July 5th 7:59 A.M. Bridge that Team 7 meets

Naruto walked to meet his teammates on that same red bridge. Like normal. But he knew he would have to force that issue today. He finally reached speaking distance and saw his tow teammates Sakura and Sasuke. "Hello Sakura-Chan, Sasuke-teme!" He said brightly. He happened to be a morning person, er, no wait, he was just happy/hyper all the time.

"Good morning Naruto." Sakura greeted.

"Hn." Sasuke acknowledged him, at least.

"Sasuke, be more polite." Sakura hissed to him. He sighed. Heavily. In the time he had come back, Sakura had supposedly been giving him people skill lessons.

"Good morning Naruto." He choked out, sort of.

Naruto giggled, yes giggled. Sasuke just shot him one of his signature death-glares, to the distain of Sakura. She had tried to teach him. But she labeled him un-teachable. Kakashi had said something of the sort. Her thinking was that he thought he was above manners, but really he wasn't.

So, anyway, they waited. And waited. And waited. And waited. Sasuke was brooding, Sakura was fretting, and Naruto was pondering how to get them to swap saliva. Sakura looked at Sasuke, why did he come back? The words flashed through her mind, "I'm an avenger, I can't die until I kill the one who wronged me. After that, I don't care if get murdered. She was about to pose the question when...There was a POP! Behind where Sakura was, there was a puff of smoke. In that puff of smoke was a person. The person tapped her on the shoulder and said "BOO!"

With an "EPP" and a very scared look on her face, she flew twenty feet in the air. She landed no other place than Sasuke's arms.

"YOU'RE LATE!" Naruto yelled. "Kakashi-sensei what the heck? Sakura-chan looks like she's dead. You make us get up at five in the morning, and what happens, it's eight already, you little bas-" Sakura had recovered enough and had regained enough senses to cover Naruto's mouth before he finished. Naruto would have liked her to stay in Sasuke's arms.

"I happened to get lost on a very important path of life." Kakashi said. That was the same old excuse every time. What was really going through his mind was that they'd better not find out I woke up at five just to finish volume four, which was still currently in his hand. He still didn't finish it. Naruto gave him a hard look in the eye. Had he been reading 'Make out Paradise again'? He'd let it go this time, but next time he would be no match for two jonin and a chunin.

"LIAR!" He couldn't deny them their anger though. Although, their anger amused him to the "point of no return." Sasuke seemed amused by their antics as well.

"Shall we get started?" Sasuke asked. Spoiling Kakashi's fun, of course. He always did.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah!" Naruto said speedily. Great, now Naruto was extremely excited. When he was hyper like that it took twenty horse tranquilizers to put him down. Or ramen.

"Meet here in nine days. We're headed to Suna. Bring your
ninja gear, we must deliver a scroll. Naruto I'm leaving you in charge
of finding a hotel" Kakashi pointed at him. "Reserve it under the name
of Team Seven of Konaha."

"Yes." The three chimed happily in unison. Finally a trip to
see their old friends. How long had it been? And it's another Team 7 mission. They hadn't had many of those in a while.

"Off to Suna we go!" Naruto sang. Who knows maybe Hinata's team would
be there.

July 14th Konaha gates

They traveled to the gates; Sakura made sure Kakashi had the scroll they were supposed to deliver. After making sure everyone was in order before they left, Sakura clapped her hands together and declared them ready to go. In the first ten seconds of the trip, Naruto broke out Kakashi's ipod. He was rocking hard to some of the songs on there. Sasuke and Sakura began to talk about life, which ended up in Sakura giving him more manner lessons. He did have to admit, that the lessons were wearing off on him. And Kakashi broke out the orange book, the pervert. Reaching Suna was no big deal; it never was. They got there about 5:00 p.m., making it a short trip. Since they were there, they decided to have dinner with the Kazekage himself.

Garaa had dinner prepared and within minutes. The drool that
came from Naruto's mouth reached all the way to the floor. A vast
array of Suna goodies lay before them. "Dig in." The Kazekage said,
well, commanded.

"Dattebayo!" Naruto screeched. He loved food, even if it
wasn't ramen.

"Temari, how are the wedding plans going. Have you decided on
a color yet?" Sakura asked excitedly. She was on of the bridesmaids
after all.

"Well, Shikamaru and I have decided on a color, but I'm not
sure we'll stick with it. I have found some dresses I like. I'm so
excited!" Temari squealed. Even in her mature age of twenty-four, she
still acted like a teenage girl.

"Can you believe it's six months away?" Sakura asked.

"Oh, I know, I can't believe it either." Temari replied.

Naruto looked at Garaa, then back at the chattering girls,
then to a now fuming Garaa, then to the chatting girls, then to a very
scary almost demon like Garaa. I thought the Shukaku was taken out of
him. Naruto thought as he stared at a very scary sight. He was there
the day Shikamaru proposed, he knew the severity of "wedding talk"
around him. He was overprotective.

The day that Shikamaru actually proposed, violence was
displayed that surpassed the violence displayed by kyuubi or Akatsuki combined. It made
Naruto shiver. Poor Shikamaru, he was in the hospital for a month and
a half. He had said, "I asked Kankuro, I thought that was enough, how
troublesome." He was half right. Kankuro was older that Garaa. It was
just that Garaa was just more protective of his sister.

The day he proposed to Temari in front of the Rookie nine, Gai's team, and Temari's brothers was deemed the day shukaku returned. Before Garaa maimed Shikamaru, Temari said this to the proposal: "Took you long enough!" Poor Shikamaru didn't even get to say troublesome woman before he was annihilated.

Naruto knew this madness had to be stopped. He didn't want that happening again. "Garaa, how's the life of Kazekage treating ya?" He asked. His hands were behind his
head, an old habit of his.

The Kazekage went back to a semi-normal state. "Fine." He
replied, still staring down the two girls. "And yourself?" He asked.

"Just trying to survive." That was half right.

The girls kept girl gabbing about Temari's wedding while the
men talked about ninja affairs and the upcoming chunin exams. Sasuke
had just spoken with Ibiki, the first proctor and he had something
special planned for the fresh genin. They finished dinner without any
disruptions. It was 10:21.

"We better go." Kakashi said. Just waiting to pull out the
book.

"'Bye everyone!" Sakura said. Waiting to maybe peek inside
Sasuke's hotel room. Cha!

"What she said!" Naruto said. All four waving to the Sand Siblings.
They reached the hotel that Naruto made reservations at. He would have
to stall them till at least midnight, but he could do it. And if this
didn't work, he had the entire next day to work through the rest of
his plans. He did have a lifetime supply of ramen at stake here. Man,
he has a one track mind.