Title: Konoha Ball

Author: Moonlight Music Mistress

Pairings: NejiTen, SasuSaku, ShikaIno, NaruHina

Rating: Teen

Genre: Romance/Humor

Category: Naruto

Summary: With a mandatory dance party and the Fifth Hokage hovering over them like a flea, four of Konoha's best male ninjas are going to have one heck of a time asking their girls out! "But Tsunade!! Can't we just go as, like, best friends?" "Well, all of your best friends are girls, so that settles it! A romantic party it is!"

Hey!! This is a little fic about when Naruto, Sasuke, Shikamaru, and Neji have to ask out girls to the Konoha Ball. The pairings are obvious (they're even in the summary!) but if you don't know them then it's a surprise! Just wanted to give the kunoichi a chance to wear their ball gowns and such and give the boys massive blushes!! Anyway, here we go!! Review please!

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"How in the heck did we get stuck in this mess?" Shikamaru yawned.

"All because of HIM," Naruto pointed to Sasuke, who groaned. "It wasn't my fault!!"

"It so was!!" Naruto shouted. "Because of YOU, we have to ask out GIRLS to go to the flippin' Konoha BALL with!!"

"Oh, sure. Blame me," Sasuke sulked. Either way, he, along with Naruto, Shikamaru, and Neji, would have to ask out a girl to go to the Konoha Ball with.

"Well, though, it WAS your fault," Neji contradicted. "I mean, you DID mess everything up."

"No I didn't!" Sasuke fought back. "I only said..."

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"Uzumaki Naruto! Uchiha Sasuke! Nara Shikamaru! Hyuga Neji! JUST the men that I'm looking for!" Tsunade announced, grinning.

"What crazy scheme did you come up with now, woman?" Shikamaru asked.

"We're going to have a Konoha Ball!!"

The four boys stood speechless.

"You aren't excited," Tsunade noticed, still smiling.

"A ball...?" asked Naruto. "With...like...girls?" Tsunade nodded.

"No!! We can't let that happen!" Shikamaru objected.

"We have no time for this," Neji added.

"Definitely," Sasuke agreed.

"NO. Each of you, by law of Konoha, will ask out a female."

"THAT'S CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT!!" Naruto shouted.

"No!! It's not THAT bad!!" Tsunade reasoned. "You get to pick the girl you go out with."

"Oh, joy," Sasuke, Neji, and Shikamaru mumbled in unison.

"Seriously! Is this ball mandatory?" Neji asked.

Tsunade replied, "Um. Duh."

"What point is there in it, though? I mean, just out of curiosity," Sasuke questioned aloud.

"There is none!!" Tsunade cheered, clapping like a five-year-old.

The four boys stared at her expressionlessly. "Thanks a million, old hag," Naruto said.

"But, seriously! Can't we just all go as, like, best friends if this thing's mandatory? Like, the four of us?" Shikamaru asked.

"But all of your best friends are girls! That about settles it!!"

"NO!" Neji screamed. "He didn't mean it that way."

"But it's true," Tsunade told them.

"It so is not!" Naruto shouted. "The four of US are best friends!" The other three nodded with angry expressions on their faces at Tsunade.

Tsunade didn't care, though. "Not true. Uzumaki, I know how much you like Hyuga Hinata. There is absolutely no denying it."

"WHAT?!" Naruto demanded. "Untrue! Lies!"

"Speaking of Hyugas, Neji, don't think I don't know that Tenten is much closer to you than any of these boys."

"Huh?!" Neji shouted. "I don't agree with that at a-"

"And you, Shikamaru!" Tsunade interrupted. "You and Ino. 'Best friends' if I've ever seen them, correct?"

"INcorrect!!" Shikamaru burst out. "Ino is a TEAMMATE. And don't you dare say anything about-."

"Uchiha Sasuke and Haruno Sakura are best friends!" Tsunade shouted.

"-Sasuke." Shikamaru looked angry.

"Well, unlike these insecure losers, I'M unafraid to admit that Sakura is indeed my friend, but-"

"YOU AGREE WITH ME! Asking girls out is the way to go! Thank you, Sasuke! Now it's official!" Tsunade shook his hand by force and waved goodbye. "DON'T FORGET TO ASK THEM OUT BY OCTOBER 24TH!! YOU HAVE EXACTLY TWO WEEKS!! THE BALL STARTS ON OCTOBER 24TH AT 6:00 P.M. AT THE SUPER-HUGE AUDITORIUM!!"

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Naruto, Shikamaru, and Neji glared at Sasuke. "We were on our way to convincing her otherwise, man!" Naruto groaned.

"You had to open your mouth. You just had to," Shikamaru shook his head.

"Hey!! It's not my fault Tsunade has no life!"

"But it IS your fault we're all gonna be going to a flippin' ball with girls of our choice," Neji argued.

"Chill, guys. It can't be THAT bad!" Naruto persuaded. "It's not like we have to go out with someone we would never want to go out with!"

Neji, Shikamaru, and Sasuke all looked at Naruto funnily. "After you analyze something, you really can't find the negative side of any situation whatsoever, can you, Naruto?" asked Sasuke.

Naruto grinned. "Absolutely not."

Suddenly, the boys ran into Tsunade again. They immediately turned around to avoid confrontation, but Tsunade screamed, "HEY!!" The boys turned around in defeat.

"Have you thought about who you're asking to the ball yet?" she asked. The boys sighed and shook their heads. It was about ten minutes since they even FOUND OUT about the stupid ball. Of course they haven't.

"WELL YOU'D BETTER!! YOU HAVE TWO DAYS UNTIL THE BALL!!"

"What?!" Shikamaru yelled. "You said we had two weeks!!"

"Oh, no!" Naruto sighed. "Now we have two DAY-"

"I GET CONFUSED WITH MY WEEKS AND DAYS AND MONTHS AND YEARS AND CENTURIES AND MILLENNIUMS AND SEASONS AND PLANETS!!" Tsunade hollered.

"So? Two weeks or two days?" Sasuke asked impatiently.

"Two weeks," Tsunade replied calmly, which made the boys sweatdrop, but in relief.

Neji sighed. "Fourteen days to find a girl I actually wouldn't mind dating, gather the courage to ask said girl out, and hope she accepts so you won't annihilate me against my will. This, contrary to popular belief, should be fun."

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Hope that was an OK beginning!! I will continue soon! Hope you LOVE IT!! Bye!