School is officially here!

Ugh…

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

On with the Story!

The room was fairly big it had tall ivory white walls and elegantly framed windows draped in a gorgeous valance and along with an hourglass styled curtain body in a vibrant blue color. The furniture inside the room was a three-seater sofa and on the left side of the sofa were two comfortable armchairs while on the right side of the sofa was a love seat and on the center was an elegant looking glass coffee table. On the far end of the room stood a couple of bookshelves and opposite the bookshelves was a huge armoire.

All the princes were either seated on the chairs or were leaning on the ivory white walls. Yamanaka Ino had gathered all of them there after their morning meal. Some of the princes were still quite cranky even after they had had their morning coffee. One prince on the other hand, particularly, Naruto was still quite sleepy which was very obvious since he wasn't making any noise.

"Alright I've gathered all of you here to discuss the arrangements concerning the matter of spending time with Sakura."

At the sound of the name of the object of their obvious affection, the princes became wide awake and their attention was already trained on the blond woman.

"I've spent almost three days cracking my head about this matter and the only solution I've come up with is to have a draw lots." The blond woman had an enthusiastic grin plastered on her beautiful face.

"What the hell? A draw lots! That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard!" Exclaimed an outraged Deidara.

"Think about it, this draw lots is the only way to avoid any unnecessary conflicts that all of you will definitely cost, the King and Queen may be rich but it doesn't mean that they throw money around you know- "

"-If anything inside the palace gets damaged it will cost a lot of money since all of the materials here are customarily made and even though you guys are princes the Haruno family won't take any money from you guys which will definitely mean Sakura will get in trouble and that will also mean that she'll get mad at me which will be pretty ugly…"

Ino was already rambling that she'd strayed of the main topic.

"Ino-san may have a point there this draw lots will definitely be fair enough for all of us, after all it will be fate who decides for us." Stated by a musing Prince Neji.

Reluctantly all of the princes agreed. Ino was absolutely delighted by how easily she was able to convince the hot headed males.

"Well, since everyone has come to an agreement I believe it is time to ensure that this little game of chance will not in any way commit any sort of foul play." Ino happily placed a crisp white regal paper on the glass coffee table.

"This little paper here will serve as our legal and binding agreement concerning the draw lots"

Prince Itachi took the paper and read all of it content. He found that there was nothing unreasonable with the conditions that had been set. Ino smiled when she noticed that Itachi had not found any error in the terms she'd set. She passed an elegant pen to the black haired male who took it calmly and signed it.

He then passed it to Sasori who was seated on his left side so that the red haired male would be able to sign the paper. Sasori then passed it to Deidara, once all of the princes signed the paper Ino happily took it back.

"Alright, since it's almost nine o'clock I guess that we'll all come back here after lunch to have the draw lots. I'll bring Tenten with me to make sure all of you follow through with our agreement-"

"We signed the damn paper; you know that we won't go back on our word" Once again the impatient Deidara couldn't help but comment on Ino's words.

"I perfectly know that all of you had signed the paper, I'm not blind you know! I was right here watching all of you! Honestly, I know for a fact that you guys often lose your head whenever Sakura is involved."

Ino took a moment to regain her composure. Dealing with these men was ten times worse than Sakura throwing a hissy fit whenever the subject of marriage is brought up. God! Sometimes she wished that she had a simpler life; maybe she'd have a small flower shop in town where she could live peacefully undisturbed by the hectic way of life of the royal family. Stupid Okaasan, she just had to marry a duke, not that she didn't love her family… Any way…

"Now as I was saying, all of you are entitled to keep your end of the bargain. This means that none of you can use any threats, exploding clay (she cast Deidara a dirty look before turning back to the others), and eye techniques to look through the paper or to force each other to exchange whatever you guys have picked, Do I make myself clear?"

Ino could get pretty scary whenever she was angry this may be one of the reasons as to how she deals with the pink haired princess…

With a round of nods and grimaces from the men, Ino left them all alone to do whatever they so had pleased but not without casting them one last dark look.

Little did the princes know while they were with the blond haired woman, another rival had stepped inside the domain of the Haruno family, Kaguya Kimmimaro, the prince of the land of Sound was invited by the King himself to also stay within their home since most of the princes were already staying with them. Kimmimaro unlike all the other princes had the upper hand. He and the pink haired princess were quite good friends and even though Sakura may deny it, she had the tinsy-tiniest crush on him (don't tell anyone! Ino doesn't even know about it…).

Ok! Kimmimaro has been added to the mix! Maybe a couple more guys… after all a lot of things can happen within a month!

Tell me what you think…

-Elyna-