Chapter three- YAY! I hope this one ends up longer than the other one. Thanks for your reviews! I HEART ROCK LEE! By the way, in my fic they are all thirteen... except Gai's team. I guess they'd be fourteen, then right?

As they entered the next room, they were shocked to find no one was in there! Or... wait...

"There's no one-- " Ino got cut off by a loud grunt.

They looked up.

"Please get of the ceiling you three," said the nurse, annoyed.

Shikamaru, Neji, and Lee were all using funky little inventions to cling to the ceiling (instead of chakra). Shikamaru had suction cups on his hands and feet. Neji had a really big vaccum cleaner-type thing in reverse mode and was dangling from it. Finally, Lee (who was covered in bandages) was... BITING the ceiling...! HUH?

"Mrufffscrff olichhhhmmmer!" Lee tried to say.

"We're having a 'who's-hanging-from-the-ceiling-invention-is-best contest! We spend all our extra boring time here making them... and, well... Lee practiced biting the whole time..." Shikamaru informed them.

"Fermurrrrrrm! Fffolikch!" Lee exclaimed. He meant- 'That's my dedication! True geniuses need strong jaws!'

"Oh, jeez..." the nurse sighed. "I hoped I wouldn't have to use this..."

She took out a giant spatula from her pants and scraped them all off, then flipped them like flap jacks.

BAM!

They all hit the floor with a smack and said 'Ow!'

"LEE!" Sakura shouted before thinking and ran over to him.

Everyone stared.

"Um... I mean... LEE! How dare you do that to the ceiling!" She saved herself with, thinking quick. "I work here, and now I have to probably get paid less since they need to fix it!"

"S- sorry Sakura-san..." he replied guiltiliy.

All Sakura really wanted to do at that moment was sit down next to him and give him a hug. But she beat herself up for it. Why did she suddenly feel this way? About LEE! I mean, she liked SASUKE!...Right? Then why was she feeling this way... I mean, in the past Sakura would definitly of said 'EWWWWWWW!' at even the JOKE of her liking Lee, but... now... she didn't feel that way at all. And it scared her. And made her really mad! This is NOT supposed to happen! But... she couldn't help herself...

Her expresion became softer. This was just a phase. She'd pass through it in no time. "Here, Lee," she said offering her hand. "Sorry about that... really. I overreacted. I'm not mad! I work at the hospital because I CARE anyway, not for money. And you're my friend..."

He smiled as she helped him up. "Thanks a bunch Sakura!" he exclaimed with the cutest little grin she had ever seen!

'Wait... NOT CUTE!' she thought.'Just... regular!'

'(ly cute)' inner Sakura countered (making 'regularly cute').

"GRRRRR!" she growled out loud.

"Well SOMEONE's moody today..." Ino commented with a smirk.

"Shut up, Ino- pig..." said Sakura calming down.

'Phase. Phase. It's only a phase.' Sakura thought.

'That's what you THINK!' Inner Sakura here.

"And WHY is there a spatula in your pants?" Ino asked the nurse.

"Haven't you read Chouji's novel? Everyone does..."

"Ugh..." Ino mumbled.

Then the nurse left.

"I- I better leave, too!" Sakura stuttered, moving toward the door.

"Oh no, you don't! We're staying! We just got here!" Ino said grabbing her.

"But... alright," Sakura agreed.

"Soooooooooo... you beat a Jonin?" Chouji asked Lee.

"Aw, yeah but seriously," Lee said modestly "no big deal!"

"You have so many bandages..." Hinata commented.

"Only for small cuts!" Lee said happily.

'He. Is. So. CUTE!' Inner Sakura thought. 'And he could be YOURS in a heartbeat! He loves you already and you know it!'

"Shut up!" Sakura said, meaning it for herself. Then she realized that Lee and gang had heard and thought it was intended for him. He looked at the ground.

"Oh- no!" Sakura started grabbing his shoulders. "No! I didn't mean that for you Lee! It's just that the voice in my head is distracting me and I really want to hear what you and everyone has to say!"

Lee seemed very convinced and smiled up at her. "Thanks, Sakura!"

"No problem!" she replied, grinning.

"So... are you... okay, guys?" Hinata asked shyly.

"We're fine... stop worrying," Neji said (he's not mean anymore, this is after episode... whatever it was that I am not going tospoil. The episode he and naruto fight).

"Well, we brought you a third of a flower anyway!" Ino said cheerily.

"A thir-" Neji began.

"And if you don't appreciate it Chouji will blow up and go on about dying children and a cereal box," Ino added quickly.

"Uh..." Neji (like Shikamaru and Lee) was confused. "O...K... it's... so thougthful?"

"Finally someone who appreciates it..." Chouji sighed.

"But why only a third?" Shikamaru asked.

Chouji took a deep breath in preparation.

"Oh no..." Ino said, covering her ears.

"SO WE COULDN'T AFFORD A WHOLE FLOWER!"Chouji roared again, having another meltdown."WHAT WITH THE CHILDREN, AND THE UNEMPLOYMENT, AND THE CEREAL BOX WE LIVE IN, WE SAVED UP SPECIAL JUST FOR THAT THIRD OF A FLOWER! AND YOU DON'T EVEN APPRECIATE IT! OUR CHILDREN SHAKE IN THE NIGHT AND ASK 'ARE WE GONNA DIE, DADDY?' AND YOU DON'T EVEN THANK US! GARBAGE! ALL OF IT! I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY!"

...extremely random shocked creeped out scared annoying silence...for a LONG time... again...

"Just had to get that off my chest," Chouji said taking a deep breath. "Again. Continue."

"Uh..." Neji said.

"...Wow..." Shikamaru added.

"Really... thank you so much anyway. This really does mean a lot to us!" Lee said quickly.

"You're welcome!"Chouji replied.

"So..." Hinata began. "Want to read some of the book Tenten gave us?"

"Yeah!" Ino exclaimed, grabbing the book out of Sakura's pink backpack.

"Wow..." Shikamaru said.

"What is this exactly?" Neji asked.

"It's a notebook about Tenten," Sakura said. "Here I'll quote her: 'I'd like you guys to have this. Make sure you share it with all the Konoha genin and those other three genin from Suna and then give it back to me in like a year or whatever. I'm always on the sidelines- but I really want to be more in this story and I really want to be a better friend so... let's start with this stuff about me, okay? It's kind of like my diary, only not as secret and personal 'no one can ever find this out' kind of stuff. It even has... my surname. If you all read it I think we'll be closer. And I want that, really.'"

"...Wow..." Lee said, baffled.

"We HAVE to read it!" Neji said excitedly.

"OK... let's go!" Sakura said opening it.

The first page was... blank. The next page said: this belongs to Tenten.

On the NEXT page however, there was information about Tenten like her birthday (March 9), age (14), etc.

On the page after that there were pictures. The page was very sparkley and glittery and decorated with a hospital bracelet your baby has on its wrist when you take ithome. The first was of Tenten as a new born baby. The page had wrtten on it:

'When my parents brought me home from Konaha hospital for the first time. I was a small Chinese baby. Yes, I am CHINESE not japanese, but my parents came over from China to Japan and became ninja. My grandmother is very Chinese (she lives with us) and tells me stories about my origin all the time. One of my faves is her story: 'The dragon of rain"! More on that next time!

Tenten

"That's cool..." Neji seemed very interested. (why?...)

They shut the book in a snap when the door opened and the nurse came in.

"OK, time to go..." she told the four guests (Sakura, Chouji, Hinata, and Ino).

"OK..." they replied.

And with one final glance at Lee (with an unwanted blush), Sakura, the last one to exit, closed the door.

OK, now I can get into the action! OK, if anyone has any ideas about what to put in Teten's book, please tell me because I am a bit lost.