheerful.

Hinata felt light headed and showed this by slightly wobbling instead of walking straight, but she quickly reattained her compusre and thanked Naruto, "T-thank you Naruto-kun...Y-you...really look good as well...atleast...I think Naruto-kun does..."

"Hehe...She really likes me I guess..." Naruto thought with a smile on his face as he looked towards the ever shy Hinata, "Then, what do you like the most about my looks?"

Naruto noted that she was starting to slightly losen up as her stuttering drastically lessened and her face became slightly less red, "Ehm...I-I...really like your hair and your...eyes I-I guess..and your chest."

Naruto blinked at her and repeated Hinata's last liking about his looks, "My chest?"

Hinata abruptly stopped walking, slapped her hands in front of her mouth, looked wide-eyed in front of her and started blushing various shades of deep red.

Naruto turned around towards her and grinned, "Hehehe, Hinata how do you know you like my chest? I don't remember ever taking my shirt of when I'm near a girl."

The shy hyuuga heiress looked for half a second towards Naruto, or rather his chest mainly, and then averted her gaze from him, "O-oh no...I told him that...now I've got him wondering how I know what he looks like without a shirt...A-and he'll force out of me that I keep a picture of him without a s-shirt..."

Naruto blinked once again at her and then grinned widely at her, "Oh I see! I must be an idiot to forget! I took my shirt off this afternoon to swim with you!"

Hinata slightly shrieked as he said that and remembered that she had been close to Naruto without a shirt, very close as a matter of fact, this afternoon.

Her face turned even brighter red and stood tiptoed out of plain shock and sense of realisation at once, holding her breath in without realising it.

"Ah, It's ok. I guess you are a 'chest-girl' or something. No need to be embarrassed about it. Everyone likes a certain something about the opposite sex...Or atleast that's what Ero-sennin says..." Naruto said and tapped his chin at the 'wise' words of his sensei.

Hinata removed her hands from her mouth as she felt that her blushing slightly resided and heavily breathed in and out.

"Come to think of it I don't really have anything I particularly like..."

"R-really...T-then...what d-does N-Naruto-kun thinks t-that m-ma-makes me l-look...g-good...?" Hinata shyly asked as she slightly stepped forward.

"Ah! I remember already what I like!" Naruto said as he hit with his fist into his open hand, "As long as I remember, I like women that aren't too old in swimsuits so I guess that makes me 'swimsuit-guy'!"

"A-ah...re-really..." Hinata said as she slightly looked away from him again, "...Now I still don't know what he likes about me...oww..."

"Yeah definetely! Because I found you looking extra pretty this afternoon when you got out of the lake still dripping wet and wearing that swimsuit of yours!" Naruto blurted out and soon realised why he hadn't said that earlier that day to her.

"He...Heeh!" Hinata's mouth fell wide open and her eyes went as wide as humanly possible and she gasped at Naruto, "He...he...Naruto-kun...says he found me...looking extra pretty...A-and...he l...looked at me when I wore m-my swimsuit...meaning..."

Her face went bright red once again and this time she fell backwards, fainting as her thoughts raced on.

"Oi Hinata!" Naruto rushed to her aid and caught her before she fell onto the ground.

"Ah crap! You idiot! Why did you have to tell her that! It's the truth but still...! Damnit...Hopefully she'll wake up soon...She normally does so almost a few seconds later. Better carry her some place where she can atleast lie down..."

Naruto picked her up and started carrying her to someplace where she could lie down, but unfortunately, Konoha's parks and forests lacked benches most of the time and now was such a time.

"Damnit...I'm going to make Tsunade-obachan place some more benches here...most of them are used, dirty or just plain broken..." Naruto muttered as he walked trough the trees that led to a grassfield area on top of one of the few hills in Konoha.

As Naruto reached the clear grassfield that stretched out over the hill he sat down spread legged against a tree and placed Hinata in front of him, making her head and body lean against his chest.

Naruto let out a sigh, "Well atleast it's nice out here...The breeze and all...Really feels good..."

Just then, a bit away from the hill, spotlights snapped on, emitting a stage with a piano a couple of guitars and various other instruments on it and in front of the crowd a huge mass of people.

"Hm? Looks like a concert..." Naruto said to himself as a couple of people walked onto the stage, a young woman taking place behind the piano with a microphone sticking out at her mouth's height.

Naruto could hear a faint '1-2-3' and then the band started playing together, their music reaching all the way to the top of the hill.

"Wow they sound good..." Naruto whispered as he softly swayed to the beat of the music.

Just then the woman behind the piano started to do the vocals of the song, "Yozora o miage hitori houkiboshi o mita no. Imasugu aitai yo, dakedo sora wa tobenai kara. Moshi atashi ga houkiboshi ni nareta naraba sora kakunuke tonde iku kitto."

As she continued singing Naruto moved from left to the right one the music and when the chorus came the second time he softly hummed along with it.

"Come on Hinata, you too." Naruto said grinning widely as he rocked the young Hyuuga girl in his arms along with him, though he was starting to get worried since she was out for a pretty long time now.

As if in response to Naruto's worries, Hinata opened her eyes and felt herself being rocked from left to right.

She looked down towards the arms that were wrapped around her and her eyes went wide before she abruptly jumped up, startling the living daylights out of Naruto.

"Hinata! You're awake again! Geez you scared me!"

"G-gomen N-Naruto-kun..." Hinata said blushing as she looked away from him.

"It's ok, now sit down and enjoy the show with me for as long as it lasts." Naruto reached out and grabbed onto her hand, startling her a little bit as he pulled her down to lie against him again.

"This song is really nice..." Naruto said smiling as he rocked along with it.

"A-ah...it is..." Hinata was still blushing red, both due to the fact at where she was sitting and most likely had been lieing for sometime before.

"Come on Hinata! Be more happy! Banzai!" Naruto said cheerful as he took Hinata's arms, raised them in the air and moved the Hyuuga heiress from left to right.

Hinata didn't really instantly get what was happening but her blush slightly faded away from her face as Naruto waved her arms from left to right.

Figuring Hinata got the idea to just be happy, he let her arms fall down again before they got tired and just placed his hands slightly above her hips to rock her from left to right.

"Do you like it Hinata?" Naruto asked smiling at her.

Hinata slightly turned her head and for some reason she felt relaxed for the first time in Naruto's presence and did nothing else but smile at Naruto, "Yeah. It's really nice."

They sat there, rocking from side to side for a couple of minutes, enjoying the warmth of each other's bodies and the song as well.

"Moshi atashi ga houkiboshi ni nareta naraba sora kakunuke tonde iku kitto. Kanarazu todoku kono isshun no hikari de. Anata no ima terashi sora o meguru wa. Atashi ga houkiboshi ni nareta naraba, kitte soba ni ite ageru, donna toki mo." The singer sang as they reached the end of the song.

"Hey Hinata, I have an idea...Stay right here." Naruto said as he got up and took a quick sprint to the edge of the hill.

"Thank you!" Naruto heard the pianist dash singer thank the crowd and quickly made the seal he used a million times by now and use the same jutsu release words as usual, "Tajuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"

An army of Naruto clones that was atleast twice as big as the actual crowd near the stage appeared on the hill in no time at all.

"OI! WE WANT MORE! WE WANT MORE! WE WANT MORE!" Naruto and his entire army of clones yelled at the top of their lungs.

The young lady looked up towards the hill from her piano seat and noticed the entire army of Naruto clones and just blinked, "Kage Bunshins...?"

"COME ON! I'VE GOT A GIRL HERE THAT LOVES THE SONG! PLAY IT AGAIN! HERE I'LL SHOW YOU!" Naruto and his clones yelled as the real Naruto quickly ran towards Hinata.

"N-naruto-kun...Really this isn't..." Hinata began but Naruto just would not listen and lifted her up from the ground by her hand and pulled her trough his army.

"HERE LOOK! SHE REALLY LOVES THE SONG! PLAY IT AGAIN DATTEBAYO!" Naruto yelled in unison with his clones, HInata covering her ears becaus a rough million Naruto's were even loud for her ears.

"What do you guys think?" The pianist asked her fellow band members.

The guitarist shrugged, "Let's help the kid out on his date."

"Alright then guys, from the top a one, a two, a three and..."

Naruto's clones popped off as the band started playing that song again and Naruto turned towards Hinata, "Uhm...Shall we dance Hinata?"

Hinata blushed but slightly nodded before being embraced by Naruto, her heartbeat increasing as she rested her arms on his back and he resting his on her lower back.

She rested her head against Naruto's shoulder and he rested his against hers, as they slowly danced on that hill to the rythem of the music.

Hinata tried her best not to faint right now, as she was being covered in the warmth of Naruto's body and she figred this was her best chance to try once again, "Naruto-kun...I...I..."

"Sssh..." Naruto 'sussed' her and placed a hand on the back of her head as they softly rocked to the music, "It's okay...If you faint I'll just carry you back home and escape the wrath of your father or something."

Naruto grinned widely, both for Hinata as for himself, but his grin quickly faded away as he peacefully closed his eyes and stroke trough Hinata's long silky locks.

Hinata closed her eyes as well, both for not wanting this moment to ever end and because the warmth of Naruto's body made her sleepy.

They slow danced there together like that until the song had reached it's end once again and as it did Naruto opened his eyes again and looked down towards the princess in his arms.

"Did she faint again?" Naruto blinked and then heard her softly breath and felt her clutch onto his shirt and he raised a smile at the sleeping Hyuuga Heiress in his arms.

Naruto looked up to the sky for a moment and then decided it would be best to take his date back to her house so she could properly sleep, so he took her into his arms and carried her home as Hinata continued holding his shirt and resting her head against Naruto's shoulder.

That night, Naruto had the first bit of decent sleep in two days as he didn't have dreams that would shock himself out of his beauty sleep. Instead he dreamt about dancing with Hinata trough the night at the beat of the music being played in the background.

However his dreaming was disturbed rather abruptly by loud knocking on his door.

Naruto grumbled and rolled over in his bed, "Go away...I'm still sleeping..."

There was another knock on the door and Naruto slightly growled as he got out of bed, he wanted and needed his bed.

"If that's Fuzzy-Eyebrows and Super Fuzzy-Eyebrows asking me for morning laps around Konoha I'm going to hit both of them in their faces..." Naruto thought as he rubbed the sleep out of his right eye when he got closer to the door.

He unlocked it as fast as he possibly could and once he pulled the door open, sending a cold breeze over his still warm body, he faced a certain red-haired guy, "I apologize for coming at this time of day. I know most people still sleep at this hour but I had no other choice."

"...Gaara? What are you doing here?" Naruto asked the Kazekage, still half asleep as he didn't quite realise that Gaara shouldn't be here at all.

"It's a long story. Mind if we come in and discuss some important matters?" Gaara asked without moving anything other then his mouth on his face, or body for that matter.

"We?" Naruto asked as he looked confused at Gaara, for he was sure that the red head from sand didn't suddenly have a split personality or an extra head growing out of the back of his neck.

"Temari, Hurry up and come already. Uzumaki Naruto is letting us in."

"Hey I didn't say that!" Naruto instinctively replied but then realised that Temari was the person that was with Gaara and thus the fifth person he had send a letter to was now in Konoha as well.

As Temari walked up to the door with her bags, since Gaara travelled with little luggage, she mumbled something before turning around to face Naruto with sleepy eyes.

"Tired?" Naruto asked the blonde kunoichi from Sand, who nodded in reply as she put a hand in front of her mouth and let a yawn out.

"Yeah me too...Let's go inside then...It's cold out there..." Naruto said as he stepped aside to let his early guests walk into his home.

As soon as Temari had set a couple of feet into Naruto's home, she dropped the bags that she was carrying and stumbled forward.

Gaara on the other hand, effortlessly stepped over the dropped bags and Naruto followed them after closing the door.

Temari got into Naruto's large room which contained both a small kitchen with all it needed, a dinner table, a couch, a tv and one large bed to name a few things that were present in the room.

At seeing Naruto's large bed she cried out, "Salvation!"

She quickly jumped in and tugged herself tightly in as she rested her head on the pillow.

"What she said!" Naruto added and raised a fist in the air before jumping into his bed as well, resting his head on the other half of his pillow.

Gaara stared and blinked, stared again and waited, wondering how long it would take them to realize it.

As if on cue both Naruto's eyes and Temari's went wide open, both of them also slightly turning red in their face.

"Get out!" Temari yelled as she kicked Naruto out of 'her' bed, which sent the blonde across the room, crashing into the nearest wall and being wide awake.

Temari tugged herself in again and Gaara turned his head towards Naruto, "...I guess that made you wide awake, did it not?"

Naruto got back up and rubbed the remaining sleep out of his eyes, "It's not like I can sleep now that she has taken my bed..."

"Then, allow me to explain exactly why we are here in Konoha..."

"Is it for some political stuff with Tsunade-obachan?" Naruto asked, not really being sure if they came here because Temari wanted to or for official business.

"No, not for work. Apparantly Temari..." Gaara started but stopped his sentence as he heard Temari growl at him from Naruto's bed.

"...Let's skip that part then for now...Anyway, we were heading towards our usual hotel that we use when staying in Konoha. But apparantly Hokage-sama had been rampaging there for matters that the clerk refused to tell us and thus we had no other place to go...Since apparantly most hotels were either booked full or plainly not open at this time...So we decided to first try Nara Shikamaru's house on request of my sister...But he found it 'too troublesome' to provide us with shelter due to matters with his mother I believe...So the only option after that was your place."

"Wait...Shelter? How long do you guys on staying here!" Naruto asked wide eyed as he wasn't sure if this meant exactly what he thought it meant.

"Well..." Gaara replied and looked towards his sister.

"We're crashing over here for as long as possible, I call for this bed, it's really nice and comfy..." Temari stated waving her hand up in the air.

"And how long is 'for as long as possible'...?" Naruto asked, "Come on, this is a small place! Three people living here is going to be nuts!...Though, Temari gets to stay here...er...Wait...How am I going to sleep if she is taking my bed!"

Glancing at the half-sleeping Temari for half a second before looking back at the blonde, Gaara said, "Until there is vacancy in one of the finer hotels...If there is no vacancy then for as long as Temari pleases, I assume..."

"WHAAA!" Naruto yelled and then quieted down and let out a sigh, "I guess it can't be helped...I'll go talk to Tsunade-obachan in a while or something..."

"Thank you, We'll behave as properly as possible...I guess we should discuss sleeping locations after Temari has had her rest..."

Naruto scratched his head, "From the looks of it she already decided..." He thought as Temari hugged his pillow, "Yeah sure. I'll go shower and all now and then make us all some nice Ramen breakfast."

Naruto jumped up straight, quickly grabbed what he needed and headed into the bathroom to get his wake-up shower.

After he got out from it and back into his room, fully dressed of course, he saw Gaara meditating on his couch, or atleast resting his eyes while sitting cross legged on the couch and Temari still tightly tugged into his bed, "Maybe this won't be that bad...They seem quiet enough..."

Naruto walked to his kitchen area, grabbed three cups of instant ramen and started warming them up in his microwave one by one.

As each of the cups of ramen were being warmed up in the microwave, Naruto took three glasses and filled each of them with nice cold milk he grabbed out of his fridge.

A full three minutes later, the ramen was done and Nartuo served everything on his small dinner table. Realising he lacked two additional chairs, Naruto decided to grab a pair of chairs he bought incase friends came over for dinner, not that they did that very often but it happened from time to time, so Naruto thought the extra chairs would come in handy and bought them.

"Alright everyone, breakast is ready." He announced with a wide grin as he placed the two chairs adjacent to his own.

Gaara rose back up to his feet and turned around to face Naruto, waiting for Temari to get out of Naruto's bed so they could all eat breakfast together like he was used to back home, "Temari, wake up..."

Temari didn't move in Naruto's bed at all, stil sound asleep as she appeared to be.

Gaara just silently stared at his sleeping sister and Naruto figured it was up to him to wake the blonde kunoichi.

As he cracked his knuckles to get ready and jump onto his bed to wake Temari, Gaara glanced over towards him and seemed to be slightly amused, as if he knew what was coming.

Naruto took a leap, landed on his bed and started shaking Temari to make her wake up, "Breakfast is ready Tema-..."

A fist met Naruto's face and he was knocked of his own bed and Temari slightly rose up from it and looked sleepily towards Naruto, "Oh, sorry...Natural reflexes..."

"Natural reflexes...what the hell..." Naruto rubbed his aching face.

"She always hits Kankurou in his face when he tries to wake her up..." Gaara ellaborated, an ever so small smirk forming on his face out of sheer enjoyment out of the thought of seeing his older brother fly out of Temari's room.

"Yeah I do and..." Temari sniffed, the smell of freshly cooked ramen entering her nostrils, "Is that breakfast I'm smelling?"

"That's what I've been trying to wake you up for..." Naruto replied grumpy as he took his seat at the table.

Temari shrugged and joined Naruto at the table and Gaara did as well.

"Itadakimasu." The three of them said in unison, each in their own unique way.

Naruto grabbed his chopsticks hold them ready when he felt something that was kind of awkward.

He looked at Temari, who supported her head with one arm, staring at her cup of ramen and then at Gaara who just plainly stared at his cup.

"What's wrong? You guys don't like ramen?" Naruto asked as he switched looks between Temari and Gaara.

"It's not something a kid like you could understand..." Temari said and let out a deep sigh.

"Ey! I'm not a kid!" Naruto retorted as he glared momentarily at Temari.

"Yes you are, you are younger then me so you are a kid to me."

"Only a few months, doesn't really count as being older then..."

Temari blinked at Naruto before bursting out in laughter, "Only a few months, you say? I'm two years older then you!"

"What! You're seventeen! I thought you were sixteen at most!"

Temari laughed a little more before letting out another sigh and rested her head on her hand once more, "Nope, I'm really seventeen...Seventeen...and love sick..."

"Huh? Love sick?" Naruto blinked at her after she let out another deep sigh, "Could it be that she...she already likes someone?"

"Uhuh, that's why I said a kid like you wouldn't understand. Even if you got a letter as sweet as the one I got..." Temari took her chopsticks and twirled the ramen in her cup around a few times,"But I still should eat. Having no energy won't do me any good when I'm going to try and find out who it is."

"Letter? Could she mean...And love sick! Ok...This...was unexpected."

"I see. And what about you Gaara? You don't like ramen or what?" Naruto asked smiling as he turned his face towards Gaara.

"I don't know. This is going to be the first time I'm going to eat it." Gaara stated as he looked up from his cup of ramen.

"WHAT! YOU NEVER HAD RAMEN BEFORE!" Naruto yelled in surprise as Temari stared at Gaara as well.

"Gaara, I thought you had ramen with me and Kankurou before..." She blinked at her younger brother.

"No, I was busy working then and didn't join you for dinner, remember." Gaara replied as he looked at Temari.

"Well...Try it already! You'll definetely like it! Ramen is the best thing in the world!" Naruto cheered.

Temari wanted to say something, but she decided not to speak her thoughts, "No ramen is NOT the best thing in the world..."

"Then...I'll try it..." Gaara grabbed his chopsticks and decided to give the ramen a try.

Though Temari didn't find ramen the greatest food or whatever in the world, she was just as curious as Naruto to see Gaara's reaction to eating ramen, so she stared at Gaara's chopsticks along with Naruto as he reached into the cup with them. Gaara took a couple of noodles out of the cup, placed them in his mouth, ate them and both Temari and Naruto watched him munch down the noodles.

As soon as he swallowed them Naruto decided to ask what he thought about ramen, "And? And?"

Gaara stared back down to his cup and took another bunch of noodles and ate them as well.

"Well?" Temari asked, curious to find out as well.

"It tastes..." Gaara started and Naruto and Temari nodded at him to continue and he turned his head towards them, "...Like ramen."

Naruto and Temari fell of their chairs and quickly got back up as Naruto held his arms in front of him, his hands clutched into fists, though he wasn't angry at all, "Ofcourse it does! But do you like it!"

"I like it..." Gaara stated and chewed down some more ramen and then added, "A lot."

"Haha! See ramen's the best!" Naruto stated cheerfully as he sat back down and started chewing down his own ramen.

"Not really...Temari's soup is better..." Gaara stated, making Naruto halfly choke on some noodles and Temari giggle at Naruto's reaction.

After breakfast, Naruto took care of the dishes, or rather the glasses and the empty cups of ramen.

Temari lay back down on Naruto's bed and stretched out, "Now what to do until the rest of Konoha wakes up...?"

Gaara silently sat on the couch, with his eyes closed, meditating to pass time and Naruto walked up towards her, "Why not train or something?"

"I'd rather gather information...Don't need much training or anyhting in particular at the moment...I need information." Temari told herself mostly.

"Information? What kind of information?" Naruto asked as he sat down on the edge of his bed.

Temari sat up and sat in indian style on Naruto's bed, "I guess you're one of the people I could ask. Do you know a guy named Nemar?"

"Yeah, it's me...But I guess I can't tell you that for now..." Naruto thought as he looked at Temari with his eyes that said 'I-think-I-know-about-that', "Now that you mention it I've been hearing some rumors lately about a guy who'se called that or such..."

"You do!" Temari's eyes widened and she grabbed a tight hold onto Naruto's arm, "Please, tell me!"

"Er...Y-yeah! Sure!" Naruto replied and slightly sweatdropped, "Alright how to formulate this...Damnit I wish she'd just wrote a reply to the letter so I could reply back..."

"Ehm...Let me think...I believe he's some kind of guy that likes a couple of kunoichi here in Konohagakure...From what I heard he likes Sakura-chan, Ino, Tenten and Hinata...And then you I guess..." Naruto said as he looked like he was digging deep in his memories and thoughts.

"I see..." Temari said and let go of Naruto's arm.

"Hey, you okay?" Naruto asked as he looked at Temari.

"Ofcourse I am! I'll definetely win that guy for myself! Those girls aren't really competition! Sure, some are kind of cute but my looks stand out way more." Temari said and winked at Naruto, who grinned sheepishly at her.

"Know where I can find Nemar-kun?" Temari asked Naruto, who shook his head in reply, "I don't really know much else about that guy..."

"I want to meet him..." Temari let out a sigh.

"Naruto...If you don't mind I'll be using your couch, it is comfortable enough and I can sleep while sitting so I guess it's best if I take the couch..." Gaara stated all of a sudden.

"Huh? Sure." Naruto replied.

"I'm taking your bed!" Temari quickly said and dropped back down on Naruto's bed, closing her eyes to enjoy the softness of his bed.

"Eeeeh! That was unfair..."Naruto let out a sigh and then looked around, "I don't think I have another place to sleep...My storage room is too messy and doesn't have a bed..."

"You could always sleep on the ground..." Temari stated with one eye open.

"I'm not going to sleep on the ground..." Naruto replied and then he realised something, "Hey, Temari. I have an idea but er...you'll have to trust me..."

"Hm? What the hell are you talking about...?" Temari asked as she closed her eyes again.

Naruto dropped down onto his bed, moved his head to close to her right ear and put a hand on the side of his mouth before whispering in her ear, "My bed is big enough for two people...but you do need to trust me then..."

Temari's eyes went wide open and she shot up from the bed, "You little perv! What the hell are you thinking! You and me sha-..."

"Trust me! I'll be good! Really dattebayo! If I do anything you don't like you can smash my skull with..." Naruto then blinked and noticed the kunoichi's favourite weapon of choice wasn't even in her reach and pointed towards a random empty place on his bed, "Huh? Where's your huge ass fan?"

Temari placed her fists on both her sides before stating the reason of her fan not being near her, "In my bag along with my other belongings...got tired of carrying it on my back once we reached the gates of Konoha..."

"Ah I see..." Naruto said nodding, "Anyway, If I'm doing anything perverted, you can smack me with it or something like that..."

Temari gave him a look that said 'I can trust you, huh?' and then she let out a sigh, "Alright you and I can sleep in the same bed...If you however do so much as tempt to doing anything perverted I'm going to split your skull in half."

"Alright! Thank you Temari!" Naruto slightly jumped up and spread his arms and then stopped and blinked, "Er...It's better if I do not do that, right...?"

Temari grabbed onto both of Naruto's arms and lowered them, "Indeed. Maybe if we become closer friends...MAYBE." She emphased the keyword of the sentence just to make sure Naruto didn't get any weird thoughts.

Just then something occured to Naruto that he heard from Ayame before, "Uhm...Temari...?"

"What is it?" Temari blinked at Naruto as she sat on her knees the same way as Naruto.

"You...do wear a decent amount of clothing when sleeping...right?"

Temari blinked as a slight blush appeared on her face before she slapped Naruto of the bed, "Ofcourse I do! What the hell were you thinking!"

Naruto rubbed his red cheek and looked up towards the still partly blushing Temari who also looked pissed of more or less, "No, no, no! It isn't like that! Really...I just heard that some girls like to not wear anything at all when going to bed..."

"Well I DO wear sleeping garments when going to bed!"

Gaara opened one of his eyes and stared towards Temari, "Only when staying anywhere outside of Suna...Otherwise you tend to wear almost nothing..."

"How do you know that?" Naruto and Temari asked in unison, with Temari slightly blushing and Naruto with an expression of utter confusement.

Gaara shrugged and shook his head, "I do the laundry for the three of us in Suna more often then you might think Temari..."

"Ehehe..." Temari stuck her tongue slightly out of her mouth and scratched her cheek, looking innocently towards Gaara's.

"Anyway, Is there somewhere I can train in peace? I need to improve my control over my sand...It's harder to control it now that I no longer have the Shukaku within me..." Gaara stated as he got up from the couch.

"Need my help to reinvent your automatic sand shield defense, Gaara?" Temari asked.

"If you want to...Naruto, can we train somewhere?" Gaara asked the blonde shinobi again.

"Hm...I think the training grounds are still empty at this time...So I guess that's a safe place to train huh..." Naruto said as he got up as well.

"Then show us where it is..." Gaara replied as he turned around ready to leave.

"GOOD MORNING YOUTHFUL ONES! WELCOME TO GAI-SENSEI'S AND HIS ADORABLE STUDENT LEE'S MORNING TRAINING SESSION!" A bright sparkle, or rather continues sparkling, made Naruto and Temari squint their eyes and Gaara just closed them entirely.

"Gai-sensei! You are so cool when you say that!" More sparkling occurred, making Temari softly curse.

"Lee! My adorable young flourishing student! I thank you! Now! What shall be our first training session involve with our bright youthful friends from Suna and Naruto-kun!"

"Gai-sensei, how about three thousand crunches!" Lee suggested with full excitement.

"I have a better idea...how about I use my fan to knock you two nutcases out of orbit..." Temari muttered.

"Did you say something beautiful youthful kunoichi from Suna?" Gai asked as he struck his nice-guy pose for the millionth time since they arrived at the training grounds.

"...No." Temari repeated as she still squinted, trying not go blind from both of the green suited men's teeth.

"Temari, no complaining. This is good training for both of us." Gaara stated calmly.

"Hmf..." Temari snorted at her brother's reaction.

"Ya know, I just remembered something you guys. See you later!" Naruto said and jogged off.

"Hey! You can't just leave us here! You bastard!" Temari yelled at Naruto, who stopped jogging off and jogged back towards Temari and Gaara.

He rubbed the back of his head,"Yeah I forgot, you guys can't get into my place without the keys..."

Temari put her hands in her side and closed her eyes as she stuck her nose up in the air, "Yeah that's true as well but I was more talking about the fact that..."

"Here." Naruto held out a key to Temari. She opened her eyes and she stuck her hand out open and Naruto layed the key in her hand.

"What's this key for?" Temari asked as she blinked at it.

"To open the door to my place!" Naruto said, who had already made some distance from them again, "Don't lose it! Later now!"

Temari gritted her teeth, clutched onto her fan and was about to launch an attack at the running blonde but decided to keep her calm and let it all out in one heavy sigh.

"I guess it can't be helped..." Temari stated and put the key in the place where only a woman can keep something small. She then looked up to find Lee staring at her with a flushed red face.

"Temari-san...you..." Lee said and then fiercely shook his head, "Gai-sensei! I'm thinking unyouthful things again! Only this time about Temari-san!"

"No! My adorable student! You are losing your innocent youthfulness! This shall not happen! Quickly! We shall start training to get rid of your unyouthful thoughts!"

"But Gai-sensei! Temari-san just put a key between her b-b-..."

"Lee! That's enough! There's nothing wrong with a woman having a..." Gai looked over towards Temari's bust and coughed, "Anyway! Training! Yes!"

Gaara glanced over towards Temari, who clutched onto her fan again and gritted her teeth while glaring at Gai and Lee with narrowed eyes.

"...I guess I'll thank all three of them for providing me with entertainment afterwards..." He thought as he looked back in front of him, towards the men in green, "Most likely I can still practice sand control while watching the three of them..."

Temari let out a howl and brought her fan smashing down into the ground, only missing the two men by their pure reaction of shock made them pull back instinctively.

"Entertainment indeed..." Gaara thought as he continued standing there with his arms fold.

Meanwhile Naruto had rushed back into his house.

Nearly stumbling over Temari's bags he decided to quickly place them out of the path and placed them onto his bed. He quickly went back to the bathroom and stood in front of his mirror, "Henge no jutsu!"

As the smoke cleared up Naruto stared into the mirror and noticed he was exactly the same version of Yondaime as he was the day before.

"Alright, Looks are ok..." Naruto said and momentarily paused before flashing a wide,"And it sounds like my voice is perfect as well."

"Alright, Off to Ichiraku's then to see Ayame...Just got to remember to also introduce myself as Nemar...To everyone." Naruto, or perhaps rather Nemar, said to himself.

He then quickly headed out of his house, locking the door on his way out, and headed off towards Ichiraku's Ramen. It was still early in the morning, but life in Konoha was waking up rather rapidly, the streets already starting to fill with mothers that were heading out to buy groceries for their families, children that were up early playing outside and just people going on about their business.

And Naruto started noticing that, amongst those few that were up and bright in the morning, girls were staring after him. He even could hear a random 'Kawaii!' squeal somewhere on his way, which made him scratch his head, "Well, atleast my looks are appreciated by the girls..."

In the nearby distance he saw Ichiraku's place pop up and he smiled, hoping that Ayame was already up and working. As he entered the ramen stand, he had no need to hope if Ayame was present as her cheerful voice welcomed him, "Welcome to Ichiraku's Ramen."

"Yo Ayame-chan." Naruto said cheerful, his voice as Nemar making Ichiraku-san and Ayame's head turn towards him.

"N-Na..." Ayame stuttered, surprised to see Naruto here so sudden and in that form.

"What's wrong? You haven't forgotten about me, your good friend Nemar-kun, now have you?" Naruto asked with a wide and happy grin on his face.

Suddenly, Ayame threw herself partly over the counter and hugged Naruto, "Ow ofcourse I haven't! I was just surprised to see you! It's been a long while!"

"Ahahaha...Yeah it really has been sometime now..." Naruto said as he rubbed the back of his head and then added in a whisper, "But what's up with hugging me all of a sudden...?"

"Ahh...You are as cool as always Na...er...Nemar-kun!" Ayame said as she pulled Naruto even closer and then also whispered to him, "Listen if you are going to have me acting like I'm an old friend of yours it's ok to hug you...and thus it's ok to make those girls across the street jealous."

"Hahaha...I see...Still as sweet as ever, huh?" Naruto replied grinning.

Ayame slightly pulled away from him, her arms still around his neck, and blinked at him with a small blush on her face. Her moment of astonishment, or shock depending on your point of view, soon washed away however, "Can I get you some ramen, on the house. After all it's been such a long while!"

"Alright!" Naruto cheerfully threw his fist up into the air.

"Er..." Naruto said as he looked at his fist, pulled it back down and rubbed the back of his head with that ever so wide grin still on his face, "I mean, Yeah sure..."

"Ayame, when did you meet this handsome and wealthy looking young man?" Ichiraku-san asked as Ayame reached out for an bowl of ramen that was already done.

"Ehm...when you ask? Ehm..." Ayame smiled sheepishly at her father.

"A couple of years ago. We had some fun times with eachother and..." Naruto started but stopped as the atmosphere became quite heavy and he saw an evil sparkle in Ichiraku-san's eyes.

"Hm...'fun times', you say huh...?"

"Er...Yeah! We really laughed a lot and all so they're considered fun times, right?" Naruto replied.

"Ah..." Ichiraku-san replied, the ever sparkle no longer present. After all, after many years as a businessmen he could tell when someone was lying or not, or atleast so he thought.

"I see...You know you kind of resemble our finest customer...Some coincidence..." Ichiraku-san as he turned around to make more ramen.

"Hahaha...Yeah...coincidence." Naruto replied, "Do I really look like Yondaime that much?"

"Here you go." Ayame said as she placed the bowl of ramen down on the counter.

"Ah, Thank you Ayame-chan..." Naruto said as he grabbed a pair of chopsticks, "It's even my miso-ramen! Really thank you!"

"Itadakimasu." Naruto said in a calm and civilised manner, though he really wanted to scream it at the top of his lungs. After all, any free ramen meal is always good, great even in Naruto's opinion.

"So, what brings you here?" Ayame asked as she leaned on the counter with her arms and rested her hand on her folded hands, smiling politely at Naruto.

"Ah..Just some business." Naruto said as he put his bowl back down on the counter after quickly gobbling a bit of the ramen up.

"I see. Well if you're free tonight, come by my house alright? Can you still find it? After all it's been such a long time since I showed you where it is..."

Naruto tried to finish the ramen as fast as he could without making a mess before answering, "Ofcourse I remember it. And if not I'll just follow the sweet scent."

Ayame blushed until Naruto finished the last of the ramen and added grinning, "Of your great ramen cookings."

She looked kind of surprised at him and then let out a sigh, "Just don't come to my place too late, alright? I need my sleep as you know."

"I know. Then, see you tonight Ayame. Gotzusosama!" Naruto said and then ran off.

Figuring running was unneccesary, since it was still quite early and he wasn't sure if Sakura would already start training at this time, he slowed down to a walking pace. Then out in the distance he saw the Hokage's Tower and a certain pink-haired kunoichi up ahead as well.

Naruto smiled and decided to plan ahead how he'd handle the situation, "I guess...I can do this..." Naruto told himself as he slightly increased his pace.

As he closed the distance between him, he found it right to get her attention now and called out to her like he never did before, "Haruno Sakura!"

Sakura stopped and turned around to see a young blonde walk towards her, "Na-naruto..?"

She blinked at the person who walked stragiht towards her, "No...This person...isn't Naruto...He's different...Though he is blonde as well." Inner Sakura just then cried out, "What the hell! That doesn't make him Naruto! This guy looks pretty good too!"

The blonde she didn't know or seemed to be famliar with bowed down before her and took her hand, "I'm Nemar. I'm honoured to finally be able to face you."

The blonde kissed her hand and then looked up towards her with a smile on his face and with his bright blue eyes looking straight into hers, a red blush appearing on her face.

"N-N-N..." Sakura stuttered for the first time of her life as Nemar got back up to his feet.

"Nemar..." Nemar said, "Crap! Didn't she get the letter and did she just totally got embarrassed!"

"Y-you're..." Sakura said and then shook her head though she was still red in her face by his actions, "Nice to meet you Nemar-kun..."

"I know that this kind of awkward timing though so..." Nemar said and then noticed he was being stared, or better yet glared at by none other then the Hokage, Tsunade.

"You..." Tsunade said as she narrowed her eyes at Nemar.

"Oh shit, Tsunade-obachan! This is going to become trouble..." Naruto thought as Tsunade glared at him.

"Tsunade-sama...?" Sakura asked as she looked somewhat disbelieving towards her sensei.

"You...Come with me, this instant." She commanded Naruto.

"I hope to see you soon again...Sakura." Naruto said to Sakura, not adding the -chan to it to give him away and followed Tsunade calmly into the Hokage's Tower.

As they entered Tsunade's office, Shizune who was already present, pretty much gasped at sight of Nemar Naruto, though of course she didn't know it was actually Naruto. Tsunade seated herself behind her desk, folded her hands togheter with her elbows leaning on the desk and glared over the edge of her hands towards Naruto, "Shizune, leave us..."

"What's wrong, Tsunade-sama? This person..." Shizune said.

"I said leave!" Tsunade commanded more fierce.

"U-Understood..." Shizune bowed and quickly left the room.

As Shizune was out of the room and out of hearing distance, Tsunade narrowed her eyes at the blonde before her once more.

"Who the hell are you?" Tsunade said in a tone that Naruto didn't like at all.

"However I'd doubt she'd be able to figure out I'm lying...Tsunade-obachan is smart but there are many blondes out there right! She can't think it's me..." Naruto thought as he grinned widely at Tsunade.

"Didn't I make myself clear?" Tsunade asked, shaking him out of his thoughts.

"No, very clear." Naruto stated as calm as possibly in front of what appeared to be an angry Tsunade,"I'm Nemar, Sixteen years old..."

"You're lying, and you and I both know it..." Tsunade replied, interrupting him before he could possibly say more.

Naruto looked surprised at Tsunade and blinked, "Whatever are you talking about Hokage-sama?"

"Right now there is just one alive person that resembles the Fourth Hokage slightly and even he has distinctive other looks then the Fourth...And then here before me stands a person that's an exact copy of the Fourth...Are you telling me to be ignorant enough to let someone like you go and..." Tsunade wanted to continue but just then the door went open and Jiraiya stepped in.

"Yo Tsunade! I cam in early like you asked to discuss..." Jiraiya said grinning and then noticed the young blonde in the room, "Naruto? Tsunade what is he doing here...? Have you told him about...?"

Jiraiya looked questioningly at the Tsunade who was still glaring at the blonde in front of her, who just then decided to turn around to face Jiraiya.

"Yo sensei. Long time no see." Naruto said grinning widely at the white-haired Sannin who'se eyes went wide and his mouth hung open and could only utter one word to come out of his mouth before going back to his state of surprise, "Y-you..."

Naruto grinned widely at Jiraiya, who probably thought it was the Fourth for a second or two, but then Naruto noticed his mouth shut tight and a grin formed on the Ero-Sennin's face.

"Geez, Really you...That's why you wanted the picture..." Jiraiya chuckled and shook his head, "Wanted to know how it feels huh?"

Naruto grinned widely at Jiraiya before replying, "Sorry sensei, you got it all wrong. It's not for that reason."

"Oh...?" Jiraiya looked interested at Naruto but then noticed Tsunade's glare focussed on him.

"Jiraiya...start explaining before I rip you a new one..." Tsunade threatend.

"Ahahaha. No need to do so Tsunade. You see this really is Na-..." Jiraiya started but Naruto quickly covered his mouth to shut him up.

"I'll just show her, Don't call me by my name out loud. Promised?" Naruto looked toward Tsunade who nodded.

"Alright, figured as much from my Tsunade-obachan." Naruto grinned widely and before Tsunade could do much else then widen her eyes, Naruto returned to his normal self.

"...I see...So you did that to become close to Sakura... Really you..." Tsunade said in a whisper, though loud enough for Naruto to hear and then spoke louder again, "Jiraiya, is this another one of your crazy ideas?"

"No, no. It's my own idea..." Naruto whispered, "Henge no jutsu!"

Naruto popped back into his Yondaime form and now spoke normally again,"And it isn't for the reason you think it's for, Hokage-sama."

He then explained everything about his plan to get a date on Valentine's Day and how this would help him see who was right for him, basically everything that came up in his mind and he was able to remember.

"Oh..." Jiraiya said as he walked over to behind Tsunade, "For Valentine's Day...I see..."

As Jiraiya placed a hand on Tsunade's shoulder she threw him a quick glance and then let out a sigh, "I think you should confront them as you normally are. You're a great kid and they should like you for who you are."

"I know. But, if I said I like them when being 'normal'...then most likely, they'll think it's a joke or something. Therefor I can let them get to know me while I'm in this form...Even my looks are different, I'm still me. And after all..." Naruto said and raised a smile, "When a person loves you, they love you for whp you are and not for what you look like right?"

Tsunade blinked, "Where did you get that wisdom from? You sound like a totally different and actually mature person."

Naruto broke his smile into a wide grin, "Sensei told me that. Also, I guess training helped a lot with growing up. And er..." He scratched his cheek, "Probably lots of other stuff..."

Tsunade closed her eyes and smiled, "Looks like you can teach people decency after all, Jiraiya."

"I have my moments." Jiraiya smirked and nodded towards Naruto.

"What's up with these two...They act kind of strange do they not? Hm..." Naruto thought as he looked at the two Sannin.

"Well then I guess we'll have to make 'you' an 'official' resident and shinobi of Konoha then. Information?" Tsunade grabbed an empty scroll and a pen to write with. The door was abruptly opened again and Tsunade looked up to see who it was.

"Excuse us for interrupting Tsunade-sama!" Naruto heard Sakura and Tenten's voice apologize from behind him.

"You guys..." Tsunade said blinking at the door.

Naruto slowly turned around and blinked as well as he found Ino, Hinata, Sakura, Temari and Tenten standing in the doorway.

"Wow, this is a surprise and somewhat embarrassing. All five of you here, even my desert flower." Naruto said as he rubbed the back of his head with a grin on his face.

All the girls looked at Temari, who slightly turned red in her face, both for being stared at and for being called a 'desert flower' out in public.

"Even the Hyuuga princess is here. My, I didn't expect to meet you so soon after your reply. Anyway I guess you ladies sure have a knack for timing. I was just about to give my information to Hokage-sama." Naruto turned back towards Tsunade as Hinata hid herself behind Tenten out of embarrassment.

"My name is Nemar, Sixteen years old. Chuunin level shinobi." He paused to smirk at Tsunade who threw a glare at him, "I've been trained under the great and honourable sensei, Jiraiya-sama, until I was taken by the enemy during a mission. Unfortunately Jiraiya-sensei was forced to leave before he had the chance to find out if I was still alive or not. I heard he desperately searched for me from the town we were staying in during the time, but due to circumstances else where he was forced to return. After that I've lived at that town for about three years before heading out see the previous chuunin exam that was held in Konoha. Atleast I believe it was the last. It was where I first saw the girls and well..."

Naruto turned his head to smile at the girls, who were partly blushing and partly on his lips to listen to his story.

"Anyway, after that I searched for Jiraiya-sensei again and learned that he was out training a new student of his. Then after I traveled some more I learned they had returned to Konoha and I decided to come back to Konoha. And that's when I well...Decided to do what I'm good at and gather information from an old friend of mine about where the girls lived I met during the chuunin exam so I could meet them again. I think that pretty much covers it."

"You do realise most of that won't come on the record right?" Tsunade raised an eyebrow at Naruto.

"Ofcourse, just as long as you got my name down and my rank as Chuunin level shinobi and I'm okay with it." Naruto grinned at Tsunade who muttered something and wrote the last part down.

"Then, I guess I'll go and let the girls know me better. Jiraiya-sensei, I'll see you later. Hokage-sama, thank you for your audiance." Naruto said and bowed before turning around and walked towards the door.

The girls cleared a path for him to walk trough as they still watched him. Once outside Tsunade's office, Naruto stopped walking, looked over his shoulder and grinned at the girls, "I'll come get my headband and chuunin vest later. Well girls, are you coming with me?"

As Naruto started walking, the girls quickly close the door to Tsunade's office and followed Naruto.

"Hehehe...He really is quite devious huh?" Jiraiya asked grinning widely.

"Tsch...I guess we'll promote 'Naruto' then as well. Assuming you find him Chuunin level." Tsunade said as she supported her head on her fist.

"He is. Don't wory. Anyway, you haven't told him yet, have you?"

"Ofcourse not...They'll find out soon enough. As will Naruto about that plan..." Tsunade said and let out a deep sigh.

Once Naruto and his group of five girls left the tower, Ino swung her arms around Naruto's neck and jumped onto his back.

"I-Ino!" Sakura said in plain surprise, "You can't just jump Nemar-kun like that!"

"This must be how Sasuke felt huh..." Naruto thought and grinned sheepishly.

"Sakura, don't you get it. He likes all five of us and we have to find out if we like him and he has to find out which one of us he likes the most. And I'm not going to leave any opportunity alone to impress my Nemar-kun!" Ino replied and stuck her tongue out at Sakura.

"If that's the case, then it's a fight I'll win." Temari said as she walked up to the front of Naruto and spontaneously hugged him, turning Naruto's face red as both blonde girls pressed their bodies against his.

"Temari! That is unfair! Now your just the same as Ino!" Tenten said as she tried to pull the kunoichi from Sungakure from Naruto's body.

"Yeah let him have some air! Geez..." Sakura said as she tried to pull Ino off Naruto.

"Er...Girls?" Naruto said as he was having trouble to maintain perfect balance while being held and pulled in two directions.

"Girls!" Naruto said louder as the two blonde girls pretty much started to push their nails into his skin to hold on.

"OI!" Naruto yelled at the top of his lungs and all the pulling suddenly stopped and the nails retracted from his skin.

Naruto let out a heavy sigh, "Listen up...I really do like all of you...And apparantly you all like how I look at least. But I'm not looking for just a girl that likes me for how I look. I want a girl that loves me for who I am. And I need to get to know all of better as well. Really, you're all beautiful and you can hug me if you like...though er...well...yeah...just don't do it too much I guess ehehehe...Anyway, you won't be able to impress me with just your looks."

Ino and Temari let go off Naruto and all the girls looked at him as he looked towards the ground.

"You can understand right? I want someone that really loves me." Naruto said and in the following silence the girls looked at him with trembling eyes.

"So with about ten days remaining untill Valentine's Day, I'm going to get to know all of you as much as possible. But I want to know who wants to go on a date with me."

Naruto's eyes went over all the girls and then addressed them one at a time,"Ino, Do you want to go out on a date with me?"

Ino giggled, blushed slightly and then answered, "Of course I'll go out with my Nemar-kun."

"Sakura, what about you?"

"I...Alright, I'd like to get to know you better." Sakura answered nodding and then averting her gaze from his.

"Tenten...?" Naruto asked and smiled at the weapons mistress.

"You already know my answer, I want to know you better as well." Tenten said smiling back at him.

"Eh...Temari, seeing you here I think I can guess your reply as well...But I could be wrong so...Do you want to go out on a date with me?" Naruto asked as he sheepishly grinned and rubbed the back of his head.

"I didn't come all the way here for nothing. It's not like I have much else to do here either...So..." Temari turned slightly red in her face and then grinned widely, "Let's go out on a date!"

Temari all of a sudden jumped around Naruto's/Nemar's neck, shocking not only the blonde but Sakura, Ino and Tenten as well and they shouted in unison, "That's unfair Temari-san!"

"All is fair in love and war." Temari's reply was as she grinned widely.

"It's alright, I rather not be in the middle of a tug-o-war again...If you girls want you can give me a hug as well later on..." Naruto said and then turned red in his face as he avoided the looks of Ino, Sakura and Tenten.

As Temari still hugged him, Naruto turned his eyes towards the last girl and at seeing her, his eyes softened, "And then last but not least...Hinata...I guess you are the only one who isn't going out on a date with me, huh?"

The other girls, even Temari, turned to look at the shy Hyuuga heiress who was blushing and averting her gaze from the blonde.

"I...I..." Hinata stuttered as she turned brighter crimson.

"It's alright...I know you already like someone. You won't hurt anyone by refusing to go out on a date with me." Naruto said grinning widely at her, "Since I'm sure I'll just have to go as Naruto towards you and ask you out for another date, I'm sure I'll get to know you better that way then this way..."

"Huh? Hinata likes..." Sakura said surprised as she blinked at Hinata.

"A guy! Oh my god Hinata!" Tenten added just as surprised as Sakura.

"Hinata, I didn't expect you to have a boyfriend before me! You better not let that guy take advantage of you!" Ino said as she clutched her fists.

"T-take advantage...? I-I d-don't think h-h-he c-can...c-can he? A-and...h-he's...n-not my b-b-b-boyfriend." She said the last part in a whisper but it was still loud enough for Naruto and the others to hear.

"Listen up Hinata! Just because your shy you shouldn't let that guy do whatever he wants to you! Some guys take advantage of shy girls like you! They tend to..." Ino said loud and then whispered something into Hinata's ear, what made her eyes grow wide and then Ino added another part, "Or..."

Hinata shivered for half a second and then blushed crimson red.

"So you better stand up for yourself girl!" Ino said and patted the tomato-red faced girl on her back.

"Thanks a lot Ino. Now Hinata will have perverted thoughts when I see her next time." Naruto cursed in his mind and then decided to speak up again, "Hinata, I still want to know you more. No need to have us become more then just friends if you don't want to and stay with that other guy...What do you say..."

Hinata's face, though still red but atleast less crimson then before, turned towards Naruto and gulped, "Y-yes...I guess w-we can become...friends..."

"Alright then. I guess it's settled. Unfortunately, I have to meet up with a friend of mine tonight...So, we can start meeting and such tomorrow I assume..." Naruto said and nodded in thought.

"Then...Who of us shall you take out first?" Temari asked as she finally stopped hugging Naruto.

Naruto looked around at the group of girls and was at a total loss, having no idea which girl he was looking really most forward to get to know.

"Let's see...I know Sakura-chan somewhat atleast...Or well...I don't know everything about her but I've been on her team long enough so she wouldn't be a first pick...Then we have Tenten...hm...I guess I DO need to know more about her...Temari as well...But she's staying at my house and I could always ask Gaara..oww...Ino...Same story as Tenten...And I've just been on a date with Hinata...which was nice but I guess I could spend some time with the other girls before getting to know Hinata a bit more...Damn this is hard!"

Naruto, or rather Nemar to the girls, was pondering deeply in his mind with crossed arms and seemed to have a tough time deciding.

"Alright. I have decided. I will choose..." He said as his eyes wandered over each of the girls.