Isa: This chapter's kind of short ^^"
Naruto: Yeah, but I'm in it^^
Isa: Would you shut it already?! I'm pretty sure you're in every chapter! *grr!*
Naruto: Yay!!^^ Isa doesn't own Naruto!! ^^
Isa: Yeah, whatever . . . .
Tobi, Shikamaru, and Chouji stood speechless.
"Guys, it's not that bad!" Naruto said, waving a hand toward the disaster area inside.
"Not that bad?! It looks like you haven't cleaned your room in years!" Chouji said.
"I cleaned it . . .last year sometime."
"What a drag. How did we get stuck helping you clean your house?" Shikamaru kicked an empty ramen cup.
" 'cause you can't argue with Ino." Chouji walked into the room and poked at a bag of stale chips. "Ew, how long have these been here?"
"I don't know, a few months."
Tobi took charge since they weren't getting anywhere. "All right, throw all the laundry into that basket there. Naruto, you search through everything else, if you want it, then get it off the floor—everything else is going in the trash."
They set to work, throwing Naruto's dirty laundry into a basket while he sorted through the trash. It took them three hours to get it close to being clean.
Tobi took a bag of garbage down to the dumpster while Chouji swept up little pieces of dirt and Naruto and Shikamaru hung up the clean laundry.
Tobi came back up the stairs and sees Shikamaru standing by the door.
"Hey, what's going on?"
"Naruto found the air freshener and is going crazy." He looked into the open door, watching Naruto spray every part of his room in Ocean Breeze spray.
Tobi was about to head into the room but Shikamaru pushed her up against the wall. "You're not really a boy, are you?"
She just stared at him with her mouth open, and then shook her head. "I'm a boy!"
"I can think of two easy ways to find out." He said, placing a hand on her hip.
Tobi's cheeks went red. "All right yeah, I'm a girl! But don't tell anyone else."
"Why do you want people to think you're a boy?" Shikamaru asked. He stepped away from her, but gave her an appraising look.
She leaned over the railing and looked down at the Leaf Village. "It's easier to be a boy—less expectations and rules to follow."
"I guess you're right." He joined her at the railing. "I won't tell anyone you're a girl, don't worry."
The sound of Chouji fending off an air-freshener wielding Naruto made them turn back to finish cleaning Naruto's house.
Naruto: Hey, that air-freshener scene wasn't in the written story.
Isa: Yeah, I know! . The written one's just a basic summary. I needed a reason for Shikamaru to leave the room .
Naruto: Wow, you're totally in a really bad mood! ^^
Isa: Don't be so happy about it! *hits Naruto with computer*