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So, er, I'm losing ground on my NaNoWriMo story. I couldn't write enough two days ago, barely met my daily requirement yesterday... So today, really! I should be doing my best to work overtime on Liadan and Arun's story.

Setting up the seal, in Naruto's humble opinion, should have trumped cleaning the house a hundred times over.

Apparently the first was a good reason to do the second.

"I don't understand why I've got to clean up the bedrooms upstairs!" Naruto groused as he stomped back down the staircase with a bucket full of dirty water in hand.

Sakura looked up from her scrolls and sighed at him. "Because there's a layer of dust we could use as a mattress in there?"

"It's not that bad, really." Naruto opened a window, leaned out to check that Sasuke wasn't anywhere in sight, and dumped the contents of the bucket on the wilted flowerbeds underneath. "And beside we're not even using them. I mean, I wouldn't mind if it was going to be our bedroom, but they're barely big enough to fit two people and even then, they'll have to be real friendly, if you catch my drift."

"Since when do you mind that?" Sakura replied with a chuckle and a roll of her eyes.

"Well, I don't, but sometimes I like to sprawl all over the place. And what are we gonna do in summer? We'll roast alive."

"We could put futons on the gallery," she suggested, wistful. "I've heard that people with traditional houses do that."

"Bah. Sasuke won't. This gallery's turned toward the street. We'll be too exposed."

Sakura sighed. "Mmn."

"Yeah," Naruto commiserated, even though he didn't know what was so special about sleeping in the gallery.

"Yeah... Are you done with cleaning yet?"

Naruto grimaced, and waved the empty bucket around in annoyance. "I thought we agreed that it was useless! And boring! But especially useless. We not gonna sleep there, and we're going to do the seal thing in the dojo anyway."

Sakura glowered at him. "Well it needs to be done anyway, doesn't it? I'm not going to live in a house where there are doors you never open for fear of being eaten by a mutated dust bunny."

"Or buried alive under a landslide of broken things?" Naruto continued, chuckling.

"Or poisoned by a ramen packet that someone stacked in a damp corner."

Naruto stuck out his tongue at Sasuke, who was leaning against the door to the corridor and watching them. "It's not my fault it's damp everywhere in the kitchen."

"Like it's going to stay there long enough to get moldy," Sakura commented with a little laugh. "Did you need something, Sasuke?"

"Hm. Know where I can find a stepladder?"

Naruto scoffed. He wasn't giving up his. "Hey, you're a ninja, be creative."

"I don't feel like being creative with a bucket of paint in hand and my feet stuck to a rotting ceiling."

"... Man. The ceiling's rotting too?"

Sasuke shrugged. "Probably. I'm not about to test it out." He pushed off from the wall and stepped in the staircase.

Naruto yelped a protest. "Hey! You're not taking my ladder!"

"So you DO have one!" Sakura pointed at him, accusing.

"... Well... Yeah. But I'm using it, damn it."

Sasuke rolled his eyes and started walking up the stairs again. "You're a ninja, be creative."

"Asshole!"

"The bedroom ceilings are a lot lower. You don't need it. I do."

Naruto huffed and crossed his arms on his chest, glaring death at Sasuke's back. Sakura giggled in her hand; he pouted at her. "Mean."

"Don't be a baby, Naruto." Sakura rolled her scroll, stashed it to the side, picked up a sheet of paper covered in scribbles, and got up.

"What's that?"

"Oh, just containment seals to apply on the walls. They're not really necessary, but better safe than sorry, right?"

Naruto's smile softened a bit. No chance was too insignificant to bother with, huh. "You just want an excuse to have a romantic moment with Sasuke again."

She startled, freezing in her tracks. "What? I didn't --"

Oh, hell, now she looked guilty. Stupid! "Uh huh. And all those study dates were platonic, eh?" he asked, leaning closer and nudging her in the ribs knowingly. "You, him... A shiny scroll full of weird techniques..."

Now she was pouting. Naruto's grin widened.

"Aha! So nothing's ever happened? Oh, man, he sucks. Poor Sakura-chan, your other boyfriend is an eunuch. Don't worry, I'll give you all the loving you need."

She caught sight of his waggling eyebrows, and burst out in scandalized laughter. "Oh, that's horrible! He's not."

Naruto stared at her dubiously.

"... I'm pretty sure he's not." And now she was sighing. "Nothing has ever happened with him -- well, I mean, it was so -- so nice to have an occasion to talk with him like this, you know? So stimulating -- intellectually stimulating," she rectified as she caught Naruto's leer, "and I really do feel like we became a little closer... and it's really nice to know that he has such a high opinion of my intelligence..."

"But no making out."

Sakura reddened, and her shoulders slumped. "... No."

Naruto chuckled and wrapped an arm around her shoulders, pulling her against his side. "For such a smart girl, you're really silly sometimes."

"Hey! How come?"

"Well if you're waiting on HIM to make the first move, you're gonna die an old maid. No, seriously, I love the bastard to death, but he's frigid like somebody's great-grandmother. He's not just gonna wake up and say 'oh hey, wanna go on a date'. So next time, you should MAKE it into a date!"

Sakura blinked at him. "Make it...?"

"No, seriously. Start it. Molest him! He secretly loves it -- OW."

Sasuke had just brained him with the stepladder. He didn't stop for so little, he kept walking down the stairs and past the two of them, scowling and refusing to look their way. Naruto rubbed his head and glared at his back.

"Really should get laid more often."

Sakura shook her head, chuckling tiredly. "I should get back to work now. Thank you," she added, with a little smile, and a quick kiss to the corner of his mouth that made him grin goofily and forget his bump.

He watched her follow Sasuke through the door, and then sighed and made his way upstairs.

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Heee. So instead, do like others have! Just count the number of words you've written in general, not just in one story. *nods* *grins*

And this? Kicks ass. Naruto = love. ^_____^

That would be cheating. ~~i already plan on adding the prequel to the count anyway.~~

♥

pfft. Hardly. It's still the same amount of wordage, afterwards, it's just different plots. ^^

You are wonderful you are awesome why must you be so cool. Loved it!! It made me smile and grin and think weird thoughts

Meep. #._____.#

♥ I'm not done with the scene, and the rest hopefully should be almost as cracktastic, but I'm taking a break to work on my mermaid story a bit. But even if I don't get back to it today, I've got the notes now, and knowing what actually happens in a scene is half the battle. XD;;;

*dead* Naruto's dialogue is made of awesome, shiney WIN!

And so are you Miss Asuka. Try not to stress over NaNo, k? *hugs*

bwee!

BBBUT I'M LATE. DDD: I know myself, i'll never catch up if I wait too long. I have to last at least two weeks, or my pride won't ever take it. DDD:

*pets* If you're anything like me, though, stress will just make it that much harder to write. I know, easier said than done, right? Even if you don't finish, I'm sure you'll make a decent showing. ♥ You've written a lot so far this week. Haven't had a chance to read it yet. Stupid life keeping me busy. Anywho, I'm rootin' for ya! ^__^

It depends on the days.

... apparently, today is the day of ZOMGWRITINGWHEE, for I have met my nano quota and then some (i think i'm caught up DD:), still not finished with it, and when I'm done with nano, I'm still inspired for the rest of the Teamwork scene.

http://www.nanowrimo.org/NanowrimoUtils/ProgressReport/165857.html

^ NaNo Word Count Widget. It makes planning all sorts of easy, and tells you exactly how much you have to write at any given point to hit 50,000 by November 30. Also tells you how long it will supposedly take to hit the big 50K if you continue writing at your 'current' pace, but that's debatable since it drops outliers, and for someone who writes most of their stuff in spurts, rather than daily grinding, that's misleading.

omg awesome!

kage bunshin ladder?

♥

Hee, that's an idea. XDD Thank you! ♥

AMAZING! Totally made my day!

thankee ^____^

oh. your icon. SO CUTE. ;__;

*delurks and waves* Um. Hi! So. I found this when I entered Naruto fandom and my friend said "hon, you need to read some NaruSasuSaku." I said "Huh. Sounds cool. Any suggestions?" Her reaction was something along the lines of "ZOMGTEAMWORK!!!!!!1111ONE1!!" So I read it, loved it, and decided to look for more stuff. And now I'm here. Hi!

Um. I'm gonna friend you cuz you're awesome, but I'll probably end up lurking because I'm easily destracted by the shiny and will forget to comment. Sorry! D:

Right. Now to the point of this post. Naruto is win. He is /so much win/. But he is trumped by Sasuke and his step ladder. I'm kind of wondering how much of that Sasuke heard. *grins* Also, yay NaruSaku bonding! *is happy*

...But. If Naruto needs to clean the ceiling, then standing on the wall will only work so well because he won't be able to reach the very middle. There will be an unclean circle in the middle of all the bedroom ceilings! ...Huh. Maybe he'll do it on purpose as punishment for making him clean the rooms then taking his step ladder. :D?

Anyway. See you around!

Adi

I am also apparently tired and bad at spelling. *because ("cuz" XP I'm falling back on 8th grade blogging habits. Woe.) and *distract.

Aww, I wuv you anyway. XD;; It's okay, I use cuz too. Also lots of smilies.

Bwee! *does the yay!recced dance* ... *also does the yay!friended dance* ♥ It's alright if you lurk. ~~it means I am one step closer to my 500th watcher whee!~~

... oh. oh GOD. I could so see him do that. XD;; But Ktoth suggested that he use a ladder of kagebunshins, and seeing as he uses bunshins for EVERYTHING, I think I'll probably go with her idea. ... but it would be hilarious to mention yours, too. XD;;;

Thank you for commenting! ♥

*gg* loved narutos teasing, his side comments, his grins, his "eyebrows-waggling"... ok, loved everything he made (especially that he made sakura laught ^^) - and i think deep inside sasuke, he had so smile too ^^

fufufu.

... He maybe smirked a bit. Deep down. u.u ~~shhhh, it's a secret. ;)~~

"We could put futons on the gallery," 'on' should be 'in'

He pushed off from the wall and stepped in the staircase 'in' should be 'on' XDDD

This was cute cute cute. ♥

Butbutbut. Why would Naruto need a stepladder when he can just make a bunch of kage bunshin and be like, 'ROOM. RAGS. GO FORTH, MY MINIONS.' They could piggyback each other to reach the corners of the ceiling. XD

... XD;;; I suck. Thanks ^^

He, er, didn't think about it. XD ~~okay i forgot. sshh.~~

heeeee.... i love the warm and fuzzy feelings.

and Naruto telling Sakura she should molest Sasuke. Oh yes. oh yes, I would looove to see her take his advice. *cackles ta the mental image of sasuke's reaction while being pounced by sakura*

*happy sigh* your writing is love

I think they were a bit overdue. Too much seal stuff and not enough cute. ♥

I'm poking at it right now, but I lost the scene I had in mind. *sad*

*hugs* I'm sorry...
you can't remember it or you're having trouble making it work?

Naruto talking is win. And he's absolutely right in telling Sakura she should jump Sasuke. (So long as he can watch and offer helpful suggestions, right? ^_^)

(By the way, an eunuch should actually be "a eunuch." Tch. Trust me to notice little random things that aren't really important. And mwahaha English is teh unpredictable.)

Bwehehe. >:3

... nnngh. stoopid english. *edit edit* thankee^^

So win. Yay for writing lots! *has yet to work up her nerve to try NaNoWriMo. Mostly because I just don't write all that much any more outside of work.*

nuh! write ;_; bad triv!

... i'm already losing ground... =___=;;;;;; so lazy.

I have major writer's block lately. Also minor artist's block. My muse, she has deserted me. ;_; Or maybe I'm just exhausting her at work, whatever.

Yeah!!! Teamwork!!!

Molest Sasuke, Sakura! Naruto will show you how ^_^
If that does not work then you can double team him XD

Thanks for the tidbit from teamwork!

Hohoho. ♥ Now that's a nice mental picture~

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