27 June 2013- I've started to rewrite the first chapter and the rest of the story since it was just a joke between me and my friend during the exams but now it's starting to bother me so I changed it a bit.

Chapter 1 Prologue

It was night in Sunagakure, and approaching dawn. Sitting on top of a roof, Gaara thought about how boring it was to be awake during the night with only sand as company, not even Shukaku. Even though the demon has been removed, it wasn't enough to cure Gaara of his insomnia.

"You should wake Temari; we have to leave for Konoha at dawn." Kankurou interrupted his thoughts while leaning out of a window.

"Why should I wake her, can't you do it yourself?" Gaara stated flatly.

"Because she can't kill you, you still have your absolute defense." Kankurou replied with a straight face as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

Gaara sighed and left for Temari's room. As he opened the door, a pillow with exploding tags headed straight for him. Gaara's sand made a cocoon around the pillow and all that came out was a small trial of smoke. "Wake up Temari, it's time to go to Konoha."

She mumbled something that sounded like "stupid brothers" and told them that she'd be up in a minute "Just get out of my room already".

Half an hour later, they set forth for Konoha from the hidden Sand's gates.

In the Hidden Leaf Village

Naruto was sitting in Ichiraku's ramen shop enjoying a steaming hot bowl of Miso ramen. He thought back to when they tried to get Sasuke back, along with Sai. They succeeded in the end but now Sasuke's even more of a pain than he used to be but at least he's back. The fox boy snapped out of his thoughts when he remembered something.

"Crap, Kakashi-sensei called a meeting three hours ago, at this rate I'll be even later than Kakashi-sensei and that's bad. He drained his 30th bowl and with a piece of fish sticking out of his mouth, dropped some money on the counter and sprinted outside only to run smack into someone else and down they both went. Naruto fell on top of the other person, still with the fish in his mouth. "Sorry, sorry, my bad I wasn't looking-"

"Naruto-kun?"

Naruto looked at the person below him and slowly swallowed the fish. "Hinata?"

He looked at Hinata in a new light, she was dressed in a beautiful lavender dress. Hinata blushed at the way Naruto was looking at her. Naruto knew he should be helping her up but he was still stunned. They were stuck in place like that until Teuchi's voice was heard.

"Oi Naruto, weren't you late for a meeting?"

At the training field

Team 7 was waiting impatiently for Naruto who was four hours late. "Where is that guy?" Kakashi mumbled "Even I made it here before him."

Sakura was tapping her foot, also pissed off at Naruto's tardiness.

"Perhaps this is the aftereffects of Sakura's loving smack earlier?" Sai suggested to Sakura's horror.

"What! It was nothing of that kind you idiot!" Sakura screeched, proceeding to beat the living daylights out of Sai.

"It sure is peaceful around here without Naruto…" Kakashi said to Sasuke who was lurking in the background.

"Hn." Was Sasuke's long, thorough and colorful answer to nobody's amusement.

Outside the Hokage mansion

The sand siblings had finished their ambassador's mission in Konoha and decided to refresh around the village a bit before going back to Suna. It was rare for them to get the chance at a holiday.

"Ok, don't you two get into any trouble, especially you, Kankurou! I will meet you right here, in an hour. Got it?" Temari walked away.

Kankurou and Gaara looked at each other. "Bossy girls." Kankurou grunted and rolled his eyes. Then they went their separate ways. Gaara soon found himself in an odd situation.

Outside the ramen store.

Naruto sprung up with a horrified expression. "Crap, that's right. I'm so late!"

"N-naruto-kun" Hinata said, flushing.

"Naruto?" Gaara asked, looking at the scene. Naruto had just been lying on top of Hinata, if he didn't know better he'd have sworn they were kissing.

Naruto looked up at Gaara and quickly helped Hinata up. She almost fell down again but Naruto caught her in a tight hug. "Hey, Gaara. Long time, no see."

"I can see that, looks like I missed the part where you got a girlfriend."

"Ehehe It's not like that ya know." He rubbed the back of his head sheepishly missing Hinata's disappointed look.

"Hello Hinata-san." Gaara nodded in her direction.

"Hello Gaara-kun." She replied.

It took Naruto 5 seconds but… "You know each other?"

"Yes, we met at the second chuunin exams."

Naruto's mood changed. "I'm the only one that wasn't there. I was training with the pervy-sage then." Naruto said with a sad voice.

"What were you and Hinata doing on the ground?" Gaara asked, changing the subject.

"Yes, why were you and Hinata on the ground?" Came a very angry voice. They all looked at the pink-haired girl.

"Eeh Sakura, I ran into Hinata and we fell to the ground." Naruto explained nervously, ruffling the hair on the back of his head. Hinata and Gaara didn't dare interfere because they knew what Sakura was capable of.

"Then can you explain to me why you didn't come to the meeting and why you are hugging Hinata as if her life is depending on it.?" "She almost tripped and I forgot to let go of her." He looked at her, "And I forgot about the meeting, sorry Sakura…"

'Ugh, I feel like his mother when he explains himse- wait? Think that's the first time he didn't add 'chan' to my name. Maybe he's finally getting over me'

Hinata was embarrassed but didn't like the way Sakura was looking at Naruto. "I was the one who kept him here, he would have been on time if I wasn't talking to him."

Sakura looked at the shy girl and felt a bit bad about her temper with Naruto.

Gaara looked at his friend who was looking stunned at Hinata defending him.

Naruto quickly shrugged it off and realized how bored he had been for the past week. This was also the first time in a long while that every single member of the Konoha rookies was in the village and even the Sand siblings were visiting. He couldn't let this opportunity go to waste.

"Hey Gaara, since you're here, do you want to play a game?"

"…Are you serious…?"

"Yes! Do you want to join us Sakura?"

"Give me a good reason."

"Sasuke will be there."

"Sigh, fine, I'll come along." Sakura conceded.

"Let's go and find some more friends." Naruto suggested. Gaara nodded, completely forgetting about Temari and went along with Naruto.

Hidden Leaf Hot Springs

A pervert was sitting outside the hot springs, and no, it's not Jiraiya. "These hot springs are great. You can see everyone in the next room" Kankurou stared through some custom made peeping holes, he wondered where they came from. "Oh, well who cares."

He stared at the girls, completely forgetting about Temari.

Somewhere else in Konoha

"Ugh, where are those two idiots?" Temari shouted. "I'm gonna kill them… Maybe I'll just visit Shikamaru or one of the girls." She mused, completely forgetting about Kankurou and Gaara.

A field in the training grounds.

"Ok Naruto, we have enough people. What do you suggest we do?" Gaara asked.

"How about truth or dare?" The blonde suggested.

"What's that?"

"What the name says obviously. Just try to follow." Everyone were gathered on one of the training fields: Naruto, Hinata, Sasuke (Who was forced to come), Sakura (Who felt a little bad about earlier), Lee (Who loved playing youthful games), Neji (Who actually came to train there), Tenten (who came with Neji), Sai (He wanted to see how the others interacted during a game), Temari (who heard about it from Ino), Shikamaru (It was too troublesome to say no to Temari), Ino (Who wanted to beat the the billboard-brow at yet another game), Chouji (Came with Shikamaru), Kiba and Akamaru (They were bored), Shino (They forgot to invite him but he tagged along anyway) and last but not least, Gaara (Kankurou remained forgotten in the hot springs for a while but he eventually turned up).

The group sat in a circle and Naruto took out his kunai and spun it.

To be continued

The main change in this chapter was the formatting and the Naruto and Hinata situation because the original one was too convenient. This time it will be more realistic. This will be a pretty short story with between three to five chapters.