Hiya, readers! Thanks for the reviews and stuff; I hope this chapter will be better, and longer. Well, anywho, here's the parings again:

Sakura-Lee (I hate this couple but had no other choice.)

Neji-Tenten (remarried)

Naruto-Hinata

Tsunade-Sasuke (This is just random and because EE says so. DD too.)

Ino-Shikamaru

Okee-dokee, now that that's out of out way I'll list how many kids they have, age, gender, name, and all that jazz:

Saku-Lee- 1, 15 years old, girl, Hina

Neji-Ten- 2, 15 years old, 17 years old, girl, boy, Nai Li, Yoru

Naru-Hin- 1, 17 years old, boy, Shiro

Tsu-Sasu- 0

Ino-Shika- 2, 15 years old, 17 year olds, boy, girl, Tashi, Cho

EE: Thankies!

Neji: I can't believe you made me into a side-character!

EE: In this story you're like 45, I wrote this about your kids.

Neji: 45! I can't be 45, I won't be cute anymore!

EE: I know, that's the point! Consider it revenge!

Neji: You're such a freak!

EE: -sarcastically- Now where have I heard that before?

Sakura: Poor us, this authoress is an idiot.

Tenten: Yeah!

Sasuke: You freak!

Ino: Yeah, seriously!

Temari: How shallow do you get?

Shikamaru: In conclusion, A FREAK!

EE: Why does everyone call me that!

All: BECAUSE YOU ARE!

DD: HI everyone!

EE: Hey, DD, we were just talkin'…

Neji: -mutters- freak.

Gaara: Temari, where did you put that eyeliner you bought yesterday?

Temari: Uh, ask Kankuro.

Kankuro: I only have the lipstick, but the eyeliner was on the sink this morning.

Gaara: Thanks.

DD: Gaara! –Hugs him hard-

Gaara: Sweat-drops-

Temari: Oh, I brought a camera!

Gaara: Temari, no!

Temari: -takes picture-

Gaara: NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!

DD: I wuv you!

Gaara: -Sweat-drops-

EE- Here's the chapie!

Nara Cho…

I stumbled though thick forestry, leaning on a branch I had found, humming to myself. My pace was slow because I was extremely low on chakra after training. Wind rustled through branches and whipping my short, blonde hair around. I teetered on the branch awhile, before collapsing to the ground, panting. Reaching in my pocket, my fingers closed around a rice ball. I sighed to myself and bit into it.

I had definitely seen better days. I was half-starved, with various cuts and bruises all over and stuck in a forest since last week. And on top of that I had recently broken my left ankle after falling off an extremely rocky, eight-foot-high cliff. I wasn't exactly proud of that. Not to mention I hadn't slept at all. And yet I had brought myself out here willingly. Training, I considered it, useful training. I was never an outdoorsy sort of person, that's probably why I had failed three chuunin exams in a row.

It was always the Forest of Death part, once we passed that however, both of my teammates became chuunin, but I lost to some mist ninja, whose name I forget. So I was seventeen years old, newly a chunin, I had finally passed, my fourth time around. Though I'd never admit it, teamwork was my issue. Not that I had very cooperative teammates, a Hyuuga and an Uzamaki, lucky me. Yeah, I know, running away into a forest alone with out telling anyone wasn't the best way to practice teamwork, but I had my reasons, for one, my mother.

Ino stomped into her house; she had just gotten back from the academy, where she taught. Boy, she really found her job frustrating.

"Shikamaru!" she yelled furiously when she entered the house, even though I knew nothing was technically my fault. She did that often and we had known each other our whole lives, so I was pretty much used to it now.

"What now?" I asked walking out of the kitchen to greet her in all of her furry.

"Cho!" she screamed, "The little snot, lied!"

"She what?" I asked, confused, "about what again?"

"She lied!" Ino ranted shaking her fists at me, "She isn't on the D-ranked mission that note said, I just talked to the Hokage!"

"Hmmm." I hummed thoughtfully mulling things over in my mind. To tell you the truth, that sounded exactly like my daughter, Cho. And I couldn't blame her either, Ino needed to calm down and think things through sometimes. I always thought it was amazing that we could have a kid that wasn't obsessed with looks and dating like Ino was as a teen, and wasn't extremely lazy and distracted by clouds as I still was.

"So in other ways, Cho has been missing for a week all by herself and led us to believe she was on a mission." I concluded.

"Yes!" she shrieked, "How can you be so calm about it?"

"Well," I began, "She is chuunin…"

"I don't care, she could've been dead for a week for all we know!" she yelled and started to cry.

"Ino," I wiped away her tears and set my hand on her shoulders, "Cho isn't dead, besides, she isn't a little kid anymore, and she deserves a little freedom."

But she shook her head, "I know Cho's not a child, but she's not an adult either, she's only seventeen!"

"That's how old we were when I finally asked you out, remember?" I asked her.

"How could I forget?" she said and hugged me.

I hugged her back, but could still tell she was crying by the wet spot forming on my shoulder. And I might not have noticed it then, but to this day, I'm quite sure I was crying that moment too.

'Damn it, Cho, Where the hell are you?'

I cursed as I struggled to keep my eyes open. If I fell asleep, who knows what could happen. I only knew one thing for sure, if I ran into some wild animal, I would really be in trouble then. Eventually I decided to sleep because If a wild animal came this way I wouldn't be able to much anyway, not with zero chakra and a broken ankle at least. My eyes closed and I drifted off.

I was still in a thick forest, but this one was darker and scarier. I recognized it as the Forest of Death, where our chuunin exams were held.

"Well, then what do you suggest we do then?" thirteen year-old Shiro snapped at me. He had spiky sandy, blonde hair and white orbs for eyes.

"I suggest we don't use your lame plan!" I retorted.

"At least I bothered trying to come up with one!" he glared white eyes at me.

"If it's that stupid it doesn't matter!" I glared back.

"You bitch!" Shiro snarled.

"You dumb-ass!" I defended.

"PMSing control-freak!"

"Stupid bastard!"

"BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP I'M TRYING TO THINK!" another voice yelled. We both whirled around and saw our other teammate, Hyuuga Yoru leaning against a tree. He also had white orbs for eyes like Shiro, but had lengthy black hair unlike his teammate.

I did as I was told; I was more of the obedient type as a thirteen year old. But Shiro was a different story however.

"Who put you in charge?" he sneered.

Yoru's expression stayed the same and calmly replied. "Cho, besides I'm smarter and stronger than you."

"No you're not, I'll prove it now!" Shiro declared and went into a fighting stance.

"You want to fight?" Yoru asked with raised eyebrows and pushed himself of the tree.

"No! Stop!" I yelled, running in between them. They both came to a fast halt. "I won't let you guys waste chakra on each other!"

"Cho, move." Yoru commanded and I usually would have listened, but I wanted to be chuunin. He was surprised I could tell, back then I was always a follower, never refused any command I received, I grew out of that at about fourteen or fifteen though.

"Yeah, you stupid blonde, move!" Shiro smirked at me as I stepped back.

"Shiro, you're a blonde too, besides that you're also much stupider than Cho!" Yoru defended me.

Shiro only smirked again, "Well fine, whoever wins is leader and gets Cho!"

"Fine!" Yoru said with clenched fists.

If I was like my seventeen year old self I would have told them to leave me the hell out of it and get their asses back in line so we might pass, but no, I didn't stop them and they beat the living crap out of each other so when we met up with real enemies we were instantly beat. That was our first chuunin exam that went completely disastrous. One again, our teamwork issue, but the worst part was what our teacher Kuranai did to us for punishment, but that's a whole different story.

I awoke to find someone shaking me and calling my name.

"CHO!" it screamed, "Damn it! Nara Cho, wake UP!"

"What the fuck do you want?" I snapped and saw that it was my former teammate, Shiro.

"Sheesh Cho, and I thought you'd be happy to see anyone from Konoha!" he sighed.

"Not really," I told him, "I've never been happy to see my mother."

He laughed. He had an odd laugh; you know the kind of laugh that you have to laugh also whenever you hear it? Yeah, so I'm cracking up also and he recovered first.

"I'll tell her you said that!" he said still grinning.

I stopped laughing and shrugged. I knew he was kidding but honesty I wouldn't care if he did tell her, my mother knew I hated her. I even told her once, but it's still pretty obvious anyway.

"You're a strange girl, Cho, you know that?" he said pulling me up.

"Ahh, shit." I cursed as a sharp pain shot up my leg as I tried to stand on my left foot.

"Here." Shiro pulled my left arm over his shoulders and supported the other half of my body.

"Thanks a lot." I said grimly, "But are you sure you're strong enough to take us back to Konoha like this?"

"No, he isn't." Yoru said as he landed after jumping off of a high branch.

"Great, Hyuuga you can help us." Shiro commented with raised eyebrows.

"Ha, I didn't say I would just yet." The Hyuuga said, standing up and smirking at us wryly.

"Aw, you wouldn't just ditch your old teammates would you?" I asked pretending to pout. Shiro and Yoru just laughed until they had tears in their eyes.

"It's a figure of speech you morons!" I yelled at them, which shut them up.

"You know, I think you're a little low on chakra to be mouthing off, Cho." Yoru said pulling my other arm over his shoulder.

"Yeah, yeah." I muttered and we took off for Konoha. And after the dream I really realized how different my teammates were, we've been together since forever and still so much was the same, I looked at both of them. Being between them and jumping through the branches of a forest felt more natural than just sitting at home, thinking about the changes in my life.

End

EE: Please tell me if you liked it or not.

Neji: It sucked.

EE: And why, dear Neji, would you say that?

Neji: Because I'm not in it!

EE: w/e

DD: ANYWAY, please review.

EE: Yeah, I don't mind if you flame, but tell me what I did wrong and how to fix it too. Kay, kay?

Neji: And tell the freak that I should be in it!

EE: Shut up Neji, You're always my main character!

Neji: Not really.

EE: w/e

Neji: Shut up.

EE: Will do.

DD: And please review! -