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Chapter 3: Ero-sennin, Hidden Move.

The four jounins looked at the big gate connecting Konoha to the outside world. Temari and Shikamaru holding hands and smiling at each other and Kankurou walking all spaced-out, thinking. Naruto was carrying the still unconscious sannin over his shoulders, wrapped in bandages, just like Kankurou's puppet. A smile came over Naruto's face when he saw Genma standing as the gatekeeper with Raidou.

"Welcome back, Naruto-san!" Genma screamed and waved at the sametime.

"Thank you Genma-nii-san." Naruto answered with the usual high pitch sceam that only he was able to do.

"Have you started to use puppets!" Raidou asked as they walked through the gates.

"Nope, Ero-sennin" Naruto chuckled.

"Ah, again?" Genma asked trying to be polite and pushing back the laughter in his throat.

"You know Nara Shikamaru? Temari and Kankurou?" Naruto continued.

"Yes, Shikamaru-san. It's very nice to see you again. But the other two, I don't recognize, Temari and Kankurou? Raidou concluded.

"This is the Kazekage's older sister Temari and the Kazekage's older brother Kankurou." Naruto also added:

"Don't make a move on her, she's Shikamaru's."

"I don't belong to anyone." Temari hissed.

"Troublesome woman" Shikamaru said and put his arm around her waist pulling her closer to him, smiling, not smirking.

He pulled her in to a kiss and she didn't struggle, she giggled like a little school girl looking at Shikamaru like he was the sexiest, smartest and most wonderful man in the entire world.

Kankurou gave the two jounins the scroll allowing them to pass though the gates, but they wanted to escort the party to the Hokage tower, Genman and Raidou looked at each other. Both closing their right hands, they counted to three and then it was settled. Genma's rock beat Raidou's scissors, so Genma was the one with the honours of escorting Kankurou, Temari, Shikamaru, Naruto and the still unconscious Jiraya to Hokage Tsunade's office.

Tsunade's office.

"Enter" they heard a voice behind the closed doors.

"Hokage-sama, some visitors for you." Genma said as he opened the door, but before he knew it Naruto jumped in and screamed:

"Tsunade-baa-san, Ero-sennin has done it again"

"How bad is it this time?"

"Bad, really bad!" the blond yelled.

"Have you followed the standard procedures?"

"Hai" Naruto sighed "Not even the secret move you made years ago for this kind of occasions worked"

"What!" The hokage exclaimed "Not even the 'Thousand years of pain'?"

At this point Shikamaru and the sand siblings started to look really concerned, both because the perverted man didn't seem to be curable and because there was a procedure for this kind of events.

"Aaah, not again." the blonde, big breasted woman sighed and continued:

"Please, Genma, get Shizune here as soon as you can."

Only a few minutes passed, Naruto put down the nose bleeding man with a thump. Tsunade and Temari was talking quietly and a blush came over the younger woman's cheeks.

Then Shizune slammed the door open as she screamed:

"Pervert, how dare you make me do this again" obviously referring to Jiraya.

"Have you briefed Temari-san yet?" she continued as she obviously was working up her temper and with that her body heat.

"Yes, now this a super secret hidden move of Konoha, you will never tell anyone that you saw this. And only use it at these kinds of emergencies, have I made myself clear!" Tsunade said with her most strict voice.

"Hai, Hokage-sama" Shikmaru and Kankurou agreed.

"Just get it over with" Naruto murmured and put some cotton pads up his nose while he sat down. 'Lucky Genma got out of this one' he thought.

Shikamaru and Kankurou starred at each other and wondered what it was all about, they sat down in the red couch next to the door. Shrugged it away and watched the three women drinking one cup sake each.

They (the women) looked at each other and Tsunade took the lead…

"It's so hot in here, I might have to take some clothes of…" she smiled seductively and licked her lips.

"I don't know why, but I feel the same." Temari said and waved her fan towards Shizune. Obviously she never had done anything like that, she tried the best that she could.

"Aaaah, Temari-san you really make me feel sooo…" Shizune said seductive with her eyes half closed moving her body in ways that was far to hot to be just inappropriate.

She couldn't get another word out before Jiraya wass sitting up watching the women with a notepad in his left hand and a pen in his right. Naruto on the other hand laid on the floor growling and bleeding a lot from his little nose, he could never get used to this. Oh yeah, it had happened before, and only Tsunade and Shizune knew how to get him out of it. Now they had taught Temari.

Shikamaru was stunned, he had never seen anything like that before, he didn't know Temari could be so tempting. And next to him Kankurou sat immobilized he did not want to see his older sister act like that, it scared the living daylight out of him.

Then they realized that even Shikamaru's nose had begun bleeding, Jiraya was a little tipsy from the blood loss and Kankurou scared out of his wits.

Naruto calmed himself down and said:

"Why don't you ever give me any hints before you're getting it on. This time I had time to stop the blood, but next time, will I have the time?"

"Don't be such a baby" Tsunade said and sat down in front of him, releasing chakra from her hand and healing the vessels in his nose.

"Thank you baa-san, you might have to take care of Shikamaru now, he doesn't look too good." Naruto said and rubbed his nose.

"You're right, but I thought he'd already seen everything about Temari-san." Tsunade joked and leaned down towards the bleeding man on her couch healing his nose too.

"Wakie wakie, Kankurou-san" Shizune said and snapped her fingers in front of his face and he answered:

"Nobody should ever see their sister act like that"

He shrugged and heard the chorus of rumbling stomachs.

Jiraya looked at his student, he said:

"Shall we get going and maybe eat some ramen before the briefing?"

"Yey, RAMEN!" Naruto screamed and jumped up and down.

"Are you kids coming to?" the perverted old man asked his student's old friends. Shikamaru looked at his girlfriend and her brother and the three of them nodded.

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Ichiraku ramen place

"Ramen, ramen, ramen…" Naruto sang to himself.

"Dobe" Shikamaru laughed, Naruto hadn't changed that much over the last two years.

"Hi...Naruto-kun…" he heard a light voice behind him, it was a woman. Her pale face and the light violet eyes, she was absolutely a Hyuuga, it was Hyuuga Hinata!

"Hello Hinata-chan" Naruto squeaked, they had formed a relationship how cute. And good for Hinata, maybe she wasn't that shy anymore.

"Hi Hinata-sama" Hinata turned around to be eye to eye with Nara Shikamaru, he hadn't been home in two long years. She would know, since her friend Ino had come to her crying her eyes out because he had left for a mission, and now he was back. Holding the hand of a very beautiful woman at his side, Hinata recognized her but couldn't put a name to that lightly tanned face next to Shikamaru.

"Oh…Hi…Shikamaru-san. It was… it has been… long time…" Hinata murmured poking her index fingers together.

"Still the same Hinata… You remember Temari, Gaara's sister?" Shikamaru continued.

"Hai." Hinata answered and looked at the time, she continued looking at Naruto:

"eeh… I'm going to meet the others… at… the academy… I thought maybe… you'd like to come…"

"I will, after we have had our mission briefing at Tsunade's. Where and when?" Naruto was hyper as always.

"Um… at… the academy… we can wait for you there… Tenten is teaching there now… with Iruka-kun" Hinata said under her voice.

"Yosh, we'll see you there." Shikamaru said and paid for the ramen that he and the sand siblings had eaten. Kankurou was still sitting in his own thoughts, he had seen his sister being sexy and seductive twice now, he was completely out of it. The now full men and Temari made their way back to the Hokage tower to continue this briefing of the Top Secret Mission.

'Iruka-kun!' Shikamaru thought 'Did she, no, she couldn't have, not the shy Hinata. Or could she?'

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Tsunade's office

"So, Shikamaru, Temari and Kankurou, what is this Top Secret Mission about?" Tsunade was really curious.

The two sand ninjas looked at each other and nodded towards Shikamaru who murmured:

"Troublesome…"

Tsunade turned towards Shikamaru looking into his dark eyes and smiled.

"This is a high rank, S-rank mission from Baki-sama in Sand, and what ever you may hear, you can not tell the Kazekage. Understood?" Shikamaru said and nodded at Temari.

She began doing some hand movements and said:

"Silent Wall!"

Kankurou nodded and looked out the window, the view was magnificent.

Shikamaru continued:

"As I was saying, no one can tell Gaara-sama, because the mission is about him. He has been depressed, from what I understand, when Akutski took the Shukaku out of him. And we really don't want him to be depressed…"

"I don't understand…" Tsunade was confused, looking at the young man standing face to face with her.

"We need him to relax, we need a girlfriend for him, Gaara shouldn't be alone anymore. The mission is; Get Gaara a girlfriend." Shikamaru said and Tsunade could only stare at him.

"What?" was the only word she could get out of her.

"You heard me." Shikamaru snorted.

Naruto and Jiraya looked at each other and burst out laughing, tears running down their cheeks and what else could they do. The thought of Gaara dating someone that he didn't want to, maybe he was gay, had they even thought about that.

"And as for you laughing, it's nothing to joke about. You really haven't met him in a long while have you." Temari said with tears in her eyes continuing, while a single teardrop travelled down her cheek:

"He just sits there staring either out the window dreaming or dives in to the papers on his desk."

"Okay, we will help. What can we do?" Jiraya, who had got a grip on himself and smiled at Temari said.

They told them about the plan, a celebration for the Kazekage's 20th birthday, the girls and how Baki had told them. And how Gaara almost found out when he stepped in to the conference room.

"How nice, you really care about Gaara-sama don't you" Tsunade said to the sand siblings.

"Yes, he has changed. Since he met Naruto he isn't the same, but im not complaining, I love the new Gaara. But then again I would always love my brother." Kankurou said, knowing Temari felt the same.

"Baa-san, we should get to the academy soon, everyone are waiting for us. Should we tell them about the party and invite them?" Naruto said, actually having a bright moment when he used his head.

"That would be a wonderful thing to do Naruto. When are we going to leave for sand, Temari-san?" Tsunade smiled.

"That would probably be about tomorrow, noonish." Temari answered looking at Shikamaru continuing:

"Because I'm going to meet Shikamaru's parents later this evening."

"First time, ne?" Tsunade said with a smirk.

"Yes, I want to make a really good impression on them…" Temari murmured.

"That won't be a problem, Shikaku-san and Yoshino-san are nice people. And you are nice, you've changed our lazy-boy here to a almost marry – kind – of – man." Tsunade chuckled.

Shikamaru just stared at the two women talking and he shook his head, his mother was going to kill him, he had found someone to love, and not introduced her immediately. But he would do anything for Temari, but only for her. The youngsters started to walk to the academy, where Naruto saw Tenten and Neji in a liplock, he just couldn't resist screaming:

"Neji-kun, how could you! Without telling me!"

Neji and Tenten broke the kiss, and glared at the blonde standing with the sand siblings and Shikamaru.

"Hi, lazy, how are you doing!" Neji said referring to Shikamaru and walked with the others into the school premises.

"Better than you, I don't have to deal with Naruto so often, every year, not every day" Shikamaru smirked.

"Hello, we are here! Sakura-chan!" Naruto screamed and found Sakura and Rock Lee doing rock, scissors and paper. Sakura squeaked, she had won and Lee started to do sit-ups and push-ups.

Temari was nervous. Very nervous.

Sakura came to Naruto and Shikamaru who were standing at the door.

"Hi, Shikamaru-kun" Sakura said in her sweetest voice.

"You'd better not do that or the future mrs Nara will kick your butt." Naruto laughed.

"Shut up dobe!" Sakura screamed, took a deep breath and continued:

"Future mrs Nara, who is it Shikamaru? Someone I know?"

"Hi Sakura, I think you recognize her, honey, come here will you?" Shikamaru said and beamed of a wonderful smile in the direction of a tanned blonde woman. He put his arm around her and said:

"You remember Temari, right Sakura."

"Ah, Temari-san welcome, you are the sister of your hunky Kazekage right?" Sakura said with a sparkle in her eyes.

"Yes actually, he is my little brother. And he is not hunky…" Temari shrugged.

"Now do you understand how I've been feeling all the time, with Shika-san and you going at it every minute of every day, by the way, I'm Kankurou the middle sibling of us three." Kankurou said and nodded at Shikamaru and Sakura.

Shikamaru looked around, they were all here, rookie nine and team Gai. They were all there, this was wonderful, now he could tell everyone at the same time, and he did – not about the Gaara needs a girlfriend part, but everything else. When he took up the list of women, he quickly realized that he should remove Tenten from this list.

They all decided that they should meet at the gates around noon the day after by the big gates leading out of Konoha. Sakura promised that she would tell the Hokage about their plans.

Temari was still nervous, she wasn't the person that was easily scared, but she really was afraid of meeting Shikamaru's parents. What if they didn't like her, what if they had chosen another girl for him to marry…

She was afraid, very afraid...