WOOHOO! Ten reviews, I think that's the most I've ever gotten. Nine for chapter six, and one for chapter five. Sure, other fanfics get a lot more than nine per chapter, but I am easily pleased and am deeply grateful to all those who reviewed. Really sorry for the long wait, really busy over the summer. Plus, I watched a bunch of new animes, which distracted me from Naruto. What's good is that I visited San Diego a couple of times, so I have a couple of ideas. Now, to answer some of the questions:

sarunam120, I am a HUGE fan of NaruHina. I could put forth a whole bunch of arguments supported with evidence from the anime and manga, but that would take too much space, and I would venture to guess that you would prefer to read the story than read an argument of the validity of NaruHina. And this story will be kept at K, and no further than that, meaning no lemon/lime.

I would love to put in the Sand Siblings, ShadowTrunks, but I, unfortunately, can't find a way to write about them. Maybe if I can finally find out how to write about them, they will appear, but that would probably only happen in later chapters. I also realize that they do need to interact with Americans more, thanks for giving that suggestion.

Nemesis101, I feel deeply, deeply honored.

Dragon Man 180, I'm getting the feeling that you're psychic, because you seem to be able to predict what's going to happen in the next chapter. First, the kicking-in-the-groin thing, and now, well, you get to see what happens in the chapter. I'm serious, I was really thinking about one of your ideas before you sent your review.

Obviously, NaruHina is the big focus here, but I'm going to put in hints of SasuSaku and NejiTen. I'm really not any good at those, so just bear with me. I've also heard that you can't answer reviews, or something, so just to keep it safe, after this chapter, I generally won't respond to reviews, unless you specifically ask me to answer a question.

Alright, well, everyone wanted me to write about the mall, so here goes my attempt at a funny chapter.

I don't own Naruto, Kishimoto Masashi does.

This chapter is a (very) late birthday gift for my good friend…TUAREG SHINOBI! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! And thanks for offering to stay back with me after the Chem intensives!

Chapter Seven

"Okay, everyone, this is the shopping mall."

Tsunade gestured to the area behind here, and all twelve chuunins gaped at the size of it. There were tons of people walking everywhere, on three floors of stores and restaurants all aligned. Sakura and Ino were grinning as they looked left and right to see clothing stores everywhere.

"Alright, so I suppose that we should split up. You guys can buy anything you want, just try and be reasonable. You all have American cash, which I gave to you on the way here. Meet right here in, say, two hours. Got it?" explained the Godaime.

"Hai!"

And the twelve shinobi went off in their own directions.

"Hey, Sasuke-kun, do you want to go with me through the mall? I could help you pick out some clothes," offered Sakura.

"Hn," replied Sasuke. 'Well, I really don't know much about clothing. It might be more helpful if Sakura went with me.'

"Well, Sasuke-kun?"

"Um…" said Sasuke. "How should I phrase this! This is hard.'

So Sasuke replied firmly with conviction…

"Uh…"

Sakura looked at him questioningly.

Sasuke finally replied with a "Hn" and walked over to Sakura. Sakura squealed, grabbed his hand, and pulled him along.

"Ne, Hinata? Your face is red. Daijoubu ka?"

Hinata blushed and drew in her breath and squeaked out, "D-Daijoubu…"

Kiba called out, "Hey, Naruto, want to come with me, Hinata, and Shino to look around?"

"Alright!" said Naruto brightly.

"Just don't faint while you're walking with him, Hinata," teased Kiba.

Hinata blushed, and Naruto turned to her and said, "Are you sure you're alright, Hinata? Are you dizzy, or something?"

"Iie, N-Naruto-kun."

"Yosh, let's go!" yelled Naruto.

Which, of course, received a couple of stares from other shoppers.

"Where to, guys?" exclaimed our noisy ninja.

Kiba asked, "Got any ideas, Shino?"

"Um…bug store?"

Kiba sweatdropped. "…How 'bout we buy some local clothing first?"

So Team Eight and Naruto went off to a couple of stores, with Hinata trying not to faint along the way.

Jiraiya watched all of the shinobi leave, going in separate directions. He looked at his fellow Sannin, who said, "Well, I don't know about you, but I'm gonna go to get some food." Tsunade then promptly left.

Jiraiya sighed, left with nothing to do. He then decided to walk around. Toy store here, bookstore there, clothing store here…

Wait a second. Jiraiya sprinted back to the clothing store and got a glimpse of his beloved. He glanced up at the title of the store. "Victoria's Secret…"

Jiraiya chuckled in his perversion and whipped out his handy, dandy notebook to take note of the American sights…

Naruto sweatdropped at Shino's choice of apparel. He had about three T-shirts with this strange-looking, red and blue figure with mask and a spider logo on his chest, one shirt that said in neon-green "I 3 Bugs", one that said "Insects Have Feelings, Too", and two shirts with a picture of a cartoon green caterpillar with "Pokémon" written at the top and "Caterpie" written on the bottom. Luckily, the pants/shorts that he picked out seemed to be normal.

Kiba was carrying fairly normal clothing, except that he had gotten about three black sweatshirts to substitute for his usual shinobi clothing. Hinata was holding her own clothing, which looked normal, and she had a white sweatshirt to replace her usual shinobi clothing.

Naruto had decided to cut down on some of the orange and only got two orange shirts, some black ones, some blue shirts, and some basic pants/shorts.

"Um…Shino, you sure that stuff is normal-looking? Especially the weird-looking red-and-blue guy with the mask. What is he, anyways?" said Naruto, gesturing to our favorite superhero.

Shino merely pointed to a little five-year-old boy, walking past with Spiderman on his T-shirt.

"Um…okay, but are you sure that, you know, kids OUR AGE wear that type of stuff?"

"…What difference does it make?"

Naruto sighed, and then suddenly jumped as he heard a feminine scream on the other side of the store.

Naruto, Hinata, Kiba, and Shino glanced over and saw a terrified twenty-year old punk with tattoos, earrings, and extremely saggy pants scream repeatedly. Walking closer, the shinobi saw a…tiny spider crawling around.

The punk squealed, "Eww! Someone, get it, before it bites me and gives me shock, nausea, convulsions, and a coma!"

Shino raised an eyebrow at him. Another punk came by, carrying a rolled-up newspaper. The spider crawled about two more inches, and both punks screeched again in unusually high-pitched voices.

The punk with the newspaper steadied himself, "Okay…calm down…it's just a spider…you just have to kill it….EEK!"

The punk squealed, and then raising the newspaper, he brought it down.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" yelled Shino.

Kiba and Naruto stared at him as Shino ran and dived, using his ninja reflexes to parry the newspaper with one hand and protect the spider with the other. With one hand cupping over the spider, and the other hand on the newspaper, Shino brought both of his feet up to nail the punk twice in the chin, forcing him flying up and over clothes racks and finally crashing into a mannequin ten feet away.

Kiba and Naruto stared in disbelief, as Hinata buried her face in her hands in embarrassment.

CRASH

"WHAT THE--!"

"GET BACK HERE, YOU LITTLE BRATS!"

"What was that?" voiced Chouji, who was chowing down on five trays of food at the food court. He paused from his beloved food to glance behind him some 50 feet away, seeing a wrecked store and a bunch of people raising their fists and yelling at four unrecognizable sprinting figures.

Shikamaru shrugged and said, "Whatever. Too troublesome to find out." And with that, our lazy ninja went back to sleep again.

"Shino, I won't even bother to tell you how much an idiot you are."

Akamaru barked in agreement.

Shino glared at Kiba, who was panting after having to run from the store owners.

Naruto sweatdropped, and Hinata tried to calm them down.

Shino then said, "Kiba, how would you like it if you witnessed some people swatting dogs with rolled-up newspapers?"

GASP "They WOULDN'T!"

Shino sighed and said, "Exactly my point. My feelings towards insects and bugs are the same as yours towards dogs."

"…Um…SO! You still shouldn't have…I dunno…KICKED A GUY TWENTY FEET INTO THE AIR!"

sigh "You would have done the same."

"NO! I WOULDN'T BE SO DUMB AS TO BEAT UP SOME GUY HERE!"

Suddenly, a passerby strolling past them scolded, "Bad doggie! You're not supposed to pee in the mall."

Kiba twitched an eyebrow.

"Bad doggie! You're supposed to be trained," the owner said sternly.

Kiba wheeled around, leaped up, and snarled, "Why don't you keep your mouth shut! You wouldn't understand the needs of a dog!"

And with that, Kiba clasped his hands together into a hand seal and shouted out, "GIJYUU NINPOU: SHIKYAKU NO JUTSU!" (af-s: Four Legged Technique: The one that makes Kiba grow claws and move faster as a quadruped)

Neji stopped and turned around, obviously looking for something. Rock Lee and Tenten also stopped walking and turned to look at Neji. Tenten said, "What's wrong, Neji?"

Neji responded, "Hmm. It must be nothing, but I thought I heard someone shouting out 'jutsu'."

Tenten laughed and said, "No one would be dumb enough to perform a jutsu in public here."

"Shino, STOP IT!" exclaimed Kiba.

Shino had Kiba in a headlock, and the bug user was dragging him away from the terrified man, who was running away madly, his dog sprinting after its master.

Naruto shook his head, saying, "What a frickin' hypocrite."

"I'LL FRICKIN' SLASH YOU GUYS!" snarled Kiba, waving his claws, which were still sharpened by the Shikyaku no Jutsu.

Shino suddenly threw Kiba onto the floor with a powerful shove and the use of a leg to trip him backwards. He placed a foot on top of his chest and said, "Undo your jutsu now, before my bugs drain your chakra so fast you'll be lying on the floor unconscious."

Kiba whimpered like a dog (haha…a pun!) and withdrew his jutsu. Shino then seized the collar of his shirt and proceeded to drag him down the escalator and back to the front entrance, where everyone else was waiting.

Tsunade smiled at them and said, "Well, we're almost ready to head for Las Vegas. Now where is Jiraiya—"

Suddenly…

"PERVERT!"

"GET HIM!"

"THAT OLD GUY, WITH THE LONG GRAY HAIR!"

"PEEEEEEEEERRRRRRVEEERRRRRT!"

Tsunade sighed, saying, "I should have known…"

Jiraiya suddenly came running out of a store, gasping and panting. Sprinting past Tsunade and the twelve shinobi, he ran so fast that the sliding glass doors couldn't open fast enough. Crashing into the sliding glass doors, he collapsed onto his back, then got back up and sprinted out of the mall.

The Godaime and twelve shinobi turned back to see a mob of angry women yelling and running after him. Suddenly, the mob stopped and looked at the twelve shinobi and Tsunade.

The Hokage sweated furiously and said, "We're not affiliated with him!"

"Yeah RIGHT!"

"YEAH, HOW 'BOUT THAT ONE?"

"YEAH, THE GUY WITH THE LONG BLACK HAIR AND NO PUPILS!"

"HE WAS PEEPING, TOO!"

"THEY MUST ALL BE PERVERTS!"

"GET THEM AND THE OLD GUY!"

Tsunade and the twelve shinobi found themselves running for their lives. Tenten stared at Neji as she ran and said, "So this is what you were doing when you were taking an unusually long time to go the bathroom!"

Neji looked shocked and said, "I didn't peek! Maybe there was someone else who just looks like me!"

Tenten shouted, "Yeah right! They just described you with NO PUPILS!"

"I do have pupils! They're just white! And maybe Jiraiya just did a Henge to try to disguise himself!"

Tenten panted as she ran, "Do you have any evidence!"

Neji wheezed as he sprinted, "Well, if I was peeping, I would have used my Byakugan and wouldn't have been caught!"

Tenten looked at him skeptically, "I still think you're a pervert. The quiet ones usually are secretly perverted…"

Meanwhile, Naruto had caught up with Jiraiya and was yelling while he was hitting him over the head. "ERO-SENNIN! DO YOU REALLY HAVE TO PEEP WHILE WE'RE HERE!"

Jiraiya wheezed, "Less talking, and more running!"

And Kiba managed to yell while he was running, "GIJYUU NINPOU: SHIKYAKU NO JUTSU" and sprinted on all four legs at some crazy speed, surpassing both Naruto and Jiraiya, who were both at the front.

Lee shouted, "YOSH! This is a test for our youthfulness, to test our endurance and abilities to outrun a mob of crazy, ranting, outraged women! If I cannot complete, then I, aside from being torn apart and beaten to a pulp, will have to do 1000 push-ups, assuming that I survive! CHAUJI SHRCHANG!" (af-s: Haha, that's an inside joke)

And with his good-guy pose (adapted so that he could do this while running), his pingy teeth, and that weird flame in his eyes, he sprinted up to Naruto and Jiraiya.

Suddenly, Jiraiya pointed while running, "THERE'S OUR BUS!"

Everyone shouted, "WE'RE SAVED!"

The bus driver stared at the shinobi running, then widened his eyes at the mob of angry women following close behind. In all of five seconds, all of the shinobi had boarded the bus and yelled simultaneously, "HIT THE PEDAL!"

Of which, the bus driver did.

Got a question for you readers. Since these ninja folk are in America, US laws say that they must attend school. Should I push them into high school, with the rookie nine being freshmen and Gai's team being sophomores? If so, how much of the fanfic should take place in high school?

Go to this: http/groups. It's a funny picture that has to do with Kakashi and the airport, which of course ties in with this fanfic's theme.

After Vegas, I may need some ideas on anything that they may do outside of San Diego. I'd like them to take more trips, maybe around other cities in America. I have some ideas, but if you have any ideas, feel free to send them through a review!