I've been bad! I know I haven't updated in along time, but, I'm back!

Oh, and about that comment on Gaara being as nice as Sasuke, do you mean in the series or in here? Cuz I'm about to start blowen at Sasuke's ego! Mwuahhahahahaha! I HATE Sasuke! Arg! Maybe he is like Sasuke in the Series...oh well...

Also, about allowing unsigned review, how do I do that? I'll try on my own.

In this chappy Neji is a bit out of character...is ooc how you say out of character? If so, then what does oc mean! Okay, in the last chapter you see how Sakura got that snazzy just couldn't help myself! . new hair style. I personaly think she looks cute with long or short hair, even thoght longer hair has more hair styles. .

Well, please read and review! It's not that hard! And they really mean a lot to me! And, if you can resist, no bashing!

Um, from all of my reviews (Thank you! . There all so heart warming!), I'll have more Kiba scenes! The thingies I'm about to list aren't going to be in this chappy! Sorry! Neji will help Sakura with some farm work! Oh! And Gaara will help sakura recover from a nasty cold!

I have officaly decided that this shall be an SakuGaara, I can't write SakuNeji very well, sorry! And I'm in the middle of writeing a the first chappy of a SakuKiba story, sorry. But... I'm still going to make an alternate ending for eatch cuple, except they'll be on my Gaia accont, check me out, my name's Sarenablue.

Gaara had been waiting outside of Sakura's house patently since his sister went in there to get her out twenty minuets ago. He was getting very irritable.

"What's your intentions with my sister?" Gaara asked Shikamaru, who had also been sitting with him for twenty minuets, with the exceptions of when he ran home to get something or another.

"How trouble some..." Shikamaru murmured, looking up to the snowy gray sky.

'I don't like him, he's not good enough for my sister.' Gaara thought silently. Tearing his glare off of Shikamaru, his attention landed onto the tiny dog that was sitting by his feet. He then heard a high pitched whistle.

"Akamaru! Come here boy!" Kiba shouted, bending down onto his heels as the pup ran up to him, barking playfully. "Good boy!" Kiba said in a voice that one would use when talking to a baby. "Hay, what are those two doing here?" Kiba asked in a hushed tone.

Akamaru took a long deep breath and then started barking up at Kiba, who nodded his head as if he understood. He then put Akamaru down and walked over to the two boys.

"So, your here to pick up Sakura eh?" Kiba asked Gaara, who's eyes where shut. "And your picking up Temari?" This time, he got a slight reply. Shikamaru nodded his head while, Gaara opened his eyes for a moment, then quickly shutting them. "Akamaru, go check on the girls." Kiba told the pup, who ran up to the door upon hearing the command. "Opening the door for a moment Lad-!" Kiba started as he opened the door ever so slightly, letting Akamaru in. He then received a thwonk on the head by Tamari's fist.

"Stay out ya perv!"

Kiba fell backwards and stared blankly at the closed door, hearing Akamaru bark playfully at what he thought was the girls. He blink twice be for he received another whack in the head, this time it was a double take.

"Oww! What did I do!" Kiba whined loudly, rubbing his head as Gaara and shikamaru went back to their area against the wall.

Meanwhile at the Hyuga mansion...

Naruto glided around the dance floor with Hinata as his dance partner. Together they could have made a world champion dance look like an armature. Tenten scolded Lee for challenging Sasuke to a fight, Lee won. This, made Sasuke very mad, so he stormed off. Neji was over looking his cousin like a hawk, Naruto had wondering fingers, thanks to that perverted bar owner Jiraya, who he had been spending tones of time with lately.

Shikamaru opened the front door to the mansion and lead his date Temari in, closely followed by her over protective brother Gaara, who dragged our poor Sakura in.

"Sakura, welcome and thank you for coming.." Neji greeted from behind Sakura, causing her to jump and Gaara to growl.

"Ah! Neji-kun! Thank you for having me!" Sakura chirped, letting go of Gaara's hand.

"What happened to your hair?" Neji asked quietly.

"Heh, heh, heh, long story." Sakura said, nervously laughing.

"Would you like to dance?" Neji asked politely, holding out a hand.

"Um, Gaara, Can I go dance with Neji?" Sakura asked her date, who was glaring at Shikamaru as he took his elder sister onto the dance floor.

"Hn."

"Um, okay, bye." Sakura mumbled before taking Neji's hand and letting him sweep her off her feet while they dance the night away.

'Damn! I can't see them any more! Shikamaru isn't going to get away with this! Maybe if I get onto the dance floor with them, I can keep a close eye on them.' Gaara thought evilly to himself. Temari was the only family he had left A/n his other brother comes later in the story. and he wasn't going to let her go so easily. He then looked around for his 'Girlfriend'. 'Sakura? Where did she go!' Gaara stood still for a moment, thinking of what happened to his little Cherry blossom, he then growled. "Neji."

Neji glided Sakura around the dance room floor, smiling down at her.

'Hinata said to smile when your in the presence of a girl, this is really hurt my face. To think, the Hyuga prodigy dancing with a petty farm girl, what would uncle think of me now?' Neji thought, his smile slowly going into a smirk.

'He's really starting to creep me out, what's he smirking at?' Sakura thought quietly, even thought she didn't show it. Sakura smiled gently as Neji's attention was ripped of her, his smirk dropped into a frown and his relaxed eyes went into a loathing glare.

Sakura also looked at the strange object of Neji's attention, it was flower vase with...a note?

"Naruto." Neji mumbled before Gaara cut in and dragged Sakura to the other side of the dance floor. Once Neji saw Naruto led Hinata outside for some air, he stomped over to the Vase that was out of place. He snatched the letter from it's resting place and quickly read it.

Hinata-

Please stay for at least until summer? We could go over to the pond by the lake, or even to the new ramen stand in the market that just opened! That would be the best!

-Naruto

Neji read the letter over and over again. He then walked into the spar bed room on the first floor and ripped it to shreds.

He knew Naruto since there where little, and he knew that one day Hinata would marry him, but not any time soon if he could help it. Naruto was way to immature. Neji would eventually except Naruto into the family, but this year Hinata was supposed to go with her parent and her younger sister to Paris, Hinata was looking forward to that. But if she did get the chance to read that letter before now, she would of canceled the trip to stay here with Naruto.

Don't get miss judge him or anything, Neji missed his cousin, but he did everything he did on her best account, but some times Naruto acted a little to weird. This reminded him of when he was younger.

"Neji! Hay purly over here! Whoo!" A tiny Naruto yell, jumping up and down.

Neji rolled his eyes before turning around. "What?" Neji responded, watching Naruto race up the hill towards him.

"Is, er, Hi-hinata here?" Naruto studered. He had only meet the shy cousin of Neji a moth ago, yet she was already growing on him.

Neji ALMOST took a step back. He had never once heard his loud mouthed 'friend' studered, What was it about his cousin that made the blonde boy oh so nervous.

"Hn." Neji replied plainly, turning to leave.

"What kind of response was that! You think that a pretty rich boy such as yourself would have a larger vocabulary!" Naruto shouted, regaining his voice.

"N-naruto!" What are you doing here? Not that I mind." Hinata said quietly, playing with her fingers.

"Ah! Hinata-chan! There you are! I was looking for you! I asked you rude-"

Naruto's babbling went on and on, but Neji wasn't listening. He was just watching. How was it that when ever Naruto talked about Hinata he would blush or studered, but when he was with her he was more hyper then ever?

This question always stayed with Neji, even to this day. He quickly put the remains of the note into the small trashcan in the corner of the room.

"Ya know Hinata, I'm almost eighteen- almost being the key word, and I wanted to know if you where doing anything tomorrow. Maybe we could have a picnic or something." Naruto asked, standing in front of the fountain next to Hinata, who was looking away, trying to hide her bright blush.

Naruto's parent's always told him that he was to young to date until he, one, had a job, two, calmed down a bit, and three, was eighteen. Two of the tree was true. He had a part time job at the fighting dojo and the ramen shop in town and he was almost eighteen, whats four week in between?

"Um, n-no, I'm free." Hinata replied quietly, looking at the water.

"Really! Awesome! So it's a date! Time to dance!" naruto yelled, first pumping his fist in the air and then grabbing Hinata's hand, bringing her back into the mansion.

Sometimes Naruto's mood swings, shy to ecstatic, made even hinata dizzy, the only one who would join him was that Jiraiya.

Sakura tripped over her feet for the millionth time, dancing with Gaara was a hazard to her heath. At first, right after Neji left, Gaara was fixed on her, then after spotting Shikamaru laughing along with Temari gaara went into death mode, she was then roughly pulled along the floor.

'I don't know how much more of this I can take! I can't see the floor we're going so fast!' Sakura thought, she then, for a change, pulled on Gaara. "Um, I'm getting tiered, I'm going to head home." sakura said, waving a hand in front of Gaara, who still held a stone look on his face.

Sakura rolled her eyes before walking to the door, dogging Naruto as he speed in, dragging Neji's cousin. Sakura giggled as she watched Anko swack Naruto upside his head, telling him that it was rude to drag poor Hinata rag doll across the floor.

'It's going to be...interesting...to see those two get married.' Sakura thought, smiling at the inn owners family. 'Maybe It won't be so bad to marry one of the small town boys.' Sakura thought as she skipped most of the way to her farm.

When she did eventfully get there, after a stop at the stream, pond and beach, she saw a small dog house setting next to her cabin.

"Oh! That's right, Kiba said he would build Akamaru a dog house! I can't believe I forgot that!" Sakura said, inwardly kicking herself. 'I should thank him. Where is he anyway?' Sakura walked around her farm, looking for her pup and Kiba. "Hm, that's strange. Maybe he left a note." Sakura thought out loud, running to her cabin. Sakura blinked twice, dumb struck that she hadn't noticed that the door was slightly open.

She quietly pushed it open the rest of the way. Upon opening th door she saw Kiba and Akamaru sleeping peacefully on her bed.

'Should I wake him? Nah! He's too cute!' Sakura thought, she then looked around to see where she was supposed to sleep. "Ah, oh well, I'll just stay at the inn."