Ah, well hello I know I've been gone for long time, it's like I died (again) or something. Well Most of what's going to happen is written out so all I have to do is type it… some how it seems harder then it was a minute ago…

Back to the Old Days

Naruto sighed at the days events, it was true, but also tiring, but he didn't mind, he enjoyed the taste of it every time. Something he missed most of his life, but maybe it's better if he has it now? That way he can remember it clearer, then again, there is that chance he could forget. He sighed, he was half wishing that he was that age, fewer things are demanded from you, and he wouldn't have to suffer with a certain someone.

They're so carefree and naïve to the world's dangers. Naruto stopped at his tracks and let out a laugh, a quiet one. That made him sound so old! He walked up the creaky worn stairs and made his way to the door, key in hand. He stopped. His apartment was off; he could smell a vague foul odor reeking through his door. He let out a small groan, not this again!

He quickly made three Kage bushin and let them wonder in the apartment. Sometimes they stayed in to get him, which he learned the hard way a month ago. He had to some thing up for a fractured wrist. He doesn't think the quite believe him.

He looked up to see one of the clones give an okay before walking in, he gagged before he even set a foot past his door. The stench was over whelming. His bushin were starting to help him clean up the mess. Of course they didn't really start till he saw all of it to explain what happened to a certain someone. It was pretty bad; the walls were covered in graffiti. Mostly of the same old same old, "Die demon" to "I hate you" To "We don't want you here! Leave!" among some form of profanity that littered it.

The sink had a half decayed fox, which upset him for one reason or another. And from the looks of it, it looked pretty young. His bed was covered in feces and urine which was pretty bad, told the bushin to stop and let them go, he wasn't going to clean this. But he was going to keep it recorded so that the Hokage could help him repair some of it. His bathroom was trashed. The sink was dismantled and the showerhead the sliced off was thrown to the mirror and obliterated it.

There was glass everywhere too, it was all over the floor, the windows were shattered and the few cups, plates and dishes were thrown on the ground as well. Some things were covered in a thick slime and was oozing. The odor alone was bad enough, a skunk's scent was better then the putrid smell it seemed to give out.

Naruto let out another sigh; it looks like he has to camp out again. They even took this week's worth of ramen. That means that he had to starve for the rest of the week, unless they do a mission. He began to list things he needed or otherwise had that was useful and wanted. He also took out a list of things that he needed to buy. He could always move somewhere else, but this was the cheapest place, and the location looked pretty good. Between the Hokage monuments and the academy, not that he went there anymore.

He quickly made a copy and stuffed it in his pocket. Of course he knew that Kakashi was watching him the whole time. Then deciding not to waste more time he took off to the Hokage tower, once there he ran up the stairs and jabbed it between the window and the frame. He quickly took off for the woods. Or at least was about to.

"Yo, Naruto, did you have a party without us?"

"No, some asses just trashed my house." Naruto folded his arms and gave an annoyed look to Kakashi.

"You know, you could always move to another place." Kakashi reasoned.

"Yeah, if I could pay for it, but then again they would find me again and you know, the cycles all over again." Naruto grinned widely. Kakashi gave him an unreadable expression. No, I can't. Kakashi thought watching Naruto cock his head to the side confused.

The day wore on and it seemed to last forever. He continued the tree climbing with other things. So the task would prove more of a challenge and it did. He wore weighted wrist and ankle bands. He had about a kilogram per limb. After five hours the strain was showing, he nearly fell sometimes. At first it seemed ridiculously light, but as the time progressed his movements became more forced.

He forced his muscles to work even harder. He began to use more chakra. Naruto growled as he forced his body to move, go, he thought as his sweat started to seep through his jacket. He slipped and fell off. He growled in frustration. Quickly discarding his jacket he muttered, "One more time," He began a jog towards the tree and quickly went up, but as soon he went up two meters his legs gave out and he fell. The dull sound of his body and the light rain that began whispered thought the night. He was fast asleep.

The next day, Naruto woke up, pretty tired, which was a little new to him, he sneezed. Hmm, that's odd. He thought before forcing himself up. He was tired, very tired. He somehow got himself cleaned up. He decided leave his jacket there and walked off to the meeting.

"Hey! Sakura chan!" Naruto said as brightly as he could, Sakura growled. Having to either ignore his voice cracking or just not noticing it at all.

"Your not allow to call me that!" she hissed, she smiled sweetly to Sasuke and giving him an adoring look to him and asked, "Sasuke kun, would you like to go out with me today?" She cooed batting her lashes lightly and blushing.

"No." He said bluntly not wanting to.

"You know Sasuke kun you're not going to get any if you act like that." They all turned to their sensei, Kakashi, who was walking up to them.

"Yo!" He said his eye curved.

"YOU'RE LATE!" Sakura screeched. To their surprise Naruto didn't join her; instead he was coughing in the background. They all turned to him.

"Any? Any what?" Naruto asked 'puzzled' to cover up is cough and to get attention away from him, which was a first. Sasuke let out a huff while a light blush graced his cheeks and looked away. Sakura turned into new shades of pink and red, most which surpassed her hair color.

"Well, today we have three D rank missions. Tomorrow we'll be meeting up with team 8, and have a mini match, but before doing just that… you all well have a team verse team match to decide between the victors, as well as who will fight who…" Kakashi drawled out seemingly bored but was thinking about the upcoming matches.

"While it's 1 vs. 1, you can watch or warm up. Or if you're great at multi-task, do both." They blinked, well, Naruto struggled to stay awake.

"Today we will, clean up a river, take care of dogs and… deliver samples… not in that order; I think we'll do the delivery first." They all took a deep breath; today was going to be a long one. They all sighed, Sasuke inwardly but sighed nonetheless.

The day wore on and team seven wasn't doing so well. They delivery was pretty vile. They had to carry stool samples and biopsies, to clinics, veterinaries and hospitals. Kakashi said that if they even dropped one, the whole group would run a lap around Konoha. Naruto nearly dropped one, but was quickly saved before its unbecoming death. Or they're death.

The next one wasn't any better. They had to clean the river, and every time they scared the fish, they had to do ten, curl ups, push ups and lunges, each. Kakashi noticed how much Naruto was panting, and seemingly to fall asleep. That's not good, he thought as he called Naruto over. Naruto still dazed made it over clumsily and fell on Sakura, his face in her bosems.

Sakura's shrieks could be heard across Konoha, "NARUTO! I'M GONNA KILL YOU!"

Across Konoha

"Zabuza, did you hear that?" Haku asked looking for the source.

"I don't want to know." Zabuza muttered his left eye twitching.

River

By now both Sasuke and Kakashi was a good distant away from the fuming girl. Naruto wasn't so lucky; he was nothing but a pile of goo oozing under her shoes by the time she was done with him. The fatigue finally caught up with him and he was out cold. Sakura flung his body aside, still panting in rage. At least he won't feel that… for now…

"Oh, ouch." Kakashi said, watching her kick in the stomach Naruto for final measures. "Sakura, why can't you ever do that on our missions?" He watched her blush and look around for her beloved.

"Huh? Oh, um… ano…" She trailed off her eyes wandering to Sasuke coyly. Kakashi did an eye roll.

"Well now that the place is… cleaner and one of the teammate is out cold by a certain someone… we can take a small break, and do the last task, hopefully Naruto would be awake by that time, if ever." Kakashi said reading his little orange book in his branch while they just took a spot on the ground. They glanced at his prone figure, with all them injures. Sakura really did a number on him…

In the end Naruto didn't wake up, so Kakashi carried him to the next destination. It was a rather large compound with the scent of dog heavy in the air. They watched Kakashi make his way to the door. To their surprise it opened revealing a woman. She peered at them; she was a mid-age woman who had known about them coming. She eyed Naruto before letting them inside the compound.

She was standing at five foot two and had long black hair and sharp eyes. She also seemed to know what you we're talking about.

Once inside, she turned to them and gave them a bow, "Konban wa, Kakashi san, Uchiha san, Haruno san… Uzumaki san?" She looked at them and then turned away. "We have the bitches in the back, they'll be the ones you'll be watching." They blinked, 'bitches'? They wondered. Sakura racked her brain.

"You mean… female dogs?" Sakura drew out slowly, slightly unsure.

"Yes, female dogs, bitches." She said as Naruto shifted seemingly nervously. They all made they're way to the kennels. What they saw surprised them. The Kennels were small rooms filled with toys, blankets and other needs. They noticed that one dog was by herself, and was bloated.

"Is she pregnant?" Sakura whispered in awe, Sasuke huffed and leaned against a nearby wall. They watched her get closer to Sakura. Making a fist she allowed the dog to sniff her.

"Yup, she's due soon. She's a German shepherd and an Ausie mix. The stud was an Irish wolfhound and Akita mix. So the pups are going to grow big. They should be good because of the traits we want from her and the stud, but the fur of the pups should be an interesting color. In the end the personalities would be defined better and we'll have to work it from there." She said, her eyes glittered at the thought. It was obvious that she loved her job.

"Your jobs are simple, just watch the dogs over next three hours, and keep a close eye on Toto." They looked at the enormous dog; her head was up to Sakura's chest.

An hour passed and they were bored. Kakashi was reading his book and Sakura was playing with the other dogs but keeping an eye on Toto, who was asleep. Sasuke, Sasuke was, well… brooding. Naruto let out a pained groan; he panted and let out a grunt as he turned to his side. They watched in interest before he bitched more about the pain. He attempted to get up and fell back to throw more profanity.

"Naruto stay still." Kakashi said his eyes on the book still. Naruto let out another moan and then fell silent. "Naruto?"

For the sake of curiosity they all came over to him, his body was relaxed but his face was marred in pain. Could it be a nightmare? They thought. His eyes opened slowly, they were unfocused for a moment. Blinking he quickly got up and looked around.

"Bathroom."

"Huh?" Sakura said puzzled, she gave him a weird look.

"I need to use the bathroom." Naruto said slightly annoyed his face downward, as he crossed his arms. Kakashi gave him directions as Sakura turned away from him, still disliking him for what happened earlier. Naruto quickly fled the scene.

"That was weird." Sakura said aloud. They couldn't help but agree, and be a little surprised that she even noticed. "Wasn't he crying?" They both looked at her, well; she was the closest to him.

Naruto came back a half hour later rubbing his stomach.

"Did something hit me in the stomach? I just threw up… ugh" Sakura blushed and started to yell at him for taking so long. Naruto claimed that he got lost.

Kakashi stared at Naruto, he was sweating, and trying to hide his pants, he was also covered in dirt nothing new, but they just came from the river, he can't get that dirty. Naruto crossed his arms and winced. Was he injured?

They all turned to a whine. Naruto looked over the door to see something he's never seen before. "The dog's taking a shit on its side!"

"Naruto! It's pregnant! It's giving birth!" Sakura cried, as Sasuke visibly flinched, they all turned to Kakashi who all but vanished. They all thought one word, Shit!

Hours later they all watched the Inuzuka team clean up the mess. Toto had nine puppies, three male and six female. They were pleased with the number of pups. They all turned to glare at Kakashi who looked at them with the book in hand.

"What?" They sighed and looked at the mother and pups.

"That was pretty cool." Naruto whispered, he watched the pups struggle to nurse.

"Yeah, that was really cool." Sakura agreed smiling at the pups. Sasuke grunted. He didn't want to say anything to this.

Well… this chapter had a few things I didn't even mean to put in… the only reason it's out right now would be because someone told me to get the next chapter up soon, to tell you all the truth I didn't think it'd be so poplar. Even if it isn't, not as it is now. --;; The weird thing is that I don't really update unless someone REALLY wants me to… soo… er…yeah…