Hello, kay I know this is fairly random, but i think it would be a bit more fun if they started having to tip toe around to talk to each other

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto

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Izumo jumped away from the door as he saw Sakura turn from the window. Ino and Shikamaru followed suit, knowing that their friend could be very temperamental.

They looked around for an excuse. Finding none, they looked guiltily at the door as Sakura walked out. They braced themselves for her explosion.

Instead they got a strange stare and a baffled wave as she walked past the three of them. All of them gaped at her as she walked down the hall.

Izumo winced suddenly remembering the mess of papers that were waiting for him down the stairs. He sighed and gave one last curious glance into the room before turning down the hall.

Two hands on his shoulders stopped him. He looked over his shoulder at Ino and Shikamaru.

"What were you doing?" Ino demanded.

Izumo just looked at her.

She flushed and was instantly silent.

He looked pointedly at there hands, which they removed quickly.

"do you know what that was?" Shikamaru asked, not sure how to deal with this man. He new he was one of the proctors and also Tsunades assistants.

"No, but I wish I did"

They looked at him questioningly.

He gave them a wry smile "Have you noticed how quiet its been lately?" they nodded.

"Usually Saku has this place in an uproar"

Shikamaru nodded while Ino looked at him suspiciously "Saku?"

He gave her a withering look. "When you and your friends continued with your missions as normal, Saku stayed here day after day, working on her healing techniques, along with whatever else Tsunade decided to teach her. So, naturally, those who seemed to be trapped here by Tsunades wrath, would see a lot of her," he looked at Ino, who was flushed. "You listen to Kotetsu or Genma talk to her, you'll hear them call her that as well."

She looked away quickly. She had been neglecting her friend as of late, thus the reason she had forced her out to lunch as well as Shikamaru. Even Shikamaru had a slightly guilty look on his face.

He looked at the two flushed teens and laughed "You two didn't have to take it so personally."

Ino glared at him, then got a thoughtful look on her face. Her eyes lit up, you could see the light-bulb go off in her head.

"I've got an idea!"

"Theres a first for everything" Izumo joked.

Ino gave him a heated glare. She had just met this man, and he thought he could tease her like an old friend? Not-UH.

He laughed again before turning down the hall, "You two should probably leave before Tsunade decides to put you to work" he winced again as he thought of the mess of papers down the hall.

"Wait!" Izumo once again looked over his shoulder, beginning to get tired of the blond.

"So you know Sakura fairly well then?"

"Yeah, why?"

She smiled sweetly, "You want to know who she's been talking to thats made her calm down so much, right?"

He turned all the way around, "Yeeaah." he said slowly.

"So then you'll help us figure out whats going on."

He looked at her. He opened his mouth, but before he could respond, a shriek came from the hall.

He winced and ran down the hall. "I let you know later, meet us at Ichiraku's later." He called over his shoulder.

"Us?" Shikamaru and Ino looked at each other. Shikamaru shrugged and yawned. Ino groaned and punched his shoulder.

"Hey!

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Kay, this is kinda out there, but its also a way to get them to meet, you'll see later on, but I also put Izumo, Kotetsu, Raidou and Genma in there because of the serious abuse that they get from Tsunade, I mean serioiusly, every episode that you see them in, their being blown up by sound ninja, ordered unmercifully by council members, or being hit by furniture being thrown out of the hokage tower when Tsunade throws a fit and the furntiture. Honestly, those guys deserve a little pity. And a question, why is it that in every fanfic i've read with these guys that they are either womanizers or perverts?

Anyway, please review!