A/N: yosh! Behold the might of…chapter sixteen! Yeah… K-chan and I are roleplaying the next few chapters. He he.. read on….

Our roleplay:

Naruto and Kikiru hurried up the stairs to the Hokage's office. Once inside they waited patiently in Tsunade's office until she cared to take notice of them.She glanced up at them. "Well. It's been awhile but I'm assigning you a new mission."

"All right! Finally! What kind?" Naruto shouted, jumping up.

"An S-rank." Tsunade sighed, handing Kikiru the papers. "It's a mission to the new sound village. They've begun the reconstruction, they no longer have Orochimaru as a Kage so they've elected their own leader and he has made plans on making a treaty with Konoha and the other five leading villages. The mission was originally assigned to just a single team. But since it's a mission involving the place where Sasuke was last spotted, I expected Naruto would find some way to come along."

"And me?" Kikiru asked.

"Well, I'd like to find out your abilities, so this is your first mission; fail and your record will be ruined in an instant."

"Okay. So what exactly are we supposed to do?"

"Well, they've requested that we send nin to help out rebuilding the village and help to build a wall around it."

"Wow…" Kikiru said, somewhat speechless.

"Who is the rest of the team?" Naruto asked as the door knocked.

"Come in!" Tsunade called as Hinata, Kiba, Jiraiya, and Shino came in.

"Hey!" Kiba yelled cheerfully, walking ahead of his teammates.

"Um…hi," Hinata said shyly, a light smile on her face, as well as a slight blush as seeing Naruto.

"Hello," Shino said in a tone-less voice, hands deep in his pockets.

"Hey everyone," Jiraiya greeted. "Are you all ready for the mission?"

"Yeah…sure..." Kikiru whispered, eyeing the team. Personally, she preferred her own team, but they didn't know about that….

"All right!" Naruto yelled, following the rest outside.

"Okay everyone. I'll give you ten minutes to get ready, then we'll be off" Jiraiya announced as the five went off in there own separate ways

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"Wow, is that all you're going to bring?" Naruto asked as the three walked to the village gates.

"That cylinder thing holds more than you think, boy." Yenmai commented.

"Really?" He asked, eyeing the container strapped to Kikiru's back.

"Yes...I got it from a…my family when I was little." Kikiru coming up with a quick answer.

"Hey there they are!" Naruto yelled, running forward towards the others. Kikiru sighed and hurried after him.

All three chuunin were carrying large backpacks filled with the supplies they needed, and so was Jiraiya.

"Got all your things?" The old man asked, looking skeptically at Kikiru's cylinder. Akamaru barked, and Kiba rubbed his head affectionately.

"We're all set," he said, grinning. "The whole team."

"Naruto? Kikiru? What about you two?" Jiraiya asked.

"Yeah. We're all...all set," Kikiru said, trailing off a bit.

Naruto looked at her and sighed, he was used to her trailing off...she was probably hiding something… but it was none of his business. He smiled as the group set off.

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"So how far away is Oto again?" Kiba asked, his arms resting behind his head as they walked along. It had been almost a day since they'd first set out,

"Far enough," Jiraiya answered, hardly showing any signs of exhaustion.

"You alright, Kikiru?" Kiba asked, turning to look at the blonde girl.

"Huh? Oh, yeah. I'm fine." She said looking up. She had been spacing out; after all, there wasn't really much to do. "How much longer til we get there?"

Shino grit his teeth. It was his most hated question: how much longer til we get there? He remembered the mission he went on with Naruto; he had been asking that question by the second. It angered him.

"Well, are we getting any closer?" Kiba asked, looking at Jiraiya curiously. Jiraiya sighed in annoyance.

"Yes, we're getting closer, but it's nighttime now; we may as well set up camp," he said. He settled himself by a tree, setting his pack down beside it and taking out his writing materials; he was going to work on the next volume of his Icha Icha series. Kiba rolled his eyes.

"Whatever," he said, choosing his own spot relatively close. Shino did the same without any complaints, as did Hinata.

"Kay," Kikiru said as she chose a place in the nook of a base of a tree. Yenmai followed her and sat patiently by her side as she pulled out (Naruto's eyes widened), a sleeping bag.

"Yeah!" Naruto said enthusiastically as he chose a spot in between her and Team #8.

"Goodnight everyone," Hinata said, pulling up her sleeping bag. Shino and Kiba both said goodnight back, and the camp became silent as they all fell asleep.

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"Ummm…Naruto-kun….Kikiru-san…it's time to wake up," Hinata said, rolling up her sleeping back. "Kiba-kun…"

Shino, who was already awake and packed, was standing calmly by a tree, Jiraiya right beside him.

"I'm awake…" Kiba yawned, stretching, Akamaru hopping off of him with a small 'yip'!

"Fine…good morning." Kikiru said, sitting up. Yenmai's head appeared from inside her sleeping bag, he yawned and climbed out.

"Odd way to start off the day, what time is it?" he asked.

"Ummm… it's six." Kikiru replied, looking up at the sun's position.

"Yes! A start to a new day!" Naruto said, jumping up, full of energy.

"Wow, so here it is, Otogakure. Kikiru said as the six stood there, awed by the massive size of the outer wall. She looked over at Jiraiya. "I thought you id it wasn't finished.
"Its not." He replied, not looking at her, his eyes were focused on a large pink sign showing a woman. His mouth watered.

Naruto looked him and sighed. "Ero-sennin." He muttered as the gates opened and the group went in.

A/N: hi again… took us forever to write this up… well, us (including K-chan and a few of our choice minions) g to the Arizona anime convention next week yaay! Well, I'm going to take my video camera and tape some of it, then put it up on the web…I'll give you the link later…

Ermmm…. Sorry, the next few chapters will take awhile to write.. if you don't like our roleplay, then complain and I shall go back to the original… I'm going to change the title of the Fanfic to Hachimata. I'm already working on the second in my series of fics, and it shall be called Love Gaara? Because it would make more sense…. the first few chapters are soo sad… made me laugh. (btw: if I laugh at something that's sad, it's normally really good, I don't have any emotions really doctors aren't sure what's wrong with me) oooh!

Kyra: I'll get around to reading your fanfic that you have 1111 odd hits… I'm too lazy to do it now… sigh…yeah! Ummm… read our other wonderful fanfics people! They are funny and some are sad! Ooh and leave reviews on them!

Dragonfly out.. (bold is my posts!)