Fast forwarding a bit, it's been a full week since The Kanker Sisters moved out. To Sakura, that was the best week of her life. No drama, no yelling, just absolute peace.

'Too bad they live near the boys now,' She thought as her stereo played her favorite song on full blast. Unnoticed by her, but her poor desk was shaking violently along with her school supplies and other materials. 'but thank God they're out of here.'

It was a beautiful Wednesday morning, and classes were not back to normal for her. She still had a whole week left. Knowing her smart ass, she managed to get all the class work her teachers handed out and finished them all with no sweat. Now she sat on her bed in her Hello Kitty pajamas in deep thought about other things, like school, life, family and friends…joking. She wasn't thinking about any of that. She was thinking of boys, mainly one in particular.

'Bang, my shit bang, it bang bang. B-b-bang, my shit bang, it bang bang.' went the chorus to one of Nicki Minaj's songs. If it would possibly become any louder than it was, someone would probably think someone got shot. But alas, her windows were shut. So she made the house shake.

How did she manage to hear her phone go off, who knows. The young pink haired one looked to her right and received her phone from the side table. "Hello?" she answered once her mobile device reached her ear.

"How can you even hear the phone ring?" It was Temari. "My phone is vibrating from all the loud noise!"

Sakura laughed. "Sorry, Tema!" She picked up the stereo remote and turned down the music. "What's up?"

"Just out and about. But you're not gonna guess who I'm looking at right now!"

Sakura thought for a minute. Who did they know that was relevant in all their lives? "Nope. No idea. Who?"

"Fucking Naruto out with another girl." Her jaw dropped. She knows that he and Hinata have been on the rocks for the past few days, even though they made up. "I know right? They're across from me a restaurant away and they're all cuddly with one another and shit."

"What does she look like?" Sakura sat up quickly and grabbed a piece of paper and a pen for investigation time.

"Uh…that asshole is blocking my view now…oh, wait, wait! She has red hair, blue eyes, kind of tan-ish, like you when you get one before you burn…she has her nose pierced…that's all I can see right now."

"Uh huh, I see." She finished writing down the evidence. "What are they doing now?"

"Right now they're eating some type of disgusting crap Naruto eats and…they're sharing a chocolate smoothie! No fucking way!"

"What?" She screamed as she wrote down more details. "Are you sure?"

"I'll send you a picture right now, hold on." Sakura waited a minute while Temari became her personal paparazzi woman and sent her a picture of the two. From what she can view, they are pretty close to one another. The female is taking a sip from the beverage while staring at him with a big smile on her face. "This is bad news, Saks."

"You're telling me." Sakura shook her head in disbelief. "What are we gonna tell Hinata?"

"No idea. I was contemplating on not telling her in the first place, but then again, she's really scary when she's angry." Sakura nodded at her comment. "I'm coming home in like, an hour. Is she there?"

Sakura got up from her bed and looked down the hall at Hinata's door. She tip-toed toward it and opened it slightly. Nobody there. "Nope."

"Good. We'll talk about it then. Should we tell Ino?"

"You can, I'm not."

"Why the hell not?"

"Not in the mood to talk to her now."

"Is it because of Sasuke?"

"…Possibly."

"Seriously?" She could feel Temari's dreading look through the phone. "That's so a week and a half ago."

"I know but I never got to tell him how I felt because of her!"

"It's not her fault that he got his sorry ass expelled." 'She does have a point,' Sakura thought. "You know his hearing is coming up."

"I know. Are we allowed to go?"

"Are we allowed to? HA! We're forced to go. All of us were witnesses."

"Stop." Sakura dropped back onto her bed. "Where is it?"

"I don't know. I have to message him for that."

"You've talked to him?" She shot up once again. She's gonna loose balance like that.

"Uh, yeah. He has a phone and Facebook, still. His mother is on his side 100%. His father, on the other hand, wants his expulsion as long a possible."

"Ugh! No!" She screamed. "When was the last time you talked to him?"

"Uh…few hours ago." Sakura face palmed herself. How could she be so stupid as to not contact him through messages?

"Listen, I'm gonna creep on Naruto and this chick more. I'll see you in a half an hour."

"Alright, bye." They both dropped the line and Sakura stared at her phone screen. Her contacts were opened as she scrolled down to Sasuke's number. She clicked on his name and the options were to message or call him. 'Better message him, save me some embarrassment.' Her screen changed to the numerous exchange of texting the two had. She gulped. "Well, here goes nothing."

Gaara sat in his car patiently as he waited for his passenger to come back from the nearby gas station. His radio was lowered, the car was in park, the windows were rolled up, somewhat complete silence. He scrolled down his News Feed on his iPhone with the normal face people have when they go down their own. His attention was stolen as a knock came from his passenger window. He looked up and saw Hinata's face with his desired snacks for the day.

"They didn't have the rainbow ones you wanted, so I went with the Cheddar Blast." She said, climbing in the car and giving the boy his Goldfish.

"It's fine."

"So why'd you call me earlier? Just to hang out?" She took a bite from her cinnamon roll.

"Yeah. You seemed bored the other day, as was I, so I don't see why not."

"How nice of you." She pinched his cheeks, smiling. "Have you spoken to Sasuke lately?"

"He's doing better than we expected." Gaara popped a few fish in his mouth and continued. "His mother didn't even care that he got in so much trouble. She was happy that he was home."

"Really? What about his dad and brother?"

"He doesn't really talk to his brother, let alone see him. His father, as he told me, was harsh and wants his expulsion to be as long as possible."

"If that's the case, he'll be banned from here."

He smirked. "Pretty much." They sat in silence for a few moments, then he brought up another conversation. "How's Naruto?"

She rolled her eyes. "We got into another fight two days ago. It wasn't really serious, but I haven't talked to him since."

"So are you two together or…"

"Yeah, we're still together. We just fight a lot."

"Normal relationships have fights."

"Yeah, I guess so. Speaking of fighting," Hinata stopped for a second as she chewed the rest of her roll. "have you heard about Sakura and Ino?"

"No."

"They're not on speaking terms because of Sasuke."

"He's not even on campus and he can still make females fight over him." He took a sip from his Mountain Dew Voltage as Hinata laughed. "What'd be do now?"

"He got expelled. Apparently Sakura never got the chance to tell him how she felt before he left."

"It's not like she didn't make it obvious at the party."

"Exactly! I told her that it's not a big deal, he's probably still all over Ino, but you know she doesn't listen to me." He nodded. "So Ino told me that they're still good friends, but the subject of Sasuke is very touchy."

"It always is." They both nodded. "I don't even understand why-" He stopped mid-sentence and looked out his dashboard mirror.

"What's wrong?" Hinata stared at him in confusion. She followed his eyes and found what he was looking at. Her jaw dropped as she saw Naruto walk about with another girl…with Temari behind them?

"Are you fucking serious?" She screamed, the rest of the bag of goodies dropping to her feet. "This can't be for real."

"I think it is. My sister doesn't creep on people like that unless she likes them or she's helping a friend."

"Was she ever gonna tell me about this?"

"Well, considering you've been out the house all day, she probably wanted to tell you once you got home."

"I'm going out there." Her hand was on the handle but Gaara grabbed her wrist before she could make another move. She abruptly turned her head around to face him. "Let me go, Gaara."

"You're not going out there."

"Why not!"

"I'm not gonna let you get in trouble again for something stupid."

"I'm not even going to touch her, I just want to kill him!" She tugged on her trapped hand with no avail. Gaara didn't budge.

"Hurting him isn't going to make the situation any better."

"I don't care!" He could tell she was on the verge of crying. She tried again to free her wrist, but like before, no way out. Pulling on the door handle, she opened it up, but broke down before she could take the first step out. Gaara reached over and closed his door, pushing her hair away from her face after. "Why does he do this to me!"

"I'll talk to him when I get home, alright?" He wrapped his arm around her and rubbed her back.

"Don't even bother. It's pointless. He won't admit to it." She sniffed and looked up at her red haired friend. "It's obvious he doesn't love me anymore."

"That's not true." All she did was nod. There's no point in arguing with her. She'll just get angrier. "I'll drive you home."

"Thanks." She sat up and wiped her tears away, avoiding the scene in front of them. 'I swear, I feel like Sammie from Jersey Shore.'

"So, do you guys like your new neighbors?" Ino smirked at the boys in front of her from the dining room.

"Hell no." Shika commented from the fridge. "Makes me want to barf."

"Why? They haven't done anything bad, have they?"

"Yeah. They moved in." Kankuro sat next to her, placing a sandwich in front of her. "It was the worst day ever."

"Heh. Sorry to hear that."

They all looked toward the front door as the knob turned and showed Naruto and Gaara. "Hey guys, how was your day?"

"Boring as hell." Naruto stretched and sat in front of Ino. "What are you doing here?"

"I don't want to be alone in the house with Sakura if we're not gonna talk."

"Still about that Sasuke shit?" Kankuro asked. She nodded. "Bull."

"I know. It's not like I meant to take him away from her. It's whatever. I don't wanna talk about it anymore."

"Why was your day boring, Naruto?" Shika sat next to the other blonde with orange juice in his hand.

"Since I'm still on watch for my little incident a while back, I was on newbie control."

"Newbie control?" Ino repeated. He nodded.

"I had to help this new chick around the campus grounds. I swear on my life, she was all over me." This peaked the quiet Gaara's interest.

"Really now? Please explain." Ino smiled.

"Like, I picked her up from HD's office, and she was undressing me with her eyes. I was her little fantasy for the day. Anyway, so I took her around the place, and she was asking me all these questions like 'So, where are you from?', 'How old are you?', 'What's your favorite thing to do?', 'Are you a Pisces?'"

"Well, that's usually what people would ask when trying to pick up a conversation." Shika nodded his head.

"Yeah, but it gets worse. We go to my favorite restaurant, the one that's down the road, and I go up and ask for a waiter, right? I come back with one, she's sitting literally this close to me." He slaps his hands together as an example. "So I brush it off, and we order our meals. She wanted a chocolate smoothie, keep that in mind. During that time, she's just staring at me while I'm looking at my phone. Her shake comes, and there are two straws in it. She asks if I wanted some, I declined, she still pushed the question on. It got so annoying."

"She wanted to share a drink with you? Aw!" Ino cooed.

"No aw! That's freaky. She just met you!" Kankuro put his disgusted face on.

"She's probably a Carly Rae Jepson in training." Shika smirked. Gaara remained silent, phone in hand.

"Oh my God. But in all seriousness, you don't understand how she was acting at the place. It was like this:" Naruto scoots closer to Shikamaru and attempts to act like her, using Shika's juice as the smoothie. "Oh Naruto, you're so funny." He says in a girly voice. "Do you want some of this?" Shika creepily shakes his head. "Alright!" He then takes a sip of the juice.

"This…is getting weird." Shika, staring at Naruto and his drink in envy.

"I didn't get to the best part." He repositions himself and looks at the male. "So, what are we going to do next?" He keeps staring at him as he slides his hand to Shika's lap and tries to hold his hand.

"Ah!" Shika jumped up, red in the face. "What the hell dude!"

"That's what she did to me!"

"Wait, what happened?" Ino asked.

"She tried holding my hand under the table."

"Either that or she wanted to touch your crotch." Kankuro smirked.

"Stop! But after that, I told her I had a girlfriend, and she looked like she didn't care. She drops the subject and we decide to walk down the strip. She's still really close to me and asking me weird questions. I just wanted to die."

"You know, someone can see that as you cheating on Hinata."

"Believe me, even if I wanted to, it wouldn't be with her."

"What's the girls name?"

"Uh…Rebecca, I think? Yeah. She came here from Washington. She gave me her number, Facebook, Twitter, everything."

"That's bad. You got yourself a little premature stalker." Kankuro hit his friend's arm.

Naruto slammed his head on the table and grunted. "This sucks. I have to go meet her again tomorrow."

"Do you know where she's staying?" Ino collected all the empty plates and glasses and placed them in the sink.

"Really close to the school, that's all I remember."

"Sucks. I wish you the best of luck." Shika patted his back.

"Thanks, bro. Real help."

"Whoops! Didn't realize the time, I have to go see my girls now!" She grabbed her stuff and ran to the door. "Catch you all later, bye!"

The boys waved her off as she closed the door behind her. "Man, imagine if your girl found out about that, Naruto?" Kankuro got up from his seat and stretched.

"Ino's probably gonna tell her. I wouldn't be shocked. That's what friends are for." He shrugged.

"I'm gonna go head upstairs and relax a bit. I'm beat." Shika said. The two others nodded and left the room. Naruto turned around and spotted Gaara at the table on his phone.

"You alright, bro?" He touched his friend's shoulder, shocking him a bit.

"Yeah, I fine, just asking people for the Chem homework." Naruto left it at that and went upstairs. After turning around to see if everyone was gone, Gaara went outside for a walk, and with a good distance from the house, began to call someone.

Let the drama begin.

"Are you sure that's what you saw?" Ino questioned as she propped herself on her pillow.

Temari nodded. "He looked tense when they were walking. I could tell he didn't like it at all. The girl was clinging to him for dear life."

Hinata shook her head. "But why would she do that even though he told her he was in a relationship? Now words gonna go around that he's doing shit with her."

"If that happens, we know the truth, that's all the matters." Sakura answered, the other girls nodded. The four were in Hinata's room. Food, pillows and blankets were scattered everywhere for a major discussion about today's situation. Someone's phone rang, and all the girls looked around for theirs.

"It's mine." Hinata looked at her screen. Gaara, it read. "Hey." she answered the call.

"Hey, put me on speaker." She did as she was told and placed the phone in the middle.

"What's going on?"

"Did Ino tell you everything?" he asked.

"Yeah, I told her everything. But I forgot her name. We've been trying to look her up on Facebook."

"We need a guy's opinion anyway, so thanks for calling, little bro."

"No problem. From what I saw when we were in the car, and what Naruto told us, I already found her."

"What's her name?" Sakura grabbed her laptop and opened up another tab for Facebook.

"Rebecca McCormack."

The girls sat around Sakura as she put her name in the search bar. A few results came up. She clicked on the one with the red hair.

"That's her?" Ino looked at the screen with disgust. She was a fairly skinny girl, she had some meat on her bones, but judging by what they can see without adding her, she looks messed up. "I don't even think Naruto would go after that."

"Yeah, you have nothing to worry about, babe." Temari added.

"Wait, found her profile pictures." The girls leaned in as in numerous pictures, 247 to be exact, she went from good, to bad, to ugly, to hideous, to pretty, you know. "She's decent looking."

"Looks don't matter if you're an undercover slut."

"Shockingly agreeing with Ino's statement, her personality could be different than her looks." Gaara said.

"Wait a minute." Temari thought for a moment.

"What's up?" Sakura looked up from her screen to her friend.

"Hinata, what were you and my brother doing in his car when I was creeping on them?"

"You saw us?" She shrieked.

"Gaara isn't that hard to find, even with his tinted windshield."

"Thanks, sis."

"Oh, Hinata, you sly puppy." Sakura rose her eyebrow at her blushing friend.

"It's not what you think-!"

"Oh? Well then what were you two doing?" Temari and Ino shared Sakura's look and stared at Hinata.

"We were just hanging out. No need to breathe down her neck."

"We know, we know. I just don't want boys all over our little girl even when her boyfriend is walking around with a freak."

"But you two have been hanging out a lot this week. Naruto's gonna get jealous, you know." Sakura commented, still looking through the girl's photos.

"We're fine just the way we are. We're not doing anything, we're just friends."

"Alright, bro. We'll let you go, we'll talk to you later."

"Kay, bye girls."

"Bye!" Ino disconnected the line and looked back at Hinata, who stared back at her.

"I can't believe you three just assumed that in front of him."

"Hey, you can't be too careful!" Sakura closed her laptop and turned towards her.

"He may be my brother, but I don't know what he does behind closed doors."

"Well, Gaara isn't like that. He keeps to himself most of the time."

"Unless you're around. Then he gets more social." Ino winked at the girl.

"Guys, stop, seriously. I don't even think he would want to do stuff like that."

"Oh no, he would. But probably only with you." Temari smirked.

"Temari!"

"Think about it, Hina. You two hang out almost everyday. When it's all of us around, he like a twig. But when it's just you and him, he seems more open." Sakura added in.

"He doesn't even act like that with Kankuro and I. But he is a sweet kid." The other girls nodded.

"Would you ever consider having feelings for Gaara if you weren't with Naruto?" Ino questioned.

It took her a moment, but Hinata answered with no. "He's only a friend. I don't think he's even looking for a relationship now. I love my boyfriend, and that's it."

"Alright, but just so you know, you do know how those 'just friends' things end up, right?"

"I'm well aware, Ino. But it won't be like that."

"We're not trying to make fun, we're only looking out for you." Sakura placed her hand on her friend's knee.

"I know you guys are, thank you."

"No problem. Now let's talk about the new P.E. teacher." Temari rubbed her hands together.

"Mr. Green?" Ino and Sakura yelled in unison. "He is SO hot!"

Hinata laughed at her friends as they talked about the new hunk of eye candy for the girls. But inside, all she could think about was the conversation earlier about Gaara. 'I wouldn't go out with him if I was single. No way. I mean, he's very attractive, yes, but it'll just be weird. He's a close friend, and I'm already in a relationship. He doesn't seem like the type to be in one at the moment.

'It would be weird if we started liking each other…wait, what if he likes me already? No, he would tell me, right? Maybe he wouldn't because he doesn't want to interfere with the issues between Naruto and I.

'Oh who am I kidding. He doesn't like me. We're just friends…right?'

Funny story on how I finished this. I had a page done, don't touch the file for a month and two weeks, then I finish the rest of it today while my friend was sleeping.

Other than that, I really hope you enjoyed it. Sasuke's hearing will most likely be next chapter, which I will try to put out before school starts again. Please review if you like!