AN: I think I'm beginning to hate the fact that fan fiction has many bugs… I don't know… Or maybe it's the concept of how half of the things you click get really wired. God, it's like the SAT when you take it the first time. You don't even know half of the things you're supposed to do. Anyway, I'd like some more reviews before I finally hit double digits on the next chapter.

~Thank you oh-great-beta-reader-who-I-know-from-school… aka Reon I love you lots for helping me out! And helping me out with some medical junk in this story!

Disclaimer: Although I have not said this in many of the earlier chapters, I don't own Naruto, or any of its characters. If I did, I would be filthy rich; Sasuke would stop being a little emo pansy who runs amok trying to beat the crap out of Danzo, Naruto would stop saying "believe it", Sakura wouldn't stop being such a little hoe, and Karin wouldn't even be in the story… Did I mention that when I read the chapter when Karin was killed by Sasuke, I giggled inside? *glances* Nope, I didn't…oh well…

Enjoy the story~

Chapter 9

Previously…

"Don't worry about it, we'll get it taken cared of," Kakashi winked at Yumiko.

Yumiko sighed for a moment, irritated at Koga's mind, "Naruto pick a room, we'll be back in five minutes."

Koga pouted for a moment," Aw… you don't want me to help?"

"Knock it off buddy," Naruto wrapped his arms behind his neck.

"By the way Naruto, summon some doppelgangers and clean this place. Make Koga help you too." She began to do the signs for transportation jutsu.

Kakashi teleported, while Yumiko glanced at Koga one more time. "Make sure he doesn't do anything stupid too Naruto," her voice faded out as she transported away.


The two arrived at Yumiko's apartment. Yumiko unlocked the door, to find her wolves licking her on the cheeks, extremely happy.

"Why is Kakashi's scent on you Yumiko?" The small little pup, Zenmei, questioned.

"He's protecting me from the dastardly evil Koga." Yumiko glanced somewhere else, irritated for a moment that the Hokage picked him…

"Anyway, we are moving again, follow Naruto's scent, and you'll be there," she smiled, opening the window.

The three wolves obeyed her request, immediately leaving the room through the window.

"Alrighty, now we have some work to do again…" Yumiko sighed for a moment.

Suddenly a knock was on the door, "I'll get it," said Kakashi.

Iruka entered the apartment, glaring at Kakashi. He rushed to Yumiko, ready to embrace for a hug. Yumiko suddenly stopped him, "Why hello to you too Iruka-niisan." She said in a sarcastic tone.

"Sorry… Hello Yumi-chan," he glanced down in shame.

"Anyway, help us move… We got to move again…" Yumiko pouted.

"Again?"

"Again," replied Kakashi.

"Commence doppelgangers, about fifteen per each person should be enough," said Yumiko.

Suddenly five copies of Kakashi, Iruka and Yumiko appeared in the apartment.

"Alrighty, what's the plan?" Iruka asked, glancing around the room.

"Pack everything, everyone gets one room, immediately summon it to Naruto's location."

"Commence… Now," said Kakashi. Suddenly the doppelgangers disappeared, in matter of minutes. Everything was slowly disappearing and reappearing in the new home. After twenty minutes, the doppelgangers disappeared in a thin air of smoke. Yumiko sat on the ground for a moment, sighing, tired.

"Alrighty, Iruka and Kakashi, head over to the new home, and commence unpacking. I need to go tell the landlord that I'm moving out." She pouted for a moment.

Kakashi and Iruka glanced at one another for a moment and prepared the teleporting jutsu. Yumiko sighed for a moment; she did a quick glance around in case anything was forgotten. After confirming nothing was forgotten, she went to the office to speak to the landlord.

"Hello, Yumiko-san, how may I help you?"

"I would like to end my contract here," she smiled sadly.

"Of course, allow me to go find it," he smiled; he left her waiting to retrieve the contract.

After a five minutes wait, he returned to find Yumiko waiting, patiently, "Please sign here and here." He pointed to lines on the contract.

Yumiko signed them, after lightly glancing over the fine print.

"Alright, it was a pleasure doing business with you, Yumiko-san." He stood up and bowed before her.

"Thank you," she smiled, she handed him the key to the apartment. Later, she stepped out of the tenement building, and found Sakura waiting on the steps.

"Konichiwa, Sakura-san!" Yumiko greeted her, immediately bowing.

"Hello, Yumiko-san, I have wanted to meet you!"

"I've was on my way to see my new home, would you care for a visit?"

"Sure," she began to get ready for a long walk until Yumiko jumped onto a roof.

"Oh if that's how you want to play it…" Sakura jumped on top of a roof and followed Yumiko to her new home. After twenty minutes or so, they were at the end of the village, and near Yumiko's new home.

"Out of curiosity, it is true that you were a Geshia?"

"Yes, but I wouldn't be considered a fully fledged one."

"Why is that?"

They walked to the front steps, glancing around for a moment.

"That's probably because I'm still a virgin." She smiled, winking.

Sakura blushed for a moment, shocked at how open she was. Kakashi and Iruka saw Yumiko at the front door. They unlocked it and returned to their chores.

"Sorry it's kinda messy," Yumiko frowned for a moment, glancing at the large amounts of furniture all around the room.

"That's fine," Sakura smiled, "Where's Naruto?"

Kakashi pointed to a room across the Kitchen, and then he glanced at Yumiko, who was pondering about the home. Iruka glanced around for a moment checking if he had forgotten anything.

"Yumi-chan," said Iruka nervously.

"Hai?" Yumiko's back was turned to a wall, deep in thought.

"Did we remember to grab the food from the refrigerator…?"

"I highly doubt we did," she replied while glancing at the couch and the walls.

"Then should we go grab it?" Koga walked into the room, butting into the conversation.

"If you want to, but there's Naruto's key you'll need to use. Koga go ahead and grab it for me. By the way, grab me some paint." She checked in her back pocket for her wallet, she pulled out a couple of bills and handed it to Koga. "Grab me some white paint, I don't like these red walls."

Koga took the money and did a slight glance at Yumiko's legs, smiling mischievously. He went out of the home and left to town.

Yumiko, on the other hand, did a frown for a moment glancing around the home.

"What's bugging you?" Iruka, who finished unpacking the Kitchen supplies, watched Yumiko's face.

"Everyone keep still, I'm going to pull out a couple of doppelgangers," she began to do the hand signs for water doppelgangers, suddenly twenty doppelgangers appeared. In matter of seconds the Yumiko army moved furniture and ran amok throughout the home rearranging things and pushing things out. Meanwhile, Sakura was in Naruto's room, helping him clean the floor.

"Naruto, how are Yumiko and Kakashi doing?"

"You'd be surprised…" Naruto winced for a moment, "Koga is a total pervert around her, and you can tell Kakashi-sensei is pissed off at him."

"Ugh, that doesn't sound too good," she replied.

Naruto sighed a breath of a relief, glad he completed the job. Suddenly the door slammed open and a Yumiko doppelganger sprung through and moved all his things into the room. It was almost impossible to see her, until she stopped suddenly, putting Naruto's boxes on the floor, and faced him.

"Naruto, unpack, and leave the boxes in the back, I got to find a room for it. Leave any scrolls related things in the study room across from you," she pointed in the room to the left of his, "When you're done, help my wolves with their unpacking. They don't have much; just help them move things out." The Yumiko doppelganger left the room to Kakashi's room, moving his boxes into his room, and moving his bed into his room. In the living room, three doppelgangers moved around arranging the sofas to the paintings. Kakashi and Iruka sat in the Kitchen staring at her speed and her fast movements.

"Holy Crap, I never knew she would be this fast," Iruka stared, wide eyed at Yumiko.

"Looks like she was holding back when we fought," Kakashi smiled.

"Yeah she does that a lot, whenever she's fighting someone she'll usually give them a handicap," Iruka laughed.

"Why?"

"She knows that if she were to go full out, in matter of seconds they would be on the ground in shreds in a blink of an eye."

"'In a blink of an eye'?"

"Yeah, it might sound like I'm exaggerating, but I'm not. When we were younger in our own little cells, she used to experiment on Boulders and Steel. In matter of seconds, they would turn into debris."

Kakashi smiled, enjoying that his little crush always was full of surprises for him.

After ten minutes, all the doppelgangers went outside and disappeared leaving the sound of splashes. Yumiko sat on the couch, exhausted but pleased with her work.

"So I'm done moving things, Kakashi I left the boxes in your room, I assumed you wanted to adjust it to how you wanted it to be. Seeing it was none of my business to go through your things," she yawned.

Koga came back into the home, with the food from the old apartment and buckets of white paint. He walked over to Yumiko and handed her the change and the buckets of paint, then he walked over to the refrigerator and started putting things into the fridge.

Yumiko relaxed for a moment, looking around the living room, she made a gesture to Koga to come over. Kakashi and Iruka tensed for a moment.

"Hey wanna do me another favor?"

"If it involves seeing you naked then yes," Koga replied immediately.

Kakashi shook his head in disappointment, while Iruka gaped at Koga, stunned by his reply. Yumiko smiled, for a moment, and then out of the blue Yumiko kicked Koga in the special place for men. Iruka gaped at Yumiko, again. Koga caught her foot before he was hit. He then pulled Yumiko off the chair by the foot and she was upside down. Kakashi stared at Yumiko's legs, then Iruka was about to jump up to help Yumiko when suddenly Kakashi stopped him.

"You know better than that don't you?" Koga said to the dangling Yumiko.

"More or less, it's your fault for making that perverted comment," she replied.

Naruto and Sakura entered the room.

"Yumiko-san I'm fini –" Naruto stared at Yumiko.

"Karasu-san!!!!!" Sakura was running over to ready punch Koga in the face. When suddenly Yumiko kicked Koga in the jaw, unfortunately he moved backwards a little, but kept his grip on Yumiko's foot. Sakura stopped in her tracked staring at the dangling Yumiko.

"I wonder if you're ticklish…"

Yumiko stared at Koga, then started getting scared, "Kakashi… help me…" She said in a childish whiny tone.

Koga took her sock off and starting tickling her. Yumiko started laughing like a little child. It sounded innocent and adorable. Kakashi immediately replied to Yumiko's plea and tried to help Yumiko, who was laughing crazy.

"Iruka.. hahaha!!!.. help me!!! Haha!!! Bwahahaha!!!" Yumiko kept laughing while Koga continued to tickle her foot. "Koga.. haha… hahah!!! S-stop... hahahahaha!!! It! Hahaha!!!"

Kakashi got her by the arm and started to flip her over, making her appear as if she was standing. Koga still tickled her, while she squirmed and laughed crazy in Kakashi's arms. Iruka attempted to get Yumiko free of Koga, by plying his fingers off her foot.

Yumiko suddenly kicked Koga in his special place with her free foot and he fell back stumbling on the ground. Unfortunately Yumiko also stunned back the opposite direction, while Kakashi was behind her. Kakashi caught her and brought her up to standing position. Meanwhile, on the corner of his eye that was facing Sakura and Naruto, he winked. They in turn grinned at his expression. Yumiko wiped a tear from her eye from the excessive laughing she did. Meanwhile, Iruka looked at Koga and began to feel his anger boil within his knuckles. Yumiko yawned for a moment, leaning on Kakashi's shoulder closing her eyes, her face was flushed, and she was completely exhausted.

"Just stand still like this, I'm exhausted doing this housework," she said quietly.

Kakashi chuckled and stood still, Iruka stood there in sheer envy, making every attempt possible to conceal his anger. Yumiko, observant as she was, immediately recognized it. She moved her head away from Kakashi's shoulder and stretched like a cat after a long siesta.

"Sakura-chan, may I interest you in some snacks? You could bring some over to Sasuke-kun later if you'd like," she smiled warmly.

"I want some…" Koga stood over her like a little boy eyeing someone for his desire to be fulfilled.

Naruto stood behind Yumiko, "Dude, I don't even trust you by her," he glared for a moment.

Koga pouted like a little boy that couldn't get his dessert, Iruka's anger calmed down for a moment.

Yumiko headed over to the refrigerator and grabbed the cakes she made earlier in the week. She started setting them up on the counter, and then she went off to grab some meat for her wolves.

Koga started eying the cakes, unable to decide which to pick. Naruto grabbed whatever cake was available. The wolves came into the Kitchen and immediately grabbed the meat Yumiko gave them. They took the meat to their room.

"Make sure you put it in the trash can when you're done. I left it in the corner of your room." Yumiko said while she handed their meat.

Iruka grabbed a cake himself, slowly his anger faded away, although jealousy still seethed inside.

Sakura got a cake and immediately began to have profound respect for Yumiko. "This is delicious!"

"Thank you," Yumiko smiled, as she went to sit down on the couch.

Everyone started to eat the cakes but Kakashi and Yumiko, who sat on the couch. Yumiko leaned on Kakashi, relaxing.

"Tomorrow are you going to be off to teach the medical Ninja?"

"Probably, I got to head over to the Hyuuga home too. I have to substitute for my friend who was supposed to inspect Hinata."

"What's wrong with her?" Iruka asked, while munching on some cake.

"You didn't know?" Sakura and Naruto said in unison.

"She's dating Gaara of Sunagakore," Kakashi replied to Iruka's statement.

"Woah! I never knew she would date him!"

"Yes well, I have to inspect on Hinata it appears she sustained some injuries learning from Neji," Yumiko stretched her arms for a moment.

"She dumped Naruto for Gaara, what fun." Yumiko smiled in a devilish charming way.

"God, Neji never really learned well how to deal with women did he, Sakura?" Naruto said, while munching on a bite of cake.

Suddenly a knock as at the door, Yumiko jumped up and did a leap over a lamp and arrived at the door, opening it.

"Hello how may I help y-"

"Hello Karasu-san, how nice to see you again," Gaara smiled at Yumiko.

"Greetings Kazakage," Yumiko smiled, "please come in." She motioned over to the side, and watched Gaara enter the room. Following him was Tamari and Kankaro.

"Hey niisan what's up!" Kankaro greeted with a small salute.

"Nothing special really, there's some cake over there if you want any," she pointed over to the countertop.

Tamari came into the room with not only one fan, but two, she handed Yumiko one of her fans. "Here, you said you liked these alot, so I got you a custom made one."

Naruto jumped into the room and greeted everyone, "Hey! What are you guys doing here?"

"Thought we drop in for a visit…"

Yumiko opened the fan for a moment, "It's beautiful! I love it Tamari-chan!" She took the fan and brought it into her room and hanged it. She later returned sitting next to Kakashi.

"Ya'know one of these days I would love to know what is it like to be engaged to Shikamaru," said Sakura.

"Well… he is one irritating lazy bum…"

Yumiko smiled, while Kakashi sat there with his arm around her shoulder, with his latest edition of Makeout Paradise.

"You should really reconsider about reading something else than that, buddy." Yumiko said quietly for no one else to hear but him.

"I would, but I enjoy this series." Kakashi smiled lightly.

She sighed and leaned back for a moment, they had lived with each other for about two weeks, and yet, why did she love him?

Gaara looked at Yumiko for a moment, and glanced at the cakes.

"I see that your skills haven't changed."

"More or less, Gaara-sama," she smiled.

"Where are the wolves?"

"Currently feeding," she glanced at the doorway near her room.

"When will you be seeing Hinata?"

"Later tomorrow, Gaara-sama," she smiled at his worry. She remembered sending him a message of Hinata's recent accident.

"If you'd like we could go later today to make sure."

Gaara stayed silent and looked down for a moment. Everyone was off eating away socializing but the three quiet Shinobi.

She smiled at his silent reply, "Kakashi, could I make sure that you handle things from here?"

"If you'd like," he replied quietly as possible, "Kimi-hime."

She paused for a moment wide-eyed. She lightly brushed her hands on his, purposely trying to create a light electric shock on his hand so that he would get the message.

He smiled as he felt the light shock from her hand. "I get the message, Yumi."

She touched his hand, in reply of his answer. "Let's go Gaara."