olly: Hello all! i finally got my internet back!!!! Now i can continue with the story!

gaara: dear Lord, NO! Please no!

olly: -glares at him- whats that supposed to mean? don't you like sakura?

sakura: -glares at gaara as well-

gaara: i...uhh...on with the story!

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Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto

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It seemed paint was flying more on people than on walls, but no one seemed to care. Shikamaru splattered Temari who flung some back at him but missed and hit Kiba instead. Kiba tried to get Temari but she ducked and it hit Sakura. Sakura splattered Kiba but then was hit from behind by Neji. Hinata hit Neji and he tried to get her back, but got Gaara by accident. Gaara scowled and splattered Neji and Naruto at once. Naruto didn't notice and was trying to get Ten Ten. She got him in the leg and then spun around and got Kankuro in the side. Kankuro nearly fell over but recovered and started slinging paint in all directions. All the girls screamed and the guys laughed every time they were hit. Soon everyone was covered in different colors of paint, and the smell got to them. They all went downstairs for pizza.

They talked about the fight while eating and soon traveled back upstairs. This time they focused on getting the paint on the walls. Sakura was very pleased. The colors her friends had picked out were all coming together nicely and soon her room was no longer just plain white. Purples and reds and blues and greens were flying through the air and landing on the ceiling, walls, and floor. They all talked about the band and school and things like that. Time flew and they didn't stop talking even when all the paint was gone. They all sat in a circle—backs facing in, mind you—and admired their work. Sakura beamed. She had paint on her clothes, arms, face and hair, but her walls were painted, and she was with her friends. The only thing that would've made her happier would be if she was sitting next to Gaara. Sadly, he was on the opposite side of the ring.

Sakura looked around at her paint-stained friends. "Thanks, you guys!" she said happily. She scooted to the middle of the circle and hugged each friend from behind (giving Gaara an extra second of hug before continuing). "It really looks great! I love it!"

"Yeah it does look pretty good, doesn't it?" Naruto said proudly. "Look! You can see my green everywhere! And Hinata-chan's purple! And Sakura's blue!" he continued naming the colors proudly and it suddenly gave Sakura a great idea.

She rushed out of the room, leaving her friends to look back in confusion, but she returned with permanent markers. "I never want to forget who helped me with this and it's so special to me!" She walked over to one of the walls and found a large spot of her color. She signed it.

All her friends looked to each other as she turned around and smiled. They all smiled back and stood, each taking a marker from her and heading to a large spot of his or her color on the wall. Hinata signed the light purple, Neji signed the dark purple, Gaara signed the dark red, Naruto signed the light green, Temari signed the emerald green, Ten Ten signed the royal blue, Shikamaru signed the navy blue, Kiba signed the light red, and Kankuro signed his reddish-purple. They all backed away and looked proudly at each other and the wall. Sakura almost felt like crying. This had been the best time she had ever had in her life. She loved her friends.

They smiled at her and she smiled back. "Thanks," she said. Of course, the sentimental moment was shattered by Naruto's short attention span. "So what now?" he asked impatiently. Sakura chuckled and checked her clock. It read 8:47.

"it's about eight forty-five right now, but my mom and dad wont be home till late, and it's Friday night, so until my parents get here I guess you guys can stay." Sakura said. Temari looked around.

"But we're all covered in paint." She said. Sakura thought about offering them showers, but there wouldn't be a point, unless everyone brought clean clothes. Not to mention the guys might get ideas if she offered showers…

"Um, well," Sakura said uncertainly. Naruto bounced into the air. "I brought extra clothes! Could I take a shower here?" he said jumping up and down. Sakura blinked at him.

"Um, yeah, me too?" said Temari, flicking off some paint. "And me." Said Shikamaru. "My mom'll kill me if she sees me covered in paint."

The rest of the room was silent until Temari's head shot up. "Like hell I'm going to be the only girl taking a shower!" She grabbed the nearest girl next to her, who was Hinata. "Hinata needs a shower too!" The white eyed girl started to say something, but her mouth was covered by Temari's hand. Sakura looked at her expectantly. She didn't know what to do. Both the guys and the girls wanted showers.

"Um…well…ok. If you all have extra clothes. There are two showers downstairs and two showers upstairs. Guys, you can take the bottom floor and girls can stay up here." She looked at them hopefully. They all nodded.

"Well I guess I'll take one too or else Uncle Hiashi might get angry," Neji said shrugging. Ten Ten nodded too. "Yeah, its fun getting dirty, but I'd rather be clean."

Sakura hadn't really expected all this. Actually, because she had never thrown a party before, she didn't know what do about anything besides the painting. Thinking back on it Sakura realized she hadn't really planned what would happen afterwards, and guessed they might've just gone home. Psh, not her friends. They would hang around anywhere together if there was food, which Sakura just happened to have a huge kitchen full of. She sighed. Whatever.

Turns out everyone had brought extra clothes, to Sakura's surprise. Because there were more guys than girls, it took them a little longer, each person spending maybe five to ten minutes in the shower. The girls stood guard outside the upstairs bathrooms, incase the guys got any ideas. After about half an hour everyone was standing in the kitchen, heads dripping wet. Some of the guys looked strange with wet hair, because it flopped down into their eyes, especially Kiba. Hinata's hair didn't hold up in its usual shape as much, and Ten Ten's shoulder-length hair was hanging down. Temari wasn't able to put her wet hair back up into four ponytails, so hers too hung limply around her shoulders. Sakura's didn't look much different than it did normally, but her bangs wouldn't stay to one side and kept falling in her eyes. By some unknown miracle, Shikamaru had found a way to put his hair back up into his usual high ponytail, despite the fact that it was wet, and no one was able to figure out exactly how he had done it. Sakura giggled at the thought of Shikamaru doing hair flips in the bathroom, trying to get his hair up.

Sakura sighed. Once again, they were at a loss of something to do. Sakura's cell suddenly rang, and she picked it up. "Hello?" pause. "Oh hey mom." Pause. "Oh really?" pause. "Wow, that's crazy." Pause. "No, I don't mind." pause. "Uh huh, I will." Pause. "Bye."

Her friends looked at her. She gave a half smile. "uhh, well there was this huge traffic jam, and my mom just called and she's in the very middle of it…like it was only a couple cars in front of her and then the crash, so she's not going anywhere for a while. She's already called my dad, and he's stuck too, so they're just going to head to a hotel and spend the night." Sakura explained. She felt really uncomfortable for some reason, and couldn't understand why.

"So you've got the house to yourself tonight?" Temari asked. Sakura nodded cautiously. "Cool, then we can just spend the night."

"What?" It was all Sakura could manage. They wanted to spend the night? Sakura wouldn't mind the girls but…

"Oh no worries, just us girls." Temari said. Sakura arched an eyebrow. Sometimes Temari's boldness got on her nerves.

"You know it's rude to just invite yourself to spend the night at someone's house!" Hinata said, crossing her arms at Temari, who stuck out her tongue playfully.

"Aww, c'mon! We haven't had a real girl's night with Sakura yet, and it's Friday night! Plus her parents aren't here." She turned to Sakura with chibi eyes. "Please?"

Sakura sighed and nodded, but then became excited about her first sleepover. All the guys stared at the now chatting circle of girls. Kankuro cleared his throat for their attention; it didn't work. Instead Neji spoke up.

"Um, we're still here you know." He said, crossing his arms agitatedly. All the girls looked at him a moment, but then turned back to their conversation. He glared at them. Naruto pouted.

"Hey don't just ignore us! You can't just decide to have a girls only party while we're just standing here!" he said, fox-pout included.

All the girls sighed. "Fine, but what are we supposed to do?" asked Ten Ten. "It's not like there's video games and movies and music to play like at band practices." She said.

Kiba plastered a suggestive grin on his face. "We could play that game again. I never got a kiss." He advanced toward Ten Ten, with his lips poking out and his eyes closed. He received a hard punch in the arm. "Ow!" he said, rubbing his sore arm. Ten Ten shrugged. "Don't pucker your lips up to me." Neji smirked at this. Kiba pouted jokingly.

"Well we do have movies," Sakura said shrugging. They looked at her. "We could watch one in the home theatre." They stared.

"You have a home theatre?" Naruto asked, shocked. Sakura nodded and all her friends looked at her, slightly impressed, yet also jealous. They agreed and she led them to the room. It had some comfortable looking couches and a large screen taking up a full wall. Sakura showed them where the movies were and left them to pick one out while she went to make mounds upon mounds of popcorn. To put it lightly, she used up two whole boxes of Orville Redenbacher. Sakura made her way back to the movie room carrying four bowls of popcorn. When she entered the room, her friends relieved her of her burdens and she took a seat next to Hinata.

"So what are we watching?" she asked the purple haired girl. Hinata shook her head unsurely.

"I-I don't know. The guys said that they should pick the movie since we girls were going to have a whole night together. Knowing them, they'll probably pick out something with lots of blood and gore and death and evil people with knives and axes and CHAINSAWS!" The normally quiet Hinata had suddenly jumped to sitting on the edge of her seat and was glaring intensely at a wall.Sakura watched her with almost fear as the girl was breathing raspily, but then she took in a gulp of air and sat down again. "Yes," she said calmly. "That sounds like a movie they'd pick." Sakura stared at her but Hinata didn't seem to notice and ate some popcorn.

Shikamaru popped in a DVD and sat down on a vacant spot on the couch. Temari was still standing and unfortunately for her, there was no more room on any of the couches. She shrugged at sat in Shikamaru's lap, leaning her back comfortably back against his shoulder. He looked at her in surprise for a moment, but when she didn't move he smiled smugly to the other guys. Neji glared at him. He was not to be outdone. Ten Ten (who was sitting next to Neji) felt herself being pulled onto his lap. She gasped, but said nothing, and Neji flashed a smug smirk of his own. Naruto glanced at the two of his friends and looked around.

"Hinata!" he called, waving to her stupidly. She blushed crimson and walked over to him, but when Naruto caught Neji's death glare, he settled with having her sit next to him instead. He wrapped one arm around her shoulder and smiled to her cousin, whose eye was now twitching again. Had Ten Ten not been in his lap, Neji would've tackled the blonde. Kankuro glanced around the room, his gaze settling on Sakura. She had to look to both her left and right incase he was looking at someone else before she found there was no one and realized his objective. She yelped and hopped onto Gaara's lap, surprising the hell out him (though he didn't show it). Sakura gave Kankuro a big apologetic smile and he mumbled something while looking away. Kiba and Kankuro caught each other's gazes and both shouted "HELL NO!" simultaneously, making everyone look at them in confusion. The movie started.

As Hinata had predicted, it was a horror movie, and even though Sakura owned it, she had never seen it before. Throughout the movie she had to hide her eyes in Gaara's shoulder (much to his delight). Ten Ten and Hinata had to do the same to their guys, who of course, didn't seem to mind at all. The only girl who didn't seem to be completely afraid of the movie was Temari, but she snuggled close to Shikamaru anyway.

As a particularly gory scene came up, Sakura yelped and hid her eyes on Gaara's shoulder. Unfortunately, some of the others heard her noise and looked over to see Gaara and her, surprisingly very close, and Gaara didn't seem to mind. They all glanced at each other but said nothing. Gaara instinctively wrapped an arm protectively around Sakura and she hugged his neck. Sakura could only hope the movie would be over soon. To her relief, it was finished within another ten minutes, and she looked up into the dark room. The outlines of her friends were clear, and she watched as Temari stood to turn on a light.

They all groaned as the brightness flooded the room. Sakura had to blink her eyes repeatedly before she could see anything. Gaara took his arm back and Sakura slid off his lap to sit beside him. He was a little disappointed, but didn't show it, and stood up to stretch. Nobody seemed really tired, and when Sakura checked her clock, it only read 11:51. Not at all late for a Friday night.

"I am never, ever coming to another movie night when guys pick ever again." Said Ten Ten defiantly. Neji's arms were wrapped around her waist, and her arms around his neck. Hinata was snuggled up beside Naruto, with his arm around her shoulder. Temari had her head lying on Shikamaru's shoulder, but he was acting like nothing was worth caring about at the moment. Kiba had been previously hugging a pillow, but quickly dispatched of it, and Kankuro was just sitting there. All the girls nodded in agreement at Ten Ten's comment and the guys only shrugged.

"So what now?" asked Neji. He still hadn't released the girl in his lap, and seemed quite reluctant to, even though Ten Ten had already let her arms leave his neck.

"Well I think its time you guys left so we girls can have our sleepover." Said Temari, lifting her head from Shikamaru's shoulder. Naruto pouted.

"Well what are we supposed to do?" he asked. "Can't we stay too?" Hinata turned red and gave him an angry look.

"Of course you can't stay! It's a girl thing! Guys aren't supposed to know what girls do at sleepovers!" she said.

"Wow Hinata, you make it sound dirty." Kiba said with a smile. Neji glared at him while Hinata turned bright red.

"She didn't mean it like that and you know it! Kiba you're such a perv sometimes!" Ten Ten said, matching Neji's glare. "Anyway, a sleepover is nothing like that. We don't parade around in skimpy pajamas and have pillow fights with water, like I know you think we do." She said. All the guys shifted uneasily (A/N lol).

"well fine, you guys can come hang out at our place," Kankuro said standing. Naruto and Neji both reluctantly let their girls go and stood to leave. Temari, Ten Ten, and Hinata started walking back to the front of the house, with the guys following them. Sakura and Gaara were last in line. As the others rounded a corner, Gaara took Sakura's hand and pushed her gently against the wall, giving her a small sweet kiss. He pulled away and she blushed.

"What was that for?" she asked quietly, as they rounded the corner to catch up with the others.

"I figured it was the only way I would be able to give you a good night kiss." He said shrugging and staring straight ahead. Sakura blushed harder.

"Oh, thanks."

Gaara smirked and followed the rest of the guys out the door. Sakura and the other girls waved them all good bye and closed the door.

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olly: sorry if the chapters seem a little shorter than usual. i'm having trouble trying to find places to cut off chaps at. anyways, please review! -holds out ramen- i'll give you ramen if you review!

naruto: -pitches a fit- THAT'S MY RAMEN!!!

olly: oh...a...err...oops. umm, please review anyway!