Kizna: Yay! Another chapter! This one I tried to make funny.

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Sakura went to open the door and was hit by a pillow flying in her face. Ino stood right outside the door, grinning. Slightly behind her stood Hinata, holding onto her pillow tightly as though Ino would throw it too.

"You're depressed, so we decided to come over for a sleepover to cheer you up," Ino stated. "And no, you have no choice in the matter."

"Hinata-chan! Ino!" Naruto exclaimed, coming to greet them.

Hinata blushed red as Naruto hugged her. "H-hi Naruto-kun. It's great that you're back," she said shyly, still harboring a tiny crush on the blond.

Ino grinned. "I guess you aren't so depressed anymore, huh Sakura?"

"Don't you have to be at the flower shop?" Sakura asked.

"No," Ino replied. "I got Lee to work instead of me. He's so nice..."

There was an awkward silence as Ino trailed off, a dreamy look in her eyes. Naruto was trying to hold back laughter.

"Eh... Naruto's house is kind of a mess, so I'm letting him stay here tonight," Sakura said apologetically.

"Don't worry about it, Sakura-chan! I'll crash at Iruka's today!" Naruto said enthusiastically.

"Are you sure?"

"Definitely!" Naruto answered, getting his bag.

"Well... bye. See you tomorrow."

"Bye!"

"Bye Naruto-kun..."

The three watched him leave before Ino turned back to Sakura, smiling slyly. "Well, I guess you aren't so depressed anymore. I just wish we had known sooner." Throwing her sleeping bag on the living room floor, Ino added, "By the way, I'm raiding your refrigerator."

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"Ahhhh Sakura I hate you. Why don't you have any REAL cookie dough?"

"Shut up Ino. Raw cookie dough can make you sick."

The three were in their pajamas, sitting around the TV eating chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. Of course, Ino had complained about four times in the last two minutes how and sleepover couldn't be a sleepover without real cookie dough.

Ino muttered something about ice cream industry propaganda under her breath. "Sakura's right," Hinata said meekly, shrinking from the glare Ino gave her, "the ice cream is better."

The gushy teenage sitcom they had been watching was now being ignored. "So," Ino started, her good mood back, "Sakura, what exactly happened with you and Naruto before we came?"

"Ino-pig! We didn't do anything. We went out, ate some ramen and then we went to Naruto's apartment. It was a mess, so I told him he could stay here."

Ino was about to reply when Hinata said worriedly, "Naruto still only eats ramen? One day he'll get sick..."

"Mmm...Hinata-chan, do you still have a crush on Naruto?" Ino asked with a sly grin on her face.

"Hinata and Naruto, sitting in a tree," Sakura teased, her expression matching Ino's.

"No! It's not that!" Hinata exclaimed, her face beet red. But of course they wouldn't believe her. "I just care about his health. Anyway...I'm with Kiba-kun."

The whole room was silent for a second. Hinata was still enormously embarrassed to admit her relationship with Kiba. This confession was a first.

"Oh my god..." Sakura whispered.

"HYUUGA HINATA HAS JUST CONFESSED HER NAUGHTY LOVE AFFAIR WITH INUZUKA KIBA!" Ino exclaimed at the top of her lungs.

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Unfortunately, right outside the door at that very moment, with his finger hovering a centimeter from the doorbell, was Hyuuga Neji. He paused awkwardly after clearly hearing the outburst, his mouth slightly open, his finger shaking somewhat5 with the indecision of pressing the doorbell or not. He decided against it.

Quietly activating his Byakugen, Neji surveyed the inside of Sakura's apartment. The girls were grouped around the TV in their pajamas, eating ice cream. Sakura and Ino, wearing pink polka-dotted and purple flower-printed pajamas, were laughing maniacally and Hinata, wearing yellow pajamas with black-and-white cows, had turned a shade of red previously thought impossible. Randomly, he realized that someone like Naruto or the Toad Sannin would give all four limbs or more to have the Byakugen.

He had been sent by Hiashi just to ask Hinata if she was coming home today. Of course she had already told her father she was sleeping over at Sakura's, but he insisted Neji ask again.

Neji had been initially annoyed, thinking he could use the time to practice his glare and his newly revised speech about destiny in the mirror.

He had known his cousin and the dog boy were going out. Heck, everyone knew. Well, not the Hyuugas. But Neji had found out from Tenten, who had found out from Lee, who had found out from Ino, yada yada.

Previously he couldn't imagine his cousin in any sort of intimate relationship with anyone. But how far had she and the Inuzuka kid gone? Disturbing images were flashing through his mind, derived from that one time he had accidentally used the Byakugen to look through into book a chuunin was reading that he thought was some sort of bingo book. In reality, it had been Icha Icha Paradise: The Graphic Novel. With giant emphasis on the "graphic" part.

He would tell his uncle Hinata had told him she would be sleeping over at Sakura's. Then he would go to the Inuzuka boy. No...first he would go and request Morino Ibiki's help. Then go to the Inuzuka boy. It was going to be a long night...

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"Ah! Ino! What if someone heard?" Hinata exclaimed, her face still a deep shade of red.

"Don't worry Hinata. All my neighbors are either senile or on missions. Or with dirty minds that enjoy those kinds of comments," Sakura said after she had managed to stop laughing. Ino was still rolling with laughter right by her.

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