It was nighttime in Konoha and the rookie 9 were all heading home from their training. But, was there something going on that they were all unaware of? Story by: Ruri; edited by: Chima (the -smart- one) (She added that...)

Disclaimer:I do not own Naruto. If I did, I'd be bouncing off the walls too much to be writing this. Chima doesn't either because she's too un-cool.

CHIMA: Grr . . .

RURI: Whatever, dodecahedron.

CHIMA: O.O I've never been called that before . . . and I don't know what that means . . . and I'M the smart one!

RURI: And, I have no clue what a REAL sidekick is like, so this is just . . . pretend xD!

CHIMA: What she means is that she doesn't know what one is. Neither do I. This is getting too long, SORRY! (Ruri agrees)

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"Cool," Sakura said as she came to her apartment. Right above her door was a note that said:

'This is a sidekick; use it to keep in contact with others!'

She looked at the small, sparkly pink computer in her hands. She decided to try it out, and was surprised to see that she had AIM on it. Plus, she had a name already! "Hmm, so I'm PinkSaku? A bit weird, but nice all the same . . . who could of given me this?" She looked for the signature, but there was none. "Weird," she mumbled before stepping into her apartment.

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Sasuke was just going into his apartment when he noticed something: there was some paper and a navy-blue thing taped onto his door. "What is this piece of junk?" he asked to nobody in particular.

"Looks like a sidekick," some random passerby (AKA stalking fangirl) said with hearts in her eyes, not breathing for fear of him killing her with his glare. And that's what he probably would have done, had he not been wondering about the so-called 'sidekick' that had appeared out of nowhere in particular. I mean, he had heard of a blackberry, but a sidekick? Attached to the sidekick was a note, exactly like Sakura's. He turned on the sidekick and noticed that he had a screenname on AIM. Not his type of thing . . . and he was literally STEAMING when he noticed that his screenname was 'EmoBoy'. "Dumb dobe," Sasuke said, thinking that it was Naruto's prank; but, it wasn't Naruto's handwriting on the note . . .

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Ino, Shikamaru, and Chouji found the sidekicks (RURI: SP? CHIMA: Dunno . . .) as they were walking back from the training field. Ino found hers as did Shikamaru and Chouji. Ino was 'BlondYakka' and hers was sparkly dark purple, Shikamaru was 'PineappleHead' and was camouflage color (mostly green), and Chouji's was 'BigButterfly' and was lightning blue and white. They all scowled at their names and carelessly put them away: in their packs. Next to whatever weapon fate had put there. To get damaged. Hopefully.

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Kiba was just getting into the Inuzuka Manor when his sister, Hana, came bounding up to him and said, "Hey, little man! Guess what? You got a present and I'm not supposed to tell you who it's from!" and when she finished, she threw the red sidekick (RURI: Well, it was obvious, wasn't it?) at his head and ran somewhere into the forest.

"Ouch!" Kiba said, rubbing the part of his head that the sidekick had hit (near his left tattoo). "Cool," he said once he finished the letter. "Wait . . . my name's 'DogBoy'?" (RURI: thank you Neko Uno! CHIMA: Heck yeah!)

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Hinata was going through the door when she saw a light sparkly purple sidekick by her feet. "What's this?" she asked quietly to herself (RURI: She's not going to stutter in my fic 'cause it annoys me –really-). When she turned it on, she found that her screenname for AIM was 'LoveHina' (RURI: I KNOW I got that from somewhere . . . but I don't mean to copy them! It just has the 'flow', ya know? -Yay! Rhyming!-). She smiled as she stuffed the sidekick into her pocket (hiding it from her family . . . well, her father, to be more exact) as she walked through the door, finally.

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Shino was walking by a restaurant when someone chucked a small, gray thing that looked like a computer at his head. When it hit, it got stuck and then Shino exploded in a puff of beetles. (RURI: Talk about Beetle Juice, ne? -shudders­- LOL) Then, surprising a stray Sasuke fangirl, Shino reappeared next to his clone. After he reappeared, he muttered a few . . . -hem- choice words, which is VERY un-Aburame-like, picked up the sidekick, and then stared at it while walking in a precisely straight line towards his home.

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"Oi, Naruto!" The old man that owned the ramen stand Ichiraku said, holding up a (can you believe this?) orange, and blue, but mostly orange sidekick. (RURI: Could you believe that?) (CHIMA: I couldn't possibly have figured that one out.) (RURI: Grr . . .) Well, Naruto was just plain confused.

"Nani? What's this?" Naruto asked as he took the sidekick and (amazingly) turned it on.

Old man Ichiraku (I don't know his name . . . so now that's his substitute name!) laughed and said, "This is a sidekick. I'm not supposed to tell you who gave it to you. Handle it well, OK Naruto?"

"Sure," Naruto smiled and saluted his 'superior' before running off to his apartment, but still managing a scream when he (somehow) found out that AIM name was 'Orange9Tail' and jumping about three feet in the air.

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"Did they find 'em yet?" Asuma asked Sarutobi. The Rookie 9's jonin instructors were in the Hokage's room and were all gathered around his table and black, leather chair, on which Sarutobi sat.

Sarutobi looked into his glass ball which was sitting on his table and nodded, saying, "Yes, they did, and speak properly, Asuma." Asuma glared at Sarutobi, but complied anyway.

"Good," Kakashi said and the jonin all disappeared in a cloud of smoke after making a hand sign.

The Hokage looked at the now empty room and sighed, "This might take a while," he said to himself as he, too, left the room.

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RURI: Well, did like it? Do you want it to be longer? Please tell me whatcha think and feel free to give pointers/corrections!