Megami:*singing a song Ukime doesn't know*

Ukime: *singing a song that brings back memories* Bahaha.

Neji: Why do you always sing this song?

Ukime: It's AMAZING!

Gaara: She's singing Hetalia songs

Megami: *dancing to Germany's song* Were the best everywhere! Especially in bed! And we're epecially nice to dogs and cats!

Ukime: I was hoping that I'd never see ya with him, but it's all good cause I'm glad that I met him. Heh. Cause now I know the competition's very slim to none. And I- *mouth is covered by Neji's hand*

Neji:... She'll never stop singing... Nsync... Too much.

Megami: OMG China sounds like a Girl! China=Haku!

Gaara: You came to that conclusion at Abbey's

Megami: I had to share it. We're supossed to be introducing this chapter!

Neji: Perfect timing. These twins do not own Naruto, as much as they may long for it.

Megami: I may not own it but I can adopt characters from it! Like Gaara! *glomps*

Ukime: Very true.

Gaara:She still loves me more than her Hetalia characters.

Ukime: Also very true. Anyway, ONWARD!

Chapter 12-Kiss the Girl

After dinner was eaten Ino was a happy camper again, Ino tended to get angry when she was hungry, or at least vengeful. Tenten looked thoughtful, and Neji just looked sour, he was grumbling about needing a shower soon so he didn't smell like chicken. Gaara was his usual brooding self, well not brooding persay, just his usual emotionless self. The odd group walked back to the dorms, and when Ino got to the room she was about to settle down, maybe read a book, but her phone rang. Young played and she picked it up, Sasuke said he needed to talk to her. She raised an eyebrow before replying, what would he want to talk about? And why her anyway. Ino asked him where he wanted to meet, and put her phone on vibrate for the next text. He sent back the tunnels. Oh great, his thinking place. This wasn't a normal chat, this was about feelings. She grabbed her heels and slipped them on as Tenten came out of the shower.

"Where are you going?" She asked. Ino slipped on her purple fuzzy hooded sweatshirt.

"I need to talk to someone." She said waving her phone. Tenten nodded and dried her short hair.

"Fine but if you come home late, don't wake me up." She said, assuming it was Gaara. Ino nodded and put her phone in her jean pocket.

"I won't be long." She said and shut the door, as soon as she was out she heard Tenten start music, loud enough to drown anything out, but not bother someone else. Ino shook her head, and started down the hall, she passed all kinds of people on her way to the tunnels, she also saw some thing she wished she hadn't. Like Sai and Sakura skinny dipping in the pool, which was closed and they had obviously stolen keys to. She hurriedly blocked them from her vision suppressing a shiver of disgust. Sasuke was waiting by the tunnel entrance, he unlocked the door and let them in. After walking a ways he slid down the wall.

"Naruto." He said before Ino had time to speak.

"Okay, that explains why you wanted to talk, but not why I'm here." She said sliding down next to him.

"I think I may love him." Sasuke said, onyx eyes staring into her blue ones.

"That's obvious. I can get inside your head remember?" She said softly. He nodded.

"Then you know. You know why I can't tell him." Sasuke said. Ino shook her head.

"He's not hung up on Sakura anymore, when you left he wanted you back more than both of us did. Not even I, who thought I was in love with you, wanted you back as much as he did. It broke my heart to know you loved him more back then, and it was even worse because he loved you just as much. So tell him." Ino said, blue eyes sincere. Sasuke nodded then smirked.

"What about you and sand man?" He asked. Ino blushed, although it was too dark to see it Sasuke did. "Your blushing." He said.

"Well yeah, I mean I like him..." Ino trailed off.

"Oh c'mon, you've been made of stone since I left, what happened to her?" Sasuke asked.

"Maybe, he brought back the feelings I tried to kill, I didn't want to be hurt again and in walks Gaara, and suddenly I'm scared again." Ino said. Sasuke chuckled.

"Now you have something to lose. But it's more than that. Isn't it?" He said. Ino looked at him.

"I've been inside his mind. I've touched the darkness he lives with, it's darker than Kyuu's, but it holds the same malice. Sasuke I let my guard down and linked with him. It makes me even more scared." Ino said.

Once Ino left, Tenten turned on her music and sang to 'Fences' by Paramore. Tenten barely noticed the knock on her door, but there was a musical break and she threw herself across the room. She wrenched the door open, pieces of stray hair flying everywhere.

"I can leave if you're busy." Neji said, looking surprised and interested.

"No, I'm just dancing." Tenten smiled, opening the door wider. Neji nodded. "Come on in. I also need to unpack. You can help." Neji nodded and entered. He sat on Tenten's bed as she unpacked her bag. She held a red shirt to her chest and turned to Neji. Since the sex ed incident, she had suddenly started feeling confident around him. She noticed how he had been so annoyed with Sakura, yet not with her. SHe smiled to herself and modeled the shirt.

"What do you think about this? I need a male's opinion. I don't know if I like it." Neji looked at the shirt, not really understanding what she meant.

"What are you asking me?" He asked.

"Look at the shirt and tell me what you think of it!" She said. He looked at her shirt, his eyes scanning.

"I would need to see it on you, I suppose." He said, leaning against the wall.

"Fine. Hold on a second." She walked into the bathroom and slid the shirt over her head. She adjusted it to fit her shoulders and walked out again. Neji nodded pensively.

"I like it." Neji said. Tenten looked down self consciously.

"I don't know, it feels a little tight. Do you think I'll look slutty?"

"You won't look slutty. And, obviously I'm going to like it. I am, in fact, male."

For the rest of her unpacking, she tried on various shirts that she wasn't sure about. All of them resulting in her saying she would look slutty. Neji sighed after the sixth shirt.

"What do you consider 'slutty' exactly?" He asked, now standing behind her.

"Showy and tight."

"Well, you're not slutty." He said. Tenten nodded.

"Fine. There's still one shirt left." Neji did a sort of grunt. "One, I promise. I would be doing this with Ino, but she is currently missing." Tenten said, gesturing to the room.

"I hadn't noticed." He went back to Tenten's bed and sat down. Tenten pulled on the last shirt, feeling it hugging her curves and chest. She had owned it since she was fourteen, so it didn't fit as well as it used to. She stepped out of the bathroom.

"This one is slutty, you can't deny it." Neji stood up.

"You have a point." He said. Tenten tugged at the edges of her shirt, noticing her belly showing.

"Told you." She said. Neji had a strange look on his face. "What?" Tenten asked.

"Nothing. I was just thinking." Tenten heard something in the hall, but tried to ignore it.

"About what?" She ventured. Neji's mouth twitched in amusement.

"Nothing of consequence." He said, looking at the 'shirt' again.

"Did you just look at my chest?" Tenten said, covering her chest.

"Not that I'm aware of." Tenten squinted.

"Sure, you horn dog." Neji mumbled something. "What?"

"Nothing?"

"Stop mumbling."

"What if I don't want to?" Neji asked. Tenten glared.

"I will take you out." Neji crossed his arms and looked at her.

"Alright."

"Are you challenging me?" Tenten asked, preparing herself.

"Well, you blush whenever you interact with me, let alone try to 'take me out'." Neji said, smirking in the arrogant way he had. WIthout a word, Tenten sprung across the small gap between them and slammed him into the wall.

"So, I was wrong about one thing." He said. He gently pushed her off.

"I noticed." Tenten smiled, laying on the floor. Somehow she had managed to trip over her discarded shirts.

"Do you need help up?" Neji asked, looking at her. She as laying on her back, looking at the ceiling.

"No. I like it on the floor. I think I'll stay."

"Tenten, get up."

"No." Neji sighed and grabbed Tenten's hand. He pulled her up, almost, but tripped over her bag and fell on the floor himself. Tenten laughed, landing on top of him.

"Well, uh..." Her face would have glowed red in the dark if the lights had been out. She rolled off, making Neji have strange thoughts. Neji got up.

"I'm going to finish unpacking." Tenten said. She smiled as someone knocked on the door.

"I suppose I should be leaving." Tenten reached for the handle. She was sidetracked though, by Neji brushing her hand away.

"You should unpack. I've got the door." Tenten's face heated up. She was pretty sure she was going to break a sweat in a second. Neji turned to leave.

'Oh, screw it.' Neji thought. He turned back, barely noticing Ino in the hallway, and pressed his lips against Tenten's.

Gaara heard Ino's delighted screech and opened the door to see what it was about. There he was met with the sight of Neji and Tenten's first kiss. Tenten pulled Neji closer by his shirt and pressed their lips more firmly together. Ino looked delighted, but she didn't say anything as she passed Neji on her way into hers and Tenten's room. Neji was the one who broke the kiss, leaving Tenten's lips slightly bruised and swollen, he smirked and left the room. Gaara raised a non existant eyebrow to Neji's smirking face and closed the door behind both of them.

"So, when did you two get together?" Gaara asked flopping onto his bed, although it was perfectly predictable.

"Well, we're not officially together, we just kissed." Neji said flopping onto his own bed. Gaara chuckled.

"Isn't that Ironic." He said.

"What?" Neji asked.

"Well you just kissed Tenten and you aren't her beau, but I am Ino's beau and have not kissed her." Gaara said. Neji thought it over.

"Your right." he said, Gaara nodded, though Neji couldn't see it, both boys were looking at the ceiling.

"We aren't very skilled in love." Gaara said thoughtfully, Neji nodded.

"This is true, but is anyone?" He asked. Gaara thought about it.

"Probably not." He conceded. Then Gaara turned to the clock beside his bed. It said 8:00, time for his nightly walk. He got up and left the room, Neji turned the light out shortly after Gaara left, probably going to bed, after all he had an exciting day. Gaara chuckled to himself. As he was walking he heard the creak of a door behind him, not bothering to look. Ino appeared beside him.

"I sensed you were out and about." She said shrugging, in truth she had things to think about as well.

"Only half a lie." Gaara said, Ino smiled, he could tell when she was lying.

"I have to think about some things, They've been on my mind all day." She said, the other half of the truth coming out. Gaara nodded, there was something on his mind too, his almost kiss with Ino this morning, he had been so close.

"You can always try again." Ino said leaning against a wall, her blond hair was messy and framed her head in a halo. She looked almost too angelic, Ino laughed at Gaara's thought.

"Yeah, I'm not much of an angel am I?" Ino said wistfully. Gaara chuckled.

"You could always be my angel." He said. Ino raised a blond eyebrow at him.

"Sure I could, what would I save you from, Angels are supposed to save people." She said. Gaara nodded thoughtfully, bringing himself closer to her.

"You could always save me from myself." He said kissing her. He wasn't the tallest boy, but he had a inch or two on Ino, who wasn't the shortest girl. She put her arms around his neck, he pressed his lips harder onto hers, she met his force with her own, standing on her toes a little more to press her lips harder onto his. Gaara picked her up, arms around her waist. Ino broke the kiss first in desperate need of air, her lips looked a little bruised, more than Tenten's had, and her messy hair had been messed up more. Gaara kept one hand around her waist and put the other on her head.

"You are so beautiful right now." He said. Ino blushed.

"I'm all messed up, how can you say that?" She asked. Gaara chuckled.

"You always look beautiful." He said, kissing her again.

As soon as Gaara left, Neji turned the light out. If the light was out, no one would knock on the door and try to bother him. He laid on his bed, thinking. His face was bright red, but no one was there to see him anyway. God, how he hated emotions.

He had only met this girl three days ago, and yet... He didn't know what had come over him. He had attempted to date before, but they had all ended in him getting slapped. Tenten was different. Also, he was surprised he was even attracted to her. She was beautiful, yes. But she was so energetic and... Independent. Maybe, subconsciously, Neji was trying to break free from the other girls. He nodded to himself and rolled over.

He was just so... Confused. Why was he feeling such strong feelings towards her, in only three days. He wasn't quite sure about himself anymore. True, he had had to spend all summer with Hinata. Hell, that would make any boy crazy enough to go after the first girl he saw.

So, why wasn't he attracted to Ino? She was beautiful, too. She was just as independent as Tenten, just as energetic. Neji shook his head.

"No, there's something special about her." He said in the darkness. He shut his eyes for a second, but opened them when he heard the door open and shut.

"That was a short walk." Neji commented.

"It's midnight, Neji. I was gone for four hours." Gaara said in his gravelly voice. Neji nodded.

"I must have fallen asleep again, I guess." he commented, mainly to himself.

"Lucky." Gaara said, changing into his pajamas. He dropped himself onto his bed, staring at the window.

"What are you thinking about?" Neji asked, feeling incredibly bored and not at all tired.

"What do you think?"

"Ino?" Gaara must have nodded, because there was no answer. Neji nodded to himself. Before he knew it, his alarm clock was going off and he was swearing at it.

Megami: I am first!

Gaara: I see this.

Ukime: I would have been. My computer screwed itself again... Damn...

Neji: You can't win them all, as much as you would like to.

Gaara: *listening to Hetalia songs with Megami* Germany yells alot...

Megami: Yes he does, but he isn't my character!

Ukime: For shame!

Megami: I adopted the most Sadistic ones! They carry a pipe, little knife, sword, axe, you know the usual.

Neji: The usual... Sure it is...

Gaara: It is for her...Maybe I should start doing that.

Ukime: Nah, you are enough with your creepy look you give people.

Megami: Ya know like the card I put in my pocket this morning!

Ukime: YES! OMFG! His eyes are all blood shot and he's like "COME HERE! I WANNA MUNCH ON YOUR SKINNY BONES! NOM NOM!"

Neji: Exactly like that, huh?

Ukime: Of course.

Gaara: O.O Since when have I said that?

Megami: PRUSSIA!

Gaara: No Prussia for you!

Ukime: Review, or Megami can't have her Prussia! Gaara's opinion doesn't effect us.

Neji: That's mean.

Megami: I want Prussia!

Gaara: You already adopted him! Let us have us time! No countries!

Neji: Review. Just review. It will stop all the bickering.