I don't own Naruto! All the credit goes to Masashi Kishimoto!

The genin of teams 7 and 8 were walking through the street, in a mixture of loud and quiet. Kiba and Naruto were arguing about something the others didn't really care about. Sakura and Hinata were quietly discussing what the boys dismissed as "girl things", and for the last two, were silently trudging behind.

Sasuke looked at Shino. "Where's your sensei? Kakashi had told us that we were supposed to work with you guys a bit today. So he'd leave us in your 'care'."

Shino shrugged. "I have a hypothesize that the jounin senseis of both our teams 7 and 8 have mutually agreed that it would be advantageous for us to spend the day together. Likely to get to know one another, or possibly to recognize the most preeminent teamwork."

Kiba, up ahead, let out a sigh. "Shino, English, please! I didn't understand anything aside from we're stuck here together!"

Naruto smirked. "Well dog brain, I think it means we get to spend the day annoying you rather than our own sensei. I honestly bet this whole thing was his idea anyways."

Up in the trees, Kurenai gave a deadpan stare to Kakashi, who just replied with an eye smile.

All of a sudden, Naruto stopped walking. Seeing this, both Sasuke and Sakura stopped as well. Team 8 looked at them curiously, but followed suit.

Sakura cleared her throat. "What's wrong Naruto?" At this time, it was far too early for any civilian to be out and about, and they had only seen a few other ninja along the way.

Naruto growled. "Something's coming, and when I say coming, it's coming fast."

Team 8 braced themselves. They'd take caution whenever necessary. Hinata decided to activate her byakugan to try to get a better look.

"There seems to be two figures. One shorter and one taller. The way they're going, it almost reminds me as if they were racing?"

Naruto and Sasuke looked at each other, and Sasuke brought out a small red scroll. "Tomatoes are ready to go."

Everyone nodded and jumped to the side of the road, waiting for the newcomers to arrive. All of a sudden, Sasuke's sharingan caught movement, and he immediately threw the tomato. It hit a smaller figure on the side, knocking them off balance in plain sight for everyone to see.

Everyone went over to the person, faces in different expressions of horror. This green "thing" seemed to be a genin. A Konoha genin at that.

Sakura shivered as she saw his eyebrows, pointing the kunai at him she yelled. "Get rid of it! Get rid of it!"

Naruto started laughing. "Is the other one like this too? Oh, I bet Kakashi Sensei would love something like this! Let's put him in a box with a bow and send it over to him! Maybe we can get the other one too, I bet he'd faint at that!"

Kurenai was trying her hardest not to laugh, watching Kakashi shiver in horror at a wrapped up Guy and Lee in a box at his door came up into his mind. Oh, this isn't going to go well.

Naruto smirked as another green blur stopped in front of them. Revealing themself to be none other than Guy, the jounin sensei of team 9. "Lee! I see you have met some new people? Are these your friends?!"

Before anyone could say anything, the green thing from the ground shot up with tears in his eyes. "Yes Guy-Sensei! They are now my new friends! I will try my hardest to protect them!" He looked at Sakura. "I will also fight for your love my dear! You are as beautiful as a freshly fallen blossom from the most precious cherry blossom tree!"

Sakura stared at Lee for just a moment, before she turned around and puked in the bushes.

Naruto grinned. "This is perfect!" Pulling out some ribbon from… who knows where, he asked. "Can I wrap you up as a present for my jounin sensei? I'm sure Kakashi would love you guys as a gift!"

Guy started at that. "Kakashi? You know of my rival? Wait, you're his cute genin! This is such a youthful encounter!"

Naruto stood there. Staring.

"What?"

Guy flashed his trademark grin and gave Naruto a thumbs up. "It was perfect that on this youthful day we got to meet some of my eternal rival's students! If we don't manage to meet more often, I'll run 1000 laps around Konoha on my bare hands! If I cannot do that, I'll do 2000 sit ups! If I can't do 2000 sit ups, I'll do 2500 push ups, if I can-"

"RUN!" Naruto screamed. Practically pulling out his hair. "We will not be able to give this to Kakashi! We won't be able to even get close! We have to save ourselves, every genin for themselves!"

At that very moment, Guy finished his rant. Lee, with stars in his eyes, began the praise.

"Guy Sensei! That's amazing!"

"I know Lee!"

"Guy Sensei!"

"Lee!"

"Guy Sensei!"

"Lee!"

As they embraced, a sunset appears behind them, bathing them in a light like no other. Sakura, Sasuke, and Hinata all tried to dispel the genjutsu, but it was far too powerful. Kiba was trying to cover both his ears and eyes, Shino was nowhere to be seen, and Naruto was having a full blown attack.

"We're all gonna die! I'll never get to do so many things I was ever hoping to do!"

At this point, Sasuke tried a last ditch effort. Throwing all the tomatoes he had, he mustered all he could and screamed.

"SCATTER!"

It was quiet for a few seconds, then genin took off everywhere, running in all directions.

Lee looked at Guy. "What amazing friends! They all seem to enjoy being as youthful as us! Just look at them go!"

Guy grinned at Lee. "It appears so Lee! Come, let us finish our youthful run! Then we could go talk to Kakashi about his wonderful genin! Maybe I could go for another challenge?"

Kurenai left her hiding spot, to go look for her team, while Kakashi laughed. He knew his genins deserved something like that. It was payback for all the pain that they gave him! Though maybe he had gone a bit far. Guy was a bit too much for even him to handle. Though he was glad he'd never get a ribboned up Guy and Lee on his doorstep, he'd die on the spot.

Kakashi headed out in search of his scattered students, planning on asking them on how their day with team 8 went. Maybe though, he'd sign them up for a training period under Guy's group. That would be a quite interesting sight.

Kakashi snickered to himself, pleased with the morning's results.

"OIIIII! KAKASHIIIIII!"

Kakashi turned around, knowing full well who it was.

Then fainted.

For Guy was standing directly behind him, and had partially wrapped some ribbon around himself, touching it off with a bow on top of his head. After Naruto had dropped the ribbon while running off, he decided he'd do them such a good favour. For any friend of Lee is a friend of Guy!

"YOSH!"

Thank you all for being so patient with me, despite my unavailability to upload recently, but we're back on track! See ya next time!