No more procrastination.. Chapter 9 arrives.

His feet clapped the branches below his feet as he jumped from branch to branch; they had been running for over three hours, and had no signs of slowing or stopping at all. After a small debriefing, and overcoming the intial shock of having her be his partner on a boring diplomatic mission. Yeah he had to study diplomacy for six months under, Shions' tutoring, and Tentens' watch for the first three months. Yeah, such a great mission he recieved.

He watched as she was slowly losing the ability to keep up with his fast forward speed. He would have to slow down to match hers or completely stop to rest for the night. Even if he wanted to press forward, he understood that it was in their best interest to stop and relax; and finish the voyage in the morning. So thats what he decided.

"Yo, Tenten we'll rest here for the night." He echoed as he pounced on the ground.

He heard her large sigh of relief through her now relentless panting for air. Had he really been going that fast for that long? It never occured to him till it was too late that others weren't able to keep up with his always pressing pace, yeah he moved faster paced than many others; a lot of others.

"So you wanna start setting up 'the' tent, or just stand there staring at a tree?" she questioned irately.

"Yeah yeah." he mumbled.

It wasn't long before he didn't know if the pole he had on the left, went in the slot it was currently positioned in or the one adjecent to it. Putting up tents wasn't something that was supposed to be as hard as academy math, but this was Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki. Yeah he might be the next Hokage, but he putting up a tent seemed to be gettingt the best of him.

"Need some help?" a voice yelled.

He pondered on who just spoke, oh yeah Tenten was here; she was the reason for his current dispostion of cinfusion. Why did she want a tent? He never used a tent on missions, not even once. 'Maybe this end goes here' he thought to himself. No sooner than he made the attempt to force the pole into the wrong slot, he lost one end, and BAM tentpole to the face. That was it he was done, if she wanted a tent she was putting it up. With an attitide he sumped to ground sitting in the grass beside the bun-haired girl.

"I give up, you can put up that damn thing!" he said looking in an opposote direction of her.

Well lets just say it was not even ten minutes later that a tent was erected at the campsite. He grumbled, but mre importantly it was time to build a campfire, yeah not so easy when you or your teammate don't have the fire affianty. After quick thoughts he began the old rub sticks togther jutsu. It was a matter of seconds later till once again he was frustrated. Things just weren't going his way this evening.

"Do I have to build the fire too?" a friendly voice called.

"No, I'll get it." he mumbled in frustration, as she just laughed at his troubles.

Well after more stick rubbing, and frustration he hatched up a simple but noisy plan; but what did he care? With a fluid motion he strapped a paper bomb to one long and feed some chakara into it. In a matter of seconds a loud boom, was heard followed by manyical laughter. He had succeded in making a fire. Now all he had to do was sit back and relax, and wait of the morning to come. Well that was his expectations till he saw his partner holding a bottle of sake`. Just what he needed, another drunken Tenten birage...

"So, Na-ru-to you gonna drink with me this time?" she mused, as she clumsily was making her way towards him.

"Maybe, next time." he sounded as she dropped down on the ground beside him. Yeah tonight was gonna be a long night for him.

He could feel her eyes peering on his body, it felt eerily just like that night not too long ago. The night she went crazy with lust, the night he had to fend her off of him, the night he and her exchanged first 'true' kisses. That night was bad in one essence then so great in another. He had finally gotten to kiss someone, even though he didn't want to. Her lips if he remembered were soft, a total opposite of what her tough fighting spirit would allow you to believe. Even if drinking would cause a kissing 'accident', he wasn't wanting anything to do with alcahol or sexual interactions in the middle of a mission.

"So Naruto, are you gonna drink with me or not?" she let loose, while using a hand to trace up his arm stopping it when cupping his cheek.

He could feel his body trembling, her touch was enticing his whole being. He had never felt this notions, unless he was near Sakura. He could feel his face heating up, by now it was probably as red as a strawberry; it was time to pull a hasty escape. Yeah he was going to bed.

"Sorry, I am tired. I'm going to bed, maybe next time." he let loose like a con man selling 'The Great Naruto Bridge'.

He heard loud sigh as he gently got up and head towards the sole tent in the area. Yeah, this was the only way out of the hasty situation alcohol seemed to always place him in. Sleep would do him good that was his thought as he layed down to rest. He could clearly hear her loud gulps, and rash movements; he pondered if leaving her alone was the best idea when she was drinking.. After a period of elongated silence, he decided it was time to do a small check-up. He slowly peeked his body out of the tents door, he looked to his left nothing, his right...nothing... Where had she gone.. Maybe she had drunkenly stumbled away from the campsite. With a heavy sigh he left the safety of his tent, to search for her.

It didn't take long to find her a few yards away from the camp, passed out against a tree. Letting loose another sigh he positioned himself to pack her back to the tent. Drinking and passing out, well that seemed to be her tendency. With her bridal style in his arms, he made the voyage back to camp. Her alcohol flushed cheeks, and smober sleeping made her appearance cuter by a large bounds. After a minute walk he arrived at their destination, he positioned her body a few feet parallel of where he would be sleeping in their tent. Tomorrow was going to be probably just as troublesome, except he would be dealing with diplomacy, yeah not what he wanted entirely.

Sorry for the length next update will be sooner and longer, I promise. Review please, till next chapter.~

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