Chapter 1: Sakura festival already?

Another Day in Konoha…

Where a girl lay restlessly asleep…

Until she heard a loud knock on the other side of her door, including a voice yelling.

"GET UP ALREADY! WE HAVE TO MEET GAI AND THE OTHERS!"

The girl that was asleep groggily got up, rubbing her dark crimson seductive eyes and letting her long dark red hair fall to her face. Telling by the voice, she knew who it was.

She got up and went into the bathroom and did her routine and went into her attire. After, she was done she opened up her door to find a guy with milky-lavender eyes, his hair in a loose-ponytail, with bandages on his right arm and leg, dark shorts that go up to his knees, and a beige-like shirt.

"Are you done, Shihana?" Her dark crimson eyes looked up into his milky irritated gaze and nodded.

"Let's go now Neji." She said walking towards the door.

Neji followed closely behind, but when they were at the end of the gate of the Hyuuga Compound, Shihana and Neji decided to race. Shihana ran at full speed, but Neji was quicker, she knew this so she got it idea.

Neji was ahead of her, so she leaped up in the air and landed on Neji's back.

"Neji-saaan, can I have a piggyback ride?"

"No"

"Pleaaase?" Shihana said giving him the most cutest face, that no one could ever resist.

Neji sighed irritably. "Fine…" Neji said as he grabbed hold of her legs, so she wouldn't fall off.

When the finally arrived at the training grounds, Shihana saw her teammates and sensei there. One of the girls there was Shihana's best friend, Satsuki Rei, a girl with dark blue hair in a bun, being held by chopsticks. Another girl had brown hair and two buns on either side, with a pink like sleeve-less shirt, her name was Tenten. A guy with a shiny-bowl cut hair, wearing a tight green-like jump suit, named Rock Lee. Her sensei, Maito Gai, seemed the same as the guy with the green jump suit.

"Neji, Shihana! Your late! That's not youthful!" Gai shouted as Lee shook his head in agreement.

"Here we go again…" Rei said as she took a seat on a nearby rock, and closing her royal blue eyes.

"Um.. Sorry Gai-sensei! I kinda slept in last night!" Shihana said as she got down from Neji's back.

"And why have you stayed up late? It's not very youthful!" Gai asked with a bit of demand in his voice.

"We were training last night." Neji quickly said, trying to avoid his sensei's 'youthful' lectures.

"How youthful to be working hard! Now everyone! Run 100 laps around Konoha!" Gai yelled.

Everyone groaned, as Lee got a head start.

After the laps…

Shihana collapsed on the soft green grass, panting heavily. When Gai told them they could go home… Rei collapsed on the ground as well.

"Oh yeah! One more thing! Next week is the Sakura Festival! And I want you all to dress up and go be youthful!"

Rei groaned as she got tired of hearing Gai- sensei's so call 'lectures'

"If I hear the word 'youthful'… one more time…I'm gonna--- never mind" Rei got up and dusted any dirt from her shirt. "Well I'll see you at the Sakura Festival Shihana…"

Shihana nodded.

Shihana just realized what her sensei said about the Sakura Festival so she immediately got up and started running home to the Hyuuga Compound. Everyone around Konoha, looked at Shihana funny.

Once, Neji was home he went into Shihana's room, finding her frantically throwing clothes everywhere. He just chuckles. Shihana turns around to see Neji laughing slightly.

"What's so funny?' Shihana asked still looking.

"Well… for one your acting likes a crazed lunatic and two, the festival is next week." Neji said.

Shihana stared at him and fell.

"I feel so stupid right now…" Shihana moaned out.

"Come on now you should sleep" Neji said as he picked her up bridal style and put her into her bed and tucked her in.

"Night Neji-saaan…"

"Night." Neji said as he walked out of her room and closed the door, leaving Shihana thinking in deep thoughts…

"I wish I could ask Neji to go with me…maybe I'll ask him tomorrow."