Shikamaru was walking down the hallway when he heard his name being called. He turned around to see Hinata running towards him, "Shikamaru wait up!"
"Hey what's up?"
"Why haven't you returned any of my calls? I've been calling you for days!"
Shikamaru shrugged, "I've just had a lot of school work."
She starred at him for a moment hoping he would tell her the truth. "So you're going to stick with that lie ok? But when you want to talk to me about your break up with Temari call me."
Hinata started running off and Shikamaru yelled, "Where are you going?"
She yelled as she was running, "To see Naruto, call me!"
Shikamaru sighed as he watched his friend run off. Someone came up; behind him and put his arm around him, "You know my offer still stands."
Shikamaru turned to see Gaara smirking and quickly pushed him off. "No I won't do it."
Gaara shrugged, "Fine then I'll tell Temari she should go out on that date tonight."
"What date? We've only been broken up for a week."
"Yeah and it's been long enough. But if you help me I'll back away and you can have Temari all to yourself."
Shikamaru looked around seeing student's race into class rooms as the bell rang, "What makes you think I'll do this?"
"Because you're miserable without her come on help me."
"Even if I wanted too Hinata seems happy now that she isn't with Sasuke."
Gaara's eyes brightened as he realized Shikamaru didn't know that they had gotten back together. "She is a brave girl putting on a front like that. But she is only doing that around you guys she tells me she cries herself to sleep every night."
He felt guilty for not returning her calls, "Well…."
"And I'd make her happy she just needs to know someone cares. I'll make her so happy you do want her to be happy right?"
Shikamaru thought for a moment, "Fine but you better treat her right."
He smirked, "I will now shall we shake on it."
Shikamaru looked at his hand in disgust before shaking it, "I feel like I'm making a deal with the devil. I better not regret this!"
~Sasuke & Sakura~
Sakura was walking home from school when she spotted Sasuke jogging ahead of her. She chased after him for five blocks before she finally caught up. He took off his headphones, "Hey Sakura."
Sakura stood there trying to catch her breath, "H-Hey….you r-run r-really f-fast."
He shrugged, "So how have things been since Ino's and Sai's party?"
"Horrible Naruto and I have barely spoken and he has been sleeping on the couch all week. I don't know what to do he won't apologize for not telling me he slept with Hinata."
Sasuke already knew the story since he had heard it from Naruto earlier in the week, "Because you won't acknowledge that you were wrong for not telling him about you and Lee."
Her mouth dropped, "Of course you're on his side. You should be on my side! I mean your girlfriend and my boyfriend slept together and didn't tell us."
"Yeah it was a long time ago before we dated them. It's not like they would cheat on us now."
Sakura thought of Hinata and Gaara and mumbled, "I wouldn't be too sure about that."
He leaned in, "What?!"
She shook her head, "Nothing…."
"I just think your being a drama queen like always."
She pouted, "I am not."
He chuckled, "Yeah ok so what are you going to do now?"
"Going home and ignoring your stupid best friend."
"Well I was going to run by and see if my stupid best friend wanted to go out so let's go try and keep up." Sasuke started jogging again slower this time so Sakura could keep up.
~Hinata & Naruto~
Hinata had been knocking on Naruto's door for five minutes before using the spare key she stole from Sasuke's house. "Naruto?"
Hinata went searching through the house and found Naruto asleep in his bed. She nudged him, "Naruto?"
He groaned and rolled over, "H-Hinata?"
She sat down on the bed, "How have you been?"
He sat up, "Horrible I stayed home from school today just to sleep in my own bed. That couch is horrible I'm all stiff I can't sleep anymore. We were supposed to buy a new one but we started fighting before we could go to the store. "
"I'm sure you could stay at Sasuke's till this is all worked out."
He was insulted she would even suggest that, "NO! This is my house and she is not taking my house away from me!"
"S-Sorry…." She looked down at the floor, "This is all my fault if I never told Sasuke none of this would ever happen."
Naruto put his arm around Hinata, "No it's not your fault this would have happened anyway. Besides she was upsetting me before that she is taken over my house and I can't take it. She keeps changing things without me."
Hinata rested her head on Naruto's shoulder and wrapped her arms around him. "I hope things work out between the two of you real soon. Maybe I should talk to her."
Just than the door slammed open and Sakura walked in and saw the two in their embrace. "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?!"
Sasuke peeked into see what she was yelling out only to see his girlfriend with his best friend, "HINATA!"
Naruto and Hinata quickly separated and Naruto stood up, "Nothing happened we are just friends."
Hinata nodded, "Yeah we were just talking about how mean you were being to Naruto."
Sakura ignored Naruto and focused on Hinata, "How the hell is that any of your business?"
He didn't like being yelled at, "He is my friend he shouldn't be treated like this!"
Sakura pointed toward the door, "GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!"
"This is Naruto's house and he wants me here! Right Naruto?"
Naruto stepped back as the two girls turned towards him waiting for an answer. He looked at Sasuke for help who just said, "Well it looks like you're busy I'll catch you later!"
~Neji~
Neji was in the school library finishing up an assignment when he looked up at the clock. "Shit I was supposed to be at Tenten's over two hours ago." Neji took out his phone which he had on silent and saw two missed calls from Tenten. "Two? Shouldn't there be more I could have been dead!"
He ran out the library and bumped into Lana who was crying. "Lana are you ok?"
She sniffled, "No it's just that I failed my first report for Biology."
"I'm sorry Lana I'm sure you'll do better next time."
"No I'm going to fail out of college."
Neji thought for a moment, "Maybe you can do a make up for your professor."
She nodded, "Yes I have until tomorrow to another report and bring it to his office before ten. I'll never be able to do it in one night. And plus its Friday there is no one who is going to help me because they are all out partying."
Neji thought to himself, 'Well I'm already late anyway what's a half an hour to get her started on her project it's not like Tenten is worried about me.' Neji turned towards the library, "You happen to be in luck I happen to be a genius at biology. Come on I'll help you."
Lana started jumping up and down and hugged Neji, "Thank you so much, are you sure you don't have plans."
Neji looked around, "Actually…………..no I'm free as a bird."
~Ino & Sai~
It was late at night when Sai tip toed into his bedroom. He had a long day of school and work he kissed the sleeping Reiko than his wife. Ino was startled by his kiss, "S-Sai where were you?"
Sai started changing into his pajamas, "Sorry for waking you sweetie I was at work."
She sat up groggily, "B-But father came home hours ago."
"Yeah but then I went to the library to finishes a report for class."
She was a little upset that he didn't tell her where he was going, "You couldn't have done that here? I needed your help with Reiko; I have an exam on Monday I could have used the study time."
He shook his head, "Nope needed to use the books there anyway sorry you had a bad day I'll help you study tomorrow. I promise ok?" He crawled into bed and kissed her.
"Ok well how was your day?"
"Ino I'm really tired can we talk tomorrow. I had a really hard day."
She was a little insulted, "I had a hard day too. I go to school full time and take care of Reiko."
Sai pulled the covers on him, "Yeah and I take care of Reiko, go to school, and I work so we should both get some sleep. We can talk tomorrow over breakfast, I love you."
Ino sighed, "I love you too." She sat there as her husband fell asleep wondering if marriages turned out this way. She knew one thing they were defiantly out of the honeymoon stage.
