OMFG I'm so sorry for the late update! I really do have absolutely NO excuses, except for I simply FORGOT! I finished my other fic: That Damn Kisuke, so if you're a Bleach YoruichiXKisuke fan, have a read!

I own Naruto, just like I own Star Wars and George Lucas works for me. Note the sarcasm.


Tenten and Hinata were sitting quietly in their room.

"Would y-you l-like me t-to w-wrap a bandage a-around your stomach, T-Tenten?" Hinata offered when she saw Tenten wincing as she twisted her stomach.

"Uh, yeah thanks." Tenten smiled thankfully. "But where are you going to get the bandage from?"

"I-I always k-k-keep a f-first a-aid kit in m-my bag." Hinata walked over to her small bag and took out a little box. She walked back over to Tenten, taking out a bandage and clip. "L-lift u-u-up your sh-shirt." Tenten obeyed and Hinata grimaced at the large yellow and purple bruise.

"Do you know where Sakura and Ino are?" Tenten asked as Hinata wrapped the bandage around her.

"I th-think they w-were g-g-going t-to get f-food." Hinata answered. "I-I don't know i-if i-it's going t-t-to work though." Hinata admitted.

"Ino always was a good actor." Tenten smiled. "Do you remember that time she managed to convince one of the guards at the zoo that the tiger had gotten loose?" They giggled.

"D-Do you e-even remember h-how we got t-to the zoo?" Hinata laughed.

"Oh yeah! She told our old master that we needed to get some groceries, instead we went to the zoo." Tenten laughed as well. "She acted so scared and worried. The guard went spaz and made everyone leave the zoo, we were long gone before he realized the tiger was safe and sound in his cage."

Hinata giggled and finished wrapping the bandage around Tenten.

"Thanks, Hina." Tenten pulled her shirt back down.

"N-no problem."

"We really have to work on that." Tenten commented.

"W-what?"

"That."

"S-s-saying 'what'?"

"No, the stuttering. Why do you stutter anyways?" Tenten asked, leaning on Hinata's bed.

"I-I d-don't know, m-maybe I'm j-j-just n-nervous-"

Tenten slapped her across the face. Hinata gaped at her, clutching her stinging cheek with one hand.

"Don't stutter." She commanded.

"B-But T-Tenten- EEK!" She dodged another slap.

"I don't want to be cruel, Hinata. But at least limit it to two every time you talk." Tenten said softly.

"I guess this is th-the o-only way." Hinata sighed. "I wanted t-to s-stop the stuttering l-long ago, I just didn't know how."

"I wont slap you anymore. And I'm sorry about that." Tenten apologized. "And just after you helped me too! God I'm so sorry!"

"I-It's okay." Hinata smiled at her. "It didn't h-h-hurt too b-bad."

Suddenly, the door swung open. Tenten and Hinata turned and gaped at the sight before them.

"Ah, Ino. You never were one to disappoint." Tenten commented. Ino was standing there, grinning like a maniac, holding a massive basket FULL of fresh food.

"She used her brilliant lying skills to get it." Sakura pushed Ino into the room and closed the door behind them.

"I'd rather call it: Brilliant acting skills." Ino glared at Sakura.

"Same thing." Sakura rolled her eyes. "Hey, Tenten?"

"Yes?"

"...Did you put on a few pounds in the last 24 hours?"

"Wait, WHAT?" Tenten screeched.

"Wait! I didn't mean it like that! Well, maybe I did, but-"

"She's t-talking a-about the bandage." Hinata provided.

"Bandage?" Sakura questioned, taking the basket off Ino and putting it on her bed.

"Oh...Yeah Hinata wrapped a bandage around my stomach for me. I don't know what it does though." Tenten shrugged.

"It just makes it more comfortable." Sakura commented.

"Was it all gooey and bruisey?" Ino asked Hinata.

"It was p-purple and yellow."

"Ew...Yellow does not match your skin tone, Tennie." Ino scrunched up her pretty face in disgust.

"It's nice to know that you don't care that I'm in pain, just that the yellow doesn't match my skin tone." Tenten glared slightly at her.

"Pain is beauty." Ino shrugged lightly and Tenten rolled her eyes. "Well, in this case, pain was definitely NOT beauty."

"Does this clock have an alarm?" Sakura searched the clock.

"We can just take turns at sleeping and staying up." Tenten suggested.

"That could w-w-work." Hinata nodded in agreement.

"The time now is... 8.00." Sakura checked. "We should probably get the sleep while we can."

"Good idea." Ino flopped down onto her bed and fell asleep immediately, snoring extremely loudly.

"I guess Ino isn't staying up first." Sakura giggled. "I'll go first, and wake Ino up next, probably in an hour or so. Since she's already asleep." Hinata and Tenten nodded. "Nighty-night."

"G'night."

"Goodnight."

"Oh, and Sakura?" Tenten called out to her quietly from under the covers of her blanket.

"Hmm?"

"Tell Ino that if she ever calls me 'Tennie' again, I will chop off all her long blond hair while she sleeps."

"...Right."

After many rotations, it finally came to 1.00am.

"Man." Ino yawned when Sakura woke her up. "I'm tired."

"Well you shouldn't be, you got the most sleep." Sakura grumbled, she ended up being the only on to do two rounds. And she was NOT happy about it.

"Just because I got the most sleep, doesn't mean that I'm not tired." Ino growled back. Sakura frowned and took out her flashlight.

"Ha!" She shined it in Ino's tired eyes. A/N: You know when you wake up in the morning, and you turn on the light and it like blinds you? Well imagine that 10 times worse... Yeah Sakura's definitely NOT happy.

"AHHH!" Ino jumped away from her and hid her face under the covers. "I'M BLIND!"

"Keep it down Ino!" Tenten hissed quietly as she staggered out of bed, Hinata came out rubbing her eyes and yawning loudly. "This whole scheme will be messed up if you can't shut your mouth."

"We should grab our things." Sakura went over to her already packed bags. "Remember, when we get down these stairs, we have to be SUPER quiet." She reminded them. Ino had taken her head out from underneath the covers and had changed into warmer clothes. It was cold outside.

"Sh-should we take a-anything else?" Hinata asked when they had all their bags in their hands, Tenten was carrying the basket.

"Weeeell..." Ino trailed off, smirking slightly.

"What, Pig." Sakura said warily, not trusting the evil smirk of doom.

"There was that really nice perfume in that Karin girls room..."

"You went in her room?" Tenten gasped, Hinata gasped as well. Going into Karin's room without permission was a death wish.

"I was bored!" Ino defended. "But if we're gonna get new identities, we should have some well needed essentials."

"Perfume?" Tenten asked

"It is well needed."

"H-How are y-you going to get i-i-it?" Hinata asked.

"I already have." Ino withdrew the perfume from her bag.

"You stole it?" Sakura's eyes widened.

"...Duh." Ino deadpanned.

"But, Ino! You can't just steal things from someones room! It's illegal!" Sakura protested.

"She's gone now." Ino shrugged.

"Let's just go." Tenten rolled her eyes. The others nodded and she opened the door quietly, checking if anyone was there, she nodded as she saw no-one coming. She closed the door behind them as they came out. They tip-toed down the stairs, and Hinata cringed when one of them creaked slightly when she stepped on it.

They could hear a voice come from one of the guest rooms. Sakura told them all to be quiet as they tried to hear what the voice was saying.

"Yes Daddy, I'm in their house." They recognized it as Karin's voice.

-Dad talking- A/N: They can't actually hear what he's saying, they can just hear a voice.

"I know, Daddy. That's what I'm trying to do."

-Dad talking-

"You promise this will get Sasuke-kun to marry me? Really?" Sakura and Ino smirked at each other. As if.

-Dad talking-

"Yes, I did take pictures of the business folders."

-Dad talking-

"Daddy, I can handle it. Sasuke is preoccupied with his stupid friends, and Itachi is antisocial and doesn't come out of his room, except to go to the tailor. Fugaku is away on a business trip, and Mikoto is always busy."

Tenten dragged them away from the door and outside into the garden. "She's plotting against the Uchiha's." She hissed.

"Not my problem." Ino checked her nails.

"I'm sorry Tenten, but I agree with Ino. This isn't any of our business, well, not any more." Sakura explained. "We should go before we get caught."

"Fine." Tenten sighed.

They ran softly over to the front gates at the road and halted immediately.

"Damn! I didn't realize they had guards at the gates!" Sakura hissed as the spotted two men standing on each side of the huge gate. "This makes things complicated."

"We can just climb over the wall at another part of the garden, but we'll need them to be distracted." Tenten said, crouching down. "Sakura, could you use your super human strength to throw some rocks wave over in the opposite direction?"

"Sure."

"Hinata can boost us over the wall, then Sakura can boost her and then she can climb over by herself. I have no uper body strength at the moment." Tenten admitted as she saw Sakura gather up some pebble sized rocks. "Just try not to hit them on the head, okay?"

"I'll try." Sakura grinned as the other three headed down to a different part of the wall.

Once Hinata had boosted Tenten and Ino over, they waited until she and Sakura came.

"Come on, Sakura." Ino hissed. Hinata had thrown over their bags, and Ino had turned around on the top of the wall to get the food and pass it down to Tenten. "I'm going to need a manicure after this."

"Since when did you ever get manicures?" Tenten leaned against the wall.

"Now's a good time to start." Ino copied Tenten's gesture.

Suddenly Hinata came over the wall, followed by Sakura.

"Run." Sakura puffed. "I think they saw me. Run, run, RUN!" Ino picked up the basket and Tenten handed everyone their bags, they sprinted down the road.

The had run for a kilometer and moved slightly into the forest beside the road.

"Man...I'm...puffed out." Ino gasped for breath as she sat down on a log. "I...should really...work out more." She tried to get her breath back. "Are...you alright...Tenten?"

"I'm fine." Tenten sat down next to her, only a little out of breath. "My stomach only hurts if I twist, and with this bandage, it's not physically possible."

"We should try to find a town with a small inn where no-one ever goes." Sakura also sat down on the log, leaving Hinata the only one standing.

"Where would we find that?"

"There w-was a s-small village o-on the way here." Hinata supplied, they all turned to her. "I was only a-a minutes d-drive from the Uchiha p-p-palace."

"That's about a ten minute walk from here." Ino groaned.

"It's about as close as we can get." Sakura said admittedly.

"It was only a straight road when we were driving, for like half an hour." Tenten said thoughtfully. "So we can't miss it."

"Let's just hope t-there's an i-i-inn." Hinata hoped.

"We all do." Ino growled.


I know some of you are wondering: "What about the romance with the guys?" Well I can assure you it WILL happen, I have something awesome planned, it's just taking a while to happen. I'm sorry if the story is not going how you wanted it to, but that's just the way it is.

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