"So I decided, since my cute little students did so well on this mission, you are ready to try for the Chunin Exams which will be starting soon after we get back home." Uzumaki Naruto couldn't have been more proud of his genin girls. They had finished their first C turned B rank mission with flying colors… he soured slightly. It had only turned into a B rank because of his Baa-chan's stupid bingo book entry. Ami no Shirokusa (Ami of the white grass), B class Missing nin from Kusakagure had heard of 'The Stud's arrival to Tea country and wanted to try his prowess in both combat and, to his utter horror, the bedchambers. Somehow he had escaped without upsetting the woman who could snap him in half like a twig if she had half a mind. While a nice person and on good turns with Konoha now (thanks to Naruto's infallible charm), Ami no Shirokusa was a little big. Little like Tsunade baa-chan or Moegi-chan were a little top heavy. Like Sakura-chan was a little bitchy, like Hime was just a little cute… GOD DAMMIT! He was thinking of her again! He grabbed his head and shook it to try to push her image out of his head. Think unsexy thoughts! Yamaguchi in a thong! GAH! Ero-Sennin a bikini. Urp… I'm gonna be sick.

"Naruto-sensei is thinking about Ino-sensei again…" Haruka remarked sipping her tea as they walked, the rest of team seven didn't seemed bothered by it, as it was one of the quirks that made up the bizarre team. "They say love sickness is the strongest disease."

"Given how much Sensei has been distracted I think I see their point." Haruna stated cheerfully, she put a finger on her cheek. "But I wouldn't mind having it right now either! Haruna-chan want's a prince to sweep her off her feet!"

"Sniff sniff. Seeenseeeei~." Harumi was utterly forlorn, crocodile tears pouring down her cheeks, as she watched her sensei walk a few more feet before he pulled at his hair again. "Why won't you think of me like that…? It's not fair! Harumi-chan want's Sensei's horse-!" [Smack!]

Haruka walked past her sister, tea in one hand, while blowing on the other, red from friction caused by it's sudden and violent contact upon her idiot sister's thick skull. Yes, team seven was efficient. But just like all the ones before it, they were absolutely bizarre.

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Fakers!
Chapter 09: My Hime
By
Hibiki

"Your saying 'I own you' but all i hear is 'Kishimoto owns this'" -Hibiki

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Oh Naruto-sama…" Ami no Shirokusa whispered. The woman's well endowed six' nine", three hundred pound frame, stood upon a limb of the tallest tree around, as she watched the four leaf nins walked out of sight longingly. Naruto-sama, The Stud of Konoha, had left a lasting impression on the large woman. Most men ran from her, called her horrible things. She hadn't meant to cripple the Kusa Daimyo… but he called her… THAT word, and everything else was blank until she woke up with her team screaming and the twitching form of the bastard in her massive hands. So she was thrown out, exiled, not liked enough to have hunter nins come after her, no reward for her to be offered. Assholes. So she ended up working as a merc for some jerk in Tea, bored to tears until HE had showed up. Thinking his book entry a joke she was surprised by his mettle. Then in the heat of battle she was done, and in an instant, she thought, she was to be dead. A rabbit had been startled out of hiding and into the line of his giant Rasengan as he rushed forward.

Ami no Shirokusa was an odd ninja, most would agree but kinder than almost all before her. Most would have let the rabbit die to save themselves. She refused. Grabbing the rabbit and cradling it against her she waited for pain that would never come. The man had stopped entirely with a look of surprise that quickly morphed into a rather handsome grin. Then he praised her. Her the giant, fat, freakish Kunoichi who had been his enemy, admiring her physical prowess and kind nature. They had made instant friends then, something she had really never had before. Oh he was SUCH a wonderful man! She would finish her job here in Tea and then make her way to Konoha and take up that offer he had given about becoming a Konoha nin. Maybe, she giggled, if she played her cards right, more. She bounced at the thought before her limb snapped under her shifting weight and she went crashing down with a surprised yelp.

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Today… officially… SUCKED.

Morino-san had given the crew three days off after Konoha's snake mistress had returned from her mission a little… happy. And unlike an uptight Mitarashi Anko, a Happy Mitarashi Anko made nuke nin's shit their pants, so Ino was on leave until Anko's eccentricities had… wound down and for the janitors to get the smell out of the building. She had spent the first day off at her parent's helping out in the store with her niece Sanko, playing a game or two of Shougi with her father, and helping her mother cook. It was nice but her heart hadn't been in it.

Her mother had picked up on that fact almost right away while her father, as much as she loved him, was an idiot. Her mother had started in on her when they worked on the dishes, probably because it was one of the things she had allowed Naruto to help her with and she probably looked rather miserable because it was all she could think about. It didn't help that the last time they had done it, they had a foam fight. That lovable idiot had started it right after dinner that night when she had gotten upset when soap had gotten on her favorite shirt ruining it, she knew he had done so to get her mind off of it. By the time it was over they were covered with bubbles and they were gasping for air as they laughed at one another. He had looked so adorable too with the tip of his nose covered with bubbles and him trying to see it. God, remembering it just made her miss him more!

"You miss him, don't you?" Ino had nodded, knowing there was no use in hiding anything from her mother.

"He's been around so much this last month because of those stupid rumors that I had gotten use to it."

"How have you been holding up?"

"Well it was pretty much okay this week with work (Actually Ibiki thought with how angry and moody she'd been, she was the second coming of Anko, but that was besides the point.), but now…" Ino had ground her teeth and banged her fists against the sink. "It's all a lie so WHY can't I deal with this?" She had hissed to herself more than her mother as the older woman wrapped her daughter up in a hug.

"You told me that Naruto-kun was a very special person. Do you still think that so?" Ino nodded. It was getting really hard to find faults with the idiot, and when she did... It was him, and she couldn't help like those parts too "That's why." As if that made any sense, oh she knew damn well what her mother was implying, but she wasn't taking. Her mother probably had realized she wasn't going to take that bait and diverted the subject another direction. She always knew her mother was the smarter parent. "So when does Naruto-kun come home?"

"Supposedly his team's mission should have just ended, he should be back tomorrow… Hopefully." She whispered on the end, and though her mother picked up on it said nothing, though she was smiling wider now. Probably imagining grand-babies or something that would make her long for that idiot more.

"Well then. Tomorrow, I want you to do something for me. Promise me!" And she waited until Ino had. "Forget the rumors, forget your father, just forget everything and just follow what FEELS right."

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"Nothing yet, Yamanaka-san." Izumo had remarked for the eighth some odd time that day when Ino wandered to the gate earlier.

She sighed, annoyed at her mother's stupid advice, rather disappointed and more than feeling the fool about standing there, looking out at the forest that surrounded the city like some lovesick housewife whose husband was late from a mission (Everyone assumed it anyway, so why the hell not.). She was sure she looked it, no thanks in part to her white mid thigh length dress that was so different than her normal ninja garb. Her hair was out of her normal ponytail because she had broken her hairband with nervous fidgeting, leaving her platinum hair to waterfall well her past her rear. Resting on one hand poised shoulder height on the pillar that held the door and the other across her waist she looked out hopefully for any sign. So picturesque was the scene and so long had she held it, that Sai had walked by, delivered his mission report, come back, and sketched her. She would kill him later, she had more important things on her mind.

The sun was almost down past the Hokage monument, She was hot, a little hungry, and her feet were killing her, why had she decided to wear heels again? No matter, it wasn't that big a deal she guessed. A little downtrodden that she wouldn't see him again today she turned and began walking home.

Had she known that dramatic moments only happened when one gives up a few seconds late she would have turned and started to walk home hours ago. As it was the moment she passed Izumo and Kotetsu in their little shack the voice of the man she had been waiting for reached her.

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"Okay girls, you can head on home, I'll handle telling the Hokage about the mission. Rest up and eat well, I'll be giving you or your mother your entrance slips tomorrow. You'll have until the day of the Exams off to prepare and decide if you are ready or not to take them. Think about this hard, ladies, this isn't playing around or anything. The Chunin Exams have deaths in them every year." With his cute students advised and warned Naruto dismissed them. And not a moment too soon either.

"NARUTO!" Was all the warning he had gotten before he caught a leaping goddess. His hands wormed around her waist as her wrapped around his neck and into his hair. Naruto pulled her close, his head resting on hers, both surprised and ashamed by how wonderful it felt having her in his arms after being away form her for so long. Her voice, her scent, her presence filling that void that had plagued his dreams and occupied his mind since he had left. "I missed you, was worried." She murmured into his neck, nuzzling against his warmth as she hugged him closer.

"Hime, I missed you too… I'm sorry I worried you." his hand ran through her long hair, surprised to feel it down, since she rarely wore it that way out of the house. "You changed your hair, it's nice." She laughed so carefree, the returning Jounin could have stayed there all night just to hear it again. He lifted his head to talk to her he noticed just how close her lips were to his and after the week he had just had he couldn't resist any longer. "Hime." He leaned in aching to taste her.

"Naruto…"

"Hey look it's 'Hey Yo' G, just the man we came to see!" Ino and Naruto slipped away from each other instantly, both reeling from the loss of the others warmth and the realization of just how close they had come to kissing. Flustered beyond belief and frustrated further still, Naruto did what he always did in awkward moments. Yell. A lot.

"Bi that sucked, you stupid Ox! So why don't you listen to the man with the fox!" Naruto finished his rap, slammed fists with the big man and the two laughed. Ino blinked. What? Given how close she had kissed the blonde haired man she was still a little disoriented. Had she missed something?

"God both of you shut up." A large, one armed, man remarked, he was just as tan as the sunglass wearing swordsman Naruto had greeted. He wasn't alone either.

"Uzumaki Naruto." A semi-familiar red head with a brunette on his arm was followed with a rather large group of ninja.

"Gaara, Matsuri-chan!" Naruto was over wrapping both up in a hug.

"Naruto-kun!" Two women called out, glaring at each other for a moment then went back to looking at 'The Stud'.

"Mei-chan, Kurotsuchi-san. Why are you all here?" Naruto palmed his fist. "You are all here for the Chunin Exams, of course! Great!"

"Ojii-chan sends his greetings but his back will keep him away until the finals." The ebon haired female remarked, her pink eyes swimming with amusement at her grandfather's ailment.

Tsunade and a large group of Konoha nin approached to greet their guests but Ino had barely noticed as Naruto had grabbed her hand and pulled her forward.

"Gaara, you remember Ino-chan, right" Gaara nodded.

"Yamanaka-san, hello again." Ino bowed to the Kazekage. "I have been hearing some interesting rumors about you two." The Red haired man was jabbed in the side. "...This is my wife, Matsuri, by the way." Matsuri bowed.

"Hello Ino-san." Ino bowed back.

"M-Matsuri-sama." Matsuri waved her off.

"Please anyone with Naruto can just call me Matsuri." Before she could reply Ino was being dragged in front of the other people.

"Ino-hime, these folks are: The Yondaime Raikage A-san. His brother, Bi-oniisan and his friend Motoi-san." Naruto pointed at the two giants and their tattooed guard. "That's Samui-san and her team." The two women and their teammates nodded to him. Behind them must have been their Chunin hopefuls. "She's Sandaime-tsuchikage-jiisan's granddaughter Kurotsuchi-chan, um I don't know the girls. Gomen girls." Team 21 giggled and Kurotsuchi blushed at the chan added to her name. "Over there is Godaime Mizukage, Mei-chan, and with her is Ao-san and Chojuro-kun." He pointed to the voluptuous Mizukage and her two guards. Three or so teams were behind her as well but he didn't know them either.

Naruto, oblivious to the nervousness of the girl beside him, had pulled her beside him. She nervously played with a lock of her hair as four of the five Kage's, almost all of Konoha, all their friends and some of the most powerful people from around the known world focused on solely at her, and she had worn this stupid short girly girly dress. She was going to either faint or die from embarrassment. Then she would kill Naruto.

"Mina (Everyone), this is Yamanaka, Ino." …Only… He didn't say Yamanaka.

"My?" Mei started, her eyes narrowed.

"Hime?" Kurotsuchi finished. She frowned.

Ino's heart felt like it was going to beat itself out of her chest while her face a blaze. All she could think was what her idiot had just told the world.

"Mina, this is my Hime, Ino."

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Man, I can't decide how I am going to have Ino act after this moment. You ever have those moments where you want to say something else and something completely different spews out. Be it the next word in the sentence you were to say and your mouth jumped ahead, another name for what you are describing to a similar sounding word, or even just a switched letter in one spot for another. You hear people making jokes about Freudian Slips but sometimes I like it when someone gets use to calling someone something and they can't stop themselves from using it all the time.

"Seki de ichi-ban ohime-sama!" … To Naruto that is anyway. Hahaha. If people know what that is from read from Izumo talking forward with either it playing or think about it compared to what Ino is wearing and her attitude about things after she took her mother's advise. The moment I thought about the title that song has been In my head.

For those who don't check out Miku Hatsune: The World is Mine. Hell just check out a lot of her stuff. It's what I have been listening to since I began writing these. Probably the reason for some of the nicknames and titles being used. All i know is I cursed out a Mr Dirt for making me an hour late in Japanese, for most of that hour. Baka Tsuchi-san.

ARGH! I dunno how to start the next one but once I do it's gonna be a ... maelstrom of chaos and hilarity. mostly done, will begin polishing it up and tweaking it to fit 11 when I start on it. The more reviews and thoughts about how Ino would react the better ideas I can get to start off:

Next Chapter: MINE! or The Hunt for The Stud October.