So, team gai went to the mall. Why? Neji had an attachement to those flippin' plush monkeys, Tenten had a secret girly obsession with malls, and rock Lee needed a gift for his precious Sakura chan. nods

They happened to pass the PET STORE!!! dramatic music Tenten's honey eyes spotted an adorable little puppy.

"AW! KAWAII!!" She squealed. Neji twitched at Tetnen's sudden girlyness.

"Pets! YOUTH! I can get Sakura a pet!" Rock Lee suddenly decided, doing his YOSH! thing. "LEt's go to the magical pet store! Of hope and wonder!" So of course, Neji was dragged in, his heels scraping into the tile.

Tenten aimlessly wandered around, dragging Neji with her. Rock Lee made this like an S rank mission-examining each animal with care. "May I help you?" Lee turned his head , surprised to see none other than Sakura chan! HIS Sakura chan!

"S-sakura chan?" Lee's heart drooped tao his suprise. "You ---work here?" she nodded brightly, her strawberry hair bobbing.

"So why are you here, Lee kun?" she asked sweetly.

"Oh--no reason," Lee covered up. "Neji and Tenten wanted to-look at the pets."

"Neji--and Tenten?" Sakura blinked, then smiled. "So, they're at long last hooking up?"

"?!?!"

"I've seen that they've liked each other for a while..." she smiled lightly. "I'm suprised you haven't noticed!"

"I---" Rock Lee began, but then noticed somethign implode on the other side of the store.

Neji was wondering why the heck he was in this pet store, and why Tenten was dragging him around it. He was suprised at how nice her touch was...but he shook it off quickly. He was a Hyuuga! Hyuugas dont get all emotional! Well, except Hinata , but she was jsut...Hinata. Woah-off topic!

"Tenten-what are you doing?" Neji asked at long last.

Tenten didn't respond right away, until she stopped right in front of the dog kennels. "There!" she said with a pointed finger, pointing at an adorable golden retriever.

"...O.O" Neji looked at her blankly.

"Kawaii desu, ne?"

"...O.O Ten---ten?"

"You can't deny it, Nejikun!"

"...Are you----feeling ok, Tenten?"

She looked at him puzzled. "Of course! I just love dogs!"

Neji jumped back. "YOU'VE BEEN OUT WITH INUZUKA, HAVENT YOU?!"!

Tenten giggled cutely. "Ignoring that Megumi chan would figuratively MURDER me if I did...NO,"

"Well then-"

"I just love dogs!"

"O.o"

"They're faithful, friendly, cute, loyal, smart-"

"..." Neji smirked.

"?"

"Oh-Nothing!!!!" Neji covered up OOC. As he turned his head, he noticed his head was right next to a black metal cage. He heard a chirp, and saw a sky blue bird flutter around. That melted his heart rather quickly. "NO!" he cried passionately. "You can't be locked up! I shall free this poor bird from its cage!" he undid the latch on impulse, letting the bird fly around the store.

"Neji?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Tenten shouted.

"These birds! They're trapped! Like----birds! In a cage!" A sweatdrop fell down TEnten's head. "Me, being int he branch family of the Hyuugas, I know what its like-to be trapped by DESTINY!!!!!!!!!" he said dramatically.

"Neji. They're just---birds," Tenten said stoically, yet she coudln't hide her pity for the cute puppy trapped...Birds began to nest in her hair...

"Theyre not. Just. Birdss." Neji's stoic ways returned. "They. are. part. of me." Tenten stared blankly. Suddenly, a worker there (who happened to be Shino) shouted, "STAND CLEAR!" He took a giant electric butterfly net thing and began sweeping up the birds.

"?!?!" Tenten screamed when he threw it over her head to get the birds in her hair, accidently electricuting her.

"TENTEN!" Neji cried OOC.

"MY YOUTHFUL TEAMMATES!" Rock Lee cried, running over with Sakura to see what happened. Tenten's hair was stickign straight up.

"GOMEN NASAI!!!!" Shino cried OOC megumi: HAHAHA!!!. "GOMEN!!!!"

"ITs fine...Shino san..." Tenten shook it off. Teh golden retreiver ran up to her and licked her cheek. "How-" but then she saw Kiba Inuzuka smirking.

"I KNEW IT!" Neji cried, pointing an incriminating finger at Kiba.

"?! I...work here," Kiba explained, showing off his red "PetsMart" apron megumi: Oh yah! "And...I let the dogs loose when there's utter pandemonium. And with Shino working here, there's a lot of that..."

"WHAT?!!!!!!" Shino glared through his dark glasses. "I'll have you know-"

"Nii san, you still have that stupid electric/chakra net?" Megumi, his neechan appeared behind him.

"M-Megumi?!"! Shino jumped. "What are you doing here, boku?!"

"I came to see that husky again!" she smiled cutely.

"Here!" Kiba handed her an utterly adorable puppy husky. It licked her cheek sweetly.

"Thanks, Kiba kun!" Megumi blushed, taking the puppy.

"..." Tenten stared blankly. Neji secretly took out the sky blue bird, petting it in his hand.

"UNHAND TEH BIRD!!!" Shino glared at Neji. Neji sighed and put the bird back in.

"So-did you find anythign Lee?" Tenten asked.

"---Nope," Lee's head drooped.

"Maybe I can help, Lee kun!" Sakura smiled warmly. Lee flailed.

ANd so...yah, I guess tat's the end sweatdrop