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Chapter Twelve: Painting Faces

The boy that Neji had switched with had been a nervous wreck stepping foot onto the Hyuuga compound. Hiashi was immediately notified by the other members that the Hyuuga clan had an imposter, in the form of his late brother's son. When the head of the clan heard of this he had to act, in order to protect his clan's secrets. He told the fake Neji that he had decided to train him and then taught the gaki [brat], who dared tried to infiltrate Konoha's strongest clan, a lesson. Hiashi took away the boy's chances of ever being a shinobi away. He closed off most of his tenketsu points. After that the academy was forced to give out a notice and had parents sign the paper which said something along the lines of 'refrain yourself from attacking your child, if you think that they are an imposter.' The boy was just lucky to be alive since Hiashi could have easily killed him.

'What was that about?' Kagome watched as the head of the house walked away without saying anything else to her. Shaking her head she waited until the water had finished boiling then poured it into the tea pot. When everything seemed to be in order she grabbed two biscuits and placed them on a plate and brought it outside. She had walked into three different rooms that seemed to lead nowhere to the Hyuuga's yard. After stumbling around the house going into many wrong rooms she was finally able to find her way out.

Outside Hiashi was talking to Neji to remind him that a branch members' only duty was to protect the main branch. He waited for the Hinata imposter to bring them their afternoon tea. As 'Hinata' came along Neji visibly stiffened when the tray was placed on the ground in between him and his uncle. He wondered if Hiashi had noticed that they had an imposter- 'Of course he would have noticed. He's the head of the house.' The tea was expertly poured, pouring the cup closer to Hiashi first then placing the pot down before picking it up again and poured tea into Neji's cup, not a drop spilled. Neji narrowed his eyes his foolish cousin had probably given this person a list of what to do and how to do it.

"Is there anything else you guys need?" Kagome asked in a low voice as she tried to fit the tense atmosphere. What she didn't realize was that Hinata would not have referred to her father and cousin as 'guys' and the real Hinata would have stuttered slightly to be in the presence of her cousin who had an obvious hatred for her.

"Neji?" Hiashi asked his eyes looking at his branch family, nephew from the corner of his eye. Good the boy had enough talent to at least notice this person wasn't his cousin.

"Iie, Arigato Hinata-sama. That will be all." The boy bit out in clear distain. He hated being near any of the main branch members.

'Neji?' Kagome wondered as she walked away, 'where have I heard that name before…?' Her eyes widened in realization as Sango's angry screams resounded in her skull 'so that boy back there that is Sango's rival? Have to admit he does look like a pretty pansy boy…but he also seems very strong and extremely serious. What's with everyone being so expressionless nowadays, is it some sort of trend? To be cool you have to have no emotions, was that it?' She wondered who Sango and Miroku had switched with. It would have been fun to torment the person!

"Onee-san [Older sister]," Hinata's imouto [younger sister], Hanabi greeted stepping out from the shadows. "Otou-san [Father] is going to be training me again today. He says he'd rather spend time with someone who has potential. He's ashamed of you. You know that," She grinned waiting to see the hurt look across Hinata's face. "He told me Neji-san can use the clan's technique better than you can, a branch member is better than you!"

"Oh?" Kagome didn't really know how to reply to that. After all she didn't understand the whole inner workings of the Hyuuga Clan. Hanabi was glaring at her for some reason or another. 'That probably wasn't very Hinata like…'

'What's wrong with her? Why hasn't she run away from me yet?' Hanabi pulled out a kunai and held it out towards Hinata in a threatening manner. "The only thing you're good at is making tea."

"Hanabi, stop that at once. You'll need all your strength for later. Don't waste it on her." Hiashi reprimanded his youngest daughter.

"Hai, Otou-san gomen." Hanabi bowed to him. She looked up to see Hinata's reaction only to find out she had left. 'Probably to cry like the baby she is.'

'This family is seriously messed up.' Kagome sweat dropped.

"T-Tadaima!" Hinata tried to stop herself from stuttering, but she couldn't help it! She was nervous and the fact that she had to go around playing pranks on the villagers was one thing. However she had to do them with Naruto. This made her even MORE nervous than she normally was.

"Okaeri [Welcome back]!" Two voices said in unison. One of them sounded desperate, the one that was male. While the other one belonged to an angry female. 'They m-must be Miroku-san and Sango-san.'

"Onegai [Please] help me Kagome!" The male's voice cried out from the living room area. The apartment was small but it was nice. It wasn't like her giant home that was cold and sometimes gave her the creeps. That and her imouto had the habit of popping out of nowhere.

"How was your day Kagome?" Sango asked twirling around a youkai bone kunai around her finger before releasing it into a giant wooden target board. There lay chained up a dripping wet half naked Miroku. The kunai landed directly beside Miroku's pierced ear with a thunk and the sharp blade went through to the other side. "That one was for always using up all the hot water."

"Al-alright San-go! Ho-how about yours?" Hinata asked her face was slowly turning red from the indecent amount of flesh the rather handsome boy was showing.

"You're acting a tad peculiar today Kagome…." Miroku said shivering 'is she sick? Her face is turning red'. Click.

"What was that noise?" Sango asked whirling around her eyes darting everywhere. She was gripping the eight kunai she had brandished, in a more deadly manner before relaxing. Then she turned back around facing Miroku before aiming. This time the many kunai were destined to land in between all of his fingers, at the same time.

"AHHH! Kagome onegai help me! Sango's trying to kill me again! Save me." Miroku sobbed. He didn't know why everyone always got so angry at him for beautifying himself in the bathroom. They just didn't understand that he needed to look good for all the ladies!

'Should I? What did Kagome-chan say about helping Miroku-san? That's right she said don't ever do it and just say he deserves it …because he probably did something wrong…again. Even if I want to help him I can't.' Hinata swallowed the lump in her throat before looking into his pleading eyes. Even if she didn't condone the behavior and felt kind of bad for the boy she closed her eyes and squeaked out, "Y-You deserve i-it!"

"See Kagome agrees with me! This is for using up all the shampoo, soap, cream, bath bubbles, bath salts, towels, facecloths, using my bandages and this, IS FOR TAKING UP ALL THE TIME IN THE BATHROOM, ALL- OF- THE- TIME!"

Hinata's eyes widened as a massive onslaught of weapons were pulled out of a box and thrown at Miroku's shaking body. 'She's scary.' However not one of them even grazed against his flesh, but when a sickle like weapon landed directly in between his legs he fainted. The board split in half and he fell to the ground still chained up. "Ano, S-Sango is he- okay?"

"Hmm, since when do you care what happens to him? I think he was right, you are acting strange are you sick?" Click. "There was that noise again? Where did it come from? Arhg, I'm going out to train can you unshackle Miroku's chains? I'll see you later Kagome, come on Kirara lets go!" Sango said grabbing Hiraikotsu from its spot near the door. As they were walking out the two tailed neko ran behind her.

"Ano…" Hinata mumbled shocked when the neko looked at her with its blood red eyes that clearly said 'I know you're not Kagome.'

"NEE-SAN! What did Miroku do now to make Sango so angry?" Naruto voice called jumping in just before the door closed. He walked straight up to 'Kagome' before passing her and held his stomach as he pointed and laughed at Miroku who was semi-dry now. Yet he was still tied down with weapons all shapes and sized embedded deep within the giant wooden target Sango somehow managed to get inside the apartment building.

'Na-Nar-Naru-Naruto-kun! Is-Is so close to me!' Hinata's face instantly heated up turning an impressive beet red color as he grabbed her shoulders and shook them.

"Ara? Hey are you sick or something? Now that I think about it I've actually never seen you get sick…." Naruto said putting his forehead against Kagome's only to watch as she slumped down on the floor, she looked like she had just fainted. "Nee-san?! Oh Kami are you dead?! YOU CAN'T DIEEEE!!"

"I-I'm fine…Let's go p-play some pranks!" Hinata had her eyes shut tight and put all her energy behind punching her fist in the air. Since she wasn't looking, her fist ended up making contact with the underneath of Naruto's jaw. His body was tossed into the air and he slid across the wood floors.

"What was that for?!" Naruto rubbed the sore area lifting up his upper body.

"Ah! G-gomen!" Hinata ran towards Naruto to see if he was okay but slipped on the rug and ended up head butting him. The back of his head hit the ground, knocking him out. "Narut-Naru-kun?!" She gently shook his body back and forth as drool slipped out of his mouth. 'Oh no!!' She dropped his body back to the ground and looked around for an icepack for his head.

"Kagome onegai….help me." Miroku cried rattling his chains like a prisoner.

Hinata's eyes widened. She had forgotten about the other guy! She ran over and got the shackles open and soon found herself being embraced tightly.

"You're my savior!" Miroku teasingly tilted up her jaw and leaned in.

'Wha-what?!' Hinata's face turned red. She ended up stomping on his foot in embarrassment.

"Itai! [Ouch!]" Miroku's hopped around on his left foot as he held onto his right. Due to the action his towel had loosened and was on the verge of falling off. While trying to catch the end of it to keep his decency intact, he slipped on one end of it and whacked his head on the edge of their table.

"Eep!" Hinata closed her eyes tight. 'I just- I just saw…that guy's….his... Oh Kami!?!'

"Ahh! It's so good to be back!" After Kagome had gotten back from staying back at the academy she danced around her apartment with the biggest grin on her face. Iruka had changed her back and took the itchy counter off of her, after she swore not to tell anyone who she had switched with. She had started to get a rather nasty rash from the adhesive on the counter…

The one thing that bothered her about the Hyuuga compound while she was there was Hanabi. 'That girl was so rude.' Clearly she was the favorite child. Hiashi barely spoke any words to her only walking by and telling her she was weird, which set off the counter. At one point she had been so close to blowing up at him but Neji had walked by at that moment and told her not to risk it. She was glad she took his advice because if she had attacked Hiashi, it would have probably led to her being kicked out of Konoha.

"What do you mean by that Kagome?" Sango asked suspiciously. Then in a worried tone said, "Everyone has been talking and we all agree that you haven't been acting like your usual self, what's been going on with you for the last week? You haven't been eating as much as you normally do. You've also been awfully quite and stuttered so much whenever Naruto and Miroku were around you. Seriously Kagome if there is something wrong you can tell us."

"I have no idea what you're talking about Sango, you worry too much!" She replied making a face. "You'll get those worry lines on your forehead at a young age, if you keep it up."

"I think she's back to normal now Sango… she's acting like herself again," Miroku said observing Kagome antics. He shrugged his shoulders when Sango looked in his direction. "Well it's about that time again Kagome for your weights to be increased."

"Mou….alright let's just get it over and done with." Kagome said sighing as she started to unraveled her bandages that where securely wrapped around her ankles and forearms.

"You're first Sango."

"Oh goodie, can't wait." Sango grumbled sarcastically lifting up her leg so Miroku could remove the left over ofuda of her old weight and apply a newly infused one. She was steadily increasing the weights on her legs by three, when she started she had been only increasing them by two. She was almost carrying two hundred on her legs she was just fifteen more pounds away. This meant that she was at one hundred and eighty five pounds. On her arms however that was a different story. She was increasing them by five, when she started she had been only increasing them by three pounds. Right now she was at two hundred and thirty eight pounds. Out of the three of them, her arm weights were always the heaviest. Sango wouldn't have it any other way. However because of that Sango's leg weights were not as heavy.

Miroku didn't understand why the girls wanted their weights put on in such a manner. He preferred to spread the pounds out. Every couple of days or at the end of each week he would add one pound to his arms and legs, maybe two if he was feeling up for a challenge. It didn't put so much strain on the body, but no they had to be difficult saying that 'we don't want you touching us for longer than you have to.' He just rolled his eyes. He had a feeling that the two girls were unaware that they were secretly masochists.

"Kagome why do you think we always go train right after we have our weights increased?" Sango asked kicking the log, not as fast as she normally did but it would still be pretty painful to be on the receiving end of it.

"Hmm… Wakaranai [I don't know] Sango whenever I get them increased I feel the need to train. It seems kind of dumb though because the next morning I'll just wake up sore like always….Obaa-chan made me do it." Kagome replied her reiki infused fist connecting with the side of the log. It not only cushioned Kagome's hand from the grainy rough surface but made a bigger dent in the wood.

"I'LL TELL YOU WHY-" Miroku yelled with his eyebrow twitching violently as he watched Kagome and Sango beat the wooden training block into woodchips.

'That Iruka-sensei....making me switch with that Dobe.' Sasuke thought grumpily as his footsteps echoed through the dirty old creaking building that Naruto lived in. Using the key to the rickety wooden front door he unlocked it and his nose instantly flared at the foul odour that invaded his nostrils. Naruto's apartment smelled like something had died in there. Screw that it was if a whole family of something had died.

"Che." Taking out the sheet that Naruto filled in Sasuke immediately crushed it into a ball and threw it away. It was absolutely useless! The only words he could make out were 'ramen', 'pranks' and 'Nee-san'. Wait- that was right he would be around Kagome for the next seven days and as the dobe he'd have to act like a brainless idiot. 'Sounds like fun.' He lied to himself.

"Naru-kun! Are you in there? You better have cleaned that apartment of yours." Kagome turned the doorknob, immediately sensing that this person wasn't Naruto. Only a second later she realized it was Sasuke in Naruto's body, they must have been forced to switch. She'd have to add their names to her growing list. That's right she was keeping a list of the people who had switched with each other. Thanks to her reiki senses she could easily tell who was who by looking at their auras.

"Nee-san," Sasuke cringed at the sound of Naruto's whining voice coming out from his throat. "I thought you could help me clean this place up."

"Iie," Kagome had to give Sasuke credit that was pretty 'Naru-kun' like. "You made this mess so you have to clean it up. I told you it smells and until you're done cleaning I'm not cooking you anymore dinner!"

That's when Sasuke noticed her armful of stuff, like a sleeping bag and toiletries. Pointing to them copying exactly what Naruto would do if he had been Naruto. He even poked them and ran all around her. "What are these for?"

"Mou S-Nau-kun, don't you remember when you invite a person to your place? That's why I told you to clean up your apartment yesterday," Kagome rolled her eyes and sighed going into the bedroom area and dropping her stuff on Naruto's messy unmade bed. "I'm sleeping over because it's lonely at my place since Sango and Miroku are away on a mission. You said to me that 'we can have a sleepover at my place' and what did I tell you?"

"….Gomen I forgot Nee-san, what did I tell you?" Sasuke almost choked up on that one. He managed to save himself and rubbed the back of his head laughing in the annoying way that Naruto did.

'Sasuke is really good at this….if I didn't know any better I would have thought this really was Naru-kun!' Kagome then got a gleam in her eye and grinned. That didn't mean she wasn't going to do everything that she could to make Sasuke feel awkward and uncomfortable. "You said to me 'wakatta [got it]! I'll have my place all cleaned up. When you come tomorrow you won't even recognize the place' I'm going to go training. If I come back and the place isn't all cleaned up I'm going to shove your head in your dirty toilet and flush it fifty times. I'll see you later!"

'K-kagome can be scary when she wants to.' Sasuke thought to himself before looking around the apartment with distaste. He would get the dobe back for making him clean up his (Naruto's) apartment. He really didn't want his head put into Naruto's bacteria infested toilet water. A shiver ran down his entire spine. He grunted putting on a gasmask and industrial rubber gloves before he started picking up the dirty clothes on the floor using a pair of metal tongs.

"Are you awake?"

"Un?" Sasuke grunted the reply. On his head was an ugly penguin hat that he was forced to wear because according to Kagome it was 'unlike' Naruto not to wear the hat. So he was wearing the dobe's pajamas along with the stupid hat on lying in Naruto's bed, he answered Kagome.

"Can I sleep on your bed? The floor is cold and your futon is really lumpy." Kagome grinned in the darkness wondering how Sasuke would answer her inquiry. She had slept in the same bed as Naruto but it was only to comfort the grieving boy when he was sad. Which was usually when she came down to visit, he didn't want to let her go so he'd sleep in the same bed as her. As he grew older he stopped doing it all together for the most part.

"If you want to." Sasuke felt himself gritting his teeth together could it be- that he was actually….jealous?! Jealous of how close the dobe and Kagome where? Him, Uchiha Sasuke was jealous…of the dobe…-yeah right…he wasn't….was he?

"It's just like when we were younger!" Kagome said crawling up on top of Sasuke trying to make him squirm and feel as uncomfortable as she possibly could. When she commented on sleeping in the same bed together, she had aimed the comment to Sasuke. She still remembered what he did when she had woken up after being brought to the Uchiha head house.

She trapped Sasuke by putting her hands on either side of his head to support her weight. Then leaned in closer and closer to his face until, her forehead was touching with his. Kagome was staring directly into his eyes. It brought her such glee to see him start to sweat and squirm underneath her since he usually acted like he had no emotions at all. She liked this Sasuke much better than the regular one. Even if he was only doing it because he was supposed to be acting like Naruto.

"K-Ka-go-me?" Sasuke cursed himself when he couldn't stop himself from stuttering. He blamed it on how he had to act all day…. it wasn't because he was nervous- or anything like that! Honest. Well…it was, actually because….he was- trying to- trying to act like Naruto! That was it! It had to be.

"Hai?" Kagome was grinning from ear to ear in her head screaming victory! Naruto would never call her by her name. It was always 'Nee-san' that was Sasuke's second mistake. His first one was when he actually cleaned Naruto's entire apartment up. The real Naruto would have just shoved everything into his closet, or at least tried to.

"What are you do-doing?" He swallowed the lump that had somehow made its way to his throat. Her lips were just so close to his… he could almost taste the sweetness of her breath. Her hair was hanging over the both of them like a long black curtain of silk….and as he breathed deeply he couldn't help but think Kagome smelled really good. It was a natural good smell too, not any of that artificial crap the girls who constantly professed their love for him, even if he didn't even know who they were, usually wore.

"Nothing," She said innocently moving her face closer to his. Her giggles threatened to spill out from her mouth at any moment. It was just too much. Sasuke had closed his eyes and looked like he was about to kiss her! And that was strike three. Naruto would never ever do anything like that! He would have already pushed her off of him, yelling 'Nee-san quit it you might give me cooties' or something along those lines. She couldn't help it. Sasuke's eyes were still shut and his lips had parted- and it was just too much! "He heh eheh he, you're acting really weird." Click.

"Urusai…" Sasuke found himself mumbling half heartedly, how could she think he was weird what about her?! She's the one who was acting so strange and carefree. He was so embarrassed that he could actually feel the heat coming off of his own face.

"We should have an eating contest, loser pays." Kagome mumbled letting out a small snort of laughter knowing that this time she'd probably win.

"Un an eating contest, I'll win for sure!" Sasuke was going to tear his tongue out of his mouth and wash them both with soap after this assignment was over after he said so many of the losers phrases. He was sure that he couldn't win against Kagome in an eating contest…but then again he had Naruto frog wallet to pay for things.

"You smell good Sas-" Sasuke's eyes widened how did-? Her mouth opened wide at that moment and she yawned loudly burying her face deeper into his chest. "-So that means you must have showered recently, I'm so proud of you."

'…Of course she didn't know it was him….but-' Sasuke found himself lying in the darkness with Kagome's head on his chest, wondering what name she would have said if she hadn't yawned at that exact moment.

"Bah! Yesterday was one of the most boring days of my entire life." Naruto kicked up a cloud of dirt 'the place where Sasuke lives is really spooky too. Also why does Sasuke sleep with a kunai under his pillow? I almost killed myself last night!!!'

"OH MY KAMI I'M TOUCHING SASUKE-KUN!!!" Some girl squealed grabbing Naruto.

"Itai [Ouch] that hurts you know, let go of me!" Naruto grunted struggling out of the girl's crushing grasp. His eyes widened as a hoard of stampeding girls ran towards him. He tried to make a quick getaway by turning around and scrambling in the opposite direction. Sasuke's face had a look of pure terror on his face.

"SASUKE-KUUUUUUN!" More girls cried out coming out from the woodworks.

He kept on running girls just pooled out of nowhere! Every time he tried to duck in an alleyway they found him wherever he went, they were there too! With the crazy look in their eyes as they chased him through the village streets there was too many of them. Sooner or later he wouldn't be able to run anymore and they were gaining on him. They tugged on the back of his shirt- Sasuke's shirt, trying to tear it off of his body. As he ran around a corner he was suddenly pulled into a store.

"Shh! Sasuke-kun don't worry about them. You're safe to hide here with me, anytime you feel like it."

'What's with teme getting all these girls to go crazy over him? How can they like someone like him to begin with it?! There is nothing special about him at all. He just tries to act all cool.' Naruto grumpily shrugged Ino's hand off his shoulder.

"I just can't believe you haven't visited me sooner, since you would clearly choose me over any of those other girls!" Ino smiled pressing her body against Sasuke's hugging him tightly.

"Hey! Let go of me!" Was his indignant reply, no girl- other than Kagome and Sango had ever hugged him before. His face turned red as she held onto him tighter.

"I'm just so happy to have to so close to me." Ino inhaled deeply and turned a little green around the edges Sasuke certainly didn't smell as good as he normally did. She immediately turned around and gagged a couple of times. 'Nothing a little cologne can't cover.'

"Ino-chan are you alright?"

"Un! Un! No problem at all Sasuke-kun, thanks for your concern. I've always known you secretly cared for me. You just can't resist my charm." She turned back around careful not to breathe as deeply the next time she was close to him. Ino pulled the elastic band out of her hair and struck a 'sexy pose.'

"What do you think of Naruto?" He was completely unaffected by the pose.

"Well I feel bad that he had to grow up like that, without any parents I mean. He's annoying at times…but if I didn't have any parents I'd probably be the same way. Why do you ask? You know…- Sasuke-kun I want you to know that these feelings I have for you is more than Sakura-chan's? We should spend some time together, just you and me." She ran her finger along the table the cash register was sitting on intentionally glancing at him under her lashes.

"Huh?" He glanced around behind him quickly and gulped 'what's with that look she's giving me?'

"Let's go on a date! I can protect you from all those other girls you know." Ino said smiling. "Stay here and I'll go get ready and tell my Kaa-san that I'm leaving okay? Actually if you want you can come upstairs."

"A d-date?" This was only because he looked like Sasuke he huffed and turned his head to look outside. He saw himself walking around with Kagome outside. They looked like they were buying groceries. Wait- that was right, Sasuke was now him!

"Sasuke-kun did you hear me?" She asked waiting for him to respond to her question prior to this one.

'Now that I think about Kagome acts nice to Sasuke-teme … since I'm in his body and I act rude to her. Then she won't be nice to him anymore! They are too close together for my liking!" He ran out the bell chimed as the door closed behind him.

"Hey wait, where do you think you are going?!" Ino yelled running after him and tackled him to the ground. "I knew it! You must be so eager to leave with me. Let's go out right now." She held onto Naruto's arm locking up the store before dragging him in the opposite direction the real Sasuke and Kagome were going.

"Let me go!" Naruto said trying to slip out from Ino's grasp. 'Sasuke and Kagome are getting away!!!'

"Don't be so shy around me Sasuke-kun!"

"Okay guys I have a couple of announcements to make. Only three people out of the entire classed failed, which is a lot less then what I had from previous years. When I collected the counter, the person who had the lowest amount, out of the entire class is Uchiha, Sasuke so congratulations. Now what I didn't tell you before was that this was also going to test your skills in noticing the changes in the people surrounding you. As a shinobi you have to be aware of your teammates and the people around you. For the next thirty minutes I want you to list the people who you thought were impersonating who. This will also show me who did a good job and who didn't." Iruka announced getting a bunch of groans in response.

"Oh! So I get it Nee-san, so when your face turned red and you kept on fainting when you were around me. That wasn't really you. So who did you trade places with?"

"NA-RU-TO you're not allowed to ask other people who they had to trade places with! That goes for the rest of the class also!"

"Pssst, Naru-kun I'm already done. You can copy off of mine." Kagome pulled the list she had been keeping of who switched with whom for the last two months. She slyly tried to slide the paper over to Naruto but was stopped by a snorting Iruka-sensei who grabbed the paper from her after running up the stairs and snatching it from her.

"KA-GO-ME! You're not allowed to share your answers with anybody either! AND THAT ALSO GOES FOR THE REST OF YOU!" Iruka yelled sitting back down in his seat holding his head in his hands. Then he looked at the paper Kagome had been trying to give to Naruto comparing it with his master copy. 'Th-this can't be. She was somehow able to list every single person and who I had paired them up with. Even the ones who were practically flawless with their act, Kagome still tried to help Naruto out by giving him this list she made....that girl- she's really amazing.'

"Naru-kun I don't think it's a good idea to be painting these faces carved into this mountain. I don't know about you, but to me they seem pretty important," Kagome said dipping her brush into the can of paint Naruto had brought to school with him. He looked like he was having fun. "They look really boring though and look like they could use a serious makeover."

"Un, don't worry about it Nee-san see the people down there like what we're doing! They've gathered down there to watch us. I've been doing this almost every day now and the crowd was never that big!" Naruto yelled over the angry villagers yells.

"Oh no, now there are TWO trouble making gakis?"

"Why do you keep doing this every day?!"

"You'll pay for disgracing the former Hokage's face you two. You should come down right now and apologize to all of us for what you're doing!"

"They don't sound happy about this. Mou they need to calm down..." Kagome said looking at the small yelling people, then back up at the ropes that were holding her suspended into the air over the rocky surface. She shrugged and dragged the brush against one of the figure's lips. Now it looked like he was wearing lipstick, she giggled. "This is really amusing Naru-kun!"

"See I told you!" Naruto yelled over the villagers' voices again, he was getting pissed off at them. They were making it hard to have a conversation with all their yelling. "HEY, WHY DON'T YOU GUYS SHUT UP? LEAVE US ALONE! DON'T YOU HAVE SOMEWHERE ELSE IMPORTANT TO BE?!"

"Stop causing so much trouble for us!"

"If you stop ruining the Hokage's faces every day we couldn't do this you loud mouth gaki!"

"YOU'RE JUST JEALOUS BECAUSE I THOUGHT OF THIS IDEA FIRST BECAUSE I'M SO SMART AND SUPER TALENTED WHILE YOU'RE JUST A BUNCH OF NO TALENT LOSERS!"

"-AND YOU LOOK LIKE A BUNCH OF ANTS," Kagome shrugged when Naruto raised an eyebrow at her comment. "I just wanted to yell something too. Hey it's the Sandaime Hokage-sama guy. I think he's coming this way to admire our beautiful artwork!"

'Who was responsible for doing that to my handsome face? I don't have giant bright red lips like that!' Sarutobi thought dismayed looked at the vandalized faces. He wasn't surprised to see Naruto up there, but Kagome now as well? What had Naruto done to taint that poor innocent looking girl he had known?

"WHAT ARE YOU TWO DOING UP THERE WHEN YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE IN MY CLASS!! BOTH OF YOU GET DOWN HERE IMMEDIATELY, DON'T MAKE ME COME UP THERE!" Iruka yelled up at the two troublemakers smacking his forehead when they both tried to make a run for it. They got tangles up in each others' ropes. Once he had tied them up, he brought them back and dropped them on their butt's right in front of the entire class. "Tomorrow is the shinobi graduation exam and I do have to remind you Naruto the last two times you took it failed! So this is not a good time for you to be pulling those pranks of yours ya hear? And Kagome-kun I thought you knew better than this!"

"Un.... un....whatever Iruka-sensei," Naruto muttered looking the other direction looking completely disinterested. "He just doesn't get our artistic abilities does he?"

"I guess not, maybe he was just jealous that we were having all the fun. Maybe he just doesn't understand our need to express ourselves, using paint as our medium."

"Un Nee-san! Those faces were like our canvas. That's probably it he coul-"

"YOU GUYS! That's it, time for a review test on the 'Henge no jutsu'! Everyone line up in a straight line at the front of the class. Stop complaining! I want all of you to transform perfectly into an exact replica of me!" Iruka yelled after he had snapped. He successfully interrupted the small conversation of Kagome and Naruto and made all the kids in the class groan (at the same time too) as they dragged themselves to the front of the class before Iruka sprayed his spit on their faces from yelling so much. One by one each of them transformed into a perfect replica of Iruka-sensei, Kagome transformed perfectly like all the other kids and it was now Naruto's turn.

What do you think the Naruto/InuYasha characters smell like?

Best review for the last chapter: KibaSin