A/N: Couldn't resist this idea when it came knocking! Even if I don't really like Hinata anymore.

Sunako: Wait, do I have to be your little commenter on everyone Hinata story?

Me: No, I just wanted to use you.

Chapter 1: Blonde Rejections

Hyuuga Hinata and Akimichi Chouji were both similar in something: love interests. The two of them loved big-mouthed, blue-eyed, blondes. They thought these people were perfect for them but they had never said anything yet.

Hinata was a timid girl with white eyes and indigo hair. Her shyness was doubled when she was near Uzumaki Naruto, the man of her dreams. He, unfortunately, hadn't known she existed for a long time.

Akimichi Chouji, on the other hand, wasn't that distant with Yamanaka Ino, a gorgeous girl that he had been in love with. In fact, her dad was friends with his dad (along with best friend Nara Shikamaru's dad.) The Akimichis, Yamanakas, and Naras went way back.

Chouji was a reddish brunette who ha always been overweight. While he was generally a very nice person, whenever he was teased about this, he would go into combat mode. He and Hinata had become good friends over the years and got along really well.

Chouji, Hinata, Naruto, Ino, Shikamaru, Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke, Inuzuka Kiba, Aburame Shino, and Gaara were all juniors in high school. Hinata's cousin Hyuuga Neji, Rock Le, Tenten, and Kankuro were all seniors. Shikamaru was currently dating Gaara and Kankuro's older sister Temari, who had already graduated.

Sakura was very good friends with Ino and Naruto. She used to have a crush on Sasuke, but got over it when he began dating Karin, a girl from another school. Kiba and Shino were best friends and good friends with Hinata.

Now Sakura was more interested in Neji while Kiba crushed on her. Gaara, the mysterious redhead, didn't spend much time with anyone, but he had a close friendship with Naruto and was always nice to Hinata.

Hinata had only been in one relationship before and that was the disaster zone when she and Shino had decided to try dating each other.

Chouji had never been very lucky at all. He had always had his eye on Ino, ever since they were little kids, but she had never noticed him unless he was playing with her and Shikamaru. Now that they were high schoolers, it was only at anything involving their families.

Hinata's eyes opened one Saturday morning. Today she had been invited by Sakura and Ino to get coffee. She hummed a little to herself as she pulled on her clothes and again as she walked to the kitchen. No one was there so she continued to hum.

"Pretty cheerful, huh?" asked Neji, coming into the room.

Hinata's face went red as she tried to stutter a response. Neji laughed to himself and left, he himself having plans with Lee and Tenten.

The next person to enter the room was her little sister Hanabi, who was thirteen and in junior high.

"Hey, Hinata," she said, grabbing a protein bar.

"Hello, Hanabi," Hinata replied. "What are you doing today?"

Hanabi blushed. "I'm going out with Udon. Actually, we're double dating with Moegi and Konohamaru."

Moegi, Konohamaru, and Udon had all been good friends with Hanabi for years. Now Hanabi and Udon dated, as well as Konohamaru and Moegi.

"I have plans with Ino and Sakura," said Hinata before going to the coffee shop where said girls were waiting for her.

"H…hello."

"Hey, Hinata," the two girls said in unison and then glared at each other, as if saying something at the same time was some kind of offense.

"So, Naruto asked me out," said Ino. "I turned him down though."

"But I thought you liked him," Sakura said, confused.

"Well, I do. But I have to play hard to get," the blonde girl said as if it were obvious. Hinata, meanwhile, couldn't believe what she was hearing. Ino liked Naruto? Naruto liked Ino? Ino had turned him down? If he had asked her out, she would have said yes in a single heartbeat!

"What about you, Hinata?" Sakura asked.

"Huh?"

"Who do you like?" Ino asked. "Don't worry, you can trust us."

"I-I…uhm…I liked…uh," Hinata tried to think of someone other than Naruto. "I like…Ch…Chouji."

"You do?" asked Ino. "I've known him most of my life, but I've never thought any girl could ever fall for him."

"Don't worry, Hinata, your he'll surely like you too someday," Sakura said. The shy girl inwardly sighed because they were being all supportive and she didn't even like Chouji. In that way, anyway. She mentally slapped herself for not saying no one or being perfectly honest.

And what's this with what Ino had said? Did that mean that she wouldn't ever date Chouji? Well, she probably wouldn't, now that she thought Hinata liked him. She might have just messed up a possible relationship for one of her good friends.

It wasn't shaping up to be a very good Saturday.

~X~

Akimichi Chouji sighed to himself. Ino was out with her friends and Shikamaru was sleeping in. (Probably shooting for a new record) For now he was completely alone. He shoved another handful of chips into his mouth and thought about who else there was. Hinata was with Ino, which ruled her out. Was there no one who wasn't busy?

He had really been hoping to ask Ino out that Saturday. When Naruto had attempted and got shot down, Chouji realized that Ino was getting popular and he had better snatch her up as quickly as possible.

Ino…all the time he had known her, she had always been like an angel from a dream. Perfect blonde hair, blue eyes that he could fall into if he stared too long, perfect skin…it was quite obvious from day one that she the girl for him. He had never told anyone until the day Hinata found out.

Since then, the two of them were the only ones who knew about the other's secret crush. The fact that even Shikamaru didn't know was strange. He was smart, he should have been able to figure it out on his own. He even had the added bonus of knowing Chouji better than most.

Chouji glanced at one of the many pictures he had of her. No, he wasn't a creeper who worshipped Ino's image. He just grew up with her and Shikamaru, so there were naturally a lot of pictures with her in them. Ones of the three getting ice cream, one of them roller skating, pictures of birthday parties, kindergarten graduation, lots of first days of school, Halloween, Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, Independence Day, (A/N: I wasn't in the mood to look up Japanese holidays so Konoha is in America! XD) and a few from a beach trip the three families had taken together.

So many memories involving the two most important to him. In almost every one he had food of some sort, a habit that had never gone away. Most people were repelled by his large appetite. Ino would sometimes scold him, but she was always there anyone and never stopped spending time with him because of that.

Temari hadn't been too pleased to discover that Chouji and Shikamaru were like crossed fingers, but she wasn't rude to him. That would be like insulting Shikamaru himself. Chouji hadn't really seen Temari much since she graduated. She went to a near-by college so that she could still see her brothers, Shikamaru, and her friends.

Temari spent most of her time with Tenten because she was close to her age (she had made a TERRIBLE impression back in freshman year and it continued to haunt her). She and Ino, though they saw each other often, weren't close. There used to be some jealousy because Temari though Ino would try to steal Shikamaru from her. Ino, meanwhile, thought Temari was going to break Shikamaru's heart, so it wasn't exactly smooth at first.

No matter how not rude Temari was to him, he wasn't bored enough to call her up and ask her to come over. Instead, he just sat down and began to watch TV. Soon he would ask Ino out. Soon he would make all his dreams come true.

~X~

Hinata smiled at her friends as they said goodbye. She still couldn't believe that she had told them she liked Chouji. Now whenever he was near, the girls would poke her and point and giggle when Hinata wasn't even interested romantically. But if she had said Naruto, Ino wouldn't talk to her anymore.

One good thing came out of that morning, though. She knew that if she was going to get Naruto, she would have to get him then. She wondered briefly if she should consult Chouji on it. After all, he needed to know about Naruto and Ino too.

She immediately pulled out her lavender cell phone and punched in his all too familiar phone number.

"Hello?" she heard a friendly voice say.

"Chouji? I-it's Hinata," she said. "I…I was with Ino and Sakura and…Naruto and Ino…they…"

"I know. I've already decided to make my move now. If there are other people who want Ino out there, I need to get her first," said Chouji, sounding determined.

"Th-that's what I decided too. So…good lick."

"Good luck to you too, Hinata."

~X~

"So, Hinata, what was it you wanted?" asked the spiky blonde haired boy, standing before the timid girl.

"I…I was wondering…would you like to…to go out with m-me?"

~X~

"Hey, Chouji," Ino said, letting herself in.

"Hi, Ino."

"So, what did you want to say to me? Why couldn't you just say it over the phone?"

"Ino…I…do you want to go on a date sometime with me?" Chouji asked?

~X~

At the exact same time, the two blondes said the exact same thing to crush the spirit of their friends.

"Heck no!"

A/N: Sunako: *mutter under breath*

Me: WHAT IS IT THIS TIME?

Sunako: I wasn't thrilled about being stuck with Memories, but now I'm in Helping Hand, a story that's gonna be longer than Memories?

Me: Yeah? And?

Sunako: Excuse me for not sounding thrilled!

Me: And I even had daydreams about you and Gai confessing your love to each other while I was on vacation! Meany!

Sunako: I love you!

Me: Hypocrite. Anyway, Next time: Hinata and Chouji decide to help each other, Tenten wonders where Lee got off to, and Sakura attempts to win Neji's heart.