From Ramen with Love

by Ryushi-the-DutchEroSennin

With help from Ayame, Naruto manages to become closer to the girls, but now he has just one big problem. Naruto can't decide which girl he likes the most. Humor, Romance and Mayhem unfolds as Naruto is trying to find his love. NaruHarem

13. Chapter 13: Go, Go Naruto!

A/N: Ugh...42.000 words...Guys, girls, ladies and gentlemen. Enjoy the new chapter of FRwL. I've been working two longs nights to get this done and my beta has been unable to check it yet, so if you find any errors, they'll be fixed. Either way, I'd like to thank everyone who reviewed and supported me. Everyone who posted in the forum. All of you who didn't do so yet, go ahead and drop by. The link is in my profile. Now before I end this A/N and head to bed, I'd like to say a couple of things. Naruto's Main Theme is the spawn of the devil, it makes you write about Naruto's nindo. Spiderman references FTW. Hidden Plo-twists FTW too. Better A/N will be up once my beta is done checking this and I've had enough sleep. Until then, enjoy world's longest chapter ever with over 42.000 words.

Now on with the story!

Chapter 13: Go, Go Naruto!

Dawn broke on the edge of the sleeping Village of Konohagakure, the first rays of sunshine awakening many from their slumber.
In one of the many apartments in the Village, Tenten rolled over and stretched out as the rays of sunshine abruptly woke her up from her slumber.

"Ohayo..." She muttered as she slightly opened her eyes.

Tenten sat up and sleepily stared at her lap for a while before letting out a yawn and stretching out.

"Eh?" Tenten let out as she froze in her stretching position, noticing something was different from usual.

Her eyes slowly moved down and she let out a small shriek as she noticed her blouse was unbuttoned.

After quickly covering herself up with the ends of the blouse, Tenten shyly looked over to Naruto and she let out a sigh of relief when she noticed that he was still vast asleep.

"Did...Naruto do this? Or perhaps...Did we...?" Tenten blushed and then sighed again.

She lowered her head and her arms, closing her eyes for a moment and slightly revealing her cleavage as her blouse hung open once again.

"Areh?" Tenten let out as she stared at her chest for a moment, "Did I take a red bra with me...? I could've sworn I took a white one..."

Tenten shook her head, "Damn...It's still way too early..."

She buttoned up her blouse again and slightly turned her head towards the two sleeping blondes beside her, laying her sleepy gaze upon the two of them, "They look kinda cute together like that..."

Tenten supported herself on her hands and bend over to Temari, momentarily lifting one hand up to brush a few locks out of Temari's face. Temari slightly moved her head and the locks that Tenten brushed away fell back in her face before she snuggled closer to Naruto, if that was even possible.

Tenten smiled at Temari and then ruffled gently with her hand through Naruto's hair, "You really are a teddy bear, huh Naruto?"

Naruto slightly groaned and Tenten giggled a bit before dropping down besides him and scooting closer towards him, "Alright, alright...I'll test you out before having my judgment ready..."

She yawned sleepily, closed her eyes and fell asleep again.

So there he was again, Uzumaki Naruto, 15 and some years old, being embraced by two girls he liked, to say the least, and being vast asleep. On the other hand, one might wonder if he truly was asleep if one knew what had happened a few hours ago.

Naruto slowly opened his eyes, finding Tenten's face an inch away from his.

He slightly groaned again, "Tenten...Looks like you can even kill people in your sleep...Though if I didn't lose consciousness I probably wouldn't have slept at all..."

Naruto tried to sit up and get ready to head out of bed, but he found himself being tightly held by the two girls, "So that's how it is huh..."

After silently lying with open eyes in his bed for a few moments, Naruto frowned, "Damn I'm hungry...But I don't want to wake those two up...Temari is pretty damn dangerous to wake up and I really do not know what Tenten would do if I'd wake her up..."

Naruto let out a sigh as his stomach loudly grumbled, "I guess I have no choice huh..."

He looked at Tenten's sleeping face for a moment and then softly whispered, "Tenten...Wake up..."

When Tenten didn't even do as much as move, Naruto slightly shook his head, "I guess it's no use...But you know...Tenten's face looks extremely cute while she's sleeping..."

"And...so...damn...kissable...Ah! What am I thinking! I can't just k-kiss Tenten in her sleep! B-but..." Naruto gave Tenten's face another look, "Aaaah! No! No way! She'd definitely kill me!...Though would she notice if I gave her a small kiss on her cheek...?"

Naruto slowly and carefully moved his face towards Tenten's cheek until he suddenly felt a glare that was sharp enough to cut him in half.

"Naruto...What do you think you are doing?" Naruto heard and he slightly shivered, "A-Ah...Temari...I was just trying to wake you and Tenten up so I could eat and..."

"It's too early, you idiot...I'm not awake enough to let go off you either..." Temari replied and rubbed with her cheek once against Naruto's back.

Naruto pulled himself away from Tenten and started to carefully turn around to face Temari, "But you know...I'm hungry, Tema-..."

All went silent as Naruto found himself staring at Temari's closed eyes as her lips seemed to remain connected to his own for ages.

Once Temari broke the kiss by turning her head more towards the pillow, Naruto's lips brushed over her cheek.

"T-Te...Temari..." Naruto barely managed to bring out as he felt a huge blush form on his face.

He looked at her sleeping form for a moment, quietly listening to her breathing, "She's asleep, huh...Then...just now..."

"I guess I'm going to have it if she finds out when she wakes up..." Naruto shook his head and then laid back down on the pillow and wrapped his arms around Temari, before closing his eyes and hoping he wouldn't wake up in the hospital with most of his bones fractured or broken.

"...cute, huh?"

"Yeah, I..."

"...end up like that lecher, Jirai..."

"A shame..."

"But right now..."

"Uhuh, that's..."

"Should we...?"

"...he will..."

"Only one..."

Naruto's eyes twitched as the voices that partly seeped into his mind as he still didn't quite feel like waking up.

"Good morning, Teddy bear-chan!" Naruto's eyes shot wide open as he felt the cheeks of two certain girls press against his own.

"Ohayo..." Naruto said and yawned as his eyes partly shut again.

"My, aren't we energetic in the morning." Tenten teased as she slightly shook Naruto.

"That's my line, you know." Naruto replied.

"Come on, Naruto...Gaara's still vast asleep and Tenten and I feel like talking to someone else." Temari said.

"Talk to each other..." Naruto grumpily replied and rolled over.

"Alright, Naruto...Here's the deal then..." Temari whispered into Naruto's ear, sending a shiver down his spine, "Either you wake up and become more energetic or Tenten and I will drag you out of bed and the three of us will have a nice...loooong...bath together..."

Naruto's eyes shot wide open as he himself shot up as well, "I'm awake!"

Temari and Tenten giggled and pushed him back down then, Tenten giving him a sweet smile, "Good, that saves us a lot of trouble of waking you up, huh?"

Naruto looked at Tenten, flashes of the previous night flashing through his head and making him blush crimson, "Y-Yeah..."

"You know what I think...?" Temari said as she turned Naruto around, the tip of her nose brushing against Naruto's, "That Naruto actually wants to take a shower with us..."

Naruto felt his blush turn brighter as he stared into Temari's deep teal eyes and Tenten replied to Temari's previous statement, "Hmmm...So he's like his sensei after all..."

"No!" Naruto protested for the sake of the blood he had recently regained, "Definitely not! You two are still trying to get revenge on me, aren't you!"

"Nope, not one bit..." Tenten said and snuggled up against Naruto, "Though we do plan on exploiting you as a teddy bear for as long as possible."

Temari grinned widely at Naruto before snuggling up against him, "Uhuh, blame yourself for being so damned soft and cuddly."

"I'm not soft..." Naruto grinned sheepishly.

"Yes, you are..." Tenten brushed her body against Naruto's, "You are very soft."

Naruto started to blush and blushed even more when Temari did the same as Tenten, "If this keeps up...Who knoooows what we might do..."

Naruto gulped and jumped out of his bed, "I just remembered I had to do something!"

Temari and Tenten laid their eyes upon Naruto and gave him a questioning look as they slightly blushed upon seeing Naruto, who wore nothing but his boxers right now.

"I'll be right back!" Naruto stated and rushed out of his apartment.

"Oi Tenten..." Temari said as she blinked at the front door, through which Naruto just left.

"Yeah?"

"I think we overdid it a bit..."

"Hmmm, yeah a bit..." Tenten nodded as she slight sat up, "Did Naruto just run out of here in nothing but his boxers?"

"Yeah, he did."

Meanwhile, Naruto was running like a maniac through the, still mostly empty, streets of Konohagakure.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaah! What was that just now! At that rate...At that rate...Things like this and stuff like that would've happened!" Naruto screamed at the top of his lungs as he run as fast as possible.

"God! Why are you doing this to me! I'm too young to die! And I want to die in combat, not by bleeding to death from seeing the seductive looks of two girls!" Naruto began to run laps around Konoha by now.

"Uwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" Naruto let out as he passed by Lee at a speed close to that of the speed of sound.

A sharp sparkle blinked in the corner of Lee's eye, "As expected of Naruto-kun...! He has trained so hard that he surpassed me in my basic speed! However!"

"I won't be defeated this easily, Naruto-kun!" Lee exclaimed when he caught up with Naruto.

"Fuzzy eye-brows!"

"Your speed is impressive, Naruto-kun! Can you go even faster than this!" Lee wondered out loud and Naruto just stared at him with wide white eyes, "DO YOU THINK I'M DOING THIS FOR FUN!"

"If you have no fun in your training, then your training will be meaningless, Naruto-kun!" Lee said with a raised fist.

"Aaaah! This isn't training 'tebayo! This is to keep my mind of things like this, that and that place!" Naruto yelled with a blush on his face and then screamed louder as more thoughts crossed his mind.

"I see..." Lee stated, "So this also mental training for you as well! As expected from Naruto-kun! But...I don't really get why you are only wearing your boxers..."

"Eh?" Naruto promptly stopped and looked down, finding out that he was still in just his boxers, "EH!"

Naruto placed his hands in front of his crotch, hoping to cover his boxers up for some reason and then started to run twice as fast as before.

"Kuuu! Naruto-kun! You've surpassed me again! I will train even harder to surpass your speed!" Lee exclaimed with tears of joy in his eyes.

Naruto ran as fast as he could back towards his house and hoped that no one he knew would see him. Sadly for Naruto, his hopes didn't come true.

"Huh?" Sakura yawned as she stepped out of her bed and onto the cold floor, a shiver running down her spine, "What's all that noise outside?"

She walked towards her bedroom window and as she peered outside, she saw Naruto run past her house, "Eh! Naruto!"

Sakura followed him with her eyes until he left her eyesight, "Was he...naked?"

A blush crawled onto her face and she quickly backed away from her window, "Why am I thinking about seeing Naruto naked...Damn it..."

She let out a sigh and rubbed her forehead, "I must be seeing things...Oh well, time to get out of this damned pink t-shirt...It's way too tight and short, I need to get a new one..."

Naruto meanwhile had reached his apartment and was heavily panting as he entered his living room again, "I'm back..."

"Welcome back, Naruto." Temari and Tenten said at the same time.

"It was getting cold in here, you know..." Temari said, causing Naruto to raise his head up and look at the two girls.

Naruto then just froze as he saw Temari and Tenten lying in each other's arms and looking at each other with dreamy eyes.

"So much that I had to become a substitute teddy bear for Temari..." Tenten stated and Naruto's jaw dropped open.

"Hmmm, but you're quite soft you know, Tenten...I think I could take you as a permanent replacement for Naruto..." Temari replied.

"No way...You're soft too, Temari..." Tenten replied.

"However, you're warm."

"Aaaah, but you smell prettier than I do."

"Tenten, you big tease..."

"Temari...Would you mind if I rest my head against your chest...?"

"Not one bit, my cute new little teddy bear-chan..."

Naruto was outright shocked and began running around in circles as his arms hung limp beside his body. After a couple of laps, Naruto stopped and raised a finger, "I'm...I'm...going to take a shower now..."

As Naruto rushed into the bathroom, Temari and Tenten giggled.

"We really overdid it this time." Temari said with a smirk on her face.

"Temari, you're so cruel on Naruto..." Tenten replied and giggled.

"Hmmm...Says the one who wanted to show a girl being all cute and resting against another girl's breasts." Temari's smirk widened.

"Ehehehehe...Well, it was funny to see his reaction. Also...I wondered what it would feel like..." Tenten said as she placed her cheek against Temari's chest and had a big smile painted on her face.

Temari closed her eyes and pondered for a moment before nodding, "Hmmm...Well...it doesn't feel bad on my part and you're a girl, so I don't mind."

"Thank you...So...What should we do next to make Naruto go crazy?" Tenten wondered as she placed a finger on her lips and looked up towards Temari.

"I don't know...Geez, men are so weak minded..." Temari replied.

"Who are you calling weak minded?" Gaara asked as he promptly sat up and stared at the two girls with a look sharp enough to instantly give all of them new haircut.

Meanwhile, Naruto was taking a very, very cold shower.

"Geez...Those two...They want to kill me or something...Or someone drugged them...I should check Ero-Sennin's ninja tools later on...He might've drugged them or something when I wasn't looking..." Naruto told himself and then shivered, "Damn this is cold...But...It sure as hell helps me out right now."

Naruto stepped out of the shower, shivering from the cold and quickly dried himself with a towel. Realising he didn't bring fresh clothing along with him to the bathroom, Naruto wrapped the towel around his waist and headed out of the bathroom.

As he headed into the living room, he froze in his position and stared awkwardly at Temari and Tenten, who were hanging upside down on the ceiling and were mostly covered in sand.

"What the...?" Naruto looked questioningly at the two of them.

"Naruto, get us out of here..." Temari and Tenten cried.

"Eh..." Naruto stared blankly at them.

"Naruto...Leave them hanging for a while there..." Gaara stated as he appeared right next to Naruto, arms in their usual crossed over position.

"Eh! Gaara! Stop randomly appearing!" Naruto yelled, "Besides...Why did you hang them up like this?"

"You didn't hear them practice moaning while waiting for you to come back from your little morning 'walk'..." Gaara stated as he closed his eyes, his left eye slightly twitching.

Naruto kneeled down in front of Temari's face and placed his face less than an inch away from hers, "You two...Really want to kill me, don't you..."

"No...We'd never do that..." Temari sung and stuck her tongue at Naruto, "Now...Can you get us out of here?"

"And why would I do something like that after nearly causing my mind to breakdown and become a second Ero-sennin?" Naruto asked as he looked dully at Temari.

Temari tried her best to move her face towards Naruto's and gave him a light kiss on his lips, "Because..."

Naruto blushed and closed his eyes, "Something like that won't work on the great Uzumaki Naruto-sama."

Temari pressed her face forward again and gave him another light kiss and winked sweetly at him, "A second then?"

Naruto blushed brighter and shivered, "Damn you, Temari...Doing all of this..."

"Don't be fooled, Naruto...Temari may not look like it but she has her way of escaping when being held by men." Gaara stated.

Naruto turned his head towards Gaara and raised an eyebrow at him, "What do you mean 'she doesn't look like it'? Your sister isn't ugly, you know..."

Temari blushed and Gaara stared directly into Naruto's eyes, giving him his cold death glare, "You want to repeat that...?"

"Eh...Nevermind..." Naruto grinned sheepishly at Gaara and then turned back to face Temari, "But I think it's about time those two are going to repent for what they did..."

"'Repent' you say, huh? It's not like you didn't like it, Naruto." Tenten replied and stuck her tongue out at Naruto.

"You nearly killed me last night by yourself, then what do you think that will happen if both you and Temari do things like that...?" Naruto glared at Tenten, "I'd definetely die, wouldn't I?"

Tenten's face turned bright red, "Then...you...I...my bra...oh my..."

"Now...Feel my revenge..." Naruto cracked his knuckles and had an evil grin on his face, "Oi, Gaara...Can you keep them in that position and make sure that they can't move their arms, yet everything else is pretty much clear of sand?"

"...Should be easy..." Gaara said and removed the sand from Temari and Tenten's body and legs while keeping their feet against the ceiling with the sand and their arms tightly strapped against their bodies.

"Now...Let's see..." Naruto grinned widely and slapped his infamous handseal together, "Harem no jutsu - Nemar version!"

Six clones popped to life, each only wearing a towel like Naruto and all of them looking like Nemar.

"Temari-chan! Tenten-chan!" The clones exclaimed as they glomped onto Temari and Tenten and started rubbing their cheeks against their legs, back and stomach.

Temari and Tenten turned bright red as both of them randomly squealed and groaned.

"Naruto...Stop this..." Tenten said with her face flushed red and, a second later, a moan escaped her lips.

"Naruto, you cruel bastard...I'm going to get you for this, I swear..." Temari said and bit her lip as she felt one of the clones trace with his fingers over her back.

Naruto chuckled in an evil manner as a dark aura surrounded him and Gaara slowly backed away, "Time for me to take my leave to the bathroom and read Shakespeare again..."

"No...Not yet..." Naruto said, his finger tops placed against each other and a wide evil grin on his face as he chuckled again, "I'm going to enjoy torturing you to the fullest."

"Naruto..." Tenten moaned.

One of the clones 'handling' Temari laid down beside her and started whispering things in her ear, Temari stopped biting her lip and let a soft moan escape her lips as well.

"Yes...Excellent..." Naruto chuckled with the evil aura still covering him, "I shall tell you something now..."

Naruto looked with a wide grin at the two girls, "Underneath those towels...Those clones are completely naked like me right now..."

For a second, everything in Naruto's apartment went silent. After that second, the sounds of blood spewing out of the nostrils of the two girls were all that could be heard for a while.

After the blood spewing stopped, the sand instantly released Temari and Tenten, dropping them on the floor.

It was then that Naruto realised something as he released his clones, "Come to think of it...I don't think they regain their blood as fast as I do..."

"This...This might be bad..." As Naruto's face turned blue out of shock, "Ah! What am I going to do! Hide the corpses...? No! They're not dead! Ehm...ehm...Take care of them and prey that they forgive me...? Solid plan!"

Naruto picked the two girls up and placed them over his shoulder, "This should definetely work..."

He then just froze up as he felt someone staring at him and he slowly turned his head, "Y-Yo...Gaara..."

"Yo Naruto..." Gaara replied as Naruto grinned sheepishly.

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Temari groaned and slowly opened her eyes, her vision being quite blurry. She felt something warm lying on her lap, so she turned her eyes down towards it and found plate with a bowl of ramen on it.

Slowly, she raised her head again to look at what was going on, on the edge of the bed she sat in. Temari's vision focussed and a second later she saw Naruto's head on an overly large sand teddy bear and Tenten holding him in a headlock.

"Naruto?" Temari asked with her eyes half open.

"Yo Temari." Naruto said dully as Tenten slightly shook him back and forth, "You want to join Tenten in headlocking me or whatever?"

"It's your own fault! Do you realise what the heck you did to me!" Tenten said in a raised voice.

"I had my revenge on you for what you did to me." Naruto replied and stuck his tongue out at Tenten.

Temari stared at the two and then noticed an arrow in the sand teddy bear, pointing at Tenten's arm and having the words "not that strong physically" above it.

She smiled and turned her eyes to their corners and looked at Gaara for a moment, who was hunched over a bowl of ramen and enjoying his meal bit by bit.

"Listen up, Naruto...A woman's physical reaction is different from a man's physical reaction, got that?" Tenten said with a red face as she tightened her headlock.

"Hai, hai, I know..." Naruto said and then leered at Tenten, "But I didn't know Tenten would react as easy as that..."

Tenten's face went bright red, she released the headlock she held on Naruto and pushed her index fingers together, "It wasn't exactly that, but..."

"Hehehe...I got it, I got it." Naruto grinned widely, "Temari, no more revenge attempts, ok?"

Temari smiled at him for a moment, but that smile quickly turned into a smirk, "Alright, but that doesn't mean I'll stop teasing you from time to time. I am a big sister after all and it's part of the job subscription."

"Ah, What's Temari-chan going to do? Give me another kiss?" Naruto teased and as he made a kissy face, Temari placed her plate with the bowl of ramen beside her.

"Like hell I will!" Temari yelled as she kicked Naruto in his face and held her feet there for a while, "That was an attempt to get out of that situation!"

Naruto took Temari's foot out of his face and grinned at her, "Then, why are you blushing?"

Temari quickly looked away, "Because it's embarrassing that I did that..."

Naruto snickered and as he turned towards Gaara, he held up a peace sign, "In the end, it's a victory for Uzumaki Naruto-sama!"

Gaara took a quick look at Temari and Tenten, who were both still blushing and then Gaara shrugged before continueing his meal.

"Well...I guess Tenten and I should get dressed now..." Temari stated, still not looking directly at Naruto.

"Hm?" Tenten's head perked and she looked at Temari, "Ye...Yeah, I guess so..."

As the two girls gathered their belongings and headed towards the bathroom, Naruto asked Gaara, "Oi, Gaara? Can you get me out of this teddy bear thing yet?"

Temari and Tenten froze and slowly turned around, a wicked grin painted on their face and a ominous dark aura surrounding them, "Gaara...Wait one minute with doing that."

"Oi! I thought we agreed on no more revenge stuff!" Naruto pointed accusingly towards Temari and Tenten.

"Well, this is going to be a precaution to make sure you won't try anything anymore as well." Tenten said and chuckled.

A while later, Naruto was sitting on the edge of his bed with Temari and Tenten next to him.

Temari and Tenten both had one arm wrapped around Naruto's waist and had the other stretched out in front of them, making the peace sign.

"Alright Naruto, you'd better give us an honest smile!" Temari stated with a smirk on her face.

"Uhuh, after all this is a once in a lifetime moment for all of us I guess." Tenten said.

"Alright, alright. I won't make a sour face, I promise." Naruto replied.

"Ready, Gaara?" Temari asked as Gaara held the photocamera ready, "Yeah..."

Temari and Tenten playfully stuck their tongue out and winked, Naruto grinned widely and Gaara took the shot.

"That should be it, right?" Gaara asked as he put down the camera.

"Yeah, we'll get it developed later today." Temari stated with a smirk on her face.

Gaara nodded and made the sand crawl off Naruto and back into his gourd.

Tenten stared at Naruto for a moment, "Naruto, all that sand made you dirty again. How about Temari and I wash you in order to somewhat make up for...you know."

Naruto and Temari's face turned bright red and they simultanously yelled, "Are you serious!"

"We'll just blindfold Naruto and wash him first before kicking him out and washing ourselves." Tenten stated and then slightly blushed, "That's alright, right? We could have fun and..."

Temari sighed and partly hid her blush, "A-Alright...But we'll keep our underwear on just incase the blindfold falls off his face!"

"Eh?" Naruto managed to let out before being dragged towards the bathroom by Temari and Tenten, "Gaara! Do something already!"

Gaara looked at Naruto for a moment and then made his sand form the words "Good luck" in the air.

"EH!"

Once they were inside the bathroom, Tenten locked the door behind them.

"Alright, Naruto. Just look that way." Temari said as she made Naruto face one of the walls, "We'll face the other way and er...well...Just undress already."

"Somehow...I've got a bad feeling about this..." Naruto thought as he began to undress.

"Stop with the Obi Wan act, Naruto!" Naruto pictured Ayame in his head and yelling at him.

Naruto snickered and the girls noticed, so Tenten decided to be the one to ask, "What's so funny, Naruto?"

"No, nothing. Don't mind me." Naruto said and snickered some more, "Ayame-chan, I wish I could ask you for advice right now..."

"Whatever you do, don't do anything perverted!" The little Ayame in the back of his mind yelled.

"Hm, I figured as much but still..."

"Listen, Naruto. If you can get through this without any trouble, then those two will most likely feel far more comfortable around you. In other words, you'll be closer to them and they'll trust you more. You can do this, Naruto!"

"Ayame-chan...Thank you." Naruto whispered as tears of joy flowed from his eyes.

"Eh? Did you just say 'Ayame-chan'?" Temari asked.

"Eh? What? I did? ...Please tell me I wasn't speaking all of my thoughts out loud..." Naruto said as nervousity started to take control of his mind, sweat crawling over his back.

"No, you just muttered something to yourself and all I heard was 'Ayame-chan'..." Temari replied.

"Naruto...For some reason...I don't think we wanted to hear your thoughts, huh?" Tenten asked.

"N-No! It's not like that! I was just thinking about some stuff Ayame-chan told me!" Naruto replied.

"Hmmm...Now you've caught my interest, Naruto..." Tenten said with an overly sweet smile on her face, "Who is this Ayame-chan?"

"Eh? You don't know? Ayame-chan works at Ichiraku Ramen. She's really smart and cool, you know. She helped me a lot with ehm...you know...things I'd rather not talk about...and such." Naruto replied and sheepishly laughed, "No matter what, I can't let them know that Ayame-chan helped me...no, made those letters that I send them...Though they don't know it's me really..."

"Ah I see. Anyway, let's do this already, huh?" Tenten stated.

"Ye-yeah...Blindfold me anytime now." Naruto said and sheepishly laughed again.

Naruto saw two arms reach past him, one holding a white towel and a few moments later, Naruto's vision became quite dark.

"Somehow this feels weird..." Naruto thought as he felt either Temari or Tenten tighten the knot behind his head and he also felt the fabric of a bra and some skin brush against his back.

Naruto gulped, "This could be bad, yeah, really bad..."

He heard the water being turned on and felt the temperature in the bathroom slightly rising.

Whether that was because he was nervous or just because it was that the temperature actually rose, Naruto didn't know. However, he did know that with his luck he was probably about to die a happy man.

A few moments later he felt two warm, wet cloths against his back and as the two girls rubbed the cloth over his back, Naruto relaxed a bit.

"Ah...This feels good..." Naruto sung as the girls kept rubbing the cloths over his back.

"Yeah, we can tell you're enjoying it..." Temari stated and then couldn't help but giggle.

"Eh? What's that supposed to mean?" Naruto asked as he felt Temari and Tenten move down to his legs.

"Call it a woman's intuition." Tenten replied and then giggled as well.

"You're really cute at times like this, Naruto..." Temari said as she roughly rubbed Naruto's leg with the cloth.

"When I'm in my boxers and blindfolded?" Naruto asked, "Really...What is so cute about me right now?"

"No, no...It's not that." Temari replied as she moved onto Naruto's lower legs.

"Hmmm...You two are quite weird together, you know..." Naruto mused.

A moment of silence followed as Temari and Tenten looked into each other's eyes and then bursted out in more giggling.

"Girls can act so strange at times..." Naruto shook his head, "Anyway, keep this up. I don't know really...but this is making feel so relaxed."

"Don't worry...As long as you won't fall asleep and we aren't done with you, we'll keep washing you." Tenten replied.

"Ehehehe...There's no way I'd fall asleep right now." Naruto replied and laughed.

Naruto's laughing abruptly ended as he thought that they removed his blindfold.

"Huh?" Naruto let out and then noticed he wasn't quite in his bathroom along with Temari and Tenten.

Naruto turned around and found himself facing the gates of Konoha, "Temari? Tenten? Where are you guys?"

No reply came to Naruto's ears and he looked up to the pitch black sky.

"What in the world..." Naruto said to himself as he turned his eyes from the sky back towards the gates, "Could this be..."

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"What are you talking about, Naruto? We're right here." Temari said with a smile on her face as she washed one of his arms.

"Oi, Are you hallucinating or something, Naruto?" Tenten asked as she was busy cleaning his other arm.

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Naruto stared at the gate and suddenly he felt his body go numb and ice-cold.

"What...is this feeling..." Naruto shivered as slowly, but surely, figures started to walk through the gate.

He saw man in a black robe,with a hood over his head, heading straight towards him. However, what Naruto at first noticed wasn't the black robed man, but rather his entourage.

Eight people dressed in black robes with red cloud patterns on it followed the man that headed straight for Naruto.

"Akatsuki!" Naruto's eyes widened as he started to recognise the faces of Uchiha Itachi, Hoshigaki Kisame and Deidara amongst the eight.

The nine of them kept walking towards Naruto and he tried his best to move, but for some reason he couldn't push his body forward. It wasn't long before he was surrounded by the eight Akatsuki members and the black robed man just walked right past him.

Some of the eight Akatsuki members grabbed Naruto and forced him to turn around, "You bastards! Let go of me!"

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"Eh?" Tenten let out as both her and Temari looked shocked at Naruto, "Naruto, what's wrong?"

"Did we do something wrong?" Temari asked as she looked worried at Naruto, who was clenching his fists and gritted his teeth.

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The eight members of the Akatsuki tightly held Naruto and forced him to look at the black robed man.

"What the hell is happening..." Naruto thought as he watched the black robed man walk through the streets of Konoha.

All of a sudden, Sakura appeared in front of the black robed man and she looked into his eyes like she was hypnotized, "Sakura-chan?"

Naruto could now see the chin and mouth of the black robed man and he saw the man tell Sakura something, but he couldn't hear what it was. Sakura's hypnotized eyes instantly changed when the man stopped talking and they flared with anger.

She threw a punch at the black robed man, but he easily caught it and didn't even seem to be fazed by the strength of Sakura's punch. Naruto gasped as he saw Sakura was having trouble breaking herself free from the man's grasp and was actually in pain.

The black robed man went through a series of one handed handseals as Sakura cried in pain from the pressure that was being put on her hand.

"Sakura-chan!" Naruto called out.

A second later, two spires raised out of the ground and impaled Sakura, her emerald green eyes going wide with shock as blood flowed from her mouth.

The next moment, the spires retracted and Sakura's lifeless body fell down on the ground.

"No...No...This...This isn't real! This can't be real!" Naruto's eyes went wide with shock, "Sakura-chan!"

Naruto then slightly gasped as he saw Ino appear in front of the black robed man, "This isn't real...People don't appear out of thin air..."

He saw the black robed man talk again and Naruto could tell that he said the same to Ino as he did to Sakura. Ino's facial expression changed just like Sakura's did after the man stopped talking to her and she too attacked the black robed man.

Ino however was no threat to the black robed man either and ended up lifeless on the ground just like Sakura did. Naruto was in total shock, not even able to yell or try to wrestle his way out of the grasp of the Akatsuki.

Next came Hinata, who attacked the black robed man after hearing only the first two words come from his mouth. Naruto called out her name as she too fell to the black robed man.

Temari and Tenten followed the same fate as Hinata, Ino and Sakura, but it didn't end at just them. Everyone Naruto knew attacked the black robed man and each and everyone of them ended up dead and lifeless on the ground.

Even the combined strength of Jiraiya and Tsunade didn't make the black robed man break a sweat. Naruto fell down on his knees, tears flowing from his eyes as he looked at all his friends and loved ones, dead on the ground.

"Why..." Naruto asked himself and then called out as loud as he could, "Why are you doing this, you bastard!"

Naruto saw the black robed man turn his head towards him and grinned widely. Three snakes slithered passed Naruto and appeared to even pass the black robed man unnoticed.

Naruto gasped as all of a sudden he saw Ayame stand in front of the black robed man.

"Why...? Ayame-chan...She's...not a shinobi. Then, why?" Naruto thought as he stared at Ayame and the black robed man.

The black robed man told Ayame something as well.

"No...Not Ayame as well...Damn it...Damn it...DAMN IT!" Naruto yelled as the black robed man raised his hand up in the air.

Naruto then just froze as he finally saw the black robed man's face and his heart skipped a few beats. Naruto's eyes were wide and tears still flowed from them, but now he was more shocked than scared.

The face he saw was none other than his own.

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Temari removed the blindfold from Naruto's eyes, "Naruto, what's wrong?"

"Did we do something wrong?" Tenten asked and Naruto softly sobbed, his breaths sounding heavy.

Naruto turned around, threw his arms around Temari's waist and burried his face in her stomach for as much as that was possible with a girl of Temari's physique.

"Oi..." Temari said and hesitantly reached out with her hand for the back of Naruto's head.

"Did we scare you or something?" Tenten asked as she gently stroked over Naruto's back.

Naruto switched from Temari to Tenten and, due to his sudden movement, he made Tenten fall down on her back.

"Naruto..." Tenten said as she sat up and for a moment embraced Naruto, "Temari...Can't you hold him? I'm not really a big sister, so..."

Temari nodded and carefully took Naruto into her arms, "Ssssht...It's ok, Naruto...Calm down..."

As Temari soothed Naruto by gently stroking through his hair and over his back, a dark malevolent voice was the only thing Naruto could hear for now.

"By yourself, you've overcome loneliness...Now, not only do you have feelings for others, but others have feelings for you as well...I've shown what will happen if you fail to overcome your greatest challenge...Can you overcome death like you have overcome loneliness, brat?"

"Next time...Next time, I'll definetely not just watch and let my friends die like that..." Naruto muttered between his sobs.

Temari looked confused at Naruto for a moment and then kept gently stroking through his hair.

"I'll definetely...with all my might...prevent something like that from happening..."

As Naruto's crying started to stop, Temari broke out into a wide grin, "Naruto, I expect you to properly clean up the mess you made."

Naruto's sobbing abruptly stopped and he looked up into Temari's teal eyes.

He then slightly backed away from her, blinked the last of his tears out of his eyes and stared at Temari, who leaned back and pointed at her stomach, "Especially 'aso...ko'..." (A/N: For those of you that don't know it, 'asoko' mean 'this place' or 'that place', but it is also used as an alternate word for a woman's...womanhood XD)

"Naruto." Tenten said, causing Naruto to turn his head over towards her, "Don't forget 'asoko' too..."

"Eh? Eh?" Naruto let out as he quickly went from Tenten to Temari and back a couple of times, "EH!"

Naruto fell over and knocked his head against the floor, "Gaaaaaah! Those poses! And those expressions they have! Not to mention saying 'asoko, asoko' so easily! Aaaaaah!"

"Oi, why were you crying, Naruto?" Temari asked and Naruto instantly stopped banging his head against the floor, "Why?"

Naruto sat up, sat back down in indian style, "Damn it...I made such a scene and now I can't remember because..."

"Asoko..." The picture of Temari in her underwear popped into Naruto's mind and he quickly shook his head.

"Asoko..." The picture of both Temari and Tenten popped in his mind again, Naruto trying to shake it off again.

"Asoko..." Temari and Tenten multiplied inside his mind and kept multiplying, each time saying the word "Asoko".

Naruto raised his head and, with a crimson red face, he looked at Temari and Tenten, knowing that if he didn't reply soon that he'd be in some very big trouble, "Ano...For some reason..Ahem...I can't remember one bit why..."

Everything went silent inside the bathroom and the atmosphere noticeably changed.

"Naruto..." Temari glared at Naruto, her voice hinting both anger and rage boiling up within her.

"You are..." Tenten added in the same tone of voice as Temari as she clenched her fist.

"No...No! It's not like that! There was a reason! Really! I don't cry for no reason! Honestly! But with you two like that...I er..."

"The worst!" Temari and Tenten yelled.

A few moments later, the bathroom door was opened, Naruto was thrown out of the bathroom. As he landed against the wall and fell down, he got his clothing thrown in his face and Temari slammed the bathroom door shut.

"Geez...If he had just given me a reason why he cried, even if it was a pathetic reason, I wouldn't have beaten him up like that..." Temari stated as she still looked pissed off.

"Maybe he was telling the truth, but it's still suspicious...To think he'd do something like that..." Tenten replied.

"Yeah..." Temari's expression softened a bit, "I don't believe it that much either, now that I think about it...However, a guy his age and with a sensei like his..."

Tenten giggled, "Poor Naruto...He must be cursing his sensei right now for his reputation. Women can't really trust him either because of it. After all, a sensei teaches his pupil everything he or she knows, right?"

"I really hope that isn't the case with Naruto..." Temari stated and let out a sigh.

"I don't think so, but he might be sneaky enough to hide it. Anyway, let's take a nice long bath for now, ok?" Tenten said with a smile on her face as she unhooked her bra.

"Come to think of it, Tenten...I'm sure that you put a white bra on last night...How come you wear a red one all of a sudden?" Temari asked as she unhooked her own bra and Tenten went crimson in her face.

"Damn you, Ero-sennin...Damn you so much for having a bad reputation amongst the women!" Naruto cursed in his mind as he got dressed.

When he was fully dressed, he jumped up and walked back to the living room. He saw Gaara standing on the balcony and decided to join him.

"Yo Gaara, what are you doing out here?" Naruto asked with his usual wide grin on his face.

"That ANBU person..." Gaara replied and nodded towards an ANBU that walked on the street below, "I think I've seen him somewhere before..."

"Hm? Really? But you know...All of those ANBU guys look alike..." Naruto leaned over the balcony and gave the ANBU a closer look.

His face was behind a mask as usual so Naruto just shrugged, "It's probably just your imagination..."

"However...Don't you think it's strange?" Gaara asked as he placed a hand on his chin in a 'I'm-pondering-right-now' manner, "Under normal conditions, you don't see ANBU walking on the street, do you?"

"Hmmm...I guess so...Look, there is another walking over there and over there as well." Naruto stated, pointing at two other ANBU, "I guess they're having some time off or are patrolling the streets or something..."

"Hmmm...Perhaps..." Gaara stated, "Are those two done yet?"

"Eh? Temari and Tenten you mean?" Naruto asked and Gaara nodded in reply.

"Ehm...I think they just started bathing...Why did you ask? Need to go to the bathroom yourself?" Naruto asked.

"No, Hatake Kakashi-san came here while you were in there. He asked me if you were around. I told him you were bathing with Temari and Tenten. He replied with 'Oh...I see. Then, please tell Naruto I was here and that all of you should gather as fast as possible in front of the Hokage's office'. He then left chuckling like mad and I continued to look over the streets of Konoha..." Gaara stated.

"That Kakashi-sensei...He must've been thinking dirty thoughts about me and Temari and Tenten...Why the heck am I stuck with all those perverted sensei..." Naruto thought and nodded, "I see...Then, I'll go eat some ramen while we're waiting for Temari and Tenten to be done bathing."

About half an hour, 20 cups of instant Ramen and a hopelessly one sided shougi game with Gaara later, the four of them were heading for the Hokage's office.

"Geez...What in the world took you two so long...I even played a full game of shougi with Gaara..." Naruto had his hand on the back of his head as they kept heading onward towards the Hokage's office.

"And lost even more horrible than Kankurou is able to do..." Gaara added as he lifted a finger in front of his own face.

"Gaaah! No need to say useless things!" Naruto snapped at Gaara.

"It is merely the truth..." Gaara said.

"...That's why..." Naruto sighed and then looked at Temari and Tenten, "Well? Why was it that you two needed to bathe for such a long time?"

"Unlike you, we didn't bathe earlier this morning. Also since it's two of us, it's twice the time, you know..." Temari explained.

"Besides, we're going to meet up with Tsunade-sama, right? We've got to look fresh and clean in front of her!" Tenten added cheerfully.

"Just fo that old lady? Heh...She smells like sake most of the time anyway, so it will probably create one hell of a toxic gas. Sake and two freshly smelling girls that is..."

"Don't talk about Tsunade-sama like that!" Tenten yelled, waving her arms wildly at Naruto as she felt the urge to defend the honor of her idol.

"Eh? Why not? It's just the truth...What are you, her number one fan or something?" Naruto looked questioningly at Tenten.

Tenten quickly pulled back, closed her eyes and as they twitched, she blushed out of embarrassment, "A-Actually..."

"What! You really are that old hag's fan!" Naruto almost yelled out of surprise.

"I just want to be a great kunoichi like Tsunade-sama is!" Tenten replied.

"Hmmm...I don't think I can imagine you being a lazy, gambling addicted, violent and always sake drinking woman..."

"Tsunade-sama isn't like that when she actually gets serious!"

"Hmmm...Well, she does have that insane strength of hers..." Naruto stretched out and placed his hands on the back of his head again, "And she also an insane healing ability and probably lots of other stuff I don't know about...but outside of that, she's just an old hag..."

Naruto then froze as he could feel a large amount of anger dwell up behind him,"Who are you calling an old hag, Naruto?"

He slightly turned his head around and saw none other than Tsunade towering behind him, a flaming aura of anger and rage surrounding her, "Eh...eh...Y-Yo...Tsunade-obachan...How's it going...?"

"Naruto..." Tsunade cracked her knuckles and her ponytails flew up in the air, "I'll give you until the count of ten to get the hell out of my sight..."

"One!" Tsunade exclaimed and cracked her knuckles again.

Naruto slightly jumped up and tried to figure out what would be best for him to do, since he obviously would not escape Tsunade's wrath by simply hiding nearby and he didn't know if he could get completely out of her sight in ten seconds.

"Two!"

"Three!"

"Four!" An idea popped into Naruto's head.

"Five!" Naruto quickly whispered something in Gaara's ear.

"Six!"

"Seven!" Tsunade exclaimed slightly louder than before and Gaara nodded towards Naruto.

"Eight!"

"Nine!"

"TEN!" Tsunade threw her fist towards Naruto's face, but she stopped her attack a hair's length from Naruto's face.

Naruto grinned widely and threw his hands up in the air, "Houyou!"

Tsunade sweatdropped and was thrown of her composure as she stared at Naruto, who was engulved in sand and looked like a big teddy bear. (A/N: Houyou means, according to the site where I get a lot of my japanese words from, hug so...)

A deadly silence followed and a soft breeze blew a cloud of dust past them. Naruto frowned and then raised an eyebrow at Tsunade, "No hug for Naruto?"

Tsunade closed her twitching eyes and straightened back up, "Naruto...Get out of that retarded sand costume so I can punch you..."

Naruto crossed his arms, closed his eyes and frowned more, "I'm not coming out of this until I get a hug from Tsunade-obachan."

Tsunade shook her fist in the air and gritted her teeth, "Fine then..."

She took a deep, deep breath and then tightly hugged the sand teddy bear called Naruto.

"Hokage-sama..." Gaara said and Tsunade looked up when she noticed that Gaara's voice was coming from way closer then it should be, "As much as I'd like to further improve the relations between Suna and Konohagakure...Hugging me while being used for a Kawarimi no jutsu isn't really the way to do it..."

"Eh?" Tsunade looked at Gaara's cold emotionless face, which had replaced Naruto's face in the sand teddy and she then looked past Gaara's head to see an army of Kage Bunshin carry Temari and Tenten away.

"Everyone, run for your lives!" Naruto commanded his clones as they made haste.

"Yes sir!" The clones replied in synchrony.

"NARUTO! GET BACK HERE THIS INSTANT!" Tsunade yelled at the top of her lungs.

"Hokage-sama, I'd appreciate it if you didn't yell into my ears...Also, you can stop hugging me now..." Gaara said as he had his eyes closed.

Tsunade momentarily glanced at Gaara, quickly let go of him and started to laugh sheepishly, "Ahahaha...Eh...Sorry about that..."

"It's alright...Now, if you'll excuse me..." Gaara said as he turned around and calmly followed Naruto's path towards the Hokage's tower.

"Naruto, put me back down! I'm begging you!" Tenten said as she wobbled over the hands of the Naruto clones that supported her and Temari.

"You'd fall behind!" One of the clones stated.

"Then stop running!" Tenten retorted.

"Oi, don't complain...Just don't sit down on your behind and you'll have a free ride without any troubles." Temari stated and smirked at Tenten.

"Ey, like I'd try to grope either of you two's asses!" Naruto replied.

"What? My ass is not good enough for you?" Temari raised an eyebrow at Naruto.

"Grr..." Naruto softly growled, "Don't say stuff like that out in public. Besides, I don't want to have more pissed off women after me, now do I?"

"Oh no, Naruto, you're not getting off that easily. I'm not going to shut up about it until you pinch my rear-end!" Temari replied and sat down indian style.

There was a moment of silence, followed by the sound of Naruto pinching Temari's behind.

One explosion of anger and increase in Naruto's average miles per hour later, Temari yelled, "Naruto! What did you do that for, you little...!"

"But-but-but! You said you wouldn't stop talking about it until I did so!" Naruto cried out, "You basically commanded me to do so!"

"And since when do you follow my commands! It's not like you'd obey if I told you to get naked!" Temari yelled as she snapped her fan open.

"Yes I would! I already did so today, damn it!" Naruto replied.

"Pervert senses tingling..." Jiraiya said as his ears tingled and he looked around with shifty eyes.

"Hm?" Kakashi looked up from his Icha Icha Paradise novel, "Looks like we'll have some trouble..."

Jiraiya peered into the distance and saw a rapidly increasing in size mass of orange rush towards them.

"Everyone, step aside. I'll handle this." Jiraiya said and walked past the gathered group.

"Naruto! I command you to stop!" Jiraiya called out as he grabbed a cup of instant ramen out of his pockets and held it in front of him, "The power of ramen compells you!"

Just then, Temari let out a war cry and created a large whirlwind with her fan, which headed for Naruto group of clones. The entire Kage Bunshin group was lifted off the ground and hurled towards Jiraiya.

One by one the clones hit Jiraiya and knocked Jiraiya slightly back as they popped out of existence, eventually leaving Jiraiya knocked against the wall with Naruto lying stretched out horizontally against him.

"Cha..." Tenten let out as she rubbed her sore behind, "Something broke my fall..."

"Good morning to you too, Tenten..." Neji, who was lying underneath Tenten, said and sounded slightly annoyed.

"Ah, Neji!" Tenten quickly stood up and reached out with her hand, "Sorry about that. Are you alright?"

Neji jumped back up and dusted himself off, "Yeah...Next time you decide to greet me awkwardly, suddenly hug me instead of attempting to break my spine..."

"It's not like intentionally jumped landed on top of you..." Tenten slightly blushed and then softly added, "If I did, I'd probably fall in a different way..."

"It's alright already." Neji replied.

"Sorry for catching you in the blast as well, Tenten..." Temari said once she had caught up.

"I'm not hurt, so don't worry, Temari." Tenten smiled at Temari.

"...I think I should've tried to evade that move...My vision has turned sideways..." Naruto said and blinked.

His vision was then returned to the state as it should be, "Naruto...You're late."

"Eh? Ero-sennin?" Naruto looked over his shoulder at the slightly beat up Jiraiya, "What the heck happened to you?"

"Well...Some people actually get bruises when get more than a couple of bodies thrown against them..." Jiraiya replied as he placed Naruto on the ground and stood up, "Anyway, go and stand in the line already. There's a lot we all have to do today."

Naruto looked towards the gathered crowd and found every one of his friends there, "Ehehehe. Yo everyone! How are you all doing?"

Jiraiya rubbed the back of his head as Naruto ran towards his friends, "Geez...That Naruto...Not even apologizing for not disabling his clones on time..."

"Tenten, are you alright?" Naruto asked once he had reached the group.

"Y-Yeah...Neji broke my fall." Tenten said, slightly blushing.

Naruto grinned widely and laughed sheepishly, "Ah, I see. Sorry about that, Neji."

"Hn." Neji replied and closed his eyes.

Naruto looked around the group and quickly spotted Sakura, "Ohayo, Sakura-chan!"

Sakura titled her head to the left and smiled at him, "Ohayo, Naruto."

"O-Ohayo...Na-Naruto-kun..." Hinata shyly greeted the blonde as well.

"Ohayo, Hinata." Naruto smiled widely at the Hyuuga heiress, "I hope you slept well last night."

Hinata blushed, looked towards the ground and rubbed the tops of her index fingers against each other, "Y-Yes..."

"Naruto-kun!" A very excited Lee exclaimed as he rushed towards Naruto, "Let's have our youthful spirits burn to at their brightest today!"

"Eh? Yeah. Though, I'm not sure what's going on..." Naruto replied and contemplatively rubbed his chin.

"Alright! Today I'll have my Springtime of Youth explode as much as yours did earlier this morning!" Lee exclaimed and raised a fist up in the air, "Next time, I'll go in my boxers as well!"

A long murdering silence followed, Naruto not feeling quite comfortable anymore, "Oh crap..."

Surprisingly, it was Shino who finally broke the silence, "What the...?"

Everyone, safe a giggling Temari and Tenten, looked confused at Lee and Naruto, not sure if they wanted to know what Lee meant by that.

"Naruto..." Temari brought out between giggles.

"You..." Tenten added and giggled more.

When Temari and Tenten bursted out in laughter, the confused looks turned from Naruto and Lee towards the two of them.

"Can someone explain what the joke is?" Ino asked anyone who might know the answer.

"It's too troublesome for me to think up theories..." Shikamaru replied, placed his hands on the back of his head and stared up to the sky.

"I bet that involves some kind of bet! And some meat..." Chouji said as he threw a bunch of potato-chips into his mouth and Ino looked questioningly at him, "Why the meat?"

"Yup...It definitely involved meat..." Chouji nodded, not even bothering to answer Ino.

"That makes no sense at all you know..." Ino raised an eyebrow at Chouji.

"Or I'm just getting hungry because it's nearing lunch time..." Chouji replied as he popped his empty potato-chip bag and Ino shook her head.

"I really don't get what's so funny about it either..." Lee said as he gave a moment of thought to it.

"Well? What is it?" Neji asked.

Temari and Tenten stopped laughing for a moment, straightened up, looked at each other and then said in unison, "It's a secret."

"Hai, hai...You guys can discuss Lee and Naruto's boxers, kunoichi secrets and stuff later..." Kakashi said as he softly bounced off the wall he was leaning against and walked towards the group, "For now line up so Jiraiya-sama and myself can explain today's mission for all of you."

Within a few seconds everyone was lined up and Kakashi and Jiraiya stood in front of them.

"As all of you know, we have four days until Tsunade and I marry each other. Even though we prepared for it sometime now, there's still much left to do." Jiraiya said and grinned widely, "Normally, it would be probably impossible to get everything done within four days for a wedding. However, having an entire Village ready to help out and a lot of young shinobi is a big advantage that Tsunade and I have."

"I have a question." Shikamaru raised his hand up in the air, "Or actually, I have two questions..."

"What is it, Shikamaru-kun?" Kakashi asked.

"My first question is, why do you want to specifically marry each other in four days' time and my second question is why do we have to help out with preparing everything for the wedding?" Shikamaru asked and lowered his hand.

"Well, that's because the 14th of February is a special day and we wanted to make it extra special." Jiraiya sheepishly grinned and rubbed the back of his head.

"As to why all of you have to do this..." Kakashi said, "It's because we can't have a lot of high level shinobi working on festivities when there are still other missions to do...Also it's a nice opportunity to have the Rookie nine from three years ago...Gai's team...Oh, and Temari-san and Kazekage-sama, get together and improve their relationships with each other. Hokage-sama said that all of you haven't had the chance to do so yet due to the increase in missions over the past two years...Well...I'm sure all of you don't mind having a moment to catch up. Right, Naruto?"

"Ehehehe." Naruto sheepishly grinned and rubbed the back of his head.
"In other words, we're all going to work together and gather what is needed for the wedding?" Gaara asked.

"Oi! Since when were you here again! I thought you were miles behind us!" Naruto pointed accusingly at Gaara.

"...I think about a minute ago..." Gaara replied.

"Ah...I see..." Naruto lowered his finger, "It's creepy how he can be amongst us and not even be noticed until he speaks up..."

Kakashi coughed, "As Kazekage-sama said, that's your objective for today. Each of you will get a bunch of tasks assigned and work on them the entire day. If you're done with all your tasks, help the others out."

"Gai-sensei's eternal rival, Kakashi-sensei! I have a question!" Lee raised his hand in the air, "Why isn't Gai-sensei with the two of you right now!"

"Gai? Ah...I believe he said something about working on tomorrow's schedule...Even though I think we can do almost everything today..." Kakashi stated.

"As expected of Gai-sensei! His youthfulness shines as birhgt as ever! Yooooosh!" Lee exclaimed and set himself aflame with the flames of youth.

"Geez...Some people are just over energetic..." Temari muttered and closed her eyes.

"Well, I guess that's just how Fuzzy Eyebrows is..." Naruto nodded.

Temari looked at Naruto and smirked, something that didn't go by unnoticed by the blonde, "Huh? What is it, Temari?"

"No, nothing much..." Temari's smirk widened, "Just remembered that I should give you a tip when I have the chance."

"Hmmm...Somehow, I don't like the sound of that..."

Temari slightly laughed and then playfully winked at Naruto, "Rest assured, I won't publically embarrass you."

"Then, we shall now assign each and everyone of you your own task." Kakashi stated.

A while later, almost everyone had their tasks assigned.

"...And Kazekage-sama and Temari-san will be the ones to arrange the contacts with their own village of course and invite them over." Jiraiya placed his hands on Gaara and Temari's shoulders before moving on to Naruto, "As for Naruto, you will..."

Jiraiya wrapped an arm around Naruto's shoulders and turned the two of them away from the rest of the crowd, "Hehehe. Naruto, you will be in charge of getting me my special present for Tsunade. Hehehehe. Go to my store and pick out the finest you can find, if you get what I mean, hehehe..."

"You Ero-Sennin..." Naruto glared at Jiraiya and his right eye twitched, "Why the heck do I have to do this!"

"Well, you've been there before. Besides, if Tsunade doesn't like it then I can blame you. Anyway..." Jiraiya took out a small folded piece of paper from his pockets and handed it to Naruto, "Here's everything you need to know. Good luck, hehehehe."

Naruto sighed, "Alright, alright...I'll do it on one condition!"

Jiraiya looked questioningly at Naruto, "What?"

"This evening you'll start teaching me that new move you promised to teach me if I did that whole...er...you know what in a few days thing..." Naruto said and firmly nodded, "At least this way I can be certain that I'll at least get something out of doing all of this for that perverted old man..."

"Alright. Now, go get some good stuff for me, Naruto!" Jiraiya slapped Naruto on his back and laughed loudly at him.

Kakashi looked at Jiraiya for a moment and then back towards the gathered crowd, "Alright, now that everyone has their tasks, the mission can start. Everyone, good luck."

The group seperated from each other, each heading into their own directions in order to start on the tasks given to them.

Temari stared at Naruto, who was walking away from the crowd as well , for a moment and then turned towards Gaara, "Gaara? Mind if I do something else for a bit?"

"Do whatever you want..." Gaara replied.

"Alright, then I'll be back soon." Temari said and ran off towards Naruto.

"Geez...Ero-sennin owns the freaking store but he can't even go and get something for Tsunade-obachan on his own. Wait...The store Ero-Sennin owns is..." Naruto thought and pondered for a moment, "EH!"

"...Damn you, Ero-Sennin! You want me to get those kind of things for Tsunade-obachan! Then...That paper..." Naruto thought, unfolded the piece of paper and stared at it, "What! This...This is..."

Naruto stared at the small piece of paper, or rather what was written on it, until Temari's voice broke him out of his trance, "Yo Naruto."

"Eh?" Naruto quickly put the piece of paper away, "Er...Yo Temari! What are you doing here...?"

"Well, I figured you could use my help and Gaara can contact a lot of people on his own so..." Temari said and looked away from Naruto.

"Eh? Help me?" Naruto looked questioningly at Temari, who looked back at him and smirked, "Well...I bet that Jiraiya-sama is making you do something that would be less embarrassing with a girl around, right?"

"Ehehehe...I think it's somewhat embarrassing either way..." Naruto sheepishly grinned and rubbed the back of his head.

Temari moved her arm around Naruto's back, reached into his pocket and pulled out the piece of paper, which he had previously put away.

"Let's see..." Temari took a look at the piece of paper.

"Oi! What do you think you're doing, Temari! That is...!" Naruto exclaimed and Temari silenced him by placing a finger on his lips, "Classified information that the people around us would misunderstand about if you said it out loud because you're with me right now...Got it?"

Naruto nodded, "It's not like I was going to say what's on that paper out loud anyway..."

Temari tucked the piece of paper behind the wrappings around her waist and then smirked at him, "And here I was thinking you actually liked being hit by my whirlwinds..."

Naruto snickered, "Anyway, won't it be embarrassing for you to come along with me? I mean...People will think that you and I are..."

"I don't care what others think, I'm just helping you out so you won't get into a lot of trouble. Besides, I don't think Hokage-sama would appreciate orange lingerie." Temari's smirk widened.

"Eh! What makes you think I'd take something that's orange!" Naruto exclaimed.

"Let's see..." Temari started to count the amount of reasons on her fingers, "You wear an orange jacket, orange pants...You have an attire that exists of mainly orange jackets and pants, safe the bunch of white and black t-shirts, but even they have something orange on them and if I didn't know better, I would've thought your boxers were orange as well. So...I guess it's safe to say that if you were to shop for lingerie on your own then you'd chose something that is orange."

"...But orange is cool!" Naruto defended his favourite color for clothing valiantly.

"But most women wouldn't want orange lingerie." Temari replied and pushed Naruto's head back with her index finger.

"Alright, you can help me out. Let's get going then so I can quickly finish this and head on with helping the others and all." Naruto said and walked on.

Temari smiled and quickly followed him, "Thanks for saving me from a boring task by the way."

"Eh? What do you mean by that?"

"Well...Contacting important officials other than Gaara in Suna and probably some other countries too isn't nearly as exciting as seeing you pick out lingerie." Temari winked at him and slightly laughed.

Naruto closed his eyes, "Oi, you're making it sound like it's funny to see me do something like this..."

"That's because it is funny to see you do this." Temari grinned at him.

A couple of minutes later, Temari and Naruto found themselves in Jiraiya's lingerie shop and browsing through the variety of lingerie available.

"You know, Naruto...I'm wondering why he chose you to go here and get what he is supposed to get for his future wife..." Temari said as she placed back a corset amongst the other corsets.

"Well...Ero-Sennin has a pretty damn lousy reputation, right?" Naruto replied and tried to prevent his thoughts from going perverted, "Also...I'm sure, definitely sure that he's trying to make me perverted too."

Temari stared at him for a moment and then let her eyes wander over various lingerie items again, "Well, don't let him get to you...It would be a shame to have you become like him..."

"Eh?" Naruto looked surprised at Temari, "What did you say just now?"

Temari lifted her head slightly up and then closed her eyes as a slight blush appeared on her face, "Nothing, never mind..."

"Hmmm..." Naruto let out and gave Temari a suspicious look, "Hehehe...Looks like even Temari is shy sometimes..."

"Anyway, we won't get anywhere by just standing, right?" Temari asked, shaking Naruto out of his thoughts.

"Eh? No...I don't think so...We have to chose something good but how do we know what we should get?" Naruto asked in return, to which Temari smiled.

"Hmmm...I'll figure something out in a moment. Meanwhile, don't you think it would be good for every woman in the world if her physical strength was represented her chest size in some way?" Temari asked.

"Eh! Wh-Why that?" Naruto asked in confusion.

"Well, I'd have about half of Hokage-sama's physical strength then, wouldn't I?" Temari grinned at Naruto.

Naruto crossed his arms and a small blush crawled onto his face, "Well, if it was the other way around of physical strength increasing chest size then Sakura-chan would...But that would make Ero-Sennin cry because a lot of women don't even come close to Tsunade's strength. Tenten, Ino and Temari too...All of you would be pretty damned flat-chested then..."

Temari snapped and lifted Naruto up by his collar, "Naruto...Are you suggesting that I'm not strong physically...?"

"Eh! No! No, not at all! Just compared to Tsunade-obachan's strength and all...well, I guess you get the point, right?" Naruto replied.

Temari placed him back down on the ground, placed her hands on her hips and closed her eyes, "Good, because not only do I carry an extremely large and heavy fan on my back I also carry these overgrown peaches around."

As Temari pointed at her chest with her two index fingers, Naruto sheepishly grinned at her and rubbed the back of his head, "Temari...Don't say embarrassing things like that..."

"Anyway...Like you said, we won't get anything by just standing around here...What should we do?" Naruto asked and saw Temari smirk at him.

"I have an idea." Her smirk widened as she grabbed a random lingerie set and pulled Naruto along with her towards the dressing rooms, "Oi! Temari, what do you plan on doing! You can't just pick one and decide we'll use that one!"

"Sssht...You're being to loud..." Temari whispered, "Besides we're going to see how it looks on her before buying it..."

"Eh? What do you mean by...?" Naruto replied and then went silent, sparkly pink scenes filling his mind.

----------In Naruto's pink sparkly fantasies----------

(A/N: Insert Oiroke no Jutsu theme here XD)

"Naruto..." Temari said in half a moan as she laid back stretched out, her corselet loosely hanging around her body and a bright blush on her face, "I can't really tell if this is the right one for Hokage-sama, but it really isn't my size..."

"Gaaaaaah!" Naruto's mind nosebleeded and shot back, "O-Or...perhaps..."

"Well, Naruto...Let's see if this outfit fits Hokage-sama..." Temari said as she stood straight, though leaning slightly to the left for a more sexy look and her lingerie again hung quite loose on her body, "Henge no jutsu."

A cloud of smoke covered Temari for a moment and after the smoke cleared up, Temari was replaced by a brightly blushing Tsunade, "Ah...It's so tight...too tight..."

Naruto mentally felt his cheeks flare up as he looked at Tsunade, whose body was wrapped tighter than it should be in the corselet.

"Naruto...I can't hold...it...much...longer..." Tsunade said, her lingerie slowly ripped apart as her moans grew louder and louder.

Naruto mentally passed out for a few moments, "Then...what if..."

He found himself in front of Temari again, this time she had her back towards him and already appeared to have her corselet on again.

"Naruto..." Temari looked seductively over her shoulder, "Can you measure up my chest and see if it fits two times in this corselet...? Hokage-sama has twice my size after all..."

"EH!" Naruto mentally screamed his lungs out as his imaginary Temari grabbed his hands and moved them forward towards her chest, "Don't be too rough...O-ne-gai..."

Naruto's nosebleed caused him to fly up with such power that his arms were still near Temari, even though he had launched away for more than just a few meters.

"Gaaah! What am I thinking! I can't...think...but...there...ehm..."

"Hmmm...Let's slowly test out if this is suited for Hokage-sama, shall we?" Temari asked as she stood in a seductive pose, arms behind her head and her corselet only barely covering her chest up.

"First step...Checking if it's still too small for Hinata?" Temari said and with a explosion of smoke, she transformed into Hinata, slightly filling up the corselet.

"That won't do at all, ne Naruto-kun...?" Hinata asked as she looked shyly at Naruto with a bright blush on her face.

Naruto gulped as Hinata continuesly moved her body from left to right and placed the tip of her right index finger in her mouth, "Second step...Seeing if it's still too small for Anko-sensei..."

Naruto instictively jumped back in his mind upon hearing this and threw his arms in a 'No! Too Dangerous!' position.

A cloud of smoke covered Hinata and a few moments later, the smoke cleared up and the infamous busty purple-headed kunoichi named Mitarashi Anko.

"Yo, Naru-chan...Looks like there is still some room left here..." Anko said as she pulled on the front of her corselet, "Want to see what body parts of yours can fit in here...?"

Naruto vigorously shook his head and backed away from Anko, "No, definitely not her!"

"Then again...we must see if Hokage-sama fits this, ne?" Anko said, a smirk on her face painted on her face before she transformed into Tsunade.

"Good job, Naruto. It's a perfect fit." Tsunade said, fists in her side and Naruto let out a sigh of relief, "I'll give you a special reward for finding something this perfect for me."

"Eh!"

Tsunade bent over and looked straight into Naruto's eyes, "Let's review all stages again, ok?"

A Temari, Hinata and Anko popped into existance next to Tsunade and the four of them prowled towards him.

"Naruto." Temari said in a moaning tone as she walked towards him.

"Naruto-kun..." Hinata moaned as she stepped forward as well.

"Naru-chan..." Anko said longingly.

"Naruto." Tsunade groaned.

"Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

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Naruto banged his head against a wall, "Damn you, Ero-sennin! This place is corrupting my mind! You did something to this place, right! What the hell was just that! There's no logical reason that I thought about those things all of a sudden! Last time I was here I didn't think like that either! Ero-Sennin! Mark my words..er...thoughts...whatever! I'll beat you up for corrupting my mind!"

Meanwhile Jiraiya was at his favourite hot spring, peeping at the young ladies as usual when all of a sudden he sneezed.

"Bless you."

"I didn't sneeze..."

"Then you...?"

"I didn't sneeze either..."

"Then, that means..."

"Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" The women screamed and quickly ran out of the hotspring with a towel wrapped around them.

"Damn it...That sneeze revealed my presence! Whoever made me sneeze shall pay! I think..." Jiraiya muttered to himself.

Back in the lingerie shop, Temari tugged Naruto's arm as he continuesly beated his head against the wall.

"Naruto, what are you doing?" She asked, sounding slightly worried.

Naruto stopped beating his head and looked at Temari like he had suddenly seen the light.

"Ah...It's just that I thought of something that made me realise I was an idiot in that situation and all...Ehehehe..." Naruto laughed sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head.

Temari shook her head, "Next time, don't beat your head against a wall like that...It's not something that's very funny to...oh wait, yes it is."

Naruto let his head hang in defeat as Temari grinned widely at him, "Ah...I did another stupid thing, eh?"

"Uh-un...Don't worry about it. You were kind of spacing off anyway. Weird...Last time we were here, you didn't..." Temari said and glared suspiciously, "Oi...This wouldn't happen to be somehow related to what you did this morning, right?"

"Eh?" Naruto looked confused at her, "Eh! No! Not at all! What makes you think that I was thinking about you!"

Temari smirked widely and brought her face a few inches away from Naruto's, "I never said that I thought you were thinking about me...It could've been Tenten as well...Or both of us for that matter."

Naruto had no idea what to reply and just stared blankly at Temari, who pulled away from him and closed her eyes, "Well, it doesn't matter really. I'm just glad that you weren't drooling. You'd have joined the list of guys that were staring and drooling at me and ended up being hospitalized for several weeks, in some cases months."

"Hmm... You are cruel after all, huh?" Naruto nodded, "Well, not that I blame you or something...I guess it must be embarrassing to get that kind of attention...and annoying as well..."

"Hmph, well consider yourself one of the few lucky guys in this world. There are enough guys in Suna who would've died a million times to be as close to me like you are right now." Temari smiled at Naruto and then shrugged as she raised her hands in the air, "Each and everyone of them are just perverted idiots. There's no way I'd ever go out on a date with someone who has only one thing on his mind."

"In other words...If I'd ask you out, you'd say yes?" Naruto raised an eyebrow at Temari, who instantly turned bright red and whacked him around the head, "I'm not going to answer that if you ask it like that!"

Naruto rubbed his head and grinned at her, "So she probably wouldn't mind going out with me. Data gathering, complete!...Even though I didn't plan on gaining such information..."

"Anyway, are we going to check what this thing looks like on Hokage-sama or what? I don't want to stay here the entire day, you know..." Temari said and started pulling Naruto into the dressing room.

Naruto looked at the dressing room for a moment and then firmly placed his hand on the edge of the room and struggled to stay outside, "W-Wait a minute, Temari!"

"What? Hurry up and come in already..." Temari replied and pulled even more on Naruto's arm.

"No! This...!" Naruto wrestled his arm free and was about to dash out of the dressing room when Temari lifted his legs up and started pulling him into the dressing room again.

Naruto quickly placed his other hand on the edge of the dressing room as well and started pulling with all of his might.

For a split second, Naruto managed to slip out of Temari's grasp, but she quickly clutched onto his pants, "I won't let you get away, damn it."

"Temari! This is definitely not good! What do you plan on doing when both...!" Naruto let out before he suddenly felt his legs fall onto the ground, followed by a loud shriek from Temari.

"Huh? Hey, all of a sudden it got kind of cold in here..." Naruto stated and looked over his shoulder, "Oi? What's wrong, Temari?"

Meanwhile, outside the lingerie shop, a young man named Sai froze up in front of the store. He threw a sharp glare towards the lingerie store, "Penis senses tingling!"

Sai sneaked into the lingerie shop and clung onto the ceiling with his chakra. Nimbly he made his way over the ceiling and towards the dressing rooms.

There he found half of Naruto sticking out of a dressing room and the other half being hidden behind the curtain.

"That's...But that's impossible...Yet...those are clearly a set of pants!" Sai thought as he stared at the orange trousers that lay mostly on the floor.

Naruto stared dumbfounded at Temari, who was looking towards her feet with a huge blush on her face.

"Oi...?" Naruto said again and Temari gulped, "Naruto...Please...Put your boxers and pants back on..."

"Eh...?" Naruto looked down towards his legs and screamed his lungs out, "EEEEEEH!"

He quickly pulled his dropped pants and boxers back up and made sure everything was properly back in place, "Crap...This has become an extremely awkward situation all of a sudden..."

"Naruto...I swear...It was an accident! I didn't want to..." Temari apologized.

Naruto couldn't help but smile at her, "Yeah...I know...Hm...We're pretty sure that this thing is Tsunade-obachan's size, right? Let's just take this then and get out of here. If that old lady doesn't like it, Ero-sennin is going to be the first to feel like crap anyway."

Naruto walked past her, grabbed the lingerie set they had taken with them and headed back out the dressing room, "Well then...Let's get going, shall we?"

Temari slowly followed him, her eyes still directed at her feet and a blush still on her face.

"There's no doubt about it now that I've seen that girl's reaction...!" Sai thought as he watched Naruto and Temari head towards the counter, "He does have one!"

Sai took out his paintbrush, held it in his fist, placed his thumb against it and aimed at Naruto, "And I'll definitely draw a picture of it!"

"We'll be taking this one." Naruto placed the lingerie set on the counter.

The clerk scanned the set, took a look at it and then looked at Temari, "You know, your girlfriend's sizes are way less than this..."

"It's not for her, it's for the Godaime! It's an official shinobi mission for me to get this item to her! Put it on Konoha's bill or something! Also, don't stare at Temari, you pervert!" Naruto pointed dramatically towards the clerk.

"Ah...Ah...I see...Sorry for 'examining' your girlfriend. So this is Tsunade-hime's size, eh?" The clerk examined the lingerie set.

Naruto snatched the set out of his hands, "Oi! First of all, Temari is just a close friend of mine! Also, do you want me to report to the Hokage that you sneakily memorized her measurements! Well, do you!"

"N-No! Anything, but that! Just hurry up and leave already!" The clerk quickly summed up the price and put it on the Village's bill.

"Geez...Where are those Anti-pervert security Fuzzy-eyebrow brother guys when you really need them..." Naruto muttered.

"Ano...Could you be talking about Maito Gee and Maito Laim? For they were fired because of a lewd act or something at the hotsprings...The boss didn't want that so he fired them. Last time I saw them, they were crying their eyeballs out..." The clerk replied.

Naruto sheepishly grinned and rubbed the back of his head as he let out a sheepish laugh that equaled his sheepish grin, "Crap...That's Ero-Sennin's fault and he still fires them...Damn..."

"H-Here you go, Shinobi-san..." The clerk said and handed Naruto a bag with the lingerie set in that.

"Huh? Ah yeah...Arigatou." Naruto took the bag and headed out the store, "Come on, Temari...Time to get this to Ero-Sennin and then continue with our mission."

"Hm? Oh yeah...Sure. Let's go." Temari replied and followed Naruto.

"Just...a bit more...A slight glimpse of how long it should be...Almost...Almost...Almost..." Sai thought as he followed Naruto from up on the ceiling until he was out of sight.

Sai clumsily forgot about his position and following Naruto got him in such a complicated position that he fell down from the ceiling.

"Damn it...I'll have to hurry and catch up...I'll definitely draw it!" Sai thought, not minding the odd looks he got from the customers, and then quickly ran out of the store.

After delivering the lingerie set to Kakashi, whom placed the lingerie set amongst the other turned in items, Naruto and Temari headed out to meet up with Team Gai, who were responsible for all of the wedding cake ingredients, which would later be made by the Akimichi family.

"Geez...That Ero-Sennin isn't even around to collect everything that's needed for HIS wedding...I bet he's out peeping again or something..." Naruto thought and then looked at Temari from the corner of his eyes, "Well, more importantly...I've got to do something about this situation...The silence is way too awkward..."

"You know, Temari. I-" Naruto started but was interrupted by Temari, "Naruto, I...!"

Temari grew silent for a moment took a deep breath and looked away from Naruto, "I swear that I didn't see anything..."

Naruto rubbed the back of his head and grinned at her, "Ehehehe, I was just about to say that I'm not mad or anything. It was an accident, right? No need to be embarrassed."

"...Easy for you to say..." Temari still avoided eye contact with Naruto, "You didn't pull the pants and underwear down of someone you're living with..."

"Well...That's true, but I don't like seeing you embarrassed and silent. So, cheer up and just pretend it never happened!" Naruto grinned widely at her.

"That what didn't happen?" Temari winked at Naruto and stuck her tongue out at him.

Her facial expression turned more serious after seeing Naruto slightly laugh, "I'm really sorry, Naruto. It must be embarrassing for you too and yet I'm the only one openly showing it..."

"I don't find it that embarrassing...I mean, it was! However, it's not like someone else saw it happen, right?" Naruto replied.

Not too far behind the two blondes, the sound of someone sneezing could be heard. Naruto and Temari just froze and Naruto looked over his shoulder, "Just now...did you hear something as well?"

"Hmmm...Something, I guess..." Temari raised an eyebrow and faced back foreward, "But you're right, Naruto. So...ehm..."

Temari paused a moment, blushed and grinned at Naruto, "We'll keep that little incident to just the two of us, ne?"

Naruto grinned back at her and rubbed the back of his head, "Yeah, definitely."

Temari sighed in relief as they headed on, "Good...Let's hurry this up so we can do whatever we want again."

Naruto nodded, "Yeah...Though, I don't have a lot to do until tonight...Hmmm..."

"A lot to do tonight, huh?" Temari slightly lifted her head up and pondered for a moment as she stared at the sky, "Come to think of it, it's already been a while since I last saw Nemar-kun... Naruto, could you tell Nemar-kun that I want to see him again?"

"Eh? I thought the last time you saw him was yesterday..." Naruto mused.

"However, that was in private, now was it?" Temari winked at him.
"Hmmm...Well, even if you ask me...I don't think I can force him to visit you tonight or something..." Naruto nodded and then mused a bit more, "After all, I have to go out with Ayame-chan tonight to that new club and all...Also, it's not very smart to have 'Nemar' visit her after I've come back, for then I'd be out too long most likely and...hmmm..."

"Oh come on, Naruto." Temari took Naruto's hand, stared into his eyes as her own eyes sparkled, "Please? For me? Will you at least try?"

"Temari, that won't work on me. Well, at least not from you. It just doesn't suit you at all, so it loses it's strength." Naruto said and grinned widely at her.

Temari had let her hold on Naruto's hand slip and smirked at him, "Yeah, you're right. However, I'm serious about this. Will you ask him if he can meet up with me tonight?"

"Like I said, I don't know if-..."

"I'll cook dinner for you tonight."

Naruto was suddenly very alert and gave Temari his best bad-ass grin instead of his usual happy grin, "Consider it done."

"I guess it has it's advantages to live with you, huh?" Temari winked at Naruto and then laughed.

Naruto stuck his tongue out at Temari, "The same is true about knowing the fact that you'll hug anything close enough to you in your sleep."

"W-Wait! What!" Temari yelled as Naruto skipped onward, snickering and grinning widely as he did, "Naruto! Come back here! Who did you tell that! What did you do, you bastard!"

Temari quickly caught up with Naruto and glared at him, "Just what the hell did you tell others about me, huh?"

Naruto smiled, "Nothing. I was just showing that I can black-mail or bribe you too."

"Hmmm...That's what you think, huh?" Temari leered dangerously at Naruto.

"Yeah, that's exactly what I think..." Naruto returned the leer with one of his own.

Temari slammed Naruto against a nearby wall and raised him up to eye-length, "Try me..."

Naruto placed his hands on Temari's waist for a moment, making Temari's eyes widen and a blush crawl onto her face. Then all of a sudden, Naruto started to tickle Temari like a madman.

"Tickle Assault no jutsu!" Naruto said.

"Naruto! Wha-what are you doing!" Temari started to cry out of laughter, "Stop it! You idiot!"

Temari fell down on the ground, though that didn't stop Naruto from relentlessly tickling her.

"How's that! Are you going to give u-..." Naruto's stomach connected with the end of Temari's fan, which not only knocked the wind out of him, but also threw him off Temari.

"Geez..." Temari heavily panted, "I heard about you being unpredictable...Never thought you'd be like this though..."

"Ehehehe, well...I guess there wasn't really anything else to throw you off." Naruto grinned at Temari, "Ahaa...What a lie...It felt like I could kiss her back then..."

Temari closed her eyes and smirked as she sat up, "Well, that's enough fooling around for now..."

"Ano...Temari?" Naruto asked as Temari was about to get up.

"What is it?"

"Ehm...Shouldn't you like...straighten your clothing first? I mean...Ahem..." Naruto looked away, pointed towards Temari's top half of her kimono, which had slightly shifted from it's original position and show a bit more skin than it normally would.

Temari looked down towards her chest for a moment, quickly turned around and started to straighten her clothing, "Geez, I thought I had put it on properly this morning! Normally it doesn't move even after hours of training or combat!"

"Well, take your time. After all, all that is left to do for us is to help our friends out. Though I'm sure they really don't need our help, so we could just sit back and rela-..." Naruto stopped talking when the cold metal of Temari's fan softly pushed against his chin, "Thinking about abandoning your friends?"

"Ehehehe, it was just a joke, just a joke." Naruto laughed sheepishly, "Ah...I almost forgot...Temari can be scary too. Guess most women just have that in them..."

"Then, let us hurry." Temari smirked at Naruto as she pulled him up from the ground.

"Yeah, we've wasted enough time. Besides, Tenten, Neji and Lee are working on getting all the ingredients for the wedding cake, right? I wonder what kind of cake it will be!" Naruto said cheerfully and grinned widely at Temari.

"If we hurry up, we might be in time to find out." Temari smiled.

"Tenten, be careful, there's a customer who is about to cross your path." Neji radioed over their team's radio headphones.

"Alright, leave it to me." Tenten replied, nimbly leaped through the air and over the head of a rather surprised woman.

"Lee, be careful with those eggs..." Neji stated.

"Neji! Don't worry! These eggs will reach you in a safe and completely youthful state!" Lee exclaimed.

"Yes, because rotten eggs make rotten cakes and we don't want that, now do we..." Neji replied, "Also, don't yell so loud on the radio, I can even hear you without it..."

"I wonder where they are..." Naruto said as he and Temari walked past the first set of shelves.

"Well, I'm sure we'll find them." Temari replied as they headed for the next aisle.

"Eggs of yooooouuuuuth!" Lee exclaimed as he launched himself over the store's shelves.

"That is..." Naruto said as Lee landed in front of them.

"Gomen, Naruto-kun, Temari-san! I have no time to waste!" Lee exclaimed and dashed past them at full speed.

"Let's hurry up and follow him." Temari suggested and Naruto nodded in reply.

"Please move aside, mina-san!" Lee exclaimed as he dashed past a various amounts of customers, who could do nothing but try to jump off Lee's path.

"Geez, he's moving this fast even though it isn't training or combat at all...What's up with him?" Temari asked as she and Naruto ran as fast as possible after Lee.

"Hehe. He's just one very energetic guy." Naruto grinned as they turned around a corner.

Neji gasped and deactivated his Byakugan as he turned his head to the right.

"Neji! The eggs are still youthful!" Lee rushed towards him and quickly placed the eggs in the shopping cart, "What should I get next!"

"Hmph, looks like we'll have to rearrange our lists a bit. Isn't that right, Naruto, Temari-san?" Neji asked as Naruto and Temari walked towards him and Lee and one could tell that they were slightly out of breath.

"Hehehe. Looks like we've found you guys." Naruto grinned at his two comrades.

"We came here to help you guys out in any way we can." Temari ellaborated before Neji could even ask why they had come here.

"Wel..I guess we should re-arrange the lists then..." Neji stated, pulled two papers out of his pocket and examined them.

"Neji!" Lee started running on his spot, "Hurry up! This wedding cake must be made while the eggs are still youthful!"

"Lee, eggs don't rot that fast you know..." Neji stated.

Meanwhile, not all too far away from Naruto and the others, Sai stuck his head around the around the corner, "Alright! From this kneeled down position and this angle, I'll definitely be able to get a rough idea of his shape or size!"

Sai crawled a bit more onto the path, held up his paintbrush and peered towards Naruto.

"Neji! I'm back with the strawberries!" Tenten exclaimed as she came running around the corner and headed towards the group.

Naruto and Temari turned towards Tenten, a smile crawled onto her face, "Hey, Naruto! Hey, Temari!"

"It's almost the perfect pose right now!" Sai thought, too caught up in his 'work' that he didn't hear Tenten rapidly approaching.

Tenten on the other hand had her eyes focussed on the group and didn't even notice Sai either.

"Have you guys co-..." Tenten started, but stopped when her shin connected to Sai's non-suspecting skull and she started to fall headfirst.

The plastic box, which contained the strawberries, slipped out of her hands and flew momentarily through the air. Both Neji and Naruto moved at the same time and Neji spun around when he had caught the box, in order to still save Tenten from falling as well.

However, to Neji's great dismay, his free hand didn't reach Tenten to support her and stop her from falling and instead landed on Naruto's ass as Naruto had managed to save Tenten from falling flat on her face.

"Neji...Why is your hand on my ass?" Naruto asked as his eye twitched.

"That's what I'm wondering too..." Neji replied as he took his hand off Naruto's ass and his eye twitched uncontrollably.

After a short moment of silence, Tenten couldn't help but let out a giggle.

"By the way, Tenten...What were you doing? It's kind of embarrassing for a ninja to trip when running, you know." Naruto gave Tenten a questioning look.

Tenten quickly helped herself up and turned around, "It wasn't like I tripped over my own feet or something. I'm almost sure there was something sticking out of that aisle over there. Hmmm..."

Naruto tilted his head and looked towards the nearby aisle, "Nothing is there..."

"Anyway, we have a mission to complete. Let's focus on that instead of figuring out why Tenten tripped..." Neji stated as he stood straight up once again.

"Damn it...Why at such an opportune moment!" Sai thought as he hid behind a bunch of piled up soup cans and rubbed his sore head, "However, I will not give up...! I'll just keep stalking and stalking until he has to go to a public bathroom and then I'll get my chance!"

Sai then sneaked off, knowing that he won't have another chance at the grocery store, but that other opportunities would follow.

"Alright...I've divided the items again. The four of you will work in two groups and we'll first gather all of the items that we need the most. Temari-san and Tenten, the two of you will get...and I quote...lots and lots of whipped cream." Neji stated.

Temari raised an eyebrow and gave Neji a skeptical look, "Lots and lots of whipped cream?"

"Yes, that's what it says right here." Neji hold out the paper and showed it to Temari.

Temari's eyes wandered over the piece of paper for a moment and she then raised her eyebrow again, "Well...How much should we exactly get then?"

"I guess as much as you can carry." Neji said and took the piece of paper out of Temari's hands.

"Hmmmm...I wonder if a wedding cake will be really tasty if it needs lots and lots of whipped cream. Too much of it could ruin the taste..." Naruto nodded as he had his eyes closed and his arms crossed over each other.

"Somehow...I have the feeling that the whipped cream isn't just for the wedding cake..." Tenten replied.

"Eh? What do you mean, Tenten?" Naruto asked as he looked up at her.

"Eh...Nothing at all, really..." Tenten slightly blushed as she scratched her cheek and let out a small sheepish laugh.

"Anyway, let's have the two of you already on your way..." Neji stated and momentarily closed his eyes, "Byakugan!"

"The whipped cream can be found at 10 meter distance to the northeast of here. I'll give directions over the radio in case you can't immediately find it." Neji stated.

"Understood." Tenten said and looked at Temari with a smile, "Let's get going, Temari."

"Yeah. See you all in a while then." Temari said as she and Tenten ran off to get the whipped cream.

"Then, Lee and Naruto, you're to get...four kilograms of flour. The flour is located 6 meters from here to the southwest. The same goes for you guys that I'll radio you incase you can't immediately find it." Neji stated.

"Alright." Naruto nodded, "Let's get going, Fuzzy eye-brows."

"Yes! Let's go, Naruto-kun!" Lee exclaimed in excitement as they headed off to get the flour.

"Hold up, Naruto." Neji stated and both Lee and Naruto turned around to face him, "I'd like to talk to you for a bit. Lee, you can go. Naruto will catch up later..."

"A-Alright..." Lee said hesitantly and then ran off.

Naruto looked questioningly at Neji and as he slowly approached him, Neji closed his eyes, "What is this all of a sudden, Neji?"

"I heard about it." Neji stated and then opened his eyes, "About Tenten spending last night at your place and that she slept in the same bed as you."

"Eh!" Naruto let out in surprise and jumped towards Neji, "Sssh, sssh...Not so loud, damn it...People will misunderstand. Besides, how the hell do you know that?"

"So it is true, huh?" Neji stated, "Well, I had no reason to doubt Tenten's words, however I had to confirm it either way."

"Eh? Why would you...?"

"Let me tell you this, Naruto. There won't be a next time that Tenten will spend the night at your house, understood?"

Naruto straightened up and looked questioningly at Neji, "What's that supposed to mean? I can't just refuse her if she's in need of a place to stay like last night..."

Neji closed his eyes again, "You can and you will. The next time I hear from Tenten that she has shared a bed with you..."

"You know, it wasn't my choice that Temari, Tenten and I slept in the same bed. If it were up to me, I would've slept on the floor." Naruto stated, "Besides, what has she exactly told you anyway?"

Neji slightly lifted Naruto up by his collar and looked him straight into his eyes, "Just. Keep. Your. Hands. Off. Her. Do I make myself clear, Naruto?"

Naruto tightly gripped onto Neji wrist and gave him a sharp glare, "I don't know what's gotten into you all of a sudden, but don't talk like you have seen with your own eyes what exactly happened."

"Then, you will tell me exactly what happened." Neji demanded.

Naruto swatted Neji arm away and walked off, "I have no reason to tell what happened because, other than me and Tenten, no one knows about that rather embarrassing story. Well, you know something of it right now, but if you want details, ask Tenten. I'm not going to tell anything personal about her to anyone, no matter how much they threaten me."

"Hmph...Fine by me. Just stay away from her. The same goes for your comrade called Nemar..." Neji stated as he looked with sharp eyes at Naruto.

Naruto looked over his shoulder towards Neji with his own firm look before heading on and muttering, "Geez...Acting all high and mighty...She's not your property..."

Not too long after that, Naruto managed to make his way to the aisle where Lee was standing, in front of a bunch of shelves which surprisingly didn't contain flour.

Lee turned his head towards Naruto, "Yo, Naruto-kun! You've caught up! However, I can't see the flour around here!"

"Hmmm...But it should be here, right?" Naruto asked as he walked towards Lee.

"Lee, look behind you." Neji radioed in.

Lee turned ninety degrees and peered down the aisle, "Neji! You are mistaken! There are only cash registers over there!"

"Guh...Lee, the...'other' behind you..." Neji replied reluctantly.

Lee turned around and stared at Naruto for a moment, "Neji...I'm starting to doubt your youthfulness...Are you sure you aren't going blind of...unyouthfulness?"

"LEE, TURN TO THE GOD DAMN LEFT RIGHT NOW!" Neji yelled over the radio.

"Your left or mine?" Lee asked and only got silence in return.

Naruto turned around, pointed at the shelves and said, "I think he means over there, because that looks like flour to me."

"I see." Lee nodded and a grunt could be heard on the radio.

"Four kilograms is the amount we need, right?" Naruto asked as he walked towards the shelves.

"Yes. That's it. Looks like all the high-quality flour is on the top shelf." Lee stated and pointed towards the top shelf.

"Alright, I'll grab the boxes and hand them to you until we got four kilograms." Naruto said and slightly climbed up on the shelves in order to reach the top shelf.

"Understood!" Lee exclaimed and quickly walked up next to Naruto.

Naruto took one of the front boxes, moved it towards Lee and dropped it, figuring Lee would catch it.

"Ah!"

Naruto raised an eyebrow before dropping the next box into Lee's hands, "Aaaah!"

"Geez, They aren't that heavy, Fuzzy Eyebrows...You should find those boxes as light as feathers..." Naruto stated as he dropped the next one, "Naruto-kun! Stop for a second!"

"Why? We need to have..." Naruto said as he turned around and went silent as he saw Lee covered in flour and three empty boxes in his hands, "Because, Naruto-kun, these are broken!"

"Eh!" Naruto yelled out of surprise, "All thee of them!"

Naruto then took another box of floor, held it above Lee and more flour was poured onto Lee, "This one too!"

"Try another one!" Lee exclaimed.

Naruto nodded, picked up another box and again the box's entire content fell onto Lee.

"Da-Damn it! Are none of these closed properly!" Naruto yelled as he went through multiple boxes of flour, each and every one of them not being sealed probably.

"Naruto-kun, I'm almost sure that these are all sabotaged!" Lee exclaimed and Naruto jumped back down to the floor, "Hmmmm...But it's supposed to be the best quality flour there is, right?"

Lee thought for a moment, "Unless it's not! Which means that the best ones are on the bottom shelves so that they are more accessible!"

"I see! Nice thinking, Fuzzy Eyebrows! And er..." Naruto pointed at Lee, "I think we should first do something about the large amount of flour covering you right now..."

Lee stared at himself for a few moments, noticing that his entire body had been covered in flour.

"Wait! Could this be!" Lee raised a fist up in the air, Naruto quickly taking one step away from Lee, "Damn, I thought he was going to punch me or something!"

"Could this be...what?" Naruto asked as he looked questioningly at Lee.

"I already didn't understand why Gai-sensei's advice didn't work, but now it makes all sense to me!" Lee exclaimed.
"Eh...?"

"Since Valentine's Day is coming up and I was thinking up a youthful way to ask Sakura-san out again, I decided I should ask Gai-sensei for advice! However, it was already night time and I should've been in bed! Nevertheless, I went to Gai-sensei for help and he told me I should get Sakura-san a flower!" Lee exclaimed as his eyes went from left to right as if he was reading a book, "However, that didn't work! And now I know why! Gai-sensei wasn't talking about a flower, but about flour! Now I can finally ask Sakura-san out and she'll agree! Yoooosh!"

"Er...I don't think Super Fuzzy-eyebrows meant that..." Naruto nodded.

"No, It must be that!" Lee exclaimed, both his fist up in the air as his 'flame of youth' started to ignite again, "The power of youth will prevail! It's time for the..."

"Ehm...Fuzzy Eyebrows...?" Naruto asked hesitantly as he slowly backed away.

"SPRING TIME OF YOOOUUTH!" Lee exclaimed at the top of his lungs, "EXPLO-!"

Before Lee could finish his sentence, he glowed bright white and created a huge, yet somehow mostly harmless, explosion.

"Aaaahaaaaaa!" Naruto yelled as he was hurled through the air by the explosion and eventually he ended up in a display of instant ramen cups.

"Ugh..." Naruto groaned as he got up, "Looks like the ramen broke my fall...But...What happened to Fuzzy Eyebrows?"

Naruto peered into the distance, which mainly meant that he was staring at a large cloud of smoke that slowly cleared up. He then quickly ran towards Lee in order to check up on his current condition.

"Oi, Fuzzy Eyebrows! Are you alright!" Naruto yelled as he ran through the smoke.

A few seconds later the smoke cleared up and he saw a rather disappointed Lee, "All that flour...gone...Sakura-san..."

"...You know, I don't think Sakura-chan would be convinced to go out with you if she saw you covered in flour." Naruto grinned sheepishly at lee and rubbed the back of his head, "Why don't you think up something else that is...er...ehmm...hmmm...youth...ful?"

Lee jumped up and instantly ignited himself with the flames of youth again, "Yoooosh! That's it! Wait! No it isn't! There's still a lot of flour left!"

"Oi! Don't start covering yourself in flour again!" Naruto yelled as he tried to keep Lee away from the flour.

"But! For Sakura-san and my sake...!" Lee reached out towards the flour.

"We need the damned flour for the wedding cake!"

"Sakura-san is more important than the mission!" Lee exclaimed.

"You can buy the flour after the mission! Now let's get the heck out of here before they find out we caused this!"

Lee straightened up and blinked at Naruto for a moment, "Naruto-kun, you are right."

"Geez..." Naruto sighed, "Let's just grab the flour and get out of here..."

"Yes, let us be on our way again!" Lee exclaimed and started walking off.

"Oi! You're forgetting the flour!" Naruto yelled.

A bit later, Lee and Naruto returned with the flour to Neji, who seemed to be the least bit pleased.

"Neji!" Lee exclaimed, "We're back!"

"Lee...How many times did I tell you not to yell over the radio..." Neji started.

"Ehm...Let's see...I believe it was only once that you did, my friend!" Lee exclaimed.

Neji's eye slightly twitched, "And how often did you actually follow that command...?"

Lee closed his eyes, placed his hand on his chin and contemplatively thought about it for a moment, "I'm...not quite...sure..."

Neji wrapped his hands around Lee's collar and started shaking him back and forth, "I'll tell you how often! Never! You nearly made me deaf when you exploded in your 'youthfulness'! What do you think I should do when I'm deaf and I can't check if the Main House is trash talking about me, huh! Then what! Most of them are still assholes! Yet still you had to yell over the freaking radio! Think about my ears!"

"Er...Neji? What are you doing?" Tenten asked as she and Temari walked towards Neji, Naruto and Lee.

Neji froze and looked at Tenten, "I'm yelling at Lee for disobeying my orders and thus nearly deafening me over the radio...Didn't you hear him yell?"

"If you don't want to hear Lee yell, then why didn't you put the radio on standby? It's not like we needed much more directions after finding what we needed, right?" Tenten asked, "I put mine on standby as soon as I saw the whipped cream cans."

Neji stared blankly at Tenten and released Lee, who had a confused look on his face. After about half a minute, Neji finally opened his mouth for a second and then shut it once again.

"You forgot about the standby function and how it works?" Tenten asked and raised an eyebrow at him, "That's not like you at all, Neji..."

Neji coughed, "Anyway...Let's hurry up and finish this..."

About 15 minutes later, Team Gai, Temari and Naruto stood in line for the cash-register with three full shopping carts.

"Geez...Feels like we're waiting for ages..." Naruto complained.

"If you think we've got it bad, imagine what the people behind us must feel like." Temari smirked.

Naruto looked over his shoulder and sheepishly grinned as he looked back in front of him again, "Ehehehe...They don't look happy at all."

"Ano...Naruto?" Tenten looked over her shoulder at Naruto.

"Uh? Something wrong, Tenten?" Naruto blinked at her.

"Since we only need three people to stand in the line really...Could I talk to you for a moment? In private...?"

"Hm, sure..." Naruto replied and saw Neji giving him a sharp glare, but he just shrugged it off.

The two of them left the line in front of the cash register and walked away from the crowd, yet still kept the others in their sight.

"What is it?" Naruto asked Tenten, who held onto her elbow with her right hand, "I,just wanted to let you know that...I told Neji about what ehm...sort of...happened...and all..."

"What? That's all?" Naruto grinned widely and laughed, "I already knew that."

"Eh? You did? Then..." Tenten said and blinked at Naruto.

"Yeah, he told me he knew. Don't worry, I'm not mad at you for telling him. After all, you trust him, right?" Naruto grinned.

Tenten slightly blushed, "Yeah, but I probably shouldn't have told him. I mean...It's kind of embarrassing..."

"Well, it's not like Neji is a person that would gossip, so don't worry about it." Naruto smiled at her, causing her blush to brighten a bit more, "Though, I'm glad she honestly told me that she told Neji...Hmmm...However...Now that I think about it...It kind of put me in a bad position...Nothing extreme happened, but..."

"O-Ok...Then, I have one more thing to ask you..." Tenten replied.

Naruto's head slightly perked and he could see that Neji was still glaring at him, but Naruto just smiled at Tenten, "Go ahead and ask away."

"Ehm...C-Could you..." Tenten blushed brighter, "A-ask Nemar-kun if h-he would like to go out on a date...with me...later today...?"

Naruto blinked for a moment at her and then broke out in a wide grin and rubbed the back of his head, "Ehm...I'd love to Tenten, but I already promised that I'd try my best to have that Nemar guy see her today so..."

"Then...How about tomorrow?" Tenten asked and looked hopeful at Naruto.

Naruto dropped his arms and let out a breath, which he had been momentarily holding, "Alright. I'll do my best. Can't guarantee anything though. If he can, you'll just have to wait and see when he comes though."

Tenten smiled widely, "Thanks a lot, Naruto."

"Ehehehe...It's nothing much, really..." Naruto grinned and rubbed the back of his head again.

"Well..." Tenten said and slightly ran back towards the others before turning back around and giving Naruto a smile, "I think it's something! Now, let's help the others with the supplies! Don't be standing just standing there, Naruto!"

"Eh?" Naruto blinked as Tenten ran back towards the group, "Damn it! Wait for me!"

Not much later, the entire group was heading back towards the Hokage's tower to deliver the supplies.

"Damn it...Neji is still directing that intent to kill towards me...It's not like Tenten is his girlfriend or so-..." Naruto held that thought for a moment, "Could it be that...? Gaah, what does it matter...He's a friend, but it's not like I'm mind controlling Tenten to be with me or something. Heck, I don't even know yet if she likes that way after I've revealed to everyone that I'm really 'Nemar'...From the looks of it though, she likes 'Nemar' a lot...I guess I should ask her why tomorrow as 'Nemar'..."

Naruto looked towards Neji, who was walking beside Tenten and shot another glare at Naruo, "However, right now...this situation..."

Naruto let out a sigh and then he felt a hand on his back all of a sudden. He looked to his left and found Temari walking next to him, her eyes fixated on Neji.

"...Does Temari feel it as well? Of course she does...She's a jounin after all..." Naruto thought as he looked at Temari's face.

Temari turned her head and looked straight into Naruto's eyes, a slight look of worry present in her own.

Naruto grinned widely at her, causing Temari to slightly smile at him.

"Oh, for the love off youth!" Lee exclaimed as he ran slightly ahead and turned around, "Why isn't anyone saying anything! We're in our springtime of youth! We should be brimming with youthfulness and laugh! Where's the youthfulness in all of you! Where!"

Naruto couldn't help but burst out in laughter, followed by Temari and Tenten doing the same and even Neji smirked as he shook his head.

"Don't worry, Lee. It's not like we're not cheerful, right?" Tenten asked.

"We're just thinking about things, I guess. After all, a lot is going to change soon, right? Ero-sennin won't be just Ero-sennin anymore and Tsunade-obachan..." Naruto said and then grew silent again, "Now that I think about it...This whole marriage thing might be great!"

When he noticed almost all eyes were focussed on him, Naruto grinned widely and laughed sheepishly, "Ehehehe! You know, I think that Ero-sennin will probably become more serious! Also, Tsunade-obachan will probably lay down on the sake and all! This is going to be great!"

Tenten smiled at him, "Not to mention they're getting married on Valentine's Day! It is just so romantic to marry on the day of love!"

As the four of them talked on and walked past Lee, the beautiful green beast ignited in his flames of youth again, "Yosh! Gai-sensei! I did it! I restored youthfulness to our precious youthful comrades!"

After a while, Naruto and the others had arrived at the Hokage's Tower and Kakashi had ran through the supplies they had brought back.

"Hmmm...Looks like this is all we need..." Kakashi stated, "Well then...Team Gai and Temari-san...The four of you will bring this to the Akimichi family who are busy preparing all the meals right now."

"Oi! Kakashi-sensei! What about me?" Naruto pointed towards himself.

"You will get a different task. Since you can basically work for...well, a lot of people...you can go out by yourself and provide support for an entire team." Kakashi stated and placed a hand on Naruto's shoulder.

"Hmmm...Kage Bunshins, you mean huh?" Naruto asked and Kakashi smiled at him, "Exactly. Well then...Team Gai and Temari-san, be on your way and good luck."

As the four of them left the tower, Temari looked over her shoulder towards Naruto for a moment.

"As for you, Naruto..." Kakashi said.

"What am I going to do? It's not going to be something that just stinks, right?" Naruto asked.

Kakashi smiled at him, "Trust me, Naruto...What you are going to do now will definitely not stink..."

A while later, Naruto was standing in front of the Yamanaka flower shop.

"Somehow...I should've known Kakashi-sensei was talking about this place..." Naruto muttered to himself before he pushed the shop's frontdoor open.

"Yo, Sakura-chan, Ino!" Naruto greeted the two girls cheerfully, "How's it going in here?"

Both Sakura and Ino looked and smiled at Naruto as they temporarily stopped their work.

"Naruto, we're almost done with preparing most of the bouquets aside from the bride's bouquet, so there probably isn't a lot you can do." Sakura stated before bending over again to work on her bouquet.

"Though you'll be perfect for what we have to do in a bit." Ino winked at him before continueing her work as well.

"Hmmm...Why do we need that many bouquets for the wedding? Isn't the bride's bouquet the only one that's needed?" Naruto asked as he stared at the large amount of stacked up bouquets in the store.

"There's going to be a lot of flowers to decorate the place where they are going to hold the wedding, so just the bride's bouquet wouldn't do at all." Ino stated.

"I see, but...What am I supposed to do here if the two of you are the ones making all the bouquets?" Naruto asked as he looked around, "Really...I have almost no knowledge on flowers and yet Kakashi-sensei send me here...I don't get it at all..."

Sakura looked at Naruto again and smiled, "You'll help us with brining all of those bouquets to Kakashi-sensei, Naruto. Kage Bunshin no jutsu is really excellent for this kind of job, right?"

"Definitely, but what do I do while you guys are working on the last few bouquets?" Naruto asked.

"It might be asking a bit too much of you, but..." Ino added another rose to the bouquet, "You could come up with a specific design or something for Tsunade-sama's bouquet...Right now, I have no idea what to make for her."

"Hmm...Even if you ask me, I don't know if..." Naruto crossed his arms and pondered for a moment, "Alright! I'll try my best to come up with something! Though, I'm not quite sure if I can..."

Naruto's head then perked up, "Eh...Ino...Where's the toilet...?"

Ino straightened up and blinked at Naruto, "Eh? The toilet? It's in the back. Come on, I'll show you where it is."

Naruto followed Ino to the back of the shop and after passing a stairwell and a small hallway, Ino pushed a door open, which led to the bathroom.

"Here is it." Ino said.

Naruto stepped into the bathroom, sheepishly grinned at Ino and rubbed the back of his head, "Thanks Ino."

Ino stepped into the bathroom after him, the door slowly closing behind her, "Don't mention it. Just be sure to use this blue labeled soap bottle. The other one is for disinfecting wounds and is kind of expensive."

"Ah ok. Thanks again. Now if you don't mind..." Naruto said and laughed sheepishly.

Ino gasped and slightly blushed before she closed her eyes, "I'm on my way already. Just don't make a mess of the..."

She stopped mid-sentence when she tried to pull the door open, but it wouldn't even budge, "What the...What's up with this door!"

"Eh? It won't open?" Naruto asked as he looked over Ino shoulder.

"Geez, it isn't even locked yet it's stuck...Why the..." Ino gritted her teeth and pulled as hard as she could on the door.

"Here, let me try." Naruto said and took over from Ino.

Naruto pulled with all his might, but the door still seemed to be locked into place.

"Damn it...It's almost like something is holding it shut..." Naruto stated as he let loose his hold on the doorknob.

"Sakura? Sakura! Oi!" Ino yelled, "Damn...What's that girl thinking...Locking me up with you..."

"I don't think Sakura-chan is the kind of person to do that..." Naruto replied.

"I know, but there isn't anyone else around and she plays tricks on me every now and then..." Ino said and let out a sigh, "Let's try to bash the door together..."

"Ino...I really have to go right now..." Naruto stated as he looked rather uncomfortable at Ino.

Ino closed her eyes and gritted her teeth, "Fine then! Do your...thing. I'll be staring at the door and pretend I'm not in this situation."

"Thanks, Ino! You're a life saver!" Naruto said as he quickly turned around and lifted the toilet seat up.

"Ugh...I just know I'm going to regret this..." Ino said.

As Naruto unzipped his zipper, he raised a questioning eyebrow, "It's not like you'll die of hearing me take a piss."

"Just do it already...Damn it..." Ino cursed and closed her eyes.

"Didn't think she'd be this embarrassed in this kind of situation...Well, not that it's a bad thing..." Naruto thought as he relieved himself and looked up towards the small window above the toilet.

"Ahaaa...This feels so damned good..." Naruto sang and Ino's face turned slightly red, "Oh shut up... Just hurry up and finish already..."

"Oi, it's not like I can help it that you are stuck here with me." Naruto replied and then turned on his 'singing' voice again, "Aaaah...You being here doesn't make it any less of a good feeling either."

Ino's face brightened, "You're making it sound like you enjoy having me here while you do your thing..."

"Ehehehehe. It's not that. It just feels good either way and..." Naruto started, looked up to the window again, this time seeing the face of a black haired boy behind the window and he seemed to be staring at Naruto, "WAAAAAH!"

In response to Naruto's sudden scream, Ino spontaneously turned around, "What's wrong, Naruto!"

"There's a guy staring at me up there!" Naruto exclaimed as he quickly wrapped up his package and zipped up again.

"Tha-That guy!" Ino pointed at the guy, who now raised a paintbrush in the air, "He was after Sakura before, but she rejected him! He must be out for revenge!"

"EH!" Naruto yelled and slightly backed away from the window, "Is he going to try to kill us or something?"

"No! I don't want to die as a virgin!" Ino shouted as the boy dropped down from the window.

There followed a short moment of silence.

"Do you know who he is?" Naruto asked Ino.

"Ehm...I think I heard him say that his name was...Sai?" Ino replied.

"PEEEEENIIIIIIIIS!" Ino and Naruto suddenly heard Sai yell at the top of his lungs.

"Waaaaah! Forget about dying as a virgin, I'd rather keep my virginity than lose it to him!" Ino shouted and hid behind Naruto, "Damn it, Naruto! Do something! Use a technique or something!"

"Can't you blast the door open or something with one of your jutsu?" Naruto asked as he saw Sai's hair appear again behind the window.

"No! We'd get seriously injured in the process! If I could've done so, I would've been out of here long before you decided needed to take a piss!" Ino yelled.

"Damn it..." Naruto quickly went through his kunai pouch, "I think I have a way for us to escape, but I'm not sure if it will succeed..."

"Just do it already!" Ino commanded.

"Alright, alright." Naruto replied and threw a smokebomb on the floor.

Ino coughed, "What are you doing, Naruto? All this smoke could suffocate us..."

"Bear with it for a bit, Ino. This way he won't see the way we exactly escape from herre." Naruto said as he kneeled down next to the door and slipped a piece of paper underneath it.

"Alright, Ino, hold onto me as tight as you can." Naruto said as he stood back up.

"What are you going to do?" Ino asked.

"Just do it already, so we can get out of here!" Naruto exclaimed.

Ino threw her arms around Naruto, clinged onto him and when Naruto felt that, he went through the series of hand seals he needed to do for his technique, "Shunshin no jutsu!"

The next second, both Ino and Naruto were outside of the bathroom, Naruto leaning against the bathroom door and Ino safely in his arms.

"Ino...Are you alright?" Naruto asked as he deeply breathed in and out, "Damn...I underestimated it...Should've used more chakra..."

Ino looked up at Naruto and slightly blushed when she realised she was pretty much leaning against him, "Y-Yeah..."

"Good." Naruto grinned and pulled the two of them away from the bathroom door.

Ino moved out of Naruto's arms and looked at the bathroom door, "Naruto, look!"

Naruto turned his head so that he faced the door and raised an eyebrow at the randomly positioned black balks, "What the heck is that?"

"I don't know, but I think that is what was keeping the door jammed some way..." Ino stated as she studied the door for a moment.

"Man...Ino looks kind of pretty when she's thinking..." Naruto thought and slightly smiled, "Anyway, we got out, didn't we? We should head back and check up on..."

Ino's head perked and she dashed off, "Sakura!"

"Oi, wait for me!" Naruto exclaimed as he quickly ran after Ino.

"Sakura!" Ino exclaimed as she slammed the door leading to the store open.

"Are you alright!" Naruto added as he appeared behind Ino.

Sakura looked towards the two of them with a look of utter confusion and all she could do was slightly tilt her head, "Eh?"

"Looks like he didn't come in to the store yet." Naruto stated as he looked at Ino.

"Who?" Sakura asked, "What's going on, you guys?"

"Naruto, you go beat his ass up! I'll stay here and make sure nothing happens to Sakura!" Ino commanded.

"Ehm...Hello...Sakura to Ino and Naruto...What the hell is going on here?" Sakura asked as she raised an eyebrow at her two best friends.

"Gotcha!" Naruto said and dashed out of the store.

"Will you please tell me already what is going on!" Sakura snapped at Ino, who laughed sheepishly as Sakura gave Ino her trademark death glare.

Meanwhile, behind the Yamanaka flower shop, Sai was cursing himself.

"Damn it, I should've made my move sooner! If only I had immediately grabbed my paper I could've perfectly painted it! Right now, I'm not even sure what it looks like! Damn it, damn it, damn it!" Sai cursed as he stomped on the ground, "He even got away! Aaargh, it was the perfect chance too!"

Sai then heard the sound of knuckles cracking from behind him.

"Yo...Planning on doing something again, huh? I won't let you get even near your target..." Naruto threatened.

Sai jumped and turned around mid-air, "He's here! Now I can pin him down and succeed! But, what if he fights back! I'd be forced to fight back as well! And that might harm it as well! Not good! For now, I must retreat!"

"What the hell do you plan on doing, you bastard?" Naruto asked as he glared at Sai.

Sai smiled, "Eventually, you'll find out. We'll meet again, Naruto-kun."

"I won't let you escape!" Naruto exclaimed as he charged towards Sai.

Sai took a small black sack out of his pocket and threw it on the ground, creating a smokescreen which covered him entirely. As Naruto punched through the smoke and it started to clear up, Sai was nowhere to be found.

"Damn...What is that guy up to?" Naruto wondered out loud as headed back to the flower shop.

As Naruto stepped back into the store, Ino instantly noticed him, "Did you get him?"

"He ran away." Naruto stated and then furrowed his eyebrows, "I have no idea what he was planning to do either..."

"He got away!" Ino snapped and ran towards Naruto, "How the heck did you let him escape!"

"It's not like I let him escape, he just did..." Naruto mused.

"He knows where I live!" Ino shook Naruto back and forth, "What are you going to do when he crawls into my bedroom at night and rapes me, huh! I'll hold you responsible if that happens! I swear, I'll rip your manhood off, cook it in ramen and feed said ramen to you if ANYTHING happens to me because of that guy! Got it!"

"Ye-yeah..." Naruto said as he sheepishly grinned at her, "Damn, I seriously hope that guy wasn't after Ino...Both for her sake and for mine!"

Ino sighed, "Let's just hurry up and bring the bouquets to Kakashi-sensei already..."

"Eh? You're all done then?" Naruto asked as he looked at Sakura, who gave him a wide smile.

"Well, other than the bride's bouquet, we are...Sakura and I will just work on that together. For now, we'll just deliver all the other bouquets to Kakashi-sensei." Ino stated as she turned around and looked at Sakura.

"At least this way you have something to do as well, right Naruto?" Sakura asked.

"Yeah, but...Wouldn't it be easier if I just brought all the bouquets to Kakashi-sensei while you guys work on the bride's bouquet?" Naruto asked.

"We can't just have you do all the work, Naruto..." Ino stated.

"Besides it's more fun to walk all the way to Kakashi-sensei with someone else along instead of just having a million copies of yourself tagging along, isn't it?" Sakura smiled at Naruto.

"I really don't mind going by myself." Naruto stated and Ino just shook her head, "Don't worry, Naruto. Even if Sakura and I were to stay here, we couldn't instantly come up with the perfect idea for Tsunade-sama's bouquet. Besides, we could also use so fresh air."

"Alright then." Naruto grinned, "Hold the door open and stand back, for I'm about to make my move."

Ino opened the shop's door for Naruto as he slapped his hands in his infamous handseal formation, "Kage Bunshin no jutsu!"

A while later, the three of them along with a lot of Naruto clones were walking down the streets of Konoha.

"You know, I've never realised this before, but Naruto...It's quite impressive that you can make this amount of Kage Bunshin and not even look exhausted." Ino stated as she held a bouquet in her arms.

Sakura laughed at Ino and pushed with her shoulder against Naruto's, for she too was carrying a bouquet along, "What? This guy might not look like it, but he's probably got more stamina than anyone else."

"Even so...I was almost sure we'd still have to go back to my place to get a second, and maybe even third, round of bouquets even with this guy..." Ino replied.

"Really, this kind of thing is nothing for Naruto. Did you know? Tsunade-sama told me this guy mastered a jutsu in a month's time, while that same jutsu took Yondaime two years!" Sakura stated.

"Eh?" Ino sang, "Looks like you have some kind of talent after all, huh Naruto?"

Naruto sheepishly grinned and slightly blushed, "Geez, Sakura-chan and Ino too...It's really not that big of a deal. It was only a bit more than a year ago that I managed to do the Rasengan without a Kage Bunshin."

"Even so, to do such a jutsu with a Kage Bunshin in just a month's time...It's quite an achievement." Ino said and winked at Naruto, "It must be because you're blonde too."

"I guess we all changed a lot the past two years, huh?" Sakura smiled soflty.

"What are you talking about? You're not blonde, so you have no way the near talent Naruto and I do." Ino playfully stuck her tongue out at Sakura.

"What!" Sakura snapped, "I did become a damned good medic-nin in just two years time, you know!"

"It was just a joke, Sakura. Calm down." Ino nervously laughed for a moment until Sakura stuck her tongue out at her, "However, we really did change a lot these past two and a half years...I never thought Naruto would be taller than me."

"Eh...I don't remember you being taller than me..." Naruto said as he closed his eyes for a moment.

"Well, it wasn't by much but I was taller than you were. And right now you are taller than me, but not by that much either." Ino smiled and winked at Naruto.

Naruto grinned widely, "Ehehehe...However, out of the two of us are you the one who has matured more, Ino..."

Ino blushed and nearly tripped over her own feet, "What's that supposed to mean!"

"Nothing at all..." Naruto smiled, "Just that you probably changed the most in looks and behaviour, I guess..."

"Well...Thanks...I guess..." Ino closed her eyes, blushed brighter and Sakura couldn't help but giggle.

"What's so funny, Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked as he looked at Sakura.

"Ino thought we were going on a real mission today or something, so she dressed up in her usual shinobi outfit...She went through some trouble because of that already." Sakura stated and giggled a bit more.

"Now that you mention it..." Naruto said as he eyed Ino up and down, "She's wearing the same outfit as when I first saw her after my training with Ero-Sennin...A purple skirt, a purple top and her stomach, shoulders and legs mostly exposed...I guess she does it to distract or seduce male opponents...Well, she doesn't really need it though..."

Ino sighed, "If I knew it was just doing stuff like this I would've worn more casual clothing..."

"Well don't worry about it...Men who don't have a girlfriend or wife will look at you either way." Naruto nodded, "Take Ero-Sennin for example...He just goggles at every girl he finds even moderately attractive..."

Ino brightly blushed, stared towards the ground and when Naruto noticed this, his eyes slightly widened, "Ah! Ino, I didn't mean you specifically you! They look at Sakura-chan as well and..."

Naruto stopped when he felt Sakura staring and he decided that he should end it here without messing up much more, "I mean they look at girls in general...You know...Because...and all that..."

"Ah...Sorry. It must be kind of tough having guys stare at you all the time and being the centre of attention...right...?" Naruto sheepishly grinned, "Damn...I put myself in another bad situation..."

"What?" Ino grinned widely and roughly knocked with her shoulder against Naruto's shoulder, "You're making it sound like we're the most beautiful girls in Konoha. Don't say such embarrassing things."

"Yeah. I know Valentine's Day is coming up, but there's no need flatter us to death." Sakura added and winked at Naruto.

"Eh...Ah...You know...I didn't say those things because Valentine's Day is coming up..." Naruto sheepishly grinned.

"Speaking of which...Naruto, do you have someone for Valentine's Day or someone who you expect to give you chocolates?" Ino asked as she looked curiously at Naruto.

"Eh?" Naruto let out as his head perked up and a blush crawled onto his face, "Damn...What should I answer? Wait...That's the Hokage's Tower! I'm saved!"

"Well...?" Sakura asked as she looked, in the same way as Ino did, at Naruto.

"Look, you guys! It's the Hokage's tower! Let's go!" Naruto exclaimed and all his clones added in synchronisation, "Ossu!"

"Oi, Sakura...What do you think?" Ino asked Sakura after Naruto and all his clones had passed by and reached out of the maximum hearing distance.

"I really don't know...We shouldn't pressure him too much with that question though..." Sakura as she followed the large orange mass with her eyes.

"Yeah...It could be somewhat of a touchy subject..." Ino added as the two of them slightly increased their pace.

Not too far behind them, four masked faces popped around the corner and three of them had an evil sparkle in their eye while the fourth just sweat-dropped. Naruto's clones carefully placed each of the bouquets carefully in the storage room and then popped off.

"Is this all of them?" Kakashi asked once Naruto himself went inside.

"Ino and Sakura-chan will bring the last two of these bouquets soon enough." Naruto said as he quickly ran into the storage room and back out, "Kakashi-sensei? Shouldn't you put these in water or something to keep them fresh?"

"Well...I'll contact a certain guy who knows a certain jutsu in a few moments and we'll make sure that the bouquets will stay fine even long after the wedding." Kakashi stated and turned the page of his Icha Icha Paradise novel.

A moment later, Ino and Sakura ran into the building.

"These two are needed too, sensei." Sakura stated.

"Hai, hai...Just put them in the storage room along with the others...We'll take care of all of them in a moment. By the way, which one is Hokage-sama's wedding bouquet?" Kakashi asked.

"We still need to finish that one, so we...I'll bring it by later." Ino stated.

"Alright. Then, please hurry up and finish Hokage-sama's bouquet so the two of you can continue on. Naruto, since your job is done now, I'll assign you to help out someone else."

"Alright! What am I going to do this time?" Naruto asked cheerfully as he grinned at Kakashi.

"Go over to the Hyuuga compound. You'll hear what you have to do over there..." Kakashi stated.

"Hmmmm..." Naruto looked with disappointment at Kakashi, "Can't you just tell me right now?"

"No, that won't do...Now hurry up and get going. That goes for all three of you. There's still enough to do and it's still early, so..." Kakashi replied.

"Hai, hai...I know..." Naruto muttered as the three of them headed off again.

"I wonder what you'll need to do at the Hyuuga compound, Naruto..." Sakura stated once they were back on the streets of Konoha.

"Hmmm...They're nobles right? Maybe something like learning formalities and all that stuff?" Naruto wondered.

"Well, whatever it is, good luck with it." Ino smiled at Naruto.

Naruto smiled back at her, "Well, if it's something like carrying stuff around again, it will be easy. Ehehehe."

"I can't really think of anything that the Hyuuga clan would possess that is needed for the wedding. Hmmmm..." Sakura mused.

"Ah, whatever it is, I'll..."

"You! The blonde haired boy over there!" Naruto suddenly heard being yelled from behind him.

Ino, Naruto and Sakura turned around and found four masked men who were dressed rather odd.

"We challenge you!" A small fat guy pointed at Naruto.

"Eh...?" Naruto stared blankly at the guy, "Who the heck are you?"

"Daaaamn it, Bachi! I told you we shouldn't do this!" Another guy said, "They don't even know who we are let alone fear us!"

"Shut up, Yuusuke! You might have your Futaba-chan already, but Tenjin, Ichibanboshi, me and the rest of our village can't go on without more beautiful women!"

"Kuuuuh! They make such fine imoto-sans too!" The tallest guy of them all said.

"Constrain yourself, Tenjin...We need to capture these. I may have lost Futaba to Yuusuke, but my next target won't escape..." The last guy, who was about average height, said as a sparkle shined in the corner of his left eye.

Ino and Sakura shivered and took a small step back, "Sakura...I don't like the feeling I'm getting from these guys. Especially from the short fat one..."

"You're not the only one, Ino..." Sakura replied as she looked with slight disgust towards the group, "They kind of stink too."

"Oi...Don't ignore me if you're challenging me...And what's up with challenging me in the first place?" Naruto asked as he looked dully at the group of four people in front of him.

The short fat guy named Bachi pointed at Naruto again, "Listen up, blondie! We're the Buri no Yonnin from Hidden Tuna! All your women are belong to us!"

"What's up with these guys? Also, what in the world is this smell..." Naruto raised an eyebrow at Bachi, "Hidden Tuna? I never heard of such a village..."

"We've come from the far edges of the Country of Wave! Shunned from the rest of the country, we've dedicated ourselves to become the best fish exporting village on the entire continent!" Bachi exclaimed.

"However, in order to export and sell our fish, we needed two things..." Tenjin stated.

"The first would be shinobi to protect our precious cargo from thieves..." Ichibanboshi added.

"And the other, according to these guys and the rest of the village..." Yuusuke added and let out a long, deep sigh.

"Is beautiful, marvelous, curved women!" Bachi exclaimed and raised his fist in the air.

"Eh..." Naruto let out, not all too impressed so far with the so called shinobi from Hidden Tuna.

"At first we used the women on our small island...It was a huge success! Over the past two years, Tuna and other kinds of fish spread like a wildfire throughout the country of Wave and a bit beyond that...However, as we gained more and more wealth, our women starting eating more and more, for they said they were tired after working an entire day. We understood that and let them eat as much as their hearts desired. However..." Bachi stated.

"Over time, they started to become more and more fat! We couldn't stop them!" Tenjin stated and started to cry, "Even my cute imoto-san became the size of a whale! Why! Why!"

"And thus the four of us headed out to bring as much beautiful women back to our island as possible! If we did that, sales would prosper and we'd have beautiful women once again!" Ichibanboshi exclaimed as he too raised a fist up in the air.

The last member of the team, Yuusuke, sighed, "However, these guys forgot about my girlfriend's huge family that is filled with beautiful women and still decided to try and get women from other villages..."

"Ano...What has this all got to do with challenging me?" Naruto asked.

"Even though we're taking women from other villages, we've still got our honor. Thus we fight and litterally win them over." Ichibanboshi stated.

"And as soon as we reached the border town of the Country of Fire...We heard two 'interesting' rumors." Yuusuke said.

"The first was that Konohagakure had probably the biggest amount of beautiful women in the Country." Tenjin stated.

"The other was that a young blonde guy in that village was insanely popular with all the ladies!" Bachi exclaimed and pointed at Naruto, "Who is none other than you!"

"Naruto?" Ino and Sakura asked simultanously.

"Me?" Naruto asked a split second after Ino and Sakura.

"And so, if we defeat you, all the women in this village belong to us!" Bachi exclaimed, "But first...We'll inspect some of them..."

"Eh...I still don't really get what the heck you guys want other than a fight with me..." Naruto stated as he scratched the back of his head, "They're just rambling on and on...Do they think they can just attack me or something? They'd be taken captive within seconds by the ANBU...Most likely..."

"You'll find out soon enough..." Bachi said and slowly stepped forward towards Sakura and Ino as he let out a perverted laugh, "Just got to inspect those girls first, ehehehe."

"What was that!" Ino snapped, "You fat little pervert!"

"You'd better stay back if you don't want to get hurt..." Sakura glared at Bachi as she cracked her knuckles.

"Now, now...I promise that you'll feel good after wards." Bachi giggled pervertedly, "Well then, ladies...let's..."

Naruto's fist met Bachi's face and send him tumbling back to his comrades.

"Didn't you hear the women. Stay the heck away from them unless you want to get hurt." Naruto said as he glared at the group, "Hehe...Looking good, looking good! Both Sakura and Ino will be impressed when I protect them from these guys! They're not even real shinobi anyway, so they can't use ninjutsu!"

"He struck us! Time to retaliate, guys!" Bachi exclaimed as he jumped back up and Tenjin and Ichibanboshi raised their fist in their air, "Yes sir!"

"Heh..." Naruto grinned wickedly at the group, "Bring it on then. I'm not letting you guys lay a single finger on Sakura-chan, Ino or any other girl in this Village!"

"We'll see about that..." Ichibanboshi stated.

"Let's go!" Naruto exclaimed as he charged forward, his fist raised up in the air.

"Buri-nin Hijutsu!" Bachi exclaimed as he, Tenjin and Ichibanboshi quickly formed a couple of hand seals.

"Ridiculously Large Tuna no jutsu!" The three of them exclaimed in unison and three extremely large tunas appeared in their hands.

"What the...!" Naruto let out just a second before the three ridiculously smacked him from the side and knocked him against a wall.

"You're in the way for the inspection..." Ichibanboshi said and the three of them went through handseals again.

"Buri-nin Hijutsu." Tenjin said.

"Sakana no Ame!" The three of them exclaimed and, out of nowhere, a large amount of fish started to rain down upon Naruto.

"That should silence him..." Bachi stated as he dusted his hands off, "Now...to continue the inspection..."

"Really, you guys...I'm telling you that we're going to regret this..." Yuusuke stated as he slightly stepped away from his comrades.

"They took out Naruto that fast!" Ino stated.

"Damn it, maybe we underestimated them a bit..." Sakura replied.

"Ehehehe...Come here, ladies..." Bachi said as he, Tenjin and Ichibanboshi prowled towards Ino and Sakura, their ridiculously large tunas ready in their hands, "We'll spank you 'till the next day..."

Sakura and Ino took in their combat poses and readied to induce enough pain to the Buri-nin, that they'd probably wish they were never born.

The Buri-nin suddenly froze up as the atmosphere around them suddenly changed. They shivered as they slowly turned their heads around, facing in the direction of the huge pile of fish they had previously created.

There, in the middle of the pile of fish, Naruto stood slightly hunched over.

His fingernails increased in length, his fingers slightly bent.

His whisker marks widened in length, his eyes crimson red.

One small fish in his mouth and one large fish on his head.

Naruto spit the small fish out of his mouth and shook the larger one off his head, "You bastards..."

The four of them slightly squealed in fear as Naruto stepped forth out of the pile of fish.

"Not only did you slap me with fish, you also made me smell like fish...I'm going to beat the crap out of you guys!" Naruto yelled as he jumped up, quickly made a few Kage Bunshin and started to brawl with the Buri-nin, creating a could of dust that covered all of them.

"Waaaah! I'm innocent! Let me go, please!" Yuusuke cried.

"Shut up! You didn't even try stop your friends from doing that to me!" Naruto yelled.

"Ah! My manhood!" Bachi screamed.

"Hey! That's not me or my clones' doing you know!" Naruto yelled.

'No, It's mine for getting me into this situation!" Yuusuke replied.

"Mercy, mercy!" Ichibanboshi cried.

"Shut up! You guys tried to harass two girls I like! And made me smell like fish when I'm about to meet up with nobles!" Naruto yelled a bit too loud, which he realised all too well, "Crap...Did I just yell what I thought I yelled...Oh man, this is going to cause so much trouble for me..."

"Ino...Did you just hear Naruto...?" Sakura asked.

"Y-Yeah..." Ino blushed crimson and stared at the ball of dust with Naruto and the Buri-nin inside it, "Naruto's seems really of pissed off, right...?"

"Yeah..." Sakura bit her lip and stared at the ground, "What should I do...By the physical symptoms, I can tell that Naruto is using his chakra and though I don't think he needs to take it too far with these guys, it's kind of dangerous...Naruto...Please keep your cool..."

"U!" One of the Naruto clones kicked the four Buri-nin, who were rolled up and formed a weird ball made out of the four of them, up into the air.

"Zu!" The next clone kicked the ball of Buri-nin higher.

"Ma!"

"Ki!"

"Naruto Ultimate 'Get the hell out of here' Rendan!" Naruto exclaimed as he put all the Kyuubi's chakra he had molded into one powerful kick.

"We'll be baaaack!" The Buri-nin yelled as they vanished into the distance with a slight trail of red chakra following them.

Naruto landed on the ground and his clones popped off, "Geez...That's going to be the third time that I'm going to wash myself today..."

"Naruto!" Sakura exclaimed as she and Ino ran a bit towards him, then stopped when the smell of a lot of fish entered their nostrils.

"You did it." Sakura said as she pinched her nose.

"Ehehehe. It's nothing at all. I'm just glad those weirdos didn't touch the two of you." Naruto grinned widely at Sakura and Ino.

"Naruto...You..." Ino said.

Sakura looked slighly worried at Naruto, but then softly smiled at him when she saw his crystal blue eyes, "He's back to normal. Thank goodness."

"Mommy, mommy!" A little boy tugged on his mother's sleeve, "When I grow up, I want to be a shinobi just like that guy! Did you see him fight, mommy? He took on those four guys like they were nothing! And they saved you and all the other mommies from being kidnapped by those guys! He's a hero."

"Yeah...A great hero..." The mother of the child said as she looked scornful at Naruto.

Naruto noticed and slightly glared at her, "Damn...I shouldn't have lost my cool and tap in to that bastard fox's chakra just to scare the heck out of those perverts..."

"Come now, honey..." The mother's husband walked towards his wife and placed a hand on her shoulder as he smiled at her, "He saved you and all the other women in Konoha. We should be grateful. Ain't that right, men!"

"Yeah!" A couple of other guys replied in unison.

"Hmph..." The mother stuck her nose up in the air and walked off with her child, "Maybe I should cook dinner for him then instead of you."

"Oi, Isuzu! Don't say such cruel things! You're making my favourite meal tonight!" The man quickly ran after his wife.

"We'll just see about that..."

Naruto stared after the family for a moment, slightly glaring at the mother until the little boy turned his head around, waved and smiled at him.

Naruto couldn't help but smile and wave back at him, "Even though a lot of people still see me as that bastard fox, a lot of others are starting to see me as a real shinobi, huh? ...Somehow...I'm feeling rather happy now..."

"Naruto...Ehm...You can shower at my place...If you want to..." Ino said with a huge blush on her face.

"Eh? Why? I can just drop by my place and get fresh clothes there...Otherwise I'll just smell like fish again, right?" Naruto replied as he looked at Ino.

"Ah, Y-yeah...Of course. Well, hurry up and go then! we've already wasted enough time with those perverts..." Ino turned around and started walking away.

"Oi, Ino! Wait for me!" Sakura said in a raised voice and quickly ran after Ino.

Naruto quickly caught up, smiled at the two girls and waved at them, "See you later, Sakura-chan. Ino."

After that, Naruto rushed back to his apartment.

"Ino, what was up with that proposal?" Sakura asked.

"I...I wanted to know if Naruto meant like as in a friendly way or... something else." Ino said the last part in a whisper.

"Hmmmm...I think he just likes you as a friend. After all, I don't think that Naruto would like you all of a sudden..." Sakura replied.

"Y-Yeah...I guess so..." Ino replied and looked towards the ground.

A while later, after Naruto had quickly taken another shower and put on some fresh clothes, he was back on the streets of Konoha and headed for the Hyuuga compound.

"I wonder what there is to do at the Hyuuga compound other than learning formalities or something...I don't think we could use the exotic plants they have in that garden...Hmmm..." Naruto mused as he rapidly jumped from roof to roof, "Oh well, I guess Hinata's team is there right now doing whatever it is that needs to be done there...I think..."

Before Naruto knew it, he had arrived at the front of the Hyuuga compound and knocked on the door.

"I guess it's better to knock on the door instead of just jumping in...Hinata's dad can be scary...Also, all those other Hyuuga members probably don't even know me, so..." Naruto thought and was broken out of his thoughts when the door slowly opened and Hinata stood in the opening, "Na...Naruto-kun?"

"Yo, Hinata. I'm here to help out." Naruto grinned widely at the shy Hyuuga heiress, who's cheeks instantly flared up upon hearing her name.

"I...I see. P-Please, come in..." Hinata completely opened the door for Naruto.

"So, what are we supposed to do here for the wedding?" Naruto smiled at Hinata.

"Eh?" Hinata repled and avoided Naruto's gaze as she softly whispered, "Could it be that..."

"Kakashi-sensei told me I'd find out once I got here. However, I don't see anyone being really busy out here or something..." Naruto said as he looked around.

"Th-That's probably because everyone is working inside, Na-Naruto-kun..." Hinata replied.

"Ah, I see! Then, what is everyone working on?" Naruto asked cheerfully.

"Ehm...I'm...I'm not sure..." Hinata replied.

"Eh?" Naruto let out as he tilted his head.

"Well...Everyone is preparing a lot of things...I was just handed a scroll by Kakashi-sensei and he told me to give it to my father...And then...well..." Hinata blushed brighter.

"Hmmm...I see. The entire Hyuuga clan was given an assignment and everyone is working on parts of it, huh? I wonder what I can help out with then..." Naruto mused.

"Eh...I...I think I know..." Hinata said.

"Ah! Of course! After all, you're one of the most important people in the Hyuuga clan, right Hinata?" Naruto asked.

"Hm..."

"Then, shall we get started with it, Hinata?" Naruto smiled at the Hyuuga heiress.

"Ehm...As much I'd love to...I think we have to go to my father first..." Hinata said.

"Alright, let's go then!" Naruto cheerfully announced and started pushing Hinata forward.

"Eh! Na-Naruto-kun...!" Hinata let out.

"Come to think of it...It's kind of silly for me to push you forward...After all, I don't have a clue where your father is..." Naruto stated.

"I-It's alright." Hinata quickly jumped to the side when Naruto stopped pushing her forward, "P-Please, this way..."

"Ehehehe." Naruto sheepishly grinned and rubbed the back of his head, "Sorry, Hinata. I just want to get all the chores done as soon as possible. I got a bit carried away..."

"Naruto-kun..." Hinata said, looked at Naruto and when he looked back at her, she quicky said, "S-Stay energetic! ...ne?"

Naruto grinned widely, "Don't worry about such a thing. So far it's been ehm...well not really fun, but rather interesting..."

He nodded a couple of times and Hinata smiled softly at him.

"This way, Naruto-kun." Hinata said as she took a sudden left turn.

"Eh?" Naruto let out and a second later he bounced into a rather sturdy wall.

"Naruto-kun, are...are you alright?" Hinata asked as she looked worried at Naruto.

"Ehehehe..." Naruto rubbed his head, "It hurts a bit, but nothing more than I'm used to. Don't worry, Hinata."

"I-If you say so..." Hinata replied.

A bit later, the two of them were standing in front of a pair of white doors and Hinata cleared her throat.

"F-Father? May we enter your chambers?" Hinata asked as loud as she could.

"It's finally time, huh? Very well. You and your friend may enter, Hinata." Hiashi stated.

Hinata opened the door and entered her father's chambers along with Naruto.

"I'm a bit surprised that it's only one person, but it doesn't matter really. Uzumaki Naruto, please sit down in front of me. Hinata, you too." Hiashi said as the two of them approached him.

"Ehm, Father...This isn't for..." Hinata replied, but Hiashi cut her off, "I told you to sit down, Hinata."

"H-Hai..." Hinata replied hesitantly and sat down on the floor along with Naruto.

Hiashi stood up and walked towards the right, "A long time ago, before even the late Third Hokage was born, there was no Konohagakure no Sato."

"Of course...Konoha hasn't been around since the dawn of ages." Naruto nodded.

"Just stay quiet and listen to me..." Hiashi stated.

"Yes sir..." Naruto replied.

Hiashi threw Naruto a glare before turning around, headed the other way and once he was in front of his seat again, he faced towards it, "In that time, there were shinobi families and..."

An hour and a half of Konoha's history later, Hiashi finally turned back around to face Naruto and Hinata.

"And thus, from that day onward, the Third was the official Hokage of..." Hiashi stopped mid-sentence and twitched as he stared at Naruto and Hinata.

Naruto snored loudly as he rested his head against Hinata's shoulder and Hinata just stared at her lap, blushing brightly.

"Hinata...Wake him up..." Hiashi said.

"B-but..." Hinata managed to bring out as she shyly looked at Naruto.

"Either you wake him up or I do it..." Hiashi stated with a stern look on his face.

"But Fa-Father..." Hinata protested.

Hiashi let out a long, drawn-out sigh, briefly closed his eyes and scraped his throat.

"Uzumaki Naruto...Wake up..." Hiashi said in a loud, clear and calm voice.

Naruto snored loudly in reply.

"I said wake up!" Hiashi raised his voice.

Naruto yawned and rubbed his cheek against Hinata's shoulder.

"DAMN IT, YOU LITTLE LOW-CLASS TRASH! WAKE UP!" Hiashi yelled.

"Wah!" Naruto's eyes shot wide open and he fell down on his back, "Eh...Are we done yet?"

"You! How dare you sleep while I'm lecturing you on the history of your very own village!" Hiashi pointed accusingly at Naruto.

"Lecture...? You honestly suck at it..." Naruto rubbed the sleep out of his eyes.

"What did you say!" Hiashi yelled at Naruto.

"Really...Hinata would do it better than you did. Come on, Hinata. Show your father how you should tell someone the history of Konoha." Naruto said.

"Eh? Na-Naruto-kun...I don't think that..." Hinata blushed crimson.

"Go on, Hinata. Tell him the history of Konoha. No doubt he'll fall asleep during your lecture as well." Hiashi crossed his arms and looked scornful at Hinata.

"Hinata, will you please properly tell me the history of Konoha?" Naruto asked and grinned at Hinata.

"W-Well...Alright..." Hinata gulped and turned towards Naruto, trying not to constantly stare into his eyes, "A long time ago, there was a boy who'd later be known as the First Hokage of the Village of Konohagakure. Some people say he was just your average boy and others say that he was special."

Naruto nodded and Hinata faintly smiled at him, "That boy lived in a small village with his family and friends. Shinobi weren't as organised back then as they are now, but they were around. One day, on a nice summer afternoon, that boy decided he too wanted to be a shinobi. He wanted to protect his father and mother and a lot of other people from thieves and ehm...other bad people."

Hinata briefly paused and took a deep breath, "He and his two best friends headed out that day to meet an old wise shinobi, who lived in the woods near his village. Though he was old and no longer very suited to live the life of a shinobi, the story goes that he was still a very capable teacher. At first the old shinobi refused to teach the First Hokage and his friends, but after witnessing the three of them doing everything they could to protect the people from their home from a band of thieves, the old shinobi took them in as his students."

"Hmmm...You think that's true, Hinata?" Naruto asked.

"Why...Why wouldn't it be, Naruto-k...kun?" Hinata asked nervously.

"Well...If you look at all the important people from Konoha, starting with Sandaime-ojichan...It's more likely that the old shinobi, who taught the First Hokage the way of the shinobi, was a pervert as well and that the three of them showed the old shinobi away to peep at some of the girls in their village or something..." Naruto nodded.

"Such insolence!" Hiashi interrupted, "He was an old wise shinobi! He thought the founding father of Konohagakure everything he knew and you describe him as a common lecher!"

"Well, since the student learns everything from their sensei and I doubt that Sandaime-ojichan was the very first of the pervert lineage in Konohagakure...I'm guessing that that old shinobi was a pervert as well..." Naruto stated.

"But Naruto-kun, even if that was true...I don't think that old shinobi would teach them the way of the shinobi just because of such a thing..." Hinata replied.

"Hmmm...I wonder about that..." Naruto crossed his arms and pondered.

"E-Either way...the First Hokage became a great shinobi over time and then, one day the entire country was invaded and the First Hokage sought out the other shinobi families in the country in order to drive the invaders away. He went through a lot of trouble, but eventually he succeeded in uniting the clans and families and drove the invaders out of the Country of Fire. Afterwards, people decided they should stay together in case there would be another invasion. That's when Konohagakure was created and not much later, the First Hokage was named leader of his village. He did a lot of great things in his life, one of the most notable events being his battle that created the..." Hinata stopped and looked with worried eyes at Naruto before softly saying, "...Valley of the End..."

"I see. Then, what about the Second Hokage?" Naruto asked.

Hinata faintly smiled at Naruto, "The Second Hokage..."

"Alright, that's enough, Hinata!" Hiashi interrupted, "You can take him out of here! There's no need for the two of you to reside in my chambers any longer!"

"Eh...?" Hinata let out as her father picked both her and Naruto up and placed them outside his chambers, "You can go teach him the history in your room, Hinata!"

Hiashi slammed the door shut behind them and Naruto raised an eyebrow, "I never knew your father could be jealous, Hinata."

"I AM NOT JEALOUS!" Hiashi yelled from his chambers.

"So he says..." Naruto whispered to Hinata.

"I CAN STILL HEAR YOU, YOU LITTLE...!" Hiashi replied, which caused Naruto to jump up.

"Let's hurry up and go to your room, Hinata." Naruto suggested and grabbed onto Hinata's hand.

"Eh?" Hinata's face turned crimson red, "M-My r-room?"

"What? That is where we're going right?" Naruto blinked at Hinata.

"Eh...Ehm...Y-Yes...I-I guess it's for the best...r-right?" Hinata hesitantly looked into Naruto's eyes for a moment.

"Well, show me the way then." Naruto grinned at Hinata.

"A-Alright...T-This way..."

"Hmmm...You know...I've been wondering this for a while...but what does Konoha's history have to do with Tsunade-obachan and Ero-Sennin's wedding?" Naruto asked as Hinata guided him through the halls of the Hyuuga compound.

Hinata gulped, "Ehm...A-Actually, Naruto-kun...You aren't here for that reason...Tha-That was kind of a mistake o-on my fa-father's part..."

"Eh! So why did he...? More importantly, what am I supposed to help out with then?" Naruto asked.

Hinata turned crimson red, "N-Naruto-kun...I-I think...that you needed to h-help w-with..."

Naruto saw Hinata's lips move, but he couldn't hear at all what she was saying, "Hinata?"

"I-Is it alright if I te-tell you when we're in m-my room?" Hinata asked, blushing madly.

"Ehm...Sure." Naruto replied, "I wonder what it is...I mean, Hinata's acting like it's something really embarrassing, but it's for the wedding so..."

A bit later, the two of them were in Hinata's room and Naruto looked around.

"Wow. Hianta, your room is quite neat and tidy, you know." Naruto stated.

"T-Thank you, Naruto-kun..." Hinata replied as she looked at her feet, "Pl-please...Take a seat..."

Naruto looked around once again, "I guess I can't just sit down on her bed or something, so I'll have to take the chair by her desk..."

Naruto sat down on said chair and Hinata sat down on her bed, "Ehm...Naruto-kun...I...I think you were send here...to judge...whether or not the ceremonial kimono me, my little sister and the others have to wear for the tea ceremony after the wedding is...a-appealing enough for th-the men..."

"Eh? Me?" Naruto looked surprised at Hinata.

"I...I guess so..." Hinata blushed, "W-We're to hold a tea ceremony for the guests afterwards...I-It must look beautiful and all so..."

"Well, I'm not sure if I can help with that, but I can at least try, right?" Naruto replied.

"Then...I...I'll put on the kimono now..." Hinata said as she removed her forehead protector from around her neck and Naruto nearly jumped up, "Is she going to change while I'm here in the room! NO WAY!"

"C-Could y-you pl-please...?" Hinata asked.

Naruto jumped off his seat and ran to the door, "O-Of course! Sorry, Hinata! Let me know when you're done changing!"

He quickly closed the door behind him and leaned against it, "Damn...She was probably going to ask me not to look at her while she's changing...Even if I did that, being in the same room with her when she's..."

A mental image of Hinata he had earlier that day crossed his mind, "No, no, no, no! NOT again! I need to focus my thoughts on something else and..."

Naruto cut his train of thoughts off when he saw a girls face a few inches away from his and who's eyes were intensely staring into his own.

"Eh...Hi?" Naruto hesitantly let out.

"Hey." The girl replied.

"Ehm...Could you be...?" Naruto started but was cut off mid-sentence by the girl, "Hanabi."

"Ah, I see. You're..."

"Hinata-oneesan's little sister." Hanabi finished for Naruto could and smiled at him.

"Exactly, ehehehe..." Naruto laughed sheepishly.

"So...You're the one who's going to see the ceremonial dance before the wedding, huh?" Hanabi asked.

"Eh? Dance? I though Hinata was just going to show me the kimono she'd be wearing and ask me how she looks in it or something..."

"Hmmm...Well...If Oneesan won't dance for you, I will." Hanabi said.

"Oh...Really, huh?" Naruto grinned sheepishly.

"Though my dance for you will be for a whole different type of ceremony." Hanabi winked at Naruto.

"Ehm...What are you talking about...?" Naruto blinked at Hanabi.

"You want to find out?" Hanabi smirked at Naruto.

"Ehm...Perhaps not..." Naruto replied, "What's up with her? Standing so close too...I don't even know her..."

"Say, if my sister takes too long in there...Do you mind joining me for a swim in our lake?" Hanabi asked.

"Eh...I..." Naruto said and just then the door was opened, causing him to fall against Hinata, who in return fell down on the ground on the long with him, "Waah!"

"Oneesan, you better dance for him, or I will." Hanabi winked, kissed her index en middle finger and blew the kiss towards the two of them before walking off.

"What's with that girl?" Naruto wondered out loud as he got up and then he turned around to face Hinata, "Hinata, are you...?"

"Y-Yes...I'm fine..." Hinata replied as she supported herself on her elbows.

Naruto's face turned bright red and steam vented out of his ears and nostrils, "Uhm...Hinata...Your kimono..."

"Eh?" Hinata looked at herself, finding out that her kimono had shifted from it's place, revealing one of her legs as well as more than a bit of cleaveage, "Ah!"

Hinata quickly covered herself up and flushed crimson in her face. Naruto stood up, closed the door and stared at it, "Hinata...Go ahead and ehm...make sure that your kimono is ehm...properly placed...or something."

"Y-Yes..." Hinata replied.

"Ehm...Sorry, Hinata." Naruto apologised, "Damn...I have a knack today of making situations with girls feel awkward..."

"I...I-It's al-alright..." Hinata replied.

"A-Anyway...I'm looking forward to seeing you perform that ceremonial dance..."

"A-Ah...I s-see..." Hinata replied, "Na-Naruto-kun...I'm d-done, so...Pl-Please sit down on m-my bed, s-so I can perform the dance...for you..."

"Is it really alright if I sit on your bed?" Naruto asked, "Just have to be sure whether or not she doesn't mind..."

"Y-Yes, so-so please..." Hinata replied.

Naruto walked to Hinata's bed, sat down on it and looked at Hinata and the silver-white kimono that she was wearing.

"T-Then...I'll...I'll begin..." Hinata stated and began to perform the ceremonial dance.

After half a minute of dancing had passed, Naruto's face had already turned bright red again.

"I suddenly have the urge to somehow bring two signs saying '100 points' out of nothing and show them to Hinata...I wonder why..." Naruto said as he intensely watched Hinata perform her ceremonial dance.

Hinata then made her next move and certain assests of hers slightly bounced again, making Naruto grin in a way that would make Jiraiya a proud teacher, "Ah yeah...That's why..."

Naruto then blinked and shook his head, "Wait, what am I thinking? Hinata is trying real hard to do all of this perfectly yet I'm only looking at chest. Well...It's kind of hard not to because right now I have to look at her, but even so..."

Naruto looked at Hinata's face and noticed she was brightly blushing, "Crap...She must've noticed me staring at her chest and feel embarrassed as hell. Alright, from now on I'll just look at her face! Wait, that probably makes her uncomfortable too...Then, her legs? No, that won't do either. Arms? She moves them too much...Damn, where am I supposed to look right now without having her feel embarrassed!"

Naruto took a deep breath, "Well, I guess I've seen enough anyway..."

"Ehm, Hinata...You can stop dancing now if you want to..." Naruto stated.

"Eh? B-But I'm not done yet..." Hinata replied as she momentarily stopped dancing.

Naruto grinned widely, "That's exactly why. At least then there's still a new part left for the wedding, right? Also, I guess you're feeling somewhat embarrassed right now...I mean, dancing in a room with just one guy watching you and all..."

"W-Well, I..." Hinata fidgeted with her fingers.

"It's alright, Hinata. Just sit down and relax now. You looked great and I'm sure you'll look great when you will really perform the ceremony." Naruto smiled at her.

Hinata smiled back at him and hesitantly moved to her bed, sitting on the opposite end of it so she wouldn't sit too close to Naruto, "I guess we're done now, right?"

"Hmmm...I guess so..." Naruto pondered.

"Ehm...Naruto-kun...B-Before you go..." Hinata looked at Naruto from the corners of her eyes.

"Hm? What is it?" Naruto asked as he gave Hinata a questioning look.

"I...I...I-I...Ehm..." Hinata stuttered, "N-Nothing...Never mind..."

After a short moment of silence, Naruto stood up from Hinata's bed, "Well, ehm...I guess I'd better get going now. You probably have still enough to do along with your clan, so..."

"A-Ah...Yes...C-Could you give me a moment to use Henge no jutsu to put on a disguise...A-Aside from the women in my clan, no one but Na-Naruto-kun may see this kimono..." Hinata said with a blush on her face as she too stood up from her bed.

"Eh? Why didn't you do that in the first place then?" Naruto asked.

"E-Ehm...Well...I-I wa-wanted to know..what it would feel like t-to really per-perform in front of Na-Naruto-kun, s-so I decided to put it on..." Hinata replied.

"Ah, yeah! Of course there's a difference between an illusion and the real thing! Sorry Hinata, I didn't take that into account..." Naruto sheepishly grinned at Hinata.

"I-It's fine..." Hinata replied as she looked away from Naruto for a moment and then used Henge no Jutsu to transform into her regular outfit.

"I'll show you out then..." Hinata said and opened the door for Naruto.

"Ehehehe. Yeah, if I didn't have you around to show me the way, I'd probably get lost in this place." Naruto grinned widely.

A bit later, Naruto was outside of the Hyuuga compound and waved goodbye to Hinata.

"See you later, Hinata." Naruto smiled at her as he walked off.

"Na-Naruto-kun..." Hinata took a deep breath, "Have a safe trip!"

Naruto looked over his shoulder at Hinata, who was smiling warmly at him, smiled back at her before giving her a nod and running off.

"Another part down. I wonder how much there is left to do." Naruto thought as he ran through the streets of Konoha.

After running a couple of minutes, Naruto slowed down as he heard a little kid cry rather loud.

Naruto looked around the crowd and after a few moments, he spotted a little girl with two blonde ponytails. Naruto smiled softly at how the little girl reminded him a bit of his younger self and then walked towards her.

"Hey. What's wrong?" Naruto asked as he kneeled down to look at the girl on eye-height, "Did you get hurt or something?"

"I lost my daddy and uncles." The little girl cried.

"Hmmm...I see. Well, let's find your daddy and uncles then. Did they lost you while celebrating something?" Naruto asked.

The little girl shook her head and sniffled, "Daddy told me that we were going to visit Konoha because he wanted to see the Hokage-sama's marriage and meet up with old friends from here. Daddy and I were just walking around and looking at all the cool stuff we don't have at home."

"Ah, you're here for the Hokage's wedding. Here, look. I'm a shinobi of this village and right now we're helping the Hokage out to prepare her wedding." Naruto said as he pointed with his thumb to his hitai-ate.

The girl sniffled some more as she looked at Naruto's hitai-ate and then smiled widely, "Then you can definitely find my daddy, onii-chan! Daddy used to be a shinobi as well!"

"Hm, really? Well, let's go find your daddy then." Naruto said as he stood up and extended his hand towards the little girl.

The girl smiled at Naruto and grabbed onto Naruto's hand.

"So, what does your daddy look like?" Naruto asked as he let his eyes wonder over the crowd.

"Daddy is wearing his old ehm...eh...AMBU! That uniform is what he's wearing right now, along with this really scary mask!" The girl cheerfully told Naruto.

"AMBU? You mean, ANBU? Your daddy must be quite strong then." Naruto smiled at the girl, "Damn, finding an ANBU guy wearing his old uniform and mask will be hard...It's not like you can really tell the difference between most of them..."

"Yeah! But he said he had enough of that and wanted to do something else. Like having the time to play with me and collect all kinds of things. He has some of the coolest things in the whole wide world!"

"Huh? Really?" Naruto asked and the little girl vigorously nodded her head.

"Like what does he have then?" Naruto asked.

"Daddy has all kinds of cool stuff, like..." The girl smiled at Naruto for a moment and then tilted her head, "Daddy! Daddy! Over here!"

Naruto looked at the little girl energetically waving her hand for a moment and then in the direction the girl was looking. A dark blue robed ANBU with a cat-type ANBU mask walked towards Naruto and the girl.

"So there you are...I told you to stay close to me..." The ANBU said once he got within distance.

"Sorry, daddy...but I lost you! Then onii-chan here helped me find you again!" The girl replied cheerfully.

"Ah, I see...Well, let's get back to the hotel, shall we?" The ANBU replied and extended his hand.

"Yeah!" The girl replied.

"One second." Naruto said, causing the ANBU to look up at him, "What is it? I'd like to be on my way with my daughter."

"She might recognise you as her father, but that doesn't mean you might really be him. Show your face." Naruto stated.

"Hmph." The ANBU let out and Naruto could tell that he was smiling, "Sorry, but even a retired shinobi like me still has enemies. Enemies that know my face. Therefor I have no intention to take my mask of in public. However, I really am her father."

"Onii-chan, don't worry.'' The little girl tugged Naruto's sleeve, "This is my daddy. With him around, I'll always be safe!"

"Alright then. Take care, little miss." Naruto smiled at the little girl, who smiled back at him.

"You're a shinobi, right?" The ANBU said as he looked at Naruto again.

"Isn't that obvious?" Naruto asked and Naruto could once again tell that the ANBU was smiling.

"As thanks of taking care of my daughter, I'll let you in on a little shinobi secret you are apparently unaware off...The enemy has eyes and ears every where, so don't drop your guard even inside the safe haven you call 'your village'." The ANBU replied.

"Hmmm..." Naruto mused, "Thanks, I guess."

"Then, let us be on our way..." The ANBU said as he walked off with the girl.

"Bye, Onii-chan!" The little girl waved at Naruto before disappearing along with her father into the crowd.

"Looks like a lot of old shinobi will be visiting Tsunade-obachan and Ero-sennin's wedding too, huh..." Naruto smiled and then continued on towards the Hokage's tower.

A while later, Naruto was standing in front of Kakashi again.

"Naruto? Where did you go? Neji's team came back here about half an hour ago and they told me you never even showed up..." Kakashi stated as he raised a questioning eyebrow at Naruto.

"Eh? Neji's team? But I met up with Hinata, listened to an hour and a half to her father's boring ramblings on Konoha's history before we finally got to the point what I really needed to do and that was seeing how well it went with the tea ceremony and all. Wasn't that my mission?" Naruto blinked at Kakashi.

"No, actually you were supposed to meet up with Neji's team and test out the various tea flavors...Oh, no matter...Your next mission would've been seeing Hinata..." Kakashi stated.

"Wait...You'd have me come back all the way here...just to tell me I need to go back there again?" Naruto asked.

"Well, yeah..." Kakashi stated and Naruto snapped just then, "WHY WOULDN'T YOU IMMEDIATELY TELL ME THAT THEN! ALSO, WHY DIDN'T YOU SPECIFICALLY TELL ME WHAT MY MISSION WAS, KAKASHI-SENSEI!"

"Well, I figured you'd get there by the time Neji's team had just arrived, so you'd meet them. It saved me time and trouble..." Kakashi turned a page again in his Icha Icha Paradise novel, "Oh well, it can't be helped...Time for your next mission then..."

"Hmmm...You'd better tell me clearly this time..." Naruto muttered as he crossed his arms and frowned at Kakashi.

"Here." Kakashi held out a small note.

"Eh? What's this?" Naruto took the note and looked at it.

"Well...Since Hokage-sama is almost as addicted to dango as she is to sake and not doing her work and because there are a lot of others that really like dango as well, we'll need a lot of it to eat before and after the wedding." Kakashi stated as Naruto read the note.

"So...I'm supposed to make this amount of dango or something...?" Naruto asked as he stared at the note.

"Well, if you knew how to make some fine dango and do it for less than the Dango shop downtown, then yes..." Kakashi stated and smiled at Naruto.

"So I'm to take this note to the Dango shop?" Naruto asked, "Just to be sure...You can never know with Kakashi-sensei..."

"That's exactly it. Well, go on your way then." Kakashi said.

"Alright. I'll be back in a bit then." Naruto stated and headed off.

"Take your time..." Kakashi said and continued reading his novel.

Naruto ran through the streets of Konoha, heading for the only dango shop he knew about in Konoha.

"This must be the easiest task of them all. There's no way anything could delay m-..." Naruto thought but his train of thoughts was interupted by two things he really did not want to hear at the moment.

"Yo, Naru-chan..."

Naruto momentarily froze, "This is where you start running for your life..."

He tried to run off as fast as possible, but before he could even get an inch away from his current spot, a snake wrapped around his waist and pulled him into the alley next to him.

"Going somewhere?" Anko asked, a smirk painted on her face.

"Actually, yeah. Mission and all. Very important. See ya." Naruto said and tried to run away but just got slammed back against the wall.

"Naru-chan, you're hurting my feelings...Not even willing to spend time with me or letting me know what you're up to?" Anko pouted and searched Naruto's pockets with her free hand.

"Anko-sensei...I don't have time for this..." Naruto stated as Anko searched him.

"Just stay quiet for a bit." Anko replied and gave Naruto a quick kiss on Naruto's cheek.

"She's acting a bit strange today..." Naruto noted and raised an eyebrow at Anko, who didn't even seem to notice.

Anko pulled out the little note Kakashi handed Naruto and read it out loud, "...Dango...Fourteenth of February..."

Anko stared at Naruto for a moment and Naruto managed to give her a confused look just before she spontanously kissed him on his lips for more than just a brief moment. After Anko broke the kiss, she looked with passion in her eyes at Naruto, "You shouldn't have..."

"Shouldn't have what?" Naruto asked.

Anko blinked at Naruto, "You don't know that dango is pretty much my ehm...2nd favourite thing in life? I mean you're even willing to order such a large amount and have them all delivered on February the fourteenth, which is Valentine's Day, so..."

"That's my mission. They're for Tsunade-obachan's wedding..." Naruto stated.

Anko looked slightly disappointed, "Well, that's a let down..."

"Something's weird about her..." Naruto looked suspiciously at Anko, "What's wrong? You're not acting like your usual self..."

Anko smirked at him, "What? Want me to do more...?"

"That's not exactly..." Naruto stopped mid-sentence as Anko lapped his cheek, causing him to shiver, "What I meant..."

"If you think I'm not feeling like my usual self today..." Anko traced with her index finger over Naruto's jawbone, "Then you're half right and half wrong..."

"Hmmm..." Naruto stared at Anko for a moment, "Well, either way...Can you let me go now? I really want to deliver that note and all..."

"I know..." Anko quickly stole another kiss from Naruto's lips, "However, you seem to forget that I have more controll over you than you realise."

"Heh? Really? I don't think so..." Naruto smirked at Anko and she smirked back.

"Hmmm...I wonder who I should tell then..." Anko said as she threw her eyes up towards the sky for a moment, "That their beloved 'Nemar-kun' is really you..."

Naruto gulped, "How did you..."

"Know? Simple...Every Jounin and Chuunin that somehow knew the Yondaime knows that you are really 'Nemar'..." Anko smirked at him.

Naruto grinned at her, "Alright then. Go ahead and tell them if you want to."

"What...?" Anko replied.

"I have nothing to lose really if you do so. You, on the other hand, might lose even the slighest chance you had of convincing to do things with you, for if you reveal that I'm that 'Nemar' guy, then one of the girls I like might become my girlfriend." Naruto's grin widened.

"But what if they hate you for lying to them, then what?" Anko raised an eyebrow at Naruto as she felt slightly thrown of her posture.

"Heh..." Naruto grinned, "If you spend more time getting to know me instead of just trying to get me into bed, you would've known what I promised yourself."

"Promised yourself...?"

Naruto took a deep breath, "This Valentine's Day, I'll definitely be with someone I love. No matter who stands in my way, no matter what I have to do to reach out to that girl, this Valentine...I will not be by myself!"

Anko smiled at him and caressed his cheek, "However, you don't know yet who it is, right...? So what will you do if you can't decide yet on Valentine's Day?"

"Then I'll just tell everyone of them that I'm really that Nemar guy and find the person who loves me." Naruto put on his trademark fox smirk, "I won't take my words back! That's my way of the ninja!"

Anko placed a hand on Naruto's head, "Alright...That's the spirit..."

"What...?" Naruto looked confused for a moment at Anko as she stepped away from him.

"From now untill the end of Valentine's Day...I too will be..." Anko looked over her shoulder and grinned at Naruto, "Fighting for you."

Naruto couldn't help but grin back at her, as she slowly walked away, "Prepare yourself, Naruto...I'm going to use everything I have to break you down and make you mine...Got it?"

"Heh! Do your worst!" Naruto grinned and raised his fist up to chest height.

"I hope you can handle my worst." Anko winked at Naruto and then disappeared into thin air.

Naruto didn't know what it exactly was, but he felt like he suddenly felt more energetic than ever before in his life. He picked up the note from the ground and noticed there was a second note behind it.

Naruto looked at it and then smiled widely before discarding the second note.

"Heh..." Naruto let out and headed out of the alley, "Thanks...Anko-sensei."

The second note fell onto the ground.

On it, there was a big heart drawn with a drawn picture of Naruto's face in the centre of it and all around the heard were drawn pictures of the faces of every girl that Anko thought Naruto liked, including herself.

The was just a single thing written on the bottom of the note, "If the battle for one's heart would be decided by shinobi rank, then I've already won. I'm glad it isn't that way, Naruto."

"Oji-san, I have an order for you from the Hokage!" Naruto shouted once he had made his way into the dango shop.

"Oh really? Let me see that order then."

"Here it is. We're expecting it to be done on time, you hear! You don't want to have the Hokage pissed off, now do you!"

"Ahahaha. Don't worry, boy. We'll have this done and send to her right on in time."

"Alright, I'm looking forward to eating your dango!" Naruto yelled as he ran out of the Dango store. Naruto laughed to himself for a moment and then quickly headed back to Kakashi, ready to take on his next assignment.

Hours later, when the sun began to set, Naruto was finally done with all the errands and met up with Jiraiya.

"Well then, I shall now teach you something new." Jiraiya stated.

"Alright! What's it going to be? Summoning instant cup ramen? Creating instant cup ramen out of nothing but ninjutsu? Preparing cup ramen within a flash? Or perhaps...!" Naruto replied.

"Eh...Naruto...Something tells me you're hungry, right?" Jiraiya grinned sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head.

"Ehehehe, what makes you think that, Ero-Sennin?" Naruto sheepishly grinned back at Jiraiya and as he rubbed the back of his head as well, Naruto's stomach growled loudly.

Naruto sighed, "I've eaten only one bowl of ramen for lunch...That's no way near the usual amount..."

"Well, even though you listen to jutsu theories better while eating ramen, I'm not going to treat you to ramen." Jiraiya stated.

"Eh! Why not?" Naruto asked.

"Because there's little theory to it, since it involves a jutsu you already know." Jiraya stated and grinned at Naruto.

"Hmmm...Well, what is it?" Naruto asked.

"Remember when you cleared the second stage of learning the Rasengan?" Jiraiya asked and Naruto nodded, "Yeah...Somewhat, at least..."

"Good. Back then, you put so much chakra and power into the rubber ball that it created a rather huge explosion, right?" Jiraiya asked and Naruto nodded again.

"Needless to say, a Rasengan with that much chakra is way more powerful than your average Rasengan. So I want you to..." Jiraiya stated and got cut off by Naruto, "Hold up one second, Ero-sennin...I already have the Odama Rasengan. It's slightly bigger and contains more power and it's still as easy to control as a regular Rasengan due to the increased size of the Rasengan. So why would you want me to put more power in a normal Rasengan and make it to harder to control?"

"That's not it." Jiraiya stated and crossed his arms, "I want you to be able to instantly create a Rasengan at maximum strength."

"Hmmmm...Well, that would help because then if I'm close to my opponent, I could immediately make it and hit him with it before he knows what's happening..." Naruto rubbed his chin.

"That's right. However, there's still a chance he'd see the attack and dodge it. Due to the Rasengan's size, it's not that hard to dodge unless you've caught your opponent." Jiraiya stated, "Therefor, I want you to focus on creating attacks like the Rasengan that your opponent can not dodge."

"Eh? Create a jutsu like the Rasengan, you say...Hm...Even if you say that I should make an attack that can't be dodged, it's kind of hard without first doing something to make sure that my opponent can't move. Like Shikamaru's Kage Shibari no jutsu..." Naruto pondered.

"That's not quite true." Jiraiya stated and smirked at Naruto.

"What do you mean?" Naruto asked.

"There's another way to be almost one hundred percent sure that you will hit an opponent that excells at dodging, without even trying to stop his movements." Jiraiya stated.

"Hurry up and tell me already!" Naruto shouted in impatience.

"If you can instantly create an attack that covers an entire area, you're opponent's chance of dodging it is slim to none. Also, with such an attack you'll be able to take on multiple opponents without relying to something like Kage Bunshin no jutsu." Jiraiya stated.

"So how do I do that?" Naruto asked.

"Well, unlike me, you haven't got any elemental jutsu that covers an entire area. Also, you're not really suited to learn a lot of jutsu that involves a lot of hand seals. Manipulating chakra and creating attacks like the Rasengan is far easier for you. So I'm telling you that you should create a jutsu that is fast, powerful and covers a large area to attack multiple opponents."

"In other words, I must use the Rasengan to figure out a way to attack multiple opponents at the same time?" Naruto asked.

"No, I'm saying you need to create your own jutsu based on how the Rasengan works and make it fast and powerful." Jiraiya stated.

"Damn...I thought you were really going to teach me something..." Naruto complained.

"Well, I did. I taught you that you can use the ways the Rasengan works to create your own jutsu. And I want you to create one with the specifics I mentioned before. That's all." Jiraiya smirked at Naruto.

"Well...I can't think up anything on an empty stomach..." Naruto stated, "I'll be off then..."

"You know, Naruto..." Jiraiya rubbed his chin, "I believe I heard Tsunade say that Sakura is about soon done with her medic-nin work and since she's been working all day long, I'm almost sure she could use a nice meal as well..."

Naruto froze, turned around, grinned at Jiraiya and gave him a thumbs up, "Thanks, sensei. You're the best after all, eheheheh."

Jiraiya grinned back at him, "Go get her, Naruto!"

"Yes sir!" Naruto shouted and ran off, "See you later, Ero-sennin!"

"Damn it, he's stil calling me that even after I've given him a chance for a date with the woman he loves..." Jiraiya stated resentfully.

Naruto quickly made his way to the hospital and started to call out Sakura's name every ten seconds as he ran through the hallways of the hospital.

"Sakura-chan!" Naruto called out as he turned around the corner and walked into Tsunade and Shizune.

"Naruto, don't yell inside the hospital. The patients need their rest." Tsunade gave Naruto a stern look.

"I know, but how else am I going to find Sakura-chan? I have no idea where she is right now other than inside this hospital..." Naruto stated as he looked around, searching for signs of the pink haired kunoichi.

"She's in the room on the left down this hall." Tsunade stated and pointed with her thumb towards the back of the hall, "So keep it down and go see her already then."

"Alright, thanks Tsunade-obachan!" Naruto quickly headed off to the end room at the end of the hallway.

"But Tsunade-sama...Sakura-san is..." Shizune said as she and Tsunade headed around the corner.

"Don't worry, she should be done just when Naruto walks into the room." Tsunade waved dismissively.

Naruto smiled widely as he opened the door and cheerfully entered the room, "Yo Sakura-chan! I've been looking for you!"

Sakura's head popped out from behind a curtain that conceiled one of the beds in the room, "Na-Naruto! What are you doing here?"

"Like I said, I was looking for you!" Naruto grinned widely and took a few steps towards her, but stopped as Sakura raised her voice and said, "Don't come closer, Naruto!"

"Eh? Why not? Are you treating a patient or something? It's not like I can't handle seeing some sick person or something..." Naruto stated.

"J-Just turn around already!" Sakura raised her fist in the air and glared at Naruto.

Naruto slightly jumped up, "Y-Yes ma'am!"

"Geez...What is so bad about me seeing her right now?" Naruto wondered as he stared at the door for a few moments.

"Alright, Naruto. You can turn around again." Sakura stated.

Naruto turned around and his jaw slightly dropped open as Sakura stood in front of him, "Sakura-chan? Why are you wearing the outfit of a nurse?"

"Because it would take too long to get completely dressed in my normal clothing." Sakura stated as she placed her fist against her side.

"Ok, but...Wait, what was that? You were getting dressed in here!" Naruto said a wee bit loud and slightly blushed.

"Sssht!" Sakura let out, "No need to yell it. Due to circumstances is this one of the few places where the nurses of this hospital can change their clothes today..."

"I see. But, why do you have to wear a uniform, Sakura-chan? You're Tsunade-obachan's apprentice, so...?" Naruto asked.

"Working at the hospital is more or less my job when I'm not on a mission or something. Today I had both shinobi patients as regular villagers, so I had to wear my uniform." Sakura stated.

"Hmmm...I don't really get it...Unless they made you mad, the villagers shouldn't be scared of you for being in regular clothes, right?" Naruto replied as he rubbed the back of his head.

"It's a sense of security. They know they're in good care when they're being treated by someone wearing this uniform. If I showed up to treat them in my regular clothes it would be feel different for them...I think." Sakura stated.

"Hmmm...I see." Naruto nodded, "I guess that kind of makes sense..."

Sakura sat down on one of the beds in the room, "So, why were you looking for me?"

"Well ehm..." Naruto sat down next to her, "I heard that you were almost done with the work you needed to do today as a medic-nin, so...ehm..."

"You came to pick me up?" Sakura asked.

"Ehehehe..." Naruto sheepishly laughed and rubbed the back of his head, "Why can't I just ask her if she wants to come along for some ramen..."

"Thanks, Naruto." Sakura smiled at him, "You seem to go through a lot for me these days, huh?"

"Eh? What makes you say that?" Naruto asked as he blinked at Sakura for a moment.

"Yesterday at the training, you somewhat rescued me...Today you went to beat up that Sai guy because you thought he was after me, right? And you even come to pick me up at the hospital. I just figured I needed to give you my thanks." Sakura smiled at Naruto.

"Really, Sakura-chan, it's nothin spe-..." Naruto stopped mid-sentence as Sakura embraced him in a hug, "I don't do this very often, so enjoy it while you can. Alright, Naruto?"

"Well in that case..." Naruto replied and hugged Sakura as well.

"Ah! Naruto, what are you doing!" Sakura hissed as the two of them fell back down on the bed.

"Eh?" Naruto let out as he slightly pushed himself up, "I think I overestimated Sakura-chan's weight..."

"Naruto...You..." Sakura glared at Naruto.

"N-No! Sakura-chan, it's not like that!" Naruto's facial expression jumped from moderately surprised to quite scared in an instant, "You see, there are times when Temari needs someone to pretty much hug her out of nowhere and Gaara always vanishes then, so I'm the only one left to do it and she never fell over with the way I'd hug her if she's sitting on her bed! S-So, I didn't do it on purpose! I swear!"

Sakura blinked at Naruto, "You hug...Temari-san? Often even...?"

"Oh shit..." Naruto turned pale white for a moment and sweat dropped, "I actually told Sakura-chan that..."

"Well...?" Sakura raised an eyebrow at Naruto.

"Ehm...You know...Sometimes Temari needs a hug and well...ehm...I can't just let her sit miserably at my place, right?" Naruto hesitantly said, "I mean, she's thinking a lot about that Nemar guy and all, right? So every now and then..."

Sakura smiled at him, "Alright, Naruto. You've said enough. If you rant on any longer you'll probably screw up or something. You were just being a friend for Temari, right?"

Naruto nodded and Sakura's smile widened, "Now will you please get off me?"

"Eh..." Naruto looked at Sakura, lying underneath him and he turned red in his face, "Y-Yeah...Sorry, Sakura-chan."

"It's alright..." Sakura replied once she sat straight up again, "Ehm...Naruto...Is it alright if I ask you something?"

"Of course! You can ask me anything you want, Sakura-chan!" Naruto cheerfully stated.

"Then...I'll promise you that you can be honest with me and that you can trust me. I won't punch you for your answer either, because I'm asking you this...So first of all I want you to promise me that you'll be honest..." Sakura said and laid her hand on top of Naruto's.

"...Alright, somehow this makes me worry about what she's about to ask..." Naruto thought for a moment and then nodded.

"Now this is not to brag, but I'm smarter than your average girl and...well...Naruto...I've noticed a couple of things that make me want to ask you this..." Sakura started.

"Sakura-chan, go ahead and ask what you want to ask me already." Naruto grinned at Sakura.

"Well...I have multiple theories so I'll start with my most recent one..." Sakura said and slightly blushed, "Naruto...? Are you and Nemar-kun siblings?"

"What the...Sakura-chan...You...are looking for a connection between me and my alter-ego?" Naruto's eyes slightly widened and then he just started laughing, "No, no! It's just a coincidence that we're both blonde and have spikey hair! Besides, we're both orphans, so how could we be related? Sakura-chan, really...that's just impossible."

"Well I could give you my whole theory on that matter, but I already thought the chances were slim of that one being true..." Sakura nodded, "Then..."

Naruto's laughter stopped and he looked at Sakura again, who looked straight into his eyes, "Naruto...Tell me...Are you and Nemar-kun one and the same person?"

Naruto blinked at Sakura, "That's Sakura-chan for you...She completely saw through me...Damn...I guess this is the end of the charade, huh..."

He smiled at Sakura, "Sakura-chan, you-..."

Just then, the door was opened and both Naruto and Sakura turned their heads towards it.

"Sorry for the interuption, but this is important."

Anko stood in the door opening, one hand on her hip and using her other arm to lean against the door post.

"Sorry, Sakura, but Naru-...to and I have some matters to discuss in private. Will you please take your regular clothing and change in the room across the hall?" Anko asked as she walked into the room.

"Ano, Anko-sensei...Naruto and I are somewhat in an important talk as well and..." Sakura started.

"Sakura, I understand that, but I'm still your superior in rank and right now I'm obliged to tell you that you must leave for this is something that I can tell only Naru-...to and it's important." Anko stated.

"Alright, I understand." Sakura got off the bed, gathered her regular clothes and headed out the room, "We'll finish our talk later, Naruto. See ya."

"Bye, Sakura-chan. Sorry that we got interrupted." Naruto replied.

"Don't worry, we'll talk later." Sakura smiled at Naruto and then went out of sight. Anko closed the door and walked towards Naruto.

"Geez...I guess you somewhat saved me, huh? Well...Why are you here in the first place?" Naruto asked as he looked at Anko, who smirked at him.

"A little snake told me that you were in a bit of a troubling situation." Anko winked at Naruto, "Well, it helps me out a bit too to let your alter-ego stay like that for a while...Besides, do you know how hard it is for me to not call you Naru-chan!"

"Hmmm...Well, now I'm still going to be confronted by Sakura eventually..." Naruto stated.

Anko crawled onto Naruto's lap, supported herself on her hands as Naruto leaned away from her and supported himself on his elbows.

"You know...If you want to...I could help your secret stay a secret for the next few days..." Anko smirked at Naruto.

"Oh, no! I know you, Anko-sensei...! You'd ask something unreasonable in return!" Naruto backed away from Anko and pointed accusingly at her, "No way I'd take your help for the price you're asking! I'm sure you want..."

"Nothing" Anko interrupted him.

"Eh?" Naruto let out.

Anko smiled at Naruto and slightly blushed, "I said, I want nothing in return from you if I lend you my help to keep your secret a secret."

Anko blinked at Naruto as he reached out with his hands and rested them on the back of her head, "Naru-chan...?"

Naruto untied Anko's hitai-ate, put it aside and stared for a moment at Anko, who stared in disbelief at him. He then placed the back of his hand on Anko's forehead, "Sensei...Are you sure you haven't caught a cold or something...?"

Anko smirked at him, took his hand off her forehead and licked his index finger, "I'd rather call it having the hots for you."

"O-Oi! Wait a damned minute!" Naruto blushed as Anko crawled further on top of him while giving him a wicked smirk.

"What? You read that second note, right? I'm serious about fighting over you. Also, I already told you that I won't hold back, Na. Ru. Chan." Anko replied and her smirk widened.

"Wha-what about the promise you made then!" Naruto's eyes widened as Anko prowled over to his face.

"Don't worry, I'll keep it. I'll tease you more though and use everything I have...For example..." Anko moved her face down upon Naruto's, turned his head slightly and slowly lapped his cheek, causing him to shiver, "I've noticed that you seem to like this..."

"A-And...?" Naruto hesitantly brought out.

"Today, I will show my 'feline'-style..." Anko stated, "I wonder which you like more...The sweet adorable kitten in your lap that you just can't stop cuddling or the wild ferocius tiger that rips your clothing apart and let into my feral instincts..."

"Kitten! Kitten! Definitely the kitten!" Naruto quickly stated as his eyes were as wide as possible, "Damn...I can't just escape her now...What am I going to do...She's pretty much got me where she wants..."

"Hmmm...I like the tiger more for our situation..." Anko said as she traced with her nails over Naruto's jacket, "After all, I'm the hunter and you are my prey..."

"P-Prey!" Naruto let out, "Wait...I've heard that somewhere before..."

"That's right...Hmmm...That's why I like going after you so much...You're not easy to win over like all the other men...and women I've had before you..." Anko replied and stole a kiss from Naruto's lips.

"R-Really...?" Naruto managed to reply, "Damn...How am I going to get out of here?"

"You're my number one favourite prey..." Anko licked her lips, "It's really a lot of fun to chase after you, Naru-chan...And when I've finally gotten a hold of you, everything will be even more, way more fun..."

"Wait...That snake bastard, Orochimaru...He was rambling on about preys and stuff during the chuunin exam when he attacked us...Ero-Sennin told me he used to be Anko's sensei...Hmph, like teacher like student, huh?...Hey! That's it! If Anko-sensei thinks I'm just like Ero-Sennin, then she'll obviously lose interest in me, because I'd be actually wanting her and be perverted about it! It has to work!" Naruto thought as Anko crawled over him and licked him every now and then.

"Hmph...I guess it's a fact after all, huh?" Naruto stated and then looked straight into Anko's eyes with a grin on his face, "The student learns everything from the teacher."

Anko's eyes trembled for a single second. The second after that, Naruto's left cheek was bright red and Naruto himself was thrown of his posture, "What the..."

Naruto faced Anko again and found her eyes flaring with anger. Anko moved away from Naruto, sat down on the bed and Naruto rose up from his position.

She grabbed a firm hold of her hitai-ate and began tieing it back around her forehead, "Get the heck out of my sight..."

Naruto stared blankly at her for a moment, before his eyes slightly trembled in disbelief, "Did I say too much? No, It's not that, but rather that I should've been specific about who out of the two of us I was talking about..."

"You won't leave?" Anko asked as she stood up from the bed, "Fine...I'll just go then. It's not like I give one damned bit about what you do anyway..."

"W-Wait!" Naruto shouted as Anko walked off, "Damn, I know I'm going to regret this...but I can't just let her go like this. I didn't want to hurt her, damn it!"

"Anko-sensei, I'm sorry! I..." Naruto momentarily paused, "I didn't mean to hurt you..."

Anko stopped walking away from him, "Tsch...That isn't what it looked like to me..."

"I...I know..." Naruto muttered, "You just freaked me out...I figured if you thought I was just like Ero-sennin, that you'd stop. I didn't think that when I said that, that you would think I thought that you were the same as..."

Anko slightly tilted her head back, "...Well, guess what...You did..."

"But you're nothing like that snake bastard! After all, you stayed with Konoha, right? You didn't betray your friends or did things that were just wrong...right? I don't know what it was like for you or what you've been through, but I do know that he would never even try to honestly help someone without gaining something out of it himself...And you did. I don't like to admit it, but you really helped me out and I never really repaid you for it..." Naruto said.

Anko turned back around, took a few quick steps towards Naruto and tightly embraced him.

"I'm sorry I lashed out at you..." Anko said softly, "It's just that..."

"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to..." Naruto stated and Anko took a deep breath.

"I'm going to rant a little now, if you don't mind..." Anko said.

"If you don't mind hearing my stomach interrupt you every now and then, because I'm really starting to get hungry." Naruto stated.

Anko softly smiled, "Then I'll keep it as short as I can..."

"Alright..."

"I hate him. With everything that I am, I hate that guy...On the day that he dies, I'll celebrate for weeks and weeks. I can't deny though that I am today who I am due to what he did to me and what he thaught me... You may not know this, but some of the older shinobi...Well, let's just say that they think I'll betray everyone and that I'm just like him. That I'll eventually become obsessed with power and do things that would cause grief in all of Konoha...Maybe even be a major part in the Village's downfall or something. So...You see...I guess I can't really handle being compared to him. Because I am not like him, not one bit..."

"Aside from the fact that you're both acting a lot like snakes. That bastard in a bad way and you when it comes down to wanting a certain guy." Naruto stated and grinned.

"Oh shut up! It's not the same..." Anko replied and ruffled through Naruto's hair with her hand, "I bring happy things where as he does nothing but hurt people."

"Well...I guess you're a pet snake then or something..." Naruto nodded.

"If you want me to be your pet snake..." Anko smirked.

"...Well, if this is your 'pet snake style', then I guess it's alright..." Naruto stated, "Ugh...I'm going to regret this in a while...I just know it..."

"Just wait until you see my seductive snake style then." Anko grinned widely and slightly laughed.

"Oh man...That's something I do not want to see anytime soon..."

"Hm...? Why not?"

"Just something tells me that it would involve this same hugging position, only with a lot less clothes..." Naruto stated and his cheeks flared up, though this time rather due to a mental image passing through his mind than a flat hand connecting with his cheeks.

"Well...You'll know once I show you, right...?" Anko asked and started to laugh.

"Ano...If you're serious though...About wanting to win me over..." Naruto replied.

"Of course. I can't stay mad at my cute little Naru-chan...Esspecially after hearing your sweet words..." Anko replied and caressed Naruto's back.

"Ahem..." Naruto suppressed a shiver, "As I wanted to say...If you're serious about it...Sensei, you should try to have me feel mentally attracted to you and not just physically..."

"What did you say?" Anko asked as she blinked at Naruto.

"Crap...I shouldn't have said that...I knew I was going to regret this situation...! Time to make my escape." Naruto thought and then turned his head around to face the window, "Hey! Isn't that snake bastard right there, mooning us?"

"Where!" Anko nearly yelled as her head shot in the direction of the window.

When she found out no one was there, she looked back down towards Naruto, "You know...That's just..."

Anko abruptly stopped her sentence and stared at the fuzzy green thing in her arms. She held it up in the air for a moment and tilted her head to both the left and the right, "Another stuffed animal? Oh well, the other one he gave me and Nai-chan is worn out already anyway..."

Naruto quickly made his way out of the hospital and kept running when he was outside, "Damn...Finally, I can go and eat something again! Ichiraku's Ramen, here I come!"

A few minutes later, Naruto was sitting on his usual seat at the Ichiraku Ramen stand.

"Ugh...Finally...Ramen..." Naruto said as Ichiraku-san handed Naruto a bowl of ramen, "Here you go, Naruto."

"Itadakimasu!" Naruto said as he quickly grabbed a pair of chopsticks broke them in half and started chowing down his ramen. Within a few seconds, Naruto had finished his bowl of ramen and placed the bowl back on the counter.

He then noticed that something or rather someone was missing in the ramen stand, "Oji-chan, do you know where Ayame-neechan is?"

"Hm? Ayame?" Ichiraku-san said as he took Naruto's bowl and put it away, "She headed out a bit earlier...She said she was going to meet up with someone in ehm..."

Ichiraku-san looked at the clock in the back of the kitchen for a moment and then faced Naruto again, "Five minutes from now."

"Eh!" Naruto let out.

"Something wrong, Naruto?" Ichiraku-san raised an eyebrow at Naruto.

"N-No! Here, keep the change, Oji-chan. I've got to go. Later!" Naruto said as he threw some money from his pocket onto the counter and ran off.

Ichiraku-san quickly counted the money, "Oi! Naruto! This isn't enough to cover for the bowl of ramen you had!"

Naruto quickly ran back and threw some more money on the counter, "Ehehehe...Sorry, my bad."

He then quickly ran off again only to be called back a second later again, "Oi! Naruto! Come back here! It's still not enough!"

"Gaaaah!" Naruto let out as he ran back again, "Since when did you raise the prices!"

Ichiraku-san chuckled, "It was just a joke this time, Naruto. You can go."

"Damn it...This isn't the time to be joking around, Oji-chan!" Naruto yelled and ran off again, "Damn it...I'm going to be so damned late."

Being tired from runing errands around the village the entire day, Naruto panted as he reached the Ichiraku residence.

"Areh? Is that Ayame-chan?" Naruto said in surprise as he found Ayame looking into the alley next to her house.

"Ayame-chan! I'm sorry that I'm late!" Naruto shouted as he jogged towards her.

Ayame turned around, stared at Naruto for a moment and then smiled, "Hey there, Naruto-kun. I've been waiting for you."

"Hm?" Naruto momentarily gave Ayame a questioning look before grinning at her, "Ehehehe. Yeah, sorry about that. Why were you staring into that alley? It's not like I'd come from over there you know."

Ayame smiled at him, "Well, you are a shinobi after all, right? You could pop up pretty much anywhere. Besides, there is this cute little cat living in this alley."

"Hm? A cat?" Naruto leaned towards the left with his body and looked into the alley.

"Nya." The little black cat let out once Naruto spotted him.

"Hm, I see. Why is it living there?" Naruto wondered out loud.

"Probably because it has no home and likes it there." Ayame winked at Naruto, who sheepishly grinned back at her, "Ehehehe. Yeah, you must be right."

"Well, let's get back inside, shall we?" Ayame suggested and walked towards her front door.

"Eh? Aren't we going to that club you mentioned?" Naruto asked.

"We are, but it isn't open yet and I'm sure we have a lot of things to talk about, right?" Ayame smiled at Naruto.

Naruto nodded, "Just give me a bowl of ramen and I'll tell you all you want to know. Ehehehe. Sorry, that's my stomach talking. I'm still a bit hungry."

"One bowl of ramen it will be then." Ayame winked at Naruto and opened the front door of her house.

A bit later, Naruto was sitting on Ayame's bed with a bowl of ramen on his lap.

"Thanks a lot, Ayame-chan. I didn't think you'd actually prepare it for me." Naruto sheepishly grinned at Ayame, "Then...Itadakimasu!"

"What? I can't have you pass out due to not eating enough, now can I?" Ayame playfully stuck her tongue out Naruto as he cheerfully devoured his ramen, "Well, I gave you your ramen, so now it's your turn to let me in on everything I missed out on since we last talked to each other."

"Alright then, just ask me what you want to know then while I'm eating your delicious ramen." Naruto replied and smiled widely at Ayame.

"Hmmm...Let's see...Where should we begin?" Ayame lifted her head up with one finger and stared at her ceiling for a moment, "Ah! I know! Who do you like the most right now?"

Naruto placed his chopsticks down and smiled softly, "I really don't know. Everyone seems to really like me for who I am and not what I look like. Also, I like all of them for who they are. They don't really stand out from each other, I guess..."

"Then...Is there a girl you really like being with? I mean, that when you're with that girl, you feel as happy as you could possibly be... or something like that." Ayame asked and crossed her arms, pondering on the subject.

"Hmmm...I like being with all of them. They each have their own way of making me laugh and smile and they all have their own things that attracts me to them." Naruto stated.

Ayame smiled at him, "Looks like you really don't like anyone more than the others, huh? Well...What about the girls? Is there anyone who has shown that she likes you for who you are more than the others?"

"I don't know...They've all been really nice to me lately and I guess they at least somewhat like me when I'm just me..." Naruto sighed, "Sorry, Ayame-chan...I know that I'm not really helping you with helping me out."

"It's alright, it's alright..." Ayame smiled and waved dismissively at Naruto, "It's my fault for asking questions like that. I'll ask you more specific questions."

Naruto grinned ar her, picked up his chopsticks again and continued eating his ramen.

"So? What is the latest development?" Ayame asked.

"What do you mean?" Naruto asked before raising the bowl of ramen towards his mouth.

"Well, something must've happened right? What's the last thing that happened between you and one of the girls?" Ayame winked at Naruto and playfully stuck her tongue out at him.

"Hmmm...I guess it would be that Sakura-chan thinks or perhaps even knows that I'm Nemar." Naruto nodded, "Anko-sensei interrupted our conversation before I could give Sakura-chan my answer, but I'm not going to be able to to run away from Sakura-chan until Valentine's Day..."

"What are you going to do then when she confronts you again?" Ayame asked.

"Hmmm...Now that I think about it, lying might be the best thing for now. After all, if I tell her the truth, Sakura-chan will tell the others as well and I'd be in a lot of trouble even if Sakura-chan loves me..." Naruto stated.

"I agree, but don't forget to apologize to her then when you do reveal yourself to all of them." Ayame nodded.

"Ehehehe, yeah! You're right! Otherwise I'm definitely screwed!" Naruto grinned widely, "Hehehe, thanks for everything, Ayame-chan. You even help me when you're not around!"

"Eh? What do you mean?" Ayame blinked at Naruto.

"Well, this morning I was in a bit of eh...ehm..." Naruto blushed, "Situation with Temari and Tenten...I wondered what I should do, then I thought what you'd give me as advice and a chibi-Ayame popped up in my mind and told me what to do."

Ayame blinked for a moment at Naruto and then giggled, "Naruto-kun, you're really cute."

"It's not supposed to be funny!" Naruto let out a groan and quickly finished his ramen, "If it wasn't for the chibi-you inside my head, i would've been in trouble..."

"Well...? What kind of 'situation' were you in with two of the girls you love...?" Ayame threw a wicked look at Naruto.

Naruto went crimson, "Tha-That's none of your business, Ayame-chan!"

"Oh, so it was that kind of situation, huh?" Ayame smirked and let out an evil laughter.

Ayame then smiled at Naruto again, "Well...Whatever it really was, I'm glad that a chibi-version of me could help you out."

"I'm glad too. If your chibi-version gave me bad advice, I would've been in the hospital by now..." Naruto nodded.

"Ne...Naruto? How about we stay here for tonight and not go out...?" Ayame asked, "I think you could still use some advice and you need to make your decision soon, right?"

"Eh? What are you saying all of a sudden? I thought you wanted to go to the club!"

"Well, I still do, but so far everytime we tried to go out to a club, something happened to screw it up and...Well, I don't really want that to happen tonight and I'm a bit scared that it will happen if we go..." Ayame said and looked up towards her ceiling.

"No, we're definitely going!" Naruto grinned at her, "After all, I promised you, Ayame-chan, that we'd go, so we're definitely going!"

Ayame smiled at him, "If anything bad happens tonight, I'll blame you, got it?"

"Don't worry! Nothing bad will happen tonight! After all, you have me around!" Naruto grinned widely at Ayame, "Wait...Come to think of it..."

"Alright then, we'll stay here for a bit longer and then I'll get dressed in something that's more suited when going to a club." Ayame winked at Naruto.

"Ehm...Ayame-chan...I was just thinking..." Naruto grinned sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head, "How do you dance? I don't really know..."

"Eh? You don't know how to dance?" Ayame looked surprised at Naruto, who shook his head, "I've never danced before in my entire life, really..."

"Well, don't worry. I'll be dancing with you all the time and guide you. Eventually, you'll pick it up and be able to dance on your own." Ayame smiled at Naruto.

"Alright! Thanks again, Ayame-chan!" Naruto grinned widely.

"Then, is there anything else you'd like to tell Ayame-neechan?" Ayame asked with a wide smile on her face.

"Of course! You see, last night..." Naruto started.

A while later, Naruto was walking back and forth through the hallway of Ayame's house.

"Damn...What's taking her so long? She said she'd just slip into something cooler and more suited for the club, but it shouldn't take very long, right?" Naruto mused.

"Sorry for making you wait, Naruto-kun." Ayame said as she walked down the stairs.

Naruto's eyes continuesly wandered up and down over Ayame's body, a slight bit of drool escaping the corner of his mouth, "Wow...Ayame-chan, you look...great!"

Ayame wore a black low-cut top with her shoulders exposed but her arms still covered by sleeves and wore a black skirt, "Thank you. Shall we go then?"

"Yeah!" Naruto said and walked towards the front of the door.

"Naruto-kun, come back here." Ayame stated and Naruto looked questioningly at her, "Why?"

"Because, now come back here." Ayame replied and Naruto obediently walked back to her.

"What did you forget?" Ayame asked him.

"Ehm..." Naruto pondered, "What did I forget? I didn't leave anything upstairs right?"

"Here, first of all, you won't be needing this tonight." Ayame said as she removed Naruto's hitai-ate and placed it on the stairs, "Also, I suggest you take off your jacket, or you might get it way too hot inside the club."

Naruto took his jacket off, "Hm...That's all?"

"No, you forgot the most important thing to impress a girl when you pick her up." Ayame stated and momentarily closed her eyes, "Escort her to the door and beyond that."

"Ah, I see." Naruto nodded and escorted Ayame to the door.

"Next, you hold the door open for the girl." Ayame stated and Naruto did so too.

"Good!" Ayame smiled at Naruto, "Most girls will never ever mind a guy doing this when the guy is taking her out. If she doesn't want to, well that just makes it slightly easier on your part, ne?"

"Hmmm...I see. Anything else?" Naruto asked as the two of them started walking through the streets of Konoha.

"Well, if the girl you're going out with is cold while the two of you are walking outside, give her your jacket." Ayame nodded.

Naruto frowned, "But you told me that I didn't need my jacket right now. What if you get cold?"

"Don't worry, I won't get cold that easily. And if I do, I have you around to keep me warm." Ayame smiled warmly and winked at him.

Naruto slightly blushed, "A-Ah...T-Then...How do I know when a girl wants me to keep her warm if she's cold then?"

"She'll let you know. Either she will pull you towards her by herself or she'll say she's still cold even after receiving your jacket." Ayame winked at Naruto.

Naruto nodded, "I see...Thanks for letting me know, Ayame-chan."

"It was my pleasure." Ayame winked at Naruto again, "Now, let's get going or we will won't have a lot of time to dance and party."

After walking through a part of Konoha, Naruto and Ayame reached the newly opened night club and the music that was being played could be heard even outside of the building.

"Alright, Naruto...Stick close to me and you'll be alright. I've arranged some things with the owner of this place..." Ayame stated as they walked up to the gathered crowd in front of the club.

"Alright." Naruto replied as the mass headed into the club.

When Naruto and Ayame reached the bouncers, Ayame nodded to them and the bouncers nodded in return. Once inside, Naruto and Ayame headed straight for the dance floor.

"Ayame-chan? Did'nt we have to pay to get inside?" Naruto asked.

"No, Like I said, I've arranged some stuff with the owner." Ayame smiled at Naruto and then winked at him, "It's surprising what one very well prepared bowl of ramen can do to a man."

"Ehehehe...I think I can understand that." Naruto grinned sheepishly.

"Anyway, drinks are free for us too. Though, we probably aren't going to take any because I don't want to risk getting you drunk and most stuff here contains alcohol, alright?" Ayame stated.

"Hmmm...But isn't it illegal even for you to drink something with alcohol in it?" Naruto asked as he raised an questioning eyebrow.

"It is, but the alcohol percentage is low in these drinks. However, if you drink enough of them, you can get drunk." Ayame told Naruto, "Now, shall we do what we came here for?"

"Alright...I can do this...No need to worry..." Naruto thought for a moment and then nodded at Ayame, "Take the lead, Ayame-chan."

"Well, let's go then!" Ayame smiled widely at Naruto and pulled him onto the dancefloor.

Ayame moved behind Naruto, "Alright, first of all, follow the rhythm. Since this song is quite fast-paced, you have to be faster too and dance quite energetic."

"Eh...Ehm..." Naruto tried his best to follow Ayame's movements.

"Like that, yeah! Keep it up, Naruto-kun." Ayame said cheerfully.

"Damn...This isn't easy as it looks...I guess I'll look at how the other guys dance here and try to improvise based on the movements they make..." Naruto thought as he looked around while trying his best to follow Ayame's instructions.

Meanwhile, on the other end of the club, a certain trio stood together.

"Geez...We only got here not too long ago and it's already boring me..." Kiba stated as he crossed his arms and leaned against the wall.

"I...I'm sure it will be more fun in a bit, Kiba-kun..." Hinata stated.

"Oi, Hinata...You can already have all the fun you want. If you'd just get on the dance floor and danced, you'd have guys swarming over you in no time..." Kiba stated.

"K-Kiba-kun!" Hinata blushed bright red.

"It's true...After all, you're a woman." Kiba closed his eyes for a moment, "While I have to put up with this guy over here attracting all the ladies that I like too."

"Kiba..." Shino's shades sparkled in the light of one of the spotlights, "This team's ladiesman, is me. Therefor it is impossible for you to be one too."

"Shino-kun, you're so cool!" A red haired girl that clinged onto Shino's arm squealed.

"Shino-kun, do you want a drink? I could get one for you!" The black haired girl, who clinged onto Shino's other arm, asked.

"But did you just have to take em both!" Kiba yelled, sniffed the air and turned around when he realised that there was another pretty smelling girl nearby.

Kiba instantly rushed towards the girl and gave his best grin, "Hello there, miss."

The girl smiled at Kiba, "Hi."

"You're one of the finest girls I've seen in this club yet. How about a dance?" Kiba gave the girl his best seductive look.

"Kiba..." Shino walked up along with his girls to Kiba and the girl, "I'm going to get a drink for my girls and Hinata. While I'm occupying myself with that, will you keep an eye out for Hinata?"

"Well, hey there sexy thing..." The girl Kiba was hitting on said to Shino.

"Hi there." Shino replied and his shades sparkled again, this time a green sparkle.

"What's your name?" The girl asked.

"I am Aburame Shino." Shino replied and the girl giggled, much to the dismay of the two girls already on his arms.

"Hey! What are you doing hitting on my Shino-kun, bitch!" The red haired girl asked.

"Hey! Shino-kun is mine too, you red headed whore!" The black haired girl replied.

"Ladies, calm down. I can easily share the same amount of company with each and every one of you..." Shino replied and his shades sparkled again as the girl Kiba was hitting on joined Shino's little group of ladies as well.

"Damn it, Shino! You did it again!" Kiba pointed accusingly at Shino as Shino walked off.

Shino stopped for a moment, "Kiba...This team's ladiesman, is..."

"Yeah, yeah, it's you, huh! Mark my words, Shino! By the end of the night I'll have twice the amount of girls you have!" Kiba kept pointing at Shino.

"We'll see about that..." Shino's shades sparkled again and this time the sparkle was blue.

Kiba put his hands in his pockets and walked back to Hinata was, looking around as he did.

He froze when he saw a rather beautiful brunette, dancing with a guy in a way that made Kiba's inner hound want to howl, "Damn that's one hot girl! She got awesome moves too! That guy sure as hell is lucky!"

Kiba then blinked for a moment and the next moment, his eyes nearly popped out of his head, "Naruto! DAMN IT! EVEN THAT BASTARD SCORES BEFORE I DO!"

"Ehm...Ayame-chan?" Naruto blushed as Ayame's body brushed over his back, "Remind me again why you are doing this?"

"What? Are you telling me that you can sleep in the same bed as a girl, but not handle a bit of physical contact during a dance?" Ayame spinned back to his front and playfully stuck her tongue out at him.

"I-I can..." Naruto replied as Ayame slowly went down through her knees on the beat of the music and back up again, "B-But what am I supposed to do?"

"Start by resting your hands on my hips and try to do exactly what I'm doing right now." Ayame stated, continuesly swaying slightly to the left and the right on the beat of the music.

Naruto took a deep breath, placed his hands on Ayame's hips and tried his best to follow her swaying on the rhythm of the music.

"No, You're doing it wrong. When I'm on your left side with my sway, you need to be on your right side." Ayame stated.

"Alright." Naruto said and followed Ayame's instructions.

"There we go. Now keep that up." Ayame smiled at Naruto and then turned around in one fluent motion, moving her head down and back up counter-clockwise so that her hair wouldn't get into Naruto's eyes.

"Hey, I think I'm getting the swing of this thing." Naruto grinned widely.

Ayame looked over her shoulder and smiled at him. She then reached out with her hands for the back of Naruto's head and stroked with her finger tops through his hair, "Ready to go down?"

"Eh?" Naruto let out and blinked at Ayame as she moved her hands back to her sides and placed them on top of Naruto's, "Don't worry, we'll do it slow and I'm sure you'll do fine."

Just then the music was cut off and everyone stopped dancing, glaring at the DJ's station.

"Alright, everyone! Listen up!" Kiba yelled in the microfone he had taken from the DJ, "Make some room in the centre! You're about to get a special show!"

"Huh? That's Kiba?" Naruto said in surprise.

"He's a friend of yours?" Ayame asked.

"Yeah..." Naruto replied.

"Let's try to get closer to him then." Ayame suggested.

"Oi..If they're killing you for making me play this song, don't hold a grudge against me. I warned you..." The DJ told Kiba.

"Yeah, I know." Kiba grinned, dropped the mic and jumped down to the centre of the club.

"Akamaru!" Kiba called out and instantly the song 'Who let the dogs out' started playing.

The instant the music started playing on the song, Akamaru barged through the club doors and ran towards Kiba. The crowd quickly made a path for the huge nin-dog and Akamaru soon had made his way to his master.

"Alright, Akamaru! We're going to do what we rehearsed!" Kiba stated and Akamaru barked in reply.

"Hind legs." Kiba stated and Akamaru jumped up, balancing on his hind legs.

"Hop to the left." Kiba ordered and both he and Akamaru hopped to the left, "Hop to the right."

"Left, right, left, right, drop to the floor." Kiba commanded Akamaru and the two of them did exactly what Kiba said.

"Roll over, play dead, roll over and spin around!" Again the two of them did exactly as Kiba said, "Just wait till I steal all the ladies with my moves, Shino...Just you wait!"

As Ayame stood behind Naruto, she wrapped her arms around Naruto's neck and rested her hands near his sides. Naruto looked up for a moment at Ayame and smiled at her as the two of them moved on the rhythm of the music.

"Go, Kiba! Akamaru!" Naruto shouted.

"Go, go, go!" The crowd started to chant as Kiba and Akamaru pulled out more breakdance-like moves.

Naruto then felt like someone was look at him and he turned his head, finding himself looking straight into the wide silver eyes of Hinata. She just blankly stared at Naruto for a moment and then quickly ran into the crowd and out of sight.

"Crap..." Naruto muttered, which didn't go unnoticed by Ayame, "What is it?"

"Just now...Hinata saw us. I have to find her and explain it to her." Naruto stated.

Ayame nodded, "Go quickly while most of the people are watching your friend. You should be able to spot her faster right now."

"I'll be back soon, Ayame-chan." Naruto stated as he made his way out of Ayame's arms.

"Take your time, I'll be waiting for you." Ayame replied.

Naruto nodded and made his way out of the crowd.

"Damn it, Hinata...Where are you..." Naruto thought as he quickly looked around.

He saw a girl with long indigo hair run into the ladies' restroom and figured that it must've been Hinata.

"Well, I have no problem getting in there either...Hope that she's the only one inside though..." Naruto thought, quickly used his Oiroke no jutsu to turn into his female version, but he kept all of his clothes on.

Naruto quickly ran towards the women's bathroom and was quite surprised when a guy suddenly stood in his way, "Hey there, hunny. What's the rush?"

Naruto twitched and punched the guy straight in his face, "Get out of my way, fag!"

He then quickly ran on towards the women's restroom, "Damn...I should've kept my mouth shut...That just didn't sound right..."

Once Naruto was inside the ladies' bathroom, he saw Hinata throwing water in her face, heavily panting while doing so and noticed no one else present in the bathroom.

Naruto popped out of his female disguise, "Hinata..."

Hinata jumped, turned around and stared at Naruto as she bit her lower lip. Naruto slowly walked towards Hinata and Hinata slowly backed away, breathing deeply in and out with every step.

"Hinata, I wanted to tell you that it isn't what you think." Naruto said when he reached the sink Hinata used and turned the water flow off.

"That's not what it looked like to me..." Hinata brought out and let another deep breath out.

"She's not stuttering? What the...?" Naruto blinked and then sighed, "I know...May I at least explain it to you?"

Hinata bit her lower lip again and slightly nodded.

"I'm here with Ayame-chan because I promised her I'd go to a club with her sometime. Also, we're just good friends. And since I'm an idiot about some stuff, Ayame-chan has been kind enough to teach me a few things..." Naruto stated, "So...There's no need for you to be worried or something, alright?"

Hinata breathed deeply in and out, "I...I want to believe you, Naruto-kun..."

"Alright...That's a good thing..." Naruto thought and smiled softly at Hinata, "Ayame-chan is also the one who told me I should ask you out on a date..."

Hinata looked up with wide eyes at Naruto, who just smiled at her, "I was surprised by some things she said to me about you. I'm still not entirely sure if she's right, but in the end, you agreed to go out on a date with me. You remember, right? We had a lot of fun."

"O-Of course, I...remember..." Hinata slowly said.

Naruto grinned widely, "Well, I'm still not sure if you didn't reject my offer for the fact that you didn't want to hurt me or that it was for..."

"Tha-That's not true!" Hinata let out and then started fidgeting with her fingers, "I...I didn't agree because I didn't want to hurt you...I...I..."

"Well, in that case..." Naruto grinned widely, "I have nothing to worry about either, right?"

"Eh...?" Hinata let out.

"Ehehehe. Nothing, never mind, Hinata. I just hope that you aren't hurt because of me or mad at me." Naruto smiled at Hinata.

Hinata stared at Naruto and the lights in the bathroom flickered.

"What the...?" Naruto let out as he looked up at the flickering lights.

The next moment, everything went black in the bathroom as all the lights went off.

"Oi, Hinata? Are you alright?" Naruto asked in a raised voice.

"Y-Yes. I'm f-fine..." Hinata replied.

"Can you activate your Byakugan and walk towards me? I know about your fear of the darkness so..." Naruto replied as he futilely looked around for a source of light.

"Yes, I...I think I can." Hinata said, "Byakugan!"

Hinata slowly walked forward towards Naruto and stopped an inch in front of him, "I'm near you, Naruto-kun."

Naruto smiled and tightly embraced Hinata in a hug, "Alright...No need to worry then. I'm here for you. However, I do think you should get rid of your fear of darkness."

"Naruto-kun...I'm...not afraid of the dark." Hinata replied.

"Eh?"

"I...I'm not...Not at all..."

"A-Ah...I see..." Naruto sheepishly grinned, "I guess I misunderstood what happened yesterday..."

"Naruto-kun...?"

"Yeah?"

"I'm sorry for walking away from you...I...I just..." Hinata clutched onto Naruto's shirt.

Naruto stroked through her hair, "It's alright...There's no need for you to be sorry. However, I do have one question for you..."

"E...Eh?" Hinata let out.

"Why are you so nervous around me that you stutter almost all the time? You weren't like that eventually on our date..." Naruto asked.

"Eh! I...I...Uhm...Naruto-kun...Y-You see..."

"I really like it more when you aren't nervous around me. There's no reason to be nervous around me. I won't think you're an idiot if you accidentally say something that doesn't make sense..." Naruto stated and grinned widely.

"But..." Hinata protested.

"Well, I know I can be a scary guy, ehehehe." Naruto laughed sheepishly, "However, if you keep being nervous around me, I won't be able to see the Hinata I really like. I like it when you laugh and smile, Hinata..."

"Really...? Then...Then, from now on...I'll try my best to smile and laugh for Naruto-kun..." Hinata replied.

"Promise me that isn't only for when we aren't able to see each other." Naruro said and snickered.

"I promise..." Hinata said.

Just then the lights flashed back on and Hinata instantly turned crimson red. Naruto's head perked as he heard the bathroom's door open.

"Geez, can you believe that they underestimated the power they needed to keep all the equipment running?" A young woman asked as she entered the bathroom.

"Really...You'd think that they'd know how much they needed." Another young woman replied.

"Well, at least the guys were too afraid to do anything to the women while the lights were off." A young woman replied and the laughter of a small group of women could be heard.

"Damn it...How the heck am I going to get out of here with Hinata...? They can't find ME here! That would definitely be bad..." Naruto wondered as he sat on a toilet seath with Hinata on his lap, with only a single locked door seperating them from the group of women.

Hinata heavily panted and tried to calm herself and forget about the fact that she was sitting on Naruto's lap.

"Hinata..." Naruto whispered as soft as he could in Hinata's ear, "Please stay quiet...As much as I like you, I don't want a misunderstanding about what we were doing in here..."

"I understand..." Hinata whispered just as soft in return.

"And try to calm down...One sound that is any louder than a whisper could mean trouble for us..." Naruto whispered.

Hinata nodded, "I'm trying...B-but..."

"Just a bit longer..." Naruto told her and Hinata bit her lower lip.

A few moments later, all the women had left again and Naruto placed Hinata off his lap. Hinata let out a moan she had been suppressing and breahed deeply in and out, her face flushed crimson red.

"We made it." Naruto let out a sigh of relief, while Hinata just kept breathing deeply in and out.

"Let's get back..." Naruto stated and quickly used his Oiroke no jutsu again.

"Yes..." Hinata replied.

"Ehm...Hinata?" Naruto asked, "How about you join me and Ayame-chan and ehm...I don't know...Dance with me? Maybe you can teach me something! Or perhaps I can even teach you something! Either way, you'd just might feel a bit more comfortable when being close to me afterwards..."

Hinata stared with wide eyes at Naruto for a moment and then nodded, "If...If it's alright with you...Naruto-kun..."

The instant Naruto and Hinata left the bathroom, they were somewhat greeted with Kiba taunting Shino, "Like I wanted to say before the power went off...Hah! Try to beat that, Shino!"

"No...Dancing isn't really one of my favourite activities..." Shino stated.

"See, you can't beat me! I challenge you to a dancing contest!" Kiba pointed dramatically at Shino.

"No, I refuse...I have no intention of stopping everyone from what they want to do just so you can have a try at beating me in a dance contest..." Shino stated as he walked away with his ladies.

"Damn it! Come back here, Shino! You're just afraid of looking bad in front of 'your' girls!"

"Kiba, this team's ladiesman is me. If anything, I'll make you look bad in front of everyone..." Shino's shades sparkled again.

"And will you quit saying that damned line already!" Kiba yelled.

"...Did we miss out on something?" Naruto asked as he and Hinata made their way back to where Ayame was.

"Ehm...I guess so..." Hinata replied as she looked somewhat confused towards her teammates.

"Yo, Ayame-chan! I'm back!" Naruto stated cheerfully.

"I see you brought Hinata-chan back along with you, huh?" Ayame smiled at Hinata.

"Ano...I'm Hyuuga Hinata. Nice to meet you." Hinata said and slightly bowed before Ayame.

"I'm Ichiraku Ayame. I hear a lot about you from Naruto-kun, Hinata-chan." Ayame smiled.

"You don't mind if Hinata joins us, right Ayame-chan?" Naruto asked.

"She can be your training partner, I guess. Let's see if you can dance now without me guiding you." Ayame winked at Naruto.

"Ehehehe, I hope so. Hinata, I'm in your care then." Naruto grinned at Hinata.

A couple of hours of dancing, Kiba shouting at Shino and moments where Hinata nearly passed out later, Naruto was walking Ayame back home.

"Ah...I'm tired." Naruto stretched out.

"I have to say, Naruto-kun...For someone who had their first dance experiences only a few hours ago, you became pretty damn good in the short time we had." Ayame smiled at Naruto.

"Heheh, I tried my best." Naruto grinned sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head.

Ayame shivered, "Damn...I'm cold now..."

Naruto stared at her for a moment and then wrapped his arm around her.

"Eh? Why did you...?" Ayame looked surprised at Naruto.

"What? This is what I'm supposed to do right now, right? After all, I don't have a jacket with me and all..." Naruto replied and nodded.

Ayame smiled warmly at him and leaned a bit more against him, "Well, it's only a bit further to my place...Oh well, it doesn't matter really...Don't forget to do this when you have a date again."

"Ehehehe. I'll never forget Ayame-chan's wise teachings" Naruto grinned widely.

A bit later, they were back at Ayame's place.

Naruto had put his jacket back on and wrapped his hitai-ate around his forehead, "Well...I guess that's all, huh?"

Ayame smiled at him, "Thank you for giving me a great time. Ehm...Naruto-kun...If the opportunity ever arises again... would you mind going out to a club with me again?"

"Of course! I had a lot of fun too and Ayame-chan, you taught me a lot again tonight! Well...I'll come back sometime soon to talk to you again. You really are a great person, Ayame-chan."

"Thank you..." Ayame bend over and gave Naruto a kiss on his cheek, "Good night, Naruto-kun."

Naruto slightly blushed and rubbed the back of his head again, "Good night to you too."

Ayame watched Naruto leave her street and kept smiling at him until he was out of view. Her eyes then saddened and the little black cat, from the nearby alley, walked towards her, "Nya..."

A couple of minutes later, Naruto was back in his appartment and taking off his shoes and jacket, "Damn...I'm tired..."

Naruto stopped and looked up when he entered the living room. Temari was sitting on his bed and staring out of her window, "Oh...Oh crap!"

Temari turned towards Naruto and stared at him for a moment.

"Sorry, Temari! I completely forgot to ask him! I'll go get him right now for you!" Naruto let out.

"Naruto, don't bother. You forgot, I'm not mad or anything..." Temari replied.

"But..."

Temari sighed, stood up from Naruto's bed and gave him her stern big sister look, "Well? Where have you been?"

"Ahahaha...You see...A lot of stuff happened and I had a d-...eal with Ayame-chan so..."

Temari sighed again, "Damn it...I've been alone the entire evening, you know."

"Eh? Where's Gaara then?" Naruto asked.

"He has some stuff to take care of with Hokage-sama. He won't be back before dawn. I thought you'd be home for dinner, but in the end you didn't come until now. " Temari stated, walked back to Naruto's bed and sat down.

"It's already kind of late...You stayed up for me?" Naruto asked and sat down next to her.

Temari smirked, "Of course. If you didn't come back soon, I would've headed out to find you. After all, you pushed yourself too hard with training before, you could do it again. I'm glad that isn't the case though."

"Ahaa...I made you worry and didn't even keep my promise...You're making me feel like I'm a bad guy." Naruto sighed.

Temari slightly laughed and then jumped on top of Naruto, "You're a bad guy? A bad guy wouldn't feel bad for making a woman worry about him."

"Ehehehehe, thank you. Then, I promise I'll make sure that, that Nemar guy will visit you tomorrow evening or something."

Temari ruffled through Naruto's hair, "Thanks...Naruto, how tired are you right now?"

"Hmmm...I'd like to go to bed right now..." Naruto nodded.

"So you aren't up for a nice meal, huh...?" Temari grinned at Naruto.

"Food?" Naruto asked and his stomach grumbled loudly, making Naruto laugh sheepishly, "I think I could use a midnight snack."

"Good, because I bothered myself to get all the ingredients I need in order to make my special soup." Temari winked at Naruto.

"You...planned on making that for dinner tonight, didn't you?" Naruto stared with wide eyes at Temari.

"It doesn't matter. I have enough ingredients to make it a couple of times, so if you like it, I can make it again tomorrow..."

"Well then!" Naruto jumped up, "Let's try some of Temari's famous soup!"

"It's not that famous, you know." Temari nudged Naruto.

"Well, let's see then if it should be." Naruto grinned widely at Temari, who grinned back at him, "Let's get started then."

It wasn't very long after that, that Naruto was eating Temari's soup and almost screaming in delight.

"Damn this stuff is good!" Naruto said as he chowed it down as fast as humanly possible.

"Thank you. That isn't even the complete soup though. I don't have enough time right now to make you the real thing. Also..." Temari yawned, "I'm too tired to do all of it properly..."

"Ehehehe...I guess we should go to bed then." Naruto sheepishly grinned at her.

Naruto yawned as he crawled underneath the sheets, "Good night, Temari..."

Temari on the other hand, sat up in bed and placed Naruto's head on her lap, "I'm going to make sure you fall asleep first though..."

"Why that...?" Naruto asked as he yawned, "Damn...I'm so tired..."

"I just want to make sure that you do sleep...Don't worry...I'll cuddle up against you once you've fallen asleep, Naruto..." Temari said as she stroked through Naruto's hair.

Naruto yawned again, "Alright...Tomorrow, we'll make ramen that is flavored just like your soup, Temari...It will... be...even more...delicious..."

Temari smiled softly at Naruto and yawned as well, "I wished you had come home earlier, Naruto...I really missed you..."

She then carefully lifted Naruto's head up from her lap, crawled underneath sheets and cuddled up against Naruto, "Next time you'd better make sure that either you or Nemar-kun is here when Gaara is away for a night...Though I don't think there will be a next time, huh?"

Temari deeply breathed in and out, rubbed her cheek against Naruto's back and smiled, "Sweet dreams, Naruto..."