Author's notes:

Hello, my darlings. Are you ready for another chapter? - I know I am!

The best is yet to come!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. But I do own… My computer. Wait, I don't own this either! Oh well.

--------------

Hinata was waking up from a peaceful sleep. She sighed and felt the warm sun make it's way through the window and on to her covers.

She sat up slowly and yawned, rubbing the sleep from her eyes. She sighed. She wished she could've spent the night at Ino's house last night…

She heard a voice from outside her door.

"Hinata-sama, are you awake yet?" a19-year old girlslowly peeked through the door.

"Hai, I'm awake." Said Hinata softly. "You can come in if you want to…" The house keeper, Hanna, that Hinata was friends with, opened the door.

"Oh, Hinata-sama, guess what?" gushed Hanna, sitting on the bed next to Hinata, her hands behind her back. She didn't wait for a response. "You got flowers!" Hanna brought out a bouquet from behind her back. "It was hard not to peek, but I restrained myself! I bet the boy who got it for you is very handsome!"

Hinata took the flowers and studied them. They were really pretty. The boy who picked them out must've had good taste! Hinata found a little tag in the flowers. She read the short note on it.

To my beautiful and youthful blossom, Hinata-hime! Love, Lee!

"Isn't it romantic, Hinata-sama?" Hinata was too shocked to respond to Hanna. Rock Lee loved her? That was so… so… weird! And… unexpected. He even called her 'hime'! That meant 'princess'!She stood up.

"H-Hanna-chan… I'm going to get dressed really quick. Can you excuse me?" Hanna smiled and nodded.

"Later, Hinata-sama! I'll make some breakfast for you!" Hinata nodded and the blue-haired house-keeper closed the door. Hinata sat down on her bed for a moment. This was really weird. She was glad that her father was gone to the Village Hidden in the Mist for the week on business.

She stood up and dressed in gray pants and a white tank top. She put a light gray jacket on, leaving it unzipped. She had to admit that Lee's flowers were nice. Her confidence had boosted, slightly, although it was still really, really weird.

It was even weirder that Hanna-chan seemed to have a crush on Maito Gai, for she acted the same way around him as Hinata used to act around Naruto.

Hanna was a kind girl. When she was younger she remembered Hanna coming to the front gates of the mansion while she and Neji were playing outside. Hanna had given her a small smile and wave before being escorted into the house.

Jus recently, Hinata and the blue-haire dgirl had been getting close. Hanna was about four years older than Hinata, at nineteen years old. She had been apart of the Kikou clan of the Village Hidden in the Clouds. She hadn't been a ninja, she hadn't been allowed. She was able to control air, though, and she had once told Hinata that she used it to clean dust sometimes, in secret, to make things easier for everyone.

Hinata sighed. Crushes. Naruto wasn't her crush so much anymore. She had grown out of it, being sixteen now.

She walked out the door to go eat breakfast with Hanna.

----------

Sakura, Tenten and Ino all woke up very tired. They had crashed after running like crazy back to Ino's house, Tenten's face redder than a tomato. They yawned and Ino dazedly fixed some eggs and ham and the girls ate. It took awhile to fully wake up, but as soon as their clothes were on, they were rearing to give the beautiful love letter that they had written for Lee.

"This is going to be great!" exclaimed Tenten. Sakura nodded and Ino snickered.

"Matchmaking is awesome in itself." she said wisely. They set out at noon with the letter, sure that Lee was eating lunch with Naruto, seeing as the two boys had became friends.

Sure enough, when they got to the Ramen bar, Naruto, Kiba, Lee, Shikamaru, Chouji, of course, Neji, Sasuke, and Shino were eating Ramen. Naruto had that kind of effect on everyone. They seemed to eat Ramen with him nowadays.

"Hey, Lee!" greeted Sakura, Ino, and Tenten in unison, very cheerily. Lee looked up and grinned.

"Hello, my fair maidens, who blossom in the spring of youth!" Ino seemed unfazed by the comment and handed the note to Lee.

"It's a love note, Lee!" Tenten said happily. "Just for you!" Lee took the letter, ignoring the gasps that came from the boys surrounding him. Who could've written him such a beautiful thing? How wonderful! He opened the letter, only to have Kiba snatch it away from him and stand up on the table.

"My Dearest Lee!" he exclaimed, a mischievous gleam in his eye.

"No!" Sakura screamed. Kiba jumped out of her reach and continued.

"Your sex appeal drives me crazy, Lee…" Kiba read the rest of the note, laughing. "And now, the final moment, folks, who is the letter from?" Lee's face was very red by now, and Naruto was cheering, wanting to hear who wrote such a weird letter to Lee.

"With love…" Kiba studied the name. "Oh my god…" he muttered.

"Who is it!" yelled Naruto, dying with curiosity. Kiba put his hands to his sides. A snicker escaped his mouth.

"Hyuuga Hinata!" he said happily. And then…

All hell broke loose. Naruto stood up.

"WHAT! Hinata likes LEE? WHOA!"

Neji looked at Lee. His own cousin… was in love with that?

"I think I'm going to vomit." He commented flatly.

Shino stayed quiet, almost snickering.

Ino, Tenten and Sakura panicked. What had they done to Hinata's reputation? Shikamaru, our favorite lazy genius, was the only one who stayed calm. He stood up and took the note from Kiba.

"Ino, some of this is your handwriting." He said quietly to the girls. "There are three different handwritings. They're all yours, aren't they?" He said, the question seeming like more of a statement. "How troublesome." And that was the moment that the boys got pulled into the plan. Unwillingly, of course. The girls came up with a plan to save Hinata's reputation.

Tenten stood up. "Hey, Lee, let's go train! Neji, you stay!" Neji looked slightly taken aback at this blunt comment. Lee protested somewhat, but Tenten dragged him away.

When Lee and Tenten were gone, Sakura and Ino took over.

"Alright, you guys, we have a mission!" The boys stayed quiet, listening to Ino. "We're hooking up Lee and Hinata!"

Kiba snickered. "You mean Hinata didn't write the note? Aw, and I was looking forward to asking him to write a three-page essay on why he thinks he deserves her… heheh." A ramen bowl met his forehead, courtesy of Sakura.

"Who's in?" asked Sakura happily. Kiba and Naruto both raised their hands instantaneously. Shikamaru and Chouji refused, not wanting to be involved in one of Ino's plots. Shino only sat there impassively. Neji stood up and made a comment that sounded suspiciously like, "I'm feeling sick…" Sasuke looked at Naruto, still confused.

"Why would you want to hook them up?" he asked.

"They're both just so loveless!" cried Ino. Sakura nodded.

"You are too…" said Naruto innocently. Sakura's and Ino's fists united with Naruto's face.

"Say that again, I dare ya!" roared inner Sakura. Sakura and Ino both brushed their clothes off.

"So you're in, right?" said Ino sweetly to Kiba and Naruto. Both of them nodded, afraid to say anything at this point.

"Great!" said Sakura merrily. Shikamaru and Chouji shook their heads.

"Alright, Shino, you're coming, too!" said Kiba, grabbing onto Shino's arm. Shino stopped.

"I'm not going."

"Yes you are!" said Kiba, pulling once again.

"I'll give you fleas." Said Shino, obviously not wanting to have any part in this. Kiba's arm recoiled.

"Bastard." He muttered under his breath. The group turned around to see Tenten heading back.

"Where's Lee?" asked Ino, voicing the question that everyone had right now.

Tenten smirked. "We made a bet. Whoever lost had to run around the village a hundred times!"

"What was the bet?" asked Ino.

"We bet on a boy's chances with a girl. You know Kenji, right?" The others nodded. Kenji was a boy who worked at the ninja clothing store. "Well, there's this girl he liked and me and Lee knew he was going to ask her out. Lee said that he'd get her for sure, but I said he wouldn't. Poor Kenji." Tenten smiled. "So now he's running around the village." She looked at Neji. "Hey, Naji-kun, I think we're suppose to train with Gai today at 2:00. It's about 1:30 right now."

"Then let's go." Said Naji flatly, standing up.

"It only takes five minutes to get--" Naji grabbed her arm anddragged her along. "Bye Sakura-chan! Bye Ino-chan!" she cried. Neji apparently wanted to get out of there before they started making plans and draggiing him into it. They both could hear Ino and Sakura crying, "Why don't you share, Neji? You just want her for herself!" and resounding giggles.

Neji and Tenten reached the training area, where Gai was waiting for them.

"Why, hello, my youthful students! You're here early! Where is your youthful comrad, Lee?" he said, giving a glittering smile.

"He's fufilling his youthful duty, Gai-sensei!" said Tenten with a playful grin. "He lost a bet to me. And now he's running around the village a hundred times!" Gai nodded.

"Then I will have to punish him later for being late! But for now, my youthful charges, we will begin our lesson! Tenten, you don't have to come if you don't want to!" Tenten cocked her head to the side.

"No, Gai-sensei, I'm going…" Gai nodded and looked at Neji.

"Neji, I'm going to teach you a very important lesson today." Said Gai very seriously. Neji was secretly glad that Tenten had decided to stay with him, and not leave him alone with their sensei. Tenten raised an eyebrow.

"What?" asked Neji.

"Well, my youth, you're seventeen, now. I know I should have done this much sooner. So now… our lesson… I'm going to terach you how to score hot babes!" Tenten fell over flat on her face, and a horrified look crossed Neji's features. Gai continued.

"We're all going to go out to the village and and I'll give you an example of what to do to win a maiden's heart, my young Neji! Then you'll try!" Neji shook his head.

"No. I refuse."

"It's my order to you as your sensei!" said Gai happily, striking his 'good guy' pose. Tenten could hardly hold back her fits of laughter. Neji glared at her angrily.

-----------

Kikou Hanna carried a small bag of Miso for herself to eat later. Hinata-sama had told her that she could have the day off today; she was so kind and gracious. Hanna smiled happily. That morning after breakfast Hinata had gone to train. She smiled to herself. Most of the Hyuuga were self-centered and and arrogant, but Hinata was very kind and caring.

Hanna pulled a stray piece of long blue hair out of her face and sighed. She felt a tap on her shoulder and twirled around. When she saw who the person was she nearly dropped her lunch.

-----------

Neji and Tenten sat at the ramen stand across the street and watched as Gai attempted to win over Kikou Hanna.

"I know her!" said Tenten. "Isn't she Hinata's friend? I mean her house-keeper?" Tenten smiled. "… Poor girl."

Neji nodded, in deep thought. He knew he was supposed to be paying attention to his sensei, but his eyes were fixed on the weapon's mistress beside him. He just couldn't get over that dream he had last night. Tenten had been sitting on his lap, leaning over to his ear and whispering soflty. She looked at him and he looked away quickly.

Next in the dream, Ino had come out of absolutely nowhere and snatched Tenten away. And then that Haruno girl had crawled out of the bush, saying, "It's all a dreeeeaaammm… Sleep… Sleeeeep…"

Oh well. It didn't matter. It was only a dream. A waste. People shouldn't think too much on dreams, it got in the way of reality.

They sat in the shade of the ramen stand, watching as Gai-sensei tried to win the blue-haired girl over. Tenten stood up.

"Look at her face, Naji-kun!" she whispered to him. "It's working!" Her eyes were wide in amazment. Neji looked and saw that the girl's face was bright red.

-----------

Hanna twirled around and saw Gai, almost dropping her lunch.

"Oh! G-Gai-san!" she said.

"Hello, my youthful blossom!" said Gai, smiling widly at her. Hanna blushed furiously. "What was your name, miss? Hanna?" Hanna nodded at him, speechless.

"That's what I thought! I just wanted to make sure, as not to insult you, my blossom!" Hanna looked down, trying to hide her blushing face.

"Oh! I-I'm sure I w-wouldn't have been in… insulted…" she said softly, looking up slightly to see his face.

"But I would never risk upsetting a beautiful maiden like yourself!" Gai gave a 'good guy' pose. Hanna could've swooned.

"G-Gai-san, you d-don't have to worry about m-me… I mean… I--" She looked down to see Gai holding her hands in his.

"Please, Miss Hanna." He said lowly. "Would you care… to go out on a date some time?" Hanna's face turned crimson and she felt as if she would faint. Before she could, she nodded, him looking deep into her eyes.

"Magnificent!" he cried. "Where would you like to go, my youthful Hanna-chan?" Hanna blushed at the honorific.

"A-anywhere would be f-fine…"

"Great, my youthful maiden! I will see you at seven o'clock at the ramen stand over there!" said Gai cheerily, pointing at the ramen stand his gaping students were at. Hanna gave a shy smile to Gai.

"Th-thank you G-Gai-san, I'll see you there…" she watched Gai poof away, with a cheerful wave. She fainted right in the middle of the street, not noticing the two figures in the ramen stand poof away as well.

-----------

Neji and Tenten stared at Gai-sensei in awe. It… worked… he made the girl swoon! They went back to their usual training spot.

"Gai-sensei! How did you do that!" cried Tenten, flustered. He made her pass out! Neji was staring at Gai, trying to figure out how he did it. Maybe Lee and Gai-sensei were right…

"Now, my youthful student!" said Gai, speaking to Neji. "It's your turn to try! Pick any girl you'd like to try my magnificent technique on!" Neji shook his head.

"But you must!"

"No." Gai chucked at this.

"How about one hundred laps around the village?" Neji shook his head and sighed.

"I'll do it, Gai-sensei…" he said angrily. Gai snickered.

"Tell me when you'll do it, so I may watch! For now, I will go and tend to some business! Find a beautiful youthful maiden to win over, my youthful charge!" Gai poofed away, leaving a dumbfounded Neji and Tenten.

"… How…" Tenten started, and then gave up on the sentence. She knew she would never know how Gai won over Hanna.

"This… is stupid." Said Neji, turning away. "I'll go find someone to make a fool out of myself in front of. Good bye, Tenten. I'll see you tonight when we train." Tenten nodded and watched Neji walk away. They always trained around when it got dark, alone. She smiled. She would go and see what Ino and Sakura were up to now.

-----------

Tenten knocked on the door to Ino's house, to have Ino run to the door and open it. Tenten ran in yelling.

"You guys! Gai-sensei actually got a date! And she's pretty!" she yelled. An audible gasp filled the room.

"Who is the unlucky girl?" asked Kiba, who was sitting next to Naruto with a notebook in his lap. Sasuke glared at Sakura, who had made him come to help.

"Do you guys remember that girl who's the Hyuuga housekeeper?"

"That sure narrows it down." said Naruto sarcastically. "Which Hyuuga housekeeper?"

"Hanna. The one that's friends with Hinata. Gai made her pass out! He asked her out on a date and she said… yes."

"Hanna?" yelled Ino. "But she's so pretty, and he's so… Gai…" The subject was quickly let go of when Kiba yelled for attention.

"Alright!" he said happily, holding up his notebook with an elaborate drawing of a trap on it. "This is the booby trap we're setting up for them, Tenten. We have alot of 'em, actually. One of them is a net to catch them both in. That way they can get to… know each other." Said Kiba, sniggering at the thought. Shino glared daggers at him.

"Come on! They aren't going to fall for that, you guys. They're shinobi." said Sakura. "How about we tell them that we're going to all meet at the ramen bar tonight at eight and not show? That way they'll be alone. And before that, we could tell Lee that Hinata will be walking there all alone. Knowing Lee, he won't want to let a girl walk all alone at night so he'll walk her there. We can set the booby traps if you really want to, on account of the fact that Lee would want to help and save Hinata, thus possibly winning her over. But these traps have to be good."

The group stared at her. She really was very intuitive at times.

"I'll be in charge of the traps." said Kiba. "I've gotten pretty good at setting them."

"Let's just hope that an innocent person doesn't fall into it." Said Sasuke with a smirk. Naruto laughed.

"I'll tell them to meet us at the ramen stand and tell Lee about Hinata being alone at night." Said Ino.

"Me, Kiba, Shino and Sasuke'll stake out for them and make sure Lee's doing everything right." Said Naruto.

"I don't want to take part in this…" said Shino quietly. He knew he had to though, on account that Kiba had blackmailed him.

"Shino, you're helping us or I'm telling everyone that you have the hots for Kurenai-sensei!"

"I don't!" said Shino, a bit angrily. Where had Kiba gotten that from!

"I know… but does anyone else know that?" said Kiba with an evil smirk.

Shino shook his head, trying to get the thought away. Sakura sat by Sasuke and Naruto. Naruto yawned and stretched his arms out and 'accidently' put one around Sakura's shoulder, earning himself a smack. Naruto had done that a lot to many of the girls in the village, being all perverted and stuff. He was hanging around Jiraiya a little too much.

"Aaaww…" said Naruto with a grin. He looked at Ino and winked. Ino seemed to blush a little, but she just looked away.

"Okay! Everyone, let's get started!" said Tenten, pumped.

"Yeah!" the whole group responded.

This was going to be a challenge… a fun challenge.

Author's note:

Woo hoo! The story is coming together! This will be interesting.

Just to let you all know, (in case some of you haven't already figured it out) there will be a few side pairings… Neji/Tenten, that'll be a funny part, maybe some Naruto/Ino, (just trying something new!) and Sasuke/Sakura… maybe. Tell me what you guys think!

Read and Review!

Ja!