A/N: Hey!! So how is the story?? *smiles* Thank you for all of the reviews, I really do appreciate it...especially my devoted readers. Hehe, so...so far we got Ten-Ten trying to get some from Neji while Temari is busy trying to lay a hand on Sasuke, and Shikamaru is complaining about Rock Lee and Ino. What will happen next? Will the current couples' love for each other be able to withstand the green faces??

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto...if I did, I would be swimming in my flow of fresh green paper...lol ^^

~A Green Face Can Get On Anybody's Case~

It's been a week since the new roommates arrived, and they made friends with others...until the week after that. That was when the roommates started to get real and fangs were revealed.

Ten-Ten stretched out her arms as she got out of her bed and headed toward the restroom. While she was oozing some toothpaste from the tube, Sakura, from behind startled her.

"Oh, sorry Ten-Ten, I didn't know you were here," Sakura apologized as Ten- Ten forgave her. Her energetic green eyes beamed at her friend and then lowered down to what Ten-Ten was holding.

"I don't mean to be rude Ten-Ten, but it so happens that the toothpaste you're using someone else's toothpaste," Sakura remembered that Ten-Ten had a minty scent to it instead of bubble-gum flavored toothpaste. She was kind of confused and kind of sweat dropped. Ten-Ten blushed and immediately shoved it away and used hers.

(What the hell was she doing with Neji's toothpaste?? It could be a coincidence, could it? And bubble-gum flavored toothpaste??)

Sakura then opened her own toothpaste and started brushing her teeth while Ten-Ten was rinsing her mouth. When the two were done, they then departed from each other to do their own agenda.

Downstairs, Naruto was relaxing himself on the plump and comfy couch with his eyes closed while Hinata was cooking up some breakfast for them and the others. After Hinata was finished, the aroma of scrambled eggs streamed across the room and happened to pass Naruto's nose, which perked up and Naruto woke up.

When Naruto's eyes curtained up he found himself with Hinata helping her make the table. He then saw the awake roommates come downstairs and filed in a line and went to their seats to consume some warm food to satisfy their empty stomachs.

Naruto seated Hinata and then everyone started to devour down their meal, and much to his surprise, Hinata was making conversation with the "complaining" Shikamaru. Shockingly, Hinata giggled softly from a funny comment coming from the other end of the talk. Naruto looked to his other side to talk to and saw Temari.

"Sasuke," Naruto listened as Temari talked to Sasuke.

Expectantly, Sasuke didn't answer and ate his food without making a noise while the others were bubbling with conversation, except for Gaara.

As Temari was trying to get Sasuke's attention, her eyes were set on her brother who was staring intently at her like a cat watching closely to his prey right before it was going to consume it.

Temari excused herself and Gaara dismissed himself after that, and soon there were two empty chairs of all the other seats at the table.

Gaara waited for his sister in his bedroom and when she arrived, he stared at her, which startled her.

"Damn it, Gaara...what the hell do you want?" Temari held up her hands furiously.

Gaara sat cross-legged on his bed and his eyes pierced into his sibling's and bluntly said, "Stay away from Sasuke," Temari was startled at his words, "he's not fit for you nor you for him," and in response, Temari stormed out of the room with only her last words hanging over Gaara's head.

"You selfish bastard!! How come you don't want me to be happy?"

~*~

Sakura and Neji were strolling down the beach and were moving slowly side by side like two peas in a pod. Neji's black hair and Sakura's pink hair flowed with the wind and intertwined freely together.

Much to her surprise, Neji reached for her hand and Sakura blushed, as she accepted his hand. The two paused and looked into each other's eyes, and Neji smiled. Sakura grinned happily as she felt herself drown and melt in the sight of those friendly eyes glittering like diamonds.

When they resumed back to their stroll, Sakura's hand was still held in Neji's. Clasped together as if he didn't want to let go of her hand. Sakura then broke the friendly silence, and asked, "Neji, ever since this has been going on...I'm beginning to wonder where we stand," her emerald bright eyes looked up waiting patiently for an answer.

Neji opened his mouth and before he answered, he was suddenly jerked away from her. Sakura looked at her hand that used to be in Neji's. His hand was gone. She glanced at the person who pulled him away and then let out a small gasp.

"Neji! How come we've never had these walks when we were in our teams?" Ten- Ten smiled with her arms wrapped around Neji.

Sakura was silent.

Neji seemed to be irate with Ten-Ten, and instead of giving a response, he walked away from the two.

Ten-Ten was shocked.

The remaining girls glared at each other.

"This is what you do to a friend of yours?" Sakura couldn't believe her eyes...and a solitary tear came down from her warm eyes with thoughts clouding in her head of what had happened before when Ino and she were best friends, and a guy came along.

"I liked him before you did," Ten-Ten walked over and whispered into a startled Sakura, "I tend to stake my claim," and then she turned on her heel and went off following the remaining footsteps that Neji left off when he headed back to the beach house.

Sakura looked to her side and saw a flock of seagulls flying together like a family, and then shook her head to forget what she saw. It'll never happen to me, she thought.

Back at the house, Rock Lee and Ino were in his room arm in arm on Rock Lee's bed. They were exchanging love notes on the bed and Ino giggled with pleasure as she opened each of the unopened letters to read how much Rock Lee loved her in it.

Later Shikamaru barged in and flew himself onto his bed with a noise. Ino looked and Shikamaru was on his back with his arms folded behind his head. His head then turned and Ino looked away and resumed back to the letter.

"Do you know that it's rude to barge into a room without even giving a damn about what the other people will think when they have already occupied the room?" Rock Lee pointed out to Shikamaru who obviously ignored him as he turned his back on them.

"Hey! I was talking to you, Shikamaru!" Rock Lee stood up and Ino held him down to prevent any further damage.

"Lee, just...just leave him alone," Ino then led a furious Rock Lee out of the room. When they were out of sight, Shikamaru turned and looked to see some remaining letters on Rock Lee's bed. He headed over and read some of them, and impulsively threw them back on the bed, feverishly. Ino tried to calm Rock Lee down in the living room and Naruto and Hinata were in the same room with them. Ino apologized for her boyfriend's attitude, and dismissed him and her out of the room and headed out of the house and onto the soft sand.

"Lee!" Ino's face was all red from restraining Rock Lee from his anger. "LEE!!" she raised her voice to another decibel and he listened.

"Damn it, Lee! Why can't you just leave Shikamaru alone?" Ino ran into Rock Lee's arms, and he embraced her.

"Have you seen the way he treats us? He treats us like dirt, and I do not want to live with someone who does that, and since he and I are in the same bedroom I go off when he does it," Rock Lee exploded with emotion and all Ino could do was calm him down.

Later, there were the sound of footsteps coming down the steps outside of the door, and the couple looked only to see Shikamaru crossing his arms across his chest and scoffing at them.

Rock Lee was about to head over to him, but Ino held onto his arm. "Lee!" Ino tried as hard as she could to make him stay as composed as possible. While Rock Lee was wasting his energy on telling Shikamaru off, he calmly stepped down and headed over to him. Ino was still holding onto him and Rock Lee was trying to break out of Ino's restrain like a lion untamed.

Shikamaru came closer to Rock Lee and looked at him sympathetically. He let out a sigh and told Ino, "Why waste your strength on him? He's nothing but a fireball, settle for something calmer," he then walked away and went back into the house slamming the door on them.

Inside, Naruto and Hinata were surprised at Shikamaru's attitude when he slammed the door and then stomped upstairs.

"What's with him?" Naruto asked with his arm around Hinata.

She shrugged hopelessly and then set her head on his shoulders and the two sat together cherishing their moment together.

~*~

Sakura was still on the beach and was astonished when she witnessed a raging Rock Lee and Ino trying to control him to prevent Rock Lee from hurting Shikamaru.

What is up with the new roommates, she thought, all they bring to this house is trouble and chaos, she thought again.

She stood for awhile and she was so caught up in her thoughts, she couldn't see a big tide heading toward her.

The blue tide then pulled up and streamed past Sakura and her body drowned in it, she let out cry for help, but her voice was consumed by the mad waves. The girl tried to resist the force, but the tide was too strong and tried to pull her away from the surface.

After a few seconds, she opened her eyes slowly and Sakura then found herself drowning in the water, and only a few bubbles emerged from her mouth. She felt herself going deeper and deeper into the ocean, and she looked up and saw the light. Where she was, the darkness consumed her. This is it, she thought. What she didn't see was someone diving in trying to save her.