The next morning, Naruto woke up with an atrocious headache. He walked down the stairs not feeling the wood beneath his feet. That was weird. Maybe it was the headache. In the kitchen, he searched unsuccessfully for some sort of aspirin when he heard something behind him. He turned his head to see what it was - and then wished he hadn't.
Sasuke was behind him sitting at a table with Sakura sitting across from him. Between them sat a toddler that looked like a miniature Sasuke but with bright green eyes. Naruto blinked repeatedly, not believing what he was seeing.
"Can I have some more toast?" asked the little boy politely.
"Not right now sweetheart," Sakura said, tousling his hair.
Sweet heart? Naruto thought. What the heck is she talking about?
"So how are your missions going?" Sakura asked Sasuke smiling pleasantly.
"Wonderful," Sasuke replied leaning forward to kiss Sakura.
Naruto thought he was gonna have a heart attack right there.
Suddenly, Sasuke got an evil look in his eye. He opened his mouth wide and ate Sakura's and their child's souls. Their bodies went limp in their seats.
"NO!!" Naruto screamed at the top of his lungs.
He woke with a jolt and looked at his sweat-covered hands, panting. It had just been a dream. But it still freaked him out. He got out of bed and went downstairs, getting a glass of water. After having 3, he looked out the window to see Kakashi coming with Gai and Sasuke behind him. Gai was blabbering on about something and Kakashi looked as if he could push him out another window.
Naruto decided to go back upstairs and see them in the morning.
Sakura woke up feeling great. She looked out the window to see the sun shining through and the birds twittering in the branches of a tree. After she got dressed, she went downstairs to see Tenten, Neji, Sasuke, and Naruto at the breakfast table with Tsunami serving them pancakes.
Sakura took an empty chair by Sasuke and said good morning to all of them. Sasuke didn't seem to mind her sitting beside him. This made her smile pleasantly to herself.
Naruto seemed to notice that, stopping at half-bite to stare at her shocked. He looked over at Sasuke to see his reaction. Sasuke looked over at Sakura and gave a small smile. He started to open his mouth to say something when Naruto jumped out of his seat.
"NO!! Sasuke don't!!" he yelled, looking terrified of the Uchiha as if he were a demon.
Everyone turned to look at him. It took him a few moments to realize what he had just done. Trying to distract himself he saw a fly on one of Sasuke's pancakes. He hurriedly grabbed the whole plate, dropping one on the floor, and took them to the counter.
"I don't think these are fresh enough," he mumbled.
"But I just made those...," Tsunami said to noone in particular.
Sasuke and Sakura stared at each other exchanging confused expressions. Gai came down just at that moment looking as if he'd never been to the hospital.
"Hello youthful and non-youthful house mates! Isn't this a fine morning!?" Gai bellowed making the house shake. Tsunami glared at him and approached him with her hands on her hips. Her slap was so loud that Inari and his grandfather ran downstairs concerned.
They took one look at Gai, lying dazed on the floor, and completely replaced their concerned expressions. Tazuna sighed and looked down at his daughter unhappy at what she had done. It had the exact opposite effect on Inari.
"All right, Mom!" he said with awe.
Kakashi slowly made his way down the stairs. He didn't have his headband on, or shoes, and his vest was open. He sighed when he saw Gai on the floor.
"What has he done this time?" he asked tiredly.
"Called me an old woman is what," Tsunami replied still obviously upset.
He didn't say that exactly, thought the five Genin in the room.
Kakashi looked over at Naruto who was done disposing the pancakes but held the plate over the trash can with a fork in his other hand, for scraping them off. His sensei raised a questioning eyebrow before taking a seat between Sakura and Neji.
At that moment Rock Lee entered through the front door. Nobody had heard or seen him go out so they were all thinking different thoughts about what he had done out there. Probably training.
Lee took one look at his still-dazed sensei on the floor and ran to him with tears in his eyes.
"Gai-Sensei! What happened to you?! Say something!" he cried.
"Don't worry, Lee, I'm fine," he mumbled but it sounded more like unintelligible gibberish to them.
"No!! His brain is damaged again!" Lee cried sobbing all over his sensei's vest.
Gai finally found some strength to punch his student, sending him soaring across the room.
"Gai...Gai-Sensei...," he said crying anew.
"Oh Lee," Gai said and they embraced with a rainbow and all sorts of furry creatures behind them.
How did they get inside the house, everyone else thought.
Once breakfast was over, each teacher took their students outside and split up to do their daily training. Kakashi took his team to a grassless circle of land and sat down on a tree stump.
"Um, Sensei, shouldn't you have shoes on? And possibly your headband?" Sakura asked her eyes directed to his bare feet.
"Hm? I suppose that I should," he said while getting up. He walked back toward the house. He reached for the doorknob at the front door and - was knocked off his feet, the side of his head bleeding. He feel onto his side and didn't get up.
The students gasped as they saw their teacher fall and looked around for whoever had done it. Without success.
Yeah, there you go...the 13th chapter. Hope you didn't get too disappointed. xD Please review, flame if you want, critisism will help me know what you want. Thanks!