A/N: The time setting is for the start of this fic is just about halfway through the search for Tsunade Arc. Setting is Konoha.

This is the first fanfic I've written in years. I will post new chapters has they are written and typed.

This is TentenxOC. Maybe some Lemon later on. Haven't decided yet. :) Though I may change it later on... ;-)

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto and I am writing this solely out of appreciation and love for Mr. Kishimoto's work.

(And besides if I did... well suffice to say I am a pervert) :X

Enjoy!

"Choji! Can you lay off the food for once!?! I would like to have some to!" screamed Ino Yamanaka to her teammate.

Shikamaru just sighed at the familiar scene that happened all too often at the Bar-B-Que.

Thus he wasn't prepared when he looked out the window to see a sight so startling that he choked on a piece of meat.

Noticing his best friend's distress, Choji rushed to help him as Ino jumped up to see what had caused the incident. Her eyes grew wide at the sight before her.

"I think Naruto has finally lost it" she said as the figure proceeded past.

Now, normally the number one hyperactive ninja just walking down the street isn't a sight that causes too much excitement. But today he seemed just slightly off.

Shino waited outside the weapon shop. Hinata had gone in to pick up some new kunai as they went to meet Kiba at the training grounds.

Shino sat calmly, observing his surroundings and enjoying the feeling of his little friends crawling beneath his skin.

Now, if Shino's face wasn't covered, those around him would have noticed a very un-Shino like expression come over his face.

"Shino-kun, I got everything I needed." Hinata said quietly as she exited the shop.

"Hinata, has it seemed that, at all as of late, that Naruto has lost his mind?"

Blushing at her "secret" loves name, Hinata responded meekly; "Not that I've noticed…HCK!" She stopped with a rather un-Hinata like sound as she followed Shino's gaze, only to stop wide-eyed at the sight of what appeared to be Naruto's strange manner of dress.

Now, normally Naruto's outfit is strange enough, seeing as how the rambunctious ninja wears orange and blue. But this time he was wearing what appeared to be black ninja shoes, black cargo shorts, black t-shirt, black headband and with his left arm wrapped in white bandages.

It looked, oddly enough, like he was seriously attempting to emulate Sasuke.

"Hinata, you're forgetting to blush…" Shino commented. To which she seemed too shocked to notice.

"Shino! Hinata! What's taking so…" The exuberant Kiba stopped in his tracks at the look on his female teammate's face. Looking with raised eyebrows at Shino, all Shino could do was point.

Looking in the direction Shino indicated, Kiba's jaw dropped and his eyes seemed to bug out. Swallowing hard, he looked to his teammates.

"Hinata, you're not blushing" were the only words he could manage to croak out.

Shaking his head, Kiba summoned back his senses and vocabulary.

"Well, I suppose I'll go find out what the hell is going on" he proclaimed as he walked towards the strangely dressed figure.

"OI! NARUTO!!! What the hell are you wearing!?!"

At the sound of Kiba's yell, Hinata finally snapped out of her shock and proceeded to blush furiously.

"HEY! MORON! I'm talking to you!" Kiba yelled as he closed in, only to come to a dead stop a few feet away.

*SNIFF* *SNIFF*

The figure dressed in black turned with a disturbed, questioning look on his face.

"Excuse me… Are you… sniffing me?"

"Sorry, man… Thought you were… someone else…"

Kiba started backing away at the dangerous look in the strangely-clad stranger's eyes, only to have the person turn and continue walking.

"Uh guys… that wasn't Naruto…" To which Akamaru stuck his head out of Kiba's jacket to yip his agreement.

"Are you sure?" Shino asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yep. He definitely looks like Naruto, but the nose doesn't lie."

"ARF!"

"And… I dunno… there was something strange about him…" Kiba added.

"Aa-nd, isn't N-N-Naruto-kun out training w-with Jiraya-sama?" Hinata squeaked out as she fought to regain her composure while simultaneously chiding herself for blushing over a non-Naruto.

"Regardless of the fact that they could have returned, I think this bears further investigation." Shino commented to his teammates.

As they all turned to look, they realized that the pseudo-Naruto was nowhere in sight. After a small search that dead-ended just into an alleyway, they decided to keep a look out for him, but return to their training.

Besides, with the heightened security, no one who was unauthorized could get in, right?