Sorry about that wait. Track is finally over though, I'm pretty sure I'll be updating more.

So I give you the next chapter:

The Good and The Bad


Hinata stared at herself in the mirror. 'What the heck!' Her mind screamed. 'Do something! It isn't right!'

'Yeah,' she told herself, 'I actually look pretty.'

"I don't like this Sakura! I don't look like me!" She said.

"But at least you aren't stuttering!" Sakura optimisticly told her.

It was true, she had stop stuttering, and she loved it. She seemed so much more stronger just by not stuttering, but Sakura hadn't stopped there.

Hinata was now wearing a skirt. Yes, I said it, a skirt. It was black and had purple stars on one corner. She was also wearing a spagetthi strap that was purple to match her hair (just like the stars on her skirt.) She also had a black small jacket on and some black high heeled boots that almost went up to her kneese. She was blushing uncontrollably, and wished that the skirt was at least a little longer. She felt like she needed to cover herself up; like she was showing too much skin.

"You look so pretty!" Sakura told her. "With just some clothes and a confidence boost too. Well, let's go try this baby out!"

"What!" Hinata asked, startled. She did NOT want to go out like this.

"Well of course! We have to try it on Naruto!"

Hinata gaped, but before she could tell her to stop, she was being dragged through the streets to the ramen shop.

"Hello Naruto!" Sakura said happily.

"Hello Sakura! Hin-ata?" He said, his tone changing mid-sentence.

"H-hi N-naruto, I-I w-wanted t-t-to s-say..." She paused, swallowed, and took a few deep breaths. "I was wondering if I could, maybe, have some ramen with you?" She asked with more confidence.

"Sure Hinata." He said to her, then turned back towards the restraurant owner. "Sixteen more bowls please."

'SIXTEEN!' She thought wildly, and then settled down.

"Just how many of the bowls are for me?" Hinata wondered aloud.

"About 5." Naruto replied.

"Your going to eat 11 bowls of ramen?" Hinata asked, amazed.

"Yeah, I'm going on a diet."

Sakura POV

Sakura walked off as the soon-to-be couplestarted chattinga bit. She picked up a walkie-talkie and said, "Operation Naruto Hinata complete!"

"Hnn.." Sasuke's voice floated back from the walkie-talkie. "I wish I could say the same."

"What? Oh no, whathappened?" Sakura asked, and as a response, she heard horrible, heart wrenching sobs coming from the other end of the walkie talkie..

"He didn't spill up." Sasuke said, and then a faint voice added, "He couldn't have spilled up, he never lies, he doesn't like anyone... no one... not even... but I..." and then the sobs continued even harder.

"I don't like TenTen being so sad! I should have known better than to let YOU handle this." She told Sasuke, as Sasuke grumbled on the other end something along the lines of, "Not my fault," and "Your idea," and "I did my best," along with "No good dirty rotten prodigy..."

"Back to base." She said loudly to be heard over his grumbling. "Over and out."


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