Chapter 9: Thoughts of Weddings - Edited Version

They sat down on the table for 6 they placed Sasuke and Naruto on the ends. Sakura on Sasuke's right, and Hinata sitting next to Sakura on Naruto's left and across from them Kaydin and Ino.

"So Hinata where did you and Naruto come back from it wasn't in the direction of either of your houses." Ino pointed out.

"Hinata and I were talking out in the forest."

"That's good that you guys were talking." Sakura said to Hinata and Naruto to her left.

"Thanks for the support Sakura." Hinata said shyly.

"You are welcome, you guys have always supported me at everything, and I plan to do the same with you." Sakura reminded them.

Ino suddenly started laughing. Sasuke looked at her who was diagonal from him on Naruto's right. Naruto too was confused. "Care to fill us in on what is so funny?" Sasuke wanted to know, well not wanted more like was just curious to know.

"I find it funny that we're all going to get married soon, and none of us have actually kissed the person we are going to marry. I find that also very strange." Ino answered. Sakura blushed furiously and Sasuke looked at the ceiling. "Sakura? Sasuke? When did this happen?"

"Twenty minutes ago maybe, before Naruto bothered us." Sasuke informed still acting cool while Sakura was still blushing furiously.

"Don't want to know." Ino informed them.

"Usually in these marriage ceremonies in the last couple of years most girls hadn't ever kissed a boy until her wedding day, it's pretty normal for girls that are engaged to not even kiss their wife until their honeymoon. My mom said that." Hinata informed that.

"What kind of crazy custom is that?" Naruto yelled. "If I want to kiss Hinata then I'm going to." He leaned over and kissed Hinata. Hinata was silent and then she blushed furiously. Now they had to highly blushing females at their table. Sasuke's face surfaced a smirk and Naruto smiled broadly. Kaydin thought of something in his own twisted mind.

"This sounds fun!" Kaydin informed everyone. He leaned over, took Ino's face in his hands, and kissed her. Ino was silent for the first time, and now all girls were blushing furiously.

"Yep, hanging out with our fiancées is fun, especially when we can easily make them blush." Sasuke pointed.

"This is the funniest thing, and the girls weren't happy about this. I see no reason, they're quite and they're engaged. I don't see the big problem with this, do you Sasuke, Naruto?" Kaydin said leaning back and putting his arm around Ino comforting her in her embarrassing dilemma.

"Nope, making Hinata blush is something I've found myself able to do very easily, if I look at her she blushes, at first I tried to figure out why she was blushing, but they I did and now it's so cute." Hinata blushed even more as Naruto complimented her more, and then started staring at her.

"I just thought of something, none of our guardians no about this." Kaydin avoided the word parent to avoid upsetting Sasuke, and Naruto.

"Kakashi knows and he was there and he's in charge of me." Naruto announced.

"I thought your parents knew Kaydin." Sasuke asked.

"No, they've been out all day with Sakura's parents. They trusted me to make my own decision but it turned out in the end it was Kakashi who paired us up." Ino smacked him hard on the head. Sasuke smirked the others were laughing.

"Kakashi didn't pair us up Kaydin, the cards did but they were written by the Hokage, so the Hokage did it." Ino corrected him but also gave the in correct response.

"Ino, it wasn't the Hokage who paired us up either, it was our own hearts he just was the only one who wasn't afraid of our reactions. He saw that two people loved each other but were too nervous to decide themselves so he made the card so they'd match up and realize it." Sakura explained.

"Sakura is right, our own hearts made the cards, and Tsunade-sama just wrote it down on paper and told us to find the person we love except not in those exact words." Hinata re-explained.

"It's amazing how oblivious some people are to things in plain sight." Sasuke said. Everyone looked at him.

"In all fair truth Sasuke, you were the most oblivious one of us all, because Sakura was always freely showing her feelings toward you, and you knew you liked her but your mind was doubting, I think that fits the definition of oblivious very well." Hinata said shyly.

"Your point; I was including myself in that group." Sasuke answered.

"She got you bad Sasuke, admit it." Naruto said.

"Yeah, so she did, let's not make this a big deal though." Sasuke answered.

"What's your favorite time of year Hinata?" Ino asked out of the blue.

"I don't really have a favorite time of year, I like spring though, and it's very pretty." Naruto made a mental note of that, 'she likes spring'. None of the girls' fiancé's was very knowledgeable about the girls except maybe Sasuke, slightly.

The girls knew everything there was to know about the boy though, with exception of Ino in Kaydin. Kaydin only said that his life was traveling, training and fighting, and he enjoyed sleeping in a tree, favorite color was green which his all green wardrobe spoke to Ino and he liked spring because of the nice weather and it made a beautiful view when in a tree. Ino was not very open, but she seemed to be with Kaydin, no secrets were kept from him. Then again, he still didn't know very much about her.

When it came to Hinata, Naruto was a focus of her life. Making sure, he was okay, taking care of him, being there for him when he fell down and hurt himself. She knew his life story better than he did, she could have written his biography.

When it came to biographies on people, smarty girl Sakura was the girl who knew Sasuke best. She did spend all her time obsessing about him, and she knew him very well. She could write his life story, as well. Sasuke was an open book when it came to his life story, and Sakura seemed to be a very smart girl, and she was one of them who could read his book.

Naruto wasn't very familiar with Hinata and her life. He had begun to learn about how Neji was her cousin, which he knew of course. He didn't know how much Neji wanted to hurt her, but he would die if anyone in the family died without a fighting chance so it would be hard to do. Naruto knew that she had family problems that though see was the oldest. She was not the best fighter, but in years since Hinata's last fight with her sister she had became strong, her sister didn't even have her Byakugan yet, and according to her father wouldn't both of his daughters had weak family blood so their family traits were tainted. According to Naruto, her past was of little importance once he could make her a bit more comfortable with who she is. He knew a bit about the Hyuuga Clan conflict from Neji however.

Sasuke was a loss cause when it came to girls, sure his looks had got him plenty of girls in the past with his name marking death to anyone near him only 3 girls would stay around him, all three of them being at this table. Hinata was scared to death of him, and Ino had lost her obsession over him when he left, and hurt Sakura's heart but Sasuke did know one thing was for sure. Sakura sure loved him, and he loved her. Sasuke knew her parents, that she spent most of her life alone, studying, becoming stronger, very much like him, so siblings, favorite season, spring; name means, cherry blossom of spring. Sakura was a solid lock when it came to her life, as she said, "I don't care about my past and neither should you. I was left alone my whole life, studied, obsessed over you and then here I am today, not very exciting, well there was training with Tsunade, and Kakashi with Naruto but other than that, nothing." Sasuke seemed to think for that boring of life, she was hiding something but Ino reported the same thing when asked, "She was teased a lot but I took care of her. Her life is simple. What she said was right." Sasuke liked Sakura and he knew her very well out of the other guys he knew his girl the best, as did his girl know him.

"So what are your plans for the wedding Ino?" Hinata asked, trying her best not to be shy and start a conversation.

Ino looked at Kaydin and he shrugged. "I don't know we haven't made any yet; what about you Sakura. You and Sasuke must have made plans."

"No not really Ino, we were busy." Sakura answered being quite silent, as usual.

"Well then we all better think about it, I mean we're all getting married and none of us have plans." Kaydin responded.

"I have a suggestion, but it might sound stupid." Hinata said, feeling down. Naruto leaned over and put his arm around her.

"Come on Hinata, we have nothing planned so nothing sounds stupid at this point, and you always have great ideas." Naruto said cheering her on.

"Well since we're all friends and all, maybe we should all have a wedding together, that way it will be better for all of us being very close and all." Hinata said feeling ashamed she said it. Naruto looked at the ceiling and thought about it. "I knew it was a horrible idea."

"Shhh, Hinata. I'm thinking." Naruto said causing her to frown then he jumped up everyone watching him. "She's right it's perfect we can have it in the spring of next year since none of us will be 16 by then we have to wait a year but a nice spring wedding for all of us sounds great." Naruto yelled. "You are brilliant Hinata! I'm sorry I told you to be quiet I was imagining." She blushed.

"I'd love to have a wedding with you guys, especially in spring that would be amazing. Wouldn't it Sasuke?" Sakura asked.

"Whatever makes you happy Sakura," He said very dryly but Sakura was happy that he was agreeing with everything.

"I'd simply love a spring wedding too, I mean with everyone together it would be amazing, and seeing that we're all so close it's the perfect thing. Hinata you are a genius how do you think of these things?" Ino said happily.

"I just do when I'm quiet." Hinata replied smiling.

"You should try that Ino, I'm sure you could figure out why your mind transfer jutsu won't work." Kaydin suggested. That got everyone's attention.

"Ino, your mind transfer jutsu isn't working?" Sakura asked.

"No, I tried it during practice against Kaydin, when I had him tied against a tree and am hard as I tried it wouldn't work. I've been trying to figure out why for the last few days now."

"Maybe you were too tired, or your chakra was too low." Sasuke suggested.

"That makes sense but it was mid day and I had just been sitting around all day and it was so easy to tie him down, did it with two kunai and a shuriken or two."

"Maybe it was something simple like congestion in your chakra flow so it didn't get to your hand and head; it's a rare condition but sometimes it happens in some people. I'd check with Tsunade if I was you." Sakura suggested.

"Good idea Sakura." Ino thanked her. "But Kaydin what do you think about a spring wedding with all of us?"

"Well I definitely like trees, especially trees in spring and I like being with you guys, and I like marrying Ino so put all of those things together sounds great." Kaydin said.

"See Hinata, we would have thought about ever putting all our weddings together if it wasn't for you. I'm so glad I have you here, I can't do anything without you." Naruto said hugging her as if, if he let go he'd die. Hinata was blushing and Sakura laughed.

"What is it Sakura, care to share your thoughts with us?" Sasuke asked her, she nodded.

"If blushing took up chakra Hinata would be dead by now, or in the hospital everyday." Sakura said sharing her thoughts.

"That's horrible. I send her to the hospital everyday. I'm so sorry Hinata, I didn't mean to; forgive me." Naruto said so apologetically. Hinata looked at everyone who was just waiting a few more seconds to laugh so they could enjoy Naruto's stupidity first. Then finally, Ino nodded for Hinata to help him out.

"Naruto, I'm not in the hospital everyday, and if I was it wouldn't be your fault. Sakura was just being funny and making a joke. You didn't do anything wrong, I'm fine. Wouldn't I be in the hospital now since I blushed?" Hinata said breaking the news to him gently.

"Dobe Baka." Sasuke muttered. Sakura elbowed Sasuke and he glared back.

"Trust me, if I was Hinata I would have smacked him over twenty times but Hinata has her way and we have ours, hers is much better." Sakura whispered to Sasuke.

"I like mine better." Sasuke mumbled and Sakura sighed.

Naruto was still sad and Hinata was going to cry if someone didn't stop this because Naruto thought Hinata was going to die because of him, and Hinata felt guilty for his guilt and was sad. "I think I'm going to compromise our ideas together, it works better." Sakura answered.

"Naruto, straighten up now!" Sakura yelled. "Hinata is just finding I was just making a joke, she's fine see." Naruto looked up and Hinata and he hugged her again.

"She's okay, yeah!" Naruto answered and everyone laughed, Hinata blushed.

"Well we have plans set and our dinners just arrived, nothing could be better, well our plans couldn't be better for now. A lot of things could be better at this moment but it's very good." Sakura said stumbling around.

"I could think of a lot of things I could be doing at this very moments with Sakura." Sasuke mumbled to himself yet loud enough for the whole table to hear him. Then he smirked and Sakura was beginning to figure out Sasuke.

"Sasuke!" Everyone yelled that was so immature of him to talk like that.

"Yeah Sasuke, do that on your own time." Kaydin suggested.

"Kaydin," Ino elbowed him. "Don't encourage them, they aren't married yet."

"So, they're engaged, they're allowed to have fun, and so am I when I want to with you." Ino's face was struck with fear. Hinata and Naruto were laughing this up.

"Uchiha men." Ino and Sakura said causing Kaydin and Sasuke to look at them.

Then a large bang interrupted their dinner, the door blew open and a figure entered. "You called?" (Review Please!)