I don't own Naruto, I am not that creative,

Pairings: NaruHin, SasuSaku, NejTen. ShikaIno

Place:Forest just outside of Konoha

Ages: Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke, Shikamaru, and Ino-17

Neji and Tenten-18

Summary: Sakura is trying to show Sasuke that she is not some crush. Hinata is trying hard to show Naruto that she loves him, but he is to stupid to notice. Shikamaru is trying to make Ino get over her crush with Sasuke. Neji realizes that Tenten is pretty with her hair down, and she gets mad because he has never realized that she is a girl, for he has only thought her a warrior.

Chapter 1: Helping Hinata

"Naruto wake up!" cried a tired Sakura.

"Huh?" Naruto looked at her like she was crazy.

"It is dawn, we are leaving," she said to him, walking away. "Should we leave him?" she asked, looking at Sasuke.

"Hn," was his only reply.

"I take that as a yes then," she said grabbing her pack and leaving off into the trees.

"WAIT!!" Cried Naruto, jumping up and grabbing his things, and hurrying to catch up with Sakura and Sasuke.

"Finally Dope," Sasuke said, not even looking at him.

"Why didn't we just get there last night?" he wailed.

"Because you wanted to sleep dope," Sasuke said.

"Wow, Sasuke, you have said more than one syllable, I'm surprised," Sakura said.

Sasuke silenced her with a glare.

"Why are you so mean to poor Sakura?" Naruto asked him. Sasuke looked at him then shoved him into a tree with one hand.

"And mean to me?" he wailed, coming out with a few twigs stuck in his hair.

Because he is cold hearted, Sakura's inner self said. She looked at him then looked ahead of her.

A few hours later, the group reached the gates of Konoha, they entered, and went straight to the Hokage's Station. They found Tsunda, and reported that they had found no traces to the Akatsuke's lair. She dismissed them then.

The three went to their separate places.

With Naruto:

Naruto walked down the street's of Konoha, till he barely saw the place where he was staying. Hinata was at the Ramen Stand, and saw him. Her heart did three backflips, knowing that he was back and safe.

"Hey, Naruto-kun," she called to him, getting up from her seat, her long purple hair flowing behind her.

Naruto turned his head. "Hey Hinata-chan," he said to her, with some excitement, not seeing his friends for more than two weeks killed him, but it was mostly Sasuke that bothered him, he could always look at Sakura's pale face and not get tired.

"Yourrrr baackk," she said, stumbling.

"Yep," he said not noticing her stumbling.

"Tired?" she asked, trying not to stumble on her words.

"Yeah," he said, but then his eyes averted to where he saw Sakura's hair in a the midst of a crowd, making her way to her house.

"I'll talk to you later," he said to Hinata, not looking at her, and walked towards Sakura. Hinata just shook her head sadly.

"Okay, bye Naruto-kun," she said. He didn't answer. Ino saw Hinata, and not being best friends, but nice enough to see Naruto acting like an idiot and blowing Hinata off, she went over and talked to her.

"Hey Hinata Chan," Ino said.

"Hi Ino Chan" she said, very sad.

"Hinata, I saw Naruto idiot blow you off, you okay?" she asked.

"Yeah," she said, putting on a fake smile.

"Okay," and then Ino left. Hinata left then for the compound. She opened the door and saw Neji. She walked right past him, for she knew he hated her. She wondered then why everyone hated her so much…

With Sakura:

Naruto drifted over to where Sakura had been walking to get home.

"Hey Sakura," Naruto said.

"I just got off a two week mission with you, what the heck do you want?" she asked.

"Want to talk in a few hours," he said.

"No, we talked for two weeks," she said looking forward.

"Please, Sakura Chan, please??" he whined.

"Shut up!" she yelled at him.

"Fine," was all he said.

He finally walked away, and Sakura walked up to her small apartment that she had been renting for the past few years. She pulled her key out of her bra and opened the door. She threw the key on her table, then went and started the shower. Taking a shower in a civilized place she had been craving for two weeks.

She had got in under the hot water, and soon had strawberry shampoo covering her head. Thoughts ran through her head, Why doesn't Sasuke like me?, Do I bother him that much?, Will he only ever marry a girl if she will help him rebuild his clan?

These thoughts had always ran through her head, and each time she knew that the answer to all of them was 'Yes'. She knew that he was just a cold hearted bastard, even deep down. And lately, it had been pissing her off that that is all how he acted.

She rinsed the shampoo out of her hair and shut the water off, she got out of the shower and wrapped a pale pink towel around her. She closed the door, and heard her phone in the living room ring. "Damn," she said.

"Hello?" she asked when she reached the phone.

"Sakura, why didn't you call when you got back?!" screamed Ino.

"Because, I had to wash off two weeks with Naruto."

"Nice, yeah, about that, Hinata is feeling like crap."

"How do you know?"

"Naruto blew her off when he saw you," Ino said, feeling a little bad about Hinata.

"When have you come to care for others?"

"Since I noticed that Sasuke might notice."

"He won't"

"Whatever, Naruto isn't though noticing Hinata likes him," Ino said.

"I care about Hinata, so if you are only doing this because you want Sasuke…."Sakura started.

"No, I care about her," Ino said. Realizing she had had bad choice of word before.

"Okay, well, I am in a towel, so how about we meet with Hinata and Tenten at the Women's Hot Spring."

"Okay," Ino said then hung up. Sakura got dressed, and ran out into the wind that picked up and ran to the hot spring, powering chakra to her feet for it was cold outside. Inside, she got undressed, got in a blue robe, and went into the spa's, going into a room to wait for Tenten, Ino, and Hinata.

With Sasuke:

Sasuke got home and entered his home. It was windy outside, but he didn't even turn the heat on. He went into his bathroom, and took a quick shower. He got out, and had a towel around his waist, then entered his bedroom. He dressed into his usual attire, then headed outside, back into the cold and headed towards the training grounds, even though he had just gotten back from a mission.

He went into the big wide space, and saw Shikamaru. He walked over to him.

"Shikamaru, training?" he asked.

"Yes," Shikamaru said curtly, for he didn't like how Sasuke was all that Ino talked about, and it got old fast.

"Train with me," he said as more like a demand, not a question.

"Why?" Shikamaru challenged him.

"Because, I need someone that is strong, not weak like teammates of mine," was all he said, looking down the whole time.

"Fine then, why don't you invite the Hyuga too?" Shikamaru asked.

"He is coming this way" he said pointing to behind him.

"Oh," was what Shikamaru said.

Neji approached. "Can I join?" he asked Sasuke.

"Hn," was all he said. He knew that as a yes, for Sasuke doesn't say no usually to training. They trained for a few minutes, but after Sasuke beat them both a few times, they called for a times and asked Sasuke if they could call it quits for the night. They ended up sitting, just sitting, with Sasuke being aggravated that they didn't want to train more.

"Shikamaru, how is your crush doing with Ino?" Neji asked, for he knew that Sasuke wouldn't say anything soon.

"Shitty," was all he said. He didn't want to say why, for then Sasuke would say a whole bunch of shit then give him a glare.

"I'm leaving, and finding Dope to maybe train with," Sasuke said.

"Why the hell are you so mean to your teammates?" Shikamaru asked. Sasuke just glared at him, but he didn't shut up. "I am not mean to Ino or Choji," he said.

"It is different if you grew up with them as friends," Sasuke said curtly.

"So, Neji doesn't treat his teammates like crap," Shikamaru pointed out.

"Yeah well, mine are weak, and useless to me," he said, then started to walk away.

"You can't cover your hate by more hate," Neji said. Sasuke glared at him, grabbed a shurken, and threw it at Neji, missing him by inches.

"Hate is powerful, but not powerful enough to describe Itachi," he said, not looking at them, and walked away.

At the Hot Spring:

Sakura had been near sleeping, when she heard some voices.

"Ino, what the hell?! I was training!" Sakura heard Tenten's voice.

"Just come on!" She heard Ino's distinct voice. Sakura sighed, and then the door opened to reveal Ino with Hinata, both of them having one of her arms and towing her in.

"Hello Sakura Chan," Hinata said. Sakura smiled, and nodded, indicating a hello.

"Let go of me!" Tenten yelled.

"We will if you don't run," Ino said.

"Fine," Tenten said, but then was released by Hinata and Ino. She went and sat by Sakura.

"I said to bring them here, not to 'bring one, and have her help you drag the other one'."

Sakura said. Hinata laughed, but then Tenten undid her robe and get into the small hot tub in the middle of the small room the four where in.

"Oh well," Ino said. She got into the hot tub too, followed by Hinata and Sakura. The water was hot, so they all sat and closed their eyes.

"Hinata," Sakura asked.

"Yeah?" she asked.

"I was wondering, when are you gonna ask Naruto on a date?" Sakura asked plainly.

"Is my crush on him that obvious?" Hinata asked, horrified that they knew.

"Yes, to us, and everyone, and everyone is glad that you like him for who he is," Sakura started.

"But he is a Butt and will not realize it," Ino said.

"I know," Hinata said sadly.

"We where thinking of a way to show him that you like him," started Sakura.

"But we need him to stop liking Sakura," Ino said.

"Yeah, he is freaking me out, a lot," Sakura said, sticking her tongue out, in a disgusted way. Hinata laughed.

"Why am I here?" Tenten asked.

"Because, you care too about Hinata," Ino pointed out.

"I have an idea," Sakura said.

"What?" Hinata asked.

"Tenten, you like Neji right," Sakura asked her.

"Yeah, I have only told you guys, he is gay I think though," Tenten said. Hinata laughed.

"This will work out well," Sakura said.