A/N:

I don't own Naruto, or the other characters from that series.

Persons with easily upset-able temperaments regarding sexual maters probably should read something else.

Sorry this took so long, I had a busy week.

---Chapter 8: Homecoming part 2---

Neji Huga opened his eyes, but his vision took another few seconds to unblur. The ceiling was white, tiled with odd, pitted rectangles, surrounding the soft fluorescent light fixtures. Clearly this was a hospital, as he could smell the disinfectant and hear the beeps from the monitor somewhere in the vicinity of his head. Straps came down from o shaped bolts in the ceiling to wrap under his body and limbs, suspending him in the air. It the sensation was odd, but not uncomfortable. He didn't know how they would do in providing leverage for him to sit up.

Trying to sit up proved to be a mistake. Almost as soon as he put pressure on his hands he felt a pain start in his back, eliciting a grunt of pain. It also reminded him of the kunai that had stabbed him there, and also in his legs, which explained his presence in a hospital. He still had trouble processing how badly he had lost to Tenten. While it was true he had been slightly distracted at the beginning of the fight, she had frankly astounded him with the level of their fight, and he still wasn't entirely sure how she had done some of the things she had. More importantly, he was shocked she had changed so much without him noticing. How long had she been hiding in his blind spot?

Someone in the room cleared their throat politely, alerting him to their presence. "Neji?"

The voice was feminine, soft.

He tried to turn his head to see who it was, but the strap harness that held his head up blocked his sight. "Yes?" Neji did not feel strong enough for the byakugan, so he resigned himself to using his sense of hearing.

"How are you feeling?" there was obvious concern in the voice.

"Aside from a sore back, pretty well." Neji felt like he should know the person speaking to him, but after years of depending on his eyes, he realized his auditory recognition skills left something to be desired. Another challenge to work on, he thought.

"You're not upset, are you?" The speaker came forward into his field of vision, and suddenly he was having trouble focusing again. Everything around Tenten was blurry.

"Why would I be upset?" Neji smiled slightly, causing the girl before him to smile as well.

"I was worried you might me mad at me for beating you." Tenten's smile slipped.

Neji realized that he wasn't angry in the slightest. He was a little embarrassed at losing. Two years ago he would have been angry, Hiyashi would have been furious that he had lost to anyone but another Jyuuken user. However, ever since his bout with Naruto in the chunin exams, he had started to let go of that old him. He had learned the value of losing. And Tenten had shown it to him once again.

"You gave me a gift, Tenten." Neji said quietly. Tenten looked perplexed. "In my fights with Lee, with Gai Sensei, sometimes they break through my defence, or surprise me in some small way. This helps me grow stronger. But the fight you shared with me caught me completely off guard, pushed me outside of my comfort zone, and showed me a way forward. I have only been surprised like that a few other times. Those are the fights I will always cherish. Thank you, for this wonderful gift you have given me."

Tenten wiped a small tear from her eye. Neji gazed up at her, a soft smile on his face, so different from his usual severe seriousness. It made Tenten's heart melt to look at him. "Your welcome, Neji." She said, with a smile. Then, unable to resist any longer, she bent over him and kissed him on the forehead. Neji blushed profusely, trying not to notice the way her breasts brushed against his shoulder. He sighed and breathed in her scent. He couldn't name what she smelled like, but it smelled amazing. Tenten straightened and chuckled internally at his blush.

"Well, I know how much you would hate to miss out on training, so Sakura devised a little regimen for you while your in the hospital."

Sakura? Thought Neji. Oh no! his eyes widened, "Training?" Neji gulped.

Tenten confirmed his fears by holding up the book he had seen that day in Hinata's room. "Don't worry, I promise I'll go easy on you this time." Tenten's smile gleamed like the edge of a kunai.

The first ten minutes were excruciating. His face felt like it was on fire. It didn't help that she kept glancing at him out of the corner of her eyes and smirking. Oh the things coming out of her mouth, he could not believe her tongue could form the words. Finally, he surrendered to his situation, and surprisingly the experience was not entirely unpleasant. Her voice was pleasant, as he had noticed before, soft and somewhat low. He stopped avoiding looking at her and let his eyes gaze at her face, watching her as she read. He noticed that she was not entirely immune from blushing at the things she was reading, and that the flush in her cheeks definitely accentuated the beauty of her face.

A knock sounded at the door, and Tenten moved back out of his sight. The knock came again, sounding slightly timid like it had the first time. "Come in." said Neji, a touch regretfully.

Hinata walked into the room. She was a bit unnerved to see that her cousin was suspended from the ceiling in some sort of contraption rather than lying on a bed. She also noticed that he looked a touch flushed, which caused her a moment's concern before she took in the rooms other occupant. On Tenten's lap was a book she recognized well. Hinata shared a blush with the rooms other two occupants for a moment. Then she said carefully, "I think I am interrupting something. Maybe I should come back." A small smile played on her lips, brightening the blush on Tenten's face.

With that, Hinata was about to turn back toward the door. Neji called out, "Hinata, wait. It is quite all right. Stay and visit with me for a while." A look of pleading crossed his face for a moment, increasing Hinata's smile by a degree.

Hinata walked over to Neji's side, peering down at him. Her smile faded into a look of concern, and she asked, "How are you feeling?"

"I am not in much pain as long as I don't try to move around too much. The wound in my back acts up if I do." Neji smiled reassuringly at Hinata.

"Forgive me for asking, but how were you wounded? Sakura was not too specific about what happened." Hinata hoped she was not bringing her cousin down by bringing up his injuries, but at the same time genuinely cared about him.

Neji could tell that, unlike her father, Hinata would not judge him for failing to win. This and her concern for him, a member of the branch family, made him both hopeful and fearful for her as the heir to the main house. After his resentment had faded, it had been this unflinching egalitarianism that had convinced him of her strength. He decided to tell her everything.

"I was fighting Tenten, and was caught off guard. Tenten managed to circumvent my Divine Spin technique, and then pressed the attack. She threw a volley of Kunai at me expecting me to dodge or deflect them, but I was unable to, and was hit in both legs and in my back." Seeing Hnata's worry, he added, "I am not ashamed at having lost, it was a magnificent battle."

Hinata nodded, understanding. She looked over at Tenten in curiosity, "How were you able to get through the Divine Spin?" She asked Neji's teammate.

Tenten fidgeted slightly, looking a little self-conscious. "I had gathered from watching Neji's spin technique before that it consists of two parts, the speed of the spin and the chakra distribution. I rapidly ran around Neji in the same direction of his spin to decrease the relative speed between me and him. I then applied my own chakra to the sphere to cause friction and further slow him down in relation to me. This also served a second purpose, disrupting the even distribution of the chakra, and causing a buildup relative to the amount of chakra I applied. I finished off by waiting until the right moment, then surging the chakra and releasing it. This caused a compression wave to form in the surface of the chakra, and I thrust my hand in at the low point of the wave and grabbed his wrist to stop his spin completely." Tenten smiled slightly in well-deserved pride.

Hinata stared at the girl, slightly awestruck. She would never have come up with such a strategy, nor did she think she could have implemented it if she had. She could now understand why Neji was so calm about his loss.

Neji smiled in the direction of his teammate. "Tenten is actually understating her accomplishment. She predicted my responses and had control of the match from the beginning. She forced me to use the spin to defend myself against her assault, and then maintained her attacks to force me to keep using it while she circumvented it. She had even begun to run around me before I began my spin, which means she predicted its direction. It was a plan worthy of a Nara, I was defeated before the match began."

Tenten was blushing slightly at Neji's praise. Hinata, looked appraisingly at Tenten, the expression on her face so out of place Tenten began to feel a little nervous. "How did you know which direction to run before he began his spin?" Hinata asked.

"I noticed from his fights with Lee that he leads with his dominant hand." Tenten stated, trying to keep her nervousness at being scrutinized from showing. She smirked inwardly at the irony of this role reversal.

"I see, you have been watching him closely. I am glad that Neji found such a good match with you." Hinata stated evenly, with a smile.

It took Tenten a moment to spot the double entendre in her statement, because of its source. Wait a minute, did Hinata just… Tenten thought to herself. Looking up at the other girl, she saw a gleam in her eye that looked like hidden laughter. I can't believe how much she has changed. Tenten looked down at Neji, hoping he had missed the subtext there. She wasn't ready to admit her feelings for him just yet.

Hinata watched her friends face, and saw her discomfort. Relenting, she decided to deflect the conversation. "Neji, I apologize, My father won't be able to make it until at least this evening. My sister will probably come with him then." Tenten couldn't miss the warning; don't let them catch you reading that book. Tenten nodded in response. "I should get going soon, unfortunately. I will try to come as much as I can, but I am glad to see you have other visitors, Neji." Hinata went over to Neji and gave his hand a squeeze. "Whatever my father says, I'm proud of you." She gave her cousin a last smile, gave one to Tenten too, and then left the two to resume what she had interrupted.

OoOoOoO

It was early evening when Naruto and Jiraya came into the vicinity of Konoha. After two days of travel, Jiraya's guilt had somewhat worn off, to be replaced with exasperation at his student. " Are you going to keep moping like this forever? You only went out with the girl a couple of times, and you didn't even do anything with her."

This only earned him a glare from Naruto. "I like her, okay? I didn't stop just because I'm not there anymore. And I don't want to hear any talk about 'doing things' from a perv like you." Naruto turned his gaze away from his teacher.

Thankfully the trip back had been relatively uneventful. None of the women working in the fields had run after Naruto. The inn they had slept in had had no surprise visitors appearing in their rooms. It seemed that Naruto was out of the woods regarding the perfume problem. Which meant that Jiraya felt he was off the hook as far as telling Tsunade. He had intimated to Naruto that telling on him to the Hokage would mean the end of their teacher-student relationship, to which Naruto suggested that maybe Jiraya had run out of things to teach him, and was just trying to hide it.

"Well, I for one will be glad to get back to Konoha, and companions who aren't so gloomy." Jiraya stated, sounding a little petulant.

Naruto sighed. He wished sometimes that his teacher would act more like a grownup. After everything that had happened, he was still grateful to his teacher for this training mission. "I'm sorry Jiraya, I'll try to keep you entertained. I wouldn't want you to suffer." Naruto had meant to be soothing, but he couldn't quite keep the sarcasm out of his voice at the end. Fortunately, Jiraya chose to ignore it, but silence descended over the pair. It was lucky they weren't far from the village.

Sakura had just finished dinner, and was taking a walk around the village. She had planned to go visit Neji in the hospital, but wasn't sure she wanted to intrude on his other visitor's time. She hoped Tenten had made good use of her time with him.

She was walking where her feet led her, and found herself looking down one of the major boulevards that led to the gates of Konoha. She walked toward them a little, looking out at the forest beyond. She found herself thinking about her missing teammates. She wondered if Naruto was doing well on his training. She wondered if Sasuke was… she forcefully derailed that train of thought. She hoped one of these days she could make good on her promise to forget about her other teammate.

Her mind wandered back to Naruto again. She wondered what kind of training he was doing. The last time Jiraya had taken him on a training trip, he had come back with the Rassengan, as well as the fifth Hokage. She was a little envious that he was getting to go out into the world, while she was stuck here, but she supposed that they each had to follow their masters. Her, Naruto, even Sasuke, were each an apprentice to one of the legendary Sannin. It was as though they were destined to be the successors of one of the most powerful group of ninja to come out of Konoha. She fervently hoped that her generation could avoid the tragedy that had befallen the past one. Pushing herself off of this depressing path of thought, she wondered if Hinata would be able to make some headway with Naruto when he got back.

She had been leaning against a wall, looking out through the gate for a few minutes. Suddenly, she saw something that she couldn't quite believe; Naruto was standing at the Security checkpoint with his teacher, Jiraya. She fought back a shiver at the highly unlikely coincidence that she would be at the gate and thinking about him when Naruto appeared. She hoped it wasn't a sign of some sort of mystical romantic connection. She was definitely reading too much of that romance novel, she decided.

Sakura pushed off from the wall and made her way towards the pair. She arrived in earshot to overhear Jiraya admonish his student, "Stop pining for your girlfriend and lets get to the Hokage's to make our report. I've been away from the hot-springs for too long."

Sakura couldn't stop her outburst, "What? Naruto has a girlfriend?" The two looked her way.

"Oh, hi Sakura." Naruto said, with a slightly worried smile. Sakura had sounded confused, but also a little angry. He wasn't entirely sure why she would be mad at him for having a girlfriend, but he was sure that he didn't like her to be mad at him. It usually hurt a lot.

Jiraya smiled when he saw Sakura. Maybe this will cheer up Naruto, or at least distract him while I make my report. "I guess I can go make my report while you two catch up." With a mischievous grin he sped away to the Hokage's tower.

Sakura forced herself to calm down. It was nice to see her teammate, even if he was unknowingly trampling her matchmaking plans. "Hi Naruto, welcome back. Did you have a nice trip."

Naruto was even more unnerved by Sakura's sudden niceness. He would have to be cautious, in case she got angry again. "Thanks, Sakura. Um, I guess I had a nice trip. Jiraya took me to this small town on the road to wind country. He had some business there, and it also worked for my training." Naruto ended at what he hoped was a safe part in his narrative.

"That's nice. Did he teach you anything interesting?" Sakura pressed her interrogation, furiously trying to remain polite.

Naruto was sweating bullets trying to think of anything he could say about his training that wouldn't land him in the hospital. "Yeah, I learned a few infiltration and observation techniques." Naruto winced inwardly at the ways that could be misconstrued.

Sakura could see that the oblique approach was not bringing her any closer to finding out about Naruto's girlfriend that Jiraya had alluded to. It was optimistic for her to have tried it, but she guessed her time away from her teammate had softened her towards him. She glared at Naruto, and was both pleased and horrified to see him flinch. "Stop evading. What was Jiraya talking about? What exactly happened on this trip?"

Naruto caved, "Okay! I'll tell you! Just… please don't hurt me." Naruto shot Sakura a pleading look, and she had to stifle a giggle. "Jiraya's training was in dating. How to spot if a girl is interested in me, how to ask a girl out, proper etiquette on a date. Don't worry, he didn't turn me into a perv, at least I hope not. We observed other couples on dates, and paid attention to how they acted. The final training was to go out on a date with a girl. The person I met trying to get a date ended up being really nice, and we went on a couple of dates. Don't worry I didn't do anything to her. But yeah, I was sad to say goodbye to her." Naruto still looked a little dejected. Sakura felt a little sorry for putting the squeeze on him, but only a little.

"Ok. So, your girlfriend, does she have a name?" Sakura asked more gently.

"Her name is Kaede." Naruto's eyes lit up a bit in remembrance.

Sakura was a little alarmed at this turn of events. Naruto had clearly liked this girl a lot. She hoped that Hinata would be able to outshine Naruto's missing girlfriend. The fantasy of her nursing his broken heart and him falling for her notwithstanding, she worried that this would further complicate what was already a difficult road for Hinata to walk. "I think you had better tell me everything." Sakura settled with her shoulder against a wall.

"Well, the first part of the training was fairly straightforward, just looking at the way women acted around certain men and picking out whether or not they were interested." Naruto paused, hoping he could get through the next part. "The second part of the training, we went under-cover as a couple, and went to a few date spots to watch what other couples did."

Sakura had trouble imagining Naruto and Jiraya looking like a convincing couple. "How did you two... blend in." she managed tactfully.

"Jiraya made himself look younger, and made me… turn into a girl." Naruto was bright red in embarrassment remembering that episode.

Sakura knew exactly what he meant when he said he had turned into a girl. She schooled her features, trying not to laugh at her friend's discomfort. "That sounds pretty uncomfortable."

Naruto warmed to the subject. "Oh it was horrible! He ended up grabbing girl me on the boob, and when I got upset, the transformation ended and I was left in guy form wearing girl clothes!" Sakura couldn't stop herself from laughing, and Naruto laughed a little too. "It was pretty funny, but I wasn't laughing then."

Sakura smiled in commiseration. "I wouldn't go on a date with your teacher, that's for sure. I've heard too many stories from Tsunade-sama about him. I'm sorry you had to go through that, though."

Naruto smiled. It was actually nice to be able to talk about this with Sakura, now that she didn't look like she was going to hit him. "Thanks. I got him back for that one; I slipped dye into his shampoo, which turned his hair pink. Not as nice a shade of pink as yours, of course." They both giggled at this. When their laughter subsided, Naruto continued "For the third training, Jiraya gave me a day to get a girl to go out with me that night. I met Kaede when I rescued her brother's toy from a tree. I actually forgot I was on a mission, so I ended up hanging out with them for the afternoon before I remembered I was supposed to get a date. Fortunately, Kaede decided to say yes. Otherwise, I would have had to go on another practice date with Jiraya." Naruto gave a shudder of playful horror. "Anyway, Jiraya pulled a fast one on me, and hid all my clothes, so I had to wear these tight jeans and a leather jacket. All the girls were staring at my butt. It was embarrassing! But Kaede thought it was cute, so it worked out ok." Naruto smiled again in fond reminiscence. "Anyway, Jiraya had one more trick up his sleeve. He sprayed me with this perfume that made all the women attracted to me. The waitress sat down in my lap and told Kaede to take a hike. And just as soon as I got her to get off me, Kaede sat down! That's when she kissed me the first time. But I figured out something was up and called Jiraya on it, and then explained it to Kaede, who was surprisingly nice about the whole thing. But apparently the perfume didn't wear off after twelve hours like it was supposed to, and instead I got chased around town by gangs of women a couple of times before we decided to come back and see if Tsunade could figure out a way to fix it. I think it must have worn off on it's own though. I hope so, because I don't want to be attacked by women again." Naruto blushed at the thought.

"It sounds like you have been through a lot. I'm sorry you got chased." Sakura gave Naruto a hug.

"Thanks Sakura." Naruto was glad that Sakura was understanding, and not getting mad at him. Then he noticed the hug was going on a bit long. Oh no, not again. He thought. Not with Sakura! "Um Sakura, I feel better, thanks."

"Mmm. I'm glad. You smell nice, Naruto." Sakura nestled into his shoulder. Naruto turned bright red.

Naruto couldn't believe this was happening. The girl he had chased after for years was cuddling him, and he was supposed to make her stop, to protect her from making a fool of herself in order to protect their friendship. He had long since given up any idea of their being together, but still, a part of him was definitely fighting his doing the right thing. "Um, Sakura, please let go now."

"Mm-mm." Sakura shook her head and held him closer. She had definitely gotten a lot stronger, Naruto noticed in alarm.

"Please, Sakura. This isn't you, it's the perfume making you act like this. You don't like me, remember? Try to fight it. Please, Sakura! I don't know if I can hold you off much longer." Naruto kept a running monologue trying to recall Sakura to herself, while struggling to break free. It wasn't working. Sakura reached up with her face, trying to kiss him. He knew if she kissed him it would be all over. Desperation kicked his brain into high gear, and he came up with a desperate plan. Carefully constructing the images in his mind, he took a costume he had seen on a billboard for a show at a girls club, superimposing Sasuke into the outfit. Focusing on that image, his hands flashed behind Sakura's back in a familiar sequence of hand signs.

"Reverse Harem Jutsu" He cried. Suddenly the two of them were surrounded by clones of Sasuke, wearing tight pants and the cuffs and collar of a dress shirt. Sakura's grip loosened enough that he was able to use a substitution on one of his clones. As he left Sakura surrounded by clones of the man she had loved, he hoped she would be able to forgive him. First things first, he had to deal with the sight problem of being a walking chick magnet. He headed to the Hokage's office, and hoped Jiraya wasn't trying to avoid telling Tsunade about his situation.

OoOoOoO

The Hokage was having dinner in her office again. Despite the quality of the food she now had regular access to, she missed the days of eating at bars and gambling dens. It was hard to taste food properly when it was surrounded by a wall of paperwork. She sighed, fighting back the urge to lament her fate. The truth was, despite all her frustrations dealing with the running of the village, she was far happier here than she had been in her wanderings. She felt a connection that she had thought herself no longer capable of after her loved ones had died. She began to understand Minato-kun and Sarutobi-sensei's professions of loving the entire village.

A knock sounded at her door, and one of the door-keeping chunin poked his head inside. "Jiraya is here to see you."

Tsunade nodded. "Show him in." Well, this should be good. My old teammate is always good for a laugh, or at least a punching bag. She thought.

"Tsunade, you're looking as lovely as ever." Jiraya said as he walked through the door. His compliment immediately raised alarm bells for Tsunade, but she pretended she was annoyed at his incessant flirting. After years of knowing him, she had learned he seldom complimented her unless he was up to something.

Tsunade met his compliment with a bald faced lie, "Jiraya, you look as young as ever. Have a seat, I'm just finishing dinner, but why don't you fill me in on your mission."

"I managed to procure most of the medical herbs you requested." Jiraya placed a pouch on top of one of the piles of paper, and then took a seat at one of the sides of Tsunade's desk, so that they could both see each other. "I also heard from my spy network that Akatsuke and Orochmaru had a bit of a clash over something, and they seem to be nursing their collective wounds right now. It won't last forever, but we should have at least a few more weeks of breathing room before they try anything else."

Tsunade smiled. "That is good news. Maybe we should have a drink to celebrate, and toast to them destroying each other and leaving us in peace." Tsunade began to rummage in the drawers of her desk for one of her hold-out bottles of Sake. "And how did the training with Naruto go? Did you teach him some new jutsu that could destroy the village if used improperly?" Tsunade's eyes held a sparkle of humor.

"Instead of jutsu, I decided to teach him some things that Minato would have wanted him to know. Specifically I taught him about girls and dating."

"You did what now?" Tsunade's smile lost all its warmth. Her voice was quiet, as though she were storing it up for he hurricane of anger that was coming.

"Don't worry, I didn't make him into a pervert. I don't think anyone could. I just figured that he probably hasn't had anyone to explain the… facts of life to him, and decided to take him under my wing, in deference to his father." Jiraya smiled broadly at Tsunade, hoping he had deflected her anger.

"Hmm." Tsunade still wasn't convinced. She knew her old teammate was hiding something, she just wasn't sure what, yet. "And how did that go?"

"Pretty well. Naruto got himself a girlfriend, but had to say goodbye when we came back. He's a little sad about it, but he'll live."

As Tsunade was digesting this and contemplated her next question, the orange clad ninja himself burst through the doors. "Sorry Hokage-sama, Jiraya-sensei. I didn't want to interrupt."

"That's okay, Naruto. We were just talking about you." Tsunade smiled to see the kid. She was pleased that he was at least minding his manners, more or less.

"Actually Tsunade-sama, I'm a clone. Naruto sent me to let you know that the perfume hasn't worn off." The Naruto clone stated.

"Damn." Jiraya cursed under his breath.

Tsunade's eyes narrowed as she looked at him. "What perfume is this?"

"I'm sorry sensei, but she needs to know now. Jiraya sprayed me with an aphrodisiac perfume, which causes women to become attracted to me. It was supposed to wear off after a couple of hours, but for some reason the effect seems to keep recurring on Naruto. He's hiding out in his apartment to keep from affecting anyone else." The Naruto clone gave a worried look towards his sensei.

"You did what?" The force of Tsunade's bellow caused the clone to disperse. Simultaneously, the sake bottle that had been in Tsunade's hand rocketed towards where Jiraya was sitting, destroying the chair that he barely managed to vacate in time.

Jiraya stood in the middle of the room now, across the desk from Tsunade. Not that the desk would be any obstacle to his enraged teammate. O well, in for a penny, in for a pound. Jiraya thought glumly. Surreptitiously his hand went into his pocket and closed around the perfume bottle, spraying a little of it. An amorous Tsunade was vastly preferable to a murderous one.

Her anger barely contained, Tsunade stormed around her desk instead of destroying it. She didn't want to have to deal with sorting the paperwork again on top of all this. About halfway to Jiraya, however, her angry gait began to sway at the hips, until she was sauntering the last couple of steps. Jiraya smirked as her face flushed, and her arm stretched out towards him. At the last second, she grabbed him by the waist of his pants, twisting the fabric until the crotch was painfully tight, and then lifted him up into the air. Jiraya was in his own personal world of pain.

When Tsunade finally spoke, her voice was raw with emotion. "I should kill you for what you just did. Don't ever try to take advantage of me like that again. If you do, I will castrate you myself. Do you understand?" Jiraya was only able to nod feebly. "You are to place yourself under house arrest for two weeks. ANBU guards will be posted. Male ones. You will not attempt to leave the house unless I give you express permission to do so. I hope you understand the strain that this puts on our ninja resources. Thanks to you we now have two ninja off the active duty rosters. One more thing. The perfume. Give it to me. Now."

Numbly Jiraya's hand went into his pocket and placed the vial onto Tsunade's outstretched palm. She let go of him, and he collapsed to the floor, holding his crotch and moaning softly in pain. Two ANBU appeared to either side of him. Both were male, she noted. "Make sure Jiraya makes it home safely. We wouldn't want any of our village's female population to accidentally attack him."

After they left, supporting the older man, Tsunade walked on wobbly legs over to one of her office's surviving chairs. Gratefully she collapsed into it. Damn, she could use a hot bath, and a cold, cold shower. Just because she didn't succumb to the affects of the perfume didn't mean she hadn't felt them. Breathing deeply for a few minutes, she sought to bring herself back under control. Sometimes she wondered if her old teammate ever thought things through. Naruto was probably feeling like hell right now. As if he didn't have enough to deal with being the fox demon's container.

Summoning her strength, Tsunade poked her head out of her office and addressed the Chunin stationed there. "Go find Shizune and tell her to set up a quarantine ward, and then assemble an all male team of medics. I'm going to take a quick shower an have a cup of coffee, and should join her in about thirty minutes." The Chunin sped off, and Tsunade made her way to the residence. Tonight was going to be a long night.

---End Chapter---

A/N: Thank you for reading, and for those of you who reviewed, thanks a lot.

I finaly finished this section. Don't worry, I have ideas of where to go next. I hope to update again in the next week.

Speaking of ideas, I have been wanting to write a scene with Naruto turning into Sasuke for a while now, but originally it was going to be him consoling Sakura by sleeping with her as Sasuke. But that's another fiction, possibly a harem one…

I also had been wanting to write the scene where Tsunade pretends to fall for Jiraya to get close and then punishes him since I thought up the perfume idea. I have been anxiously waiting to get to those moments, and now they are finally here.

Yay

See you all next time. (Maybe Hinata will sneak into Naruto's room. Rrrrowrrr!)