DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto, which totally sucks ass, by the way. -runs away and cries-

That night I lay in bed, tossing and turning. It was a fitful night; I would fall asleep and wake up an hour later, unable to get back to my dreams, or nightmares, for that matter. My mind was drifting, thinking about what had happened since I had come here, all the god and bad things. Wow. I didn't think so many things could happen in just a month.

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The next morning I woke up and lay there, then suddenly remembered that Team 7 had a mission today! Kakashi had told Sakura to tell me, and she did last night after the whole "me being molested" thing had died down. I quickly got dressed, picking out a cute red and black outfit that fit my figure perfectly. I quickly grabbed my katana, Windmill Shuriken, kunai, shuriken, and my new swords that Shikamaru had gotten me after that whole ordeal type thing with that drunken guy… so I got my swords after all! I had to pay him back though, which ended up costing me almost all my money since they were 150,000 yen which is a lot by the way and everything… oh and that was with the "discount" so I'm sure it was a ton more…

Sakura was already awake and eating breakfast, and I joined her then we both rushed out the door. But it turned out that we didn't really have to because like usual…

"YOU'RE LATE!!" Team 7 all exclaimed, including me.

Kakashi rubbed the back of his head and chuckled. "I know, I know, sorry! A peanut butter sandwich fell on my head from the heavens and almost ate me!" he explained, -though what was the point when no one would believe such an obvious lie?- and pulled out Come-Come Paradise, talking to us as he eagerly flipped through the book.

I looked away from the book, thinking about the other day with that man. It just would not get out of my head. I mean, why me? Why did he have to do that to me? However, I had no time to think about that, so I pushed it to the side and tried to focus on what Kakashi was saying.

"Okay, this is Nikki's first mission, so Nikki, (I looked up) pay attention." I nodded and he continued. "Your mission is to…" he paused, either to add dramatic tension or just to piss us off. "…walk dogs."

"Walk… dogs?" I asked, an anime sweat drop appearing on the back of my head.

He nodded. "Yes. Naruto, you will be walking Big Ben; Sakura, you will be walking Mimi; Sasuke, you will be walking Charles, and Nikki, you will be walking Buddy." He told us.

I nodded. Even though this was a pretty stupid mission, it sounded like I would get an okay dog. Perhaps a cute Golden Retriever! Or maybe an adorable Labrador puppy! I mean, how bad can a dog that's named Buddy be?

We went to go pick up our dogs from the lady who had sent the mission in. Naruto got his first. Big Ben turned out to be a large German Shepard! This would not be good. Sakura got a cute little golden retriever puppy, so I guessed that mine would probably be a lab. Sasuke got a beagle, which reminded me of Shikamaru because it would not really move and all it wanted to do was sleep. I got mine last. As I waited for her to get it, I prayed that it would be cute and obedient.

Turns out it was not. When the lady brought the dog out, you could not really tell that it was a dog. It was scrawny, its breath was wheezy, and clumps of fur were missing off its back and head.

"Here you go darling!" the lady exclaimed as she handed me Buddy's leash. "You take extra-special care of him!"

"Wait… this is Buddy?" I asked, still a little shocked that that thing was a dog.

She nodded. "Yup! And he's just a big bundle of fun, aren't you Buddy??" she rubbed her nose against the dog's. I forced a smile and attached the leash to Buddy.

We set out walking around the park, and Kakashi just sat on the bench observing us. Like there was anything to observe! We were walking dogs for God's sake!

Well, maybe it was easier said than done in Naruto's case. Big Ben the German Shepard was running around, pulling Naruto with him. It was a sight to see; Naruto tangled up in the leash, trying to stop Big Ben, all the while getting a face full of dirt and mud. Suddenly Big Ben decided to go after Charles, so he ran faster to catch up with him. Suddenly Charles got spooked and took off, running as fast as his short little legs could carry him. Somehow, Sasuke's foot got caught in the loop on the leash where your hand is supposed to go, and he began getting dragged across the park as well.

By now Sakura and I had stopped to watch this hilarious sight, until Charles and Big Ben got too close, that is. We took off, trying to outrun the two dogs, dragging our dogs with us. But, unfortunately for me I had suddenly decided to become a klutz, and I tripped over a root that littered the park. Buddy managed to get away before the dogs came, but I wasn't so lucky. I got caught in Big Ben's leash along with Naruto, and now we were both being dragged around.

Finally, Kakashi decided to break things up. He jumped in front of the dogs to stop them, but ended up just getting run over by them and us. So, he tried a different tactic. He grabbed the dog's leashes, and pulled them toward him, us along for the ride, getting a mouthful of dirt and worms. Finally the dogs stopped, out of breath. They fell down right then and there and took a snooze, which gave Naruto, Sasuke, and I a chance to get untangled from the leashes. As soon as we were free, Sasuke hit Naruto over the head.

"Dobe, this is all your fault!" he exclaimed.

Kakashi merely chuckled. "Okay guys, you all pass… But just because technically you did walk the dogs, even if it was a pathetic excuse of it."

Naruto and I glanced at each other. We were both covered in mud from head to toe, except on our eyes which we had wiped off in order to see. We looked so funny that we both burst out laughing.

The sun set below the trees, casting shadows everywhere. Naruto and I were out around the town, because I had never actually finished my shopping, so Naruto offered to take me. He didn't know about what had happened at the weapons shop, and I didn't really plan to tell him any time soon.

At the ramen bar, Naruto and I were pigging out, having a contest on who could eat the more bowls of ramen in twenty minutes. The winner got to pick the dare, and the loser… well they didn't know what was in store for them, but whatever it was they had to do it in front of all of our friends and people on their teams.

I had started my stopwatch and we gorged ourselves, stuffing mouthful after mouthful of ramen. Finally, the timer went off and we stopped, finishing off the bowl we had been eating. Then we counted…

After counting all the bowls, it turned out that Naruto had won by one bowl. I cursed under my breath as Naruto grinned cheesily.

"Hehe, I win! Believe it!" he exclaimed. I frowned and shook his outstretched hand out in utter defeat.

"You win, dude. Good job Naruto-kun." I said then looked up with puppy-dog eyes, and started pleading that he wouldn't go too hard on me with the dare. "You won't go too far with the dare, will you? Please? Pretty please?" I asked, sticking my lip out as far as it would go.

He smiled and laughed. "Tell you what. I'll let everybody else decide… Besides, I'm no good at this anyway."

So, the next day, Naruto and I gathered up all our friends, which included Ino, Choji, Shikamaru, Hinata, Shino, Kiba, Sasuke, and Sakura. Naruto explained that they had to come up with a dare for Nikki since she lost a bet. As soon as that was out of his mouth, pretty much everyone started shouting out ideas. Suddenly Ino, being the loudmouth that she is, yelled out something so loud people all around the world could probably hear it. "Kiss Kakashi!" she yelled. Everyone stopped yelling out their ideas, and started agreeing with Ino. Everyone except Naruto and I, who had been silent from the start.

My mouth dropped open. "What?!" I exclaimed. "No way in hell!"

Ino smirked. "What? Too scared?" she asked. "Come on! You big chicken! Too much of a baby; you're afraid of one little kiss!" she said then began to chant. "Kiss Kakashi! Kiss Kakashi! Kiss Kakashi!"

Pretty soon, everyone joined in. I threw my hands up in utter defeat. "Okay, okay! I'll do it!" I exclaimed.

"For at least ten seconds!" Ino added, "Tongue is optional."

I rolled my eyes. "Yeah, like I'm really going to French-Kiss my sensei! You're really funny." I said sarcastically and headed off to look for him, followed by everyone else.

We walked around Konoha until we found him. He was in a bookstore chuckling over a volume of Come-Come Paradise. I took a deep breath. If I was going to do this, I might as well have fun with it. I skipped over to him girlishly like I used to do to Jason and hummed to myself, wagging my fingers at everybody childishly.

"Hey Kakashi-sensei!" I exclaimed in a singsong voice as I approached the silver-haired jounin.

He looked up from his book. "Hm?" was his only reply.

I took a deep breath. 'Okay, let's get this over with…' I thought.

I stood up on tiptoe in order to reach his lips. For a quick moment, I stood there, not wanting to do this but not wanting to seem like a chicken. But I shrugged it off and gathered up my courage. I pulled down his mask and pressed my lips against his.

'Lets give 'em a show…' I thought and pressed even tighter, wrapping one arm around him, the other knotting its fingers in his hair. I grimaced in disgust. Was it really worth it, just to keep my pride and to prove myself? I glanced over to see the crowd of people that had gathered, and I cursed in my mind.

Finally, the ten seconds was over, though it seemed like a hundred. I broke apart and quickly popped a half a dozen breath mints into my mouth, getting rid of the taste. I was struggling to keep my cool, but the inside of me was screaming. Yeah, remind me never to kiss my sensei again! Totally gross!

Kakashi just stood there, a confused look on his face. I shot a smirk at Ino and wagged my fingers at Kakashi, skipping out of the store.

After I was away from the store, I turned to Ino. "Okay, I did it. Happy now?"

Ino nodded. "Okay, so you're not chicken. Congrats. Oh, and how was it?" she asked, still smirking.

I shrugged, rolling my eyes. "Well, it was much better than my fist kiss, I can say that much." I pointed out.

Of course, only Ino, Sakura, and Shikamaru knew what I meant. Everyone else especially the boys began asking me whom it was with, but I didn't say. Like they really wanted to hear about me being molested…

The next night was full of playing Truth or Dare and random drinking games with beer even though we were underage…. It was hilarious, and a certain person happened to get drunk and began dancing on the table, stripping down to their bra and underwear!

It all started innocently at first…

I was asleep when I heard a knock on the door. Groaning, I looked at the clock. It was twelve o'clock. I switched sides, not feeling like getting up at the moment. The person at the door knocked again, louder this time.

"Nikki-chan, go get the door!" Sakura moaned, grabbing a pillow and covering her head.

Sakura and I share a room, since she has two beds in her room. I rolled my eyes. I was supposed to be the guest! Whatever… but I better be getting paid for this! I slipped on some fuzzy blue slippers and climbed out of bed, walking like a zombie to the door. I slung the door open to see a nervous face bordered by short dark blue hair, like the color of a raven perhaps. I smiled. "Hey Hinata!"

Hinata handed me two envelopes, one had my name and one had Sakura's name scrawled in messy cursive handwriting. "Hello… N-nikki-sa-sama. Um… I-ino's having a p-p-party and she asked me to hand out the invites. Sh-she also wondered if… if you wanted to help her with the d-d-decorations." Hinata stammered.

My face lit up and I took the envelopes gratefully. "Thanks! And you don't have to call me 'sama'. It sounds too formal. Just chan is fine!

Hinata nodded. "Okay Nikki-sama. I mean Nikki-chan!"

"Oh, and when you see Ino tell her I'll be over in a bit. I just have to get dressed and eat and crap like that." I replied, grinning.

Hinata nodded again. "Okay! It's by the Hokage faces. She wanted it outside. See you Nikki! Bye!"

"Bye Hinata! See you later!" I waved as she headed off and then closed the door.

I tossed Sakura's invite on the nightstand then pawed through my clothes for something to wear to the party. It had to be nice, but knowing Ino there would probably be stuff like Strip Poker. So I wanted to wear a lot of layers. But on the other hand, it was hot out, and we would probably be dancing, so I didn't want too many layers. I decided to wear a little black dress that ended right below my booty. I also wore black boots that went up to my knees. On my right hand, I slipped on a black glove that went up to my elbow, and on my left, I wore a fingerless glove that ended at my wrist. I ran a brush through my hair, making sure it was still a little messy in that sexy kind of way and applied my makeup, then admired myself in the mirror. So what if I didn't have any layers on? I was good at poker anyway, and I was in a partying mood. Writing a note to Sakura explaining where I was I took one last look in the mirror. I'm usually not one to brag, but I looked majorly sexy! Party here I come! Suddenly my stomach growled loudly.

Okay... ramen first, party later...