Chapter 4 the story is starting to get interesting.

Chapter 4: Buzzin' at the Howling and Laying Love.

-----------Neji POV------------

"Don't go wasting your emotions.

Lay all your Love on Me."

He leaned further back into the leather couch. Shikamaru was attempting to get some sleep while in front of him Ino was belting out the lines of Sean Kingston's "Beautiful Girl" Hinata nervously adding to the song with a mumbled undertone of singing. Naruto was once again gobbling down ramen as Tenten dug through Hinata's mother's old vintage clothing.

"Hina this stuff is tres chic." Tenten stated, her voice muffled by an old black ballroom gown. Smiling she added it to an already large pile. Smirking he pulled himself up to join Tenten's latest escape from shopping. Smiling the brunette flung another red ballroom gown onto the pile, a Valentino price tag glittering as it landed on top of the never worn black gown. Tenten looked up and smiled as he pulled off a green mod dress, the kind every girl wanted to wear to prom but weren't brave enough to buy.

"Oooooh nice find" she crowed snatching up the dress and adding it to the pile.

"Ever think Hina wants any of these articles of clothing?" he asked directly to her, snickering as she placed purple Marcs wedged to the top of the pile.

"Hina c-"Hinata abruptly cut her off as she selected Brandi Carlile's "The Story "from Singstar.

"Take them, I'll never wear them." Smiling Tenten stuck her tongue out at me immaturely and threw them into another find, a peach Oscar De la Renta tote. She placed this next to her worn pink duffel and plopped herself onto the couch next to Shikamaru who had his head buried into the leather. Smiling her sat next to her bracing himself for the torture of musical destruction that was Ino and Hinata. Surprisingly it wasn't too bad a little horrific on the high notes but overall no too bad. Naruto was the one who came up with the idea of playing his own personal game 'Honesty' in which you had to answer the question supplied truthfully or drink a shot, supplied from Hiashi's cupboard.

"Why don't you really want to move up classes Shika?" Ino asked coyly to the pineapple haired boy. He furrowed his brow in thought before downing a shot instead of answering. They all laughed, and then it was Hinata's turn to be interrogated.

"Who do you hate most at the school?" Naruto asked. Hinata's answer practically tumbled out before she could think,

"Sakura." Naruto went to ask why but Tenten skillfully cut the oblivious blonde off.

"Only one question at a time." Her voice was demanding. It was now Tenten's turn. Neji looked straight into her eyes as he spoke.

"What are you most ashamed of?" She looked dead at him as she replied her tone unchanging.

"Getting a C on my gymnastics exam." Then she reached down and grabbed a shot finishing it in one gulp, washing away her lie.

----------Tenten POV---------

"It's all coming down right now

From the night that we've created,

I wanna be awakened somehow

I wanna be awakened right now."

She scratched her belly turning slightly towards the clock to check the time. It was past one and long ago had Ino given up her quest of getting the Singstar level. Instead they'd all crashed on the carpeted floor of Hinata, a mass of blankets and warm limbs. Her stomach growled loudly demanding food. Hinata shifted in her sleep only slightly, brow furrowed before relaxing back into her sleep. She let out a sigh of relief standing quietly and making her way towards the kitchen. She opened the fridge and scanned what food was at her success. Half of Ino's blueberry cake remained and she slide it out onto the bench.

'Just one piece.' Not enough, so another, and another, and another until there was only one piece left. She turned to leave when she caught her face in the reflection of the oven, covered in cream. Her stomach lurched as she ran towards the bathroom, sinking in front of the toilet. She stuck her finger down her throat. The sound of her struggle lost through the house.

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She slid down the wall panting, a tear streamed down her face as she turned away from the toilet. With a flush she left washing her hands and stealing some mouthwash from the cabinet. Sliding herself back into her slot on the floor she looked up at the ceiling knowing that sleep wasn't going to come. She dared her stomach to growl but it didn't and she was left only with the carefree breathing of her friends.

----------- Shikamaru POV------------

"I met her at a backyard block party by the bar.

She kept looking at me like she knew who I was

She was buzzin' all over me,

She was buzzin' all over me.

Buzzin' all over me like she fell in love."

He yawned as he stretched his arm high above his head surprised that he was the first one awake. He observed his friends once again analyzing their sleeping patterns; he began to wonder if they noticed how they slept reflected their feelings. Hinata was angled in such a way that she was turned towards Naruto. Whereas Naruto was curled slightly so that he could feel Hinata's breath on his neck, his left hand weaved into a strand of her long navy hair. Neji slept facing Tenten, his fists curled uneasily at her tired breathes.

Tenten was harder to read, she slept facing upwards her palms flat on the floor and her head turned so slightly towards Neji. Her skin looked pale and s had black bags under her eyes, her hair askew after forgetting to take it out of its buns.

What he was most curious about was whether or not Ino realized that she rotated between facing her friends and that recently she'd been sleeping facing him, or that she slept with her hands over her heart whenever she was facing one of her friends. He watched Ino, a strand of her silvery, blonde hair falling down over her face. He pushed it away as she stirred blinking her blue eyes; she looked up tiredly and smiled at him.

"Can't believe your awake." She yawned sitting up.

"You can go back to sleep if you want, we've still got awhile before we go back to school." He suggested. She looked at him then to the carpet, in decision. She turned to him.

"Don't leave." Then she curled back into he sleeping place facing him and drifted to sleep.

In his opinion being a genius he noticed things, he could describe his friends easily. Naruto cared, he really did but he just wasn't that smart, he just wasn't. Hinata cared deeply and wouldn't tell a soul something if you told her not to, unless it was a matter of life and death. Neji cared and it was obvious to him only that the person Neji cared most about was Tenten. He was very protective of his friends, after losing his family Neji and he and Tenten considered the group their family, Naruto to, for they either had no family or a family that just wasn't there. Naruto's dad had been travelling for the past two years and Tenten's were dead. Tenten had always been independent, ever since they met her. At the end of Middle School before they and been they, Tenten had been best friends with Kin Tsuchi and Zaku Abumi. All he knew was that she was close to Kin for awhile not so much Zaku. Kin and Tenten had attended every single party they could go to and were always wasted at school. She just hadn't been the same then one day Tenten left, leaving Kin mildly confused. All they knew was that Zaku was dead, Tenten was gone and Kin was pissed. Tenten was there for the first day of High School, but she wasn't wasted, didn't have a hangover and wasn't tired from partying. That's when she fell into pattern with Ino and him. Neji joined with Hinata and Naruto after being with Tenten, Ino and him in science. That was that. Tenten was fine now, the worst was behind her.

Still Tenten treated her friends like fine China, something that should be there to admire and love but never to depend on. He cared and worried about each of his friends dearly, and hoped they saw that they were the closest thing to a family he was going to get.

He picked u Naruto's camera and began flicking through pictures, stopping at one of all of them. He smiled as the alarm went off forcing them to get up for another agonizing day of school.