Thanks for the reviews everyone and sorry that I'm a little late with updating! I hadfriends over, and I don't usually update when friends are here...even if they want me to update. I'm just weird like that.

Oh, and BTW if anyone has any suggestions for Nori and the gang to do anything at school, just put it in your review! I'm starting to run out of ideas...

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Nori stood there with a look on her face that clearly stated she was hoping that she'd be struck by lightning at that very moment. Unfortunately, it was a clear, sunny day. Great.

"All right, now the first thing that a best-selling author does is look for material!" Jiraiya exclaimed.

"Er, what exactly do you write?" Ino asked.

"THIS!" He whipped out one of his books.

Ino screamed and swatted the book away. "We're gonna look for this material? EW!"

"I hate to agree, but can't we do something normal?" Nori said.

"That isn't perverted," Shino added.

"You children just don't understand the art of writing!" Jiraiya exclaimed angrily. "Now let's get the lead on!" He pulled out a pencil and a pad of paper. "We're going to the hot springs!"

"More like the art of peeking if you ask me," Ino whispered.

The other two nodded.

The three students followed Jiraiya to a hot spring. (A/N: I've never been to a hot spring, so I'll just have to wing it.) They stopped at the front door.

"I didn't even know we had a hot spring," Nori remarked.

"It's just in the back of the salon, for relaxation," Jiraiya said. "Only some people know about it, so I'm not surprised." Then he stared at Nori and Ino.

"Er…what?" Ino said.

"You two are girls," Jiraiya said, stating the obvious.

"Uh…yeah…" Nori said.

"Tell me, are you two good at drawing?"

"Don't tell me," Ino said. "You want us to go into the hot springs and sketch the people there? That's gross!"

"Well actually, I was thinking…" he looked at Shino. "Nah, never mind."

Nori didn't want to know what he was thinking.

"I'll just do it the normal way then!"

"And what normal way is that?" Shino said.

"Look, if you don't want to come, fine!" Jiraiya said as he walked off towards the wooden gate that blocked any view inside the women's spring.

"Glad he gave us that choice," Nori said, sitting down. "We'll just wait a few minutes until—"

"Yaaaaaaaaaaahh!"

Jiraiya landed in a heap in front of the three's feet.

"Well that didn't take long!" Ino said, sounding annoyed.

"The women in there are more eagle-eyed than I thought!" Jiraiya stated. "Oh well! On to the next best thing! The public pool!" He seemed completely undeterred.

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"It's nice to see you again, Sakura! We haven't seen you since…well, since first grade! Ino hasn't talked too much about you!" Mrs. Yamanaka exclaimed.

"Uh, yeah…we haven't been in touch too much…you know, school stuff," Sakura said uncertainly. Ino hasn't told her mom that we're rivals now?

"Well, you know what to do!" Mrs. Yamanaka exclaimed. "Put on some aprons and get started! I have to go order some more flowers and pick up a few shelves, I'll be back in a flash!"

"Do you have any aprons that…aren't flowered?" Sasuke said as politely as Sasuke could have possibly been.

"Sorry, dear," Mrs. Yamanaka said, not looking sad. "But I never thought that a young man would come to work for me."

Sasuke sighed and tied on the frilly yellow apron with pink roses stitched on them.

"Ahahaha!" Naruto laughed. "You look so girly, Sasuke!"

"Try looking in the mirror," Sasuke growled.

"Shut up, Naruto!" Sakura exclaimed. "We have customers!"

"But he—"

"SH!" Sakura hissed. She put on a sweet smile. "Welcome!"

A few girls had come in. They smiled and then saw Sasuke and Naruto. Then they laughed. A lot.

"Don't laugh at us!" Naruto ordered angrily.

"Oh," one of the girls giggled. "We aren't laughing at both of you, just you!"

"Yeah, your friend is hot, and you're not!" the other girl laughed.

"Hey, I saw him first!" her friend exclaimed.

"No, he's mine!"

The two girls suddenly grabbed Sasuke and started pulling him left and right. Sasuke just had this LOOK on his face that obviously showed he was not enjoying this game.

"Hey!" Sakura exclaimed. "Paws off of him, you witches! He's mine!"

ARGH! Why does Sasuke always get the girls? Naruto thought angrily. Even if they're annoying?

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"This…is…so…boring…" Tenten sighed. She was sitting at a small desk in the public library. "Am I going to do anything??

"Hey, it's better than Lee's job," Neji said, passing by with a cart of books. "Or mine," he added.

"Well no one ever comes here," Tenten grumbled. "I think I can take a nap before this thing's over."

Lee was in the children's section reading to a crowd of kindergarteners. "And then the little dog said…"

"I hate this story!" a little boy exclaimed. "And your hair's funny!"

"Little boy," Lee said patiently. "It isn't nice to say the word 'hate' and make fun of people's different looks."

"That's your real look?" a little girl asked. "I thought you were wearing a costume because of the reading…"

"You're ugly," another girl piped.

Steam flew out of Lee's ears. "Now listen here—"

"Uh, Lee!" Tenten exclaimed. "Let's just trade our jobs, okay? I'll read to them."

"Wait! I need to teach these children a lesson in manners!" Lee said ambitiously.

"Uh…" Tenten looked around. "Neji! Help!"

With Neji's help, the two got Lee out of the children's section with only two shushes from the librarian.

"You kids are supposed to be helping me, not wreaking havoc!" the librarian hissed. She was probably not a parent, but just someone who needed some extra help. Obviously she hadn't been in the children's section and never knew how evil those young ones were.

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"Hey, hey!" Shikamaru exclaimed. "Chouji, if you're gonna work, you can't just sit there and eat the merchandise!"

"Well working at a movie theater's hard, Shikamaru!" Chouji whined as he chugged down another jumbo popcorn bag. Without the bag, that is.

"At least wash your hands before you reach in," Shikamaru sighed. "Man, this job is so troublesome. I'd rather watch a movie."

"Maybe we can do it when our shift's over!" Chouji exclaimed.

"I-I d-don't think so…" Hinata stuttered.

"Where is our manager anyway?" Shikamaru asked. "I mean, 'Job Day Guardian'?"

"Watching a movie," Chouji replied.

"Just my luck."

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"Are you just gonna sit on your butt all day?" Kiba said, annoyed. He came out of the vet's office.

"What am I supposed to do?" Gaara asked bitterly. "Your sister obviously doesn't want us in the vet's office."

"And we're stuck with being her secretary!" a boy that Kiba and Gaara didn't know said. It's not like they cared.

"Not secretary," Kiba said. "And it's not like you guys want to go in there and treat animals like good people!"

Akamaru barked.

"Yeah, I know," Kiba said, rolling his eyes.

Gaara and the kid stared at Kiba.

"What?" Kiba said. "Oh yeah, I forgot you don't understand!"

"And how are you able to?" Gaara asked.

"Because!" Kiba said. And he left it at that.

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"Remember to take detailed notes!" Jiraiya advised.

"Have we gotten enough material yet?" Ino said irritably.

"Yeah, this is getting a little awkward," Nori said.

"It was awkward two minutes after it started," Shino said.

The pool had acquired a very high, wooden fence that was put there for one reason. Jiraiya.

Jiraiya was standing at the bottom with Shino on his shoulders. On Shino's shoulders sat Nori and on her shoulders sat Ino with pen and pad in hand.

"I'm sick of this!" Ino exclaimed angrily.

"SH! Don't let them hear you!" Jiraiya hissed.

"Hey, what's that little girl doing?" a voice from the other side of the anti-Jiraiya wall wondered aloud.

"Ai!" Jiraiya shouted, surprised. He fell over flat on his face on the pavement.

"AH!" Ino and Nori yelled. Shino just sort of…looked surprised and made a grunting sound. Shino doesn't really scream…

However, the kids were spared. They landed on the grass field that was right outside the pool and pavement. But Ino got snagged on a tree branch.

"Ow…" Shino groaned, rubbing his head.

"Get me out of this!" Ino screamed. She dropped the pad and pencil.

Jiraiya crawled over with a bloody nose and fat lip. "Hey! These aren't very good notes, young lady!"

"ARGH!" Ino kicked her shoe off and onto Jiraiya's head.

"OW!"

"Okay, that's it!" Nori shouted. "YOU!" She pointed at Jiraiya. "Are taking us back to school and saying that we finished EARLY! GOT IT?"

"O-Okay," Jiraiya said.

"AND you'll say we deserve an A PLUS!" Ino added.

"All right! Fine!" Jiraiya exclaimed.

"Good," Ino and Nori said in unison and in relief.

"But let me just observe you two for a—"

"NO!"

AFTERSCHOOL

"So, how was your day?" Nori asked Kiba. Naruto still had detention for life, so the two were walking home from school together. "Anything interesting happen on Job Day?"
"If you call sitting around my sister's office unable to help with your boyfriend and some random kid interesting, I guess," Kiba said easily.

"Boyfriend?" Nori demanded. "What boyfriend?"

"Did I say boyfriend? I meant…Gaara, your friend," Kiba said hastily.

Tenten…did she…? No. She wouldn't do that, Nori thought. "What makes you boyfriend?"

"I dunno," Kiba shrugged. "You guys seem pretty close, as far as I can see."

Nori chose to ignore his comment for the most part. She had never shone any real emotional reactions to anything in her life besides towards her parents and she couldn't remember the last time she blushed. Could Gaara…? No. What would Kiba know anyway? He's…Kiba.

"So it was a complete snorefest," she said finally.

"Yeah. And yours?"

"I'd really rather not talk about it."

A FEW MONTHS LATER…

"Class, we're going to partake in a school fundraiser," Kakashi announced. "Tomorrow, I suggest you don't dress too fancily. We're going to have a car wash so the band can get better and more instruments."

"Like we care what a bunch of band geeks get…" Naruto muttered.

"So dress in shorts and T-shirts," Kakashi said. "That will be all."

FUNDRAISER

"Do you think this is really necessary?" Sakura said distastefully looking at the cars that they had to wash.

The girls had separated from the boys instinctively for a while to wait for cars. They were filthy. It was as if the people had made them dirty especially for them.

"I mean…my hair doesn't go good with dirt…"

"Neither does anyone else's, Forehead Girl," Ino snorted. "But you don't see us complaining."

"Well, it isn't as bad as last year," Tenten remarked.

"Hey, this'll be fun, right?" Nori said. "Besides, if we earn some extra cash, we'll probably be able to get some other things other than instruments."

"Every year the boys always find a way to get on the girls' nerves, so look out," Tenten said.

"Hey, what's the worst that they can do anyway?" Ino said.

"Yeah, Ino's right," Nori said. "They're just boys."

"HEY! Look over here!"

"Huh?"

"No—don't look!" Tenten warned.

SPLASH!

The boys had sprayed the girls with the giant hose they conveniently had to use. The girls were dripping wet from head to toe.

"Now my hair is messed up and it's going to get all stringy and gross!" Ino complained.

Sakura screamed. "NARUTO!"

"Ahahaha!" Naruto laughed. He was one of the ones holding the hose closer to the front.

"N-Naruto-kun…" Hinata whispered, sad that Naruto would do such a thing.

"Oh Sakura! I am so sorry!" Lee wept. "But…it was sort of comical…"

"Lee!" Tenten exclaimed as she took the ties out of her hair and attempted to get the long strands dry. "That wasn't funny!"

"Yes it was," Neji said, smirking.

"Are you joking?" Kiba snickered. "It was hilarious! Look at them!"

"Told ya it would be awesome," Naruto said, jabbing Sasuke. He, along with Neji and Gaara made no reaction but a small crack of a smile.

"They're gonna pay for that," Nori muttered. She looked back at the other girls' reactions. Most of them were hurrying to get their hair perfect again but the tougher ones were steaming mad. The boys were going to be in for a war of a lifetime. Heads will roll.

There we go! I'll try to get another quick update, but I need lots of reviews to keep me happy. R&R please!