A/N: I am so glad that everyone is into the story so far. I think I'm doing a pretty good job or rather things are going as planned and that's good right. Okay I wont ramble on anymore here is the next chapter.

Disclaimer: Masashi Kishimoto owns Naruto and I do not.

"So this is it huh." Naruto started as he stared down as his blond counterpart.

"Yeah it's now or never. I'll go in first and you come in later and ask me out; and we'll figure the rest of it out from there." Ino said.

Naruto looked stunned as he opened his mouth wide.

"What! You mean you don't have any idea what you're doing. Ino I thought that you had this whole thing planned out."

Ino shrugged her shoulders smiling sheepishly. Naruto sighed hitting himself upside the head.

"I don't believe this."

"Sorry it's not like we had time to sit and really plan this all out."

Naruto said nothing as he resisted the urge to bang his head upside the wall in frustration. So there was still every chance that their plan could possibly fail. Then again no plan was completely fool proof. There was always room for error.

"Fine lets just get this over with."

"Right." She agreed. "Oh." She stopped turning to look at him. "Naruto whatever you do don't screw up."

"Yeah don't worry. I won't screw up."

Ino raised an eyebrow to him in suspicion.

"Yeah well you should probably have some sort of signal to warn me; if you have something idiotic planned out. I need to be aware of these things."

"I'll cough really loudly if things go wrong." He decided.

Ino seemed to agree to this for she said nothing else to him. The platinum blond entered the restaurant to see most of their friends. She saw Sakura, Hinata, Kiba, Neji, Lee, and TenTen.

"Hey Ino what's up come on and join us. We were just about to have lunch." Sakura said to her.

"Sure okay." She agreed as she sat down besides Neji and Sakura. The two couples were sitting across from them. "So how are our favorite couples doing today?" Ino asked cheerfully.

Hinata blushed as Kiba squeezed her hand underneath the table.

"We're good you don't have to worry." Kiba nodded.

"I should hope so. I wouldn't want Hinata-sama to feel anything other than contentment when she's around you." Neji spoke in his usual calm manner.

Kiba frowned as he resisted the urge to shout something at the stoic Hyuuga.

"Neji ni-san…Ki...Kiba-kun treats me very well. You don't have to worry." She assured him.

"Good." He nodded.

Ino could feel the tension in the room.

"Okay…well lets order something." She said trying to clear the tension away.

Meanwhile Naruto paced back and forth outside.

"Damn what the hell can I say when I go in there." He thought.

"Yo Naruto." He heard his name.

The blue eyed male turned around to see both Chouji and Shikamaru.

"Hey Shikamaru, Chouji what's going on?"

"Nothing Chouji just wanted to grab something to eat. And since we just got back from a mission I decided to tag along."

"What it's not too troublesome for you Shikamaru." Naruto laughed.

"Hm. Some things aren't always troublesome." But at the sound of the black haired males stomach Naruto smiled knowingly.

"You're starving huh?"

"Yeah." He only nodded.

"So am I." Chouji agreed. "Let's go in already."

The three teens entered the restaurant only to see that their friends were there as well. Ino looked up to see Naruto, Shikamaru, and Chouji. She smiled to herself. This really couldn't get any more perfect if they had planned everything. Now that so many of their friends were here they could be convincing in front of all of them.

"Hey Naruto, Chouji, Shikamaru come over and join us okay." The blond kunoichi shouted to them.

"Alright geez Ino we can hear you know." Shikamaru sighed.

"Yeah but now we're probably deaf in one or both of our ears." Naruto teased.

"I heard that Uzumaki." She frowned.

As the three males went to sit down Naruto decided to take some action in his plan with Ino.

"Hey Chouji do you mind if I sit next to Ino-chan?" he asked.

"No but why would you even want to? I didn't know that you two were that close."

"We aren't." Ino intervened "But if he wants to sit next to me I won't stop him."

Sakura blinked in confusion something was up with those two for sure. They were both just acting way too weird.

"What's with you Naruto I would have thought that you wanted to sit next to Sakura or something?" Shikamaru asked his friend.

It was no secret that everyone knew about Naruto's crush on Sakura.

"Nah it's cool. I want to sit next to Ino-chan today besides someone has to make sure that she eats." He laughed out loud.

The aqua colored eyed teen hit him in the stomach.

"Shut up and sit." She told him.

"Sure thing." He nodded.

Before long barbeque pork, sushi, onigiri, and naturally ramen had been ordered for the entire table.

"Hey Chouji, Shika how was your mission?" Ino asked them.

"It went well." Chouji said threw mouthfuls of pork.

"It was troublesome but we managed to handle things."

Kiba had leaned over pecking Hinata's cheek. She blushed slightly at the contact. The blue haired girl wasn't nearly as shy as she used to be; but naturally she still had some of her previous tendencies.

"Aww that's really so cute." Ino cooed.

Naruto coughed loudly trying to let her know that he was ready to begin. She on the other hand assumed that he was about to do something stupid.

"What's the matter Naruto? Do you need some water here drink." She forcefully grabbed him pouring the ice cold water down his throat.

"Damn you." he thought as he swallowed the water. He let out a breath. "Gee Ino-chan I didn't know that you cared so much. Does this mean that you'll take me up on that date?"

The table was silenced just waiting for her answer. Ino blinked realizing that he had started their plan. It was now up to come up with something.

"I already said no didn't I?"

"Yeah I know but I told you that I wasn't going to give up."

Naruto stood up placing both of his hands on to the table.

"Come on Ino-chan lets go out."

Ino stood up as well staring into his cerulean blue orbs.

"No Naruto."

"You'll have fun I promise."

"Listen to me Naruto the answer is no. we aren't going anywhere."

Naruto pouted folding his arms.

"Why won't you listen to reason? You'll have fun with me I promise."

"No, No, No times infinity." She shook her head ponytail swinging and all.

"Yes, Yes, Yes times infinity and one plus 3 bowls of pork ramen. There now you have to say yes to me. You can't dare go back on the ramen." He smiled.

The platinum blond sighed heavily. This was going on for way too long. It was time to put the finishing touches on to their plan.

"Alright, alright already fine. You can take me out if it will get you to shut up. Pick me up at Friday around 7 and don't you dare be late do you hear me."

"Yes ma'am." He nodded eagerly. "I'll be there I got to go though so I'll see you around guys." The blond male said no more as he quickly jetted up out of the restaurant.

Ino watched him leave resisting the urge to go after him. Instead Sakura had got up from the table first.

"I'm going to go talk to him." She decided.

"What the hell did we just see Naruto asking Ino out?" Kiba spoke.

"Yeah well strange things happen all the time I guess." Chouji said.

"Our friend is just bursting with the flames of youth." Lee's voice held its usual enthusiasm.

TenTen pulled her boyfriend back into his seat.

"Lee-kun shut up okay." She smiled as she kissed his cheek causing a blush to rise to his cheeks. Ino on the other hand had not been paying attention to anything being said. In truth she was curious as to what Naruto and Sakura were talking about. She wasn't really sure why she even cared though.

"Its none of my business he'll tell me later anyway." She decided.

Meanwhile outside Sakura had finally caught up to Naruto.

"Hey Naruto can we talk for a moment?" she wondered.

"Oh hey Sakura-chan what's up?"

"Well everything's good with me but what's going on with you? Why the sudden interest in Ino-pig?"

"Uh…" he paused. "It's just going to be for one date. Are you jealous Sakura-chan?" he grinned.

The pink haired medic nin paused at his question. She wasn't really sure on how to answer him.

"Um well…"

"It's okay if you are."

Sakura didn't know if she was jealous or not. And even if she was she wasn't about to admit it in front of Naruto.

"No I'm not. I just wanted to see if you were okay. I still can't believe that you asked Ino out."

"Yeah me either." He thought to himself. "Yeah well it's just one date that's all I have to get going. I'll see you okay Sakura-chan."

She only blinked curiously deciding to leave it alone for awhile. when she entered the restaurant she saw that Ino was gone as well.

"Hey where did Ino go?"

"She said something about going to prepare for the worst date of her life, and then she bailed." Kiba answered the green eyed girl.

"Maybe it won't be so bad." TenTen started. "Hell maybe they'll even like each other or something."

There was another pause of silence before Chouji and Kiba started busting out laughing.

"Ino falling for our number one, hyperactive knucklehead nah I just cant see it."

"Well why not? Why is it so hard to imagine. I mean they actually have a lot in common. They're both loud, outspoken, it just may work."

Sakura stood there with her finger to her chin as she appeared to be in deep thought.

"They said that they were going out on Friday right?"

"Hai Sakura-chan." Hinata nodded.

"Well let's follow them and see how it all turns out. I bet 50 ryo that it's going to be a complete disaster."

"I'm with you Sakura." Kiba nodded placing his bet with the pink haired girl.

"It's troublesome and I don't know why this is any of my business. But it could work those two are similar. They may be able to make something out of this date."

"I agree too." Hinata spoke. "I believe that Naruto-kun and Ino-chan's personalities are very similar."

Sakura could see that everyone was picking sides.

"What do you say TenTen you up for a friendly little bet?"

"I think that you hang around Tsunade-sama too much. But hell yeah I'm up for this little bet 500 ryo was it?"

"Yep 500 ryo and the losers have to clean up the winners apartments for a week."

"You're on! So it's me, Hinata, and Shikamaru versus you and Kiba."

"Don't forget about me." Chouji spoke. "I mean I agree that those two are alike but sometimes two of the same can end in disaster."

"Thanks Chouji." Sakura smiled.

"I will have no part in this silly little bet of yours. Its up to Ino and Naruto to decide how far they are going to go." Neji said.

"Lee-kun what about you what's your take on this. And I swear if you even mention anything at all about youth…."

"Heh." He laughed. "I'd prefer not to bet on anything but TenTen-chan you know that I am always on your side."

She nodded because that was the answer that she had been looking for.

"There you have it Neji's neutral, Hinata, Shikamaru, and Lee agree with me. While you, Chouji, and Kiba think that it's going to be a disaster. You're kind of outnumbered Sakura. You sure you still want to go through with this?" the brown haired girl asked.

The green eyed girl just smirked looking very enthusiastic. There was no way in hell she was going to back down just because she was outnumbered.

"I'm game. It doesn't matter about the numbers or the odds. All that really matters is the outcome."

"Yeah you definitely hang out with Tsunade-sama too much."

The group of friends laughed at this. Although it was true Sakura could very well be described as a young Tsunade or Tsunade version 2.0 if you will. Hell even Tsunade junior would suffice.

"Okay that's enough laughter. I think this will be fun though and maybe we can find out why Naruto's acting so weird." The pink haired girl said.

"So everything's finalized are we all in?" Kiba asked as he raised his glass.

Everyone looked around the room raising their glasses as well some with sake others with water.

"Yes looks like we all agree." Sakura started. "Here's to the bet."

"The bet!" all the other voices shouted out with their glasses raised high in the air.