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Now… I'm seriously thinking of doing this; I'm not going to write 'Disclaimer' today because I'm not in the mood…

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On to Chapter 7

Please remember, Chapter 7

Outskirts of Konohagakure

It was now around noon. 12:30 pm, the three sand siblings were already near Konoha borders.

"How far are we?" Temari who was covering her eyes from the very bright sun yelled, asking Kankurou who was on top of a very long oak tree. Gaara was leaning on its trunk.

"I think we're about 50 Kilometers away…" Kankurou, who had his hand over his eyes as a shield from the sun's rays, yelled back to his sister before jumping down. "…We'll be there in no time." He said, picking up Karasu, his puppet, and tying the sash around him.

"Great, it's been quite some time, thanks to someone who woke us up in the middle of the NIGHT!" Temari yelled, referring to Gaara. "It's still early, if we started our trip on 6am, we'd probably be 120 kilometers the opposite way" Gaara yelled back, pointing his arm the other way. Temari crossed her arms and turned away.

"Ok, just don't yell" Kankurou said, Gaara dropped his arm to his side. "She started it." He mumbled, "Say what?" Temari leaned back a bit, glaring at Gaara, he glared back.

Kankurou sighed as he walked between the two, "Now we'll start the Staring contest" he said as he walked away from the two staring couple.

Temari saw Kankurou walk away "Hey wait up!" Temari said, breaking the eye contact and following her young brother. "You're slow because your fat" Kankurou said, Temari gasped and looked sad, "This outfit makes me look fat" she replied, referring to the white and grey outfit she wore.

Kankurou always commented on how she has a bad taste in clothes. How she liked that outfit that made her look silly – in his opinion. She hated his comments and never paid attention to them.

Gaara just stood there looking at his two – who are supposed to be – older siblings, a smile was slowly creeping on his face. He wasn't a big smiley person, but he smiled whenever he's around those two, their arguments seem to entertain him. He slowly (REALLY SLOWLY) followed the two who were STILL arguing about Temari's sense of fashion.

"You're not a good looking guy yourself" Temari smirked at her brother, who nudged her saying. "What is that supposed to mean?" He yelled, still walking alongside his sister. Temari put her hands behind her back and walked a bit faster so she's be in front of him.

"What kind of a guy paints his face PURPLE? Only kids paint their faces, you're 20!!" She exclaimed, throwing her hands in the air. Kankurou literally growled. He started to say something when….

"She's right, you know." Gaara said, walking beside his brother now with a smile on his face. Kankurou's head dropped down (like they do on the Anime, with a big sweat drop on their heads)

Kankurou sighed and looked up, "Kami-sama, help me out of this, another 50 Kilometers of Temari's babbling and Gaara's silence. I secretly wish they would switch personalities somehow" Kankurou said, more like whispered. Temari laughed at his pleadings.

"Like it would be any better, you'll hate us even more" Temari said laughing, Gaara was smiling but looking at the ground.

"And does the Gracious Kazekage care to join this conversation?" Kankurou said, putting his arm around his young brother's shoulder.

Since they extracted Shukaku, Temari and Kankurou have been a bit more relaxed around Gaara. They weren't as careful with him as before. They were able to live in peace without fearing that their little brother might kill them.

Gaara looked at his brother, "Hm" was the only response he got from him. Kankurou took a long glance at his brother. 'Oh, how I'd love to rip this attitude apart' he jokingly thought about his brother with a goofy grin on his face. Gaara was looking strangely at his brother.

"You ok?" Gaara said, Kankurou head locked his little brother's head and ruffled with his hair a bit. "Yeah, I'm cool" he replied, Gaara was chuckling as he was trying to get out of his brother's grip. Temari was laughing at the two. For the first time in her life, Temari felt like she had a big one happy family.

Konohagakure, Waterfall

Laughter was heard in the waterfall's lake. Young women in bathing suits, mostly bikini, were playing with the water, splashing it on each other, happily fooling around. Not knowing that on a certain higher cliff was a certain perverted white-haired old man with a notebook, scribbling notes.

"Hehehe. That would be interesting for the new Version of Icha-Icha paradise." Jiraya scribbled more notes while looking through his scope and drooling over the young ladies, his face was all red.

"You're never going to stop, are you?" Jiraya jumped, the note flying out of his hand as he heard someone say those words, he turned around to see none other than Naruto, and the note simply fell in Naruto's hand.

"Oh, it's you" Jiraya annoyingly said. "Give me that back!" Jiraya Yelled at Naruto, trying to snatch the notes away. "Na, you're not getting that…" Naruto smiled, "…Say the magic word" Naruto said with a melody, waving the notebook in Jiraya's face.

"P-p-p-please?" Jiraya questioned. Naruto's expression changed to an evil one. "Ha-ha, Wrong answer." Naruto looked, reading the notebook. Jiraya snatched the notebook out of his hand. "You're not supposed to read that!" Jiraya said. He made sure that the note was safely inside his pocket.

"Ero-sennin. You're 55 years old, why don't you get married and stop staring at other women? Then you'd have a lady all by yourself and you can stare at her as long as you want."

Jiraya thought of Naruto's suggestion. If he got married, he'd be getting the 'inspiration' to write his perverted Novels all the time. 24/7. He had a very perverted look on his face, it was red and he was drooling.

Naruto stared at him 'hehehe, looks like I distracted him for a while'; he shook his head in disbelief. "Well, I should get going now. See ya" Naruto yelled as he turned around and ran the opposite way, Jiraya wondered 'what could make Naruto run so fast? Maybe he has his own perverted thoughts', he thought, taking his scope to watch the young girls again, he checked if Naruto is not in sight.

Poof!

"What?" Jiraya said. His pocket seemed light and empty for some reason; he put his hand in his pocket. 'Nothing' he thought, "NOTHING??" He gasped.

"NARUTOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" He yelled after realizing that Naruto made a Bunshin of himself and transformed it into the novel that he gave to Jiraya while he was distracted. "YOU DIRTY LITTLE TALENTED RASCAL!! GIVE ME MY NOTE BOOK BACK!!!" Jiraya yelled. Taking the same road Naruto took.

2 hours later (didn't know what to put in those two hours so I skipped to the Good part)

Naruto was smiling in satisfaction of what he's accomplished. The Notebook was safely in his pocket. His Hands were behind his head, he was planning on turning this notebook against Jiraya, Maybe blackmailing him. Naruto walked along the streets of Konoha, looking at the Dango stand. He looked closely to see one of the Jonins. He thought that he should go there and say Hi.

"Good morning, Anko-sensei" Naruto said with a smile on his face. She was holding a plate with 5 skewers of Botchan Dango. She greeted Naruto as well.

"Ohayoo, Naruto-kun. It's been a while, you've grown up!" She said happily, holding one skewer and put one ball of Dango in her mouth, using her teeth to remove it from the skewer.

'It's been a while? She saw me last week, she has a very bad memory' Naruto thought with a very disappointed look on his face. Then he replaced it with his usual happy face.

"Yes, Anko-sensei. And you look so…" Naruto paused; he couldn't find the right word to say. Anko waited for a reply. "…Hello, Anko" a female voice said. Naruto sighed, saved by…

"Kurenai, it's been a while. You look great!" Anko repeated the same line. Naruto stood there watching the two females talk about Girly stuff, he shuddered and walked away, saying goodbyes and apologizes to both teachers for having to leave so soon (he wanted an excuse to get away from the girly stuff talk). Anko noticed that Naruto was leaving, she called him back.

"Oh, Naruto…" Anko called Naruto back, Naruto turned around. "Yes, Anko-sensei?" He questioned. "…Jiraya-sama asked about you. He looked angry for some reason" Anko said, Naruto had the Terrified look on his face, Shivering. 'I think I messed with the wrong guy' Naruto thought. His thoughts were cut by some kind of foot stomping.

"THERE YOU ARE, NARUTO!" Jiraya yelled, Naruto froze in the spot. His face turned to a very purplish-blue. "Gotta go, see ya!!!!" Naruto waves at the two women, running away.

"Hello, Ladies. Bye, Ladies" Jiraya said to Anko and Kurenai as he passed them, running after Naruto. 'This is going to be a very long day…' Jiraya though, '…being 55 is not easy. I'm going to ask Tsunade about the secret of her youth, but right now, Naruto is the main Target' He thought, running faster after Naruto. Both of the two were getting strange looks from the people in the street (you just imagine it!)

Konohagakure's Gate

Two guards were standing outside the gate; they noticed three figures coming closer.

"Identify Yourselves." First guard yelled. The three stopped. Both guards gasped as they knew who they were talking to.

"Kazekage-sama. Sumimasen, Welcome to Konoha, we've been expecting you." The second guard said, ushering to the guards above the gate to open it.

"Thank you." Gaara said as he entered Konoha with his siblings. Both guards sighed after he'd walked in.

"He thanked us, I though they said he was a cruel, vicious person." Second guard said. The first guard leaned to the now closed gate, "well, maybe he isn't. Rumors spread, my friend. Believe all you see and half what you hear." The first guard advised his fellow guard as they both stood straight, watching for any incomers.

Yamanaka Flower Shop

It's been a very good day for business in the flower shop. A lot of occasions are happening in this time of the year. Flowers being an essential, they were bought in dozens. Ino was very pleased.

"Mom and dad are going to be so happy. Look at how much the shop made today." Ino said, holding the money in her hands, to Shikamaru, who was now wearing a very 'PINK' apron that matched his now pink cheeks.

Since Shikamaru decided to stay with Ino during her shift at the flower shop, she made him wear an apron and work with her. He learned a couple of things about flowers, namely; he was having fun.

The door of the shop opened, "good morning Ino, Shikamaru" Asuka (Ino's Mom, in case you forgot) nodded at the young two. "Hello, mother. You're not gonna believe it…" "I know sweetheart. And I'm very proud of you two." She interrupted her daughter's good news. Ino smiled, "well, I couldn't have done it without Shikamaru's help. When he's available, he could come in handy" she said, patting on Shikamaru's shoulder, Shikamaru put his left hand behind his head, his cheeks turning into a shade of red. "It was nothing, really." He said, both Ino and her mom laughed, causing Shikamaru's cheeks to turn into bright red but he soon joined the laughter.

Ino's mom chuckled, "well, since you guys worked hard today, you can take the rest of the day off. I'm going to be in charge for the rest of the day." She said, Shikamaru took of the Apron and handed it to Asuka. He sighed. 'Finally, free from the female torment' he thought. Ino laughed at Shikamaru's expression as she took of her own apron off and hung it on the hanger near the counter.

"Well, Mom. I think we've done all the hard work. Seeing two young people attracts the customers. But seeing you won't" Ino joked. Asuka glared at her daughter. Ino winked, "Just kidding, Mom. Just kidding" Ino exclaimed.

"She's been in a very bad mood lately. I think it's a very hard thing to raise a daughter. Ne, Asuka-san?" Shikamaru said, he got 'glared' by Ino. She opened the door and shoved him out. Asuka could hear Shikamaru mumble 'women are too troublesome'. She laughed.

"Ah, to be young again." She said, putting the pink apron on. She started arranging the flowers, making them look neat.

Outside the 'Yamanaka flower shop'

"FRESH AIR! I love it" Shikamaru said, putting his hands in the air. Ino smiled as she looked up. Though it was raining the night before, the weather seemed to calm down quickly. 'That's a good omen; I guess' she thought. "Hey, dudes!" Both Ino and Shikamaru looked to their left to see Kiba with his pet dog. He looked slightly bigger than two days ago.

"Hello, Kiba. Good day, isn't it?" Ino said, Kiba grinned, his fang-like teeth showing clearly. "Yes, it is. Akamaru and I decided to take a walk in this beautiful weather and practice some Dynamic Air Marking" he smirked and Akamaru barked. Both of Ino and Shika thought of it as a new Jutsu, Not realizing that at some point (when not in a fight) Dynamic Air Marking is only Akamaru's piss.

"So, where are you two going? A date?" Kiba winked at the two. Ino blushed, Shikamaru smirked. "Nah, I wouldn't go out with her even if she was the last woman on earth."

SMACK!!

"Ouch, what was that for? I was kidding" Shikamaru held the back of his head; Ino had smacked him with a paper fan that appeared out of nowhere.

"That was for the very rude joke" Ino said, putting her left hand on her waist. All of the sudden, the street went very quiet. The trio looked around, Akamaru jumped (more like stuffed himself) in Kiba's shirt, he growled.

"Akamaru senses a very strong Chakra" Kiba said, Ino and Shikamaru both looked worried; they saw that people were looking at a certain direction. They all looked at the same direction.

"It's… that sand kid." Kiba said, remembering when they were in the Chuunin's 2nd exam, when Gaara crushed his foes with Sabaku Kyu & Sabaku Soso.

"Sand Kid?" Ino questioned, she looked at the three visitors. All three were walking straight, not looking around, except for Temari who was wondering why people were looking at them like that. Both Kankurou and Temari stopped when Gaara stopped walking.

"What is it?" Kankurou said, looking where Gaara was looking. In front of Gaara was a little ball that hit his leg. A young 6 years old boy came to pick it up, but froze under Gaara's glare. His looks almost made the little kid Cry.

'He's afraid' Gaara thought, remembering his Childhood, 11 years ago.

Flashback

Kids were playing football, Young 6 years old Gaara was sitting on a swing. One of the kids shot the ball very high; it ended up being stuck on one of the houses' roof. Gaara, seeing it was the only way, used his sand to bring it back down. The sand swiftly put the ball in his hands. "Here, this is your ball." Gaara said, smiling. The kids were terrified, they've heard about Gaara and his scary personality. Their parents always advised them to stay away from them. "Aaah, RUN!!" one of the kids said making the whole group run away in fear.

"Why do you run away?" Gaara said, Changing his expression to an angry one and using the sand to grab one of the kids' leg. She screams in horror. Gaara almost attacked her when his uncle Yashamaru stopped his attack. "Gaara-sama, Please stop." He yelled making Gaara stop his attacks.

End Flashback

Gaara's eyes narrowed sadly. The kid was still frozen in place and he was shivering, Gaara's appearance was quite scary. He kneeled and picked up the ball and looked at the child.

"Here you go." He said, smiling. The kid's shivering stopped as he slowly picked the ball from Gaara's hands. The child's mother stood by her son, "Akira, what do you say?" She politely said. The kid looked at his mother then at Gaara. "Thank you, Kazekage-sama" The kid, Knowing Gaara's position in Suna, said. Gaara was surprised, he thought the kid and everyone else would run away in fear, but they did not. Instead, the young boy was thanking him. Gaara smiled sincerely and patted the kid on his head.

"No…" Gaara said, the boy was sad by the reply, and then he continued "…Thank you." He said with a big smile. The little boy smiled with the same expression. Gaara got up and started walking again, the kid staring at them with awe. Kankurou made a peace sign with his hand while smiling at the kid, the boy laughed. People went back to their business.

As they continued walking, Gaara looked to his left, he saw some familiar faces. 'Hm, it looks like they're alive after all' Gaara though Looking at Shikamaru, Kiba and… 'Who is that? I've never seen her before' Gaara though. He took a good look at Ino. Her blue eyes were staring right into his bright blue/green ones. Her long blonde hair was smoothly falling around her face, framing it like a very beautiful portrait while the rest of it was hidden behind her back. Her blue outfit hung tightly on her body, revealing her curves. Gaara never looked at a girl the way he did to Ino.

'I never thought such a body lived in Konoha. She sure is Attractive.' Gaara thought, smirking at the three. Kiba was shivering a bit, remembering his encounter with the Sand siblings during the 2nd Chuunin exam.

'That guy. Why was he looking at me like that?' Ino thought, wanting to rip him apart. 'No guy checks me out like that and gets away with it. Though, he's kinda cute.' She crossed her arms but her right hand (more like fist) was in front of her mouth, never breaking the eye contact with Gaara. 'His eyes are sad… for some reason' Ino thought, narrowing her eyes. Then she looked at the ground. He broke the eye contact and kept on walking towards the Hokage's Building.

"Who's that guy?" Ino whispered to Shikamaru. Shikamaru looked shocked, "You don't remember him? He's the guy who fought Sasuke in the last match of the Chuunin examination, the one who put lee in the hospital for quite some time…" He said, "…The other two are his siblings, that girl there. Is the girl that I fought…" "…OH, The one that kicked your butt, yeah I remember her." Ino cut his sentence. He glared at her.

'Arf, Arf.' Akamaru barked. "We're safe" Kiba said, "Ino, that guy became the Kazekage of the Hidden village of Suna" Ino was shocked. "Really? I never knew that!" Kiba and Shikamaru's head dropped. "That's because you're either here or at your home not caring to know about politics" Shikamaru said pointing at the direction of the places he mentioned. Ino wasn't actually interested in Politics and politicians.

"Let's go eat. Akamaru's Hungry" Kiba said while Akamaru barked. "What? Can't this dog of yours stop eating? He's fat already. Look at him!" Shikamaru exclaimed. Kiba gasped, Akamaru growled.

"What? How dare you say that to Akamaru? He's not fat. He's growing up, that's all" Kiba said, ruffling Akamaru's fur. "Besides, he needs attention. He's an important 'person'" Kiba pointed at his pet friend, who proudly barked. (Could dogs actually PROUDLY BARK?)

"He's not a person, He's a freakin' DOG" Shikamaru yelled. Ino was partly listening to the conversation, but she was still looking at the back of the Young Kazekage she's just saw.

'I remember him, he was cruel. Cruel for what he did to Lee. But he's changed, the way he treated that young kid' she said, glaring at his back, but slowly smiling.

Gaara sensed someone was looking at him; he stopped and looked back at her. 'She's smiling. She's cute when she smiles' He thought, smiling back.

She was lost in thoughts when she noticed that he was actually smiling to her. She gasped and turned around, blushing. Gaara Chuckled. 'Hm, I wonder…' He thought and continued walking.

"Hey Ino, you ok? You turned around all of the sudden!" Kiba asked. Ino's back was still to them. "What? No, I'm fine. Don't worry about me, hehehe" she nervously Chuckled.

'Oh my god, he's gonna think that I'm some crazy assassinate and kill me. I'm a dead girl' she thought, her face turned red when she remembered his smile. 'I don't think so, a cute face like that wouldn't kill… WAIT A MINUTE…I did NOT say CUTE, did I? Do I think he's cute?' Ino thought, her face turning to a deep shade of red.

She heard laughter from both Shikamaru and Kiba, making her turn around "WHAT?" she angrily said, "You like him, don't you?" Shikamaru asked, arms crossed. Kiba was laughing.

"NO I DON'T!! He's a KAZEKAGE" Ino said, blushing again and crossing her arms.

"So what? Naruto's just a Chuunin and he pulls pranks on both Tsunade who's a THE HOKAGE and Jiraya who's a Legendary Sannin. Sweets, we live in a world where Positions have no…" Kiba stopped for a second, Shikamaru and Ino looked at him, waiting for him to continue.

"…what the hell am I talking about?" Kiba said, scratching his head, "I'm not even sure what I was going to say…" He laughed.

Shikamaru looked at Ino. "What our doggie pal here's trying to say is this: Guy like a girl, Girl likes a guy, they fall in love and VOILA. They get married and live happily ever after" Shikamaru said, clapping his hands once.

Ino looked at the two, "What did you guys eat for breakfast?" She questioned them. They were babbling about things that made no sense. "Look, I'm gonna go home and freshen up a bit, I've been working for a few hours straight and I should take a very long shower. See ya" She waved at the two. She heard them say "Yup, she likes him alright!" and laugh. Ino blushed, 'I don't like him. Do I?' she thought, hugging her arms.

She reached her home, opening the unlocked door. No one was home; she reached her bedroom and went into her bathroom. She locked the door and turned the hot water on; she took off her clothes, untied her hair and got into the shower. Hot water was washing away the fatigue of the day. She slipped her fingers in her hair, washing it. She dropped her head, looking at her feet, letting the hot water fall on her back.

'This is going to be interesting'.

B.R.E.A.K..L.I.N.E.

TADA, FINALLY I'm DONE…11 PAGES ON THE MICROSOFT WORD. My hands are broken now...LOL... hope you're satisfied that those two finally got a chance to like each other.

MUAHAHAHA…but I'm intending to make them run into each other…NYAHAHAHA I'm evil!!

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