𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜 𝚊 𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚓𝚊 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚔𝚎? [ 𝘀𝗮𝗸𝘂𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 ]

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"A ninja waits till the time is right, when the enemy sleeps and drops his guard, when his weapons lie forgotten in the stillness of night, that is the moment for a ninja to strike."

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Sakura and Hinata are odd when they're together, that's what the Konoha 11 thought. Neji was absolutely not having it one day because it had been their 11th day together in a row and Hinata was supposed to be training with him on their 4th and 9th day, but no, she decided to go out with Sakura.

Ino had plans with Sakura on the 2nd, 5th, and 10th day, and was also not having it. She knew why the two had been going out recently, 'But come on! Leave some time for us too!' She was kinda pissed off at them because she didn't get invited when they told her that they'd definitely invite her.

That's when Neji started complaining one day, the second he saw Naruto and asked him if he saw Hinata..it was because he was getting desperate and didn't wanna train with Lee anymore and really wanted an excuse to get out of training with him, and she might have been stalking him again! "No, I haven't seen Hinata! What about Sakura? Have you seen her anywhere? I mean, she was supposed to help me with something a few days ago but it's like she's disappeared completely!"

"It's the same with Lady Hinata! She was supposed to be training with me a few days ago as well..but she ditched me. I think I know why." He irked as Naruto tilted his head. "Why?"

"Follow me." He grabbed Naruto's wrist and started pulling him away with a really strong grip. "Wait! No! I didn't say I wanted to know by seeing or..whatever you're gonna do! Let me go! Help! Help!!"

Neji dragged Naruto through the village.

"Where're you taking me!?"
"Do you remember how Hinata and Sakura are always training, shopping, or eating out together?" He asked.
"Yeah?"
"I have a feeling they're eating out by now."

[ Ichiraku Ramen ]

Neji was right and Sakura and Hinata were indeed finishing up their meal together at Ichiraku Ramen. It had been their 7th time there out of the 11 days that they had hung out with each other, though no one really had any need to count it. Teuchi was out sick so he left Ayame to take control. She was doing just fine, but she did need to pick up and drop off her father's medicine, so she trusted Hinata and Sakura keeping a lookout for her while she was gone.

The two had gotten up and after a small argument about who would be paying(Hinata couldn't stand letting Sakura pay one more time) they had went out to watch the customers walk out from behind. Nobody new had come and so they simply struck up a small conversation.

"Konako's invention, do you think it'll work?" Hinata asked as she watched people pass by. Sakura sighed and looked up. Konako was their close friend, a tailor..but she used her studio to also invent things, which she only did on her days off..which really weren't a lot.

"Honestly?" Sakura started. She shook her head and Hinata nodded, understanding why. "Konako has too much on her hands and won't ever listen to us and take a break. Juggling her work as a tailor, her duties as a shinobi, and also making time for her inventions takes up too much and she never stops. The fact that she doesn't means it'll make her performance a lot worse, and that does include the mechanism she's come up with this time.."

"That's true, but since it's also a surprise for everyone, she dragged us into it. I mean, come on." Sakura chuckled. "But if anyone catches us speaking about it, we'll be forced to knock them out and force them to not say anything about it all." Quite brutal, Hinata thought. Sakura grunted and started looking around. She grabbed Hinata's wrist and pulled her around the corner and behind the wall of Ichiraku.

"Sakura—" Sakura panicked as they heard footsteps. The first thing she did to make Hinata shut up?

[ With Naruto and Neji a Few Minutes Earlier ]

"Hey, Neji, do you think they saw us?" Naruto asked as Neji looked back around the corner of the street. He simply shrugged and Naruto took that as a maybe. "So I was thinking! Maybe they didn't want us to know that they love Ichiraku so much. But who wouldn't? Ichiraku really is the best ramen shop in the whole world. The old man that works there is sick though, but I still stopped by. I-" Naruto stopped when he saw Neji's angry and annoyed glare.

Both boys kept watching Ichiraku, but the girls were just standing there. Naruto coughed and Neji almost slipped and fell, but grabbed onto Naruto and saved himself..but started choking Naruto since he grabbed onto his collar.

He watched Sakura and Hinata run behind the wall and so he got up and started dragging Naruto with him. The two turned the corner and what they saw..

Sakura and Hinata were in the middle of a long kiss. Neji yelled and Naruto yelled even louder. "What!?" They both said in unison as the girls pulled away and looked at them.

"..Naruto!? Neji!" Sakura's face started heating up and turning pink, and so was Hinata's, but it was much worse. "I..ah, um.. Well— Ahh!! I can explain!" I, uh, I..?" Not explaining made it worse and Neji stared at them. Naruto was very confused and still trying to process what happened in front of them.

"..Sakura and I are dating!" Hinata lied, taking Sakura's hand and making a loose fist with her other hand. "Do...do you have a problem with that!?" She struggled to say.

"Well, no..but..Sakura!?" Neji complained and Sakura gasped. "Excuse me! What's so wrong about me!?"

Hinata's cousin and Hinata's apparent girlfriend started arguing and got some stares from passerbys while Naruto..still was processing. "Hinata and Sakura??" He kept saying in different tones while Hinata's face kept getting hotter.

"Sakura and Hinata are dating!?"

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bro i wrote something are you proud.

it's like a little over 1000 words but whatever idc if it's short or long i actually posted something and i will post something as long as it's not cringe

..ty for reading

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