It was one of those days again. No missions, nothing to do, complete boredom. Kakashi sensei was out on his own mission so his team had absolutely nothing to do. Sakura sat on a stone bench in one of Konoha's streets fanning herself while Sai sat next to her attempting to start a new drawing. Meanwhile Naruto paced back and forth in front of them trying (and failing) to think of something to do. Finally Sakura got up and announced:

"I'm going to go see if they need any help at the hospital. Try not to kill each other while I'm gone." Then she left. After a few more attempts to start a picture, Sai got frustrated and put it away. He leaned forward on the bench staring at nothing as Naruto continued to pace in front of him.

"What sort of activities do adolescents usually do for er… fun?" He asked finally.

Naruto turned toward him, "huh? Well I usually eat ramen or sometimes I play video games," He replied, tapping his chin thoughtfully, " But I don't have enough money for ramen and all my games are old." He sat down on the bench miserably. " I used to pull pranks a lot, but now I have to act more mature so Sakura-chan will like me." He groaned, " I miss the good old days when I was the king of pranks dattebayo."

Sai stared at him blankly, " What's a prank?"

Naruto straightened up in shock and looked at Sai to see if he was joking, but unlike the usual fake smiles he gave, Sai's face was blank. Naruto blinked a few times before saying, " You mean you've never pulled a prank before. Well then I have a lot to teach you, let's see a prank is when you do something really mean and dirty to someone that makes them all confused and humiliated." He grinned devilishly. "It's the funniest thing ever dattebayo."

Sai continued to stare at him, " So basically pranks are when you have fun at someone else's expense. I don't really see the point."

" Of course you don't," Naruto grumbled, his face scrunching up in disappointment. He leaned back on the bench and they sat there in silence until Naruto suddenly shot up.

" That's it! Sai, I know what we're going to do today"(Meanwhile in cartoon world, Phineas looked up from what he was doing and said, "Ferb, I feel as though someone just stole our catchphrase). " I'm going to show you the art of prank pulling," he said as he pulled Sai off the bench. " Yosh, follow me dattebayo!"

" I thought you just said you were trying to act more mature"

" I'm doing this for your benefit Sai. Come on."

After about half an hour of following Naruto around the leaf village Sai was getting rather annoyed. Je could have sworn they already passed this road. " Naruto, where exactly are we going?" he asked.

Naruto flashed a toothy grin at him, " To find the first victim." He almost walked around the corner of a fence but then stepped back hastily dragging Sai with him and putting a hand over Sai's mouth.

Naruto removed his hand and whispered, " There she is, our first victim." He giggled childishly.

Sai tried to look around the corner but Naruto held him back. " Who is it?" he whispered.

" Hinata," answered Naruto, while fighting to contain his laughter. " Now Sai, transform into me, quickly." Sai did as he was told all the while questioning the sanity of his teammate. "Now go around the corner and when she sees you say this," Naruto leaned over and whispered something into his ear. The Sai-Naruto's eyes grew a little wider.

"Hey, how come you can't do it. Why does it have to be me. Hinata will know I'm not you, she's not an idiot."

Naruto grinned at him, " No, you're going to because the best way to learn something is by practicing. If you want to learn how to have fun like a normal kid, then you're going to have a big role in all the pranks we pull. Now go!" Naruto shoved Sai-Naruto around the corner so hard that he almost ran into Hinata (but he didn't because he's a highly trained ninja).

"Um hello, Hinata-chan," said the Sai-Naruto trying to stay calm despite the internal battle he was having. None of those books ever said that pulling pranks helps you make friends, he thought. But Naruto says I should and he has many friends. So Sai ( keep in mind that he still looked like Naruto) decided to swallow his pride and go through with it.

"Na-na-naruto-kun, um h-hello," replied Hinata already blushing profusely, " What are y-you doing here."

"I came because there is something I have to say to you," answered Sai-Naruto. Hinata's blush was lessening and she looked a bit confused.

"Something seems different about you Naruto-kun," she said.

Oh no, thought Sai, she stopped stuttering, I have to act more like Naruto If I'm going to pull this off. "Hinata, I'm fine but it looks like you have a fever, you're face is red datte-bayo." She was blushing again. That did it, thought Sai, "But as I was saying I have something to tell you.

" HINATA," he announced loudly, " I LOVE YOU AND WANT YOU TO BE MY WIFE. Um, datte-bayo."

Hinata stared, then blinked trying to understand what had just happened. Then her eyes rolled back into her head and she fell to the ground twitching violently. Sai looked at her nervously, was this supposed to happen. He transformed back into himself and looked back to see Naruto rolling on the ground laughing his head off.

"Man, that was hilarious, I think I might die!" Naruto yelled, tears streming down his cheeks as he pounded the ground with his fist.

" I think Hinata is dying, should we take her to the hospital?" Sai said worriedly.

Naruto got up and waved is hand in a nonchalant manner, "Nah, she'll be fine." Then he saw the look on Sai's face. "Okay, okay. You take her arms, I'll take her feet," he grumbled.

"What did you do to her Naruto. Usually she just faints but this looks like a full blown seizure. And by the way, why are you here Sai. Don't tell me you've been following the baka around all this time," Sakura was examining Hinata whom Sai and Naruto had carried (well dragged) all the way to the hospital.

" I don't know, I just ran into her while me and Sai were on the way to Ichiraku's," Naruto said innocently. Sakura was rather skeptical. She looked at the usually truthful Sai for a answer.

" Yes, I wanted Naruto to teach me about the building of friendships you see, that is why I was following him," said Sai.

"Ughh, Naruto is probably the last person who could help you, Sai," Sakura moaned pinching the bridge of her nose.

"But everyone's his friend."

" That's not true. Let's see…..Oh! Oh! I know. Neji's not his friend!" Sakura smiled in triumph, knowing she had won the argument.

" Actually, he's my only friend."

Sakura nearly jumped out of her skin and turned to see Neji standing behind her, expressionless as always. How did he get here without me noticing, she thought (well he's a ninja you fool).

Just then Tenten's head popped around the door to the hospital room. " What about me, Neji," she pouted.

Neji just replied with an arrogant, "humph," but Naruto noticed a faint blush on his cheeks. Heh heh, thought Naruto, part B of the prank is starting to fall into place.

" Okay, everybody out, Hinata needs some rest. She should be fine by tomorrow afternoon," said Sakura as she shooed everybody out of the room. But Naruto and Sai stayed behind to speak with Sakura privately. Well actually Sai had no clue what was happening ( same as you dear reader, most likely) but Naruto dragged him along.

" Sakura, when Hinata wakes up tomorrow, tell her that she's been in a coma for two years and that Neji is dead, got it," Naruto said to her in between giggles, " And tell the rest of the hospital staff to do it to."

" And what makes you think I would do something so horrible to my friend," replied Sakura, ready to pound Naruto should the need arise.

" Come on Sakura, think about poor Sai here who's never experienced what it means to be a kid. This is going to help him to act more like a teenager and not like a… well it'll help him dattebayo."

Sakura looked back and forth between her friend and her awkward teammate as if trying to choose. Finally she sighed, " alright, I'll do it. but just this once, for Sai's sake." (Wow, she gave in easily)

" I will absolutely not do something as pointless as pretending I am dead, just to hurt my cousin,"

Naruto and Sai were standing outside of the Hyuga compound trying to convince Neji to help with the pranking, but you can imagine where that was going. But Naruto had a bit of information that would change Neji's mind. " Well then, I guess we'll just have to tell Tenten that you have a crush on her."

"Humph, what makes you think she'll believe you Naruto?" Neji questioned.

" Oh, I won't be the one to tell her. He will," Naruto replied, laying a hand on Sai's shoulder. Sai smiled fakely, even though he was still confused.

Neji looked at his options. Sai wasn't known for being a liar. Most likely Tenten would believe him. "What's your plan?"

Naruto grinned, " All you have to do is request a mission from Grandma Tsunade that will keep you away from the village for a week or so."

As they walked away from the Hyuga compound, Naruto looked at Sai and said, " Well, now all we have to do is let all the other villagers into the prank, then it will be complete. So do you have any suggestions for the next one dattebayo?"

Sai thought for a minute before saying, " For a while now I've been a bit annoyed by Guy Sensei and Rock Lee's clothing."

Well then, that's all for chapter one. It doesn't flow as well as it did in my head, but chapter two should be better. Let me know what you think.