Just to fill everyone in, and even though it's the 22nd chapter, I still believe I should tell you.

Up until the something-th chapter, this story is taking place on Part 1 of the anime, near the ending. (Pre-Shippuden arcs.) This way, I can easily keep track of their knowledge, and when Part 2 starts, I'll have a different approach of things. (Since I have to take in mind the fights of the Akatsuki, and other stuff like that, which never happened yet right now in my story.)

Anyway, enjoy.

"The jinchuriki...? How do you know about such a thing?"

"I-It's too hard to explain milady..."

"I'm sure you know my cousin well enough, Lady Tsunade?" Nen continued, I couldn't tell what they were doing... If only Plyden could detect through walls too, that would be great. But what about me does Nen have to talk to Lady Sundae for in private?

"I think I can take a guess at where you're going with this, Nenin." The other one's close to Lady Sundae too, what's up with the whole private thing, I can barely hear them.

"Are you implying that his cousin and the jinchuriki have a connection, Shikamaru?" What is this thing called jinchuriki anyway? I pressed my ear closer to the wooden wall, trying to get a little more voice out of the conversation, if I didn't look at myself before, I'd say I'm hugging the wall right about now.

"I-It's true, milady... My cousin, I-I mean Sironar; he holds a tailed beast... I-I'm sorry..." There was a long pause of silence afterwards. Oh, hah, sweet, I hold a tailed beast! I dunno what that is, but it sounds cool! But why would Nen be sorry? He's always a mystery.

"Now I can see why the Akatsuki attacked him persistently during your last mission..." Lady Sundae sounded quite grumpy.

"You, out!" Huh? Wait a minute... Who's she talking to...?

"Ack!" A kunai, it... It hit the wall! So that's what the wind sounded like, huh? N-No time to think about that now... R-Run...! I ran as fast as I could out of Lady Sundae's building. Passing through the long corridors and bumping into a Jonin. I finally reached the exit then took a minute to catch my breath. I decided that if I wanted to pry anymore, whoever threw that kunai through the wall would be extremely angry and so I didn't want to return back up. The conversation was just getting interesting too, I have to remind myself to ask Nen what's a tailed beast. Without anything to do, I headed for the Ramen place Nen spoke about, Kemari introduced me to the place and its kind owner Teuchi. Talk about good food, maybe I'll see her there. I gotta take my mind off of this new info. Phew...

...

"Hey, Kemari!" Yep, I see her; even with the curtains I still see her long purple pigtails. The streets are crowded today and I recognized two other people sitting next to her, one of them wore a pink dress and the other an orange-blue outfit, though that's only the leggings, I don't know what the person's wearing on the top.

"Hold on..." I stopped in place, I was in the empty alleyway now... I sneakily squatted slightly and checked both sides before continuing, I don't want another kunai to almost kill me! No one on either my right or my left, phew... Now I relax. I continued to walk to the restaurant and I flipped under and entered.

"Hi Kemari..." I slowly stressed the last part of her name by noticing the eyes shifting toward me. The pink forehead girl sat in the first stool, a spiky blond on the second, he wore the orange-blue jacket I noted earlier, and Kemari on the third, wearing her usual purple-white outfit. I sat upon the empty stool to my right, making the restaurant fully occupied.

"I never saw that kid here before..." The blond mentioned, obviously talking about me, but I think it was supposed to be so that I couldn't hear it. Nice one, genius, I kept a keen ear so I could listen to what the other two were talking about while still eating a bowl of ramen.

"Shut up, Naruto, he can hear us!" Soon afterwards I heard a loud thump, coming in the direction of my left; we all turned to see what caused it.

"Aah! Sakura! What are you doing?" The blue-eyed retaliated toward the pink forehead girl in alarm; he was apparently bruised up from the pound on his head that was caused by the pink forehead girl. I think he calls her Sakura, or Sekura.

"He's new here, so respect him at least!" I'm not that new here...

"You didn't have to hit me Sakura..." He was placing one of his free hands on his bruise that was on his head, trying to put pressure on it.

"Are they always like this?" I whispered to Kemari while placing an empty bowl gently on the counter. She finished her portion and answered...

"You'd be surprised; they've been like this since I met them." She whispered back to me, leaning closer expectantly so they didn't hear.

During the course of my stay at the ramen bar I didn't find an opportunity to ask about the tailed beasts or whatever they're called. I don't want to just blurt it out as I would sometimes with Nen because it'll be awkward and just plain weird if I would for strangers. I did learn that Kemari cannot go on our future mission because her father, who's a courier ninja, wishes to take her with him. She explained to me what courier ninjas were; they risk their very life to deliver essential documents across the continent, not taking into account the amount of danger ahead. That takes a lot of courage if you ask me. Eventually that pink forehead girl, who I now can remember whose name is Sakura (From this bruise I have from her, thanks a lot...) and that spiky blond kid Naruto left after a bit of a fight. Kemari left afterwards too, saying that she had to prepare for her journey with her dad.

I traveled to Nen's cluttered apartment; I wasn't needed again until tomorrow when we have our next mission. To my surprise I discovered that Nen's apartment is located a few doors from Naruto's, I wonder if they ever talked to each other at one point. I killed time by reading the Moon Village Bingo Book on top of Nen's bed until I passed out at night; I was bored, and crazily concerned about Nen to the point that it isn't funny. I mean, he's been cured of that Zenaq's Syndrome, but why does he still have that big black scaly bruise on his upper-right chest area? It doesn't make sense... Then there are even more things to worry about, such as what is a tailed beast and how or why do I have one. About this orange Plyden that activated when I thought Nen was going to die during the operation and that orange floating number above Nen when I saw him in his patient room that read '1'. This is just too much information; I can't understand even half of it, just too confusing...

I ultimately just decided to just fall asleep on top of Nen's bed even with my Javelin of Light and Darkness lying right next to me.

I can't wait for tomorrow.

Hope it wasn't too bad of a filler chapter, the next mission will be action filled, and it may be my first attempt at many people at one scene...

Oh wait, SPOILER!

(It may take a bit while for the next set of chapters to be actually written because of school getting in my way, mhm...)