Corvin: Yes, I know that this is ridiculously short

Kyo: -nods- It really is.

Botan: But it's been over a year since she's updated

Corvin: That it has, and I NEED to get this out even though it's only like... 3 1/2 pages... I'm not giving this up, I just have to.. Blah! Next chapter will be longer and definitely won't take another year XD

Kyo: Corvin does not own Naruto

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The four of them sat on a bench in front of the Hokage’s desk. In that moment the parents off all four of the children were in the room, as well as Lee and Sakura, all talking to Tsunade in a huddle behind said desk.

After pulling Botan off of Kesuke and keeping Naruto from killing Botan for kissing his son, no matter how chaste, the children had been scolded on the spot and then dragged back to Hokage’s tower to have their punishment decided.

Kyo glanced to his right at his dearest friend Kesuke. He frowned; Kesuke looked completely white as he watched Sasuke’s eyes flit from him to Naruto. He looked as though he wanted to die right then and there. This was odd to the young redhead and he looked past the blond to little Momo who sat on the far right.

She was staring at her mother and father looking as though she were about to start sobbing. This was also very odd to the boy and he frowned even deeper to himself.

Of course he was going to get in trouble and no doubt get Hell from Neji, but that was probably the extent of it. Could the parents of his friend and cousin be more terrifying than his own? Kyo found that hard to believe.

Then again, people had different ideas of scary…

He stared at the ground, what if Kesuke and Momo were mad at him for getting them in trouble? Had it not been his idea to set the house on fire? Had it not been him to actually do it? Had it not been him who nearly broke Lee’s nose for trying to put the fire out? (Kyo: Yo representin’)

Fear began to kick in; he didn’t want to lose his friends, that wouldn’t be any fun at all. He looked to his left at Botan. The 18 year old stared straight ahead of him, still in the familiar daze, seemingly unaffected by the turn of events.

Noticing the look the silver haired man turned and looked at Kyo as well, raising an eyebrow and blinking.

Sweatdrop, Kyo should have known his demeanor wouldn’t change at all. Would this jerk really be the only one not to hate him?

He thought once again about Kesuke and Momo possibly hating him and felt his shoulders slump, this wasn’t very fun at all.

Botan kept the eyebrow raised as he brought his finger up and pushed Kyo’s nose like a button, “Beep”

Kyo blinked and then growled in both irritation and surprise. Beside him he felt Kesuke jump at the sudden noise and turned his head to look at the blond.

Kesuke seemed to have realized the redhead’s anxiety and offered him a small smile. On the other side of him Momo did the same.

The redhead grinned back, ‘I knew no one could be mad with me’

“Alright brats listen up, you’re all in a lot of trouble, got it?” Snarled Tsunade standing over, “Setting someone’s house on fire, on purpose is worse than any of the pranks even Naruto played when he was younger”

Kesuke and Momo flinched while Kyo opened his mouth. However a glare from Neji caused him to snap it shut with his teeth making an audible click.

“And you,” She pointed to Kyo, “You are the son of a foreign diplomat, you should be the best behaved in another village”

Kyo looked at Neji pleadingly but the glare did not lessen, so he only looked down.

Sakura stepped forward, “We don’t want you kids to miss Naruto’s ceremony or the party so all you have to do is help us rebuild our home”

Kyo groaned loudly even as Kesuke and Momo nodded vigorously, “Whyyyyyy?”

She frowned at him, “because you need to be disciplined”

“You smell like dead fish and Mmm--!” Kesuke had grabbed him and covered his mouth. The Hyuuga glared at him but the blond only shook his head.

Sakura glowered at the two of them but walked back to the group of adults for reinforcements.

Neji sighed at Kyo’s behavior; Konoha really had been too much to expect him to stay in check. Well there wasn’t much he could do now without Gaara getting on his ass about being too strict, he frowned, but Kyo would only escalate. He frowned, “Kyo, one more word and you will regret it”

The redhead looked at him and then glared at the floor while Tsunade began speaking again, “Feel lucky this will be your only punishment. Now, you’re all on house arrest so I don’t want you going out unless it’s the party or an emergency”

“So it’s goodnight then?” Kiba walked over to stand next to Momo, “It’s getting kind of late”

Tsunade nodded, “Yeah, I think it’s time you all went home,” She looked pointedly at the parents, “No going out”

The adults nodded and left, Iruka glared evilly at Botan, quietly promising the boy a… Loud talking to once they got home. The younger Hatake seemed to pay him no mind and only grinned wryly.

Next Momo left, holding Hinata’s trembling hand and Kiba’s angry one, she would definitely be scolded by him later.

Kesuke and Kyo left together as Naruto talked animatedly to Gaara, “really man! I mean, did you feed him evil for breakfast growing up? He’s cute, really, he’s adorable, but that child… Oh man, did you let Shukaku talk to him when he was still in your stomach?”

Gaara ignored him for the most part, and look at Neji, “Well?”

Neji stared ahead, “We’ll talk about this in private”

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There were certain things in his life that Kyo had no problem admitting. The first thing was that his father, Neji, was incredibly frightening when angry and passive-aggressive. The second thing was that Lee was incredibly forgiving- Before Kyo, Neji and Gaara managed to leave he had ranted about the joy of forgiveness and what a youthful time they would have rebuilding his house. The third thing was that Tsunade had a vein that stretched the entire way across her forehead.

The soon to be ex-Hokage had decided they would have to assist Lee in rebuilding his and Sakura’s home, it might have been more but as Kyo noticed, Lee was very forgiving.

“I said I was sorry”

“And we all know you didn’t mean it” Neji had waited until they got back to their hotel room to start ranting, so it gave Kyo time to mentally prepare himself. Unfortunately it still didn’t help him much, “Why are you so set on embarrassing us everywhere we go?”

Gaara stood off to the side with his arms crossed. He felt Neji took it a bit far and was too rough with Kyo sometimes, but he couldn’t fight the fact that Kyo would become much better behaved when Neji was pissed.

“I thought we unanimously hated her!” He was referring to Sakura

“You hate her Kyo, for some random reason or another. It’s not a good excuse and it certainly won’t justify your actions!” Neji began pacing back and forth, but Kyo kept his eyes fixed on the floor as he sat on Neji and Gaara’s bed. “You do NOT set someone’s house on fire. I don’t care how much you hate her, it’s illegal. You are definitely grounded when we go back home. Of course we get to stay an extra week because how much damage you did!”

-I thought it was hilarious-

Gaara frowned and looked out the window while he responded, ‘You would live in Kyo if we let you’

-Will you?-

He could feel the excitement the demon felt at the thought. Gaara had been reclusive and reserved every since he was little and therefore he was barely any fun at all to Shukaku. Kyo however, Kyo would go along with the demon’s schemes and probably even praise him for thinking them up. ‘No’

Neji finally seemed to calm down and he sat next to Kyo, “You may still go to the party, but one more incident, one more, and you will remain a genin until you’re 30, got it?”

“I got it”

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((End Chapter))

Corvin: Once again, I'm ever so sorry that I haven't updated in so long.

Botan: She tried to come up with a system though!

Corvin: That I have, I will update everything I haven't updated since last year

Kyo: then she's focusing on one fic until it's done and she moves onto another.

Corvin: Riiight, anyway! I hope you kids like it, so long now.