How long has it been since I last updated? I think about three days.
Usually I update like, what, once every two days?
Whatever... I was inspired then.
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Chapter 6: Day 1

Akamaru barked.

Kiba and the others stopped and looked at him.

"What's wrong, boy?" Kiba asked. Akamaru barked again. "He says someone-or something-is following us," the owner said after a while.

Neji activated his Byakugan and looked around. There, about 100 meters behind (and coming fast), was a big blob of chakra. Neji recognized it right away and his eyes widened.

"Quickly," he suddenly cried, "run as fast as you can!" Before the others could question him, Neji ran off. The three followed him.

However, before they coul get far, a black blob zoomed past Naruto, Kiba, Akamaru, and Shino and clobbered Neji to the ground. The boys stopped to watch Neji roll down the path.

Finally they stopped and the four caught up with them.

"What is that?" Naruto pointed at the black thing that was sitting on top of Neji's chest. The goo creature looked curiously at the four new faces. He didn't know any of them, but they all looked friendly enough. Except for the big white furry animal. He's going to have to watch that one. Those fangs looked dangerous.

Neji slowly sat up, rubbing his head. Naruto, Kiba, and Shino (who didn't show it) were all amazed at the thing that was still sticking to Neji's chest.

Neji looked down at the goo creature, who was staring back up at him. "Brrrllgrrrll!" he purred, accidentally spraying black goo all over his master's face. Neji groaned, while Naruto and Kiba were laughing.

Shino, ignoring the two immatures, asked the same question Naruto asked earlier.

"It's a goo thing, or something, that's like a super glue. If you touch it, you'll be stuck," Neji explained while carefully wiping his face with a chakra covered hand. He looked down at it. He was about to study it when it slipped from his hand and back into the goo creature. Then he jumped off his master. "I got it from the enemy."

"A living goo?" Naruto asked after he finished laughing.

"I guess so," Neji replied.

"So," Kiba came next, "a goo that's like glue. Hey let's name him Gloo, spelled G-L-O-O! It's a combination of goo and glue!"

"Why are we naming it?" Neji thought Kiba was teasing him, which got him irritated.

"Well obviously it likes you and will keep following you like some typed of faithful dog," Shino spoke this time. "So we might as well name it."

Neji was shocked, but he didn't know which he was shocked more at: what Shino was saying, or the fact that he now has a faithful black jelly dog as a companion.

"So it's agreed," Naruto knelt down to pet the goo, forgetting about the stickiness, "we're naming him Gloo!" He now found himself stuck. "Uh, Neji..."

"You need to surround your hand with a thin coat of chakra, but not too much, because I think that hurts him," Neji remembered how he had put a lot of chakra on his hand and the goo just suddenly jumped to the ceiling.

"Uh, I don't know how to do that."

Neji got even more irritated. Why did that Hokage have to send him along with them?

Gloo (he liked his new name) didn't want this yellow-haired boy petting him. He wasn't comfortable with him yet. So he crawled closer to his master.

All four boys were surprised at this. "I didn't even do anything," Naruto said.

"I think," Shino started, "that Gloo can decide if he wants to stick or not."

That makes sense, Neji thought, also remembering how easy it was for him to be free from all that goo.

Suddenly, he thought of an idea. The big one was using goo, so maybe he can use Gloo as a hostage. That was the only way he could keep him. He felt guilty for thinking of this, but who was he to care? After all, that creature could still be a spy! He wondered about this plan. Yes, Gloo has to be a spy! Why else would he be following them? He's going to report to that big one about their progress. Then, he and his thin partner would ambush them!

Neji pondered about this so much that he forgot that the two men had Hinata, and he also missed the first 100 calls from his teammates, who were all calling his name.

"Neji, let's go!" Naruto was shouting.

Neji snapped out of his thoughts and ran over to his friends, with Gloo clinging on to his ankle.

Shino looked up at the sky. Soon the sun would go down. If he was the leader, he would already be thinking of a place to sleep.

But he was not. Neji was.

And he didn't know what Neji was thinking.

Everything was perfect! The size, the design, and even the shoes!

Ryu had made Hinata clothes.

She was looking at herself on the stream that Ryu showed her earlier. He didn't know how he made her clothes real fast, or how he got the correct sizes, but she didn't care. She was just glad not to be in her nightgown anymore. It's awkward when a lot of things happen to you and all you're wearing is a sleep wear.

She hugged herself, twirled herself, and she even put chakra on her feet and started dancing on top of the water! She was such in a happy mood!

Her clothes were this: deerskin pants, a silk shirt (Ryu used up all the silk from the silkworms that he's been saving) with rare flowers that he found sewn in, a red-brown fur jacket (that she won't wear until it gets cold), and leather flats (A/N: I don't know if leather flats are comfortable, but I do know boots are, so I just assumed they would be nice also). Ryu said that he was a fast worker, that living in the forest gives you a lot of time to practice.

"Hey Hinata!" Ryu was coming through the trees, so Hinata quickly got to land. "It's getting cold out; we'd better get inside." With that, the two walked back to the cave where the fire had already been started.

Once they got warmed up, Hinata asked, "Ryu, how come you live in the forest?"

Ryu just stared at the fire. "I'd rather not talk about it," he muttered after a while. Now Hinata felt bad; Ryu made her such wonderful clothes and then she goes around and asks Ryu a personal question.

She decided not to talk the rest of the time.

Soon night came, and Neji's team was making camp. Their problem: Where is Gloo sleeping?

"No, no, you have the bed Ryu. It's yours after all."

"But Hinata, you're the guest. I'll just sleep on my sleeping bag."

Their problem: Who is sleeping on the bed?

Jug and Kiro were getting ready for the plan to start. Their problem: How do they start it?

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I am getting lazier these days! I think it was because I was discouraged from my last chapter.
Oh well!
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