A Sexy Jutsu By Mukumuku

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, Kishimoto-sensei (why do I call him sensei?) if someone said I did they are truly putting words in my mouth. They lie, I suggest you stop reading about these Internet rumors that say I do. Ahem.

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"We've been walking forever," Sakura whined for the ninth time. She had only started whining after they had hit their third dead end. Now they had reached their fifth dead end, second detour, and eighth pit stop and still they had not stopped to eat food or drink water. They were set off three days and then afterwards their cart broke down and they were forced to carry their luggage over the vast sand dunes to the outskirts of town.

From there they decided to split up into two teams. One to guard the luggage and other things, Kakashi, Iruka and Hinata were chosen to stay behind. Lee, Sakura and Neji were chosen to accompany the Hokage to the Academy and send back word once they got there. "To think that the others are waiting for us to send word, sitting under that roof. Waiting under the shade. I'm a little jealous." Sakura looked around to the others who were as tired as she was. They only looked at the scenery and their destination. Tall sand dune-like structures, bustling people, vendors shouting.

The noise pushed their impatience and seemed to over take them all, now as they were nearing lunch the sun had gotten stronger. The people of the Sand Village seemed to be getting them nowhere and the only person to give them accurate information was a little girl that had run away screaming at one point.

Finally back on the right road, yet tired from the last road, Sakura wrapped her arms around her fiancee's neck and blew into his ear playfully. "Lee. Carry me." A crimson blush came over Rock Lee. Sakura clung to his back happily. Lee didn't protest about the female Jounen he had begun to carry on his back scouting and jostling around with the added height. Just showing how whipped he actually was.

Whipped being another word for in love, of course.

"Sakura! Lee! Your behavior is inappropriate for people your age," Lee and Sakura giggled as the more serious Jounen reprimanded them, "you're making us look bad." Indeed the Sand villages were watching them and had been watching them ever since they entered town. Yet none of them had offered any sort of help whatsoever, as if they were buying time for Kazekage. What could he be hiding? He hated spies. If only they would offer some sort of directions.

Neji touched his throat. It was dry from all the shouting. He was too tired, great Hyuga Neji, broken down by some sand and wind. Shameful.

He decided to take a breather and sat down on the steps that seemed to lead on forever. Neji lowered his head in shame, "sorry, Lord Hokage, I'm just too tired." Neji lifted his head and watched the Hokage brush past him up the stairs. "Lord Hokage, are you all right. You should rest."

The Hokage was the one pushing forward the most, determined to reach the destination point up ahead. The Hokage was overworking himself again. He was often troubled and said it times like this it was best to deal with a troubled mind by occupying oneself with tasks. "It's okay. I'm a little tired and the sun feels a little too hot."

"Lord Hokage, you should rest before the sun gets you." Neji's voice faltered, there was no way he could reach him. Initially, he had helped Sakura and Ino push Sasuke towards a short vacation while on his trip to the Wind Country, but now he saw there was no way he could stand in the wake of the workaholic.

"It's all right. That little girl seemed to have given us the right directions. See we're almost there." Indeed, the academy was up ahead and they were almost there but now the sun had gotten to be too much for him. It was too hot, he felt hot and his Hokage clothing weren't helping. It was at this point that he had begun to hallucinate.

An angel seemed to be descending from heaven, down the stairs. His legs were getting wobbly and his balance was thrown off by an unknown source. Probably the worn steps had caused him to fall into her outstretched arms. Had this angel come to collect his soul? It was about time. He embraced his seemingly solid oasis without complaint. It was better than eating concrete.

"Hokage-sama!" Shouts rang through the air, several people ran towards him but now he forgot who they were. The angel seemed to be shaking him back and forth, saying his rank over and over again.

'I must be having heatstroke.' Sasuke smirked, he touched the Natsume's face. "Don't call me Hokage. You're the last person that should call me Hokage." He closed his eyes and then went limp in the bewildered angel's arms.

'Naruto. How are you?'

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Sasuke awoke to find himself inside, cold water being put in his mouth. He gulped the water down and opened his eyes. It felt cool as it ran down his throat.

He was content, even though he felt a little drained of energy. The angel sat him up and placed a bottle into his hand. She wrapped his weak fingers around the bottle and let go of his hand once she was confident he was strong enough to hold on. She sat beside him and watched him gulp down the water hungrily. How long had she been watching over him?

Sasuke looked around the room and his surroundings. He seemed to be in a classroom, which meant they arrived at their destination point. The curtain was drawn to make the room cooler, but the windows were open making the curtains billow. His savior was a woman after all, her outfit bore cute little wings on his back but she looked like a teacher with her serious face on. Touching his shoulder, she leaned forward to whisper in Sasuke's ear, "just wait right here. I'll bring in your friend."

Natsume stood up and exited the room calmly and a few minutes later Sakura entered the room loud and angry. He looked disheveled and roughed up, Sasuke didn't recall there being a fight. However the constant bangs and shouts outside the door disturbed him slightly.

Sakura's evil eye warned Sasuke to look at her when she talked. "Sasuke, how come you didn't tell us you had heat stroke!" Sakura placed her hands on her hips and tapped her foot waiting for an answer.

"We would have stopped, it was a small matter." Sasuke gripped the wall trying to stand and leaned against it to hide his obvious weakness. "At least we got here."

Sakura's face fell.

She hated when Sasuke was like this. Either brooding or moping or pushing his body to the limit, he acted as no one cared or perhaps Sasuke cared too much.

"Sasuke." Sakura sat on a table and faced Sasuke who tried to look away. "This is really irresponsible! As Hokage you have to look after your health!" Sakura had grown up to be more confident of herself and constantly mothered the depressed Hokage. She couldn't stand how childish the Hokage was acting and as the years without Naruto grew she was pushed more and more into Lee's welcoming arms.

Besides, it was no secret among the circle that Sasuke was pinning for Naruto, but it was between Naruto and Sasuke. If it either Sasuke's rise to Hokage or Sasuke's treatment of Naruto but no one really knew the cause of Naruto's disappearance. Only Sasuke and Naruto.

"Where did everyone else go?" He said absently trying to change the subject.

Sakura sighed, "they went to put away their luggage at the hotel. They should be back soon." Temari and Kankuro had volunteered to go with Lee and Neji to where Hinata, Iruka and Kakashi were left behind. "However the hotel they booked for us might be a problem, we're five days late and all the other Kage's from other hidden village's have already left."

"Who's left here?" Sasuke said surprised, they were that late? How much paperwork would be left for him at his office?

Sakura emptied some sand out of the folds of her clothing, "Just Gaara, Natsume-sensei and I. Then there are the ninjas that go to school here and the teachers."

Sakura held back her laughter.

Natsume and Kazekage were having one hell of a time keeping many of the females away from the door. They dropped everything at a pin drop and ran over to see the fabled bishounen Hokage of Hidden Leaf Village. Many of them unmarried and single women, all of them fighting to get their chance at Sasuke's cold heart.

Sasuke looked to the door where many females were shouting at Kazekage to let them in. For a second through the glass of the door he saw Natsume's laughing face. Sakura looked the direction Sasuke was looking at.

'Ohhh. It looks like Sasuke's got eyes for that teacher already,' Sakura hid the pleasure he inner Sakura was having at all of this and the comments on Sasuke's blush. In the past she would have been angry that someone would get between them, but Sasuke was now her friend and she wanted more than anything that Sasuke open up again. Like in the days that Naruto was around and he'd get so angry or laugh or actually talk about something other than work. "Natsume-sensei is the one that carried you all the way here. She's pretty strong."

Sasuke turned to Sakura who was having a good time absorbing all of the drama, "Natsume-sensei?"

"Natsume Aya the woman whose arms you fell into. I was talking to some Gennin and they say that both Natsume Aya and Kazekage Gaara are pretty tight," Sakura caught her inner-Sakura and held her mouth before something slipped. "Gaara seems nicer now Aya's around."

"So she's already taken?" He said sadly. It was then that Sasuke had an idea.

A terrible, wicked, evil idea.

"Sasuke. You're not thinking of stealing Natsume away from Gaara, are you?" Sakura poked Sasuke in the cheek affectionately.

Sasuke grinned with new ambition now. "I'm tempted."

"Sasuke, this isn't like you at all!" Sakura faked her shock, in actuality she was surprised that Sasuke would try this. But it wasn't like Sasuke to give up either. Sakura kind of liked this Sasuke. Though he was kind of dangerous sounding, it was a start for a change, Sakura's voice changed to let and undertone slip in. "Why Sasuke? Why now?"

'C'mon Sasuke, admit it! You've fallen in love at first sight!' Screamed inner-Sakura that had struggled loose.

Sasuke shivered.

Sasuke knew this feeling.As if someone was breathing down his neck, someone he didn't want to upset.

It was the Sakura confessional, as Naruto described it. Naruto suggested that Sakura should join the torture and interrogation squad for being able to pump information about Sasuke's personal life and feelings after they had become Jounen. Naruto was promptly beaten up.

Sasuke turned his face towards the wall to hide his blush. "I know. But she just may be worth it. I haven't felt this way ever since Naruto."

"Aya is not Naruto," Sakura reminded him with a stern voice.

Sasuke sighed, "I know. But don't you think I'm ready to move on?"

Sakura crossed her arms, "depending if you think falling in love with a girl who reminds you of Naruto again will mean that you've moved on." She leaned forward, "have you?"

Sasuke ran his hand through his hair and smiled, "when I woke up I looked at her and thought maybe."

Sasuke was interrupted by several bangs and finally Natsume and Gaara burst through the door and shut the door quickly, leaning on the door as a barricade. They both seemed to be breathing and sweating in unison and once they were sure the door was safely locked and closed they gave each other a thumbs up.

Still there was the banging like a hurricane trying to level a house, "is the Hokage in there?! Come on Natsume! You have to give us all a chance! I heard he's really handsome!"

Another voice, Rikka's probably whined after. "Come on Natsume-sensei! You have Kazekage all to yourself, give us Hokage!"

"We're gonna take revenge by stealing your Kazekage away from you! Natsu~me!"

Cackling evilly, Natsume pressed her face against the window and made faces at the women. "Don't you all have make-up to apply?" Teased Natsume.

A melody of feminine voice chorused in realization that they forgot to 'freshen up' and abandoned the door in a hurry. A sicken screech of heels and crawling of nails was heard as they fought their way to a change room or washroom. Natsume poked her head out the door to enjoy freedom and an empty hall, "hah hah hah. Suckers!"

And then there was when he saw it.

Naruto.

Naruto's expression, his body language. Naruto's tongue sticking out at the world and his laugh. This type of person he fell in love with. Aya turned to Kazekage holding the door open with pride beaming from her body like a firefly or a haystack set on fire.

"Good job, Natsume." Gaara patted Natsume's head and in response she grabbed his hand trying to get Gaara to rub his own head. Sasuke looked between Kazekage and Natsume, such open affection. Gaara turned his head to the two watching, "you're welcome to join us for lunch or you could go sight seeing that our Hokage needs time to rest."

Sakura shook her head and tried to gesture as much as she could a clear no. She had enough sand and sights for one day. She turned to Sasuke who seemed to have zoned out, "should we go have lunch now, honored Hokage?" She put back her good Jounen act for the rest of the world.

"Would you like to join us? Natsume made enough food for all of us to share," added Gaara silently.

"I would love to," Sasuke replied with a smirk.

Gaara and Naruto felt a cold chill lick their spines.

"I feel cold suddenly," Natsume pointed to the window blowing the curtains out of control. "I should close that window."

Naruto winced, 'why do I feel like life is going to get a bit more harder?'

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Author's note:

I'm so glad people are reading this and like this. Thanks. Nora D for the Kanokuro so I can change it to Kankuro the correct spelling (double checked on Naruto Guide). I like the name Natsume Aya! Naruto needs it to hide. [Plug:] Read Tenjou Tenge. =Actually don't, it's perverted.

Hah hah. My brain is really going. I spell check and print it out and spell check and there are still mistakes. Though I thought it was a mistake. Hm.

Reading the reviews are really helping me write, I'm looking at them right now. I'm glad people like this fanfic. I'm hope you all like the Gaara x Naruto, Sasuke x Naruto love triangle.

Nemi if I reveal why Naruto has to run away it'll ruin the story, but it will be revealed! (Strikes pose.) He's a jounen so he's an adult, I thought it was obvious that Sasuke would be Hokage. (I was going to make it Neji! XD)

Glad you like the G x N scenes, SW. I like the Gaara x Naruto pairing a lot, had fun writing the scenes.

Wuffielover, I'm only one man who types with one hand! (MY RIGHT!) Same to you Hinata, Arthravan, Michirukoshi. I hope I don't sound so mean. Thank you for all of your reviews, it's a lot for me considering I once got zero. I'll try to write as fast as Mukumuku-ly possible. You guys are helping me write! That and my word count. 2 760 words! Thank you again!

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Next Chapter:

Kazekage and Hokage eat lunch, will the two survive each other or Natsume. Or should we say, Naruto's homemade lunch of love? Some say love is poisonous, but so is a poorly made homemade lunch. Just because you have good looks, doesn't mean you're a good cook.

Naruto watch out, it's you who may be eaten by bad luck!

(Why have I started to write these weird previews, please review!)