Hi....(waves nervously)....AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! (runs from all of the glares)

I AM SOOOOOO SORRY!

(bows on the floor) Please enjoy!

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"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history – with the exception of handguns and tequila."

-Mitch Ratcliffe

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Chapter nine: Tenten! The sadistic jerk!

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"Finally." Sasuke sighed as he landed on his hidden training grounds. It took him a long time to get there but that was expected.

It was a hard place to find and in a very thick part of the forest. The one place that no one else knew where it was other than Kakashi. The jonin had followed him once and it still made Sasuke angry.

He didn't like people knowing where he was all of the time.

He dropped his bag inside the house and walked through it. It had one kitchen, one bathroom, and a room with a bed in it. That was all he needed.

Sasuke looked outside. It was dark but maybe he could start training now anyway.

Anything to get his mind off of the blonde.

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Naruto tried to hold back a yawn as he sat in the middle of the training field that he and Neji had fought in two days before. It had taken them both a while to wake up in the hospital after passing out from lack of chakra.

But the question was who won?

Naruto was shocked as all of the sudden two more white chakras appeared creating three Neji's and all of them held the same presence.

So he had learned Kage no Bunshin?

"Surprised?" Neji smirked as the three Naruto clones were destroyed by his. Now to find the blonde, he was hiding nearby.

That was when the Hyuga noticed something. Chakra was spread out across the field in a very thin layer but he could see it with his Byukugan...that must be the chakra that Naruto was seeing with.

It was covering the whole field and even went into the front of the forest but it was such a thin layer and Neji was surprised he didn't even sense the chakra.

The blonde was sitting up in one of the trees seeming to be watching him and his clones.

Neji smirked and vanished.

Naruto quickly jumped off of the tree as soon as one of the clones vanished...or was it Neji? He couldn't tell...

But he had to think of something quick or else he was going to lose.

Neji looked around on the tree...so Naruto ran? Or was it a clone here? Then something caught his eye...

"Dang it!"

BOOM

"Maybe I overdid it?" Naruto watched the clones vanish with the explosion. He had only left a 'few' explosion notes...in that one area...

"Dang it Naruto I thought we were just going to spar!" Neji spat our as he saw the blonde standing in the middle of the field. What was with all of those explosion notes? Was he trying to kill him?

"We are just having a 'friendly spar'." Naruto grinned, "But if it is too tough for you to fight me then you can give up."

Then the white chakra flared up angrily.

And then the rest was blurry in Naruto's mind. He tried to think of what happened after that but he remembered running into a trap and had lots of weapons thrown at him.

"Dang it and I couldn't see them either so it was hard to dodge." Naruto thought out loud to himself.

"I used to be able to just listen and dodge." Naruto didn't get it, whenever he fought with the old man he was able to dodge most of the attacks made against him. Was he already losing his touch?

"But with the old man I usually get close enough to put my own chakra on his weapons so I can see them and in the 'spar' with Neji I couldn't get close because of his advantage." Naruto sighed; this was too confusing.

Was he at the advantage in the battle or the disadvantage?

"It was night time and since I see night and day the same I might of had an advantage there but with his Byukugan he could see my chakra too..." Naruto sighed and plopped down onto the ground lazily causing his pants to flare out and seem much bigger than they were.

"He learned Kage no bunshin that jerk..." Naruto grinned wildly as he thought about it; his signature move was already being copied...not that it was his move to begin with but he was definitely known for it.

Naruto grinned as he saw a green chakra in the side of his view. Lee or Gai was definitely trying to conceal their chakra but that wont work on the blonde. All that does is hide their presence not their chakra.

Then Naruto thought about something. Why did Lee and Gai have the same chakra anyway? They weren't related last time he had asked...they were just oddly in some freak of nature way really similar.

Beyond similar.

So similar that it almost looked like Gai had decided to clone himself and put his personality into every single one of the mutants. But that theory was disproved when Lee got Sakura...Gai definitely didn't have anyone that pretty on his arm...so maybe if Lee was a clone he added some things as if trying to make himself perfect...

So then adding women skills wouldn't be that bad of idea...but then why did he skip looks and fashion sense? While he was on it; how on earth did Gai learn to clone anyway?

"You still get that stupid look on your face when you think of Gai making clones." Lee stated with a sigh as he walked over to the blonde.

"Heh funny you say that because I wasn't even thinking of cloning." Naruto tried to hold down his laughter as Lee sat beside him.

"Well you either get that face thinking about me as a Gai clone or Sasuke being in some kind of freak accident that would never happen in a million years and becoming ugly...or his face changing into Gai's..." Lee sighed again as the blonde burst out laughing.

"No you were right I was thinking about the clones but man wouldn't that be funny; Sasuke having Gai's face!" Naruto tried to hold back the laughter and it was making his sides hurt.

"I don't like you making fun of Gai sensei." Lee tried to say in a serious tone as a smile graced his lips.

"Well I don't like you thinking you can sneak up on me...which you didn't." Naruto added in casually.

"I could tell, if I did surprise you, you would probably begin to yell about how I didn't surprise you or you were coming up with some great jutsu to destroy me or maybe even pretend to die of heart failure and then attack me and yell about how you were the greatest and couldn't ever be surprised by someone who cant use chakra." Lee stated as if it had just happened yesterday with a playful smirk across his face.

"You know me too well." Naruto huffed, "but you were doing a good job in concealing your chakra! I couldn't sense you but I did see you."

"Sakura is training me..." Lee sighed, "She says even if I can't use it I should be able to hide it."

"Lee is getting trained by a woman!" Naruto sang before dodging a fist.

"Watch it, you never know when you will have to learn from a girl." Lee blushed before lying down on the ground. "But that's not why I came out here Naruto."

"Okay then what's up?" Naruto decided this was his chance to use the green beast as a pillow and put his head on Lee's stomach earning a growl. "Hey if I have to listen to your story then I at least get to be comfortable."

"Hmph." Lee pouted before taking in a deep breath. "You know Sakura and I are going to get married in four weeks right?"

"Yeah the day before our classes start." Naruto nodded as he let the sun warm up his body.

"Well we are deciding who will be bridesmaids and groomsmen and all of that stupid stuff..." Lee looked down to make sure the blonde boy was listening. "And Neji is going to be gone that day...and we want it to be a small wedding...and since Neji isn't going to be there..."

"Okay so Neji cant come.." Naruto began to play with the grass as he slid it between his fingers.

"And I think that Sakura would really love it if you..." Lee felt stupid; it wasn't like he was asking Naruto to marry him or anything.

"Me to what?" Naruto began to move around to get more comfortable.

"Be my best man?" Lee asked quickly and the blonde froze.

"Yeah!" Naruto sat up and cheered into the air. "I will do it! I would love to do it I mean." Naruto tried to stay composed as he gave Lee a toothy grin.

"Really? It wouldn't be too much? You will do it?" Lee was really happy, he didn't know why he thought the blonde would say no but he was happy.

"Well I don't know, you seemed to make me out as the second choice since Neji isn't going to be there." Naruto playfully pouted.

"Well you were." Lee stated honestly.

"Gee ruin the moment." Naruto laughed as he stood up. "Don't worry I am really happy to do it! I would be so glad!"

"Oh and we know what the baby is." Lee whispered silently but with a lot of excitement.

"REALLY! What?" Naruto tried to quiet down as he leaned in.

"It's a boy!" Lee cheered for his y-chromosomes. "But don't tell anyone yet okay? I just thought that you would like to know as my best man."

"Hey isn't it a little late to be planning all of this in four weeks?" Naruto suddenly thought about it.

"Well its going to be really small so its all good." Lee started to walk. "Oh by the way congratulations on being the reason why Neji isn't allowed to work for a few days." Lee snickered silently.

"Huh? Why?"

"Because Hokage-sama said that if he was beaten by you then he obviously needed a vacation so he has a week off." Lee smirked as Naruto thought about what he said.

"Wait! That's not a compliment! That old hag is so...so..."

"Truthful?" Lee grinned as the blonde nodded.

"Yeah truthful...wait! No! That's not what I meant! Lee you jerk!" Naruto threw a rock at the quickly retreating green chakra.

"Wait a second...he said I won! I beat Neji!" If Naruto's grin could grow a hundred times bigger it did in that brief moment of realization.

"I won! Haha!"

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"Crap." Sasuke sighed as he bandaged up his hand and looked around at all of the damage.

He had managed to cut down a lot more trees than he had intended to do this training trip and he was only on the third day.

"Why can't I concentrate hard enough?" He though out loud to himself as he walked into the small log cabin. It was a few hours past lunch and he had skipped breakfast.

He walked to the cabinets, since he didn't bother getting a fridge for this place considering he rarely came here and in intervals of long time spans.

Nothing.

Sasuke sighed as he opened the second cabinet.

Nothing.

Sasuke mentally grunted as he opened the last cabinet. Didn't he restock the place last time he had been here?

Ramen.

In the last cabinet was a few packs of the anything but blessed, in Sasuke's mind anyway, food group called ramen.

Well it was considered its own food group in someone's mind. That someone being a loud stupid blonde. Being the blonde that was now blind because of the Uchiha's mistakes.

That blonde being the one person Sasuke cared for most.

Not that he understood any of these emotions anyway. At first he blamed it on hormones. Well, when feelings start to develop around the age of fourteen or fifteen that is the only thing one can assume it must have been.

But then it changed, he could never control his emotions well around the blonde and then he started having strange dreams.

Nothing far fetched or perverted. (mind you!)

But just of them two together and enjoying each other's presence. And even in those moments in real life he would cherish them as something else.

He could just say it was emotions or just that they spent too much time together. But even after a year's absence or even longer his feelings were still there and maybe had even grown.

But even seven days before your eighteenth birthday you have to think that the excuses were getting old anyway.

He knew what it was but he didn't know what to do with it or how exactly he should feel about it.

At least he thought he knew what it was.

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Naruto sighed as he was sitting on the field once again. It had been four days without Sasuke and he was bored out of his mind.

Everyone either had missions, school, or even half of the jonins were called to start preparing for the jonin exams. But no one knows what they are up to and Kakashi wont even talk about it at dinner.

Iruka is probably going to snap and kill him in a day or two, Naruto thought amused, I might be lucky enough to witness the day he snaps against Tsunade.

"If you are so bored then you should train." Naruto sighed as he heard Kakashi's voice and watched the silver chakra appear beside him.

Though something about the way he landed on sounded different than his other shoes. And yes the blonde had decided to start paying a lot more attention to every sound that he heard.

No reason to start slacking off when your rival is training somewhere else.

"You get new shoes?" Naruto asked as the silver chakra leaned over him.

"You are getting better and that was a close guess." Kakashi grinned under his mask, Naruto was really amazing.

"Then what is it." Naruto sighed, "I can only see your chakra and not your clothing so if you expect me to notice anything that doesn't usually make a sound your are better off asking Asuma or Gai."

"You're a little moody today." Kakashi chuckled, "I am just wearing my old Anbu uniform."

"It still fits?" Naruto grinned before he sat up, "Wait why are you wearing it anyway?"

"It's a secret." Kakashi chuckled.

"Does it have to do with the jonin exam?" Naruto grinned, was Kakashi going to tell him?

"I dunno." Kakashi lied and then vanished with a laugh.

"Jerk." Naruto sighed as he lay back down.

"Train, well that would be easier if I had someone here because I really need to train with things being thrown at me." Naruto sat up and stretched. "And I think I would do too good if I was throwing them myself."

"Oh sorry is the field being used?" Naruto heard a familiar voice behind him and quickly turned around.

A pinkish purple chakra? Who was that?

"Naw if you want to, you can use it." Naruto grinned as he stood up and dusted off his pants.

"Hey is that you Naruto?" The blonde froze; okay so the person knew him...now who was it?

"Its me Tenten." The girl laughed a little before walking over to the blonde. "So it is true?"

Naruto could only guess she was talking about one thing. "Yep I am Lee's best man."

"Not that stupid." Tenten studied the blonde's features; he was really cute. Not handsome or mysterious like Sasuke or Neji but cute.

"Yeah its true, so if I can ask. How did you hear about it?" Naruto really wanted to know how the word was spreading and really hoping that none of the villagers knew.

"I heard it when I was passing by the school after I got back from my mission yesterday. But don't worry it seems to be a major secret." Tenten patted his back as she looked his outfit. It was strange and the pants were big...and foreign looking.

"Heh, so that's why you weren't at the party or lunch." Naruto rubbed the back of his head, what was he supposed to talk about? He never really talked to her before except for short periods of time every once in a while.

"Oh and thanks for beating Neji up." Tenten laughed sadistically, "That teme had it coming!"

"Oi, Tenten why are you so mad at him?" Naruto just had to ask, he thought they just broke up but both of them were reacting about it in strange ways.

"I think he likes someone else." She growled, "He was probably with some other girl all the time."

"You honestly don't believe that he is that good of a catch is he?" Naruto asked as if a bitter taste was in his mouth.

"You wouldn't understand Naruto, we are older and well...you are just seventeen." Tenten laughed as she went over to her bag.

"So you want to train with me?" She asked suddenly, she never really liked training by herself and since she dumped her last partner and Sakura says she doesn't want Lee in a cast on their wedding day...she never said anything about Naruto.

And Tenten was just reminded of a lot of things she needed to get out of her system.

"Hey yeah! You throw weapons right? That's exactly what I need to train with!" Naruto laughed, as he got excited. "Thanks Tenten!"

The blonde never knew what hit him.

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"Are you okay Naruto?" Tenten looked over the past out blonde in front of her. "Did I do too much?"

"Yes..." Naruto wheezed; it hurt too much to move.

"I am sorry I just got a little emotional and you now how that is." Tenten helped the blonde sit up.

"No I don't...think I do." Naruto sighed...it hurt.

"Sorry! I feel really bad!" Tenten pulled some bandages out of her bag and went back over to the blonde.

"You should, you just beat the living crap out of a blind man." Naruto moaned, why did everything hurt so much?"

"Hey everyone else said I should treat you like normal." Tenten tried to defend herself as she wrapped up his arm.

"Like normal not like Neji." Naruto mumbled.

"Why don't you try and use your chakra in some way to help you out. You can see it right?" Tenten moved to his other arm.

"I have been trying to think of what I could do that doesn't use a lot of chakra but now I hurt too much." Naruto didn't care if he sounded like a kid just then; he just wanted to go to bed now.

"What if you used it to make some sort of force field?" Tenten tried to come up with a suggestion as she wrapped his head.

"That's it!" Naruto jumped up before falling back down, "Itai!"

"Well I am glad I could help with something." Tenten sighed, "I guess I do tend to over do it with my weapons."

"Over do it is an understatement." Naruto grinned, "So are you free tomorrow?"

"Nani?"

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Sasuke stared at the ramen packet in the cabinet. It was the last one. He had been eating the noodles for three days.

He was sick of ramen.

He shut the door to the cabinet and grabbed his kunai on the counter. He didn't really want to hunt but he was hungry...

Maybe he would be able to find a rabbit or something small but with a little meat in it at least. He had been training for six days and it probably wasn't good to try and live off of the stupid nasty flavored water-downed noodles that the idiotic blonde calls a meal

So maybe he was REALLY sick of ramen.

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"I could eat this everyday for the rest of my life!" Naruto chirped as he sat at the table with Kakashi and Iruka.

"I think you have eaten that everyday since you were born." Iruka pointed out playfully before noticing Kakashi glaring over at the blonde. "What's wrong with you?"

"He wont tell me." Kakashi stated bitterly as the blonde chuckled.

"Won't tell you what?" Iruka asked confused as he sipped at his ramen.

"What he is up to with that Tenten girl." Kakashi glared, "He had been training with her for the past three days."

"Really?" Iruka looked over at the blonde, "What are you up to?"

"Nothing." Naruto chuckled as he started on his third bowl.

"Tell me." Kakashi almost whined as he glared over at Naruto causing Iruka to laugh a little.

"Tell me what you are doing for the jonin exams." Naruto backfired causing Iruka to laugh more.

"He got you there." The chunin sensei patted his fuming lover on the back. "Why do you want to know so much anyway?"

"He is up to something, I can smell it." Kakashi pouted like a little kid not getting his way.

"Maybe we are in love and just say we are training when we really are having some deep and passionate..."

"Naruto!" Iruka bopped the boy in the head.

"That doesn't sound to bad right now." Kakashi joked causing the chunin sensei to turn bright red.

"Hey Kakashi do you really want to know?" Naruto changed the subject back as he teased.

"Hmmmm...I guess." YES! DARN IT YES! Kakashi mentally screamed.

"Well I guess I wont tell you then." Naruto snickered as he dodged a spoon only to be hit by a bowl.

"You didn't have to throw my bowl Kakashi." Iruka sighed as Naruto laughed.

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"Hey Naruto I heard you had a woman training you." Lee laughed as he caught up to the blonde, "What did I tell you the other day?"

"She isn't training me we are trading information." Naruto snickered to himself.

"Trading information?" Lee looked at the blonde confused.

"Yeah she tells me things that could work with my problem and I offer her things that could help her with her problem." Naruto tried to stop from laughing to himself.

"Wait? Tenten has a problem?" Then green chakra stopped Naruto. "Then why is she going to you?"

"Hey I can give good advice!" Naruto pouted, "Advice for advice call that being taught if you will but at least my female teacher is older."

"Fine you win!" Lee laughed. "You are a worthy rival! Is that what you want me to say?"

"If you say it like Gai and shake your fist in the air." Naruto laughed as he backed away from the green form.

"I am not his clone!" Lee yelled as he walked away. "Remember that!"

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"Are you sure about that?" Tenten looked at the blonde incredulously. "I don't know..."

"Come on!" Naruto sighed, "You said you wanted some tips on romance and that is the best one!"

"I really don't think that it will work like that." Tenten sat beside the blonde and sighed, "I mean who would fall for that?"

"That is what Kakashi did to Iruka." Naruto stated matter of factly.

"How do you know that?" Tenten still didn't believe the blonde. "Isn't it kind of...weird?"

"No its not! Its cute!" Naruto moaned. "Come on! What guy wouldn't fall for that kind of act?"

"A heartless jerk like Neji." Tenten sighed. "I don't think so Naruto..."

"You can at least try." Naruto sat up, "How hard is it to pretend you have a sprained ankle and get him to take care of you for a few minutes?"

"I took me a week to get him to come inside of my house." Tenten put her face in her hands. "I don't think he will fall for something as stupid as that."

"Well fine then I will think of something else." Naruto moaned as he stood up, "Lets continue training."

"Did Iruka really fall for that?" Tenten stood as well.

"Like as if Kakashi was a puppy with a hurt paw." Naruto snickered, that was at least what Kakashi had told him about it.

"Well come up with something else." Tenten grabbed out two scrolls. "You ready this time?"

"Yeah!"

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Sasuke glared at the sky as he lay on the ground. It was probably going to rain soon.

He finally got his aiming to his liking but it took nine days.

"Stupid concentration..." He moaned as his muscles ached, maybe he should not of added the chidori to the list of things to train on.

"Stupid ramen probably ruined my concentration." Sasuke thought about the stupid food that was still sitting in his cabinet. That must be the reason Naruto couldn't hold his attention to something too long.

Sasuke glared harder as a raindrop hit him in the middle of the forehead.

"The stupid sky has good aim." He sighed and slowly sat up and it began to rain.

Stupid ramen.

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"I...did...it..." Naruto gasped as he sat on the ground with a thud.

"Good...job..." Tenten panted as she sat down beside him.

"I still got hit once." Naruto placed his hand over the cut on his arm.

"Once is better than all 150 shots I threw." Tenten laughed as she tried to gain her breathe. "That's the best you have done so far."

"I thought of another idea." Naruto sighed as he lay down onto the ground and it began to rain.

"Another one? It better be better than the 'secret admirer' thing." Tenten moaned as she watched the blonde pout.

"Its better! What if you 'coincidentally' lose your pet and he 'just so happens' to find it so he has to return it right?" Naruto thought the plan was brilliant.

"I don't own a pet Naruto." Tenten shook her head as the rain started to pour. "Well I am going to call it a day, I will see you later."

"K." Naruto sat up and let the rain cool him down.

He was only hit once.

A grin crept across his face. He had something new to show Jiraiya.

By the way, he hadn't seen that guy in the last couple of days. Naruto frowned. That old man better not be doing anything stupid.

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Iruka stared at the floor as Kakashi waved his hand in front of his face.

"Yo! What happened to you?" Kakashi didn't think that Iruka had blinked in the past five minutes.

"Ji...Ji..." Iruka looked over at the silver-haired jonin.

"What?" Kakashi curved his own visible eye.

"I walked into Hokage-sama's office and..." Iruka blushed and he hit his head against the table.

"What?" Kakashi placed his head playfully over Iruka's shoulder.

"Jiraiya-san and Tsunade-sama?" Iruka moaned. "I have to start knocking now."

"Why what happened?" Kakashi teased as he poked Iruka stomach.

"I think I am going to go to bed."

And Iruka prayed that the images wouldn't follow him in his sleep.

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"Kakashi do you live here?" Naruto asked as he watched the silver chakra get something out of the fridge.

"Hn?" Kakashi curved his one eye as he looked down at the boy sprawled out over the kitchen table.

"I mean where did you live when Iruka was mad at you?" Naruto tried to sit up but he was too tired. And something in his mind was telling him he was forgetting something.

"I lived with Sasuke, Gai, Asuma, and Sakura once." Kakashi chuckled as he remembered the memory. Good times.

"You are a mooch you know that?" Naruto said playfully as he finally sat up. "You know what today is?"

"July 23rd." Kakashi looked at the calendar and smiled, he knew what today was.

"Is there something going on today?" Naruto hit his head against the table, it was really bothering him that he couldn't seem to remember.

"Not that much really, Sasuke is turning 18 and I think we don't get mailed delivered to..."

"What!" Naruto shot up. "Its his birthday?"

"Yeah but he is at his 'little secret cabin' so I guess he isn't going to be celebrating." Kakashi noticed how Naruto began to mope, "What's wrong now?"

"I want to wish him happy birthday." Naruto pouted, Sasuke was turning 18...time flies by quickly.

"Did you get him a present?" Kakashi asked amused.

"I think that is what I am going to do today." Naruto proclaimed as he went to the door.

"Do what?" The silver-haired jounin inquired.

"Buy him a present and then go find his little 'secret cabin'." Naruto said with a grin.

"M'kay but when you don't find it try not to run out of chakra in the forest okay." Kakashi made himself a glass of milk as the blonde pouted.

"I will find it!" And with that he left.

"Well I only found it cause I followed him and even then I don't remember its location." Kakashi sighed; oh how age caught up to people.

And he was only 31.

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"Hey baa-san I need you to convert this paper money into regular..." Naruto stopped when he noticed Jiraiya was in the office too.

And they were giggling?

"What did you want brat?" Tsunade noticed the rambunctious blonde as she held Jiraiya's hand.

"Money...change...to real...money...are you two holding hands?" Naruto asked as a large grin grew on his face.

"What of it? I kept my promise." Jiraiya mumbled with a large blush on his face.

"About time you old people start hooking up, now about my money." Naruto pulled his paper money out of his wallet.

"What is that?" Tsunade picked it up and looked at the decorated paper. "That's not money that's paper."

"That's what they paid the boy with at the village we were in." Jiraiya didn't think Naruto had kept it.

"Oh when you were a babysitter?" Tsunade smiled as Naruto huffed.

"And a teacher......sometimes."

"Well how about I just switch the money but don't tell anyone okay." Tsunade smiled as she opened her desk. "What is it for anyway?"

"I wanna buy that jerk Sasuke a present for his birthday." Naruto said a little too happily. What would he get the Uchiha? A sword...did he still fight with his katana? Maybe a little sushi kit or a mini Zen garden that guy needed to learn how to relax."

"You could give him the keys to his apartment and buy him a rug or something." Tsunade began to dig through her desk for the keys.

"Apartment? What about his house?" Naruto took the keys and the money she gave him.

"He said it was pointless to own a house and be the only one in it." Tsunade sighed, "He sold the whole Uchiha property to some of the local businesses."

"He did what?" Naruto didn't like the sound of that, "What is he thinking?"

"Well maybe you can ask him when you see him." Tsunade smiled as the blonde began to mumble how he was going to knock some sense into the Uchiha.

"He could of at least given me one of the houses." Naruto mumbled as he walked away.

"So what do you think about it?" The blonde woman looked up to Jiraiya.

"About what? Uchiha selling his property? I thought it was too morbid that he lived there by himself anyway."

"Not that about Naruto." She smiled as he grabbed her hand again.

"I think he is too naïve and stupid to understand but maybe it will change soon."

"I hope so, they need each other."

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K-chan's thoughts on these chapters....

(cries and runs to a corner)

Gosh! I am so sorry! So I will begin to give you all of my excuses for this being so late!

One: My older bro broke my comp again and every time I went to the library I couldn't get on the comps!

Two: I went to Europe for a week (which was really fun!) and then Texas for two weeks

Three: I just got the comp fixed yesterday and I had to go through all 314 emails! (most of them reviews and author alerts lol)

Four: I still had to write the end of this chappie so I did it asap if it sucks I will redo it but remember this was written in two days lol!

So if your stories have updated....in like the past 3 months and I haven't reviewed its because I have issues and I am trying to catch up asap! Lol

I really hope you guys liked this chapter! It took a short time to write but I still think it goes rather nicely lol and yes Naruto did win!

I remember someone saying something about Neji and the Bunshin jutsu being forbidden? Well I just thought that it was a jonin level technique and the forbidden part was the producing millions one? Am I making any sense?

HAS ANYONE READ THE LATEST CHAPTERS OF THE NARUTO MANGA!?!?!?!? OMG! OMG! OMG!!!

sigh and I don't think my story fits anymore but I guess we could all pretend it does for now lol.

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Aragornthia: lol well if I am evil.....(snickers) NO! but I want to be on the good side! (tear) I promise I want to be a good author! Lol well I hope you enjoy this chappie too

Dark-and-daisuke: love your name btw! Lol and sry for my misspellings I type fast and I take of the automatic spell check because of the names and stuff lol

Sasunaruluver: lol sorry for the wait! I apologize! I am happy you love the plot and story! I hope I haven't upset you!

DarkHanyou: Thankyou! I am glad you love it! And I hope you didn't get impatient with me!

Nejidragon: AHH!!!! I AM SORRY! Wow I didn't realize I did that! I feel stupid! (ha and I am a brunette! Lol) I hope you don't get to mad at me!

Kirin Kage the Shadow Girl: You have a long name! lol sorry you had to wait!

Ronin101: Wow! I thankyou very much! I really hope you like this chapter! I hope this story is as realistic as you say cause I have actually never really known a blind person before....but thank you so much! (grins) tell me how you liked this chappie!

Dadajiro: Sorry for not really writing the whole fight scene btwn NEji and Naruto I actually had written it before but then I didn't want this chappie to be over 20 pages so I cut it lol but if you want it I could post it at the end of the next chappie...if you want...I only want to please the reader! Next chapter is def going to cover Neji's reaction and ofcourse....sasuke's bday! Well I don't know about the whole truce thing but you will see! Thank you! I hope you liked this story!

Dadajiro....oh this is for chap 1!! Lol thankyou for reading the whole story!

Michiru: I hope I didn't make anyone too sad and I hope you enjoyed this chappie too!

Aimi-chan: LOL! Yes! Evil! Hahaha I hope this was worth the wait!

Joekool: I hope you enjoyed this story!

Chibified kitsunes: I totally forgot about that part! Wow! Hmm....should I add it? I don't know where I would put it! You have a good eye though! Haha Oh and Naruto didn't kill the crowd....but lets just say some ppl were injured and.....(snickers).....well lets say someone is going to come....yeah....heehee

The La/=/er: Whats the fic name? is it under your name? lol I haven't had the web for a while but I will read it asap! Haha! Yeah writers block sucks! I have that for my other story Forbidden Jutsu! I am so stuck right now!

Yeah all of the names were on purpose....i tried to make them sound like common ppl lol I try not to go too overboard with my OC's and I really just want to keep the story about Naruto and Sasuke..

The beginning was actually redone like three times! Lol and I knew it didn't flow right but I updated anyway because I wanted to update asap and I couldn't seem to fix it lol Thanks for the comment! I love your honesty! Haha and I hope your sis stops bothering you!

Jun: Lol well I hope I didn't make you....all of you wait too long lol!

Lynn Lee: lol I don't know if I am the best author but THANK YOU! (feels so honored!) Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Lol I hope after this chappie you feel the same way!

SaLLy11: Thank you! If you want to see the fight...(which I didn't really go over...heh sorry) then just tell me and I will put it at the very end of the next chappie...or at the beginning...I will see if it fits! Lol

Ramen No Tenshi : I will take the pixie stick! Though I guess you can keep it since it took me too long to update! Lol and I apologize to the sweet merciful mother of fluff....lol love it!

Half-Devil: You will see! I think in a chap of two! Haha!

Kisu: I hope I didn't make you cry! I hate making ppl cry! (bows) so sorry!

Mystic-Hoshi: lol well I guess when I like something I cant stop typing with it lol

Kisu...oh for chap 7! Lol thanks for reading!

Siobhn01: I am glad you got to learn everything!...haha....well...almost everything...hehehe....

Ookima: I will never abandon you! (Gai pose) well....unless I have a absolutely good reason...like death or something lol.....haha thank you!

ITSAME: AHHH! I am sooooooooo sorry! (I hate making ppl cry) I hope this chapter was a little lighter that the last! (hugs) its okay! I updated! See! See! Lol

THANK YOU AND I APOLOGIZE AGAIN! AND DON'T FORGET TO REVIEW!

And sorry if I didn't reply to your review!!!