This was a long forgotten story that I decided to write a little more for. I have no idea why but I was bored. I'm very very slowly working on my other stories but I have a co-op placement now that keeps me out for most of the day so I don't know how much i'll be able to get done.

Anyway

Mean while with the "girls";

The group of 7 (he he! that's just a coincidence, nothing intended.) sat around the large circular table outside their usual coffee and tea spot chatting away. The weather was absolutely perfect that day so Sakura, Ino, Ten-ten, Temari, Hinata, Naruto and even Gaara had all felt kinda crummy for making their lovers spend most of the afternoon in counseling.

Sakura hunched herself over the table with her arm cradling her head. She stirred her vanilla latte, a pout on her face. "Man we should've just sent them next week. This kinda sucks."

"Well it wouldn't have mattered then anyway. They eventually would've had to go right?" answered Ino. She pretended it didn't bother her but everyone knew that her and Chouji hardly spent any time away from each other. In act they were all pretty attached to their loved ones. They had all been together for ten years now except for Gaara who only came whenever he was available, and this was suckier than being separated from a mission in their opinion.

Naruto leant back on his chair and adjusted his white hat. "You're right Sakura. But you know what sucks even more?"

They all looked up from their drinks. "What?" she said.

"BEING STUCK IN THESE FRIGGEN ROBES!" They all rolled their eyes and went back to staring at their drinks. He looked around angrily. "I'm serious man! Why do I have to wear them!? Tsunade never wore these things and now I know why! You'd think they were made of cotton by looking at them but NOOOO! This is some devil material that melts you from the inside! I swear you could survive an ice age quite comfortably in these-" THUMP!

Sakura sat back down and crossed her arms as the blonde now lay on his back, clutching his head on the ground. "Gawd Naruto you're gonna go down in history as the whiniest Hokage in the world! There's no law that says you have wear those all the time, just during counsel meetings. So quite it!"

The blonde picket himself up and flumped back into his chair. "Ok, ok but you didn't have to hit so hard." He looked over and Temari who had somewhere along the lines spontaneously fallen asleep and was now leaning on Gaara's shoulder. "Hey you guys could've stayed at the tower, I know you didn't get much sleep from getting here yesterday."

The red headed Hokage didn't looked over at him as he spoke. "You know that makes no difference to me. Temari didn't wanna sleep though, I have no idea why but I recon it has something to do with Nara and maybe wanting to sleep at his house instead."

"EEEW! How can you say things like that and not get all BLEH! She's your sister!"

If he had eyebrows he probably would've narrowed them to emphasis his expression. "I don't get 'bleh' Uzumaki."

Naruto, Ten-ten and Gaara turned to Sakura, Ino and Hinata as they heard them chuckling quietly. Ino was leaning in and almost whispering something to her friends. Both of them were clearly trying not to laugh out loud.

"What are you girls laughing about?"

They all looked over at the three with smiles. "We were just kinda thinking about old times and how funny they were."

"Huh? What exactly were you thinking about?"

Hinata took a sip of her green tea and held the cup in front her formally. "About how we all acted to each other. How I use to have a crush on you and Sasuke's little fan club with Sakura and Ino." She said this completely stutters free, but none of them paid any mind to it. Though she acted like her twelve-year old self in front of new people, she was almost a different person around her friends and family. "Do you remember Naruto, how Sakura and Ino use to fight over Sasuke? I had always thought that was very funny."

He grinned at the thought. "Totally! I loved seeing Sasuke's face when you would latch onto his arm in the morning before training and beg him to go on a date with you!" he sat back in his chair and laughed.

"OH OH!! Do you remember that time you and Sasuke accidentally kissed and we beat the shit outta you!? I was thoroughly amused for the rest of the day after that one." Said Ino.

Ten-ten started laughing as she spoke. "I remember that! I was busy eyeing Neji but I saw it from the corner of my eye and I think I almost spit my drink in his face. I'm glad I didn't though."

"I'm sure he is too."

"I remember the first day Naruto, Sasuke and I got back from our first b-rank mission with Haku and Zabuza " said Sakura. "We came into town and we had no idea why the hell there were so many weird people walk'n around. Then we ran into Lee."

Naruto slapped his palm onto his forehead. "OH YEAH! Gawd that was an episode eh? Him and all his "flame of youth" talk and those mushy looks he kept sending over to you. That was the first time I ever saw Sasuke use his Sharingan though so I guess that was kinda worth it."

"Speaking of that loser, did you ever make up your mind about moving in with him?" asked Gaara.

"No not yet. I actually think the reason he didn't protest about the counseling thing was because he's trying to guilt me into doing it."

Hinata smiled at her almost empty cup. "Wow Naruto I never would've thought something like that of Sasuke. He certainly has changed over the years."

"More than you know," he responded with a smile. "I think everyone's changed drastically over the years. Maybe myself a little less than others."

"HA!" came the short burst of laughter from Sakura. "Oh please Naruto! You've changed more than anyone! You still have a lot of annoying traits like your whininess but take a look at yourself in the mirror one of these days. I'm thinking you'll be pleasantly surprised."

They became silent for a moment until Ino asked, "Hey guys…Did any of you think things would turn out the way they did? I mean like all of us becoming jounen and Naruto becoming Hokage like Gaara. When you really think back to your twelve year old selves, did anyone really see this coming?" She looked around at everyone in deep thought.

"Some things were predictable," said Naruto pointing to his hat.

The blonde girl stared at him for a few moments before she broke out into laugh, Sakura, Hinata and Ten-ten soon joined in. "Oh man Naruto! You could become Hokage of the world but you'd still be our number one loud mouth, most surprising guy!"

His face softened. "Well good, that's just how I want it."

They all pushed their empty cups forward. Naruto glanced at the nearby clock tower. "Well I think their meeting should be done for the day. Why don't we all go meet them and have some dinner?"

Before anyone could reply there was a ghust of wind and Gaara suddely felt a little lighter. "Tenmari?...ooook that sounds like a good idea Naruto. But we should probably hurry incase Nara needs a doctor."

End

I haven't updated this in forever and I had origionally planned on making it rotate between the counsel meeting and the other group. I think i'll stick with that. Hopefully it wont take too long for me to get writing again.