"Meh, maybe. But I also noticed that bitch has been hanging around. She might still be his assistant, but I'm pissed that he didn't hire someone else just out of respect for me!"

"Ummm...you can bring that up in the councelling session, sister!" You could hear the frustration builing in Yuki's voice.

"Ok, ok! I'll go in the morning. So, who should we go see?"

"Tsunade-sama."

"What the...? She's no councellor! She'll be more like a referee!"

"Precisely." Suki put her face in her hands.

"Fine. We'll have to see how this goes tomorrow. For now I'm going to bed. And Gryno, my toys had better be where I left them!"

"That was Yuki!"

"Oh you are so full of it"

"Oh come on, what possible use could i have for-"

"Ok, stop right there before i barf at the ideas"

After taking a shower Yuki settled down in bed next to her lover.

"Gryno...if I ever cheated on you (which I won't) would you just give up on our love just like that?"

"Baka! She's speaking metaphorically!"

"Oh... well that depends, love, how would you feel, if i happened to find out? If you weren't in regret, and you didn't try to even talk to me about it, then fuck it. Never go for something that isn't there, and if it takes two people, then you might as well find someone else and start over"

"Of course I would regret it! I would regret anything that would hurt you whether you found out or not. Just to let you know, I would never cheat on you. The only reason I dated other guys was...because I didn't think you were ever coming back. Things got pretty serious with Sasuke. Don't get mad, but he even proposed. I had to turn him down because I just didn't want to rush into things. Ayeka was about to be born within weeks of that and he wanted to get married right away and raise her as his own. I thought he was moving too fast so...I broke it off. I still feel bad about hurting him, but now that you're here I realize the real reason I couldn't go through with it. I never stopped loving you."

"But really, of all people you could have started dating, why choose SASUKE!? One, he's like three years older then you. Two, he's been molested by Orochimaru. Three, he's most likely gay. Four, give him a razor and then spy on him late at night, he cuts himself! Five, his hair looks like a ducks ass. Six, I almost call him Orochimaru on sight because of how pale that emo is..."

-1 Hour Later-

"Six hundred seventy nine... well you get the idea"

"The answer is simple. He was the only one asking at the time and...he treated me nice. Though I suspect he was only interested in me because he thought I would be fertile enough to help him revive his clan. Everyone else steered clear of me because they knew I was already pregnant. I'll will say this. He was the only man who helped me while I was pregnant and made sure I had everything I needed. In other words, he did what you should have done if you had been there."

Yuki was starting to feel sad so she turned over to face away from Gryno.

"I'm glad you came back, but it still hurts that you missed what could have been the happy anticipation of the birth of our child. It didn't help that when Ayeka was born she looked so much like you."

"You're really not going to let me ever forget about that are you? Look i'm sorry ok! How many times do you want me to say it before tyou believe that i mean it?"

"Well you killed Chi so-"

"GYOUKUN!" He actually sounded hurt, and it was obvious that he didn't know that Chi had recovered, thankfully.

Yuki turned back over to face him once again.

"I'm sorry. I'm not one to hold grudges so please forgive me, love. I just want to move forward so we can finally be a family. And I'd also like you to introduce Itami to Chi soon. It looks like this family is chock full of girl power. I need to give you a son so you won't be overwhelmed by estrogen."

"Speaking of which, where is Chi?"

-Far Away in Chi's Apartment-

Chi took in a breath of air before sneezing, and then stared blankly at the food she had prepared for herself only a few minutes ago which she had now sneezed into. "DANMIT! I KEEP TELLING PEOPLE NOT TO TALK ABOUT ME WHEN I'M EATING!"

"Oh, didn't you know? She's grown into an cranky old maid. She's living a couple blocks from here in an apartment complex. I hardly ever see her any more. I'm sure she would be thrilled to spend some time with you. You're best chance to cath her is at The Big Bang with Gen and Banji."

Meanwhile, Hideki was having a great time at the Hokage mansion. He was playing video games with his dad and Kiba. Hideki hated playing against Shikamaru because he was way too good at strategizing. He was more evenly matched with his dad and the Inuzuka.

'I'm so glad that I came home. I get to play my games as much as I want and no squeaky bedbrings coming from the grown ups' bedroom!'

He did feel bad that he had upset his mother by making a scen in front of the school, but he felt he had to take drastic measures in order to get what he wanted.

'I'll make it up to her tomorrow after school.'

{i was bored and was looking back on this rp and i decided to CONTINUE IT!!!}

"I wouldn't mind seeing Chi again, i can just imagine how she's going to react to seeing me again!"

-Later-

Gryno had just arrived at the address he guessed was Chi's since it was from head to toe, made of stone and rock. For a few seconds, Gryno hesitated before cally knocking on the front door, hearing an echo from the inside as he quietly opened the door and stepped in. He could barely see a thing since when he clsoed the door behind him there was no light on and all he could make out was that he was in a room made of rock with nothing in it in the least.

Gryno hesitated again just before taking a light step forward, and having a portion of one of the wall fly out and smash him against the other wall. Chi calmly stepped in from the other side of the room, sending him a deathglare. "Hi... Chi... Long time no see! can you uh, please, drop the-"

"Why don't you give me one good reason why i should!?" The rock only prssed him harder against he wall, so much that Gryno could feel his very being almost being crushed. "Because it's Gryno! know you may have forgotten my image but don't lie! I know you can see me!" He only felt the rock press harder against him.

"I wouldn't be ready to kill you if i thought you were anyone else!"

"Come on, Chi! What did i ever do to you!?" At that last word, the rock set him flying through the wall and smashing down onto the ground, in pain. Chi then stepped through the hole in the wall she had just created and proceeded to pull literally a boulder up from the ground and into her hands, ready to throw it at him. "You really can't remember?! I thought you'd remember how you almost killed me!" With that final word Chi chuced the boulder at Gryno, who was just barely able to get to his feet and get out of the way in time.

"So i'm guessing you can hold a grudge?"

"You have no idea!"

Yuki sat up straight when she got her legendary shivers.

"SOmeone is trying to kill Gryno-kun. Maybe it wasn't a good idea to send him to Chi. Oh well. I had better go save him."

Yuki used her earth jutsu to tunnel to where Gryno was. She pulled him undergorund just in time as Chi's boulder came crashing down on the surface.

"What did you say to her this time, Gryno?"

"Uhhh... hi?" he barely had time to reply before Chi's hand came down through the earth and visibly grabbed him by the head, ready to either pullit off or pull him up. "She's still made about the heart thing?"

"Chi, please calm down and let go of my fiance. I don't want to marry a corpse."

Yuki put a gentle hand on Chi's shoulder.

"Besides, he still has a lot more people to apologize to. You're not the only one with a bone to pick with him."

Chi, though still not satisfied, dropped Gryno where he was before giving him a death glare and simply saying: "You are lucky as hell!" Before returning to her stone appartment, once again through the wall without giving another thought to the two.

Gryno waited a few seconds before finally yelling: "Nice to see you too!" and being sent up in the air by a suddn stone block that came up from under him.

"Chi! What did I just tell you?" She grabbed hold of the block and used her in human strangth to crush the block. Unfortunately that let Gryno with nothing to stand on. "Ooops..."

"Don't worry, honey! If you didn't then Gyou would have!"

Gryno was completely calm during his long descent, having been used to this kind of thing and knowing how it would turn out. About a moment before he hit the ground, a mattress seemed to appear instantly under him, though he still didn't seem suprised and just thanked Itami who had somehow appeared sitting down not a foot to the side of Yuki, looking as though she was in the same condition she was at the First Step facility.

"I'm just glad you're ok. And thank you, Itami. I only hope you and Ayeka can start getting along better."

Right about now Yuki could hear Chi's neighbors complaining about the noise.

"Hmm, maybe we should take this not so happy reunion some place else..."

{I've decided to bring back some old faces...}

Just as Gryno was about to reply, he wasn't given the chance and was instead tackled to the ground out of nowhere by a girl who looked to be around his age, hugging him while she kept him down and smiling all the while. "Gryno-san! It's been so long!"

After a few seconds Gryno came too and attemped to push this woman off him, fianlly succeeding in pulling her away and then saying "Excuse me?! Do i know you?"

The smile quickly vanished from her face. "You... don't remember me?"

Gryno searched his memories for a few seconds, before smilnig and saying: "I have no idea who you are ^.^"

At that instant the woman quickly raised both of her arms in a rage, and a huge geyser burst open under Gryno sending him high into the air only to land back on to the ground as she stomped away, muttering "My name is Jouki!" Following her who just gave a wave as he passed then finished "Aisu" as if Gryno hadn't figured it out already.

"Uh...looks like everyone is glad to see you back, I guess."

Yuki went and got a towel to dry Gryno off.

"You're making friends left and right aren't you, love?" Yuki teased as she kissed his dripping wet mouth. "Think we should invite them tothe wedding?"

"I'm pretty sure Jouki would love to come, but if Aisu hasn't changed then he'll probably come and be complaining the entire time. Man it's been a long time since i saw them..." About half a second later Chi came up fro mthe ground again, her eyes wide though it didn't much matter if they were completely closed. "Jouki? Aisu?" After about a scond of thinknig she hurried off in the direction they had left in.

"I think we'd better check on Ayeka and Itami, just to make sure they haven't beaten each other to a pulp." Just then one of Yuki's neighbors ran up to her looking like she had some really important information.

"Yuki-san, you won't believe this, but the Hokage and Aburame-san got into it over by the Hokage tower. Apparently it has something to do with the Hokage's wife! Oh man, you should have seen it!"

(Dang it, I forgot where we left the the girls. LOL)

{i believe they're both back at the house with a sleeping Suki}

"You mean Shino and Naruto?" Gryno eyed the neighbor and after a few seconds nodded and led Yuki back towars the house to check on their two little girls. "Maybe we should hurry..."

Yuki headed to the Hokage Tower to check on Naruto and Shino.

"Oh my god, I hope Suki didn't get involved with Shino to get back at Naruto. Not a good way to mend a broken marriage."

Once they got there Yuki didn't see them fighting at all. They were actually sitting on the ground playing go.

"What the...? My neighbor told us that you two were fighting!"

"Us fighting? Nah. Shino and I are playing a friendly game of go!" Naruto replied cheerfully. Yuki looked around and did see signs of a battle. There was damage to some nearby trees and a big hole in the wall of the Hokage Tower. Naruto and Shino both looked ok, but she did notice that Shino was holding his arm kind of funny and a small trickle of blood was making its way down Naruto's face.

"Naruto-sama...you two were fighting before weren't you?"

"We just had a bit of a disagreement, that's all. Nothing serious," Shino replied softly as he made his move.

{What's go?}

"I might believe Shino but YOU!" Gryno pointed his finger right at Naruto's face. "I blame you for all the damage and starting the fight, jsut because i don't like you! Now back to business, would you mind explaining this 'dissagreement' to us?" Gryno sat down right there on the ground, trying to avoid eye contact with Shino.

(It's a game like chess similar to shoji. Shikamaru likes to play that too.)

"Look, it's none of your business, but I don't like people telling me how to raise my son, including all Aburames. That's between me and Suki." Naruto slammed his piece down and took one of Shino's pawns. Shino didn't seemed phased since he had lowered his shades a bit to give Yuki a wink. A scared looking Hideki peeked from behind a tree to see if it was safe to come out. He ran over to Yuki to give her a tight hug.

"Hi, Aunty Yuki! I'm so glad you're here! When's kaa-san coming home?"

Gryno glared at Naruto but didn't make any kind of reply for obvious reasons. "Yuki, i'm going to head back and check on Itami and Ayeka, do you have everything under control here?" He was partially hoping that Suki was awake now, mostly because he felt that she and Naruto needed to be locked together in a small white room with no food or toilets so that either Naruto would be killed or they could work it out. You know what i'm talking about.

Yuki was a little suprised that Gryno thought nothing of leaving her with Shino because of their past intimate relationship. SHe gave gryno a shy nod before he headed back to their house. Hideki was looking up at her with much hope in his eyes while Shino moved just a scoshe closer to Yuki. He had totally lost interest in the game. Yuki rolled up her sleeves and offered to look at Shino's injured arm.

"Let me see if it's broken, Shino-kun."

"It's sore, but I doubt it's broken, baby. But you can check it out anyway."

"Ooh! I'm going to tell Uncle Gryno on you, Shino-san!"

"Mind your manners, kid."

Yuki ignored both of them as she looked over Shino's arm. Shino hissed in pain as she stretched his arm out and began to use a healing jutsu to repair the damage.

On his way back home Gryno thought of one of the craziest things, and it seemed right out of the blue too. But still he could only wonder. "Hey Gyou, what do you think it would be like if i had never met Yuki?"

"Well to start off, you'd be dead, she saved your life back at the forest, remember?"

"Right, right... But if i had survived?"

"You likely would have had to fight someone like Suki or Aramei during the Chunnin exams and you probably would have lost since Suki wouldn't hold back and i doubt you could bear to hurt Aramei at that point."

"You just love being a smart ass don't you?"

"Also i would be happy"

"Can't have that..."

About a moment later he opened the door to the old house they lived in, not a second after stepping inside did he stumble a bit when he felt Itami suddenly appear on his back as she normally was. "Hi Gryno!"

"Hi, Itami, where's Ayeka?"

Itami was silent for a few seconds, obviously deep in thought. "I don't know..."

Just then Suki came flying around the corner looking flustered.

"Augh! Gryno-kun, that daughter of yours ran off! Itami said she had no idea where she went. We've got to find her or Yuki-neechan will kill me!"

"The last time i saw her was when me and her left to go look for you" Itami continued on, trying to recall the past events. "Itami, you two went out into the village, and you somehow make it back, but Ayeka doesn't, and you don't think even SLIGTLY that it may be a good idea to go look for her?!"

"Hmm... not really"

"You think she may have gone to see Hideki? She had been saying how much she missed him lately," Suki wondered out loud. "We can check there but that would mean I will cross paths with cheating husband of mine. Ah, well. Let's go look for Ayeka."

{*audience chanting* "NEW PLOT! NEW PLOT! NEW PLOT! NEW PLOT! NEW PLOT!"

... FINE! I'LL GIVE YOU A DANM NEW PLOT! JUST SHUT UP!}

-Elsewhere!-

Jouki's hand was about an inch from knocking on Aramei's door, hoping to greet the girl who had beaten her so long ago when just about EVERYONE in the village quickly covered their ears at the sound of a megaphone emitting an extremely high-pitched sound throughout the village.

Not long later all eyes were turned up above, at a blimp floating just above the village in which the sound had eminated from. On all sides of the Blimp, a screen suddenly appeared with a creepy face on it, the face of a man, the top half of which was hidden in a white and black striped mask, curling on both sides and on the very top of his head was a maroon top hat.

"Welcome one and all! My name is Moronibekko! And i welcome all inhabitants of the Village Hidden in the Leaves... to a tournament, WITHIN the Village hidden in the Leaves!" He began laughing like a madman for a few seconds, before calming himself down, though he still had a creepy smile pasted on his face.

"Within the stadium so thoughtfully... provided by your lord Hokage, normally used for your Chunnin and Jounin exams, we will be hosting, the Ultimate Element! Or if you prefer, The Ultimate Ninja Tournament!" He let out a few chuckles, and at this ponit Aisu had his hand wide open with an extremely sharp shard of ice halfway sticking out of it, aimed up at the blimp as if ready to shoot it down at any moment.

"All ages, all citizens, from the youngest child to the oldest man, from the weakest academy student to the greatest anbu agent can join, and there will be people all around the world, as i have invited every village on this earth! There is only one rule... Teams, of, two. No exceptions!" With that he gave out a few more laughs before Aisu fired his shard of ice clean through the blimp watching it slowly decent down onto the village below. Jouki seemed amazed at the idea, she starting to go off about the competition and all the people and such while Aisu just pushed her out of the way and koncked on Aramei's door.

After a few more seconds of listening to this he finally sighed and said. "We're not going..."

Robot-like voice emits from within: Aramei is currently unavailable. Please leave a message after the beep. Beeeep.

Suki frowned at hearing the announcement then smiled when she saw the blimp going down.

"Hmph. What idiot would want to participate in such chaos? What is Naturo-kun thinking?" Just then she saw Hideki running towards her looking quite excited.

"Okaa-san! Guess what? I am so ready to make a mark in that tournament it's not even funny!"

Suki got a sinking feeling in her stomach.

'Why? Why must he be so much like his father?' Suki thought as he hugged her about the waist. "And who will be your partner, Hideki-chan?"

"DOn't call me 'chan!'" I'm too old for that! And I was thinking of asking Ayeak to partner with me. We cna keep in in the family that way. Besides, Ayeka is awesome at fighting."

"Suki, somehow i have a feeling that Uzumaki didn't authorize this. But hey, fight people from all around the world? That's something i could get into. And who knows, we might even get a few cool toys for winning" Gryno motioned for Itami to follow him as he left to go look for Ayeka, trying to keep his mind off what he had just heard but failing...

"Itami...?" Itami looked at him wondering why he had just asked for her so suddenly. "Go look for Ayeka, i've got someplace to be right now..." Itami sent him a glare but even so went off to find her sister.... in law... i don't even know...

-Meanwhile-

Jouki leaned on Aramei's door, staring at the ground and and just waiting while Aisu gave her a glare the entire time Jouki was jsut waiting to see her old 'friend' again, while Aisu was trying to get her to follow him so they could end this god forsaken visit.

Hideki was so excited about the tournament he was running around Konoha shouting for his belived cousin.

"Ayeka-chan! Ayeka-chan! Where are you? I got something real important to tell you!"

Suki looked over to Gryno with a gleem of curiosity in her eyes.

"Does where you have to go have anything to do with my twin sister? Like perhaps picking out a nice ring?"

{Lets see if we can't start this 'ere RP up again!}

Moroni's message suddenly started broadcasting once again, just about anywhere it could come from, besides the downed blimp. His laugh echoing throughout the skies of Konoha, and around this time, having ignored what Suki said to him, Gryno arrived at the entrance of the Konohagakure Stadium, normally used for Chunnin and Jounin exams. In front of the entranceway there was a booth, with one man standing inside it, his entire body covered by a purple robe with a white eye on the forehead. Gryno glanced around, and as he had expected, saw Ayeka standing next to the booth itself.

Once he ran over, he didn't even get a chance to speak before she began "I knew you'd come here to enter, so i waited for you. I'm not entering with you though, i want to find someone near my age group." She interrupted Gryno as he was about to comment on how he was proud she was actually entering the tournament. "You should ask someone else, no doubt if anyone Suki will be entering with Yuki, so you should probably try Itami"

Once again Gryno was interrupted, this time not by Ayeka, but by two warriors, each in a complex samurai armor, who had barged passed him, knocking him to the ground and laughing at him afterwards, before going to sign up. Gryno would have none of this though, he rose to his feet, drew one of his blades, and with fire both in his eyes and on his blade, he yelled "Hey! Who do you think you are!" He probably would regret it later but not quite thinking, he swung his blade at them.

Faster than his eye could track, one of the two drew a katana from his hilt and blocked the blade with ease. "I am Samu!" The other followed up. "I am Rai!"

"You will show us proper respect!"

"Unless it is you wish to die!"

Gryno's anger dissipated into simple annoyance at their rhyming, before slowly reeling in his blade by the chain. "You guys don't talk like that all the time do you?"

"Silence fool! Or we'll kill you fast!"

"I invite you to suck on my nose!"

"You were supposed to say "ass" brother, i thought we rehearsed this!" Gryno having had enough of this, picked Ayeka up by the waist, and held her as if his arms were a chair. "Lets just ignore those two, Yuki will be glad to see we found you, but we'll have to talk about this whole tournament thing."

{In the event you've inevitably forgotten where the plot of this has gone, well that doesn't matter really. All you need to know is that there's (mostly) peace in Konoha, and Moroni has started up the Ultimate Element tournament, teams of 2 battles}

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