"So how long does this paper work stuff take?" Keiko aked curiously as Yama placed her down on the couch and left to fish the papers out of his room.

"Depends on how much you bug me." He answered in a joking tone as he disappeared into his room.

"What exactly is it about?" She sat back and made herself comfy.

Yama returned to the living room and set a folder full of paper on the table. He removed his vest and sat down beside Keiko.

"It's about the Chunin exams; I'm helping with them this year." He told her, opening the folder.

Keiko gasped and turned so that she could look over his shoulder. "Am I going to be entered?"

Yama looked over at Keiko's curious expression and laughed. "I haven't decided yet. They are extremely dangerous, and you just became a Genin."

"I should have been a genin five years ago, and should have been a chunin by now, and possibly a jounin. So I say you should...let me..?" Keiko posed as she shrugged her shoulders with a happy smile.

"What about Satomi and Kazuko? I can't only let you go, it has to be the whole squad and well, I don't even know about Satomi yet."

"Well, what did you think of our fight?"

"It was good. I always knew you were strong because of your clan. And as for Kazuko, I'm amazed at how he could see through your illusions. However, no matter how good the two of you are, I can't let you go without Satomi."

"I know...but Satomi is so...mysterious. No one knows anything about her. She use to be just a citizen girl on the outskirts of the village. She hadn't had any friends through the academy...what if she turns out to be so useless, and it hinders Kazuko and I from advancing?"

Yama thought for a moment. "I doubt that she is useless. But if she is, then I will deal with that tomorrow. I need to see her fight first."

"Can I fight her?" Keiko's face darkened as a smirk slowly lit her face.

Yama stared blankly at Keiko. "No."

"Aww! Come on! Why not?"

"I saw that torture you put on Kazuko; if I guess right, you hate her. You will probably kill her."

"You think Kazuko won't hurt her? I know how to control myself." Keiko tried to keep composure, but failed and bursted into laughter. "I'm sorry! I guess I can't control myself at times."

Yama laughed as he ruffled Keiko's hair. "You're cute. But that wont change my mind. Unlike you, Satomi isn't going to piss Kazuko off to the point that he loses control, and if she does, I will step in."

"Why do you still treat me like a child?" Keiko frowned.

Yama pulled away his hand and laughed. "'Cause you still act like one."

"I do not! I am an adult. Hello~! You see? Grown up..here...sitting beside you..not little...not naive."

Yama laughed once again as he leaned back against the couch. "I'm older than you, that's more then enough reason to call you a child."

Keiko narrowed her eyes and quickly preformed the seals that she had last inflicted on Kazuko during their training. Yama's eyes widened as he saw Keiko's hand signs. He watched her carefully earlier when she preformed them on Kazuko.

"K-Keiko what are you doing?" Yama asked nervously.

Keiko giggled as all around, darkness hid the walls of the room. The lamp on the stand in the corner of the room had disappeared but the light still illuminated what he could see. Keiko had easily slipped back into the darkness.

"Am I still childish now?" Keiko asked menacingly.

Yama's eyes darted around. "Ah... n-no?"

Keiko giggled as she walked forth from the darkness and stood on the other side of the coffee table. "Do you feel it, Yama? The weight of every particle in your body weighing down. Your feet feel like bricks and it's like your head is starting to ache, doesn't it?"

Yama wasn't enjoying her "game". "K-Keiko, stop!" He told her sternly, trying to hide the angst from her.

Gracefully, Keiko stepped up onto the table and stepped down infront of Yama. "Oh Yama." She whispered and bent down in front of him. "Boo!" She suddenly shouted, almost giving Yama a heart attack. By the time Keiko stopped laughing and stood up, Yama had flinched. "I'm just kidding." She giggled and sat down on the table in front of him.

Yama panted as he stared at Keiko with widened eyes.

"Shouldn't you be getting to those papers?" She asked mockingly.

"I can't when you have me in this thing," He told her.

"So, what you're saying is that you want me to stop this illusion?"

He nodded.

"But first..." Keiko said and leaned forward slightly.

Yama's eyes widened in curiousity and fear of what she might do to him.

She giggled as she watched his expression, wondering what it would turned to after she had done what she was planning on doing. She leaned forward a bit more and placed her lips to his before pulling back and giggling once again and breaking the illusion.

Yama's back fell against the couch as his eyes remained widened and a blush crossed his face. 'Was that... fake... or real?' He wondered, his mind still in shock.

"What?" She asked and cocked her head.

"D-did ... you actually just kiss me?" He asked breathlessly.

"I don't know what you're talking about..." Keiko's eyebrow went up as she stared back at Yama.

Yama shook his head and leaned forward with his eyes locked on his paper work. "Why did I bring you here again?"

"Because you love me... and this one'll be more real." She pulled his face back up and placed another kiss on his lips before pulling back again.

Yama's face turned beat red as he stared at her. "Y-You're not very fair... are you?" He teased. Suddenly before Keiko could catch on, Yama's lips connected with her's again. He pulled away and let his eyes fall back down, acting like nothing had happened.

Keiko smiled brightly and placed her elbows on her knees. "I love when you blush, it's amusing." She murmured.

Yama ignored her comment as he tried to focus on his work.

"Can't focus, can you?" She giggled.

Yama laughed but didn't look at her.

"Can you?" She whispered and kissed him back once more.

This time Yama tackled Keiko to the couch, his body hovering over her. "I said I had work to do, didn't I?"

"Is Yama angry then?" Keiko asked with a smirk.

He returned her smirk with one of his own. "Course not, but I am gonna have to do something about you taking away my focus."

Keiko giggled and reach up to poke his stomach. "I can just use one of my jutsu's to get away."

"Yeah, but you don't want to get away," Yama told her.

"And right now you're debating, and wanting not to but at the same time wanting to do something, correct?"

He laughed. "No, course not."

"Besides, Kazuko would hurt you if you did anything bad." She whispered mockingly.

Yama laughed once again. "I think I could take your friend."

Keiko looked like she was deep in thought. "I don't know about that...he is pretty tough."

Yama lowered his head down, closer to Keiko. "You have never seen me fight, so I wouldn't put him above me quite yet."

"Then why don't you show me just how you can fight?"

Yama got off of Keiko and smiled. "Cause I don't have anyone to fight- and I'm not fighting my students."

"Come on! Fight me! I'm strong - as you can tell." Keiko jokingly brought her arm to her face and kissed her bicep.

Yama laughed. "No. I can't. Besides, I still have work to do that you are distracting me from."

"Well then get to it!" Keiko motioned to the papers.

He stared at her blankly. "I've been trying."

"I won't bug you anymore." She said with a smile.

"Next you'll be saying that you're an angel." He said, sarcasm evident.

"Aren't I your angel?" She giggled.

Yama found himself blushing again as he avoided her gaze. "Yeah."

Keiko leaned forward and kissed his cheek before standing up. "I'm going to randomly cook you something to eat so I'm out of your hair." Keiko laughed and head for the kitchen. "I'm sorry if I burn your house down."

Yama rolled his eyes as a chuckle left his lips. "Just make sure you warn me."

Keiko laughed as she looked through all his stuff for something to cook. She found a package of Ramen in the cupboards and put a pot of water on to boil the noodles. 'I wonder if my cooking is good...' She laughed and imagined the worse case scenerio.

Yama yawned as he leaned back against the couch. Keiko was still in the kitchen. His eyes looked from the doorway to his papers as his eyes unwillingly began to close and he moved onto his back.

A few minutes later the Ramen was finally cooked and ready to go. she poured it into two bowls and brought it out to the living room only to find that Yama had fallen asleep.

"Guys are such dorks." She sighed and sat both of the bowls down on the table. She placed herelf infront of the couch on the floor and began to eat her bowl of Ramen, waiting to see if the smell of the Ramen would wake Yama. After she had finished her bowl and waited a few more minutes for Yama to wake up, she brought both bowls back into the kitchen and disposed of them. Then she went into his room and got his pillow and blankets to bring them to his couch.

'I wonder what he did all night. It's only noon!' She placed the blankets gently over his body and lifted his head to place the brick-feeling pillow under his head. 'Seriously! How does he sleep with that pillow?' Keiko shook her head and gave him one last kiss before leaving his apartment.

After attending to his cut, Kazuko wandered around the village aimlessly to blow off steam. As he strolled along, he spotted Keiko and hissed at her as he walked by; he wasn't all that mad anymore, but still wasn't happy with her.

"Hey! Kazuko!" Keiko crossed her arms over her chest and got his attention.

He turned to stare at her with a dull expression. "What?"

"You still angry?" She pursed her lips.

He groaned. "Possibly."

"Come on, seriously."

He turned his back to her and sighed as he scratched his head. "I guess not. But my cheek hurts."

"Ah, come on. You stabbed me in the arm...oh...I still have to take care of that!" Keiko said as she looked down at her arm.

Kazuko turned back around and looked at her arm. "Ew. Did I do that?" He sighed and stepped forward, pulling first-aid stuff from his pouch. He quickly cleaned her wound and wrapped it up.

"I'm surprised both Yama and I hadn't noticed it. I felt pain when he grabbed my arm...but.." She mumled to herself while thinking of the past few minutes.

"Did him yet?" Kazuko asked with a smirk; he sounded more like his cocky-self again.

"Shut up!" She hissed and poked where his wound was to make it hurt again.

"Ow..." He whined as he pulled her hand away. "Stop. It hurts."

"Then stop thinking we're going to do it!" She laughed. "We only kissed."

"Heh, Keiko and Yama sittin' in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-"

Keiko's deathly glare made Kazuko stop in his tracks. "I can do that jutsu you hate again."

Kazuko just smiled. "And I can leave this village."

"You wouldn't."

"Wanna bet?"

"No."

Kazuko laughed. "Heh, I figured you wouldn't."

"So, Yama is helping with the Chunin exams this year."

"Oh yeah?" Kazuko asked.

"You have to fight Satomi tomorrow, and depending on if she's useless or not, we can enter!"

Kazuko raised a brow at Keiko. "Useless? She isn't useless?"

"We don't know yet. No one knows her abilities...at least no one that I know." Keiko rolled her eyes.

"So, you don't know me?" He teased. "I hung out in a tree the other day, and she suddenly showed up and started to train, comepletely unaware of my presence. She's strong, I'm almost worried about facing her tomorrow." Kazuko admitted.

Keiko immediately bursted out into laughter. "You almost had me there, Kazuko! You should be an actor!" Keiko had to grip her stomach it was hurting from laughing too hard.

Kazuko remained still as he stared at her with an unamused glare. "I'm serious. In my past time I spy on people." He admitted with a smirk. "Ah the things I've witnessed."

Keiko sobered up and blushed. "Not on me, right?"

He just snickered.

"No, seriously. 'Cause that would be awkward."

Kazuko laughed. "Nah, I think I have once, but you were just makin' food."

"When?" Keiko went all shifty eyed.

"Ah, years ago?"

"You're weird."

"Heh, well I get to know people by spyin' on 'em. So, this would have been like, back when we first met."

"Do you spy on Yama?" Keiko subtly slipped in the question, or tried to subtly do so.

He rasied a brow again. "Yeah?"

"What does he do?" She rolled her eyes in curiousity.

Kazuko smirked. "Why should I tell you?"

"Because I would like to know? Duh."

Kazuko rolled his eyes. "I meant, why do you need to know, he is your boyfriend."

"Fine, nevermind." Keiko shook her head angrily and crossed her arms over her chest.

"Flowers." Kazuko told her. "He has a liking for flowers. I dunno why, but he does."

"Flowers?" Keiko was taken aback. "What do you mean?"

"A lot of the time when I spy on him, I see him attending to some sort of flower garden he has in his room. He mostly keeps carnations. It's weird in my opinion."

'Oh! I love carnations!' Keiko laughed. "Seriously?"

Kazuko nodded. "Yeah. There was one time a Jounin came to see him when he was looking at the flowers, and he hid them away in his closet before answering the door. So clearly no one knows."

"Yeah...alright. Uh, anything else? I ...have to do something..."

Kazuko gave Keiko an odd look before thinking. "No I don't watch, but I've heard him sing in the shower, but he sucks." Kazuko's face twisted in disgust at the memory.

"That's not awkward- okay bye!" Before Kazuko could say anything, Keiko disappeared and headed back to Yama's apartment.

"D-did I creep her out?" Kazuko asked himself before shrugging.

Keiko knocked but Yama didn't answer. 'He must still be asleep.' She checked the door knob and found that it was still unlocked. She opened the door quietly and made her way into the living room where Yama wa still sound asleep.

"I'm back." She whispered and giggled as she went to the first closet she seen which was in the living room. She opened the door but didn't see any flowers. She moved on to the next few rooms but still no flowers. The last room she checked, his bedroom, the closet stood out more than it had the night she slept there. She took one last glance at Yama and headed for the closet to open the door. There, in little pots, a few carnations stood beautifully. She let out a loving sigh and bent down to smell her favourite flowers.

"Wh-where did those come from? I-I ah... damn Jounin..." Yama mumbled nervously as he stood in his doorway looking over at Keiko and the flowers.

"They're beautiful, Yama." Keiko said and brought a carnation to her nose.

Yama tried to hold back a blush and failed. "Ah..."

"I know they're yours, so don't try passing it off on that...jounin..."

Yama remained silent as he stared at Keiko with beat red cheeks.

"I didn't know you tended to flowers! And you sing? Ah, this is far too great!" Keiko giggled.

Yama's face deepened in colour as his eyes widened. "H-How d-did you know... that... stuff?"

"I have connections. But seriously, how come you never told me you planted carnations? They're my most favourite flowers!"

He reached up and scratched his neck nervously. "I-I know that."

"For me?"

He nodded.

"Wait! How did you know I liked flowers? I haven't recieved one since I was three from my dad!"

"Remember, you forgot me? I already knew that from before... that."

"And you remembered this entire time?"

He blushed again. "I remember everything about you as a kid, Keiko."

"Right." Keiko laughed and then sighed.

Yama's blush faded as he stared at her. "What's wrong?"

"I just wish that I could remember you completely. I only remember blips and random things. I want to remember just how much you meant to me then. And what it was like...All that..."

Yama walked over and hugged Keiko tightly. "I'm sure you will remember eventually."

"You sure 'bout that?"

Yama shrugged. "No, but I do hope it does."

"Me too." Keiko sighed again and hugged him back.

Yama let go of Keiko and let out a shaky laugh. "S-sorry about falling asleep by the way. I didn't mean to."

"Nah, it's alright. I left for a while anyways. First you complain that I'm distracting you and then you fall asleep." Keiko tsked.

He laughed. "I finished my work though."

"Then what were you complaining about? I cooked Ramen noodles and you fell asleep but you had finished your work? You just wanted me to leave." Keiko frowned.

Yama smiled. "No. I finished my work, and fell asleep waiting for you; you could have woken me up, there was no law against it."

"You looked too cute sleeping. And besides, no Ramen noodles for you. They're gone now."

"Aw, don't make me feel guilty over it," He teased.

"Too bad. They were delcious and you didn't get to taste them."

"Hm..."

"Hm..?"

"Yes, hm..."

"...Hm...?"

"...Hm!"

"What already?"

"I just remembered something I need to do, and I'm surprised you are't going to be doing the same thing."

"You're just confusing me now, seriously."

"I was going to visit my parents graves. It's thirteen years since they died."

"I can go with you and we can visit my parents grave!"

Yama nodded. "That's what I was thinking."

"Alright, let's go."