There's a sound at the door!

Although Narutos heart was beating loudly as he waited for Tenten to continue, he still picked up a faint sound behind him, behind the door. It sounded like a gasp or something, so he turned to see a shadow peeking through the crack of the door that had still been slightly opened. "Who's there?", he called out to the person there, but as soon as he had spoken those words, the shadow disappeared.

Curiosity drove Naruto to rush outside, but all he could see was a shadow dashing past the corner of the house. "Huh. What was that all about?", he wondered out loud.

He looked at the ground to his feet, and noticed some drops of a liquid there. Well, it wasn't raining, so... there was only one conclusion, and amazingly, Naruto arrived at it rather quickly.

Someone had been watching them! And not only that, but the person had also masturbated to the sight of them. He wondered if he would ever find out who was the voyeur...

Before he could ponder further, Tenten joined him outside the shed, fixing her pants again. The husky mood from before had vanished, and only the tinted cheeks of Tenten were proof that it had indeed happened. "Not a word to anyone about it, remember?", she said to him.

Although somewhat disappointed that his chance with Tenten was gone, Naruto was not going to go back on his promise. "Yeah, sure I remember, Tenten-chan. It's a promise, after all.", he restated his promise with a smile.

Satisfied with the response, Tenten nodded. "Good, then let's get those crates in the shed, you've got most of them inside anyway.", she said, and so, they got to work. Within a few minutes, the once big stack of crates was safely inside the storage shed and Naruto and Tenten joined the rest of Team 7 who were already waiting in the shop for them.

"Ah, so you found her, Naruto. Good job, we were already wondering where you were and were looking all over the place for you.", Kurenai commented. Narutos ears perked up at that. So it definitely had been someone from his team that had watched them.

"Sorry, sorry, I had to look something up in the storage shed and it took longer than I thought.", Tenten half-lied about her absence, blushing somewhat. But fortunately, the others seemed to buy it.

"Well, that's alright, it's not like we had much to do anyway.", Naruto heard Sakura utter under her breath.

Thus, the team could finally go on with their mission. With Tentens help and instructions, Team 7 started to fill up the inventory, count the number of articles and got the goods in order in the store, so that after they were done, two and a half hours later, the store was in perfect shape.

Tenten then went upstairs to get her father down. He came down slowly with his broken leg, but he too had a satisfied smile on his face as he saw the good work "Thanks a lot for your help. We appreciate it.", the owner of the store thanked them and handed Kurenai a few bills. From that, Kurenai passed a bill each to Ino, Sakura and Naruto.

"100 ryou, huh?", Ino murmured a little. It was little more then a tip, but that would've been enough for Naruto to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at Ichirakus for two straight days, so he couldn't complain.

"Glad to help you out. Well then, we'll be on our way, so have a good day.", Kurenai wished the family a goodbye and walked out of the store, Ino and Sakura following her after bowing politely as well.

Naruto was about to leave the store last, when he was held back by Tenten. "Naruto, wait a moment, please.", she asked him. He turned around, and again he saw a bright-red Tenten standing before him. Apparently, she was fumbling with her words, as he could tell that she wanted to say something, but yet couldn't.

"Naruto... take this, please.", she finally said and then handed him a small piece of paper, redfaced.

"Huh? Okay, thanks...", he said, slightly confused, but before he could look what had been written on the note, Tenten left him alone in the shop. Strange...