Once again... I don't own these characters, or the plot line. I just own the idea of using these unowned characters together with this unowned plot line.

Sasuke was PISSED! He FER SHUREly didn't have any reason to be above the water. And Tenten and Lee were just floating around staring in awe at the giant wooden thing far out in front of them.

"TENTEN!!" Sasuke yelped, demanding an explanation. "What the he-"

KABLAM! A giant explosion cut Sasuke's annoying ranting off. He turned around and almost died from shock. A large three-masted ship lay anchored in the water close by. Fireworks from the ship lit up the sky in bright colors, their sparks floating gently down to the water.

The next thing Sasuke knew, Tenten was speed swimming toward the ship. She obviously ignored his calls to return to him at once, because she was so excited to see what weird looking creatures were on board.

Tenten peeked through an opening in the side of the ship, hidden by the darkness. She watched as a shipful of sailors in striped shirts and black pants laughed and sang and danced. 'What fantastic things their legs are!' Tenten thought. 'If I had those I could do all my cool tricks on land and be even better than I am now!'

Barbarians? Was that what King Hokage called the humans? They sure didn't look like barbarians to her…

Tenten looked around and noticed a furry orange creature on board that yipped and jumped around on four legs. When it saw Tenten it rushed over to her and licked her face.

'Nasty.' Tenten thought as she wiped the slobber off her face.

"Naruto!" called a slightly feminine but still manly voice. "Here, boy!"

The kitsune leapt happily over to one of the young men.

The man smirked, and his cheeks dimpled. His long dark hair fell across his forehead as he lifted a flute to his mouth and started playing it.

Tenten had never stared at anyone this way, which made some people think she was a les-maid; but this man was so different from the rest. Her breath caught in her throat. He was beautiful.

Kakashi flapped his way next to Tenten and interrupted her thoughts. "HEY THERE TENTEN!" He screeched loudly. "Quite a show, right?!"

"Be quiet, Kakashi, they'll hear you!" Tenten said, grabbing Kakashi's beak. "I've never seen a human this close before. He's very handsome, isn't he?"

Kakashi looked at Naruto. "He looks kind of furry and orange to me."

"Not that one," Tenten said with a laugh. "The one playing the twinkie!"

An older human began shouting, "Silence! Silence!" He stood by a large object covered with a canvas. As the music died down, the older man announced, "It is now my honor and privilege to present our esteemed Prince Neji with a very special, very expensive and very large birthday present!"

"Hurrah!" shouted the men. Some of them patted the handsome sailor on the back.

Tenten leaned forward to eavesdrop on the conversation.

Prince Neji blushed slightly and said, "Ah, Jiraiya, you ol' pervert, you shouldn't have!"

With a smile, Jiraiya pulled off the canvas sheet. It fell to the deck revealing a statue of Neji underneath.

All the sailors applauded. Jiraiya looked proud of himself. But Neji thought that while the face on the statue was his, the pose certainly wasn't him. This figure looked like a total man slut! He was lying down on couch and had beautiful women all over him staring at him like he was a piece of meat and they were all barely clothed!!

"Gee, Jiraiya, it's… uh, it's really something," Neji managed to spit out.

"Well I hoped it would be a wedding present, but…"

Neji sighed. "Come on, Jiraiya, don't start on that again.

"Oh, Neji," Jiraiya said with a sigh. "It isn't me alone. The entire kingdom wants to see you happily settled down with the right girl."

Neji walked to the railing and looked out to sea. Tenten raped him with her eyes, hypnotized. "Oh, she's out there somewhere. Believe me Jiraiya, when I find her, I'll know. It'll hit me, like lightning. Which by the way is going to hit our ship in 5.....4....3...2..1."

BOOOOOM! Just as Neji said, a large thunderclap sounded, and lightning bathed the ship in harsh blinding light. "HOLY MOTHER FUDGER!" "GET OFF THE DA..."

The crew lept into action trying to salvage as much as they could before the ship sunk from the lightning attack. A huge, and trust me, a HUGE wave crashed over Tenten's head and ended up taking Kakashi and Lee with it. Tenten turned around and rolled her eyes at the drowning seagull and tried to hold on to the ship with all of her strength. Which is also a lot of strength, just like the wave. Another wave came crashing down and took her down into the sea.

Tenten got back to the surface in time just to see a crack of lightning hit the ship and instantly the ship started to burst into flames.

Tenten watched in horror as the flames quickly spread; she saw Neji at the steering wheel, trying to guide the ship away from the just now noticed extremely pointy and dangerous rock bundle.

CRASH!! With a gross sickening sound, like when someone breaks a bone, the ship smashed into the rocks. Sailors slid across the deck. Neji lost his balance, hard to believe I know, but he did lose it. He crashed into Jiraiya and they both went flying into the sea.

They landed near a rowboat that the first mate had let loose from the ship. "Jiraiya, hang on!" Neji shouted. He hopped aboard the rowboat and pulled Jiraiya in after him.

"Yip! Yip!"

Above all the crackling from the flames, Neji heard Naruto's cries. His eyes darted toward the ship. It was engulfed in fire - and Naruto was trapped aboard it.

Neji dove overboard and swam sexily against the raging sea. Gasping for breath, he finally reached the burning ship and climbed aboard. "NARUTO!" Neji cried, pulling himself up on the deck.

CRRRAAACK! Above Neji, the mainmast broke. It tumbled downward, burning like a mammoth torch. Flames immediately began to spread right down to the lower deck, where the room hold the fireworks and gunpowder was. Which of course happens to be in there, since the FIRE is going to land on it setting everything off....

Neji jumped away and looked up to see Naruto standing on top of a staircase. He was shaking, afraid to jump.

"Come on, boy!" Neji held out his arms. "JUMP!"

Naruto yipped again and looked around fearfully. Finally, on unsteady legs, he hopped into Neji's arms.

Neji ran with Naruto to the railing, but his foot broke through the wooden deck and became firmly stuck there. The force of the sudden stop cause Neji to toss Naruto over board and to land flat on his face, FACEPLANT, and possibly break his lovely pale nose. The kitsune landed in the water with a giant splash, which is weird considering the kitsune is so tiny, and swam to the safety of the rowboat.

Before Neji could dislodge his foot, and also see if his lovely nose was broken or not, the fire reached the explosives room. And as Jiraiya and the others watched helplessly from the rowboat - and Tenten looked on in complete and utter total horror from the water - the ship was blown sky high in a smoky ball of flames.

Me - that was a nice long chapter.

Neji - it wasn't even funny.

Tenten - yeah...

Me - THAT'S NOT THE POINT!! NOT EVERYTHING HAS TO BE FUNNY YOU KNOW! PEOPLE ALMOST DYING IN FIRES ISN'T FUNNY! YOU KNOW WHAT!?!?! WE'RE NOT FRIENDS ANYMORE! I HATE YOU!!

Miss Michele walks off dramatically..

Tenten&Neji - Uhh... Thanks for reading. Stay tuned for the next chapters!