A/N: Gaaaaah! Finally! Stupid writer's block and headache and WoW and...(sigh) SO many shit hass been going on these past two months and right now I'm having a huge headache due to the heat here...meh. Complaining aside, I'd like to apologize to all of you who are reading this story and had to wait so long. Really, writer's blocks are shitty as hell. Good news? Oh yeah there's good news today other than a new chapter being out. First of all, during this writer's block, I had a rare moment of inspiration where I came up with the biggest twist to the story yet...if I can make it in the few chapters that are left that is XD. There's not much left, after all...Don't worry, there will probably be at least another 7 good and long chapters before I'm at the end of the story, though only time will tell what happens.

Now, this chapter might be a bit cheesy...or lame...or just downright less than the usual chapters in terms of contents, but yeah...blame the headache and such. Next chapter will be out...well...in less time than it took me to get this one out of course XD Next chapter is one I'm really looking forward to write since it will be quite...fun for good ol' Naruto. Nosebleeds guaranteed XD Both on our side and Naruto's.

Now I'd like to thank imaginaryfriend101 for his suggestion about Ino's date. Thanks a lot for the idea and props to you for thinking it up. This chapter isn't beta'd due to my usual beta being busy with his lady and well...Let's have him his peace for a while, huh XP So...apologies for any errors in grammar and spelling. Lots and lots of thanks to Lilya-chan for inspiring me again and being so supportive and giving me great ideas. Now one more thing to clear up before the next chapter starts. This mainly being for anyone who misunderstood the last part of the previous chapter:

I didn't leave any information out. I don't know exactly what happened in the manga during the fight with Neji and Naruto, but in the anime he got nine thin tails waving behind him and those tails wrap around him. That's what happened in chapter 10 as well. Hence the reason why I said "Thin" tails, since I know that having all nine tails out Naruto would become non-existant and basically Kyuubi would be free. And, I agree, it would be insane if he'd go from 0 to all 9...(Which is probably impossible even if we look at the manga...) So sorry for the misunderstanding, but Naruto didn't even turn into One Tailed Kyuubi Naruto in this chapter P Also, Naruto's intention was to signal one of the higher Jounin that something was wrong by using the Kyuubi's chakra and I think it's safe to assume that Naruto in my fic has become a whole lot smarter over those past two and a half years, so he wouldn't even try something as crazy as releasing as many tails as possible just to signal someone...Sure, it would work, but it's not very effective for him, now is it XD?

Anyway, I hope I cleared it up to you that Naruto did not jump to full nine-tails out of the blue in this chapter and that it was more empowering himself with the Kyuubi's chakra like he did vs. Neji. (And honestly, wouldn't you think that even if Naruto would be able to remain human with all nine tails, that he'd cause a killing rampage instead of even so much as considering taking the assassin as a hostage :P? I think he would go on a killing rampage XD)

That being said and done...

On with the story!

Chapter 11: A Fox Night Out

Naruto slowly headed back for Konoha's residential area and sighed, "What was all that about..."

As if on cue, Jiraiya dropped down in front of him, a serious look on his face which seemed to pierce right through Naruto.

Naruto gave Jiraiya a dull expression, "Oi, Ero-sennin...Applying for Kakashi-sensei's position as 'The person who's always late'?"

"Naruto...Why did you...?" Jiraiya asked and then noticed what was a not so long ago a battlefield behind Naruto, "You..."

Naruto sighed again, "Long story told short, Someone tried to assasinate Gaara, I stopped her, followed her, found out she was part of the Akatsuki. Then I engaged combat with her and when I knew that I might be either outclassed or unable to capture her, I used the Kyuubi's chakra to alert you in hope that you would be able to capture. However, the fight didn't stop there ofcourse and in the end..."

"You killed her?" Jiraiya finished Naruto's phrase before he could.

"No, I beat her up enough until I thought she was weak enough to be questioned...and then when I questioned her she showed me she had stabbed herself in her wrists and that she was bleeding to death. So I tried to get as much answers as possible...but in the end I ended up with more questions than answers." Naruto looked over his shoulder, his eyes laying down upon the battlefield behind him.

"...I expect you plan on telling me everything you've learned." Jiraiya stated and crossed his arms.

"Yeah, of course. Though I doubt you would understand it."

Jiraiya snickered and crossed his arms as he formed a wide grin on his face, "Do not underestimate the wisdom of a Sennin, boy."

"What wisdom ?" Naruto gave Jiraiya a skeptical look.

"You really shouldn't doubt my wisdom, Naruto...Anyway, let's head back to Konoha. I'll have a squad of ANBU...dispose the body of that assassin. Meanwhile, tell me about what you've learned." Jiraiya said as he started walking away, Naruto following closely behind.

"Before I do that..." Naruto kept that skeptical look on his face, "I want some answers from you, Ero-sennin..."

"Hm? From me? What is it?" Jiraiya blinked in confusion at the blonde.

"First of all..." Naruto took a deep breath, "WHAT'S UP WITH YOU AND TSUNADE-OBACHAN DECIDING TO MARRY EACH OTHER!"

"Well...That's a long story..." Jiraiya grinned sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head.

----Flashback no jutsu!----

"Wha-What...?" Tsunade was perplexed by Jiraiya's question.

"Will you marry me?" Jiraiya repeated his question and looked with a stern face at the surprised, if not shocked, Hokage.

Tsunade's eyes were wide out of surprise and they slightly twitched at the white haired Sannin, who was on his knees in front of her, "Jiraiya, what kind of joke is this!"

Jiraiya slightly frowned at the question, "It isn't a joke."

"So...You're willing to give up peeping..." Tsunade questioned and Jiraiya replied with a vigorous nod.

"Perverted ideas whenever you see a woman that has at least some curves..." Tsunade raised her eyebrow at Jiraiya, who just blankly stared at her.

After a short silence Jiraiya widely grinned and vigourly nodded once again.

Tsunade blinked and then continued, "And your trips to those...ahem...nice ladies down the block?"

Jiraiya nodded without hesitation this time around and looked at Tsunade, expecting more questions to come.

"And give up your lecherous life..." Tsunade hesitated and an ever so slight blush appeared on her face,"...for me?"

"A Sennin doesn't lie." Jiraiya replied with full resolve.

Tsunade blinked, looked at Shizune, who had remained silent during this entire ordeal, and then looked back to Jiraiya again.

Tsunade started to snicker and bursted out in laughter.

----End of Flashback no jutsu!----

"Eh...? That didn't explain how she said yes..." Naruto glared suspiciously at the perverted hermit.

"Well...Basically, she said after laughing for a while 'Yes, I'll marry you, you crazy old man' and er...Well...Right now I'm thinking if that question wasn't really just at the spur of the moment..." Jiraiya said and rubbed his chin until he noticed an even more suspicious look directed at him, "Not that I'm going to chicken out or anything, but come to think of it, I'll really have to behave from now on...I mean, Tsunade packs quite a punch..."

Naruto crossed his arms and closed his eyes, "Well yeah, she has that insane strength of hers. Oh well, Sakura-chan has the same crazy strength as granny and she..."

He stopped mid-sentence and slightly jumped, "Ah! Damn you, Ero-sennin! You made me even more indecisive about whether I should go for Sakura-chan or someone else!"

Jiraiya, who was slightly taken back by Naruto's sudden outburst, blinked at the young blonde, "I did what now?"

"Aaaah! Damn it...With so little time left 'till Valentine's Day, I really need start making up my mind!" Naruto started stomping off.

"Err...Naruto...If you're having trouble deciding who to ask ou for Valentine's Day, why not ask all of them out...?" Jiraiya crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow as Naruto just froze up.

"See, I just gave you an actually good and smart idea, didn't I?" Jiraiya asked as he walked over to the blonde and placed a hand on his shoulder.

"How will that work? Those girls are too competitive over 'me' or rather my alter ego...And Hinata would just go out with me and not 'Nemar'...So how am I supposed to do that?"

"Well, the fact that you know Kage Bunshin no jutsu helps out a bit I guess." Jiraiya grinned at Naruto.

"Yeah and then it just happens that me and my clones walk into each other while on our dates and we'll completely have screwed up..." Naruto frowned at the result he imagined of such an event and slightly shivered.

"Well, true, so why not go as Nemar with all the girls but Hinata and go as yourself with Hinata?" Jiriaya gave Naruto his 'see-I'm-a-sennin-I've-got-more-wisdom-than-you-think-I-do' look.

Naruto rubbed his chin in thought, "But I wonder if they'd agree with something like that..."

"Well either way, you'd have to take them out on a date after the wedding. Oh, talking about the wedding, Naruto...I need your help with with some stuff for it tomorrow."

Naruto gave his sensei a questioning look, "Huh? What can I do for a wedding?"

"Well...We have a little amount of time to set everything up and I know you can be a hardworker for the right price so...what if I thaught you a new jutsu in exchange for your help...?" Jiraiya grinned at the blonde.

Naruto's eyes grew wide for a moment and then he announced in a loud cheerful voice, "That's the Ero-sennin I know! Yeah! New jutsu! I'll help you out tomorrow, Ero-sennin!"

"Good..." Jiraiya said and nodded.

"Alright! Let's head out to the Hokage's Tower then so I can tell you what happened and then head out again!" Naruto cheered and started to run off.

"Wait one second, Naruto! I've got er...one more thing to tell you..." Jiraiya called out and Naruto stopped and turned around to face his sensei, who was sheepishly grinning and rubbing the back of his head.

"What is it?" Naruto asked, giving Jiraiya a suspicious glare.

"Well...It appears to be that Tsunade caught wind of my little bachelor party...and she was ok with it on one condition..." Jiraiya sheepishly grinned.

"What? That you can only look but not touch Anko-'sensei'?"

"Eh...not quite...She agreed on the terms that she'd get to hold a bachelorette party...with the latest Mr. hot stuff being present for their...entertainment..." Jiraiya said reluctantly.

"Mr. hot stuff...? Wait...You don't mean that...!"

"Yeah, they want you, or rather 'Nemar' to attend to their party. Well...on one side you're lucky to be amongst a lot of kunoichi from Konoha."

"I'm not going to do it..."

"Why not!"

"Because people will notice if I'm absent from your bachelor party if all the guys are invited!"

"I've got a solution for that!"

"My Kage Bunshin won't solve the matter! It's hard enough as it is to hold him up from a long distance!"

"It's not your Kage Bunshin that is the solution!"

"It isn't?" Naruto raised a questioning eyebrow at Jiraiya.

"No, I've got something far better than that." Jiraiya said with a wide grin and reached with his right hand into his pockets.

He pulled out a piece of yellow and orange plastic, which made Naruto let his shoulder slump and giving Jiraiya a 'what-the-heck?' look. Jiraiya then made an air-pump appear in his other hand and started blowing the piece of plastic up.

As the plastic started to take the shape of human-shaped balloon, causing Naruto to sweatdrop. Once the balloon was fully inflated, Jiraiya made it bounce towards Naruto and put on a wide grin as he said, "See! It looks just like you! No one will notice that you're gone! You can safely go to that bachelorette party now without anyone worrying about why you are not being at my bachelor party..."

Naruto looked from the corners of his eyes at the balloon bouncing against his shoulder for a moment before taking out a kunai and stabbing a hole in it. He turned towards Jiraiya as the balloon flew away, "Who would've believed that was me in the first place!"

"Well now they won't do that at all! Look what you've done to him!"

"Argh! There's no way it would've worked! If you plan on having me go over to that bachelorette party of Tsunade-obachan, then you'd better think up something else!"

"Done..." Jiraiya stated calmly and grinned.

Naruto blinked at Jiraiya for a moment before replying, "What is it?"

"I'll just tell you refused to come." Jiraiya grinned widely at the blonde.
"But I didn't-" Naruto started but was cut off by his sensei, "Refuse? Oh really? Well, you didn't accept the invitation either, now did you?"

Naruto sighed, "Oh well...How bad could it be to spend some more time with the girls?"

He shortly paused and then looked at Jiraiya, "When is this whole bachelorette thing?"

"On the night before the wedding, of course. eh...I don't know at what time it will exactly start and where it will be so I'll get back to you on that one." Jiraiya rubbed the back of his head and he sheepishly grinned at Naruto.

"Alright, now let's get going before Mother Nature decides to..." And before Naruto could finish his sentence, the sky unleashed another batch of thunder and lightning and a heavy downpour starting falling down upon them.

"...let it rain." Naruto finished his sentence and then started running back towards the Hokage's Tower, with Jiraiya following shortly after yelling, "Naruto! Wait for your sensei, you little brat!"

A while later, Naruto was heading out of the Hokage's Tower again after giving his report to Jiraiya and Tsunade.

"Man...That atmosphere felt kinda weird back there...Glad that's finally over." Naruto said once he had fully left the Tower.

He looked up to the dark sky, where infinite rain drops still fell from, though they were lighter than before, "Better hurry back home."

Naruto rushed through the nearly empty streets of Konoha, passing by the few shop stands that were actually still open.

As he quickly passed by Ichiraku's, he could faintly hear Ayame calling out for him from inside the stand. Naruto knew she most likely wanted him to stay there until the storm had passed, but sitting there in wet clothing was something Naruto rather not do, "Who knows how long this storm will go on..."

Though, Naruto felt a bit bad if he headed on without first looking over his shoulder to see if she was waiting for him, so he quickly turned his head halfway around and looked over his shoulder. He saw Ayame sort of staring at him in the distance, so he grinned widely, waved at her and once he saw a smile form on her face, Naruto faced back forward and quickly headed on.

When Naruto finally reached his apartment, the sky started to clear up, "Just my luck..." He muttered as he entered the apartment complex.

Naruto rushed up the stairs, not wanting to spend much longer in his wet clothing and therefor he spend little time thinking when he pushed his apartment door open, or rather when it was pulled open when he wanted to push it open.

He stumbled over a rather surprised Sakura and Tenten and landed flat on his face, muttering a few curses and slightly groaning when his face connected with the ground.

"Naruto..." Sakura growled at the blonde.

Naruto turned his head to where he heard Sakura's voice come from and noticed that he was lying half on top of her and only a few inches away from here face, "Ah! Sorry, Sakura-chan! I didn't-..."

"Naruto, hurry up and get off me already! You're heavy! Geez..." Sakura interrupted Naruto mid-sentence.

"Y-Yes!" Naruto quickly replied and rolled off of her.

Unfortunately, Naruto forgot that Tenten was practically standing next to him and he rolled right into her, causing her to fall down on him with quite an impact.

"Oof!" Naruto let all of his lung content out in one single breath and then quickly apologized, "Sorry, Tenten!"

Tenten groaned and supported herself on her arms, "It's alright, Naruto...Why were you rushing in anyway? Ow...You got me all wet..."

"Let's just say that Mother Nature was out to get me and decided to stop the instant I ran into the apartment complex..." Naruto let out a sigh again.

"Hmm...Is that so, huh? Oh well, no time to be lying on the floor like this!" Tenten replied and straightened herself up.

"Huh? Is there something wrong then?" Naruto blinked at Tenten.

"Well, you wouldn't want certain people to think stuff about us...Right, Sakura?" Tenten said and winked at Sakura.

Naruto slightly blushed and then looked at Sakura, who slightly blushed as well and looked somewhat angry at Tenten.

"...'Right, Sakura'...?" Sakura repeated, her eyes twitching at Tenten as she and Naruto got up from the floor.

"What's that supposed to mean!" Sakura asked Tenten as the blush on her face got a bit brighter.

"Nothing at all." Tenten replied and playfully stuck her tongue out of her mouth.

"Just say it already!"

"No."

"People will misunderstand!"

"That's the fun part."

"Ten...ten..."

"What in the world are those two talking about..." Naruto sheepishly grinned at the two girls and rubbed the back of his head, "Uhm...Why are you guys here anyway? Gaara's training isn't until this evening, right?"

"Well, we figured it would be more fun to keep eachother company during the storm, so we all just rushed back here and waited for the storm to pass over." Sakura explained to Naruto.

"By the way, What took you and Nemar-ku-..." Tenten tried to ask Naruto, but her mouth was muffled by Sakura's hand, "Oi, she might have heard you now!" Sakura hissed at Tenten.

"Eh? Who might hear her? Anyway, that Nemar guy and I..." Naruto started but before he could finish his phrase, it sounded like Chouji was using his Nikudan Sensha and rampaging through Naruto's apartment.

Naruto turned around and saw Ino sprint towards his way, leap through the air and land on top of him, causing him to fall back down on the floor again.

"Naruto! Where's Nemar-kun! We still have our date to finish! He isn't going to stand me up, is he! RIGHT!" Ino yelled as she shook Naruto back and forth.

"Iiiiinooo, Hhheee'll commmmeeee piiickkkk yooouuu uuuup fooooor diiiiinnnnnner." Naruto managed to bring out as he was still being violently shaken back and forth by Ino.

She stopped shaking Naruto, who was know quite dizzy from the movement, and looked at him with big teary eyes and her lower lip trembling, "He is going to pick me up...? When...? I want a time..."

Naruto's world kept spinning around for a while and then he fiercely shook his head, "A time? Er...I don't think he mentioned a specific time...But I'll go get him for you. He doesn't know you're here at my place, so he's probably back at Ero-sennin's shelter. Which er...you guys can't know about, really..."

Ino's big teary eyes faded as she blinked at Naruto and rose a questioning eyebrow at him, "Why not?"

"Crap...I didn't think they'd question that...Come on, brains...Gimme something useful!" Naruto thought as he blinked at Ino for a moment and then put on his trade-mark wide fox grin, "Because then you guys would bug Ero-sennin all the time about where that Nemar guy is. Also, Ero-sennin's fans might find out where he lives then and all."

Ino tilted her head up and looked at Sakura as a moment of silence followed.

"Hm?" Naruto tilted his head back and looked at Sakura, who was avoiding eye-contact with him.

Tenten was the one to break the silence again, "Wait...Jiraiya has..."

Ino and Sakura realised what Naruto had said and all three of the girls said in unison, "Fans!"

"What?" Naruto looked around him, "He's quite famous for his perverted novels. Didn't you guys knew that?"

"We knew, but..." Ino replied.

"To think he has actual fans that would want his picture and autograph..." Sakura added and blinked.

"Well, he does so..." Naruto said as he rubbed the back of his head and then suddenly stopped and stared at Ino, "Uhm...Ino? Could you get off me now?"

Ino looked at Naruto, noticed that she was still sitting on top of him and slightly blushed, "Ye-yeah...Sorry about that, Naruto..."

She got off of him, both of them stood up and Naruto rubbed the back of his head and sheepishly grinned at Ino for a moment.

He then headed towards the living room, deciding it was about time to actually get there, "Well then, I guess it's about time I get to change my clo-..."

Before Naruto could finish his sentence, he nearly got a door slammed into his face, but he managed to stop it just in time.

Temari stuck her head out in the opening that the door had created and looked at everyone in the hallway, "What in the world are all of you doing out here?"

Naruto pointed at the door and started to mock it, "Haha! How do you like that! I didn't fall down on the floor again! I am vic-...Err..." Naruto then noticed he was being stared at by the girls and stopped his mocking of the inanimate door.

"Yo, Temari! How's it going?" Naruto sheepishly grinned at her while he rubbed the back of his head.

"I'm fine, thank you...Now you'd better start explaining why you threw a half-assed tantrum at a door or I'll have you in a restraining jacket within the next five minutes." Temari stated calmly.

"Well, I came rushing in here, stumbled over Sakura-chan and Tenten, fell on the ground and half on top of Sakura, then I rolled of her and caused Tenten fall on top of me. Then Ino jumped on top of me after I've just gotten back up, fell back down again and now I nearly got hit in my face by a door, which would've most likely send me back down to the floor again." Naruto replied and then took a deep breath, "Man...I think I've never talked THAT fast in my life before..."

Temari tilted her head, looked at the other girls for a moment and then looked at Naruto again, a sly smirk forming on her face.

"Temari...Why are you smirking like that?" Naruto slowly started to back away from the wind mistress, "Please, don't smirk like that at me, Temari..."

"Temari...? I'm begging you here..." Naruto kept backing away from Temari as she, at a slow pace, kept drawing closer and closer to him, "I really do not like that smirk, Temari."

"Please...?"

Temari stopped drawing closer to the young blonde, who sighed in relief, and she then raised her fist into the air and took a deep breath.

Naruto nervously looked up at her raised fist and wondered if it would come crashing down on his head for no apparent reason, but instead got something that he didn't quite expect and which, in a way, was far worse than having that fist meeting his head or face.

"CHAAAARGE!" Temari chanted along with the other girls and Naruto straightened up out of fear, quickly glancing over his back to see the other girls charge at him.

"Eh!" Naruto managed to let out before they reached him.

After a few twists, pushes and struggles, Naruto was back face down on the floor and sighing in defeat.

"What was all that for...?" Naruto thought before he turned his head to face the girls, who were now sitting on his back, all of them having a wide smile printed on their face.

"Why are you guys sitting on my back anyway! Hurry up and get off dattebayo---..." Naruto said in a kind of whining manner.

"Mou...You've been unenergetic lately, Naruto..." Ino replied.

"Eh...?"

"Really, even whining about having four light girls on your back...What was all that training you got from Jiraiya-sama for?" Sakura added.

"Eh!"

"Yeah, come on, Naruto. Get up on your own strength while we are still on your back." Tenten added.

"Eh!"

"Or are you saying you aren't strong enough to get up from the ground?" Temari asked and raised an eyebrow at Naruto.

"That's it..." Naruto said and started pushing himself up from the ground.

The girls slightly gasped out of surprise as Naruto actually managed to lift himself up with them sitting on his back.

Once Naruto managed to be perfectly down on all fours without his limbs shaking, he turned his head to the girls and grinned widely, "Hehehe...See, it's not even a problem for me to get up with the four of you on my back!"

Tenten shifted her position so that she had one leg on each side of Naruto and then grabbed the strands of Naruto's hitai-ate, "Gitty up, horsy!"

The other girls giggled as Naruto turned his head around, his eyes twitching as he looks at Tenten, "...Horsy?"

"Come on, Naruto. Ride us to the living room." Temari replied with a smile.

"Yeah, think of it as training." Ino said and shifted herself into the same position as Tenten.

"Training...you say...?" Naruto's eyes still twitched at the girls.

"Come on, Naruto...It's not like it's too hard for you, now is it? I bet Nemar-kun could do it easily..." Sakura said as she and Temari shifted into the same positions as Ino and Tenten.

"What! I can do it easily too! No trouble at all! I'll prove it to you by carrying the four of you to the living room!" Naruto replied and then mentally sighed, "They really are persistent, aren't they...?"

"Naruto, you're making it sound like it's a bad thing to have four girls on you." Tenten replied and palyfully stuck her tongue out at Naruto.

"Now that she mentions it..." Naruto grinned widely, "No, it's not bad at all. Esspecially if I'm going to see Ero-sennin's face when I tell him that."

"Eh! Naruto! You're going to make him misunderstand! Rumors will spread about all of us!" Sakura said, a bright blush appearing on her face.

"Don't worry, I know how to break Ero-sennin's moments of joy all the time." Naruto's grin widened for a moment before he faced back in front of him.

"Alright! That sounds more like it! Go, Naruto!" Tenten said cheerful and slightly pulled the strands of Naruto's hitai-ate.

"Yes ma'am!" Naruto tensed his muscles and slowly, but surely, he started to move forward with the girls sitting on his back.

After the first few steps however, Ino started to complain about the speed, "Come on, Naruto! Go faster!"

"It's not that easy to crawl really fast with four girl on your back, you know!" Naruto shouted back at her.

"Ino, just imagine a nice scenery. Just close your eyes and imagine that we're having a trip on the back of a horse along the coast with the sun setting in the distance." Tenten turned her head around and smiled at Ino, who sat directly behind her.

"Hm...that certainly sounds nice..." Ino replied and then spontaneously wrapped her arms around Tenten's waist and rested her head against Tenten's back as she said with a wide grin on her face, "Lead the way, cowgirl!"

"It certainly sounds interesting...Hope you don't mind me, blondie." Temari said as she did the same to Ino as what Ino did to Tenten.

"Well, as long as you don't plan to do anything funny, I won't mind...or do anything 'funny'..." Ino replied and slyly grinned.

Sakura blinked at the girls in front of her and then sighed in defeat, "Might as well join, huh?" She said before wrapping her arms around Temari's waist and resting her head against Temari's back.

"So there we are, riding along the coast..." Ino repeated.

"On our faithful horse, Uzumaki Naruto..." Tenten said and ruffled through Naruto's hair.

"Who seriously ponders whether this situation is a good or bad thing..." Naruto thought as he looked over his shoulder at the girls.

"As a gentle breeze blows through our hair..." Temari added.

"And we gently bounce up and down with every step that the horse makes..." Sakura added and slightly rubbed her cheek over Temari's back.

"The breeze makes us slightly blush out of excitement and we feel warm and fuzzy inside." Ino said and slightly smiled.

"You want and desire more of this wild feeling..." Tenten added and smirked.

"It's arousing you more and more as jolts of pleasure run through your body." Temari added and a wicked grin formed on her face.

"You wish the feeling would never end but you know that it will be over in an instant." Sakura added.

Ino softly moaned and wrapped her arms tighter around Tenten.

"Your breathing becomes more rapid...Your body tenses as you're close to reaching your final destination. You don't want it to come, yet at the same time you do." Tenten said as they slowly headed into the living room.

"Hmm...Yes..." Ino moaned softly.

"...Do these girls realise what kind of thoughts those lines might give a person..." Naruto's face flushed red and his eye twitched, "Well...I guess I just should be glad my back hasn't become any wetter than it was before they started this..."

"Hey! Wait a minute! What the hell! You girls know how wrong that sounds!" Ino shouted as she suddenly sat straight up and began shaking Tenten back and forth, "You do know, don't you!"

"A-Aaah! Ino! Don't do-...!" Naruto tried to stop Ino from shaking Tenten, but it was too late as the movements had thrown him off-balance.

"Crap...At this rate..." Naruto thought and as he fell, he turned around and stuck his arms out, trying to prevent Tenten from falling down on him.

He managed to push Tenten up for a brief moment, but then his muscles couldn't handle her weight after being stressed for some time from supporting not just Naruto, but the four girls as well.

Naruto's vision blackened, but he could tell exactly what happened, "Just my luck..."

Tenten groaned and looked over her shoulder at the other girls, "You girls alright?"

After a few groans, Tenten sighed in relief, "Thank goodness."

"Oi Tenten..." Naruto said, his voice being muffled by Tenten's body and then he poked her sides, "Could you get off of me? Your chest might suffocate me."

Tenten, startled by what Naruto said, quickly rose up from Naruto's body and crossed her arms in front of her chest, "S-Sorry, Naruto."

Naruto grinned sheepishly at her, "It's alright. Don't worry about it, Tenten. Besides, if you did suffocate me, Ero-sennin would say that I died in the best way possible."

"I'm not that special..." Tenten blushed and looked away.

"That's not true. You're my friend so you are special." Naruto grinned widely at Tenten, who was blushing brighter than before, "Anyway, could you help me up?"

Tenten grabbed Naruto's hand, pulled him up from the floor and softly whispered, "Thank you..."

Naruto smiled at her at her for a moment, until she let his hand loose and he noticed that his legs had been drained of strength just like his arms were.

"Ah-Aaah!" Naruto tried to stay on his feet, but it was a futile effort.

"Naruto, watch out!" Sakura threw her arms up to shield herself from Naruto's fall, as he was heading for her direction.

Unfortunately, Sakura forgot to shield her head and her lips connected with Naruto's in a quite sudden kiss. Both Naruto and Sakura's eyes shot wide open, staring straight into the eyes of the other and slight blush formed on Sakura's face.

Naruto hastily rolled off her and as he did he also immediately apologized, "Sorry, Sakura-chan."

He rolled up against Temari, who stopped he from rolling on top of her, and he let out a deep sigh. Naruto looked over to Sakura and expected her to already be standing on her feet again and ready to smash his face to smithereens, but he was surprised to find her just glaring at him and clenching her fists.

Temari patted Naruto on his back and smiled at him, "Good horsy."

Naruto turned his head around and smiled back at her for a moment before jumping up, "Then I'll FINALLY get myself a change of clothes now."

He was glad to see that his muscles had regained their strength and that he was able to stand on his own legs.

"Uhm...Naruto...Speaking of clothes..." Temari fidgeted with her fingers as Naruto quickly helped the girls up.

"Hm? What is it?" Naruto looked slightly confused at the wind mistress.

"Naruto..." Gaara said, who seemed to pop out of nowhere, "I have to say...you could use a visit to the tailor in Sunagakure..."

Naruto turned around to face Gaara and was instantly shocked and pointed at his friend's legs, "Eh! Those pants...!"

He then looked and pointed at Gaara's chest, "That jacket...!"

"If they were red, I'd like them..." Gaara replied, not even minding Naruto's pointing and shouting.

"GAARA, WHY THE HECK ARE YOU WEARING MY CLOTHES!"

Temari laughed sheepishly and rubbed the back of her head, "That would be somewhat my fault..."

Naruto spun around, stuck his head out towards her, arched his arms and clenched his fists, "WHY IS HE WEARING MY CLOTHES!"

"Naruto, allow me to explain..." Gaara replied and took Naruto jacket off, revealing his usual attire underneath it, "Water and sand create mud and I don't like having my pants filled with mud...Unfortunately Temari forgot to do the laundry and thus I had no spare pants that I could wear in place of the pants I wore today that were now covered in mud. So I borrowed one of your pants."

"Ah I see..." Naruto nodded, "Then why were you wearing my jacket as well!"

"Well...I figured it would look better if I had the entire set instead of just the pants." Gaara stated and Naruto just stared at him, "But I don't like orange that much, so I can do without the jacket."

"Sorry, Naruto. Kankuro and I always do the laundry so Gaara doesn't think about it, and with everything that happened recently I just forgot about it." Temari replied.

"I guess you just forget about it because there is no washing machine in my bathroom." Naruto sheepishly grinned at Temari and rubbed the back of his head, "I guess I forgot to tell you that the laundry is on the bottom floor of the apartment complex."

"Well, I guess I'd better do the laundry today then or I might run out of clothing too." Temari said and stuck her tongue out at Naruto, "And I don't want that to happen, now do I?"

"Oi, Now you're making it sound like I'm the next Ero-sennin..." Naruto replied and then shrugged, "Oh well, I guess I can miss a set of pants at the moment."

A while later Naruto was back in the living room in fresh new clothing, though they looked exactly the same as his previous attire.

"Ah, that feels much better." Naruto flexed his muscles, "Then, I'll go get that Nemar guy for you, Ino."

Ino's eyes became big and shiny as she jumped towards Naruto, grabbed his hands and raised them up to chest height, "Really?"

Naruto sheepily grinned at her and nodded, "Yeah, of course. Just wait here. I'll be talking to Ero-sennin and such, so I'll be back after dinner to help you guys out with training."

"Alright, Naruto!" Ino spontaneously threw her arms around Naruto's neck and tightly hugged him.

She then let go off him, quickly moved to his back and kicked his ass with all her might, sending him flying out of the apartment, "Hurry up and go!"

"Aaaaaaaaaaah!" Naruto screamed as he flew through the air and crashed through the window in his living room.

"Ino, that was a little bit too much, you know..." Tenten said as she looked at the huge gap in the glass of the window.

Ino pressed her hands to her cheeks and shook her rear end, slightly blushing, "I know, but I just couldn't controll my excitement."

"Everyone..." Sakura said and after getting the attention of everyone present in the room, she continued, "Let's follow, Naruto."

The other girls gasped a moment and then, one by one, they all nodded in agreement.

Gaara followed the girls with his eyes as they rushed out of the apartment and then looked back to the broken window, "That's fine...I'll fix that window."

"Damn it...Why did she had to kick me..." Naruto momentarily rubbed his sore rear end before jumping back up.

He looked back to his apartment and saw Gaara standing near the broken window. Naruto grinned widely and gave Gaara a thumbs up, wondering if he'd even see him. Gaara kept looking at the gap in the window and then nonchalantly gave Naruto a thumbs up as well.

"Well then...Let's go 'get that Nemar guy here'..." Naruto said to himself as he turned his head back around and started running.

Unbeknownst to Naruto, the four girls, whom he thought he left behind at his apartment, were following closely behind him.

"Ne, Sakura...Do you really think that Naruto is really Nemar-kun?" Tenten whispered as they sneaked after Naruto.

"...I'm not sure about it, but that's why we're following right now..." Sakure replied and then gave Tenten a wink and a smile , "And if he isn't, we'll find out where Namar-kun is staying."

"I won't believe you until I see it with my own eyes..." Temari stated as they turned around the corner and reached the mainstreet of Konoha.

"I won't believe it either...Damn...We'd better not lose sight of him in this crowd." Ino said as they wrung themselves through the crowd.

"Excuse me." A boy, who looked like he was not much older than Naruto, with black hair and black eyes walked up to the girls.

"Hm? Can we help you?" Sakura asked as the girls simultanously looked at the boy.

"You are...Haruno Sakura, right?" The boy asked and took a scroll out of his pocket.

"Yes, that would be me. And you are? I haven't seen a shinobi like you before here in Konohagakure." Sakura replied and blinked at the boy.

"Oi, Sakura...We're going to lose sight of him if we don't hurry up." Ino put her fists at her sides and gave her friend a sort of worried look.

"This is for you." The boy said and as he handed Sakura the scroll, a sly smile formed on his face.

"This is..." Sakura gave the scroll that was handed to her a closer look.

"My name is Sai. I must apologize for the drawings on the scroll, but I was getting quite bored while searching for you, Sakura-san, so..." Sai said, still smiling at Sakura.

However his smile faded away and his eyes opened up as Sakura began to shake in rage and held up a fist, "You..."

"Hm?"

"I ALREADY TOLD THE OTHERS! I DON'T WANT THOSE LOVE LETTERS ANYMORE WHEN I DON'T KNOW JACK ABOUT YOU, DAMN IT!" Sakura yelled and send the boy named Sai flying through the air with a single powerful punch.

Sakura then threw the scroll at Sai and hit him dead straight on his forehead, "SO DON'T EVER TRY AGAIN, SHANNA---!"

The other girls cut her off by covering her mouth and pushed themselves off the road.

"Are you retarded, Naruto could've spotted us!" Temari hissed at Sakura.

"If you are annoyed by those things or not, at least try to control yourself when we're trying to stay unnoticed." Tenten whispered.

"What was all that for?" Sai thought as he was lying on the ground.

"Hm?" Naruto turned around and peered over the crowd, "Just now...Was that Sakura-chan's voice?"

He skimmed over the crowd one more time before shrugging and heading on, "Ah, whatever..."

A while later Naruto figured he had taken long enough to get away from his apartment and stopped walking.

"Now...To find a nice place to do this..." Naruto looked around, not noticing the four girls that were only a few meters away from him.

His eyes laid upon a calm and quiet alley, which did not lead to another street and was a dead-end, "Hehehe...I guess that place will do fine..."

Naruto headed over to the alley and was unaware that the girls had followed him the entire way. He stopped in the alley once he was past half of the way into it and looked over his shoulder.

"Yeah, this should be a safe place..." Naruto widely grinned and faced back forward as he formed a single handseal.

Just then, Sakura, Ino, Temari and Tenten peeked around the corner and anxiously awaited Naruto's actions.

"Heh!" Naruto let out and a cloud of smoke covered his entire body.

The eyes of the four girls widened and their mouths dropped wide open.

"Naruto..." Sakura whispered.

"No way..." Ino whispered as her eyes slightly shook in disbelief.

"It can't be...He..." Temari whispered.

Naruto opened his eyes and blinked, being quite surprised to say the least.

He turned around and his mouth dropped open and his hands fell down, "Eh...Eh? Eeeeeeeh!"

"He disappeared!" Tenten shouted in shock as the four girls found Naruto no longer present in the alley.

"How in the world did I end up on top of this freaking statue!" Naruto yelled nearly at the top of his lungs as he found himself standing on top of the Hokage statues.

To be more precise, standing on top of the Fourth's statue and Naruto's eyes twitched at it, "You're jutsu apparently have bad side effects when they aren't mastered, hm?"

He sighed and formed the henge handseal once more, this time succeeding in the transformation, "But that was weird...I'm sure I focussed on this...I guess I'll ask Ero-sennin if that jutsu of the Fourth can randomly activate or something...Ah whatever, time to get back to my apartment and go out for dinner with Ino."

Meanwhile, the girls were investigating the alley which Naruto had spontaneously left.

"There has to be something that leads to a trap door or something." Sakura said as she looked behind trashcans.

"If only we saw what seal he formed..." Tenten replied as he traced with her fingers over the stone walls.

"See, it's probably some jutsu that takes anyone who knows it to Jiraiya-sama's place." Ino said as she leaned against a pipe in the alley.

"If that's the case then why didn't he use it from the start?" Sakura wondered as she kept searching the alley for any hidden switches.

"Maybe you need to be within a certain range from Jiraiya-sama's place in order to have the jutsu work..." Tenten said as she backed away from the walls

"Give it up and let's go back to the apartment...It's just some jutsu we don't know...Hope this proves to you that Naruto isn't Nemar-kun..." Temari replied as she turned her back to the other girls, "But...something IS strange about all of this..."

"Yeah, let's go back before Nemar-kun arrives at the apartment. I want to leave with him as soon as he's there." Ino said and headed out of the alley.

"Well, I guess you need all the time you can get with him to even try to convince him you're better than me..." Temari smirked at Ino.
"What are you talking about blondie? I just need this little bit of time with him to make him mine." Ino placed her index finger just a nail's length above her thumb and smirked back at Temari, "Everything else is just bonus."

"I wonder about that." Temari widened her smirk and followed Ino.

"Let's go, Sakura...There's nothing we'll find here." Tenten said and quickly followed her two blonde friends.

Sakura sighed and placed her hands on her hips as she frowned, "I'm still feeling that we're missing something..."

Naruto raced over the buildings of Konoha, mostly to get the blood flowing and just because he figured he would be late if he calmly walked all the way back to his apartment.

He shuffled through his pockets and pulled out his Gama-chan, that also had been slightly altered by the transformation and been given red spots.

"Let's see..." Naruto quickly counted his money and then smiled, "Alright...That should be more than enough for a complete dinner for two."

He quickly placed Game-chan back in his pocket and rushed onward to his apartment.

Naruto leaped from building to building and within almost no time at all, he was back at his apartment.

"Man, this is the second time I'm knocking on this door...It's still weird..." Naruto softly whispered to himself before knocking on his own apartment door.

Before Naruto exactly could tell what happened, the door was pulled open and he was being pulled along by Ino so fast that he was actually lifted up from the ground.

"Aaaah! Ino? Something wrong!" Naruto yelled as he flew through the air and could faintly make out the faces of Sakura, Temari and Tenten popping out of the door opening before both he and Ino turned around the corner.

"Nothing wrong." Ino smiled at him, "It's just that I'm looking forward to finally continueing our date."

Naruto smiled as well and then tried to get back on his feet, "But it would probably be better if we could walk to the restaurant instead of rushing to it."

Ino steadily slowed down enough to let Naruto walk on his own feet again. As soon as he was walking next to her, Ino wrapped her arms around his and leaned on his shoulder, "I know, but we're on a tight schedule here...So I thought, let's hurry to dinner so we can maybe still do something afterward...?"

Naruto looked at Ino, who was looking hopeful at him, and he smiled at her, "We'll see if we have time for it. Naruto told me that you'll have training with him and the Kazekage at seven."

All of a sudden, Ino pulled Naruto with her against the wall and wrapped her arms around him, resting her head against his chest, "Or we could just stay together after seven and say we forgot all about the time..."

"Ehm...I think it's best if you do go to training..." Naruto said slightly blushing, "Though for some reason I have the feeling she insists on being 'late' for training..."

"Ne, Nemar-kun...Did you ever just feel like you want to be held and loved?" Ino asked as she stroked over his back.

"Damn...Ino definetely knows how to play her cards right..." Naruto thought as he slightly blushed and wrapped his arms around her as well, "Yeah..."

"Nemar-kun...?" Ino looked up at Naruto with big puppy dog eyes, which half startled Naruto, "What is she planning now?"

"Y-Yeah?" Naruto hestitantly brought out.

"Will you please teach me the jutsu to get into Jiraiya-sama's place!" Ino asked and Naruto instantly let go off her and fell onto the ground.

"Jutsu to enter Jiraiya-sama's place? Impossible! Really!" Naruto started laughing so much that tears appeared in the corners of his eyes.

"Hey! If Naruto can learn it, then so can I!" Ino said and stomped with her foot on the ground once.

Naruto stopped laughing and looked straight into Ino's eyes, "What gave her the thought that you need a jutsu to enter Ero-sennin's place?"

"Well...?" Ino said and crossed her arms in front of her.

"I better think carefully about this and not slip anything..." Naruto thought as he got up from the floor and warily eyed Ino, "First of all, how did you find out you need a jutsu to enter Jiraiya-sama's place...?"

Ino blushed, grabbed with her right hand onto her left arm and looked away from Naruto, "We...followed Naruto and he used some kind of weird jutsu in an alley...After that he disappeared...So we figured it must've been a jutsu to enter Jiraiya-sama's place..."

"They followed me! Then...That sudden Shunshin no jutsu..." Naruto stared with wide eyes at Ino for a moment and she noticed this, "I know...We shouldn't have followed him...But...can you really blame us? We want to see you way more than we do right now..."

Naruto placed his hands on her shoulders and looked straight into her eyes again, this time having a serious look, "Please, Ino...Don't try to follow me or Naruto to Jiraiya-sama's place. The same goes for the others...Please...I understand your feelings and of the others, but I want to keep this fair and not have you girls drag me out of bed at 4 am in the morning just to be with me before the others."

"Alright, I understand..." Ino said and then cheered up and formed a sly smirk on her face, "So tell me...Who's your favourite right now?"

"Favourite, you say hm?" Naruto blinked at her, slightly thrown off by the sudden question, "I honestly don't know...You girls are making it relaly hard on me to like just one of you..."

Ino slightly frowned as Naruto sheepishly grinned at her and rubbed the back of his head, "But I really should start thinking about it..."

Ino then smiled at Naruto again and took his hand, "That's fine. Then I'll just have to make me your favourite tonight."

Naruto slightly laughed, "Well, we'll see about that, won't we?"

A while later, Naruto and Ino were standing front of a restaurant and Naruto's mouth dropped wide open.

"Then let's eat here, shall we?" Ino asked cheerfully.

"Eh! Are you serious?" Naruto asled in return.

"Of course I am, the food here is great! I've had dinner her once with my family and it was so--- delicious." Ino replied with a smile on her face.

"Crap...This is one of THE most expensive restaurants in Konohagakure...Do I have the money for this kind of thing?" Naruto let his shoulders hang if defeat as he let out a slight sigh.

"What's wrong? You can afford it, right?" Ino asked as she blinked sweetly at Naruto.

"Eh...Yeah, I can...That's no problem what so ever..." Naruto quickly replied as sweat trailed down the back of his neck, "It's more like what can I afford to buy after tonight..."

Naruto's head then lit up and he turned towards Ino, "But...Shouldn't you have reservations at a place like this?"

"No, they have a special rule that couples that are out on a date can eat here without reservation." Ino replied and smiled at Naruto.

"So that's how it is, huh?" Naruto replied and sighed again before lightening up, "Alright, let's do this then."

As they headed in they were greeted by a waiter, who was dressed quite stylish, "Good evening Madam, Sir...Have you booked reservations?"

Ino slightly drooled at the waiter and Naruto noticed, "Oi, I thought you liked me and wanted to drool all over me?"

Ino sheepishly smiled at Naruto, "Gomen, gomen...I'll drool over you as much as you want later on."

After Naruto grinned sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head, the waiter coughed, "Did you book reservations?"

Ino answered the waiter, "No, we didn't. We'll take the 'couples' special."

"Ah, I see. Please, this way..." The waiter said as he showed them the way into the restaurant.

"Ya know...This is somehow kinda suspicious..." Naruto whispered to Ino.

"What are you talking about? How is guiding us to our seats suspicious?" Ino replied.

"Hm...Maybe I'm just getting paranoid..." Naruto replied and looked ahead of them to see where their seats would be.

"Please take your seats while I get the menu for the two of you." The waiter said as he showed them their seats.

Naruto sat down first and leaned with his back against the dark-red wall, "Hmmm...I guess I was wrong after all."

"Told you so. This is a high quality restaurant so there would be no tricks or something. It would make them lose customers!" Ino said and smiled at Naruto.

Naruto smiled back at her and switched his position so that his back was leaning against the back of their seats, "Yeah, I guess that I'm just suspicious of almost everyone I don't know after what happened today."

"Hm...? What do you mean 'after today'...?" Ino blinked at him and gave him a questioning look.

"Eh? Nothing, nothing at all." Naruto grinned sheepishly at her, "I can't tell her about that Akatsuki assasin...She'll start asking questions like 'Akatsuki? Who's the Akatsuki? Why were they after Gaara's live?' and all that..."

"Oh no, mister. You're not getting off of it that easily." Ino said and placed her hand on her hip and gave Naruto a glare, "What happened? Why were you and Naruto staying behind after that announcement?"

"Eh...I really can't tell you that, Ino..." Naruto replied, giving her a worried face, though it was mainly out of his own concern of how far she might push the questioning.

"What! Why not!" Ino said, slightly irritated that she knew Naruto was hiding something from her.

"Really, I can't tell you, Ino...It would freak you out..." Naruto replied and slightly smiled at her.

Ino was slightly taken aback by that last comment and her eyes momentarily widened, "Could it be that...?"

"Could it be what?" Naruto blinked at the blonde girl, not sure what she was thinking.

"That you and Naruto actually both enjoy the company of both sexes further than just being friends and having friendly contact and that the two of you..." Ino said in one breath, then puffed her cheeks as she turned crimson in her face.

Naruto's jaw dropped to the floor, his eyes grew wide and looked at the blushing Ino as if she had just hit him in the nuts with an iron baseball bat, "Wha-Wha..."

His left eye then just started twitching and he didn't know if he should scream and yell at Ino or should roll into a fetal position because of the mere thought that she just gave him.

Naruto decided to do neither and instead steadily replied to her, "I-Ino...Y-You know...It's not something like that...at all...never...ever...really...I like girls and just girls...women...human females...nothing else...Naruto and I...would be wrong on so many levels...Please...Don't fantasize or think about...something like that ever...again..."

He took a few deep breaths and then warily eyed Ino as she looked towards the floor, "I'm sorry, Nemar-kun...I didn't mean to upset you...It's just that..."

"She really does know how to hit on my soft spots...Just look at her, I can't let her be like this..." Naruto said to himself and let out a deep sigh, "Well, it wasn't really upsetting...More like shocking...Not that you had those thoughts though! Really! More like me thinking of..."

Naruto coughed as Ino looked up to him again, "Y-yeah...It's...okay...for a girl to have those kind of thoughts...Guys have them about girls...Just...don't mention them to me...ever...again. More importantly..." Naruto took a deep breath and put on his 'I'm-talking-serious-business-now' face, "I want you to know, that no matter what kind of information I keep as a secret from you and the other girls or if you ever find out I lied about something...I just want you to know that I really do like all of you no matter what. Not that I'm going to betray Konoha or something weird like that...! It's just that...you see...ehm...ehehehe..."

Ino raised her head and smiled at Naruto as he sheepishly grinned and placed a hand on the back of his head, "It's alright, you can't tell because it's a secret, right? I trust you."

"Really? Ah, thank goodness...For a minute there I thought you were going to think I'm some kind of suspicious guy..." Naruto said and kept sheepishly grinning at her, "Yeah! Go me! I saved my own ass from my big mouth again!...I hope..."

"Hmm...Now, there's one thing I really do want to know..." Ino's smile turned into a devious smirk as she leaned her head on her hand and looked straight into Naruto's eyes, "Just a minute ago you said that 'guys have those kind of thoughts about girls'...I want to know about who you have them, Nemar-kun."

"Wha...What...? I don't think about girls being together with other girls...Right? I never thought about it before...Why would I think about such things...? I mean who am I? Ero-sennin! ...A girl...with...another girl..." Naruto thought as he eyed Ino, who seemed to take delight out of the current situation, "It's not like it will ever happen...Why should I think about it? Why am I thinking about why I should be thinking about it?...Why did Ino ask me this!"

Naruto innocently grinned at her and rubbed the back of his head, "To tell you the truth, up until now I've never really thought about girls being with other girls...I try to refrain from perverted thoughts as Er...Jiraiya-sama would go and exploit that over and over again for his own advantage...Such as making me do errands for him and such...Honestly, I don't think I'd even be affected by something like that."

"Oh...Is that so...?" Ino smirked wider as she moved her head towards Naruto's ear and rested her hands on his shoulders, "Let's see about that, shall we?"

"Wha-What does she plan on doing?" Naruto thought as a shiver ran over his back when Ino whispered in his ear.

"I'll tell you a little secret that no one else knows about..." Ino whispered in Naruto's ear and momentarily smirked again, "Do you know who my first kiss was?"

"Eh...ehm...Would I have the honor of that? Probably not...but...who?" Naruto asked as he was clueless about why she was asking him this.

"Hm, hm...I shall tell you then..." Ino whispered and took a brief break in her answer, "It was Sakura and you know what...?"

Naruto's eyes grew wide as Ino drew closer towards his ear and whispered so soft that she was sure that only Naruto would hear it, "It didn't end with just a kiss..."

As Ino pulled away from Naruto and watch him in amusement, Naruto just froze up. Not one single muscle in his body would move as it all sank into his mind and his heart even skipped a few beats. Naruto slowly turned his head towards Ino and stared at her as she watched him with amusement.

"You...and...Sakura..." Naruto managed to bring out and then he started to bang his head against the wall.

Ino bursted out into laughter and grabbed onto Naruto's shoulders, pulling him away from the wall and into her arms, "It was just a joke to see how you would react, Nemar-kun..."

"A joke?" Naruto repeated and blinked at the blonde.

Ino smiled at him and bend over, cupping his cheek and giving him a small kiss on his lips, "Don't worry about it. It was just a joke. Well..."

She pulled back and slightly laughed again, "We did end up kissing each other once, but that was an accident. So she kind of was my first kiss."

"Well, if you look at it like that, then my first kiss was..." Naruto said with a smile and then shut up as he realised one thing he hadn't realised this entire time, "Oh god...I think I just got very sick..."

"Eh?" Ino looked confused at Naruto, who abruptly stood up and rushed towards the restrooms.

After vomiting whatever was left in his stomach and cleansing his mouth of the bad aftertaste with some water and the restaurant's mouthwash, Naruto headed back to Ino, "Damn...If you look at it that way, then Sasuke is my first kiss...God, that sucks...I certainly hope that Ino has forgotten about that little event...If she'd 'think' about that every now and then..."

Naruto slightly shivered just before he reached Ino and nimbly made his way past her back to his seat.

"What happened?" Ino asked as she pulled Naruto back into her arms and slightly leaned back so Naruto's head would mainly rest against her chest.

Naruto slightly blushed as he felt the softness of Ino's chest touch the back of his head, "Ah...I just figured out something that made my stomach turn upside down..."

"Well...I guess that I'll have to make you feel better then..." Ino replied as she caressed Naruto's cheek with her fingertops and bend over to steal another kiss from his lips.

"Ahem..." The wait coughed loudly to make his presence known to the two blondes, "Excuse me for interrupting your little moment, but I have the menus and we're getting more customers so we have to make it snappy..."

Naruto sat straight up and grabbed one of the two menus and Ino slightly glared at the waiter before roughly taking the menu out of his hands.

"Hmmm...There sure are a lot of meals to chose from..." Naruto mused as he went over the menu, "Wait...what's this...They have a special Ramen type that they only make here! It's decided then!"

Naruto looked from the menu to the waiter and he noticed that Ino had also decided what she wanted as she ordered just before him, "I'll have the house's Special Ramen, please."

His jaw almost dropped to the floor when he heard Ino say that, "Ino likes ramen too! Since when! How! Why!"

"What about you, Nemar-kun?" Ino asked with a sweet smile on her face.

"I-Ino..Why did you chose to order the ramen? Just curious to find out..." Naruto asked as Ino blinked at him for asking such a thing before shrugging and replying to Naruto, "This morning I had ramen at Naruto's place for breakfast and I just felt like ordering ramen right now."

"A-Ah...I see. So that's how it is." Naruto said and smiled at her, "Cra---p...If I order ramen I'll won't be able to stop after one bowl probably and she might find it awkward that I like ramen as much as...well...me!"

"So, what are you going to order?" Ino asked again as she stared into Naruto's eyes.

Naruto hastily looked at her and then looked back at the menu, "Uhm...I'll have..."

He quickly went over all the meals on the menu again and decided to use the one that was directly to the opposite side of the ramen, "I'll have the Hayashi Rice, please. I'm not really feeling like having ramen tonight."

"Oh God, the blasphemy! I DO want ramen! But I can't take it or it will look suspicious when I order more and more bowls of ramen! And I can't just leave it at one bowl! Raaamen...! My ramen!" Naruto's thoughts were going haywire as the waiter noted their orders and left to get them for the two blondes.

"Ramen, Ramen, in the morning sun. Ramen, Ramen, eating it for breakfast is so much fun. Ramen, Ramen, it's always so good. You'll never get to find a better kind of food. And when my tummy growls from hunger in the morning, Ramen is what stops my tummy's moaning. For Ramen is food number one and is one of the best things under the morning sun." Ino softly sung as they waited for their meals to arrive and Naruto's eyes grew wide out of surprise that Ino was singing that song.

"Ah! Damn it! Why do I have that song in my head!" Ino cursed as Naruto looked with wide eyes at her, "She knows THE song!"

Naruto eyes started to sparkle and Ino obviously noticed the sudden change in his behaviour, "Nemar-kun, are you alright?"

"Ino-chan..." Naruto held Ino's hands and she turned bright red in her face, but then Naruto realised that what he was about to say might give him away, "Wait! What am I doing! Doing something like this just because she knows THAT song is definetely suspicious! Come on, think of something else!"

"Y-Yes...?" Ino managed to bring out as she flushed entirely red now and Naruto knew he had to do something or he'd be screwed, "You...have an amazing voice."

"I...do?" Ino asked, not quite sure if he was serious about her having an amazing voice or not.

"Yeah, I wish really amazed by your singing just now. Eh...Just something I wanted to let you know. Maybe you should sing more often." Naruto replied and rubbed the back of his head, "Well that's slightly a lie so I guess I shouldn't over do it and make her think she really is better than well...everyone."

Ino smiled shyly at Naruto, her face still crimson red, "Well...I...ehm...Thank you, Nemar-kun."

Naruto smiled back at her and from there on out until they received their meals, Ino mainly talked about what she liked about 'Nemar' and Naruto asking her several random things.

"So you really have no idea who your parents are?" Ino asked as the waiter placed their meals in front of them.

"Not one single clue. Well, I guess they died on some top secret mission no one could know about or something...but they might as well have just abandoned me." Naruto replied as he picked up his chopsticks.

"Hmm...If they really were K.I.A. they should be on the memorial stone, right?" Ino asked as she picked up her own set of chopsticks.

Naruto's eyes went wide and he spontaneously hugged Ino, "Of course! Why didn't I think of that before! They must've been shinobi, right? And, if they were killed in action, then they should be on that stone! Thank you, Ino!"

Ino softly smiled, "I'm surprised someone like you didn't think about it before I said it...Well, if they were civilians, it will still lead to nowhere though."

Naruto slightly grimaced and then grinned widely, "No, I'm sure that they were shinobi. After all, I've got to get my talent from someone."

"Well, shinobi or not, I know they've given us a man that's quite special for all the right reasons." Ino replied and winked at Naruto.

"I'll look into later. For now, let's enjoy our meals." Naruto replied and Ino nodded in agreement, "Yeah, I couldn't agree more with you."

"Itadakimasu!"

As Naruto began to slowly chow down his rice and Ino gracefully eating the ramen noodles, Naruto couldn't help but stare at the blonde girl.

The more he stared at her mouth, the greater his desire became.
Naruto licked his lips, fighting the urge to just let it all go and take what he wanted.
As Ino's mouth slowly opened and closed, Naruto's grip on his chopsticks tightened.
Sweat started to crawl down on the back Naruto's neck as Ino sensually licked her lips after swallowing another bundle of noodles.
Ino brought another bundle of noodles to her mouth and softly blew on them, Naruto's breathing pace increased noticeably.

"Nemar-kun, are you feeling alright?" Ino said when she noticed that Naruto was staring at her.

Naruto shook out of his trance and sheepishly grinned at her, "Ah...I think I should've chosen for ramen after all...It looks very delicious."

"Must...have...ramen...Give me my ramen. Raaaamen." Naruto thought as he drooled and stared at Ino's ramen.

"Isn't your meal good then?" Ino asked as she blinked at Naruto, who was still partly drooling about the bowl of ramen in front of her.

"Huh? What? Oh, it is. It's just that..." Naruto said and then pondered for a moment about what he'd say, "Your ramen looks quite good too and I just wondered...how...it...would taste..."

"Ah, I see..." Ino replied and continued eating her meal and Naruto's mind raced through options of how he could try and get some ramen, "There must be something! I must have that ramen!"

Ino took another batch of noodles from her ramen and held them out in front of Naruto, "So how about we feed each other then?"

Naruto's eyes shined brightly and he could only give a vigorous nod in reply before opening his mouth to let Ino place the noodles in his mouth.

After having them devoured, Naruto felt like he had reached heaven and rose his fist up to his face, "It's so damned good!"

"Alright, now it's your turn." Ino said and gave Naruto a wide smile.

"Eh...? Oh yeah! Of course, silly me..." Naruto sheepishly grinned at her before picking up a small piece of meat and rice with his chopsticks and motioning it towards Ino's mouth.

Ino's lips graciously enveloped around the chopsticks and as Naruto watched the motions of her lips, there was one thing that first came to his mind, "She sure as hell doesn't eat like a pig. That's the sexiest way I've seen anyone eat something..." (A/N: For you numbnuts that don't get the pig part, remember that Sakura used to call Ino a pig)

Ino smiled at him as she swallowed and she then widely grinned at Naruto, "Now...I wonder how it would taste to have both of our meals at the same time..."

"How do you plan on-..." Naruto silenced himself as Ino wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him closer.

What seemed to turn into a passionate kiss, was rudely interrupted when Naruto and Ino each felt a hand firmly grab onto their shoulders, "My, my! What have we here! It looks like a youthful couple being youthfully in love! Oooow! The springtime of youth burns brightly today indeed!"

Naruto and Ino opened their eyes and found none other than, of course, Gai and Lee standing behind them.

Ino clenched her fist and tried to calm herself down upon sight of the two, but she was slowly, but certainly failing at keeping her temper.

"You two seem to be enjoying yourselves here! Mind if my adorable youthful student, Lee, and I, Konohagakure's Noble Green Beast, Maito Gai join you? Of course not! For youthfulness must be spread!" Gai and Lee moved around the table to sit on the opposite side of Naruto and Ino as Ino failed miserably in trying to punch the loud sensei in his face.

Naruto sighed and silently continued eating his meal, Ino following his example and eating her ramen too.

"Well, who would've thought that Jiraiya-sama's long lost apprentice would end up with Yamanaka Ino." Gai said and gave the two a wide smile as Naruto slightly looked up to face Gai, "Of course...Tsunade-obachan must've explained this to all the active jounin...But then...Does he know that I'm...?"

Naruto looked over to Ino and found her slightly blushing at Gai's statement, but she just continued eating without making a retort.

"Gai-sensei! Isn't this the unyouthful delinquent that was doing unyouthful things to the girls a few days ago!" Lee wondered and said it loud enough to turn the entire restaurant's attention towards their table.

"Don't be silly, Lee! The culprit we're looking for has red eyes! This young man clearly has honourable blue eyes!" Gai explained and looked around the restaurant to see if anyone was still looking suspicious at them, glad to find none.

"No...Those two are definetely looking for Nemar-kun...But I'm glad they're idiotic enough to think he had red eyes back then. That's just impossible, right? Might have been the reflection of the light or something...Unless Nemar-kun is hiding something from us..." Ino thought as she looked at Naruto from the corner of his eyes, who just kept on eating his meal.

"You know! Today my youthful student Lee learned a new technique!" Gai exclaimed cheerfully.

"It was a hard one to master, Gai-sensei! But through your devotion to me and your youthfulness I've been able to complete it!" Lee exclaimed with fire in his eyes as he saluted his sensei.

As Gai and Lee kept on ranting and eventually bursted into tears when they hugged each other, Ino scooted over to Naruto and whispered in his ear, "Ne...Let's get out of here while they're busy and have them pay for our meals. I want revenge for what they did to our moment."

Naruto sheepishly grinned at her and then nodded, "I like it. Let's go."

The two of them sneaked their way out of the restaurant and by the time they reached the exit, the waiter arrived at their table, "Ahem...Seeing how your friends have left without paying the bill...I present the bill to the two of you."

"Ah...It seems like they quietly went to spend their youthfulness together in the-..." Gai said as he took the bill out of the waiter's hands and looked at the amount he'd have to pay for them.

Naruto and Ino quietly sneaked passed the restaurant when they suddenly heard a loud scream that shook the foundations of the earth, "WHAT DID YOU SAY! INO-SAN! NEMAR-KUN! GET YOUR YOUTHFUL REAR-ENDS BACK HERE AND PAY THIS BILL!"

Knowing that if they stayed like this they would be caught, Ino and Naruto jumped up and Naruto exclaimed, "RUN FOR IT!"

A while later, when they were sure they were far away from the restaurant and had passed through various streets, the two of them stopped in an alley, heavily panting from their little marathon.

"I..think that they won't be able to catch up... with us." Naruto said, taking a few deep breaths and then widely grinning at Ino.

"They definetely won't." Ino replied and returned a grin that could compete with Naruto's.

She then turned that grin into a smile and pulled him closer, "So...Where were we before we were interrupted by those men in green?"

"There's no escaping her no is there...?" Naruto smiled back at Ino and then closed his eyes like she did and moved closer towards her lips.

A growl echoed through the back of Naruto's mind and his eyes shot wide open. Naruto fell down onto his knees and clutched onto his head, gritting his teeth as much as he can.

Ino, who was rather shocked, looked with wide eyes at Naruto and reached out for him with her hand, "Nemar-ku-..."

"Don't!" Naruto growled at her and then slowly rose back to his feet, breathing heavily in and out, "That bastard fox...What was that all about?"

"Are you...?" Ino asked as she looked at him with scared eyes.

Naruto slowly nodded, "Don't worry about it. It was just that I suddenly felt like my head was being pierced or something. A bad omen, I guess...Better get you home..."

"Maybe someone's trying to use mind jutsu on you. Some kinjutsu out of that branche can be...deadly..." Ino replied and her eyes darted towards the ground.

Naruto looked around, searching for any signs of who might do such a thing, "I don't see or sense any presence nearby that's harmful."

"I'll go take a look in your mind and see what's going on then. Might be done from far away." Ino said and leaned against a nearby rain pipe.

"No, Ino! Wait!" Naruto protest but it was already too late as Ino formed her unique handseal and targeted Naruto as she called out the name of the technique, "Ninpou: Shintenshin no jutsu."

Naruto blinked, surprised that nothing happened or thought that perhaps the jutsu had been altered over the past two and a half years. He lifted his arm by his own free will and it seemed like the jutsu had failed as his entire body was still under his control.

"Ino? Did you cancel it when I called out or...?" Naruto then noticed her eyes were trembling and, not much later, the rest of her body started shaking as well as her arms fell down.

As she started falling forward, he managed to catch her just before her body hit the floor.

"Ino...?" Naruto softly whispered as he turned her around and looked into her eyes, that were still trembling but they showed signs that she was able to use them as she moved them to look directly into Naruto's eyes.

"Nemar-kun...I..." Ino still trembled and then tears formed in the corner of her eyes.

She threw herself up and tightly embraced Naruto as she started to cry, Naruto wrapping his arms around her trying to soothe her a bit, "Sssht...It's alright...You'll be ok...I'm here for you..."

"I..." Ino cried as burried her fingernails into Naruto's skin, "I stared into the face of evil incarnate...and it stared back at me...with a huge grin painted on his face...It didn't want me there...Not at all...Nemar-kun...What was that big red mass of evil chakra...?"

Naruto's eyes went wide and he placed a hand on the back of Ino's head, "I...don't know..."

"What in the world is going on...? Nice to know I'm immune to mind manipulation thanks to the old bastard fox...But still..." Naruto thought as he stroked with his fingers through Ino's hair.

"This is the first time I've ever seen such a thing..." Ino sniffed, "This morning...I read the minds of various people...Temari, Gaara, Tenten, Sakura and Naruto...None of them had something like that in their mind...Nemar-kun, is something or someone after your life?"

Naruto slightly pulled her away and looked with wide eyes into Ino's eyes, "You...can read the minds of people?"

Ino's expression went momentarily blank and then she nodded in reply.

"Then...You can read my mind right now? Everything? Like, if I pissed against a tree this morning, you could find out?" Naruto asked with a rather shocked expression on his face.

Ino slightly laughed as she rubbed the tears out of her eyes and then shook her head, "No, I still need to preform the jutsu and make eye contact...Also I can only find out what a person is currently thinking...But whatever it is that is looking into your mind right now, really doesn't want me in there as well...A-And...It succeeded in scaring me enough that I don't want to try something like that again..."

Naruto tightly hugged her and gave her a kiss on her cheek, "Let's get you back home now, ok?"

"Sorry for giving you such a stupid date tonight..."

Naruto grinned widely and tightened his hug, "What are you talking about? I learned a lot more about you. I now know that you aren't just pushy, but kind and affectionate as well. Also that you know how to have fun, have a sense of humor and well...A lot of things I can't name of the top of my head right now. But most importantly was that I found out that this definetely wasn't a mistake and I was right to like you."

Ino's eyes went wide at hearing this and rested her hands on Naruto's back, "Then does that mean that you..."

Naruto sighed, "Sorry for being such an indecisive bastard, but all of you are making it hard for me to chose who I like the most and who suits me the best out of all of you."

"Well I guess I could always turn into an evil bitch and make you my love slave." Ino grinned widely and slightly snickered.

Naruto sheepishly grinned and rubbed the back of his head, "You're giving me weird thoughts here..."

"Good weird thoughts or bad weird thoughts?" Ino swept her head back and looked into Naruto's eyes, "Er...Is there any way that would make 'good' weird thoughts?"

Ino smirked at him and leered deviously at him, "Well, if you like seeing a woman in a leather outfit with her cleavage revealed as well as her arms and legs and whom wields a trident or a whip...Not to mention a set of devil's horns and a need to punish her victims and drink their blood..."

Naruto's face turned pale white and his eyes were twitching, "Oi...That isn't one of your fantasies, now is it?"

Ino trailed with a finger over Naruto's jawbone and kept leering at him, "Well...Who knows..."

She winked at him and Naruto grinned sheepishly at her, "You know, you sure as hell recovered quickly from what just happened."

Ino blinked at him and then smiled warmly, "I guess you just have a knack for making a girl feel happy again..."

Naruto smiled at her and pulled the two of them up from the ground, "Well, I guess now it really IS time to take you back home."

"Alright, on one condition."

"Eh? This better not be anything leather and blood related..."

"Carry me back home."

"Eh! Why? You can walk on your own right?"

"Uhuh, but I want to be in your arms for as long as possible..."

"Ehehehe, you know that you play your cards very well."

"But I still lose to you in a game of poker..."

"That's different, you know!"

"So...Does this mean I'm your favourite right now?"

Naruto smiled at her as he picked her up and started jumping his way towards the flower shop that is run by Ino's family, "You know I can't answer such a question."