A/N- …..Wow…. I really didn't expect that kind of response for the first chapter of 'Problems with Potions'…. Surprisingly also, the one I posted simultaneously has only 2 reviews to this one's 8…which was not what I expected. (If anyone is fascinated by the Titanic (NOT THE MOVIE IT'S COMPLETELY DIFFERENT), then go check out my story 'To Save A Life'. Anyways, thanks to those who reviewed the first chapter of Problems with Potions- Duckichan87, Tiffanylicis, Iloveinuyasha44, Great Saiyaman, MistressBlossom, Loku (of the long reviews…. and I expect long reviews woman!) Windsoftiti, seguha, puppy444219, Kelsie H and Kawaii Chibi Sasuke Lover…. Read and Review.

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Chapter 2

The bright sunlight hurt her eyes. She opened her eyes and stretched her body which was sore in every place…

From sleeping on the linoleum…. well the carpet. But it was only the thin rug that she had to stand on when she did her dishes. As the sun continued to hurt her eyes, she sat up and promptly remembered the fiasco of a party she had held the night previous…the one that had been a complete blast until there was that unfortunate mix up and….

And all her friends had taken her botched potion.

She shot to her feet and began to look around for any signs that something might be amiss. At first she thought everything was okay. She made her way through the kitchen and it took her a moment to realize…

Perception was completely off kilter.

Normally she could walk past the table and it would only come up to her waist…now, as she stopped beside it, she had to stand on tippie toe to see the top; the book she had been studying the night previous looked monstrous.

That should've been her first clue. But no. She walked into the hall…and noticed that the doorknob, which should've been at her waist, was at her eye level. After that she started to get some clue as to what was happening to her. The side effects…well not side effects per say, more or less…. effects of that particular potion…

When she got into the den it confirmed her train of thought.

Where Naruto had been curled up last night lay a 6 year old carbon copy…it was almost as if someone had invented a shrinking jutsu and used it on the Uzumaki.

It was practically the same for every other shinobi and kunoichi in the room. There were some changes. Because her face had shrunk, TenTen's buns were loose and threatening to fall out, Akamaru had shrunk to the size of an almost newborn puppy. But for the most part…

Every single person in that room-because all had drunk the potion- had turned into themselves…as children.

And they were all starting to stir. "Oh crap" breathed Sakura. She sat down heavily; aware of her own short trip to the ground as she watched her friends wake up. Rock Lee was up first. "Sakura! What has happened to you?" he cried, dashing forward…only to trip over his own two feet. "Your problem is my problem Sakura!" he said as he tried to recover his footing. "Let me use my youth to fix it!" Sakura let out a dry laugh.

"Lee you have no idea how much of this problem is yours. Look at yourself." Lee proceeded to the bathroom in all haste to examine himself in the mirror…only to find he wasn't in the mirror. "Where has my reflection gone?" he cried.

"Try climbing the counter." Advised Sakura wearily. By now everyone had woken up and had, more or less, discovered their new childlike state.

"Sakura…" said Ino dangerously. "What did you do to us?"

"Well…yesterday as an assignment I had to make potions for Tsunade I came home to try one but it didn't turn out and you guys showed up before I could throw it out the remains and when Naruto refilled the punchbowl last night he accidentally used the potion." Said Sakura in one quick breath. "You guys drank what was supposed to be a therapy potion but it was messed up so I don't know exactly what it did to you."

A stunned disbelief filled the room. "Are…you…serious?" breathed TenTen.

Sakura nodded, her pink bangs falling into her eyes. "I'm sorry guys…I should've gotten rid of the potion before you guys came over.

Neji huffed. "Especially if Naruto was coming over." He said, sliding his large, innocent looking eyes over towards the demon vessel. "Hey it smelled like and looked like what we had been drinking before. How was I to know that it was a potion?" Naruto started to giggle. "Hey Neji, don't use the death glare…with those eyes it doesn't work."

Everyone looked towards the Hyuuga and saw that, indeed, the death glare was pointless…Neji looked just too cute.

"Well…Sakura I remember from when we did potions in the Academy…we just brushed them but Iruka-Sensei did say that for every potion there is an antidote. Do you remember seeing one for this?" Asked Sasuke in his child voice-much higher than his normal deep tones.

"I don't remember." Said the pink haired girl in her chibi voice. "Let's go check."

Once in the kitchen, Sakura began to analyze how to get the old book off of the table so she could access it. She tried different methods-one included putting chakra into her feet and leaping onto the table but then she discovered that in her child like state she didn't have the chakra required for such a move. Finally she resorted to the old 'stand on a chair' method. While she was doing this, Shikamaru had come up with an idea. "Hey…couldn't we just go to Tsunade and get a antidote?" asked the lazy ninja. "Doing it this way is too troublesomely long."

The Medic-nin-in-training-turned-chibi looked at him. "Are you joking? Tsunade-sensei will have my head for giving you guys a potion-a botched one-even if it was an accident. I'd rather she didn't find out about this mistake, thank you very much Nara Shikamaru."

Shikamaru rolled his eyes. "Just a suggestion. Troublesome woman." He muttered.

Sakura struggled with the heavy old book for a few moments, attempting to lift it off the table. Finally, with a last heave she managed to get it off and set it awkwardly on the ground. "Let's see..." she said in her new, child-like voice, almost to herself.

"It was page 45..." She flipped frantically through the book, stirring up dust as she went until she found what she was looking for.

Her eyes skimmed the page. "Antidote...antidote."

"Ok here we go..." she reached up and brushed a strand of cotton candy hair from her face. "For this potion...and mind you, this is merely a fouled up version of the potion...there's...no antidote." She arched her eyebrows. "But this is good…they way I botched it…doesn't affect the outcome of the potion." She said as her finger ran along the words.

A stunned silence filtered through the room as everyone ignored the second statement and focused on the first. "No... Antidote..." said Neji in an odd voice. "So you mean we're stuck like this?"

"Oh, the potion can be reversed...but there's no way of forcing it to reverse...it's complicated."

She took a breath, brushed her pink bangs out of her face and continued.

"According to this...if the potion turns the drinker into a child, it's indicative that they lacked something in their childhood. What must be done is they must experience what they lacked and then...the potion will wear off. Simple as that."

"Simple…as…th..that?" said Hinata quietly.

"So you mean we're stuck like this?" Asked Naruto in disbelief, echoing Neji's sentiments.

"Well…. unless you figure out what it was you were missing in your first childhood…then…in a word, yes." Said Sakura.

A/N-So there you have it…like I said, check out 'To Save A Life' if you want…

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