Neko-chan: Hello people! Guess who's back with a super long chapter!
Naruto: -grumbling somewhere in the corner-
Harry: What's wrong with you.
Naruto: I saw what she's planning on doing to me in the next chapter! This woman is the ultimate essance of evil!
Hermonie: What's she going to do?
Sasuke: -Comes up to Neko-chan with a dagger at her throat- You know, I just saw what you're planning, and I don't like it.
NC: -sweatdrops- Now now, we had a contract!
Ron: Which you intoxicated all of us for it to be signed.
NC: A CONTRACT IS A CONTRACT!
Disclaimer: Must I say it? Must you torture me so?
Warnings: Suggestive sexual content, yaoi, and violence.
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Enter, stranger, but take heed
Of what awaits the sin of greed,
For those who take, but do not earn,
Must pay most dearly in their turn.
So if you seek beneath our floors
A treasure that was never yours,
Thief, you have been warned, beware
Of finding more than treasure there.
"Well, isn't that a cheery welcome." Naruto asked, turning to a grumbling Sasuke. The blond boy couldn't help but sweatdrop at the sight. They were only there for ten minutes and Sasuke already had a fan club almost as bad as the one back in Konoha was. By the time they got to Gringotts, Sasuke was ready to toast anyone and everyone that even stole a glance at him. Truthfully, Naruto felt a pang of jealously whenever a girl got brave and started playing with Sasuke's hair, but, after collecting a good amount of stalkers, Sasuke took him and kissed him right there in the middle of the street. It was a bit embarrassing, and they caught more than the girl's attentions, but that got said girls away.
Now for the present problem…the female fan club broke up and the void in the dimension allowed a new Sasuke Fan Club to be born. One made up solely of males. That had really caught Naruto's attention. Sasuke was never interested in girls even before he began to have feelings for Naruto, so that club didn't bug him. This one did.
"Come on, Sasuke, maybe we'll be safer in here! With that kind of welcome, I doubt that anyone would come in here unless they had to!" He complained, tugging Sasuke to the large doors. It was no wonder Sasuke was hesitant to go, Naruto wasn't up for doing it either, but they had to if they wanted any money. The place reeked of bad luck. When they got inside, the sight of goblins didn't make them feel any better.
"We just go in, get our money and get out. If anything or anyone tries to stop us, I'll roast their ass." Sasuke growled, already in a bad mood after getting two fan clubs in less than ten minutes. Naruto kept his face clear of the fear he was feeling, but he walked a lot closer than necessary to Sasuke, who's annoyance disappeared and he couldn't help but smirk.
Naruto, trying to distract his boyfriend from his obvious fear of goblins, tried to veer his attention elsewhere for a moment. "Sasuke, do you have the key?" Sasuke raised an eyebrow.
"Key?" He asked.
"Yeah, we need a key for the vault. I asked you to get it while we were leaving." Naruto reminded him, hoping that Sasuke didn't forget to grab it.
"I have it right here." Naruto sighed in relief.
"Okay, that's good. I wouldn't want to have to come back here again for a long time." He said with his trademark fox grin. They managed to find a free goblin, Naruto letting Sasuke do the talking.
He's always hated goblins. When he was younger, some of the kids in the village played a horrible prank on him. They knew he was afraid of the dark, so they made him go into a haunted house, not telling him they were leading him to the part where it got dark and monsters popper out of nowhere, scaring the shit out of you. Because the people running the house were virtually uncreative, all the monsters popping out were goblins. Naruto came out of there and he couldn't sleep for days afterwards. Even knowing it was all fake and a practical joke, Naruto became terrified of goblins.
"I'm not sitting next to him." He said as they got into the cart that was supposed to take them to the vault.
"You don't have to, this cart fits four, and you can sit next to me." Sasuke said in an understanding tone. Naruto smiled gratefully, then his eyes narrowed slightly.
"You touch my ass while we're there and I will throw you out of the cart." Sasuke's face fell, telling Naruto he was planning just that. Even if the confirmation annoyed him slightly, Naruto smiled up at him and took his hand as they sat in the carts. The goblin with them warned them of high speeds, but when the cart began actually moving, the ninjas were unfazed.
"This is actually kind of slow." Sasuke muttered as they went through the tunnels.
"Yeah, but we could do without the turns!" Naruto muttered as they made a turn, causing his side to dig into the metal in the cart. But when they made another turn and he pressed against Sasuke, he grinned. "You know what, I take that back."
Sasuke rolled his eyes before they finally stopped. The goblin was the first to step out and he handed the lamp over to Naruto. "Hold that please." He said. He took the key out, opening the vault and their eyes widened slightly.
"I wonder how Tsunade-baa-chan got a hold of all that!" Naruto said.
"Probably from all our missions. I told you she was holding back on our payments. She was probably planning this all along." Sasuke muttered, grabbing a few handfuls of coins and he dumped them in a small pouch.
"What's the value in these?" Naruto asked before they got in, becoming at least a little less fearful of the pointy nosed goblin.
"The gold ones are Galleons. There are seventeen silver Sickles to a Galleon, and twenty-nine Knuts to a Sickle." The goblin explained briefly before they went off again.
When they finally got outside, Naruto scanned the area for Sasuke's fan club. Hopefully, they went home, but Naruto didn't want to take any chances. He really just wanted to get out of this weird place. Everywhere, cheap booths were set up, the people running it trying to pester them into buying 'first class defense items'. Sasuke just said they were all probably crap and left a stunned merchant behind.
"Okay, lets look at the list first." Naruto said taking out a sheet of paper where Tsunade wrote down what they would buy.
"We're going to have to get the robes and wands ourselves, of course." Sasuke pointed out looking at the list over Naruto's shoulder.
"Yeah, and I can use my jutsu to get all the other supplies. We'll be out of here before lunch!" Naruto said, happy they didn't have to spend too much time there.
"Just don't go overboard. Even if we're not in the school yet, we still don't want to attract any unwanted attention. I don't think you should make more than five." He nodded and they went into a more concealed place where there wouldn't be an uproar if someone saw five teenage boys who look exactly alike appear out of nowhere.
As soon as Naruto summoned the five clones he began instructing them on what to get, giving them some money as he did so. A second later, they all disappeared, going to grab their supplies. "All right, so, wands first?" Naruto asked, turning back to his raven-haired lover.
"Fine with me, as long as we go now. I think that stupid club is figuring out we're not in Gringotts anymore." He replied, grabbing Naruto's wrist and hoping that they could blend into the crowd.
They were able to move through, only catching glances of a few of the boys, but, from the looks of things, they were still searching for them. As they were trying to blend it, they didn't notice that they stopped in front of an old looking place, but the sign in front told them that this was the place they were looking for.
Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C.
"Well, I guess this is the place." They were very wary of this place as they walked inside, a small tinkle of a bell alerting their arrival. As they walked in, a small, old man slid down one of his many shelves, looking at the two who arrived.
"Ah, good day, good day." He said getting down. "You two don't seem familiar. Here to get your first wands, are you? A little older than usual, but you can never be too old to learn magic. Come now, who's first?"
Well, he sure doesn't waste any time. Naruto thought as he let himself be pulled up.
"Hold out your wand arm." The old man said. Seeing Naruto's expression he changed the words. "You're dominant one, please." When Naruto lifted it, a bunch of measuring tapes started flying around him as a pen wrote down all the measurements. All of these items were doing it by themselves. No help from Ollivander, who stood there examining him.
When the measurements were done, the old man went to his shelf and took out a box. "Eighteen inches, Ash wood. Core of unicorn hair, here you go." He said handing Naruto the wand.
He just stood there, staring at him. Maybe if he stared at it long enough, it would explode. Too bad Ollivander didn't allow him to try. "Don't just stand there, give it a wave." The blond nodded and did as he was told…needless to say, the wand did enough exploding to satisfy him, but it just got taken away and replaced with another one.
"Hey, I liked that wand!" Naruto complained, but Ollivander stubbornly shook his head and told him to wave it again. He did so, and it made a small tornado that tore up the desk. "Can I keep this one?" He asked with a pout.
Sasuke couldn't help but snicker as chaos broke lose in the shop. After a fire, a swarm of bees, blown up windows, and snakes slithering around, Ollivander paused for a moment, examining Naruto a little more thoroughly with his eyes. He then snapped his fingers and rushed to the back of the shop.
"Here, try this one. Twelve inches, foxwood. The core consists of fur from a fire-fox tail." Naruto jumped a little at the mentions of 'fox' but he relaxed when he took the wand in his hand. This time when he waved it, a nice spiral of flames curled around him before disappearing.
"Not as great as the other five were." Naruto muttered, about to ask for another one, but Sasuke grabbed his wrist and pulled him back.
"That's the only one he hasn't snatched away so just thank him and pay! I don't want to be here longer than we have to be." The blond just grinned at him, telling him that he was just teasing. Rolling his eyes, Sasuke walked up to the counter for his wand.
"Hmm, seeing as he was a fox, let's see if this is good for you. Fifteen inches, driftwood. The core consists of a Basilisk scale." Sasuke eyed the wand warily, he didn't really like the name of what was in the core. Basilisk…that just screamed danger. He gave it a wave and a black serpent slithered out, curling around his arm before disappearing in the same fashion as the flames from before did.
Ollivander seemed to be jumping for joy at the outcome. "Yes, yes, I was hoping this would happen. You two are companions, am I right?" Naruto blushed as he took Sasuke's hand in his.
"So to speak." He said innocently. The elderly man was too excited to notice it, though.
"That's good! You see, although the snake and the fox are usually enemies, these two wands work better when they're being used side by side. I'm sure we can expect great things from the two of you." Naruto nodded as Sasuke paid the man and they left.
"He seems to have a lot of faith in us, even though we don't plan on being here for more than a year." Sasuke muttered when they were in the crowd again, searching for signs of the dreaded fan club.
"Oh, Sasuke, we should try and buy some normal clothes while we're here. Tsunade-baa-chan sent us off so quickly, we didn't get a chance to pack." Naruto pointed out, but Sasuke shook his head.
"I checked the drawers before we left. She had your clothes already inside. She must have been planning this for a while." He told him.
"Well then, that just leaves our robes. If my clones are done, they'll drop the stuff off at the room, so, afterwards, we just head there." Naruto said, walking towards a place with windows full of the robes everyone else was wearing.
"Thank Kami for that. I'd leave even if we couldn't go back after this." Sasuke muttered, letting his blond boyfriend drag him away. Naruto then grinned and turned around to face the other male.
"Aw, but Sasuke, that would mean we would have to come back tomorrow and it would really cut into our alone time together." He said with a cute and innocent pout. Sasuke couldn't help but gulp at the sight before Naruto put back his trademark fox grin and dragged him into the shop.
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The day was done and Naruto was exhausted. It was just their luck that they were trying on their robes at the same time a few of Sasuke's fan club members were. The entire hour there was filled with the strangers flirting, teasing, and basically throwing themselves at Sasuke, who ignored them completely. As the minutes passed, they got bolder and sat closer to the raven-haired boy, playing with his long hair as they did so.
Naruto tried to keep his jealousy from boiling over, but he was really getting pissed off at how comfortable they were getting with his Sasuke! When the woman announced that they were done, Naruto was all for taking Sasuke out of there and getting to their room as soon as possible. The fan boys, however, got brave enough to take Sasuke back, even saying something that deeply hurt Naruto.
"Why don't you leave the scarred freak and hang with real guys, like us?"
…
Needless to say, that brought forth very drastic consequences.
"Sasuke, you really didn't have to fry those guys. I told you that it wasn't bothering me." Naruto muttered, laying on his stomach on the bed. Sasuke was laying on top of him, strong arms wrapping around his slim waist. The raven haired Uchiha began to kiss up his lover's back, crawling up until his got to the back of the other boy's neck, where his let his lips hover.
"Don't lie to me, you know you're horrible at it. Even if you were telling the truth, which I know you weren't, I would never let anyone call you a freak and get away with it. You're not a freak, Naruto. You're a beautiful, wonderful person and anyone who can't see that are either stupid, blind, or both." A small smile graced the blond boy's features and he snuggled into his boyfriend's warmth.
Most of the time, Sasuke was either acting like a jerk or just completely perverted, but there were many times when he was just very romantic and sweet. It was very out of character, and confused Naruto to no ends, but he wouldn't trade it for the world.
"We have the next week to ourselves, so why don't we make the most of it." Naruto said, turning around and capturing those pale lips in a kiss.
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A/N: Sorry, no lemon yet, but I learned in my last M-rated story that I need to write a lemon when I'm good an ready or else it'll turn out crappy. Hope you can find it in you hearts to forgive me. If it makes you feel better, there's a lot of suggestiveness.
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"Mr. Uchiha? Oh, Mr. Uchiha, are you in there?"
"Dad, maybe he's a really heavy sleeper."
"Unlike some people. You really should quiet down on the knocking. Tom warned us there's a vampire staying here and you know how those bloodsuckers are when they're waken from their beauty sleep."
"Mr. Weasley, maybe we could go check the other room?"
Harry Potter sighed as he stood there in the hallway with his two best friends, Mr. Weasley, and the twins as they came to pick up these foreign exchange students. There were a few more days until they would be headed off to Hogwarts for their sixth year as students, and Harry couldn't be any happier to get away from his cruel Uncle and Aunt. Especially from Dudley, who made it his priority to torture Harry even more that summer than last.
According to Dumbledore, they were to pick up the transfer students at least three days before the day the train left. He asked to let them stay at Grimmauld Place for the remainder of the summer and also asked that they kept the questions of them to a very slight minimum.
"Yes, yes, that may be a good idea. Hopefully Mr. Uzumaki is a lighter sleeper." Mr. Weasley said taking them up a flight of stairs.
"Hey, Harry, who do you reckon these people are? I mean, to get transferred into the sixth year?" Ron asked, falling back to speak with his friends.
"Why? Is there something strange about that?" Harry asked, knowing he would probably sound like a total idiot. He didn't think transfers were strange, but, if Ron was so startled, it probably didn't happen too often.
Hermonie immediately kicked into her book smarts once Harry asked the question. "According to 'Hogwarts, A History' there has almost never been student transfers. Only for very rare cases. So these two must be really amazing to be allowed to transfer in." she stated. Harry just shrugged. If Hermonie said it, it was most likely true. So they continued to walk to the next room. This time, when Mr. Weasley knocked, there was some movement heard.
"Unn, who's there?"
"Just ignore it, it's most likely that cleaning woman." They all looked at each other. Were there two people in that room?
"Well, she can probably hear us, so it would be rude to just leave her there."
"If she was smart, she'd have taken a hint and left."
"Just check to make sure."
"You go."
"No way!"
"Why not?"
"Because you're on top of me, teme!" They actually felt that they didn't hear the last part correctly. From the voices, it was two males, and they weren't about to assume what one of the men said in there meant what they thought it meant. There was a rustling of sheets and footsteps before the door swung open. Hermonie gasped and turned away. Standing there in nothing but his boxers was a really cute, raven-haired boy.
"Umm…hello! Mr. Uzumaki, I presume? My name is Arthur Weasley. These are my sons, Fred, George, and Ron. These two are Ron's friends, Hermonie Granger and Harry Potter. We're here to pick you up along with Mr. Uchiha." Mr. Weasley said kindly. Sasuke paused for a moment before looking inside the room and back at him.
"One moment." He said, closing the door. He walked back into the room, grabbing the folder and looking through it.
"Ne, Sasuke, what are you looking for?" Naruto asked, getting up from bed and rubbing the sleep out of his eye.
"Naruto, did you see anything about being picked up in the folder?" Sasuke asked, looking through all the papers. Naruto got up and walked to the dresser, looking at some of the papers. As he looked, something caught his eye on the folder and he looked at it.
There was a message, in really tiny letters that he could almost make out into a sentence.
Oh yeah, before I forget!
Don't get too comfortable there, really, don't. A few days before the train leaves, the Weasley's are going to pick you up and take you home with them. Dumbledore really trusts them, so don't kill them.
"Why that evil old…" Sasuke growled as he glared at the tiny writing.
"Now, Sasuke, calm down, plotting to toast her won't make anything better. Let's just get dressed and ask them to wait a bit until we get our stuff packed. See, I told you getting one of those magic trunks was a good idea." Naruto said, pulling his pants off the lamp and slipping it on as he grabbed his shirt, which was halfway out the window.
"Um, Mr. Uzumaki?" Naruto suddenly remembered there were people outside and he ran to the door.
"Ah, sumi-massen (I've been told it's the more polite form of 'sorry', so I'm just going to go with it.) we weren't exactly told about anyone coming to pick us up, so we're not ready." He apologized. The teens of the group all looked at each other in confusion, not understanding one of the words.
"Oh, well that's okay. Can I assume that you're Mr. Uchiha?" Naruto blinked then shook his head.
"I wish. No, I'm Uzu-I mean, I'm Naruto Uzumaki. Please come in, it might take a while to pack." He said, motioning them inside just as Sasuke was getting his shirt off the ceiling fan (man they threw those everywhere).
"I'm going to my room to get my things." He said to Naruto as he slipped on the shirt. The blond nodded as he began taking his clothes out the drawers.
"Don't take too long or I'm going to assume that someone has finally taken down 'The Great Uchiha.'" Sasuke just rolled his eyes and scoffed, leaving the grinning boy with a slight wave. With the grin still on, he turned to the group. "So, I don't think I've gotten your names yet."
"Oh, well, my name is Arthur Weasley. These are my sons, Fred, George, and Ron. Ron's friends, Hermonie Granger, and Harry Potter." Mr. Weasley said pointing to each one as he introduced them. Naruto smiled.
"Well, it's nice to meet you." A small silence followed that, and George spoke up.
"Hey, where'd you get those scars?" He asked.
"Yeah, they're bloody wicked!" Fred continued. Mr. Weasley jumped and looked at them disapprovingly.
"I'm terribly sorry, Mr. Uzumaki, you don't have to answer that." He said, but Naruto shook his head.
"It's all right, I don't mind. I don't really know how I got these scars, I just know I got them when my father died." He said with a small hint of sadness in his voice. Okay, it wasn't the whole truth, he suspected that he got them when the Kyuubi was sealed within him, but he wasn't about to tell them that.
"Oh…wow, sorry…" George said, mostly because the look his father was giving him told him to. Hermonie decided that now would be the perfect time to change the subject.
"So, Fred, George, what were you saying earlier about a fan club war happening in the alley?" she asked, catching Naruto's attention as he packed. The air became less tense as the twins talked about it.
"Well, you see, a few days ago, some guy comes around, no one's seen him before, but, according to them, he's really cute." Fred started.
"A few girls who equally become infatuated with him automatically start a fan club for him, thinking he's some kind of rock star or something. A few more come into the mix." George continued.
"Turns out, he's taken, by another guy no less. They caught him snogging his boyfriend in the middle of the street. What does that do?"
"Gives a bunch of guys enough confidence to start their own club, that's what. These people don't even know his name yet!"
"He's been gone for a bit now, and during that time, both sides are arguing. Girls insist that the guy's only gay because he's never dated a girl, so they're going to 'give him the experience of a woman's touch for the first time'. Or so they say." Fred used air quotes as he said this.
"Then the guys are saying that once you go the other way, you can never go back, but they think that he's too good for his boyfriend, so they're planning on stealing him away. A few guys think it's a bad idea, no wonder, after what happened to them." The twins laughed and Harry looked at them expectantly.
"What happened?" He asked.
"They caught him in the robe's shop with his boyfriend and got pretty cozy. Cozy enough to call his boyfriend a freak. All that earned them was a fire spell to their face." George said and Hermonie gasped.
"Were they hurt?" she asked them. The twins both shook their heads.
"Just a bit red. Like a sunburn. From what we were told, if they didn't run, they would have gotten hurt."
While they were talking, Naruto was holding back a fit of laughter. Sasuke was popular with everyone already, boy, was he going to have a fit. He detested fans with a passion and Naruto knew why. They all claimed to love him, but that was only because of his appearance and the mysterious air surrounding him. Sure, that was attractive as hell, but that wasn't love, and Sasuke hated it when they claim to love him even if they knew nothing about him.
"Oi, dobe, are you finished packing yet?" Naruto sighed at the voice.
Speak of the devil. He thought turning with an angry look on his face.
"Don't call me that Sasuke-teme!" He said gruffly. Sasuke just smirked and shook his head. They still argued like they did when they were younger, but the bite behind the insults was long gone.
"Whatever. Are you finished? Or can you not even do that right?" He asked putting down his own trunk, which he was carrying over his shoulder like it was nothing. Naruto glared and turned his head stubbornly.
"I'll finish when I want to finish!" He snapped putting some more things into the trunk, which never seemed to get full. He felt someone kneel next to him and saw Sasuke taking some of the books and helping him pack it. Naruto couldn't help but smile slightly.
Turning his attention back to the group on the bed, his smile widened. "So, where are we going?" He asked.
"Oh, we can't tell you that, strictly secret." Mr. Weasley said.
"Well, doesn't that sound suspicious." Sasuke muttered, not really meaning it. Before Mr. Weasley could say anything, Ron jumped up.
"Bloody hell, what is that smell on the bed?" he cried. Sasuke froze as Naruto paled and jumped up.
"Uh, um, that was just some potion! Yeah, since we came so late in the year, we were experimenting on some potions, the ones that weren't too dangerous if it failed or if it succeeded. One made this really weird smell and spilled on the bed. According to the book, it wasn't toxic or hazardous in any way, so we paid no mind to it!" he cried.
Harry raised an eyebrow. "So you slept in a failed potion all night?" At that accusation, Naruto began to stutter a little, but Mr. Weasley came to the rescue.
"Come now, Harry, they're probably just embarrassed about their potion failing. Am I right boys?" He asked them.
"Yeah, real embarrassed." Sasuke muttered, Naruto tried to sit again, but then jumped up with a startled yelp.
"What's wrong?" Hermonie asked him as he rubbed his back.
"Nothing, I just feel like my spine is bent in the wrong places." He mumbled, casting an accusing glare at Sasuke, who just smirked.
"Here, I can fix it." Mr. Weasley said, but Naruto shook his head.
"No, it's fine. It'll be healed up in no time. For now, why don't we just start heading out?" He asked, hoping to change the subject.
"Oh, yeah, dad, don't forget we still need to get our potion's supplies. Also, a new cage for Pigwidgeon since his broke beyond repair." Ron pointed out.
"Honestly, Ron, can't you take care of your things? We were supposed to just come here and leave." Hermonie told him disapprovingly.
"While we're on the topic of going to the alley, we've got to get back to our shop. The guy we left to watch it is a damn idiot. The place has probably been robbed clean by now." Fred sighed.
"Well, with the tracking spells on the stuff, we'll find the thieves in no time." Harry laughed a little at that.
"Well, we don't mind! We actually needed to pick up a few more things ourselves." Naruto said, remembering that they needed to get an owl. Orders from Tsunade, oh well.
"Well, that settles it then, let's get going!" Mr. Weasley said.
The walk through Diagon Alley was abnormally silent. It wasn't that no one wanted to talk, it was just that no one knew what to say. Naruto felt a little uncomfortable in the crowd, knowing that there was two fan clubs waging war over his boyfriend. Sasuke had gotten a hat and a pair of sunglasses after the incident with those three boys. His long hair was tied back and tucked into the hat, even though most of it was sticking out. He looked ridiculous, but at least no one was stalking them.
"Okay, we're here. Ron, you go ahead and get your potion ingredients, I'm going with your brothers to their shop. I need to pick up something for the ministry." Mr. Weasley told them.
"Maybe you two can get your owls while we're here. We'll meet you there, okay?" Hermione suggested. Sasuke nodded.
"That sound's like a plan." He was about to turn to leave, expecting Naruto to be following him, but he noticed Harry looking around curiously.
"Hey, where did Naruto go?"
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NC: MUWAHAHAHAHAHA! Cliffy, evil one at that.
Naruto: I HATE YOU!
NC: I know.
Draco: So, hey, when am I coming into the scene? Don't let Potter and his loser friends get all the attention.
NC: Don't worry, you're coming into the next chapter and you will be given as much attention as your boyfriend.
Everyone: WHAT!
NC: Oh yeah, I didn't announce it yet! It's official! They're going to be a cutesy couple.
Ron: Draco and cute? No way.
NC: Okay, so it'll take a while. But mark my words! THEY WILL BE TOGETHER! MUWAHAHAHAHAH!
R&R people! I need motivation! I emptied out my entire supply writing this chapter!
Bazanee!