I don't own Naruto or any of its characters.

Hey guys!

So I've barely started my week off of school and already I'm bored. Lucky for you people, when I'm bored I write.

This chapter is slightly longer than the first two. I really dislike describing things because I feel like I just go on and on about them. I apologise in advance but alas, it's inevitable as I want my readers to see the scenes with perfect clarity.

I don't write for the reviews, but they would be appreciated because I want to know whether or not people like my story.

I think that's about it so goodbye for now.

Laterz

All of the girls had inherited their families' wealth. They didn't like to brag, but they were possibly four of the richest people in the country. Granny Chiyo had the mansion built when she took the girls under her care. She thought that it would be a better location as the girls could practise their elements without any fear on being watched.

There was a big fence that marked off their land. Anything beyond that fence was their property. When the girls were older, they each took advantage of this vast space.

Hinata had made a river that connected to the pool and flowed through most of the woods. Eventhough she could create water at will, something about it constantly being there just made her feel better.

Sakura just liked the idea of there being things for her fire to destroy. She generally asked Tenten to make her targets so that they weren't so easily burned to ash.

Ino and Tenten, on the other hand, were content with what they had; which was space. Ino liked to fly through the air, free spirited while Tenten prefered to train on the ground.

They all got out of the car and headed towards the mansion. As they walked through the garden, they were greeted by Sakura's lions, Majesty and Royal, and Tenten's wolfs, Rebel and Mischief. Hinata's dolphins, Promise and Oath called to them from the pool and Ino's eagles, Pride and Courage yelled a welcome from the air.

Eventhough they could all talk to near enough every animal, they all had their favourites. For Hinata it was sea creatures, for Ino birds, for Tenten canines and for Sakura cats. All of the animals loved each of the girls, but once again they had their preferences as well.

As they walked into the mansion, their 'pets' followed them. An endless, three metre wide pool of water flowed through the whole house, giving the dolphins access to anywhere they pleased.

The huge entryway had several halls that lead off to somewhere else in the house and there way a massive staircase that lead to the girls' rooms, which had adjoining bathrooms, and a movie room as they dubbed it.

Even though they had lived there their whole lives, they still always marveled at how much this place looked like something out of a fairytale, coming complete with fancy chandelers and sparkling lights. It was a bit ironic really, considering that the girls believed they were the furthest away from a fairytale that anyone could get.

They all went up to their rooms for a while. All of their rooms were set out the same; huge room with a king sized bed and a long corner sofa that started near the ben and ended near the door, an adjoining bathroom, a walk in wardrobe that was bigger than a classroom and a large balcony outside of their two glass doors. They had all styled their bedrooms differently.

Hinata's was a royal blue with white furniture and curtains. She had a bubble chair that was big enough to fit two people in and her corner sofa was white. She had a desk with an apple laptop on it and a flat screen tv that was hanging from the wall across from her bed. Like the rest of the house (apart from the other girls' bedrooms) a small pool resided beside her bed and stretched along the outline of her room.

Tenten's rooms was dark green. She had chocolate brown furniture and curtains, including her sofa, and a massive bean bag in the corner. There were shelfs that held different weapons above her bed and a flat screen tv on the wall across from it. She had a desk with an apple laptop on it and a cushiony den beside her bed for Rebel and Michief.

Ino's room was a dark purple. She had a small, two people swing that hung from the wall in the corner of her room. It had vines up both of the ropes and a long cushion attatched to the bottom of the inside of the swing. She had black furniture and curtains, including her sofa. A flat screen tv was attatched to the wall across from her bed and an apple laptop resided on a desk in the corner that wasn't filled with something. She kept her balony doors open due to the fact that her birds prefered to be outside.

Sakura had hot pink walls and curtains and like Ino, she had a black furniture which also included the same corner sofa as the other three. She had a big pink and black chair that could only be described as a mushroom with its inside scooped out so that it beared some kind of resemblence to a sitting apperation. Also like everyone else, she had a flat screen tv across from her bed and a desk in the corner with an apple laptop resting on the top of it. She had a den for her cats and even though they had a huge library downstairs, she still had loads of shelfs with millions of books on the only corner that was bare.

All of the girls' rooms were the same but somehow different. It was ironic really, Hinata's screamed peace and tranquility, Ino's screamed wild and carefree, Tenten's screamed familiar and warm and Sakura's screamed calm and refreshing.

All of their rooms reflected their personalities in some way or reminded them who they were instead of who they pretended to be. This masion was their home and they were really anxious due to the fact that four strangers would be invading the little privacy they had tomorrow.

Why had they even invited them over? None of them knew. With those thoughts still in their heads, they headed downstairs and towards the kitchen to make dinner. It was silent for a while until Ino spoke up.

"Umm...guys? Tell me again why we invited those four new boys to our house, gave them our numbers, and agreed to be their partners for those damn dance lessons that Anko has announced that we'll be having." She said.

"Because we're idiots." Tenten stated.

"We did it for Kurenai." Sakura corrected. "I know we said that we weren't going to make an effort at friends, but our subconsious' must have had other ideas. We didn't want to let Kurenai down." She explained.

"Why do we even need to have dance lessons?" Hinata asked. " I mean, we all know how to dance and we're not going to that stupid valentines dance anyway."

"Apparently Kurenai is going to force us to go." Tenten told them.

They were all silent for a few minutes. No one else in the school knew about the dance apart from them and the teachers. It was supposed to be a suprise for the students but of course, these four knew Kurenai was hiding something and they had grilled her about it until she told them.

They loved the idea of a dance but it just made them more miserable. They'd sit at an empty table watching couples dancing and being reminded that love was something they could never have. How their parents had got together was a mystery to all of them; perhaps they were just better at controlling themselves. Perhaps if the girls had been trained by their parents then they might have been able to avoid this. Kurenai seemed to think that love was the solution, but that was ridiculous, wasn't it?

Either way, the girls didn't want to make their moods worse and so they were going to try to get out of this dance with all of their might.

"Look on the bright side, at least they're handsome...and hot." Ino tried to lighten the mood to no avail.

No one answered but they were all thinking the same thing.

Yep; handsome, hot, gorgeous, tonned...this list goes on forever. They all sighed wistfully before returning to the half prepared dinner.

Naruto is the loud one with blonde hair and blue eyes, I think. He's adorable when he's rambling, and I bet he's an athlete with a body like that. He's so funny, and cute, and handsome, and sexy, especially with those birth marks that look a bit like whiskers. Hinata thought.

That one with black hair is sexy as hell. He looks really intelligent and honest as well. I bet he doesn't take shit from anyone, my kind of guy. What was his name? Oh yeah, Sasuke. Sakura mentally noted.

The one with the pineapple ponytail is so calm and collected. I think his name is Shikamaru. He's really tall as well! He probably plays some kind of sport with all of those tonned muscles. OO...I bet he has abs. Ino daydreamed for a while after that.

Tenten was thinking about the boy called Neji. He's really hot and he seems really smart as well. He's probably into sports. Hmm...I wonder if he's a good fighter.

After another ten minutes, they had everything in the oven and cooking.

"It'll take about half an hour." Hinata informed them.

"Great, just enough time to get a showered dry off." Tenten said before heading upstairs. The others, apart from Hinata, followed suit. She watched the dinner to make sure it didn't burn. She was planning on going for a late night swim anyway, so she would just get a shower afterwards.

Instead, she talked to Tenten's wolfs for a while. The other animals had gone into the forest, her dolphins taking the pool routes, but the wolfs had decided that they wanted to stay in the house tonight. Being canines, they were the most sensitive to the sad vibes coming off of the girls and had wanted to try to cheer them up.

It worked to some degree. Hinata wasn't frowning anymore and she had snuggled up to the wolfs, petting them contently. The three of them were drifting to sleep when the ping of the oven jolted them up into a standing position.

Hinata noticed that the other girls weren't downstairs yet, so she decided to set the food out herself. Once she was done, she called the other girls to tell them that dinner was ready.

Sakura and Ino appeared first in dressing gowns with towels over their heads, they were both slow showerers and had only just gotten out. Tenten came shortly afterwards with pajamas on and her hair down and dry.

"Thanks Hinata" They said as they sat down at the table.

She hummed in reply due to the fact that she had just put some food into her mouth.

Eating in relative silence, they finished in about fifteen minutes. Once again, they all went to their bedrooms. Hinata had a short swim and then got a shower. It was about eight pm and they were bored, so they went to the games room for a while.

They didn't play on any games but instead just sat down on the circle sofa that stretched across the lengh of one wall and had about one hundred different sized pebble pillows (they have really cool seats).

"Do we have to hide our animals tomorrow?" Ino asked.

"What's the point?" Tenten answered. "I mean, they most likely already think we're freaks so there's no need."

"Yeah and anyway, the animals will just worry if they're not there while we're alone with strangers." Sakura agreed.

Once again they all fell into an awkward silence.

"When did we turn into such zombies? We never used to be this miserable." Ino stated.

She was right; they were never this bad, even when they first started public school, they weren't this miserable.

"I guess it's 'cause every day we see couples, friends or even strangers talking to one another. It's get really depressing to be constantly reminded of what we can't have." Hinata answered.

"Well that needs to stop right now." Tenten said while standing up. "Come on we'll do something fun, something that we haven't done in a while."

The others stood up as well.

"Like what?" Sakura asked.

"Hmm...how about we watch a movie?" Tenten suggested.

"Yes!" Hinata yelled, excited to be doing something remotely normal. "I'll go pick one." She said before running in the direction of the movie room.

"I'd better help her." Tenten ran off after Hinata.

"Ino, will you help me get popcorn and drinks?" Sakura asked.

"Yeah, come on!" Ino shouted before dragging Sakura to the kitchen.

Everyone was happy. None of them had mentioned anything even remotely associated with their issues. It was just four bestfriends, four sisters from different misters who were just chilling out and having a good time. They all curled up on one sofa and watched movie, after movie, after movie. They were so peaceful and worry free that they all fell asleep. It was like all of their troubles had just floated away.

"HINATA!"

"TENTEN!"

"WE'RE GONNA KILL YOU!"

Shouts of death threats could be heard echoing around the huge masion as Ino and Sakura chased Hinata and Tenten through each and every room in the house.

They had both just been woken up to freezing cold water being poured all over their heads. Hinata, being the one who wields water, was instantly suspected. It was only because of the fact that Tenten stood over them with a jug that they realised it was both of their doings.

"Hey!" Hinata cried. "We all agreed that we should be happy. Me and Tenten always used to wake you guys up in a morning." She tried to reason.

It was true, mosts days Tenten and Hinata woke up really early. Tenten wanted to train and Hinata either joined her or went for an early swim.

Ino and Sakura both smiled despite their want to kill the two girls who were currently running away from them. They couldn't explain it, it just felt right. A routine. Something that they used to do when they had less troubles. If Hinata and Tenten were making an effort to go back to how they were before, then so would Sakura and Ino. This meant that they would chase the two of them, catch the two of them, and attempt to pumel the two of them.

"We know. If you remember, we always used to chase you guys after you woke us up. We're just getting back into our old routine." Sakura reasoned.

"And isn't this about the time that we catch them?" Ino asked Sakura with a huge grin on her face.

"Why I think it is!" Sakura said with an identical grin of hers.

All of the animals had heard the commotion and were now observing the scene in front of them with excited expressions on their faces.

"HELP!" Tenten and Hinata cried while Sakura looked at Ino who nodded in return.

They were about to do something they had created years ago when Hinata and Tenten first started terrorising their mornings. Ino jumped into the air and Sakura caught her feet when they were near her shoulders. She then proceeded to throw Ino at Hinata and Tenten with as much force as she could muster.

As expected, Ino hit them dead on and they all landed in a heap on the floor. As soon as Sakura reached them, she dived onto them as well.

"OW!" Tenten shouted while trying to push them off.

Hinata on the other hand couldn't say anything because she was being squashed to death.

Tenten and Hinata finally managed to push to other off of them and the four of them then proceeded to have a wrestling match.

After about ten minutes, Hinata and Tenten got away by running up to their respective bedrooms and locking the doors behind them.

Ino and Sakura gave up and decided to do some training before school. After they were done, they headed back into the house. Hinata and Tenten still hadn't came out of their bedrooms, so they went in theirs for a while.

They all had a shower, did their hair and got dressed. As they all headed to the kitchen, they realised that they still had fifty minutes until they had to leave for school, so Hinata and Tenten made all of them a pancakes and syrup as an apology for waking them up. They used to do this all of the time in mornings because Sakura and Ino never used to forgive them until they made them some food.

After eating their breakfasts, they all headed to the door. All of them argued over whos car they were taking to school.

"It's my turn." Sakura loudly proclaimed.

"No, it's mine." Ino yelled.

"It's neither of you turns." Tenten said.

"Well it's not yours 'cause we took your car yesterday." Sakura stated.

"I was the last person to take my car." Hinata told them.

They thought about that and realised Hinata was right. With huge sighs they all grumply agreed.

"Fine, but we're taking mine tomorrow." Ino, Tenten and Sakura said at the same time.

The three girls then proceeded to glare at each other. As Hinata watched, she couldn't help but laugh. Soon all of the girls were laughing as they made their way to Hinata's car.

"Yep, just like old times. Arguing over silly things." Ino giggled.

"I'm sad. We're all in such a good mood, but that'll change by the time we get to school." Tenten frowned.

"The four of us are smart, we'll think of ways to keep our spirits high." Hinata reasurred her.

"We can mess with our classmates, scare them and stuff." Sakura suggested.

"Yeah!" Tenten yelled, a little over excited about the prospect of making her classmates scared stiff.

They all eagerly began planning what they were going to do. In the end they had so many ideas that they just decided to improvise.

There was a brief period of silence before Hinata decided to bring something up.

"The only classes those new guys don't have with us is science and self studies." She stated.

"Hmm...do you think that Tsunade did that purposely?" Sakura asked. "I mean, she knows that we're loners. Maybe she's hoping we'll befriend the new guys?" She suggested.

"Maybe" Hinata agreed.

"It could just be a coincidence." Ino said.

"It could be, but I doubt it." Sakura told her.

"Something tells me that Kurenai played some part in this." Tenten muttered.

"Regardless, we can't change anything so we might as well stop whining." Hinata told them.

"Yeah"

"You're right"

"Fine"

"Good" Hinata said. "Because we're here." She informed them.

They all grumpled in acknowledgement and began to get out of the car. They were happy as they were early for once, meaning that they could avoid all of the inevitable stares that generally awaited their arrival.

Stepping into school, they saw that no one was in the halls yet.

Man, we must be really early. Tenten thought.

"Is it normal for the halls to be this empty?" Ino whispered to them.

"I don't think so." Hinata whispered back.

As they walked through the deserted halls, they spotted Kurenai in her classroom. She looked up as the four girls walked in.

"Hey girls." She greeted. "You're a bit early aren't you?" She asked, clearly curious as to why the girls were roaming the school this early.

"Well" Sakura started as she glared at Tenten and Hinata. "Hinata and Tenten decided to get us all up extra early today."

"Oh?" Kurenai said while raising one eyebrow.

"Yeah, we kinda need to stop being depressed so we thought that going back to our old routine would help." Hinata explained.

"I see" Kurenai had stopped at the masion enough times to know what routine the girls were talking about. "So...did you go for the classic water over the head?" She asked Tenten and Hinata.

Hinata and Tenten liked to experiment different ways to get Ino and Sakura up. They were all amusing, but this one seemed to make Sakura and Ino a lot more angry than most others.

"Yep" Tenten replied while Hinata giggled.

She tutted, but all of them could tell she was only joking. "Well...I'm glad to hear that you four are happy." Kurenai said with a genuine smile.

They all were silent for a while until Ino noticed the time.

"Hey! Look at the time! We'd better get going." She said.

"You're right" The other three agreed.

"See you later Kurenai." They said whilst walking out of the classroom.

"Bye girls. And try to refrain from destroying the school today!" She joked as they turned to give her a wave.

"We will." Hinata agreed and shut the classroom door quietly behind her.

The halls were starting to fill up, so they made their way to their first class, English. Due to the fact that there was still ten minutes before the bell went, the girls were expecting the classroom to be empty. Instead, they saw the four new guys sitting at the back with fangirls surrounding them. No one had noticed the girls yet, so they decided to take a proper look at the boys.

Naruto was wearing an orange button up shirt, with his sleeves rolled up to show off his tonned muscles, dark blue denim skinny jeans and black combat boots. He had a silver chain around his neck with some sort of tag on it.

Sasuke had on a white shirt with a black sort sleeved open shirt over the top. He had dark grey denim skinnys and was also wearing black combat boots.

Neji had on grey shirt and a leather jacket over the top of it. He was wearing red skinny jeans and had red and white adidas gazelles on his feet. He had a silver chain hanging down from the pocket of one of his jeans.

Shikamaru had a black/greyish shirt on with a tan leather jacket over the top. He had denim skinny jeans on and blue and white low nike blazers.

They all looked really hot in the girls' opinion. The boys caught sight of the girls and silently begged them to get rid of the fangirls that were beginning to get really annoying.

All four girls sighed but decided to help due to the fact that said fangirls were in their seats.

Tenten lead the way to the back and the four girls just stood behind the fangirls, waiting for them to notice. When they didn't, Ino cleared her throat.

All of them turned around to glare at the people who had interrupted their time with the new guys, but instantly froze when they saw who it was. One girl, namely Karin, was brave enough to say something to them.

"What do you want?" She asked in a semi angry, semi terrified voice.

"Isn't it obvious?" Hinata asked in a bored tone.

When no one answered, Sakura told them in the same tone Hinata had used. "You're in our seats." She stated.

It was short and simple, but it still had the desired effect. All of the girls scattered like leafs in the wind.

Ino smirked inwardly. Scaredy cats.

"Thanks" Naruto said. They shrugged and took their seats infront of the boys.

I don't know if they did that for us or for them, but either way I'm still grateful. Sasuke thought.

Just then the teacher, Iruka walked in.

"Alright class, this term we're going to be looking at a play written by Wilfred Owen called Disabled."

He handed out sheets with the poem on them to everyone in the class and told them to make some annotations about any literary techniques they could see.

This only took up all of the lesson due to most of the class talking rather than getting on with their work. Ino got bored and made the light bulbs explode. Nearly everyone screamed and ran out of the classroom.

"Next lesson I want to see an improvement in attitude to work." He called after the terrified teens.

No one turned around, ignored him. Hinata, Ino, Sakura and Tenten decided to go to their tree until the end of brake. When they got there, Ino and Hinata climbed it. Ino liked being as high as she could, and Hinata just liked climbing trees in general.

When they were alone, they all started laughing.

"Seriously Ino, were you that bored?" Hinata said while she held her stomach.

"Do I have to answer that question?" Was Ino's reply.

All of them were content for a while after that, completely unaware of the four pairs eyes that watched them from afar. The bell went too soon for them and they all sighed as they realised that it was time for that lesson. Science.

Science itself wasn't that bad; it was the teacher that taught it. Gai. He was known for being the most energetic person alive. Last year he had been the PE teacher, but had been forced to teach science due to him over working the kids.

Gai was a nice teacher, if not a bit over enthusiastic, but he was just an unwanted headache that the girls could do without.

They had begged to be put in a different class once they had found out who was their teacher but Tsunade had said that Gai was the only person who taught advanced science, so the girls were stuck with him.

As soon as they walked into the class, they were greeted with Gai's infamous lights show. He would wait until all of the students were in the class and then he would flicker the lights on and off while announcing into a microphone that "Might Gai is in the house!"

"I swear, when it comes to Gai, paracetamol is my bestfriend." Hinata announce as the girls took their seats.

The other three nodded their heads in agreement, definately. The four of them just daydreamed due to Gai explaining something that they already knew. He took a while as not all of the students understood what he was taking about.

After everyone finally understood, there was only half an hour left of the lesson. Gai decided to let his students out early so that they could "go spread their youthfulness around school" Everyone thought he was talking nonsense, but agreed nonetheless just to get out of class earlier.

"Uhh" Tenten grunted while rubbing his temples. "That man drives me crazy."

"Look on the bright side." Sakura tried to reason. "At least Lee's not in our class this year. Those two together could be the end of the world."

"I guess you're right." Tenten agreed.

They all went to the lunch line and bought their food before anyone else got there. They didn't buy much, just a sandwich, an apple and a drink each. Like always, they headed over to their tree and after they had eaten their food, they all just went into their own worlds again.

Hmm...why doesn't this cafeteria sell anything with whip cream? Hinata thought. She had an unhealthy addiction to whip cream and had a whole section of the fridge dedicated to the creamy delight.

I'm sooo bored. I want my weapons and my wolf. Tenten complained.

I wonder how the animals are doing. Majesty and Royal were out early this morning so they might be back home by now. Sakura guessed.

Ino just stared up at the sky as some birds flew by. They begged her to join them and she was finding it really difficult to stay put on the ground. She sighed wistfully. Later.

They were all so stuck in their own thoughts that they didn't realise that the bell had already gone.

"We've got self studies next. Might as well head over to the library 'cause a doubt there will be a lot of people there; it's too good a day to stay inside." Hinata said.

"Yeah, maybe we might succeed in having some more peace and quiet." Ino thought aloud. "At least until music." She added.

When they got to the library, they were surprised to see the four new boys in there. The boys had their headphones in and they hadn't noticed the girls' entrance.

Ignoring the four of them, the girls tried to find a small corner somewhere. Luck seemed to be on their side today. They they found a small room, that was seperated from the big one with bookshelfs, and it had two big bean bags in it. Sakura and Hinata shared one while Ino and Tenten shared the other.

They were quiet for a while, content with finishing of homework that had still yet to be done. After a while, they had finished, so they all put their headphones in and listened to their individual music.

Tenten was the first to notice the small ache in her right wrist. She signalled the other girls to turn their music off for a while.

"Hey, do your right wrists hurt?" She asked them.

"Now that you mention it, yeah a bit." Ino said.

"Doesn't that generally mean that we're developing?" Hinata asked. "I mean, it's only happened twice, but both times we've gotten stronger in some way or other."

"Hmm...how much stronger can we get?" Sakura asked.

All of the others shrugged. It was a topic they were uncomfortable with. This ache meant something, something they didn't know themselves. They hated not knowing. It drove them crazy.

"Let's not worry about it." Tenten said. "It's inevitable. We might as well just forget about it entirely."

"Forget about it?" Ino asked. "If I remember rightly, this little ache turned into excruxiating pain over the course of one week." She reminded them.

"Yeah, but like Tenten said, it's going to happen no matter what we do so we might as well quit all of the worrying whilst we're ahead." Hinata reasoned.

Ino thought for a while but seemed to give in to the logic as she reluctantly agreed.

They all put their headphones on and decided to drop the subject entirely. The bell went too soon in their opinion, as before they knew it they were heading towards their last lesson, music. They had this lesson with Tsunade.

Eventhough she's the headmaster, she still taught a few lessons, music being one of them. Tsunade was a cool teacher, but get on her bad side and you're literally dead. The boys were heading towards that lesson as well.

Not a very good ending but I'll update soon.

That part about whip cream might have seemed random but I'm thinking about dedicating a lot of my time writing some fluff around it.

I've got a few ideas for how this story will turn out. Let me know what you think about it so far.

I might be starting another story soon, but I think I'll wait until I've nearly finished this one. I'm thinking something along the lines of summer camp or something like that.

Remember to review.

Laterz