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-oXo-

Chapter 28 (Epilogue): 10th of October

Naruto was hopping back and forth between Kakashi and Sakura.

"Come on, why won't you tell me?"

"We already told you it would ruin the surprise."

Naruto grumbled a bit. "At least we're moving away from the festival." His ears dropped.

Naruto had never really liked the festival. Though he had never really been hurt to the point he'd needed to go to the hospital. Besides, the glares, stares, whispers and name-calling of the villagers had been considerably less the last few years.

Still he didn't think it was a good thing for him to appear now, especially not with the fox ears and tail going on. He knew some villagers were aware about it, since he tried to walk around like himself every once in a while. So even with a Henge he still didn't feel like going there.

Suddenly his ears went up again. "Tell me?"

"No, Naruto."

Naruto pouted as they walked on. Every now and then Naruto asked them to tell him, but it became lesser in the next couple of minutes. After a while of walking further away and even walking out of the gates of Konoha they met with Sasuke.

Naruto jumped up his back, chanting 'Tell me, tell me, tell me,' which Sasuke clearly was not amused about. But Sasuke just walked on, while Naruto tried to hold on to his back.

Eventually he thought it was no more fun, since Sasuke didn't let notice he was annoyed, so Naruto let go and walked on by himself.

Sometime later Naruto walked into Sasuke, when he made a sudden stop in front of Naruto. He rubbed his nose and looked around, trying to understand why Sasuke had stopped.

"What is it?"

Sasuke turned around to watch Naruto, as Sakura and Kakashi came to stand next to the raven.

Naruto still couldn't find what was so important about this spot; he couldn't hear anybody else besides them so that ruled out a 'Surprise' yell. There were just some trees and grass.

"Put this on."

Naruto looked over to Sasuke who was holding a blindfold. He stared at it for a while and then grasped it. One last glance over to his team and then everything was covered in darkness.

He knew why they wanted him to put on a blindfold. This way he wouldn't know where they were heading, as he couldn't see and he didn't had his fox ears long enough to know the sounds from all the places and things yet. This was the perfect way for them to lead him somewhere without him knowing or needing to hold him or directing him personally.

Sakura assured the blindfold was put on correctly, covering his eyes and normal ears. His fox ears twitched on top, trying to hear every sound.

"Follow me," was all the warning he got as Sasuke ran away. Naruto followed. Of course as a ninja he had trained to be able to fight and orientate in the dark or without eyesight.

Naruto followed Sasuke's familiar sounds over the still familiar terrain, but within seconds he lost his coordination.

As team 7 had been practising their blindfold fighting, as they did occasionally, a few weeks ago Naruto had soon noticed that having fox ears came in quite handy. However two balance systems were not.

As soon as his eyes were covered he lost his orientation. He couldn't tell if he was still standing in the same spot as before or if he had taken a few steps. Only his hearing made him able to tell him if he had taken a right or left turn. It was his only way to pinpoint his location and it was hard at first but soon it became easier. Still it made him quite dizzy as soon as he uncovered his eyes.

Tsunade had told him that having two balance systems could work in one's advantage, by working together and giving him a perfect sense of orientation and sense of direction. As it was for him he was unlucky in this case as his systems worked against each other all the time. He could only fairly easy adjust his systems while walking or running during the day or during the night, but as soon as something unexpected happened he would get dizzy. For instance hearing very loud noises or turning around to quick was enough to overload his balance systems.

Right now only because he was focussing on Sasuke, he was able to walk straight and not fall over because of imbalance.

Naruto heard Sakura come running next to him.

"You okay?"

"Yeah. Is this going to take long?"

"Depends on Sasuke's tempo. At the tempo we have now, it won't take much longer than an hour."

"Nice."

Running on for almost another hour Naruto began to get annoyed of the blindfold and feeling dizzy, he began to walk slower. Until he just stopped; bending forward to lean his hands on his knees.

"I can't go on anymore," he said as he felt himself sway. A strong hand held him steady.

"You better sit down for a while. If you feel fine again we just need to walk a bit further," Kakashi said as he helped Naruto sit on the ground.

"Okay, I can do that." Naruto grinned.

As he sat still and trying to focus on the steady ground Naruto heard a few birds and the wind blow through the grass. He still couldn't figure out where they were. He was becoming more and more curious, but he wouldn't ask. He wouldn't get an answer anyway.

After ten minutes he tried to stand up again, but halfway he decided against it and sat down again.

"Can't I pull off the blindfold?" he tried.

"No," Sasuke answered.

Naruto pouted. "Hmpf."

Another five minutes passed as Naruto stood up again and walked over to Sakura.

"You okay to go?" she asked.

"As good as."

Sakura stood up, as the rest did so too, and ran away in the right direction. Naruto again followed after her and Sasuke as Kakashi made the tail of their line.

Finally after clearing the forestry landscape and entering more open land they halted as Sasuke told Naruto they were there. He walked up to Naruto and took his arm and guided him into a small house or cottage Naruto assumed, as it sounded as if it was made out of wood. They walked through a door and came to a small room and went further into an even smaller room.

Then Sasuke halted Naruto again and Naruto could hear something being moved, something heavy. Sakura pushed him gently to make him walk forward. As Naruto walked through what he presumed to be an opening, he almost tripped over a threshold, or perhaps it had been a crack in the floor, he didn't know.

"Moo, can't I take of the blindfold?" he asked again, annoyed. He gave a growl.

"You shouldn't whine Naruto, they're doing it for you."

That voice, could it be?

"Gaara?" Naruto asked as Sakura took of his blindfold and his question was answered.

In front of him stood no other than the Kazekage himself. Naruto walked forward and gave Gaara a hand. "Gaara! Good to see you," he smiled. He hadn't seen Gaara in quite a while, since he hadn't left the village much at all and Gaara being busy doing his job.

"You too," Gaara said a bit brusque. He was silent for a moment and then said, "Happy birthday." The corners of his mouth curled up a bit.

"Thanks," Naruto smiled some more and his left hand went behind his head, his eyes squeezed into thin lines.

Gaara looked Naruto over and stared at the ears for a second before turning to Sasuke. He stared at him and then to Kakashi and Sakura. After that he looked back to Naruto, into his big, bright blue eyes.

"If you don't mind, I'm going to sit for a while," Naruto said as he went to sit on a chair behind a table that stood in the middle of the room.

"Why did I have to wear a blindfold all the way here?" he asked a bit sceptic as the others came to sit down as well.

"Because it was a birthday surprise and we didn't want you to know and whine all the way over here," Sakura explained.

A sand ninja gave them some tea.

Naruto huffed, "So I have to get dizzy only for that?"

"Yes," Sakura smiled.

"Hmpf."

Kakashi turned to look to Naruto as he put down his tea. "Gaara obviously couldn't come to the party tonight so we thought it would be nice to arrange it like this."

"But you were surprised?" Gaara asked timidly.

Naruto looked over to Gaara and again a big smile appeared on his face. "Of course, I certainly hadn't expected this."

"Good, because it's not easy to leave the village just for a birthday," Gaara said and made sure with his look that Naruto understood how hard it had been to leave his village (and country).

"Well, that's very kind of you, Kazekage," he answered, grinning and sweeping his tail. Gaara just stared back across the table.

Not long after they had starting talking, the door suddenly opened and another few ninja's entered. Temari, Kankurou and Shikamaru entered the room.

"Sure took you guys long enough," Kankurou said to the Konoha ninja's as he pulled a chair back to sit on it. "We left after the opening of the festival and still almost beat you here."

"They blindfolded me." Naruto then turned to Sasuke and Sakura, "You see, you shouldn't have blindfolded me."

"Why not, we weren't racing?" Sakura said calmly.

"Meh." Naruto folded his arms. "You don't have two balance systems," he mumbled toward the wall, turning away from the others.

"Ah, mendoukusai!" Shikamaru walked over to Sakura. "Ino made me promise to tell you 'thanks'." Without waiting for the answer he sat down opposite of her, between Kakashi and Kankurou.

Temari made a move to sit down at the head of the table. "What was that about?"

"Don't know. Don't care."

"Probably too bothersome, am I right?"

Shikamaru stared at her and then leant back and closed his eyes. "Correct."

Temari lent back as well, but kept staring at Shikamaru.

Kankurou moved his eyes between them and then fumbled in his dark clothing, revealing a letter.

"From the Hokage," he said as he gave it to Gaara, who gave a small nod and put it in his own vest.

"We still got an hour, Kazekage," a ninja told Gaara.

Sometime later Naruto was happily chatting with Gaara (That means Gaara was mostly listening) along with Sakura and Kankurou. Sasuke, Kakashi Shikamaru and Temari were rather quiet.

The hour was over before they knew it.

"Kazekage-sama-"

"I know."

Gaara looked up to Naruto as he stood from his chair.

"It was nice seeing you again. You should visit more often."

"I will."

"Have a nice birthday," Temari said to him as she turned to the door.

"Thanks, bye."

When the Kazekage had left with his escorts, Naruto looked around the room until his eyes fell on Sasuke and Kakashi.

"Thanks for the surprise," he smiled.

They stood up as well and with the five of them, Shikamaru coming with them, they left the rather interesting building. It seemed very small on the outside, but was quite big on the inside.

"Why did you come all the way here, to just go back again? Temari-san and Kankurou-san could have managed themselves," Sakura asked Shikamaru. He shrugged. Sakura smiled as she thought she knew why he had done so, even if it was bothersome.

"What are we going to do next? The festival-parade isn't over yet, is it?" Naruto asked.

"No, still goes on for a couple of hours, till around 16:00 h."

Naruto looked at Shikamaru and then turned his head to Sasuke. "We can make a small detour, right?"

Sasuke glanced at him, but didn't answer.

"We can visit Haku's and Zabuza's grave?" Sakura asked, catching onto Naruto's intension.

"Yes, let's do that."

"Fine," Sasuke answered and they stopped to turn direction.

Kakashi and Shikamaru stopped as well.

"We'll go back to Konoha. See you later at the party. Don't be late."

"We better tell you that, Kakashi-sensei."

Kakashi smirked, though it couldn't really be seen.

"Later," Shikamaru said and he and Kakashi took off.

"It's been such a long time since we were there."

"It sure has," Sakura said.

Sasuke was just silent.

-x-

"Don't get foxy with me, dobe."

Naruto looked at him a bit hurt. "Hm." Naruto pouted. "I think I can say I already am…" He took another sip of his juice.

"That's not what I meant."

"He's got a point there, Sasuke."

"Hn."

"I just got a déjà vu, but slightly different," Sakura said as she rubbed her chin.

"Talking about foxes," Kiba suddenly joined the conversation.

It was eight in the evening and everyone was present on Naruto's birthday party; all the rookie nine and their senseis, team 9, Iruka and even Konohamaru and his team.

"That fox in the parade looked more like a squid, right Ino?"

"Hmm, I wouldn't say squid, but you're right that it definitely wasn't a fox."

"There was a parade with a fox?" Naruto asked seriously curious.

"Yes, every year it's made by someone else. This year it was a squid with nine tails."

"It certainly wasn't a squid, Kiba. Why you ask? Because of the right shape of the nozzle and the colour of the ears. The fact that the sculpture looked like it had almost no body and only tails was a choice of the artist. But the fact remains that it had no features of a squid whatsoever."

Kiba stared at Shino for a moment. "Whatever."

"But it did look like a big head with mostly only tails. The tails were just too big. I even suspect there were more than nine." Ino told Shino. He stayed silent.

Kiba snickered. "Not even Kyuubi can walk around with so many tails sticking out of his butt."

Naruto snorted at that. "Ha, imagine that," he said softly.

"Well you can consider yourself lucky you still only got one tai-"

Naruto jumped to Kiba and clasped his hands over his mouth. "Don't jinx it! You already did with the ears." His ears dropped while he looked with angry, squinted eyes at Kiba.

"I did? When?" Kiba asked as he pried Naruto's hands from his mouth.

"At Sasuke's birthday party. Don't you remember?" Ino asked. "Sorry, stupid question," she added.

"What? I-" Kiba tried to shove Naruto off of him.

"You were drunk Kiba-kun," Hinata said quietly, but very clear, making Kiba fall silent.

"Aha."

Naruto let go off Kiba. "Again."

Kiba looked up to Naruto. "Ha, I would like to see how you handle your alcohol."

"You're not even allowed to drink yet!"

"I was even able to make the Uchiha drink. You think I won't be able to make you? I bet you are a happier drunk than emo Sasuke."

People turned over to look at Sasuke, astonished. Naruto crossed his arms and shook his head.

Sakura had thought this conversation had taken a wrong turn and was about to change the subject after giving Sasuke a quick glance. He looked unharmed, though a little bit on edge. She opened her mouth.

"Not a chance," Naruto boosted.

Kiba grinned. "I think I just heard a bet there."

"You are already into two of the three vices of shinobi. All that is left are the woman." Naruto stared at Kiba.

"What are you talking about?"

"You never learned?"

Kiba just stared back.

"The three vices of shinobi. What is that you say? The three things that are-" Shino began but he was interrupted by Tsunade.

"I will bet you."

"Eh? Baa-chan?"

"Deal!" Kiba immediately took his chance. "You are so going to lose."

"Then you have never bet against Naruto."

"Why should I? This is the first time I think I have a good enough reason to do it. I will not lose."

"Sure, brat, dream on."

And on and on they went. Naruto looked a bit taken aback. If Tsunade had bet for him, that couldn't mean much good would come from it. She was called the Legendary Sucker after all.

So he decided to walk away, like some other people. Sakura tried to reason with Tsunade, but wouldn't make a chance.

-x-

An hour later Naruto walked into Sasuke in the hallway. Suddenly Naruto turned to Sasuke and grasped him at the shoulders. "I don't want nine tails. One is more than enough."

Sasuke looked a bit taken aback, but recovered fast. "You don't believe dogface, right?"

"Hnn." Naruto let go of Sasuke. "You're right. He was just drunk and lucky last time."

Sasuke just wanted to say something to comfort Naruto when Yamato came hurrying by to the bathroom. Naruto and Sasuke just watched with raised eyebrows as Iruka followed with the same speed and then a slowly strolling Kakashi.

"What is this all about?" Naruto asked curious, but Kakashi just shrugged and followed the others into the bedroom which led to the bathroom and closed the door.

"I think they are either drunk or they are going to search the room."

"I think the latter," Sasuke said.

"Good luck to them," Naruto said as he nodded in agreement. "And otherwise I don't even want to think what else they're about to do." He turned around and walked back into the living room.

In the mean time Sasuke stared at the door to their bedroom, trying to decide to enter or not. If they were searching the room, they would not be able to find anything important anyway, but it would be nice to make them uncomfortable and see the look on their faces while searching. He had made his decision and entered the bedroom.

-x-

Meanwhile, Naruto was standing beside Sai, who wasn't seeing (or just ignoring) the flirtations he got from Ino.

"Wasn't she dating Chouji?" Naruto asked.

Shikamaru, who was looking at Ino as well, shook his head. "It wasn't working according to what Chouji told me."

"And they're still friends, right?" Hinata asked.

"Sure, they both had enough of it. It was mutual. Besides they never had been very serious about it anyway."

"That's good," Hinata silently said.

Kiba entered the room, coming from the kitchen and walked directly to Naruto. He held out a plate with drinks to them.

"Here, get some."

"Like I'm going to drink something you offer me."

"Come on, Naruto. Look nothing is wrong with them. Take one Sai, show Naruto."

Sai took a glass with a sinister greenish colour. He drank some and nothing happened.

"See?" Kiba said.

"But we all know Sai wouldn't show anything even if it did taste awful. I'm not drinking it." He turned a bit to Shino, who was carrying some bottles of lemonade into the living room. "Hey, Shino, can I get one," he asked as he walked to Shino.

Tsunade was following him around with her eyes from the opening between the kitchen and living room. Sakura stood beside her with her head in her hand.

Naruto had returned to his spot and opened the capped bottle.

"You can take a glass of this with your bottle and mix it?"

"Go away, Kiba."

After some more pestering from Kiba and Naruto drinking the bottle in one go, saying he was full now, Kiba finally went off.

"Annoying..." Naruto grumbled.

"I'm going to tell Ino to stop flirting, unless you like it Sai?"

"Is that what one would call flirting?" Sai asked, turning with an emotionless face toward Ino. "I thought she might be ill. Are you sure that is flirting?"

"Sadly, yes," Shikamaru said as he walked towards Ino.

"So, Hinata, I heard your sister had an accident," Naruto asked as he took the bottle of lemonade Shino offered him; trying to be polite.

"Yes, N-Naruto-kun, but she is f-fine. Only a broken arm."

"Considering what happened, she is lucky," Shino said.

-x-

Meanwhile in the bedroom, Sasuke was mentally laughing his ass off at the looks Iruka and Yamato were giving him.

"What do you mean by 'he hid all the stuff'?" Iruka asked.

Sasuke shrugged.

"What do you boys do to each other at night?" Iruka was really freaking out.

If only Naruto could have seen this, Sasuke thought, but Naruto didn't had it in him to keep a straight face at these kinds of moments.

"Oh, Naruto doesn't do much. Besides it's not only at night."

"W-What?" Yamato stuttered; he was a bit tipsy, like Iruka. Kakashi probably could hold it better, or he just hadn't drunk, Sasuke didn't know, but he did know that Kakashi was on to him. However since he was having fun with this as well, he didn't spoil things.

"You know, I was just saying that Naruto is more of the... ehm... subjective type-"

"WHAT?" Iruka now hung onto Sasuke's shirt. "What do you do to him?"

"Don't worry, Naruto can handle it, he's a fast healer."

Iruka's mouth hung open. Yamato stepped forward from Sasuke's nightstand, where he and Iruka had been digging. "Does Naruto let you do that to him, willingly?"

Sasuke shrugged again and Iruka was now almost strangling him, mouth still agape. "Nooo," was the only sound that silently came from his mouth.

Sasuke grinned and looked up to Kakashi, who was ready to join Sasuke in this game. "Haven't you ever heard the screams of pain and pleasure, Iruka?"

Iruka turned to Kakashi now, looking like he didn't understand.

"Is Naruto that loud?" Yamato asked, "Can you hear it?"

"Sure can; though I don't think it's Naruto doing the screaming all alone."

Iruka turned his head back to Sasuke, amazed. "What?" It seemed like it was the only thing he was able to say.

Sasuke shrugged once more.

"No, I don't believe you," Yamato protested finally.

"You don't have to; just don't come around this neighbourhood around 9 in the evening," Kakashi said.

"Or 11," Sasuke added.

"Or 2 in the morning."

Iruka's mouth was possibly opening even further, just like his eyes.

"Or -"

"Nooo, I don't want to hear anymore!" Iruka ran off to the living room.

"I just can't believe it," Yamato muttered, more to himself than to the others and he walked into the bathroom; probably by accident, being a bit too drunk.

Sasuke smiled and Kakashi laughed.

"Priceless," Sasuke said as he followed the stumbling Iruka to the living room.

"Naruto! My poor... Naruto," he wailed as he entered the room.

"Iruka-sensei, are you all-"

"What does he do to you?" Iruka went on, throwing himself into Naruto's arms, who could barely hold him up as he had thrown himself with his full weight.

"Iruka-sen-"

"Does he hurt you?"

"Who?"

"Sasuke!" he said as he breathed out.

Naruto stood there with a drunken Iruka in his arms, looking angry to Sasuke. "What did you tell him?"

"Nothing much."

"Then what did you imply?"

"Nothing much either. He just has a lot of fantasy to go around with, I guess."

Kakashi snickered.

"So often, I can't believe it."

"I think I will bring you home Iruka-sensei, you are very drunk," Naruto told Iruka with a slightly confused look.

"No, Naruto, I can't let you alone with that boy. Can't you see he's using you?"

"What?" Naruto stopped dragging Iruka to the door.

Iruka was now clinging to Naruto like his live depended on it. "I will not let you alone with him, do you hear me? The things he does with you." He was now so close that Naruto took a full breath with the alcohol stench coming from him. Naruto scrunched up his nose.

Naruto stared very angry towards Sasuke once more. "I don't think I want to know." He gripped Iruka and dragged him to the front door.

"No, don't. I will not let you alone. Yamato-san, tell him!"

But Yamato was still lost in the bathroom. Chouji and Shikamaru came walking into the hall as well, taking Iruka from Naruto.

"We will bring him home, Naruto, it's your birthday, you should stay here with the guests," Chouji said.

"Are you guys sure?" Naruto asked as he handed a still hysterical Iruka to them.

"We're sure. Besides we have an early mission tomorrow," Shikamaru explained.

"Okay, thanks for coming," Naruto waved as they left the apartment, "Bye Iruka-sensei, I will be fine!"

Naruto stormed into the room, directly to Sasuke. "Why did you do that? How can I go and visit him now? And what did you do to Yamato-taicho?" He grabbed the front of Sasuke's shirt.

"Nothing, I think he's in the bathroom."

"Come on, Naruto, Iruka will probably not remember anything. It was quite fun," Kakashi said.

Naruto's eyes narrowed. He huffed, crossed his arm and walked away. Immediately the next person was in his arms.

"If you don't want him anymore, you can take me."

"Ino, are you drunk as well?" Naruto was seriously beginning to wonder how all the alcohol came into the house.

"All I drunk tonight were those bottttles of l-lllemonade," she slurred.

"What?" Kiba came hurrying to her. "I told you not to drink those!"

Naruto was becoming really pissed. "Kiba?"

"Heh?" Kiba looked up innocently. He was just in the process of taking Ino away from Naruto.

"What did you do?"

Tsunade came walking to Naruto as well. "You didn't!"

"Haha, I got you there, didn't I?" Kiba grinned evilly, "You're getting old."

"You can't put alcohol in lemonade bottles!"

Naruto was stunned and he probably wasn't the only one as it had become very silent once more. Shino and Neji were putting their bottles down on the table and Guy-sensei hurriedly took a bottle from Lee's grip and hurried away with him, afraid it might be too late.

"You did what?" Naruto finally erupted.

"Yeah, I put alcohol in the lemonade bottles and had Shino bring them around so nobody would suspect. So what? At least I won the bet that way; Naruto drank a dozen of them."

Tsunade looked over to Naruto. "No, you didn't."

"What? Didn't I just tell you that-"

"But he obviously isn't drunk and we had a bet about getting him drunk."

"No, about getting him to drink!" Kiba protested.

"Gaki, when I make a bet, I remember what it is about!"

"Sure, you probably forgot the moment you turned away, being the old-"

"That's enough you two!" Sakura came in between. Hinata took Ino from Kiba with help from Udon, who had been standing beside her, and Tenten helped Sakura with getting Kiba and Tsunade apart. Kakashi and Kurenai finally decided to help as well.

After a battle of getting the two apart and a following battle of words about who had won, they were finally able to take them away. Soon thereafter Neji and Shino helped a still lost Yamato to get home.

Sai, Moegi and Konohamaru helped clean up, but left as well seeing it was getting late and the way Naruto's mood was in right now, they didn't wanted to interrupt.

Being alone in the house again, Naruto lay on his back in the bed.

"I'm sorry about Iruka and Yamato," Sasuke said from the door opening.

Naruto turned onto his side, his back to Sasuke.

Sasuke walked around the bed and lay down on the other side, facing Naruto once more. They just stared at each other for quite a while.

"How many of those bottles did you drink?"

"Huh?" Naruto apparently hadn't expected that. "I don't know."

"I heard from Tenten she had seen Ino and Yamato drink three and Iruka just two."

"I don't know I wasn't counting."

"Shino said you had-"

"You talked with Shino?" Naruto was quite perplexed. He didn't think he had ever seen those two talking to each other.

"I just asked him, because I was curious."

"You were curious? How many did you drink?"

"I think two."

"Ow. That explains why you sai- I mean implied all those things to Iruka and Yamato. I don't think you normally would have."

"I guess."

"Normally you're not that talkative on a party."

"True."

Silence fell again, but Sasuke still hadn't finished.

"Shino said you had nine."

"Nine what?" Naruto asked shocked, remembering Kiba about having nine tails.

"Nine bottles."

"Ow." Naruto relaxed once more. "You were talking about bottles."

"That's quite amazing, you know; drinking nine of those bottles and still not being drunk."

"I guess, but I only had four."

"Ow, still impressive."

Once more the dialogue died down. Sasuke was now lying on his back, watching the ceiling. He could hear Naruto was still awake as well.

"At least it's a birthday to remember, right?"

Naruto glanced sideways. "That's for sure." He smiled.

"We can make it even more memorable," Sasuke said as he moved his eyebrows up and down. He must be really drunk to do that. Naruto felt Sasuke's hands move under his shirt

"I don't know~" Naruto didn't know if he felt like doing anything anymore; especially after Iruka being so shocked this night.

Sasuke's head disappeared under the sheets and soon he felt a tongue on his stomach. This went in combination of two hands lowering his boxers.

"Sasuke," Naruto said, but he didn't do anything to stop Sasuke.

Sasuke's head came above the covers again, with a big grin on his face.

"To make it more memorable I will give you my present." Naruto's eyebrows rose. "You can top this one time."

The eyebrows rose even further. "Are you sure?" Naruto asked as Sasuke had disappeared once more. Sasuke must be really drunk. Naruto smiled.

"I take that as a yes."

The end.

-oXo-

A/N: And with that, the end of this story is here… hope you liked it, even though the last chapter wasn't really an ending (or so I thought) it's hard to write a good ending. That's probably also because I was already writing the sequel when I wasn't even finished with this story.

About the sequel: it's called Kodomotachi. It takes place 2 years after Byouki as Naruto has finally adapted to his new appearance, like almost everyone else. However this doesn't mean his life becomes all boring. Far from it; he gets his own genin team. And Sasuke is confronted with his wish to restore his clan.

But before I'll post the sequel (because it's not finished yet and I have this tendency to not always work in a linear order when writing… but I'll send the first chapter sometime before the end of this month) I'll send a oneshot next week about 'the kiss', the one that was mentioned in chapter 26 ^^

I hope you'll read the oneshot and the sequel as well :)