Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto.

A/N: I'm so sorry everybody! I got delay because of school and stuff (don't blame me, but the teachers). The story took me very long because I tried to make it longer. I don't know if it is longer, but I'm trying! I hope this story will make it up, I'll try to update sooner!

I want to thank everyone for his (or her) patients, and thanks to everybody who reviewed!

Well I promised a better chapter, so I hope this chapter is. I'm planning on making it longer than the last chapter. And I'm going to start on the pairings a little, it's about time! (Tee hee, couples therapy). I am also planning on Neji and Tenten, but I want to keep that for the end to make an ultra romantic setting, and I think it's quite handy to place it at the end.

Oh and also I called what the guys are wearing a surfer's swimsuit, and with that I mean something that has this model:http/ I really have no idea how you call this kind of swim wear in English so please forgive me (please tell me when you review, I really appreciate that)!

"Talking."

'Thinking.'

"SHOUTING!"

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A first day in the sun and a first scream of Tenten.

"Hello, my name is Ayame. I will guide you to your rooms. Follow me please." A woman with light-brown shoulder length hair said. She wore a nice white mason secretary blouse with a short black skirt. While she walked, her black heels made clicking sounds on the floor.

Up in the rooms, they had to split up in pairs; there was one room for 3 people. Sasuke and Naruto picked room number 120, Sakura and Ino chose room number 121, Tenten and Hinata took room number 122, Neji and Lee chose room number 123 and Kiba, Chouji and Shikamaru chose room number 124.

The girls threw their stuff on the bed, jumped in summer cloths and under that they wore swimsuits. They already had left to the beach, when the guys unpacked. 'Why do girls have to be so hasty?' They all thought.

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"Tenten, why aren't you wearing a dress? Or even a skirt?" Ino said when she saw Tenten in shorts.

"I've never worn a dress, and I will never wear one." Tenten said dryly.

"Heck do you even know what a dress looks like, or how to put one on?" Sakura said giggling.

"A dress, I've heard of it but never seen it. Is that something that girls wear?" Tenten said, playing along with Sakura.

"Tenten, now I want to ask you a serious question." Ino said while she lay down on her towel. The others followed soon afterwards.

"What did you wanted to ask?" Tenten said while she opened her book.

"Would you ever wear a dress? For example, would you ever wear a dress when someone you really love asks you?" Ino asked.

"I don't know." Tenten answered. Then she got suspicious. "Did you have someone in mind?"

"Well…" Ino answered.

"Do you have any feelings for Neji?" Sakura asked straight to the point.

"WHO'D YOU SAY?" Tenten shouted.

"You two look so cute together; we actually hoped that you had some feelings for Neji." Sakura said to calm Tenten down, unsuccessfully.

"CUTE?" Tenten shouted once more.

"She does have a point there Tenten. You two do look very cute together." Ino said.

"A-and if you t-two would have a relationship-p you would be kind o-of family of me." Hinata said carefully, she didn't want to astonish Tenten more. She didn't stutter anymore the last years, unless she was nervous, like now.

"Hinata, I would do anything for you, except marrying a guy to be family of you." Tenten said, finally calmed down.

"But we aren't talking about a guy, we are talking about Neji. Your team mate, your friend, someone you've known for years." Sakura said.

"Yes my TEAM mate, my FRIEND and SOMEONE I've know for years. That's all." Tenten replied.

"Come on; have you never felt something for Neji? Not even a spark, a blush or a tingle in your stomach?" Ino asked.

"…" Tenten was speechless (which never happened before).

"Well?" Ino asked.

"N-nothing, I've never felt anything for Neji. I've never felt anything more than friendship." Tenten said firmly, more to convince herself than the others. Not that it worked.

"I'm not convinced." Sakura said. "You always seem to feel comfortable when you're with Neji."

"A little bit too comfortable." Ino said.

"So your point is? Geez why can't I just be friends with Neji? Yes I feel comfortable with him because I've known him for years! We're just friends!" Tenten got kind of angry and irritated. "I'm going to swim if you girls don't mind." Tenten said, soon after that she angrily walked away.

"I guess we've gone too far." Ino said.

"You guess?" Hinata said sarcastically. Tenten has always been a very good friend for Hinata, whenever someone upsets Tenten, it made Hinata a little mad.

"We did go too far Ino, we should apologise when Tenten comes back." Sakura said.

"Yeah you're right. We went too far. Let's just apologise when she comes back." Ino said. Ino looked thoughtfully to the cloudless sky. The last time Ino looked to the sky when she had nothing to do. It always makes her think of Shikamaru, and she liked that.

Ino had discovered a little while ago that she feels something for Shikamaru. First it always was friendship, but now she isn't sure anymore. She is thinking constantly of him, it's so annoying! Besides, he only calls her troublesome and he doesn't understand women (or he does understand them, but simply chooses not to).

Ino sighed and decided to take a little nap. She really got exhausted from all the missions and really needed a break. The last mission was probably the worst she had in the past 3 years. Protecting farmers who had to transfer their pigs trough the mountains too the 'neighbours'. They knew for sure that some strong ninja's wanted to steal their pigs. Well, at least they paid a lot of money. Ino closed her eyes and only felt the warmth of the sun on her skin.

"Hey guys we're here!" Sakura called and waved up her arms.

Naruto, Neji, Sasuke, Shikamaru, Chouji, Kiba and Lee finally came. Kiba had ball in his hands. "Anyone in for a game of beach volleyball?" Kiba asked.

"No." Sakura and Hinata said. Ino didn't even open her eyes. Well that was a pretty clear answer. Chouji also answered a 'no' and seated himself on the sand with a bag of potato chips.

Shikamaru also wasn't into volleyball, too troublesome of course. Lying in the sun was more something for him. He lied down next to Ino and seated himself in his 'cloud wachting' position. 'Too bad, there are no clouds.' He though bored. 'Well a nap also is fine with me.' He put his hands under his head and just enjoyed the warmth of the sun.

"Where's Tenten? I thought she would be with you girls?" Neji said.

Ino opened her eyes and looked straight to Sakura, who also looked to her. They both grinned and knew they were thinking the same; 'Hyuuga is thinking of Tenten.'

"She's swimming." Hinata said.

"Not anymore." Tenten said. "Are you going to play beach volleyball? I'm in!" Tenten always liked to play sports, and what's more fun to do on the beach then volleyball?

Tenten, Neji and Lee played in a team against Naruto, Sasuke and Kiba. Sasuke looked really annoyed with those two loud mounds around him. All they did was quarrelling, and because of that; they were losing with 8 points.

Sakura lay on her belly while looking at the game. Too bad that Sasuke is teamed up with Naruto and Kiba, they're losing terribly. They weren't playing bad, but Naruto and Kiba just can't work together. Sasuke on the other hand just played, and looked damn hot (in Sakura's opinion). She's never seen him without shirt, or even in swimsuit. All of the guys actually just wore a surfer's swimsuit. Well Chouji wore a shirt above it, and Lee just wore a short green swimsuit. Lee's outfit should be looking ridiculous, but it actually really suits Lee (Sakura's surprised).

Sakura stood up and wiped the sand of her arms. "Hey guys, is it ok if I join the game?" Sakura asked. 'It kills me if I have to look at Sasuke losing any longer.'

"Sure, you can go on the other team; they can use an extra player." Tenten said teasingly.

"Ha. Ha. Ha." Naruto replied.

Lee served the ball, and the game resumed. Sakura easily got the ball, and passed it through to Sasuke and he passed it through to Kiba who passed it over the net. And so the game went on. With Sakura in the team it went a lot better. When Kiba and Naruto were distracted Sakura and Sasuke simply passed the ball to each other.

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After 2 hours everyone got enough of it. Eventually the teams ended up with an equal score, which made Sakura and Tenten happy enough. The boys of course wanted to win, but they're just being competitive.

The sun was setting, and everyone agreed with going back. Tenten had already grabbed her stuff. She walked ahead with Hinata, Kiba, Chouji and Naruto. Neji soon followed, with Ino and Shikamaru behind him.

Sakura finally grabbed her stuff, when she noticed someone was still standing there. Sakura looked up a little and saw that it was Sasuke. He just stood there patient, waiting for her until she has collected her stuff.

Sakura quickly pulled her tight white T-shirt over her pink bikini, and put her light-brown skirt on. She then walked to Sasuke, who later walked next to her. He said nothing and just stared forward.

"Thanks for waiting." Sakura said after a little while.

"Hn." Sasuke replied.

'Geez if you walk with me at least you can talk.' Sakura thought. Sasuke never talks to her, even when she tries to talk to him. Sometimes it hurts, but then again, Sasuke isn't much of a talker. That he waited for her actually was enough for her to know that he doesn't dislike her.

They just walked silent to the hotel while the sun went under. Sasuke looked a little to his left, were Sakura walked. In his opinion, Sakura looked beautiful with the sun shining on her. Yes, even Sasuke thought that someone could look nice or beautiful. This was the first time he thought it, but he really thought Sakura looked gorgeous.

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Once back in the hotel, everyone quickly dressed themselves to go to the bar. Well, not everyone. Tenten first wanted to take a bath, and so wanted Neji. They smelled of the sweat from playing volleyball.

Tenten went to her room and let the bathtub fill with water. Neji had gone to his own room, and just took a 5 minute shower. After 10 minutes he was fully dressed in a pair of jeans and a white polo-shirt. He knew that Tenten would be done bathing in 15 minutes, so he decided to wait until she was done.

In the meanwhile Tenten had already washed her hair, and just relaxed for 5 more minutes. "ROOM CLEANER!" A voice of a teenage boy shouted. 'Yeah yeah whatever. As long as you won't come near me right now.' Tenten thought. 'Crap, have I locked the door? Oh well, I will find out what happens if I didn't.' Tenten just tried to relax some more.

After a minute or 2, Tenten decided to get out of the bathtub. While the water in the bathtub ran empty, Tenten dried herself with the towel. Then someone opened the door. Tenten quickly looked up. A teenage boy of her age, stood there in his hotel-uniform. He looked surprised to find someone in the bathroom.

"Hellooo!" The boy said with a sneaky (or lets say horny) smile on his face.

"KYAAAAHHH!" Tenten screamed by seeing the unexpected "intruder".

In his room, Neji heard the scream. 'Tenten!' He never heard her scream, there must be something very wrong! He stood up and rushed out of his room.

He ran into Tenten's room. 'Ok, now where is she? She took a bath, so I'll go to the bathroom first.' By quick thinking Neji ran to the bathroom, opened the door and –

"KYAAAAAHHH!" Tenten screamed for the second time. After a second, Neji had rushed into the bathroom. She is naked! NAKED! Tenten quickly grabbed a towel and put it around her.

"GET OUT! GOD DAMMIT GET OUT!" Tenten yelled angrily, almost hysterically.

Neji wanted to get out as quick as he could. Then he noticed the room cleaner, who was probably the reason that Tenten had screamed. Neji hadn't noticed him earlier, because he was too surprised of seeing Tenten naked.

"Come here you horny bastard." Neji said grumpy.

After a little while Tenten came out of the bathroom, fully dressed. With an extremely red face she walked to Neji, who was sitting on the sofa.

"Sorry about that." Neji said, with an ashamed expression on his face.

"Y-you don't have to worry about that incident. You just came to help." Tenten said with again a highly red face. "By the way, what have you done with that horny cleaner?"

"Oh he won't be a problem." Neji said with an "innocent" expression on his face. Neji thought of the cleaner who he had tight up and locked up in a closet somewhere in the hallway. "Let's go to the bar."

"Okay." Tenten replied.

So they went to the bar to find their friends drinking and babbling. They joined and ordered something to drink.

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Well this took me a very very long time to write. I'm so sorry! I got very busy with school and yesterday I heard that the horses I take care of for a farmer were in a bad condition. The vet came today at 3 o'clock pm. Thank god it's nothing really frightening. But ok, I got some delay on the story.

Het spijt me heel erg! (I'm so sorry!)

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Xx Shamira