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Published December 23, 2006

Chapter 14 - Friend or Foe

"Hinata! I'm bored!" Kiba whined 'ever-so' loudly.

"Oh, shush! You're such a baby." Hinata giggled jokingly.

"But Hinata!" Kiba whined some more.

"No buts!" Hinata pointed her index finger at Kiba.

Kiba grinned; he laughed out loud at Hinata's choice of words.

Hinata sighed and crossed her arms. "Ugh, you're so immature sometimes." She stuck out her tongue. Then she laughed along with Kiba.

"That's what I love about you Hinata." Kiba smirked.

Hinata crossed her arms across her chest and made a 'humph' sound. "Oh, so you get all mushy with me now? You're such a fluff." Hinata acted.

Kiba crossed his arms as well. "Ha. Ha." Kiba said sarcastically. "Sometimes you're better off stuttering."

Hinata scoffed. "Oh, really?" She smirked deviously at Kiba. "W-We'll let's s-see about t-t-that." Hinata stuttered in her 12 year-old voice right before she took a pillow from the couch and hit Kiba on the head with it.

Kiba put his hands on his head. "Ow." Kiba said, though it didn't really hurt. "Gosh! You hang around with Temari for a day, become best of friends, and she teaches you how to whip a guy till he's a puppy."

"Oh yeah." Hinata nodded in triumph. She plopped herself down onto the couch and let go of the pillow.

Kiba looked at Hinata nervously.

Hinata looked up at Kiba. "What? I'm not going to hit you with it again." Hinata crossed her arms. "I'm not that much like Temari." She pouted.

Kiba smiled. He plopped down next to Hinata. "I love it when you pout." He grinned.

"Of course you do. If you didn't, then I would have to do this." Hinata grabbed the pillow again and hit Kiba on the shoulder this time.

"Ow! Hey! I thought you said you weren't that much like Temari!" Kiba argued.

Hinata smirked. "I'm not. I learned that from Sakura." Hinata's smirk turned into a grin.

Kiba sighed. "Your friends can be such a bad influence. I wonder how Naruto and Shikamaru handle it."

"They're strong." Hinata said plainly.

"Stronger than me? I don't think so." Kiba shook his head.

Hinata giggled. "Much stronger than you." She said playfully.

"Sure, whatever. But we both know I could whip their asses any day." Kiba smirked, showing his teeth, which gleamed like Rock Lee's.

"Hey, you guys." Sakura said slowly.

"Hmm?" Ino turned back to Sakura. "What is it? We just got to the hotel."

"I have a bad feeling. There's something going on in there and it's not good." Sakura backed away slowly from the hotel. "Seriously, something bad is going to or is already going on in there. I think we should stay out here."

"Sakura! Don't be such a baby. I don't feel any bad chakra." Ino disagreed.

"Actually, I feel it too, Ino." Naruto agreed with Sakura.

"Oh, come on! It's all psychology! Chouji, you don't believe her, do you?" Ino turned to Chouji.

"Actually…" Chouji scratched the back of his head.

"Fine! If you guys don't want to go in, I'll just go in myself. Humph." Ino turned towards the hotel doors and started walking.

"Ino!" Chouji grabbed Ino's arm before she could take another step.

"What is it, Chouji?! Don't say Sakura's right about all of this. It's ridiculous!" Ino retorted.

"But she might be right. Why would she lie about this?" Chouji asked.

"Because she's a mean and cruel person who likes to play nasty jokes on innocent others." Ino said quickly. She must've had that in her mind for a while.

"Uh…well…" Chouji tried to think of a good response to Ino's answer.

"That's ludicrous!" Sakura interrupted. "I wouldn't do anything like that!"

"Whatever, Sakura." Ino turned her head away from Sakura.

"Why don't we go out and talk this over some ramen!" Naruto suggested.

"Shut up!" Sakura and Ino shouted at Naruto at the same time.

Naruto pouted. "S-Sorry, Ino. S-Sorry, Sakura-chan." He apologized sadly.

"I really don't think we should go in there!" Sakura said back on-topic.

"Why not?! I don't see anything going on in there. Nobody's screaming in horror. I think you're just overreacting, Sakura." Ino reasoned.

"But I'm not! Something is going on in there. I can feel an angered person. It's like someone's going to die or something." Sakura explained. "Anger and pain, deceit and betrayal, regret and second thoughts. I don't know how or why, but I just know something bad is in there. It's not our problem, so I don't want to get into whatever it is."

"Hey! Wait a minute! Even if this were all true, we are still ninja, and we need to protect whoever's in there." Ino replied irately.

"Yeah! Dattebayo!" Naruto agreed with Ino this time.

"Ino's right." Chouji nodded in agreement.

"But that's the problem. I think I know who's in there." Sakura added. "But I'm not sure!" She quickly said.

"Well, who do you think it is?" Ino said seriously.

"I-I don't really know how to say this…I don't even want to say this…" Sakura stuttered as she stared blankly at the top of the hotel, where the 100th floor was.

"Well? Just say it!" Ino said impatiently.

"Up there." Sakura pointed to the 100th floor.

"That's…that's…" Chouji said.

"It's close to our rooms." Ino calculated.

"It is our rooms." Sakura said dramatically. "It's on our floor, in the hallway."

"What?!" Ino spattered.

"Nani (what)?!" Naruto and Chouji said in unison in shock.

"And you won't believe who it is…" Sakura said, sounding monotonous like a zombie.

"W-Who?" Ino gulped loudly. She was almost afraid to find out.

"…" Sakura stayed silent.

"Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked, concerned.

"It's…" Sakura paused. Then she said in the softest audible whisper, "…Neji."

"W-What do you want to talk about?" Tenten asked nervously. 'Damn it. It's probably about Kankuro and me.'

"I want to talk to you about Kankuro." Temari answered seriously.

'Kuso (damn it)! Why did I have to be right?' Tenten sighed in her head. "Oh…umm, okay."

"First of all…" Temari started politely. "…what the heck are you thinking?!" She shouted at Tenten.

"What's wrong?" Tenten asked, dumbfounded.

'Calm down, Temari.' Shikamaru thought in the other room. He could hear every word Temari shouted.

'Compose yourself…' Temari thought in her head. "Look, Kankuro's my brother." She said as if Tenten didn't already know. Then, Temari spoke in a more understanding voice, "He's my little brother. It's my responsibility to take care of him. You hurt him once and I don't want to see him hurt again. That's all."

"Oh. Well I know you're concerned about Kankuro and me, but that won't happen again. I won't break his heart again." Tenten assured.

"How can you say that?! You don't know if this'll happen again or not! Why don't you just go back to Neji?!" Temari yelled frustratingly at Tenten.

'Harsh.' Shikamaru thought in the other room.

"Neji doesn't love me!" Tenten shouted back.

"I'd hate to tell you this Tenten, but you're as dull as a doorknob!" Temari continued to yell. "Neji loves you! Anyone could see that! But you were too blind and dumb to see that!"

'Gosh, Temari. You have to be so mean?' Shikamaru said, feeling sorry for Tenten.

"He doesn't love me! Kankuro loves me! Neji's the dumb one. If he loved me, why didn't he say so? I know Kankuro loves me!" Tenten shouted back.

"Tenten, don't make me tell you things that'll break your heart." Temari said coldly.

"What do you mean?" Tenten said in her normal volume.

"If you still choose Kankuro over Neji, I'll have to tell you something about Kankuro." Temari continued to speak lowly.

"What are you talking about?!" Tenten started to get frustrated.

"Kankuro's married!" Temari hollered.

"What?!" Tenten shouted with disbelief.

'Nani (what)?!' Shikamaru was shocked. 'Well, I didn't see that one coming.'

"He can't be married!" Tenten argued.

"Well, he's technically not married yet, but he's engaged. He's in an arranged marriage. When he gets married, he'll be much to busy to ever see you, especially with a wife and all." Temari rephrased.

"No! That can't be true! He told me we'd be together! He wouldn't lie to me!" Tenten cried out.

"How do you know he wouldn't lie? You probably don't even know about his past." Temari looked at Tenten with almost disgust.

"The past is past! This is present! Kankuro would never hurt me!" Tenten continued to cry out.

"Hmph. That's what you think. You'll never know the true Kankuro. He doesn't care about you." Temari said plainly as if she didn't care how Tenten felt. "So be a good girl and find someone else." Temari ordered.

'Could Kankuro really lie to me? Would he? No! I can't let Temari get in my way!' Tenten argued in her mind. "I still don't believe you!"

"Fine, then." Temari said with ease. "Don't believe me. Run to Kankuro and have your heart broken. He's an avenger you know? Almost like Sasuke…but you wouldn't care about his past avenges now would you?" Temari looked slyly at Tenten. 'Got her.'

'Avenger? What did he do?' Tenten asked herself. 'Maybe she's right. She's two years older than you and she's your friend. I'm sure she's telling the truth. She probably just wants what's best for you and Kankuro.' Tenten's inner-self reasoned. 'Yeah, you're probably right.' Tenten agreed with herself. "Fine. I'll stop seeing Kankuro." She said lowly with depression.

"Good. I'm glad we had this talk. I'm just doing this because it's the best way to keep you from getting hurt." Temari comforted.

"Yeah, I know. Thanks." Tenten tried to smile, but she knew she couldn't.

"Hey, at least you have Neji. Don't worry, he likes you. I know it." Temari guaranteed.

"But he didn't even say 'I love you' and we've known each other for so long." Tenten said uncertain about Neji.

"Well, what do you expect? He's Neji! Believe me when I say, he loves you and would do anything for you. He just doesn't know how to say it, but it will come." Temari assured.

"Yeah, okay." Tenten nodded. "Kind of like you and Shikamaru." She compared.

"Well, I guess in a way, yeah." Temari never thought of it that way, but it was kind of true. "But just between you and me," Temari started. ", Shikamaru is just a love toy." She shouted so Shikamaru could hear. Then she started to snicker.

'Nani (what)?!' Shikamaru's eyes widened. 'She had to say that? What the heck are they talking about?' He wondered.

Tenten giggled along with Temari.

"That was a good laugh." Temari said. "I should be going though. Shikamaru can get surprisingly pissed off if I don't hang around him for a long time." Temari grinned as she white-lied. "What a baby, but that's what I get for choosing a boy toy three years younger than me." She shrugged. "Ja ne (goodbye)!" Temari waved as she started to walk back to her room.

"Ja ne (goodbye)!" Tenten waved back, trying to act cheerful.

Temari walked towards the connecting door to room 1001 and closed it shut.

"Love toy?" Shikamaru couldn't help but ask.

Temari grinned evilly at Shikamaru. "Mistress is more like it." She smirked.

"Oh, that's better." Shikamaru said sarcastically, rolling his eyes.

"At least I don't call you 'mistress' in public." Temari pointed out. "Hmm…but maybe I should." She grinned again at Shikamaru.

"How troublesome." Shikamaru sighed.

Hinata gasped, catching Kiba's attention.

"Hinata! What is it?" Kiba was quickly alarmed.

"It's…it's…Neji…" Hinata stared blankly.

"What about Neji?" Kiba looked worriedly at Hinata.

"He's…something…I think he's…kuso (damn it)! I have to help him!" Hinata quickly lifted herself off of the couch and ran towards the door.

"Where are you going?!" Kiba asked, standing up from the couch.

"Just stay here!" Hinata said before she ran out of the door.

"So what are we going to do? Stay out here until the bad chakra is gone?" Ino paced back and forth outside of the hotel.

"Yeah, that's a good idea! Dattebayo!" Naruto agreed.

"She was being rhetorical, Naruto." Sakura clarified.

Naruto frowned and crossed his arms. "Hmph."

"But you're right, Naruto. We should stay out here until whatever the heck Neji's doing in there is over." Sakura agreed.

Naruto smiled as Sakura agreed with him.

"Who knows how long that's going to be?!" Ino whined.

"Yeah! I'm down to my last bag of chips!" Chouji munched on some chips.

"That reminds me…" Ino started. "…how are we going to tell anyone about dinner tonight? Neji could be up there all night for all we know." Ino said hopelessly.

"We'll just have to wait and see." Sakura tried to answer.

"This sucks. Dattebayo." Naruto commented.

"Why don't we ask for the phone number to everyone's room? Then we could call them from the phone inside the hotel." Chouji suggested.

"Wow, Chouji. That was pretty smart." Ino was surprised.

Chouji shrugged. "I just want to get some more chips."

Now this is what everyone's waiting for…the anticipation of Neji and Kankuro…all of this happened right when Tenten and Temari started talking.

"Kankuro…" A low voice said.

'Kuso (damn it). I didn't think he'd find out this soon.' Kankuro was getting scared. "Neji, don't do this."

"It's too late for that." Neji said, sounding like Gaara's deadly 'I'm going to kill you' voice.

'He has his Byakugan on and is already in his stance. He probably has his chakra in place already.' Kankuro noticed. "Neji, can't we just talk about this?" Kankuro tried to get out of this horrible situation.

"No." Neji said, sounding possessed. "You're going to die."

"Neji wait! You don't want to do this." Kankuro tried to persuade.

"Oh, yes I do." Neji was not going to change his mind that easily.

"But Tenten! This is about Tenten! Think about what she would want!" Kankuro continued to try and persuade Neji, but he was running out of things to say.

"She doesn't care about me anymore. You, on the other hand, she cares about dearly. You were the brainless one who didn't think this through. You shouldn't have taken back Tenten away from me, especially when you knew this would be coming." Neji explained. "It's your fault and only your fault. Because of that, you shall suffer the consequences and die." Neji started to run towards Kankuro, ready to hit his chakra points.

Kankuro did the first thing that came to mind, which was to jump out of the way. 'He's going to use his Byakugan and hit my chakra points.' He confirmed in his head.

Neji knew Kankuro would jump away, so he used a substitution jutsu and appeared behind Kankuro. It was practically over.

"Neji, no!" Hinata yelled out, running towards Neji and Kankuro.

Neji stopped his attack. "Hinata, stay out of this." Neji warned.

"No, Neji! You can't kill him! I won't let you!" Hinata grabbed Neji's arm.

"Hinata, leave now. You don't know what Kankuro's done." Neji warned again.

"Byakugan." Hinata let go of Neji. "Neji, don't hurt him. You'll have to go through me first." Hinata threatened.

Neji glared at Hinata for a long second. Then he turned his head to Kankuro. "You're lucky Hinata was here to save you, or you'd be dead, definitely." Neji whispered deadly at Kankuro.

"Neji. Just go." Hinata ordered.

"Fine." Neji jutsu-ed away to his room.

Hinata turned off her Byakugan. "Are you okay, Kankuro?" She asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks for saving me. I would've been dead if it weren't for you." Kankuro was relieved.

"No problem." Hinata smiled. "But why exactly was he going to kill you?"

"Well," Kankuro scratched the back of his head. ", he saw me with Tenten."

"Well that's no big deal. Neji can be so jealous sometimes. It's not like you were having an affair or anything." Hinata said.

"Actually…" Kankuro scratched the back of his head again. "…we kind of were."

"What?!" Hinata said angrily.

'Oh no. She looks pissed off…' Kankuro thought.

"You should know better than to get into a relationship with Tenten when she was going out with Neji!" Hinata's Byakugan turned on by itself.

"But Tenten said they were over!" Kankuro tried to defend himself.

"Well you should know better!" Hinata was starting to get louder. "I should kill you myself. No one hurts my cousin but me!"

'Kuso (damn it). Now I got two Hyuugas that want to kill me.' Kankuro thought.

"Hinata? Is everything okay? You've been out here for a while. Kankuro?" Kiba popped his head outside in the hallway. He started to walk towards Hinata and Kankuro. "What's going on here?" Kiba asked.

Hinata was too distracted thinking about killing Kankuro to listen to or even notice Kiba. "You're dead!" Hinata started to run towards Kankuro.

"Hinata!" Kiba quickly took a hold of Hinata before she could hit Kankuro. "What the hell are you doing Hinata?!"

"Kankuro…he hurt Neji." Hinata glared at Kankuro with evil intent.

"Kankuro? Did you do that?" Kiba raised an eyebrow in disbelief.

"Umm…kind of…" Kankuro admitted.

"What?! Baka (idiot)! What's wrong with you?!" Kiba yelled at Kankuro. "You're lucky I don't kill you myself! You owe me, baka (idiot)!"

Kankuro scoffed. "One little mistake and I get three people who want to kill me." He muttered.

"It was a big mistake. How could you go out with Tenten! Don't you know she was just doing that to get Neji jealous?!" Hinata was still greatly angered.

"What?! You're a bigger baka (idiot) than I thought!" Kiba opinionated. "You're going to tell her it's over, right?"

"I don't want to, but I guess I have to." Kankuro hung his head low.

"Just remember, she was just using you." Hinata reminded. "I'm her friend…I know her."

"Yeah, what Hinata said." Kiba nodded.

'Yeah, that's probably true. I guess she probably was just using me.' Kankuro was convinced.

"Arigato gozaimasu (thank you)!" Sakura said politely to the girl at the front desk. "Okay, here it is." She said to Ino, Chouji, and Naruto, holding a hotel phone and a piece of paper.

"Let's call Kiba and Hinata first." Ino suggested.

"Okay." Sakura dialed the phone number for room 1004.

After 30 seconds of ringing…

Sakura hung up the phone. "No one answered the phone." Sakura said disappointedly.

"Weird…well, call Tenten." Ino proposed.

"Mm." Sakura nodded. She called room 1000.

After another 30 seconds of ringing…

Sakura hung up the phone again. "She didn't answer her phone either."

"Wow, this is getting really weird. Maybe something happened with Hinata, Kiba, and Tenten…" Ino tried to think of something that could've happened. "You don't think Neji did something to them, do you?" Ino asked.

Sakura shook her head. "No. I don't think Neji would be that cold."

"You never know…" Chouji munched on the last few bits of potato chip.

"But Neji changed after our first Chuunin Exams, dattebayo!" Naruto disagreed.

"Well, let's see if Shikamaru or Temari answer their phone." Sakura dialed room 1001's phone number.

"Hello?"

"Shikamaru?"

"Who's this?" Shikamaru asked.

"It's Sakura." Sakura answered.

"Oh." Shikamaru said lazily.

"Umm…is something going on up there?" Sakura asked.

"No, just you're average, everyday, ordinary betrayal and lying going around; nothing out of the ordinary." Shikamaru said plainly as if things were really all that average.

"What? What's going on up there? I had a bad feeling about Neji." Sakura informed.

"Yeah, he's just trying to kill Kankuro." Shikamaru enlightened.

"What?! Why is he doing that?!" Sakura asked rather loudly into the phone.

"Long story. Too troublesome to explain." Shikamaru said.

"Shikamaru!" Sakura yelled into the phone.

"Could you be quieter?" Shikamaru asked lazily.

"Ugh! Where's Temari?!" Sakura asked infuriatingly.

"She's betraying Tenten and lying to her about everything she believed in." Shikamaru said plainly again, exaggerating a bit.

"What?! Did we miss that much?!" Sakura rhetorically asked.

"Yup…bye. I think I'm going to take a nap now before Temari comes back in." Shikamaru hung up the phone.

"Wait!" Sakura said, but it was too late. Shikamaru had already hung up the phone.

"What happened, Sakura?" Ino asked.

"Something's going on between Neji, Tenten, Kankuro, and Temari. Shikamaru wouldn't say anything else." Sakura explained.

"Call him back! I'll talk to him!" Ino pointed to herself with her thumb.

Sakura shrugged. "Okay." She dialed room 1001's phone number again. "It's busy."

"What?" Ino angered.

"What do we do now?" Chouji asked.

"We could always take our chances and go upstairs." Sakura said. "We're going to have to go up there anyways." She added.

"So, should we take our chances?" Sakura asked.

"Yeah, let's go, dattebayo!" Naruto cheered.

"Okay…" Sakura said hesitantly as she looked at Ino.

Ino nodded. "If we die, I'm blaming Naruto." She joked.

So Sakura, Naruto, Ino, and Chouji walked to the elevator and went up the 100th floor.

Kankuro walked back to his room. "Tenten?" He said.

"Hey, Kankuro." Tenten said with a hint of sadness in her voice.

"We need to talk." Kankuro said straightforward. 'Let's just get this over with.'

"Yeah, I need to talk to you too." Tenten said.

Kankuro sat down next to Tenten. "You can go first."

"No, you can." Tenten insisted.

"Okay…well…I don't really know how to say this, but…" Kankuro started hesitating.

"I think we should break up." Tenten said quickly.

"Really?" Kankuro said, slightly relieved that he didn't have to say it.

"Yeah…I'm sorry Kankuro, but I just can't have this kind of relationship, you know?" Tenten said.

"Yeah, I know." Kankuro agreed.

"So just friends again?" Tenten made a half-smile.

"Yeah, just friends." Kankuro nodded. He reached his hand out to Tenten.

Tenten shook Kankuro's hand in agreement. "I guess I should go now." Tenten stood up.

Kankuro stood up as well and walked Tenten to the door.

"Let's just forget any of this happened." Tenten suggested.

"Yeah. Good idea." Kankuro said.

"See ya later, than?" Tenten said.

"Yeah, later." Kankuro said. "Good luck with Neji."

"Thanks. I'll need it." Tenten joked. She turned around and walked back to her room.

"Neji?" Temari said.

"What?" Neji said coldly.

"I think Kankuro and Tenten are going to break up now." Temari said.

"I'll be there." Neji hung up the phone and jutsu-ed into room 1001. He quickly used his Byakugan and saw through the connecting doors. "Yeah, it's them."

Temari put her ear to the wall. "What're they saying?" She whispered.

"They broke up; they're just friends now." Neji smirked.

"Yes!" Temari whispered. "This is perfect. My story worked!"

"They're going outside. I should go back to my room." Neji advised himself.

"Yeah. Bye, Neji." Temari said.

"Bye." Neji said right before he jutsu-ed back into his room before Tenten.

"That wasn't very nice, Temari." Shikamaru commented.

"Well, who said I was nice, Shika-kun." Temari said knowing Shikamaru would be annoyed.

"Hn. Don't call me Shika-kun." Shikamaru said.

"Fine then, mistress." Temari snickered.

"Hn." Shikamaru said annoyed.

A/N: Woohoo! Everyone's in the chapter…well except for Rock Lee, which is a letdown. But next chapter has Rock Lee and maybe only Lee…I'm not sure yet. Wasn't that chapter a little sad? I thought it was. I mean Temari lied to Tenten. Kiba and Hinata accidentally lied to Kankuro. It's all a big hunk of lies that will never be revealed! Or will they? Hmm…

Song: Friend or Foe - by t.A.T.u. It's a pretty good song. It fits pretty fitting too. Kankuro and Tenten have their big break-up. 'Is it too late, nothing to salvage… all words of love, has disappeared…we used to love one another… So are you friend or foe, 'cause I used to know…the promises, hollow concessions' Very good song to listen to. A lot of good inspiration from that song.