They sat in the living room of their small apartment.
"Sakura, are you almost done making dinner?" Ino yelled from the purple bean bag chair.
"Almost, gosh, Ino be more patient," Sakura laughed from her place before the stove, stirring some soup or something. The two other girls in the living room laughed, too. Their house was filled with same white, pink, purple, and blue color scheme. All of the girls wanted a different color to fill their house so they had to make most of the things by themselves. The carpet and walls were white and splattered with the other colors. All of Ino's things were purple, Hinata's were blue, Sakura's were pink, and Tenten's were white.
"All right dinner is served," Sakura said wiping her hands on her pink polka-dot apron. As the four girls started eating there was a knock on the door.
"I'll get it," Hinata jumped up cheerfully and skipped to the door, "Hello." She said to the man at the door.
"I'm sorry. But you girls haven't been paying your rent recently. You either need to pay it up hand right now, or leave your apartment." The man said with an unchanged face.
"Oh, we're terribly sorry. Our friend Ino is in charge of paying the bills," Hinata said and snuck a glare at Ino. She grabbed her checkbook off the counter. "How much is it?"
The man glanced down at his clipboard, "1,236 dollars." Hinata felt her jaw drop and she almost dropped her checkbook.
"Um, w-we don't have that."
"Then you don't have an apartment. I'm sorry," he said not sounding very sorry at all, "but you have until six tomorrow morning to be out of this apartment."
Hinata sat and ran her fingers threw her eggplant black hair. Sakura twisted and untwisted her hands, Ino bit her nails, and Tenten just stared at the table. "So . . . what are we going to do?" Tenten finally broke the silence. Sakura stood and picked up her plate.
"We're going to move," She said walking to the kitchen.
"Well, that sounds easy but where are we going to go? The whole reason we all live here together is because we all had nowhere else to be," Tenten sighed.
"That's true. But we also came together because we are best friends. Together we can get through this! Just like we got through our parents deaths, we can do this! So, Ino you go into the attic and get all the old boxes and suitcases. Tenten, start taking pictures down and get our clothes. Sakura, you clean all the dishes and silverware and then empty out the fridge. I'll call a moving truck and try to contact anyone who will let us move in. And then we'll do the hard stuff together, Kay?" Hinata said letting her inner-self talk for once. They all nodded and then set off to work. Surprisingly, Hinata's job was the hardest. Tenten had packed all of their clothes, books, posters, and any other things she could carry alone. Sakura had the entire kitchen bare. Ino got all of the boxes and suitcases so fast that she just went ahead and cleaned out the entire attic; although, in retrospect it was more of a closet than an attic. Once the movers got there, they – as well as the three finished girls – carried all of the heavy furniture one by one down three flights of stairs and lifted them into the van. While they were packing furniture, Hinata was busy calling and crossing name after dreary name off of her 'people we could possibly stay with' list. In fact, she was still at it after the apartment was completely vacant and they were all leaning against the truck.
"Ok, guys, last number. Cross your fingers," Hinata said as she dialed.
"Hello, Anko-sensei? Yeah, it's Hinata. Um, w-well, Sakura, Ino, Tenten, and I have been living together in this apartment and we were just kicked out so . . ."
"So you want to stay with me?" said the woman on the other end.
"Oh, could we!" Hinata said, hope budding inside her.
Anko laughed. "No, I'm just going to deny you amazing girls of shelter and food. Yeah, right. Of, course you can stay with me!"
Hinata put a thumbs-up sign to all of the waiting girls who couldn't hear a word from Anko.
"The address is 1357 Kaede Lane. Be their soon, it's almost midnight."
Hinata told the address to one of the movers, and they drove to the house all with different expectations. Sakura was personally hoping for something out Legally Blonde like a giant pink mansion but knowing Anko that wouldn't happen no matter how much she wanted it to. Tenten was hoping for something light and open. White and glass walls. Ino wanted a fun place, with crazy things in it packed with months of endless fun. Hinata, she was just wanted a place to call home.