Many thanks to my sister! She kept bugging me to make a fanfic. I guess it paid off. jk! She helped me come up with the April Fools idea. Thanks…again

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Chapter 1, April Fools

In most of Neji's memories, his father was his normal self. He was serious and strict, yet at the same time nice. He was everything a Hyuuga should be; reserved, polite, and confident but not cocky. He had given most of these traits to his son. Keyword is most. Hyuuga Neji was reserved, he could be polite, and he was definitely confident. However, he was cocky. Besides these traits his father had also passed onto him his love for April Fools Day.

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Flashback begins

"Neji, can you come here for a second," said Hizashi.

"Yes daddy," replied an adorable five-year-old boy, as he walked over to his father.

"Do you know what day it is tomorrow?"

"It's April 1st!"

"Yes, and do you know what April 1st is?"

Neji stood there trying to figure out why April 1st was so special. Was it mommy's birthday already? No, that was in December. What about Hinata-sama's birthday? No, that had passed just a few weeks ago. Not knowing the answer, Neji shook his head.

"It's april fools day! So here's what we're going to do, we're going to play a little trick on mommy. And I'm going to need your help. Okay?"

"But daddy, I thought you said that tricks were bad."

"Normally they are, but if they're harmless and just for fun, it's okay. Besides, it's April fools day and we know mommy well enough that she won't get too mad. Okay?"

"Okay."

"Good. Oh, and one more thing. Make sure that if you play a practical joke on someone that you know them pretty well." He waited for Neji to nod and continued. "Now listen closely, here's what we're going to do…"

Neji listened to his father intently and nodded every here and there as Hizashi explained what his part in the plan was.

Flashback ends

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Neji smiled to himself as he walked to the training ground where he was supposed to meet everyone. Neji was always the first one there, as he liked to train by himself for a while to get rid of any excess energy. It wasn't a good idea for Neji to have extra energy while he was around Lee and Gai. He was always afraid that he would lose control and murder them or maybe even commit suicide. The few times he had lost control, Tenten had been able to calm him down.

He was surprised when he saw Lee there. " Lee, what are you doing here this early?"

Lee turned around and said, "Neji! What a delight to see my best friend this early in the morning!"

"I'm not your best friend. Now answer my question."

"Oh, well you see, yesterday, I promised myself that I would ask Sakura out and if she said no, then I would have to run 300 laps around the lake, do 500 one-arm pushups and 700 sit-ups."

"Let me guess, she turned you down."

Lee's eyes widened even more than normal. "How did you know? Are you a psychic!

Neji rolled his eyes at Lee. He wondered for about the millionth time, how did I ever get stuck with such a dumb teammate. And besides that, I get stuck with Gai as my sensei. Thank god for Tenten. An idea suddenly came to Neji. "Lee, guess what?"

"You're actually a psychic!"

"No." Neji rolled his eyes again.

"You're really a girl in disguise!"

"No! It was a rhetorical question."

"Oh…then what?"

"My favorite color is green!" Neji exclaimed with fake enthusiasm.

"Really!" said an over excited Lee

"No, April Fools! Ha. I can't believe you actually believed me."

Just at that moment, Gai decided to appear. "Oh my God, is Neji actually chuckling!"

Neji stopped and said in his normal passive voice, "No."

"Oh." Gai was slightly disappointed but the disappointment disappeared when he saw his favorite student doing his 187th one armed pushup. "Lee, does this mean Sakura said no?"

"Hai"

"Well, don't give up Lee, someday she will say yes. Love always prevails!"

Lee stopped on his 199th one armed pushup to get up and say, "Of course sensei." He had tears going down his cheeks. "That was such a inspiring speech. I give you my word that I will never give up on Sakura. I promise!" And with that, Gai and Lee went about hugging each other while crying out each other's names.

Neji grimaced and secretly wondered if they were gay. They did this a little too much for it to be just teacher and student love. Tenten better get here soon. Before I explode.

As if on cue, Tenten entered their training area. She looked at Lee and Gai, then at Neji. "What happened this time?"

"Sakura said no."

"Again?"

"Yeah." Neji wondered what he should do to Tenten. His joke with Lee had been kind of lame, but being the gullible idiot that Lee was, if he had done anything else, Lee might had gone crazy. Suddenly, a lightbulb went off in Neji's head. It was perfect. Tenten would freak out, but eventually she would remember it was April Fools and get over it.

"Hey Tenten, I was wondering, after practice today, would you maybe like to go out?" Lee and Gai stopped hugging each other and gaped at Neji. Tenten looked stunned, but her face quickly returned to normal. Why isn't she freaking out? For some reason, Neji started to feel uncomfortable and nervous. He continued, "As in, you know, a date, with me?"

(picture this last part in your head)

Tenten slowly opened her mouth to reply.

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The end of chapter 1. So what did you think? It's my very first fanfic. I don't know if it's any good but I would appreciate it if you would review. Constructive criticism is welcomed. I've never really been that good at grammar. I'll try to update soon. Any suggestions on what I should do.

The joke on Lee was really corny but I just had to put it in. Didn't you just love my ending? I did.