Hinata walked with Sakura to the apartment after recovering from her embarrassing confession and fainting spell. They had finished working on the new and improved soldier pills.

"I could eat those things like candy now. I'm still upset I couldn't fix it myself but I am thankful for your help."

Sakura was still examining the now orangish pill.

"What did you do to it again?" Sakura asked sniffing it.

"All I did was add some jasmine to neutralize the bitterness and then some vanilla for a slightly sweeter taste. It sounds easy but the measurement of each one was the difficult part." Hinata said slightly proud of herself.

"You're such a mad scientist Hinata." The girls giggled at the corny joke.

Sakura was amazed. Not with just how Hinata was able to find an "antidote" for her sickly solider pills, but at the fact that her best friend had changed in the past year. No longer fragile and timid, she watched as her now confident friend walked along side her. That confidence had formed when Naruto returned to Konoha. She remembered when Hinata first told her she had been hanging around him. She was shy about exposing it to her but Sakura encouraged it saying it would do her some good.

The medical duo reached the pink haired females apartment. Sakura opened the door and threw their bags on the ground by the door.

They settled in with a bottle of plum sake.

"So what is this news you were talking about earlier?" Hinata asked taking a swig of the drink.

"Sasuke." Was all Sakura said before downing the sweet sake in one gulp.

"Oh Sakura what did he do this time?" Hinata knew their relationship was at times rocky because of the lack of communication. He just never wanted to talk about certain important things like their future or what exactly happen while he was away from Konoha. He would say that same phrase to Sakura over and over again. "Hn" and walk off.

They had been dating for a little over six months and trying to work out the kinks.

"Hinata, I just don't want to waste my time if this is how it would be. I love him I really do and always have but I'm unsure of a future with him. I just really don't know. Every time I ask what he wants out of this relationship he hits me with the stupid "Hn." At least when I was with Lee, I knew where he wanted to go, until that girl Midori moved back into town and snatched him from me."

Sakura was almost done with her second drink and Hinata knew that face to well.

At times she missed Lee and all of his funny actions. Lee and Sakura had almost been together for a year. She gave the boy a chance after he had bought her flowers for her newly appointed position in the hospital at the time. She had asked him if he wanted to get some lunch with her after that and the relationship kicked off from there.

Then a girl named Midori came to town.

She was a petite girl and her weight matched height. She had long jet black hair that she kept in a tight neat braid down her back. Her long bangs covered most of her eyes. But when you could see those eyes, they where the oddest color of yellow-green. The type you would find in a crayon box of the same label. Midori wasn't a ninja at all. She was a simple civilian who created and sold dresses. She had come back to Konoha after her mother had died. She traveled the lands with her mother creating and selling dresses for commoners, nobles, and feudal lords alike. When her mother died she inherited her small fortune and headed to Konoha to open her own shop.

How she knew Lee was the surprising part. She was Lee's only friend at the academy. She didn't have any ninja talent or was even dedicated at that so she dropped out before graduating but stayed good friends with Lee. She supported and cheered him on from the sidelines. The separation of those two happened only days after Lee had finally graduated. She had kissed him on the cheek and promised to return for him.

When she finally returned, Lee was in a relationship but that didn't stop her. After just a month Sakura had found out Lee had cheated on her with the girl. Her only words to him after the act was…

"How unyouthful."

Since then she had made amends with him and a verbal apology from Midori was exchanged.

Sakura and Hinata talked for a few more hours about lesser problems as the bottle started to diminish.

"Are you really going to leave this late Hinata *hic*. Maybe we should call Neji *hic* or TenTen *hic* or Naruto to pick you up. *hic* *hic*." Sakura was lying on the floor with her feet propped up on her futon in front of the now dying fire place.

"I'll be fine. I didn't nearly drink as much as you did. I barley finish a second glasses before you downed the whole bottle and I'm a trained ninja. Really anyone who attacks me is the one that should be careful." They giggled and Hinata was out of the door.

"Good times good *hic* times." Sakura stood up sloppily and picked up the empty bottle and two wine glasses bringing them to the sink in the kitchen. She looked out the window and the crescent moon and smiled. 'It's time to shake things up with Sasuke a little.' She thought to herself.

She grabbed the phone on the wall next to the sink and dialed his number. It wasn't as late as she thought it was. At least she thought 1030 at night wasn't late.

"Hello?" said the minor groggy voice on the other end of the phone; she knew he was probably just getting into bed…the wrong one.

"Please come over Sasuke, I'm just having a really rough day and need you here with me." She had put her sweetest, helpless, sober-est voice she could find. She knew it would work. He was the type that likes to save people when no one needs to be saved.

She knew what she was going to do. They hadn't done it yet together but she had done it to Lee and one other guy before that. She knew what she was doing and was going to make Sasuke squirm.

"I'm on my way Sakura." And the phone clicked off.

She skipped to her closest with a *hic* and found a skimpy little fit that still had a tag on it.

'Note to self…thank Ino.'

She threw it on thanking kami she shaved that morning and tossed her long pink hair with her fingers with another *hic*.

She through on some heels with the barley there lacey blue bra and panty set, relight the fire in the fire place and sat on her futon that was facing the front door. Head up, should back, legs crossed, and eyes on the kill. *Hic*

Sasuke Uchiha opens the door and stood there.

"Well close it, we don't want to let all the heat out now do we?" she winked at him.

Sasuke Uchiha still stood there.

"Well fine, I guess I'll just have to go and put some cloths on if you insist on keeping that…"

The door slammed shut. And Sasuke Uchiha still stood there.

"That's better now isn't it."

Sasuke Uchiha nodded slightly.

"Well don't you want to come closer I feel better then I look." She said with a come hither wave of her hand.

Sasuke Uchiha slowly walked forward.

She expected him to take control by now but he wasn't. His actions where confusing her. He was obeying every command that she gave him and he looked like he enjoyed it.

He sat down next to her and ran his fingers through her hair she leaned her head back and he let his fingers trace her jaw bone down to her clavicle bone. Then he stopped and looked at her as if he was waiting for his next command.

She finally realized what was going on. Ino and TenTen had told her about this. Some people have alter egos when it came to sex. So Sasuke wanted to be controlled…'this is going to be fun.' She thought to herself.

*Half way from Sakura's apartment to the Hyuga compound*

'It was such a good productive day today. I'm glad we got so much done but I haven't heard from Naruto all day. I hope he didn't think I was too fast last night or anything. Oh no what if I sacred him off? Maybe he doesn't want to be with me? Maybe he didn't like it? What was I thinking doing that with him so early in the relationship? I mean, I have been hanging with him for over a year and I've known him all my life but…"

She was cut short when she saw a patch of blonde hair leave the hokage's mansion.

"Stupid old women making me do triple the work cus' I was late this morning. Now I can't even visit …Hinata?" he saw her down the street staring at him. He ran up to her in a flash.

"What the heck are you doing out so late Hinata? You could get hurt." He was genuinely concerned for her.

"I'm a lethally train ninja, why does everyone treat me like glass?" she said with slightly annoyed.

"Sorry, forgot but why are you out so late?" he asked.

"I'm just leaving Sakura's place. We were having a little celebration because I was able to make her solider pill taste better. We had a bottle of sake and I called it a night. You?" she looked at him as she started to walk towards home again.

" I had left training early yesterday do go on our date so I promised I'd do double the work today but then I slept in on accident and she made me stay there all day as punishment." He was walking along side her with both his hands behind his head.

"Oh…that's a relief." She didn't mean for the words to slip out but they had past there barrier of teeth and lips.

Naruto stopped in his tracks and turned to her with a confusing look on his face.

"What do you mean a relief….did you…did you think I didn't want to talk to you…even after last night?" she gave a slight nod and she face was starting to get red.

"No Hinata no. please don't think like that, I was just really busy all day with that old bitty. I know what we did last night was out of pure emotion but we can take this as slow as you want to and don't ever think that way again. Being with you makes me happy, so let me walk you home so it can make both of us happy. Ok?" his hands were on her shoulders as he kissed her on top of her head and pulled her in a tight hug.

"Ok Naruto, thank you."