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My Life as a Teenage Shinobi

Naruto giggled softly as he turned to the next page of his uber-cool new book. He was sitting on the Team 7 bridge cross legged, waiting for his team to show up. Again. Kakashi-sensei had come back five minutes after he had left to say they were meeting again. Right now. Of course, he would have to ditch the book once Sakura got there…but there was nothing to do while he was waiting so…

"Neh heh heh…no wonder Kakashi-sensei reads these books," Naruto said, blushing.

"Oh…Na…Naruto-kun…" a quiet voice came out of nowhere. Jumping in surprise, Naruto quickly shut the naughty book and hid it inside his jacket. He got to his feet, looking annoyed.

"Who is it? Sakura-chan, is that you?" he said, dusting off his pants. He looked at the end of the bridge and saw Hinata standing there…twiddling her fingers.

'Sheesh, I bet her fingers are all worn out from that twiddling. She's always doing that whenever I look at her!' Naruto thought, looking at her with his eyes closed. If that was even possible.

He grinned. "Hey Hinata, what's u….uh…uh?" Naruto stammered, blushing harder than he did when he was reading. Hinata wasn't wearing her jacket. And we all know what that meant.

"Naruto…kun?" Hinata said, confused. She took a step toward him. He took a step back, his finger across his nose.

Hinata looked even more confused. "Naruto-kun? D-do you have a cold?" she asked, worried.

"Ah…ah…no! No, I don't, I'm…fine…" And he fainted. Hinata looked like she had gone into shock. 'Was it me? What did I do? It was my fault…maybe I should have fixed my hair up…or put on some makeup…why, why Naruto-kun?'

"Hey, I'm here again!" Sakura's happy voice filled the bridge. She saw an unconscious Naruto and a scared-to-death Hinata. Her expression darkened immediately.

"Naruto! What did you do to Hinata-san?" Sakura said, stomping over to the boy. She suddenly kicked him on the head, and he flew smack into…

Sasuke, who kicked him right back into…

Kakashi, who unconsciously kicked him into…

Shino, who…wait, Shino?

"Shino-kun? What are you doing here?" Hinata asked him, not even looking at the bug boy as she stared at the blond boy who was drooling at Shino's feet.

"Kurenai-sensei told me to look for you and Kiba. You two did not show up for training this morning. Where were you?" he asked her.

"Oh…I…overslept," Hinata said, a little embarrassed.

'Kiba's going to have that same alibi…' Sakura thought. Suddenly, another thought hit her.

"Whoa, Shino, are you growing a mustache? And a goatee?" After she had gotten a nod out of the bug boy, ANOTHER thought hit her.

"Kakashi-sensei, may I ask what we're doing here…again…ten minutes from when we came here last?" she asked curiously. And then ONE MORE thought hit her. She was getting pretty beat up with thoughts today, now was she?

"Kakashi-sensei, you're actually…on time…?!" she said, horror-struck.

Kakashi grinned. "Yep! I forgot to tell you three that we have a mission this afternoon!"

Naruto suddenly became conscious at the word "mission". He sat up.

"Mission? What KIND of mission?" Naruto asked, foaming at the mouth. Sakura looked at him as if he were the most disgusting thing on earth.

"It's a D rank," Kakashi said, to the dismay of two of his students.

Sasuke grunted. "D rank missions are useless," he said in his pretty-boy voice.

Kakashi sighed. "Now now, Sasuke, don't forget, if you do enough missions, you won't even have to take the chuunin exam a second time! You'll just go straight to being a chuunin without having the fear that you'll fail like last time!"

Sasuke glared at him. "Hmph."

"Alright! I'll see you at the Hokage's office in two hours. Later!" Kakashi said, jumping off.

Sasuke glared at the spot where Kakashi was.

Meanwhile, Shino shuddered. The bugs inside of him all sighed at once when they had heard Sasuke's voice. 'What…the…quit it!' he thought to them.

But his bugs protested, and protested, and finally, outside of his own will, the bugs all left Shino's body at once and started to chase after Sasuke. Sasuke's eyes opened wide, and he inwardly gagged as he ran away. 'Ew, ew, EW!' he thought, running as fast as he could.

Sakura screamed bloody murder. Naruto wasn't the most disgusting thing on earth after all.

"Don't hurt them!" yelled Shino after Sasuke's retreating form. After all, they WERE his weapons.

-

Ino hummed as she watered her flowers at the Yamanaka flower shop. She pulled up her Kakashi mask, which was slipping down. 'I guess I should have asked for a smaller size,' she thought.

"Good afternoon Yamanaka-san!" a gallant voice entered the shop. Ino looked up.

"Oh, hi Lee. Flowers for Sakura?" she asked, knowing the daily routine. Which had turned weekly in recent days because he's been training his butt off.

Lee nodded, winking at her. He walked to a corner of the shop, not even noticing that she was wearing a black mask on her face.

Ino smiled. "So what kind would you like today?" she asked, following him, just glad she would sell something today. Business at a flower shop isn't that great…especially in a ninja village. Ino sighed. She needed to spend more time out there training, looking good for you-know-who, rather than be here working at her family's flower shop all the time. She started to daydream about all the wonderful missions she and Sasuke would go on, just the two of them…hand in hand…

She sighed once more.

"How about a dai…mask?!" Lee said, dropping the daisy he was holding. Apparently, he had finally noticed she was wearing it.

"Sorry…we're all out…" Ino said, absentmindedly. Lee just pointed to her face and stared, his mouth in the shape of a small "o". Ino ignored him and picked up the daisy on the floor, still daydreaming. She petted it, and put it back in the vase, with the other daisies.

"Yes, my wonderful little daisies, you will grow up to be nice and strong, and pretty, just like me," she said to the flowers. Lee just kept staring and pointing. She sighed and looked out the window. "If only he would notice how nice and strong, and pretty I am…without these awful things on my face…"

She suddenly saw the object of her affection running outside the window. Ino gasped and snapped out of her reverie. She ran and poked her head out the door.

"SASUKE-KUN!" she yelled. And heard a rumbling. She looked the other way and saw…trillions of bugs.

She screamed bloody murder…and fainted.

Lee, who had stopped pointing and staring, ran to her and picked her up gently. "Yamanaka-san? Yamanaka-san?" he said, fanning her face with…his hands. Not that any air got to her face, as the mask still covered it. Ino moaned slightly and opened her eyes slowly.

To see a pair of fuzzy eyebrows staring down at her.

She fainted. Again.

-

"Yo, Neji."

"Hey, Shikamaru."

Shikamaru walked lazily to the Hyuuga.

"Hokage-sama wants us to be in charge of another mission. B rank. Up to it?" Shikamaru said, hands stuffed in his pockets.

"Hm." Neji took a glance sideways to see Shikamaru's…neck? He looked up.

"Shikamaru, when the hell did you become this tall?" Neji asked.

Shikamaru looked annoyed.

"Neji, I'm slouching. This isn't tall at all. When I slouch, my height drops a few inches. See?" Shikamaru stood up straight to prove his point.

Neji looked away. "Shikamaru. I prefer it when you slouch."

"Hey Neji, Shikamaru!" a girl's voice reached their ears.

"Tenten." Neji said in greeting. Shikamaru just nodded.

"Neji, you aren't training today?" she asked. The Hyuuga shook his head slightly.

"Maybe later," he said. "Want to train with me?"

Tenten smiled and nodded. "Sure! How about in an hour at the usual spot?"

Neji nodded. Tenten nodded back and she jumped off.

Shikamaru raised his eyebrows at the small scene he had just witnessed. 'Are they…'

"So what is the mission? When is it going to be?" Neji asked as it nothing at all had happened.

Meanwhile, Shikamaru was thinking. Should he ask? But asking about things wasn't his thing. Being curious about something is way too troublesome. But as his teammate, and friend, he should know about these little things. But knowing about little things…is way too troublesome. Shikamaru sighed. And performed a very precise calculation in his head that would give him the right answer. If it's even possible to calculate things like curiosity in your head. He finally decided.

"Neji, are you and Tenten…" Shikamaru started.

But was cut off by Sasuke, who ran into him. They tumbled into a heap on the floor.

"Sa…Sasuke?" Shikamaru said, looking at the boy who crashed into him. He sat up slowly, but Sasuke practically flew up as he began to ran away again.

"What the…" Shikamaru was cut off once again as he saw the wave of bugs. His eyes widened, and he moved faster than he's ever moved, away from the streets.

Neji screamed bloody murder as the bugs dashed past him.

-

Chouji was still locked up in his room, staring silently out the window. He had tried to explain to his father again and again, but it seemed to make Chomaru angrier and angrier.

So he was still stuck there. He sighed, trying to ignore the rumbling in his stomach. He was trying so hard to ignore it that he didn't notice Kiba getting run over by Sasuke and a bunch of bugs outside of his window.

-

"WHAT THE HELL SASUKE?!" Kiba said after the bugs were gone. Akamaru whined and hid inside Kiba's jacket.

"It's alright Akamaru. You already have fleas anyway so a few more bugs won't hurt now will they?" Kiba grinned. Akamaru growled.

"Bark!" the dog said.

"What?! What do you MEAN I don't take care of you?! I carry you with me all the time!" Kiba shouted at his dog.

"Bark bark!" Akamaru said back.

"I don't take good enough care of you AND I don't let you do anything fun? Come on! I brought you to the "Bark-A-Dog Convention" a few months ago! Don't TELL me that wasn't good enough little mister!"

"Bark bark ruff!" Akamaru barked.

"Now I don't let you go out with your friends enough? Come ON Akamaru!"

Akamaru growled and barked.

Kiba snarled and started barking back.

-

Sasuke, getting totally freaked out by the bugs, ran all the way to the Hokage's office. She'd know what to do! After all she is the Hokage.

'He told me not to hurt them…he told me not to hurt them…so I won't hurt them…but Tsunade-sama might!' he thought of his beautiful plan that came out of his beautiful mind.

He dashed into the door and ran up the stairs, hearing the screams behind him as the bugs gained on him. He finally got to the Hokage's room and knocked. Hard.

"Yeah, yeah, what is it?" Tsunade's voice came through the door.

"Hokage-sama, it's Sasuke, can I please come in?" Sasuke said, as cool and calm as possible.

"Sasuke? It doesn't sound like you at all! I guess Kakashi was right, your voice was changing," she said. Sasuke nervously looked behind him and saw a roach crawl toward him. He resisted the urge to shriek like a little girl and instead pressed his back to the doorway.

"So can I please come in?" Sasuke asked, looking cautiously at the roach. It seemed to be looking up at him.

"I don't know Sasuke, CAN you?" Tsunade joked through the door.

Sasuke's face turned from that of nervousness to anger immediately. However, he knew NOT to get mad at the Hokage, especially HIM of all people, because…well, you know.

So he forced himself to say the words, "May I?"

More bugs started to crawl from around the corner, on the walls, on the floor, on the ceiling…

"May you…what?" the Fifth asked him. Sasuke strained to keep his anger under check. The incoming bugs all stopped at his feet. So close to his feet, in fact, that their little antennae were rubbing against his toes. 'Eugh. Gross…'

"May…I…come in?" he struggled to get out without screaming at the top of his lungs.

"Why's that?" Tsunade's voice came through the door. As well as some giggling noises. Sasuke's eyes turned red. No, it wasn't the Sharingan.

"WHO'S IN THERE?! If this is some kind of sick joke…!" All the bugs had gathered before him by now. They seemed to be attracted to the sound of his voice. Which they were.

Tsunade laughed. "Ah, Sasuke, we were just kidding. We all just love the sound of your new voice, we couldn't resist," she said, opening the door for him. Sasuke looked behind him to see the four jounin teacher s smiling from ear to ear. However, they suddenly frowned as they saw the bugs.

Tsunade quickly shut the door. "What in Konoha was that?" she asked the jounins, as if they knew.

"I…I…I…d-don't…KNOW!" Asuma said, half screaming because of the bugs and half stuttering because he hasn't smoked in days. Gai smacked him on the back, grinning with his shiny teeth.

"Hokage-sama, it looked like creepy crawly little bugs! Now WHERE could they have all come from?" he asked, partly to himself and the others.

"Kurenai, isn't that bug boy in your team?" Kakashi asked.

Kurenai nodded.

"Oh, well he's growing quite a handsome moustache," Kakashi said coolly as Sasuke screamed bloody murder.

AN: FINALLY, isn't it about time I update this fic? I seriously did not know what to do with it so I just started typing a few sentences and this was what I got from it. So it mostly focused on Sasuke (even though I don't like him much). And there was a teensy, really tiny hint of Neji/Tenten. But no worries! This fic is NOT romance, I repeat, NOT romance. It's just the teenage hormones going on between them, I'm telling you! Speaking of Neji, I think I'm making him into a sissy in this fic. Oh well.

Akamaru also had a bit of a rebellion against Kiba. Wasn't that interesting? It sounded like one of MY arguments with my parents, let me tell you. :P

This chapter had all the characters in it, as you could see. I was going to do a Gai's Team chapter but I didn't know how it could fit into the story…AT ALL. So I just didn't. Next chapter will most likely be the last of this fic…unless I think of more ideas. Buahaha. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. It looks like the longest chapter yet, actually.

I just read the latest chapters of the manga and realized that my story absolutely CANNOT fit in anywhere on the Naruto timeline! Oh no! That's okay, this fic is now officially, completely AU. Yosh!

As always, thanks for reading,

Kawaii Yoshi