Hey guys... I'm actually updating! Okay so a couple things. I have not read through this chapter so if it sucks tell me and I'll rewrite it. I'm not the happiest with it so one review and I'll go back and make it better. Also be ready for more poker. Also, I know I kind of messed with Sasuke last chapter, but I just kind of wanted to for this chapter... OKAY PLEASE ENJOY

Finally, it was lunchtime. Sophia was so desperate to sit down and eat. She saw everyone sitting together, laughing as some unheard joke as she approached. As each of her friends saw her, their expressions faltered. She sat down, despite all of her instincts screaming. The conversation continued, perhaps not with as much levity as before, but Sophia calmed down enough to speak. She made some half-deprecating remark about Kakashi's habit of reading erotic novels.

"Why do you think we care what you think?" snapped Sasuke.

Sophia's forehead creased in confusion. "What?"

"God, what a bitch," whispered Sakura to Ino, taking care that it was loud enough for her to hear.

"I don't get it."

"Maybe if you stopped acting like such a bitch to everyone, you'd get it," said Hinata.

"Just go back to America," said Gaara, looking up from the table to glare at her with thin yellow eyes.

She woke up from another one of her anxiety dreams. This one wasn't entirely new, she'd had dreams about her friends hating her and saying much worse things for years, but this was the first one with her friends from Japan.

Everybody had gone to sleep not long after the poker game. The boys (and Tenten and Sophia because they were adamant about being just as strong as the boys) had grabbed mattresses and laid them on the floor where everyone had just collapsed under blankets and comforters. Eventually the talk had died out as everyone drifted off.

Gaara felt a small hand gently shake his shoulder. He opened his eyes. Sophia was glad to see they were their normal blue. "Hey," she whispered.

"Hey."

"Can we talk?"

He nodded and they tiptoed off the mattresses off into a hallway.

"What's up?" he asked, checking her face to see if she was okay.

He was surprised when she asked, "How's Sasuke?"

"What?"

"Sasuke. Is he okay?"

"Yeah… Sophia, what's this about?"

"I occasionally say stupid things that I regret afterwards. This may be one of those times…"

"He doesn't hate you. Trust me. He's just—," but she didn't let him finish the sentence.

"I don't care if he hates me. Plenty of people do already. It's not like a new thing. Just. I want to make sure he's fine.

"I know Sasuke pretty well, and his ego may be bruised a bit, but he'll be fine. I just hope he actually takes your advice. But what did you mean, 'plenty of people do already?'"

Sophia took in a deep breath and breathed out slowly, as if steadying herself for something. "I don't know if you've noticed it or not, but I'm kind of a terrible person." Gaara made a small noise of dissent, but she continued. "I am a bitch. I don't want you to disagree, because you've known me for what, two weeks? I am a mean person. I say things to people that they find offensive. I'm loud and opinionated and I'm not subtle about it at all. I cut cords and ties to people that I care about for really small unimportant things. And even if I wasn't like that, plenty of people hate me anyway. I can't say it doesn't bother me, but that doesn't stop it from happening."

"But—"

"Don't try and justify me. There is nothing you can say that can make me feel okay about those things. You probably get that better than anyone else here. Is there anything I'd be able to say to you to get you to stop feeling guilty?"

"No."

"It's okay Gaara. I'll be fine." She walked out of the hallway and back down to bed. She lay there, trying to block out the barrage of words that came to her in times of anxiety and insomnia, trying to tell herself that was she said to Sasuke was the right thing. It wasn't very successful.

Gaara stayed in the hallway a few minutes digesting everything. It wasn't as though he was surprised. He knew that her life sucked and that she probably got a lot of shit for being who she was. But the way she talked about it. Like it was inevitable. Like eventually, even her friends would hate her too. Of course, he was afraid of that too, of losing all of the people who meant so much to him. But Gaara thought of it as a fear, not an eventuality. He went back bed, but he slept as much as Sophia did.

The next day everyone was getting up to eat breakfast. Sophia heard Hinata, the first of them, get up and go to the kitchen, presumably starting on breakfast. She decided to go help her, since having something to do usually helped her anxiety.

"What are you doing up so early?" Hinata asked her when she stepped into the kitchen.

"I woke up a bit before you," she lied. "I just didn't have the initiative to start breakfast, but since you're here, I figure I should help out. What are we making?"

Hinata looked like she wanted to say something. Sophia's lies could fool most people, but not people who knew firsthand the thoughts that plagued minds like hers. But Hinata just smiled. "Chocolate chip pancakes. We should probably get everyone as much sugar as possible so they don't murder us for waking them up."

"Good idea." And they set to work on the batter, then the actual cooking, which Sophia left to Hinata, since she always burned pancakes. In the meantime, she decided to quietly wake people one by one, starting with the least threatening and working her way up to Tenten. Gaara once again felt Sophia's hand shake him awake, but this time he wasn't sleeping. He stirred, doing his best imitation of a sleeping person waking. Too bad Sophia didn't fall for it. "What's wrong?" she hissed, making sure no one would hear them.

"What do you mean?"

"You so weren't just sleeping. Did something happen?"

"Don't worry about it. I woke up a bit before now, I just didn't want you to think I was lazy by not immediately getting up."

She squinted and pursed her lips. If they weren't surrounded by people she might press on. A few years ago she certainly would have. But she held her tongue and nodded. "Hinata's making chocolate chip pancakes. You should go grab a plate."

She considered waking Naruto next. He would surely be easy to deal with, the only thing was that he would wake everyone else up. So she moved on to Shikamaru next. He was so used to people waking him up that he wouldn't be that angry. He'd just mutter that she was being troublesome. Which is exactly what he did. She just sighed.

Now Sasuke. She pondered the query for a bit. Gaara returned with his pancakes and upon seeing her dilemma, leaned down over Sasuke's ear and whispered something into it. He immediately jumped to his feet cursing. Gaara and Sophia fought hard to keep from laughing. She nudged her head toward Neji, suggesting he wake him up too. Gaara pulled the same trick on Neji, making Neji's forehead twitch with anger when he realized what was going on.

Sophia bent over Sakura and said, "Sakura dear, it's time to get up." She frowned and sat up. "Here's a plus though. Hinata made chocolate chip pancakes." Sakura's face didn't exactly light up, but considering her half-conscious condition it was pretty encouraging. Sophia then took a cue from Gaara and whispered into Ino's ear. It was pretty risky, but desperate times called for desperate measures. "Shopping." Ino's eyes opened like lightning. Sophia quickly put her hand over her mouth, before she could start yelling about shopping. Sophia spoke quickly, "There are chocolate chip pancakes in the kitchen." Ino looked downcast, hoping they could go shopping soon no doubt, but she moved on decently enough.

Sophia then moved onto Tenten, looking to see if there were any immediate weapons in the vicinity. She couldn't see any, but that didn't mean Tenten didn't have one concealed somewhere. "Tenten." Tenten growled. "There's a competition going on." Her eyes flashed open. "We're all eating pancakes. I'm so sure you're going to win, I gave them all a head start, give you a challenge you know." Tenten was out of her blankets and into the kitchen so fast, Sophia hadn't even had time to blink.

The only one left was Naruto. Sophia decided to leave him to Hinata. He'd be happiest seeing her first thing anyway. So when Hinata was finally done making pancakes, she carried a plate of them to him and kissed him awake. At first he looked confused but when he saw her he beamed. All the girls internally awed, well all except for Tenten, who was still shoveling down pancakes, taking no notice that no one else was competing. Neji pointedly looked away from Naruto and Hinata.

Sophia and Gaara yawned. Ino noticed a little too much. "You two look like you didn't sleep at all last night. What could have kept you up all night?" she asked, too innocently. "Unless." He mouth opened into a comical 'o.' She smiled confidentially. "Oh. Nevermind." She winked as Sophia to say, 'You'll tell me all about it later.'

Sophia was of course supremely irritated with everyone assuming things about her and Gaara. They were really good friends and that was ALL. "Ino, you better stop insinuating things about people that you know full well didn't happen or I'll never go shopping with you again."And then just to make sure her comment stung as well as threatened. "And I haven't got a single winter accessory." Ino looked as though she might burst into tears, but Sophia stared her down.

"Okay fine. You and Gaara aren't together, but they're hasn't been anything interesting going on since those two got together." She gestured her head backwards, indicating Hinata and Naruto who were now feeding each other pancakes. Tenten was right; they were vomit inducing.

"Thank you." Sophia had been too busy staring down Ino to notice the pitying looks Gaara had gotten from Sasuke, Neji, and Shikamaru who had looked up from laying on the table just for that purpose. Gaara had been publicly friendzoned. Gaara rolled his eyes because outwardly he agreed with Sophia. He felt that they were just friends, but deep down he knew he wanted to have done all of the things Ino had just implied he had.

Sophia was a different matter. She did like Gaara. She wasn't denying it at all. She just didn't realize it yet. And it'd take something pretty significant to show her that she did. It was like walking past a bush everyday for years and subconsciously you knew it was there, but it took someone shoving you into it for you to realize that it was a rose bush. It wasn't like you though it was a blackberry bush or any other kind of bush, you just hadn't really thought about it. And when you metaphorically get shoved in that rose bush it's like DUH! Of course it's a rose bush, how did I not see that before? And that's how Sophia felt.

"I WON!" Tenten yelled.

"Damn!" Sophia said, continuing the rouse. "I really thought I might have a chance."

"Well you thought wrong! NO ONE CAN DEFEAT TENTEN!"

Neji picked this point to butt in, "Really? Because you lost at poker last night, twice." Ino, Sakura and Sophia exhaled, annoyed at Neji's lack of tact.

"I'LL TAKE YOU ON ANYTIME, ANYWHERE!" Tenten asserted. The girls sighed again, clearly having hoped the day would have started better than this.

Ino thought quickly and decided with all the cunning of a skilled and practiced match-maker. "Why don't we all play, and this time we'll raise the stakes a little?"

Sophia spoke up. "I don't really have that much money, what kind of stakes are you proposing?"

Ino laughed, that fake laugh of hers that was really an evil plan laugh disguised as the breathy laugh of a teenage girl. "I think that money won't really provide the proper motivation." Everyone was looking at Ino, even Shikamaru. "I suggest that we play a game of strip poker."

"INO!" yelled Sophia, Sakura and Tenten. The boys were suspiciously silent. It seemed quite convenient to them that most of the girls weren't that good at poker.

"What? Tenten, you seem pretty confident that you'll win, so you shouldn't have a problem. Sophia, you nearly won last time, so you don't have anything to worry about. And Sakura, you and I have nothing to be ashamed of."

Tenten was convinced, and when Tenten was convinced it was hard to make her see sense, so everyone grudgingly (though some less grudgingly than others) started setting up the game. By this point Hinata and Naruto found out what was going on. Hinata didn't really want to play. So she and Naruto just sat with their friends.

Now in this version, clothes couldn't be given back, only taken away. Different articles of clothing were worth the same. This made nearly everyone go grab a sweater or extra socks.

They started off with small bets. Neji won the first round, making everyone take off a sock. Then Gaara took a hand, off came off the other sock. Sophia took the next hand and almost everyone took off their sweater. (All of these excluded Shikamaru of course because he folded early) Gradually, people began folding in the first round to avoid removing more clothes. After a few hands Ino and Sakura shirtless. The round after Sakura took off her top, leaving her wearing just a lacy pink bra and pajama pants, Sasuke lost not only the shirt off his back, causing loud whoops from the crowd, but his pants too, making him an automatic forfeit. For, despite playing strip poker, nobody really wanted to go so far as to remove their underwear, not even Ino. And Shikamaru was certainly distracted by Ino's purple bra with black lace on the cups. Well, as distracted as Shikamaru could get. His eyes certainly frequented her a bit more than usual. Ino was shrewd when it came to other people, and she was usually pretty correct when it came to herself. She knew when a guy was flirting with her, and could expertly flirt back, but Shikamaru was another entity. He wasn't like the other guys, so when she caught his gaze on her, she wasn't as sure as she would have been if it was someone else.

Ino and Sakura lost soon after that. Tenten had actually managed to keep her top and bottom on so far. Gaara had lost his shirt. It had been met with loud applause and wolf whistles. Ino noticed Sophia's eyes looking up and down his bare chest. She smirked, but was surprised when Sophia opened her mouth in imitation of some fangirls and said, "Oh Gaara darling! Take me now!" She said this with theatrical flourish of course. Everyone laughed, everyone except Ino, who was muttering darkly about being this close.

Then Neji took off his shirt. Token appreciation, and amidst the hoots, Tenten could be heard yelling, "Yeah! WORK IT FABIO!" Complete silence for an instant that stretched a bit too long, before everyone in the room split double over with laughter. Not Neji of course, he was blanching under the embarrassment. But if Neji wasn't mistaken Tenten was glancing up from her cards to look at him far more often than was necessary. He smirked. Tenten thought this meant he was bluffing, so she called him. It may have been one of the more satisfying depantsings anyone had seen in a while.

Tenten and Sophia faced each other in the next two rounds. Shikamaru just let them take care of each other. Tenten took off her top in the first round, then Sophia. Cue gratuitous explanation of their lingerie. Tenten wore a plain green bra. (But don't be fooled. This was no ordinary bra. THIS WAS MAGIC BRA! It had come all the way from… Okay, so it was an ordinary bra. But those boobs could have been covered in garbage and just use your imagination. *SLAP* You didn't have to imagine that much!) Neji's face went bright red. If he wasn't the kind of person to master himself, his nose might have started bleeding. When Sophia had to strip, she got it over quickly. She was wearing a plain red bra. Not cherry red. It was like Gaara's hair. Ino was pleased to see Gaara beginning to turn the color of the bra. No one could hear it of course, but there was also a soft rumbling in his chest that increased in intensity when he looked at her.

The next round would settle of it. Both Sophia and Tenten had one item of clothing left. Sophia looked down at her cards, four of a kind. She looked up to see Tenten looking at her cards with such intensity. Sophia decided to give her this victory. "I fold."

"YES!" cried Tenten. So Sophia took off her black sweatpants, revealing matching red underpants and a large section of scars on her thigh. She decided she was going to pretend no one was looking at it. Gaara was the only one who had actually seen it. The girls had heard about it and didn't think it would be nearly so bad. The guys had even less of an idea. Gaara glanced down at her thigh. All of the fresh scars from before had healed up now, and there weren't any new ones. He sighed internally. She hadn't self-harmed in at least a week, maybe more. Ignoring the badly concealed gawping, Sophia sat down with all the other defeated to watch Tenten and Shikamaru face it off.

Shikamaru thought in his 'o' stance. Everyone was rooting for Tenten and it would be troublesome if she lost. He couldn't forfeit outright, or it would be just as bad. He must let Tenten think she won fairly. He suspected that's what Sophia had done. Sophia. Hmmm. Those scars were a puzzling new addition his collection of thoughts about the new girl. He decided to put it away and do as she did. In three hands he lost all of his clothes, except for his plain black boxers.

Tenten jumped up, so happy in her triumph. She gloated in Neji's face that she could indeed win at poker. This wasn't strictly true, but she did beat Neji fair and square.

Once people finished pulling their clothes back on, Naruto asked, "Does anyone want to go swimming? We have an outdoor swimming pool with a diving board and everything."

"But we don't have any swimsuits," said Hinata.

"Oh that's not a problem. My mom (Tsunade) has a whole closet full of them." The girls gave him a look like, 'there's no way in hell anything Tsunade-sama has could possibly work for them.' "Just look. You'll see." And he pointed the girls up the stairs and down several hallways. Naruto's house was more and more massive the more they walked through it.

Now that Sophia thought about it, pretty much every one of her new friends was rich. Clearly Naruto was, and the Hyuuga's have to have some power to do what Neji's done. And then Sasuke had to be rich, they way he acts so entitled. Ino was either stupid or rich judging by the way she spent money on clothes and such. Since she wasn't stupid, she must be loaded. Gaara said his father was a powerful man, probably a really powerful man. The only ones she wasn't really sure about were Shikamaru, Sakura and Tenten. They weren't as important as the Uchiha's and Hyuuga's, certainly. Then by the way they dress and act, this house isn't that impressive to them. Maybe it's just because they've been here before, but she found it a little unsettling. She was lower middle class, maybe middle middle class, but that was the best she could say about her own family's financial standing. She knew that kind of a thing wouldn't bother them. Obviously the scars did that more than money, but she did find curious.

They finally reached the room. It was enormous. And then they found about 15 different closets each with a different kind of clothing. And NONE of it looked Tsunade-sama's age. It was all their age about. Ino was in heaven. Tenten was a little annoyed until she found a closet clad with outdoors and sporting clothes and equipment. They could hardly contain themselves.

They opened the closet for summer wear and racks and racks of swimsuits. They were amazed at the sheer size of it. Hinata went for the sundresses, but everyone else dragged her back to the two piece swimsuits. They made her try on a few until everyone, including Hinata, was happy with it. It was a darkish blue halter top with a bow and a light blue ruffle at the bottom edge. The bottom was the same color as the top with a similar light blue ruffle at the top of it. Hinata also chose a white crochet dress to put on top of it. Tenten was the next to try on bundles of swimsuits to her dismay, but once again they found a magnificent piece of a dark olive-ish green. It was a halter top tankini with short-shorts edged with brown. Sakura picked out a plain white bikini with a single asymmetrical red flower placed on the bottom piece. Ino's swimsuit was also a bikini. It was purple with black trimming and a square rip on the left breast exposing black under it. Sophia's was red. It was a retro kind of a top with a skirted bottom piece.

"Alright!" said Ino. "Let's go." And they set out-out the closet, out the bedroom, out the upstairs and out the house and into the sunshine. They found the boys there by the pool, waiting for them. 'DAMN!,' was what pretty much everyone was thinking. The girls seeing the boys and the boys seeing the girls. Even though they had just seen each other strip down, it was entirely different now, though no one was quite sure why. (Just so you know what color of trunks the guys were wearing, but I don't need to make a huge paragraph about it. Gaara: red, Naruto: blue with a swirl on it, Sasuke: black with red stitching, Shikamaru: Brown, Neji, tannish white.)

Naruto was the one to break the silence, as usual. "HINATA YOU LOOK HO-" Neji had hit him on the head. "AMAZING!" Naruto corrected himself. They all laughed.

Ino spoke next. "Naruto, where did all of those clothes come from?"

"Oh, my Mom just said it was, "in case of an emergency." I don't really know what that means. There's an identical one filled with guy's clothes, that's where I go to pick out mine."

Sophia was flabbergasted. It seemed a massive waste to have all of those clothes just sitting around without a single girl that age in the house. In fact, Tsunade-sama wasn't even in the house.

There was some more light chatter, and then Ino and Sakura sat down at the edge of the pool, dipping their feet in. Tenten immediately jumped in with a cannonball and challenged everyone to a race. Neji accepted to everyone's relief just so they didn't have to. Naruto and Hinata sat under an umbrella together. Shikamaru started to sleep with his arm over his eyes, shielding him from the sun. Gaara sat down next to Shikamaru and just looked around. The last two, Sophia and Sasuke, dashed to the diving board. Sophia got there first. She stuck her tongue out at him.

She sighed when she stepped onto it. She hadn't been diving in nearly a year. In fact it was diving season right now. She was glad to see Naruto at least had a decent board. She jumped up and down on it, testing the tension. It was brilliant.

"HELLO?"yelled Sasuke, clearly irritated she wasn't going faster.

"Sorry Sasuke." She decided she'd do a forward dive to warm up since she hadn't dived in so long. She dove in and when she swam back up and to the side of the board in order to be out of his way, she heard him scoff, like it wasn't very impressive. She rolled her eyes and pulled herself out of the water. Sasuke got onto the diving board and begin to- "Sasuke don't!" He had jumped with such force back onto the board he was thrown off balance and fell off sideways. Sophia tried not to laugh. She had adjusted the tension so that it would be better suited for her size and weight, which was a lot stiffer than what Sasuke was used to. He splashed up to the surface, spitting mad.

"What happened?!" he demanded.

"I'm sorry Sasuke, but I adjusted the tension of the board."

He was out of the water now. "How?" Once again she explained the nob on the side of the board and how to turn it and everything. "Hn. Well now that I'm not being sabotaged, I can show you something actually impressive." Sophia resisted the impulse to roll her eyes, twice, but decided to play dumb.

"Really? I mean I like jumping off the board, but I don't think I know anything that impressive. Do you think you show me how?" She decided against actively flattering him, that would be too obvious.

"Not all can learn, but I think I'm good enough that you'll manage."(Okay so maybe not this pompous, but you get the point.)

Sasuke did his dives one after another and Sophia watched, trying so hard to keep a straight face. He did a backwards dive, then a forward somersault in the tuck position. And then to Sophia's surprise he actually managed to do a backwards somersault in the tuck position. While he could do the dives, his form was terrible, even worse than hers. He didn't point his toes or land close to the board or land straight or any of those things. His landings looked like they hurt quite a bit, too.

"Do you think you can try the first one?" He asked. It would be a good way to talk to a student if Sophia didn't know that he was enjoying feeling so superior to her.

"Yeah. I think I can try." She got up on the board, adjusted it and did a backwards dive position.

"Good, but I think you have room for improvement." She already knew that, but did he? Really? "Do you think you can try the next one?" She breathed in and out calming her fury, but she knew the tables would turn on him and it would be all worth it. She did a forward somersault in the tuck position. Sasuke's comments were pretty much the same. He didn't actually tell her what to improve on, so he was mostly just aggravating. She then did the backwards somersault in the tuck position.

"You're actually pretty good at this," he said, surprise in his voice.

'I know,' she thought. 'At least compared to you.' But all she said was, "Really? Thanks Sasuke." She beamed and decided now was the time. "Hey Sasuke, would you mind it awfully if I tried something?"

He thought, or at least tried to look like he was thinking or at least looked like what he thought thinking was supposed to look like. "Okay, but be careful. You could really get hurt on that board."

'I know!' her thoughts hissed at him. She got up onto the board and wondered if she should pick a different dive since she hadn't practiced in ages. Even if she did screw up, Sasuke wouldn't notice. In fact he was looking in the opposite direction, as Sakura of course. She was so annoyed at the thought being jealous of Sakura even for an instant, just because Sasuke was paying Sakura more attention than herself, even if it was to make him look like a fool. She called out, "Sasuke, do you think you could watch to see if I'm doing it right? I want to make sure my 'teacher' can help me." She ended up doing a backward somersault full twist, not because it was the most difficult dive she could do, but it was certainly the most complicated looking, and if Sasuke got the idea into his head to try it, he would only hurt his ego rather than his head if he potentially tried a reverse.

She really didn't want to screw this up, otherwise the whole sucking up to Sasuke meant that not only would his already overinflated ego get puffed up to bursting point, but she would look like an idiot, clearly trying something too advanced. She thought of all of those silly things her coach taught her about boobs and shelves and Mr. Poley's multifarious affairs and laughed. She jumped backward twisting and spinning until she landed in the water. She popped back up to find she was facing the board. She laughed.

She had probably screwed up quite a few things, but she had made the bulk of the dive and so looked directly at Sasuke who's mouth was open. She smiled and swam over. Once she pulled herself out of the water she said, "What did you think teach?" Sarcasm brimming in every syllable.

"So all of that… That was just to mess with me?"

"If you say it like that, then yeah. Listen, you're not better than everyone at everything. Even you should know that."

"Is that the thing I was supposed to learn?"

"You mean from yesterday? No that's not what I meant. It's good that you really do want to change to be with her. But don't you want to better yourself? If you're only changing yourself to please someone else, are you really changing?"

"Is now really the time for philosophical questions?"

"You're the one who made it all philosophical. I was just trying to mess with you right now. But you should go talk to her." He looked at her then at Sakura and back with an actually thoughtful expression. He started walking over to Sakura. "Oh. And try not to be a complete ass." She jumped into the water before he could push her in himself. She swam away, laughing. She swam past Neji and Tenten who were still racing each other, neck and neck and got out next to Gaara.

"Hey!" she said when she sat down.

"Hey. What's up with Sasuke?"

"Oh I just messed with him a bit." Gaara looked at her like 'What did you do?' She explained, and Gaara laughed. She lowered her voice a bit, but she still didn't notice Shikamaru laying down on Gaara's other side. "So I'm a bit paranoid. All the guys saw the scars, but they didn't say anything."

Gaara cut her off before she could continue. "I didn't tell them anything if that's what you're asking."

"No. That's not quite what I meant, but thanks. Do you think I should tell them, because I don't want them coming to any wrong conclusions."

"I don't know, Sophia. I think if they ask, then maybe you should tell them, but I don't really know how you'd broach the subject otherwise."

"Yeah, I guess." She sighed and put her head into her hands. "I just feel so stupid, Gaara. Stupid and embarrassed. I mean what kind of an idiot deliberately mutilates themselves?" She looked up from her hands and turned to his face with a bright red Kanji on his forehead. "Oh. Right." She leaned back against his shoulder, and they just sat there.

"Alright guys! See you Monday!" called Ino as they walked out of Naruto's well mansion.

They went their separate ways once they got to the dorms, so that they could do homework and rest a bit. Sophia answered emails from people back home. Hinata did some extra studying, because it never hurt. Tenten went for a good long run. Ino looked through catalogs and Sakura watched a rom-com. None of them knew the kind of panic that would ensue from one single announcement the next day.

"Everyone should start getting ready for the dance this Friday from 8 to midnight!"

OOH! Intrigue. Okay so I want to thank everyone that has followed, favorited, or reviewed. THANK YOU SO MUCH. It really makes me actually get up the drive to continue this, because honestly if it wasn't for you I would have given up on this story a long time ago. OKAY. I'm done.

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