Saria: (is giggling over a bowl ramen, wrapped in a blanket, her muses spread around the room as well) HA HA HA!

Zas, SA, Tori: SHUT UP!

Saria: Why?

Zas: Because, you're sick, AGAIN! And you pulled us from bed so we could help you write while sick, AGAIN! And, to make matters worse, you're eating picante bowl ramen, just because it'll allow you to breathe, AGAIN!

Saria: So? I'm finally bored.

Tori: So, you finally release us after months of trying to ignore us, because you're sick and bored?

Saria: No, it's because my psychiatrist is convinced I have PTSD(post-traumatic stress disorder). I pulled you guys out to further annoy him!

Zas, Tori, SA: …..

SA: Due to sickness, Saria has been able to come up with a new chapter. And, we still don't own Naruto, and probably never will.

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Kakashi angrily paced the bridge, waiting for his team to show up. So far, his track record of being ANYWHERE on time as a sensei was still a zero, but something HAD to be wrong if his normally on-time team was late by four hours, meaning he'd been here for two already. His nerves were shot. Little did he know that they were about to be blown to oblivion.

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The Sand trio's apartment was a wreck. Period. But, the reason wasn't completely because of the party the previous night. In fact, the main reason was the confusion that occurred when everyone woke up.

"Hmmm…so warm…so soft," was the murmuring that Temari woke up to. Eyes widening, she looked around the room, pausing only a moment to make sure it wasn't Kankurou making out with his puppet again. He was, but he wasn't responsible for the noise. Turning her attention to the floor, she noticed that Hinata had rolled off the couch, and was lying next to Naruto, her head on his chest.

Both were still asleep, but Naruto was obviously a healthy boy, even in his sleep. He was blushing generously in his sleep even as Hinata groped him while murmuring those words.

Poking Shikamaru in his ribs to wake him, Temari quickly turned his attention to the scene on the floor, all the while stifling a giggle as Naruto rolled slightly to Hinata. Said giggle became a scream of outrage as Naruto's hand landed on Hinata's chest. Needless to say that those who didn't wake up from the scream were woken by the gust of wind that immediately followed that also threw everyone, with the exception of Shikamaru and Temari, into a wall.

Gaara skipped into the kitchen and called out that he was going to make waffles, which caused Kankurou to run into the kitchen even as everyone else settled down. The reason: Temari was chasing Naruto around the house screaming, "HENTAI NO BAKA" (1) at the top of her lungs and hadn't heard Gaara's announcement. So he was going in to supervise, and hopefully to prevent Gaara from using sand instead of flour again. The last time Gaara had cooked without supervision he had done such a thing, and Kankurou had been stupid enough to eat it. Then again, who put sand in ramen? Gaara did obviously!

He arrived in time to see Gaara beginning to measure out flour. Sighing in relief, Kankurou headed back out the door when he heard a crash and Temari screaming. He never noticed how smoothly the flour flowed.

The sight that greeted him made Kankurou want to scream as well, but he settled for simply cowering in the corner with everyone else, minus two. There, in the center of the room, stood Gai, wearing nothing more than a flowery pink robe and a beauty mask. Lee of course was in the center of the room, staring at his sensei. Gaara was still oblivious in the kitchen.

"LEE!" cried Gai, "I NEED YOUR FLAME OF YOUTH TO ASSIST ME TODAY! AS KONOHA'S BEAUTIFUL FLOWER OF ACCEPTANCE, TODAY I MUST LOOK MY ABSOLUTE BEST!"

"GAI-SENSEI, I SHALL DO MY BEST! THE BEAUTIFUL GREEN BEAST SHALL HELP SO THE BEAUTY OF KONOHA SHALL NOT BE LOST!"

"LEE!" Gai screamed as he ran toward Lee.

"GAI-SENSEI!" exulted Lee as he made to jump into Gai's arms.

"How long does it take you two to run five feet?" Temari screamed, fear completely forgotten after watching the two run toward each other for five seconds.

"YOU HAVE RUINED THE DRAMA OF THE MOMENT! YOUR FLAME OF YOUTH IS BRIGHT, BUT YOU MUST BE PUNISHED!" Gai screamed as he pulled out a bucket of pink paint.

"And you need a fashion sense," Temari replied as she pulled out a can of black paint and threw it at him even as he tossed his can at her. Temari used Sasuke as a human shield.

'WHAT? SHE WOULD USE ANOTHER AS A SHIELD? SHE IS TRULY EVIL!' Gai thought, even as the paint came down and ruined his favorite robe.

Ten seconds later

"MY ROBE! YOU'VE RUINED MY FAVORITE ROBE! LEE, WE MUST GO SO THAT I CAN CHANGE!"

"YES, GAI-SENSEI!"

"Go? Who's going?" yelled Gaara as he stampeded out of the kitchen, carrying a plate of waffles.

"LEE! THIS BEAUTIFUL YOUTH HAS MADE US BREAKFAST! WE THANK YOU KINDLY!" Gai screamed even as he grabbed the plate from Gaara and leaped out of the window, followed by Lee.

"HEY! THOSE WERE MADE FROM MY BEST WHITE COOKING SAND! I WAS SAVING IT FOR A SPECIAL OCCASION!" Gaara yelled as he leapt out and followed Gai in hot pursuit.

Meanwhile

Kakashi was officially sick of waiting. HE was supposed to be the late one, not the other way around. When he found them he was going t…

At that moment, Gai and Lee ran past, Gai actually looking somewhat like a ninja and not an eyesore in a black robe and a camouflage face mask. Kakashi stood frozen in shock as the two sped past. Then Gaara came into view.

Blinking, Kakashi decided he didn't mind waiting so much. After all, it wasn't everyday that you got to see THE Gaara of the Desert running around in red boxers with rocket ships on them.

Leaning back against the railing, he decided to wait for something more to happen.

Back with the Group

"Sasuke-kun, you do love me!" an excited Sakura squealed as she grabbed onto Sasuke, who was now pink from head-to-toe.

"NO, Sasuke-kun loves me. ME, FOREHEAD GIRL!" screamed Ino as she grabbed onto Sasuke's other side.

Sasuke shot a death glare at Naruto who was beginning to snicker before he started to try to free himself from the cuddling girls. Key word, try.

"I'm gonna make ramen," Naruto announced as he turned toward the kitchen and went face first into Hinata, both of them crashing to the floor. Naruto managed to catch himself with his hands before he was fully down, but he was still on top of Hinata and in a very… interesting position.

"S-s-sorry Hinata!" Naruto cried out even as he ducked and started playing cat and mouse with Temari again, or more accurately, fox and hunter.

Hinata however, hadn't heard a thing. She had already fainted from the closeness that she and Naruto had had for a few moments.

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Saria: (yawning) not as funny as the first, but, I think I may be able to take this somewhere…

Zas: Can we go to bed now? Saria?

Saria: (is asleep in her bed)

Zas, SA, Tori: (sweatdrop)