Second last one. Dun dun dun I think I'm gonna cry when this ends…XD Nah, cause the sequel will be coming out soon after. WOOHOO!

Anyways, it may be wise to download three of these songs. I'll be using them for the last chapter and for the other one as well.

Uso Mitai na 'I Love You' by Utada Hikaru
Arekara by Mikuni Shimokawa
Waiting by Boa

There we go. Now on with the chapter…

Disclaimer: Harder…harder…No! harder! If you squint hard enough you can see my name saying that I own Naruto! Pfffttt chya right.

Warning: OOCness up ahead. But hilariously funny. Oh and it's like the first week of April or something. My math sucks so if it doesn't work out with the play…then by all means whack me with a mallet.


"Get up."

Snore…

"Get up, we're all waiting for you!"

Turn over…

"Honestly! We're going to be late!"

Snort…

"Oh my…"

Twitch

"NARA SHIKAMARU IF YOU DON'T UP THIS INSTANT I SWEAR TO GOD YOUR FLUFFY STUFFED PILLOW IS SO GOING IN THE GARBAGE!"

Eyes snapping open…

"FLUFFY? NOOOOOO!"

The girl smirked.

Works like a charm.

She sniggered as she watched her boyfriend frantically go around his room searching for his beloved 'fluffy'.

"Looking for this?"

His head snapped over to where she was standing.

"FLUFFY!"

Run, trip, fall, get up, run….

He embraced the pillow crying "Oh my dear sweet pillow! Don't ever leave me!"

He has so many problems…

"Now that you're up. Please, go and get ready!"

He looked at her and fell on the floor snoring. Ino looked at him with an exasperated expression. If he wasn't going to get up himself then she would just have to do it for him! Bending over she reached out to grab his hand, only to be grabbed down to the floor herself. Giving a small yelp, she tumbled down right next to the lazy boy. On the floor Shikamaru wriggled closer to her and wrapped his arms around her waist and snuggling into the crook of her neck.

"Shi-Shikamaru!" Ino yelled face burning.

"Hmmm?"

"Get up." Sasuke's deep voice rumbled.

Shikamaru's eyes snapped open.

"AHH MY EYES! MY BEAUTIFUL EYES!" Naruto screamed as he walked into the room.

"OH MY GOD! SHIKAMARU! SASUKE! YOU'VE BEEN CHEATING ON YOUR GIRLFRIENDS!" Tenten shrieked as she too walked into the room.

"Get off me!" Sasuke growled as he tried to wriggle free from the pineapple boy's grip.

"EW! I'M TOUCHING A MAN!"

"SHIKAMARU AND SASUKE ARE GAY TOGETHER!" Naruto yelled out at the top of his lungs as he ran down the stairs informing the others.

"WHAT WERE YOU DOING IN MY ROOM?"

"WAKING YOU UP!"

"I THOUGHT YOU WERE INO!"

"IT WAS BUT SHE GAVE UP!"

"EW! I JUST TOUCHED YOU!"

"COOTIES!" they both screamed in unison as they flung their hands around like little prissy girls.

The others who had run up to see for themselves, were now falling over anime style and sweat dropping at their friend's idiocy.

"Both of you guys shut-up! We're going to be late!" Sakura yelled at them trying to calm them down.

"EWW! EWWW!"

"Here, this should help." Tenten said calmly as she took out two frying pans.

"Tenten," Neji began.

"What are you going to do with those?"

"You'll see!" she happily replied.

With that she walked over to the two screaming boys and…

THWAP!

And both fell down like a sack of potatoes…

"Jeez…how the hell do you tolerate her?" Naruto asked.

"Eh, you get used it after two or three beatings." Neji shrugged.

The others stood there wide eyed at the Hyuuga.

"You mean she's done that to you before?" Hinata asked, shocked.

"Why else do you think I was covered in bruises during our first few months of going out?"

Sweat drop…

"I feel for you man…"

"Yeah, well anyways, what are we going to do with these two?"

"Er…"

"How are we going to get Shikamaru dressed?" Ino pondered aloud.

"Well you could always dress him Ino."

She burned.

"No way! Sure we're going out, but I'm so not going to dress him! Get a guy to do it!"

"Well she has a point. Besides I think he'd crush her." (By weight)

"We'll drag Sasuke out of the room and Naruto and Neji can dress Shikamaru."

"Good idea Sakura!" Naruto grinned.

Meanwhile, Tenten was admiring her handy work on the two fallen boys.

"Hey Tenten, help us drag Sasuke out of here!" Sakura said to her as they walked over to him. The brown haired girl smiled mischievously and nodded her head.

"I have a great idea." she grinned.

They looked at her uneasily, hoping it wouldn't be violent.

"After we drag him out, let's roll him down the stairs!"

"Are you on a sugar rush this morning Ten?" Hinata questioned her.

"OH WHATEVER DO YOU MEAN? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

"She's so on a sugar rush."

"Agreed."

"Note to self: While at the park, do not buy cotton candy of any sort." Neji muttered as he watched his girlfriend from afar.


"It took us two hours to get here!"

"Blame it on the lazy ass."

Yawn

"He doesn't really care."

"Does it really matter? We're here right?"

"Yeah, guess you're right."

As they walked towards their destination, they passed under a large arc that read "Welcome to Tokyo Hamisaki Amusement Park". Looking up ahead, they could see a large and tall tower from a distance. A ferris wheel was located just on its right. Other rides were scattered around the place, some looked towering and other just looked crappy.

(Crappy name eh? Lol)

Sakura took Sasuke's outstretched hand into her own as they walked along one of the many gardens.

"Oh I just love spring!" Sakura exclaimed as she gazed at the beautiful blooming flowers.

"I like summer better." Ino said as she dragged Shikamaru to walk next to Sakura and Sasuke.

"Yeah, but it gets so hot and sticky!"

"True, but then there's always ice cream."

The girls continued to talk as the boys just looked at each other.

"Excuse me." a quite voice interrupted them.

They turned around and found a polite young girl looking at them holding a camera.

"Would you like a picture taken?"

The boys looked at each other, wary. Pictures were not a thing for them. Ino and Sakura looked at each other and grinned.

"We'd love to! Can we take separate pictures though?" Ino said.

"Of course! Now which two and who wants to go first?"

Ino volunteered first and dragged Shikamaru to stand next to her. He sighed and put his arm around her shoulders, letting her head fall on his shoulder.

Click!

Flash!

"There, finished!"

Sakura was up next. At first Sasuke was reluctant to go but after a few seconds of a mini staring contest he too was forced over. Sakura had chosen the place where the cherry blossoms were located. The wind blew and the petals floated in a diagonal angle. The blue sky, bright sun and fluffy clouds added to the beautiful scenery.

Sasuke stood behind Sakura and wrapped his arms around her abdomen and she clasped her hands on his. A single strand of hair was stray and Sasuke lifted up his hand to fix it. Sakura, curious to know what he was doing, looked back at him.

Click!

Flash!

"Oh! We weren't ready!"

The girl giggled and told them to go over to her. When they did, she showed the pictures. Ino and Shikamaru were pleased with their picture. The one with the other two turned out better than they had thought. Both had a gentle expression on their faces, gazing softly at each other, smiling softly. Everything was perfect.

"Here, show these tickets at the booth over there and you can purchase the photos!"

"Thanks, I think we will!"

"No problem! Have a nice day!"

"Hey guys! Let's go on this one!" Naruto's voice rang through the air.

"Which one?" Sakura asked excitedly.

Naruto smiled evilly and pointed to the sign.

"Venom Rail" it read.

They continued to read.

Ride Level: 4 (With big red bold colours.)
Max. Height: 530 ft
Max. Speed: 140 miles per hour
Duration: 2 min. 30 sec.

They looked at the ride. Twists, turns, cork screw loops, and indeedy the 530 foot high rise and drop.

"A-are you sure you want to go on this ride?" Ino asked Naruto uneasily. He seemed unfazed by the startling appearance of the ride.

"Come on! It's can't be that bad! Besides, no one's in line!"

"I wonder why." Sasuke muttered. He began to walk inside the path that led towards their doom until something pulled him back. He looked behind him and saw Sakura standing there still freaking out.

"Sakura come on."

She snapped back to reality and looked to her side. Ino too was standing there dazed.

"Ino…" Sakura said as she poked her friend back alive.

"Y-yeah?"

"Are you really going to ride this thing?"

"Er…"

"Come on girls. Hurry up. Naruto and the others are already half way there."

"But, look at it!"

"I don't think I can…"

Shikamaru and Sasuke sighed.

"Okay, but I guess both of you are just too chicken."

Twitch

"Say that again?"

"We didn't quite catch that."

Smirk

"We said."

"You're too chicken."

"Yeah, okay buddy." Ino snorted.

"Then why won't you go on the ride?"

"If you're not chicken."

They made clucking noises.

"HEY GUYS! HURRY UP!"

Fuming girls…

"Let's go!" they both said and grabbed their boyfriends hands and ran towards the others.

A few minutes later while climbing up the step hill and about to drop…

"Ino!" Sakura shouted.

"What?"

"WE'VE BEEN HAD!" she shrieked as they dropped to their doom.

A few minutes more later…

The two girls were staggering around as if drunk but in reality they were still jelly legged. The ride had probably shortened their life span by oh let's see…how about 30 years?

"I..hate…you…guys…" Sakura panted as she held onto her friend.

Sasuke and Shikamaru were laughing and gave them an innocent smile.

"Oh whatever do you mean?"

"Oh just shut-up."

"Which ride next?"

Hinata spoke up this time.

"How about that one?" she pointed towards a house looking thing.

The guys grinned and the girls looked at her horrified. Well okay, they weren't horrified, just slightly shocked that the shy girl would choose such a ride.

"I'm so going to die from a heart attack today." Ino muttered.

"Agreed." nodded Sakura.

In their own pace, they walked towards the house. It didn't seem THAT scary…well except for the screaming and blood oozing from the walls, it seemed fine.

"We have to wait in line this time." said Neji.

"I hate lines." grumbled Tenten.

"Well to pass the time we could always you know…"

Tenten's eyes lit up.

"Really? YAY!"

Neji smirked. Tenten, in her happiness, flung herself on Neji giving him a big tight hug. Then she walked behind him and fished out a club sandwich and began to munch on it. He looked at her. She totally didn't get what he was trying to say.

"Tenten…what are you doing?"

"Eating of course! That's what you meant right?"

He sighed. "I mean hugging and," he coughed and turned a bit red. (I guess this'll be very OOC for him) "Cuddling…" he barely squeaked out.

"Well, we can do it after."

He frowned.

"No, I think now."

Tenten looked at him rather confused but then finally got it when he hugged her from behind. She comfortably settled in his arms while eating her club sandwich. This made a very happy girl indeed.

Meanwhile, the other couples were doing their own thing. Ino and Shikamaru were once again bickering over who knows what and Sasuke and Sakura were content in each others arms quietly talking amongst themselves.

It seemed as if the only non paired people were Hinata and Naruto. They didn't seem to mind, but inside there were raging battles of uneasiness of not having someone. It seemed as if there were things in their way not letting both be together. Let's see what the obstacle is shall we?

Big red neon signs point towards…NEJI!

Both groaned inwardly. Honestly, it was going to be hard with him always not letting Naruto do something or make a move. It was extremely irritating! But then, right then, Naruto made up his mind. He was going to take action tonight! Screw Neji and his stupid glares and his stupid strength and his stupid punches…

Okay, maybe it won't be such a good idea…No! I have to do it!

"YEAH!"

The couples and Hinata looked at him startled by his outburst.

"I mean uh…yeah, it's our turn?"

He was right, their turn was up next. Chairs for two people came by slowly moving towards the darkness.

"Next." the attendant said in a mono tone voice.

Tenten and Neji hopped in with the girl laughing like a lunatic and Neji looking back at them mouthing, 'Help me!'

"Poor Neji…" Hinata said as she got in with Naruto.

"Well, I don't feel sorry for him." Naruto snickered.

Inside…

It was dark in the house. It reminded them of the incident of their little maze. Strobe lights, screams, chains banging against the walls and zombie moans and groans were added inside for the scare effect. It didn't seem that bad. Well it only was scary when random things started to pop out.

Actually, when the things started to pop out…

"NEJIIII!" Tenten screamed as she ducked her head into his side. He rolled his eyes and punched the skeleton away. He sure packs a punch cause the next thing you know it flew behind them and landed in Hinata's lap.

"KYAAAAAAAA!"

"Hinata! What's wrong?"

She was ghastly white and looked as if she would die. Shakily, she pointed to the head.

"What's that?"

"H-head!"

"Eh?"

He picked it up and examined it.

"OI! NEJI! I THINK YOU LOST SOMETHING!"

With that he threw it back to the front and…

"OW! SOMETHING JUST HIT ME!"

"Whoops! Sorry Tenten! I was aiming for Neji!"

"You'd better have been!"

"What's that suppose to mean?"

"Don't worry. I still love you!"

"Tch."

Giggling…

Anyways! Now let's just see what's going on behind Naruto and Hinata shall we? Following after them were none another than lazy ass and his girlfriend! Nothing much special there except that he practically fell asleep leaving his girlfriend to doom…wait a minute!

"Shi-ka-ma-RU!"

Snort

"Wake up! You're suppose to be protecting me from the scary things!"

"Says who?"

"I said so!"

He sighed and rolled his eyes. Good thing it was dark or else he would have been part of the house. Ino smiled as he wrapped an arm around her shoulders and pulled her closer to himself.

"Is that better?"

"Much."

Can you just feel the love? Er…whatever

"Sakura…" he whispered into the girl's ear.

"What is it?" she shakily said back.

"You seem awfully jumpy."

"Well we are in a haunted house Sasuke."

"No need to be scared you know. I'm here."

"Yeah…I guess so…"

He gave a small smirk and was about to cuddle her until…

Shriek

"OW! MY NOSE!"

"I'M SO SORRY SASUKE!"

"OW! OW!"

"I'M SOOOOO SORRY! ARE YOU OKAY?"

Apparently, when a mutated disfigured hand grabbed Sakura's leg Sasuke at the same time was about to cuddle her. Heh him cuddling…makes me laugh… Anyways! When the hand grabbed her hands flew up and hit Sasuke right into his nose as he closed in. What strength she possessed! Well at least it wasn't broken, just sort of bruised.

Click!

Flash!

Click!

Who knew that this ride would take pictures?

After a few more minutes the ride had ended. Half of them were left scared to death and the rest were just normal or in pain.

"Hey guys! Come on, I want to see the pictures!" Tenten shouted as she ran towards the booth.

"We're coming." they droned out.

As they neared they could see their embarrassing photos showing up on the big screen. The first one was of Neji and Tenten. The picture had taken a picture when the skull hit her on the head making her eyes look half open and half closed. Neji looked bored as his fist was about to come in contact with something.

The next one was of Hinata snuggling into Naruto for comfort. He had somehow known about the camera and waved to it. Quite odd. When Neji saw this he looked at Naruto, but Naruto himself couldn't care less and smirked at the white-eyed boy in triumph.

After that was Ino and Shikamaru in a very embarrassing photo…

"AHH! NEXT ONE! NEXT ONE!" they both screamed out in unison.

"OMFGWTFBBQ?" all of them went as they looked at the picture.

"YOU GUYS WERE," gulp "MAKING OUT?" Sakura gasped out in shock.

Ino was red faced and Shikamaru blushed.

"We'll take that as a yes."

And after that was the picture of Sasuke and Sakura. He was holding his nose as Sakura looked frantic and worried. She was flailing her arms around trying to see if he was alright. Unknown to her was that she too was knocking over the props creating a domino effect.

The man that worked at the booth sweat dropped.

"Er…I think the ride will be down for a while."

"Sorry about that." Neji's deep voice rumbled.

"Eh, doesn't matter. We were actually going to tear it down anyways."

They shrugged and left the booth after Naruto had bought the picture of Hinata and himself.

"Hey…you guys want to go into the arcade?" Sakura asked.

"I haven't been in one in ages!"

"Oh me neither!"

"I love arcades!"

They quickened their pace and headed over to a building with loud noises. Pings and loud music was heard from outside and when they headed in, it filled their ears. The first game Sakura spotted was her absolute favourite. Wheels began to turn in her head as she started to form an idea.

"Hey guys…how about we do a little competition?"

"What game?"

Sakura pointed over the area that was crowed with people. Lights of blue and pink were flashing all around and cheers were heard.

"Dance Dance Revolution." she grinned.

"I can't dance." Neji stated bluntly.

"Yeah you can! Just last week I saw you ball room dancing down town!" Tenten frowned.

"You ball room dance?" Sasuke choked out trying not to laugh.

"Yeah so? It makes me man!"

"Pfft, says who?"

"Well at least I dance better than you."

"You just admitted you dance Neji!"

Crap…

No choice but to agree…

"Well are you guys in?"

"Yeah!"

"Sure!"

"Whatever."

"Hn."

"Okay! Loser has to buy everyone lunch!" Sakura said as she ran over to the flashing game.

People began to clear a path for them as they made through. At the moment two people were competing against each other. They had impressive moves but Sakura snorted.

"Tch, that's nothing."

The two guys heard her and turned around, ignoring the game.

"What did you say?"

"I said, your moves suck."

"What? You can do better?"

"Sure as hell."

"You're just a girl."

"Don't you dare say that!"

"Or else what?"

"Shove over and let the master show you." she smirked.

The two boys jumped off and glared at her.

Quickly she inserted three tokens and chose her song.

'Boom Boom Dollar' it read and her difficulty was master. (I haven't played the game in so long. I forgot the difficulty levels…I have to song though! I love it.)

The music began to pay a fast beat. The arrows began to appear on the screen, coming fast.

It's thriller, darling
You're a wonderful lover, baby
(Ay, iyaiyaiyai)
July, December
Always deep inside of my mind
Tell me why
(Ay, iyaiyai)

Her feet were moving at a fast pace. She was concentrating on the screen but she was also deep into the beat of the music. Her hips and her whole body moved. People watched in awe as she kept moving not missing a single beat.

You keep a pocketful of green
Green dollars
I love you
Though it's the time
You're very hard
You sound like a young fella
Take me on the night

She kept moving never stopping. The crowd began the cheer for her as the score of points began to rack up like crazy. Her hair was moving along with her, swishing behind as if it wanted to mimic her every move.

Boom boom boom boom
Shoot you like a bambar
Boom boom boom boom
At your order
Boom boom boom boom
Pushing all the buttons
More time

She spun around and stamped her feet to the beat faster. Her whole body was heating up, her skin starting to pink. Her friends watched in awe as she kept dancing. Sasuke was the one that was in awe the most. He looked practically stoned…Aha Just watching her set him in a trance.

Boom boom boom boom
(Money funny in dollar)
Boom boom boom boom
(Dollar, money funny)
Boom boom boom boom
(da, da, da, da, da, dollar)
More

The song was nearly over and Sakura was doing more and more tricks. The boys that were sneering at her before watched her with wide eyes. This girl was better than them…no better than all of them. At the final beat, Sakura spun around doing one final trick and planted both feet on the right and left arrows. She was breathing heavily and sweat was at her brow. She hopped off and grabbed a tissue from inside her purse and wiped her forehead.

"Ha…ha…." she panted.

The two boys walked up to her smirking.

"Well, I guess you do have moves."

"Damn straight."

"How about we show you some of our moves tonight?"

Sasuke's eyes narrowed as he heard the remark.

"Care to say that again?" he growled out.

"Hey it's not like she's taken or anything."

"How are you so sure?"

"Why the hell would she be with you when she could be with us?"

Sasuke smirked and glowered at them making the two shrink back.

"She's my GIRLFRIEND and she wouldn't be going out with you two even if you were the last goys on EARTH."

Sasuke's hand curled into a fast and he raised it giving a sign to back off.

"Heh…heh…" she nervously laughed.

"Sorry guys, but I'm taken."

A ripple of groans and 'Damn it's' were heard.

"Stupid fucktards." Sasuke muttered as he glared at them making Sakura giggle.

"Aw over protective aren't we?" teased Tenten as she laughed.

"Be quiet."

"Yeesh, snappy much?"

"Anyways! Come on, who wants to go next?" Sakura asked them.

Shyly, Hinata stepped up.

"I-I do."

Sakura blinked and grinned widely.

"GO HINATA! YOU CAN DO IT!"

Hesitantly, Hinata chose her song and difficulty.

Ay, iyaiyai,
Ay, iyaiyai,
A-a-a iyaiyai
Where's my samurai

"Hey I know this song!" Ino exclaimed as she watched her friend begin to move. Hinata's movements weren't like Sakura's but they still were good. She knew what she was doing.

Ay, Ay, Ay, I'm your little butterfly
Green, black and blue, make the colours in the sky
Ay, Ay, Ay, I'm your little butterfly
Green, black and blue, make the colours in the sky

As Hinata danced all she could think in her head was Naruto. (Aha, when I chose the song it hit me that it suits Hinata. XDD) Her fluid motions started to make Naruto drool, who was smacked in the head when he started to make a puddle. Ew…

Where's my samurai
Where's my samurai

I've been searching for a man
All across Japan
Just to find, to find my samurai
Someone who is strong
But still a little shy
Yes I need, I need my samurai

As the song continued Hinata began to grow warm. Her body was heating up from her movements and from all the eyes watching her. She missed a couple of beats but was soon made up by the following others. The people watched her every movement, swaying with her as the song came to its end.

Ay, Ay, Ay, I'm your little butterfly
Green, black and blue, make the colours in the sky
Ay, Ay, Ay, I'm your little butterfly
Green, black and blue, make the colours in the sky

She turned around and saw the smiles of her friends which erupted into loud cheering.

"You were awesome Hinata!"

"Way to go!"

"Good job!"

The girls crowded around her hugging her and praising the girl. All of it ended up in laughter and they broke apart.

"Okay, whose next." they smiled evilly.


"Who knew that Sasuke sucked so much at dancing?" Ino laughed as she munched on her fries.

"Drop it." Sasuke ground out.

"Aw, you were pretty good." Sakura said trying to console him.

"Chyah, like getting 2 points and dying in the first few seconds is good." they laughed.

Sakura grinned a bit but looked back at her glaring boyfriend.

He looked at her and snorted.

They all laughed again.

"Come on guys! The sun's starting to set! I want to catch the view from there!" Tenten cried as she pointed towards the ferris wheel. They grinned as they pictured themselves up there and finished up.

After, they began their trek towards the wheel. People were beginning to line up as well and it seemed as if it was going to take hours to get on.

"Well, looks like we're going to be here a while." yawned Shikamaru.

"Yeah, you're right." agreed Ino.

"What should we do to kill time?" Hinata piped up.

They shrugged.

Sakura was leaning against Sasuke as his hand wound around her waist. Tenten and Neji were talking to Shikamaru and Ino and seemed as if it were a very heated conversation. The ones who fell uncomfortable again were Hinata and Naruto.

I will do this today no matter what!

Hinata looked over at Naruto finding him turning red.

"Um…Naruto are you alright?"

His head snapped up.

"Huh? Oh yeah! Right as rain!"

Right as rain? That was lame…

"Shut-up!" Naruto muttered as his eyes narrowed.

Hinata, thinking that he meant her, looked at him a bit startled and her eyes widened. Quietly she shuffled away leaving the boy alone.

Great…look what you just did…

"Ahhh! Shut-up!"

The line to the ferris wheel quieted down and all eyes were on the blonde boy.

"Er…"

"Don't mind him! He's just having problems that's all!" Shikamaru said hastily trying to cover up his friend's out burst.

The line shifted a bit and the chatter arose.

Shikamaru was quite right. By the time they got on the ferris wheel, they had missed the sun set and the sky was dark out already. The stars were twinkling above and the city lights glowed like fire flies flying around.

Again they got into pairs and went into separate cars. Sasuke and Sakura in one, Ino and Shikamaru in the next, Neji and Tenten after and then it left Naruto and Hinata. Inside the cars each couple, besides Naruto and Hinata, were hugging each other and whispering words to each other.

Sakura was looking out the car, admiring the beauty of the stars sparkling and glowing above her. Then she looked at the city, whose lights were twinkling away giving the area a beautiful shine to it. Sasuke gazed at her, taking in what he was seeing. Her pink hair was splashed across her shoulders, her porcelain skin absolutely glowing and her apple green eyes were softly glittering as she smiled.

He silently walked over to her and wrapped his arms around her waist. Sighing he dropped his head, laying his chin on her shoulder. Sakura looked back and saw that his eyes were closed. She then enclosed her hands over his.

"It's beautiful isn't it?" she asked him softly.

"Yeah…"

"I really love it here."

He smiled.

"I love you…" she whispered.

She looked back at him and kissed him.

Ino and Shikamaru were witnessing the sweet moment between the two across from them. Both were sitting in the seats in the car. Ino was sitting in the boy's lap and he was leaning his head on her shoulder.

"They really look good together."

"You've said that a lot Ino."

"But it's true!"

"What about us?"

"What about it."

"Don't we look good together?" he smirked.

She flushed and turned away.

"Of course…" she muttered quietly but it wasn't quiet enough.

"What was that?"

"I said, we look good together."

"Good."

With that he began to kiss her from the neck up causing her to giggle. When he reached her lips, he fully captured them and just melted in his arms.

(How corny can I get…)

"You know Neji, you could learn quite a lot from those two." Tenten told him.

"Hn."

"I mean, come on. Look at them!"

"Hey, I do that stuff too. It's just when I do, you're doing something else."

"Well, I'm not doing anything else right now am I?"

Neji contemplated this for a while. Realization hit him. What a slow person…

"You're right…" he smirked.

"Aren't I always?"

"Heh. Now what do you want me to do?"

"How about this…" She shuffled slowly towards him a gently placed her lips against his. She could feel his smirk and lean in. Slowly, he brought his arms around her and she brought her arms around his neck.

"Much better…" she murmured.

"Saranghey…" Neji said to her. (It's Korean. It means 'I love you'. I thought it meant 'I hate you' and I was gonna say it to someone…thank god I found out it meant 'I love you' before I said it. XD I think Mika remembers.)

"What?"

"It means 'I love you'."

"I love you too…"

Inside the last car Naruto and Hinata fidgeted uneasily. There was a nervous feeling hanging in the air through the car. Inside Naruto's head, he was screaming to make a move. Finally after what seemed an eternity, he took a deep breath and faced the white-eyed girl.

"Hinata," he began.

"Y-yes?"

"Today at the line, I didn't mean anything to hurt you. I wasn't directing it to you, but to me. I'm sorry if you thought it was for you."

She was silent. But Naruto worked up more courage to continue.

"You know I'd never say those things to you…"

She nodded; still unsure where he was getting at. No, that was a lie. She had a small feeling what this would lead to.

"I…For the past few years…I…"

"Naruto." she said softly.

"No let me finish, please."

"There's this feeling inside of me. It grows bigger and bigger everyday. Whenever I see you, it swells up. I feel as if my whole being is being warmed."

"I feel the…"

"I guess I'm trying to say that…I want to be there for you. I want to make you smile, make you happy. I want to be with you…I've wanted to tell you all this time, but thing's kept getting in the way. I love you Hinata…"

She stood there speechless. Her heart was beating fast and it felt as if it could jump out at any moment. Naruto's eyes widened and he shrank back.

"I understand if you don't feel the same. I just wanted to let you know…"

He looked so broken hearted, so deflated. His thoughts of her rejection had suppressed any other of his thoughts.

"Please, listen to me this time."

His ears perked up.

"I want the same things. I want to be there for you." Each and every word, her voice gained more confidence.

"I feel the same. I love you too, Naruto…"

He looked at her as if she'd grown two heads but then broke into a wide smile.

"I love you, I love you…" she whispered as he neared his face towards her. Slowly he cupped her face with his hands and placed a gentle kiss on her mouth. Both were blushing furiously. But after a while, they got over their little shyness and kissed again.

Too bad Neji caught it because he was glaring holes at them. Tenten was laughing her head off. Naruto turned to looked at him and gave Neji his trade mark grin along with a victory sign with his free hand while his other was around the blushing girl's shoulders who wasgiving off a small wave.


"Bye!" she called out after her friends. The car sped away and honked. Sakura fished out her keys and opened the door. Silence greeted her as well as darkness.

"Guess they're away again." she muttered.

Memories of the day flashed across her mind. One special one made it in her head. She and Sasuke had gone back and purchased the photo that was taken that afternoon. It was beautiful indeed. She loved it.

Sakura yawned and made her way into the kitchen for a glass of water. As she headed out she went to check the messages left on her answering machine. Taking a sip, she pressed the button.

You have 3 unheard messages. The robotic voice sounded.

Beep

Sakura, this is your mom calling. I hope you'redoing wellhoney. Don't worry about us, we're absolutely fine. We love you!

Beep

Oi, Sakura! Don't forget the project we have to do! Gai-sensei will have a fit if we don't finish!

Beep

She listened to the last message and through the entire house, the only sound was the glass shattering into small pieces.


Cliffhangerrrrr lol This chapter is extra long. I love this one. It's my favourite. I hope you'll like it as well. The next chapter is the last one. I'm so sad! Wahhh! Don't forget, if you want to know when the next part to this story will come out, put me on Author Alerts, or PM me.

Rachel