A/N: I'M ON A TRAIN! CHOO CHOO! Anyways, that's why I'm working on this next chapter. As of right now, I'm planning on it being pretty short, just house searching, and possibly getting another mission.

Chapter Two:

House Hunting:

"You three want to move out?" Shikaku asked.

"Yeah, we don't want to take up space here anymore," I said.

"You're not taking up space," Yoshino said.

"Even so, we've decided to live here in Konoha," I said.

"Plus, you're no longer out teacher," Kye pointed out.

"We need to get out on our own," Akito put in.

"I suppose so," Yoshino said, but we could all tell she was trying to find a way to counter act our logic. "What about money?" She finally asked.

"We've got plenty of it," I said. "I just got paid a fortune to sign papers."

"Add to that the Intel mission we just went on, that paid a lot, too," Akito said.

"Plus all the mission's we've been going on add up," Kye said.

Yoshino merely sighed and left the room.

"Well, I would recommend you go to the Hokage's building and she can probably give you a list of houses for sale," Shikaku said.

"Thank you," I said. "Let's get going, guys."

The other two thanked him and we made our way over to the Hokage's building.

"What are you guys doing back? I said take a break for a few days," Lady Tsunade said when we arrived in her office.

"I know, we wanted to know if there were any houses for sale," I said.

"Houses? Yes, there are," she said. She dug through her desk and pulled out a packet that had addresses and pictures of houses on it. "Here are all the houses for sale. The owners will give you a tour, and if you decide that is the house you want, you an the owner come back here and you sign a contract and pay the owner for the house. Got it?"

"Yeah, simple enough," I said. I took the packet and led my group out. I pointed at one of the houses. "This is the closest to where we are now. It only has two bedrooms, and one and a half baths, but we could always get a pull out couch, or a queen size bed and two of us could share. You want to check it out?"

"Hold on," Kye said grabbing the packet from me. "What about this house? It has three bedrooms, and two and a half baths."

"But it's way more expensive, and the rent is more," I said.

"We should check out both of them," Akito piped up. "Can I see that?" Kye handed her the packet and she looked it over. "What about this one? It's a few miles outside the village, but it's still technically Konoha property. It's a four bedroom house, two and a half baths, three floors, a kitchen and everything. It is the most expensive one, but we do have enough money for it. It's worth looking into, right?"

"I guess," I said. "We'll go see the one I want first since it's closest, then Kye's choice, then Akito's choice. Does that work for everyone?"

"Yeah," Akito said.

"I guess," Kye said.

"Let's go!" With that said, we headed to the first house.

Choice Number One:

"Welcome!" The owner said excitedly. She was a plump middle age woman. "Come in, come in! Can I get you anything to eat or drink?"

"Um," I looked at my friends and they shook their heads. "No thanks."

"Alright, then let's see the house!" She started leading us around. "So here we the dining room and kitchen, and the living room is connected. Oh, by the way, the only thing that will stay here are things that are connected to the house, so the stove, fridge, sink, et cetera. Anyways, to the left of the kitchen is one of the bathrooms, this one just has a toilet and a sink."

We went upstairs and found a short hallway with a bedroom on the left and right, and a bathroom with a toilet, sink and a shower.

After the brief tour and checking out the bedrooms, we headed back downstairs. "Well, what did you three think?"

"Well, I think we're going to look around a bit more. We'll be back if we want this house, though," I said.

She thanked us and we headed out.

"Alright, time for my house!" Kye exclaimed.

Choice Number Two:

"Welcome, let's get right to the tour," the owner of this house said. The person speaking was a man in his twenties, and behind stood a woman around the same age, I assumed she was his girlfriend.

On the first floor was a living room connected to the kitchen and dinning room like the first house, but a T.V came with this house, and it was a little bigger. Unlike the last house, there was also an oven. This house was also a two story house, but the top floor was bigger. There was a short hallway at the top floor with the half bath at the end of the hall. There the hall split in two with one bedroom at the end that was connected to a bathroom, and two on the other side across from each other. The final bathroom was at the end of that hall.

We told the couple the same thing after looking around a bit more.

"Now it's my house! Come on, guys!" Akito called out, already running towards the house.

Choice Number Three:

When we got there, there was a dad playing with two boys, twins by the looks of it, and a mom sitting on the porch watching them with a smile on her face.

"Hi, ma'am, we're here to look at the house," Akito said as we approached.

"Oh, good," she said with a smile. "Come in."

As we followed her in, I asked, "Why do you want to move? This looks like the perfect place to raise kids."

"They're old enough to get in the Ninja Academy now," she said. "We want to live close to the school. Now, this is the living room, nothing will be staying here, but in the kitchen we're leaving the fridge, microwave, and coffee maker. We're also leaving the table and chairs in the dinning room." Unlike the other three houses, the three rooms were all separate. "Follow me upstairs now." The top floor was a wide open space with a door on the right side leading to a bedroom that had a bathroom connected to a bathroom, and the same one the left side. The third bedroom was on the back wall, connected to a half bath. "The third floor is just the attic. My husband uses it to store his old ninja equipment."

"You mean he's retired? But he looks so young," Kye said.

"he retired when I had the twins to help me raise them," she said.

After looking around again, we headed downstairs.

"What do you guys think? I asked. We were just outside of the house, and the mom had joined her kids playing in the yard.

"Well, obviously I really like this house," Akito said.

"You know, so do I," Kye said.

I nodded. "It looks like we have a decision. I really like this house, and we have enough money for it and for the first payment of rent. Well, let's get the formal stuff done with."

"Ma'am, sir," Akito said coming up to the mom and dad. "We'd like to buy the house."

"Really? That's great!" The mom said.

"If you guys are still looking for a house, we just looked at a nice house with three bedrooms, and it's pretty close to the Ninja Academy," I said.

Kye handed them the packet and pointed out the house.

We met up at the Hokage's building to sign the papers and pay for the house, and once that was done we headed over to the Nara compound.

"We'd like to thank you for your hospitality," I said, and the three of us bowed to them in respect.

"We'd also like to thank you for training us," Kye said.

"Here,' Yoshina handed us a bag of money. "To help start you out. Also, I made you this." She handed us a pot of noodles.

"Thank you," Akito said. "For everything."

We gave them the address so they could come visit us when they wanted to. We gathered our stuff (which was pretty small) and made our way back to the house.

"Alright," I said, "This money is for rent." We had a pile we each contributed to, and after counting our money, decided to add to it so we had enough money for two months of rent. Then we compiled a list of what we needed: Three beds, three dressers, plates, cups, cutlery, and a couch. "That's the basics we need, and I think we have enough money for that. But we are getting low. The couch should be the last thing we get. After that are the beds and dressers, I think the plates and stuff are what we need most."

We all agreed, and budgeted our money as we saw fit, making sure we each had our own spending money, and splitting the rest between food and furnishing.

A/N: I seriously just typed that whole chapter minus the majority of the last paragraph on the train. Not even kidding. I'm pretty proud of myself. I decided not to do any missions yet mostly because asI was nearing the end there were forty minutes left of the train ride and I wanted to get this done. But there will be missions for the next chapter. Sorry if this chapter was kind of boring, but while visiting Chicago, I really wanted to buy a house there (well, probably a studio apartment for myself) and I decided a break from action was in order. I've just been thinking about this recently because after four/fiveish years of college, this is probably what I'll be doing. It's exciting and nerve wracking at the same time. Anyways, hope you enjoyed! Review please! I'll try to update as soon as I can, but, as per usual, I make no promises.