I decided that I really should answer all my lovely reviewers. Sorry if you clicked on this expecting the next chapter... I'm still working on it.

XD* firedraygon97: ::smiles broadly:: Yes, Naruto is going to have muchos fun trying to pull *that* one off isn't he!!! You know, now that I mentioned the SakuNaru pairing, I got people being total jerks reviewing and *demanding* that pairing. Isn't that mean? -Thanks much for your reviews, they are wonderful! And I'll have the next chapter up either today or tomorrow, I could *almost* gaurantee it.

XD* uni: thank you! I kinda think Mercedes Lackey should be made a book on the requirement reading list in all schools. Not only does she have the best stories, it'd help break up stereotypes.

XD* JadeTiger: It seems to me that the first chapter is always the easiest to write, so please bear with me on the next couple of chapters, they may not be quite up to par.

XD* ElationsCry: Thank you so *So* very much for pointing out the Itachi screw up to me. I don't think I would have caught it on my own!!

XD* Ekusu x Ekusu: Naruto can be pretty clueless sometimes, though, can't he? ::smirks:: It just makes him so adorable!! (To me, anyways...)

XD* Ling-Hao: Thank you for not being totally against either pairing this might end up in! It looks like you're the only one to do so! And I hope I can write it well enough to be exceptable either way.

XD* SW: o.O Sasuke fan-girl much? hehehee. thanks much times for reviewing.

XD* Nora D: I am flabbergasted. you usually hate het and while I was sittin here tryin so gosh danged hard to keep neutral (at least for the first chapter), I some how made it to where that was what you wanted. ...Wow. Well, I hope you will enjoy the story, no matter how it turns out.

XD* Volpa: I'm glad you're enjoying it! And I'm working on the next chapter. It's half-done. I have to write Naruto's part and I don't quite know what he would be thinking or doing, so I'm kinda struggling with it.

XD* SilverTear: Thank you, and I'm hap-pay! that you're likin' it. No. No beta-reader. ::sniffles:: But since you mentioned it, I've been extra careful about checking through it to cut out those screw-ups. I hope it doesn't get *so* messy that you can't enjoy it anymore. That would suck.

XD* Silver: A clueless Naruto is just precious to me. Because he's not stupid, he just doesn't know any different. ::smiles:: Thank you for the compliment. I'm trying to keep him in character, I have to constantly remind myself of that, though! hehehee... ::jaw drops:: How'd you guess? I thought I was doing pretty good to keep it a secret!!

XD* MiakaKiller: ::looks around suspiciously:: I can't tell you yet! But I'm sure that you've already figured it out for yourself that I agree wholeheartedly!! (hehehee...!)

XD* Maki: Umm... ::sweatdrops:: Worship me for life, eh? Please don't do that!!! Hope you enjoy all of the delcious scenes coming up! hehehee... the little hike through the woods is only going to be a hike but it'll last about 4 days. Where oh where are they going to stay the night? hehehee...

XD* Bronze Eagle: Kenshin! ooh! *Adorableness*! I got tingles! Woot. Okay. I'm fine. I swear. Umm. Double sorry-ness for the screwup, and thanks for pointing it out! I don't think I would've on my own. I meant to put Iruka. But my fingertips had other plans I guess. (Someone told me there's a little man living in them planning on destroying the world... I guess *he* has a crush on Itachi, or somethin'...).

XD* Bishiehuggler: I'm a Kris! Only by choice though, is not me birth-name. "really good"? "love the plotline"? Wowwy! Thank you's are not enough!

XD* lovova: I'm updating as fast as I can write the chapter's. Swear to my shoes! (Don't take that lightly. I lerv me shoes. I don't let anything bad happen to them. They're all torn up and ucky-lookin but they're comfy as anything and look adorable to me. I'd hug them, but they ain't soft and they smell funny... oops to much info, methinks...)

XD* Wei Wei: Umm... ::sweatdrops:: please don't beg. I'll do anything! just please don't beg. (I think that's a hint as to how this is going to turn out, yes? ::smileys::

XD* Anubis: Cool.

XD* Soltian: ::squiggles nose:: Is it still adorable? Me hopes so. I hope I haven't ruined Naruto's personality yet or ever!

XD* Jao: Delightful! ::smiles:: I'm glad.

XD* Dotz*N*Necco: ::tingleys!:: Wow! Thank you for the great compliment. Your's has gotta be the review that has the largest happy-joyness factor in it for me. (If *that* made any sense!!) Welpers... umm... Sasuke is kinda an enigma to me so I'm trying to not make him look like *just* a horny little boy and hope that is enough. Got any tips? If you read and want to huggle it all to peices, get a pillow or a really big plushie or stuffed animal or a dog and huggle it. That always helps *me* anyways. I always do that when I'm watching a movie or like when Hiei fought Seiryu, I had to hug a pillow then to keep me from going nuts. That was an awesome scene! ...::clears throat:: anyways... Hope I keep this enjoyable for you!

XD* monkfish: I just wish Sakura would make up her mind in the manga about who she is and what she wants. Me agrees with you, it is much cuter!! XD hehehee.

XD* SilverTear: I'm not worried to much about the humor. I'm kinda nutty so it's bound to show up in the fic whether I want it there or not! (But I do, so don't worry to much!) Naruto and his pranks, I lerv 'em!

XD* jeano: Mmkay.

First off. I just want to thank you for taking this seriously (well, as much as a story should be, anyways.) and take time out of your life to point out the things I did wrong. Sorry to say, though, I got really defensive on a few points , please let me explain myself.

But first, I'm going to be really childish... Naruto is not *stupid*! ::sniffs:: He just acts like it sometimes.....

Okay that's gone.

The second thing is that Sakura is supposed to sound like Inner-Sakura. I was trying to write that part of the chapter through her eyes. So we would get a glimpse of what she was thinking, not how she appeared. Sorry that I wrote it so poorly that that got screwed up or lost.

And, yeah, Sasuke is kinda OOC, that's why I had him say it "talk *of* Naruto". It wasn't a screw-up, this time around. I do screw up on that kind of stuff very often, so thank you for pointing it out.

If anything I said was offensive, please disregard it. I meant none. I just felt the need to clear up those things... ::shrugs:: and act a little childish. ::blushes::

Thanks Again For Reviewing!!! It means a lot to me.

XD* moi: oh gods! Poor moi! Those stupid people! There is no such thing as 'seeing the light'! There is nothing wrong going on to begin with! Poor, poor moi, having to put up with those stupid people and their blindness. "P.S. He'd've" He'd've what? He'd've who? -Well, I can't say for positive how this is going to end up, but on the third chapter (which I'm writing write now), it'll be pretty garsh derned clear!!

XD* brokenpromises: ::pouts:: unnaturaul? There's nothing unnaturaul about guy/guy pairings (or girl/girl). Un-common, Un-wanted, and not at all normal, but not unnaturaul. Anyways, me's a glad the storyline is fun for you to read! And maybe I should be fair and warn you, I have a very twisted mind. So twisted, it's actually sprained and it hurts to think of it being "normal", so in the future of this fic you might end up blinking and wondering "Where the hell did *that* come from?" You know, like chinese chicken in a tutu wrapping Laffy Taffy in spandex shorts and calling it 'Heero Yuy'. ::laughs:: My apologies, I need more sleep!

XD* alex m.: Oof. I've thought about that. About doing SasuNaruSaku. Cuz I honestly think that would be the most perfect solution ever to everything and that it's just wonderful! But alas. I'm not that talented of a writer and my own personal jealousness always blocks me from writing that paricular grouping (I hate sharing, so I can't write about people who don't mind. I can't possibly imagine what it is they feel.). If you ever find one though, please tell me!

XD* ::squeals:: Keira Maxwell reviewed my story!! Whoo-hoo! In case you can't tell, I'm a fan. ::blushes:: hehe. Umm, I want to tell you the pairing now, but that would ruin it. Umm... it'll be pretty evident in the next chapter what the pairing is going to be, and it'll be out either later today or tomorrow. I'm betting on tomorrow, though.

XD* Amethyst Bubble: pink? A sasukeXnaruto sign in *pink*?! I am so afraid my two threads of sanity, now!

XD* Kaya: hey wow! You're the first person who's told me to write what I want. ::tingles:: WoW!! hehehee... and thanks much for the compliments. I am very happy that you like the story!

XD* animeangel: Me will continue! I'm not going to let my first fanfic be a half-finished one! That'd be *way* to embarrassing... hehehee.

XD* Shinigami: ::looks distracted:: How'd you get that cool looking 'S'? It looks like really fancy type of calligraphy. Only this is a computer, so you can't calligraph on my puter, can you? Man that's scary. ::snaps out of it and blushes:: oops. Me sorry! How she treated him? Oh! You mean hitting him a couple of times. Yea, I share your sentiments. I'll do my best to keep this enjoyable for you!!

Heya Hoiyas!! I'm so glad that all of you have enjoyed this story thus far and I wanted to thank all of you personally and yet hardly any of you left your email address and I'm to lazy to go through all the signed reviews and check to see if there is an email on your profile page, so I did this and I hope to get the next chapter up by tomorrow at the latest. But don't be surprised if it isn't, I'm a procrastinator by nature, I just happened to have good luck and great reviewers, so far!

::sighs contentedly:: I lerv you guys!! ::smiles broadly::

-Kris

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