AN: okay well, i got up for summer school, monday, and i checked my mail at like 7:00 and i saw there was this random review for chapter 2, and it said:

You have to update this story pronto. I won't allow you to shirk your responsibility of giving us fluffy-smutty-goodness! This story is too good to pitch in the towel now! Get Naruto and Sasuke together! Do it somehow...sorry if you have writer's block...but...please...you must finish this or I will fell all empty inside...(not really, but I'll say anything to get you to update)

I AM SO SORRY! Please forgive me! ::bows on knees on hands:: yeah, 2 weeks of camp, then summer school and stuff.. i just got busy and somewhat lazy. Sorry! And thus, I am here at 7:13, starting up the chapter. have to go to school soon, but to heck with it.

Disclaimer: Naruto is not mine.

warning: old people.

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After a good shower early in the morning, Naruto limped past his bed where Sasuke slept soundly and cast a glance back at the sleeping beauty, then proceeded to limp out into the hall towards the stairs. He groaned and clenched his bottom in pain as he began to take the steps one by one.

By the time he was at the bottom of the stairs, a female voice reached him. "Naruto?" He sharply spun around to see the cherry-blossomed kunochi at the top of the stairs. "Is your ass going to fall off or something?" She giggled and ran down the stairs to greet him. He laughed nervously and thought, 'That's what it feels like.'

Naruto's face turned red, but he still came through with a smile for Sakura as she stopped at the bottom of the stairs in front of him. "What happened? Did Sasuke literally kick your ass?" She offered, smirking evilly. 'You could say that. Though not exactly with his foot.' Naruto pondered, a hand on his chin thoughtfully. He then snapped back to reality, realizing what she said.

"No way! I just slipped in the shower and fell on my ass real hard." He flinched, as if remembering the incident. "You... Okay?" Naruto scoffed as if it were a battle scar and let go of his bottom for a moment and waved his hand. "I'll be fine Sakura-chan." He said dramatically, and turned away from her, staggering off to the kitchen.

Sakura raised an eyebrow, but took his act as normal and shrugged it off, following him. Just as Naruto entered the kitchen, he was greeted by Neji. Neji ran up to him and slung an arm around his shoulder, leading him to the other side of the kitchen.

Naruto sent a glance over his shoulder to see Tenten, Kiba, Shino, and Choji sitting at the table. Hinata entered the room quietly, blushing as she took a seat next to Kiba. "Naruto!" Neji said in a hushed tone, bringing Naruto back to reality, which would have been the 2nd time that day he needed to be brought back. He gazed over to Neji, remember last night, how when Sasuke fell asleep, Neji was at the door, mouth hanging open.

"What's up with you and Sasuke? I didn't know an ice cream man could create such.. Ya know.." Neji nudged Naruto as Naruto blushed. "Um.. Neji? Are you sick or something? You're not the kind of person who would bring that stuff up. Did you and Kiba switch bodies and nobody told me?"

"Nah, just curious. I mean that is a weird thing that you guys did. And out of all people.."

"So? Don't sweat it Neji." He patted Neji on the back and walked towards everyone who was seated at the table. "Ohayo." He said to them all, walking past them to the cabinets to find some instant ramen. Shino looked nervously over to Neji. He was so glad that he got the room with Sasuke and Naruto in it, or he might end up informationless like Choji was.

Of course he had told Choji what Neji had told him, about the whole thing between Sasuke and Naruto. They were the only three that knew about it, besides the two themselves. Naruto filled the cup with water and popped it in the microwave, setting it for three minutes.

The ninjas at the table were now chatting happily, as Naruto grumbled about his 3 minute wait and sat down with them, watching them converse. They all stopped speaking though, nervous about his bout with the ice cream man.

"Naruto.. You okay now?" Hinata said quietly, sincerely worried. Naruto's eyes softened as a smile graced his lips.

"Yeah."

The microwave beeped and Naruto shot up, "RAMEN!" And ran towards it pulling out the steaming cup. Everyone that was seated fell off their chairs (anime-style) and Naruto turned around, question written on his face as they pulled themselves back up. "What?"

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Sasuke stepped out of the shower, more tired than ever, but a grin still on his face. A weird grin. Sasuke never really smiled like he did just then ever since he was a kid. It was easy to see why he was smirking, for he had woken up in Naruto's bed. 'So it wasn't just a dream.' He looked at the ground thoughtfully. 'What do I say to him? After that.. Are we going out now? I can't just say let's go train..'

He shook his head and went towards his own bed, seeing that it was clean and made. 'Hmm..' He suddenly felt a presence above him so he looked up into Mona Lisa's eyes. 'That's what it was? That lady...?' He thought, Mona Lisa's eyes were on him, as it always was. She was so far away, the ceiling was so high. Sasuke scowled at the picture and pulled his clothes on slowly, carefully watching the painting.

It did nothing, so he decided that it was a figment of his imagination and he walked towards the door. "Wait, Sasuke-kun." A voice called out behind him. A familiar voice. He spun around to see Iruka standing in the balcony doorway.

"How's everyone doing? I came to check up on you guys." Iruka said, true to his word, but not telling Sasuke it was the Hokage who commanded it.

"Fine I guess... Except for the ice cream man, and the truth or dare, that stuff was weird." Sasuke murmured, not wanting to say much more on the subject.

"O...kay..." Iruka said hesitantly, then laughed walking towards Sasuke. "Can I go downstairs with you?" He asked Sasuke, stopping in front of him.

Sasuke raised an eyebrow and then turned on his heel, walking away with Iruka following him. They walked on through the halls, towards the stairs. Sasuke broke the silence, which was pretty weird for Sasuke, since he usually let people talk for him.

"I know you didn't just come to say 'hello', Iruka-sensei. What are you really here for?" He asked Iruka, looking over to catch Iruka's eyes. Iruka smiled and looked back towards the hall.

"Nothing, I swear. I miss you guys, sincerely." He said quite sincerely, as if he really meant it. Sasuke could do nothing but just glare at him accusingly then look back to where they were going, and then down the stairs to the kitchen. They both entered at the same time, and everyone's voices called out, "Iruka!" Well, all of Iruka's old students said as much, Neji, Tenten and Lee didn't say anything but look at each other.

Everyone in the house was at the table, except for Naruto, who wasn't there at all. "We sent Naruto out for groceries." Sakura said to Iruka, as if reading his mind.

"Oh.. Well, anyways, I was just checking up on you guys." Iruka said, looking over to Shino and Choji as if signaling something.

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Naruto grunted under the weight of groceries as he trotted along, then heard a voice behind him suddenly. "Hey, streaker boy!" He turned around to see the old man that he had asked for ramen on the truth or dare night.

"Hey, old fart!" He growled back to the old man. The man smiled. "What was that, you short imbecile? Get over here." He yelled back and Naruto had nothing to do but run up to the old man, who was in front of his house, the nicely sized mansion also.

"Having a good day with your big house you old fart?" Naruto asked him warily and the old man nodded. "Come in and have some tea, streaker." The old man said happily.

"My name is Naruto!" Naruto growled at the old man and the old man nodded again. "And my name is Tadau Rukiha. Hajimemashita." The old man replied, not even bowing as people do when they introduce themselves. Naruto didn't bow either, this man was a snobby one.

"Nice to meet you too." Naruto growled, then the old man smiled and walked towards the house, beckoning Naruto to follow. Naruto shrugged, the old man wasn't anything he couldn't handle if the old man decided to kill him or something so he followed Ruhika into the house.

The house was nicely furnished, nothing like the mansion that Naruto lived in, for it was very modern. The walls were covered with shelves full of books, and the colors of the walls and carpet were a ragged reddish brown, and it smelled of cigars, unlike Naruto's, which was milk white and it smelled of dry cleaning.

It was also very dim, and the old man was walking into the living room and sat on a big comfy chair. The couches had cushions, and were very poofy and was a deep ink purple. Things were very mismatched, unlike Naruto's house. The windows were curtained, very long red curtains with yellow outlines, and begun from the top of the wall down to brush the bottom. it was cracked open slightly to shine in light that shone specks of dust and cigar smoke.

"Want one?" Ruhika said, offering Naruto a cigar. 'So he wants me to die of lung cancer?' Naruto thought and shook his head no, acting paranoid. "Sit down, please Naruto." Ruhika said smiling. Naruto sat in front of the old man and felt now somewhat secure.

"What's up?" Naruto asked, no hint of annoyingness or prankness in his voice. The old man smiled and leaned in. "I read about you in the paper."

Naruto's eyes widened. He thought it would have to do with something embarrassing. Like the ice cream man. "What was it about?" He asked, not sure if he wanted to know, but curiosity got the best of him.

"An ice cream man named Ryo Ukimura. He was put in a coma yesterday because of a boy named Uchiha Sasuke. It seems he got so mad at this ice cream man because of a comment he said about a boy named Uzimaki Naruto. That's you."

"How did you know it was me?"

"There were a few pictures..A lot of boys holding back another boy, and then you standing there dazed. What happened?" The old man said as if Naruto was an old friend.

"Uh.. He made a comment about my.. uh.. My Kyuubi." Naruto whispered, looking away from the old man.

"Kyuubi? What's that?" The old man asked, apparently hearing what Naruto said. Naruto's eyes widened as he turned back to look at Ruhika's face.

"You really don't get out often do you?" The old man leaned back as Naruto watched him. "I haven't left the mansion grounds since i was very little. I've been here forever, only going outside on the frontsteps. My grandaughter Ai takes care of me."

Naruto's mouth hung open as he gaped at the old man wordlessly.

"Well, now that I know your name, I also heard that you now live in the Tasuka estate now. With other ninjas. The word is all over town. People are so excited, and I feel excited too, now that I met you."

"Why are you.." Naruto was cut off when a pretty girl in a kimono walked into the room, calling for her grandfather then stopping abruptly to see Naruto, then gasping at Naruto who sat in the chair across form Ruhika. She pulled a knife from her sleeve and pointed it at Naruto, hand shaking.

"Don't kill grandpa or I will be forced to use drastic measures!"

"Ai, calm down, this is Naruto, a good friend of mine." Naruto looked back to the old man and started, "good friend? I hardly-"

"Okay well in that case-" She slipped the knife back into her sleeve and bowed deeply. Naruto raised an eyebrow and nodded. "Well Ruhika, I really must be going, I got food for the house."

"Feed that hungry house." Ruhika said laughing as Naruto grabbed his food then waved at both of them, who waved back as he left the house, shutting the door behind him.

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"Hinata. wait up!" Hinata paused in her steps then turned around to see Kiba.

"Oh, hello Kiba." She said smiling. She had been taking a walk in the woods, and admiring the flowers and trees. "What are you doing out here?" She asked as he caught up to see her.

"Looking for you. What else?" He replied, grinning widely. She blushed deeply and couldn't help but smiling. "Why?" She had to ask now, waiting for his cool response. He thought for a while, and blushed himself.

"Uh.. Bored, nothing else to do, everyone's busy and I thought we could talk. " He replied quietly looking at his feet. "Oh, okay." Hinata answered, somewhat disappointed.

For about 30 minutes the two of them talked about random stuff that they thought was going on, and how they missed home, and whatnot. There was an awkward moment where the sunlight came down on them through the leaves, and shone on Hinata's face. Kiba couldn't help but smile at her beauty. "That's pretty." He mumbled, not really knowing that he was talking. He realized what he said as she blushed and looked to the side.

Kiba shook his head, when Hinata looked away, now angry at himself. 'Just do it you idiot.' Kiba yelled at himself mentally. He was mad because he could never tell Hinata how he really felt about her.

He always went out to tell her, whether it was on the roof or it was in the pool, he could never say anything to her. Tell her how he felt about the dare or, about their whole ninja life together, doing missions and what not. He was going to take a chance now, and he didn't care if Hinata was going to reject him, he was going to get this done now.

"Hinata." She looked up. "What is it Kiba-kun?" She asked quietly looking into his eyes.

"Anata wa suki." He finally said, his eyes clenched tight. Her eyes, quite the opposite widened. After all this, he felt that way?

"You.. like me? Like that?" She asked, trying to see if it were a prank or something.

"Yeah, like that." He said quietly. There was an awkward silence where They both were looking into each other's eyes. Hinata was trying to think of what to say to him, perhaps, 'I like you too' but then, her shyness wouldn't let her say anything. Kiba swayed slightly in his stance. It was so random how he just came out and said that, she probably was surprised.

He turned and walked away, and Hinata held her hand out to him walking away, his sudden happy presence leaving her alone. 'Matte!' her mind screamed but her voice found no words. Her voice choked a bit as he scoffed and shoved his hands in his coat pockets, walking off to find where Akamaru ran off to.

Hinata stood for a long time, dazed, thinking of what to say to Kiba when she would get back to the house. "That's.. pretty." She whispered and smiled, walking back to the house quickly.

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::trys to catch cocoa puff in mouth and falls back in chair:: ouchies. ::climbs back up:: hello guys! next chapter is gonna be some sakura and lee, then some confrontation between ino and shikamaru, and some neji and tenten.... hahah did anybody notice that the old man's name is Utada Hikaru's name scrambled up? i was listening to her song letters when i was writing this XD

flamer. i was so replused when i saw this person. archeeka? what is this? this person flamed me, about stuff i warned him about he said adult content RATED R FOR A REASON! Anyway, i wasn't that mad, because i said that i welcomed flames, but then my friend reviewed him and said some stuff to him... (an: I LOVE YOU TSUMINA!) and this guy really sucks at writing! hes critcizing me about stuff.. anyway, i heard that he flamed the best writer of all time, and a friend of mine shiro-sama. so i got mad... so i want archeeka to aim me please. thank you!

"I'd like to compliment you on your ability to break a girl's spirit in just a few sentences. My friend who wrote "Seductive Seclusion" has tried really really hard on her story. The least you could do was give a well-rounded critique. Pfft...you flame for SPELLING ERRORS? Do you realize the human race is FALLIBLE? We can't all be like you...I don't think we'd WANT to be. I realize you have a freedom of voicing your opinion through reviews, but this is just inexcusable and I believe you've used your ability to review in the wrong way. I'll admit that your stories are extremely professional and that you definitely are in a position to give CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM, but not to spit on other people's work like that. I have great hopes that you'll discontinue giving such crappy reviews and, since you are apparently the king/queen of writing, you can share your "wisdom" in kind words that people will listen attentively to instead of get upset over.

Sincerely,
Angered Kitty

(Tsumina)"