A Win-Win Situation

By Topaz Talyn

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any related characters

Chapter Seven: The Room

Naruto, Lee, Gai and Neji were sitting in the Konoha secret observation room. The observation room was full of high-tech gear used for spying. There was all sorts of gear in the room and all of it served one purpose; to gather information. Tsunade being the kind woman that she was had let Naruto and his group use the room for the purpose of spying on the sand siblings. Naruto looked up from his computer console and began to speak.

"Alright we have all this stuff so we should be able to figure out Temari's next move and arrange for Shikamaru to 'accidentally' meet up with her. Are there any questions?" Neji raised his hand.

"We have all this spy equipment."

"Right"

"And we've had this room set up for years?"

"Right"

"And it constantly surveys over 90 of Konoha."

"What's your question Neji?"

"My question is if we have all this money invested in surveillance why are we constantly getting taken by surprise?"

"What?"

"Well why didn't anybody use this stuff to find Orochimaru during the chuunin exams? Why didn't anyone notice that Itachi and Kisame were in town? Why did no one simply look at the screens and say, 'I wonder, who are those four strange people leaving town with Sasuke' wouldn't it be better to use this room for actual spying instead of trying to hook up two people who don't even like each other?" Neji finished. The other three just stared at him blankly until finally Gai broke the silence

"But Neji, don't you realize that true love is the most important goal of all?" This was more than Neji could take. He stormed out muttering about how everybody was insane but him. The three other ninjas just shrugged and went back to their work.

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Temari was happy. Tonight was Gaara's second date and there had been no terrible turn of events to prevent it.

"So, who's tonight's lucky lady?" asked Kankurou.

"Tenten."

"Who?"

"The one I fought in the exam."

"Really?"

"Yeah, you don't remember her?"

"Nope."

"That's weird."

"Well tell me about her, maybe it'll jog my memory."

"Well she….. She has….. Her specialty is….. Okay I see how you could forget her, she's kind of generic." Temari sighed.

"Well we do know one thing. And that is that she's going to meet Gaara at seven o'clock tonight at the noodle shop."

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"…She's going to meet Gaara at seven o'clock tonight at the noodle shop."

Naruto smiled as he turned to Gai and Lee.

"I've got a location." The other two perked up.

"Where?" asked Lee enthusiastically

"The noodle shop, at seven o'clock tonight."

"Why would Temari be there alone?" asked Gai.

"Well she's going to be watching over Gaara who has a date with Tenten." The reaction was immediate. Gai jumped up and put his hands in the air, Lee's eyes grew even wider then they already were. Naruto just looked between the two in confusion.

"Is there something I don't know?" asked Naruto.

"Can't you tell?" shouted Gai, "It's obvious that Tenten is in love…with Neji! Given, neither Neji nor Tenten will admit to these feelings but as their sensei I can tell these things." At this point a normal person would have come to the conclusion that the reason Neji had never 'admitted his feelings' was because Neji didn't have any feelings of love for Tenten. Gai has never been a normal person. As a result Gai came to what was in his mind the only logical explanation.

"Tenten is going out with Gaara to make Neji jealous!" Lee jumped up.

"Since we're already helping one set of lovers get together, we should help Neji and Tenten too!"

"Great idea Lee!" At this point both Lee and Gai stared at Naruto with puppy dog eyes.

"Why the hell not! Let's bring Neji and Tenten together too!" This time it was not Kankurou but Neji who got a feeling of impending doom.