Hey! Here's the second chapter! Hope you like!


"Shut up, Tenten! You don't know what you're talking about!" Ino slapped Tenten on the arm as they sat in the middle of Hinata's floor. It was 1 o'clock in the morning and none of the girls were tired. That may have had something to do with there seventeen year old metabolisms or the caffeine in their veins.

"Oh yes I do!" Tenten giggled. "You know it!" Hinata and Sakura were giggling along with Tenten as Ino sat there pouting.

"You like Shikamaru, and you know it!" Sakura chuckled as Ino blushed.

"Hey!" Tenten suddenly shouted. Everyone turned to look at her with confusion on their faces.

"What is it, Tenten?" Hinata asked. Ever since the four of them had become even closer friends, the first task of friendship they had accomplished was to cure Hinata of her stuttering. Alas, it didn't work all the way through. Now, Hinata only stutters around people she likes or people she isn't close to. Like Naruto or Sasuke.

"Where's the bathroom?" Tenten asked sheepishly, sweat dropping.

"Uh…Down the hall, turn the corner and it's the last door." Hinata said. Tenten got up and walked out with out another word.

Tenten walked down the hall, wrapped up in her own thoughts. I never thought a sleepover would be so much fun… I mean, I know we've had some before, but not in a while, I-

WHAM!

"Ouch!" Tenten yelped as she fell to the floor, having run face-first into someone or something while turning the corner.

"Geez, troublesome…" She heard a male voice say. She looked up from her position and saw Shikamaru.

"Shikamaru? What in the world are you doing at Hinata's house at one in the morning?" Tenten asked incredulously as she got up and brushed herself off.

"Neji and I just got back from a mission…" Shikamaru said, looking tired.

"And…?" Tenten waited for him to continue.

"I was tired and my house is far away so Neji offered me to stay here." Shikamaru finished. He seemed to just realize he was talking too, however, because he looked at her closely. "What about you? What are you doing here?"

"Me? Oh, Ino, Sakura, Hinata, and I are having a sleepover…" Tenten said.

"A sleepover?" Shikamaru asked, confused, as if he'd never heard the word.

"Yeah, but uh…I gotta go to the bathroom. So, um…bye." Tenten said, already walking away.

She reached the bathroom and did her business. Man…I am so tired, she thought as she walked back down the hall. All the lights had been turned off, so she had absolutely no idea where she was going. She thought she turned a corner and into Hinata's room, but she was wrong. Where she really was, but didn't know, was in a room. Not just any room, but a room with a person in it.

She stumbled, half-blind until she found a bed near a wall. I guess they're already sleeping. Geez, how long was I in there? Well, I am pretty tired. I guess I will just go to bed, too. I did call the bed, though, so no one should be in it, but whatever.

Tenten climbed in the bed with person in it (that she thought was Ino), and fell asleep.

-Meanwhile-

"Geez, where's Tenten? She's been in the bathroom for a long time…" Hinata asked, getting worried.

"Maybe she fell in," Ino giggled.

"Or constipated," Sakura added, also giggling.

"I'm serious, you guys." Hinata gave them an exasperated look, but then she got a BRILLIANT idea. "Let's go scare her when she comes out!"

Ino and Sakura agreed immediately and they all left the room quickly, Hinata their guide. But when they reached the door to the bathroom, it was open and dark.

"Wha-? Where is she?" Ino asked, disappointed. She had obviously been looking forward to scaring the pants off of Tenten.

"Maybe she did fall in…" Sakura asked, surprised.

"Geez, Sakura, and I thought you were smart…" Ino said smacking her forehead.

"Maybe she's in that room," Sakura said, pointing to the room Tenten was in.

"No, she's not in that room. That's Neji's room," Hinata sighed.

Sakura suddenly gasped. "What if…Neji seduced her when she walked out of the bathroom and she went in there with him?"

"NO! Neji would never do that!" Hinata said. "Don't go in that room…" She warned.

Too late, though. Ino was already walking into the room, Sakura closely behind. Hinata followed them, trying to stop them.

"Guys, if he catches you-" Hinata started, but stopped when Ino flipped the light switch.

What she saw wasn't Neji, but Tenten and…

"SHIKAMARU?! WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING IN BED WITH TENTEN?!" Ino screamed, running over and hitting him on the head with a pillow.

"OW! What the heck?" Shikamaru woke up with a start, rubbing his head. Tenten drearily woke up from all the screaming.

"What's going on?" She asked, rubbing her eyes that were trying to adjust to the now bright light. She turned her head to the source of the noise and found Shikamaru laying next to her.

"What the-? Shikamaru? Why are you in my bed? What are guys doing?" Tenten asked, confusion plain on her face.

"You're in my bed! Neji gave me his room to sleep in for the night!" Shikamaru practically yelled.

"So…Why am I in here?" Tenten asked. Ino had finally stopped hitting Shikamaru, and Sakura and Hinata were listening with interested faces.

"I don't know! I just woke up from Ino hitting me, and you're laying in the same bed as me. Geez, this is troublesome. I'm going to bed…again. Goodnight," and just like that, he fell asleep.

Slowly, Tenten got up from the bed and the four of them walked out wordlessly. When they reached Hinata's room again, they were still silent. Finally, Ino couldn't take it anymore.

"So…" Ino started, and everyone turned to look at her. "What exactly happened?"

"It seems as if when I got back from the bathroom I thought I turned the corner but I ended up going into Neji's room where Shikamaru was and I fell asleep there. It was an accident, I promise." Tenten managed to explain in one breath.

"Really? That's a relief. Don't you think so, Sakura?" Ino breathed, turning to Sakura. "Sakura?" Ino asked looking at her closely. She was looking down sadly, her eyes shaded.

"What's wrong?" Hinata asked concernedly for her friend, putting her hand on her shoulder.

A single tear fell down Sakura's cheek and then she started giggling. Everyone looked at each other with the same expression on their face: What. The. Heck?

Sakura looked up and started laughing some more. "How old are we? We're seventeen, right?" she asked, and everyone nodded, fearing for Sakura's sanity. "You know what I just realized? We're…alone." Sakura said, and she stopped laughing for a quick second before giggling ridiculously again. "How stupid is that? We're seventeen, yet we've never been in love or had a boyfriend…"

Ino, Tenten, and Hinata's eyes all got wide as they realized she was right. Ino's eyes went shaded over again, and Tenten just got annoyed and said a faint 'humph'. Hinata blushed fiercely and looked down.

"B-but you k-know why, Sakura. We just…don't have time anymore. Plus, it's not completely our fault. If anything, it's the boy's fault. They are the one's who haven't even thought about girls yet. If they don't think about us, then there's no point for us to even keep going…" Hinata consoled the rest of them, and their expressions lit up a little, but they were still depressed.

An hour later, the girls were still up. No one was talking or even moving, yet they weren't asleep. Hinata had retrieved some ice cream and cookie dough from the freezer, and she and Ino were eating it. Sakura and Tenten were hooked on a chick flick that was playing on Hinata's mini-TV.

"Ugh…Guys, I'm sorry for bringing you all down. This night could've been fun if I hadn't of pointed those things out…" Sakura rubbed her temples.

"No, it's okay, Sakura. You were right," Hinata added, taking a bite of chocolate ice cream.

"Yeah, it's not completely our fault that we can't find love. We can't find it if no one else is looking, like boys," Sakura consoled herself, and the rest nodded.

What the girls didn't realize was that Neji had been listening in on their conversation when he had walked back from the bathroom.

"…we can't find love. We can't find it if no one else is looking, like boys…" He heard her say, and his eyes got wide.

Love…?


I like this chapter. Hehe. Don't worry, the Christmas stuff will be coming in the next chapter. All i have to do is type it... T.T'