Okay, I really want to end this story with this chapter, so I'm gonna give it my best! Start the fic.
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Sasuke grumbled quietly to himself as he and Itachi traveled through the forest.
"I don't get why you won't accept why I did it..."
"Because it's too random!" Sasuke snapped. "You can't honestly expect me to believe women are in to that kind of thing!"
"Oh no? Correct me if I'm wrong but YOU have had a fangirl club since you were twelve right?"
"Younger actually. Why? What do they have anything to do with anything?"
"Think about it. The one thing you always talked about was killing me, right? And technically, I am your only family. So when they hear you talking about how much you want to kill me..."
Sasuke stopped on a branch. "Oh dear God..."
"Yes!"
"No!"
"YES!" Itachi pointed at him with both hands. "You get it!"
"That CAN'T be true!"
"Yet you know it is!"
"They can't be that simple minded!"
"Uh yeah. They can. And all your brooding probably didn't help."
"Good God, the irony is so bad it hurts! I think I'm getting a migraine."
"That's no migraine, little brother." He playfully flicked Sasuke's nose. "I just blew your mind!"
Akamaru slowed down panting heavily before laying down. Kiba hopped off and rubbed him behind the ears. "I guess even we have a limit huh fella? I'll get you a big bowl of water as soon I find one, promise."
"KIBA-KUN!"
"Shit! She found us! Do something, Akamaru!"
Akamaru whined and rolled over on to his back. "SOMETHING USEFUL!"
Akamaru whined a little followed by a bark. "NO I'M NOT GOING TO RUB YOUR BELLY!"
Kiba gritted his teeth. He had just about enough of that crazy fangirl.
Sakura leaped in to Kiba's arm with shout of "HOLD ME!" out of reflex he caught her bridal style. Kiba was done running, it was obvious unless he made a stand he was never going to stop running. "I DON'T WANNA!" Kiba shouted back and dropped Sakura to the ground.
She stared up at him in shock.
"Listen, it is one to thing to chase me to the point of exhaustion but when you do it Akamaru you've gone too far!"
"huh?"
"Look at him! He's run himself so ragged trying to help me escape you he's depleted his chakra!"
Truthfully Akamaru probably would have been fine after resting for a little but it was the principle of the matter. By not letting up she had dragged his dog in to this whole mess, and because he was important to Kiba, he was important to Sakura.
"Oh no! I'm so sorry! Here, let me help!" she threw her hands forward and started to heal the canine.
Naruto had been running from Hinata for about an hour now, he was getting tired but that wasn't the bad news. The bad news was he was in some kind of swamp now and had no idea how he got there or how he was supposed to get back to the village.
"NAAARRRUUUUTOOO!" cried Hinata. "All I want to do is love you!"
"Dang, she's gaining fast! I got to think of something! Kyuubi! Options?"
"Mike Tyson is going to use his flaming fist of rage to anally rape Lord Voldemort so the dragonballs of Mars may finally have their marshmallow eggs! Cuba!"
"Oh right...Kyuubi is completely useless. Forgot about that for a second."
Jumping over a large patch of water Naruto thought he saw something beneath its surface. Hinata suddenly cried as Naruto landed on a root branch of a tree. Looking back he saw Hinata had her leg caught in the mouth of a crocodile.
Without even realizing it Naruto took out two Kunais, a hand holding each, and then dived in to the water. A couple of large air bubbles burst out of the water and then the surface became placid. A minute later the crocodile shot out of the water, Hinata's leg in her mouth and Naruto on his back.
"Let her GO!" Naruto roared as he stabbed the kunais in to the crocodile's eyes.
Roaring in pain the crocodile opened his mouth releasing Hinata's leg to send her flying through the air. With a large splash, Hinata landed in the water sinking in to its depths, a red trail following her.
Naruto jumped in after her, letting the crocodile swim away from them. A moment later Naruto emerged from the water with Hinata on his back. Dredging on to shore, Naruto couldn't help but notice how peaceful Hinata was being.
It was odd.
"Well? Aren't you going to try and get in to my pants now or something crazy like that?"
Hinata sighed contently and nuzzled her face in to his back. "No...this is good too."
He delicately placed her on the ground "Are you okay?"
"I think so..." she said in a way which suggested the old Hinata was still in her somewhere. "You know, outside of the crocodile bite." And this reminded Naruto that was still out of her gourd.
"I mean, is anything broken?!" he snapped.
"Oh! I think my leg might be broken." She actually sounded normal for once.
Cupid flew through the village with an awkward flight pattern. Passing a window he took a peak in a window. Inside he saw Iruka and Anko laying down in the same bed, Iruka had both his broken limbs in casts with an irritated look on his face.
"You know Iruka..." Anko started to swirl her finger around his chest. "Now that we've got your casts set we could, you know...have a little bit of 'fun'."
"Okay, THAT DOES IT!" shouted Iruka at the top of his lungs. Surprised by this sudden outburst Anko fell out of the bed. "You think we'd make such a good item then prove it! It's time you either put up or shut up!"
"Wh-What?"
Iruka slammed his good foot down on the floor. "You heard me! I'm calling you out!"
"N-No! I don't think you understand how this is supposed to work! I act love crazy and chase you around, and you run away in a panicked fright!"
"Even if my leg wasn't broken I'd still be done running from you! Not like it's worked so far! Bring it on!"
Anko stood up, blushing shyly. "Um...ahem...okay." She kind of liked it when he grew a pair.
Anko undid her ponytail and started to almost shyly walk towards Iruka. And then...Cupid could see no more because the glass on the window fogged up.
"Aha! Found you at last!" shouted a voice.
Cupid turned around to see Sasuke standing opposite at a distance. As he changed out of his cursed form Itachi came out from behind the bushes to stand next to him.
"Think I couldn't find you huh? Well my Sharingan eye can see you as plane as day!"
"Yeah, because new Sharingan powers never get old."
Sasuke raised an eye at his brother. "What're you some kind of hypocrite?" Itatchi merely shrugged in response.
"Anyways," said Sasuke. "I'm going to get you to undo every single random crazy thing you've done even if it means killing you!"
Cupid cackled crazily and Itatchi seemed to nod in response. "He says..."
"Wait, you can understand him?"
"Well I..."
"What am I saying?" Sasuke facepalmed. "You're a homicidal sex addict, of course it makes sense you speak crazy!"
"Hey! Don't make me tell your friends about your teddy BooBo Bear, 'Little Brother'."
"You killed my BooBo Bear." Sasuke said flatly.
"What?"
"Same night you killed our clan. You were very thorough." he added dryly.
"Oh...I guess I got a little carried away. In any case, Poopy Pants says that he's no stranger to the Sharingan."
"Let's get this started then!" Sasuke unsheathed his sword and leapt in to action.
Ino panted out of breath as she held a stick in her hand with a beaten Neji in front of her. Just as a pool of blood was starting to form he started to stand up...slowly.
"Ow."
"Oh my God, you're still alive!" Ino dropped her stick out of shock.
"Seriously, ow!"
"I was afraid I killed you!"
"Ugh...I had no idea you liked to play it so rough."
"I'm sorry but I thought you were going to rape me or something."
"Rape? Really?"
"Well you haven't exactly been gentlemen like lately."
"Tenten never complained."
"I'm not Tenten!" Ino snapped.
"Oh my God! You're right!"
"Huh? Listen, before you go any further I'm going to need you to bandage your wound or else I'm gonna hurl."
Taking a roll of bandages out of his pouch he started to wrap his head. "Now like I said, you're right! You're not Tenten, I've been going about this all wrong."
Ino had picked up her stick ready to defend herself. "What do you mean?"
"I should be focusing on what YOU like. You obviously have different tastes than Tenten."
"To say the least," Ino dropped her guard a little bit. "If she's really in to this kind of stuff than she's even bigger freak than any of us."
"So, what is it that you like? I'm eager to serve!"
"Well.." Ino scratched her head in thought. "If you really want to..."
Kiba growled irritatedly. "For the last time! He's healed now! He's good! YOU CAN STOP!"
"Oh this is just a very 'special' healing session."
"Wait...'special' how?" Kiba didn't wait for her to answer. He ran over to Akamaru to check on him but the instant he touched the canine he fell over as stiff as a board.
"WHAT THE HELL, SAKURA?! He's even worse than before! How is this healing?!"
"Well I never said the healing was for him, it was for us."
"What? Wait...no...What?"
"Don't you see, Kiba?" She walked closer to him while cupping her hands together in the same way she would when talking about Sasuke. "He was just getting in our way. It wasn't very good for our relati..."
"NO!" Kiba shouted as he pushed her away. "You're crazy if you think I'd want any relationship with you after you've hurt my dog!"
"Oh but Kiba, he's not hurt at all I promise you! Just you wait and see, he'll wake up feeling better than ever. But this way we can have some alone time..."
It was then Kiba noticed exactly how close she had gotten to him after he pushed her away. And before he could react her fist had found its way to his gut, he fell to the ground moaning in pain.
"I'm really sorry about this Kiba, but we can't really have 'quality' time if you keep running away. I didn't want to play rough but you basically called me out." Saying this she picked Kiba up and started to carry him on her shoulder.
"I wouldn't worry though, Kiba. I'm going to nurse you back to health with plenty of Tender Loving Care."
Naruto came back to Hinata with an armful of sticks and large leaves.
"Okay, I think I finally got enough to make a split for you."
"Oh don't worry, I got my OC to make me a full cast for it. The author said he wouldn't make one because he said it seemed cheap so I made one instead! Say hello to Sparky Sparky Nurse Maiden!"
Next to Hinata was what looked like a catgirl Hinata wearing a nurse's outfit.
Naruto's jaw dropped along with the collection of sticks and leaves.
"Um..." she started. "Can I go now?"
Hinata nodded to her. "Yeah, you're done here." in a puff of smoke the maiden's existence ended.
"HINATA! STOP BENDING REALITY! THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH PUNISHMENT IT CAN TAKE!"
Hinata stared up at him with big teary eyes. "Does that mean you want me to send Bob Ross home?"
Bent down painting on Hinata's cast was the actual Bob Ross. "Oh don't mind me, Naruto. I'm just painting a happy little bush on Hinata's cast in hopes she'll get better sooner."
"Yes! This is the exact thing I'm talking about!"
"Fine, you can go home now Bobby."
As Bobby left Hinata stared at Naruto in a way she hadn't before. It wasn't full of hearts like it had been all day or even shyly like she used to do. It was as if she was looking at him for the first time.
"Naruto, if I scare you so much...then why did you save me?"
"As if I would just let anybody get eaten by a croc..."
"No, if that was true you would have just gotten me out of his mouth. The way you did it was just plain brutal. Why do that for me? Last time I checked I hadn't convinced you of our love. Not only that but you aren't taking advantage of my leg and running back to the village. Why not just leave me and send back help? Why Naruto?!"
"BECAUSE I MISS YOU, OKAY?!"
Hinata felt a familiar blush come to her cheeks. "W-What?"
Naruto scratched the back of his head. Like it or not, it had come out.
"What do you mean by that? I haven't gone anywhere!"
"But you have! Don't you see? The Hinata I knew doesn't act all hyper and crazy, she doesn't tie me because she knows I wouldn't like it...and she was sane...a trait I promise never to take for granted ever again! She was always nice to me...when she wasn't hiding. She was one of the first people to see the real me...even when I didn't see her... and I should've been more appreciative of that!"
"...Naruto..."
"So please...I know it's asking a lot...BUT PLEASE COME BACK TO ME!"
Sasuke sighed in a rather disappointed manner. "You know...somehow I was expecting a more epic fight but this..." Cupid struggled in a futile way with Sasuke's foot perched upon his head. "This is just pathetic!"
Sasuke gave a big stretch. "I mean seriously, this was as easy as pie."
"HOLY SHIT!" screamed Itatchi.
"Oh what is it now?"
"WHERE'D IT GO?!"
"Huh?" Sasuke looked down, and while his foot remained in place in midair the psychotic baby was gone.
"How'd it do that?!"
"Find it! Find it! Find it!"
"Where is it?!"
"KYAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"ABOVE! LOOK OUT!" Itatchi shouted as Cupid attempted to pierce them with a shower of arrows.
Sasuke managed to roll out of the way but Itatchi just stood there waiting. "FANGIRL SHIELD!" From behind his back he pulled out Karin who took the full blunt of the attack.
"Isn't that my fangirl?" asked Sasuke.
"So I borrowed her, so sue me."
"And how'd you pull her out from behind your back like that?"
"Sharingan."
"OH MY GOD, ITATCHI I LOVE YOU!"
"Aaagh! She's alive!"
"Of course she's alive, Sasuke, she got pelted with love arrows; not real arrows."
"So Itatchi!" Karin started. "When do you think you and I could..."
"Listen, go kill some yaoi fangirls and then we'll talk."
"Right away!" she said before running off.
"Itatchi, I know you don't like yaoi but isn't that a little extreme? I mean come on, shippers gonna ship."
"No! Not when it's about me! How would they like it if I started to write gay shipping fanfictions about them...AND THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS...now that I think about it, maybe THAT should be my revenge."
Sasuke shook his head in shame. "I can't believe I ever used to look up to you."
"Big talk coming from a virgin."
Cupid had been cackling evilly all day long but this little chat had him rolling with laughter uncontrollably on the ground.
"Quick! Grab his quiver!"
"Huh?"
"That's where all his magic comes from! Take it from him and he's powerless!"
"Okay you got to use your Inzanagi with Mr. Diaper Rash's quiver. The divine magic swirls with the power of the Sharingan thus making it like a reset button...only everybody remembers what happened."
"That's kind of convenient isn't it?"
"That's power of the Sharingan, little brother." Itatchi said as he jabbed his two fingers against Sasuke's forehead.
"Okay," Sasuke rubbed the spot Itatchi poked tenderly. "So how do I 'swirl' them."
"You need to place the quiver on your head."
"You're kidding right?"
"No, this way there's no chance anything can interfere with the process."
Sasuke did as he was told and put the quiver on his head, in which it quickly disappeared inside. After a couple of moments of hearing muffled snickering from the outside Sasuke realized he had been tricked.
"I can't believe how much of a dick you are!" snapped Sasuke as batted the quiver off of his head.
"And I can't believe how much of a tool you are!" laughed Itatchi. "Oh but in all seriousness, for it to work all you have to do is stare down it with the Inzanagi."
Sasuke did as he was instructed and almost instantly it was like staring down a tunnel. Deeper and deeper it went until he finally saw a light at the end. The light got brighter and brighter until it engulfed all that he saw.
When he opened his eyes he was twelve again. He gave a cautious smile "Did it work? Only one way to find out, I've got to find Sakura."
But before he could even start to look for her, Kiba whizzed across in front of him crashing in to the fence behind him. It was definitely pre=Shippuden Kiba so at least he was in the right time, but was everybody back to normal?
"KIBA!"
"That was Sakura's scream, does sound promising."
"Dude!" Kiba crawled to him on his knees. "You gotta call of your girlfriend! She's crazy! She's gonna kill me!"
"Don't worry Kiba, I got this."
No sooner had he said this than he saw a speeding pink blur charging towards them. "KIBA, HOW DARE YOU PUT ME IN TO SITUATION LIKE THAT!"
Sasuke spread his arms open and stood in front of Kiba. "Sakura, wait! It wasn't his fault!"
Sakura had managed to stop herself in front of him. "What do you mean?"
"Long story short, it wasn't his fault and I fixed everything."
"...oh..."
"With the help of a certain jerk who will remain nameless." Sasuke scowled in thought.
His opinion of Itatchi had been lowered so much he couldn't help but brood about it, an action that didn't go unnoticed by Sakura. "Sasuke, are you...brooding?"
Sasuke flinched when he saw the growing smile on Sakura. "Uh no. No! I'm just thinking about...uh baseball."
"Baseball?"
"Baseball. Yep, baseball, best sport in the world."
"Oh..." Sakura frowned. "That's actually kind of disappointing."
"Hey Sasuke!" a voice cried out.
The three of them turned around to see Lee running down the street to them. "What do you want, Lee?"
As Lee finally got in approaching distance he pulled out what used to be his new uniform. It looked like it had been through Hell.
"I need to ask a favor, I want you to burn this outfit."
"What happened to it?"
"You don't want to know, trust me I'm doing you a favor. Long story short though, nobody can ever wear this at any time at all for any reason."
Kakashi looked about feeling quite confused, he couldn't have possibly done any of that stuff he thought he did...could he?
His answer came to him in the form of a flying acorn hitting him in the back of the head. "Ow!" He turned around to see a very angry chipmunk chittering up a storm at him.
Kakashi sighed and pulled out his book. "Let's pretend this whole thing never happened."
Neji was feeling very confused. He wasn't sure why he had gone to being a teenager then back to a thirteen year old, and he certainly wasn't sure why he had been chasing after Ino of all people especially since he had Tenten. But most of all he was confused as to why he was dressed up in nothing but a speedo fanning Ino.
"What am I doing?" he said dropping the fan.
"Neji, unless you start fanning me again I won't like you." snapped Ino.
"Like I care!" Neji snapped back. "What do I need you for when I got Tenten?"
Ino's jaw dropped. After an entire (yet very weird) day of trying to get her affection he just up and dumps her.
"Now where are my pants?"
"Hey! Are you trying to say I'm not good enough for you?!"
"Uh duh!"
Finally finding his pants he started to leave.
"NEJI! YOU GET BACK HERE AND WORSHIP ME! I AM YOUR GODDESS! YOU HEAR ME?!"
This was the most confusing day of Jiraiya's life, not counting all of Tsunade's craziness, but he had not only been brought back from the dead after a blinding flash but brought back to the time when it all started.
"Jiraiya!" Tsunade shouted. "You're alive!" with that 'war cry' she tackled him with a hug.
"Oh no..." Jiraiya wept. "She's still crazy!"
Almost instantly Tsunade's smile had been replaced with a death glare. "What did you just call me?"
Outside, many villagers stared up in the sky in wonder as Jiraiya sailed across the sky backwards. Back in her office Tsunade clapped the dust off her hands in front of a broken window.
"Rebuff my joy for his survival will he?"
Anko climbed out of bed wearing nothing but the blanket. She turned back to make sure what had happened was real. Yep, Iruka was laying there on the bed, completely nude with his hand resting behind his head.
"Did all of that really happen?"
"Depends on how you look at it. Feels like we're back on the day this whole mess started, but if you want to kill me for what happened between us then now is probably the time."
Anko stood there staring at him, thinking it over. "You know what? I actually think I'm good."
A branch family knocked on the door to the Hyuuga parlor delicately, there was no telling what kind of mood Hiashi was in.
"Hiashi-sama?" he asked a little nervously.
"Come in." he said calmly.
Hiashi was sitting on the couch looking perfectly content.
"Hiashi-sama, we have word your daughter is still with the Jinchuriki. Would you like us to separate them?"
Hiashi stood up and smiled. "No I don't think that will be necessary. For now let them be."
"Yes, Hiashi-sama."
As the servant left Hiashi moved to the balcony and sighed contently. "Naruto Uzumaki, future hero of the Hidden Leaf. Not bad Son-In-Law material..."
Hinata slowly opened her eyes, she must have fainted due to Naruto again. It was an obstacle she would have to overcome at some point if she ever wanted Naruto to look her way. As she sat up she couldn't help but wince, her head was swimming.
"You okay?" somebody asked in a cautious manner.
She looked at the source of the voice and spotted her blonde crush.
"N-N-Naruto-kun?"
"You stuttered...YOU'RE BACK!"
He threw himself at her wrapping his arms around her neck in a hug. Hinata froze as she tried to process the fact that Naruto was hugging her. However, while Naruto was cheering on how she was 'back', all of her Naruto-Chasing-Adventures came flooding back. She felt her head swim again as the world around her started to spin.
"No! No! No, stay awake! Stay awake!"
As if on command Hinata became as stiff as a board. Naruto thought it looked promising but he had to be sure. He waved his finger around and when he saw Hinata's eyes follow it he gave a sigh of relief.
"Thank goodness."
"H-How can you even look at me?"
"Huh?"
"All those things I did! Some of them were so embarrassing I don't even know how you can look me in the eye let alone h-h-h-hug me! You must think I'm such a freak!"
She was on the verge of breaking down in to tears but Naruto knew this was coming.
"No Hinata, it's okay because that wasn't really you. You would never chase me around like that, or go psycho or...any of that! The Hinata I know makes quiet yet supportive comments, never hollers her love for me but cheers for me in her own way. And...I guess I never really appreciated that, and I'm sorry for that Hinata."
"What? No Naruto, you don't have to apologize for any..."
"Let me finish! I knew you Hinata, but I never really saw your feelings for me before today, and for that I''m sorry. Like it or not, today they came to the surface in full force and I gotta say 'Wow' to how intense they were."
An intense blush seemed to cover Hinata's entire face.
"But like I said, that wasn't you. Hinata, I'm not sure I can match your feelings but I think I might be willing to give it a try. Because I missed you Hinata, and I want to appreciate the you that you are, the you who supported me even when I didn't know it. I want to try with you Hinata."
Such strong feelings coming from her beloved Naruto-kun was enough to overwhelm the young Hyuuga heir, so she did the only logical thing she could, she fainted.
Naruto shook his head. "Should have seen that coming. Oh well..." he bent down and started to carry her bridal style. "I guess this is just going to have to be our first hill to climb."
Orochimaru tapped his foot impatiently as he waited inside his hideout. The door creaked open and Kabuto poked his head in.
"Orochimaru-sama, the pipe organist has finally arrrived." announced Kabuto.
"Well it's about time! Feels like we've been waiting for years!" Orichimaru snapped. "Show him in."
The door opened wider and in walked Cupid wearing a bowler hat.
"Where have you been?! I have so many evil plans that have been piling up just because we've been waiting on you!"
"I'm sorry." Cupid said as if he was a completely normal person. "I simply had to get away Orochimaru-sama. I'm afraid I cracked under the pressure and had to let off some steam."
"Yeah well don't let it happen again! I have chaos and mayhem to cause, but I suppose you wouldn't know anything about that would you?!"
"Oh no, Orochimaru-sama..." Cupid hung his hat on a nearby coat rack. "I wouldn't know anything about that." he said with a wink.
THERE! IT'S OVER! I'M DONE! NO MORE! I'M MOVING ON WITH MY LIFE! Oh but in all seriousness I hope you enjoyed the chapter.