Author's Note: I just realized the mistakes I made in my stories as I read them over. God, I'm so stupid. In the last chapter, I mentioned Sakura and Ino giggling but the truth is, she's not supposed to be there…sorry. My other stories have a lot of mistakes in them as well, please overlook them and enjoy. Honestly, I feel liks such a fool now…

Chapter 4

Kiba crinkled his nose. "Seventeen pie? What the fuck?"

Naruto ran into his classroom and slammed his hand onto the desks and grinned at his friends. "Got 'im and baggin him!"

Kiba looked at his friend skeptically. "You expect me to believe that?" He crossed his arms and leaned against the windowsill "You? And Neji Hyuuga? Nuh uh, I don't think so."

Naruto smiled smugly, "Oh yeah? How come I got him to eat lunch with me tomorrow?"

Temari looked at the kitsune, clearly impressed.

"Well, how did you manage to do it?" She rested her chin on her hands. "Aren't you gonna tell us?"

Naruto scratched his chin. "Well, we talked for a while, and-"

Kiba smirked, "Just talked? You sure there wasn't anything else?"

The blonde punched him lightly on the arm and continued, "Well, we traded names and he knew me,"

"Who doesn't? You set your lab partner's head on FIRE!"

Naruto shrugged, "That was a one time thing. I didn't mean to." He grinned, "Anyways, tomorrow he and I are gonna eat lunch together so you guys just watch from afar, 'kay?"

"Naruto, you should be careful of what you do." Sakura warned, "After all, you are doing this on a dare. If he falls in love with you, it technically would be your fault."

Temari nodded in agreement, "You don't want to break Neji's heart."

Kiba scoffed, "As if he'll fall in love with Naruto."

Sakura shook her head, "If he accepted the invitation to lunch, what proof do we have to say he won't fall in love with our blonde here?" She looked at Naruto. "I'm telling you to be careful."

"Naruto-kun, Gai-sensei told me that in the springtime of our youth we often do foolish things, Naruto-kun, please go down the path of righteousness and run towards the sunset!" Lee added and gave him the nice-guy pose.

Sasuke glanced at the boy with the bizarre haircut. This place was full of weirdos. His eyes traveled to Gaara then lingered on Naruto. Yup, it was definitely full of weirdos. Sakura looked at the brunette with curiosity.

"Sasuke-kun, what do you think? You seem like a sensible person." She smiled kindly at the newcomer.

Sasuke looked at the blonde and the smug smile on his lips. "Dobe," He said and caught Naruto's attention. He smirked and his eyes were mocking.

The blonde's fumed as his hands balled into fists. "Teme! Don't underestimate me!"

Temari shook her head and Sakura rubbed her temples. She glanced at Gaara, who was boring holes into the back of the Uchiha's head.

"I didn't think you would know what underestimate would mean." Sasuke smirked. Teasing the blonde would be one of his favorite past times from now on.

"Bastard! Just you watch!"

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"Ano… Hyuuga-san, there is a visitor for you. He's waiting outside the classroom."

Neji Hyuuga looked up and saw a timid fangirl. He inwardly grimaced. "Thank you, Yoshimi-san." Without giving the girl another look, he strode out of his classroom. The moment he stepped out, he slid the door close. He didn't like others eavesdropping on his conversations.

"Neji!"

"Naruto-kun." He glanced at his watch. "You're early. Quite early, in fact."

The blonde shrugged. "Nah, we had Kakashi so I had self study. I thought I might as well come here earlier." He grinned, "Are you glad to see me?"

The pale eyed boy pushed his glasses further up the bridge of his nose, still showing no emotion. "Well then, shall we go?" He walked away, not checking to see if the blonde was following.

Naruto ran after him and cut in front of him smiling. "Won't you let loose a bit?" He grinned, "I'm a crazy fangirl ya know."

Neji relaxed his rigid shoulders. Naruto smiled and they continued to walk down the hall. They walked outside into the outdoor cafeteria of the school and picked one of the cleaner benches. Naruto frowned,

"The school tuition's so much! And this is the kind of crappy stuff we get!?"

"Actually, most of the school's budget goes to the supplies and maintenance of the school."

Naruto smiled wryly, "Well then, isn't this ironic."

Neji allowed himself a small smile. "Yes, you are right."

The kitsune clapped him on the back, "Well, well, well, you smiled. What an accomplishment." The blonde climbed onto the picnic-table. He bowed dramatically and blew imaginary kisses at an imaginary audience. His eyes landed on his companion and he winked at Neji. "I'd like to take this moment to thank my agent, my parents, my-"

"Baaaaaaaaaaaka!" The blonde turned. Kiba ran towards them with the rest of his friends slowly trailing behind. The dog-lover grinned. "I managed to convince them to come to prove you're lying." He scratched the back of his head sheepishly and glanced at the Hyuuga. "I guess you're not."

Sasuke raised an eyebrow. This was the supposedly hard-to-get boy? He looked at Neji. He looked more like a girl than a boy. Were society's standards dropping? He shook his head. This had nothing to do with him. He was here to see the blonde get embarrassed. Who knew he actually managed to bag the boy?

"Kiba! What the hell are you doing here? I said," He glanced back at the Hyuuga who was currently interrogated/interviewed by Sakura, Temari, and Lee and lowered his voice, "I told you to watch from afar. What the fuck man?"

Kiba smirked, "He doesn't know it's dare?"

"No! You idiot! If I told him it was, like he would come! Look, you already did that thing at the brunch, if you do something else; I swear…I don't have my title as 'King of Dares' for nothing."

Kiba held up two hands in defeat. "Alright, alright, I got cha." He put his thumb and forefinger in his mouth and whistled. "Come on, pack! Let's not interrupt this 'date'." Naruto flushed. He definitely had a score to settle with his best friend.

As soon as they were alone again, Naruto scratched his head and searched for words his could explain the situation in.

"You certainly have strange friends, Naruto-kun. Though I wouldn't expect less from the school's prankster." The Hyuuga put one hand on the blonde's chin and turned his head to look him in the eye. "A dare, was it?"

Naruto laughed nervously, "Well, I-" He paused, and sighed, "I have no excuse. I'm sorry. I was supposed to ask out your cousin Hinata, but then Kiba," He drew imaginary tattoos on his cheeks, "the dog-boy, changed his choice at the last minute." He looked down and mumbled, "Then I had to ask you out…" He looked up all of a sudden, "Not that you're bad-looking or anything! In fact, you're, you're, uhhh…well, good-looking?"

Neji chuckled, "Alright, I get it."

Naruto's jaw dropped, "Did you just….laugh?"

The brunette scratched his chin thoughtfully, "I suppose that's what we can call it." He stood up.

The blonde held onto the Hyuuga's sleeve. "I'm sorry. Honest." Neji looked into the apologetic cerulean blue orbs of his and patted the younger boys' head hesitantly.

"Let's go get our food."

The blonde brightened and hopped up from the bench. "Yup, let's go!"

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Kiba shook his head as he watched them from afar. "Boy, is that Naruto a good actor or what…"

Sakura smacked him on the head. "How dare you?! You and I both know that Naruto's apology is sincere! You almost ruined his chances with one of the best bachelors in school!"

Lee tried to calm his girlfriend down as she sent deadly looks towards the dog-lover.

He gaped, "You actually think they belong?"

"And why not? Temari demanded, "They look good together, don't they?"

Sakura exhaled and took out her newly bought camera phone. She focused it on Naruto and Neji and began flashing away. Temari squealed and did the same as she took out her phone. Kiba rolled his eyes and looked at the other boys, looking for a reaction similar to his own. Shikamaru yawned and muttered, 'Troublesome' under his breath. Shino looked the other way, mumbling to an ant on his hand. Gaara glared at Kiba, daring him to look at him for one more second. Kiba gulped and looked away until his eyes landed on Sasuke.

"Hey man," he said as he plopped down onto the seat next to the stoic brunette. "Whadda you think 'bout this?" He gestured to Naruto and Neji chatting away, a couple of picnic tables away.

"Nothing."

"Honestly. They're like total opposites!" He smiled to himself. "Well, I guess if the idiot's happy, I'm cool with it too." He looked at the blonde. "He sure does look happy. Though he's happy most of the times."

"How long have you two known each other?"

Kiba scratched his chin, "Well, since forever, I guess. Our moms knew each other since before we were even born, so yeah." He glanced sideways at the Uchiha. "What? You got the hots for him too?"

"Too?"

"I mean, doesn't it look like the Hyuuga likes him?" He took a quick peek at Gaara, "The scary redhead didn't even flinch when Naruto was all up in his face. I suppose his likes him too." He looked at Sasuke and grinned, "Boy, do you have some competition."

Sasuke stood up and brushed his pants off. "I don't remember stating that I liked the dobe in the first place."

Kiba rolled his eyes, "That's what they aaaall say."

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Iruka smiled warmly at his class and clapped his hands together. "Alright, class, I am happy to announce that due to the immense effort the student council has put forth, selective classes have been chosen to go on a skiing resort!" He paused, obviously pleased with his classes excited reaction, "And we were one of them!"

Naruto shot up from his seat and cheered; Kiba and him stood on their desks and cheered together. Sasuke flinched from the sudden rise in volume. Sakura raised her hand.

"Yes, Haruno-san?"

"Iruka-sensei, on what criteria were the classes chosen from?"

"Well, out of the six classes in each grade, one was chosen to go on this trip. The class with the highest test scores was chosen." He smiled. "So, for those of you who had studied so much for the midterms, this is your reward." He glanced at Kiba and Naruto, "And also for those who were lucky enough to have smart classmates."

The blonde blew a raspberry at his teacher and stared glumly out the window. He just sucked all the fun out of the announcement by reminding him of the horrible scores he got in his midterm. But it was true; his class did have some of the smartest and most hard-working people. Lee, for example, stayed up all night going all over his notes and as well as Sakura and Temari. For those who were naturally geniuses like Shikamaru and Shino and Gaara passed with ease. Though he hated to admit it, the bastard, Sasuke had something to do with it as well. The teme was just so naturally….smart. He made studying seem so easy and natural, and the blonde hated him for it. His smirks and mocking eyes didn't help either.

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"Neji!" Naruto called out as he neared the upperclassman's classroom. He saw his friend's head peer out of the classroom. The Hyuuga smiled when his eyes sighted the blonde. Naruto was one of his favorite people on this school after the day they had lunch. Although the blonde was loud and energetic, and sometimes irritating, he was also childish and irresistibly cute. Neji felt this responsibility to take care of his newly found kohai. (A/N: Erm, like a younger student in your school. Opposite of upperclassman/senpai.)

"Naruto," They now addressed each other by their first names. Well, Neji is. He stepped out from his classroom. "What is it?"

The blonde ran over to him and reached out and hugged the taller boy around his neck. "Thanks! Iruka-sensei said the student council helped organizing the ski trip." Neji flushed lightly and he gently uncurled the other boy's arms around his neck.

"Well, it is our job."

"Are you going?" The blonde asked, his eyes sparkling with excitement.

"Actually, I am. My class got chosen as well." He smiled lightly.

"Oh, I can't wait!" He looked up as the class bell wrung. It was time for homeroom. "I gotta go! See you later."

Me: Not much of an ending I know, I just suck incredibly at writing goddamn cliffhangers. Happy reading :D Next chappie is the skiing resort trip. I'm hoping to put some perviness in there. Though it seems like it would be a little hard seeing as how the story's flowing. Well, that's why I have HHS XD