Ok so here we are with the third chapter! Yay!

OK so here's a recap!

I shot up out of bed, inhaling deeply. I was in a cold sweat and I was shaking, and not because I was cold. I tried to remember what I dreamed about and immediately wished that I hadn't. The dream was horrible. It wasn't a dream really but a nightmare. It was a nightmare of which I didn't understand.

I looked over to my clock to see that it was 2:30 in the morning. I laid back down and tried to sleep again but sleep didn't come easy, but at least it came, but this time it came along without any more dreams.

Onward with the story now!

I went to school that day feeling tired. Last night's sleep seemed to have an opposite effect on me, instead of making me feel rested it had made me feel as if I had run an all night marathon.

I made it to my locker and began to take out my books for the day when Temari came up behind me and poked my back while saying "Boo!"

"Hey Temari." I said as I turned my head to look at her.

"Hello!" she said in a singsong voice. There was nothing to be suspicious of since this was how she normally was in the morning, opposite of the rest of the world, happy and hyper, that is until first period then she's tired and groggy till lunch when she's hyper again. She's unpredictable.

"So Tenten, are we still planning to go out to dinner before the dance? Or do you want someone else to?" Temari asked me. That's right I almost forgot about what we were going to do for the dance. We were planning on going to dinner before hand with a bunch of friends then to the dance then to glow-bowling. I was to plan dinner and Temari said she'd handle glow bowling.

"Oh yeah, I've been looking at some restaurants with my mom. How does Gaberelle's (a/n this is a fictional restaurant couldn't think of a good one that's real) sound?" I asked her.

"Never heard of it. Where is it?" she asked.

"It's an Itallian restaurant up on Peach Street next to car lot." I told her trying to give her a good idea where it was.

"Never been there but I'm sure I can find it. Sounds good! Ok well, I'll see you at lunch, till then have a good day!" she said as she went to home room. I followed her example and also went to my home room.

My first two classes went without any incidents. At lunch I sat with Temari, and Hinata, also a few other people ended up joining us for lunch. Those other people being Kiba, Lee, and Ino, who was a surprise since she usually sat at another table.

"Hey Ino, what brought you over here all of a sudden?" Temari asked as she ate her lunch and stole Hinata's pizza crust.

"What, don't like me?" Ino said mocking to be hurt by Temari's words.

"Hardy-har-har. No, it's just that you usually don't sit here." Temari said giving here sarcastic laugh at first.

"Well I just felt like sitting with you guys. I'm your friend, aren't I?" Ino asked.

"Yeah, it's just odd for someone, anyone, to pop up out of nowhere." I said.

"Well what about these two?" Ino asked gabbing her thumb toward Kiba and Lee.

"We pop up here all the time, just not on a day to day basis." Kiba said as he ate his sandwich.

"Oh so if I popped up more often then I could sit here without questioning?" Ino asked teasing them.

"Ugh!" Temari said in desperation as she lowered her head to the table with her arms thrown out around her.

Hinata giggled at Temari's actions and said "Temari just forget about it will you? She's just joking."

"Must she joke so much though?" Temari asked as she sat back up.

I noticed that it was about time to go. "Hey Temari if we don't go soon, we'll be late for class."

"Ee-gad" Temari said feigning surprise and shock, "now that wouldn't be good."

We began to walk up to the third floor were our next class, journalism, was. As we walked up there Temari became serious and looked at me and asked "hey Tenten are you going to be ok?"

Truthfully I had no idea, this was the class which both Sakura and Neji were in with me, but at least I had Temari to be there for support. "Yeah, I'm just going to ignore them."

"Ok, remember, I'm there if you need me." She said as we made it to the last flight of stairs.

Once upstairs, we say that everyone was waiting outside of the classroom, the teacher must not be there yet, as usual. It wasn't that the teacher was late, it was that all the clocks in this school were slightly different, that and the fact that everyone had first lunch in this class so we all finished lunch early and ended coming to class early.

I saw Sakura sitting next to Neji, who was silent. She waved to me while saying "Hi." Temari saw her wave and waved back while saying her own greeting, I just sat down. I could have sworn that Sakura's eye's seemed disgusted when Temari waved to her instead of me, but no one else seemed to notice.

Sakura was about to say something to me when the teacher came down the hall and unlocked the door, causing all the students to get up and gather their stuff.

Our teacher was Anko, a crazy woman with a lot of joke and funny stories. No, she wasn't really crazy, just she smiled a lot and loved to pick on people, especially the teacher next door, Kakashi.

Lucky for me I didn't sit next to Sakura, but unluckily for me I did sit next to Neji. The class was boring for the most part, we talked about current events which somehow ended up in some story from Anko.

When class ended Temari came up to me and walked part way to my next class stopping at her next class. When I got to my next class, language arts with Kurenai, I was greeted by Kiba as I sat down in my seat.

"So how are you?" he asked me.

"Fine, how about you?"I replied.

"Just peachy." He said with a smile. Something seemed to dance within his eyes that made me feel more comfortable than I had been in a few days.

"So I heard that you don't have anyone to go to the dance with." Kiba said and as he said it I felt that my heart was going to break again. How come everyone had to know about this!

"How do you know?" I asked what seemed to be a whine mixed with depression.

"Hinata told me. I had class with her last period." Kiba said looking sorry that he said it.

"Oh, yeah, I don't. Why?" I asked.

"Well do you want to go with me? Hinata was worried about you and asked me to ask you to the dance." Kiba said. I felt happy to know that my friends cared that much, but I could also tell that there seemed to be reluctance in Kiba's voice. I knew he didn't really want to go with me and I didn't know whether to feel hurt about it or wonder who he'd rather go with.

"I don't know you seem to want to go with someone else." I said and his face showed I was right.

"Yeah but that person asked me to take you so I figure that they want to go with someone else, and I want to make that person happy." Kiba said full of feeling. I felt really happy to know that he cared about someone like that and I knew now that he liked Hinata. It hurt me though to know that Hinata didn't think of him like that.

I sighed this was a lot going on all at once. "I don't know if I want a date, I'll tell Hinata thanks."

"Well we don't have to go as "dates", we could just go as friends. Please, that way I have a reason to hang out with Hinata and you don't have to be without a date par say." Kiba said his eyes showed that he really wanted to go.

"Ok, fine. We're planning on going to Geberelle's for dinner, but the time's not set yet, then we want to go glow-bowling. I'll let you know when all the times are set."

"Cool!" Kiba said, "wait do we have to let our parents know so they can go crazy over pictures and all that?" Kiba asked with a sense of dread in his voice.

I had to laugh at his antics, "No, that's only for couples, we're just friends, right?" I said with a smile.

"Yeah." He said also smiling. Just then Kurenai came in and began to teach class.

After class I went to my locker to grab my books that I need to do my homework and to put away the books I didn't need. And to my dread Sakura came up to me, I had no escape, I had to face her. Then I thought that I didn't have to worry, my life was going on just fine without her, I still had other friends and I had a date to the dance.

"Tenten, I need to talk to you." Sakura said as I continued to pack my book bag.

I sighed and looked at her "fine, go ahead." I said.

"Tenten, I didn't mean for that to happen," she began but I cut her off.

"What? You didn't mean to go to the dance with Neji?" I said the anger that I had harbored inside of me began to leak out.

"No! You see Neji asked me to the dance, I really tried to get him to ask you, but he ended up asking me. I'm sorry. I hope you're not too mad. If you want, I can hook you up with someone else." She offered after her explanation.

I calmed down a bit knowing that she wasn't the one to ask him out. "No that's all right, I forgive you. Anyway Kiba's going to the dance with me."I said. I grabbed my stuff and right before I was about to leave she stopped me.

"Hey, Tenten, am I still allowed to come to dinner with you guys?"

"Yeah." I said I felt sorry for her for some reason, her face seemed to show sorrow. "We're going to Geberelle's. I'll tell you the time later." I said as I left.

That night I was talking to Temari on the phone. "So how was the rest of you day after I last saw you?" Temari asked me.

"It was good. Kiba asked me to the dance."

"Aw! That's so cute! You two will look awesome together." Temari went into a sort of squeal.

"It's not like that." I said dousing her hopes "we're just going as friends."

"Oh, well that's ok! So did anything else happen today?"

"Yeah, Sakura came up to me before I left." I said.

"And what did she say?" Temari said her voice filled with concern.

"She told me that Neji asked her out and that she didn't mean to hurt my feelings." I said.

"Oh, well. If that's what she said." Temari said with doubt in her voice.

I didn't tell her about Sakura's offer. She didn't need to know about that. "Oh yeah dinner's going to be about 6-6:30." I said.

"Ok, so we can eat at about 6-6:30, then go to the dance at eight, and then glow-bowling at 11! Sounds perfect!"

"Alright well I have to go and finish my homework. Talk to you tomorrow." I said. I had a feeling that something bad was about to happen. But my life seemed to be that way lately, so that would be nothing knew. I pushed the feeling aside and went to do my homework.

Ok! There you have it! Please review!! Make me a happy camper!!

Oh a note!! Everyone is roughly the same age!! So Temari, Tenten, and Sakura are all about 14-15 maybe even 16.

Alright I hope you enjoyed!