I'm sober now. Don't worry—I'm not laughing—Not anymore… On the other hand I feel as if I haven't properly thanked my fans. But this one is dedicated to Dreaming101. You deserve it! See your mighty username in bold! BUT I LOVE ALL MY FANS! And oh yes: I DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT OWN NARUTO.

Here to Stay Chapter Fifteen: More G&L Madness

While Tenten and her friends were drinking tea Neji… WAS TAKEN HOSTAGE! By whom you ask? Well can you guess? Yes it was… LEE AND GAI SENSEI!

Well they didn't reveal their identities or anything but they weren't that good at hiding it…

LEE: PSST! GAI SENSEI! IS THIS A YOUTHFUL ENOUGH WHISPER?

GAI: LEE! THAT'S PERFECT!

LEE: GAI SENSEI!

GAI: LEE!

LEE: GAI SENSEI!

GAI: LEE!

LEE: GAI SENSEI!

GAI: LEE!

LEE: GAI SENSEI!

GAI: LEE!

Fireworks go off and the exotic paradise named the Caribbean pops out of nowhere.

But for some odd reason… NEJI DID NOT NOTICE!

XxXxX

"So have you done it?" A thin voice came from the nearby rustling bushes.

"Done what?" A tall intimidating character was standing in the over hanging branches.

"C'mon! You know! That thing Paloma asked you to do!" An indigo-eyed individual was thrashing silently in the bushes to no avail. She tried to get the thorny branches out of her face and ended up letting them go to smack her face. "Dang! Why do these things grow whenever I see them?"

"Oh I don't know! Perhaps the fact where they just lurve you!" The owner of the shock of violet hair threw back his head and laughed quietly.

"Oh just answer the question."

" He won't hear a thing unless you're in his two meter radius. I shifted the winds around him so the sound will dissipate when they meet the barrier. I'm rather proud of myself." The teen had a rather smug look on his face.

"…"

"What? Where's my well-deserved applause?"

"If you think you deserve 'praise' for that silly circus trick than you will NOT get it got it? Hmm? Hmm? Hmm Shu—EEEK!" The girl screamed. "GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!"

"Cynara… it's just a garden spider…"

XxXxX

"She's just running around screaming about garden pests…" Paloma looked into the water with utter disbelief. "And Shuuhei's laughing at her…"

"So Shuuhei must've made the sound barrier… Dispatch yourself Shafear…" Gold eyes seemed strangely unsettled. "Paloma could you please see what's going on with your brother. I smell something strangely…odd."

"What's in it for me?" Paloma narrowed her green eyes.

"That I don't get the urge to tell you… THE TRUTH!" A silent laugh echoed through the cave walls. "Just joking… But back to business… I think he's caught on our trail again…"

"… After we ran through the entire Thunder and Water country? The craggy passes of the Thunder country are absolutely impossible to navigate through and you were born there!"

"Just check please…" The normally fierce eyes seemed tired as a slim hand raked through grey streaked black tresses.

Without another word Paloma looked into the waters again.

XxXxX

Axel stared into the tree line cautiously as the chakra level suddenly ricocheted upwards. "Who's there?" A flame flickered as it burned a trailed around Axel. "Show yourself!"

"Why not? Nothing will change…"A tall battle scarred man in his late thirties emerged. "How are you Axel?"

A pair of green eyes widened in shock. "Why are you here? What happened to the pact that you sealed with the Hokage? You can't set foot on the land here!"

"Oh the pact? Well it's broken… but that drunken gambler of a ruler doesn't need to know that… And why do you think I'm here?" A series of wounds exploded from Axel's body. "Oh—Give my regards to Anjyl."

XxXxX

So as all this was happening Neji just dumbly continue to walk forward when suddenly the world seemed very dark and muffled. Oh and smelt like potatoes. Very dirty potatoes.

Yes you guessed it… GAI AND LEE HAD POUNCED! They had quickly jumped out of their 'concealed' hiding places and pulled a potato sack over the unsuspecting Neji's head. Of course they thought it was all their youthful skill that caused this tragedy (Ho-hum) to occur.

LEE: GAI SENSEI! WE HAVE TAKEN THE TARGET HOSTAGE!

GAI: GOOD LEE!

LEE: OH GAI SENSEI! I COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOU!

GAI: OH LEE! YOU'RE SO MODEST!

LEE: WE HAVE MAD SKILLZ!

GAI: YES WE DO—Wait Lee! That's not in the script! (Shuffling papers can be heard in the background…)

LEE: OH I SEE! I'M SUPPOSED TO SAY 'MAD YOUTHFUL SKILLZ!

GAI: SO NEJI! ARE YOU READY TO ANSWER OUR YOUTFUL QUESTIO—Where'd he go?

In the distance if you looked really, really closely you could see the wearer of an ANBU mask of an ivory hawk dragging Neji away.

XxXxX

"Well… They were pathetic fools… Not that good… Or are they just high?" Neji's masked kidnapper shook his head in pity.

"Who are you and what do you want with me?" Neji spat out some dirty potato peelings from his mouth. Gai and Lee hadn't dumped out everything in the bag.

"Oh? I don't think you're in any position to be asking the questions Hyuuga…" The shorter figure turned his head to face Neji. For someone so small he seemed to be radiating a rather large—rather negative—aura.

He says the word Hyuuga with such spite… why?

"But I am merely a lowly ANBU agent sent by hokage Tsunade. She wishes to know how your mission is progressing."

"I see… We haven't seen any of the nin yet. But we know the appearance of one."

The ANBU snorted. "Pathetic…"

"What do you mean pathetic?" Neji instantly bristled. "Wait—you're rather short to be an ANBU aren't you?"

"Very nice observation…" The ANBU exclaimed dryly. "But too late."

Neji blinked. Did he use some sort of transportation jutsu? He had just been at the back of the grotto and now the ANBU was running out the mouth of the cave.

"Remember… We are everywhere Hyuuga Neji… Everywhere…"

XxXxX

VOILA! CHAPTER FIFTEEN! I was listening to 'I like my sitar' from Limewire when I wrote this… I LIKE MY SITAR, MY SITAR, SITAR! But nevertheless one day… I would like to know how many guy readers there are! Just wondering. –Shadoom