Playing for Keeps

(yea I changed the name the 1st one sounded retarded)

My newest fic finally on the net. I hope you all like it. It's kinda based on one of my favorite novels with a Naruto world twist, lol. It's not totally AU, everyones ninja, clan stuff yadda. No massacre the Uchihas are pretty much alive and uptight. Cellphone, computers and the lot exist, You'll all find out more about each character as the story goes on. Read and review, if ya wanna.

Disclaimer: Not the owner of Naruto or anything else recognizable in the story. If I did i wouldn't be writing fanfics now would I.

Chapter 1

The Introduction of the Beast

Once upon a time, Hinata Hyuuga thought as she stood in the middle of the newest hot spot in Konoha after being forcefully dragged out of her ice cream haven, the world was full of good men. She looked over at the handsome face of the man she had planned on taking to her cousins wedding with a carefully expressionless face those days are gone.

"That ass," Ino hissed viciously.

"Yeah he looks real shaken up about the whole thing," said an equally pissed Tenten who was trying to kill the man across the room with her eyes.

"Oh Hina if I knew he was gonna be here..." Ino turned to Hinata her expression doing a 180 as she face the pixie like Hyuuga.

"It's fine," No one looked convinced. "I'm over it really…trust me and please lets just enjoy our selves… please." They finally relented and returned to watching the swaying movements on the dance floor.

Across the room, Sai stood bored. He glanced to where his ex stood with her friends probably crucifying him if the looks were anything to go by. He remembered clearly what happened yesterday how he broke it off with her. After two months of a monotonous relationship he grew tired of trying to coax the sexy little Hyuuga to his bed. He never had to work this hard for a woman as they usually just threw them selves at him without much effort on his part.

He didn't even remember how he had even begun dating the Hyuuga, his thought process must have been malfunctioning that day. One minute he was mentally criticizing her drab baggy wardrobe then the next minute he was next to her asking her out on a date. It must have been her smile with those pert little lips of hers. They were sweet enough for him to forget how she dressed at the time especially now that he had had a glimpse of what she was hiding. But now he was becoming sexually frustrated, I mean what normal man could and would wait so long for sex.

The look she gave him made him feel like he just kicked the worlds cutest puppy and he wasn't a bad guy at all, at least in his mind.

"Look at him, looking all uptight as usual," said Ino, looking tall and hot as she leaned on the bar.

"You want me to call Neji to beat him up." Insisted Tenten seriously.

There was no way Hinata was going to get the groom-to-be involved in this, he was already overly overprotective as it was without the fact added that he didn't think much of Sai in the first place.

"That's…really not necessary," Hinata wasn't sure Tenten was joking or not.

"If you say so, Hina, but the offer is long standing," she then turned to glare at the pale man across the room.

Hinata thought of her two best friends, they were your classic beautiful tall thin bold model types. Sai would have never treated them so callously, other than the fact that they'd castrate him, they were the type of girls a guy like Sai wanted not her with her short frumpy self. Her breast and hips were exaggerated for her size and she always felt overly self conscious about them.

Having thought herself into a depressed stupor Hinata took up her glass of scotch and downed it one foul gulp. The harsh liquid burned her throat before it began to warm her and lift her spirits.

"Can I… I have another," Hinata's voice was slightly slurred already; she never could hold her alcohol well. The red headed bartender smiled at her in what Hinata would describe as seductive while her equally red eyes glinted in a way that would have made Hinata blush if her cheeks weren't already flushed from the effects of the alcohol.

"Hinata-chan are you really gonna sit there and drink yourself into a stupor, lets go dancing." Hinata drew her attention away from the mesmerizing bartender to answer her blonde friend who was clacking her impossibly high heels impatiently.

"I'm really not in the mood right now," she said as she took a gulp of her newly acquire drink. "If I go I'll be grounded upon by those animals." She pointed her half empty glass in the direction of the dance floor.

"Oh I see, so because of one dickhead you're swearing off men for life!" Ino was exasperated. The bartender perked up on hearing this and was looking at Hinata with an almost predatory look.

"Come one let's go before Miss Thang here jumps you" said Ino as she dragged Hinata away while nodding her head at the bartender who pouted cutely as the little cutie was removed from her reach.

Tenten and Ino had Hinata all over the place until the blue haired girl's head was spinning from the rush.

"You know what you need now" Ino was contemplative as she leaned on a large speaker.

"What?" Hinata was curious yet scared, when Ino had that look things were about to get hectic as hell.

"A new date for Ten's wedding"

"WHAT!" Hinata choked on her drink.

"Yeah! She does, some one to take the place of the emotionless loser, who wouldn't know a good thing if it bit him in the ass." Tenten fumed for a second.

"But I don-" Hinata tried to deter them from whatever crazy scheme they had planned.

"OHH! Hottie at 12:00" Shrieked Ino.

"12:00?"

"Up on the balcony"

"Hel-lo! I think we have a winner" Hinata watched with dread as her best friends' ohhed and awed at whatever was upon the faux balcony.

"Hina look will ya" groaned Ino at Hinata's stubbornness.

She reluctantly turned her head and looked up. "What exactly am I looking at?"

"The dark-haired guy in the navy blue shirt, in the middle of the group by the door." Tenten kindly pointed out.

"Middle?" Hinata zoned in one the group which consisted of four men talking to a gorgeous pink haired woman. One of the four turned out to be Sai who was looking out into the crowd like a king surveying his kingdom. It was probably taking all his self-restraint not to do a Queen Elizabeth wave.

"That's Sai, Kami he's already dating someone else!" Hinata had a sinking feeling in her chest.

"Forget Sai and Pinky and LOOK at the guy in the middle, wait till he faces us again, he doesn't seem to like Sai all that much." Ino wanted to pull her hair out at Hinata sometimes.

Hinata squinted at the group again. The guy in the navy button down was taller than Sai, and his hair darker and thicker, but otherwise from behind, he was pretty much Sai II.

"I'm not doing the sequel." Hinata huffed, until he turned around that is.

Dark eyes, strong cheekbones, classic chin, broad shoulders, chiseled everything and all of it at ease as he stared out over the club, ignoring Sai.

Hinata sucked in her breath as every cell in her body came vibrantly to life and screamed, This one.

She quickly turned away before anyone could see her slack jawed appreciation. Sai must have dumped her pretty hard cause her DNA had gone haywire. Or was it just attracted to a high class sperm donor? Every woman in the club with working ovaries probably looked at him and thought the same thing. It was biology not destiny. The damage a beautiful creature like him could do to a girl like her would be devastating, world class crisis. She sipped her scotch to ease her thought process. "He's pretty." She said in what she hoped was a indifferent voice.

"No way, he's not pretty, Sai's pretty, this man is a god" said Ino in an almost wistful voice so foreign to her normal nature.

"O..k then, he's obviously full of pheromones" shrugged Hinata. Reasoning Ino attraction and her own to the man across the room on the balcony.

"You know I think I know him…"

Both girls turned to Tenten who now had a thoughtful look on her face.

"What? Like in biblical sense?" quirked Ino with a cheeky look on her face. "Lucky Gal."

Tenten glared at the blue eyed blonde.

"I recognize the blonde, he's a friend of Neji and Lee. Umm... Uzumaki, I think and the dark haired one is his best friend…hmmm what's his name again?"

"Is he fair game?

"Maybe but not the type we're looking for. I seem to remember Neji saying something… like he's the hit and run type, makes you love him then he leaves."

"Oh Kami, that's beastly!"

"He's like Sai." Added Hinata sagely.

"Like you ever loved Sai." Snorted Ino.

"Well I was trying to," huffed Hinata with a glare.

"It's not like it matters anyway, all you need is a date to Ten's wedding. So even if it takes the beast a couple months to dump you your covered and you can drop him first, so just go over there-

"No" Hinata turned her back on everyone to stare blankly at the walls while she fought the urge to stare at the beast on the balcony. Really the smart thing to do was stop dating and get a cat.

"You know she's not going she can be as stubborn as Neji when she's ready"

"Screw that," Ino nudge Hinata. "Imagine the look on your dad's face if you brought him to the wedding, he might ease up on you a bit about finding a husband."

"That's it! I remember…I remember his name!" shouted Tenten with a snap of her finger.

"Well spit it out," prompted Ino.

"Uchiha, Sasuke Uchiha."

End

WELL... thats that tell me what you think so far. Should I continue? Or just give up trying to write fanfics?...on second thought dont answer that part ^^ lataz.