AN: Hi! Here's another chapter for you! Oh, for those that were confused during the first chapter (even though only ONE person said something, or anything, about it) this is what happened. Naruto, being the hero and all, heard from one of the other jinchuuriki, now dead, that sealing statue was out of balance and could implode, releasing all the demons. And demons on the loose is a big no-no. So that jinchuuriki went and tried to figure out how to stop it, and she did. Unfortunately, there isn't a way to stop it without killing the person, being Naruto. Naruto released his seal, then before the Kyuubi took over, he used all that chakra to reseal the demons in himself. When he died due to chakra loss and all that, they died with him. Since Naruto is not an expert sealer and all of that, though, there was a chakra backlash and everybody that wasn't dead yet died.

Anywho, I noticed in the last chapter I forgot to put a disclaimer! Whoops! So, here we go.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Naruto. But if somebody were to give him to me, I wouldn't mind!

"Hurry up, would you?"

"I'm coming, I'm coming. Keep your socks on, I'm coming." muttered the boy darkly.

"Why would she take her socks off, Naruto-san?" asked the other boy once they begin walking.

"It's just another expression, Sai. Jeez." said the girl.

Naruto turned his blue eyes to the girl. "Hey, Ino, did you hear? This year, we're going to another country for the trip. Isn't that exciting?"

Ino brushed off her skirt. It was a few inches shorter than the school guidelines said, but she could get away with anything. This is Ino Yamanaka we're talking about.

"Of course I heard, Naruto." she said as they stopped in at the light. "They only announced it all over the school."

"Oh. Right. No, you see, I was asking to see if you were going. If you ask my mom, she might unground me to go with you. You could say, I don't know, that since we're out of the country, maybe it is better to go with your cousin and all..."

Ino sighed. "Oh, Naruto. Fine, I'll see what I can do. You know, you still owe me for covering for you three nights ago."

Sai smiled. "There was also the kangaroo incident, and the water balloon incident and the-"

Naruto put his hand on Sai's mouth, effectively shutting him up. "Let's hurry up and get to class, should we."

Naruto ran on ahead.

"Naruto! Damn it, get back here! I'm wearing a skirt, you jerk!"

Naruto turned around as his cousin fought with her skirt. "I didn't think that a skirt that's supposed to reach mid-thigh could show so much!" he said as he pretended to check her out.

"You jerk!!"

"Hey, Ino. What's wrong? You look out of breath."

Ino glared at the retreating back of her cousin before sitting down.

"It's nothing, Hinata. It's just Naruto." Ino didn't notice the light blush on her friend's cheeks.

"If you're going to blush every time you hear of him, I'm going to get jealous."

"Oh! Kiba-kun!" said a surprised Hinata as her boyfriend gave her a peck on her cheek before setting down a box.

"How cute." said Ino. "You brought her lunch! What did you bring me?" she asked as her hand went to the lunch box. Kiba slapped her hand away.

"Um, Ino, if you want some, I'll give you some during lunch." said Hinata.

Kiba huffed and put his hands on his hips. "If she's so hungry, why doesn't she mooch off of Chouji?"

"She can't. She turned him down for a date yesterday."

"Really? I didn't-" Kiba turned around, only to find the eyes of his sensei looking at him.

"Kiba. What are you doing here? I don't have you until later, 3rd period if I'm correct."

"Oh, Kurenai-sensei! I was just-" Kiba looked about to panic.

"It was my fault, sensei! I asked him to bring me lunch." said Hinata, giggling at her boyfriend's shade of red.

Kurenai Yuhi sighed, and pointed to the door. Kiba glumly left, waving good-bye to Ino and Hinata.

Once he was gone, Kurenai sat at her desk. "Why this early in the morning? A calm morning, that's all I ask for..." The class sweat dropped. It must have been a bad night.

Naruto waved to Kiba as he sat down. "What's up? Kurenai catch you?" It was no secret that while she hadn't said anything against her adoptive daughter's relationship, she was not kind on Kiba.

Kiba groaned in response. Naruto just laughed.

"So his pain is funny?" asked Sai from behind Naruto. Kiba had to laugh at that. The boy was so socially inept! It actually ended up with him making a friend out of Naruto. They had met at a hot spring, and it had not been a pretty experience. Thank god Naruto was Naruto. Anyone else would have fought with the poor guy!

Naruto saw Kiba laughing and his quick-thinking mind came up with a plan. "It is."

"Oh. Like this?" asked Sai, and using only one finger he dug his nail into Kiba's arm and twisted, effectively pinching poor Kiba.

"OW!"

"Inuzuka, don't scream in my class." said the teacher, barely entering the classroom.

"Sorry, Genma-sensei." Kiba answered, scowling at the boys. "You guys suck." he whispered, and began paying attention to the lesson. Maybe he should get better friends. A quick jaunt through his memories changed his mind though. He had forgotten about the prank he had already planned for Naruto.

"Don't forget to turn in your trip slips. If you want to go on the trip that is. Class dismissed!"

Kiba groaned as he stretched out. "Man, that was a hard test!"

Naruto just slumped in his seat and pound is head against the desk. "No thanks to you, I probably did worse. I'd been planning on studying during lunch."

"Yeah, yeah. You would have failed anyways. That test was a killer." answered Kiba.

"Really? I thought it was fairly easy. I only had to remember the information from up to last month."

Kiba and Naruto both looked at Sai as if he was some sort of idiot. Actually, he can't be an idiot. He probably aced the test, so I'm looking at him as if he were some form of a genius? Both, unaware that they were following pretty much the same train of thought, just went even lower as their heads hurt from thinking too much.

"Naruto! Are you coming?!" A blond girl stood in the doorway. Her hair was in four pigtails and she seemed to be a senior.

"Temari-san. I'm tired."

Kiba tried not to laugh. Poor Naruto. Not only Ino, but Temari as well.

Naruto groaned as he thought that his day was still not over. He still had to go to work, plus his homework.

"Too. Much. Stuff. To. Do." he moaned to himself as he walked out with Temari in tow.

Kiba laughed at his poor friends fate, when his walked into the room as well. In the doorway stood Ino, Hinata, and Kurenai. Sai just sat there smiling and following behind as all three girls ganged up on the poor Inuzuka. He faintly wondered who had it worse.

ONE WEEK LATER

"Finally! I can breathe easily knowing that there's spring break next week!"

"Don't you have homework, Naruto?" pointed out Sai as he looked through his own, equally large pile of homework.

"Just keep quiet and maybe I'll forget and actually have fun during this trip." he said as he walked towards the school. Both boys were carrying suitcases for the week long trip. Thankfully vacation was two weeks long.

"Naruto, carry my suitcases, would you?" asked Ino sweetly as she came up to the two boys. She placed the three suitcases she was bringing with her on top of her poor cousin. Naruto looked at her cousin in amazement.

"You expect me to carry all of this?!" Naruto tried to take a step forward but crumpled under the weight.

"You still owe me, for the kangaroo thing as well. So there!" said Ino, her voice speaking of terrible things that he knew she would do to him. Stupid kangaroo.

They saw Kiba approach them. Kiba, like all of them, was out of his school uniform. Instead, he had on long shorts and a red T-shirt. Next to him was Hinata, wearing a yellow sun dress.

Ino was wearing a hot pink off the shoulder top reaching mid thigh and tight black jeans. Her hair was let down. Naruto was wearing a blue T-shirt and jeans. He had forgotten about the field trip. Sai was wearing a short T-shirt that if he stretched long enough showed his stomach and shorts.

"Hey, Hinata, Kiba! Where's Kurenai-sensei?" asked Ino while ignoring her poor cousin's tries at getting up off the floor. Sai took pity on him and removed a suitcase so he wouldn't die of the weight.

"Mom said she didn't think anybody would want their mother on this trip, so she'd already talked it over with the principal. She won't be coming this trip." said Hinata.

"That was really nice of her." said Sai as they all began loading onto the bus.

"Glad to see everyone could make it."

"Hey, Chouji. How have you been?" Ino greeted her friend. Chouji just smiled.

"I'm okay. How many of those suitcases are yours?" he asked as he looked at poor Naruto, still struggling with the suitcases.

"Why did you bring so much stuff? It's only for a week." Temari joined the group as Kiba and Hinata said something about going to sit in the other bus.

Ino stared at the amount of stuff the senior was bringing. "You're bringing that?!"

Temari had a small backpack and, no that was it. Ino could not believe it.

"Oh, didn't I tell you guys? My two brothers live there. I'll be staying at the hotel, but I have clothing at their house."

No one answered the blond at the surprising news. They didn't even know she had a brother, much less two!

Quietly, everyone entered their respective buses and decided that it would be easier to not say anything at all. The bus ride to the airport passed in relative silence.

AFTER THE PLANE RIDE

"This! This is the airport?!" asked Naruto. It was a lot bigger than the one at home!

"We're in America, Naruto. Yes, this is the airport. Now can we go get our luggage. The teachers are getting impatient." Ino grabbed Naruto's elbow and dragged him towards their luggage.

The rest followed along, taking in the sights. Thankfully, the hotel was close to the airport so they could get to the hotel without fighting with buses or taxis.

"Two to a room, our rooms are in this entire hallway. We teachers have rooms in the floor above. Girls, your rooms to my left, boys, to my right. No mixing! Just because we're not on the same floor doesn't mean anything. We're being really lenient allowing you to choose your own rooms and roommates. Try to not be too loud, we are not the only guests."

The students listened with one ear while they looked through all the rooms. All the rooms varied.

"Hinata! Let's take this room!" yelled Ino as she set her sights on the room at the far end of the hall. The room had two beds. Ino took the one nearest the door while Hinata took the one near the window. The beds had different bedsheets, but they shared the same base color of rose. There was a TV in another room that appeared to be a sitting area plus a small table that sat four.

"Alright!" answered Hinata. Kiba and Chouji took the one across from them while Naruto and Chouji took the one next to theirs. Temari had already talked it over with the teachers, she would be staying with her uncle and brothers.

Naruto and Sai's room was the same layout as the girl's except there was darker colors, as well as Kiba's and Chouji's. All the colors were more neutral than anything, though.

"Well, I'm off." said Temari as they settled into their rooms.

"Wait! Let's go with you! We get to go wherever we want, right? As long as we're here before nine and check in regularly, we can go see the sights. So why don't we go with you. Introduce us to your brothers, yeah?" said Naruto, sticking his head into the girl's room where Temari was.

Ino got her pillow and threw it at his head, hitting him square in the face. "Idiot, what if one of us was changing! Don't just open the door like that!" she yelled.

Naruto rubbed his bruised face. "If it's only you and Hinata-chan. I don't see what the big deal is."

"Idiot!" yelled Kiba, hitting Naruto in the back of his head.

"What ya hit me for?" asked Naruto. The two began to fight in the hallway.

Ino, used to their antics, just turned to Temari and said "Yeah! Take us with you! Why not? Are you ashamed of us?"

Temari felt her patience waver. That girl was too much like her cousin.

"Fine." she said reluctantly. "You guys can come."

As she saw her friends scream for joy, she couldn't help but feel like she had done a big mistake. Still, how much trouble could they get into?

She should have said no. Who knew that because of that, all of this would happen. Who knew that they'd meet up here. Life really sucked sometimes.

How did this happen? Some higher deity must have a real sick sense of humor.

"Hey, Ai. Did you see this coming?" Sarah asked the young girl as the old man was freaking out.

"No."

"I don't think he did either."

AN: And chapter 1 is complete! Yay! Hope you liked it, but I don't think I'll be able to keep this pace of updates going. I'll try to update once a week, though. At the most once every two weeks. Hope you enjoyed! And review ya bunch o' lazy slackers! I know who you are! (no seriously, I get emails saying whenever I get on a story alert/favorites/reviews. Not to mention my hit counter.)

Thank you for reading! The last two sections speak about things to come!