Hey again peoples! I reread some previous chapters of this story, and I must say, I am not really happy with it honestly. I had planned to make Hotaru, a little hyper at times, but reading what I have so far, to me she seems pretty dull, so I plan to fix that starting with this chapter. Please forgive me! Really I feel like half of this story is a mess, but I don't feel like fixing it right now. I probably will in the future though. Also a big thank you to Dekuton for the review, and thank you to everyone who has favorited, and followed my story, I love you all! Also next chapter will be where they take the mission that ends up in them meeting Zabuza and Haku, exciting right? I mean who doesn't like Zabuza and Haku? You're lying if you say you don't! Anyways, please R&R. (:

A/N: The song that Hotaru sings solely belongs to Justin Bieber. That is all.

The next morning I did my normal routine. Got up, got dressed, ate breakfast, talked to Lee, and then left.

I had planned to go to Naruto's house to apologize to him. I hoped he was there.

I ran to his apartment, so I could get there faster. Once there I just stood there for a moment. What was I going to say to him?

I sighed. Just start with an apology and go from there. I took a deep breath and knocked on the door.

"Naruto? Naruto, can we talk?"

No answer.

I banged on the door. "Naruro, please. I know you're home, I can smell ramen!"

I heard some shuffling, but the door didn't open.

Seriously? What was it going to take to get him to open it?

"Naruto, if you don't open the door right now I swear I will start singing. Loudly!"

Nothing happened.

I sucked in a deep breath.

"I know you love me, I know you care

Just shout whenever and I'll be there

You want my love, you want my heart

And we will never, ever, ever be apart. Baby baby baby ohhh!"

By then Naruto had opened the door, and so had other people. Whoops.

Naruto had a huge grin on his face. "You sound like a dying animal." He said, now fully laughing.

I laughed with him.

"Forgive me?" I asked, now putting on a pouting face, and opening my arms wide for a hug.

He snorted and rolled his eyes. "Of course."

I grinned and glomped him.

He made an disgruntled sound.

"Geez Hotaru, you're a lot heavier than you look."

I smacked him upside his head.

"Ah Hotaru! What the heck was that for?" He whined.

"For calling me fat!" I yelled.

"What? No, no I didn't call you fat! Just a little heavy." He mumbled the last part.

I glared at him, and pinched him.

"Ow! Come on Hotaru! I'm sorry! You're not fat!"

"So you were calling me fat!" I yelled.

He started to flail his arms around. "No, no, no! Not at all! You very skinny! Like. Like a bean pole. There is nothing there. Absolutely nothing!" He yelled, really only making things worse.

I felt my eye twitch, along with my hand, which just coincidentally hit him straight in the face.

So I hadn't exactly blossomed yet. I had nothing going on in the chest area. I was still only 12. But better believe anyone who ever points that out will be punched in the face.

I sighed. "So, have anything planned for today?"

Naruto got up off the ground. "If I say yes, will you hit me again?" He asked.

I rolled my eyes. "No."

He chuckled. "No, I don't."

"I was going to go find Ino, and Sakura if you wanted to come with me?"

He shrugged his shoulders. "Sure."

I waited on Naruto to get dressed, and we soon left. Deciding to get Sakura first.

When I knocked on the door, she answered.

"Hey Hotaru." She looked over, and looked shocked for a moment. "Hello Naruto."

"Hey, Sakura." He said, blushing a bit. I raised my eyebrow. Looked like he still had a crush on Sakura.

"I was wondering if you wanted to hang with us? We were going to ask Ino next.

"Sure. Mom, I'm leaving." She yelled into the house, and we left to get Ino.

"So Naruto, how have you been? I haven't seen you since our last time at the academy." Sakura asked, starting a conversation.

"Oh, um pretty good, how about you?" He looked so flustered talking to her. I smirked.

"Really good actually." She turned to me. "I started my first day at the hospital yesterday! Well really I'm just going through school again. But I actually like it. I probably can't hang out for long, because I have to be there at 2:30."

I nodded my head.

"Wow Sakura, I didn't know you were trying to be a doctor." Naruto said in awe.

"Well, I want to actually be a medical ninja."

"That's so cool! You'd be an amazing medical ninja. You're so smart!" Naruto yelled.

Sakura blushed. "Oh, thank you Naruto."

I grinned at them both. Awe how cute!

We soon made it to the Yamanaka Flower shop, where Ino was rearranging things.

"Hello my beautiful flower!" I called.

Ino snorted. "Please tell me that isn't my new nickname?" She begged.

"Do you hate it?" I asked.

"Yes."

"Well then yes. That is your new nickname."

Ino rolled her eyes, and I heard her dad chuckle behind the counter.

"So. How busy are you?" I asked, dragging out the so.

"Not very, we haven't had to many customers today.

Ino turned to her dad.

"You don't even have to ask. I know the moment Hotaru steps foot in this shop, you'll be leaving.

I grinned.

"Go on then. I have everything covered." He said, waving his hand.

All of us left the shop after that.

"We should all go to the park. I have something to show you guys."

"Okay?" Sakura said, sounding a little unsure.

Once we got to the park we noticed Shikamaru and Choji. Shikamaru was laying down, most likely cloud watching, and Choji was munching on some chips.

"Hey Shikamaru, hey Choji!" Ino yelled.

I thought I heard Shikamaru groan, and he put his arm over his face. Yes Shikamaru, like that will keep Ino away.

We all sat around them. I leaned into Choji, and grinned.

He laughed, and dug around his bag and handed me a bag of chips.

"Thank you Choji!"

"You're welcome Hotaru."

"So, Hotaru, what did you want to show us?" Naruto asked eagerly, a moment later.

"Oh right, I almost forgot."

Ino rolled her eyes. "Yeah, maybe beause you've been too busy inhaling those potato chips."

I stuck my tonge out at her. She was right though.

"Kakashi sensei gave me that book. I haven't read it yet, and was wondering if you guys wanted to read it with me?"

Shikamaru moved his arm away from his face.

"Did he really? So you asked him?" Ino asked.

"Nope. He actually just dropped it next to me. It was a little odd actually."

I pulled the book from my bag.

"Hey guys, what are you doing?"

We all looked up to see Kiba, Akamaru, Shino, and Hinata walking towards us.

"We're about to look at the book Hotaru and Naruto's sensei is constantly reading." Ino said, as Kiba, and Hinata sat down. It took a moment before Shino sat down next to me. I held the bag of potato chips out to him.

"No thank you." He declined. I shrugged my shoulders.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw black spikey hair. I looked over. It was Sasuke. Everyone else was here. Meaning I had to get Sasuke to come over as well.

"Sasuke!" I yelled.

He stopped and looked over to me. I waved my hand for him to come over. He looked a little reluctant to do so, but started walking over to us.

Once he sat down next to Naruto I held the book up.

"Look what I have!"

He raised his eyebrow. "How do you have that?"

"Kakashi sensei let me borrow it."

He just nodded his head.

"Okay you guys. It's time to see what is so interesting about this book."

I slowly opened the book, and literally everyone was squished together, trying to see. Poor Hinata didn't get past the first page, because of boobs. Poor girl passed out. Ino and Sakura's faces were red as a tomato, and me and the boys were very invested in it. I was honestly surprised that Shino or Choji hadn't turned away yet.

As we continued reading we were interupted.

"Hey, what are you all doing?" Lee called out. Him and his team walking over to us.

Oh no. I slammed the book shut, and we all parted. I quickly handed the book to Shino who was closest to me, and he put it in his jacket.

"What is wrong with my cousin?' Neji asked, as they neared us.

We all looked at Hinata who was red faced and still passed out. Shit.

"Oh, uh, she uh, she..." I wasn't able think of an excuse.

"I kissed her." Kiba suddenly blurted out.

We all turned to look at him, while Neji glared at him.

Neji looked at all of us, and we nodded our heads.

"That does not explain why you guys were all huddled together. You guys were looking at something." Neji accused.

Oh shit.

"What were you guys looking at?" TenTen asked.

"Oh you know, just this and that." I said lamely.

"Then you won't mind if we see?" Neji asked.

"It was a bug. Yeah a bug!" Naruto yelled.

"Oh, yeah. A very cool bug. It uh flew away though, when you yelled." Ino added.

Neji, TenTen and Gai didn't really look like they believed us, but Lee was on board. Probably because why would his little innocent sister, and her friends lie? Ha!

"I do not believe you." Neji said, activating his Byakugan. We all started to panic.

Neji looked around at all of us, until he stopped on Shino.

"It is only a book. What is so bad about it that you tried hiding it from us?" Neji asked.

We were all quiet. We weren't sure what to say.

"May I see it?" Gai asked Shino.

Shino glanced at me. I shook my head no.

Gai just stood in front of him, with his hand extended, waiting. Finally Shino reluctantly handed him the book. Gai didn't even have to open the book. Just looking at the cover he knew exactly what it was. He looked bewildered.

"How did you kids get this?"

I didn't want to rat Kakashi sensei out, so I lied.

"I found it on the ground, while I was walking through the village earlier."

I saw that Neji still had his Byakugan on, and was looking through the book.

"It's porn." He said suddenly.

TenTen looked horrified.

My eyes widened and I looked at Lee. He just stood there for a moment before.

"What! My little sister was reading porn! How did this happen?" He yelled. He had tears in his eyes. "My innocent little sister!" He kept yelling.

"Inoocent my ass." Kiba muttered.

I elbowed him in the stomache, making him double over.

"Lee, it's not a big deal." I said, making him pause for a moment.

"Not a big deal?" He repeated. He looked like he was going to be sick. "I have to take you to the hospital!" He finally yelled.

"What?" Me and almost everyone else asked.

"Such trauma my baby sister must be experiencing right now! I have to get you help Hotaru!" He said, starting to close in on me.

I put my hands up. "Lee, calm down. I am alright. I don't need to go to the hospital. It is just a book. I have not been traumatized."

Gai finally put his hand on Lee's shoulder. "It's alright Lee. Hotaru does not need to go the hospital." He assured him.

"Hinata might though." Kiba muttered, after he sat back up from being elbowed.

We all looked at the still passed out girl.

Naruto poked her. "Hey, Hinata, are you going to be alright?" He asked.

Hinata's eyes fluttered open, to see Naruto just inches from her face. Her face turned red again, and she squeaked, and passed out again.

I had to hold back a laugh.

"Are you sure you're alright Hotaru?" Lee asked, making me pay attention to him again.

I sighed. "Yes Lee. I am sure."

Lee sighed.

"Well team." Gai finally said, we should continue to the training grounds. We have training to do. I will also be taking this with me." He said, holding the book up.

"Probably so he can read it himself." Naruto whispered.

We all nodded our heads in agreement.

Lee looked like he didn't want to leave me though, but Gai didn't give him much of a choice.

I didn't want Gai to take Kakashi sensei's book though, so when they had all turned around, I formed some chakra thread, and grabbed onto the book. I slowly took it out, and brought it back over to us. I quickly put it into my bag.

"That was close." I said, relieved my brother and his team was gone.

"What was that you just did?" Kiba suddenly asked.

"Huh?" I asked.

"That string, you just used to get the book." Ino added.

"Oh, chakra thread."

Everyone aside from Naruto and Sasuke stared at me. I sighed.

"It is a technique that puppet masters use. I thought it was cool, so I wanted to learn it.

It is really cool." Sakura agreed.

"So uh, should we finish reading the book?" Kiba asked, looking at everyone.

We all just sat there for a moment.

"No thank you." Ino said, while Sakura and Hinata agreed. I didn't even see Hinata get up.

"I'm down." I said finally.

I took the book back out of my bag, and opened it. All of the boys surrounded me while Sakura, Hinata, and Ino sat off to the side talking. It took us a little over an hour to finish it. By that time Sakura was already gone because she had to go to her classes. I finally snapped the book shut.

"I honestly don't see how Kakashi sensei likes that book so much, it's not all that great." Naruto admitted.

"Honestly I liked it. I really enjoyed the love story." I said, putting the book away.

"I thought it was good." Kiba agreed.

"I am going to have agree with Naruto. It wasn't all that good." Shikamaru spoke up.

In the end only me and Kiba actually really liked the book. The others weren't too into it.

Eventually we all parted. I decided to go back home and practice my chakra thread, and Naruto and Sasuke came with me. This was going to be fun.