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"Say it."

"No."

"Say it or I won't let you go."

"Let me go or I won't say it!"

"Dammit, Luna, would you PLEASE just –"

"Naruto Uzumaki, unhand me this instant!"

"Not until you say it! Damn, were you not listening?"

"NARUTO!"

Sasuke sighed impatiently for the fiftieth time as they continued to watch Luna try to pry herself free from Naruto's...choke hold?

Might as well be, the way she's struggling. Odd, if you ask me, what with them dating and all. Then again, hard not to want to shoot yourself in the head once that moron has you pinned against him like that...

Sasuke shuddered at the thought, and Ino finally sighed. "YOU TWO! Hurry it up, we don't have all night for this!"

"Let. Me. GO! NOW!"

"Fiiiiinee...once you SAY IT!"

"NO!"

"JUST SAY IT!"

"FINE, DAMMIT, FINE!" Luna took a deep breath, then let it out slowly. "Naruto...Uzumaki..." He cupped a hand to his ear dramatically as she mumbled the rest of it under her breath.

"I'm sorry, what was that?"

"I said, Naruto...Uzumaki...IS A MORON FOR THINKING I'D GIVE IN THAT EASILY!" She shouted, using his hand against his ear to her advantage and wrenching herself free of his grip.

Naruto just grinned up at her before standing up. "Hey, look at that, you're learning!"

"You better be buying me a shakemilk for this."

"Milkshake?" Everyone wondered. "WHATEVER they are," Luna replied impatiently, making his grin grow even more.

Sasuke just knew something had to be up. Luna's appearance was just all too sudden, and they were so...he didn't even know how to word it.

He just had a hunch. Instinct told him there was something...else about this whole thing. And he was an Uchiha. An Uchiha's instinct is always a good one to follow.

He slowed his pace, glad Sakura had Ino to distract her. Otherwise, he'd get asked at least five times if he was alright.

Just as Sasuke had hoped, they didn't realize he was lagging behind to eavesdrop, and started talking.

Luna huffed as she walked out of the theatre alongside Naruto. "Why do you look like you won?" She asked him.

"Huh?"

"I won, so why do you look like YOU won?"

He grinned. "Because you hate it." Luna's temple throbbed. "...Sometimes, I fantasize about the many, many, MANY ways I could torture and kill you with my bare hands."

Naruto gulped. "THIS is why I would never date an Agent. I like pissing you off too much. Damn your Super-Spy Skills!"

She couldn't help but grin. "And don't you forget it," she added ominously to make up for it, but it had less effect due to stupid Naruto making her smile.

Agent, huh? What the hell's an Agent? Wait...Super-Spy Skills? Sasuke thought about it for a few moments, and finally, he shook his head. Something brushed against his arm, and he looked over to see Sakura smile at him. "Ino got annoying."

Almost like reflex, he smiled briefly. Since when did he smile? Great, another mystery. But still...an Agent...?

Naruto, what've you gotten us into now?

LATER...

"...Naruto..."

"...Yeah..."

"...Remind me...to NEVER follow Sakura and Ino ever again..."

"No...problem..."

They exchanged a tired sigh as they continued to trudge back to his house. They had gone from the movies, to hunting down Luna's shakemilk, to "bargain hunting" (which Luna had quickly figured out meant "Either getting one extremely expensive article of clothing, or nothing at all"), to hunting down the little punk that broke into the Yamanakas' flower shop.

So, yes, they were quite exhausted. So exhausted that she couldn't care less that Naruto was watching as she slipped into her pajamas.

She had a bra and underwear on, and he'd seen her in less anyways, so why should she care?

Luna winced as her newest wound, the one with the Fox chakra still in it, was irritated by the cloth running against it as she took her shirt off.

She tried to put her undershirt on as quickly as possible, but it was too late. "Whoa, wait, what was that?"

"What was what?" She said quickly, angling that side of her body out of his view. Naruto pointed to her side. "THAT! It was some sorta...scar thing...I didn't really see it."

Luna laughed nervously. "O-Oh, that! I, umm...fell...down the stairs...back at Rei's...and...yeah!" She felt like facepalming herself. It would figure that the one person she had the most trouble lying to was the person she needed to lie to the most.

Naruto sweatdropped. "You don't honestly expect me to believe that, do you?" He moved to try and lift her shirt up to get a good look, and Luna jumped away from him.

"Okay, fine! The-The truth is, I, uhhh...have...STRETCH MARKS!"

He stared at her. "...Stretch marks."

"Yes, stretch marks. That's right, I used to be a little chubby, so what?"

He rolled his eyes. "Considering you thought Saltine crackers and ramen were gifts from the heavens, I find it very hard to believe you were chubby."

"Hey, it is absolutely possible to get fat off of them, thanks very much!"

Naruto sweatdropped again before sighing and reaching for her undershirt again. "Lemme see, will ya? It's not like I haven't seen you in worse conditions before."

Luna reflexively glanced down at her foot, the one that was still wrapped up from being impaled.

She slapped his hand away, yanking her shirt back down with a defensive noise. "I don't THINK so!"

"Jeez, chill out!" Naruto said with an exasperated sigh, grabbing her by the wrist with one hand and pinning it against the wall she was standing beside before lifting up the side of her shirt.

He stared at it for a second. Luna knew the exact moment when he figured out what it was, because his breathing changed.

An Agent monitors those things, you know.

"Naruto..."

"I did this...right?"

"...Kind of."

"Was this when we fought back in the Manor of Gay?"

"Can you think of any other time it could have occurred?" She retorted.

He didn't really answer that one. "...It looks...fresh."

"It's the chakra, I think. I haven't gotten around to how I'm gonna get Sakura to heal it for me without her asking questions."

"She's gonna ask questions anyway."

"I know."

"Does it hurt?"

"Yes."

"A lot?"

"Sometimes."

"Oh. ...Can...Can I touch it?"

"...If you...just really feel compelled to do so," she replied with a sweatdrop. He hesitated, and once he finally made contact with it, she understood why.

Her side was engulfed in white-hot pain, and she almost screamed. Luna squeezed her eyes shut, and then it was reduced to a dull throb, just like that.

She wondered if he had felt her whole body tense up before going limp, since he still had her wrist pinned and a hand on her side.

Normally, if he had, he probably would've pulled away, thinking it was the close proximity level that was making her tense.

But he still had his hand there. She could feel it. "...That...was just plain freaky," she breathed, now three shades paler.

"I did something like this to Sakura, too. ...A while back. When we were trying to get Sasuke to come back," he said quietly.

Luna slowly opened her eyes, but didn't look at him. That might've made him shut up, and she was curious now. "She said Orochimaru did it, but...Yamato told me it was me. But...it didn't look like this. It looked...scorched. But this...it looks like fire."

Well, thanks, Captain Obvious. I haven't looked at it every time I changed clothes or anything, Luna thought dryly. She always got restless and agitated when he touched her. Especially like this.

Probably because he made it so hard on her self-control when he touched her.

It really did look like fire. It went from the left edge of her middle back, wrapping around to the other side, skirting her stomach.

It was like a slash, like one you might see on a tiger, only less...tamed, one could say. And that dull, blood orange color...

Fire.

She resisted the urge to hiss in a breath as he ran his fingers along the length of it. It didn't hurt. Not in a bad way.

Some pain was good. There were very few kinds of good pain, but this was most definitely one of them.

It was almost like the scar itself reacted to him. Almost like it...sprung to life. Guess there really is Fox chakra still in it. And the Fox chakra in Naruto's blood must be...I dunno. Attracting it, I guess. That explains the pulling feeling...

What is it with us and tracing marks on each other? Luna wondered suddenly with a sweatdrop.

"I'm sorry I hurt you," he said suddenly. The sudden noise made her jump, and she slid away from his hand.

"...Don't be. I kinda did it myself. I was trying to dodge you, but I dodged about three seconds too late."

"No, I mean, I'm sorry you had to dodge me in the first place."

"That's my fault too. The Manor was messing with everyone's abilities to control their emotions. If I heard someone scream about how much they hated me, I'd want to hurt 'em too."

Naruto sighed exasperatedly. "Would you please just let me apologize one time without saying it's not my fault? Jeez."

Luna closed her mouth comically, making him roll his eyes as he took the liberty of pulling her shirt back down.

A few moments passed, and Luna blinked. "Umm...Naruto, my wrist?"

He jumped, having been zoning out, and slowly let go of her wrist. "Oh, right. Sorry." She couldn't help but sigh as he turned away from her. He was feeling guilty.

Hadn't they just been over this? She had clearly stated it wasn't his fault. Stubborn ass, making her feel guilty for him feeling guilty.

Needless to say, Luna was NOT in the mood to hear her phone ringing.

You know, the one she had just put back together after Naruto took it apart to stop having to hear it ring.

"Oh, look at that. IT STILL WORKS." With a glare at Naruto, who winced and smiled innocently, she slid it open with much more force than necessary.

Her temple throbbed as the cover flipped right off, and she slowly picked it up, putting both pieces to her ear. "...Listen, you damn annoying bastard, I'm sick of you calling me. Enough is enough, dammit! I used to be scared of you, but by God, I just want you to GO AWAY!"

Naruto gave her two thumbs up enthusiastically, and she nodded. "I know, it was awesome," she mouthed.

But then she heard Becs on the other line. "L-Loony? I have no idea who you're talking about, but l-l-listen, I...I think I'm going crazy, because I-I-I..."

"Becs? Hey, calm down, what's wrong?" Luna asked worriedly. She sounded near hysterical.

"I...Loony, I saw him! I SAW HIM. Alex. He was here, he was here, he was really p-pissed and...I saw him, Loony, I swear I did!" She heard Becs breaking off into sobs on the other end as her phone was moved around.

"Hey, she's a wreck over here," Ichigo said suddenly, making her jump.

"Ichigo?"

"No, it's the Boogeyman."

"Sarcasm is NOT what I wanna deal with at the moment!" Luna snapped before closing her eyes briefly, willing her emotions to calm down before the damn necklace blinded her and Naruto.

"...Look, um...what...come to Konoha. Okay?"

"Why not go to –"

"Come to Konoha!" Luna repeated firmly.

"...Okay. Okay. We're on our way."

CLICK.

Luna sighed and set her phone down gently, sitting down on the window seat and looking at the ground, thinking.

"...Naruto, how long does it take to get here from the Village Hidden in the Mist?"

"Uhhh...Depends. I'd say a day or two, but I dunno exactly. Why, what the hell's going on?"

She ran a hand through her hair tiredly before standing up, deciding that caffeine was a good idea at the moment. "Becs saw him. That's about all I could figure out, she sounded like she was in shock. Who wouldn't be..."

"Saw who?"

She closed her eyes briefly again. "...The Boogeyman."

BUM-BUM-BUUUUM! Well, we've got Sasuke getting suspicious and a terrified Becs. What could happen next? Huh? HUH?

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