AN: rather proud of myself at this point. as i copy and pasted these chapters to this little box i noticed that they are getting longer. alot longer. one little thing i'm ashamed of and feel i should warn you about... Naruto

Naruto: WHAT ABOUT ME?!

AN: he's a little overly crazy... and stupider than in the show. kinda used that as comedy relief i guess. i don't really know.

Naruto: The show is named after me. so you better make me less stupid.

AN: sorry not happening. i really saw you as just that stupid first time i watched the show.

Naruto: i hate you -.-

Chapter 10

Kakashi and Nikiya had been lying in a clearing for nearly an hour.

"This is getting boring." Nikiya said as she moved her head to rest on Kakashi's chest.

"They aren't good with figuring out that a gen Jutsu has been set are they?" Kakashi said.

"You cast a gen Jutsu?" Nikiya said, surprised.

"Yeah. I wanted to see if they would figure it out." Kakashi said.

"Come on, Kashi. I need training again." Nikiya replied.

"There is no one here fast enough for you."

"I used to spar with you."

"With weights."

"Very true. Don't you know anyone that has some?"

"There is one person but I don't think his are heavy enough. He should be training at the next field over. I'll keep up the Jutsu until you get back."

"What's his name?"

"Rock Lee should have some. If he doesn't, ask Gai."

"You're sending me to Gai?!" Nikiya yelled. "No WAY!"

Kakashi laughed. "Just go get some weights." He pushed her in the correct direction.

"Fine." Nikiya said, dreading when she would see him again. She ran off so fast that Kakashi couldn't see her.

Nikiya skidded to a halt in front of Tenten. "Hey, Tenten. Do you know where I might find a guy named Rock Lee?" She asked, looking around for someone that might suit that name. She imagined some buff guy.

"That would be him. In all of his uh, youthful, glory." Tenten said with an unusual note to her voice.

"Oh, Tenten, where has all of your youthfulness gone, hm? Look at this girl. She looks like she's just bursting with youth! Aren't you, lady?" A black haired, big eye browed, green jumpsuit-wearing boy jumped up in front of her.

"Uh…" Nikiya tried to speak but was soon interrupted.

"Let's see, you are just bursting with youth! Amazing! I have never seen a more youthful expression except in Gai-sensei and myself! My name is Rock Lee! What is yours, oh youthful one?!" Lee called.

"Nikiya. Um… I was just wondering…" she was once again cut off.

"Wow! What village are you from? To raise such a youthful one must be from a wonderfully youthful village."

"Lee, give the girl time to talk! Unless you want me to go get Gai-sensei." A brown haired boy walked up calmly. "I am Neji Hyuuga. I must apologize for him. He interrupts everyone unless Gai sensei is here. Would you like me to get him?"

"No! Please, just stay here and answer my question please. I don't want a run in with that man!" Nikiya said frantically. Lee gave her a puzzled look. Neji did the same. "Sorry it's a personal problem." She said. "Now then. Do you, by chance, have any leg weights that I could have? Really heavy ones." She asked quickly, hoping to escape from a chance encounter with Gai.

"Yes. But they're probably too heavy for you." Lee answered.

"May I try them?" she asked.

"Yes." Lee went over to a bag by one of the trees and pulled out a set of leg weights. He handed them to her carefully, but did not take his hand from them.

"Don't worry. I can handle a lot of weight believe it or not." She said. Tenten nodded vigorously. Lee released them. "Very nice. Good quality. Easily removable. Good. A little lighter than I'm used to by about 50 pounds but very nice. May I keep them?" Nikiya asked as she weighed the weights in her hand. She hooked them onto her legs and kicked easily through the air. Her foot slammed into the wooden pillar that was in the center of the clearing and right behind her and it shattered. She made a few handsigns to rebuild it easily.

"Wow." Lee whispered. "I have never met anyone that can bear that weight except for Gai sensei. Gai sensei! Come see this!" Lee called loudly. Nikiya slammed her hand onto his mouth but was too late. Here came the green idiot, running right at them.

"Nikiya?! I can't believe it's you! I haven't seen you in years!" He yelled.

"And with good reason." Nikiya murmured. "Bye, guys." She said with a smile as she ran off. Before she could even get out of the clearing, she was wrapped in Gai's arms. "GET OFF ME, YOU PERVERTED GREENBEAN!" Nikiya screamed as she pulled free from his grasp. She slapped him across the cheek and started away.

"Come on, Nikki." Gai said.

"Don't call me Nikki! Only Kakashi and Sasuke are allowed to call me that. I only make exceptions for friends, and you are definitely not a friend!" Nikiya yelled.

"What did I do wrong?"

"You knew I was going out with Kakashi and you tried to get me to go out with you. That's just not right. Kakashi was really mad for a while. You're lucky he's not still mad." Neji, Tenten, and Lee's eyes widened to the size of saucers.

"Well we've still got a rivalry going but that night I needed to ask you something and it wasn't something that I was going to ask with Kakashi around." Nikiya gave Gai a look of confusion. He pulled her away from Neji, Lee, and Tenten. "There was something going on and I needed your conformation." He said softly.

"What was it?"

"Well there were rumors of a group of men coming into the leaf village searching for a girl fitting your description."

"Really?"

"Yes. They said that they needed to take you somewhere. That you needed to be taken back to your fiancé."

"Fiancé? I didn't have a fiancé back then."

"Well then I guess that answers my question."

"I'm… sorry, Gai. But if you had only explained at that time instead of making it look like you were trying to go out with me… again, then maybe I would have agreed." Nikiya said with a smile.

"So we're cool now?" Gai asked.

"Yeah, we're cool." Nikiya said before giving him a quick hug. "I have to get going. See you later." She said as she ran towards the clearing where Kakashi was waiting.

"What took you so long?" Kakashi asked as she came into his line of vision.

"Had a little hang up with Gai." She replied. "Lee gave me weights though so I'm good to go."

Kakashi nodded. "So did you yell at him?" he looked like he was about to laugh.

"Yeah, but it's all sorted now." Nikiya said. Kakashi nodded again and handed the bells that he had hooked on his pocket to her. She tied them onto her shuriken pouch and slid one of them in with her weapons.

"Tricky." Kakashi said. Nikiya nodded. He made a hand-sign and whispered, "Release." Nikiya felt the Jutsu lift. Naruto suddenly came at Kakashi full force. Nikiya ran off.

"Now then, how can I get little miss bubblegum sunshine to attack me with all she's got?" Nikiya asked herself. She recalled how Sakura had looked at Sasuke. "Infatuation." She said with a smirk.

She created a clone then transformed it into Sasuke. The clone looked half dead and was bloody and covered in shuriken and kunai. "Perfect. And she'll never see it coming." She whispered.

Nikiya acted like she was fighting the Sasuke clone. She made it fall to the ground as if dead and stood over it as if she had killed him. Nikiya heard a scream. Sakura suddenly came out of the trees right at her. Nikiya blocked the punch but quickly ran back as she felt her bone nearly break.

"Dang! What was that?!" Nikiya yelled. She ran at Sakura and shifted around her to bring her down. Sakura quickly got up and kicked Nikiya in the shin. Nikiya once again had to jump away from it as she felt her bone flex and nearly break. She kicked back at Sakura only to hit a log. Sakura came up behind her and had her around the neck. Nikiya disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"I'm a pro in clone making. I don't think anyone's ever seen me make a hand-sign unless I wanted them to." Nikiya said as she blew on her fingers. Sakura and her fought for nearly 45 minutes before Nikiya immobilized Sakura by pressing pressure points. "I was also trained by the Hyuuga clan for a while."

Sasuke suddenly came from the bushes right at her. She kicked him and whirled to face him again as the clone that he had sent as a distraction disappeared. Sasuke used the fireball Jutsu against her but it didn't work. She brushed it off as if nothing had happened.

"How did you do that?" Sasuke asked her.

"Not telling right now." She said as she came at him then swerved away and ran. She jumped into the trees and kept running until she reached a clearing.

Someone was following her and it wasn't Sasuke, Sakura, or Naruto. She wouldn't have run if it were Kakashi either. She jumped onto one of the wooden poles and looked around. She suddenly felt a hand grab her ankle. She screamed but was cut off by a hand over her mouth.

"We are not here to hurt you." The man, now above her since she had fallen, said. He had on a cloak and had his headband covered by the hood.

"Of course not. Because you're not taking her." She heard Kakashi call. Nikiya felt the hands around her loosen and took her opportunity to run. She ran to the trees and hid herself as she watched. Kakashi yelled at the 3 men standing there. All were dressed exactly alike: black clothing, ninja gear, and a cloak with a hood that shadowed their faces. Kakashi landed a few punches before they decided that they weren't much of a match for him and ran off.

"Alright, Nikiya, come on out." Kakashi called. She ran over to him as fast as she could and allowed him to hug her tightly to his chest.

"I-I thought it was Itachi. O-or even Pein again." Nikiya stammered out through tears of fear. Gai suddenly ran into the clearing.

"I heard a scream. What happened?" He said quickly.

"Nothing, Gai. Everything is fine now." Kakashi said as he laid his hand on Nikiya's head.

"What happened?" he asked again.

"I don't know who it was because they were covered by cloaks and I didn't see a headband, but someone tried to take Nikki." Kakashi explained. Gai nodded.

"Naruto! Sasuke! Sakura! Training is over! It's been 3 hours!" Kakashi called. "I'm going to take her home if you would make sure that my squad heard me, please." He said to Gai.

Gai once again nodded and ran off. Kakashi walked with Nikiya back to his house. He sat down on the couch with her and let the silence just hang in the room. Neither said a word. Neither moved. Nikiya had her head rested on Kakashi's chest. Kakashi had his hand rested on her back. It was nearly midnight before Kakashi finally said something.

He looked at the ring that he had given to her so long ago and pulled it from her neck. "I was just thinking, but, maybe, we could, you know, finally get married. Now that you're back and all. Do you think that that would be nice?" He said nervously.

Nikiya hugged him tightly. "Yeah. That would be nice. When do you think we could do that?" she asked.

"Anytime that Tsunade can perform the ceremony." He said with a smile. He had been looking forward to that day since he had thought of proposing 7 years before. He had waited a year and found the ring before doing anything though. His hopes had been crushed when he had thought her dead but they had come back when she had. Nikiya yawned and leaned up. She tugged at his mask just as she always did and kissed him gently.

"Can I stay with you tonight? This may sound childish but I'm still kind of scared because of those guys earlier." Nikiya said quietly.

"I was hoping you would. I would have been worried about you all night if you weren't in the same room." Kakashi replied. Both of them laughed. Nikiya walked into her room and changed into a tank top and shorts and walked into Kakashi's room. He was reading in his bed.

"You still read just as much don't you?" Nikiya asked with a laugh. Kakashi nodded and let her slip in between his arms and start reading with him. She snuggled up close to him and fell asleep in his arms.

Meanwhile, Gai was searching for squad 7. They had not heard Kakashi call out to them and were hidden in separate places throughout the training ground. Sakura was cautiously searching for Nikiya when she slammed into Sasuke.

"Sasuke! You're okay!" Sakura yelled. She tackle-hugged him to the ground.

"Ge' o' 'e." Sasuke mumbled incoherently.

"What?" Sakura lifted herself up and dusted herself off.

"I said… GET OFF ME!" Sasuke yelled.

"Have you seen Kakashi or Nikiya?" Sakura asked.

"I fought with Nikiya for a little while before she ran off. I've been looking since we started." Sasuke said as he looked around carefully.

"This is weird. Normally Kakashi-sensei would have shown himself so that he could fight us."

"And humiliate at least one of us."

"I wonder where they disappeared to."

Gai was walking around the training ground. "Sasuke! Sakura! Naruto!" he called.

"BANZAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" Naruto burst out of the trees and tackled Gai. He sat on him triumphantly.

"Get off me, Naruto!" Gai yelled.

"Can't fool me, Kakashi-sensei. I have the senses of a cat! And you want to know why, 'ttebayo?" Naruto said happily.

"Why?" Gai asked. He had given up. He wasn't going to even try to get up.

"COOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFFEEEEEEEE EEEEE!" Naruto screamed.

"Okay. You win." Gai said cautiously.

Naruto jumped up and began dancing around in circles hilariously. "Oh yeah! I win! Oh yeah! I win!" he said as he flipped off a tree. He kicked the same tree and yelled. "Take that, TREE! OH YEAH! YOU MESS WITH THE NARUTO, YOU GET BURNED!" Gai looked at him oddly. Sasuke and Sakura walked cautiously out of the trees.

"Gai-sensei? What are you doing here?" Sakura asked.

"Trying to tell you guys that your training ended an hour ago. Nikiya and Kakashi are gone. Something happened and they went home." Gai answered.

"Oh. All right. Do we have training tomorrow?" she asked.

"I wouldn't know. I wouldn't count on it though. See you guys later. I've got to get back to my own squad." He said as he walked away. The squad 7 genin went their own separate ways to home.

AN: *sniffle* they're together and now they're getting married! so sweet!

All Kakashi fans: HE"S SUPPOSED TO BE OURS!

AN: I DON"T CARE HE"S NIKIYA"S! GO AWAY!

Naruto: ya know i really didn't know how much i was gonna hate you til now 'ttebayo... Hey fangirls i think we have a common enemy

AN: hehe. and i think i should be running. anyways. have fun guys!