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Chapter 7

Sasuke walked out the front door of Kayko's house with a little package of cookies in his hand. "Remember Kyo," he heard Kayko call from inside. "Be back here in time for supper!" Sasuke acknowledged her with a "Yes Miss Kayko," before continuing out the door, in pursuit of someone.

Yes, that was right. Someone. After years of being pursued by various girls, Sasuke had decided that he was going to go after someone. That's what the cookies were for.

Then he saw her. Her pink hair was, to put it bluntly, a dead giveaway. She was sitting on a bench, looking up at the Hokage carvings and obviously trying to ignore the group of children that were playing in front of her. He walked over and, like a monkey, climbed over the back and sat down next to the child like Sakura.

"Oh Sasuke!" said the girl, turning to look at him with a sad little smile on her face. "What's up? How did everything go with Kayko?" "Fine. I learned," he said, smirking slightly "How to make cookies. Want one?" he opened the little package that Kayko had given to him saying 'share these with your friends.' Sasuke handed her a chocolate chip cookie.

"Did you poison this?" asked Sakura as she examined the cookie in depth. Sasuke scowled slightly. "No. It is a chocolate chip cookie that I helped Kayko make from scratch." He picked one out of the package and put it in his mouth. "They aren't poisoned."

"Okay…" Sakura put the cookie in her mouth and her facial expression changed. "Sasuke this is really good!" she said, a smile splitting her face. "Hn. Glad you like it."

"So, you were missing a family…how long before you turn back?" asked Sakura carefully. "Well…I think I'm missing more than one thing because, by rights, I should've turned back already if I was missing a family. I think…is it possible for you to be missing more than one thing?"

Sakura thought back to the book that lay, right now, open on her kitchen table while chewing her cookie thoughtfully. "Well…in rare cases when the person had a traumatic childhood…then yes. So…maybe."

Sasuke looked back up to the sky. "Hn," he said thoughtfully. Sakura looked back at him. "Are you going back to Kayko's tonight?" He closed his eyes and smiled. "Aa. She told me to come back for supper."

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The day wore on, with the sun slowly making it's way to the west. Kiba finally left Ino and Shikamaru, intent on going to the dog park that was in town. Since it was fast approaching the time when Sakura had told everyone to meet back up at her house, Ino convinced the lazy ninja to get to his feet and head with her back to the house.

"Seriously Shikamaru what are you missing? And don't say it's too troublesome to tell me."

Shikamaru rolled his eyes and, putting his hands behind his head, slid his eyes towards Ino. She sighed and strode forward on her short legs, away from Shika. "Forget I said anything."

"Praise." Ino stopped and turned around, looking at Shikamaru oddly. "What did you say?" she asked, carefully. He sighed and caught up with her. "I said praise." 'This is troublesome…I can't believe I'm telling her.' "When I was younger I would try my hardest in anything I would do, I don't know if you remember," Shikamaru sighed and sat down on a bench, Ino following suit. "Sorry, no I don't remember."

He leaned back on the bench and looked up at the sky. "I would try my best in everything I would do…I am a genius you know. But no one ever gave me praise for what I did; they would just expect me to keep doing as good. So, I just gave up. And turned lazy."

Ino stared. "I see." 'So that's why he's so lazy.'

There was a few moments of silence as Ino contemplated Shikamaru's words, but it was interrupted when Shikamaru said "Well?" in an impatient voice. "Well what?" Shikamaru rolled his eyes and looked right at Ino. "What are you missing?" he said in a slow deliberate voice.

"Oh. Umm….hehehe." Ino scratched her chin with one finger. "I'm…not sure." "Troublesome woman."

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Meanwhile, in the department store, Neji and TenTen had switched from 'tag' to Hide-And-Go-Seek. Currently it was TenTen who was hiding and Neji was seeking. TenTen had set down the rule that he couldn't use the Byakkugan but it was Neji who had pointed out that he was too young to activate it.

Neji peered around the corner of another aisle, looking for his little teammate. When he didn't immediately see her, he walked around the corner and began behind the cereal boxes and under the shelves. "I'll find you yet TenTen…I'm not that reliant on the Byakkugan." He muttered out loud.

TenTen shifted in the clothes rack that she was hiding in, yawning. 'If Neji doesn't show up soon, I might just fall asleep…it's comfortable in here.'

Neji completed searching the food products, finally, and turned his attention to the clothes section. "Well she has to be there, I've searched everywhere else." He scratched his forehead, the ribbons that TenTen provided, starting to itch.

Finally, when he was on the verge of giving up…he heard a soft snoring coming from inside a rack of coats and sweatpants. He looked up and smiled. "Found you." Pushing the coats aside, he found her curled up using the end of a coat for a pillow…fast asleep.

'She looks so cute' thought Neji, with a small smile on his child-like face.

Looking furtively from side to side, he slipped into the coat rack with his teammate and curled up beside her, closing his eyes. He was asleep in moments.

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Naruto looked at the shelf in front of him. "It's so beautiful." His eyes were misty. "Umm...N-Naruto….i-it's just r-ramen…" said Hinata looking up at the shelves in front of them. "Yeah, I guess you're right Hinata. The homemade stuff isn't as good as the stuff Ichiraku makes. Come on, let's go back to play with the toys!"

Hinata was once again reduced to blushing when Naruto tangled her fingers into his and pulled her back to the toy section.

'Attention shoppers…crackle 'our store is…' the intercom was interrupted by some crackling and, since he couldn't understand what the intercom was saying, Naruto ignored the voice and continued back to the toy section.

Back there, the two of them messed around for a couple hours, losing track of time...

Until half the lights in the store went out, plunging the two into half darkness.

Naruto got up and ran to the front of the store and tried the door. But it simply wouldn't give. "We're locked in…" he said slowly. Hinata came up behind him, a worried look in her pale eyes. "Wh-what are we going to do Naruto?"

"The only thing we can do Hinata," he got a wild look in his eyes and yelled, "Have fun while we have full control of the store!"

A crash from the clothes section interrupted his speech. The two raced over there to see what had happened…

And found little Neji and TenTen sitting up, rubbing their heads, with a rack of coats on it's side beside them.

A/N-There you go! The part with them getting locked in the store is actually from the original idea that MyNameIsKelsie13 gave to me.