WHY I'M SO STUPID?
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
Warnings from the last few chapters still apply.
It was now the morning of the next day in Konoha and it was mostly business as usual, except that now that word has through out the village the real truth about Naruto, now he has to deal with the same people kissing Sasuke's ass.
Right now in the Hokage's office, Naruto and Tsunade were waiting for an ever late Jiraiya. "Why do I get the feeling that pervert is busy conducting his little 'research'?" Tsunade asked out loud.
"Then you would be right on the money." Naruto said, "Which usually gives me a good enough excuse to pull a fast one on him."
Before Tsunade asked, "Sorry I'm late, I was held up." Both turned to see Jiraiya jumping in through the window, although his voice was sounding a little high pitched.
Naruto noticed something sticking out of his pant legs, "You weren't by any chance crazy enough to take a peep at the hot springs while Anko was there, were you?" He asked.
"How did you know?" Jiraiya asked in shock.
Tsunade noticed it as well, "Because I know for a fact that isn't a piece of you sticking out of your pants." She said, while smirking.
Jiraiya gave them a curious look before looking down to notice a snake's tail sticking out of his pants, with the shape of one leading up to his crotch. "Oh crap!" He yelled before punching where he figured the head would be. While the punch got the snake to disappeared, unfortunately for him, "Oooo, aaaah!" He forgot which part of his body the snake was attached to.
Considering the laughing that was coming from the two blondes in the room, sympathy for the guy was out the window, "Well you did do it to yourself." Tsunade said.
"Yeah, if you were dumb enough to use the Rasengan on yourself, then you would have our sympathy." Naruto said, only to get a look from Jiraiya that pretty much told them not to even joke about something like that.
After he recovered enough strength, Jiraiya took a seat next to his student. "Okay, who wants to start?" He asked.
Meanwhile, over at the Yamanaka Flower Shop, Ino was once again bored out of her mind. While her participation in yesterday's fiascoes wasn't much, she would have preferred that over sitting here during one of the slowest days of the year.
When the bell ringed, she looked up to see a familiar face. "Hey forehead, how did your meeting with Naruto go?" Ino asked. When she noticed the look on Sakura's face, "Okay, what did you do now?"
Sakura looked up, not too pleased with the accusation, "How do you know it wasn't Naruto that started it?" She shot back.
"Because all the times that weren't spent trying to get Sasuke's attention, the one thing I did notice were that Naruto never did look for a fight, a fight was always looking for him." Ino said, "And after hearing about the truth about him and the Kyubi, well, I started remembering all the times that most of the village kept trying to do something evil to Naruto, only for him to piss them off even more when he outsmarts them."
Sakura knew that she was busted on the spot, "Well it all started out perfectly until Naruto revealed a secret that he's kept since we were put into teams." She started saying.
Ino opened her mouth before her brain caught on, "Oh you mean he finally confessed?" She said, before slapping her hands onto her mouth.
Sakura looked up at her, fire in her eyes, "You knew?" She asked. When Ino gave her a nod as an answer, "Why didn't you tell me?"
Deciding that since it was out in the open now, "Well I was having lunch with my team at the time when we watched Naruto ambushed Sasuke. I thought Sasuke won when I seen him crawl out of the window until I watched him walk out the door. I was confused until Shikamaru pointed out that the first Sasuke was a fake." Ino explained, before giving Sakura a calm look, "Plus even if I wanted to tell you at the time, you wouldn't have believed me because we were apart of the same club at the time."
This sizzled out Sakura's anger completely. She knew what Ino said was true, due to their constant need to become Sasuke's one true love Sakura would have accused her right on the spot of trying to pull a fast one on her. "I'm sorry." She said feeling depressed about her past with the two blondes.
Ino was starting to feel depressed as well, "Same here, Sakura." Ino said, "Although I probably owe you a bigger apology."
"What do you mean?" Sakura asked, "You didn't do anything to me."
"Actually I did," Ino said, "I was the one who gave you that inflated ego mainly because I was too busy enjoying the attention I was getting without realizing how badly I was treating you. After we tied at the exams, and watching Naruto doing his stuff, I started thinking and realized that I was the one who turned you into another of version of me."
"Well actually you just gave me the push I developed the rest on my own." Sakura said.
"You got that right." Ino said, trying to lighten the mood, "Anyway, what happened after Naruto told you about that day?"
"After he told me, we had an exchange of words, and when he said something that was true, I tried to 'persuade' him into taking it back." Sakura explained.
Ino knew exactly what she meant, "And let me guess, Naruto showed you who the better ninja was." She said.
Knowing that it would be useless to try and argue at this point, "Yeah, he sent me flying into a tree with just one finger after swatting one of my punches aside as if it was just a regular punch." Sakura said.
Ino's eyes almost popped out of their sockets when she heard this, "Damn, he must be ultra strong to do that." She said.
"No I think that was his regular strength, even without the kyubi." Sakura said, "And before he left, he told me how he had to try and outsmart most of the village that were out to get him by either attacking him or keeping him from learning anything."
"You mean you don't remember?" Ino asked. The next hour was spent talking about Naruto and the past.
At the Uchiha Compound, Sasuke was trying to see if he had any food left in the premise. "I'm guessing you didn't bother to pick up the concept of buying and cooking your own food, huh little brother?" He turned to see a smirking Itachi leaning against the entrance to the kitchen.
"Well after you left, I had my own fan club and most of the village doing the shopping and cooking for me because they wanted to be on good terms with their 'oh so precious' last Uchiha." Sasuke explained, "After Naruto managed to change things, will all I have been doing is either eating out or buy a bunch of those instant meals."
"Or going to Ichiraku's." Itachi said.
"Yeah that too since the people there believe in doing the right thing, no matter what." Sasuke said, after finding nothing.
"What about your girlfriend, can't she cook?" Itachi asked.
Sasuke shivered a little; "While Karin might be a great medic and a terrific girlfriend, when it comes to cooking," He answered "Let's just say we can bring down the rest of the Akatsuki with just one bite."
Itachi went wide at this for a bit, "Well everybody except for Deidara." He said, "For somebody who has more then one mouth has no taste in any of them."
"Well as much as I want to keep talking, let's go grab some breakfast." Sasuke said, "Kakashi asked that we have a little reunion as team Kakashi."
"What happened to Team 7?" Itachi said, as they stepped out of the main compound.
"Somebody took over the number and we had to change it to avoid confusion." Sasuke explained, "Although this time we are considering showing up late considering Kakashi's track record when it comes to being on time."
"I know," Itachi said, "He pissed off father one time by showing up half a day late and he didn't even treat father with any respect."
"Not as nearly as bad as risking sudden death with the Hokage by showing up late while reading that damn book of his." Sasuke said.
"You don't like the book either, huh?" Itachi asked.
"Not since I found out Karin was a big fan of those books." Sasuke said, looking a bit annoyed, "Every time she gets a certain look in her eye, it's time for me to hurry up and the get the hell away from her since I don't want to do that stuff until we get married."
"Smart and risky move." Itachi said, as they entered the restaurant.
About four hours later, at the team's regular meeting spot, Sakura, Sasuke, and this time Kakashi, who was three hours late as usual, are waiting for Naruto to show up. While reading his infamous book, 'So this is what it feels like.' Ran through Kakashi's head, while ignoring Sakura's glare.
When the blonde finally did show, "Naruto, you're late!" Sakura yelled out.
"Well, when it comes to Kakashi, I figured I was on time." Naruto said, not bothering to use any of Kakashi's usual excuses, "Anyway, I have a council meeting to get to within half an hour."
"Cutting it a little close, aren't you Naruto?" Kakashi asked, while putting his book away.
"You're one to talk Kakashi." Naruto said, "I can't help but wonder how many good missions we missed out on due to your tardiness."
Knowing that he was put on the spot, "Anyway, since we're all jounin here, this should take no more then a few minutes, right?" Kakashi asked, while bringing out the bells that helped form the team, "And remember, come at me with the intent to kill."
Naruto put a hand into his pouch, only to bring out . . .
I'm back and I leave you with a cliffhanger, ain't life troublesome. If you have any couple ideas, let me know. Read and Review.