I Don't Want to Turn into a Girl!

Warning! This story is at its end.

Dedicated to my first anime heroes Trowa Barton and Heero Yuy, somehow they shall always have that small part in my life, and, also, to Tohru Honda who is my current hero.

Chapter five: The End of the Sasuke Fanclub

Sasuke was at a standstill. The stupid cursed seal was whispering things to him. Well, not exactly whispering things to him so much as twisting his own thoughts, as if someone else were whispering to him. Also the creep who gave the cursed seal to him, Orochimaru, had sent some of his lackeys to test and entice Sasuke, which is both working and disgusting him all at the same time. Things were starting to feel like those showdowns where everyone is waiting for one or the other person to make their move just so you can figure out who'll win. The worst part is trying to figure out what it is that he should do. Firstly he needs to get stronger. His confrontation with both Gaara and his brother showed him that he couldn't kill his said brother at his current strength.

Next he needs to figure out which decision would bring about the best results for his future. Heero may have started out trying to kill himself, but in the end, especially during Endless Waltz, he really did try to live for the future. So like Heero, Sasuke wants to do something that would help his future.

An idea came to Sasuke while he was watching another marathon of Gundam Wing with Naruto. By now most of the characters have become his favorite. His absolute favorite is still Heero, but he admires things about several of the others as well. While taking a page from two of the characters, he decided upon a plan. He only hoped that Naruto would understand.

After finishing his plan, Sasuke nudged Naruto to signal that he could use the guest room again before going to bed in his own room.

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When Naruto got home for the first time after his first failed mission, he found a note addressed to him in his mailbox from Sasuke. At first Naruto was so upset at what Sasuke had done that he refused to read the letter, as if by not reading the letter he was ignoring the one who wrote it. Once the very presence of the letter was too much to ignore, Naruto tried to tear the letter into itty-bitty pieces, several times in fact. He just couldn't bring himself to do it. Then Naruto started to rant at the letter. Finally Naruto read the note wondering why Sasuke would bother to write him a letter before going on to…

Having read the letter Sasuke had left for him, Naruto felt better about the future. The hardest part would be keeping the letter and the plan described in it a secret. He fell asleep while thinking about the plan they were going to enact in the future.

After Naruto had been asleep for some time, Kakashi came into Naruto's apartment through an open window. Kakashi was so incredibly glad that his student was safe and alive. He'd been having a nightmare about his former comrades earlier and had to check up on the only student that he could. Whatever possessed Sasuke to do something like he did was something that Kakashi couldn't figure out.

Kakashi smiled briefly when Naruto turned around in his sleep and mumbled something about ramen. It is surprising how much Naruto reminds him of Obito. They both are in his memories as being mostly smiling idiots who are at their most impressive when it's needed most and they care so much for their comrades, probably more than is deserved in some cases.

Kakashi felt like a failure. There should have been something he could have done to prevent the events that took place. Something, anything, yet… He can't think of anything he could have done different. Not that he would have been able to do anyway. He just is going to work to do better in the future. Because… he doesn't want to find any of his students so near death ever again.

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The official Sasuke fanclub was disbanded shortly after Sasuke's defection from Kanoha. There was one that was started in Sound about that same time, but this story will not be talking about that.

The Sasuke fanclub was disbanded and all across Kanoha hearts were broken while managing to be both disappointed and mad at Sasuke for leaving Kanoha. Yep, it was a sad time in Kanoha for the girls. They tried to change the Sasuke fanclub into another fanclub, but the results were almost as disappointing as Sasuke's departure was.

They initially tried to change their focus to Neji at first. It seemed like a natural choice too. The problem came when they tried to do reconnaissance work on him. Sure most, if not – all, of them knew by now that Hyuugas could see behind themselves, but Neji wasn't as nice as Hinata was. To be more accurate, during their first reconnaissance work on him, Neji told them, "I don't want a fanclub. If I catch any of you following me around like you girls did with that backstabbing traitor, you will not like the consequences."

So the Neji fanclub was yanked to a grinding halt before it gained any momentum. Then there was an anonymous request for a Kakashi fanclub, which was promptly discarded with a resounding "Eeewww!" much to Ayame's (from Ichiraku Ramen) disappointment. The last request taken was given by Hinata, which because it was Naruto she wanted the fanclub to about, it was also shot down immediately.

It came to the point that they had to realize that there would be no replacing the Sasuke fanclub. Yet, they all wanted to continue to get together to things together. There are so few kunoichi compared to male ninjas. They really just wanted some atmosphere where they could all commiserate and share things with each other. They didn't know what to call it, so after some voting and serious consideration the new club was dubbed the Kunoichi Club. It's not the most original name, but it does serve its purpose. This club Hinata and several older kunoichi joined. The older kunoichi would have joined if the club had been the Kakashi fanclub, but alas it was never to be.

After the club's focus had changed, they found that they had more time to do at lot of the fun things they couldn't before. Reconnaissance work had apparently taken up more time than they had originally thought.

A year or so after the Kunoichi club had started; a party that would bleed into a sleep over was taking place. After the party had died down and only those who were staying the night were left, a game of truth or dare had begun.

"So, Ino, truth or dare," Sakura taunted.

"Dare," Ino answered haughtily, as if daring Sakura to do her worst.

"Okay, I dare you… to…," Sakura bit her lip as she tried to think of a really good dare, "Oh! I know. I dare you to call up Lee-san and tell him that you think his eyebrows are cute."

There was an echo of "eeewwww" that went across the room.

"Put it on speaker phone; I want to hear his reaction," Tenten said as Ino was dialing Lee's phone number. Ino growled in response.

"Hello, this is the Rock residence and I, Lee, is speaking," Lee said.

"Hi," Ino said with the sexiest voice she could muster under the circumstance, "I've called to tell you that I think your eyebrows are the cutest eyebrows that I have ever seen." Ino grimaced at her own words while all the other girls in the room were trying to contain their giggles.

After a short bout of silence, Lee said, "As grateful as I am for such a fine compliment on my own natural beauty, I have to tell you that I do not think of you that way. I apologize Ino-san that I cannot return your feelings. Not that I do not think that you are pretty or a great kunoichi. It is that the eternal flame of my love is dedicated to the beautiful flower known as Sakura-san. I hope that I have not hurt your feelings to irreparable measures, but I thank you for your compliment. Oh, no! I fear I have hurt your feelings terribly! To make up for it I, Lee, shall have to train harder! Yes, I shall run 3,000 laps around Kanoha and give every young girl a daisy as punishment. I have to go now Ino. I need to get started on collecting daisies and running my laps." And then Lee hung up.

Everyone was so surprised by the turn of event that all they could do for a while was sit there and blink. Then Tenten said, "I guess I should have expected him to react like that."

A half an hour later it was Tenten's turn. "Alright, Hinata, truth or dare?" Tenten asked.

"Um… T-t-tr-uth," Hinata stuttered as if afraid that she had given a wrong answer.

"Hhmmm… What is the most romantic thing that has ever happened to you?" Tenten asked. Hinata promptly turned pale and then blushed, only to repeat the process all over again.

"Come on Hinata. You don't have to be embarrassed," Ino said.

"Yeah, none of us will make fun of you or tell anyone about this," Sakura said.

"Yep, what happens at this party stays at this party," Tenten said while Ino nodded her agreement.

"Okay. Well once, before Naruto-kun had left with Jiraiya-san, I found a penny on the ground and picked it up. Naruto must have seen me because he asked, 'Hey Hinata, what'cha got there?' I was so nervous that I only showed him the penny I had found. He look at a while and said, 'Cool! It was made the same year that I was born' I looked at the penny and eventually stuttered out that I was born in the same year. To which he said, 'That's really cool. Hey, I heard that if you find a penny on the ground and pick it up you'll have good luck the rest of the day. I found a penny too, see.' He showed me a penny that he took out of his back pocket and then said, 'I have an idea. Since we both found pennies today, why don't we trade? It'll be kind of like trading luck.' So we traded pennies," Hinata said fairly quickly with both a healthy blush and a far away look in her eyes.

"Knowing Naruto though, you probably had the worst day of your life after trading pennies," Sakura said.

"Well, not really. While a bucket of fishy water was dumped on me causing all the cats in Kanoha to follow me around until Akamaru barked at them and I was able to dunk in a river somewhere, I did win several prizes for three contests that I never entered in," Hinata said.

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Time was coming closer everyday to the time in which he'd need to enact his part of the plan that Sasuke had thought out. Though now that he had time to really think the plan through all the way, it seemed lacking somehow. Naruto kept trying figure out what it was that the plan was missing only to be figuratively staring a blank spot. It's like looking at a shadow that you know you should be able to identify and yet are not able to. It was bothering him so bad that he eventually decided that to ask Iruka for advice, well in a round about sort of fashion he did. What Iruka told him was that Naruto should ask for help from someone who can plan strategies well. Since Naruto didn't want to bother Shikamaru about this, he decided to ask Kakashi instead.

When he got to Kakashi, he started trying to ask for advice in a round about manner, but Kakashi wouldn't have it. So after showing Kakashi the letter and explaining what he thought was wrong, Kakashi stood there stunned. Firstly he couldn't believe that Naruto kept this secret so well and for so long. Also he couldn't believe that this was the plan that Sasuke had left Kanoha for. It was a simple plan really, but Naruto is correct, this plan of Sasuke's contains a great many holes. After Kakashi got over the surprise of the situation, he told Naruto he'd think it over and will tell him what he comes up with.

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Sasuke was really surprised to find Naruto while he was taking his turn of border patrol.

"Shit, what are you doing here?" Sasuke hissed out.

"I need to tell you that the plan has been change a bit," Naruto whispered.

"What do you mean?" Sasuke asked while looking around to make sure that the others in his hasn't noticed that he isn't with them at the moment.

"Well, I kept thinking over the plan over and over again, and it seemed to me that there was something missing. So I asked Kaka-sensei for his opinion. So with Ero-sennin, Kaka-sensei, and I working together, we slightly changed the plan," Naruto said.

"Why'd you tell them? Is there anyone else you've told?" Sasuke asked in a fit of paranoia.

"Calm down, only those two know. Kaka-sensei was told 'cause I think he can keep a secret and well let's just say Ero-sennin was in the same genin team as Orochimaru was," Naruto said.

"So, he loves getting one up on Orochimaru," Sasuke finished. Naruto nodded his confirmation.

"Okay, hurry up and tell me the plan," Sasuke said.

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It really is a better plan than the one that he thought up all those years ago, Sasuke thought as he was leaving the dungeon. Naruto currently is "unconscious" in the dungeon; Sasuke really doesn't know if Naruto is faking or not. Right now, Sasuke is on his way to tell Orochimaru that he found Naruto on the outskirts of Sound.

Since Sasuke is going to tell Orochimaru that he hadn't asked why Naruto was where he was, Sasuke is going to find a way for it to be him that interrogates Naruto. Naruto is going to purposely say something that will give Sasuke a chance to pass on a key when he reacts to what Naruto will say.

Next, both Sasuke and Naruto will wait for the signal from Jiraiya and/or Kakashi. It'll be a loud explosion of some sort. Jiraiya will be the first to make a big production of things and distract everyone, somewhere around the front gates of Sound. Kakashi meanwhile while cause a distraction in random spots. Meaning that he will have set up something to go wrong, like a broken water main, in one spot and then he will personally be somewhere else causing the last part of the distraction that is needed. After hearing an explosion, Sasuke is to meet Naruto, who should have gotten free by then, at the entrance to the dungeons. Before leaving Sound entirely, Naruto will do a mass production kage bunshin no jutsuto help in making distractions. Then together they will escape into the forest and meet Kakashi and Jiraiya outside the Northern Sound border.

There is a lot that could go wrong, but Sasuke is certain that it has a good chance to work. After all it isn't as if anyone is trying to invade Sound, their just trying to be a big nuisance and cause a lot of noise.

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Hello everyone. I apologize that it took so long for this to get this finished. I had the hardest time figuring out how to end it. I hope that all of you have enjoyed reading this story as I have had writing it. Thank you for reading my story.

Naruto © Masashi Kishimoto