A/N: Hello all! I had a lot of trouble with this chapter because my brain didn't like me this week. See, I hit my head on the wall awhile ago and it affected my creativity gland. And to this day, I sometimes lose inspiration because of it! Okay, anyway, here's the next chapter!

Warning: The following chapter may include ShikaTema, ShikaIno, SaiSaku, KibaHina, NejiTen, a not very nice Temari, and an obsessive contestant. AND a mention of an old OC.

Episode 2

The next morning, Ino opened her eyes. So today she would be dating Shino. She wondered how it would go. If it went well, she would continue to date him for a bit longer. But if it didn't, she would stick around and just hang out.

Even though they weren't a very good match, she wanted Temari to win so she would stop hitting on Shikamaru.

She got out of bed and wondered if the other girls had woken up yet or if she was the first one up. She could text them but she decided not to. The blonde looked through the outfits she had bought the day before. Which one should she wear?

After selecting an outfit, she checked the clock. 8:45. The group was supposed to meet in the hallway at 9.

WITH SAKURA (skip five minutes)

Sakura's eyes opened sleepily. Tomorrow she would be the last in the first round to have a date with Shino. She got dressed and check her clock. 8:50. She had ten minutes before she had to meet the rest of the group.

WITH HINATA (skip five minutes)

Hinata got up and walked into the hall. She was the first one there. She had five minutes to for everyone else to show up.

She still remembered her date with Shino that previous night. It was actually her first date unless you counted the time when she and Kiba had gone to get ice cream together. She didn't count that as a date. It was spur of the moment and with a friend. Besides Kiba didn't even like her, right?

WITH TENTEN (skip five minutes)

Tenten walked into the hallway, Ino, Hinata, Shinjin, and Sakura were there as well as Shino and Rob. But Temari wasn't there.

Rob stared at Temari's door impatiently. He kept this up for a few minutes then finally said, "We'll just go on without her. Ino, you and Shino are going to breakfast together. We'll see you later."

Tenten, Hinata, and Sakura went to the hotel restaurant for breakfast. Shinjin had said she wasn't a morning person and usually never ate breakfast.

"I wonder how it goes for Ino," said Sakura.

"I wonder which one of us will win," Tenten said, taking a bite out of a muffin.

"Well, how much did he seem to enjoy last night?" Sakura asked.

"How am I supposed to know?" asked the brunette. "He's about as talkative as a rock."

Hinata looked up from her food. "Should you…really be…talking about Shino that way behind his back?" she asked quietly.

"Do you like him or something?" Tenten asked.

Hinata blushed. "N-no, but I don't…I don't want people to insult my friend…I guess…"

Sakura smiled at her. "You're always so nice to everyone," she said. "Whatever boy gets you in the end is an extremely lucky one."

"I bet Shino chooses you," Tenten said.

"Well, you are the sweetest of us and you've spent more time with him than any of us," Sakura pointed out. "Of course, for all we know, he'll choose Temari or Shinjin."

The two girls started talking about Shinjin and Hinata was relieved that they had stopped talking about her love life and her having a relationship with Shino. She knew that Tenten liked her older cousin Neji and he might like her too, and she was pretty sure that he did.

WITH THE DATE

Shino and Ino walked into a small diner to eat. Ino sat across from Shino. She tried to look good in front of the camera. The boys back home would be watching, particularly one.

"Where do you like to go?" Ino asked. "Like, in your spare time."

"I don't go anywhere in particular," he replied. "I usually just like to be somewhere quiet."

Ino groaned inwardly. She would much rather be with someone that would have more to say. She made more attempts to start a conversation but they each failed. He probably was just nervous being with such a beauty. Poor guy.

"You must enjoy being really quiet," said Ino.

"Sometimes more can be said with silence than with words," Shino replied.

The blonde stared at him. How the crap could you say something if you didn't use any words? You had to say something, didn't you? Shino could tell she was confused. That would keep her quiet for a while.

"So," Ino said after a while, "how do you see Temari?"

"I don't really know her that much," he replied. "You don't get along with her too well, do you?"

"Not really," she replied. There we go. Now there was some conversation.

"Why not? You two can be really similar," he said. "I would think you two would be good friends."

Would it be wrong to bring up Shikamaru? Well, he would be watching. She could use this as a chance to make Temari look bad on live television.

"She's obsessed with Shikamaru," Ino said. "She can't take a hint that he doesn't like her and keeps bugging him and won't ever leave him alone. Which gets annoying."

"So it's because of a boy," he said. "it's like with Sakura all over again."

"It is not," Ino said. "I wasn't friends with Temari in the first place."

They fell silent again.

WITH THE OTHER GIRLS

The girls finished breakfast and walked back upstairs where Temari was waiting for them.

"Hey," she said, "where's everyone else?"

"Ino and Shino already left," Sakura replied. "You overslept."

"Oh. That means I'm next," Temari said. "It doesn't matter. Not like I'm going to last very long and even if I do, I'll leave him anyway."

Shinjin, who had just approached them, said, "Take that back."

"Huh? Why?" Temari asked.

"Because," Shinjin said, "I don't want saying anything about him. He's a great person and you don't deserve him at all! He wouldn't ever choose someone like you!"

Hinata looked at the girls then back at Shinjin. "G-girls," she said, "we shouldn't argue. After all…we're all here…and…it's up to Shino to choose…so…we should try to get along while we're here."

Shinjin sighed. "You're right," she said. "I just didn't like hearing someone saying stuff like that. Especially when Shino's involved."

"You don't even know him, though," Tenten pointed out.

"You guys would be surprised," Shinjin said before going back to her room.

AFTER THE DATE

"Look," Sakura said, "they're back."

Shino and Ino reached the group. Ino was glad to be back and not have to sit in silence with Shino again.

"Well, well," said Rob, "looks like Temari decided to show up for this meeting." Temari rolled her eyes. "Well, anyway, in an hour we'll meet back here for your date with Shino. You can all do what you want for now."

Shino expected Shinjin to start talking to him again but to his surprise she just went back into her room. He decided he would go to his room as well.

Ino, Sakura, and Tenten decided to check out the pool. Hinata was going to call Neji and Kiba to tell them what had happened so far. Temari was going to get ready.

"So how did it go?" Sakura asked Ino.

"Quiet," said Ino. "Very quiet. Every time I started conversation, he would say something that caused it to end! But…I think he might like me or why else would he have been so quiet? He was nervous being with me because he likes me."

Tenten laughed to herself. "Why didn't you just keep talking? I did. I didn't need him to reply."

"I like having someone respond," the blonde said. "I mean, he wouldn't even complain about the slow service. It was like he couldn't say anything"

"Temari gets Shino next," Sakura said.

"I hope he chooses her," Ino said. "I'd love for something to happen to get her out of my way."

"But didn't you know? You weren't here so you couldn't here her, but she said she would just leave Shino if she won," Tenten said.

"Well, by the time she does that, I'll have Shikamaru all to myself," Ino said.

WITH SHINJIN

Shinjin sighed to herself. She was losing confidence. All the other girls were so pretty and fun but she was just a plain, boring person. She was the only one who loved Shino but she knew she was the last one he would ever choose.

She knew the other girls didn't really like her either. They thought she was too obsessed with winning. Well, they would be obsessed too if their love interest was what they would win. Ino and Temari would be all over Shikamaru, based on what Shinjin had hear when she had listened to them.

She sighed again. Maybe she should just give up and go home before he had the chance to reject her. She knew that the first chance he got, he would let her go.

Shinjin stared out her window at the city below. She normally loved places like these and would be bustling all around doing everything she could but she couldn't enjoy this when there was something this big going on in her life.

She was pretty bored. She could join the group in the pool or look around with someone but they wouldn't want to do anything with her. They had only invited her along once and probably hated her so much that they didn't bother with her anymore.

She couldn't blame them. She knew how much greatness she had. None at all.

WITH HINATA

Ring, ring. Hinata waited for Neji to answer. There used to be some issues between her and her cousin but now they got along really well. He was like an older brother to her.

"Hello?"

"H-hi, Neji," Hinata said.

"Hinata, I can't wait to see you on TV this weekend," Neji said. "how's Tenten going?" He tried to sound uninterested.

"She doesn't…she doesn't like Shino more than you." Hinata tried to tease him but it came out sounding like she was trying to comfort him.

"I didn't ask that," Neji said. Despite his plain voice, Hinata could tell he was blushing on the other end of the phone.

"W-well," she said, "I'm…I'm going to call Kiba."

Ring, ring. "Hello?"

"K-Kiba," Hinata said.

"Hinata?"

"Y-yeah," she said. "Hi."

"Hinata! I've been waiting for you to call! How's Shino? Have you gone out with him yet? Was he nice to you?"

"He's fine," she said and added quickly, "And, yes, he was nice to me. I…I was the first one he had to date."

"Oh," Kiba said. She didn't know why but it sounded like he was disappointed about something."

They talked for a little longer then hung up and Hinata rushed to join the group.

"Well, well," Rob said, "we're about to send off Shino and Temari. Can you guys believe we're gonna end round one tomorrow morning?"

Temari tapped her foot impatiently. "Yeah, yeah," she said. "an Shino and I just get going already so we can get it over with?"

Shinjin tensed as Rob sighed. "Okay, fine," he said. "You guys can go for lunch and a movie now."

Temari and Shino left. Ino and Sakura decided to go shopping while Tenten and Hinata were going to go swimming. No one bother to invite Shinjin along so she went back to her room.

Shino and Temari entered a booth at a restaurant. Temari, unlike the other girls, didn't try to talk to Shino. Instead, she looked pretty bored to be there.

Lunch seemed to drag by as Temari only spoke when she ordered and spent most of the time texting a friend of hers named Kitsune. Shino was glad that their date consisted of only one more thing and they had to shut up anyway.

When they got to the movie, Temari actually took an interest in it. It was about a really nice and pretty girls competing with a hideous witch for a boy. She thought it was the story of her life, making Ino the witch.

When they left the movie, Shino checked his watch. He had two hours until dinner with Shinjin but he wasn't going to keep Temari out any longer than he had to.

When they got back, Rob and the crew was there to greet them. Rob smiled at the camera and said, "This ends episode two. Tune in next week to see Shinjin, Sakura, and Shino's decision about who to send off."

A/N: Agh, this was so HARD! I don't see why I suddenly lost all inspiration. I usually get inspired at school when I'm not supposed to be working on them but when I get a whole week off due to weather, I can't write to save my life! Sorry it's a week late…