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Chapter 5: Blackmail

"Embarrassment can either be your success or your downfall."

Tenten, Ino, and Sakura were on the academy rooftop, at around sunset, waiting for Hinata who phoned them to meet up there, saying that she had important news.

Tenten leaned on the railing. "What do you think is so important that she called all of us?"

"Maybe she finally asked Naruto out," Sakura suggested.

Ino shrugged. "Or maybe Kiba or Shino finally admitted to her that they have a crush on her and want her to leave Naruto."

...

Tenten and Sakura shook their heads. "Nah."

"Boys don't particularly like love triangles," Sakura said. "If they did our lives would be a soap opera by now."

But then Hinata burst through the door that led to the roof and ran towards them. Still wearing an apron and bandanna over her head. There as even some splotches of dirt on her clothes, not to mention the dust.

"Whoah," Tenten said.

Ino smirked, "Your daddy found out, huh?"

Hinata nodded, "I-I don't know h-how, but he did." Then she held up the book that she brang.

Sakura eyed it with curiousity, "A diary?"

She nodded, "I-I only read o-one entry so far and it had three p-people writing it!"

Ino grabbed it, "Weird. Who does those stuff nowadays? Sharing a diary. Pathetic, really."

Tenten agreed. "Must be a bunch of sissies. Where did you find it? Hanabi's room?"

But instead of answering, she burst out laughing.

"Okay, Hinata. Now you're freaking us out," Sakura told her. Then she grabbed the diary from Ino's hands and opened it to the front page. The first words already explained it. "... Ew."

Hinata, finally regaining her composure, smiled. "To t-think you c-called the 'love of your lives' pathetic and a bunch of sissies. And t-to mistake t-them for my s-seven year old sister!"

They all glared at her.

"Love of our lives?" Tenten asked, grabbing the book. She read over the first words and froze.

Ino frowned and took the book, "What is up with this book that..." her eyes widened. "T-They share a diary like a bunch of little girls?"

...

But then the four burst out laughing.

The blonde began reading aloud the first entry.

Dear Diary,

Kiba

Lee

Shikamaru

Yosh! We have begun this diary to show our feelings in many matters and know that they will be kept a secret! Even if we all know them. Really, Lee, I wonder how you convinced us to this thing. Because I wish our bond to grow more youthful! In the future we will be working together and we must know each other well to cooperate well! And, us is:

Shikamaru -_-zzz: Too troublesome, forget it.

Lee ;D: Yosh! Someone who is filled with youth!

Kiba :): I agree with Shikamaru.

Naruto :P: A very energetic boy who is extremely strong!

Sasuke XP: An anti-social guy who has girls worshipping him.

Chouji :): A good and always hungry friend.

Neji -_-': Prodigy of the Hyuugas and is very... unyouthful!

Shino :/: Too quiet for his own good.

And that is all of us! Until next time!

Lee! :D, Kiba XP, Shikamaru -_-zzz

Ino lowered the book and faced them.

There was silence... then laughter, once again.

Sakura was the first to calm down. "The stuff they wrote wasn't even funny, why are we all laughing?"

Hinata smiled, "I-It's the fact that all o-of them own a diary!"

"Our 'strong' and 'sophisticated' teammates share something so... girly!" Ino said, "Even I don't have a diary!"

Tenten grinned. "Think they're gay?"

...

"Hope not," the three said.

Ino sighed, "Would be a waste if they were."

"So true," Sakura said. "So, care to continue, pig?"

A smirk was the response as she raised the book up once again.

Thus began a very long night of finding out very strange and weird things about their teammates...

And things they really didn't want to know.

"Naruto what?!"

Sakura finished writing the ingredients of the 'Love Potion' at the back, "There, just in case I end up forgetting the flashback."

Ino grabbed it and grinned, "Maybe we should give it to the boys or something."

Sakura immediately objected. "Not before we figure out some antidote."

Having you in my head is too much already. Don't want to share the burden.

Ouch!

The blonde just nodded and held the book up, "So, what should we do with it?"

Hinata put her fingers together, "Perhaps I-I should give it b-back. I mean, we j-just read someones' p-personal things. W-We shouldn't keep it... don't you f-feel guilty?"

Tenten frowned but then shrugged, "No."

Ino hugged the book tighter, "Not really."

Sakura sighed, "Come on Hinata, if we all had a diary and they found out about it, do you think they'll give it back?"

After a short while Hinata nodded, "I see..."

Ino glanced at the book again, "But really, do we publish it? Place the pages all around town?"

"Blackmail."

They all faced Tenten. Sakura nodded, "Yes, that's a good idea, Tennie-chan."

She scowled, "Would you stop calling me that?!"

"But what to blackmail them into?" Ino asked.

Tenten looked up, "A date with Sasuke?"

Hinata nodded, "That'd b-be nice."

Sakura and Ino just stared at the two. "Y-You like him?!" they asked in unison.

The brunette shrugged, "Even if he is younger than me, I can't deny that the kid is gorgeous."

The Hyuuga heiress nodded in agreement.

Ino stood up and glared at the two. "Don't you two dare think that you could win Sasuke-kun's heart without facing me first!"

Hinata and Tenten just rolled their eyes. Sakura just smiled.

It was already past eight and the moon and stars were shimmering the sky, the owls were hooting and the soft wind-

"Where is it?!" Neji muttered under his breath in panic, searching through his bed, his shelves, and everywhere else. But when he pulled his desk a few feet away he froze.

He knew that there were dust bunnies there before. He looked up, it smelled faintly of an air freshener. Neji walked over to the shelves that had his... special items, dusted, but not one out of place.

It didn't look like my things were disturbed, only my well hidden diary... he sweat dropped, whoever must have took it must have been blind or something.

A Hyuuga was just called blind. Meanwhile, Hiashi looked up with a glare at the heavens.

But with that thought aside, Neji ran out in search on the maids. But when he reached the servants' chamber, no one. He turned around and began to run around the corridors, but stopped short when he saw Hanabi.

"Do you know where the maids are?" he asked her.

Hanabi just pointed at Hinata, who was heading to the kitchen, a few herbs from the garden in hand, and was still wearing her bandanna and apron, but a clean set.

Neji nodded in understanding and headed towards the kitchen, when he arrived he was met with a... stench. He immediately covered his noise, "H-Hinata-sama?"

He was met with a girl wearing a gas mask, she smiled, or well he thought, at him. "N-Need something, N-Neji-nii-san?"

But instead of answering he looked at the pot of soup she was boiling.

It was green, with bubbles coming out of it. But then some clump was rising, it formed what looked like a mouth saying, "H-Help-" But then Hinata hit it with the spoon, then it settled down.

Neji watched in horror.

She faced him again, "Nii-san?"

"Is that dinner?"

She nodded, facing it again, and added the herbs she got from the garden... that looked like weeds. "I was b-busy today, so I had t-to use the cook's l-left overs for b-breakfast and l-lunch, but none is left. S-So I have to be the o-one to p-prepare dinner."

He quickly snapped out of his thoughts and glanced at her... and the soup again. "You were the one to clean my room." It was more of a statement than a question.

"Mm-hm." She answered, while flipped through the pages of an illusion book.

Neji ignored the book and asked, "Where is the diary?"

She shut the book close and added some... unknown liquid. And before his very eyes, the soup turned into a normal meat and vegtables soup... and smelled delicious, even.

He is so going to eat out at Ichiraku, even if Naruto is there.

Hinata removed the gas mask and smiled at him. "Excuse me?" she asked, politely.

"Where is the diary?" he repeated.

She frowned this time. "W-Where is what?"

"It was under one of the floor boards in my room," he asked with anger this time.

"... T-There was a-"

"Yes, Hinata-sama," he answered, "There was a diary in my room that you took." He looked into her eyes, "Where did you put it?"

She just sighed and began chopping up some... rotten carrots.

He glared at her. "Give it back."

"S-Sorry, Neji-nii-san, no can do," she said, mixing the carrots in with the rice, and grabbed some onion.

"What-"

She faced him. "I-If you d-don't want your p-precious diary published, it would be b-best if you leave me a-alone about that subject."

His eyes slightly widened, "Are you threatening me?"

"... Yup," was here mere reply as she placed the purple onion cuts into the rice.

...

Neji frowned. "I thought you knew how to cook."

Hinata smiled in return. "It's called revenge, nii-san, revenge." No stutter at all.

I knew letting her hang out with the other three girls was a bad idea, he thought.

"You lost the diary?!" Naruto exclaimed. Only four were present, he, Neji, Sasuke, and Shikamaru.

Neji glared at the blonde because of his very loud question. "I didn't lose it, moron. I know exactly where it is."

"But it's not with you," Sasuke said, not asked.

...

"Hai."

Shikamaru sighed, "Well then who took it?"

"... Hinata-sama."

S-Rank Mission: Retrieve the Shinobi Diary!

"Why are we here again?" Naruto asked, as he was under the four boys, helping them up the window.

Shikamaru, who was above him, with Sasuke on his shoulders, and Neji about to enter the window, answered. "Because it's not with Hinata, she wouldn't be dumb enough to keep it, so it's with the other girls."

Neji entered the household and ran towards the left. Naruto winced as Shikamaru tried to stand on his shoulders, "Why would it be with the others?"

Sasuke went inside and began to run quietly to the right. Shikamaru jumped up to the window, kicking Naruto's face in the process, "Because who else would convince her to use the diary as blackmail?"

Naruto nodded in response as he jumped up to the window, and grabbed Shikamaru's arms and was dragged inside. "And why are we sneaking in without any chakra?"

Shikamaru could only roll his eyes. "The Yamanaka household has some barrier that stops the regulation of chakra, after the incident with Ino sneaking out using her mind jutsus. Now stop with the troublesome questions." He headed north.

Naruto looked around, he was alone... He just sighed and went up the flight of stairs.

Shikamaru looked through the numerous books within the library of the house. But then he froze as someone touched his shoulder.

He turned around slowly.

Sasuke, Neji, and Naruto looked up. They met up at the same window, where they would go if they didn't find the diary. And while waiting...

They heard a scream.

But it wasn't Shikamaru's.

They strained their ears to listen to the shouts of the female. "You... How... You four snuck in..." was all they were able to here.

But the last words were proof enough that their friend was caught. Suddenly, the floor began shaking, and in one of the hallways, there appeared the blonde loudmouth... the female one.

Ino clenched her fist, her other hand was used to drag Shikamaru.

The brunette just looked up at them. "Run."

And run they did.

Ino glanced at Shikamaru.

The last sounds the three heard were screams... but this time, from Shikamaru.

The three panted, hands on their knees, after running out of the Yamanaka household.

Naruto gulped. "We lost Shikamaru."

Neji put his hands together. "May his soul rest in peace."

He was met with a glare from the blonde.

Sasuke looked around, "Where to now?"

Neji turned to his left, and pointed at the apartment, "There. That's where Tenten lives."

Naruto's jaw dropped. "But that's where I live!" 'It's the place where children without parents live!' were the unspoken words.

The Hyuuga prodigy just headed up the stairs. "Why else do you think she never tells her last name?" She doesn't know it.

Naruto and Sasuke just faced each other then followed Neji up the flight of stairs.

They arrived in front of a room, Neji activated his Byakugan and was about to examine the surroundings when-

Bring! Bring! Bring! Intruder alert! Intruder alert!

The door burst open and hordes of shuriken attacked the three, luckily, they were able to dodge all.

Sasuke regained his composure. "What was that?"

Neji sighed. "I remember Tenten saying something about some alarm if chakra touches the room..."

"And you didn't warn us?!" Naruto asked.

He just shrugged in reply, "I didn't know even the chakra being emitted from the eyes of Byakugan would be detected by it." But then he faced the doorway.

The door was wide open.

"... Should we go in?" Naruto asked.

Sasuke nodded. "So long as we don't use our chakra... Who's first?"

...

Naruto and Sasuke pushed Neji towards the room. "She's your girlfriend after all!" Naruto told him.

He just scoffed and slapped their hands away. Neji faced the room, you could only see a corridor, there were a few paintings here and there.

Neji took a step inside.

Bring! Bring! Bring!

Suddenly a net appeared below his feet and he was brang up to the air, trapped within it.

Intruder caught! Intruder caught!

They heard a loud yawn. All three pairs of eyes landed on Tenten, who had her hair down and was wearing a large shirt and boxers. "What's with all the noise? Do you have any idea what time..." she froze.

She glared at them and got a kunai out. "What the hell are you three doing here?!"

Neji faced the two, "You better go."

Naruto frowned, "But we can't just leave you like what we did with Shika-"

Sasuke grabbed his wrist and they ran out, "We have no choice but to!"

Tenten glanced at the boy that was in her net. He gazed back at her, panic in his eyes.

She smirked and cracked her knuckles. "Care to tell me what you're doing in here, Neji-kun?"

And then, there were two.

"Shikamaru, but now Neji too!" Naruto exclaimed.

Sasuke sighed and looked around. "Where to now?"

"What?!" Naruto said. "We're just going to leave them?! A ninja never leaves their comrade behind!"

He rolled his eyes. "Baka. This isn't a real mission. They'll live."

Naruto just frowned and turned around but was met with the Hyuuga heiress.

"H-Hinata-chan?!" he asked, backing away.

She looked down and put her finger together, "U-Um, I-I'm sorry about w-what the others d-did."

Sasuke and Naruto calmed down a bit. "Nah, it's okay, Hinata!" he assured her.

Her gaze remained on her feet. "... S-Sorry, Naruto-kun, Sasuke-san. I-I hope y-you'll f-forgive me." She got a rope out.

Sasuke quickly backed away. But Naruto was too late.

"Run, teme!" Naruto yelled, "Don't let them catch you too-"

That was all he was able to hear before Naruto had a cloth stuffed into his mouth.

Hinata bowed in apology as she held the leash that was connected to the rope tied around him. "I-I didn't w-want to d-do this. B-But t-this is what we d-do for our friends, right, N-Naruto-kun?"

Naruto was starting to regret letting innocent Hinata hang out with his teammate.

He looked up at her, trying to speak. Hinata, hesitantly, removed it. "You gonna beat me to a pulp too?"

Hinata looked away. "I-I'm supposed to, for s-spying on us y-yesterday. B-But I'll just b-bring you to Tennie-chan, instead."

... What joy.

Only one survivor remained.

He looked up. Ironic really. The place he ended up running to had the sign 'Haruno Residence'.

It was a trap, even Naruto would be able to notice it... or well, he might.

Sasuke glanced up, there was a balcony, no doubt leading to Sakura's room. If he tried to get the diary, there's a high change that he'll get caught and end up getting pummeled like the rest of his guy friends. But if he didn't...

His face turned a bit red with embarrassment of what those girls would do if they published it. And the fact that they read it was overwhelming enough.

Wether his pride liked it or not, he was going to get that diary back. He jumped up to the balcony and slowly opened the sliding door and sneaked in, adjusting his eyes to the darkness, he noted her room was pretty normal.

He glanced at the bed, Sakura was sleeping peacefully. Before she was always talking and turning, as if though she was having a nightmare right when she was asleep until she woke up.

And by the looks of it, those dreams stopped when the potion stopped working.

Sasuke looked around and inwardly cursed, How am I supposed to find a diary here? He went up to the shelves and looked through the books in it. Ninja books, scrap books, albums, romance novels, but no diary. He scanned the room once again and froze.

He finally noticed something different about Sakura's sleeping position.

She was hugging something. Not a pillow, not a stuffed toy, but the diary. Sasuke cursed under his breath, How am I supposed to get it now?

He walked slowly towards the girl and bent down. He touched her arm softy, she flinched and he froze. But then there was no other movement and he raised the arm upward, and quickly grabbed the book.

But before he could make his escape with it, his arm was the replacement. It looked like when he let go of her arm, she grabbed onto it.

This is bad, he thought in panic. He tried to pry his arm off, but her grip tightened.

Extremely.

He winced, How hard can this girl grab? But then he froze. She was placing chakra into her arms.

She was awake.

Sasuke was out before he could react.

A/N:

Well, there you have it. I finished it off with a Sakura and Sasuke scene. It's time we get back to the real plot in hand!

So say good bye to any other kunoichixshinobi encounters and say hello to the retun of SakuraxSasuke!

And review, yes, always review.