Omg like I totally forgot about this fic… I'm so sorry!!! I was just so busy and… oh well no excuses! Back to business! The show must go on!! You came to read a fanfic and a fanfic you shall get!! I've started this fic and now I will finnish it!! Prepare to face the power of my pen!!!... Actually no, the power of my keyboard! Muwahahhaha!!!!

Now to start where we left off…

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Suddenly the door creaked...

and in came...

...GAARA!

Everyone gasped.

Because not only was it Gaara… er, I mean Dr. IamOFF THECHAIN, but it was Gaara in a sparkly blue belly showing top and tight leather pants! He also sported headphones with a microphone attached and a blonde wig…

"Um, Gaara…" began Naruto, trembling with fear "why are you in a Brittany Spears costume…?"

Suddenly a stage appeared beneath Gaara's feet and the room was filled with funky rainbow lights from a disco ball. Then… he began to SING!

"OOPS I DID IT AGAIN…" Gaara began.

"AHHHHH!!" screamed everyone, covering their ears at his horrible voice.

Then he did a little dance and the room returned to normal.

"That's 'Dr. IamOFF THECHAIN to you, mister!!" Gaara yelled at Naruto. "And I am in a Brittany Spears costume because I AM Brittany Spears!!"

He strikes a pose.

"But," Kiba began confusedly "how can you be Gaara, Dr. IamOFF THECHAIN, and Brittany Spears all at the same time?"

"I'm not!" Gaara/Dr. IamOFF THECHAIN/Brittany Spears stated simply "Or am I?"

Crickets chirp…

"Anyway," Dr. IamOFF THECHAIN began, suddenly transformed into a doctor, with a white coat, stethoscope, and the works "what's the problem?"

"TENDERS! NUGGETS! MATTRESS GIANT! THE HORROR!!!" screamed Lee, falling to the floor deliriously.

"… Could someone who's NOT crazy please explain?" Dr. IamOFF THECHAIN replied.

The room went quiet…

That's because the only one there who really WASN'T crazy (yet) was Tenten…

"Well," Tenten began, giving Neji and Shikamaru dirty looks "these two had a chicken war over which was better: McDonald's chicken nuggets or Burger King's chicken tenders… and well… they flooded the hospital with chicken and got us all banned for life!!"

"I see" stated Dr. IamOFF THECHAIN, stroking his beard (which suddenly appeared out of nowhere… no surprise) "well, the answer is simple. They are both the same."

"WHAT?!?!!" shouted Shikamaru at the top of his lungs.

"NO WAY!" screamed Neji, getting feisty.

"Yes way," Dr. IamOFF THECHAIN began his speech. "You see, chicken is chicken. Whether they are called nuggets or tenders does not make a difference. If I were to suddenly take over Burger King and change the name 'chicken tenders' to 'fried squash' it would still taste the same. So long as it is chicken it will taste like chicken, regardless of whether it is called squash or tenders, shaped like a finger or a turd, cooked in pig or rooster fat. Do not seek out your differences children. Find the things that make you alike. You are both chicken lovers inside. That's all that TRULY matters."

…

"You're…" Shikamaru starts.

"… right." Neji finishes.

The two Genin turn toward each other, look the other in the eye, and engage in a deep, emotional hug.

Everyone else is extremely creeped out and looks away.

"There you go," says Dr. IamOFF THECHAIN finally "problem solved!!"

"B- B- But" Tenten stutters, still in shock from all of the events of the day "what about Lee?"

Lee still lay on the floor, shaking and mutter something about the horrors of chicken war.

"Ah, this one," Dr. IamOFF THECHAIN said with a sigh "I'm afraid he may never eat chicken again. I'll send him to the psychological healing department right away."

He pressed a red button on the wall next to him and in came a stretcher carried by none other than…

"Itachi!! Kisame!!" Tenten yelped in surprise.

"Yes," began Itachi "we've turned over a new leaf."

"Now we work here at the Suna hospital in the psychological healing department," Kisame informed them.

"Uh… okay!!" Naruto said as if it were perfectly normal.

"Sasuke won't be happy about this…" Shikamaru said glumly.

The two former Akatsuki members carried Lee off and the remaining Genin (besides Gaara of course) were lead out the door. They paid to stay over night at a local Inn while they waited for Lee to recover. All the guys had to share one room while Tenten got her own (poop her). There was only one bed.

"I call bed!!" yelled Kiba and he ran over and began bouncing up and down on it. Naruto and Neji soon joined him, both claiming that THEY would have the bed. Actually Naruto said 'I will have this bed! Believe it!' and Neji retaliated by claiming that he was destined to sleep in the bed.

Then there was a random earthquake and the whole room shook. It wasn't THAT bad, but it was enough to send the three ninja flying off the precious array of pillows and sheets.

CRASH!!

"WAHHHHHH!!!" all three started crying like babies, even though all they had were bruises.

Shikamaru then pointed at them and laughed hysterically. "Three little monkeys jumping on the bed! All fell off and bumped their heads!!" (He was singing one of those sick nursery rhymes that make you wonder why mothers want their children to something involving monkeys becoming severely injured after innocently jumping on a bed)

While the three injured Genin cried and Shikamaru laughed his butt off, Shino snuck his bugs deep into the mattress and claimed it as his own 'cause well… none of them wanted it after that.

Later that night, after the sun had set, the four floor sleepers got out their sleeping bags and got ready for bed. Neji however, had no intention of sleeping just yet…

See he was still a little bitter about not winning the chicken fight. I mean, not that he lost, but he always liked to come out on top. Actually Shikamaru was quite the same way and at the sink they both had a toothpaste spit fight over it…

To make himself feel better, Neji brought out Tenten's book. For some reason he couldn't resist it. He couldn't resist her.

So he snuggled into his sleeping bag and switched on his flashlight. Then he eagerly turned to the next page of the book.

Dear bookie,

Omg! Grandma's visit yesterday was a blast!! She's so awesome!! This time she taught me a thing or two about pandas. Boy she's crazy!! Heck she even gave me a "Panda Care Guide". Weird huh? She told me she took care of seven giant pandas once in the wild for four days and nights. She was hiding outside a village that had everyone on the lookout for her because she stole back one of the ancient scrolls they stole from her village. She couldn't start back home yet because they had the forest surrounded. So she had to patiently wait for a helicopter from her village to arrive and rescue her (she says it's a kind of ship that flies through the air that they have in China!!) Anyway, the pandas were injured (they were attacked by some sort of large animal) and she nursed them back to health. Isn't that awesome?

Anyway, gotta go, the 'rents are calling me down for dinner!! Oh and by the way, I have a HUGE secret to tell you tomorrow about… someone very special wink, wink

Love always,

Tenten

Neji's heart was beating fast (partly because her grandma's freakishly impossible story had touched his heart and partly because he needed to know who the "special" person was and what Tenten had to say about them.

He turned the page…

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