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"Sanely applied advertising could remake the world!" Stuart Chase
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Chapter Seven : Lunch and Family
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Kakashi was at the Hokage's office as soon as the sun began to rise. He couldn't sleep that night and hadn't eaten since Iruka was at Kurenai's house.
He was becoming a mess.............he knew it.............Hokage knew it...........but they weren't going to say anything as they watched the sunrise in silence off of the balcony in his office.
"Ohayo Kakashi............Hokage-sama" Kurenai bowed her head before Asuma appeared right beside her with a small grunt.
"Geez Kakashi you look like crap." The bearded jonin decided to share his opinion as he yawned lazily nodding toward Hokage.
"I guess I do." Kakashi curved his one visible eye before sighing as a light breeze went through the room.
"We will get started as soon as Hiashi, Gai, and Rei get here." Hokage finally announced as he glanced around the city.
"Hokage-sama I saw Neji on his way here with his teammates and Iruka." Rei huffed as she landed on the balcony. She looked like a mess with Kakashi; it was obvious that she hadn't slept either.
"Ah.............good then." Hokage looked at her as she smiled over toward him. "Do you understand what we need to do?"
"Somewhat," Rei looked over at Kakashi before continuing, "from the copy I made of the scroll this is a surprisingly long process and a lot of the kanji is smeared at the end so I am working on it."
"How much longer?" Hokage began to walk into his office as Hiashi entered.
"I think I can get it by lunch but I might need your help translating so is it alright if I go get it and bring it here?" Rei smiled as Hokage nodded before she left.
"How long can the process be?" Kakashi looked over at Hokage who sighed as he looked over at Hiashi.
"Now we are just waiting for............."
"Lee-kun! Neji-kun! Tenten-chan! And um........Iru.......Akuri? What are you doing here?" Everyone heard Gai as he entered the office being followed by three genin and the boy on Neji's back.
"Hehe." Akuri laughed, "You look even weirder than Lee-kun!"
"Akuri-kun what did I tell you about insulting people right away!" Tenten glared at the little boy who sighed.
"Don't do it unless they wont hear you.........." The boy looked around with his bright green eyes to see the same people as the day before.
"Ah.............thank you for watching him last night, Neji." Hokage smiled at the children.
"He followed me into the storm." Neji frowned as Hokage just chuckled before nodding. He looked over at Kurenai and Asuma who seemed to be watching Kakashi.........he looked over at the silver-haired jonin who seemed tense and was staring at the boy on his back.
What's that all about? Neji thought to himself as he looked over to Hiashi and just nodded formally.
"Hokage-sama if you don't mind my asking.........." Tenten walked over to the elder man's desk. "Is Akuri-kun suffering from amnesia? He doesn't seem to remember anything or anyone but Neji." Tenten smiled as Hokage nodded knowingly.
"Ah.............well you see I have a favor to ask of you three but mainly Neji here...." Hokage waited for Neji to finish putting to boy on the ground and off of his back, "Consider this a mission if you would like but I would like for you to watch over Akuri for a little while."
"What?" Neji frowned as he looked at the old man and then back at the younger boy who was now holding on to his shirt.
"Sure that would be fun! Right Akuri-kun!" Lee smiled as Akuri nodded quickly.
"You can still train and do side missions if you would like but I would appreciate it if you didn't let Akuri out of your sight." Hokage watched as Neji sighed and then nodded his okay.
Neji just didn't get why he had to watch this kid. Was it because of his memory loss? Then wouldn't it be better if he stayed with Kakashi? Wasn't that where Naruto said Akuri was staying to begin with?
"I know you can do this mission my team!" Gai smiled at them brightly causing Lee to jump up happily. Tenten and Neji just sighed.
Babysitting Lee was enough, but to add a kid who seemed to have forgotten everything? For once they would rather get stuck on a two-week camping mission with Gai.
They watched as Lee and Gai sparkled in excitement..........never mind no one in their right mind would want to be stuck with those two for two weeks let alone.........ever.
"Okay you three............urm four! Go train your youthful hearts out!" Gai smiled as they began to leave.
"Neji-sama.......kun." Neji turned to see Akuri look up at him.
The Hyuga sighed as he got down again so he could carry the boy on his back. It didn't really bother him but he didn't want anyone else to know that.
"Domo.........." Akuri smiled as he wrapped his arms around Neji's neck and they walked out of the room with an excited Lee and blushing Tenten.
"Well I would have never believed it if I hadn't seen it!" Gai watched as they walked down the hall. "Neji.........giving a piggy back ride! Haha!"
"Okay I am here!" Rei appeared in a cloud of smoke with a small scroll and another paper that looked like a list.
"Alright lets get this started shall we?" Hokage waited for her to put down the scroll.
"Okay I am going to need all for of you to look for these items............" Rei handed Kurenai, Asuma, Gai, and Hiashi each a piece of the list. "Kakashi........" She turned to him; "I am going to need to use you and your Anbu guards for a moment."
"Alright you heard her." Hokage smirked as the four shinobi vanished with their pieces of the list and the three Anbu that were guarding Kakashi appeared beside the jonin.
"I need your help with your healing techniques......" Rei started to explain the plan.
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"So how do you feel?" Tenten sat under a tree with Akuri as Neji and Lee spared. She had just finished setting up the training course for the guys.............of course adding a few extra traps here and there for the fun.
"I feel okay, why?" The green eyed boy watched the girl closely............she was scary.
"Would you like to play with some of my weapons?" Tenten giggled at the cute boy in front of her. If Lee was right, Sakura had told him that Akuri was twelve, which meant she was two years older than him. Even though he looked like he was around ten.
"Yeah!" Akuri cheered causing Neji to look over at him just before Lee punched the Hyuga in the stomach.
"Ow." Neji landed on his butt getting a surprised expression from the three people around him.
"Neji are you okay?" Tenten ran over to the milky eyed boy as Lee became teary eyed.
"I-I I won! I won!" The boy in green began to jump up and down as Tenten glared over at him and Neji stood back up.
"You win when you knock me out like I usually do you..........baka." Neji smirked as Lee turned around with fire in his eyes.
"I shall win!"
"Go Neji-kun!" Tenten blushed as she walked back over to the green-eyed boy.
"What was that?" Akuri looked at her upset.
"What?"
"Why do you hurt each other for fun?" Akuri frowned over at the girl with two buns on her head.
"Oh! We don't hurt each other............too much............its what we do for training! To get stronger! You really did forget a lot didn't you?" Tenten smiled as she got up to get her extra weapons.
"I didn't forget anything............." Akuri mumbled in his breath, "I just don't remember.........I think.........."
"Okay Akuri-kun! You can play with these as I go through the training with the guys!" Tenten smiled as she set up a few targets and a scarecrow for the boy to throw at.
"Cool." Akuri picked up the weapons as Tenten pushed Lee and Neji into her course.
After he had thrown most of the weapons he looked over to where Tenten's course had started. He would here a yell or laugh every once in a while.
He dropped the kunai in his hand and walked over to look in. Throwing weapons wasn't any fun when you hit the middle every time.
Akuri sighed as he looked into the forest now filled with weapons..........he wondered if Neji would play with him after they got out...........but what if they took too long.
He would just have to wait.
Akuri sat down Indian style at the entrance and waited for them to return. He really wanted to play with someone.
After a few minutes the green eyed boy decided that maybe one of them were in trouble and were taking too long to get out.
He had to go rescue Neji!
The little boy smirked as he ran and grabbed two kunai from the left over pile and ran into the entrance of the training course.
"I hope you guys are having fun!" Tenten laughed as she set off traps and threw weapons in while she followed the boy's movements from outside the course.
"Gee Tenten you didn't lighten up at all today!" Lee pulled the third kunai out of his thigh. He was used to getting hit once or twice but three times! Was that woman trying to kill him?
"Not before I marry Sakura-chan!" Lee yelled in mid thought as he ran past Neji setting off more traps.
"Baka." Neji sighed as he continued dodging and using his chakra to deflect the weapons.
Akuri turned the corner just in time to see Lee set off another trap and a giant log (full of kunai but they didn't know that) came falling from the top of the woods as Neji and Lee looked up.
"WATCH OUT NEJI-KUN!!!" Akuri yelled causing everyone to look over at the boy.
"No! Get out of the way!" Tenten yelled just as the log hit Lee and Neji bursting sending the boys and a ton of kunai in Akuri's direction.
"AAAAAHHHH!"
"Akuri!"
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"What the crap does she need ten gallons of ink for?" Asuma sighed as he finished yet another cigarette.
"Don't ask just buy." Kurenai sighed as she looked at her list, "Do you know where I can get some incense candles?"
"Are you serious?" Asuma choked as he put another cigarette on his lips.
"How are you two doing with your lists? I got all of mine!" Both of the jonin sensei's looked up to see Gai with a large bag over his shoulders.
"All of it? You found everything?" Kurenai asked in disbelief.
"Yeah it was all at the variety shop!" Gai laughed as he continued his jolly way towards Hokage-sama's office.
"You know, I thought he would be a little more serious about the situation." Asuma huffed as he spun the cigarette with his lips.
"I think he is just trying to hide the worries, ne? Hiashi-san?" Hiashi nodded as he walked back toward the office slowly behind Gai.
"I guess he got all of his too."
"First one of us back with all of the supplies has to buy the other diner." Kurenai smirked as she vanished.
"Crap." Asuma sighed as he began to run down toward the variety shop.
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Tenten would have never believed it if she hadn't seen it. She looked down at the barely injured bodies of her teammates and then back over at Akuri who was watching over Neji.
Not only had the green-eyed boy dodged every single kunai that was thrown his way he jumped out and got Neji and Lee before any of the kunai had hit them. The speed and skill was definitely beyond genin.
Of course when she had asked about it, Akuri just smiled and said he didn't remember but it just happened.
There was something with the younger boy and she wanted to know what.
He blasts everyone with chakra at the party, which need she remind anyone that it really hurt. Then he develops chunin level skill out of the blue? When they carried the boys to the field she saw how he had hit every target dead center.
He could have just placed them there but then again he could never reach the center of the scarecrow's head.
"Ow!" Lee sat up suddenly and Tenten smiled.
"Are you okay Lee?" She looked over his body he seemed like usual after a hard training session.
"What happened?" Lee looked over at the still out Neji and the green-eyed boy watching his friend.
"I went a little over board but.........Akuri saved you two." Tenten watched as Lee gave her a confused look so she leaned over to him so she could whisper. "His skills are beyond genin level but he doesn't remember."
"Ah........" Lee still looked very confused.........at least more than usual. "So um Akuri doesn't know..........but he has skills............better than mine.............and he saved us?"
Lee waited until Tenten nodded.
"Neji!" They both turned to see the smaller boy tackle a used to be sitting up Neji.
"Umph."
"Are you okay Neji?" Tenten asked quickly as she watched him try to sit up again with the younger boy in his lap.
"Yeah." Neji looked over at Lee and then down at Akuri. None of them were injured as bad as they should be...........Akuri wasn't even injured.
"Akuri saved us! But he doesn't remember!" Neji looked wide eyed over at Lee, if Akuri had saved them and not gotten any scratches or cuts..........that would mean that..........
"Tenten said his skills were a chunin levels" Lee whispered one more thing before he stood up to help Tenten back up her weapons.
"I am sorry!" Neji shook his head and looked down to see that the smaller boy has crying against his chest.
"Why are you crying?" For some reason, seeing Akuri cry made Neji upset. And Neji didn't like this feeling.
"Because I hurt Neji and Lee-kun!" Akuri grabbed Neji's shirt as he let the tears fall out of his eyes. He almost hurt the one person that was familiar to him.
Neji sat there staring at the smaller form, he didn't know what to do. He had never dealt with kids before. If his team were ever assigned to baby sit Lee and Tenten would take of the kids and Neji would do the other things.
What was he supposed to do with a crying kid that was about his age and didn't know anything about his past?
Neji sat up more and pulled the smaller form closer to him as he wrapped his arms around the crying boy. Isn't this what he saw Tenten do once to a crying little girl? Was this what he was supposed to do?
He was answered as the sobs slowly stopped and the smaller form's breathing started to slow down.
Tenten smiled as she watched the sight with Lee. Maybe having this Akuri kid around was a better idea than she had thought.
"I would have never believed it if I never saw it." Lee whispered as he watched Neji rub Akuri's back.
"Come on baka! Lets get out of here before he remembers that we are still here!" She whispered as she grabbed Lee and darted out of the field.
"Hey are you asleep?" Neji asked the slumbering from on his lap already knowing the answer. For some reason this felt...........okay. It was different. Neji didn't know what to do so he slowly scooted so that he could lean against a tree. It was probably around noon as Neji judged the location of the sun.
How long as Akuri going to stay with him?
Not that it was a bad thing or anything. Neji looked down at the sleeping boy, it was just..............different.
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"Is Kurenai here yet?" Asuma appeared as he watched someone appear right beside him.
"Is Asuma here yet?" Kurenai turned to see Asuma smirking at her. "Dang."
"Did you get everything?" Rei smiled as they nodded.
"By the way............if this was a battling jutsu wouldn't they have made a way to change themselves back easier than this?" Asuma finally asked the question that was bugging his mind.
"Well yeah.......you see........" Rei looked down at the scroll and then back over at Asuma, "We don't know if this will really change him back......so just in case I think that it would help if we mixed some other dispelling jutsus that are really strong but simple."
"Ah.........so you figure if this doesn't work one of those may have a chance." Asuma nodded to himself as he set his bag on the desk.
"How long is it going to take setting all of this up?" Kakashi looked at all of the junk in the bags, what was this girl thinking? The longer they took the less time Iruka had.
But then again to have a back up plan was good..........Kakashi sighed as he shook his head, Iruka would come back, there was no way that the chunin sensei would give up everything so easily.
Right?
"I think that with some help from everyone else.............we could get all of this set up by tonight or early tomorrow morning...........but......." Rei looked over at Hokage, who looked up from the scroll.
"But what?" Kakashi couldn't handle this; they needed to get started.
"Anyone know where there is a large empty room we can use? Something with nothing in it; no furniture or anything like that."
"You can use the main room in the dojo." Hiashi spoke up from his studying the scroll also. "It's the largest room in the house and we don't put any furniture in it."
"Okay then if we could move there and begin this I think that would be good."
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"I said wake up!" Neji shook Akuri by his shoulders in his umpteenth try of waking up the younger boy.
Geez he is worse than Lee, Neji sighed as the younger boy tried to snuggle up against him again. The Hyuga was hungry and even though he didn't want to wake up the sleeping boy, if he didn't he was sure the kid would want to stay up all night.
"Ugh." Neji sighed as he stood up quickly causing the smaller form to land on the ground in a thud.
"Ow." Akuri mumbled as he sat up and rubbed his eyes.
"Hey come on, its lunch time." Neji turned around and began to walk away. Finally content with waking up the kid.
Content? No Neji wasn't content? No.........he couldn't be...........right?
"Hey! Wait for me Neji-sama......uh........kun!" Akuri ran quickly to catch up with the Hyuga. He didn't want to be left behind.
He didn't want to be alone.
Neji stopped and looked down at the silent boy. What was wrong with the kid now?
He stepped in front of Akuri and bent down so that he could crawl onto his back.
The green-eyed boy looked up surprised before smiling brightly. Neji wasn't mad at him! He quickly jumped on the older boy's back and laughed.
"So where are we going for lunch?" Akuri beamed in childish delight almost causing Neji to smile. Almost. He settled for a small smirk instead.
"What do you eat?" Neji felt sort of stupid asking that, it wasn't like he was taking care of an animal or something.
"Ramen!" Akuri laughed and then stopped, "Wait what is ramen?"
Neji quickly caught himself before he fell over. "You don't remember food either?" He sighed, how much could someone with amnesia forget?
Never mind............he didn't want the answer.
"I don't know..........." Akuri sighed as he laid his head against the back of Neji's, "but at least I remembered you ne? You are really cool!"
Neji couldn't help but let out a larger smirk this time, he was cool. Then Neji stopped why did he care what this kid thought about him?
"Hey Neji!"
The Hyuga stooped and looked ahead to see Kiba, Hinata, and Shino.
"Hey is that Akuri on your back?" Kiba ran up being followed by his teammates, "Whoa, kid what happened last night?"
"H-how a-are you f-feeling Neji-niisan?" Hinata stammered, as she looked at the floor, her cousin still made her feel really uncomfortable.
"Fine, and don't bother asking him anything, he forgot.............everything." Neji glared over at the annoying dog boy, why did he have to run into these idiots?
Fate was cruel.
"I am Akuri!" Akuri grinned as he tightened his grip around Neji's neck. "Who are you?"
"Nani? He really did forget everything! But still why is the almighty Hyuga Neji giving a forgetful kid a piggy back ride?" Kiba laughed not noticing how he was earning glares from two people now.
"I don't like you." Akuri stated flatly, "You smell bad too."
"Nani! You little punk I oughta........"
"Hey your eyes are like Neji-niisan's!" Akuri looked over at Hinata before Kiba could finish. If this girl could call Neji niisan then maybe he could too.
"Hai." Hinata blushed at the cute little boy as she twiddled her fingers.
"Don't interrupt me you little brat! I could beat you up!" Kiba snarled with a bark from Akamaru.
"I even doubt that dog boy." Neji stated coolly, "Your skills could probably barely rival a newly admitted student at the academy."
"NANI!" Kiba glared as Akamaru growled.
"Kiba we are still late for meeting with Kurenai-sensei." Shino decided to remind his fuming friend.
"Yeah, fine then." Kiba huffed glaring at the two boys, "Just you two wait, I will beat you both!" Kiba declared before stomping off , being followed by Shino.
"Gomen Neji-niisan." Hinata bowed and then ran off.
"Thanks Neji!" Akuri chuckled as he buried his head into the back of Neji's neck.
That was when Neji realized that he just stood up for Akuri. Why did he do that? He doesn't stand up for random little people, and he really doesn't waste his time talking to the dog boy either.
"Hn." Neji said as he began to think about his actions on their way to the ramen house.
"AKURI!!! Is that you?" Neji sighed as they entered the Ichiraku ramen bar, of course Naruto would be here with this teammates, where else would they go.
"Eep!" Akuri quickly jumped off of Neji's back and tried to hide behind him. That loud kid was scary. And he knew his name!
"Ah Neji are you better?" Sakura smiled over at Neji who just nodded at her.
"Hey what's his problem?" Naruto looked confused over at Neji but pointing at the kid behind his back.
"He has anemia!" Lee announced as he entered the stand with Tenten. The green clad boy stopped and blushed when he noticed Sakura.
"It's amnesia you idiot!" Tenten sighed as she pounded the top of Lee's head. Was he really that stupid?
"Amnesia?" All three of team seven said at the same time.
"Whats that?" Naruto asked dumbly getting hit on the head by Sakura. "Itai!"
"Its when someone forgets everything you idiot!" Sakura blushed when she saw Sasuke nod in agreement.
"So he forgot everything?" Naruto looked over at the green-eyed boy. "Wait a second!"
Everyone stopped when they saw Naruto jump off from his stool, "This isn't Akuri! He has green eyes!"
"Didn't he have green eyes to begin with?" Tenten asked confused.
"I don't remember." Sakura sighed as she stirred her ramen.
"Hey he has a scar on his nose!" Lee pointed out brilliantly causing his teammates to fall over.
"You didn't notice that before?" Tenten glared over at the idiot for a teammate she had.
"Neji I don't want to be here." Akuri grabbed the back of Neji's shirt as he tried to hide his face.
"What's wrong with him? He is acting like a little kid." Sasuke stated as he looked over at the smaller boy. It would be a good thing if he had forgotten about the whole.............kiss thing.
"Why what's wrong now?" Neji sighed as he felt the smaller figure against his back.
"I don't like him, he seems evil." Akuri pointed over at Sasuke, earning a laugh from Naruto.
"You're not that far off." Neji whispered with a smirk as Sasuke glared over at the laughing blonde.
"Its okay Akuri, Sasuke is a good friend!" Sakura smiled not noticing how Sasuke now had Naruto's face in a bowl of ramen as he yelled at the blond.
"No, I don't like him." Akuri shook his head into Neji's shirt.
"Hn." Neji sighed, they could always go back to his apartment and eat the instant ramen there.
"Neji-kun!" Everyone stopped and shuddered as they heard Gai yell for Neji; everyone except Lee who smiled brightly.
"OVER HERE GAI-SENSEI!" He chirped loudly causing everyone to glare at him. "What?"
"Oh thank you Lee!" Gai smiled as he entered the ramen bar and patted Lee on the head.
"What?" Neji asked as he frowned, he still hadn't had lunch.
"I need you to bring Iru.......I mean Akuri to the Hyuga mansion." Everyone noticed how the atmosphere became heavy and Neji tensed up.
"Why?" He glared at his sensei.
"Because that is what Hokage-sama wants, now come." Gai glared back at his student catching everyone by surprise.
"Hmph." Neji stopped the staring contest by turning and leaving the restaurant being followed closely by the smaller boy.
"Bye Lee and Tenten!" Gai smiled as he followed after.
"Why didn't we go to? Aren't we supposed to be on the mission with Neji" Lee looked over at Tenten confused.
"No Hokage-sama said we could just help if we wanted to." The girl with two buns on her head sighed, "But that was strange."
"Hey! Hey!" Naruto whispered over to Lee as Tenten started to order some ramen. "What is this mission?"
"To watch Akuri-kun." Lee nodded and then ordered some ramen too.
"Oh so Neji is just babysitting?" Naruto sighed; he hoped it was something cool or life changing.
"Yeah but it was really weird because all of our jonin sensei's and Hyuga Hiashi were in Hokage-sama's office when they assigned it to him. The atmosphere was really heavy." Tenten stated as she sat beside Sakura saving the pink-haired girl from her teammate.
"Ah! Tenten I wanted to sit beside Sakura-chan!" Lee sighed in defeat.
"What were they all doing there?" Sakura asked the other female genin, both of them trying to ignore Lee.
"I don't know but Neji isn't too happy about going to the Hyuga mansion." Tenten sighed as her ramen was delivered.
"Yeah, he still hates them after the chunin exam ne?" Naruto started to eat another bowl of ramen.
"I don't know anymore, but I like this mission he is on." Tenten giggled to herself, "I hope that Akuri changes Neji."
"Yeah you wouldn't believe what we saw....mmimohga" Lee was stopped again with Tenten's hand.
"It was nothing but there is something strange about Akuri." Tenten glared over at Lee signaling he couldn't say anything.
"What is that?" Sasuke asked showing that he had been listening to the entire conversation.
"He doesn't remember but his ninja skills are that of a chunin." Tenten smiled as team seven looked at her confused.
"I think that there is something more to our anemic friend than he lets on." Lee stated out of he blue before getting kicked in the face by his teammate.
"AMNESIA!!!"
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Iruka opened his eyes.
Darkness.
He tried many things.
Running around.
Using chakra.
Anything his mind could think of he tried.
Now he was floating though.
His body felt lighter and almost nonexistent.
He still had to try though.
He could have sworn he heard a voice once.
But it never came back.
He tried to move but it seemed impossible.
Even with his new found lightness.
His body wouldn't move.
But that wasn't going to stop him.
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"Neji I know that you don't want to come here but Hokage-sama said that he would prefer if you could keep an eye on Akuri here for the time being." Gai looked down at his frowning student.
"You two are going to be left alone if that helps." Gai sighed as his student began to glare straight ahead.
"Why is Neji upset? What is this place?" Akuri was holding on to Neji's shirt still but was looking up to Gai.
"Its okay Akuri, it's a nice place." Gai smiled down on Iruka's small body. He didn't like the whole pretending Iruka was Akuri. He wanted to just stop and tell the small form everything..........but then if anyone did that is should be Kakashi.
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"Is Neji here then?" Hokage asked as Gai entered to dojo. Asuma, Kurenai, Kakashi, and Rei were still writing symbols all over the place.
"Ah, yes he and Iruka are here." Gai stated causing Kurenai and Hiashi to look at him.
"Do you think he knows anything about Iruka or 'Akuri' yet?" The red-eyed jonin asked looking over to Hiashi.
"He didn't seem to show any signs of it, I think that he was just really confused as why he has to be here." Gai grinned as one of the Anbu guards came in holding two large bags.
"Ah! Lunch!" Gai smiled.
"Kakashi what would you like?" Asuma turned over to his friend to see that Kakashi was still working.
"Lets leave him alone." Gai noticed his rival's behavior and shook his head, if Iruka didn't................no he couldn't think like that someone had to be optimistic about this whole situation.
If not him then who else could keep Kakashi sane?
"We should hurry up everyone if I know one thing about that old rookie genius its that he hates this place!" Gai laughed as he began to eat his food causing everyone to frown and Hiashi to glare over at the green beast.
They were going to get finished that night no matter what, time was running out.
v Hey guys!
I hope you liked this chapter.........it was originally a lot longer but if I did that then the next chapter was going to be like four pages and I thought that doing that might just be a little cruel. Lol
So I hope I am not boring anyone......
Oh and if any of you care! (lol) check out my other story......(that I started writing and updating more that this one...............(sigh) I am so sorry!)
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Chapter Seven : Lunch and Family
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Kakashi was at the Hokage's office as soon as the sun began to rise. He couldn't sleep that night and hadn't eaten since Iruka was at Kurenai's house.
He was becoming a mess.............he knew it.............Hokage knew it...........but they weren't going to say anything as they watched the sunrise in silence off of the balcony in his office.
"Ohayo Kakashi............Hokage-sama" Kurenai bowed her head before Asuma appeared right beside her with a small grunt.
"Geez Kakashi you look like crap." The bearded jonin decided to share his opinion as he yawned lazily nodding toward Hokage.
"I guess I do." Kakashi curved his one visible eye before sighing as a light breeze went through the room.
"We will get started as soon as Hiashi, Gai, and Rei get here." Hokage finally announced as he glanced around the city.
"Hokage-sama I saw Neji on his way here with his teammates and Iruka." Rei huffed as she landed on the balcony. She looked like a mess with Kakashi; it was obvious that she hadn't slept either.
"Ah.............good then." Hokage looked at her as she smiled over toward him. "Do you understand what we need to do?"
"Somewhat," Rei looked over at Kakashi before continuing, "from the copy I made of the scroll this is a surprisingly long process and a lot of the kanji is smeared at the end so I am working on it."
"How much longer?" Hokage began to walk into his office as Hiashi entered.
"I think I can get it by lunch but I might need your help translating so is it alright if I go get it and bring it here?" Rei smiled as Hokage nodded before she left.
"How long can the process be?" Kakashi looked over at Hokage who sighed as he looked over at Hiashi.
"Now we are just waiting for............."
"Lee-kun! Neji-kun! Tenten-chan! And um........Iru.......Akuri? What are you doing here?" Everyone heard Gai as he entered the office being followed by three genin and the boy on Neji's back.
"Hehe." Akuri laughed, "You look even weirder than Lee-kun!"
"Akuri-kun what did I tell you about insulting people right away!" Tenten glared at the little boy who sighed.
"Don't do it unless they wont hear you.........." The boy looked around with his bright green eyes to see the same people as the day before.
"Ah.............thank you for watching him last night, Neji." Hokage smiled at the children.
"He followed me into the storm." Neji frowned as Hokage just chuckled before nodding. He looked over at Kurenai and Asuma who seemed to be watching Kakashi.........he looked over at the silver-haired jonin who seemed tense and was staring at the boy on his back.
What's that all about? Neji thought to himself as he looked over to Hiashi and just nodded formally.
"Hokage-sama if you don't mind my asking.........." Tenten walked over to the elder man's desk. "Is Akuri-kun suffering from amnesia? He doesn't seem to remember anything or anyone but Neji." Tenten smiled as Hokage nodded knowingly.
"Ah.............well you see I have a favor to ask of you three but mainly Neji here...." Hokage waited for Neji to finish putting to boy on the ground and off of his back, "Consider this a mission if you would like but I would like for you to watch over Akuri for a little while."
"What?" Neji frowned as he looked at the old man and then back at the younger boy who was now holding on to his shirt.
"Sure that would be fun! Right Akuri-kun!" Lee smiled as Akuri nodded quickly.
"You can still train and do side missions if you would like but I would appreciate it if you didn't let Akuri out of your sight." Hokage watched as Neji sighed and then nodded his okay.
Neji just didn't get why he had to watch this kid. Was it because of his memory loss? Then wouldn't it be better if he stayed with Kakashi? Wasn't that where Naruto said Akuri was staying to begin with?
"I know you can do this mission my team!" Gai smiled at them brightly causing Lee to jump up happily. Tenten and Neji just sighed.
Babysitting Lee was enough, but to add a kid who seemed to have forgotten everything? For once they would rather get stuck on a two-week camping mission with Gai.
They watched as Lee and Gai sparkled in excitement..........never mind no one in their right mind would want to be stuck with those two for two weeks let alone.........ever.
"Okay you three............urm four! Go train your youthful hearts out!" Gai smiled as they began to leave.
"Neji-sama.......kun." Neji turned to see Akuri look up at him.
The Hyuga sighed as he got down again so he could carry the boy on his back. It didn't really bother him but he didn't want anyone else to know that.
"Domo.........." Akuri smiled as he wrapped his arms around Neji's neck and they walked out of the room with an excited Lee and blushing Tenten.
"Well I would have never believed it if I hadn't seen it!" Gai watched as they walked down the hall. "Neji.........giving a piggy back ride! Haha!"
"Okay I am here!" Rei appeared in a cloud of smoke with a small scroll and another paper that looked like a list.
"Alright lets get this started shall we?" Hokage waited for her to put down the scroll.
"Okay I am going to need all for of you to look for these items............" Rei handed Kurenai, Asuma, Gai, and Hiashi each a piece of the list. "Kakashi........" She turned to him; "I am going to need to use you and your Anbu guards for a moment."
"Alright you heard her." Hokage smirked as the four shinobi vanished with their pieces of the list and the three Anbu that were guarding Kakashi appeared beside the jonin.
"I need your help with your healing techniques......" Rei started to explain the plan.
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"So how do you feel?" Tenten sat under a tree with Akuri as Neji and Lee spared. She had just finished setting up the training course for the guys.............of course adding a few extra traps here and there for the fun.
"I feel okay, why?" The green eyed boy watched the girl closely............she was scary.
"Would you like to play with some of my weapons?" Tenten giggled at the cute boy in front of her. If Lee was right, Sakura had told him that Akuri was twelve, which meant she was two years older than him. Even though he looked like he was around ten.
"Yeah!" Akuri cheered causing Neji to look over at him just before Lee punched the Hyuga in the stomach.
"Ow." Neji landed on his butt getting a surprised expression from the three people around him.
"Neji are you okay?" Tenten ran over to the milky eyed boy as Lee became teary eyed.
"I-I I won! I won!" The boy in green began to jump up and down as Tenten glared over at him and Neji stood back up.
"You win when you knock me out like I usually do you..........baka." Neji smirked as Lee turned around with fire in his eyes.
"I shall win!"
"Go Neji-kun!" Tenten blushed as she walked back over to the green-eyed boy.
"What was that?" Akuri looked at her upset.
"What?"
"Why do you hurt each other for fun?" Akuri frowned over at the girl with two buns on her head.
"Oh! We don't hurt each other............too much............its what we do for training! To get stronger! You really did forget a lot didn't you?" Tenten smiled as she got up to get her extra weapons.
"I didn't forget anything............." Akuri mumbled in his breath, "I just don't remember.........I think.........."
"Okay Akuri-kun! You can play with these as I go through the training with the guys!" Tenten smiled as she set up a few targets and a scarecrow for the boy to throw at.
"Cool." Akuri picked up the weapons as Tenten pushed Lee and Neji into her course.
After he had thrown most of the weapons he looked over to where Tenten's course had started. He would here a yell or laugh every once in a while.
He dropped the kunai in his hand and walked over to look in. Throwing weapons wasn't any fun when you hit the middle every time.
Akuri sighed as he looked into the forest now filled with weapons..........he wondered if Neji would play with him after they got out...........but what if they took too long.
He would just have to wait.
Akuri sat down Indian style at the entrance and waited for them to return. He really wanted to play with someone.
After a few minutes the green eyed boy decided that maybe one of them were in trouble and were taking too long to get out.
He had to go rescue Neji!
The little boy smirked as he ran and grabbed two kunai from the left over pile and ran into the entrance of the training course.
"I hope you guys are having fun!" Tenten laughed as she set off traps and threw weapons in while she followed the boy's movements from outside the course.
"Gee Tenten you didn't lighten up at all today!" Lee pulled the third kunai out of his thigh. He was used to getting hit once or twice but three times! Was that woman trying to kill him?
"Not before I marry Sakura-chan!" Lee yelled in mid thought as he ran past Neji setting off more traps.
"Baka." Neji sighed as he continued dodging and using his chakra to deflect the weapons.
Akuri turned the corner just in time to see Lee set off another trap and a giant log (full of kunai but they didn't know that) came falling from the top of the woods as Neji and Lee looked up.
"WATCH OUT NEJI-KUN!!!" Akuri yelled causing everyone to look over at the boy.
"No! Get out of the way!" Tenten yelled just as the log hit Lee and Neji bursting sending the boys and a ton of kunai in Akuri's direction.
"AAAAAHHHH!"
"Akuri!"
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"What the crap does she need ten gallons of ink for?" Asuma sighed as he finished yet another cigarette.
"Don't ask just buy." Kurenai sighed as she looked at her list, "Do you know where I can get some incense candles?"
"Are you serious?" Asuma choked as he put another cigarette on his lips.
"How are you two doing with your lists? I got all of mine!" Both of the jonin sensei's looked up to see Gai with a large bag over his shoulders.
"All of it? You found everything?" Kurenai asked in disbelief.
"Yeah it was all at the variety shop!" Gai laughed as he continued his jolly way towards Hokage-sama's office.
"You know, I thought he would be a little more serious about the situation." Asuma huffed as he spun the cigarette with his lips.
"I think he is just trying to hide the worries, ne? Hiashi-san?" Hiashi nodded as he walked back toward the office slowly behind Gai.
"I guess he got all of his too."
"First one of us back with all of the supplies has to buy the other diner." Kurenai smirked as she vanished.
"Crap." Asuma sighed as he began to run down toward the variety shop.
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Tenten would have never believed it if she hadn't seen it. She looked down at the barely injured bodies of her teammates and then back over at Akuri who was watching over Neji.
Not only had the green-eyed boy dodged every single kunai that was thrown his way he jumped out and got Neji and Lee before any of the kunai had hit them. The speed and skill was definitely beyond genin.
Of course when she had asked about it, Akuri just smiled and said he didn't remember but it just happened.
There was something with the younger boy and she wanted to know what.
He blasts everyone with chakra at the party, which need she remind anyone that it really hurt. Then he develops chunin level skill out of the blue? When they carried the boys to the field she saw how he had hit every target dead center.
He could have just placed them there but then again he could never reach the center of the scarecrow's head.
"Ow!" Lee sat up suddenly and Tenten smiled.
"Are you okay Lee?" She looked over his body he seemed like usual after a hard training session.
"What happened?" Lee looked over at the still out Neji and the green-eyed boy watching his friend.
"I went a little over board but.........Akuri saved you two." Tenten watched as Lee gave her a confused look so she leaned over to him so she could whisper. "His skills are beyond genin level but he doesn't remember."
"Ah........" Lee still looked very confused.........at least more than usual. "So um Akuri doesn't know..........but he has skills............better than mine.............and he saved us?"
Lee waited until Tenten nodded.
"Neji!" They both turned to see the smaller boy tackle a used to be sitting up Neji.
"Umph."
"Are you okay Neji?" Tenten asked quickly as she watched him try to sit up again with the younger boy in his lap.
"Yeah." Neji looked over at Lee and then down at Akuri. None of them were injured as bad as they should be...........Akuri wasn't even injured.
"Akuri saved us! But he doesn't remember!" Neji looked wide eyed over at Lee, if Akuri had saved them and not gotten any scratches or cuts..........that would mean that..........
"Tenten said his skills were a chunin levels" Lee whispered one more thing before he stood up to help Tenten back up her weapons.
"I am sorry!" Neji shook his head and looked down to see that the smaller boy has crying against his chest.
"Why are you crying?" For some reason, seeing Akuri cry made Neji upset. And Neji didn't like this feeling.
"Because I hurt Neji and Lee-kun!" Akuri grabbed Neji's shirt as he let the tears fall out of his eyes. He almost hurt the one person that was familiar to him.
Neji sat there staring at the smaller form, he didn't know what to do. He had never dealt with kids before. If his team were ever assigned to baby sit Lee and Tenten would take of the kids and Neji would do the other things.
What was he supposed to do with a crying kid that was about his age and didn't know anything about his past?
Neji sat up more and pulled the smaller form closer to him as he wrapped his arms around the crying boy. Isn't this what he saw Tenten do once to a crying little girl? Was this what he was supposed to do?
He was answered as the sobs slowly stopped and the smaller form's breathing started to slow down.
Tenten smiled as she watched the sight with Lee. Maybe having this Akuri kid around was a better idea than she had thought.
"I would have never believed it if I never saw it." Lee whispered as he watched Neji rub Akuri's back.
"Come on baka! Lets get out of here before he remembers that we are still here!" She whispered as she grabbed Lee and darted out of the field.
"Hey are you asleep?" Neji asked the slumbering from on his lap already knowing the answer. For some reason this felt...........okay. It was different. Neji didn't know what to do so he slowly scooted so that he could lean against a tree. It was probably around noon as Neji judged the location of the sun.
How long as Akuri going to stay with him?
Not that it was a bad thing or anything. Neji looked down at the sleeping boy, it was just..............different.
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"Is Kurenai here yet?" Asuma appeared as he watched someone appear right beside him.
"Is Asuma here yet?" Kurenai turned to see Asuma smirking at her. "Dang."
"Did you get everything?" Rei smiled as they nodded.
"By the way............if this was a battling jutsu wouldn't they have made a way to change themselves back easier than this?" Asuma finally asked the question that was bugging his mind.
"Well yeah.......you see........" Rei looked down at the scroll and then back over at Asuma, "We don't know if this will really change him back......so just in case I think that it would help if we mixed some other dispelling jutsus that are really strong but simple."
"Ah.........so you figure if this doesn't work one of those may have a chance." Asuma nodded to himself as he set his bag on the desk.
"How long is it going to take setting all of this up?" Kakashi looked at all of the junk in the bags, what was this girl thinking? The longer they took the less time Iruka had.
But then again to have a back up plan was good..........Kakashi sighed as he shook his head, Iruka would come back, there was no way that the chunin sensei would give up everything so easily.
Right?
"I think that with some help from everyone else.............we could get all of this set up by tonight or early tomorrow morning...........but......." Rei looked over at Hokage, who looked up from the scroll.
"But what?" Kakashi couldn't handle this; they needed to get started.
"Anyone know where there is a large empty room we can use? Something with nothing in it; no furniture or anything like that."
"You can use the main room in the dojo." Hiashi spoke up from his studying the scroll also. "It's the largest room in the house and we don't put any furniture in it."
"Okay then if we could move there and begin this I think that would be good."
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"I said wake up!" Neji shook Akuri by his shoulders in his umpteenth try of waking up the younger boy.
Geez he is worse than Lee, Neji sighed as the younger boy tried to snuggle up against him again. The Hyuga was hungry and even though he didn't want to wake up the sleeping boy, if he didn't he was sure the kid would want to stay up all night.
"Ugh." Neji sighed as he stood up quickly causing the smaller form to land on the ground in a thud.
"Ow." Akuri mumbled as he sat up and rubbed his eyes.
"Hey come on, its lunch time." Neji turned around and began to walk away. Finally content with waking up the kid.
Content? No Neji wasn't content? No.........he couldn't be...........right?
"Hey! Wait for me Neji-sama......uh........kun!" Akuri ran quickly to catch up with the Hyuga. He didn't want to be left behind.
He didn't want to be alone.
Neji stopped and looked down at the silent boy. What was wrong with the kid now?
He stepped in front of Akuri and bent down so that he could crawl onto his back.
The green-eyed boy looked up surprised before smiling brightly. Neji wasn't mad at him! He quickly jumped on the older boy's back and laughed.
"So where are we going for lunch?" Akuri beamed in childish delight almost causing Neji to smile. Almost. He settled for a small smirk instead.
"What do you eat?" Neji felt sort of stupid asking that, it wasn't like he was taking care of an animal or something.
"Ramen!" Akuri laughed and then stopped, "Wait what is ramen?"
Neji quickly caught himself before he fell over. "You don't remember food either?" He sighed, how much could someone with amnesia forget?
Never mind............he didn't want the answer.
"I don't know..........." Akuri sighed as he laid his head against the back of Neji's, "but at least I remembered you ne? You are really cool!"
Neji couldn't help but let out a larger smirk this time, he was cool. Then Neji stopped why did he care what this kid thought about him?
"Hey Neji!"
The Hyuga stooped and looked ahead to see Kiba, Hinata, and Shino.
"Hey is that Akuri on your back?" Kiba ran up being followed by his teammates, "Whoa, kid what happened last night?"
"H-how a-are you f-feeling Neji-niisan?" Hinata stammered, as she looked at the floor, her cousin still made her feel really uncomfortable.
"Fine, and don't bother asking him anything, he forgot.............everything." Neji glared over at the annoying dog boy, why did he have to run into these idiots?
Fate was cruel.
"I am Akuri!" Akuri grinned as he tightened his grip around Neji's neck. "Who are you?"
"Nani? He really did forget everything! But still why is the almighty Hyuga Neji giving a forgetful kid a piggy back ride?" Kiba laughed not noticing how he was earning glares from two people now.
"I don't like you." Akuri stated flatly, "You smell bad too."
"Nani! You little punk I oughta........"
"Hey your eyes are like Neji-niisan's!" Akuri looked over at Hinata before Kiba could finish. If this girl could call Neji niisan then maybe he could too.
"Hai." Hinata blushed at the cute little boy as she twiddled her fingers.
"Don't interrupt me you little brat! I could beat you up!" Kiba snarled with a bark from Akamaru.
"I even doubt that dog boy." Neji stated coolly, "Your skills could probably barely rival a newly admitted student at the academy."
"NANI!" Kiba glared as Akamaru growled.
"Kiba we are still late for meeting with Kurenai-sensei." Shino decided to remind his fuming friend.
"Yeah, fine then." Kiba huffed glaring at the two boys, "Just you two wait, I will beat you both!" Kiba declared before stomping off , being followed by Shino.
"Gomen Neji-niisan." Hinata bowed and then ran off.
"Thanks Neji!" Akuri chuckled as he buried his head into the back of Neji's neck.
That was when Neji realized that he just stood up for Akuri. Why did he do that? He doesn't stand up for random little people, and he really doesn't waste his time talking to the dog boy either.
"Hn." Neji said as he began to think about his actions on their way to the ramen house.
"AKURI!!! Is that you?" Neji sighed as they entered the Ichiraku ramen bar, of course Naruto would be here with this teammates, where else would they go.
"Eep!" Akuri quickly jumped off of Neji's back and tried to hide behind him. That loud kid was scary. And he knew his name!
"Ah Neji are you better?" Sakura smiled over at Neji who just nodded at her.
"Hey what's his problem?" Naruto looked confused over at Neji but pointing at the kid behind his back.
"He has anemia!" Lee announced as he entered the stand with Tenten. The green clad boy stopped and blushed when he noticed Sakura.
"It's amnesia you idiot!" Tenten sighed as she pounded the top of Lee's head. Was he really that stupid?
"Amnesia?" All three of team seven said at the same time.
"Whats that?" Naruto asked dumbly getting hit on the head by Sakura. "Itai!"
"Its when someone forgets everything you idiot!" Sakura blushed when she saw Sasuke nod in agreement.
"So he forgot everything?" Naruto looked over at the green-eyed boy. "Wait a second!"
Everyone stopped when they saw Naruto jump off from his stool, "This isn't Akuri! He has green eyes!"
"Didn't he have green eyes to begin with?" Tenten asked confused.
"I don't remember." Sakura sighed as she stirred her ramen.
"Hey he has a scar on his nose!" Lee pointed out brilliantly causing his teammates to fall over.
"You didn't notice that before?" Tenten glared over at the idiot for a teammate she had.
"Neji I don't want to be here." Akuri grabbed the back of Neji's shirt as he tried to hide his face.
"What's wrong with him? He is acting like a little kid." Sasuke stated as he looked over at the smaller boy. It would be a good thing if he had forgotten about the whole.............kiss thing.
"Why what's wrong now?" Neji sighed as he felt the smaller figure against his back.
"I don't like him, he seems evil." Akuri pointed over at Sasuke, earning a laugh from Naruto.
"You're not that far off." Neji whispered with a smirk as Sasuke glared over at the laughing blonde.
"Its okay Akuri, Sasuke is a good friend!" Sakura smiled not noticing how Sasuke now had Naruto's face in a bowl of ramen as he yelled at the blond.
"No, I don't like him." Akuri shook his head into Neji's shirt.
"Hn." Neji sighed, they could always go back to his apartment and eat the instant ramen there.
"Neji-kun!" Everyone stopped and shuddered as they heard Gai yell for Neji; everyone except Lee who smiled brightly.
"OVER HERE GAI-SENSEI!" He chirped loudly causing everyone to glare at him. "What?"
"Oh thank you Lee!" Gai smiled as he entered the ramen bar and patted Lee on the head.
"What?" Neji asked as he frowned, he still hadn't had lunch.
"I need you to bring Iru.......I mean Akuri to the Hyuga mansion." Everyone noticed how the atmosphere became heavy and Neji tensed up.
"Why?" He glared at his sensei.
"Because that is what Hokage-sama wants, now come." Gai glared back at his student catching everyone by surprise.
"Hmph." Neji stopped the staring contest by turning and leaving the restaurant being followed closely by the smaller boy.
"Bye Lee and Tenten!" Gai smiled as he followed after.
"Why didn't we go to? Aren't we supposed to be on the mission with Neji" Lee looked over at Tenten confused.
"No Hokage-sama said we could just help if we wanted to." The girl with two buns on her head sighed, "But that was strange."
"Hey! Hey!" Naruto whispered over to Lee as Tenten started to order some ramen. "What is this mission?"
"To watch Akuri-kun." Lee nodded and then ordered some ramen too.
"Oh so Neji is just babysitting?" Naruto sighed; he hoped it was something cool or life changing.
"Yeah but it was really weird because all of our jonin sensei's and Hyuga Hiashi were in Hokage-sama's office when they assigned it to him. The atmosphere was really heavy." Tenten stated as she sat beside Sakura saving the pink-haired girl from her teammate.
"Ah! Tenten I wanted to sit beside Sakura-chan!" Lee sighed in defeat.
"What were they all doing there?" Sakura asked the other female genin, both of them trying to ignore Lee.
"I don't know but Neji isn't too happy about going to the Hyuga mansion." Tenten sighed as her ramen was delivered.
"Yeah, he still hates them after the chunin exam ne?" Naruto started to eat another bowl of ramen.
"I don't know anymore, but I like this mission he is on." Tenten giggled to herself, "I hope that Akuri changes Neji."
"Yeah you wouldn't believe what we saw....mmimohga" Lee was stopped again with Tenten's hand.
"It was nothing but there is something strange about Akuri." Tenten glared over at Lee signaling he couldn't say anything.
"What is that?" Sasuke asked showing that he had been listening to the entire conversation.
"He doesn't remember but his ninja skills are that of a chunin." Tenten smiled as team seven looked at her confused.
"I think that there is something more to our anemic friend than he lets on." Lee stated out of he blue before getting kicked in the face by his teammate.
"AMNESIA!!!"
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Iruka opened his eyes.
Darkness.
He tried many things.
Running around.
Using chakra.
Anything his mind could think of he tried.
Now he was floating though.
His body felt lighter and almost nonexistent.
He still had to try though.
He could have sworn he heard a voice once.
But it never came back.
He tried to move but it seemed impossible.
Even with his new found lightness.
His body wouldn't move.
But that wasn't going to stop him.
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"Neji I know that you don't want to come here but Hokage-sama said that he would prefer if you could keep an eye on Akuri here for the time being." Gai looked down at his frowning student.
"You two are going to be left alone if that helps." Gai sighed as his student began to glare straight ahead.
"Why is Neji upset? What is this place?" Akuri was holding on to Neji's shirt still but was looking up to Gai.
"Its okay Akuri, it's a nice place." Gai smiled down on Iruka's small body. He didn't like the whole pretending Iruka was Akuri. He wanted to just stop and tell the small form everything..........but then if anyone did that is should be Kakashi.
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"Is Neji here then?" Hokage asked as Gai entered to dojo. Asuma, Kurenai, Kakashi, and Rei were still writing symbols all over the place.
"Ah, yes he and Iruka are here." Gai stated causing Kurenai and Hiashi to look at him.
"Do you think he knows anything about Iruka or 'Akuri' yet?" The red-eyed jonin asked looking over to Hiashi.
"He didn't seem to show any signs of it, I think that he was just really confused as why he has to be here." Gai grinned as one of the Anbu guards came in holding two large bags.
"Ah! Lunch!" Gai smiled.
"Kakashi what would you like?" Asuma turned over to his friend to see that Kakashi was still working.
"Lets leave him alone." Gai noticed his rival's behavior and shook his head, if Iruka didn't................no he couldn't think like that someone had to be optimistic about this whole situation.
If not him then who else could keep Kakashi sane?
"We should hurry up everyone if I know one thing about that old rookie genius its that he hates this place!" Gai laughed as he began to eat his food causing everyone to frown and Hiashi to glare over at the green beast.
They were going to get finished that night no matter what, time was running out.
v Hey guys!
I hope you liked this chapter.........it was originally a lot longer but if I did that then the next chapter was going to be like four pages and I thought that doing that might just be a little cruel. Lol
So I hope I am not boring anyone......
Oh and if any of you care! (lol) check out my other story......(that I started writing and updating more that this one...............(sigh) I am so sorry!)
REPLIES TO REVIEWS!
Cdkobasiuk : lol I am glad you found this fic again! I kind of have a small rule to not update until I get atleast ten reviews (its stupid I kno) but you were the tenth reviewer! Yay! (gives you a cookie) I hope you enjoyed this chapter
Riyo-sama: I am glad you gave this fic a chance too! (really happy actually lol) I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Haha
Kyuuketsuki-Chan: (o.O) OMG! Egyptian Monkeys? (ish really scared) wait so you weren't kidding about hunting me down? Haha! Well I updated to try not to waste too much gas money! The prices are going up! Haha............(walks away slowly)
Kesshou: LOL! YAY! Haha I hope you enjoy this chapter!
Sabrea: well I guess you will have to read the next chapter.....believe me you will HATE the ending......hahahaha but maybe not for reasons you think.........in all actuality I could be pulling you leg and next chapter sux....or they all die.....but we both kno that neither of those will happen....hehehe so just what exactly will
Sorry if I am playing with you mind too much
Catc10: Thank you! 4:30 in the morning! That is amazing! I hope you didn't die from fatigue or anything! And I hope that I didn't make you wait too long lol! Just six or seven days ne? I really hope you continue to like this story!
The La/=/er: It was really funny when I got a review from you for this story lol I was like oh! I am reading the reviews for the wrong story and then I checked...and I was like oh! And then I did a happy dance because you reviewed for this story! Lol okay so to reply......thankyou! I try to keep my stories unique! Haha if you couldn't tell and I am sorry for being evil to Iruka! I love him I really do! It was just the part he got put in I swear! I think (lol) I am having Akuri recognize Neji because that was the last person Iruka saw but the first person Akuri saw before he was truly transformed....if that makes sense......lol c ya!
Evil Kasumi: Neji/Iru? EW! No! lol Haha yay! (is actually happy about the drama in this story and does a happy dance) Well I am trying to update quicker so lets see what happens next heehee! And thank you!
Spirit and Essence: Lol sorry it took so long to update but I was really in a writers block for this fic and then my comp broke down but no worries now! Yay!
SweetMoons: lol you keep changing you name! haha they deleted your account? That must be why you were erased from my alert page lol and your reviews! I cant believe you are going to give up your evil! No! don't do it! Haha lol well try not to get deleted again! Lol I didn't give up on this story! Yay! Haha I guess you are going to have to keep reading to get all of your questions answered! Haha! Lol sorry for taking so long that you have to reread? Haha Thank you!
AND TO MICA-CHAN!
Who so awesomely reviewed for my story on my sister's fic.......(laughs evilly) I must say that you made my day the day she emailed your review to me! Hahahaha I am glad that this story was your first fic and I hope that you are still enjoying it! Haha! Lol I hope your internet begins to work again and if not you can always email me at
futureisnjapanaol.com
or review at another of my sister's stories lol! Hahahahahaha!