Hey guys! Or more or less, just scienceboy for now, i'm really getting on with my posting!

It's amazing what you can do at...1:07in the morning on a Map Testing day!

Oh yeah, i'm sooooo glad i don't have to worry bout that, i've studied my butt off, and a quick energy drink (makes me gag) and i'm good for the day!

There's no special guests right now, Kyuubi's gone with 'his kit' -giggle-, and Shukaku's still healing his vesell's sunburns. Apparantly since they take weeks to heal, they take longer than i'm giving him before i post the next chapters. Oh well.

Onward and upwards!

Screw that, she'd blow her cover higher than Sasuke's pride if she didn't think of a way to get out of this right—

—Suddenly, he was on the ground, out cold. And she was standing next to Kiba, who held one arm around her protectively (kawaii!), Akamaru was on top of Jiraiya, growling.

"Thanks Kiba." She blushed. "I didn't realize he was a pervert, he was being so helpful..." She trailed off, not wanting to say he was being a shoulder to lean on kind of guy.

Man, had she had a blonde moment, and she wasn't even a blonde!

"It's alright, the perv usually does that." He said, releasing her from his hold and grinning at her sheepishly. "Sorry I'm late; I had to get the others." He motioned to Hinata and Shino behind him, who werefollowed by Neji, Lee, and Tenten. "The other three came when they heard you were working here. Or rather, after Lee did."

She laughed. "Here, take a seat at the bar everyone, and pick up a menu. I've got a special one for you Akamaru." She picked his heavy little doggie but up and set him on an extra tall stool, tall enough for him to eat easily at the bar (with a couple books as well. He's a short puppy!), and placed a little square menu in front of him.

"That's a special doggie menu I cooked up for you." Not really, most of them she made for him and his littlepup in the future(one of her teammate's got the pup as a partner). She'd never used the doggie menues though. She turned to the rest of them. "Boss wanted me to write out new menus for my new recipes, so that's why there're the really big ones." She busied herself with cleaning up Jiraiya's notes and throwing them out the door, where he stood, catching each and every one.

"I'll have the 'doggie treat two'" She heard Akamaru say, but pretended to not.

"Akamaru wants 'Doggie treat two'" Kiba called out as other ninja came in. "And I'll have the 'chicken lunch special'" He said, re-reading the description underneath the name. "And two waters."

"Okay!"

"A 'Pot pie lunch special'! And a lemonade! For the power of youth!" She didn't even have to turn around to guess who that was.

She took the rest of their orders and the other new ninja and went to make them. She came out with trays balanced on her head and her arms, from which she deftly served them all. Kakashi and Sasuke came in, followed by Sakura and Ino. She took orders and served them up as well, sitting down in exhaustion when she served up the last one for now.

"Where's the stand owner?" Kakashi asked, already finished with his 'ramen beef and pork special seven' (A/n: Yes, there's seven of them! ...that you know of...)

"He had something to do, and I handled this morning well enough that he said he could go do it. Though it would be nice for him to come back..." She looked at Naruto's reserved spot and sighed.

"Who's that for?" Kakashi observed the special menu, besides the doggie one. He had even summoned up his own dogs to use it. It was a hit with all but Pakkun, with him it was a bulls-eye.

"That's for Naruto, he said he would come and try some of my ramens, but lunch is half over now and he's not here yet..." She looked up at the door just as guess who walked in.

"Hey Kono-chan! I brought some new friends! Sorry I'm late! Baa-chan made me stay and help her with filing till just now!" Naruto andmiss booby-ness-kage herself came in and bonked him on the head for that.

"I'm not Baa-chan! Got that punk?" She exclaimed. "Naruto said that there were some new ramens here, and he made a promise to come eat them to the new waitress, so I came too to make sure he's not lying again to get out of punishment. Guess not." She sat down and picked up a menu.

Naruto ordered, enthusiastically, everything on the menu. But Korochi stopped him, it would get cold when he got to all of them, she had told him, and besides, he should save some new ones for other days.

He reluctantly agreed. More like she just wouldn't give him all of them.

She was just serving him his third bowl of it when Itachi stepped in the door.

Sasuke stiffened, as did every other ninja in the place.

"What?" He said, his reddish highlights flashing in the light as he turned non-henged his brown eyes to look at all of them. They all relaxed. It wasn't him; the light was playing tricks on them. Even Sasuke had to reluctantly agree that thatwasn't him.

"I'll have a Naruto sample pack!" A blonde hyper boy with black streaks in his hair exclaimed, coming up from nowhere.

"Beef is fine." Itaku said, sitting down beside him and eyeing the Uchiha with a curious look. The prodigy 'hn'-ed and looked away.

"Water and a straw." Kashi spoke, sipping through the straw under her Yankee mask when receiving her drink.

"Revitalization special!"

" 'Rice ball stew with energy sauce' and a milk."

There were a few others that had come with them. Neji was currently staring all these newcomers down. They could have been two ninja squads of sorts, but there would have to have been one more person. And his Byukagan wasn't picking anything special up, though the pony-tailed one was looking at him every now and then. He just put that off to that he was unnerving her with his staring.

"One half size revitalization special" He said monotonously, sitting down from getting up to leave.

Everyone else followed suit. There was something suspicious about them, and they wanted to stay and see if they couldn't figure it out.

Korochi was furious. Now she had to serve them her own cooking.(and here is where the blond/black ponytailedKiia and her mind tricks on the owner to make him leavereally come into play)And she so didn't want to get laughed at for her pitiful attempts. The others probably said nothing because they didn't expect better from the ramen stand. (Ouch-kibibbles girl! that was mean!)

"Wow! Are these your own recipes?" The blonde one with black streaksasked(Nuken). She smiled at him. He was the only one she had told about her passion for cooking. She had been caught by him combining cooking and weapon using. He had almost lost an ear then.

And that was just by accident.

"Yup! Made them myself!" She grinned at him good-naturedly. He stared at Naruto's menu for a second.

"Cool! You must be really good! I can't wait to eat them all!" He looked at Naruto's menu again; it was even monogrammed for him. "You must like him a lot to get him his own menu!" He exclaimed happily, though inside he was a bit hurt, even though it was his dad. (More tid-bits of info for ya!)

"He's the best customer, and boss says he's here most every day. So of course he gets his own menu." She handed them their food and left.

They all finished rather quickly, wanting to get out of there, there were ever so few suspicious looks thrown their way by the resident ninja.

"Well, that was good, what do we owe you?" Itaku asked.

"About four thousand seven hundred sixty-two yen please." (114 yen is 1$ American, so that's about..-calculator sounds-.. $41.77? around there. I got the 114 to the 1$ thing from my math book, it's got those little 'you know what' notes on the sides of the pages. Multitasking when it domes to teaching if you aske me, there was even one on birds and the scientists who stu)

"What?" He turned to the blonde/black streaked kid. "Nuken! Don't eat so much! I thought I put you on a diet last week to keep you from eating your body weight in ramen every meal!"

"Last week hasn't happened yet." He answered cheerfully, many just stared at him. The other ninja cause they have no clue why he just said something so stupid, his team because they knew why, and thought he was an idiot that was going to blow their cover.

"Well, fine." He gave her five thousand yen. "Keep the change." He muttered angrily as he stalked out with a whining blonde on one end of his hand.

"Thank you! Come again!" She called, her voice dripping with sweetness. Once they were all gone, she just bustled off to get other orders, the last for the day.

She still couldn't figure out how she was going to handle a pouty Naruto and his foxy whine when she restricted him more from his meal, so there would be new things to try later on in the week.

Luckily for her, there was a distraction.

Unluckily, it centered around her.

Well, I'm kinda gettin lonely in here without some of my little demons, and no guest-stars here either to keep me company, so what do you say to a review? Please? -puupy pout-

I'll be waiting! and checking over the next chapter!

Bye!