Disclaimer: Do not own Naruto

Friends and Hostility

Ino sat on the back bench staring at the hopeless clouds of puff as she waited for Shikamaru to arrive. Suddenly the door bell rang.

"Why Hello Shikamaru, I suppose you are here to pick up Ino, am I right?" said Mrs Yamanaka as she answered the door.

"Yeah that would be nice," said Shikamaru as he slowly pushed himself to lean against the wooden door frame.

"Uh well I suppose I'll get Ino then," she said as she turned to get her daughter.

"Ino… Shikamaru's h-- Ino what are you wearing?" said Mrs Yamanaka astonished.

"Clothes" replied Ino simply "I'll be back around 10, BYE!"

"What did she say?" asked Shikamaru as they entered his silver, leather interiorized Peugeot.

"Oh nothing really, you know just the usual 'What are you wearing?' 'Don't come home too late" mimicked Ino

"How troublesome"

"I know, my mother's a pain always constantly- turn left here- telling me what to do and its just ughhh"

"Mmm hmm" replied Shikamaru for every word Ino said

"Well here we are" said Shikamaru

As Shikamaru exited his car he told Ino to wait, she was quite surprised as she didn't know what to expect. Soon after she realized why he told her to wait, she undid her seat belt and took his hand. As they entered the "Le Grande" restaurant Tenten, Neji, Naruto, Hinata, Sakura and Sasuke had already arrived and reserved a table.

The seated girls stood to greet Ino, as the seated boys stood and shook hands with Shikamaru.

"What took you guys so long?" asked Tenten

"My mum pestering me, you know how she is"

No body spoke; there was a long silence until Naruto broke it by thinking about his stomach.

"Uh well what do you say we order then?" suggested Naruto

"Yeah sure, why not" said Sakura

"Hi, I'm Cameron and I'll be your host for this evening, now what would you like to order, or would you like to order drinks first?"

"Uh drinks would be great thanks" said Neji

"Ok miss"

"Could I please have a uh Diet Coke minimal ice please" said Tenten

"Sparkling Water, thanks" said Neji

"Camomile Tea, please" Sakura said as she turned to talk to Tenten.

"Green Tea, please" ordered Sasuke

"Orange Juice" said Hinata shyly

"Soda water, please" said Naruto

"Creaming soda, um 2 ice cubes please" Ino said politely

"Normal room temperature water, please" said Shikamaru

The waitor came with their beverages, as he handed them out Tenten's phone began to vibrate.

"Hey I'll be right back; I'm just going to go get this ok"

Tenten rose and answered the call.

A few moments later Tenten arrived back inside, with a punishing look on her face

"Hey, you got back just in time" said Neji "What's wrong?"

"Hmm, oh nothing Gai just called to see where we were, Lee's been looking frantically for us and so have the others'"

"But I thought you said that you told Naruto to go tell Kakashi who would tell the others'" said Neji

"Well let's see if he got the message right," said Tenten as she turned to face Naruto.

"Naruto, you know how I asked you to go tell Kakashi to tell the others' that we were going out for lunch this weekend right, well did you tell him" asked Tenten as Naruto looked up at her from his ramen bowl.

"Yes I did tell Kakash- Sensei, why?"

"Because Gai just called up to tell me that Lee and others have been lookin' for us frantically ALL day, so did you tell him or NOT?"

"Um well uh…"

Hey thanks for reading my story and please review it,

Any suggestions will be taken: and sorry guys NO GAY or LESBIAN relationships

Not really my thing.

Yuri Osamu

:P