Author's Note: I know I've had this story on hold since February and I'm very sorry for that. School had been stressing me out and I have been very busy with things. I know that some of you have probably noticed the one shots that I've been uploading all over the place although they aren't NaruHina. Anyway, on with the story.


Neji realized that every female had been carefully avoiding him. Even his cousin, Hinata, had not talked to him since two days ago, when it happened. Since then, Naruto and Sasuke have been trying to cheer him up by Sasuke repeatedly physically abusing poor Naruto but their attempts were unsuccessful.

Tenten had been the main one, of course. Both of them stayed away from the group, being much more interested in staying in their own thoughts while their friends tried to make them talk to one another.

"You must be very depressed" Naruto said, wlaking up and sitting next to him.

Neji sighed deeply and took in Naruto's appearance to get his mind off of Tenten. Naruto currently had bandages all over his face and he had something that looked like a cast around his right leg but apparently it didn't hurt him at all since he was walking on it all around the room.

"I am" Neji replied, half wishing he would leave. "I can see that you and Sasuke took your plan a little too far"

Naruto chuckled and rubbed the back of his neck. "Well, we kind of got into a fight after the plan but its no big deal"

Neji nodded and turned his attention back to watching Tenten talk to Hinata across the room. He heaved another sigh and wondered if she would ever talk to him again.

"Stop being so sad" Naruto exclaimed, with a lopsided grin. "You two will make up"

"Easy for you to say" Neji said. "You and Hinata have NEVER had a fight and probably never will have one"

"Both me and Hinata-chan are easy going" Naruto replied, leaning back until he felt his back hit the floor.

Neji nodded. Naruto and Hinata were probably the two happiest people in the room with Neji and Tenten being the saddest and everyone else was in the middle.

"Maybe I'll tell Hinata to tell Tenten to come talk to you" Naruto said, hopeful.

Neji shook his head. "I'm not ready" he said.

But Naruto had already walked away.


Tenten was only half listening to Hinata talking about various things. She was too preoccupied with staring at Neji from the corner of her eye. She knew that he had been looking at her too and that was the only reason why her face was tinted red while Hinata chattered off happily, completely oblivious.

"Tenten" Hinata said, finally stopping. "Are you STILL depressed?"

Tenten just sighed. That had been her answer to everyone since the "incident". She wished that they would just apologize and go back to being friends although she wanted to be more than "just friends".

"Maybe we should just go talk to him" Hinata suggested.

"I wish it was that easy" Tenten said, sighing again.

"Maybe Naruto's talking to him" Hinata pointed out. "He's over there next to him."

In Tenten's depression, she never even noticed the blond haired boy standing next to Neji. She hardly noticed Hinata and she had been talking for the last ten minutes. Even when Sai and passed right in front of her, she never noticed them through her slightly dazed eyes. She didn't even think Hinata had noticed either.

"Maybe" Tenten agreed slightly, and went back to her dazed look.


"Do you always have to say something about a person's...uh....parts?" Sasuke asked as Sai yet again commented on the size of his....uh.....parts....

"I'm speaking the truth" Sai said as Ino and Sakura stared at him.

For the last few days, Sasuke had wanted to punch Sai every since he had first heard him talk. God, he was more annoying than Naruto who was currently somewhere else.

"This is boring" Temari commented before leaning on Shikamaru's shoulder.

Shikamaru just stirred in his sleep but didn't wake up.

"Maybe I should go find Naruto" Sasuke grumbled, before walked away.

Sakura followed quickly while Sai and Ino just stared after both of them. Ino figured that Sasuke must have been REALLY annoyed to actually go be in the presence of the most annoying person in the whole world.

"He's annoyed" Sai said.

"No duh" Ino muttered in reply.


"What are you doing, dobe?" Sasuke asked as he reached Naruto.

"Cheering up Neji" Naruto said, while pulling one of Neji's cheeks out.

Sasuke noticed that Neji didn't do anything. He didn't protest or push Naruto into the next wall. He must have been really depressed if none of that happened.

"Is it fun?" Sakura asked from her position behind Sasuke.

"Not really" Naruto said. "He does nothing"

"Well yeah" Sakura said. "He's more depressed than Tenten"

"Tenten's depressed too?" Neji asked after hearing that.

"Yeah" Naruto said. "She has been for the same time you have been"

"Maybe you should go talk to her" Sakura said.

"I'll go do that" Neji replied, still with a frown.

The members of team 7 all watched as Neji walked off toward Tenten and Hinata's direction. They all had the same expression on their faces which was hope.

"Let's see if he fails" Sasuke said.

Naruto and Sakura both nodded in agreement.


Author's Note: Finished! I hope your happy with this chapter! Review!