Still making some changes…once more nothing new….

Disclaimer: (In a monotone voice) I don't own Naruto. (Suddenly brightens) If I did I'd lock myself in a closet with Shino and Shikamaru!(Gets stares) What? Shino is soo sex-ay! (gets more stares)What! He's sexier than Sasuke! (Naruto appears behind her with various female fans) Uh, I mean, I'll just run now! Enjoy the fic!(runs like crazy with a multitude of other crazies behind)

You What?

By: Kalivax

Nami skipped along the way to the Ninja academy as though she didn't have a care in the world. You would have never expected the two bickering teens behind her to even be going the same place. But…the world is a strange place and Nami and her 'parents' were all on their way. The setting sun seemed to make the beaten dirt path look almost magical and the approaching academy seemed to glow with a unearthly light.

"Figures, we try to leave this place as soon as we can, and then we end up coming back over again…" Naruto muttered, as Nami stopped and hid (well, tried to at least, but then again she was tall, so she was more like kneeling) between Sasuke's legs, playfully tugging at her 'Mama's pants.

"You never know dobe," Sasuke scoffed, then gave him the-I'm-so-cool-and-you-aren't-smirk, "you will probably do so bad on a upcoming mission that you'll be put back here. And you-" he glared down at the girl at his legs, "let go off me!"

"Why you-!" Naruto fumed, glaring daggers in response, he gave a fanged growl and pointed a finger for emphasis, "Nami! Stay where you're at! Make him fall over!"

"Ma-ma-ma- mama!" Nami yelped as a shadow approached them, tightening her hold on Sasuke's leg causing him to indeed fall over.

Naruto looked from his fallen team-mate to see Iruka holding his head exasperated—where the shadow had been—with a lantern.

"Don't you two ever stop?" he wondered more to himself, although knowing full well it was a meaningless rhetorical statement.

"Oi you three, you're late," Kakashi added, appearing from behind as per usual.

"Told you they're always together," Sasuke remarked and was about to push himself up when Nami let go and ran towards her 'Uncles' with lightening speed, causing him to fall, again. All of this was much to Naruto's enjoyment as he looked down at him with a cocky grin on his face.

"What's taking you all? the Hokage's waiting," Gai snapped, appearing next to Iruka.

"The old woman is here?" Naruto spat, he glared at the three instructors, "what the hell is going on?"

Kakashi covered Nami's ears in time.

"I hope you don't always use that language in front of your poor impressionable daughter," Kakashi commented, his voice dripping with 'motherly worry'.

Sasuke joined Naruto in glaring at that comment.

"Yes! You'll destroy your dear child's eardrums with the evil that is cursing!" Gai chided, fire in his eyes and posing dramatically.

"Alright! Who told him?" Naruto interrogated, anger rising a couple notches.

"To answer your question Naruto, we have to go inside," Iruka answered, strangely calm. He and the other two instructors led the way inside the lighted school building. Sasuke seeming to find something foreboding pulled Nami closer to him and Naruto. They followed...

"What took you?" Tsunade demanded as they all walked into the cafeteria. A black earthen basin with odd-looking scratches stood in front of her on a stool. Shizune oddly enough was absent from her usual position next to her, so instead, their three teachers all settled beside the fifth Hokage.

"Come here," Tsunade commanded to the three, who had just entered.

Naruto and Sasuke did albeit a little slowly. Nami skipped to the front of the bowl.

"Oh! pretty water!" she chirped and stuck her hands in the bowl. Naruto and Sasuke ran up to her and tried to pull her away, both had a bad feeling from how this was all set up. Tried to, at least, they soon found out it was if she had stuck herself in quick dry cement.

"I...feel...sweepy..." and with that announcement she fell and her hands became unstuck. Naruto caught her in time and was about to chew off the four adults' heads off when he noticed the water in the bowl glowing, blue, pinks, and orange streaks were escaping from the bowl and surrounding the sleeping figure in his arms. Suddenly holding his supposed daughter was extremely painful for Naruto.

"Let her go brat, we're just returning her to her normal form," Tsunade responded, "see its not even hurting her in the least bit."

True enough, the girl in his arms was showing no expression of pain whatsoever, she just seemed asleep. A yellow streak joined the other colors and soon it was too painful to touch her and Naruto was pulled away from her by Sasuke.

"Leave her alone dobe, its almost done," he whispered, holding Naruto close to him as they sat watching. Soon the streaks became frenzied and there was a blinding light. The light disappeared soon enough to reveal a l—

TBC

Poor the Third, I cut him out of the fic::Looks sadly at the old coot:: I just like Tsunade better, and we really do need to fit this into the story-line a lot more. When I started out this fic, I was barely at chapter thirty and was sort of gleaning from spoilers my friends supplied me with. Luckily my scan site still seems to be working so I'm just a little ways further than when Gaara was revived an' all…anyhoo, still working, so see ya's later!