To all my dear readers, my sincere apologies for the delay, that miraculously wasn't that big this time!!

I hope you'll all enjoy this chapter, I thought about making it bigger, but I still don't have the exact idea of what I want next, and waiting for it to be formulated would just take a while, and my beloved readers would get impatient and mad, so I decided to put this up...

I'm trying to include Naruto's group as well, so the story won't be resolving around just a couple of characters and then the others come up but almost didn't enter, I hope you enjoy!! as always, please review!!

Also, this story is probably reaching an end, but don't worry, I'm not just gonna start dismissing it, I'm still gonna work hard for it to be as good as possible!! As a side note, when I finish the story I'll be revising the initial chapters, I won't be changing the plot, but I'll definitively change the POV in certain parts, making it a regular POV instead of someones' POV, also, I think some details will change, though nothing that would change the story!!

For the revising, and maybe even for further chapters, I was thinking about getting a Beta, though I'd rather have someone who actually reads my stories and all than someone who would onlly be doing it because... Anyway, if someone would like to do it, they're welcome to contact me, it's always good to have someone that revises your grammar and also gives you ideas when you get blocked!! I'd obviously want someone good!! Well... consider it ok?

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Chapter 18

He yawned and stretched as he made his way to the kitchen, intent on eating something. His stomach growled and he sighed. Hell, he was hungry.

Now let's see, what would be nice for breakfast.

"Hmm… maybe I'll ask Hana to make some pancakes." He hadn't eaten pancakes in such a long time, and it was one of his favorite treats.

He yawned again and covered his mouth with his hand, it wasn't nice to see other people's insides and all.

"I wonder if she's up." As he finished his thought and entered the kitchen he stopped, it sure was crowded today, or maybe he was imagining things.

Rubbing his eyes and then blinking a few times he came to the conclusion that it wasn't an illusion, the kitchen was really packed. He snickered quietly when he compared the packed kitchen to a sardine can.

"Mornin'." The first to great him was Suigetsu.

"Mornin'." He replied back and searched the kitchen for a chair or somewhere to sit.

"No chairs this morning." The water addicted nin answered his thoughts. "The girls settled there, and the 'I've-got-a-stick-shoved-up-my-ass' bastards took the others. Saucekay took one, Kai took another one and the twins took the last 2." He sighed, great, he could barely stand from sleepiness and now… yeah, he had to stand.

"Great." He mumbled, he wasn't in his best mood today. He looked around again to see if he could sit on the counter or something, but, yet again, it was already occupied by Ryo, Kisame and Tobi and Juugo wasn't sitting on it, but was leaning against it.

"There's always the floor!" the water nin joked. He threw the guy a dirty look before moving towards where the twins were, he could always take one of them, sit in their chair and sit them on his lap.
Yeah, that sounded good enough.

"Forget about using the twins, they wouldn't even let Ryo take a sit with them on his lap." He froze in mid step and sulked.

"You gotta be kidding me." He looked around the kitchen again before taking a resolve.

"Oh hell, I'm going out for breakfast." He announced loudly and started walking out of the kitchen, they could usually all fit in there.

"Where are you going Deidara?" he rolled his eyes and looked at Sasuke over his shoulder.

"Out. Breakfast." He stated and walked out, hell, if he wanted to eat something in here he'd have to wait for lunch, and he was too hungry to wait.

When he reached the balcony and was about to start jumping over the roofs to go get some breakfast, he raised a brow at the water nin that was following him.

"What do you want?" without breakfast and still sleepy, he was never in a good mood. Suigetsu shrugged.

"I tried to get something to eat, but they totally raided the kitchen." He rolled his eyes, figured they'd do that, especially Ryo and Kai, they ate their asses off at each meal.

"Fine. C'mon." and they started making their way towards Fay's house.

He stopped before opening the window that led inside the living room and turned towards Suigetsu.

"Whoever you see in here, you can't tell Kami-sama or we're dead, well, me especially." Suigetsu shrugged.

"Whatever, as long as I get breakfast." He rolled his eyes and opened the window, taking his shoes off, and then entered. Suigetsu followed suit, also taking his shoes off.

The house was quiet and dark, signaling that whoever lived there was sleeping.

"Are you sure we're gonna get breakfast?" he ignored and started walking towards a certain room to go get his breakfast giver.

"Stay there, I'll be right back." He had a mischievous grin on his face as he opened the door to her room. She was sleeping soundly, her stomach down, one of her arms spread to the side and the other under her pillow. She was only wearing a baggy T-shirt, he presumed Fay's, and the sheets were only covering her lower half, and even so, most of her legs weren't covered.

Some men would get, ahem, horny by the scene, but he just grinned wider, the mischief in his eyes ever present as he walked closer to her.

Before he did anything, he gathered himself and put on his best puppy dog look and kneeled down so he could be face to face with her.

"Sakura-chan." He whined. "Make me breakfast." She groaned and shifted slightly, but didn't wake up. He nudged her on the ribs with his index finger and whined.

"Sakura-chan, I'm hungry." He nudged her again. "Sakura-chan." He nudged her again and she slapped his hand away while turning her back at him.

"Go away Naruto." She mumbled and curled up. Naruto? Hey, that was an insult, he may be blond, and have blue eyes… but he wasn't an idiot like the Kyuubi boy.

"Sakura-chan, c'mon, I'm starving." But, since he wanted to wake her up, might as well use some dirty tricks. "C'mon Sakura-chan." He nudged her ribs again, this time with more force. "The kitchen's burning and I don't know what to do. Sakura-chan." He whined again, and this time she turned to him, her gaze wasn't focused, but looked threatening.

"I'm tired you moron, now go away." She poked his shoulder and he was sent backwards to the floor. Damn, she wasn't waking up, and even in her sleep she was strong. Damn.

Pouting he got up and then grabbed her and threw her over his shoulder.

"I need breakfast." He whined as she squeaked and woke up as if he had throw cold water in her face.

"Huh? Naruto put me down right now." She hissed and hit his back.

"Geez, stop calling me that, I'm not your moronic friend, and you're cooking me breakfast." She was confused for a few seconds, in which he walked into the hallway.

"Huh?" she looked back to see long blond hair instead of spiky short blond hair, and then it all came to mind, and her temper started going up.

"Deidara? Let me down, I went to bed at fucking 5 a.m." she practically yelled, being nice enough not to because of the sleeping Fay on the other room.

"I need to sleep damn it." As he walked past the living room she noticed Suigetsu on the couch.

"And what the hell is he doing here? And let me down damn it." The last statement was followed by a bonk in his head, which followed by her feet touching the floor, the blond whining and nursing his head.

"S-Sakura-chan… I need breakfast, yeah." he whined again, pouting with tears ready to fall from his eyes. She looked at him skeptically and then glared.

"First, why the hell is he here?" she pointed at the relaxed man on the living room, to which it was the person itself and not Deidara who answered.

"The idiots raided the kitchen and I need breakfast too." He shrugged. "And I don't care who you are, what I do and who hang around with isn't of Saucekay's business." She stared at him for a few seconds, to then start laughing.

Deidara looked at her with a weird look, what was funny, and why wasn't she brutalizing Suigetsu like she had him?

"Oy, what's so funny pinky?" she glared at him through her laughter and the started holding her sides.

"It's just... –laugh-… so funny… -laugh-… Saucekay…" she kept laughing and he stared at her in shock.

"Ne, are you ok?" she nodded, kept laughing and small tears started appearing in her eyes from laughing so much.

Kisame watched in amusement as the small girl moved her feet happily while eating her breakfast, her new toy (which had gotten, in Sasuke's opinion, a very unnecessary remark from Suigetsu, followed by Leader hitting him on the back of the head) being hugged by her free arm. She just seemed to not want to let it go, no one had managed to get it away from her, not even her brother.

He wondered if the younger boy knew already, but he supposed not, he was still to blind in his own misery to notice, so he just decided to keep quiet and let the boy find out on his own, it was something concerning his life after all, plus, his new collection of sake bottles kept his mouth shut for the time being.

Ryo took the mug where his warm tea was and took it up to his lips. Before the mug touched his lips he turned to the side and raised a brow.

"Damn it. Damn it." The orange haired man cursed under his breath while waving his hands over the mug.

"You got burned again?" Kai glared at him and kept fanning his mug, to which he rolled his eyes. "Klutz."

"What was that?" the green eyed man hissed, to which he shrugged and extended one of his hands towards the Kai's mug.

"I'll cool it down." Kai huffed and turned his head away mumbling something under his breath.

Without much fuss, from the water in the atmosphere, he created some ice and let the small beads of ice fall into Kai's mug.

"Let the ice melt." Kai mumbled a 'thanks' and then took the mug in his hands, the orange haired wasn't always in a good mood in the morning, especially when something happened to him. Of course, after he ate his ass off, his good mood returned instantly.

Well… he couldn't complain much, he ate almost as much as Kai… but that was beside the point.

"Ne, nii-chan." He looked to his left (Kai was at his right) and looked down at the small boy.

"Nani?" the boy was nibbling on a piece of pancake while looking away from him, which made him seem really cute.

"That, hm, was really cool!" he grinned and patted the boy's head.

"It's useful!" the boy's shy smile turned into a grin.

"Ne, nii-chan, can you teach me?" he tilted his head, did the boy really know what he was asking? He glanced at the men sitting next to Ryuuki and then looked back at the small boy.

"Before I teach ya anything, you gotta become a genin, the best of the class, deal?" the boy tilted his head, a thoughtful expression adorning his face, until he grinned and nodded enthusiastically.

"And then you'll teach me?" he nodded and ruffled the boy's hair with a grin. "Really?" he nodded again.

"Hai, hai, I'll teach you." The boy cheered and clapped his hands, the piece of pancake he had been eating forgotten for the moment.

"You're the best nii-chan!!" he just grinned again and took a sip of his tea, and unlike Kai, he checked if it was too hot before actually gulping the warm liquid.

Next to Sasuke, that sat next to Ryuuki, who was sited next to Ryo, Kyuuki was eating her food happily, her legs dangling, and her plushie tightly held against her side, for some reason, she seemed very giddy and bubbly today. Also, unknown for the moment, she would be very clingy too.

"Wake up." She tapped her foot impatiently on the ground, a frown on her face as her blue eyes narrowed at the male sleeping, tightly snuggled on his sleeping bag, that now only covered his back due to too much movement during his sleep.

From behind her Shikamaru muttered a troublesome, Neji stayed quiet, although everyone could see the vein threatening to pop on his forehead, Tenten ignored and kept playing with the kunai on her fingers, and Gaara was leaning against a tree watching with a blank face.

The blond woman groaned and kicked the blond on the ground with her foot.

"Wake up Naruto." She kept tapping her foot on the ground when all the blond did was moan and turn his back to her. She nudged him with her foot again, this time harder.

"Wake up Naruto." She hissed loudly, to which the blond only moaned again while mumbling something.

Ino was dangerously close to assassinate her Hokage, but no one had been able to wake him up so far. Neji had tried the calm approach, shaking him, but that hadn't worked. Tenten had tried the cold water thrown to his face, another failure. Shikamaru hadn't tried, it was too troublesome. So she was trying now, and it seemed it was going to be another failure.

"Naruto." She called, almost yelled, and kicked his back full force, to which he groaned, didn't wake up and mumbled something.

"Ok, I give up, this idiot isn't waking up any time soon." She kicked him again just because he was being a pain in the ass, and then turned around, walked towards the log next to the remains of the fire of the previous night and sat down huffing, a glare directed at the Rukodaime Hokage.

Everyone else sighed, the problems with missions like these was that no one knew how to wake up the blond. Usually, when he went on missions, there was always someone from his team, Sakura, Sai, Kakashi or Yamato, and they seemed to be the only ones, apart from Hinata, that knew how to wake him up.

Still leaning against the tree and not moving, Gaara decided to wake the blond up, so he sent his sand (it was much more practical than doing it himself).

His sand slowly moved near the ground until it hit the target, slowly wrapping in his ankles. When that was done, the Kazekage watched everyone, waited for them to be all looking at the blond at once (even if they were just talking to each other) and made his sand move the body it was attached to.

Out of nowhere the Hokage (the great Hokage) was in the hair, head down, being lifted through the hair by the Kazekage's sand, and not very gently at that, seeing as he hit a few branches before he was in open sky, his T-shirt practically falling down, his sleeping hat (miraculously) still attached to his head, and his orange (figures) boxers falling down (huh, up?) his legs (not revealing anything, thankfully).

The Kazekage watched as the blond kept sleeping, and decided to be a little more aggressive. His sand released the blond, who then started falling face first towards the ground.

"Eh… What the hell??" the blond Hokage yelled and caught himself in a branch, after breaking a few trying to catch himself, and managed to not hit the ground. From his branch he glared at the people in the camp, most of them laughing their asses off.

"What was that for??" he yelled again. "And I swear to Kami, if I find out whoever did this, you're spending the rest of your life doing D-ranked missions." With his last statement he sounded like a pouting child talking.

"Baka." Ino spoke.

"What was that?? Because it sounded like you want D-ranked missions." Ino rolled her eyes and shrugged.

"Hey, I just tried to kick you awake, turns out it didn't work." Naruto glared at her, which didn't look menacing as it should thanks to the fact he was in his sleeping clothes.

"Get dressed Naruto." He turned to the Kazekage and kept glaring, his arms crossed over his chest.

"And by the way, you can't order me around and make me do D-ranked missions." Naruto's jaw dropped and Gaara smirked.

He mumbled something under his breath and sulked, why the hell did she had to have that super human strength of hers? And what had he done wrong to deserve being punched so hard? His head was fuckin' aching, he swore that when she hit him he felt a few bones of his jaw snap and his brain do some weird squishy sound.

Oh, now he remembered, it was all because (once again) Suigetsu had thrown a (so very much) unnecessary comment into the air, and damn it, why did he always have to be the one she hit? He hadn't been the one to speak.

That moronic idiot just had to sound like a pervert, he just couldn't keep his mouth shut. And now she was beyond pissed off at him.

"Oh, and by the way, nice panties."Suigetsu had been the one to make the comment, had been the one to actually see her panties, and he was the one who had to pay the price… hell, he should have been authorized to see her panties too for such a strong punch.

He winced when she slammed a plate of pancakes in front of Suigetsu (he felt better knowing she was pissed at Suigetsu too… although not much, his jaw hurt like hell), not even glancing at him.

Wait, what about him?? He had been the one to ask her, he had been the one that came for breakfast and not tagged along.

He looked up at her from his chair, he wasn't pouting (because he was 26— no, 23, and he wasn't a kid, and he didn't feel like acting like a gaki right now… much), but he looked at her with puppy dog eyes, pleading at that.

"Can I have some too?" he whispered quietly. She glanced at him with that ruthless, cold gaze of hers, and he shrunk further into the wooden chair, his gaze averting down. "Guess not then." He mumbled and crossed his arms on the table, letting his forehead rest against his arm. All he could see was the table now. Damn it, he felt like crap.

His stomach growled, damn it hurt, and he glared down at it through the table.

"Urusai." He hissed under his breath, prying his stomach to shut the hell up and stay quiet.

"Keh, looks like you're not getting breakfast after all blondy." He ignored the comment, making a mental note to make a bomb explode in the watter nin's room while he was sleeping.

There was the sound of a bonk in the head (he knew what the sounded like already).

"What was that… for?" Suigetsu spoke the last work quietly, laughed nervously and then started munching on his pancakes (he wanted some too) again. Sakura must have hit him and given him one of those ruthless, ice cold stared. He hated those, they made him shiver.

He spaced out for a while, not thinking about anything in particular, just words, making every possible effort not to think about his aching stomach. But after a while, he felt a poke on his head.

Turning his head to the left, he looked up (he must've looked like crap, just like he felt), but as he saw the plate being laid in front of him (laid, not slammed. In your face fish boy. Bleh!! XP), his face instantly brightened. She was looking away from him stubbornly, but he decided to thank her nonetheless… by being his obnoxious self.

"Thank you Sakura-chan!!" he cheered and hugged her waist, his head against her stomach. "You're the best Sakura-chan!!" he felt a tug on his hair and looked up.

"Let go." Oh, right, she was still pissed.

"Hai." He mumbled and leg go of her waist instantly, now eyeing the yummy looking pancakes… wait, was that chocolate over the pancakes? Yatta!! He had chocolate and Suigetsu didn't.

He joined his hands in front of him (he was more polite than Suigetsu, who hadn't even thanked for his food) and contained himself from drooling.

"Itadakimasu!!" he cheered happily and dug in. Just as he put the first bite in his mouth his eyes shone and he thanked Kami-sama (the one upstairs) that the pink haired lady existed and cooked him breakfast.

"Hmm… Umai!!" (A/N: Umai Delicious)he praised under his breath and kept eating. He had no idea if she cooked well (like soba or teriyaki) but she sure knew how to make pastries and such.

"I'm going back to bed, make sure you wash the dishes water-boy." She yawned after that as she walked into the hallway.

"Ne, Sakura-chan." She looked back over her shoulder with an annoyed look.

"Thanks for the breakfast!" he flashed her a grin, to which she rolled her eyes and smiled. "And… sorry 'bout earlier." She shrugged.

"If your jaw starts hurting talk to me." She paused and took a few steps. "When I'm not barely standing from lack of sleep." She yawned again and he nodded, even though she couldn't see him.

"Sure." Her steps died down as she closed the door to her room and he kept eating happily.

Glancing at Suigetsu, who didn't looked pleased for the chore he would have to do, he noticed that he water nin only had 2 pancakes (already half eaten), while he… hm…. He looked down at his plate and grinned smugly, Suigetsu had 2 pancakes with only a bit of butter over them, while he, on the other hand, had 4 big, fat pancakes with tons of chocolate over them. Compensation was really nice, if she'd cook for him like this, he wouldn't mind getting punched more often.

Wait. That didn't sound right, he did mind getting punched, it hurt like hell, but he still loved her cooking.

I hope you all enjoyed, I enjoyed writing it!!

Please review and let me know what you think, what you would like to see happening in next chapters and all of that!! Even if it's just telling me that you like it!! Oh, oh, please consider what I said about the Beta on the first author's note before the chapter!!

I'm out of things to say, I know I had a few things to say but... can't remember... hm... let me just think for a while!!

-thinking-

-thinking some more-

AHHHH, I REMEMBERED!! Gomen for the outburst... --'

I just want to dedicate this chapter to Black Shadow Fox Shaman because he/she (not sure which one) has been my most faithfull reviewer ever since chapter 6, and his/her reviews always make me grin, some of them even make me crack a laugh!! your opinions are really cool!! Thanks for the support and keep on reviewing!!

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I really love you all so very much (not romantically obviously XD),

yours truly,

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