Greetings everyone! so it's been . . . a week i think . . . and i distinctly remember saying this would only be a couple of hours . . . well i got distracted okay . . . some life stuff came up. anyway, this is here, i like it . . . sorta but now that it's here, enjoy! see you at the bottom.

Part 5

"So, you graduate tomorrow huh?" Minori asked as she sipped a cup of green tea in the living room of their house. Minori had bought an actual place several years back and was a mix of traditional and modern with a wooden dining room and tatami living room and bedrooms.

"Yeah . . . you want me to actually pass the test?" Naruto asked as he lounged in the dining room chair, a cup of tea in one hand

"No . . . from what you have told me and my own digging, that Mizuki character will make his move if you fail, attempting to use your distraught at being unable to pass in order to entice you to aid whatever his plot is" Minori replied, taking another sip of her tea.

"Will I be able to wear my sword?" Naruto asked and Minori winced

"Not until after the failed graduation exam . . . I want them utterly fooled for now because of Mizuki but the time to trick the academy staff is nearly over" Minori said, turning her face to Naruto to offer him a grin.

"Well, I'm gonna go see if Hinata wants to train" Naruto said as he drained his cup of tea dry before stretching and getting up.

"Just remember that Hinata may actually want to study for the graduation exam" Minori said with a light chuckle "You two shouldn't be going on a date right before some important event"

"We aren't dating!" Naruto said as he blushed

"Sure could fool me . . . you are dating both Tenten and Hinata . . . hmmm I wonder if they would do a three way . . . isn't there that CRA thing? The Clan Repopulation Act? Where you can take multiple wives to help get the clan numbers up to snuff?" Minori said, her hand on her chin as she thought about it meanwhile Naruto had turned so red he was about to explode from all the blood now in his face.

"Tenten . . . and Hinata . . . in a bed with me . . ." Naruto said, a dribble of blood coming out of his nose.

"Oi! Leave those thoughts for when you are actually an adult! Besides haven't you seen both of them naked anyway?" Minori said with a chuckle and Naruto looked back at her.

"You corrupted me didn't you!" he exclaimed.

"Yep! It was probably when I had you sit down and read through the entire icha icha series" Minori said with a mischievous grin. Minori had shown Naruto that Jiraiya put messages into the icha icha books for Minori to read.

"Those books aren't that good, the ones you write are better" Naruto said with a shrug and Minori outright laughed. Minori of course wrote her own books to communicate with Jiraiya and they happened to be increasing in popularity recently especially amongst kunoichi.

"Go have fun with Hinata, you can mess with the training field if you want" Minori said giving a wave to Naruto who grinned and left the house.

"So, how is home life?" Naruto asked as he relaxed in the hot spring that he had turned the training field into. The training that he was doing with Hinata was standard Taijutsu training whilst standing on top of a body of water. It was just an added advantage that the two could relax in the training field afterwards. Naruto still had no idea how Minori was able to do this, he had a theory that the seal array transported them to different locations since Minori did have a network of seals that allowed a person to warp to any location that had another seal but he had yet to find the seals that would explain that theory in any of the training fields that he and Hinata had trained in so far.

"Neji absolutely hates me and father pretends I'm the biggest failure of his life" Hinata sighed as she reclined along the opposite edge of the hot springs to Naruto "Do you think we'll get put on the same team?" She asked, staring at the sky.

"Probably not, with your byakugan, I'd think you would be on a tracking squad while my status would have me as a front line combat ninja" Naruto said, watching Hinata as she sighed again.

"That's gonna suck" Hinata said calmly

"Yeah . . . but it's not like we'll never see each other again and once we make chunin, we can request to be on the same team as each other more often" Naruto replied, getting Hinata to look at him and smile faintly.

"A-are you free this evening? M-maybe we can go out sometime?" Hinata asked, hope in her eyes while Naruto cocked an eyebrow at Hinata's stutter. "Damn stutter, I swear it's not my nerves doing it" Hinata said with a degree of annoyance causing Naruto to chuckle.

"Come on, let's do another round of hand to hand training" Naruto said with a grin "We can go get some dinner afterwards" Hinata looked up at him in consideration as he used chakra to raise out of the hotspring.

"Um N-Naruto-kun . . . o-our clothes are o-over there" Hinata said with a blush as she tried to look at anywhere but Naruto and failed time and time again.

"I know" He said simply

"Pervert" Hinata said with a faint smile and rose out of the water herself in a dramatic explosion of water. Hinata took up a fighting stance and Naruto slipped into his own and the fight began.

"This wasn't exactly what I had in mind when you said let's go get some drinks Hinata-chan" Naruto said as he looked at the cup of tea in front of him. Hinata for her part giggled softly before wolfing down a cinnamon bun so fast that the only evidence of it's existence was a couple of stray crumbs on the plate it was held on. Naruto sighed as he bit into a cream bun himself, he was not foolish enough to order cinnamon buns and expect Hinata to not eat them before he could even register that they were on the table.

"Wait a minute . . . weren't there cinnamon buns there?" Asked the waitress that had been serving them as she noticed the crumbless plate she had set down that once held five of the buns. Hinata merely blinked and licked some crumbs off the side of her mouth with a completely innocent expression.

"Not any more there isn't, Hinata-chan can make those things disappear faster than I can eat Teriyaki" Naruto said with one arm on the table propping his head up and his cup of tea in the other hand. The two had gone to a small cafe on the corner of Konoha's main street that had recently opened and apparently served the best pastries in all the elemental nations.

Just as Naruto had finished his tea, three men walked into the shop, each with some sort of weapon with the leader holding a tetsubo and the other two holding their own variant clubs. The leader spoke in an angry grumble to the owner who was behind the counter and then smacked said counter with his Tetsubo, leaving the owner a shivering wreck. At that point, Hinata decided to get up and see what was happening.

"Is there a problem sir?" Hinata asked politely to the man with the Tetsubo who only growled and swung his studded club at Hinata. Hinata for her part sighed as she ducked under the blow and jabbed her hand in a Juuken strike right into the man's leg and watched as he crumpled to the ground. "I don't care what business you three gentlemen have here, this store is under the protection of the Hyuga . . . leave now" she said in a regal tone that heavily implied her noble heritage.

"Jus' 'ho ya think ya are tellin' us wot ta do!" Shouted the second of two men.

"I am Hyuga Hinata, eldest child of Hyuga Hiashi, clan leader and recognised Lord of the Fire nation" the girl said with a completely blank expression. "You will comply" She said before activating her Byakugan without so much as a hand sign. The two men grabbed their leader and bolted.

"Thank you young missy" the owner said to her "Just for that your order is on the house" he said with a closed eye smile.

"It was my pleasure" Hinata said in her same regal tone before inclining her head to the man and went back over to her seat with Naruto.

"Sooooo . . . you just put a store under your clan's protection . . . can you do that?" Asked Naruto with an amused smile

"Nobody messes with my cinnamon buns" Hinata said darkly, her eyes shining and Naruto could have sworn they were a malicious purple before Hinata brought her head up again and smiled, the dark moment long gone. "Besides, I said the store was under the protection of the Hyuga . . . I never said clan . . . I can protect this store all I want and my clan doesn't have to do a thing" Hinata said. A plate clinked onto the table with five more cinnamon buns and Hinata's face lit up in joy while both got their cups filled with tea.

"Alright class! Pencils down!" Called out Iruka as the class in front of him finished the written form of the exam. "Mizuki, would you be so kind as to collect the papers for me?" Iruka asked the man who gave a warm smile

"Of course Iruka" he said and went about collecting the papers from the room and handed them to Iruka who marked them all with the kids in front of him.

"Alright class, now on to the practical section, I will remind you all that if you can not perform one of the three academy Jutsu, you will fail" Iruka said in a soft voice, he did want all his students to succeed, even Naruto but still, he couldn't let them go out into the wilderness without the proper skills and a small part of him told him to be happy that Naruto would likely fail here.

One by one, the students got called into a separate room and one by one, the students disappeared, leaving with their Hitai-ate so that the other students wouldn't see who passed and failed.

"Naruto" came the call and finally it was time for him to take his test. Naruto wasn't nervous of course, he knew he was going to fail because that was precisely what he wanted.

"Alright Naruto, perform a Transformation Jutsu of the Hokage now" Iruka said to the boy who grinned, put his hands together in a ram sign and poofed into Sarutobi, although there were some errors, the jutsu was adequate. "Alright, substitute with a Log" Iruka said, ticking something off on a clipboard he was holding. Naruto grinned again and went through the hand signs and substituted with a random log that just so happened to be nearby. Iruka again ticked something off on his list "That's perhaps your best technique Naruto!" Iruka praised, he might still have a smattering of dislike for what the boy represented but he can't blame the boy himself. "Now lastly, the clone jutsu . . . please" Iruka said as the moment of truth finally came. Naruto grinned again and went through a series of hand signs that Iruka didn't recognise which caused him to frown as Naruto placed his hands on the ground and a Fuinjutsu seal spread out before a poof of smoke and there was two clones standing there smiling. "Erm . . . Naruto, what is this?" Iruka asked

"This is my take on the clone jutsu Iruka-sensei" Naruto said joyfully as he smiled a megawatt smile.

"That's nice but now can you please do the actual clone jutsu" Iruka said and Naruto's face fell.

"Isn't this good enough? I did the jutsu!" Naruto said with fear in his eyes. Iruka wanted to kick himself for what he was about to do.

"No Naruto, you need to know the actual jutsu and perform the actual jutsu" Iruka said and he could see the despair in Naruto's eyes.

"B-but Iruka-sensei . . . I can't do the normal clone jutsu" Naruto said quietly

"At least try Naruto" Iruka said, he was having trouble dealing with this, the boy shouldn't be affecting him this much and he pitied the boy despite his attempts to emotionally distance himself. Naruto for his part put his hands together in the very familiar hand sign string that formed the standard clone jutsu and a poof of smoke revealed a single white clone that was dead on the ground. Iruka looked at the clone, Naruto looked at the clone, Mizuki looked at the clone, nobody said anything for several seconds. "Naruto . . . you fail" Iruka said without any emotion in his voice whatsoever.

"Come on Iruka, surely that's good enough and he can do that other technique that makes clones just as good as the real thing" Mizuki said and Naruto gave the silver haired man a look of utter hope before turning that expression to Iruka who's face darkened considerably. He really didn't want to be there at that moment

"No, rules are rules, I am not setting a precedent for Naruto" Iruka said before turning on his heel and walking out of the room.

"I'm sorry Naruto, I'll go talk to him and see if I can figure out if we can give you a different test that might be better to test your abilities" Mizuki said warmly to Naruto who gave him another hope filled expression.

"Thanks Mizuki-sensei!" Naruto practically shouted, giving the man a megawatt smile. Mizuki smiled as well before leaving the room and Naruto's expression changed completely to one of triumph as his plan went off without a hitch, now it was a straightforward thing on whether Mizuki would attempt to use him to betray Konoha.

Naruto watched as all the people who graduated were meeting their parents with joyful expressions and shiny new Hitai-ate on their heads or wherever they were wearing them. Naruto also heard several of the parents mention how it was a good thing that he had failed as the demon child should not be a ninja in their eyes but Naruto pretended not to hear while he pretended to be utterly sad that he wasn't getting to do what the other people were doing.

"Naruto" came the voice of Mizuki "there you are, I've been looking all over for you" Mizuki said as he came up beside Naruto's swing. "Walk with me" he said and Naruto got up and followed him.

"What did they say Mizuki-sensei?" Naruto asked with his hope filled voice.

"We worked out a better test for you, you need to break into the Hokage Tower and steal the Forbidden Scroll" Mizuki said with a grin on his face.

"Isn't that wrong though?" Naruto asked, pretending to be confused.

"No, we have the Hokage's permission and of course, you will be delivering it to me and I'll hand it straight back to the Hokage. The trick is, you can't get caught but don't worry, I'm sure the ANBU will make it a little easier for you. Now come, I'll show you the meeting point and I want you to meet me there at Midnight" Mizuki said and Naruto's face lit up

"Well if you have the Hokage's permission that of course!" Naruto said as he rushed on after Mizuki.

"What did he say?" Asked Minori as she sipped a cup of tea

"He wants me to steal the Forbidden scroll and apparently the Hokage agreed" Naruto said as he sat down at the table, pouring himself a cup of tea.

"Bullshit" Minori said casually.

"Yep" Naruto agreed

"Steal the scroll, hand it to me and use your Form Shift Jutsu to change a shadow clone into the scroll" Minori commanded.

"Of course Minori-sama" Naruto said with a coy grin while Minori gave him a death glare. "Hey, you ARE the clan head are you not?" Naruto asked, still grinning while Minori just sighed.

"You better not get yourself killed brat! If you win, you will graduate and I will have a present for you" Minori said, taking another sip of her tea.

"Sword or no sword?" Naruto asked, taking a sip of his own tea.

"You will represent the Yadokawa as well as the interests of Konoha so yes, wear your sword" Minori said, savouring her tea a bit more.

"That really was too easy . . . I didn't even need to use Nee-chan's network in order to get in . . . hmm, might need to let Hokage-sama know about that little detail" Naruto said to himself quietly while he read through the scroll he had open.

"NARUTO!" Iruka called out from the edge of the dark clearing that Naruto was sitting in

"So you're in on it too eh Iruka?" Naruto asked with a soft smile. He had liked Iruka, he was a good teacher who did his best to look past Naruto's status to see him.

"What the hell is that supposed to mean Naruto? Give me the scroll and maybe we can sort this whole mess out" Iruka said, walking over to get the scroll from Naruto

"But Mizuki-sensei told me to only give it to him and if I got caught I'd fail!" Naruto said, trying to play village idiot for a bit to stall for time. He didn't think Iruka would be able to find him.

"Naruto! This isn't a game! Stop trying to pin the blame on other people and give me the scroll before someone else finds you and let me tell you, they are out for your blood right now!" Iruka exclaimed.

"Ahh Iruka . . . how nice to see you here" Came the voice of Iruka as he appeared on a tree branch, a Fuuma Shuriken on his back.

"Mizuki? What's going on?" Iruka asked the man, his suspicions running high.

"Come now Iruka, I was trying to find the brat who took the scroll and you heard him just now making a foolish attempt to frame me . . . let's kill him and be done with it, clearly the fox is trying to manipulate him!" Mizuki said with a cold grin on his face.

"What are you saying!" Iruka all but shouted "Is this your doing!?" Mizuki's grin just widened.

"If you won't help me Iruka . . . I can't have witnesses when I take the scroll and present it to the Otokage. They will surely make me a Jounin after that!" Mizuki said

"So I was right after all" Naruto said almost to himself but the two chunin noticed. "You are a traitor" Naruto chuckled before holding up a ram sign and the illusion that kept his sword from being visible dropped. "And if you want the scroll . . . well sorry but the Hokage has it now" he said before the clone that was currently masquerading as a large forbidden scroll changed back into a clone. The two Naruto's grinned at Mizuki's astonished face.

"You . . . YOU TRICKED ME! . . . no matter . . . Naruto, do you want to know the reason why everyone hates you? Even Iruka hates you . . . why?" Mizuki said, his face changing from astonished rage back to cold smile

"No Mizuki! Don't you dare!" Iruka called out

"You see Naruto" Mizuki continued, completely ignoring Iruka "You"

"Don't Mizuki! Don't do it!" Iruka interrupted again

"Are the Nine Tailed Fox! You killed Iruka's parents! And so many other people in this village! That is why everyone hates you!" Mizuki said, his eyes showing madness in them and then he realised Naruto had a bored expression on his face

"Really? Cool . . . maybe try and figure out if I know a piece of information before trying to use it against me hmm?" Naruto said calmly as he watched the clearly deranged man in front of him

"How could you possibly KNOW!" Mizuki spat out

"Erm . . . I was born on the tenth of October, I have whisker marks . . . and there are a few other bits and pieces here and there . . . I'm not an idiot, even if I didn't have physical evidence, the reactions of the villages specifically on the tenth of october is enough for me to know the truth" Naruto explained, one hand resting on the handle of his sword.

"No matter, I will kill you anyway! And I will finally have vengeance! Against you AND Konoha!" Mizuki spat out, his face changing to a sneer while Iruka just stood there stunned.

Mizuki made the opening move, throwing his Fuuma shuriken at Naruto as they both went into battle mode and the world slowed down. Naruto hopped backwards just far enough that the Shuriken would miss him and noticed that Mizuki had propelled himself directly at Naruto with a Kunai in his hand and three standard Shuriken flying ahead of him. Naruto pulled out a Kunai of his own and deflected the shuriken while ducking under an overhead swing from Mizuki who continued through with several under arm thrusts that forced Naruto to bound backwards in order to avoid.

The shadow clone that Mizuki completely ignored then made it's presence and status known as it threw several Kunai at the silver haired man who dodged left and allowed Naruto to catch his breath. Mizuki narrowed his eyes for a second but went straight back into the attack by flinging shuriken but by this time, Naruto had already jumped upwards and landed on a branch with Mizuki right on his tail and going right back on the offensive, trying to stab Naruto as quickly as he could with fast thrusts or quick slashes.

Before naruto fell off the end of the branch, he somersaulted backwards and landed on another branch before diving to another tree where Mizuki caught up, keeping Naruto on the back foot as more and more strikes followed the blond boy.

Finally, Naruto managed to get away long enough to put his hands together in the hand sign for the Shadow Clone jutsu and six of them appeared on the branches around them. Mizuki took one look at them and was about to sneer when they jumped on him attacking one at a time so as not to get in each other's way but to wear Mizuki down by keeping him continually engaged.

Mizuki for his part was having problems dealing with the clones and was forced onto the back foot. He hopped to another branch and peppered the clone swarm with shuriken and gave a satisfied smirk when they burst. Mizuki was just about to gloat and taunt Naruto some when another clone swarm appeared on the branch he was on and forced the man to engage them but this time, instead of sticking around, he bounced backwards to a different branch. The clones followed and thus Mizuki was forced to move, kill a clone or two, move and kill one more as he and the swarm bounced around the branches until a soft 'shick' was heard signifying the sound of someone drawing a blade from a leather lined sheath and Mizuki turned just in time to see the real Naruto's foot travel up his body and into his chin, sending him off the branch and into the air.

Time slowed down even more than it already had for Mizuki as he noticed the blond demon appear above him, his sword held in a reverse grip and his body in a spin that would have his sword meet Mizuki at the throat. Mizuki tried to force his hands to come together to substitute with something, anything before naruto's sword hit him but his arms were moving in a slower motion than Naruto's blade. Mizuki watched and tried frantically to get his arms move faster as the glimmering silver blade came closer and closer and then.

Naruto's blade moved past Mizuki. Mizuki tried to sigh in relief but nothing came out.

With a thud, Mizuki landed on the ground and slid until he was stopped by a tree, blood spurting from the open gash on his throat and gurgles came from the man's mouth as he desperately tried to draw air. Just one breath, one bit of air but Mizuki could only gurgle up more blood, his eyes growing more and more desperate as he tried to beg for his life but no sound, he tried to beg forgiveness, no sound, he tried to hold onto his life, he didn't want to die but nothing came out and all he saw was the cold and apathetic expression on that demon brat's face as the kid watched him in his final moments.

Naruto watched as Mizuki gurgled one last time before the light in his eyes went out. Naruto watched as the blood slowly stopped flowing and he watched as the grass blacked in the faint moonlight with the blood of the traitor staining them.

"Naruto" Iruka said softly as he finally caught up to the boy and saw what had happened. The blood on Naruto's sword and Mizuki in front of him painted a very clear picture. Naruto's expression was one of cold indifference as he stared at Mizuki's rapidly cooling corpse but his shaking left hand clued Iruka in to the fact that he was traumatised by the event. "Naruto" Iruka said again, putting a hand on the boy's shoulder. "Let's go see the Hokage now" Naruto nodded faintly and let the scarred chunin lead him towards the tower.

"Well Minori" Sarutobi said with a sigh "He has turned out a lot more like you than you realised" Minori sat in front of him as they stared at Sarutobi's crystal ball. Minori had her head in her hands after witnessing Naruto's act.

"I know" She said, lifting her head up "I had hopped I could use Hinata to keep him grounded . . . to keep him emotionally stable . . . is there no way you can change the teams?" Minori asked.

"It's not that I can't, it's that I won't" Sarutobi said and Minori looked at him with a dark expression. "Kurenai has requested Hinata and I have no reason to switch the teams around" he said.

"Sakura is a genjutsu type while Hinata is a heavy hitter! Sakura does not belong on a frontline squad!, I told you this last week! And more, the teams aren't even official yet! Naruto and Hinata will make a far better team than if Sakura was there instead . . . she has eyes and ears only for the Uchiha brat and more importantly, a sever disregard for Naruto . . . I almost expect her to attempt to kill Naruto herself if he offends her precious Sasuke" Minori said and Sarutobi looked away. These were valid reasons for making the teams the way she had recommended but still.

"Fine then! You want to know! Haruno Tohiro has demanded that Sakura be on team seven! Under the best jounin we have . . . he threatened to withdraw his share of Konoha's treasury if we didn't . . . we simply can't afford that right now . . . any later had he done this, or a year earlier and I would have laughed him out of my tower but he did it right when we needed those funds to purchase food supplies due to the poor harvest of this season! We have to import from the land of rice paddies now and their prices are not . . . low" Sarutobi sighed and as did Minori.

"Speaking of the land of Rice Paddies . . . I wish to hire an S-ranked mission out that way" Minori said as she handed a mission form to Sarutobi.

"What could possibly be that important? You have only listed here as 'briefing upon acceptance' for the mission details" Sarutobi asked as he looked over the very poorly filled out mission request.

"It's probably only an A-rank but I'm not taking chances . . . I need a squad to . . . deal with some issues that came up . . . I'd rather the mission be put together quickly and the best you have assigned to it" Minori said

"Very well . . . I have a team you can use . . . I trust you can afford this" Sarutobi said as he stood up and smoothed out his robes.

"Yes, it will be breaking the bank a little bit I won't be in the red" Minori replied as she got up as well and the two went back to Sarutobi's office.

Sarutobi had enough time to sit down and get comfortable before Iruka and Naruto walked in.

"Nee-chan" Naruto said in a very quiet and subdued voice. Minori nodded, signifying that she knew.

"Naruto" she said simply as she walked over and gave the boy a hug.

"Hokage-sama" Iruka said formally "Mizuki attempted to influence Naruto to steal the forbidden scroll, revealed an S-ranked secret to who knows who and attempted to kill both me and Naruto" although the part about him being in threat wasn't exactly but Mizuki had said he was going to.

"Yes . . . Iruka . . . I pointed you to that little clearing to act as Naruto's backup . . . and yet . . ." Minori said, the long pauses signifying her thoughts on the matter

"I . . . I am truly sorry" Iruka said to the both of them "I let my emotions beat my reason and forgot for just long enough about Naruto being a person that the fight went away from me . . . I had only just caught up when I found Mizuki dead" Iruka explained. The shame of his actions written clearly on his face.

"I think, having demonstrated the shadow clone jutsu to such master, you have graduated Naruto-kun" said Sarutobi as he took his pipe out from seemingly nowhere and lit it without anyone noticing. Naruto just nodded at the Hokage's words.

"Here Naruto" Minori said as she unsealed her present for Naruto. The gift was a light grey Haori jacket with the symbol of a fan on the back of it. The fan had a dark blue base and stretch out into five purple feathers that each had a light green square at the very tip of them.

Naruto shrugged the garment on and belted his sword over the top of it, completing the image he wore with his Kimono shirt, shinobi three quarter pants and his sandals with the leg warmers.

"How do you deal with it Nee-chan?" Naruto asked her quietly.

"Remember the camping trips with Hinata" Minori replied simply and Naruto did just as she asked, the feeling of killing a creature, skinning it and then cooking it to eat while he laughed around with Minori and Hinata as the three and sometimes just two of them enjoyed the trips. That was all it was, a simple bit of brutality that he could just leave behind him and laugh with his friends and colleagues. "Let's go have celebratory Teriyaki tomorrow for dinner mmkay? And I'll invite the girls" Naruto nodded, a faint smile appearing on his lips

"Don't forget Naruto, get your photo taken for your shinobi ID" Sarutobi said to the boy while pulling out a hitai-ate from a draw and handing it to Naruto.

"And team assignments are next week so make sure you are there" Iruka said as Naruto tied the Hitai-ate around his head and grinned.

"No problems Iruka-sensei!" Naruto said with the satisfaction of graduating that he had missed out on earlier that day. Then a memory struck him. All the students that had passed coming to their loved ones to greet them. Naruto turned around to face Minori with his eyes wide. "Onee-chan look, I graduated" he said as he struggled not to let tears form in his eyes

"I see that" Minori said with a soft smile "Well done Naruto i'm so proud of you" she said and gave the boy another hug who couldn't stop the tears now. A single tear tracked down Minori's face as she let her own emotions out for a bit and the two crushed each other in a bear hug.

Iruka and Sarutobi watched on with soft smiles as the two strung their emotions out for each other to see. 'They deserve each other' Sarutobi thought to himself as he looked on.

And here we come to the conclusion of another episode of Yadokawa Minori! this actually wasn't hard for me to do, i wrote this whole thing in about two hours actually . . . maybe three.

anyway, tell me what you liked, disliked, what you thought could use improvement and what you'd like to see more of. take care