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Chapter 2 Little Rays of Sunshine on a Cloudy Day

When the girls left they went to the playground they used to go to when they were younger if they were having boy trouble or just regular old problems. Ten Ten was the first to speak.

"Someone please just shake me so I can wake the hell up,"she groaned. The others looked up in understanding silence.

"This feels like a nightmare, but i guess we brought it on oursleves,"whispered Ino, curling her legs up in the swing. Each girl looked up and smiled sadly at one another. It always used to be like this and now it came back to them like a horrible recurring dream just to spite them.

Naruto would be completely oblivous to the crush Hinata had on him;Ino would harbor feelings for Shikamaru,but was too afraid she'd ruin their friendship if she told him so she just flirted playfully it would seem to him but deep down it wasn't all just play;Ten Ten loved Neji with all her heart but was too shy to tell him because Neji wasn't exactly known to show his feelings for someone except his deceased father. He was even know as the 'human ice cube' to most of his obsessed fangirls,so Ten Ten was forced into the role of tomboy just to be arounf him everyday;and Sakura would tell Sasuke how she felt about him whether he liked it or not, but he always rejected her and ended up leaving and breaking her heart even more.

It had become a pattern over the years until one day the girls just stopped. It was when they'd all turned 16 and started to focus on other things. Sakura stopped telling Sasuke how she felt and she trained with Tsunade instead to become stronger not only for herself but for him as well. One day the two spared when he came back to the village form killing Orochimaru and Sakura beat him. From that day on he asked her to fight him until they became closer than friends, but neither made a move on it.

Ten Ten still trained with Neji, but she was a little more girly now and she spent half her time training and the other half hanging with the girls. It didn't take long for the other boys her age(and some that were scarily older) to notice her and Neji,tired of her constant dates getting in the way of their training (or so he told her) scared the potential boyfriends away. He'd been a little jealous,though he would never admit it, and hung around her more, being a little overprotective sometimes.

Hinata decided to work on her stuttering problem. She worked hard for days and weeks until she only stuttered when she was angry or out of breath. Naruto was sent on a mission with her on the team and he started to notice that she didn't stutter nor did she avert her gaze when he looked at her. After the mission he took her to celebrate its success by going out for ramen. And the two became best friends. He even shared his ramen with her, but only her of course.

Ino, surprisingly all she did was sit and watch the clouds with Shikamaru. They even discussed important things from time to time. As the days passed this became a ritual for them and when Ino didn't show one day,lazy ass Shikamaru tore up the toen in search of her. He found her at her family's flower shop. She looked surprised to see him there and then she remembered the cloud gazing. She explained that her mother had wanted her to take over the shop for the day while she was out. Shikamaru understood of course and decided to spend the day gazing at flowers instead of clouds.

The girls pondered these sweet memories for a while before each of them stood up to leave.

"I guess we should go home,"Hinata murmured. "But I don't want to be alone tonight with Neji and his-his creature. Can I sleep over at one of your houses?"

They giggled at her choice of word and they decided to make it a group thing and went to Sakura's place.

(mIz mOmO here----well i hope you like this chap and it may start off a little boring but i promise you more action and a little drama/romance/humor in the next chap!!please r&r---mOmO out---)