Naruto vs Sasuke: The Aftermath

by Kingkakashi

At the Valley of the End, Sasuke nearly kills Naruto and it affects everyone in many ways. See a vastly different direction after this battle to the Naruto story, than what the Canon did. There will be action, surprises, & romance NarxHin KakxKur JirxTsu & many more. Warning be prepared for the most Evil Sadistic Sasuke ever, and Sakura takes a beating in the early chapters. Enjoy!

71. The Night of the Hookers Pt2

Summary: As Naruto, Kakashi, and Jiraiya settle into their new lives back home. Each of them take on new roles, as their time away, life has brought many changes into their lives. One new change has is the shocking revelation Naruto has just discovered of his true heritage to the infamous Sannin Tsunade and Jiraiya. How will he react to this knowledge and what will it mean to the people closest to Naruto?

Naruto vs. Sasuke: The Aftermath

Chapter 71: "The Night of the Hookers Pt.2"

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As the "Dirty Dozen" were marching their way to the Royal Plaza Penthouse Suite. Certain select men who were attending the bachelor party were blissfully unaware of the impending storm heading towards them. One of these men at the party was Shikaku Nara who currently sat across a poker table from another potentially doomed soul and studied him intently for a few minutes, before the man finally said.

"I'm all in."

"You're trying to scare me off with a bet like that Master-Jiraiya. However, with my current hand, mathematically I have an 84% chance of winning going into the river. So I believe you're bluffing with that bet and that you're chasing a flush."

"If you believe that Shikaku, then call my all-in bet." Jiraiya confidently declared.

"I should, but that 16% is still...troublesome."

Shikaku rested his chin on the knuckles of his hands and stared at the cards out on the table. He was positive his set of jacks was the best hand at that moment. But that damn diamond draw sitting on the board was most annoying to him. Staring, the Nara heir quickly ran through his mind how the hand had played out and all the possible outcomes leading to this point. He finally deduced that the only way the Toad-Sannin could win was on a massive bluff, which is what he appeared to be trying to pull off. Either that or the man was a total idiot and had stuck with a complete garbage hand of suited diamonds, but Shikaku assured himself that couldn't be the case. He had made a sizable pre-flop raise with his A-J and continued with a large bet on the turn when two more jacks had come out on the flop giving him a set of jacks. So the pot had grown to one of the biggest of the night and the hand had garnered a sizable crowd around the table eager to see what the outcome would be.

"Who do you think is going to win?" Naruto whispered to Shikamaru.

"Judging by what I observed as the hand played out, I think my father will with his trip jacks, unless Master-Jiraiya played like a fool with a trash hand of suited diamonds."

"Well you know your pops better than anyone else." Kiba remarked, as he stood next to Naruto on the other side of the blonde shinobi.

"It's troublesome, but I call." Shikaku announced.

Shikaku flipped over his cards first showing his set of jacks, earning nods and murmuring's of approval from the crowd around the table. Jiraiya saw the set and also nodded his head and said in compliment.

"Good call, but I'm feeling lucky."

The Toad-Sage turned over his cards showing a 6 and 9 of diamonds, which brought about a chorus of groans from the crowd. For his part, Shikaku slapped his hand to his forehead and grumbled in annoyance.

"You called all those bets I made and then went all-in with that!"

"What, that's my favorite hand, I like 69." Jiraiya replied in amusement, as several people snickered at the double-entendre of his declaration.

"What's so funny?" Naruto asked in confusion.

Kiba leaned over and began whispering in his friend's ear. As Naruto listened, he blushed a bit, before he openly commented in surprise when Kiba was done.

"So that's what it's called."

Kiba groaned in response, as a disturbing picture of his friend and Hinata suddenly popped into his head.

There was a hushed silence, as the dealer tapped the table and turned over the final card revealing much to Shikaku's great irritation a 2 of diamonds. The crowd around the table erupted in shock upon seeing the conclusion of the poker hand, before most of them drifted away and resumed partying.

"Thank you Kami!" Jiraiya shouted with elation, before he happily began pulling towards him the sizable pot that sat on the table.

"What a drag." Shikaku uttered in disgust, as he watched the Toad-Sannin rake in the pot.

"Oh cheer up my friend, you're still the chip bully at this table and have been for virtually the entire night. Inoichi casually remarked.

"You know what they say Shikaku, unlucky at cards, lucky at love." Teuchi Ichiraku, stated in mirth at the Nara patriarchs demeanor, as he tossed his ante onto the table.

"Yeah, that's true." Shikaku said in agreement.

"How can you say that dad? You're always complaining about mom." Shikamaru queried in confusion.

"No son, I'm always complaining about marriage, there's a difference."

"But Shikaku-san, if you love someone shouldn't you marry them." Naruto asked in curiosity.

"Well, that's what mankind has conditioned ourselves to do over the centuries, but I'm not entirely certain it was the right thing to do. Because women hope men will change after marriage, but they don't; and men hope women won't change, but they do."

"I don't understand, is there some sort of secret to a happy marriage?"

"Gentlemen, I think it's time we pass on some of our knowledge about marriage and women to the youth of tomorrow." Shikaku declared to the other players, before answering Naruto's question.

"Naruto, the secret of a happy marriage forever remains a secret."

"That's not true Shikaku, the secret to a happy marriage is accepting that one person is always right and the other is the husband." Hanshiro Sato stated with a chuckle, before looking directly at Neji and adding.

"Something you should always remember my dear son-in-law."

"Actually, I believe the secret to a happy marriage is having the freedom to do whatever your wife tells you." Teuchi asserted, before glancing at Kiba, who gulped nervously.

"I think you're both wrong, the secret to a happy marriage is the husband must learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open." Inoichi proclaimed, in amusement.

"So what all of you are saying is that a happy marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway?" Kakashi openly asked his fellow players at the table.

"Exactly!" Shikaku exclaimed, while Inoichi, Hanshiro, and Teuchi nodded their heads in agreement.

"You guys make it sound like marriage is a battle or something?"

"In a way it is Naruto, but it's a battle where you actually sleep with the enemy. Also you're never going win the battle, only surrender."

"What does that mean dad?"

"Son, being married is like this. A man who surrenders when he's wrong, he is…. HONEST. A man who surrenders when he's not sure, he is…. WISE. And a man, who surrenders even if he's right, is a…. HUSBAND." Shikaku decreed to his son and friends.

"But Shikaku-san can't marriage also exist with love and compromise?" Naruto fretfully asked.

"With love you are correct, but do you know what the definition of compromise is in a happy marriage?"

Naruto shook his head at the Nara clan head.

"Compromise is an amiable arrangement between a husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way."

"Kami dad, if being married is so difficult, then why did you marry mom in the first place?" Shikamaru questioned in bewilderment.

"I married your mom because I love her and even the toughest woman will show a softer side to the man she loves."

A pall of silence fell over the poker table, as everyone contemplated everything that had been discussed the past few minutes, before Shikamaru finally asked with sarcasm.

"Any other pearls of wisdom, you guys want to impart upon us about women and marriage?"

"Just one, and it's vital that you remember this above anything else."

"What's that Shikaku-san" Kiba questioned.

"Women lie!"

"Huh, that's not true, Hina-hime has never lied to me." Naruto proclaimed defensively.

"Perhaps not now, but she will after you're married."

"It's sad but true Naruto. When your wife says, "I won't be mad" she's lying." Teuchi morosely said.

"Or when your wife says, "I don't care, you choose" she's lying." Hanshiro offered grimly.

"How about when your wife says, "You don't have to ask permission to go out with your friends" she's lying. Inoichi followed in equally a grim tone.

"And then there is the ultimate lie that all wives throughout time have hit their husbands with. Shikaku vehemently declared.

"What's the ultimate lie?"

"When a wife says, "I want you to be honest with me – do I look fat in this?" she's lying."

Once again a heavy silence seemed to envelope those at and around the poker table, until after a minute Naruto exclaimed in disbelief.

"Oh come on, all that stuff can't be true."

Iruka who had remained silent, as his fellow poker players expressed their insights on the institute of marriage and women in general, cleared his throat and regretfully said.

"Ahem, I don't have the extended years of being married that Shikaku and the others have had, as I've only been married a few years. However, I can say that much of what they've said is both accurate and unfortunately…..true."

A visage of horror spread across the faces of those young men who were recently married or about to get married upon hearing Iruka's mournful confirmation.

"Oh, there is one other piece of advice, if you ever think you are in so much trouble with your woman, that nothing you say can get you out of it. Don't even let her speak, just rise up and plant the most loving kiss you can upon her lips." Shikaku declared in earnest.

"And that will get you out of trouble?" Kiba asked.

"Probably not, but there are those rare occasions that it will. But even if it doesn't, if you've done the kiss right, it might lessen the amount of punishment you're going to receive from them."

Kakashi dropped his cards and announced to his fellow players at the poker table, as he rose from his seat.

"Kami, after hearing all of that, I need a drink!"

"Me too!" Naruto, Shikamaru, Kiba, and Neji proclaimed in unison.

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As the night wore on, the party was still going full blast. Genma sauntered up to the bar to get a refill and turned around to view all the party-goers. As he scanned the room, he noticed Kakashi off in a corner by himself with his nose buried in one of Master Jiraiya's literary works. Shaking his head in disappointment, Genma decided it was time to give his former teacher his gift and made his way over to Kakashi and stated.

"Senpai, I'm concerned."

"About what?"

"This is your bachelor party, but you haven't had sex with anyone yet."

"Well, get a few more drinks into me, we'll dance and see what happens." Kakashi lightheartedly joked.

"Come on, I've got something even you can't resist." Genma declared with confidence.

"You do?"

"You remember Asami?"

"Asami, I'm a mortal man Genma, of course I remember Asami."

"You remember how crazy she was about you?"

"Asami was crazy about me?"

"Oh, Kakashi-kun, you're so funny!" Genma mimicked in a squeaky female voice, before adding

"I told her that you were about to be put on the unavailable list. So, she decided to come over and give you a little something."

"She did!"

"Right in there."

"The bedroom? Asami's in the bedroom?"

"You got it."

"Asami is in the bedroom." Kakashi repeated in a slightly quivering voice.

"Go on Senpai, Heaven awaits."

"Oh... well now, Genma this is a gift I never expected."

"I knew you would love it." Genma said with a smile.

"How can I... how can I turn this down?" Kakashi stammered in uncertainty.

"You can't."

"I guess I can't."

"Oh my, Asami...? Kakashi uttered in disbelief.

"Yeah."

"Oh hell, all right, all right, I will." Kakashi finally exclaimed, before he jokingly stated.

"If I'm not back in half an hour, call the Medic-Nin's."

"All right, that's the old Senpai I remember!"

Kakashi exhaled a deep breath, as he hesitantly entered the bedroom and called out.

"Hello?"

The room is dark, except for a lighted lamp on the nightstand. Suddenly there is movement in one corner of the room, as Asami walks toward Kakashi. The light illuminates her, as Kakashi gulped nervously he sees what has to be one of truly the most beautiful woman on earth. Asami is totally nude and is such a vision that she would make any man want to screw her and ask questions later.

"Oh Kami, kill me now." The silver-haired Jounin softly said.

Asami walks over to the bed and seductively lies upon it, before she uttered three words in as sensual a voice that would shatter a holy man's resolve.

"Please Take me."

Kakashi was no holy man and practically dissolved into a puddle upon hearing those words and his legs seemed to move on their own, as he stepped towards the bed.

Just then a strange thing happened to Asami's face, as it suddenly transformed into Kurenai's. Kakashi stopped dead in his tracks and vigorously shook his head, as he can't believe it's Kurenai's face now on Asami's body, which spoke to him.

"You promised me, Kashi-kun. You promised you wouldn't make love to anyone else. Why would you betray me?"

Kakashi is shaken by this as he shook his head again and wiped at his eyes. Looking back at Asami, he breathes a sigh of relief, as Kurenai's face is gone. Kakashi moved toward Asami again, but freezes once again, as her face transforms into the Yondaime's, his former sensei.

"Kakashi, you swore to watch over and set an example for my son. Is this the type of lesson you want to teach Naruto? Don't go back on your word, be true, be strong."

Then as suddenly as it had appeared, the Yondaime's face disappeared.

Kakashi remained rooted to the floor he was standing upon, when Naruto's face now appeared upon Asami's and asked.

"Kakashi-sensei, since you cheated on Kurenai-sensei, does that mean it's ok if I cheat on Hinata-chan?"

Hearing that, Kakashi mumbled to himself.

"I can't do it."

Kakashi lifted his head to see that now Asami's face had become Genma's who scolds him.

Are you insane? Look at me, I'm gorgeous! Look at my tits! They're perfect!"

The final straw that broke Kakashi's back was when Genma's face disappeared and was replaced by his son Minato's tear streaked visage, who asked in a pained filled voice.

"Why did you make mommy cry otousan?"

Minato's face then vanished and Kakashi couldn't take it anymore, as he exclaimed, before running out of the room, leaving a very confused Asami in his wake.

"I can't do it. I love Kurenai!"

Genma is waiting outside the bedroom door as Kakashi comes out.

"How was it Senpai?"

"Well, I'd say you're gonna have to pry her out of the bed with a spatula."

"I'm proud of you Senpai."

Kakashi took a step to walk away, before he whirled around and confessed.

"Genma, I just lied. Nothing happened in there, all right."

Kakashi heaved a rueful sigh and then said.

"I know how much this meant to you, but I couldn't do it, OK! I love Kurenai and I made a promise to be faithful to her. It may seem hard to believe, but I'm crazy about her."

Genma sympathetically slapped his hand onto Kakashi's back.

"Hey, I understand, don't worry about it. To tell you the truth, I'm envious. I wish I had someone who was in my every thought. Somebody I could spend all my time with. Somebody I could really respect. Somebody I could… Hey, look at the cans on that bimbo!" Genma declared, before one of the working girls walked by.

After giving a long shameless look at the young woman, Genma turned his attention back to Kakashi and asked.

"What were we talking about?"

Kakashi could only chuckle at his friend, before he gave Genma a gentle nudge and said.

"Go get her."

"Thanks Senpai!" Genma replied with glee, before he chased after the young woman.

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When Tsunade and the rest of "Dirty Dozen" finally arrived at the door of the Royal Plaza Penthouse Suite. They could hear the pounding of the music and sound of people reveling at the party on the other side of the door. Everyone seemed to inhale and then exhale a deep breath, as the girls mustered up their courage to enter. The ladies debated a moment about who should knock on the door, before Ino got fed up and wrapped her knuckles on the door. All the ladies waited with baited breath for the door to open and wondered what they would see on the other side.

A very inebriated Ebisu opened the door and he gasped in astonishment at the sight before him. His trademark sunglasses hung low on his nose, as he stared lustfully at the 12 provocatively dressed and obvious hookers who stood before him. His gaze perused and lingered upon each woman for a moment, before he was broken out of his shameless stupor by the sound of Ino's sweet sultry voice.

"Oh hi…..uhh….. handsome, our boss thought you might like some more girls at this party."

Ebisu leered lasciviously at Ino from head to toe, before he drunkenly said.

"Tha more tha merrier and by tha looks of you ladies, you're going to be a big hit!"

As Ino and the rest of the girls enter the hotel suite, they were quickly swept up in the spirit of the party. All of them are stunned at the frivolity and the merriment of the room, as everywhere they look there are people dancing and carousing with one another to sound of the upbeat music playing. As they moved forward, Tsunade was the last one to enter and as she passed by, Ebisu lifted his hand and smacked her ass, while declaring in lewd appreciation.

"You're a big one honey, come find me later and we'll have some fun!"

Tsunade was about to rear back and punch the drunken Jounin through the nearest wall, when Shizune caught her arm and whispered in her mentor's ear.

"Please don't kill him Lady Tsunade, he's just drunk."

"That's no excuse!" Tsunade whispered back through clenched teeth.

"Perhaps, but remember Ebisu has been serving as commander on the front lines of the border between the Fire and Rice countries. He's seen and been through a lot of bloody carnage and death over the past year. In fact if you look around the room, most of these men have just recently come back from serving in the border wars. So can you really blame them for getting drunk and cutting loose after everything they've been through?"

The blonde Hokage pondered for ma moment what Shizune had just said and realized her first apprentice was indeed correct and said.

"You're right, thank you for stopping me."

"That's alright milady, I live to serve you. That's why I came along to try and keep your temper in check." Shizune playfully replied.

Tsunade was about to respond, when Anko's voice cut through the air and openly asked.

"So where do we start?"

"I guess we look around to find out where all of our men are?" Keko answered, as she and the others began scanning the large hotel suite.

"Well I can see where Ayame, Tenten, and I are going!" Temari growled out angrily, as she had caught sight of Kiba, Neji and Shikamaru sitting on a large couch across the room apparently enjoying, judging by the smiles on their faces the lap dances they were currently receiving. Ayame, Tenten, and Temari all looked at one another and nodded, before the three them began marching in unison across the room.

"Well, there's Lee-kun sitting at the bar by himself." Sakura stated with relief, before she began making her way towards him.

The sound of bawdy and recognizable laughter, pricked the ears of Tsunade, Yoshino, Keko, and Ino, as the four women looked towards the library section of the suite, which had been converted into a small gambling den filled with a craps and roulette table, along with a poker table. Where the women spied Jiraiya, Shikaku, and Inoichi sitting, while three comely young ladies were massaging their shoulders from behind, while the men played poker.

Suddenly there was an eruption of excitement coming from the craps table, as someone shouted out.

"14 passes in a row, that's got to be a record Iruka!"

Anko's head immediately turned her gaze to the craps table and her eyes narrowed when she saw her husband at the head of it. Her killing intent began to rise, as she saw a scantily clad young woman hanging on Iruka's arm. When the Academy instructor held the dice in the palm of his hand and the girl blew on them for good luck is when Anko's eyes glazed over in fury, before she stormed forward towards the table, knocking aside anyone who got in her way. Tsunade, Shizune, Yoshino, Keko, and Ino followed behind the path the snake-mistress was clearing.

This left Hinata and Kurenai standing by themselves, as they searched the rooms for their respective fiancé's. Kurenai nudged Hinata in the arm and nodded her head in a certain direction. The Hyuga girl turned to look where her sensei was indicating and saw across the room several girls surrounding and talking to her Naruto-kun. When a couple of them reached up to feel and squeeze the impressive biceps the blonde Jounin sported, Hinata's anger began to rise. She politely excused herself from Kurenai and began her own march like the others towards her own man.

Meanwhile Kiba, Neji, and Shikamaru were enjoying themselves fully, as they each thought life couldn't be much better than at moment. All three young men were sufficiently inebriated and enjoying the company of their fellow comrades. And the young ladies currently gyrating upon their laps certainly didn't damper their mood in the least. Suddenly all three young men felt a shiver run up their spines and they looked at each other anxiously. Hesitantly, Kiba, Neji and Shikamaru peaked around the three hookers sitting atop of them.

What they saw confused all of them, as standing before them with their arms crossed under their ample breasts were three very hot hookers glaring at them, while tapping a single foot upon the floor. Once their drunken gaze finally reached the faces of these hookers, it took a moment, but a stark and terrifying realization hit them like a ton of bricks, as their eyes widened in terror. Jumping up and unceremoniously dumping on their ass the hookers who had been giving them their lap dances. Each man attempted to stammer out the name of their girlfriend or wife.

"Ay…Ayame-chan!"

"Ten…Ten-chan!"

"Mar…Mari-chan!"

The hookers who had been dumped onto the floor began rise and complain, but were quickly silenced by the deadly glare and massive killing intent Temari, Ayame, and Tenten unleashed upon them, which sent the girls scurrying away. Once they were gone, the three women then turned their attention back to their men who were standing before them, slightly quivering.

Suddenly, an epiphany simultaneously struck Kiba, Neji, and Shikamaru, as they looked at one another before shrugging their shoulders, as if silently saying to each other "why not?" And before Ayame, Tenten, and Temari could unleash their verbal assault upon their men. They suddenly found themselves swept up into the arms of their men receiving a very passionate, as well as loving kiss from them. Each woman initially tried to pull away, but the embrace they were caught up in was too strong. After a moment, their angry determination started to crumble, as the pleasure they were receiving overcame their judgment.

After a couple of minutes, the three couples finally broke apart panting, and the girls were about to speak. However, Kiba, Neji, and Shikamaru were not going to take any chances that they were out of trouble just yet and they smashed their lips upon their women once more silencing them, as they moved them over onto the large couch and continued their make-out session with all three of their ladies.

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As Sakura made her way through the throng of party-goers towards the bar, her sight never left the figure of her boyfriend Rock Lee. From a distance he almost appeared sad, as he sat at the bar alone and nursed his drink. He was such a stark contrast to the revelry happening all around him Sakura thought to herself. Finally extricating herself from the crowd around her, Sakura slid onto the bar-stool next to Lee and doing her best to disguise her voice sweetly said.

"Hey handsome."

For his part Lee didn't even look over to the girl sitting next to him and merely gave a curt hello to her.

Sakura then coyly asked.

"Buy me a drink?"

"It's an open bar, drinks are free." Lee stoically answered.

Sakura signaled the bartender and ordered.

"I'll have what he's having."

The bartender merely chuckled and said with a little derision laced in his voice.

"This guy is drinking milk, are you sure you don't want something a little stronger?"

"If I did, then I would have ordered it, now get me my drink!" Sakura replied in an icy tone of voice, while releasing a little killing intent towards the bartender, as she didn't like the attitude he was giving towards Lee.

The bartender began to sweat a bit, before he nodded his head and quickly went to get Sakura a glass of milk. Lee still didn't look over towards Sakura, but he did speak up and said.

"You do not need to order what I'm drinking, as I'm afraid it won't do you any good or endear yourself to me."

"What do you mean?" Sakura questioned in puzzlement.

"I mean your efforts are for naught, as I'm not looking to "party" or have a "good time" with you."

"Why would you think that's what I want, maybe I like milk too." Sakura defensively replied.

"I think that, because many of your fellow...compatriots have approached me all night expressing that desire, but you are correct. Perhaps you do like milk and if that is the case then I apologize."

At that moment, the bartender returned with Sakura's milk and she took a sip of it, before she then asked.

"So why are you here sitting by yourself? Are you not enjoying the party?"

Lee exhaled a weary sigh, before taking another sip of his milk, as he answered.

"I'm enjoying the party. You may not know this, but it's being held in honor of one of my closest friends and comrades. So I'm very happy that the flames of youth within Naruto found Hinata. As together their flames will burn that much brighter and hotter than they would alone."

"That's nice to hear, but you didn't answer why you're sitting alone? You said many of my compatriots have offered to keep you company. Why haven't you taken them up on their offers? I'm sure they're a lot of fun to be with."

"That may very well be true, but none of them are the girl who I want to be with right now that is why I'm sitting alone."

A feeling of warmth and love spread through Sakura's body upon hearing Lee say that, before she then asked.

"Well I'm sure whoever this person is, wouldn't begrudge you having some fun. I mean some of my compatriots are quite pretty and I'm sure would show you a very good time."

"I will indeed admit you are probably correct in what you say. Many of the ladies here are indeed very pretty, as I'm sure you are as well. However, and I don't mean this as an insult to you, but none of you can compare to the incomparable beauty that is my sweet cherry blossom Sakura-chan." Lee replied with sincerity, still not looking at the girl seated next to him.

A lone tear rolled down Sakura's cheek after hearing this and she quickly wiped it away with a brush of her hand. Gathering her emotions, Sakura declared in slightly choked voice.

"Well I don't see how you can say I'm not as beautiful as this Sakura-chan, considering you haven't looked at me once this entire conversation."

Lee rolled his eyes cynically upon hearing this and finally swiveled around on his bar-stool to gaze at the young woman he had been conversing with the past few minutes. However, once his gaze fell upon the face of that woman, it took him only a scant few seconds to recognize it and he stammered out with a gasp in confusion.

"Sak...Sakura-chan...is, is that you?"

Sakura merely smiled and nodded her head, before she put her arms around Lee's neck and placed a loving kiss upon his lips. It took Lee a moment, but he immediately wrapped his arms around Sakura in a tight embrace and deepened the kiss with all the passion he felt for her. After a minute they both broke apart, each of them gasping heavily, before Lee in an almost breathless voice questioned.

"Sak...Sakura-chan, what...what are you doing here and why are you wearing that wig and those..."

Lee stopped speaking, as he got his first good look at what Sakura was wearing and his face immediately flushed red at the sight before him. Sakura saw this and giggled, before she pirouetted on one foot to show-off how she looked.

Sakura was dressed in five inch black stiletto heels, which not only added to her height, but also showcased her long, firm, and tone legs. As Lee's gaze traveled up those luscious legs, they settled upon the short-shorts Sakura was wearing and he gulped nervously. Ino had lent to her friend the infamous pair of purple nylon short shorts that Naruto had seen the Yamanaka girl wearing upon his return to the Leaf village. And like Ino, Sakura had the legs built especially for those shorts, long, firm, and sexy. Not an ounce of wasted curve and the shorts were riding so high and tight that a tiny portion of Sakura's well-toned and firm ass was peeking out the bottom hem of the garment. It was all that Lee could do to tear his gaze away from those shorts, as he lifted his gaze higher to see Sakura was also wearing a white corset, which was tied so tight that it lifted up Sakura's breasts and gave the young kunoichi something she rarely showed...cleavage. The final touch of the ensemble was a dark purple colored wig, which hid Sakura's trademark pink locks.

"So do you like what you see?"

"Ver, very much so,… you, you look beautiful, but then you always look beautiful no matter what you wear my sweet cherry-blossom." Lee stammered out in appreciation.

"Oh Lee-kun, that's so sweet of you to say." Sakura exclaimed happily, before tugging on Lee's arm and saying."

"Come on, let's dance."

"Uhhh, I'm not a very good dancer to this type of music." Lee sheepishly admitted.

"I don't care, besides we don't have to dance the way everyone else is, just hold me….that's all I ask"

"I'll hold you as long as you want, but before we do, let's get rid of this." Lee stated, before he lifted Sakura's wig off of her head and tossed it aside, hitting the bartender in the face with it, before then proclaiming.

"If we're going to dance, then I want to be able gaze at your true beauty, including your stunning pink hair."

Sakura smiled brightly at this, as she sweetly kissed Lee's cheek and led him out onto the dance floor.

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When Anko reached the craps table, she slid up silently behind her husband and the young hooker still clinging to his arm. She then placed her arm atop the young girl's shoulder and not even bothering to disguise her voice asked.

"Mind if I cut in honey?"

Iruka immediately froze upon hearing that voice and his eyes grew wide in alarm, as a feeling of dread suddenly overcame him. Unfortunately, the young hooker knew not the destructive force she was dealing with and snapped with irritation.

"Back off bitch, he's all mine."

Unfazed by this response, Anko removed her blonde wig and merely smiled so sweetly, that it sent a shiver up the spine of the players at the table who recognized who the woman was, before she said.

"Oh honey, I'm afraid me and my friend must insist."

"What friend?" The young woman asked in confusion, before she felt something slithering around her neck, then a serpent raised its head in front of her face and flicked its tongue out and hissed.

"Me….."

The young girl shrieked with fright, before flinging the snake off and racing out of the hotel suite, screaming in terror as she went.

Iruka could only exhale a weary sigh, before he then turned to his wife and said.

"Hello my dear Anko-chan."

"Don't you Anko-chan me mister! Just who the hell was that girl?"

"I don't know, she just came over to me, as I started playing craps and she seemed to be good luck. Look, I've made 17 passes in a row."

"Is this true?" Anko growled out to the other players at the crap table.

"It's true Anko-san, in fact I haven't seen Iruka do anything with any of the girls here all night long." One of the players stated, while all the others fearfully nodded their heads in confirmation.

"Well….ok then." Anko stated, as the anger she had been feeling quickly subsided, before she cozied up next to her husband and declared.

"Well you don't need her anymore Iruka-kun, I'll be your good luck charm now."

Iruka thought about this for a moment, before he suddenly pulled his winnings off the pass line and left a single ryo on it. He then threw the dice for an 18th time and the dealer called out.

"Snake-eyes, you lose."

"Of course it is, how prophetic." Iruka openly remarked, before he turned his attention back to his wife, who was standing there shaking. Completely mortified and embarrassed that her husband had done that.

Iruka leaned over and kissed her cheek, before whispering in her ear.

"Don't take it personally my love, that streak was about to end soon enough. Besides look at the bright-side, I won a lot of money tonight that I'll now get spend on my sexy, beautiful, and understanding wife."

Anko blushed a bit, before she stammered back in a whisper.

"You, you really think I'm still sexy and beautiful, even after the kids?"

Iruka couldn't believe that Anko still had self-image issues after giving birth to their daughters. Especially when the women had worked tirelessly over the years to get back into shape and looked as lithe and fit as she ever did. Leaning forward he whispered huskily into his wife's ear.

"Without question, and if you're up for it, I'll prove how damn sexy and beautiful you are to me in that bedroom over there."

It took only a few seconds to gather up Iruka's winning's, before the Umino's raced to the bedroom and slammed the door behind them.

---

Meanwhile, as Anko was beginning her conversation with the young hooker on her husband's arm. Tsunade, Shizune, Yoshino, Keko, and Ino had finally made their way through the throng of horny shinobi propositioning them, as they went to the poker table. Jiraiya, Shikaku, and Inoichi were still receiving massages from the three attractive young hookers. Tsunade, Yoshino, Keko, Shizune, and Ino slipped unseen into the small crowd of people surrounding the table, when Shikaku exclaimed with a laugh.

"Ha, you know what we forgot to tell the boys earlier, things never to say to your wife like…"

"Have you put on weight?"

"Ha, ha, ha, oh yeah, that's a bad one, what about I bought you a cookbook. Inoichi, followed up.

Hanshiro chuckled a bit, before he then stated.

"Those are good, but you two are forgetting about the really bad ones like "Anniversary? What anniversary?"

"Or Birthday? What birthday?" Teuchi added in amusement.

"We could come up with things all night long, but I believe there is one absolutely worst thing you can say that will get you killed." Shikaku proclaimed.

"What's that?"

"I married you, didn't I?"

Everyone at the poker table and even some the crowd around them erupted in boisterous laughter after hearing that. Much to the ire of Tsunade, Yoshino, and Keko who had heard enough, as they told Shizune and Ino to hang back, before the three of them slid unnoticed behind their respective men and the girls rubbing their shoulders.

Each woman tapped the shoulder of the three hookers who turned around to be met with the most deadly glare Tsunade, Yoshino, and Keko could level. And the silent message of the glares was abundantly clear to the three young women.

Leave now or experience a world of pain!

The three hookers quickly scurried away, while Tsunade, Yoshino, and Keko took over massage duties on each of their unsuspecting men. In fact, Jiraiya, Shikaku, and Inoichi were taking a brief break from playing and sat back with their eyes closed enjoying the massages they were receiving, blissfully unaware of who was now giving those massages. However, both Teuchi and Hanshiro saw what was happening, but remained silent as a quick glare from the three women sent the two of them a silent message.

Speak and you die!

"Oh Miho, you're hands are like magic." Jiraiya expressed appreciatively, before lifting his hand with a $20 ryo note in it and stuffing into Tsunade's cleavage without even looking.

"Yeah, I have to say that Natsumi isn't too shabby either with her hands. I wish Keko would give me massages like this." Inoichi stated in agreement, before stuffing his own $20 ryo note into Keko's cleavage and like Jiraiya, never bothering to open his eyes to look.

"Oh quit complaining, at least your wife still gives you a massage on occasion. I can't remember the last time I got a massage from Yoshino. And the last time it did happen I'm pretty certain it wasn't as good as the one little Katsumi is providing. Shikaku announced, as he too mimicked the actions of his fellow comrades with his own $20 ryo note.

It was all Yoshino could do to keep from moving her hands from her husband's shoulders to his throat and throttling the life out of the man.

"Well little Miho is very good, but no one can match my Tsunade-hime. She can give the most wonderful massages because of her medical talents and using chakra when she wants to. However, those same hands can also crush bones, so sometimes it's like playing Russian roulette with her, ha, ha, ha,." Jiraiya stated jokingly.

Tsunade grit her teeth and involuntarily gripped Jiraiya's shoulders a bit harder, causing the Toad-Sage to wince slightly and say.

"Easy there Miho, what are trying to do mimic what I just said about the Hokage?"

Jiraiya's slight outcry caused Inoichi to finally open his eyes and he looked across the poker table to see that it was no longer Miho who was massaging Jiraiya's shoulders, but now a very buxom red-head. Squinting and taking a closer look because of his slight intoxication. Inoichi's eyes suddenly grew wide in horrific realization and he slapped Shikaku's shoulder to get his attention. The Nara clan leader opened his eyes and looked over to see Inoichi pointing a shaking finger towards the Toad-Sage. Shikaku gazed to where his friend pointed and he too noticed the new hooker now giving Jiraiya his massage. And like Inoichi, it took a few seconds, but then his eyes grew wide in fear, as he too recognized who the red-head truly was.

An eerie silence seemed to fall upon the poker table like a death shroud and Jiraiya opened his eyes to see the nervous and frightened faces of his fellow players. When he noticed Inoichi still pointing at him, he asked in curiosity.

"What are you pointing at?"

"Ma-Master-Jiraiya, tha-that's not Miho who is giving you a massage anymore!" The Yamanaka clan leader stammered fretfully out in reply.

"What are you talking about?" Jiraiya questioned in confusion, before turning his head around and planting his face directly into Tsunade's ample cleavage.

"Hello Tsunade-hime." The Toad-Sage greeted in a muffled voice.

Embarrassed, Tsunade grabbed the back of Jiraiya's head and pulled his face out of her cleavage and growled out furiously.

"How the hell could you know that was me?"

"That's easy my love, I've spent enough time over the years in that wondrous heavenly valley that I would know it even if I were a blind man." Jiraiya answered with a wicked grin plastered upon his face.

Tsunade's face blushed a deep crimson red, before she spat with indignation.

"Damn lecherous old pervert!"

"Well if I'm old, then what does that make you? Besides, don't act like you don't enjoy it, because we both know you do." Jiraiya playfully declared, before he grabbed Tsunade from behind and swept her onto his lap.

"So the one thing you took offense to of what I said was being called old?" Tsunade questioned with cynicism.

"What being called a lecherous pervert, I've got no problem with that. I readily admit that I am and damn proud of it to."

"And just what were your lecherous perverted plans for that young woman Miho?" The blonde Hokage asked, as she turned her head away from Jiraiya, refusing to look at him.

"Oh stop it, you know damn good and well that I had no lecherous perverted plans for that girl. She was just giving me a massage that's all."

"A damn good one judging by this!" Tsunade snapped, as she pulled out of her cleavage the $20 ryo note, before implying.

"Or perhaps this was just a down payment for something more later on!"

Jiraiya exhaled a wearisome sigh, before he then answered.

"No, it was not a down payment for something more later on. And yes little Miho does give a damn good massage, but not as good as yours. Which I might add I declared with pride at this table."

Tsunade did remember her fiancé doing that, but then remembered his Russian roulette joke as well and replied in a biting tone.

"Yes, I heard you say that, as well as saying that getting a massage from me can also be like playing Russian roulette if I recall correctly."

"I was just making a joke my love, you know I didn't mean it. And you don't have to be jealous of little Miho or any other woman. I chased after you for over forty years, and now that you're finally mine, I'm not about to throw that away. Don't you realize it's you and only you that I've ever wanted in my life and there is no woman on this planet no matter how young or beautiful they might be, that will ever make me betray and risk losing you forever. I love you Tsunade-hime, I always have and I always will."

Jiraiya's public declaration of his love for the blonde Hokage garnered many ooh's and ahh's from the crowd around the table. Even Tsunade's anger had softened upon hearing her fiance's loving words and leaned in to place a loving kiss upon Jiraiya's lips.

---

As Jiraiya and Tsunade were sharing a tender moment, both Shikaku and Inoichi were impressed at how the Toad-Sage was able to extricate himself from potential disaster with his soon to be wife. It wasn't until Jiraiya broke the kiss and looked over at the two of them and his eyes suddenly grew wide in apprehension. This confused both clan leaders, before they both suddenly realized that what had just happened to Master-Jiraiya, may not be a singular occurrence. It was Shikaku who acted first and stated with all the faux sincerity he could muster.

"Inoichi, have I told you lately how beautiful my Yoshino-chan is?"

"No, not lately, and your wife is beautiful, but not as beautiful as my wife Keko-chan."

"I have to disagree with you my friend."

"Well, let's just say they're both equally beautiful then." Inoichi offered in compromise.

"Agreed." Shikaku said in approval, before Inoichi then commented.

"But my Keko-chan isn't just beautiful, she's also the most patient and understanding wife a man could ever have."

"Your wife might be a very patient and understanding, but I have a hard time believing she's more patient and understanding than my Yoshino-chan."

"Again, let's just say they're both equally patient and understanding."

"Hai!" Shikaku earnestly agreed, before he then declared.

"I have to say, I'm so lucky to have my Yoshino-chan. The first thing I do every morning when I wake up is to give a silent prayer to Kami thanking him for the blessing in my life that she is."

"I do the same thing my friend about Keko-chan." Inoichi expressed in agreement.

"Oh knock it off you two liars!" Yoshino irritably growled out, as she had heard enough of this fake praise.

"Hai, I agree, that's quite enough from you two fibbers." Keko then proclaimed.

Both clan leaders turned around to face their wives and in mock surprise said.

"Yoshi-chan!"

"Keko-chan!"

"Don't Yoshi-chan me you big fat liar!" Yoshino spat heatedly.

"You to my dear husband." Keko crossly declared.

"Liars, I have no idea what you're talking about Yoshi-kun. Everything Inoichi and I said is the truth and more importantly,…..it's from the heart. Shikaku avowed, while he placed both hands over his heart for effect.

"Oh give it a rest! "The first thing I do every morning when I wake up is to give a silent prayer to Kami thanking him for the blessing in my life that she is." What a load of crap! The first thing you do when you wake up is fall out of bed, usually because you're still drunk from the night before, and then you fart to announce your presence to the world!" Yoshino scathingly announced.

"And the first thing you do when you wake up is stumble to the bathroom to relieve yourself." Keko fired off with equal derision at her husband.

"Well, we did say they were silent prayers." Inoichi, offered up sheepishly in defense.

Both clan leaders glanced at one another, as if each silently asking the other what do we do now? Finally, both men decided to take a page from Master-Jiraiya's playbook and from behind grabbed and swept their wives onto their laps.

"Now, why are you so upset Yoshi-chan?" Shikaku asked, before he nuzzled her neck and began placing light kisses upon it.

Yoshino attempted to push her husband away from her, although she had to admit his kisses were feeling good. Finally, the Nara matriarch was able to detach her husband's lips from her neck and facing him spat with indignation.

"Why am I upset? Oh I don't know, how about the fact that my husband was getting a rubdown from a hooker! And apparently it was a good one judging by the amount money you thought you were stuffing down her blouse!"

Yoshino then reached into her blouse and retrieved the $20 ryo note and threw onto the table.

Like Jiraiya had done with Tsunade, Shikaku exhaled a wearisome sigh, before he then answered.

"Troublesome, first off it was not a rubdown, but a massage."

"Oh that's a right a massage, something you can't remember the last time you got one from me! Oh but you were certain that the last time I did give you one, it wasn't as good as the one your little hooker friend was providing."

Shikaku visibly winced hearing the anger, as well as a bit of hurt in his wife's voice. He felt terrible that she had heard him say that, even if he was only joking around with his comrades when he did. The Nara clan leader decided his only course of action was to tell the truth and apologize and hope that his wife would forgive him.

"Yoshi-chan, I'm drunk."

"That's obvious!"

"Well you know when I'm drunk I sometimes say stupid things. I was just joking around when I said that, but it was wrong and I'm sorry. Please forgive me Yoshi-chan, you know I love you." Shikaku contritely stated, before he resumed nuzzling his wife's neck and placing kisses upon it again.

Shikaku's genuine apology and the pleasure Yoshino was feeling from his kisses was starting to crumble her resolve and her anger was subsiding. However, before she would let him off the hook, she spied the $20 ryo note she had thrown down and pulled his face away from her and asked.

"Answer me this, you're a notorious cheapskate, so why did you tip that girl so much? Or were you planning on doing something more with her later on?"

Shikaku merely shook his head, before he answered.

"You're right, I am a cheapskate, but I didn't want to look bad in front of my friends by tipping less than what they had. And as for any ulterior plans for that girl later on, why would do that? I'm already married to a woman who is every bit as young and sexy if not more so than she was."

"Kami, you are drunk."

"That may be, but it doesn't change the fact that every time I look at you drunk or sober, I still see the sexy young beauty that I married over 20 years ago." Shikaku declared with sincerity ringing in his words.

Yoshino gazed at her husband's face, as he made his declaration and could detect no hint of any dishonesty in the words he spoke. Blushing a bit, she softly asked in a stammer.

"You, you really do think I'm still as pretty as I was when I was younger?"

"Nope!" Shikaku quickly answered, causing Yoshino's face to become crestfallen, before he then proclaimed.

"If anything, you've become even more beautiful."

Any anger Yoshino felt vanished upon hearing that and she leaned forward to place a loving kiss upon Shikaku's lips, before she broke away and then asked.

"You really love me don't you?"

"Of course I love you… I married you, didn't I?" Shikaku replied in amusement.

Yoshino scowled upon hearing that, before Shikaku held his hands up laughing and said "joke, joke" before he embraced his wife once more and they shared a passionate kiss. As they broke apart, Yoshino remarked.

"I may have forgiven you, but I don't think our son is going to be as lucky with Temari-chan."

"Oh, I don't know, he seems to have things well in hand." Shikaku commented, as he gestured towards the suite. Yoshino turned to look in the direction her husband was indicating and saw across the room her son in a very heated make-out session with his wife on a large couch. She blushed a bit at this sight, before turning back towards Shikaku and declared in amusement.

"I guess he does."

---

Meanwhile, as Shikaku was attempting to make up with his wife, Inoichi was trying to do the same thing with his own wife Keko. And like Shikaku, the Yamanaka clan leader wasn't having very much initial success.

"So you wish Keko would give me massages like this." The Yamanaka matriarch quoted in an icy tone to her husband.

Inoichi exhaled a sigh, upon realizing his wife had heard him say that and now knew the extent of the trouble he was in. Deciding his only way out was to be honest, he answered.

"You want the truth….yes; I do wish you would give me massages like the one I was getting."

Keko was not expecting this response and her face scrunched up in aggravation, before her husband then said.

"But not because the massage I was receiving was any better than the ones you have given me, it wasn't. I just made that comment mostly out of frustration, because I miss the massages you use to give me. One of the greatest joys I've ever experienced in my life, were the gentle and comforting massages I got from your loving hands. You use to give me those all the time, but not so much anymore."

Keko thought about this for a moment and the aggravation she had been feeling slowly started to fade, as she stated in defense.

"I know I used to give you massages a lot more than I have been lately, but you know how busy I've been. I'm a shinobi just like you and I have duties to perform for the village and the Hokage just as you do."

"I know you do and I understand. I'm not blaming you, but that still doesn't change the frustration I feel about it. Like I said, I just miss them that's all. I'm sorry if I hurt you by saying what I did, that wasn't my intention. I love you Keko-chan and I always will."

Keko smiled and leaned down to kiss her husband signaling that everything was alright between the two of them. After a minute they broke apart and Keko rested her forehead on Inoichi's and asked.

"So that girl really didn't give you as good a massage as I do?"

"I think the answer to that question should be the fact that I didn't give a tip, until after you had taken over the massage." Inoichi replied, before he pulled Keko's blouse back a bit to take a playful peak at the $20 ryo note still lodged within her cleavage."

"Yes, well now that I know you pay so well for my massages, I'll be sure to give them to you more often from now on." Keko teasingly declared.

"Money that will be well spent, as far as I'm concerned." Inoichi acknowledged, as he kissed his wife once more.

As the Yamanaka patriarch was kissing his wife, he heard his daughter's voice cry out.

"Look, I'm….off duty ok, leave me alone!"

Breaking his kiss, Inoichi looked over and saw his daughter in a brunette wig and wearing some very suggestive clothing trying to fend off a drunken Chunin who was propositioning her. Immediately going into protective "Daddy" mode, Inoichi jumped up and nearly dumping his wife onto the floor released a massive amount of killing intent at the drunken shinobi and growled out in righteous fury.

"Hey asshole, that's my daughter!"

The young Chunin felt the killing intent hit him like a punch to the gut and nearly pissed his pants. However, when he heard what Inoichi had just shouted and saw who it was…. he did piss his pants. The Chunin quickly fled the scene, as he had no desire to fall under the wrath an elite Jounin and leader of one of the most powerful clans of the Leaf village.

Motioning his daughter to come over to him is when Inoichi finally took notice of the provocative clothing both Ino and Keko were wearing and asked in curiosity.

"Why are you two dressed like this?"

"It, it was the only way we could sneak into this party dear." Keko blushingly answered.

"Ok, but where in the world did you two find such, such…"

"Such what daddy?"

"Such slutty clothing!"

Ino's face immediately scrunched up with livid indignation, before she stamped her foot down in a huff and answered in an irate tone of voice.

"From my closet daddy!"

"Oh dear Kami, give me strength!" Inoichi cried out with exasperated despair, as he began to head-butt the poker table over and over again.

---

As many of her friends relationships were being reconciled, that was not the case for Hinata. However, it wasn't from lack of trying, but rather her inability to reach Naruto. Frustrated, she could still see him across the room surrounded by several scantily clad young girls. And they were still much to her ire taking liberties of copping feels of him. However, try as she might, Hinata just couldn't seem to make her way over to him, as she was constantly being stopped and propositioned to by seemingly every male who was single at the party. Before she knew it, Hinata was now in the same situation as Naruto, only she was surrounded by several men.

Not that you could really blame the young men considering what the young Hyuga girl was wearing. Starting from bottom to top Hinata was attired in black stiletto thigh high leather boots, which accentuated her long toned legs. And as one's vision rose from those sexy leather encased legs, you would then be met by a very short black mini-skirt that barely covered Hinata's firm, supple ass. A tight pink halter-top, which stopped midriff and was so skintight, it seemed like it was painted onto Hinata's body rather than something she was wearing. The taut garment also highlighted the young Hyuga girls most obvious and appreciated feature, at least by the men surrounding her, which were Hinata's ample breasts. And the amount of cleavage Hinata was showing rivaled even Tsunade's. The rest of the ensemble included a white feathered-boa that was draped upon her shoulders and a blonde wig. And to finish things off, the sunglasses Hinata wore also gave an alluring movie starlet type quality to her.

Needless to say, Hinata's appearance was a huge hit with many of the males attending the party.

From across the room, even Naruto had taken notice of the stunning blonde beauty and thought to himself.

'Not as beautiful as my Hina-hime, but damn she's close!'

However, as Naruto scrutinized the young woman a bit closer, ignoring the hookers around him, he silently pondered.

'Why is she shaped so much like my Hina-hime? Her legs, her breasts, hell…her entire figure is just like hers. Even her face from what isn't hidden by those sunglasses looks like Hina-hime. Something isn't right here.'

It was only when one of the men surrounding Hinata accidentally jostled her and the sunglasses adorning her face slightly slipped down her nose revealing for an instant her distinctive lavender-colored eyes, before she quickly pushed the glasses back up, that Naruto had his answer. He didn't know why his hime was there, but at that moment it mattered little to him, as he saw one of the men around her becoming a little too free with his hands. Politely excusing himself from the hookers around him much to their disappointment, Naruto quickly made his way across the room.

"Come on baby, you're the hottest piece of ass I've ever seen in my life! I'll pay you double your asking price." One of the men surrounding Hinata offered.

"I'll pay triple!" Another one exclaimed.

Hinata was starting to get very nervous, when a voice she instantly recognized rang out.

"I'll pay 10 times her price!"

Everyone turned around to see Naruto standing there holding out his hand to Hinata.

"I can't afford that much." One of the men grumbled dejectedly.

"I can't either." Another one stated.

A third man then asked.

"I don't understand Namikaze-sama, I know this is your party, but I haven't seen you mess around with any of the girls all night long. Why this one all of sudden?"

Hinata's heart soared upon hearing that Naruto had remained faithful to her, but then it sank just as quickly when she heard him answer.

"Are you kidding, look at her!"

All the men took one last appreciative look at Hinata, before they all nodded their heads and moved off, while the one who had questioned Naruto remarked.

"Yeah, you got me there, have fun."

As Hinata watched him walk away, she squeaked in surprise and before she could react found two powerful arms had encircled her waist from behind, as Naruto began nuzzling her neck and planting soft kisses, as well as nibbling on her earlobe, while quietly whispering.

"That guy was right about one thing, you are the hottest piece of ass I've ever seen in my life."

Hinata's arm instinctively rose to grasp the back of Naruto's head and she began to softly coo, before she caught herself and lowered her arm and sadly stammered.

"I, I guess that's why you're willing to pay 10 times my price just to be with me."

"10 times, I'd pay a 100 times."

"We, we should go to one of the bedrooms then." Hinata commented, not wanting to display her heartbreak in front of everyone.

Naruto stopped nibbling on Hinata's neck and raised his head to whisper in her ear.

"You don't have to ever suggest we go to the bedroom Hina-hime. You just go there and I will always follow…..believe it."

Hinata whirled around to see Naruto's grinning face and stuttered.

"You, you knew it was me."

Naruto nodded his head.

"But, but why did you act like you didn't with those other men."

"I wanted to get you away from them, so it was either me outbidding them or kicking the crap out of them for propositioning my girl. Although I can't really blame them for trying, considering how damn hot and sexy you look right now."

Hinata blushed upon hearing this, before Naruto then asked.

"By the way, not that I'm not thrilled that you're here, but why are you here?"

"Ummm, we heard at our party that there were…..hook, hookers here and we wanted to find out what was going on? Since you promised that there wouldn't be any women at this party."

"Technically it was Kakashi-sensei who made that promise and I just went along with him. We didn't know there were going to be…..working girls at the party until after we arrived."

"If you didn't know, then why didn't all of you send the girls away?"

"Kakashi-sensei and I along with pervy-sage did discuss it, but we realized that most of the guy's here had just served over a year on front lines of the border war between the Fire and Rice countries. They deserved to be able to cut loose considering everything they've had to do and have seen. And depriving them of female company, even if it's purchased company didn't seem right, so the girls are here mainly for them, not us. I'm sorry our promise got broken, can you forgive me?"

"I forgive you Naru-kun, your heart was in the right place, but I have to ask you something."

"What?"

"Well, all of these….working girls are very pretty. Were you never tempted by any of them?"

"I'll be honest with you Hina-hime, I was tempted…for a moment by one girl when I first saw her."

"Who, who was that?"

"Oh just this incredibly hot and sexy blonde wearing sunglasses and dressed in thigh high leather boots, a very short black mini-skirt, and a tight pink halter-top." Naruto replied with a grin, before leaning down to place a loving and sensuous kiss onto Hinata's lips, as she moaned softly into his mouth.

After a minute they broke away gasping for air, before Naruto asked in curiosity.

"So where's Kurenai-Sensei?"

"Why do you think she's here?"

"You did say in your explanation of why you were here that "we" heard there were girls at this party. Plus you two are practically joined at the hip most of the time. So it's not a stretch to think that she's here as well. Am I wrong?"

"You're not wrong; she's here somewhere looking for Kakashi-sensei."

"He's not here."

"Where is he?"

"He's close by; he's on the roof right now."

"The roof, why on earth is he on the roof?"

"I'm not sure; he said something about having passed a Trial of Temptation tonight whatever that means. So he wanted to go up to the roof and meditate for a while, before rejoining the party."

"Well I hope he comes back soon, Kurenai-sensei didn't show it, but I think she's more upset than she let on about the hookers being here."

"Do you want me to go get him?"

"If you would."

"Ok, but I'm going to leave behind a shadow clone to watch over you."

"I'll be alright by myself Naru-kun."

"Dressed like that….no you won't." Naruto wryly answered, before flashing through a series of hand-signs and a moment later a shadow clone appeared.

"Watch over Hina-hime." Naruto ordered his clone, before he disappeared in a flash of golden light.

---

Kakashi could still feel the vibration and hear the thrum of the music happening below him, as he sat on the roof. He knew he would have to rejoin the party soon, since he was one of the honored guests it was being thrown for. However, he decided a few more minutes of meditation wouldn't hurt anyone. Alas, it was not to be, as a flash of light erupted behind him and he sensed a chakra signature he knew all too well and without turning around greeted his visitor.

"Hello Naruto, what brings you up here?"

"I thought I should let you know you have a surprise guest that's arrived at the party. Guess who's here?"

"Who?"

"Kurenai."

"My Kurenai?"

"No another Kurenai." Naruto sarcastically replied.

"Why is she here?"

"Well Hinata-chan is also here and she told me they came because they heard about the hookers at the party and wanted to find out what was going on. I mean since you promised them there wouldn't be any girls here."

"Technically, I promised we wouldn't have any strippers here."

"I don't think that excuse is going to cut it with Kurenai-sensei."

"No, probably not. Damn that Genma, this is all his fault. So is Hinata angry with you?"

"Naw, after I explained to her that the working girls were here mainly for the guys who had just rotated back from the frontlines of the border war and not for us, she said she understood."

"Hinata always did have a very forgiving nature." Kakashi offered in compliment, before he then added.

"Well I guess I'd better get down there and face the music. I hope Kure-chan will be as understanding with me, as Hinata was with you."

A minute later, both Naruto and Kakashi arrived back at the party and in a secluded corner scanned the room looking for Kurenai. After a moment, they spotted a tall statuesque beauty wearing sunglasses and with pink hair, who appeared to be looking about the room. Kakashi wasn't fooled for a minute by her wig and very short mini skirt, and asked Naruto.

"What's with her costume?"

"I don't know, Hinata-chan was dressed the same way."

"And you didn't think to ask her why?"

"Uhhh…well when I saw what she was wearing, I sort of lost my train of thought and didn't really care why she was dressed that way."

"Oh come on Naruto, all because of the way she was dressed."

Naruto lifted his arm and pointed and Kakashi looked to where he was directing and caught sight of Hinata with one of Naruto's shadow clones. After a few seconds, he turned back to Naruto and admitted.

"Ok, I can see that."

"So, are you going to go over and talk to Kurenai-sensei?"

"Actually, I've got a better idea. Go up to her, make like you don't know her and send her into the far bedroom. I figure it's time to play a little prank on fiancé considering she went to all this trouble just to check up on me."

"I don't know if that's a good idea?"

"Don't worry about it, I've got it all under control, just send her to the bedroom and make it sound like I've been a player tonight with the hookers when you do."

"Ok, you got it." Naruto replied, before he started crossing the suite to where Kurenai was at. When he got there, he stated in a friendly voice.

"Hey baby, you're new here. I don't think my Sensei Kakashi has had you yet, has he?"

Kurenai started fuming after hearing this from Naruto, before she answered in a southern accent trying to disguise her voice.

"No, not yet. Where is he?"

"Oh just go to that far bedroom and wait for him like the other girls have done, he'll be along shortly."

Kurenai swiftly turned away from Naruto and began marching towards the bedroom. The blonde Jinchuuriki could tell she was pissed and he thought to himself.

'Good luck Kakashi-sensei, I hope you know what you're doing.'

A few minutes later, Kakashi opened the bedroom door and closed it behind him. The lights are turned off, but the full moon shining through the window is providing just enough illumination for him to make out the outline of Kurenai's body on the bed.

"I can't see anything, let me turn on a light." Kakashi openly remarked.

"Don't turn on the lights sugar, I'll lead you around." Kurenai stated in a seductive voice and still using a southern accent.

"How wonderful, a seeing-eye hooker." Kakashi quipped in amusement.

"Why don't you get undressed." Kurenai suggested sweetly.

"How about we both get undressed…..together!" Kakashi shouted with glee, before jumping onto the bed and starts mauling Kurenai passionately. Suddenly, Kurenai snapped on the light and threw off her wig and she and Kakashi came face to face.

"Kurenai…you're a hooker! I can't believe it!" Kakashi exclaimed in mock surprise.

Kurenai jumped out of the bed and faced a grinning Kakashi, as she cried in a hurt voice.

"I can't trust you!"

"C'mon, I knew it was you." Kakashi said in hilarity.

"Kakashi, you're lying!" Kurenai declared, trying to hold back her tears, before she turned and ran out of the bedroom. Kakashi leapt off of the bed and charged after her.

Outside the bedroom, the place is wall to wall with people. As Kurenai tried to make her way to the exit, her path was slowed by all the happy revelers. Kakashi caught up with her and spun her around to face him, while she yelled with fury.

"Let go of me!"

"Kurenai, I'm telling you, I didn't do anything!" Kakashi shouted back in protest.

"The marriage is off. Now you can screw around with your friends and whores for the rest of your life!"

"I don't want that. I want to be with you!"

"And I want to be with someone who I can trust and who understands the meaning of the word commitment!"

"You can trust me, and I am committed. I love you!"

"I don't believe you!"

"You don't believe me? Okay, fine!"

Kakashi jumped atop the baby grand piano and yelled out over the over the din of the party.

"People! Can I have your attention…..PEOPLE!"

Everyone stopped what they were doing, as the music came to an abrupt halt, thanks to Might Gai unplugging the power cord and everybody looked up towards Kakashi, who cleared his throat and asked.

"I want to ask you all a question. Have I had sex with anybody in this room tonight?"

Shouts of "No" and shaking of heads was the response from the crowd.

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah!" The crowd shouted in unison.

"Thank you, Gai you can turn the music back on."

All the guests go back to partying, as Kakashi dropped off the piano and faced Kurenai.

"See? And these are not just ordinary party-goers in this crowd. And as for women they are professionals of the highest order, but I didn't want any of them. You're what I want, you and Minato-kun, …..understand?"

Kurenai practically melted upon hearing Kakashi's loving declaration, before she hugged him tight and nodded her head.

"Great. Now, what do you want to do about it?" Kakashi questioned.

Kurenai merely smiled coyly and winked her eye and said in a sexy voice.

"Let's get naked."

The crimson-eyes beauty then grabbed her fiancé's hand and they dashed towards the nearest bedroom. However, upon opening the door and turning on the light. The two Jounin were greeted with an unexpected sight, as the woman in the room shrieked and threw a kunai at them.

"OCCUPIED!"

As Kurenai and Kakashi narrowly dodged the kunai, she shouted back.

"Anko! That nearly hit us!"

"Sorry I didn't know it was you, now turn off the light and close the damn door Kurenai!"

Kurenai quickly closed the door behind her and blushing a bit, remarked to Kakashi.

"Well that was more of Iruka than I ever wished to see."

"Funny, I can't say I feel the same about what I just saw of Anko." Kakashi mischievously commented, earning a playful smack to his shoulder from Kurenai who declared.

"Pervert!"

---

"Well that was an interesting show. It appears Kakashi remained faithful to Kurenai tonight." Tsunade openly commented, as everyone had taken a brief break from playing poker to watch Kakashi atop the piano. Tsunade and Ino had joined the game playing with Jiraiya, Shikaku, Inoichi, Teuchi, and Hanshiro. Yoshino and Keko had chosen just to watch, while sitting on their husbands lap.

"We all remained faithful my hime and shame on all of you for even entertaining the thought that we wouldn't." Jiraiya declared, as he downed another shot of sake.

"Hai, I have to say I'm a little disappointed that my Tenten would think I would allow Neji to cheat on her." Hanshiro remarked.

"Well didn't he cheat; I mean he was getting a lap dance when we got here?" Ino questioned.

"A lap dance is not cheating." All the men at the table declared in unison.

"How can all of you say that?" Keko asked in disbelief.

"Keko-san, I lived a long time and in my vast experience and without getting too graphic in deference to you and your young daughter here. I believe the true definition of cheating is if a man's…..little friend shall we say makes a visible appearance and is used with another woman in some way. If a man has kept his friend under wraps so to speak, then he has not cheated." Jiraiya candidly declared.

"Do you agree with that Lady Tsunade?"

"It's a fine line Ino, and a man getting a lap dance certainly teeters upon it, but I do agree with what Jiraiya-kun said,.…..reluctantly."

"Thank you hime."

"Just because I agree with you, that doesn't mean I give you permission to go out seeking lap dances after were married!" Tsunade sternly warned her fiancé.

"No need to worry about that my love. So long as you're willing to give me lap dances, then I don't want one from anybody else." Jiraiya impishly proclaimed, while giving Tsunade a playful pinch to her backside, causing the Hokage to jump in surprise.

Tsunade was about to rebuke her husband to be for doing that, before her attention was quickly drawn back to the game. As her eyes nearly lit up with excitement, when she saw she had been dealt pocket aces. The blonde Hokage's internal exhilaration only grew when the first three cards were dealt onto the table showing an ace of spades, a queen of diamonds, and a queen of clubs. Tsunade could barely contain herself, as she had flopped a full house. After a round of betting and re-raising by Tsunade, the turn card was dealt showing a seven of hearts. Once again there was another rousing round of betting and raising, leaving only four players still in the hand going into the river. A nine of clubs was peeled off and by now the size of the pot had grown quite large. Tsunade decided when it was her turn to bet that now was the time and pushed all of her money in and announced.

"I'm all in!"

The confidence in Tsunade's voice made both Hanshiro and Shikaku fold their hands, leaving only Ino still playing. Everyone stared at the young blonde kunoichi, and after a moment, she finally stammered with uncertainty.

"I, I guess I call."

The blonde Hokage flipped her cards over proudly and declared with glee, as she began reaching for the money in the middle of the table.

"Full house, aces over queens!"

The rest of the players felt some sympathy for Ino. She didn't really know how to play the game very well and her only move throughout the games had been to call. So they had taken easy upon the young girl on the hands she had chosen to play, which had been very few up to this point. However, Tsunade was having none of that on this hand.

"Oh pooh, I guess that beats my two pair." Ino remarked glumly, as she threw her cards face down in front of her.

"What two pair did you have princess?"

"Ladies."

"Well I know you had a pair of queens, but what was your other pair?"

"Ladies daddy, I had a pair of ladies on the table and a pair of ladies in my hand." Ino answered as she turned over her pocket queens.

Tsunade stopped mid-pull and her eyes grew to the size of dinner plates, as she stared in abject horror at the four of kind Ino held. A strange low choking sound began to sputter from her mouth, as she couldn't tear her eyes away from abominable hand before her.

Ino looked around at everyone in confusion, before Inoichi explained to his daughter.

"That's not two pair, that's four of a kind, you win princess."

"I win?...I win, I win, I win!" Ino repeated with glee at first not believing it, before it finally sank in, as she clapped her hands together in celebration and reached forward to rake in the pot. Unfortunately, Tsunade still hadn't moved and her hands were still clutching the pot in mid-pull, as the look of sheer horror was still evident upon her face. It took Jiraiya a moment to get his fiancé to finally release her death grip on the pot and bring her back to her seat next to him. The blonde Hokage seemed practically catatonic, as a little bit of drool leaked from the corner of her mouth, while she mumbled almost incoherently over and over again.

"Why Kami Why?... Why Kami Why?... Why Kami Why?... Why Kami Why?"

Jiraiya called out to Shizune, who quickly came over and he said with concern.

"I've never seen her like this before."

"I have, so how bad a beat was it?" Shizune asked, as she gazed at her mentor with disapproval.

"Four of a kind over the Hokage's full boat." Hanshiro answered.

"Oh Kami, that's a bad one!" Shizune exclaimed in frustration, as she slapped her hand to her forehead.

"Is there anything we can do?" Keko inquired with alarm etched in her voice for Tsunade.

"Hai, I've dealt with this before. Hand me that bottle of sake please."

Shikaku passed over the bottle of sake in front of him to Shizune and then heard her order.

"Master-Jiraiya, pinch milady's nose closed."

The wizened Toad-Sage didn't understand, but trusted that his beloved's first apprentice knew how to handle this situation and did as she commanded. After a few seconds, Tsunade's mouth opened up to breathe and Shizune turned the bottle of sake over and poured a large quantity of the liquor straight down the Hokage's throat. When Tsunade started sputtering, Shizune stopped pouring, before she reared back and slapped her mentor across the face. Apparently, this action was like a bucket of cold water to the face, as Tsunade suddenly jumped up ready fight and looked around in total confusion and stammered.

"Wha….what?...Where, where am I?...What…What happened?"

It was then that the sake Shizune had administered kicked in and the blonde Sannin began to waver on her feet, before Jiraiya caught her and gently placed her onto the chair again. As Tsunade leaned her head on Jiraiya's shoulder, she became more alert and said.

"Jiraiya-kun, I just had the most horrible dream. I dreamt that I was playing poker and had flopped a full boat, but I still ended up losing to a four of a kind by someone who thought it was two pair."

It was then Tsunade took in her surroundings more closely and realized she was sitting at a poker table. Her vision then came upon Ino with a large amount of money sitting in front of the young girl who looked guiltily back at her. After a moment, reality came crashing back to the blonde Hokage and she brought her hand up to cover her eyes and asked in a morose tone.

"Oh Kami its true isn't it?"

"I'm afraid so milady." Shizune answered, before Gai's voice shouted out from the party for medical assistance.

Tsunade began to rise to respond, but Shizune stopped her and said.

"I'll take care of it milady, you just stay here and rest."

Shizune then turned and left, leaving her mentor behind, who spied with envy Ino counting her money, before she asked in curiosity.

"So Ino, what are you going to spend all of that money on?"

"Oh I don't know Lady Tsunade. I'll probably go out and spend it on some more "slutty" clothing." Ino replied, as she shot her father an incensed glare.

Inoichi merely rolled his eyes, before he then stated.

"Look princess, I'm sorry I referred to your clothing as slutty and I should have used another adjective in describing it. However, I still think your attire is too…..provocative for my tastes."

"Well how come you're not complaining about the way mom is dressed?"

The Yamanaka clan leader eyed his wife sitting in his lap up and down, before a slightly wicked grin spread across his face and he answered.

"Because I don't mind my wife, your mother wearing such alluring apparel, but my daughter, I do mind very much."

"That seems pretty hypocritical daddy."

"Maybe it is, but truth be told I would love to see my Keko-chan dressed like this more often." Inoichi earnestly declared, as he gave his wife a loving squeeze and kissed her on the cheek.

"I have to agree with you my friend. If my Yoshi-chan here dressed like this every day, you'd never get me out of the house ever again!" Shikaku drunkenly proclaimed, before he started nibbling on his wife's neck, causing her to giggle, as both Nara's were completely hammered.

"I have to agree with them my hime; you should also dress like this more often."

"I'm the Hokage you old pervert; I have a public image to uphold." Tsunade snapped in irritation at her fiancé's suggestion.

"Please, if you wore that outfit at the next Kage summit, Oonoki, Gaara, and Ei would agree to any and all of your proposals. Maybe even Mei as well, as its rumored she might swing both ways, if you know what I mean" Jiraiya openly declared in amusement causing everyone at the table to chuckle with laughter, while Tsunade blushed.

The blonde Hokage wrapped her arm around Jiraiya's and leaned her head onto his shoulder, as she gazed out onto the dance floor across the way. Amongst the people flailing about dancing to the upbeat music, she gasped in surprise, when she saw not only Sakura and Lee slow dancing together, but also Naruto and Hinata doing the same thing. Both couples had their eyes closed as they danced and the look of peace, contentment, and most importantly love they all showed upon their faces made Tsunade's heart flutter. Tears began to well in Tsunade's eyes, as she watched her grandson and thought about her fractured relationship with him. She prayed to Kami that one day it will change for the better, but if it never did, she was still overjoyed that at least Naruto had found someone who he could love and who would return love to him in Hinata.

---

Kakashi and Kurenai reappeared at the party in a swirl of leaves, after having spent some "quality" time together on the roof of the hotel. Kakashi had to admit his second time up on the roof was a whole lot more fun than the first time he was there. The two Jounin made their way to the bar and ordered some drinks, and as they waited for their drinks, Kurenai looked about the party and she remarked.

"There are a lot of beautiful women here at this party."

"Yeah…I guess so." Kakashi replied with a little uncertainty, as he waited and wondered where this conversation was going.

The silver-haired shinobi didn't have to wait long when Kurenai then asked.

"I know you didn't sleep with anyone here, but I'm curious, were you tempted to?"

Kakashi inwardly groaned upon hearing this question and silently debated how he should answer it. He could lie and say no, but if Kurenai ever found out he did lie about Asami, it would not bode well for him in the future. Kakashi finally decided that he should tell her truth. He didn't want to start off his marriage with a lie, even if it was what he considered would be a small lie.

"I won't lie to you Kure-chan, I was tempted by a very beautiful woman, and although it was close, I didn't act upon it."

"Why not?"

"I realized what I would lose if I did act upon it, and the thought of losing you and Minato for nothing more than a base sexual desire. That would have been the greatest mistake of my life and one in which I would never recover."

Kurenai could hear the truth and sincerity in her fiancé's words and though it didn't exactly please her to learn he had been tempted. At least Kakashi hadn't chosen to lie to her about it and had the resilience not to give into the temptation.

The bartender finally returned with their cocktails and just as Kurenai was about to take a drink, is when someone tapped Kakashi on the shoulder and they both turned around. The one-eyed Jounin started to choke on his drink, as he suddenly came face to face with the last person he wanted Kurenai to see…Asami.

"As….Asami!" Kakashi choked out.

"Hello Kakashi, are you going to introduce me?" Asami asked.

"Oh….yeah right, umm Asami….th…this is my fiancé Kurenai. Kurenai th…this is Asami."

Both women nodded at one another, and Kurenai was stunned at how gorgeous this woman standing before her was, before Asami stated.

"Your fiancé, I thought as much, she's beautiful. Now I don't feel so bad in you turning me down."

"Turning you down, what do you mean?" Kurenai questioned suspiciously.

Asami blushed a bit, before she finally answered.

"Well, I've had a crush on Kakashi-kun for a long time. And when Genma called me and said, as he put it that Kakashi-kun was about to be put on the unavailable list. I decided this was my last chance and I came over to give him a, a…gift."

"By gift you mean…..." Kurenai asked, already suspecting the implied meaning of the word "gift."

"Hai, but he turned me down, which was a little troubling to me, as no man has ever turned me down before. So he must love you very much."

"I do Asami." Kakashi interjected.

"I'm glad Kakashi-kun; I wish you both have a wonderful life together." Asami offered with sincerity.

"Thank you Asami-chan." Both Kakashi and Kurenai conveyed to the woman, before they watched her walk away and leave the party.

"I take it she was the temptation you mentioned earlier. Kurenai remarked.

"Hai."

"Not that I like that you were tempted, but I have to say I'm very impressed that you were able to resist her, she's absolutely stunning."

"You should see her naked." Kakashi absently declared, not realizing he had said his thought out loud until Kurenai said with an edge to her voice.

"Naked?"

"Oh Kami, did I say that out loud!" Kakashi exclaimed in distress.

"Exactly at what point did you finally…..."resist" temptation." Kurenai questioned in an icy voice, as she cocked an eyebrow at her fiancé and gave him the evil eye.

"I…uhhhh….ummmm."

---

However, as Kakashi stammered in response and was racking his brain on how to answer Kurenai's query, he was inadvertently saved when the music abruptly stopped. All the party-goers looked over to see a voluptuous young woman in her mid-twenties holding the power cord. All the working girls knew who this person was and began gathering up their clothes, as the young woman announced.

"Ok ladies, the nights over, time to go."

"Oh come on Madame Kaede, let the girls stay a little while longer, I'll pay extra!" Genma pleaded to the woman.

"You know my rules Genma. My girls need their rest and don't work past 3a.m. I told you this when you hired them."

"Kaede-chan?" Naruto asked as he stepped forward staring at the young woman.

"Nar, Naruto-kun, is that you?" Kaede stammered in disbelief.

"It's good to see you again." Naruto genuinely greeted, as he and Kaede hugged one another.

Hinata felt a twinge of jealousy watching Naruto hug this woman, but pushed it aside, as she held firm in her faith and trust of him. After a moment, Naruto and Kaede released their embrace and looked up and down, examining one another, before Kaede complimented.

"Kami, I heard that you had grown up handsome, but I never imagined this. You're a freaking hunk!"

"Thank you Kaede, I think you've become even more pretty since the last time I saw you." Naruto replied with equal praise.

"Ha, ha, ha, flattery will get you everywhere. I have to say if I knew six years ago that you'd grow up to look like this, I would have snatched you up for myself." Kaede declared laughing.

Naruto could only blush in embarrassment at what Kaede said, before he saw Hinata staring at the two of them with confusion and he held his arm out towards her. Hinata came forward and took Naruto's hand into her own, as he pulled her next to him and introduced her to Kaede.

"Kaede-chan, this is my fiancé Hinata-chan, Hinata this is an old friend of mine Kaede."

"A, a pleasure to meet you Kaede-san." Hinata stammered in greeting, bowing her head slightly to the woman.

"The pleasure is all mine." Kaede warmly replied, before she eyed Hinata from head to toe and then offered in genuine compliment and appreciation.

"Wow Naruto-kun, you did alright for yourself, she's gorgeous."

Hinata blushed at the compliment, before she replied.

"Th-thank you for the compliment, but I don't really look like this."

Hinata then removed her blonde wig and sunglasses and Kaede stared at her for a moment before she sarcastically declared.

"Oh yeah, you just got all ugly now, girl are trippin? If I had about a dozen girls who looked like you I could retire in a few years."

Hinata began to blush even more, as Kaede scanned the room and remarked.

"In fact I see several girls here, who aren't mine, but they're dressed like "Pros." Although, I don't recognize any of them, and I know virtually all the working girls in this village."

Hinata turned to see where Kaede was looking and saw that her gaze was directed at Temari, Ayame, Tenten, Sakura, and Ino who were standing together in a group and stated.

"Those are my friends and they're not…. "Pros." They're kunoichi's like me of the village."

"That's too bad, if you were "Pros" I would hire all of you in a heartbeat, I'd make a fortune in no time."

Temari, Ayame, Tenten, Sakura, and Ino began blush red at the implied compliment. Kaede then asked in curiosity.

"So how come all of you are dressed liked working girls?"

"Yeah, I was wondering about that to Hina-chan." Naruto chimed in as well.

"We heard that there were….."Pros" at this party and we wanted to find out what was going on, since our men were attending. And the only way we could sneak in was to dress like this."

"I don't understand, is there a problem with my girls being here?"

"Well, we were promised that there wouldn't be any women at this party."

"Hmmm, I was not informed of that by the man who acquired my ladies for the evening." Kaede remarked, before shooting a fierce angry glare at Genma, who gulped nervously.

"I'm sorry Hinata-san, to all of you. I wouldn't have taken the job if I had known." Kaede avowed in a contrite voice.

"It's alright Madame Kaede, it all worked out in the end." Tsunade announced, as she stepped forward removing her red wig from her head.

"Hokage-Tsunade!" Kaede exclaimed in shock, before quickly bowing her head in respect.

"Lift your head Madame Kaede; you're in no trouble here" The blonde Hokage stated.

"Th-thank you Lady Tsunade."

"Hello Kaede, I should have guessed by the quality of the young ladies here that they were from your stable." Jiraiya complimented, as he stepped forward next to Tsunade.

"Jiraiya-kun, I haven't seen you in years. How are you doing you old pervert?" Kaede warmly replied in surprise.

Tsunade shot her fiancé a withered glance, as he held up his hands in defense and unabashedly declared.

"Hey you knew I wasn't a choir boy and she did say it's been years."

Tsunade huffed in vexation, but realized Jiraiya was indeed correct.

"So how is it that you know Naruto, Kaede-chan?" Jiraiya questioned with interest.

"Oh it's nothing much, he just saved my life once." Kaede proudly declared.

This got everyone's attention, as Kaede continued on.

"I first met Naruto-kun about 5 to 6 years ago. I was just a common street walker back then and I was also young and stupid. Anyway, I got cornered in an alleyway by these strange looking Anbu wearing blank white masks."

"Root Anbu!" Tsunade spat with disgust, thankful she had finally put an end to Danzo's organization once and for all.

"Well whatever those bastards were called, they had me cornered and had decided that they were going to have some….."fun" with me that night." Kaede said in a shaky voice, as the memory of that night, still brought a feeling of terror to her, before she continued on.

"Anyway, just as they were about to get started, this kid in an orange jumpsuit suddenly appeared and began beating on them with a trashcan lid. He was like a hurricane and those guys forgot about me because they had to defend themselves, which allowed me the chance to get away. As I reached the entrance of the alley and onto the street, I turned around and saw that they had got the kid down and were beating on him pretty viciously. There was nothing I could do to help him, so I ran home."

Everyone turned to look at Naruto, who merely stood unwavering and his face betrayed nothing of what he was feeling at that moment.

"Actually, that's a lie. I could have, no should have done something to help him, but I didn't because I was scared."

"You can't blame yourself for being scared of those Root Anbu." Tsunade remarked.

"You misunderstand, I wasn't scared of the Root Anbu at that moment, I was scared of Naruto-kun. You see I recognized who that kid who saved me was and I'm ashamed to admit it, but back then I was also one of those stupid people who actually believed all of that crap about him being a demon because he held the Kyuubi no Youko within him." Kaede admitted with regret and guilt ringing in her voice.

Kaede inhaled and exhaled a deep breath, before she spoke again.

"But as I sat in the dark of my rat-hole of an apartment, I began to question that belief. It didn't make any sense to me. I mean if Naruto-kun was really a demon, why did he help me? I was nothing, just a whore, why should a demon care about what happens to me? Anyway, after a while, I couldn't take it anymore and went back to the alleyway and found Naruto-kun. He was beat-up pretty badly and I wanted to take him to the hospital, but he begged me not to before he passed out. Something about that he would get even worse treatment there than had what already happened to him. So I got him back to my shitty apartment and nursed him through the night."

A pall of desolate silence filled the room, as everyone thought about what they had just heard, before Kaede continued on.

"Anyway, I was amazed the next morning to find all of Naruto-kun's wounds had miraculously healed. I made us breakfast and we spent the rest of the morning talking. And it was on that day my life changed forever."

"Why did it change Kaede-san?"

"It's because of your fiancé Hinata-san. As we were talking, I soon realized how wrong and stupid I had been in believing that Naruto-kun was some sort of demon. He was just a young boy, who had willingly chosen to help save a whore for no other reason than he felt it was the right thing to do. Even more incredible to me was the fact that he didn't view me as a whore, but just a girl who had needed his help. Naruto-kun didn't judge me because of what I did and actually treated me with decency and respect. He regarded me as an actual human being, something I rarely got from people and here was this young kid acting as though my life meant something, which even I had stopped believing at that point in my life. Then before he left, Naruto-kun gave me a piece of advice that helped me to become the woman I am today."

"What did he say?"

"I guess it was more of an observation than advice, but he asked me isn't it better to be the boss than just an employee? Because when you're the boss, you get the respect of those around you, and that's why he wanted to become Hokage. So he could finally get the villagers to acknowledge and respect him."

Naruto grinned slightly, as he remembered that conversation with Kaede years ago.

"So after that day I decided to go into management so to speak. It was slow going at first, with just a couple of girls working for me. But over the years I was able save my money and expand my business and increase the number of girls I take care of. Now I'm proud to say I run the #1 escort service not only in the Leaf village, but within the Fire country. And give me a few more years and it will be the best one in all of the Elemental nations." Kaede asserted with pride.

All of the people who were close to Naruto could only smile and marvel at once again at another example of him changing the life of someone for the better.

"Well, I hope I didn't bore any of you with my tale, but it's time for my girls to come home."

"Please Madame Kaede; can't they stay a little longer?" Genma whined in protest.

"If I were you Genma Shiranui, I would keep my mouth shut, if you want to avail yourself to my services ever again. I'm still annoyed that you procured my ladies for a party in which there weren't supposed to be any present!" Kaede snapped with fury at the senbon chewing Tokubetsu Jounin.

"Don't punish him Kaede-chan, like baa-chan…uhh I mean the Hokage said, it all ended up working out in the end." Naruto stated, but inwardly cursed at himself for using his former trademark name for Tsunade.

Meanwhile, Tsunade's heart skipped a beat upon hearing him address her as baa-chan for the first time since he learned the truth about her. It gave the blonde Hokage a small sliver of hope for the future.

"Alright Naruto-kun, because it's you I won't ban Genma from my business." Kaede amenably declared.

"Thank you Madam Kaede, and thank you Namikaze-sama!" Genma gratefully acknowledged, bowing repeatedly to both of them.

A few minutes later, after all of Kaede's working girls had dressed and filed out of the hotel suite. She hugged Naruto once more and also hugged Hinata congratulating the young Hyuga girl on her engagement. However, before Kaede left, she walked up to Temari, Ayame, Tenten, Sakura, and Ino, who were still standing in a group together and handed each one of them a business card and said.

"If any of you girls ever decide to quit being shinobi, look me up. We could make a lot of money together."

Once again all five girls blushed red at the implicit praise Kaede had just given them. Then with a wave of her hand, Kaede then left the hotel suite. It was then that Tsunade announced in a commanding voice.

"As for my shinobi still in attendance, this party is officially closed. Many of you are on duty tomorrow and I will not be accepting any call in's for sick days!"

As all the shinobi slowly stumbled past their Hokage and out the door. Tsunade's arm shot to stop Genma who looked at her with trepidation, as she said to him brusquely.

"Madame Kaede may not have punished you and I'm going to let you off the hook as well, because most of these men coming off the front lines needed a night like this. But I want you to turn around and look at a group of kunoichi's who will not be forgiving or forgetting you and your role at this party."

Genma hesitantly turned around to Temari, Yoshino, Keko, Ayame, Tenten, Kurenai, Sakura, and Hinata leveling harsh glares at him. The Tokubetsu Jounin sweated profusely under their intense gaze and gulped nervously, before he quickly flashed through some hand-signs and shunshin'd away in a swirl of leaves. After everyone had left the hotel suite leaving behind only Naruto, Kakashi, and Jiraiya's closest friends and comrades. Ino suddenly noticed that she hadn't seen her sensei for some time and openly asked in curiosity.

"Hey, where's Anko-sensei?"

As if on cue, Anko and Iruka came stumbling out of one of the bedrooms, both of them looking very disheveled, as they attempted adjust their clothing. When they both looked up and saw everyone staring at them with knowing grins plastered upon all their faces. Anko growled out in defense, the annoyed tone of her voice self-evident.

"What?...We are married in case you forgot!"

Iruka merely blushed a bit, before he took Anko's hand and led the both of them into the large living room to join everyone else. As everyone sat around, Anko grumbled in complaint that the party was over and asked.

"So what are we going to do for entertainment now?"

Ino's eyes suddenly lit up and exclaimed.

"I know what we can do Anko-sensei! How about we see a live performance from the Subarashii Kitsune!"

All the women present save for Tsunade and Hinata grinned and turned their heads to gaze eagerly at Naruto, who stammered nervously and asked.

"Wh-why are all of you looking at me?"

"Don't try and deny it Naruto, we all know you're the infamous stripper of legend Subarashii Kitsune!"

Naruto's face took on a visage of utter horror upon hearing Ino's declaration, before his head whipped around to glare angrily at Kakashi and Jiraiya, while directing a growing killing intent at them. The two veteran shinobi held their hands up, as if to block the killing intent and they both pleaded with innocence.

"Naruto, I swear I've never said a word to anyone!" Jiraiya swore anxiously.

"I haven't said anything either, I swear to Kami I haven't!" Kakashi asserted fearfully.

"Then how do they know?"

"We, we saw a film Naru-kun." Hinata softly answered.

Hearing this, Naruto's killing intent began to subside and he asked in confusion.

"What, what do you mean you saw a film?"

"Apparently someone shot a film of the one and only performance given by Subarashii Kitsune and Anko-sensei was able to get ahold of the film." Ino began to explain.

"At great monetary expense I might add." Anko proudly declared.

"How great?" Iruka sternly questioned, as Anko's feeling of pride quickly changed to apprehension and she mumbled under her breath in response.

"What was that?" Iruka demanded.

"Uhhh, ten….ten thousand ryo." Anko shamefacedly answered.

"$10,000 ryo!" Iruka shouted angrily in disbelief, before he irately asked.

"And just how were you going to keep me from discovering a loss of $10,000 ryo from our bank account?"

"Uhhh, well I was hoping I could replace the money before you found out."

"How?"

"Please don't be mad Iruka-kun, if the film was hot enough….and it is, my plan was to hold private screenings for some of the rich civilian hags of the village and charge them for the viewing. I'd make up that $10,000 ryo and then turn a profit on it in no time." Anko quickly explained.

"So you were going turn a profit using Naruto."

"I didn't know the gaki was the Subarashii Kitsune, until I saw the film tonight." Anko defensively replied.

"Iruka-sensei." Naruto called out, interrupting the Umino argument, before he then stated.

"I'll pay you $20,000 ryo for that film."

"No." Iruka answered, as Naruto's face became downcast, before his old teacher declared.

"You'll pay nothing for the film Naruto, consider it our wedding gift to you, unusual as that might be."

"That's awfully nice of you, but $10,000 ryo is a lot of money and I can afford to pay that much, even more if you want, no problem."

"I appreciate that Naruto, but I did pretty well at the craps table tonight, so I can cover the $10,000 ryo my "dear" wife spent behind my back." Iruka replied, while shooting a withering glare at Anko who wilted under his intense gaze.

"Thanks Iruka-sensei." Naruto gratefully offered in response, before he then nervously asked, as he looked around the room at all of the ladies present.

"So, so all of you saw this film at the bachelorette party?"

The sly and wicked grins that spread across many of their faces answered Naruto's question and he leaned forward and buried his face into the palms of his hand and proclaimed in distress.

"Oh Kami, I'm so embarrassed."

"From what I saw Naruto, you've got nothing to be embarrassed about." Temari declared in appreciation, while Ino, Tenten, and Ayame added with approval.

"That's for sure."

"You got that right."

"Absolutely."

Shikamaru, Neji and Kiba scowled at their women, clearly not pleased with amount of admiration they were conveying towards Naruto. Unfortunately, their praise did not alleviate Naruto's mortification, but only caused it to increase, as he blushed furiously. It was then that Tsunade's voice punctuated the air and questioned in wonderment.

"Well, all of this has been interesting, but it still doesn't explain how you ended up becoming the legendary stripper Subarashii Kitsune? Although I suspect two certain perverted shinobi you had as teachers are neck deep in how that came to be!"

The blonde Hokage then shot a scornful scowl at Jiraiya and Kakashi, who tugged at their collars with nervous apprehension, as Naruto tersely answered.

"Actually, they weren't involved in me becoming the Subarashii Kitsune. They were too busy rotting in a jail cell in the village of Estrogenia."

Now it was Naruto's turn to shoot a harsh glare at his two sensei's, as the memory of what he had to do and go through during their time in that village came rushing back to him.

"What exactly happened Naru-kun?" Hinata asked, as she took his hand and squeezed it in support and comfort for the man she loved.

Naruto exhaled a weary sigh and squeezed Hinata's hand back in response to her, before he began his tale to explain and answer her question.

"It all started during my training trip when we arrived at secluded valley called the Land of Amazonia and their village of Estrogenia."

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Author Note: Oh no, not another evil cliffhanger from me, well I'm afraid so, but truthfully did you really expect there not to be a cliffhanger? And in defense, at this point the chapter had reached over 18K words and that's not including my author/notes. So this seemed like a really good place to stop.

Well the first thing I want to say is how much of an idiot I am. For if you recall from my author notes of chapter 22. I complained and warned other authors about the difficulties in writing scenes involving a party. And what do I do, write not one but two chapters revolving around parties. Anyway, enough of my bitching, as you already know this chapter involved a lot of characters and side-stories. All of which I hope I was able to craft into not only a cohesive read, but more importantly a fun read for everyone.

As for the storyline of the chapter, there were several ways I could have gone with it. The two main ways being either the women are super-pissed at the men for having hookers at the party and punishing them, or the men being super-pissed and punishing their women for crashing their party essentially to spy on them. I did consider both routes, but ultimately I decided if I went in either of those directions. It would have changed the entire tone of the storyline started last chapter from being "fun" to one of a lot of "emotional pain, melodrama, and angst." Hopefully, all of you liked the route I decided to take. I guess I'll find out soon enough from your reviews.

As for the reviews of the last chapter, I knew I would take a hit and lose some readers because of the 9 month wait in posting. But what really hurt was losing some of my long-standing readers who have been with the story for years. I'm hoping their disappearance was just a one chapter punishment and that they will return. However, all of that aside, I do still wish to thank everyone who did take the time to review my last chapter. For those of you who did review, many of you had a lot to say about it and I'm pleased that this story has such a strong fan base with readers who actually write out well thought-out reviews. Because of that, I enjoy reading many of your reviews, so please leave lots of them, as they do help a writer get a sense of the thoughts and opinions of the fans of a story. They also can help lift the spirits of an author as well. Also, to any readers who are staff members to any C2 communities, please feel free to add my story to your community if you feel it is worthy of it. I won't mind, I swear. I'll even pinkie swear if I need to?

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Homage time:

This is probably the easiest homage I've ever done, so I'm not even going to bother with giving you much of a clue. As I'm sure most of you have already guessed, but a lot of my inspiration for the bachelor party came from a movie masterpiece starring an Oscar winning actor. Guess the movie and actor and you'll get all cyber-pizza, beer, or soda you can eat and drink. Once again, all I ask is please don't leave a review with just your answer, but also say something about the chapter or the story in general.

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Now, onto everyone's favorite section Kingkakashi's "Final" rants on the manga.

I have mostly positive things to say about the following issues of the Naruto manga.

*Warning I do give away some spoilers in my rants, so read at your own risk.

#699 – The chapter starts with Naruto and Sasuke lying next to one another slowly bleeding to death from their severed arms. Kakashi and Sakura arrive on the scene and Sakura rushes to them and begins to heal their arms to keep them from bleeding out. Sasuke apologizes to Sakura for everything and of course his #1 fan-girl immediately forgives him. I mean why not? Don't worry Sasuke about all the lives you've hurt and or destroyed in your obsessive quest for power over the years. What's important now is your back and Team #7 is reunited at last. This seems to be the prevailing theme of this chapter, as even Kakashi starts to reminisce about when they were a Genin team.

Meanwhile all the people all over the world are being released from being captured in the pods of the Shinju tree as it dies. The rest of the chapter shows the aftermath of the war. There was a funeral scene for Shikamaru and Ino's dads that showed Naruto and Hinata attending together, which I'm sure produced a growing anxiety in all the NarutoxSakura fans when they first saw it. And of course Sasuke is pardoned for everything. Kakashi becomes the Sixth Hokage and Sasuke decides he needs to travel the world to see all the things he missed because of his the quest for power. Sakura wants to come with him, but he refuses, bumming her out once again. But he taps her on the forehead and says he'll return one day, giving Sakura hope. I actually think this was an attempt at romance by Kishimoto, but I can understand now why he says he can't do romance, because he can't and that whole scene was just pathetic.

The end of the chapter is a heartfelt exchange between Naruto and Sasuke before he leaves, as some sort of symbolic scene showing the strength of their bond of friendship. This chapter was alright, but that's about the best thing I can say about it.

#700 – Oh man do I have a lot to say about this final chapter, I hardly know where to begin? Since this chapter is basically showing us a glimpse of all the characters in the future of somewhere around 8-10 years would be my guess. I'll just comment on the characters as they appear in the chapter.

Shino Aburame – Apparently he's the new Iruka and is teaching at the Shinobi Academy. Ok, I don't have a problem with this, I just would have liked to have seen something more for him.

Anko Mitarashi – I'm so pissed at what Kishimoto did with her. I can only think it's some misguided attempt at humor on his part. Which as you know he fails at time and time again and this is no exception. Because he took one of the hottest female characters of the Naruto universe and has turned her into a fat pig whose only interest appears to be eating. It's truly sad what happened to her.

Rock Lee – Nothing has really changed for him other than he's older and has a son. We don't know the kid's name or who his mother is? But he's a chip off the old block as the scene of them together is a training scene of course.

Tenten – I think of all the characters, Kishimoto might have screwed her over the most. I mean she lost presumably the love of her life in Neji during the war. And now years later, she's shown alone and is dealing with a failing business. I suppose Tenten could be the unknown wife and mother of Rock Lee and his son, which to me wouldn't be bad considering as she stands now, she has nothing.

Temari – She became the wife of Shikamaru and they have a son named Shikadai. You don't know if she is still an active shinobi or just a homemaker now. I have zero problems with this pairing and always believed that it made perfect sense.

Gaara & Kankouro – You don't learn anything about these two other than Gaara is still the Kazekage and they're both older.

Kiba Inuzuka – Like Rock Lee, nothing has really changed for him other than he's older and is with some girl who is really into cats. I have no clue who she is? I was saddened when they showed how old and in bad a shape physically Akamaru is now.

Ino Yamanaka – I'm really annoyed about her, because Kishimoto gave her zero character development, as Ino is no different than she was as a teenager. She's still completely superficial, as shown in the example that because she couldn't have Sasuke, Ino moved over to the next pretty-boy and is married to Sai. They have a son named Inojin. It would have been much better if Kishimoto would have changed her from being so shallow, vain, and superficial and paired her with Chouji instead.

Chouji Akimichi – A pairing with Ino would have been so much better than what Kishimoto did to everyone's favorite Akimichi. He came up with the most ridiculous pairing ever and put Chouji with Karui, the Kumogakure kunoichi. Those two together makes as much sense as ice-cream mixed with vinegar. Anyway, those two have a daughter named Chocho.

Kurenai Yuuhi – It's really disappointing in how she became. Apparently she never got over Asuma's death and moved on with her life with someone else. So all Kurenai has done is raise their daughter and she did not age well at all. I would have hoped that Kishimoto could have at least kept her as a milf, but sadly that is not the case.

Might Gai – I don't know why Kishimoto did this to him, but apparently he's an invalid and relegated to a wheelchair and he appears to have aged 30 years, instead of 8-10 years as what the timeline is.

Kakashi Hatake – Became the Sixth Hokage, before he relinquished the title to Naruto and like Gai appears to have aged much more than what he should have. And like Sasuke 10 years earlier, he wants to travel the world now. For such a major character, I would have liked to have seen something more for Kakashi than just this.

Tsunade Senju – Kishimoto really didn't give us anything about what she became. As he only showed her with all the other ex-Kages, Oonoki, Ei, and Mei Terumi, all of whom have noticeably aged, except for Tsunade who is obviously still doing whatever it is she does to keep her youthful appearance. Oonoki has been replaced by his granddaughter Kurotsuchi as Kage. Darui replaced Ei as Kage. And Choujuurou replaced Mei Terumi as Kage.

Killer Bee – Pretty much the same other than being older.

Shikamaru Nara – He became Naruto's chief advisor and right hand man. I've got no problems with this, as to me it makes perfect sense.

Udon & Moegi – I list these two together because that's how it's presented to us. They're not together romantically, as far as we know, but Kishimoto decided to turn them into versions of Homaru and Koharu as Council advisors to the Hokage. Once again, I would have liked to have seen something more for these two than that.

Iruka Umino – What his character became is disappointing to say the least. Essentially it appears that he's retired and that's all we learn. Kishimoto didn't even bother to pair him up with anyone. I think he could have at least paired him up say with Anko and given both of them someone to have. Once again, for such a major character, I would have liked to have seen something more for him than just this.

Konohamaru Sarutobi– All we learn is that he's become a Jounin sensei.

Sarada Uchiha – All throughout this issue there was this creepy girl who in appearance looks like she would be the daughter of Karin. Instead, we learn that she's actually the daughter of Sakura and Sasuke. Which makes no sense, as she looks nothing like Sakura, but is a dead ringer for Karin at that age?

Sakura Uchiha – You really learn nothing about her other than she is the mother of Sarada and appears to be just a homemaker now. I'm giving Sakura the benefit of the doubt that she and Sasuke are actually married, although there is no mention that had occurred.

Sasuke Uchiha – He's still out roaming the lands apparently in search of his redemption and hasn't been back to Konoha, since he knocked up Sakura before he left.

Now to the best thing that Kishimoto did to end the series.

NARUTO AND HINATA ARE MARRIED WITH A SON AND DAUGHTER! "AWESOME!"

Tell me did all of you hear the collective scream of anguish from all of the NarutoxSakura fans like I did?

Anyway, Naruto has also become the Seventh Hokage replacing Kakashi and it seems Hinata is a homemaker raising their family, now about their kids.

First off their names, Boruto or "Bolt" for the English translation is name of the son and Himawari or "Sunflower" is the name of the younger daughter. I don't have a huge problem with their names only that I don't think Kishimoto put very much effort in coming up with them. I would have thought their names would be more symbolic like Naruto naming his son after his father or Jiraiya or his daughter after say his or Hinata's mother.

Now as to their appearance or how they look. I think Kishimoto went a little overboard in trying to make the kids look like Naruto. I mean aside from Himawari having her mother's hair color, it's almost like Hinata contributed zero DNA to their genes. I mean it's so bad, you could throw a dress onto Boruto and he would almost look like a twin to Himawari, except for the blonde hair. I mean neither kid even has the Byakugan!

Boruto Uzumaki – This is Naruto and Hinata's first born son and he looks just as his father did at the same age minus one whisker mark. He also appears to have the same attitude, as he wants to pull off a prank of epic proportions by defacing Hokage Mountain with graffiti just as Naruto did. Apparently Naruto's duties as Hokage are preventing him from spending more time with his family and Boruto misses him and is just acting out trying to gain his father's attention.

Himawari Uzumaki – This is Naruto and Hinata's second born daughter and she to as I've said looks very similar to her father and like her brother has two whisker marks on her cheeks. However, her attitude unlike her brother is more like her mother's, as she appears to be a very cheerful, kind-hearted, and considerate little girl. There's no mention that she is bothered by her father's absence because of his Hokage duties, but I'm sure she misses him just as her brother does. She just doesn't act out trying to gain his attention as he does.

So, that pretty much wraps up the final issue of Naruto. My biggest problem or complaint is like I said at the beginning, is Kishimoto was giving the readers a glimpse of all the characters in the future, which I think was a mistake. Not in the sense that I didn't want to see what happened to all of the characters in the future. I just think he should have gone more in-depth with a lot of the characters. He should have either extended the series a few issues longer or just made the final issue a double or triple sized one. As trying to cram everything about the characters into 20 pages, it all just felt incomplete to me. I mean there were characters such as Yamato, Shizune, and the Ichiraku's just to name a few that we learn nothing about what happened with them.

Now, I've not seen "Naruto: The Last Movie" or read the Naruto Gaiden yet. So maybe some of the issues I've brought up will be answered for me when I do. So all I can comment on is how everything appeared in the final issue of the Naruto manga.

I am no longer disgusted that Kishimoto hasn't done anything yet with Hinata's confession to Naruto. As we now know he did the correct and logical thing by pairing the two of them together, as it should have always been. Granted, it did take him 263 freaking issues and a movie, before he finally did it!

Of note, I will continue my rants in the next few chapters on the Naruto Gaiden.

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Now I'd like to give a shout out to a couple of stories of quality work that I recommend. I urge all of you to check-out these fine works when you have the time.

Recommendations:

"Naruto AU" by WandCloakStone: This is a Naruto/Hinata romance story, but what is different about it than most stories is that it takes a slow approach to it. The main plot of the story is that Naruto and Hinata were a couple, but then he was ordered by Hokage Kakashi to go on a secret mission to locate and stop Sasuke if necessary and that he was to have no contact with anyone in the village during his mission. So essentially Naruto disappeared for six years and Hinata never knew why and was hurt by it. Naruto is now back, but finds it a tough road to regain Hinata's heart. The story is very well written and has just the right amount of emotions, angst, and drama to keep the reader interested. So if you're looking for something different in a Naruto/Hinata romance tale, this is a story you should check out.

"Arigato, Hinata" by Mario-Naruto: This is a short one shot involving Naruto and Hinata that takes place time wise after the "Naruto: Last Movie" The story is just straight up cute, romantic fluff, but it is written well and not overly sappy and sweet. So if you're a Naruto/Hinata fan and are looking for a quick read that you will enjoy. This is a story you will like.

Now please be kind and leave precious valuable reviews on these stories.

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As always, if anyone wants to discuss my story in greater detail, just shoot me a PM. I enjoy talking about the story with any readers who really have an interest in it. I'll try to respond back to you as quickly as I can.

Take it easy and be good!

Kingkakashi

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School Time:

Amenably

Definition: Ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice.

Etymology: Anglo French 1590-1600a.d.

Part of Speech: Adjective

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