DISCLAIMER: I do not own the 'Naruto' or 'Naruto: Shippuden' series or characters!

SWEET DISPOSITION

After two weeks of being stuck in the Konoha Hospital, I was finally released. Naturally, I was escorted home by my boyfriend and my best friend who was standing on my right. I was stuck in the middle of the two of them, but unfortunately, all that Sakura could talk about was the party Tenten had organised for tonight. She was driving Naruto and I insane.

"Tonight is going to be so much fun! We haven't had fun for a while." Naruto rolled his eyes and muttered loud enough for Sakura to hear.

"Yeah, you've said it about a million times by now."

The next thing I knew I was sitting on the dirt road next to Naruto who was sporting a huge lump on the back of his head from where Sakura had thumped him. How it happened? Well, I was holding onto Naruto's hand, so when Sakura belted him in the head, I went down with him. I sighed, wincing slightly. As Sakura stared down at us in horror.

"Akima! Naruto, you idiot! Look what you just did!" she shrieked. Naruto glared up at Sakura, rubbing the back of his head.

"Me? You're the one who hit me in the head!" He retorted. Sakura naturally ignored him.

"Akima, are you okay?"

I smiled sarcastically. "Peachy."

"What's going on?" a strict, older female's voice asks.

I saw two sandalled feet come into view. I looked up and saw that I was staring into the sharp, brown eyes of Lady Tsunade, who had her hands on her hips and was looking down at us with an expression similar what a mother trying to referee a fight between her unruly children would have. Her ladyship was flanked by her assistant who was staring down at the three of us disapprovingly and Master Jiraiya, who was staring at us with an amused expression.

"Sakura hit Naruto over the head because he annoyed her and at the time, I was holding his hand. So when he fell down from Sakura's blow, I went down with him." I winced slightly as Lady Tsunade glances at Sakura and raises an unimpressed eyebrow at her.

"Well, you Sakura of all people should know better. Be careful next time. Akima has just left the hospital, we don't want to put her back in it." Sakura stood up and bowed formally to the 5th Kokage in apology.

"Sorry, m'lady."

"Alright, kids. Up ya get!" Master Jiraiya came up behind his godson and grabbed him by the collar, pulling him to his feet. But it took the efforts of Sakura and Tsunade to pull me to my feet, gently.

"Thank you." I said, graciously.

"Well, now that I have you here, I would like to get your point of view of the 'Vision Quest' you took your team mates on, please." Tsunade requested of me. I hesitated, but realised I was going to have to reveal it to her eventually. So I agreed, reluctantly.

"Of course, m'lady." Lady Tsunade smiled kindly at me.

"Shall we go to your apartment then?" I nodded and using Naruto and Sakura as leaning posts, led the way towards my apartment. When we arrived there, we were greeted by Kakashi who was sitting on a nearby fence, waiting patiently for us to appear and reading one of Jiraiya's make out books. He immediately snaps it shut when our little group comes into view.

"Hey kids! Nice to see you again!" Kakashi smiles brightly at us. Lady Tsunade smiles at him.

"Ah, Kakashi. Good of you to come." I unlocked the door and stepped back to let everybody pass, as they went into my sitting room.

"Please, make yourself at home." I said to my guests then I quickly went into my bedroom to deposit my soiled clothing and turn on my iPod player. Then came back out into my kitchen and made a pot of tea for everybody. Lady Tsunade and her assistant sat down at my couch, while Naruto, Sakura and Kakashi took residence at my guest table. Jiraiya chose to lean against the wall next to the front door.

"Alright now, Akima. Tell us everything" I gulped, placing the tea tray on the table and sat down next to Naruto.

"Okay, uh. I was standing next to Sakura telling her my plan about taking her, Sasuke and Naruto back to our past to help Sasuke see all the good times and to try and persuade him to stop his vengeance against Itachi – even though he so totally deserves it." I said at top speed.

"Okay. Go on." Lady Tsunade said, gesturing with her hand.

"Then Yamato told us that Sasuke was about to attack Naruto and then we watched as Sasuke sprang off the lip of the crater like it was a springboard and landed near Naruto." Naruto shuddered when he remembered that.

"Yeah. That was scary." He muttered.

"And what did Sasuke say to you, Naruto?" asked Lady Tsunade, who looked at him with concern. Naruto looked up at Tsunade.

"Sasuke started mocking me by telling me that I was wasting my time trying to save him when I could have spent that time training to become the next Hokage." Her ladyship nodded.

"I see, and what did you say to that?"

Naruto sighed before answering.

""How could I become Hokage if I can't even save one of my friends?"" Sakura spoke up after that.

"That was when Sai, who we thought was trying to assassinate Sasuke, came over and stopped Sasuke from trying to impale Naruto on his sword." Lady Tsunade hummed in agreement.

"I did have the suspicion that something like that was going to happen. So then after Sai rescued Naruto, what else happened?"

"Sasuke attacked Sai, which Yamato intervened on and then Sasuke turned on him and stabbed Yamato in the shoulder. After that I acted on my plan. I asked Sakura to go and explain everything to Naruto and I went over to Sasuke and collected his chakra for the vision to work." I continued the story. Kakashi then piped up.

"Then you sent the four of you back 'in time'." I looked at my former Sensai with shock.

"How did you know that?"

Kakashi grinned at me.

"Just a wild guess. That's usually how Sharingan charms work." He laughed slightly.

"Can you tell us what you saw in the vision?" asked Jiraiya, eagerly. Lady Tsunade sat up a little straighter when this was asked.

"Yes, that actually sounds very interesting." I had to fight to stop myself from raising my eyebrow.

You weren't as enthusiastic the last time...

"First, we saw the day team 7 got our picture taken. Naruto and Sasuke wouldn't stop bickering the entire time." said Sakura. Kakashi sighed exasperatedly.

"Yeah. Don't remind me."

Sakura giggled. "Uh, that was when we were reliving it, Sensai."

Kakashi brightened at this.

"Oh. That's okay then. Glad I wasn't there." Naruto then looked mischievous again.

"Then we revisited the memory where we tried to see what was under Kakashi-sensai's mask." said Naruto. Kakashi scratched his head sheepishly when Naruto told the three adults this.

"You're still going on about that?" Master Jiraiya chuckled at Kakashi's reaction.

"Glad to see you kids had fun then. Ha ha." Lady Tsunade smiled slightly before turning to me and asking me more questions.

"Then what happened, Akima?"

The laughter stopped when Naruto and Sakura realised what I had to tell Tsunade and both took my hands for support, as this was still a sensitive subject for me.

"We witnessed my parents' murder at the hands of Orochimaru, after that we saw you, Master Jiraiya, come in and picked me up to take me to the 3rd Hokage." I turned to Master Jiraiya, lowered his head gravely.

"I really hoped that that wouldn't have come up. It was a terrible loss." commented Jiraiya.

"You should've seen Sasuke's face when he saw that. It was scary." added Naruto. Lady Tsunade glowered at Naruto.

"Understandable, Naruto. They were his Aunt and Uncle." Naruto looked shamefaced at what he had said.

"I've never seen Sasuke look so-"

"Devastated? Anguished? Vulnerable?" I interrupted, snappishly. I didn't like the way they were talking about Sasuke.

Sakura looked at me mystified.

"How did you-?" I pointed to my head with my index finger. "Psychic."

Sakura nodded in response.

"And the fact that she's related to him is a dead giveaway as well." added Lady Tsunade, smirking slightly.

"Did you know what happened to you after I rescued you from your parents' house, Akima?" asked Jiraiya, urgently. Naruto, Sakura and I nodded.

"Yeah. We saw one of Sasuke's memories." I replied.

"Then the weirdest thing happened..." began Naruto. Jiraiya grinned at his godson.

"Do tell." Naruto bounced excitedly on the spot as he remembered exactly what he and the rest of us had seen.

"We saw our future selves!" he gushed. All the adults looked surprised.

"Really?" asked Tsunade. Sakura nodded enthusiastically.

"Yeah. Then when Sasuke's older self turned up, Akima totally lost it after touching his hand. Then she ran off." Tsunade looked at me suspiciously.

"Why did you run away, Akima?" I sighed angrily as the memory rushed back and all the anger that I had previously had came rushing back. I glanced at Naruto, who also was tight-lipped about it as well.

"I got a premonition after I grabbed the older Sasuke's hand. In my vision I saw Sasuke's possible future. I got pissed off when I saw what Sasuke was wearing.
That resorted to my running away." Lady Tsunade nodded in reply. While both Kakashi and Jiraiya gave me their full attention.

"It was hinted that Sasuke was going to join the Akatsuki. And considering that we had just fought against some of them, it disgusted me." Kakashi looked at Naruto and Sakura.

"Did your teammates go after you?" he asked. Naruto scowled at his former Sensai.

"We're not idiots. Of course we did."

I grinned at Naruto and flung an arm around his shoulders. Sakura rolled her eyes at the both of us.

"Naruto found me, and calmed me down." Sakura turned her head away to mutter to herself.

"Yeah. I bet he did."

Naruto kicked her underneath the table. Sakura jumped in surprise. But Naruto had something else to say to the three older ninja.

"But before we went after Akima, our four elder selves told me something about our future that is going to happen-"

But before Naruto could say any more, Jiraiya raised a hand to silence him.

"Then it's better that we don't know about it." Naruto and I continued telling them about the memories that we had re-witnessed.

"Naruto and I saw the day we first became friends. And then Sasuke arrived and we witnessed a time where Sasuke and I were younger and when Sasuke was very protective of me." Sakura shrugged as we finished telling Tsunade, Kakashi and Jiraiya what we had seen of our past memories.

"That's pretty much all that happened because Orochimaru appeared and we were brought back to the present."

Lady Tsunade and her assistant rose to their feet, and Kakashi followed suit.

"Well, thank you for sharing this with us. What Yamato reported back to me makes more sense with your information."

Suddenly, there was a knock at the front door which Jiraiya answers. He grinned at Naruto, Sakura and I as Temari, Hinata, Tenten and Ino stepped into the apartment with surprised expressions on their faces.

"It seems that the kids have something planned for tonight." reports Jiraiya.

Temari bowed low to Tsunade.

"Good evening, m'lady. Master Jiraiya. Kakashi-sensai." Lady Tsunade nodded in reply to the awkward Sand Kunoichi.

"Good evening, Temari." Then looks at the others. "Girls?"

"Good evening, Lady Tsunade." replies Ino, sweetly. Hinata smiled slightly at the Kokage.

"M'lady."

Tenten struggled by with an overstuffed bag, trying not to look too flustered. "Good evening."

Tsunade smiles brightly at us before heading towards the door, with the other adults in tow.

"Have fun."

Tsunade, her assistant, Kakashi and Jiraiya make their leave. Only Naruto remained. Temari instantly turns on him, frowning severely.

"Out, Naruto! You'll see Akima later!" I hooked an arm through my boyfriend's arm and headed for the door.

"I'll show him out." To my annoyance, the other girls giggled at the both of us and made a beeline for my bedroom.

Hinata, however was one of the last to go because she was staring sullenly at Naruto for several seconds before Sakura noticed her coldness and hooked her arm through Hinata's rigid arm and distracted her with a question, whilst simultaneously leading her to my bedroom.

She's pissed... I thought and hoped Naruto wouldn't ask questions. Naruto had looked shocked at the expression on Hinata's face.

"Woah. Hinata looks angry." I feigned surprise.

"Really? I didn't notice." Naruto pulls me into a hug and I clung to him tightly, breathing him in.

"See ya tonight." he whispered in my ear. I pulled away and smiled brightly at him.

"Love you." I replied, quietly and kissed him tenderly. Naruto responded enthusiastically, then broke off gently and walked down the corridor and out into the dirt streets of Konoha, presumably towards his Apartment to get ready himself.

"Hey Naruto!" I called out to him.

"Yeah?"

"Just make sure the guys come with ya so that we can all show up at the party together!" I reminded him.

"Sure. See ya tonight!" I heard his fading feet as he sprinted off down the street. I stepped back inside the Apartment and lent up against the door, sighing. Hinata's unhappy face forced itself into my head and I instantly felt guilty.

"Okay."

I made my way over to my bedroom and opened the door, where upon I was immediately pounced on and dragged in there by a couple of overly enthusiastic kunoichi, who started giggling. Temari took charge of the main event.

"Hey Bitches! Who's ready to get Akima dressed for tonight?" There was a unanimous agreement, except for Hinata who is sitting on the bedroom floor looking like she was about to burst into tears.

"I'm not sure what to wear though. I've never been a party girl before." I admitted, awkwardly.

Of course you haven't stupid. You've been a total recluse your whole life... Sakura came over to me and wrapped an arm around my shoulders as she guided me over to my bed and sat me down.

"That's okay. We'll help you find something. That's why we're all getting dressed here." Sakura explained. The others nodded.

"Yeah, you're gonna look so hot, Naruto's gonna die!" promises Ino, grinning wickedly at me. I winced and grinned back kinda pathetically. As the girls started organising how they were going to make me over, I saw Hinata stand up and head for the bedroom door kinda quickly. It looked like she literally wanted to burst into tears now.

Oh crap! Tenten looked up at this.

"Hinata? Where are you going?" I saw my chance to explain myself to Hinata.

"Bathroom. I'll just show her where that is." I followed Hinata out of my bedroom and into the sitting room, where Hinata surveyed me with a look of complete resentment. I don't really deserve it, because it wasn't Naruto's fault that he didn't know the extent of Hinata's feelings for him.

"Hinata, I know that you're upset about Naruto and I going out together. But I have something to tell you about that." I tried to explain to an angry Hinata. Hinata crossed her arms protectively over her chest.

"You're going to gloat about it?" she snapped, sourly. I bit back my retort barely.

"No. I'm not that insensitive, Hinata." I replied, dryly. Hinata sank down onto my couch and stared stonily at me. Then I had a sudden thought that might help Hinata through her pain.

"Wait here for a moment." I trotted back to my bedroom and fished around in my backpack, the one I took with me on missions, and located what I was looking for and hurried back outside to Hinata who was looking at me suspiciously.

"Here, take this." I shoved a photo into Hinata's hands.

The girl stares down at the photo in surprise. It's a picture of the new team 7 with Yamato instead of Kakashi standing over us. The photo is actually quite funny as standing in place where Sasuke should've been standing is Naruto, with his hand around my waist. Following in this order – me, I had my arm around Naruto's neck like the last picture of team 7 where I had my arm around Sasuke's shoulders, next to me is Sakura who is not grinning angelically into the camera like last time, but is, like Naruto and I, staring with total dislike at Sai who is standing where Naruto had originally been in the previous team 7 photo with his fake smile.

In fact, the only people smiling in this photo is Sai and Yamato. Hinata looks at me questioningly.

"Who's that?" she asks, indicating the only obvious person in the picture: Sai.

"His name is Sai. He's gonna be at the party tonight. And if you like, he can be your date." I suggested, hopefully.
Hinata stares at me confusedly. I sighed.

"I felt bad when I accidentally blurted out in front of you that Naruto and I were going out. So I'm trying to make it up to you." Hinata nodded, looking slightly insulted.
But I hadn't finished yet.

"But I'm also telling you, Hinata. That relationships don't always last forever. So there might be a change that you and Naruto might become a couple in the future. So don't lose hope." I urged.

Hinata finally cracked a smile.

"You really think so?" she asked, quietly. I nodded and tickled Hinata, fondly.

"Of course I think so." I replied. Hinata smiled at me happily.

"Thanks, Akima!" I pulled her to her feet and we walked hand in hand back to the bedroom, after I pocketed reluctantly the picture of the newly constructed team 7.

"That's what friends are for." We hugged and Hinata took another look at Sai, frowning slightly.

"You know, this guy is kinda cute." I laughed, then remembered something important.

"But I need to warn you. He can be really blunt and really rude. Mainly because he's never been out before. Just a heads up." Hinata looks a little concerned.

"Okay. Thanks."

I linked arms with Hinata and head back into the bedroom, before Sakura takes my hands and starts dancing with me. Then she leads me over to a nearby chair and gently eases me down into it, because of my injuries. Apparently, while I had been talking with Hinata out in the sitting room, Temari the fashion expert, had picked out what I was going to be wearing tonight.

"You're serious?" I asked, dubiously. Temari came over to me and wrapped an arm around my shoulders.

"Akima, trust me. You're gonna look totally hot!" promises Temari. I look over at Tenten, who is standing near my dressing table with her hand on her hip staring disapprovingly at my hair.

"I'm doing your hair, Akima." I smiled and nodded at Tenten.

"Okay. What do you have in mind?" Tenten comes over and pulls my hair out of its messy ponytail and shakes out my hair. She frowns at the touch of my hair.

"Well after you've washed it and blow-dried, I was thinking a funky, but casual upsweep." she unties it and places it on the dressing table. I think I'll tie that around my forehead later on.

"Awesome."

Hinata comes over to me, shyly.

"I-I'm doing your assessories. Um, here." Hinata passes my old fishnet hobo gloves and my favourite pair of silver dangling earrings. I take them eagerly.

"Thanks, Hinata! Great choice!" Sakura and Ino bounce forward and I flinch as my cousin's fervent admirers surveyed me with interest.

"Ino and I are doing your make-up!" they squeal excitedly. I feel my eyes widen.

"I don't have any make-up, except for black eyeliner and lipgloss." Ino grins at me.

"Well, we've brought our own." She and Sakura turn and high-five each other. I grinned warily. Temari looks at my bedside clock.

"Okay, we've got an hour before Tenten's party. Time for us to get ready!"

Except for Tenten, who quite obviously had brought her weapons' bag full of her clothes and make-up, the others produced gym bags and backpacks and decided that because it was my bathroom, that I would go first with the showering.

How thoughtful of them.

Then the other girls played 'paper, scissors, rock' to decide who would go next. Sakura won. So I tottered into my bathroom and started cleaning up, but came across a slight problem that I needed assistance with.

"Uh? Can I have some help please?" I stuck my head out the door and the girls looked up at me frowning.

"What's wrong, Akima? Are you hurt?" asked Sakura, removing her gloves just in case. I shook my head no.

"Bandage." All the girls laughed in embarrassment and Sakura sighed and came in to unwrap me for the shower.

It's amazing what long, peaceful (occasionally wreaked by Ino's overly loud laughter) shower can do to help one's thoughts unravel and sort things out. I still had absolutely no idea how I was going to this vision, so Sasuke could come for a 'ceasefire' visit without getting lynched by the people who were the most offended when he went into exile from Konoha.

When I emerged from the bathroom I was dressed in what Temari had picked out for me: tight light grey denim minishorts with a black silver-studded belt, my knee-high black ninja boots, a tight purple off shoulder t-shirt with the Uchiha fan symbol embroidered tastefully on the front with silver thread. On my hands were my elbow-length fishnet fabric hobo gloves and dangling from around my neck was a tiny red and white Uchiha fan charm necklace that Sasuke had made for the both of us as a sign of our friendship. On my right wrist was Gaara's bracelet.

"Woah." was Temari's first reaction when I stepped back into my room and she stepped back to admire her handiwork.

"Akima, you're a babe." gushed Ino, I flushed red – not used to being addressed thus. Beautiful plenty of times, but never a babe. Hinata smiled shyly from where she was sitting listening to my iPod.

"You look really pretty!" she complimented me. Tenten grabbed my hand and dragged me over to the dressing table and then she and Ino dived in and went to work with my hair and make-up. Sakura waded forward to help with my make up but Tenten stopped her.

"We've got this covered. Go have your shower!" Sakura gave a mock salute and grabbed her backpack, heading out of the room to shower and beautify herself. Tenten combed and tugged at my hair and then a handful of pins and hairclips later stepped back and studied my hair.

"My work is complete." I looked in the mirror and gasped.

"Wow. That's cool!" I approved.

Tenten kissed my cheek, pleased with my comment and then bounded over to see what Temari had brought to get changed into. Ino looked at me with a mischievous grin and I instantly backed off. But Ino stopped me in my tracks and expertly went to work. Her last finishing task was to smear body glitter over my collarbone and on my eyelids.

"Voila!" said Ino, in a poor attempt at French. But I loved the outcome.

"Thanks, Ino!" and gasped when I saw Sakura enter my bedroom, all dolled up.

She usually looked really tomboyish with her burgundy-red and white Chinese top, pink shirt and black bike shorts, black knee high ninja boots, pink elbow guards and black gloves. Now, well, she was wearing: a really nice hot pink tank top (with no bra I noticed), grey minishorts, her black knee length ninja boots and a hot pink hoodie, unzipped. Dangling from around her neck was the Konoha insignia and around her wrists were stretchy black wire bracelets.

"You scrub up well." I complimented. Temari won 'paper, scissors, rock' next and after showering re-emerged into my room wearing: a black and red japanese dress with a slit up her thigh, gold bangles and her normally spiky blonde hair was down and clipped back stylishly with false ruby hairclips. She wore ankle-high stiletto ninja boots.

"No comment." was Tenten's critique.

"Wow, you look great!" a typical response from Hinata. Ino looked Temari up and down and then inquired where she could get the same outfit from.

"Skikamaru's gonna eat his poor heart out!" Ino screwed up her face at the imagery.

"Ew! That's really gross, Sakura." I rolled my eyes in a very Sasuke like way.

"It's a figure of speech, Ino. It means that he'll really like what he sees." I shook my head at the outfit. It looked great on Temari, but I felt it was too old for me and I didn't feel comfortable wearing something THAT sexy, never mind that I actually had a boyfriend to show the goods off to.

Next was Hinata who like Sakura, Temari and I, emerged looking gorgeous. Hinata was wearing: a dark purple dress with a black belt around her middle, emperor line style, a pair of good black sheer gloss pantyhose and a pair of black ankle-length ninja boots with closed toes. On her head was a simple, but very stylish black hat. Dangling around her neck was a yin and yang necklace and around her wrists were stretchy black wire bracelets like Sakura's. This outfit was typical, conservative Hinata. The song changed on my iPod and Hinata instantly brightened.

"Hey! This is my favourite song!" Ino emerged from the bathroom looking kinda like a purple cheerleader, with the exception for a fishnet fabric top underneath the off shoulder purple top she was wearing, the matching fishnet fabric hobo gloves and her knee high black ninja boots. She had made no changes to her hair though. Last but not least was Tenten who emerged wearing: a very short hot pink Japanese dress that exposed a lot of leg. Tenten had an exotic flower in her hair, wore silver dangling earrings and like Temari, ankle-high black stiletto ninja boots.

"Girls, we look HOT!" decided Temari, standing in front of us with a camera and a plastic bag in her hands. I stared at them with apprehension.

"What's the camera for?" I asked. Temari clicked a picture of me before I could stop her.

"Taking pictures of us, duh!" she replied. Sakura rushed forward, dragging a startled Hinata forward.

"Cool, I'm posing with Akima and Hinata!" I was sandwiched between a beaming Sakura and a freaked out Hinata. Hinata and I looked at each other, alarmed at Sakura's actions. Temari aimed and fired, blinding poor Hinata and I.

"What's the plastic bag for, Tem?" asked Tenten, who was chuckling at the stunned expressions on Hinata and my face as we both tried to blink away the white splodges that suddenly obstructed our vision.

"Lollypops." replied Temari, opening the bag and offering it to Tenten, who picked a cherry lollypop, unwrapped it and stuck it in her mouth.

"What for?" I asked, taking a cola lollypop, unwrapping it and sucking on it absently. Sakura picked a strawberry one, Hinata: a strawberry and cream one and Ino picked a pineapple lollypop.

"Alluring tactic." said Temari, sucking on her Watermelon lollypop. I raised an eyebrow.

"I've already got a boyfriend and a mouth full of cavities. But thanks for the treat." I raised the lollypop in a 'cheers' salute and popped the lolly back into my mouth.

"It will also make you look really sexy." Temari promised me, sidling up and grinning evilly.

"That's a bonus." I added. Sakura frowned at my bedroom clock. It was 7:00pm.

"Where are the boys? They're supposed to escort us to the party." All the girls shrugged just as a knock sounded at the door.

"Speak and ye shall receive." I said, and hopped off the couch, walking over to the door.

I unbolted it and pulled it open, revealing my cute, handsome boyfriend standing there dressed from the neck down in casual civilian wear: a white linen button down shirt, tight black jeans, his ninja boots and a waist length black and orange leather jacket with the Uzumaki spiral symbol on his back. His metal forehead protector in its usual place. The expression on Naruto's face amused me greatly.

"Hey, Naruto! You look great!"

I looked around Naruto and saw the other boys looking awkward as they waved at me, then I sidestepped to the left, taking Naruto with me, and the girls and I laughed when we saw the expressions on the other boys faces when they saw their girlfriends. Sakura stood to the side and watched the commotion, with a melancholy expression on her face. If only she knew the surprise I was giving everybody tonight.

Hmmm...

"Uh, you look really beautiful." Naruto gulped. I sucked on the lollypop in an attempt at girlish innocence.

"Thanks. You're sweet." I looped my finger in one of Naruto's belt loops and tugged him forward. Naruto caught me before he could smack into me and I threw my arms around his neck and kissed him tenderly.

"Hey Shika." I heard Temari saying to Shikamaru. Naruto and I turned our heads to see Shikamaru had flushed red and started bleeding out of his nose, slightly.

"Hey Temari, you look really sexy... uh, Akima? Do you have any tissues?"