Yes, Naruto, Everyone knew!

5. Old People Have No lives!

Naruto gasped desperately for air as he came to a rest atop the Hokage monument.

"Well that was emotionally scarring!" exclaimed Naruto to himself as he tried to catch his breath. "Sai's been *gasp* a freaking a horrible influence on Ino!"

The poor blond rested there for a few minutes watching the clouds. Once he could actually breath properly again, Naruto leapt to his feet.

"Alright, whatever. I've got one last chance!" yelled Naruto as his determined spirit sprung to life again. "Shikamaru and Choji can't have known!"

And so off Naruto sped to the Hokage's office.

"-and I think we should start using Training Field 5 instead of the Forest of Death because-" said Kakashi as he conducted the Chunin Exams meeting in his office when-

*BAM!*

"Naruto! What are-"

"SHIKAMARU! CHOJI!" yelled Naruto at the top of his lungs as he slammed open the door to Kakashi's office. "YES OR NO! DID YOU LOSERS KNOW HINATA WAS IN LOVE WITH ME? AND IF SO, SHIKAMARU, WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME AFTER I CONFESSED THAT I LOVED HER!"

Iruka, Kakashi, and Tsunade just stared at the wild-eyed blond in shock as a crow flew outside the office window going "Caw! Caw!"

Naruto then blinked and finally took in the people who were actually standing in the room.

Unfortunately, neither Shikamaru or Choji were even there.

"Oh, shit," sighed Naruto as he face-palmed.

This snapped the three out of their frozen states.

"YES!" "HELLS YES!" exclaimed both Iruka and Tsunade as they high-fived over Kakashi's desk.

"Why the hell, are you so happy, Tsunade?" asked Kakashi as he dug around for his wallet. "You lost the bet, too!"

"Ahh... but see that's why I bet against it!" replied Tsunade happily as she paid Iruka. "I always lose. So I wanted to make absolutely sure this would happen!"

Kakashi just sighed, counted out his money and handed it to Iruka. "I'm never going to hear the end of this from either you or Gai, am I?" sulkingly asked Kakashi.

"Nope!" replied Iruka cheerfully as he pocketed the cash. "I'm also going to need Gai and Kurenai's winnings, too. We promised to give them to Naruto if we won, Hokage-sama."

"Fine!" sighed Kakashi pulling out more cash, "But remind Gai this loss doesn't count towards our Rivalry Battle!"

"You're just mad we didn't have resort to 'Plan B' in order to get them together," teased Iruka as he grabbed the rest of the money.

"Wait..." whined Naruto, defeatedly, "You guys knew, too?"

"Hai," confirmed Kakashi. "What can I say, we're old. Your life is like our soap opera."

Naruto's right eye started to twitch.

"Iruka, Gai, and Kurenai bet that you two would get together naturally," explained the Sixth Hokage calmly, "where as Tsunade, Shizune, and I thought it would take... more drastic measures..."

"What kind of measures?" grunted out Naruto between clenched teeth.

"Well... Part 1: of Plan B consisted of locking you two in a room with a copy of 'Icha Icha Paradise' with the words 'Here's how to do it' written on the cover," admitted Kakashi with a shrug.