How Training Turns into Kissing

"Stupid school, stupid Iruka-sensei, stupid Sakura, stupid Ino, stupid LIFE!" As Maho walked along a rocky path, she kicked the little stones. Grumbling, she kicked a bigger stone and twice as hard not caring which direction it flew in. She only looked up when she heard somebody grunt. Her magnificent green eyes locked onto the figure in front of her that had been walking in the opposite direction, a scratch grazing his cheek from where the rock just missed his face: Uchiha Sasuke. He had a deep scowl set on his face and looked just about ready to scream at Maho; however when he looked at her, he, for whatever reason, couldn't. Keeping his cool, he simply brushed his cheek with his hand. "My bad," Was all Maho said as she continued to walk forward. Sure she hated him, but she did have manners. Moving so that she could go around Sasuke, a figure suddenly jumped down in front of her and she ran into the person, making her fall on her butt. "Ow! Mother of-" Slowly standing up and brushing the dirt off her back-side and the rest of the clothes, she looked at the figure in front of her. "Iruka-sensei, why are you here and knocking over young girls?"

"Maho, I came to tell you about your mother…"

That immediately caught her attention. "What? Is she okay? She isn't having the baby or anything right? Ganju hasn't hurt her has he?"

"Relax she's fine. I went to see the Hokage about the uh…" Iruka looked at Sasuke, who was standing there with a bored expression on his face, though you could tell that he was somewhat interested in the conversation by the way he lingered behind, and continued.

"…problem, you spoke to me about earlier and it turns out Ganju was a very dangerous criminal that can hypnotize people with his words. He mostly hypnotized your adoptive mother into loving him then wanted to get rid of you by telling you strange things. He's been arrested now and your mother is in the hospital being checked for injuries and to see if the baby is safe. I just came to tell you in case you would like to see her."

"What? Of course I want to see her, I'll go right now!" Maho turned on her heel and began to run back the way she came, leaving the two males by themselves. When she was out of sight and ear-shot, Iruka turned to Sasuke.

"I'm sure Maho would prefer you not to tell anybody about what you've heard today. Now I know you and Maho really don't like each other, but this is a very delicate subject and so please don't say anything. I know for certain that she would appreciate it." With that he disappeared, once again leaving Sasuke on the path on his own.

"Hn," As if I'd be bothered about that girl and her home-life. He then continued the way he'd been heading, which surprisingly was the way Maho had just left Why should I care which way she left? I just need to train to keep my mind focused. Turning off at the training grounds, he briefly paused and glanced over his shoulder where Maho had run off, then mentally scolded himself and found a spot to train.

"Arigato." Maho just managed to get her thanks out before rushing down the hall to her mother's room. She had asked which room her mother was in at the reception desk and then swiftly made her way up the very similar corridors until she came to room 124. She slid it open and smiled as she saw her mother sitting on the edge of her bed, practically ready to leave.

"Oh thank the holy LORD! You're okay! Iruka-sensei told me you'd been sent to hospital and I got so worried I came all the way here without stopp-." Maho stopped as her adoptive mother hopped off the edge of the bed and smothered the girl into an embrace, crying into her hair. Maho wrapped her arms around her mother comfortingly and tried to make out what she was saying in between sobs.

"I'm so, so, so sorry Maho! I had no idea what he was saying to you and how he was making you feel…I believed him when he told me all your injuries and bruises were because you kept getting into fights at school, but then he told me he sorted them and…now I've got his baby which I don't want and…I'm sorry Maho!" Releasing the blathering woman from the hug, the young red-head smiled at her mother as she reached over to a tray at the bed's side and gave her a tissue.

"Trust me, it's totally fine. He didn't even say anything that bad to me, I just lost my temper and trained myself too hard. And don't you dare get rid of that baby! I've been looking forward to having a baby brother or sister and just because his dad was horrible, that doesn't mean this child will be. I'll even drop my test tomorrow so I don't have to be a ninja and I can help you look after the baby when it's born." Even if Ganju was out of the picture, becoming a ninja was Maho's dream, ever since she was a young kid. And even though it hurt to even think about giving that up, Maho smiled in spite of it. She would do anything for her mother and the baby, they just meant that much to her.

Surprised by her daughter's offer, she smiled tenderly, cupping Maho's face gently with the palm of her hand, shaking her head lightly, "That's very sweet of you Maho, but I can't let you do that. You've wanted to be a ninja since I adopted you and I'm not going to be the reason you give up that dream. I wouldn't be able to live with myself. I'm sure I will be able to look after this baby just fine, I have friends after all." With a playful wink, she laughed lightly.

However, Maho gave her mother a suspicious and doubtful look, "You sure?"

"Uh-huh,"

"You totally, absolutely sure?"

"Yes darling, I'm sure."

With an amused sigh, Maho rolled her eyes, "Alright alright. Oh! guess what?"

"What now Maho?" Her mother laughed, lightly pushing the girl in a playful manner.

"I've made friends with that Uzumaki Naruto kid and he's really nice, but I totally messed up my chances of ever having friends because of that stupid Sasu-Baka and I'm really worried I'm not going to pass my test tomorrow!" Maho panted dramatically as she finally finished her run on sentence and her mother lightly patted her back.

"That's nice sweetie, I always felt sorry for that boy. But you've never liked Sasuke and I don't see why you should start now, but I thought you didn't like those girls either? And don't worry about tomorrow, I'm sure you'll pass with flying colors. Not to mention I bet you get put on a team with one of your best friends!" Tapping Maho's nose with her pointer finger, the adult woman laughed, making Maho smile, and the two walked out the hospital laughing together.

"Maho!"

Aki turned her head to the owner of the voice just as she stepped out of the hospital. Both females recognized Kiba running towards them with Akamaru on his head. Bending down, Aki whispered into her daughter's ear teasingly. "Strange boy that Kiba..." Maho simply looked at her mother and laughed.

"He can't help the fact he likes dogs. His name is Inuzuka Kiba; they're part of his clan!" The orange-haired girl exclaimed, somewhat defending one of her closest friends.

"Hey, oh hello Igashowa-san. How come you were coming out of the hospital, you're both okay right?" Kiba had come to a halt as he reached Maho and her mother.

"Good afternoon Kiba. We're both fine, we just had some slight problems to deal with, but they're all fine now and…" Looking down to her daughter to ask for her consent, it took a moment for Maho to realize what her mother meant. Nodding her head, she was slightly confused. Shouldn't she have been the one to ask to tell her friend instead of the other way around? Mentally shrugging, Maho didn't even bother to try and continue that train of thought.

"And I'm also pregnant Kiba."

"Oh, really? Wow, that's so awesome, Igashowa-san! Are you excited about getting a younger sibling, Maho?" The boy grinned, flashing his sharp canines.

"Uh-huh, I sure am. But anyways, shouldn't you be at home revising for the exam tomorrow?"

"No, I got the whole clone thing down. Watch!" Akamaru jumped down off of Kiba's head and landed next to him. "Let's do it Akamaru!" He barked happily in response wagging his tail and Kiba performed the appropriate hand signs. "Bunshin Jutsu!" After the smoke had cleared there were four Kibas that were standing in front of Maho and her mother.

"What the HECK! Kiba, how did you make four yous!" The young kunoichi-in-training's brilliant green eyes moved from one Inuzuka to the next, trying to discern the original from the fakes. It was the one farthest to the left of Maho that spoke up.

"Akamaru and I both made a clone each. Plus Akamaru turned into me so that makes four clones!" Then Akamaru's clone and Kiba's clone disappeared and Akamaru turned back into a small dog and jumped back on Kiba's head, the boy grinning.

"Kiba that's cheating! Akamaru doesn't count as a clone; that's a transformation!"

"I won't tell if you won't!" He then winked and grinned, showing a fang and walked past Maho, ruffling her hair a little. She punched him in his arm lightly smiling at him and then managed to pull his hood down as he walked past, and she quickly jumped in front of him ruffling his hair and laughed sticking her tongue out.

"That was cheating Maho, you know I like having my hood up!"

"Yeah, but I don't see why, your hair's so…fluffy! You could probably get a girlfriend as well because you can see your cute little, chubby face more; oh wait its puppy fat!" Kaede laughed as she grabbed Kiba's cheeks in both her hands and pulled the chubby part slightly. He pushed her hand away and waved as he walked out of sight, grumbling slightly at her rough treatment of his face.

"He seems nice honey; I haven't seen Kiba in so long. You really should invite your friends around more!"

"Well, they'd probably be too embarrassed to hang out with a girl like me in public because they'd get teased for having the 'orange freak' as a girlfriend and Hinata probably won't like me after today because I uh…" Maho trailed off at that thought, not exactly wanting to tell her mother what she had done to try and help her friend.

But, of course, her mother knew better, her hands resting on her hips as she scowled down at her daughter, "Maho, what did you do now?"

Sheepishly smiling, the red-head rubbed the back of her neck awkwardly, "I kind of…invited Naruto to sit with Hinata and I at lunch today and then kind of…left them sitting together and walked off." She saw her mother give her a 'you-know-that-was-wrong' look and Maho couldn't help but avert her gaze to anything that wasn't her mother. "I only did it because I thought it would be funny and to see if Hinata could get any redder! And I was right! That, but I wanted to help her get closer to Naruto. Is that so bad?" Maho knew it probably wouldn't work, but hopefully her excuses would at least let her slide through unpunished.

Maho's mother sighed, shaking her head at her daughter's antics. "Anyway, we'd better get home like…now because as soon as you have dinner I'm making you revise until nine for your exam. Then you have to sleep. I need my little munchkin to pass her exam tomorrow!"

Maho deadpanned at her mother's declaration, but smiled none-the-less, "Yeah, I'll make dinner though; you need to rest with the baby and everything. No sweat, isn't that right Maho junior?" The little red-head asked as she put her ear to her mother's stomach, making her mother laugh. Pulling her head away, Maho grinned up at her foster mother, "Maho junior says yes, so let's go. I'm starved!"

"Since when was it called 'Maho junior' exactly?" The woman asked, crossing her arms and raising her eyebrow. Maho shrugged, a sheepish smile on her face, and ran in front of her mother jumping off buildings walls slightly and running along the roof-tops ignoring her mother's protests.

"Fire style: Fireball Jutsu!"Sasuke placed his hand to his mouth and inhaled and as he exhaled, a large ball of fire appeared to come from his mouth.

"Okay, even I have to admit it Uchiha, that was pretty impressive." Sasuke turned as he heard a feminine voice come from behind him out of the trees.

Recognizing the head of orange hair anywhere, the Uchiha turned back around, hoping the girl would get the hint that he wanted her to leave."Hn,"

"Intelligent input." This time he didn't answer; if he ignored her, she'd go away. But apparently Igashowa Maho did not understand social cues and he could hear her feet heavily walk through the dirt.

"Why are you here?"

"Oh shit! Uchiha Sasuke just said a full sentence!" Kaede said, faking surprise with a hand over her mouth and wide-eyes. "But don't get too excited Teme, I'm not here to faun over you like your fangirls. This is a training ground; anyone can come here. My mother wants me to practice tonight so I'll pass tomorrow. It almost like she wants to get rid of me…" Maho comically frowned at that though, wondering if it could possibly be true. As much as her mother loved her, Maho wouldn't put it passed the woman to do such a thing. Son of a bitch! Now she'd have to interrogate her mother when she got home.

"Pfft, I wonder why.." Sasuke said under his breath, though apparently it wasn't quiet enough. In an instant Maho jumped and landed inches in front of Sasuke, her face and entire body violating his personal bubble.

"Once again Uchiha, I don't think I heard you." Maho said through gritted teeth, her eye twitching in irritation. Who did that emo duck-ass think he was?

"I said I'd like to get rid of you." Sasuke said as he glared at Maho, feeling slightly uncomfortable with the girl's face inches away from his. Honestly, did this girl not know social etiquette?

Staring at the boy for a moment, Maho slowly leaned away, shrugging nonchalantly. "Ditto, but I suppose we'll have to wait till tomorrow. When you and I are split up onto different teams, hopefully we'll be so busy doing missions we won't have to see each other ever again. And the only time I'll have to talk to you will be if our two teams have to work together!" Sasuke flinched a little as Kaede said 'split-up' and 'won't have to see each other ever again'; however he wasn't sure why, maybe it was because she was just shouting so loud. Well, there was also the fact that, besides Hinata Hyuga, she was the only girl in their class who didn't swoon over the sight of him. Compared to those girls, Maho was tolerable; JUST BARELY, but tolerable. Just thinking about having any other girl on his team made him cringe. Maybe they wouldn't be put on separate te- No, she'd just get in his way in the end; they all would. Maybe there was a chance that, being at the top of his class, Iruka would have him trained solo. Yes, that's what he needed.

Sasuke smirked, "Took the words out of my mouth, Igashowa."

"Hn." Was all Maho said back as she continued to stare down the boy, giving the boy a smartass look.

"Intelligent input." Sasuke mocked, making Maho lose her cool and growl slightly. But taking a deep breath, she just managed to contain an angry retort, still in her glaring contest with Sasuke. He wasn't worth her energy; she needed to save all her strength for her training.

"Fine Uchiha, you win this one, I'll just go train somewhere else and leav-." Maho had to stop just before she finished her sentence. The ground began to shake slightly, making Maho and Sasuke lose their balance. It was pure an instinctive action when MAho grabbed onto Sasuke, clenching his arms tightly. It was only natural to grab onto the nearest thing to steady herself. When the shaking stopped all she could hear were girl's screaming.

"Fangirls…" Maho and Sasuke both sighed at the same time and looked to the huge crowd; Maho noticing Sakura and Ino at the front. Their eyes softened a little bit when they looked at Maho, but when they saw what she was doing, their faces flamed up with anger.

"Wha-WHAT are you doing to Sasuke-kun?"

"Huh? What do you mea-" Maho was cut off again as she had to duck to dodge a kunai. Of course this sent Maho into a flying rage, "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR? YOU COULD HAVE HIT ME IN THE FACE WITH THAT THING! ME AND UCHIHA AREN'T EVEN…even…" Maho stopped talking as she looked up and saw how close she was to his face and that she was grabbing onto his arm tightly from the sudden stir of the earth. Coughed awkwardly, the girl immediately gave Saskue a hard shove and turned her back to him; however, neither of the two blushed, it was just something that wouldn't happen between these two. In fact, they were annoyed. "Oh come on! That's completely and totally all your guys's fault. If your stampeding hadn't cause an earthquake, then I wouldn't have had to grab on to the nearest thing to get my balance."

Sasuke twitched at being called a "thing", wanting to open his mouth and retort back by saying how he hadn't needed to hold onto something for balance, but upon noticing the group of girl's angry expressions, he decided to keep quiet. He would just leave her to deal with this annoying girls instead of having to be bothered himself.

"We'll get you for that Fruit Basket!"

"Oh and how are you going to do that?" Maho snorted, crossing her arms across her chest. She wasn't scared of a pack of declawed kittens, honestly. A kunai was heading straight for Maho, although she couldn't see it because her back was to it, and she only caught sight of it when she turned, but by that time it was centimeters from the face. Sasuke quickly jumped forward and caught the kunai in his hand leaving a confused, dazed, and shocked Maho standing there, blinking rapidly to try and process what had just happened. Did….Uchiha just save me? This action only provoked the crowd of girls further, however.

"Sasuke-kun~, why would you save her?" Sakura piped up, whining in that oh-so ear bleeding voice of hers.

"Yeah we were going to teach her for messing with our Sasuke-kun!" Ino followed.

"Your not…dating her, are you Sasuke-kun?" That's when the crowd stopped and looked back and forth from Maho and Sasuke. Maho went to reply, telling them it that was the most idiotic and repulsive idea that she had ever heard, but Sasuke stopped her and butted in.

"You're all annoying. You shouldn't throw kunai around aimlessly like that." He scoffed coldly; however, he didn't deny the whole argument about them dating so Maho did that for him.

"Why would I date Uchiha-teme? I don't know why you just saved me, Uchiha, but I guess I should say thanks. So…Arigato. Ja ne!" The redhead quickly turned and began briskly walking away. She had already wasted enough time, now she had even LESS time to practice her jutsu. Stupid fangirls! Stupid Teme!

Everyone watched as the girl quickly tried to leave, even Sasuke's dark orbs settled on her back. The corner of his mouth twitched, deciding whether or not to tell her why he had saved her, though she should have been able to do it herself. "I still owed you. That's the only reason I saved you!" Came Sasuke's voice, loud enough for it to travel to the escaping girl. Looking over her shoulder, she just nodded her head, turning around and walking backwards so she could face duck-ass, smirking victoriously as she did so. Well, well, well, it seems the spoied brat is softening up… Turning back around so she could go and find another place to train, she could hear the crowd of girls shouting to Sasuke.

"Why do you owe her?"

"What did she do to you Sasuke-kun?"

She then heard him mutter something else which she couldn't quite hear as she was now out of range, but even still, she could feel Sasuke's eyes burning into her back; possibly glaring at her re-treating form for leaving him with the fan-girls. It only took seconds for her to hear many footsteps. Once again, Maho looked behind her and she broke into a silly grin, laughing maliciously as she watched Sasuke break into a run, the girls charging after him.

"Damn, should I save him again…or just leave him? Saving him would be the right thing to do even though I don't like him…plus I owe him for saving my life and I could always say he owes me again and see what he does…." So it was decided, Maho would save Sasuke from the fan-girls once again and make him owe her. Hmm…what about I make him my slave for a day? Or even smile at every person he walked past! Man that'd be torture! It's a good thing we hate each other or else that might hurt someone's feelings. She thought sarcastically, snickering as she broke into a run after the girls. She decided it would be quicker to jump through the trees since they were now headed for the forest. Of course, there would be no way she'd be able to catch up; she had just learned how to focus chakra to different parts of her body, or atleast the fundamentals to the technique, so she couldn't push off very fast. That was when she got an idea and found it very hilarious!

"Transformation Justu!" Maho stopped in her run and produced a tiger hand seal, closing her eyes and concentrating. Upon opening her grass green orbs, she smiled in satisfaction at having officially turned into a copy of Sasuke. She wouldn't be able to see the full results of her technique, but she hoped it was good enough to fool the girls. "Oh awesome! Yes! I did better than I did in class!" She then realized she didn't get Sasuke's voice as she transformed and it came out as a high-pitched girl's voice which of course wouldn't work. She coughed slightly and tried again, it took several tries before she got the right voice, by this point the crowd was almost out of her sight and she could see Sasuke starting to get tired. Well, here goes nothing. Letting out a short cough, Maho tried out her new voice. "Hi my names Uchiha Sasuke, I'm an avenger and a total baka who has no friends! I really love all the attention I get from girls. Too bad I'm gay and have no emotions! I cry everyday because my obvious gayness has to be kept secret, like the stupid little girl I am. I've never heard of a comb so that's why my hair looks like a chicken's ass!" She was amazed how precise her voice sounded, it sounded perfect…apart from the fact Sasuke wouldn't ever say anything like that. Oh how I wish I could actually hear that coming from Sasuke! Maho, aka Sasuke, then put on a bored composure, not showing any emotion, easily imitating Sasuke's attitude. Thankfully, Maho was actually outstanding with the teleportation jutsu, so with the correct handsigns, she appeared right behind the group of obsessed fangirls and brought her index finger and thumb to her mouth. With a blast of air, her whistle pierced the air, catching the attention of the real Sasuke and the fangirls. Then jumping down from the tree branch she was on, Maho landed gracefully. Maho wanted nothing more than to shout as loud as she could to reach the girls ears, but she had to act like the Uchiha.

"How pathetic! You didn't even realize you've been chasing a clone." The imposter Sasuke sneered cooly, his arms crossed in front of his chest. The girls looked back and forth from Maho to Sasuke, who had gotten the hint and all of a sudden jumped into a high tree branch, making it look like he'd disappeared. Screams and cries filled the air as the mob realized they had been duped, the girls then running towards Maho who turned around the way she came and began running as fast as she could, smirking. If I was a really horrible person I would so run around Konoha in this Sasuke transformation wearing a pink, frilly dress and skip around smiling and waving to everyone I saw…too good. Seriously, how do I come up with these things? As she ran past a certain bush she felt a hand grab the back of her god forsaken, hideous shirt, and she fell into the bush.

"Hey, what do you think your doi- Oh, it's you Uchiha, in that case…Hey crap-face why'd you pull me in this bush? I could've out run them!"

"Hn, you can stop being me now." He said calmly.

"Maybe I don't want to. You know I was thinking of putting a frilly, pink dress on and skipping around Konoha waving to everyone like this..." She only got a glare in response and took the hint, changing back into herself and fidgeting around a bit.

"Phew, it's good to be a girl agai-," Sasuke put a hand around her mouth and she went to protest with a grunt until she saw a crowd run past. Why won't anyone let me finish my sentences? He let go when the pack o' freaks ran past and neither of them knew what to say next, but they both let out a sigh of relief. Looking back up at each other, Maho's eye began twitching when she finally noticed how they'd somehow managed to get their faces inches away from each other; Sasuke with his back against a fence and Maho had her back to the bush facing Sasuke. How the hell had neither of them noticed it was only a small space which they hid in. Carefully shuffling about, Maho sat up off her behind and crouched onto the balls of her feet, her knees now between her and the Uchiha, giving her a better sense of relief. However, the crowd ran past again, someone yelling about how they saw Sasuke run in the other direction. Maho could only assume that someone had brushed against the bush, or stumbled into it because how else who the red-head fall forward so unexpectedly. Of course, there wasn't really anywhere else to fall, and she didn't like it one bit, because the person in that only direction was Sasuke. After she was pushed, everything seemed to move into slow motion again like that time she had walked past him and they locked eyes for a second. Instinctively, she put her hands in front of her to brace herself as she was shoved forward towards the fence. Her knees hit the ground roughly, probably bruising them, and her hands and forearms hit the fence, making it shake. Without really thinking, Maho's fingers curled around the links in the metal fence, making her regain her balance, but her brain was frozen, eyes wide. Her forehead was rested against Uchiha's, her nose brushing against his. Maho immediately halted her breathing at the close proximity, but Sasuke's warm breath tickled her lips, almost enticingly. The orange haired girl refused to move from the position, though she wasn't particularly fond of her position, she didn't want to move and there for making anything worse. Unfortunately, Sasuke wasn't that brilliantly smart like me, and tried to put more distance between us, in turn bouncing his back off of the fence and right back into me, so his lips met hers. Maho was half expecting them to be hard and cold like most of his interior and exterior –not that she imagined kissing the emo Uchiha- but they were surprisingly soft and warm. He was also thinking the same thing; however it only lasted less than a millisecond because as soon as he had bumped into her, she was throwing herself away and stood up, making herself visible to the fan girls. The red-head was dancing around and wiping her mouth repeatedly with the back of her hand, pulling at the sleeve of her shirt and rubbing her tongue clean; or at least trying to. "Ugh yuck! Gross, gross, gross, ew, ew, oh my god! Uchiha, you damn bastard, I thought you were smart!" Sasuke scowled at Maho for the insult, but he just sat there, still hidden behind the bush, the scowl turning to his his default uncaring, cold composure. He'd liked and hated it both at the same time, making him unsure of how to react. He watched Maho dancing around and trying to wipe of her mouth, scraping her tongue and sticking her finger down her throat. Kami, that girl was stupidly-insane. She was so enraptured in trying to get the Sasu-kooties off of her lips that she hadn't noticed the fangirls were headed straight towards her. "Why aren't you reacting back? Don't tell me you liked it you demented cock-bite!" She shouted to Sasuke noticing he was simply just sitting there, dumb-founded.

"Pfft, as if. Who would enjoy intimacy with you? I hated every bit of that, I'm just not stupid enough to be dancing around and trying to induce vomit and basically drawing the attention of the people we're trying to hide from."

"I did not draw attention to…the people we're hiding from…" Sasuke only caught the first part of Maho's sentence seeing as the second part was drowned out by girl's screams and it looked like just her mouth moved. Upon realizing that Sasuke actually had a point, she turned around and stared at the rampaging crowd. Inhaling, her attitude instantly did a one-eighty flip. "Whoops, looks like you owe me for the second time now!" She smirked to him, seeming to forget the kiss for a few minutes, and once again performed the tiger hand-seal . The smoke engulfed her, seeming having disappeared; however she instead hid in the bush and turned into Lord Sarutobi Hokage. Stepping out of hiding, she made it appear as if the Hokage had just been taking a stroll, heading in the group's direction. "Children, my, aren't you rather rambunctious this evening. Shouldn't you all be at home revising for your very important exam tomorrow?"

The loud, violent groups of pre-teen girls immediately bowed their heads to the elder, taking on shy and meek personalities. Oh those little…"Hai." They chorused. Sasuke simply just stood there, watching with annoyance at the horrible performance of the orange haired girl. Really, how could anyone believe this horrible acting?

"Now, shouldn't we allow those who are here to traing to do so in peace? Uchi- I mean Sasuke and Maho are both here to practice, so why don't we leave them to themselves."

"Hai Hokage-sama!" The girls immediately dispersed, turning on their heels going on their separate ways. When Maho was certain she was safe from further harm, she changed back with a cloud of smoke.

The silly grin on her face kind of worried Sasuke, knowing that things usually went downhill when she smiled like that; however, he would never reveal his nervousness. "I'm getting better at this! Maybe I should hang out with you more Uchiha…If it gets me to use jutsu's like this, of course."

"Hn, you can leave now."

"Yeah, yeah I was just going." Maho spoke dismissively, waving her hand at him uncaringly, but she stopped after turning around to walk away and gave him a harsh glare, "Nobody and I mean nobody finds out about that kiss. It was a complete accident and neither of us liked it, right? Also nobody finds out about me helping you at least 3 times in a day. They might think it's because I actually like you or something! Oh yeah, don't forget you owe me again and you also owe me a new tooth-brush because I'm going to go home and brush my teeth so hard now that it should snap in half!"

Sasuke smirked, uncrossing his arms and sliding his hands into his pockets, "Hn, whatever."

His response, however, simply angered the girl, making her throw her hands up into the air in frustration, "Ugh, go get a dictionary!" Maho met Sasuke's gaze before beginning to walk across the field towards her home. Feeling his eyes burning into her back again she slowly started to jog, which turned into a sprint so by the time she was home she was panting. Throwing the front door open, Maho stormed inside, her loud entrance catching the attention of her Kiohe, who popped her head out from the kitchen entrance, a bowl and towel in her hands as she dried the dish.

"Honey, why are you home early? I said you could stay out till 9 it's only 7:30; mind you, you look a little hot and tired out you must've been training hard, huh?"

"Uh…sure, yeah I was…training." If you counted running away from moronic duck-butts and their mob of rabid fangirls, that is.

"Show me then!" Her mother said excitingly as she looked at Maho expectantly.

Having been on her way up to her room to immediately fall asleep, Maho's foot froze as it sat on the first step. The girl turned and looked at her mother, blinking her grass-green eyes in confusion, "Show you what?"

"Your clone technique! I'll be able to tell you if it looks good enough to pass tomorrow. You know, I once dated a jounin who was helping on one of the tests…"

"Oh uh…great." GWAHH! I haven't practiced! I've been too busy just hanging round at the training grounds! Shit, Mom's so gonna KILL ME when she realizes I got nothing done! I suppose I could try…it might not turn out to be as bad as I think it is. Oh whatever god there may be, please don't let today be my last day on Earth. Having allowed her mother to finish her rant about her previous boyfriend, Maho took in a deep breath and correctly placed her hands."Bunshin no jutsu!" Oh God, I can't look! Maho closed her eyes and put all her effort into creating two perfect clones of herself. It took her a minute or so to gain the courage to open her eyes, and when she did, she noticed her mother's bored expression and sweat-dropped. She looked to her left and saw a very pale version of herself lying on the floor as if it was dead. She then looked to her right and saw a clone of herself; however it had feet for hands and hands for feet. How the hell…? I don't think even Naruto had created a worse off clone.

A deadly aura quickly filled the atmosphere of the home and the red-head began to sweat and tremble. "Looks to me like somebody's been busy with other things…" Her mother said, her voice low and dangerous, and her eyes were murderous.

Gulping, Maho tried to find an adequate…excuse for her lack of a good performance. "Well uh…I went to the training grounds, but you see Uchiha was there, and then I kind of got him into trouble with his fan-girls and then I had to save him by turning into him and distracting them, and then he pulled me into this bush to hide me from them, I changed back and then I got knocked in the head and kind of…fell on him and may have accidently…kissed him." At the mention of the kiss, the young pre-genin's cheeks flamed a brilliant pink. Realizing that her cheeks were aflame, Maho twitched in annoyance, quickly fighting it back. "That's when I transformed into the Hokage and told the girls to leave. Then I turned back into me and ran home. I'm so, so, so, so sorry! Please forgive me! I really want to do well, but I haven't practiced and now I'm going to fail!" Maho brought on the waterworks, tears welling up in the corner of her eyes, and even going as far as gasping and stuttering for breath. Maybe Kiohe wouldn't kill her if she saw how "upset" her daughter was. Okay, yeah, Maho was almost completely certain that her mother wouldn't fall for her crocodile tears –she was just waaayy to smart to trick-so was expecting an angry look from the adult; however, Mom was…smirking?

"You kissed your worst enemy, eh?" Her mother said with a devious smile, winking and elbowing the small red-head suggestively. This reaction made Maho's eyes widen in shock.

"What the hell? Where's the 'I'm disappointed in you' or 'If you don't pass tomorrow it's your fault for messing around instead of practicing?'"

A chilling laugh left the adult's lips as she threw her head back, "Nope, that's a perfectly good reason to not practice. I thought it was strange you didn't like him when all the others girls did, but you so do because you kissed him!" The cackling grated on Maho's nerves and she tried to refrain herself from strangling her mother, showed by the excessive amounts of twitching.

"No. I. Don't! It was an accident! Like I said I got knocked in the head! I even remember pulling away like as soon as I touched his lips! Then I stood up and started to wipe my mouth, stuck my finger down my throat, scraped my tongue on everything…I hated it! So did he! Not that he showed it though…he kind of just sat there, but that's Sasuke being Sasuke I suppose." Trailing off, Maho tried to remember exactly how everything had happened. Even if he was Sasuke, it was still uberly weird that Uchiha hadn't reacted in any sort of way…

"Or it means he likes you~"

Glaring, Maho stuck her tongue out at her mother, it was better than flicking her off. "Ha, ha so funny, I'm laughing my ass off. You know we've been enemies since…well…since forever! Man you're a teenager in a women's body sometimes, you know that? What kind of adult are you?"

"I'm hardly a women, I am 28! And watch your language!" Mom twitched.

"Exactly, you're almost 30! That makes you a woman in my books!" Maho couldn't help but laugh, seeing as now the roles were reversed and Maho was mercilessly teasing her mother.

"Fine, fine you know you really don't help my self esteem with your mean comments like that, right Maho?" And then came her mother's attempt at crocodile tears, trying to make the girl feel guilty, but it was just about as useful as it was on her mother: absolutely ineffective.

"Uh-huh, I'm going to go out and find Kiba or someone to help me with my jutsu. I'll be back by nine, I promise." Spinning around, Maho jumped down the hallway.

"Don't worry about it, I'll change it to ten now. Make sure you get a boy or a teacher or someone to walk you home because it'll be late."

"Sure thing, love ya!"

"Love you too, my little sail."

"Don't call me that!" Maho shouted as she shut her front door and made her way down the street.