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Now on to the fic and how to read it

Generally everything will be straight forward but ever so often I may insert a thought process in italics, kinda like the do in the show all the time…also more often than not I'll leave spaces in speech with a…in between them for sorta a pause for the character to think or just to break up what they're saying…well I guess that that's about it for the rules for how to read it so on to the FIC

Unusual Query

Hinata found herself going to the shop everyday that week. She couldn't explain why she enjoyed talking with them about "their boys" other than the fact that she enjoyed getting it off her chest and knowing that there were people other than herself that felt the way she felt and thought the way she thought. It was a nice change from her usual breaks. Eventually the trio of Sakura, Ino and Hinata turned into a quartet. One day Tenten stopped in to the flower shop and was ensnared by yet another of Sakura's traps. Sakura was sure Tenten was a rival for Lee's affection and she was determined to find out. Hinata and Ino knew that it was coming from her evil glare but attempts at stopping her were frivolous. The interrogation took a whole 2 minutes. Sakura and Ino were shocked at what they heard and Hinata couldn't have been more delighted. Tenten had developed feelings for the one and only Hyuuga Neji. Except for training and meetings the four of them were inseparable.

"…and well…then I fell for him." Tenten ended her confession.

"Tenten!" the ever quiet Hyuuga Hinata shouted as she leaped up from her seat and into a huge hug all in one motion.

"Hinata?" Ino and Sakura echoed as their jaws dropped in surprise.

Hinata didn't even know that she was doing what she was doing until it was already done. Tenten was shocked as well, not only was she not expecting to be spilling her heart out about Neji but the last thing she expected was to have anyone, especially Hinata, jump on her and give her a hug. Upon realizing what she had openly done Hinata, as quickly as it had been done, retreated back to her chair with a blush.

"Tenten-chan I…I'm so sor…"

"Don't be," she interrupted, "we're all girls here and besides…it was just so unexpected it just startled me that's all." With that Tenten gave her a reassuring smile and, just as quick as Hinata had, Tenten rushed over and gave Hinata a big hug right back. Sakura and Ino giggled as Hinata turned beet red as the tables turned.

"Well it looks like our little group might be expanding now doesn't it?" Ino chuckled a little as she said this and turned to Sakura.

"Yeah…it sure is," she answered. Feeling left out Ino and Sakura joined Tenten and Hinata in their embrace and they all started to giggle about it.

The rest of the day resulted in the four of them talking and them even helping Ino cut and arrange flowers for some orders that had come in. Ino, who had become quite good at arranging flowers because of her mother's training, showed each of the girls how, depending on the type of flower and how many there were going to be of it, to arrange them and what flowers compliment others and which ones didn't very well. While working on an arrangement Hinata noticed four flowers in the flower casethat caught her attention. She picked them up and took them over to Ino.

"Ino-chan," she called out to her. Ino turned around and saw her and her four companions.

"Yes Hinata-chan…is something wrong?" she asked, perplexed as to why she would have those four particular flowers together since none were going into the arrangement she was working on.

"I was wondering…umm…what are these flowers called?"

Still not understanding why she was asking yet she answered her question without needing to give it much thought.

"Well that purple one you're holding is called a harebell. There are legends about it that it's supposed to be magical. Supposedly itthe place where you can find fairies living."

Hinata was amazed at how this just poured out of her like it was second nature. She supposed that it was because of her mother and the talks they had about flowers.

"and that orange one is a Prairie Lily. It is used by some clans as a medicine that helps reduce swelling and is thought to be very special. The bright yellow one is called a Yellow Lady's Slipper, depending on where you are people call them by different names but none the less they are always beautiful. And that last little blue one is called blue-eyed or lavender-eyed grass. It is used in some teas and is believed to ward off snakes, but mostly people like them just because they're pretty." Ino finally ended with a smile.

"Ino-chan…how do you think they look together?" she asked as she held up the flowers and blushed a little, the yellow and orange on the left and the lavender and purple on the right.

"Well they compliment each other quite well but…" she paused to think for a moment before she spoke again. "well…let me show you." Ino took Hinata's hand and walked her over to where all the flowers were held and picked out the flowers Hinata had shown her and one other Hinata had never see before. She proceeded to arrange them, the two smallest in a row together alternating and the two largest together alternating as well and the other flower in the middle by itself. She then put a rubber band around the bottom of the flowers to hold them together and then handed them to Hinata.

Hinata stared at them in awe at how well Ino had arranged them and so quickly too, especially the lavender and orange flower that joined them in the middle. Sometime during the process Tenten and Sakura had taken notice of Ino's task and stopped what they were doing in order to witness the creation that was unfolding before them.

"What is it?" Tenten asked as she walked up next to Hinata to inspect the flower more closely, "the flower in the middle I mean…I feel like I've seen it somewhere before but I'm not sure where."

"You haven't…I'm fairly certain of that," Ino said with pride, "because it's a hybrid."

"You mean to say that it's a combination of two different flowers?" Sakura asked as she also grew closer to inspect the flower.

"Yep…my mother made it using a technique that she discovered. Some how she takes two bulbs or seeds, it has to be one or the other and not both, and sort of fuses them together to make a new type of flower."

"What's its name?" Hinata looked up at her and asked.

"Well it's a mix between a Tiger Lily and a type of Pansy so I guess you could call it a Tigensy." They all laughed at the name a little after Ino told it to them.

"I like them a lot," Hinata said very softly, "thank you Ino-chan."

"Don't mention it," Ino drew in a little closer to whisper in Hinata's ear, "I figured I'd arrange it so that it mixed a little of you both together in there."

Hinata blushed a violent red when Ino revealed that she had discovered why she had chosen those flowers.

"I tell you what," Ino announced as she pulled away from Hinata's ear, "let's all pick out our own flowers and arrange them…after we're done we can put them out on display in the front, I'm sure my mother won't mind too much."

Although Hinata's was already done all the girls loved the idea and hurried over to the flower case. Each picked out four flowers of their liking; Sakura's being tiny red Roses, pink Cherry Blossoms, orange Tiger Lilies and some Baby's Breath to mostly add some green. Tenten picked out some pink Prairie Wild Roses, Blue Aster, Baby's Breath and Black-Eyed Susan's that had a bit of a lavender tint to them near the middle. Ino picked out some green and red tinted Carnations, some dark Violets and Dogwood blooms. After Hinata and Ino both helped to arrange each girls flowers Ino went and found one of her mother's creations to use as the centerpiece. Each of which combined the two main colors the girls chose. They couldn't help be look in awe at the creations they had made and dreamt a little moreabout the boy they dreamt of while picking out the flowers. Ino found vases for each so each bouquet could keep water and the special preservative her mother invented in itso itwould last much longer. Talk between them soon shifted to the boys in question. They talked until lunch.

"How about we take a break and go find something to eat?" Ino proposed.

They all agreed that it was more than time that they had found something to fill their bellies.

"Mom," Ino screamed to the very back of the story where her mother was working on creating some new bulbs, "we're heading out to lunch…we'll be back in an hour."

The girls headed out and treated themselves to the ramen shop,that was after they coaxed Hinata into joining them after they proved that Naruto wasn't there of course. An hour passed and they headed back to the shop just as promised.

Ino's mother was standing behind the counter as they came through the door. As they each came through the door they each raised their hand up to wave and say hello but as soon as their hands got up to about shoulder height and they had gotten the first syllable out they all froze white in the face and not able to speak. Ino was first to find such courage.

"Mo…mother…where are the flowers that were out on display on the front counter."

"O those…I sold them," she said with a smile, "that's what they were there for isn't it?"

With that all four girls hit the floor from sheer shock. How was it that she could possibly sell their hopes and dreams away? Alas, after quite an interrogation, her mother just couldn't seem to remember who she had sold them to…evidently there had been quite a few people in and out of the shop while they were gone, probably on their lunch breaks, and she had sold them to some of them.

"Seeing how you all really put your hearts into the first half of the day why don't you all head out and do something fun…go shopping or something." Ino's mother suggested.

They all agreed, it was better than moping around inside all day. They headed to the shopping district to splurge a little on themselves with the money Ino's mother kindly decided to pay them for their troubles.

After a good five hours worth of time going in and out of various clothing stores and different shops they decided that it was about time to head home to, in the very least, drop their things off. This was the longest Hinata had ever been out shopping before and certainly the most money she had ever spent on just herself, she felt kind ofbad about all the money that had disappeared so quickly. As they were headed out of their final store and down the street that leads out of the shopping district. Hinata noticed a familiar figure headed towards them with both hands behind his head, it was none other than Shikamaru.

Hinata raised her hand to wave but he seemed rather interested in the clouds overhead so she decided that it would be in vain.

"You really shouldn't keep them waiting much longer," he said smugly as he passed, "they may be persistent but they won't wait there for forever."

"What was that Shikamaru?" Ino shouted angrily at her Chunnin teammate.

"You heard me…you should probably hurry home because they probably won't be there much longer," and with that he turned the corner and headed into one of the stores.

Perplexed, and a little curious, the girls picked their pace up a little to see who it was Shikamaru said was waiting. Sakura's place was on the way for all of them so they all decided to hurry there first. Upon making it over the hill to Sakura's house they could all see someone standing outside of the gate but couldn't really tell who it was, all but Hinata. She knew exactly who it was, even from that distance. Sakura was first to reach him.

"Naruto…what are you doing here?" Sakura asked in a slightly winded voice.

"Sakura-chan I…," he stopped once he saw the other three coming up behind her, "I…uh…need to talk to you about something…umm…in private."

Hinata and the others had just gotten there in time to catch the very end.

"Umm…sure Naruto," she looked back at the other three behind her with a sigh, "we can go inside and talk."

She opened the gate and reluctantly let him in, she could imagine what Hinata was going through right now. Sakura knew that Hinata knew that Naruto had had a crush on her for a long time but everybody had thought that that was done and over with and in the past. She could only hope she was wrong about why he was there.

"I guess you guys should head on then, ok?" she looked at Hinata like she was trying to tell her that it'd be ok and she was going to turn him down but she wasn't looking, she couldn't.

Tenten and Ino took Hinata by either arm and headed for the crossroads, both trying to console her as best they could. They too knew that there was probably someone waiting for them at home as well. They could only hope as to who it was. Eventually they made it to the crossroads and parted ways. Hinata was afraid, she didn't want to know who could be waiting for her, as long as it wasn't Naruto-kun it wasn't important. As she crept close to her home she looked up at her gate to see…no one was there. They had probably grown tired of waiting and left, she was grateful. She headed towards her room, it had been a stressful day and she wanted to rest for a bit before supper. As she turned the corner she noticed someone sitting up against her door.

"Neji-kun?" she said, barley audible.

"Hinata," he rose to his feet, "I wanted to ask you something…is that ok?"

Not Neji-kun…he couldn't possibly…could he?…not after all the things I told him

"I can't Neji-kun…I…I just can't."

"But Hinata, you don't even know my question."

"I don't need you to tell me…I already know it…it's the same as the one Naruto-kun is asking Sakura-chan," she began to tear up just thinking about it and started to open the door to her room.

"Hinata," he pulled the door back shut, "what so bad about me asking you to…"

Rasengan2theface: Do I end it here…hmm…let us think…how many reviews would I get if I did…probably a lot…mostly death threats but there would be bunches of them…that's awful tempting since you can't find me…I'll make a deal with you…give me a bunch of reviews for this one and I'll finish it now and I won't do this to you again…well…I'm waiting on a decision here…o…you want it that badly huh?…ok…I'm a nice guy…sometimes…so here you go...it'll be way down there, count to ten and you'll be there just like that,sorry but I don't want you peeking on me now now do I?…so back to you Neji-san…

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Rasengan2theface: Well that was painless now wasn't it…remember now…lots of reviews on this one ok…I just couldn't help myself on that…a guy's gotta do what a guy's gotta do…I do have one question for you guys though…what would you think if I started a Chouji/Ino fic in addition to this one…I want to but I'm not sure if you'd kill me if I took time away from this…tell me what you think and we'll see what happens…well so I can avoid all the kunai you're about to throw at me I guess I'll let you go…until next time…later daze