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Chapter summary: What happens when the boys of the rookie nine and team Gai switch places? Choji's usually someone people take for granted. If he weren't so big, most people wouldn't even notice the quiet ninja. So what happens, when Choji pretends to be one of the most popular boys of Konoha? Ino x Choji implied. Very slight Sasuke x Sakura implied.

CHOJI'S DAY

"Ahhhhh!" came the uncharacteristic scream from one Sasuke Uchiha. Or at least that's what it appeared to the outside observer. In reality, poor Choji was having a hard time running away from all the fan-girls chasing after him.

Choji had thought that pretending to be the popular Uchiha Sasuke might be fun; it wasn't often that he was noticed by the opposite sex. But being chased down and stalked by half the girls in Konoha was beginning to be too much for the poor Akimichi. (1)

He had been running for hours since he's "switched" places with Sasuke, and it was beginning to wear him out. He wasn't used to running so much, and unfortunately, he wasn't nearly as fast as Sasuke, and had almost been caught a number of times. If he hadn't yelled out Sakura's name each time, to distract the jealous fan-girls, he wouldn't have been able to get away. (2).

To be perfectly honest, it wasn't the attention that bothered him. What teenage boy wouldn't like to be chased around by a bunch of girls? It would probably have been Kiba's dream come true. But, the truth was that Choji already had someone he cared about. None of the other girls could hope to compare to her, as far as Choji was concerned.

Years ago, she would have been in the group of girls chasing after Sasuke. Fortunately she had long since given up her infatuation for the Uchiha prodigy, giving Choji some hope that maybe someday she might like him.

Over the year's she'd become a lot nicer to him, which only caused his affection for her to grow all the more. He'd recently even given her a painting that he had made of her. He hoped that she had liked it, but there was no way for him to be sure. When Choji had gone to give her the painting, he had been too much of a chicken to see her reaction, and had ended up shoving it in her hands before making a mad dash out of the flower shop her family owned.

But that was nothing compared to how much he was running now. The girls never seemed to give up.

Suddenly 'Sasuke' (Choji) bumped into something solid.

"Yo" came the lazy voice of Konoha's famous copy-cat ninja.

Choji looked up at the masked face gazing down at him, before looking around to see if any fan girls were nearby.

"Sasuke, have you seen Itsu anywhere?" Kakashi asked the younger ninja. (3).

Choji shook his head, a little frantically, which was greeted with a suspicious look from Kakashi, but the copy-cat ninja just shrugged it off before nervously scanning the area for the woman in question. Satisfied that Itsu was nowhere near by, Kakashi pulled out his favorite little orange book and walked away.

"SASUKE!" came the loud shrieks not far from where 'Sasuke' (Choji) was standing. He immediately started running in the opposite direction.

TBC...

Next up: LEE

(1) the other half are chasing down Naruto, whose pretending to be Neji, and then the 20 something's and up are chasing after Kakashi… lol

(2) hey, he's not Shikamaru's best friend for nothing people… he's got some smarts in him too

(3) was going to edit this out in the redone version, but it would change the suspicious look from Kakashi, so I left it in. Anyway, it's just a tie in to my OC... no need to really read it to understand this, it was just set up for Choji's "frantic" reaction that makes Kakashi a little suspicious.

A/N: I was going to add something about Sakura running into Choji to ask if he'd seen Tenten, to kind of still tie this story into WSFO, which this is a companion piece to, but I don't know, I liked where this ended. To tell the truth, I never really thought much of Choji in anyway until I wrote this and the last chapter… I kind of like Choji now… or at least the image of Choji I've painted in my imagination. I wonder if I can do this with Shino now… huh…

Thanks everyone for reading my stories. And once again thanks for the reviews and suggestions, I really appreciate it.