Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, Tenten would have more screen time…(and Neji :3) (bit of fangirl…of Tenji!)

Sakura, Ino, Hinata, and Tenten waited patiently at the hospital. Two hours ago, they were summoned, told that they had a mission, which was to wait for the Hokage to arrive. Even though it sounded like a D-rank mission, they were told to treat it like it was an A-rank. Ino sighed.

"She's taking forever, where is she?" Tenten frowned at the comment.

"It doesn't matter how long she takes, it's a mission, and therefore, we wait." Tenten frowned at the group, before laughing. "Ha…I sounded like Neji-oh! Sorry Hinata." The lavender-eyed girl gave a small smile.

"It's okay, Tenten-san; Neji-san and I are starting to get along now." The bun-haired girl wrinkled her nose.

"Don't call me san! It makes me feel old…and you don't have to call Neji 'san' around friends. He wanted me to tell you that, you only have to call him that around the elders. Okay?" Hinata nodded.

"Okay Tenten-sa-oops. Sorry." Tenten rolled her eyes.

"You need to stop apologizing all the time." Sakura agreed.

"Yeah Hinata, you don't do anything that's bad…you're too nice." Tenten smirked.

"Unless you start stalking Naruto again."

"Nani?" Ino and Sakura looked back and forth from the blushing Hyuga to the confident weapon mistress. "I-I-I don't stalk Naruto-kun…" Ino laughed.

"As if. The only person who doesn't know about that is the knucklehead himself. He wants to be Hokage, but he can't even see the things in front of him. That's why so many people say that he won't be Hokage. He looks over the obvious." The blonde yawned. "Hey forehead."

"What pig?"

"What time is it?"

"Four o'clock." Ino groaned.

"We've been waiting for the Hokage for three hours! This is such a drag."

"You sound like Shikamaru." Ino rolled her eyes.

"Lazy is rubbing on me. To my surprise, at the shop, I found myself looking at the clouds instead of selling flowers." Sakura smiled.

"But to stay on the subject, she is taking a long time." Hinata agreed.

"She is a little late." Tenten sighed.

"Yeah…she could hurry it up a bit." As the words left Tenten's lips, Tsunade slammed open the hospital door, calling for every free nurse to immediately go to the emergency surgery room. Behind the furious Hokage, Kakashi and Jiraiya stood, unsure of the safety of Arene, who was still unconscious in Kakashi's arms; or the people in the hospital within the distance of the Slug Sannin's wrath. Sakura saw her teammate covered in blood, plugged in the angry Godaime, and assumed the worst. Tears filled Sakura's emerald eyes as she ran to her sensei, who sighed.

"Calm down Sakura; Arene will be fine, she just had a little accident." The girl continued to cry, but hiccupped her reply to her sensei.

"Y-you said the same t-thing about Sa-Sasuke and N-Naruto. You said that S-Sasuke wouldn't fight Naruto and he would be fine." Sakura wiped her tears away from her eyes and glared at Kakashi. "But he going to fight Naruto again, and he's obviously not fine!" Before Kakashi could say anything else, Tsunade came and told Kakashi to take Arene to the surgery room. As the shinobi followed the instructions, Tsunade noticed the group of girls that waited for her. Seeing what she was looking for, the woman beckoned.

"Hinata, come with me please, I need your help." The Hyuga girl paled at the acknowledgement, but followed without an argument. Soon the hospital was quiet again, and Ino frowned, while she comforted Sakura.

"Well? Now what?" Tenten sighed.

"We wait…again."

About two hours later

Ino and Sakura were asleep in the chairs in the waiting room, after arguing for an hour, the two girls eventually wore each other out. Tenten stayed awake, keeping herself entertained by throwing sebons into the wall, stopping only when a nurse glared. Sighing, the kunoichi retrieved her weapons, sealing them into her scroll; and began to meditate, picking up the trait from Neji and their constant training. After five minutes of meditating, Tenten heard footsteps coming toward her and the two girls. Brown eyes opened to see Tsunade grinning.

"Lucky…you don't have to do paperwork, just nap." The young kunoichi jumped up and quickly bowed to her role model, mumbling her hello. "No need for all that honorific stuff. Now wake those two and follow me." Tenten quickly nodded and proceeded to wake Ino and Sakura. After the two girls successfully pulled out all of Tenten's 'wake up' sebons out of their shirts, the group trailed after the Hokage. Soon, they found themselves in the surgery room, along with Hinata, Jiraiya, and Kakashi. Jiraiya and Kakashi looked up from their conversation to nod to the girls before continuing their argument. Hinata went up to the friends, paler than usual. Sakura noticed and questioned.

"What's wrong Hinata?" The girl shook her head.

"I had to help with the surgery…Arene used all of her chakra…but…there was still a sufficient amount left…its…odd…" As the girl trailed off, she recalled where she saw that before. "It…kind of reminded me of…Naruto-kun…he will use all of his chakra…but…then he'll come up with a whole new amount that appears out of nowhere. It's not common for people to do that…is it?" The girls shook their heads, before Tenten frowned.

"Neji said that too…about Naruto anyways. After the Chunnin exams, and they fought, in the hospital, Neji mentioned that he saw that a whole new type of chakra appeared…enabled him to…" Tenten suddenly smiled, causing the others to inquire.

"To what?" Tenten continued to smile but answered.

"To overcome destiny. Or trick it somehow." The older girl grinned. "Neji is insistent that Naruto swindled destiny to make him win."

[Tenten's point of view

And…Neji also mentioned that he saw something inside of Naruto…but he wasn't sure…and after the match…he looked again…and there was nothing…and he was…is still sure that he didn't just see things in the heat of battle. But that's Neji…will never admit that he was wrong.

[Norm view

The girls walked up to Arene's bedside and stared. The Sannin's sister was still unconscious, but even knocked out, there was an air around the girl that demanded respect. Tsunade cleared her throat, and the younger kunoichi turned.

"It'll be a while for her to wake up…but that's not the problem. Arene was close to bringing Sasuke back, and she's still very upset for not doing so…she also lost all of her chakra in her 'lapse'. Therefore, I want you girls to watch her when she wakes up. She's not allowed to use any ninjutsu, genjutsu, or even taijutsu…nothing. That's going to be a big deal for her because she's going to want to train furiously. Your jobs are to keep her occupied until she gets well. Understand?" The girls nodded, and Ino spoke up.

"When she wakes up…maybe we can have a sleepover so we can watch over her at night?" Tsunade nodded.

"That would be a good way to watch her. Get permission from your parents for a sleepover; Hinata, I will inform your father that this is a mission that you cannot refuse, so that should take care of you, okay?" The Hyuga nodded. "Any other ideas?"

"Shopping!" Tenten paled at the word, and Hinata jumped at the sound of Ino and Sakura screaming the activity. Tsunade grinned.

"I'm glad that you all are ready to take this. I will send Arene straight to the flower shop for the sleepover. If she is late, come to the Uchiha complex and drag her out. Got it?"

"Yes Tsunade-sama."

"Good, dismissed."