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"Would you like some ramen, Hinata?" asked Naruto politely.
"O-okay," said Hinata meekly.
"Listen, all this nervousness, I just have to tell you something," he said as he turned to her and grabbed both her hands in his.
"What is it?" she asked as she turned a shade pinker.
"I've been thinking about this for a while now, and," trying to muster up some more courage, "and I l," he was interrupted.
"HINATA, get over here, we have a main and branch family meeting," yelled her father.
"I have to go, c-can you tell me some other time," said Hinata as she ran over to her father.
"Bye, see ya later," said Naruto with a depressing tone.
"Here, it's on the house," said the cook placing a bowl of hot ramen in front of him.
At the branch family estate
"Okay, that new move was awesome."
"Thanks," said Neji whilst blushing on the inside.
"Hey, when we arrived here, you said that you wanted to talk about something," said Tenten inquisitively, "what is it?"
"Oh, um, I'll go get the tea," Neji stood up and quickly disappeared into the kitchen.
Tenten just looked at where he had just sat. She thought, 'okay that was weird.'
Then she spotted Hinata going to the front door.
"Hinata, we're in the back," yelled Tenten.
Hinata came around to the back.
"Hello Tenten, I came to get Neji," she paused, "to go to a family meeting."
"Okay, well then I'm off, see ya laters Hina. Oh and tell Neji I said bye," then Tenten left.
"Where did Tenten go?" asked Neji as he walked out with two cups of tea.
"She went home," said Hinata.
"Why?" he asked handing her a cup of tea.
"There's a family meeting that was called into progress, so she left. By the way, this is very good tea."
"Thanks. Let's get to the meeting," he said with a slightly sad look on his face.
"Okay," then they left.
On the bridge
"This bridge is always so calm and relaxing," Sakura said taking in a deep breath.
'She looks beautiful,' thought Sasuke while he said, "There is something that I need to confess Sakura."
She turned to face him and asked, "What is it? Is something wrong?" She had a concerned look on her face.
"No, nothing's wrong, I just wanted to say," Pausing to build up courage, "I…um…I."
"Sakura, we need you at the hospital. It's an emergency. The returning shinobi are wounded badly," yelled a medical staff member.
"I have to go Sasuke. You can tell me later if it's really important," she said as she started to run towards the hospital.
The top of the hill
Shikamaru looked at Ino who was lying next to him then he looked at the sky again. He started to talk when he heard a little snore. He leaned up to look at her dead on, and to his surprise she was asleep. He smiled as he just stared at her.
Then he remembered what he was there to do. He shook her to wake her up.
"What the hell, I wanted to sleep," said Ino as she sat up thinking about the role reversal that just happened.
"Well I have something to tell you, you troublesome woman."
"Oh, what it is," she said as she quieted down.
The fact that she was now listening intently made him nervous.
'Okay, this is more troublesome than I thought,' thought Shikamaru. He, then, heard some rustling in the forest.
"Ino," screamed a man standing by the edge of the forest.
"Oh, hey, this is Takashi, Shikamaru," said Ino pointing to the man.
Shikamaru got the sudden urge to just pounce on Ino and brand her as his own, until the man spoke.
"So, boss, this is Shikamaru. Ino always talks about you guys."
At that his anger (jealously) subsided.
"Not to be rude, but why are you here Takashi?" asked Ino.
"Oh right, we need you to perform an interrogation, immediately," he said.
"Okay, see ya Shika." She got up, kissed him on the cheek not knowingly, and then she left.
'Damn,' he thought as he plopped back down on the ground.