Clearing the Head

Author's notes: Neji likes being Hatomi because it makes him anonymous. Unfortunately he runs into Sasuke who reacts much differently than Neji (or anyone else) thought.

Rated M for sexy times between males, swearing, drinking, and gore.

I don't own the characters. I'm just abusing them for a bit and returning them to proper outlets slightly damaged.

So, I haven't finished this as of yet but there's still a butt-load of chapters to be posted. So far it's 50 and I'm hoping to finish it soon. But things like this have a tendency to get away from me so we'll see.

Another week had passed with still no response from Kankuro. Neji had thrown himself into training his students, going on D-Rank missions with them, spending time with his friends, reading, and generally trying not to think about it. Last night he had cried into Sakura's shoulder about it and she comforted him as best she could.

She had requested Strawberry Vanilla ice cream and he bought it for her but also bought Chocolate Fudge for himself. He ate the entire tub of Chocolate Fudge last night and this morning was suffering. Neji sighed and pulled his blankets over his head to keep hiding under in the sleeping bag.

Kuma would likely be at the training field and expecting him to arrive eventually. Sakura had Tora for training today and Akino would sleep in before wandering off to find Guy-sensei, Lee, and Doi. Neji ignored the sounds of Sakura moving around and snuggled with the bear in his sleeping bag.

"C'mon Neji, it's time to get up. I'm meeting Tora in twenty minutes and besides, isn't sleeping in past 9:30 against your genetic code or something?" Sakura asked.

Neji huffed but didn't move. He heard Sakura sigh. He yelped when she pulled his sleeping bag off him and threw him (and the bear) over her shoulder. She walked out of her room, taking up his toiletries bag then tossed him into the bathroom. Neji landed mostly on his ass and gaped up at her. She stood in the threshold of the bathroom with her fists on her hips.

"Wash up, go to the bathroom, brush your hair, and all that other fun stuff. I'll be back to check on you in ten minutes and if you're not ready to get dressed then I'll do all the above myself before forcing you into clothes," Sakura said.

Neji blinked when she shut the door in his face. Neji huffed but did as instructed. He did not want Sakura forcing him to use the toilet. Neji came out of the bathroom when he was done. Sakura was putting her bed back together when Neji strode into the room. She nodded at him and he dressed swiftly.

Neji gathered his belongings as Sakura finished putting the last bear on her bed. Neji sighed and moved to hand back the bear he snuggled. She blinked at it then gave him a smile.

"You hang onto him for now," Sakura said.

Neji smiled and nodded. They went into the kitchen together where Sakura made him breakfast. He ate more than he wanted under her glare and they left together. She tsked and shook her head.

"Tora's going to be upset," Sakura said.

"Sorry," Neji muttered.

Sakura patted him on the back and shrugged. Neji let out a breath and held his bear to his chest. Sakura hugged him then looked into his eyes.

"It's okay, Kankuro has his reasons and I'm sure he'll explain everything," Sakura said.

Neji sighed. He nodded and she let him go. Neji took off before she could say any more and headed towards the Hyuuga compound. He tried not to think of how Hanabi-sama and Hinata-sama had given him a few dresses to wear as Hatomi. They had even given him some make-up they didn't use.

Neji got into his room and unpacked his bag. He sat the bear on his bed and settled beside it. Neji did not want to face the world today. All he wanted to do was mope. Neji sighed and ran a hand through his hair.

He scowled when a thought came to his mind. Neji laughed humorlessly at his thoughts before getting to his feet. He made sure his door was locked before opening his closet and finding the clothes he had hidden there.

Neji found a white summer dress with pale purple flowers all over it. Neji stripped and did the Sexy Jutsu. He shifted his chakra to his vocal cords as Sakura had shown him then braided his hair and tugged on the dress. Applying the eyeliner was easy enough and he had experience with applying lipstick.

Neji hummed into the mirror and smiled. The dress skimmed his mid-thighs but fluttered around nicely. Neji tugged on a black thong as it was all he had and he knew no woman would go without underwear under this dress. He found a pair of white sandals Hanabi-sama had bought for him to play Hatomi and slipped them on.

He was an entirely different person. Neji grinned in the mirror. Now he could go out and no one would give him pitying stares because they knew Kankuro hadn't responded to him yet. Neji grabbed an old white purse formally belonging to Hinata-sama before shoving in his lip gloss, a hand mirror, and some money. He left by a teleportation jutsu and ended up in an empty street near Ichiraku's. Neji let out a breath and strode into the main street of Konoha.

People glanced over at him but did not stare in pity. Neji kept his shoulders slumped a bit, face down and stride slow. Hatomi was more like Hinata-sama: shy, introverted, and self-conscious. Hatomi would not walk with her chin tilted up and a swagger to her steps like Neji would. Neji chuckled inwardly at his thoughts and continued his walk.

Naruto, Shikamaru, Sasuke, and Choji were headed towards him but Neji did not call out. Hatomi did not know these people. Instead, Neji shuffled to one side to pass them. Naruto ignored him but Shikamaru and Choji glanced over. Sasuke, the ever brash one, stopped and stood in Neji's path. He let out a squeak and let a blush spread over his cheeks.

"Hyuuga," Sasuke said.

Shikamaru snorted and smoke bellowed out of his nose.

"Very observant of you Sasuke, though there are a lot of Hyuuga around," Shikamaru said.

Sasuke huffed and Neji bit his lip. He took half a step back and almost walked into Choji who had appeared behind him. Neji gulped and kept the blush on his cheeks.

"Hey there, sorry about our friend, he's a bit weird," Choji said.

Neji nodded and heard Naruto chiding Sasuke. Shikamaru muttered his word and Neji looked him over. Shikamaru looked tired and he had lost weight. Neji felt sorry for the man but not enough to say anything. He made another surprised sound when Sasuke's face filled his line of sight.

"What's your name?" Sasuke asked.

Neji gulped.

"Hatomi," Neji got out.

He made sure to sputter a bit. Sasuke nodded and looked him over. Neji swallowed hard and back tracked again. He yelped when he actually did walk into Choji then bowed and apologized. Choji waved him off.

"It's okay," Choji said.

"Sasuke can be annoying," Shikamaru added.

"Yeah, really annoying and acting really weird. C'mon, Sasuke, leave the girl alone and let's get some ramen," Naruto said.

Neji tried to slip away but gasped when Sasuke took his wrist and held him still. Neji allowed a blush to spread over his cheeks and tried to flinch away. Sasuke ignored the three guys asking him what was going on and met Neji's eyes.

"Come with us, Hatomi, my treat," Sasuke said.

Neji stiffened. Naruto started sputtering. Shikamaru raised his eyebrows and almost dropped his cigarette. Hell, Choji had almost dropped his chips. Sasuke was asking him out. No, Sasuke was asking Hatomi, a random Hyuuga made up to knock Ino off her pedastol, on a date. Oh Hell no.

All he had wanted to do was walk anonymously through the village for a few hours before going home, returning to his Neji form and moping about in his room until dinner. Then he would snuggle with Sakura's bear, read, and try to go to sleep. He had not planned to get asked out by Konoha's most eligible bachelor, Sakura's crush, and one of the people Neji hated.

"I, I, I," Neji tried.

He couldn't get anything out. Now he knew how Hinata-sama felt around Naruto. She probably didn't want to punch Naruto in the face or run away screaming though. Her sputtering came from being embarrassed. His came from being stupefied.

"You?" Sasuke asked with a little smile.

Oh FUCK no! Neji had not meant to attract the Uchiha with this get-up! All he had wanted was some damned privacy as he walked to clear his head. No one knew Hatomi but Sakura, Ino, Tenten, Hinata-sama, and Hanabi-sama. It would have been perfect. But no, Sasuke had to butt his stupid chicken ass head in his way.

"I have to go," Neji shouted.

He followed this up with a well timed Gentle Fist (though weak by his standards) to Sasuke's stomach. Sasuke coughed, more in surprise likely, but he let go of Neji's wrist. Neji ran off, making sure to hold up his arms like he had seen girls do and kept moving. Neji ducked into an alley way and stopped to catch his breath.

He was not tired exactly, more panicked than anything else. He should be far enough away and peered around the corner of the alley he had run down. Neji let out a long breath, turned and walked into someone. Strong arms wrapped around his waist and Neji was looking up into Sasuke's black eyes. The bastard had a smile on his face and had the audacity of being half-hard.

"Looking for someone?" Sasuke asked.

Neji would have Mountain Crushed the prick right there but Hatomi was branch and not like Neji so wouldn't know the Mountain Crusher. Neji took a breath, let out a scream then whacked Sasuke in the head with his purse. He kept whacking and Sasuke ducked, covering his dumb-ass hair with his hands as Neji wailed and kept smacking. Huh, this was fun.

Sasuke went to his knees and Neji gave him a few more hits before spinning and running back the way he had originally come. Naruto, Choji, Shikamaru, and now Kiba with Akamaru got out of his way as he took off down the street. His screams had alerted a crowd and Neji wanted to stop to laugh but kept running, fake-wailing as he went.

He did not stop running (he did stop screaming) until he was ten blocks away. He leaned against a building and took a few breaths so he would not burst into random laughter. People were all ready giving him weird looks but Neji ignored this.

He looked at his chest and was glad the Sexy Jutsu hadn't popped off. Good thing it could only be released by its user. Luckily Sasuke hadn't used Sharingan. Then again the Sexy Jutsu wasn't a genjutsu. Neji wondered if the Sharingan would see through it and hoped not.

He began walking away again, falling back into his Hatomi stride but keeping his head up, biting his lip at intervals and looking back over his shoulder. He "calmed down" after another block and kept walking. Neji spotted Tenten up ahead with Kuma and kept back his greeting. Tenten spotted him, gaped then blinked. Kuma said nothing as she kept striding forward.

"Hatomi?" Tenten questioned.

Well shit. Neji gave a little wave as Kuma looked to him and blinked. Tenten came over with Kuma and Neji shuffled as he had seen Hinata-sama do plenty of times. Tenten looked him up and down and Neji flushed.

"Hi," Neji said.

"Hi, oh, Kuma this is Hyuuga Hatomi, Neji's cousin," Tenten said.

Kuma bowed and grinned up at him. Neji inclined his head at her introduction.

"But Neji-sensei's upset because Kankuro-baka's a jerk and hiding out in his room so I trained with Tenten-sensei," Kuma said.

Neji nodded with eyes wide and lips slightly parted.

"Neji-san mentioned something about Kankuro-san," Neji said.

Kuma kicked the ground at her feet and huffed. Tenten looked two seconds away from laughing. Neji said nothing to her.

"Yeah, Neji-sensei's awesome and deserves someone nice. When I see Kankuro-baka I'm going to kick him in the face," Kuma proclaimed.

This was complete with a fist pump. Neji put a flush on his cheeks and nodded. Tenten told Kuma to go into the weapons shop they were headed to ahead of her for a moment and Kuma suspected nothing, too excited about weapons to suspect anything. Neji gulped when Tenten met his eyes.

"What are you doing?" Tenten whispered.

"Taking a walk and trying to clear my head," Neji said.

Tenten blinked then let out a breath. She shook her head and gave him the look he had been trying to avoid. Tenten caught the slight narrowing of his eyes and wiped the pity off her face.

"Right, gotcha. Well, don't get into any trouble," Tenten said.

Neji inwardly snorted as she walked off with a backwards wave. Sure. As if he could get into any more problems. Neji strode off in the opposite direction from Tenten and kept moving. He began to relax half an hour later when no one else approached him. Neji let out a breath as he was finally about to think which had been the entire purpose of this walk as Hatomi.

No one bothered him as he strode through the village with his head partially down, his steps slow, and his hands clenched in front of him, both holding the handle of his purse. He easily moved out of people's way or them out of his way as he walked.

Kankuro had not sent him any notification for two weeks, tomorrow. Neji had poured his heart into the flowers, literally, and the note and now the bastard wasn't talking to him. Neji sighed and wondered if he should send Kankuro something else. Maybe he was being tested by Gaara. Neji frowned but kept moving. Gaara wouldn't be that much of an ass.

Neji found himself heading towards a cafe with chocolate sweets. Neji would not be caught walking into such a cute looking place even if he wanted chocolate but Hatomi had no qualms about stepped through the dainty white metal and glass door and taking a seat at one of the tiny and delicate white tables with their white painted wrought iron chairs.

The place was like something out of a little girl's tea-cup fantasy house with petal pink walls, pastel flower designs around the boarders, the delicate little tables, lacy table cloths, and elegant glass vases at each table with a single (fake) white lily.

The floor was pale hardwood and the counter was white with a display of sweets. Even the menus were white with deep purple writing and the amount of frills and lace was enough to make Neji almost puke. Sasuke would never follow him in here though. Neji smiled at the waitress dressed in a frilly pink dress. Her brown hair was done up in pigtails and she wore a cute white apron over her dress.

"Would you like some tea to start?" she asked.

"Green tea, yes, please," Neji replied.

The waitress left a dainty little menu and walked off to get his tea. God Sakura and Ino would feel off in this place and they were likely the most feminine shinobi he knew. Neji decided it did not matter and scanned the menu. Maybe if Kankuro ever started talking to him again he would take the puppet master here for punishment.

"Here you go, miss," the waitress said.

Neji thanked her and ordered a slice of the double chocolate and caramel cake. The waitress nodded at his choice happily and was off again. Neji drank his tea out of a rather large white mug decorated with pink flowers. His cake was brought to him a few minutes later and Neji happily indulged.

When he was finished Neji considered his situation. Besides the oddness of pretending to be a female in the cutest doll-house in Konoha and wearing a dress, he did not have a solution to his problem. He could write to Kankuro again but had no idea what this would do for him. He could not go to Suna to see what the Hell was going on as he had a genin team. All Neji could do was wait. Neji sighed and picked at the scraps of his cake.

"I can order you another,"

Neji stiffed and looked up to see Sasuke staring down at him. Neji had not even heard the bastard come in. He looked around and saw the waitress was gaping at Sasuke as well as half the cafe. Some were looking out the window and Neji spotted Choji, Shikamaru, Kiba, Naruto, Lee, and Shino looking at Sasuke from outside as if the Uchiha was nuts. Well, Neji knew Sasuke was insane. This further proved it.

"Sir?" the waitress asked.

Sasuke calmly sat across from Neji and Neji tried to get his head around the situation. Calm, cool, Sasuke was sitting with Neji while Neji had turned into Hatomi, and preparing to order (nope, actually ordering) Neji a second piece of cake. Neji was too stunned to speak. It was why he did not move his hand when Sasuke reached out and took it gently between his.

Neji could feel the jealously of the women in the cafe but did not know how the fuck he should be reacting to this. Sasuke lightly kissed his hand and Neji could do nothing but stare. There was heat coming to his cheeks and he could not close his slightly parted lips or get his eyes to stop being so wide. God damn Uchiha!

"You are stunning Hatomi," Sasuke said. "And as a Hyuuga your dojutsu will help revitalize my clan. As a branch member, you would being marrying into a higher standing, correct?"

Neji blinked. So that's what this was about. It made sense. Any child from a Hyuuga and Uchiha would automatically gain one of each eye. With Hatomi's "weaker" genes, the child might even gain a pure Sharingan in both eyes. Plus Hatomi was a branch member so the Hyuuga wouldn't be entirely opposed to marrying her off to an outsider.

Even so, to think a Hyuuga branch member or not, would want to help Sasuke was laughable. Hell, Hatomi (ha) might tell her Neji-san about this later and Neji-san would kick the Uchiha's ass on principle alone.

Neji's second slice of cake came. He grinned evilly on the inside but on the outside gave another shout. Sasuke went to cover his head before Neji's purse hit him but Neji had other plans. It was a waste of good cake though.

Neji smashed the cake into Sasuke's face, got up, and took off, leaving Sasuke to pay the bill and for whatever else havoc was wrecked in Neji's absence. Neji stopped but not because he wanted to. Neji glanced down and saw Shikamaru's shadow joined to his. Shit.

"Why did you catch her?" Kiba asked. "This is freaking hilarious."

Neji said nothing as he was forced to turn around and walk back towards the men. He kept the panicked look on his face and let a few tears roll down his cheeks. He allowed the shiver to come over his form and saw Shikamaru frown.

"Aw, she's scared," Naruto said.

"Yeah, let her go, Shika, this is mean," Choji said.

"No, don't let her go. I need to talk to her," Sasuke broke in.

Neji whimpered outwardly but chuckled inwardly. The Uchiha was still wiping icing off his face and had obviously deposited the proper amount of ryo on the table to take care of the order. Damn. Maybe Neji should have thrown the tea in Sasuke's face.

"Dude, she obviously doesn't like you. Let it go," Kiba said.

"Yeah, baka," Naruto added.

"This is so troublesome," Shikamaru muttered.

"Sasuke!" Lee began.

Neji inwardly snorted. As Hatomi he winced.

"I know the plight of your unfulfilled youthful love!"

Good God this was turning into a whacked out soap opera. People were staring. Sasuke sighed at Lee and pushed him away before standing in front of Neji. Shikamaru released his jutsu but Sasuke grabbed Neji's shoulders before Neji could make an escape.

"Why do you keep running from me?" Sasuke asked.

Neji put a tremor to his lower lip as he considered. Oh he could say so much. Hatomi would only know about Uchiha Sasuke from her family and the Hyuuga were not shy about their distaste for the single Uchiha heir.

"Because," Neji started. "You abandoned the village on a quest for power and vengeance, you almost killed your best friend and other people who cared about you, you got the third hokage killed, half the village was destroyed, you broke up your team, and made your sensei question his teaching skills, and you're a big meanie!"

The last insult was so out of place it was laughable but the rest had the effect Neji wanted. He started crying as Hatomi, wrapping one arm around his waist and using the other to wipe his tears. Neji bowed his head and looked towards the ground but he spotted Sasuke step back, eyes widening and jaw dropping in shock.

Sasuke had dropped his hands from Neji's body. The others were gaping at Hatomi in wonder. Neji had told Sasuke all this at different intervals before but Sasuke hadn't cared. Now he would since the words were coming from someone Sasuke saw as a potential mate.

"And you're a meanie to Sakura-chan," Neji added for the Hell of it. "I don't get why she likes you but you ignore her and want to be with someone you don't even know!"

Neji continued to cry as Sasuke stared at him in awe. Choji had stopped eating. Naruto looked two seconds away from falling over. Lee had fallen over. Shikamaru had dropped his cigarette. Kiba had to lean against the building for support. Even Shino looked stunned. Neji kept his smirk back and saw he still had boobs. Oh yeah, this had been a great idea.

"Where, who told you all that?" Sasuke asked after a moment.

Neji sniffled and raised his head, wiping at his eyes with one hand. Sasuke looked pale, greenish almost, and ready to fall over. The others were slowly getting over their shock. Neji hated to throw himself into the fire but he could handle it.

"I asked Neji-san where he got his scars since Hyuuga never get scars and he explained," Neji said. "Sakura-chan told me she likes you."

Sasuke scowled and his fists clenched. His jaw went tight and Neji heard Sasuke's teeth grind together. His Sharingan didn't activate yet, thank god. Neji snuffled.

"Neji, hm? Where is he now?" Sasuke questioned.

Neji kept his laugh back and shook his head, sending his long braids flying. He yelped when Sasuke grabbed him by the upper arm but Naruto, Lee, and Choji grabbed Sasuke in the same moment. He glared at them but Naruto shook his head.

"Leave the girl alone, Sasuke, she didn't do anything," Naruto said.

"Besides, everything Neji told her is true," Shikamaru said.

Sasuke let Neji go and whirled on the shadow-user. Neji took this moment to run off again but no one paid attention to him. Neji ducked into an alley way and allowed some of the speed he normally employed to come into his body. He activated Byakugan and once he could not see the pushing match going on between Sasuke and Shikamaru, Neji teleported back to his room in the compound.

He let out a breath, stripped, and released the Sexy Jutsu. Neji undid his hair, took off the make-up and hid everything in the cubby in his closet. He dressed in a pair of loose jogging pants, unlocked his door then darted under the covers of his bed, pulling Sakura's bear towards him. He gave his room a final sweep with Byakugan before deactivating it.

Neji snickered and let out a breath to calm down his rapidly beating heart. He ruffled his head into the pillows a bit to muse his hair and closed his eyes. Neji had not expected to fall asleep but he did and woke up when he heard noise in the hallway outside his room. Neji sat up as his door was ripped open and Sasuke stared at him, Sharingan activated.

"Can I help you?" Neji asked with a scowl.

Naruto, Kiba, and Lee were trying to pull Sasuke away but he walked into Neji's room. A few Hyuuga branch members were running through the hallways calling for Hiashi-sama to come and sort things out. Uchiha did not seem to care.

"You told your cousin Hatomi about me?" Sasuke questioned.

Neji blinked and rubbed the grit out of his eyes. He swung his legs out of bed and got to his feet. Sasuke said nothing, waiting. Neji sighed.

"She asked how my back got scarred and I explained. Why?" Neji enquired.

Sasuke cracked his knuckles by making fists with both hands. The murderous intent coming from Sasuke was immense. Neji felt another coming and glanced to his open door to see Hiashi-sama in the threshold.

"Uchiha Sasuke," Hiashi-sama said.

His voice made Neji shiver. It was the voice Hiashi-sama used in clan meetings to get the elder's attention and to express anger. Neji took half a step back from his uncle. Sasuke glared but the heated stare fizzled when meeting Hiashi-sama's gaze.

"What is the meaning of breaking into my family's home, knocking out ten of my brethren and disrupting my nephew, one of the elite members of my clan?" Hiashi-sama demanded.

Sasuke gulped. Neji wanted to laugh but kept it back. Oh this day had gone better than he thought. Pity he couldn't tell Sakura about it. Shit. She would find out because Sasuke, no Naruto and Lee, would explain. Damn. Damn, damn, and damn. She would kill him. Well, maybe not after he explained why he did it.

"I needed to confirm something with Neji and got carried away," Sasuke said.

Hiashi-sama raised an eyebrow in a 'no shit' expression. Neji had to cough to hide a laugh.

"Well I hope it was important. I will be taking this disrespect to my clan up with the Hokage," Hiashi-sama said.

Sasuke paled and his Sharingan deactivated. Neji cleared his throat before Hiashi-sama could stalk off.

"Uncle, if I may request you do not speak with the Hokage about this," Neji said.

Hiashi-sama turned that horrid stare onto him but Neji had dealt with it before. No one breathed they were so stunned.

"Why?" Hiashi-sama asked.

"Apparently this was my fault. Well, not Sasuke's unneeded rampage through our home, but his desire to come see me. Perhaps you will instead grant us permission to use the Hyuuga training grounds to discuss this?" Neji questioned.

Hiashi-sama raised an eyebrow. The last thing Neji needed was Hiashi-sama going to the Hokage with Sasuke and Sasuke explained about Hatomi. Hiashi-sama would protect Neji of course but perhaps not to this extent. Neji might explain later, if this went well.

"Very well," Hiashi-sama said.

The smirk on his face made Sasuke gulp, Kiba whimper, Naruto shudder, and Lee cower. The other Hyuuga grinned or chuckled and within moments it was down to Neji, Sasuke, Naruto, Lee, and Kiba. Neji inclined his head at Sasuke and strode towards his wardrobe.

"If you do not mind I would like to get dressed in private first. Then we will go to the training fields and discuss this," Neji said.

Sasuke hummed.

"I suppose your 'discussion' means fight?" Sasuke said.

Neji nodded. Sasuke smirked.

"And when I win you will speak nothing of Hatomi to anyone, pretending she does not exist, and leave her alone whenever you see her," Neji said.

Sasuke blinked. He chuckled. Neji selected the clothes he wanted with the appropriate weaponry.

"And when I win?" Sasuke asked.

"Then you will be able to attempt to court Hatomi to your will though it will not be up to me whether or not she is receptive," Neji answered.

Sasuke considered. He grinned and Neji raised an eyebrow.

"Not enough," Sasuke said.

Neji sighed and ran a hand through his hair.

"Fine, what else? Not that it will matter," Neji said.

Sasuke stepped up to him and grabbed some of Neji's loose hair in one hand. Neji slapped Sasuke's hand away, ignoring the little jolt of pain in his scalp from it.

"You shave your head: totally bald," Sasuke said.

Neji blinked. He smirked. Sasuke was jealous of Neji's hair. Neji didn't bother to stop his laughter but did keep it contained.

"Fine, deal," Neji said. "But we won't need any clippers."

Sasuke snorted.

"Yeah we will. And no wig, Hyuuga," Sasuke said.

"I won't need to worry about it," Neji said back.

Sasuke left his room. Kiba, Naruto, and Lee followed. Lee shut Neji's screen and Neji could hear the three yelling at Sasuke while trying not to yell. Neji let out a breath and began to get dressed. This was turning out to be an excellent day. Now all he needed was a note from Kankuro.

Reviews welcome, next chapter coming soon. And yes, Neji and Sasuke will be fighting. Got to love how cocky these two are. What happened to Shika, Shino, and Choji? Shika and Sasuke had a shoving match and I'll leave the rest up to you. ;)