Disclaimers: Naruto don't belong to me.

This story is about Sakura, Ino, Hinata, Tenten, Temari, Matsuri, Karin as best friends doing the craziest of things that friends would do together.

Couples are Sasuke and Sakura, Ino and Sai, Naruto and Hinata, Tenten and Neji, Shikamaru and Temari, Gaara and Matsuri, Karin and Suigetsu.

A/N: wow I know it's been a while but just letting you know prom was Monday night and I was preparing for it and then after it I had plans with my friends and plus I was so tired :) but I'm here now :)

Tenten had gathered with her troupe to share the information they had collected. "Noting here, Hinata just spent time with Naruto, fainted and went home after that." Kiba recalled what had happened, Shino stood back but agreed.

_(flash back)_

Naruto caught the unconscious girl just before her head made contact with the hard ground. "Shit, Hinata! What's wrong?!" He shook her but she didn't answer his calls. Shino and Kiba had to blow their cover so they could help their friend. They took her to a shady tree and placed her there and waited patiently for her to gain consciousness.

Naruto was arguing with Kiba about him handling things on his own when she came through. Shino had greeted her and filled her in on what had happened. After that Naruto took her home and Kiba and Shino followed to make sure of it. The petty girl was so embarrassed about fainting in front of the clueless blonde guy.

_(end of flash back)_

"Same here we got nothing at all." Rock Lee sigh, he was tired, all day he and Tenten had followed Neji around only to come up empty handed.

"I'm beat, later guys, Akamaru's properly wondering where I am." Kiba bid his friends farewell and left. Shino and Lee left Tenten on her own at the same spot Hinata was earlier today. Under the tall, cool tree shade.

Tenten was about to head home as well but her phone startled her with its ringing. "A message from Neji? Shit did he know what we were up to?" She asked herself. Opening the message she carefully read it out loud. "Forget about Saturday, that's too far away; I need to talk to you now; where are you?"

She didn't know how to feel. She was happy because Neji wanted to see and possible tell her about their secret. But at the same time she felt worried, nervous and confuse. Her fingers were quick as she typed her reply.

'Sure we can talk: I'm nearby Ichiraku's Ramen Shop – come meet me.' She pressed send and sighed. 'Guess I'll be here a while.' She thought to herself smothering her hair.

...

"What letter? I don't know what you're talking about." She played innocent and calm but really she was dying slowly, painfully inside. How could she have forgotten about that letter?

"Don't play stupid with me, it was your hand writing with your signature, I still have it at home." He confirmed his lips forming a hard line, he was obviously angry by her actions to pretend she didn't know what he was talking about.

When she thought about it he said he still had it; was that a good thing? She wondered, Gaara thought she was taking too long to answer so he called her name. "Matsuri?" This brought her out of her thoughts and back to her problem, him. "Do you mean what you wrote?" He suddenly asked recalling what it said in his mind. He had actually memorised the whole thing by heart.

*****The letter Matsuri Wrote for Gaara*****

Dear Gaara,

This is a letter of my thoughts, things I couldn't tell you face to face. Now that I'm leaving and don't know when I'll see you again I'll give you my thoughts and hearts desires :) by letter. Here goes; please don't hate me; if you want to you can just forget about this just don't hate me.

I don't know how to start this, I'm afraid it might make you hate me. I love you; you mean so much to me. It pains that I'm leaving soon and you don't even know how I feel. I admire you, dream of you, and want to care for you heal your wombs. The time I spend with you wasn't enough, I may sound greedy and stalker-ish but I love you it can't be helped. From day one when I laid eyes on you my heart clenched and longed for you.

You don't have to return the love just smile for me. 'Be happy and I'll be satisfy' I don't know how I'll manage without seeing you, hearing your voice every day. I have to end this letter short, I need to pack. I love you Gaara and that'll never change: Ps: It was I who took your T-shirt that day, Temari had nothing to do with it :p

*****End of Matsuri's Letter*****

"G-Gaara, I..." She had bent her head down; she didn't know what to say to him. She was afraid of being rejected, 'what was I thinking of leaving that letter there.' She thought, it felt so hard to look at him.

"Matsuri, answer me, did you mean those things?" He wanted to know, he had been waiting so long to ask her this. "Yes... Dame it yes!" She shouted her head still facing down. "Why would I have written it if I didn't?" She asked him not waiting for a reply. She got up readying herself to leave. But when she had taken a few steps she was grabbed. She was grabbed and thrown over Gaara's shoulder.

"G-Gaara! What are you..." She flushed at the contact, it wasn't the first time he did this, but it was somehow different this time.

"We need to talk privately." Was all he said as he continued walking with her on his shoulder?

...

Tenten had slept away under the tree while waiting for Neji. When she felt a hand on her shoulder her eyes snapped open and she pushed her body of the jagged bark of the tree. "Calm down it's only me." Neji spoke softly to her, she looks up at him and placed a hand on her chest and took a breath.

"Hey." She greeted him with a sheepish smile, even though he smiled back with her, she saw the worry look in his eyes. The burning desire over took him and he stooped down in front her and leaned in for a kiss. It took her a moment to realise what was going on and she kissed him back but it felt so unreal to her.

"Tenten, Tenten get up." Neji was knelt down in front her hands on her shoulders gently shaking her. She then realise that what had happened, the kiss, was just a dream. "You should be more careful it's dangerous to fall asleep alone in a place like this." He scolded her as she sat up and stretched her arms out, who was she kidding he'd never kiss her; she wasn't sure he even liked her that way.

Sure they were close friends but that's all there is to it. "Yea my bad, what's up?" She asked brushing her dream and his words aside. "Let's go." He pulled her to her feet.

"Where are we going?" She asked, suddenly anger rushed through her, she didn't know why but she felt angry at him. "Out of sight out of reach." He didn't let go of her hand he just dragged her along with him to where ever he was going.

...

"Hey, I've been trying to call you, how come you took this long to reply?" Shikamaru answered as soon as he saw her number on his cell phone screen.

"Oh, uh, hey I've been...busy and stuff, besides I'm sure you've had better things to so." She stated remembering Shiho around him. This is why she had been avoiding him, so that she wouldn't snap at him, kike she was doing right now.

"Nope not really I've sort of missed your company, I got attached fast." He joked; of course it was only a joke and noting more to Temari. Why would he be serious about missing her right? She found herself pacing back and forth from her room door passing Gaara's, Kankuro's and to the bathroom door.

"Yea sure you did, I bet there are 'other' girls you would rather spend time with." She grinded her teeth; why did she even bother calling him, this was going to end badly. She was still pissed at him and if she argued with him he won't know why, even if he was a genius he won't know.

"Are you ok you sound...pissed?" He asked ignoring her statment.

Thankfully before she could snap at him and ask him about Shiho, Matsuri's voice was heard. "You can put me down, I won't run away or anything, honestly, I have my own darn foot, I can walk perfectly find on own you know."

Temari had stop pacing and stood in front the bathroom door the phone still pressed to her ear. She waited for the girl to come up stairs but then she heard Gaara's voice before they came into view. "Stop moving around if we fall it's your fault." Gaara was caring Matsuri on his shoulder he smirked at Temari's shocked face and entered his room.

When he turned to the door to open it Matsuri's eyes locked with hers. "Hey Temari, bye." She grins sheepishly before the door was closed. Shikamaru voice brought Temari back to earth and reality.

"Hey you there, don't space out on me or I'll come over." Temari walked to the door and pressed her ear on it and listened attentively keeping the phone at her side so Shikamaru wouldn't disturb her. She couldn't hear the words properly but they were talking.

Finally she gave up and entered her own room. "Hey Teamri it's not funny I'm still here, if you keep ignoring me I'll hang up." She heard Shika rambling on because of her sudden disappearance.

"Yea I'm here, what were we talking about again, I sort of got...disturbed, my brother just walked in with one of my best friends...anyway that's not the point." She was fumbling and began unconsciously pacing in her room.

"Uh about breakfast, you owe me since you cancelled on me the other day." He smoothly said, licking his slightly dry lips, he heard her shuffling things around then a small squeak was heard along with a. "Fuck!"

"Are you ok Teamri, do I really have to come over for ya or are you cool?" She giggled at herself and sighed.

"I'm just fine ok I got surprise by a really big spider is all." She lied; she was still trying to spy on her brother and Matsuri but failed again, this time she almost got caught.

"Yea sure, so breakfast?" He asked, his voice sending chills up her back. He sounded so sexy in her ear.

"How about I make breakfast for you sometime...you know... since you paid last time for me. I'll give you a day; all you have to do is come."

She heard a small chuckle. "Sure thing, so what are you doing be honest, I tend to know when people are lying?" He asked, warning her, he didn't expect her to invite him over and make breakfast for him but he didn't turn down the offer. Why would he, he sort of really liked her.

Temari sighted before giving Shikamaru details on what had just happen, leaving out the part where she had opened her brothers door a little to peep on them.

Her anger was replaced by laughter as she told her story, she had forgotten about Shiho and the fact that she was just hissing at him a moment ago. She liked talking to him.

...

After the embarrassing encounter with Temari, Matsuri was placed on Gaara's bed. His room simple yet had this edgy look to it, similar to his old one.

She dreamed of being on his bed, just in a different way. She flushed just thinking about it, how naughty of her. "You're blushing." He stated while taking a seat next to her.

"Am I now?" She asked smiling up at him, he was so tall and made her feel short and somewhat petty.

"Yea, why didn't you tell me how you felt about me?" He asked, she turned red even more and looked down at her tangled fingers on her lap. 'Why?' she asked herself, 'why did I not tell him?' He held her small chin in his rough, strong manly palm and made her look at hm.

"I was a-afraid." His hand immediately dropped to his side, he didn't want her to be afraid of him.

"Not like that stupid." She assured him, when she saw his emotionless face turn to a hurt and pained look. She knew he hated when people who he never hurt was afraid of him. It reminded him of long ago when people scorned him. When they called him heartless and acted as he was some kind of criminal. It had started when some jerks began spreading rumours about him.

They were covetous of him, of his family wealth and the way some girls ogled over him, how people use to respect him. The rumours were believed because Gaara had a bad boy look to him and sent of a vibe that said touch me and you're dead. Slowly the respect turned into fear and

Gaara became a violent, angry person. He hated people who looked at him like that.

But it was different now and he was different.

It was her turn to take his firm, strong structured chin in her hand. "I'm not afraid of you; I was just scared you didn't have the same feeling for me, like any other girl who likes a guy." He took her hand in his.

"I love you to." He pressed his lips on hers and kissed her taking her bottom lip between his parted ones. She kissed him back with a hand in his hair she pushed him toward her. Her heart beat fast and she could tell he was nervous as well. She heard the door crack a little and Gaara pulled away.

She knew Temari was properly trying to spy on them. Gaara got up to see what was going on but when he opened the door no one was there. He closed the door and locked it this time and began kissing Matsuri again. She couldn't believe what was going on.

"Am...I...Like...You're...Girl...Friend...now?" She asked in-between kisses.

"Yes." He murmured against her lips.

...

The next day all eight girls where gathered in konoha's biggest mall, one of the best in the world actually. Sari wanted to tell them something and she needed them to come down at 6:00 am sharp on the dot. Ino was the only one excited to be at the mall so early, everyone else complained quietly amongst themselves.

Sari, Ino and Matsuri returned to their table in the food court. They were getting drinks for everyone. Matsuri told everyone about her and Gaara and Temari kept blah blaring about how she 'knew' they were doing the 'nasty'.

"What is this about Sari cakes?" Tenten asked taking her coffee from Sari's hand. Tenten seemed to be in a bad mood today but no one bothered to ask because they knew she'd blow up on them. When she was ready she'd talk about it that was just the way she was.

"Well...here goes...I'm leaving Konoha today at 9:00 pm, so I wanted to spend this time with you crazy people." Their table went dead silent, Ino and Matsuri turned to look at her from both her sides. Tenten stopped mid way from sipping her drink to scold at Sari.

Sakura paused form taking her drink from Ino and Teamri stopped trying to steal Karin's gum from her purse to look at the girl with disbelief expression. Hinata winced at their expression, she wondered what they'd do if they found out about her leaving Konoha.

"What!?" They all asked simultaneously looking at Sari as if the words won't sink in their minds. Sari bit her lip nervously as she slid into her seat to explain her situation to the girls and tell them why she hadn't told them before.

That's all for now but I'll try to pose a new chapter later and if not I'll pose it tomorrow in the morning :)

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