CC Note: So I finally found some time to write this morning and I present to you the newest chapter of BFBF hot off the press! I hope you guys enjoy!

The Morning After

The morning after fiercely ripped through Konohana and its younger inhabitants like a tidal wave. Everyone awoke different but none were happy, it was as if the high energy of the party had sapped away all of their merriment and left behind empty husks of teenagers.

Hinata Hyuga awoke to a bathroom that was more than a little crowded as she lifted her sticky cheek from the rim of the toilet bowl. To her left she could hear the soft snores of Kiba and his mischievous dog Akamaru who were curled up in her bathtub with her little sister Hanabi. A slight turn of her head to the right and Shino was crouched in the corner by the sink, his glasses askew, and Neji was at her feet. In his limp hand was a bottle of unopened water which she suspected was for her whenever she came out of her vomiting stupor. Hinata sniffed a bit, her cousin was always looking out for her. Her head was pounding incessantly and while she felt a bit of her heart swell with happiness at all of the people in the bathroom, it still didn't cure the emptiness in her chest. Fresh tears of remembrance welled up in the corners of her eyes and her shoulders began to shake uncontrollably. Why? After all of these years why? She knew deep down that Sakura had no interest in Naruto until now…..why now?

Hinata never missed a game, not one, she was always there to cheer Naruto and her cousin on whether they won or lost. The unexpected yet heated kiss between Naruto and Sakura at the end of the game was like a knife to her heart. How many times had she herself fantasized about a victory kiss between her and the energetic blonde? What was Sakura even doing at the game in the first place, the pinkette had never taken an interest in the games before so why now? Why now? After the game everything was a blur, all she knew was that she'd gotten drunk beyond belief as she watched Naruto and Sakura publically enjoy themselves on the crowded dance floor. She had admired Naruto from afar for years, her admiration had turned into a crush and that crush she had fostered and nursed in her heart until she was sure it had become something more. She abhorred the fact that she hadn't acted sooner…she hated that she was so weak…..

"N-Naruto…" Hinata whimpered softly to herself.

Naruto grunted as the sunlight filtered in through his blinds and woke him. He rolled over onto his side, he expected to touch another person but all he was met with was air. Cold sheets. Sheets so cold it was evident that the body that was supposed to be next to him had been gone for quite some time. Last night had to be the highlight of his year; he got the girl of his dreams and scored the winning shot for his team. The night couldn't have gotten better but it did. Last night he and Sakura slipped from the raucous of the after party and made their way drunkenly back to his house which luckily wasn't too far away. Sakura attacked him passionately as soon as the front door shut behind them, her kisses were scorching hot and her body aroused a monster in his chest.

One thing led to another and they had sex. Of course it wasn't everything the guys in the locker room had made it out to be, there were no fireworks or crazy positions. There was heat, and sweat, and sloppy kisses. It was fun but where was Sakura now? He roughly rubbed his eyes and forced himself to sit up right. He was sure she was by his side when he had fallen asleep after their encounter. Maybe she had somewhere to be Sunday morning…like church or some volunteer work. Naruto sighed as he fell back on his bed, for some reason he didn't feel right the morning after. Something felt wrong on many different levels. Speaking of wrong something was off last night about Ino, she hadn't been her usual confident self. The blonde girl had only made an appearance once that night and it had been with Sasuke. She did not look happy to be in the raven's presence. Looking back she seemed unnerved. At the time he'd paid attention to nothing else but Sakura and his own hormones in his drunken state but now it looked like there was a mess to clean up.

Naruto rolled off his bed and clenched his eyes shut as the drastic change in position brought along with it a bout of momentary dizziness. He had to find Ino today and figure out what exactly happened to her last night; it would really suck if she had gotten hurt or anything. The thought of any threat to her wellbeing put him in an unexplainable bad mood. In all of his fretting about Ino he'd forgotten about his empty bed and missed the balled up pink panties lying in the opposite corner of the room.

Sasuke Uchiha was an early riser. He rose with the sun and fell asleep well after midnight. It was his routine and he never deviated from it for any reason. This morning he found himself in the same routine as every morning. He ate breakfast, worked out, showered, and studied. He accomplished all of these tasks by the time the clock struck one in the afternoon, a time he knew his fellow classmates would be rousing from their beds and reliving their drunken adventures from the night before. Sasuke wasn't a drinker, it wasn't that he looked down upon drinking it was just that he enjoyed being in control. He liked having the upper hand and being in control of everything he had power over. That power kept him away from liquor. As he leaned back in his chair his mind drifted off to a certain Hyugaa. Hinata Hyugaa to be precise.

The raven haired girl perplexed him. She was at the top of the class with Shikamaru but she was a complete idiot. Her idiocy amused him. She was an idiot for letting the fact that Naruto and Sakura were 'together' now unnerve her so much that she allowed herself to be subjected to the whims of a random person at the party. If he hadn't have stumbled upon them in that room together he was sure the Hyugaa heiress wouldn't be as innocent as everyone thought she was. Sasuke beat the pulp out of the guy, not because of honor or of some loyalty of the girl. He did so because he wanted to, and it gave him an excuse to get his hands dirty. The heiress was so out of it by the time he was finished he was sure that the girl wouldn't remember a moment of what had just transpired before her. She was….amusing…. Sasuke was curious to see as to how her morning after was going and how she was dealing with grief of a lost love. The raven scoffed a bit and smirked at the thought. Lost love, it was more like a lost cause. Sasuke Uchiha never loved nor did he allow himself the opportunity to feel such an emotion for another person. Hinata Hyugaa was a prime example of why love was an unnecessary and weakening emotion. It put another person in control of you and Sasuke was not about to lose his control.

Ino felt like she'd been hit by a freight train. Wait, make that several freight trains and a car. Her head was the inside of her skull and her neighbor had decided that now was the best time to cut their grass. She felt like throwing a rock at the wannabe landscaper but that would mean effort she didn't feel like exerting. After her embarrassing incident with Sasuke Uchiha she drowned her sorrows in a red solo cup. Taking pity on her Shikamaru had dragged her sorry ass home, all the while complaining about how troublesome she was. The lazy genius was now in the kitchen watching Chouji make breakfast which would probably turn out delicious but be more food than any of them could eat. Ino rolled over onto her side, she was glad her father and mother were away for their second honey moon, she would have had hell to pay if her parents had been witness to how she'd entered the house last night.

Last night. Last night sucked and the morning after sucked more. She knew that she shouldn't let the goings on between Naruto and Sakura get to her but they did. Why? Why should she care about what that dumb blonde does? A knock to her window caught her attention. There was the stupid, infuriating blonde himself waving at her from the tree branch he was precariously perched on. Dammit she'd thought him up. Ino scrambled out of her bed and quickly unlatched her window so that the stupid boy didn't fall to his death. She didn't want his blood to sully her front yard. Naruto pushed himself through the opening and before he got a chance to catch himself he fell into Ino and they landed in a pile on the floor with a loud thud. Blue met blue. Naruto broke his gaze from her eyes and they wandered down to her body. Her breasts looked soft and were more than ample and her shirt rose up to give him a good look at her flat, toned stomach. Where he expected to see pants there weren't any. Instead she wore a lacey sky blue thong. He slipped his finger under one side of the flimsy undergarment and smirked.

"You're right, you don't wear granny panties." Naruto chuckled huskily and before Ino got the chance to retort the door to her room swung open.

Both of them looked up to see an unsurprised Shikamaru standing in the door way with his arms crossed tight over his chest.

"Troublesome."

CC Note: ooooooooooooo So the plot now thickens! I know not much happened in this chapter but I felt it gives more insight into the characters and the plot so therefore I see it as necessary. Tell me what you think and while many may feel this is a very predictable story I promise you it isn't! Anyway I hope you guys enjoyed reading this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it! Review!