So sorry everybody. I've had a rough few weeks, and then every time I went to write this chapter, I really didn't like what I wrote. I'm still a little iffy on the details. This chapter just felt really artificial and forced when I was writing it, hopefully the adorable will make up for it. Anyway ENJOY!

"That was brilliant!" said Ino in between laughs.

"We need to do that more often," said Tenten.

"You mean dropping paint on skanks?" asked Sakura.

"Yeah!"

"Let's get out of here, before she comes back and sees us," said Sophia.

"Yeah, this little girl needs to get ready for her date," teased Ino, ruffling Hinata's hair.

An hour of picking outfits, hairdos and makeup later, not to mention what Hinata was going to wear, Naruto arrived at the door. Hinata, in a lilac sundress, waved bye and disappeared out the door. Not even 10 seconds had to pass before someone suggested they go follow them. Somehow they had nothing better to do.

The couple started their "date" by taking a walk around the park. The girls hid behind different bushes, and if they could they would have taken to the cliché of picking them up with them when they walked like a Scooby-Doo cartoon. Just as they ducked behind a swing set, Sakura ran headfirst into Sasuke.

"What are you doing here?" they both asked in unison.

"Shhhh!" commanded Ino. "Or they'll hear us." To clarify it wasn't only Sasuke and the four girls stalking Naruto and Hinata. Somehow somebody, presumably Neji, had convinced Shikamaru, Gaara, and Sasuke to go around and follow the couple.

"I think it's pretty obvious why everyone is here, now can we focus?" said Sophia, peering over the bush to see where they went. "Okay, the coast is clear, let's go." All eight of them stood up. It became clear to the lot of them that two groups of four were conspicuous enough, but a party of eight is bound to get noticed.

"What are we going to do?" asked Ino, starting to panic, he perfect plan falling apart.

Shikamaru did his concentration thinking thingie and said, "We're just going to have to split up, aren't we? Couples will probably be the least conspicuous walking around the park." Shikamaru was right of course, even though the last thing he wanted was to be stuck with a troublesome woman…

"Fine. Shikamaru, you come with me, you can help me find them," demanded Ino, and they set off.

"Gaara, you want to go together?" asked Sophia. "We should probably make sure Shikamaru doesn't strangle Ino." Gaara just laughed.

"Shikamaru wouldn't strangle Ino. That's way too much effort." And behind the swing set, only four were left. Sakura and Sasuke were in a mood that started the moment they ran into each other.

Neji peered anxiously over the hedge. "Tenten, do you mind going with me, just the thing is I want to make sure she's safe."

Tenten immediately got offended by this. "You? You want to make sure she's safe? I'm her roommate!"

"I'm her cousin!"

"What does that have to with anything?"

"I just want to make sure Naruto doesn't pull anything funny!"

"Ugh, just come on," and Tenten grabbed his hand and dragged him off, blushing slightly.

Sakura and Sasuke still refused point blank to even look at each other. After a few moments of awkward silence passed, Sakura blurted out, "I'm going with or without you. I want to see what's going on with my friend." And she stormed off without another word. Sasuke got up, and walked in their general direction.

Now, our vaguely legitimate couple strolled past a vendor who had birdseed, so Naruto ducked out from Hinata's side and bought bags for the two of them. He threw a handful out onto the pathway, and several birds swooped down from the surrounding trees to get their treats. Giggling, Hinata did the same, a little too energetically because she got some in Naruto's hair. A pigeon took the opportunity to peck ferociously at his head. Hinata managed to shoo it away and get the seeds out of Naruto's hair. She apologized furiously, getting redder every second.

"Don't worry about it. My head's thick anyways," he said. She smiled, and relaxed.

Now, onto the rest of the rather large group. Ino and Shikamaru were hiding behind a tree. Ino was dawwing the entire time. Shikamaru appeared to be sleeping, although he was really peering at Ino, at how excited she got. He smiled to himself. Ino glanced back at him. "What's so funny?" she asked, quizzically.

He smiled. "Nothing."

Sophia and Gaara were a bit more conspicuous and just walked along, straying from the path. "Naruto is such a sweetheart," she said after he had handed Hinata the seeds.

"Really? I was going to go for idiot."

She hit him playfully. "I won't deny Naruto isn't a bit thoughtless, but he's really perfect for Hinata."

"Why do you think that is?"

"I'm not so sure, but you just see how much they care about each other. They also balance each other out so well. Like Hinata does just about everything wonderfully, but has such low confidence in herself. Then there's Naruto, who screws up a lot of stuff, but still comes out smiling, not at all ashamed of himself. They both have these qualities that the other admires, and it's really sweet. Not to mention that they're both just so fun to watch." She smiled and turned back to see Naruto getting pecked by a pigeon. "See what I mean?"

"Yeah." But Gaara wasn't looking at Naruto and Hinata, not even the pigeon.

"Oh will you just shut up!" snapped Tenten. "I get it, if Naruto does anything to Hinata, you'll snap his neck. You really have absolutely no faith in your friends do you?"

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"You're friends with Naruto, and yet you're so paranoid he's going to do something, you're stalking him on a date with your cousin, isn't that a bit much?"

"Why are you here then?"

"Nothing good on T.V."

"So you don't care about Hinata at all?"

"Quite the contrary. I'm completely prepared to kick Naruto's ass if he makes Hinata upset in any way, but I don't need to broadcast it to everyone in Japan." Neji scoffed. "And in any case, he seems to be doing a pretty swell job at this dating thing," she said pointing to the two of them smiling and feeding the birds. "In fact, you should probably pay attention, you might learn a thing or two."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

She laughed. "Nothing."

Sakura sat on a bench facing them, smiling sadly. "Wish that was you and Sasuke?No! Okay, yeah. Why do I always have to pick fights with him? Not really the person to ask. I have no idea where you get that argumentative streak. You're joking right? What do you mean? Inner, you ARE my argumentative streak." But Inner was interrupted by Sasuke sitting next to her on the bench.

"This seat taken?"

"It is now," but she smiled, biting back everything she'd wanted to scream at him for years, since they were little kids.

"Naruto's doing pretty well for himself, isn't he?"

"Yeah. Let's just hope he doesn't screw it up." She added bitterly. Sasuke wrinkled his eyebrows in confusion, but kept quiet.

Naruto and Hinata, after they emptied their bags, continued down the path and walked several blocks down to a restaurant. The other eight met up outside the restaurant.

"What now?" asked Gaara.

"I don't know about anyone else, but I'm pretty hungry." As all of them were pretty hungry, they went inside, careful so as not to be spotted by Naruto and Hinata. They ended up sitting at two four person tables. Ino, Shikamaru, Sasuke, and Sakura at one table, Gaara, Sophia, Tenten, and Neji at the other. As would be expected from Naruto and Hinata, the restaurant's specialty was ramen.

"I can't choose between this Miso and this Shoyu," said Sophia.

"Why don't I order the Miso, and you get the Shoyu, and we'll mix and match," suggested Gaara.

"Ooh that'd be great, if you don't mind."

At the other table, Ino was the only one talking, Sasuke and Sakura were still being awkward, and Shikamaru was asleep. Even though her audience wasn't listening, Ino still chattered on about how well Naruto and Hinata's date was going. It was going really well. They were laughing and having a great time. It was however, a completely different story where Sakura was going. She longed to be anywhere but there. She felt bad because this day was supposed to be for Hinata, not for her problems with Sasuke. Still, just sitting across from him made her blood boil.

Neji and Tenten were trying to pick out spicier ramen recipes, saying that the other was too weak to withstand the heat. They ended up picking the spiciest ramen in the restaurant and adding enough pepper to it to permanently lose the sense of taste.

If Naruto was the only one he was thinking about, the date would have gone on forever with the two of them just eating ramen until they ran out of money. After finishing just one bowl of ramen each, they paid and left.

"The eagle has flown the coop!" shouted Ino to the other table in a would-be whisper.

Everyone laughed. "What does that even mean, Ino-pig?" asked Sakura.

Ino replied with equal fervor, "Maybe you could figure it out if your forehead wasn't so much like a bill-board. Anyway, we need to get got, Naruto and Hinata left." They followed Naruto and Hinata to a cinema. "Dawww. Dinner and a movie. That's so cute!"

"Or you know, cliché," muttered Neji.

"There's a reason clichés become clichés, they work well," retorted Tenten.

"As long as it isn't a chick flick, then whatever," said Neji.

"Oh god yes. If I have to hear one more gorgeous 20-something whine about how her love life supposedly sucks, I'll shoot myself."

Thankfully, nobody had to take a gun to the temple, Naruto and Hinata chose to watch a horror movie. Well less horror, more psychological thriller, but you get the point. Hinata and Naruto chose seats towards the front, but the other eight grabbed the very top row of seats.

Naruto and Hinata were the ideal (cliché) couple. During the scary parts Hinata buried her head in Naruto's chest. In a totally not cheesy manner, Naruto put his arm around her shoulders. When he did that, Neji choked on a piece of popcorn and Tenten had to hit him on the back. Ino complained in loud whispers to Shikamaru throughout the entire movie while he slept. Sophia kept placing Gaara's hand over her eyes when the music started getting suspenseful, but peeked through the fingers anyway. Gaara tried hard not to laugh. Sakura and Sasuke said nothing the entire time and managed to forget the other was there, until they both reached for a handful of popcorn at the same time. Then they both refused to eat any more popcorn for the rest of the night.

The credits started to roll and all ten of them got up to leave when Tenten remembered, "Shit. I need to hurry up and get out of here or Hinata's going to come back to our place, and I'm not going to be there." This was tricky business as they had to avoid being seen and get past them at the same time. Luckily, Hinata and Naruto walked at a snail's pace, so the eight of them went around a few blocks and still managed to get to the dorms first.

"Bye guys! See you tomorrow!" said Sophia when they left for their separate rooms.

"Hey, do you think they're finally gone?" asked Naruto.

"I think so," said Hinata.

"Good." Naruto grabbed her hands and kissed her. "I like you, Hinata. A lot."

Once she recovered from the shock, her face split into a huge grin. "I like you too, Naruto. A lot." They walked back holding hands in comfortable silence.

Okay so we have one couple together, hopefully we can get the rest of them soon. Sakura was being pretty angsty during this chapter and I'm planning on addressing that soon. The next update will be much sooner I promise.

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