So, new story. This one is going to be a bit different, and I am still experimenting with it. So bare with me.

Enjoy...

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Temari's POV

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Once the war was over, the Konoha eleven and their significant others met up as often as possible. These meetings weren't as regular as they had been before the war. Most of the shinobi had either clan responsibilities or were higher ranking officials within the village. Though they still tried to all get together at least twice a month.

"And why can't I just talk to you?" Temari asked her lazy-ass of a boyfriend as they approached the group of famous shinobi who were already at the park that they were meeting at.

"Because I want you to have other friends in Konoha," Shikamaru explained as he shoved his hands in his pockets. "Who are you going to talk to if I go away on a mission?"

"Who says that I have to talk to anyone?" Temari demanded.

"I just don't want you feeling restricted," Shikamaru stated. "At least go out and try to be nice to someone."

"I am very pleasant and nice to people," Temari huffed as she was pushed into the middle of the already grouping shinobi.

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Karui's POV

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"I don't even understand why I'm here," Karui mumbled as her boyfriend, Chogi Akamichi, pulled her towards the group of his waiting friends. "None of them even really like me."

"You see," Choji started as they started to get closer to the group of people, "They just don't know you yet. As soon as they start to get to know you better, they'll love you as much as I do."

"But I still don't understand why I have to talk to people besides who you're talking to," Karui grumbled.

"Because I don't want you to become reliant on me. You need to build your own connections with these people. I'm sure that there's someone here that you'll like. Just promise me that you'll try to talk to someone?"

"Fine, I'll find someone to talk to," Karui huffed as she was pushed into the middle of the Konoha eleven and their clicks that were already forming.

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Sai's POV

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"Sai, we just can't have the same best friend," Ino tried to explain to her boyfriend. Sai had gotten better at socializing over the past few years that she had known him, but there were still a few things that he needed help to understand.

"But Sakura-chan is an amazing best friend. She's helped me understand people more than anyone else. I love my friends in team Kakashi, I don't understand why I have to talk to other people," Sai stated as they approached the large group of shinobi that had already gathered.

"It would just be weird if we, as a couple, had a mutual best friend. And I know that Sakura has been a great friend to you, and I'm not saying that you can't be friends with her, but you need other friends too," Ino tried again to explain.

"But I'm friends with Naruto as well," Sai attempted as a solution.

Ino sighed to herself. There was no way that she was going to lose her socially inept boyfriend unless she was blunt with him.

"Sai, I want you to become friends with Temari and Karui," Ino stated point blank.

"Oh," Sai responded. "They're dating the other members of your team, right?"

"Yeah, that's right," Ino encouraged.

"Do you want me to become friends with them so that we can become better couple friends?" Sai asked. "I read it somewhere in a book that boyfriends are supposed to become friends with their girlfriend's friend's boyfriends, and thus they become couple friends and are bonded more deeply."

"Yeah, it's something like that," Ino agreed. "I just think that it would be nice if you were all friends."

"Okay," Sai agreed. "I'll become friends with your friend's girlfriends."

With that, Sai walked into the center of already forming clicks to meet with the two girls in the center who seemed lost and a little annoyed.

"Hello Temari. Hello Karui. I am Sai," Sai introduced himself.

"We know who you are," Temari responded. She sounded annoyed, but her face looked slightly relieved.

"I know, but that just seemed like a proper greeting, is there another one that I should have used?" Sai asked as he stood in-between the girls.

"How about, 'how are you guys today?'" Karui offered.

"Oh I'm doing very well," Sai smiled.

"I think that was supposed to be a suggestion of what you could have used as a greeting," Temari explained to Sai.

"Oh, right," Sai nodded as he took out a notebook and scribbled something into it.

"So Choji and Ino sent you guys out to "make friends" too?" Temari asked.

"Yeah," Karui replied. "Choji is just scared that I might become too reliant on him in social interactions."

"Shikamaru too," Temari sighed. "I mean, he's right, I should be more willing to make friends. I just haven't found anyone that's too interesting yet."

"I know exactly what you mean," Karui joined in. "Everyone here just seems either over dramatic or fake. I'm not saying that my friends from Kumo aren't any less over the top, I mean have you met Omoi or Master B? It's just hard to fit in when you aren't already mixed into it."

"I love my friends here. I think that they are all very interesting and I can learn a lot from them," Sai interrupted.

Temari and Karui turned to stare at him. He wasn't wrong, the Konoha eleven were all very interesting and insightful people, but the two girls just didn't feel like they quite fit in yet.

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Temari's POV

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"You aren't wrong," Temari said as she tried to gauge the situation. She had noticed that all three of the significant others from Team Ten had been sent out on their own. Two of the significant others were immigrants into the village, and still had tight ties with their home villages. Temari knew that Shikamaru didn't do anything without thinking at least a hundred steps in advance. She knew that something was up about not being able to shadow him at this meeting, she just hadn't figured it out yet.

Temari continued talking to Sai. She allowed her views on the Hidden Leaf Shinobi to shift to side more with Sai than she had been earlier. She wanted to see if she was being tested in some way. There was a good chance that Shikamaru was testing Karui's and Temari's loyalty to the village. Though knowing the Nara as well as Temari did, she was sure that Shikamaru had already evaluated that and had deemed them loyal. Though, it didn't seem to matter if Temari praised the group of people around her, or belittled them, Sai reacted exactly the same. Temari just couldn't figure out what exactly she was being tested on.

"So why aren't you hanging out with Team Kakashi?" Temari finally asked Sai, hoping that he would let slip if he was spying on them.

"Because Ino said that I should start to get to know you and Karui better," Sai stated in the only way that he knew how: bluntly.

"Why does she want you to know us specifically?" Karui asked. "Are you some sort of spy seeing if we're loyal to the leaf?"

Temari was taken back. She knew that the Kumo kunoichi wasn't stupid, but Temari just hadn't thought that she would be thinking on the same path. Temari didn't want to add to the drama, but she was curious to see where this conversation was headed.

"No. That's not it," Sai said with a fake smile. "Though that would be a very smart strategy. I am here to build a bond with you so that we can become better 'couple friends.'"

"What?" both of the girls asked in unison. Temari was especially taken back by this revelation. She hadn't expected Shikamaru to go along with such a silly plan as this so willingly. Though Temari had figured out a while ago that Ino had some sort of power over the Nara.

"Couple friends are friends because they are couples, and they usually form within friend groups and hang out together in larger groups. It usually starts with a group of friends and their significant others being added into the group. The fact that the couples are friends with other couples strengthens the bond of the unit," Sai explained as if her were reading from a book.

"Yeah, I know what they are," Temari responded. "I just don't understand why Shikamaru would push for this."

"Maybe he really does want you to have your own friends in Konoha, and he thought that this would be the easiest way," Karui tried to explain. "I mean, I don't understand why Choji would put me through this either, but it does kind of make sense."

"Yeah, it does," Temari huffed. "I mean look at it this way, we're pretty much the only people here who aren't apart of the Konoha eleven. There's Tamaki, though her back ground is almost a mystery, so who knows where she really belongs in all of this. She seems content to sick to the dog-boy anyway. Then Tenten is the only girl who wasn't a part of the rookie-nine, but at least she was raised here."

"So that leaves us, and our common ground is that we are the Ino-Shika-Cho formations other half," Karui continued for Temari.

"So Shikamaru and Choji are going along with Ino's crazy 'couple friends' plan, because they actually really want us to make friends," Temari continued. "I'll admit that it was sweet of them, but I'm still upset that they would go about this in such a sneaky way."

"You mean that Shikamaru and fatso didn't tell you the plan?" Sai asked?

"What did you just call my boyfriend?" Karui yelled loud enough that it drew attention from the groups around them.

"It was a nickname that I gave him based off of a prominent feature," Sai explained.

"Are you calling my boyfriend fat?" Karui asked one final time.

"Yes I am," Sai stated as a fake smile spread across his face.

"Sai, that's inappropriate. Choji is a very nice man, you shouldn't call him names like that," Temari tried to explain using a gentler approach.

"Why are you being so nice to him?" Karui yelled. "Choji is your friend, shouldn't you be defending him more than that?"

"I don't see why it's my job to defend him," Temari shot back.

"Because his heart is fat too and he won't defend himself," Sai prodded.

With that an all-out brawl broke out between the three. Sai was receiving the brunt of the attacks, and wasn't responding with his own. He did however keep a grin on his face that seemed to egg the girls on even further.

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Ino-Shika-Cho's POV

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"See, I told you that this was a bad idea," Shikamaru huffed as he watched the brawl that was taking place in front of them.

"Their personalities just don't mesh," Choji added as he ate a handful of his barbeque chips. "I mean they're all great people, they just have too strong of personalities to get along if they're just thrown into it."

"Just watch," Ino stated with a grin on her face. "Sai has gotten better at making friends. I'm sure that he has a plan here."

"Ino, strategies are my specialty, and I don't see a single strategy in that mess," Shikamaru stated as he pointed over to their significant others.

"So this is why Shikamaru and Choji lied to you," Sai stated through the hurricane of attacks that he was facing.

With that, all of the fighting stopped at once. The two kunoichi's were frozen in mid punch. Their gazes slowly shifted so that they were facing their boyfriends.

"I think that you guys should run," Kiba called from somewhere behind the three.

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Temari's POV

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"Did you at least have fun today?" Shikamaru asked as Temari helped place another cold pack onto his back.

"Yeah, today was actually really fun," the blond responded with a grin on her face.

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Karui's POV

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"So are you going to see them again?" Choji asked as Karui spoon fed him some of her homemade soup. Soup which she had made in a form of an apology to her boyfriend.

"Yeah actually," Karui admitted. "We're meeting up tomorrow to actually plan out our revenge."

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Sai's POV

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"So did you actually have a plan going into that, or did you just get hit by accident again?" Ino asked as she applied a hot press to her boyfriend's head.

"I figured that if I could get them to hit each other and me, then we could be friends," Sai explained.

"And what gave you that idea?" Ino hummed as she rubbed his back.

"Well, you and Sakura are friends, and you hit each other all of the time. And Sakura and I became friends after she hit me a few times. Karui and Naruto are even friends, but that only happened after Karui beat him half to death. So I learned that girls make friends through hitting people."

"Well," Ino sighed. "At least it worked."

Okay, so I'm having a bit of trouble with this one. I already told most of you while I was teasing this that the updates are not going to be consistent. I am now going to add to that warning that the chapters may not be chronological order, they are mostly going to be little one-shots paced together whenever they come to me. I am trying to fill in some of the gaps that I have already left (because I always keep a back log before I start a story) so that I can give you guys as much order as I can, but no promises.

Secondly, the tone of the stories aren't always gong to be consistent. Yes, most of them are going to be silly like this one, but there will also be sad or melodramatic ones as well. I am going to try and keep what order their POV's appear in consistent, but again, I am not quite sure where I am gong with this.

I know that I made Sai appear a little dumb in this chapter, but trust me, he gets better. I also tend to use him as a deus ex machina.. But he's still lovely. And even though Sai is being added into the girlfriends, you will eventually notice a trend that he falls into the same roles that the boys do, just giving that spoiler so that you guys don't say that I am demasculinizing him.

I love these three characters, and since their significant others are pretty much family, I just thought that it would be lovely to see how they would interact and join in on the family dynamic. This is just the foundation chapter, so it will get more interesting as it goes on.

I am working on a new KibaTama story, and it is talking up the majority of my free time, not to mention that I work and am in school, so I don't have a ton of free time as it is. So these updates are going to be highly inconsistent. So even though I love hearing from you, please do not expect weekly updates. Thank you for your patients.

Please leave a review and tell me what you thought. I am also not against ideas for what situations you would like to see these three in. So.. Review and let me know your thoughts.

Love, Donny