The joke is kinda a shout out to Disney's cutting most series off after 65 episodes, basically the 65 episode rule. Gauren 2009 suggested that I do this after Fourth Wall no Jutsu. Also, something to mark in previous and future chapters, watch for blank manga pages.

There was silence in the mission room of Konohagakure, a feat usually reserved for when Tsunade enters with a hangover, someone badmouths Ibiki's only team, or someone had provoked Iruka into reaching for the mouse and spoon. A quick check of those three parties confirmed that they weren't the cause of said silence. No, this silence which the majority of Konoha nins, a pair of ramen stand workers, several princesses, and a delegation including the Kazekage, his siblings, and the jounin that had been their instructor all suffered from was caused by a stack of papers in the middle of the group.

Looking around the room, one might notice a distinct lack of orange and black clad jinchuuriki, traitorous snakes, and perverted sannins. The last had been sent a message about the gathering, which he replied that he'd keep Naruto distracted, but not for long. So they had assembled this morning in the mission room to look over this manga of their future lives that one Masashi Kishimoto had written and drawn out sat there, proclaiming a dark and dismal future awaiting them.

Unsurprising it was Kiba Inuzuka that broke the silence. "So let me get this straight, that dobe Naruto gets his own manga named after him, about all of us, only for that traitor Sasuke to steal the spotlight? Seriously, what the fuck?!"

"Settle down Kiba," Shino stated calmly as he sat his teammate down rather forcefully, "I'm sure that Kishimoto-san has a valid reason for picking Naruto-kun, but rather than trying to force that, I suggest we figure out what we do for now."

"I say we go on strike," someone voiced from the back of the room, all eyes looked at the random ANBU, before returning to the center of the room, where they continued discussing the matter. However, someone seemed to like that idea.

"Yeah! Let's strike until that guy writes us better parts!" Ino Yamanaka shouted, being held back from rushing at the pages by one Sakura Haruno. They were pretty sure she was going for the wrong definition of strike there, but no one wanted to risk correcting her.

"W...what if we just redid everything?" the normally recessive Hinata Hyuuga spoke up while walking to stand next to the pages in question. "After all, we are all master forgers and could copy his style with ease..."

"I don't think that would be prudent," Shikamaru answered, from his spot slumped against one of the walls. "He probably has things planned out, and even if things are edited by others, I think he would notice such great changes like that. But we may get in little edits on key pages..."

As the various Shinobi and civilians discussed the merits of their plans, no one noticed a blonde head of hair with an orange outfit enter the room. Until he reached the stack of pages and spoke up. "So this is that 'Art Project' everyone's been working on?"

Instantly, like a crack of thunder, every life that had been touched by the voice's source whipped around to find Naruto reading through the pages. Not a single person spoke as Naruto paged through what would one day be his life if things didn't change. "Man I look awesome in this... I can't wait to see how you guys finish it! Maybe tone it down on Sasuke becoming a demon, I mean come on, he's still my best friend you guys..."

No one had the heart to tell Naruto how wrong he was, no one wanted to see those blue eyes that were silently pleading with them mist over in tears of rage and betrayal again. Instead Tenten walked over to Naruto and nervously took the pages away from him. "Yeah, we were just talking about that Naruto... it was going to be a surprise for your birthday next year..." she lied quickly, smiling as the blonde seemed to take it, but three pairs of eyes noticed that he didn't quite believe it, but didn't press the matter after Tenten spoke up about the next part of her plan. "How about we go get you some ramen? I'll buy."

"Sure! Uhh..." Naruto paused, looking around until he found Teuchi and Ayame over in the corner, looking at him with kind smiles as always. "That's where you two are... Ero-sennin said you were busy here, so I thought I'd come and see what was up. I didn't know you were in on this art project..."

As the quad of people walked out, no one noticed that the pile of pages now sat a couple pages thinner. Instead everyone watched as Naruto was lead away to the ramen stand, a rather happy and relaxed attitude surrounding them all. In fact, that atmosphere seemed to have infected the entire room as they all smiled and returned to their previous discussion.

"Right," Tsunade said as she laid her hand on the pile of pages, "I'm assigning Shikamaru in charge of making sure that we don't completely mess up our lives by playing around with the manga; anyone wishing to change pages needs to confirm the changes with him before they're allowed to take pages. Any objections?"

No one in the room disagreed, even Shikamaru, who for once smiled about the work he was given. This troublesome thing might just be interesting.