Author's Note: Hey, sorry for the long wait for this chapter! I was really busy with school! I had so much to do, and right now it's feeling really hard, with all the project and stuff, but I was able to get this chapter done for you guys! And thank you to everyone who reviewed last chapter! I was scared that that chapter might be bad, but I guess you all liked it, and I'm glad! Well, enjoy!

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Ino walked around in circles, her mind reeling when she thought about yesterday's events. She wanted to show what Sakura would do if Naruto didn't sit next to her, but maybe they went a little too far. But it wasn't like she would know Sakura was going to totally explode at the dango shop. Now was the time they needed to move in, and make Sakura feel better, and not so angry as she was yesterday.

"Shika, we need Sakura to feel better, or else she's going to stay pissed at Naruto, and nothing will change," Ino said.

"What do you suppose we do?" he asked, still having a hard time believing yesterday's events. Truly, he felt so bad for Naruto.

"Well, the first thing we need to do is to get Naruto to help us out. He was convinced that this was wrong, and we're forcing Sakura to fall in love with him, which isn't the case," Ino explained. Shikamaru nodded. "What I'm thinking, is we have to show Naruto that she really does love him, so he can help us out."

"So then how do we do it?" he asked.

"We'll go visit Naruto." Ino smiled, very hopeful.

Knock, knock, knock!

Ino tapped her foot impatiently as both Ino and Shikamaru waited for the blonde to open the door.

"My goodness, where is he?" she wondered, getting aggravated by the second. After a minute or so later, the door finally creaked open, but just barely. Naruto was being very reluctant to open the door, leaving just a tiny bit of his face visible to them, while the rest of him was hidden behind the door.

"What do you two want?" he asked lowly, a little annoyed at the two. Not just a little, extremely annoyed an angry. He was very infuriated at them (obviously, they're the entire reason he was not only attacked by girls and dangos, but sent flying as well with combo attacks from the boys). Ino laughed sheepishly.

"Yeah, about that… Look, we're sorry about what happened, but we really need to show you the truth. How we're not just forcing Forehead girl, as you say," Ino explained. Naruto sighed.

"I guess I accept your apology, but that doesn't mean I like what you're doing here," Naruto said, eyeing them sternly. "Especially if it means I look like this-" Naruto revealed his askew bandages wrapped around his head, with a black eye on the right, and some bruises (the Kyuubi managed to heal most of his injuries, but some still needed to be healed, and he tried to wrap the bandages himself, since he didn't want to go to the hospital, and there was no way in hell he would go to Sakura's with everything that happened. So, imagine how that turned out). That's just how bad it was. Ino and Shikamaru looked away, saying a 'yuck!' at the sight of him. Truly, he looked repulsive from everything he went through.

"Hmph. Thanks a lot," Naruto said, sarcastically, glaring at the two. Ino laughed sheepishly, her voice cracking a bit. She felt sorry for him, too.

"Sorry, but you don't look… that bad," she lied, hoping that would make him feel better. She continued to laugh, while Shikamaru just sighed.

"She means you look like a freaking mummy. An ugly one at that." Ino jabbed Shikamaru in the gut, annoyed.

"Shika! Hehehe! What he means is, well… Hey, how about I heal those for you?" she giggled, extremely flustered. Both men sighed.

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"Aw, Naruto… Why aren't you normal?"

"What do you mean normal?" He asked suspiciously.

"What I mean, is why aren't you energetic or hyperactive like you usually are?" she asked.

"Really Ino? Really? Do you have to ask?" He scowled at the girl.

"Take it easy, Naruto. She was just trying to help."

"Hey! I never asked for it! I'm fine with how me and Sakura-chan are now! I mean it!" Naruto crossed his arms in a childish manner, while Ino glared at the boy.

"Liar."

"Am not."

"Are too."

"Am not!"

"Are too!"

"Am not!"

"Are too!"

"Am-"

"Oh my god! Can you two shut your big mouths for a second?" Shikamaru yelled, raising his voice for the first time. These two were going to run a nail right through his head one day. The two scowled at each other, then began making childish faces as well, causing Shikamaru to face palm. "Okay you two babies, why don't we talk about it? Eh?" he asked, causing the two to nod.

"And I'm not a baby, Shika," Ino hmph'd, crossing her arms.

"Yeah, neither am I." Naruto did the same.

"That's hard to tell," Shikamaru retorted, deciding to sit down on the couch as well, sighing and mumbling how troublesome things are starting to get, or how things already getting more like it. "Okay, let's compromise, shall we?" The two nodded.

"Okay, what we're saying, is you really want Sakura, and Sakura really wants you, but Sakura just doesn't want to admit it," Ino tried to explain.

"Sorry, I don't believe it. I don't think so. Besides she's in love with-"

"NO! That's not the case here! Don't even think of saying she loves him anymore! You know damn right she doesn't! She's even said it to you! So I don't want to hear it!" Ino pointed a finger at Naruto, already knowing what he was getting at. She was extremely aggravated, and Naruto was a little scared of her at that moment.

"Well, even if she doesn't love him, she still doesn't love me. I don't care what you think, I have to tell Sakura-chan what-"

"Shintenshin no Jutsu!" Shikamaru's eyes widened.

"Ino! What the hell!?" he yelled, catching the girl's body before it hit the ground.

"Sorry. I was just getting angrier by the second. He was really pissing me off, the dumb ass!" Ino said, in Naruto's body. "But actually, this gives me an idea." Ino smirked. Shikamaru sighed, his troublesome senses tingling already.

"Ino. What are you going to do?" he asked, honestly and truthfully afraid at whatever plan she may be thinking of. Ino, who was now in Ino's body, smirked, moving closer to Shikamaru, who took a step back. Just because it was Ino in Naruto's body, doesn't mean he wanted to go and kiss Naruto.

"Just wait and see. We're running out of time. I don't know how long I can stay in his body," Ino said, already running out the door.

"Ino, wait! You're body!" He sighed, deciding to carry her in order to follow Ino in Naruto's body.

Knock, knock, knock!

"What's with her? She's so slooooooow!" Ino thought, trying to figure out where the girl might be. As the door opened slowly, Sakura came to view. However, her expression showed anger and Ino was confused.

"Big Forehead-girl!" Ino called. Shikamaru's eyes widened. Did Ino forget that she was in Naruto's body? Sakura would kill Naruto if he ever called her the nickname Ino used.

"You… you… Grrr!" She started fuming. First Naruto made her so angry yesterday, and now he's insulting her? Damn, now Naruto was really going to get it. Ino's eyes widened.

"Wait! Forehead girl! Who is the one who calls you that? It's me, Ino!" Ino tried to say, jumping up and dodging a blow.

"I-Ino?" she asked, staring wide eyed. She then narrowed her eyes, glaring at the girl.

"You used your Shintenshin no Jutsu to take control over Naruto's body?" She deadpanned, not at all approving this action. Ino laughed sheepishly.

"Well, what do you think? Do you think Naruto would ever call you that?" Ino asked, smirking.

"No." More like he better not, or she would torture him slow and painfully, having him come to a nice and slow, agonizing death.

"So what's up, Forehead? Anything new happen?" Ino asked, deciding to get her to admit or at least say something dealing with her feelings for Naruto.

Ino in Naruto's body headed over to her room, looking for anything to keep herself occupied. She found some brushes, make up, and other cute stuff on Sakura's desk top, deciding to do Naruto a favor to comb out his hair and make his face look, 'pretty'.

Sakura stared at the boy, feeling very uncomfortable at what Ino was doing in Naruto's body.

"Um. Na-I mean, Ino-pig," Sakura was trying to say, feeling very awkward as she saw her looking through the mirror.

"My god, his hair is so soft!" Ino squealed feeling Naruto's hair. "Want to feel?" Ino moved her head closer to show her, while Sakura raised an eyebrow. Ino smirked.

"I think you're having too much fun," Sakura realized, sighing at Ino's antics. She really wanted to kill the boy, but since it's Ino, she couldn't. And now she knows for sure that, that was not Naruto as he looked through the mirror, examining his face. "Why are you even in his body anyways, Pig?" Sakura asked.

"Well, I heard something along the lines of you getting jealous." Ino smirked, beginning to add some of Sakura's lipstick and mascara on Naruto's face. Sakura stood there, flustered.

"Where did you hear that?" Sakura asked, really wishing it wasn't so obvious or hoping no one knew about what happened recently.

"Well, the entire village heard your rage yesterday when you nearly destroyed the dango shop, not even paying for the damages," Ino said. Sakura blushed, embarrassed.

"You know, Sakura, you should control those emotions of yours. Not only that, you should tell him," Ino decided to say out of the blue, causing Sakura to stare back at her.

"What are you talking about?" she asked.

"Hmm. Listen, Forehead. You should just tell me how you feel. No doubt you were angry yesterday. Just tell me how you felt yesterday. You'll never get passed your jealousy unless you admit what you feel."

"What? No way I'm talking to you like that, Ino-pig." Sakura scowled.

"Oh, but rest assure, I'm Ino, Forehead girl. You tell me everything. Just tell Ino your feelings about yesterday." Ino turned and stared Sakura straight in the eye. Ino moved closer, and Sakura blushed, feeling Naruto's piercing blue eyes reading her. She moved closer, and Sakura began freaking out, closing her eyes and pushing her away.

"No way! Not in Naruto's body." Sakura blushed, looking away from the blue eyes. Ino grabbed her chin, forcing her to stare into the cerulean pools, as though she was entrancing her.

"Forehead, tell me!" Ino demanded, biting her lips to keep hold of his body for a while longer. Just a little longer. It does take a lot of chakra to stay in a body for so long. This has to be the longest she's been in a body, so she was feeling very exhausted. Sakura sighed, brushing Naruto's hand away.

"You won't quit until I tell you, right?" Sakura asked, which caused Naruto's head to nod furiously, with a smile on his face. Sakura breathed in, about to talk. Ino quickly went back to her body, wanting Naruto to hear Sakura's true feelings, with the girl being honest for once. "Okay, well, yesterday… was weird. I just wanted to punch Naruto and strangle him. It's like he forgot all about me. No, he did forget all about me. He didn't even notice me, and we were the ones who were suppose to be going out together with Sai. Temari, Hinata, and Tenten weren't even suppose to be there. For some reason, they've been really pissing me off lately. I mean, they never even liked Naruto in that way, which is strange, because they started to act like that just recently. But really, I guess I'm just used to Naruto always… fawning over me, you know? I don't like that they're so into him," she confessed. Sakura didn't know how else to describe it.

"R-really?" he asked, his eyes widening. Sakura nodded, looking up to her ceiling, not wanting to meet his gaze even though she thought it was 'Ino'.

"Y-yeah. There, are you happy now, Ino-pig? Hey, Ino. Do me a favor and don't tell anyone, got that? I know how you love to gossip," Sakura said. "I'm going to go make me some tea, did you want some?" she asked, Naruto giving a small nod. While Sakura left, Naruto stared at the back of her until she was gone completely. Once he shook his head out of wonderment, he found four pairs of hands holding him back.

"Naruto," Ino whispered. "Just stay quiet and come with us, got that?" Naruto gave a small nod, while they dragged him out the window. Sakura came in, bringing the tea.

"Hey, Ino-pig, I was wondering-" she started, but stopped when she noticed no one was there. She raised an eyebrow when she saw the window was open, the wind blowing the light rose pink curtains. "Ino-pig?"

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Ino wiped a bit of sweat on her forehead.

"Now that was a close one. So, do you believe me that she can possibly have feelings for you? After all, she's showing signs of jealousy, and you know it. She also admitted that she actually liked it when you're with her, and must wish that you could ask her out on dates too if she missed you fawning over here." Ino giggled, beginning to hug Shikamaru (more like strangling him with the joy she was in). Once she let go (with the Nara holding his throat in agony), she stared at Naruto straight in the eyes. "So, are you going to help us reveal her feelings or not?" she asked. She put her hand in the center of the three. When neither put their hands on top of hers, she stared back at Shikamaru.

"Shika," she demanded. When he didn't follow in suit, she began to glare.

"This is getting way to troublesome for my liking," he said with a soft voice, almost like he was about to lose his voice (Ino can give powerful hugs you know). Ino glared, grabbing his hand and putting it on top of hers.

"Yeah, Shika's in!" She smiled, causing him to give an exhausted sigh. Ino stared at the blond haired boy. Naruto gave a nod, hesitantly adding his hand in.

"Okay, I'm in then," he finally agreed, knowing now that he does in fact, have a chance with her.

"This is troublesome." Shikamaru sighed, not even referring to adding Naruto to their plans, but… Naruto didn't even realize...

Naruto's face not only had blush and mascara, but lipstick as well.

Truly troublesome.

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Author's Note: Edited on 1-4-2017 for grammar and spelling mistakes. So Naruto's in on the plan! I hope you liked it! Still truly sorry about the delay! The next chapter is a question.

Next chapter: If your best guy friend is feeling down, you...

Crossing my fingers and hoping this chapter doesn't sound stupid. By you guys! Till Next Time!