(A/N: Alright, I just want to make a few things nice and clear before anyone looks further than this chapter.

I have no clue what the Hyuuga's living quarters are like, I have no idea how the Hyuuga clan works and I have no concern as far as the characters personalities go.

Sakura is about sixteen to seventeen, whichever makes you comfortable and Neji is a year older than her. I won't be mentioning Naruto, Sasuke, Lee or anyone unecessary in the fic.

But for your curiosities sake and since this is only an authors note, Sasuke is still hanging around snake boy, Naruto is out on a mission somewhere, Lee is training with Gai and just being...Lee and Sakura is not a hospital nurse! She is a medi nin trained for on the scene emergency healing during missions. She's not stuck in an office all day filing papers on people that have freaky infections or any other strange disease.

Hinata took Sakura's bedding to be cleaned because Sakura had moved from her parents home and recently gotten an apartment of her own. She started off with nearly nothing and worked very hard to fix her apartment up and has yet to get a washer and dryer, Hinata being as kind as she is decided to help her. There you go.

By the way, we are free of fairy tale mode! Now it's just...normal.)

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Sakura panted as she ran up the stone pathway leading to the main entry of the Hyuuga residence.

Coming to a halt before the large double doors, she knocked as hard as she could, aware that the servants might not hear it due to the sheer size of the mansion like complex.

Leaning against one of the doors, she waited for a total of eight seconds before knocking again, and another five before kicking it.

"Hello! Is anyone in there?! Open the door! I need to see Hinata now!"

Close to giving up, she gave the door a farewell kick before it swung open.

"Ahhh!" Losing her balance, Sakura flailed as she came crashing to the ground.

"Sakura!" Hinata rushed over to the fallen girl and helped her up before Sakura grabbed her shoulders roughly.

"Where is it?!"

Furrowing her brows in confusion and wincing at the rough treatment she was recieving, the Byakugan user blinked her pearly white eyes before replying.

"W-where's what?"

"When you took my blankets and stuff for my bed, did you see anything under the pillow?"

Silence

"It was red." She added quickly.

The seconds ticked by before Hinata shook her head.

"No. I-I didn't really b-bother t-to look under the pillow, I just t-took the pillowcase off b-before bundling everything up and putting it in a bag."

Sakura released the Hyuuga heiress before jumping up.

"Where did you take it to be cleaned? The laundrymatt?"

Hinata shook her head again before rising to her feet. "N-no, I brought everything here, I-I was a-afraid to go there."

Green eyes peered curiously into white ones before snapping into 'Go mode'

"Where's your laundry room?"

"...Well, in the- I'll show you" the soft spoken girl replied, already knowing what Sakura meant to do. She was going on a search, for the red thing.

The rosette haired girl followed Hinata into the Hyuuga complex, a smile adorning her face. It was undoubtedly here, and the distance from the main entrance and the laundry area couldn't be all that big.

Within the next thirty or so minutes, all would be well again. Right?

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She should of known.

She really, really should of known.

It wasn't there. Surprise surprise. She and Hinata had asked every servant and maid that worked in that wing of the home and none had seen a red object.

Hinata had been guilt stricken and on the verge of tears before Sakura assured her that everything was alright. It was a lie of course, but the Hyuuga heiress didn't need to know that.

With a sigh Sakura slowly made her way down the street leading to her one bedroom apartment, mourning over the loss of something special to her.

"A-are you sure Sakura?" Hinata asked uncertainly, fidgeting with her fingers and looking downwards at the space between her sandals.

"Of course I am! It's nothing Hinata, don't worry about it, okay?"

After a few seconds the pearl eyed girl nodded and offered a shakey smile.

Sakura smiled back before giving a small wave and walking away.

"Sakura!"

The pink haired girl turned with a questioning look.

"Hm?"

"I-I was wondering...what was it? The thing you w-were looking for?"

Sakura blinked before smiling again.

"Just a red silk ribbon. That's all."

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(A/N: Ya ya, short again. Oh well, next chapter will be mostly about Neji I guess. He'll finally have some sort of interaction (I think) with Sakura.

Remember, I have no guilt if I butchered the characters personalities. Just making sure that's known seeing as I don't want to be flamed over something I've already clarified.

I don't want to be lectured on this or that, I am attempting to make this a side fic. Something for people to read that isn't long and doesn't take a large vocabulary to comprehend. You could even read these chapters during the commercials of your favorite tv show if you wanted (depending on your natural reading speed ofcourse)

Review if you'd like, alert if your curious and ignore if you couldn't care less if you wanted to.)