A/N: If you squint, there's a bit of ChoHina in this already!

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Me: Ten or fifteen chapters minimum.

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Sitting alone in her room, Hinata let the tears fall freely. Naruto…he didn't like her at all…he had said that he wasn't going out with anyone but Ino. She should have known that he would do this to her. She should have known that he would break her heart.

But she wasn't going to give up yet.

~X~

Chouji angrily pulled every picture off his wall. Ino had told him that she was currently taken by Naruto and he wasn't anywhere near her type. All those years of thinking Ino was going to be his dream come true had collapsed.

But he wasn't going to give up yet.

~X~

Hinata thought back to what Naruto had said about Ino. Was he with her now? Or had Chouji succeeded and Naruto didn't know about it?

~X~

Chouji wondered if Ino was really with Naruto or if she wasn't aware of Hinata asking him out. Had Hinata succeeded?

~X~

The two had very similar thoughts that Saturday. And the two were about to go through something together that no one could have predicted.

"Hello?"

"Ch-Chouji…Na…Naruto…he said no…and that…h-he could only go out with…Ino," Hinata said, trying not to cry again.

"Ino said no too," he said. "She's apparently in love with Naruto."

"I-I guess that's it then," Hinata said sadly.

"No, it's not. What if we worked together? We could help each other out and win their hearts," he said excitedly. "It's a long shot, but I'm willing to try it, and you'd probably understand Ino better and I'd probably understand Naruto better."

"Do…do you think it would work?"

"I don't know, but it's worth a try."

"W-well…I guess…I could help you," she said quietly. "I-I do know a little about Ino and….and what she likes."

"And I should be able to help you too," he said, and then, in a fake-noble voice added, "We will prevail!"

~X~

Tenten had always spent Saturday mornings with Neji and Lee and her afternoons with Temari. Always. She didn't expect that Saturday to be any different than the others, but when Lee had other plans and couldn't make it, the day was already turning out different than any other.

She had no idea what other plans he could possibly have, but there was nothing she could do about it.

However, when Temari cancelled for that afternoon, Tenten was wondering what was happening to her usual Saturday. For a brief second, she wondered if Lee was with Temari. Maybe she was cheating on Shikamaru! But that was a ridiculous idea.

But when Tenten thought about it, maybe it could happen! They had both cancelled plans with her that day, which seemed strange.

"Hey, Tenten!" called Kiba in the mall that afternoon. He was with Shino who was walking silently beside him.

"Oh, his guys," she said. "I was going to spend this morning with Neji and Lee, but Lee cancelled. And then Temari cancelled for this afternoon!"

"Oh, Temari had to go out of town to visit some relative, but I don't know about Lee," Kiba said, shrugging.

"He's over there," Shino said.

Sure enough, Lee and a brunette were walking hand in hand.

"No way!" Tenten shouted. "He…why didn't he mention anything about having a girlfriend to us?! I thought he was still wallowing in heart ache over Sakura liking his best friend!"

"That wasn't a smart thing to say," said Shino. Kiba sighed at the mention of Sakura being more interested in Neji than him.

"I just can't believe he's still so hung up on her. Kiba, either fight for Sakura or give up on her, nothing else will work," said Tenten. "Any girl would do the same thing and any girl likes someone who would fight."

"Yeah, but you know what? I'm not any girl," he said. "I'm not even a girl! And I don't think I'll do either, I don't want to say anything but I'm not going to be able to give up on her. Look, can we just drop it? You can have heart to hearts about love with some of your girl friends, not me."

"Aw, alright."

"How did we even get to this? I thought we were talking about Lee," said Kiba.

"Yeah, does anyone even know who that is?" she asked.

"I know who she is," Shino replied. "Her name's Haruka, she went to our school freshman year but switched to a private school."

"Oh, now I remember," Tenten said, smiling. "She always had a thing for Lee, always stared whenever her walked past her. Her friends would have to wave their hands in front of her face to get her attention. She had the most adorable crush on him."

She was then reminded of an earlier thought. "Well, now I know that Temari isn't cheating on Shikamaru with him."

"That's ridiculous, Temari's crazy about Shikamaru. Even I can tell she's happy the way she is," Kiba said.

"It was just a crazy thought," Tenten muttered. "I'm going to have to call him and inquire him all about his secret girlfriend.

~X~

Chouji didn't know the first thing about what Naruto would look for in Hinata or anything about getting her more attractive. All he knew what that he needed to help a friend (while getting the girl of his dreams, he had to add).

Any other time he could have asked Ino, but after asking her out, he knew things wouldn't ever be the same.

Instead, he was completely on his own here. Then it hit him. If Naruto like Ino, than maybe Hinata need to be more like her. First things first, he needed to get her to be more confidant, be more assertive, and perhaps even turn her into a flirt.

This was going to be a lot harder than he thought.

~X~

Knock, knock. Sakura banged her fist against Hinata's door, there to tell her of something that she had heard from Ino.

"Yes?" said a familiar voice and the door was open to reveal, not Hinata, but her cousin Neji.

Sakura's cheeks became as pink as her shoulder length hair and she came face to face with the dark haired, white eyed object of her affections.

"Oh, hell, Neji," she said, smiling a smile that lit up her emerald eyes. "I was just here to visit Hinata."

"Hinata isn't here right now. She said something about visiting a friend," Neji said. "Is it important?"

"I was only here to tell her something about a friend, nothing too big," the pinkette replied, even though she felt that it was very big.

"Ah, I see. Well, I'll tell her that you stopped by."

"So, Neji, how have you been?" she asked, batting her eyelashes. I'll win him over for sure, she thought, grinning wickedly on the inside, but sweetly on the outside.

"I've been fine," he said. "I went to go out with Lee and Tenten this morning, but Lee told us he wouldn't be there."

"That's not like him. I wonder why he didn't come."

"Well, believe it or not, Tenten called me and it appears he had a date with a girl who used to go to our school," Neji said. "Maybe you remember her? Minto Haruka, I think she'd be in your grade."

"Of course I remember Haruka! She had the biggest crush on Lee and despised me because of it," she replied, not too thrilled that their "romantic moment" involved talking about her former classmate's love life. She was happy for Lee, though. He was a great person and deserved a wonderful girl, one that cared about him more than Sakura could.

"Well, anyway, Sakura, if that's all you wanted, I have a test on Monday that I need to get back to studying for."

"Oh, of course, sorry to bother you," she said before leaving.

Damn, that wasn't long enough!

~X~

"C-confident?" Hinata asked.

"Yeah, I figured that if Naruto likes Ino, he must like confident girls, and, not to be rude here or anything, but you're about the opposite of that," said Chouji.

The indigo haired girl hung her head. "You're right, I…I'm sorry…"

"See, right there you just let me walk all over you, why don't you try that again, and this time say something like, 'Who are you calling unconfident?' or something?"

"Um, okay…I'm…I'm plenty confident, Ch-Chouji! Everyone…everyone stares when I walk b-by!"

Chouji was silent for a moment, before they both burst out laughing. When they stopped laughing, Hinata gasped at the time.

"I need to get home, it's almost time for dinner!" she said. "Goodbye, Chouji, and thanks a whole lot!"

Chouji stared at her run out of his room and had to convince himself that it was only because she hadn't stuttered once in that sentence.

~X~

Hinata, for some odd reason, felt like she was floating on air as she walked- more skipped- home. Her head was in the clouds so much so that she didn't noticed when she passed Ino's house. She didn't even notice Ino until she had stopped her and said, in a serious tone, "Hinata, we need to talk."

A/N: Cliffhanger! Warning, Ino's not going to be so nice in the next chapter, but it had to be that way for the story. I like Ino much more than Hinata, but that's just how it had to be.

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