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Chapter 10

After dinner was over, Sasuke had started to feel the effects of his long, anxiety ridden (well, at least, at first) day. This was demonstrated when, while still sitting at the table, his obsidian eyes had slowly slid closed and his body had leaned forward slightly, and he had awoken to Kayko and Tatsuma staring at him, Kayko giggling silently. "Tired are you? Come on then, let's get you to bed." Sasuke nodded and, pulling himself up, picked up his plate and walked it over to the sink before taking the hand that Kayko offered.

"Are you sure I'm not imposing on you two?" Kayko continued to rummage in her cupboard, pulling out a large blanket. "Where," she said, "does a child your age learn a word like 'imposing'?" She turned back to Sasuke, duvet draped over one arm. "I'm sure."

Again he was struck by how much her green eyes looked like Sakura's.

That was probably just because he was tired. However, when the face of the pink haired girl flashed in his mind again, he wondered if it was more than just exhaustion.

Kayko wrapped the warm down duvet around Sasuke's body as he sank into the comfortable featherbed. "Are you sure you're going to be okay?"

A strange look was on Sasuke's face as the woman finished tucking her in…. it was something akin to pure bliss…and it looked very out of place on the normally stoic boy. "I'm fine Kayko-San." Already, even as the black haired woman turned off the lamp beside the bed, she saw that the raven-haired boy was already drifting off.

"Good night Kyo-Chan," she said softly.

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Naruto struggled to regain his footing on the shelves, his precious slinky clutched in one hand. As he managed to place the foot that had slipped onto the shelf, he felt said shelf slip backwards, falling towards his weight. Naruto leaned forward to compensate and balance the shelf and succeeded in maintaining his footing…for now.

From his perch he could see Hinata and Neji playing something…and he smiled at the sight.

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Her large pale eyes were narrowed with concentration. There was a strategy…she knew there was….

Then…she dove. "P-p-p-piggy piggy one two three….I win!" Hinata exclaimed in victory as she successfully pinned her cousin's thumb under her own. Gently, she removed her hand from the thumb war position and smiled softly at her cousin.

"T-t-thanks for playing with me Neji," She said to her cousin quietly. Neji moved from his position in front of her to sitting beside her, cross-legged, as she was. "Hinata-Sama…" he started in a quiet voice. "I never apologized to you the way I should've. After all that happened…with our clan. And beating you so severely in the chunnin exams."

Hinata looked over at him with her child-like eyes, eyes that were wide with shock. "W-w-w-what do you mean Neji?" she asked, caught off guard.

Neji sighed and propped up his chin via his hand, resting his elbow on his knee. "What I mean, Hinata-Sama," he said, choosing his words carefully. "Is that I'm sorry…for the way I treated you. You know, after that whole ordeal with my father and your father…" Neji sighed. "And even though I haven't said it openly, I do respect you. A lot. You've grown since the chunnin exams."

These words resonated in Hinata's mind, rattling around. As the meaning finally sank in, her face split into a shining smile and she wrapped her arms tightly around her cousin's neck, causing him to stiffen up. Eventually, however, he relaxed and allowed his younger cousin to hug him.

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TenTen fiddled with a set of children's kunai that she had taken out of the package and was using for target practice. When she was a child, she had always wanted a select of kunai's such as these-the life of a Kunoichi had always fascinated her.

Her parents had, however, had different ideas. They wanted their only daughter to be a prim little girl, almost something like a porcelain doll.

When she saw her first Kunoichi in battle-on the day her parents died in an attack on Konoha- even though some people told her that she should respect her parent's wishes and not…

She did. A year later, when she was old enough she joined the academy and started down the path of becoming a Kunoichi.

So, since she had fulfilled one of two great childhood dreams she had had, the one left was what she was missing….

And that was…

Before she could finish her musings however, she was startled from behind by a loud 'CRASH'. She turned around…

The shelf falling towards her was the last thing she saw.

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In retrospect, if he had been smart and had let go of the slinky as to use both hands he probably wouldn't have fallen. But then again people, this is Uzumaki Naruto we speak of…

Therefore he did not release the slinky. He, contrarily, clutched the coil of metal as though it was his only lifeline and let out a very feminine scream as the shelf fell towards him. Of course it didn't' help that it knocked over the shelf beside it which knocked over the shelf after that one and so on and so forth-domino effect.

And he lay pinned down underneath the first one.

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As soon as they heard the crash of the shelves from where they were sitting, the two Hyuuga's leapt up and ran across the store.

Just before Hinata began calling out for Naruto, she thought she heard a popping sound, but in her haste, ignored it. What surprised her was when Neji began to search frantically…

For TenTen. This caused Hinata a slight distraction as she watched her cousin frantically search for his teammate, until she heard Naruto call out, casing her to resume her frantic search.

She found him pinned down under a shelf, in relatively good shape. He had a few cuts on his face, but had been fortunate enough to land on a large plush frog.

In his hand he clutched a slinky.

"H-h-here N-Naruto let me help you," said Hinata as she started to struggle with the shelving unit. To her surprise the unit moved relatively easy, and Naruto scrambled out from under. "Thanks Hinata…I thought I was a goner…" he paused and looked at her.

"Hey, when did your transformation reverse?" Hinata looked at him, stunned. Then she looked down at her hands, which were no longer child like. "I-I-I don't know Naruto…" she said softly. She was about to say something else, when Neji let out a yell. They could hear the shelving units strain as the little Hyuuga began to attempt moving them.

Little Naruto and Hinata ran over to where Neji was franticly tearing at the metal. Pinned beneath the shelf in question…

Was TenTen. And she wasn't moving.

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