Sorry i didn't upload for awhile! this chapters longer than the other ones, so it took me awhile!

Naruto grinned inwardly as he strode down the street, Ino at his side. His hair fluttered out behind him, smooth, silky, and sometimes appearing silver in the different lightings. It was the hair that any girl would kill for, and now it was his. People would stare at him as he went passed, but no one made any moves since Ino was at his side. They were using the pretense that she was his girlfriend, and it worked well as no one doubted it. They simply appeared as a beautiful, young couple on a date. He adjusted the sunglasses Ino had given him before they left. They too, like everything else he wore, were stylish and added to his characters image. They hadn't talked much all morning, but now Ino tugged at his arm, pointing to a shop.

"Let's go in there. I have some clothing items we need to get for you, and we also need to buy you a couple days' worth for you to change into."

He nodded, and turned to the store looked at the sign hanging above, fancily engraved upon cherry wood:

Lady Saruna's Fancy Clothing.

For all occasions.

"Sounds fancy. You sure?"

"Don't worry. I go here all the time, and besides, this is where Tsunade-sama picked up the outfit you're currently wearing. Come on." She pulled his arm, leading him inside.

A little bell tinkled as they opened the door, and a black haired lady appeared behind the checkout counter beside them. She had dressed herself in a sparkly green dress with matching high heels, and smiled at them as they closed the door.

"Well, if it isn't Ino-Chan! Come on in." She then turned to Naruto and smiled at him as well. "Nice to meet you, friend of Ino, I'm Saruna. Ino will know where anything you need is, so I'll leave you in her hands." She bowed and disappeared into a separate room behind her desk.

"She's quite nice." He said, still looking at the place where she had disappeared.

"Of course. She has to be nice to get any business. Come on, I know what we need." Ino started looking through racks of clothing that stood everywhere, feeling them, looking at their tags, and holding them up until she found ones that met her requirement. After a while she pushed a pile of clothes onto him that consisted of everything that would work with him.

"Try them on, and show them to me after each one. I know there's a lot, but we're not leaving until we look at them all. Changing rooms are over there." She pointed to the back of the store where five doors were visible side by side, past all the hundreds of clothing items.

Naruto groaned and started over; taking care not to lose any of clothes she had shoved onto him.

"How much stuff does a guy need?" He whined.

"Someone like you? A lot. Now get going." Ino replied, following him to the door.

Around two hours later, Naruto and Ino walked out of the store laden with bags full of clothes. Naruto was now wearing, in addition to the outfit he had on earlier, a long, black, sleek trench coat style coat that had silver trimmings on the edges and silver buckles going down the front that would keep it closed if he wanted to buckle it all up. He had found black belt that had an electric blue dragon winding around itself printed on it, with fine silver chains dangling from it, and Ino was fine with him wearing it, so had put it on happily, proud of his great find.

The bags were way too heavy to carry around, so they stopped by Naruto's house to drop them off, before heading out to have lunch at Ichirakus Ramen stand. They spent the rest of the day walking around the town before heading back to Tsunade's office to report on the day's events. As they were walking down the curving hall leading to her office, Naruto accidentally bumped into some one.

"Ah. Sorry mister." Naruto looked around to see Kakashi staring at him. Naruto felt Ino stiffen next to him, and started to walk to Tsunade's office, when he felt someone grab his arm. He gritted his teeth and slowly looked around at Kakashi who was still holding his arm.

"You…Do I know you?" Kakashi asked, trying to see behind his sunglasses.

"No. I've never met you." Naruto replied coolly.

"Are you a new recruit? "

"Yes. I am. Now if you don't mind, could I have my arm back?"

Kakashi ignored him and continued to look at him, debating something inside his head. "You're not a new recruit. I can tell."

God, Kakashi was creeping him out right now. "Good. You're intelligent. Now if you don't mind, I really have to go."

Kakashi let go of his arm this time. "Who are you? I feel like I should know this."

Ino stepped In front of Naruto and looked at Kakashi. "Please, sensei. He's a friend of mine. We're going to Tsunade's to report on a mission."

He looked at her in surprise. "I thought you were on a mission with Nar-" His visible eye widened as he pieced two and two together. He quickly looked to Naruto, comparing things about this guy and the previous Naruto. "Ah. I see now. You changed a lot, Naruto."

Crap. That was the only thing Naruto could think right now. "Crap…" He muttered.

Ino sighed. "We were almost done, too. I guess you should come with us, sensei. Well explain it to you on the way."

When they reached Tsunade's, Naruto pushed the door open, really annoyed. Of all people he had to run into Kakashi, his former team captain. He stomped up to Tsunade's desk, Ino and Kakashi following him. Tsunade looked up at him in surprise.

"Well, Ino, you've done a good job on him. I wouldn't recognize him if I didn't know, but what's he doing here?" she gestured to Kakashi, who wasn't looking so confused anymore since Ino had explained it all to him.

"He's too smart for his good. He saw Ino next to me and realized who I was." Naruto said grumpily.

"Oh? You realize what this means?" Tsunade asked.

"Please, Tsunade! Don't make me be a girl!" He pleaded anxiously.

"A girl?" Ino asked in surprise. "Why would you have to be a girl?"

"My mission was originally to be a girl for this mission, but I had convinced Tsunade out of it. This test day was, as you knew, to see if I would be recognized, but if I was, I would have to be a girl, which was the part you didn't know."

Ino took pity on Naruto since he sounded so miserable. "Tsunade-sama, I think you should understand that Kakashi recognized him only because of the fact that I was there. He thought that me and Naruto were on mission, so when I said we were reporting to you about a mission we had just finished, he then recognized him as Naruto. As I'm not going to be there with Naruto on his mission, I don't think he will be recognized by anyone, since we tested that in the village today. We walked around the streets together, and no one recognized him."

"Together? When you were supposed to be on a mission, Ino?" Tsunade shook her head at Ino's blunder.

"Don't worry about that. I told people my part of the mission was done."

"You're sure no one recognized you, Naruto?"

"Positive." He said, beginning to see a ray of hope.

"Very well then. Ino, your part here is done, but you can see Naruto off tomorrow if you wish. Naruto, meet me at the main gate tomorrow as I have some papers to give you before you go. Kakashi, I have to talk to you about something. You two can go now." She waved a hand at Ino and Naruto, dismissing them.

Naruto closed the door behind them, and then looked at Ino as they walked down the hall to the entrance. "Are you going to see me off tomorrow?" He asked her curiously.

"Perhaps. I put all this work into you, so I guess that gives me a reason to go."

Naruto laughed at her. "Perhaps. Well, that's something."

"Ugh. I wish I hadn't said anything." She said as Naruto laughed again. "Anyway, I'm going to go to your house with you and teach you how to put on your makeup, so I wouldn't be laughing if I were you."

That immediately shut Naruto up. "I thought you'd forgotten." He said, pushing the double doors open and stepping out into the dark street. "Damn. I hadn't realized it was this late." He pulled up his sunglass and put them on top of his head.

"Teaching you how to do your makeup is going to take a while. Let's go." Ino said impatiently.

They had probably only been walking for a minute when they were stopped by a drunken yell across the street.

"Hey honey! Why dontcha ditch 'andsome there an' came with us!" A guy slurred, standing next to another drunken buddy.

Naruto and Ino stopped and looked around at the two guys. They couldn't see much in the lighting, but they were obviously too drunk to think straight. In other words, not much of a problem if it came to a fight. One of them cat-whistled at her as the other laughed stupidly.

"Go away!" Ino called, obviously bored of them.

"Ah, now now, Honey don't mean that." They started to lurch drunkenly across the street, stumbling at cracks in the stones and grabbing each other for support.

Naruto glared at them, daring them to come closer.

Even with their minds in the befuddled state they were in, they still had a bit of sense, and it was currently telling them one thing; run away. Even half way across the street, they could make out the blonde guys expression, and it wasn't nice. The bright blue eyes, defined by the black and silver surrounding them, were glinting dangerously saying 'No matter how bad you think you are, I'm worse.' They halted in the middle of the street staring uncomprehendingly at him. They weren't sure if it was just the alcohol playing tricks on them, but they thought they saw little red sparks dancing through his eyes lighting up the blue, and his once blonde hair was looking silver. One guy muttered something to the other and they quickly stumbled off, eager to leave the scary blond dude.

Naruto glared at them until they were swallowed up by the darkness, and then turned to Ino, Expression returning to normal.

"Idiots." He mumbled. "You okay?"

"Uh, yea, but…wow. You were impressive." She said, obviously a bit amazed.

"Oh, um, thanks. It's all your work though. I couldn't have pulled it off without your whole…makeover thing." He grinned sheepishly at her.

Ino shook her head. He had no idea what had just happened there, but all the same, she looked at him with new found respect. "You know what? You'll do great on your mission tomorrow." She gave him the most open smile he'd seen yet, her white teeth glowing in the gathering darkness.

He grinned at her. "Come on Ino-Chan, weren't you going to teach me how to do my make up?"

The entire warm, fuzzy atmosphere that had existed earlier was quickly fading as Ino got more and more annoyed with him as he failed to put the makeup on right.

"Not like that! You don't just rub the powder on like there's no tomorrow! Do it softly! Follow the curves of your face!" She tapped her foot impatiently as he washed his face and restarted. "No! I can still see your whiskers!" Naruto put some more on, carefully rubbing it. "Ugh! What did I just tell you! Follow the curves of your face!" She put her hand up to her face impatiently. "No no no. You put too much on again. Start over." She watched as Naruto washed his face off again and started over. "Yes, good. Just like that. Now, pick up the eyeliner, no not that! That's just a normal pencil! Yes, that one. Now, holding the skin of your upper lid taut, trace the upper lashes from the inside of the eye with the pencil. Good. Just like- no! Not like that! Just trace! Don't color in like your using a crayon! Yes. Like that. Now, get the silver one, yes, that's the one, and trace the outer corner with it." She watched as he moved closer to the mirror to see better. "Put your elbows on the table if you want. That can help. Just the outside…yes. Like that. Good! Finally! Let me see." She took his face in her hands and turned his head side to side, looking from different s angles. "Perfect. You finally got it. Remember to wash your face off each night, and then put it on again each morning, okay?"

Naruto nodded tiredly. "I didn't think putting makeup on would be so hard!" He said tiredly slumping onto the table.

"You're not the only one who's tired. I'm going home now, and when I see you tomorrow morning, you better have put your makeup on." Ino growled and walked out of the room. Naruto listened to her footsteps fade, and when he heard his front door shut, he got up tiredly and went to wash his face. "God, what have I got myself into?" He muttered as water splashed over face and smeared the eyeliner.

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