Ugh...kami-sama...i'm sooooorrryyyy...it's been forever since i even re-read this, and i've had it written forever too... great.. Sorry guys! Meaning anyone who reads this dribbling baby poo! (lol, dribbling baby poo, i need to get out more, that almost sounded sane.)

Well, like i said, i've had this typed up for a while, but didn't really like it, still don't like it the best, hope you guys like it a bit more, and now i'm going to say this...the next chapter is the e-mail it'self, so you can pick which one's next, as consolation for me being such a bad authoress. Try not to give me the hardest ones right off, or the ending ones might not be that good a story make!

Oh! and by the way; Don't own Naruto! Naruto is not mine! or else some serious bad things might happen! (apocolpyse anyone?)

Read on! I'll start with the part I'm using first this time!

Oh yeah! and flame me! if you dare! They will be used for my new favorite thing in the world! Toasting my bread for my pb&j sandwiches! the seedless blackberry jelly's the best with it all! And all reviewers get one! come back for seconds if ya want in the next chappie too!


I like you because of who you are to me...A true

Friend and if I

Don't get this back I'll take the hint.


"Hey!"

"..."

"..."

"..."

"Arrrrgh! Answer me!" Naruto yelled, pumping his fist in the air at his opponent. Though usually, your opponent would make a move to fight back, not just stand there smirking at you.

"Dobe" Sasuke finally muttered, finally acknowledging our little fox boy.

"What makes you think you're so special?"

"I am."

"Arrrgh!" Naruto charged, head on, into Sasuke's waiting fist.

They both heard a loud shouting and a loud complaining from the sidelines, and stopped.

There was Shikamaru and Ino. Ino had apparently come to spy on her Sasuke, while Shikamaru had been dragged along.

Sasuke smirked, and Naruto just fumed. They were interrupting a very important fight between the two.

I mean, come on, Sasuke just ignored him, that can't be allowed.

Ino trudged up the hill away from Shikamaru and towards them, apparently going to glomp Sasuke in her frustration at Shikamaru.

Can we say ''that's not going to happen''?

Sasuke bolted as calmly and as quickly as his Uchiha reputation would allow, and needless to say, Ino followed.

Shikamaru came up to Naruto and they both just waited there for a bit, till Sasuke, the real one, came out from in the tree behind them. Apparently Ino had just chased after a clone; one of Shikamaru's to be exact.

"Pft! Ha! That was hilarious Shikama-nut!" Naruto laughed. "I bet she'll be chasin after you all day!" This brought a bit of blush to said ninja's face, though he hid it quickly.

But that doesn't mean that one said Uchiha missed said blush. Oh no, far from it.

He just marked it off as anger towards Naruto's comment on his name. (Men can be such idiots some times-scratch that- when we're talking about emotions; and women, men are such idiots all the time. No offense of course! It's just true. (few exceptions, though exceptions there are))


"Yeah, I still can't believe I missed that..."

"Just goes to show, the famous Uchiha ain't nothin but hot air!"

"Dobe"

"Teme!"

"Both of you shut up! If you can't be quieter while watching clouds, then go home!" Shikamaru huffed, "So Troublesome...!"they were all lying under the shade of a tree, doing Shikamaru's favorite hobby, cloud watching.

Not even an answering 'hn' from that one.

"...Fine..."

"...Hey," Naruto just couldn't stay quiet for very long, now could he? Well, at least he's not yelling, he's actually kinda subdued right now...

Wait.

Naruto, subdued.

Apocalypse.

Run.

Ignoring that obvious sign of doom for them all, both of the shinobi ninja stayed and listened.

"That was a good day though. Remember how it went after that?" They all stared up at the clouds, reminiscing.

"Yeah," Shikamaru drawled slowly. "We all ended up going for ramen and then back to the training fields after seeing Ino come out of them after looking for you in there."


"Ha!" Naruto's fist collided with thin air, as the bunshin changed into a frog and he missed it by inches. Frogs are just that much smaller you know.

"A frog?" Shikamaru asked Sasuke, who just shrugged his shoulders and smirked at him.

"Ewwwwwww! That's disgusting!" Naruto cried, charging at the real one this time. "I'll get you for that!"

Shikamaru looked to the left, while they kept of fighting, though Sasuke did glance his way a couple times.

"Hey, I gotta go. Team's calling me." He said. They didn't think on it much, Ino has mind powers, she could probably just talk to him mentally.

That's what they thought as they resumed their life-or-death insult match.

As in, the match wasn't about beating the other in weapons anymore; it was about beating the other's words.

Needless to say, Sasuke won again, on both parts.

Going home for the night, neither of them saw a shadow in the trees, watching both them, and the entrance to the field as a blonde ponytail haired girl entered once more on her search.

Ino moved towards the sound of the fighting, and had almost come straight up on them, but a kunai stopped her.

"Hey!" She yelled, though not loud enough (surprisingly) to be heard by the two boys leaving through the entrance she had just walked though.

"..." Another kunai hit just near her foot.

"Watch it! Are you trying to do that on purpose?"

Another kunai whizzed through the air just past her nose.

"Grrrrr..." Ino was mad, andworried now, whoever this was, she couldn't sense his chakra here, just Shikamaru's from earlier when she had seen him on the practice field. Getting into a mainly defensive, slightly offensive stance, she faced the tree.

Seeing that they were far enough away from her, Shikamaru slunk down from the tree and behind Ino.

Ino waited and waited, and waited and waited. All in all, a good three and four fifths of a minute, before her short fuse made her jump at the tree. It was now that Shikamaru took his kunai out of the ground where she had stood and fled, before she had a chance to figure out it was him.


"Hah! So she didn't have a clue?" Naruto snickered.

"Sounds like she almost had you though." Neji walked up, setting himself down beside them and inserting his rare piece.

"Yeah, but she was scared, and didn't think I'd actually do that, especially without reason." Shikamaru played with a grass blade, Neji smirked.

"At least she's not here right now, so she didn't hear that." Sasuke stated.

"Yeah! Or your girl either! She'd blab it out faster than Tenten throws kunai!" Naruto laughed.

"She did find out about the notes though, that's how she decided that she was definitely going to get you two together."

"What?"

"She snooped in my house, and found them..."

"What notes?" Kakashi walked up.

Sasuke sighed and played with a pebble, and Naruto fidgeted.

Shikamaru looked him square in the eye. "No telling Ino, or any other girl for that matter." He stopped for a second. Then eyed him directly. "Or any one else. Gai is, unfortunately, included."

"Sure." He leaned against the tree, before using his chakra to slide up it into a higher branch. This was going to be a good story, and he didn't want interruptions.

And it would be safer, if a girl came up and all, he'd be able to warn them before they all got slapped upside the head.

Cause it's always at the point of a story where you did something bad, when they find a way to come up and overhear.

"Well, after that, we didn't see each other very often, since our teams and training took up so much time." Shikamaru started out, before Sasuke took over.

"One day, not long after the training session we had together, I passed by the tree that Shikamaru sets by in his team's training field, and just felt like it, so I stuck a note in it for him..." Shikamaru took back over for the next part.


Shikamaru walked up to the tree in the training grounds, smirking to himself at the memory of that day, and the look on her face. It had been two days, but it still was funny to him.

Setting down, he almost didn't notice the little nagging feeling in his back, that told him something was out of place in his tree. Ino walked up and leaned against a rock and their teacher came out too. Now it was only Chouji they were waiting on, and he came about right then. Ino and him both started fighting each other, while Asuma watched.

He couldn't stand that little annoyance any more, so he reached behind him to scratch that spot on his back, his hand brushing against paper.

Surprised, he didn't show it as he deftly plucked the note out of the crook in the tree and brought his hand to his kunai pouch, to get a kunai and to drop off the note.

He read it later at lunch, sitting in a tree instead of on the ground like normal just so they wouldn't see him reading it.

It read:

Shikamaru,

Don't know why I did this, but I am.

Been wondering also, if Ino called you away from the training field mentally, that's a powerful technique if she did.

Sasuke

Get this, place reply in tree where I sit during training for lunch.

Shikamaru tucked it into his jacket, smirking.


"Oh, so that was how that started, I always wondered..." Neji drawled, before Shikamaru took over again.


Walking back to team 7's training field after his own training, he held a note tightly in his hand. He hoped no one else was around.

Finding the tree, Shikamaru placed it on the ground and left as fast as possible, he didn't want to be seen there, someone might get suspicious and go snooping.


Naruto took it from there.


Sasuke and him had fought almost at once the next day for training, then we went to eat our lunches, Sakura offered him hers, he refused, and sat down at his tree. Naruto wasn't sure, but while he was staring at him in anger over him refusing Sakura's kindness, and that she liked him, his eyes widened slightly, before going back to his normal bastardy self.

It was then that he took to the tree branches right above him, much to their surprise, though no one said anything. Naruto was to busy with his ramen, Kakashi wasn't going to say something about a change in seating, not important really, and Sakura was just happy that she could now see his ass in the trees better than on the ground. Needless to say, she stared for the entire lunch.


"Eww. She did that?" Shikamaru asked.

"Yup! And Sasuke here didn't notice at all!" Naruto smirked.

Sasuke just looked a little embarrassed and paler than he was a few moments ago, then he regained his composure.

It was his turn anyways.

"I read it..."


Sasuke

It wasn't Ino calling me; I just knew she was coming. I left to stall her while you two got away.

It worked didn't it?

Shikamaru

Get this, put reply in same spot.

Sasuke was surprised to receive a reply, and decided to put one in the spot mentioned.

His reply was

Shikamaru

It did. Nice work. Naruto's wanting to go see you again for more 'training' against you, since you did beat him at Chess and Checkers every time.

Sasuke

Shikamaru sent a reply;

Sasuke

Anytime the punk wants to fight me, let him try.

I'll be there on Saturday, it's a free day.

Shikamaru

Naruto got a hold of this one, after Sasuke tucked it back into his pocket, it fell out when him and the dobe were walking back to their homes.

Needless to say, Naruto got into it. After he got his butt handed to him by Shikamaru over and over on that free day, he put a note in Shikamaru's tree, and Sasuke did too.

Shikamaru replied to both, and they all started conversing that way for a while, and it went well, till someone else found their notes.


"That's when I came in." Neji spoke, as they all watched Kiba and Shino set down. They had come in around the same time Sasuke told of his second note, and Chouji just after that, and sat down almost immediately.

Speaking of which, his chips were almost forgotten, only taking a bite out of them every now and then, instead of his regular inhaling pace.

"I had found Sasuke's note to him, and left one for Shikamaru myself..."


Shikamaru

What's with these notes?

Neji

Put one in my tree, top branch to the left.

He wasn't really expecting a reply, but got one, and Shikamaru explained the note deal, and Neji got in on it.

Lee also found this note on Neji, and he was soon in it too.

Then in came Chouji, Kiba, and finally Shino, who found Kiba's after he was told of the notes by Lee, who was promptly shut up by Neji and told not to tell anyone, not even Gai.

He reluctantly agreed.

After that, it was getting to be too tedious to always be writing notes to each person and going all over the place delivering them, not to mention the girls and Senseis, and regular people, were getting suspicious. So Sasuke wrote in his note to Naruto to put the next one in the big tree at the entrance to the training grounds.

Then Naruto told Shika to do that, and he told Neji, who told Kiba and Shino, and Lee just found out by being with Neji at the time, and he 'told' Chouji.


"That's when it became a habit for all of you to hop into that tree for a few seconds every day at training, isn't it?" Kakashi asked.

"Yes. We wrote the name of whoever it was we wanted our note to go to on the front part, after folding it, and placed it in their crook. Each of us had one, and if it went to all then it was in the very center. That worked well, and every now and then we'd write a note to change the tree for a few days, just to make sure no one got too suspicious." Kiba replied.

"Shino had been telling me of how Ino was so annoying, and I kept his notes in a drawer at my house." Sasuke said, giving him a glance. "And Sakura was there on one of your missions, sensei, when she got into that drawer, and read some of them. It was then that she realized that Shikamaru had a thing for Ino, and that this would make a great match, as well as get her away from me. But mainly to help you out." Shikamaru grunted. "I did stop her from reading any others, and she didn't read any of them about where we should place our notes."

There was a collective sigh. They all were nervous that maybe she had seen one, and had been reading them for who knows how long. There were some things on some of those notes that it would be very bad to have them, or anyone else, read.

"That sounds like it was fun." Kakashi's visible eye grinned.

"It was." Kiba sighed.

"Well, i've got to go; Tsunade wants me out on a reconnaissance mission for the whole week to sand, just to get some type of Kunai for Tenten's training and Sakura's medicine ingredients." The jounin left in a puff of smoke.

"Hey, remember that stupid not that Lee put there that one time?" The owner of the voice lazily asked, butterflies floating in on the breeze to tell him that his girlfriend was happy with the bees he had sent her for her garden that morning.

"Yeah! That was fun!" Naruto laughed. They all sighed collectively as they thought on that particular note.

(Yeah, guess what, another flashback!)


All the ninja had just fought off Orochimaru and one of his attacks, many of them had barely survived, and their teams had all been grouped closely together when Orochimaru himself had come up.

"Hah! Think you can protect each other if you're in a group? Pathetic!" He sneered at them.

"Take that back!" Naruto had yelled at him.

"Why should I? You can't count on someone you can't trust," He laughed his evil insane laugh, "Can you even say that you like these ninja?" That was directed at Sasuke. "Do you even like them? I suggest you come with me my lovely little eyes, since you can't answer those."

Naruto had gone demon just then out of anger, and Orochimaru had been beat back. He had retreated that day, and Konoha hadn't lost any ninja, thank Kami-sama.

Sasuke had received them two days later, when he was admitted out of the hospital, many of the others were still in. He didn't expect any notes to be in there, and had almost fallen out when he read them.

The first was from Shikamaru,

Sasuke,

I like you because of who you are to me.

A true friend, and if I don't get this back,

I'll take the hint.

Shikamaru

Sasuke stared at it for a long while, before moving on to the next, and the next, and the next. They had all snuck out of the hospital and put one in there, and they all were the same.

Even Neji had snuck out and put a note there, and he was one of those that shouldn't be awake yet, as far as Tenten was

The ninja still there just lay there on the grass, enjoying a moment of silence.

"Yosh! Sorry I'm late!" Lee called, running up the hill to the waiting group of ninja.

"Gai-sensei had me run three hundred laps around Konoha and I didn't check the tree till Akamaru came and found me!" Said dog was currently lying on his head, tongue happily lolling about out of his mouth in the same amusement that his master showed at the tree.

"Almost thought you were gonna skip out on us, that would have been so troublesome." Shikamaru said.

Once Lee made it to the crest of the hill to where they were all around the tree, the ninja all laid down and watched the clouds.


Well, kinda corny, a little-lot. (i think i'm being a little line crazy here.)

But that's the only way I could think of getting that part out as a story. Up next is…….. I think I'll just do something surprising... check it out to see it!

Oh, and review! ya want your toasted pb&j, don't-cha? And btw, if you haven't tried it in real life, do so now! it's awsome how the peanut butter melts on the warm toast, then the jelly's just perfect! and it's kinda crunchy, yet not, depending on whether or not you like your toast lightly brown, or burnt to no recognition. I like the light brown... where it's still soft, just crunchy shell.

Okay, off topic! review! Please! Kyuubi will make me the toast if there's no flames, so don't worry bout that!

Bye!