Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. Have you ever wondered who draws the Naruto anime?

A/N: Am I really late? I guess so…that's kind of sad. I guess that's just how it is. I started on Saturday night at like 11 P.M. or something. There's little inspiration right now, so I've had to think from the top of my head for a while now. I'm coming up with the random-est stuff now.

Anouncement: The next time I update is February 15, 2007 because that's when Naruto fillers end and I need some time to get ready for real-life stuff like exercising, actually doing my homework, and having Valentine's Day with my friends sigh. I also need to finish my KanTen fanart and start a FanFiction one-shot for deviantART contests.

Published February 6, 2007

Chapter 21 - Change of Heart

"Sakura?" Ino said, staring at the wall. Her elbows leaned on her thighs and her head rested on her hands.

"What is it, Ino-pig?" Sakura said with her head in a magazine.

"Do you like Naruto?" Ino asked curiously.

"Duh." Sakura said plainly, flipping a page.

"I mean, like like Naruto? You know, not love, but close?" Ino specified.

"Of course. That's why he's my boyfriend." Sakura pointed out. "Just like Chouji's your boyfriend." She compared.

"What if I said I didn't like Chouji that way…?" Ino asked, staring out at the balcony, gazing at the tall buildings.

"What?" Sakura said, slapping her magazine down on her legs, with a surprised look on her face. Suddenly she started talking as fast as you could while looking at Ino like she was crazy, "You're lying to Chouji about your relationship?! How could you do that? I mean, sure you do some pretty bad stuff, but this is really low! He's Chouji! He's never done anything to you! Why wouldn't you want a guy like Chouji? You're deceiving an innocent guy who's one of your closest friends who's done nothing but love you and this is what you do?! What were--what are you thinking?!"

Ino could barely indicate anything Sakura was saying, but she got the point. "I guess…I don't know! I don't want to say 'I don't like you, Chouji' and then the next day I realize I'm lost without him and say 'Chouji, I like you again'! It's just not how it goes! I need to know if I like him as much as he likes me. If I break-up with him now, I might regret it later!" Ino retorted loudly.

"Well maybe you should've thought of that before getting into a relationship with him in the first place!" Sakura crossed her arms.

"Well everyone else was suddenly pairing up! It was bound to happen anyways!" Ino argued back.

"You should know better than to give in to peer-pressure." Sakura said snobbishly.

"Whatever, Sakura." Ino crossed her arms and looked away. "I don't know why I thought you could help me."

Sakura rolled her eyes. "If you really want an answer, you should tell Chouji."

"I already did." Ino said as if it were obvious.

"Well then why are you talking to me?!" Sakura argued loudly.

"Because he said to think about it, so I'm thinking about it!" Ino argued back just as loud.

"Well, did you think about it?!" Sakura said louder than before.

"That's why I was asking you the question! I needed some advice, but it looks like I asked the wrong person!" Ino shouted.

"And who's fault is that?!" Sakura shouted back.

"Yours! Maybe if you were smarter, you would be able to answer my question and we wouldn't be screaming at each other!" Ino continued to shout.

"Well, sorry for not being a genius!" Sakura shouted.

"You should be!" Ino yelled.

"I am!" Sakura yelled back.

"Fine!"

"Fine!"

The two girls looked away from each other and pouted with their arms crossed.

"I'm taking a shower." Ino said, standing up.

"Just don't use up all the hot water, Ino-pig." Sakura said.

"Hmph." Ino said.

"Shikamaru. Pssst…" Temari whispered.

"What?" Shikamaru looked confusedly at Temari. 'Why is she whispering?'

"Do you hear that?" Temari whispered again.

"Hear what?" Shikamaru asked in a normal volume. 'I don't hear anything.'

"Exactly." Temari said normally.

"What?" Shikamaru asked dumbfounded. 'What is she talking about?'

Temari sighed. "Nothing."

"What? Tell me." Shikamaru said.

"You wouldn't care…you're so 'troublesome'. Temari said in a low voice, acting like Shikamaru.

Shikamaru rolled his eyes. "Whatever, genius." He said in a snobby voice.

"Hmm…" Temari said, thinking of an idea.

"What now?" Shikamaru sighed.

"You know what would be fun?" Temari asked rhetorically.

"Watching the clouds?" Shikamaru guessed.

"No." Temari stated flatly. "What if we switched personalities for the day?"

"Then we'd switch personalities for the day. So?" Shikamaru yawned.

"So…let's switch personalities for the day." Temari said.

"No." Shikamaru responded monotonously.

"Yes." Temari said.

"No." Shikamaru said again in the same tone.

"Yes." Temari said in an almost sing-song voice.

"No." Shikamaru sighed. 'How long is she going to do this?'

"Yes." Temari said with slight anger in her voice.

Shikamaru sighed again. "Fine." He muttered.

"Yes!" Temari smirked at Shikamaru.

'Oh man. This is definitely going to be troublesome.' Shikamaru sighed again.

In Kankuro's room…

'Maybe I am lucky.' Kankuro contemplated. 'I wouldn't mind a couple of fangirls, but I guess it's better than being stalked all day.' He debated in his head. 'I still wish I could get a girlfriend…but I guess I don't need one…maybe I should have an arranged marriage. Gaara can arrange that kind of stuff.'

'An arranged marriage…' Kankuro thought about it. 'It wouldn't be a bad thing. At least I know I won't die lonely. Then again, I'll lose a chance at finding true love and all that stuff.'

'I've already kind of lost my love, so that's down the drain. I guess an arranged marriage would be best…hmmm…would I be able to choose my wife? Does Gaara choose my wife?' Kankuro started to think. 'Oh, man, I hope Temari doesn't choose my wife. That would suck…a lot…'

Kankuro yawned. "Maybe I should take that nap…" He lowered him head to his pillow and closed his eyes. 'I'll think about my future after I get some sleep.'

A minute or less later…

'I can't sleep.' Kankuro sighed. He thought for about five minutes to decide what to do. In the end, Kankuro started counting sheep.

'One sheep, two sheep, three sheep, four sheep…' Slowly, but surely, Kankuro started snoring.

"Neji?" Tenten said.

"Hmm?" Neji said, not turning to Tenten.

"Are you doing anything today?" Tenten asked.

"No." Neji answered emotionlessly. "Did you have something planned?"

"No." Tenten answered nervously.

"But you do want to do something." Neji inferred.

"Well, yeah…" Tenten responded.

"What do you want to do?" Neji asked politely.

"I don't know; whatever you want." Tenten answered.

"Well, I don't feel like doing anything, so choose something." Neji said.

"Well, if you don't want to do anything, then I'll stay her with you." Tenten said.

"Why would you do that?" Neji asked.

"Because…" Tenten paused to think of a good answer. "…you're my…my b-"

"Okay. Let's go." Neji said.

"What? Go where?" Tenten asked.

"Out." Neji stated plainly.

"Well, I know that. Out where?" Tenten asked.

"Outside." Neji said simply.

Tenten sighed. "Neji!"

"Wherever you want." Neji answered for real.

"R-Really?" Tenten stuttered. 'Wherever I want?'

"Yes." Neji said.

"But I already said I didn't know what I wanted to do." Tenten said.

"There must be something you want to do or somewhere you want to go." Neji said. "Anywhere."

"Hmmm…" Tenten put her index finger on her lip. "Let's go to the balcony."

"Really?" Neji asked.

"Yes really." Tenten took Neji's hand and led him to the balcony.

After some sulking time, and a nap, to himself…

Kankuro yawned, stretching his arms out. 'That was a good nap. I guess I just needed to rest. '

5 minutes later…

'I'm bored. I wonder what Temari's doing.' Kankuro slid out of his bed and walked to the connecting door leading to Temari and Shikamaru.

Behind the door…

"Hey, Shikamaru. Hey, Temari." Kankuro greeted lazily.

"Hn." Temari said, not looking up at Kankuro.

"What do you want?" Shikamaru said rudely.

"Uh…I wanted to know what you guys were doing." Kankuro said, slightly confused.

Temari yawned. "Nothing." She answered.

"We were talking, but since you butt-in, again…" Shikamaru shrugged.

"Huh?" Kankuro said, even more confused than before.

"As troublesome as it is, he's right." Temari said, trying very hard to keep her composure, which she did rather well.

"What?" Kankuro said, after hearing Temari use the word 'troublesome'.

"Yeah. You better get out of here before I get mad." Shikamaru warned.

"I suggest you leave before he gets mad." Temari sighed. "He can be so troublesome sometimes." Temari advised, using all of her energy and strength not to laugh.

"What did you just say?!" Shikamaru said loudly.

"Nothing, nothing." Temari said nervously. "How troublesome." She muttered with her arms crossed.

Kankuro stared at Temari and Shikamaru very confused. 'What has the world come to?' He thought. 'This must be a dream or something. Yeah, that's it. It's all a dream.' Kankuro couldn't take it any longer.

"Ahhh!" Kankuro screamed running back to his room. He slammed to door shut and ran to his bed. Then he covered himself with the bed sheets and quivered in fear.

Once Kankuro ran out of the room…

Temari couldn't hold it in any longer. She took a couch-pillow and laughed as hard as possible in it.

Even Shikamaru couldn't help but laugh at Kankuro's reaction.

"And just think; we'll be doing this for the whole day." Temari said while laughing.

"As trou--as tough as this is going to be not to laugh, I guess it's better than sitting on the couch with you all day." Shikamaru admitted.

"What?! What's that supposed to mean?!" Temari shouted.

"I-I was trying to be you?" Shikamaru said nervously.

"Hmph. I don't sound like that." Temari crossed her arms.

"Well, I don't say troublesome after every other sentence." Shikamaru said.

"Oh, yes you do." Temari disagreed.

"No I don't." Shikamaru said.

"Well, your interpretation of me isn't all that great either." Temari said.

"At least I'm trying harder to you. All you say is 'troublesome' after every sentence." Shikamaru said.

"Oh yeah?" Temari said competitively.

"Yeah!" Shikamaru said.

"You're right." Temari yawned.

"What?" Shikamaru said surprised.

Temari continued in her yawn. "Yeah, you're right. You're trying so much harder than me, it's almost scary."

"Ha, ha." Shikamaru caught on to Temari's act. He sighed. "I guess you are pretty good too."

"Yeah, I am pretty good, aren't I?" Temari said proudly.

"That wasn't very 'Shikamaru in-character', you know." Shikamaru pointed out.

Temari yawned again.

"I don't yawn that much." Shikamaru muttered.

"If I yawned as much as you do, I'd lose so much water (from tears); it would look like I've been crying all day." Temari said.

"Hn." Shikamaru said.

"Hey, I say 'hn' now!" Temari said.

"Whatever." Shikamaru said instead.

"I don't say whatever!" Temari said.

"Then what do you say?" Shikamaru asked.

"Ummm…I don't know." Temari said.

Shikamaru smirked.

"Ugh. Whatever." Temari said.

At the balcony…

"What now?" Neji asked.

"I just wanted to look at the scenery. Since we're so high up, this is a good chance to look over Tokyo." Tenten answered. Her hands were on her chin and her elbows were leaning on the balcony bars.

Neji stood straight, not doing anything. He looked at Tenten most of the time. The rest of the time, he looked to the ground.

"Why don't you enjoy this vacation more? You know, take in whatever you can while you can. We're not going to be here forever. We may never be able to have a vacation for a real long time." Tenten said, not facing Neji.

Neji was silent.

Tenten stood up and turned to Neji. She crossed her arms. "I know you heard me. I know you know I'm right. You might as well relax." She smiled at Neji.

"I can't relax…it's not…me." Neji said.

Tenten sighed. "True." She admitted.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Neji raised an eyebrow.

"You said it, not me." Tenten said.

"That doesn't mean you have to agree." Neji muttered.

"I'm just being honest." Tenten shrugged.

"If everybody in the world was honest, the world would be chaos." Neji said.

"True. But if the world was only lies, the world would be just as chaotic." Tenten said. "It's a good thing we have both honest people and liars."

"Hn." Neji said, meaning that he agreed.

Tenten smiled in triumph.

"That doesn't mean I will relax." Neji said.

Tenten sighed. "At least you're getting there." She smiled genuinely at Neji.

Neji looked at Tenten. He tried his hardest to crack a smile; instead, he made a sexy smirk.

Tenten giggled.

"What?" Neji asked.

"You…did you mean to do that?" Tenten asked.

"What? Smile?" Neji asked.

"Oh, you were smiling." Tenten understood.

"What did you think I was doing?" Neji asked.

"I didn't know what you were doing, but you ended up with a pretty sexy smirk." Tenten complimented.

"Uh, thank you?" Neji said hesitantly.

Tenten giggled. "Yeah. It was a compliment." She went back to leaning on the balcony and looking at the scenery.

This time, Neji copied, sort of, and looked at the landscape. He didn't know what he was looking for or at, but since Tenten seemed to enjoy gazing Tokyo, he enjoyed looking at the morning backdrop as well.

A/N: Yup…kind of fluffy at the end…there you go…remember, I'll update on the 15th! Hopefully I'll have time to finish my homework and work-out and finish my KanTen picture for deviantART.

Title: The title is for everyone. It's true…everyone's having a change of heart in one way or another.