A/N: My first Naruto multi-chapter! I hope you all like it. ^-^ Review if you like. I'll just be happy if someone enjoys it.

"We have got to start doing this more often," Ino drawled over her drink, gesturing at Ten Ten for no particular reason and then glaring at everyone else. "You're all so busy having lives outside of mine. Stop being so goddamn selfish."

Sakura waved a passive hand. "You know, Bridezilla, while you're running around like a chicken with your head cut off causing mass chaos, I'm sitting up there with Naruto-"

"Making the world a better place?" Ten Ten interjected innocently, laughing out loud when Sakura glared and let her chin fall to the table. She fondled Hinata's shoulder and pouted.

"Neh, Hinata. How do you put up with that idiot in your free time, huh? For the better part of my life I had to do it, nearly lost my marbles, and now live life on the edge acting as an advisor and instructor…but you're the real hero, here…" Sakura paused, stuck her tightened lips out and got in her blue haired friends face. "You like…conceived children with him."

Hinata's laughter tinkled a little too delicately for the darkened bar setting. "We all have different levels of patience. But I probably have a little different taste than you do. Which just means there's more of your type left for you, right?"

"Since when did you get so darn smarty pants-pants, Hina-chin," Ino slurred, clearly ignoring her weight index. "And don't use sarcasm so lightly. You'll hurt Saku-chin's feelings…"

Hinata's eyes widened and she stuttered an unsure apology while Sakura narrowed her eyes. "The hell's that supposed to mean, Ino-ebriate?"

Ino pouted innocently and muttered, "I mean, you're still single. To imply that you'd have your choice of male specimen makes it look like none of those excess men want you."

Sakura's eyebrow twitched. "Just because you're getting married does NOT mean you can now advise me in the ways of obtaining a guy. You practically got engaged by accident, moron."

Ino stood up and slammed her palms to the table, Ten Ten pretty much falling out of her seat with laughter. "SHINO LOVES ME."

"How can you even tell? He hardly ever takes those goddamn sunglasses off or speaks…"

"If you even knew how good the sex is…"

Sakura smirked, coy with laughter. "Ohohoho~ nothing like a romantic evening…fire light…rose petals on the bed…bugs flying around…"

Ino started sniffling and spluttered pitifully, "THAT'S JUST AN ASSUMPTION. YOU DON'T KNOW HIM LIKE I DO."

Hinata finally recovered from her blushing to add, "Shino is an excellent friend. I'm very glad you two get along so well, especially with your wedding coming up so soon…"

"Hinata is the only one who loves me~" Ino blubbered, Hinata's face embraced by her chest and hair soaking up her tears. "Maybe I should make her my maid of honor instead…"

"Oi, I've already booked the bachelorette party, the rehearsal dinner reservations…"

"Sakura got the short end of the stick being best friends with you," Ten Ten said through laughter induced tears. "Ugh. I keep forgetting to take Kiba's tuxedo measurements…"

"Yeah, tell me how that goes," Ino grunted, stealing Sakura's drink and ignoring her angry protests. "There's probably an entire process that goes with that escapade. First, you have to make sure he's bathed recently."

Hinata came to his defense with, "Kiba-kun is just easily sidetracked and -"

"See, I don't mind giving him a bath," Ten Ten said bluntly, "It's the suit he won't have. He keeps telling me to tell you he's coming in jeans and a t-shirt."

Ino grimaced. "He's the best man and I hate him. He's showing up in a tux or he's leaving in a body bag."

"That's the spirit," Sakura muttered, shielding her new drink from Ino. "Speaking of fittings, are we still on for next weekend? You're not gonna embarrass us by having another mental breakdown, right?"

"This is a sensitive time for me, and you of all people should understand that sometimes I'm just not good at holding in my feelings. Those cake designs were beautiful, and they deserved all the emotion I could show them."

"Ino, they were in a book. You cried over cake designs. In a book." Hinata giggled at the glare Ten Ten received.

"You know what might make me cry even harder is seeing my best friend there without a date," Ino recovered, bringing the attention back to Sakura.

"You can have mine," Ten Ten joked. "You guys are the right hand man and woman."

"Pass," Sakura deadpanned, not amused. Everyone nearly spit their drinks and laughed a little.

"You know, Hinata," Sakura started, turning to her, "We all noticed you've been playing it safe the last couple weeks we've done this…"

"You can just tell us when you guys are trying to get pregnant again," Ten Ten pouted, giggling at Hinata's blush of embarrassment. "Unless you've already got another one in the oven…"

"N-Not yet, but, I figure it's better to be safe," she said weakly, Sakura throwing an arm around her shoulder. Ten Ten would've done the same, but she was currently hauling a snoring Ino over her back.

"You've already got twin boys. Are you hoping for a girl this time?"

Hinata didn't say anything, but her smile was soft and her nod was noticeable enough. They were all secretly fond of how fond Hinata was of carrying babies. It gave them the kind of inside look at what a mother was supposed to be like. She was picture perfect. Her kids, even for being boys and two years old were-

"HINATA," came the tortured scream of her husband, yellow head peeking out from the front door just as they'd brought her to the gate of the house. He was soon dragged back in by two shadowy figures, laughing with mirth and all the charm of Satan's underling's. "NO. NO. STAY BACK. LET ME GO…"

Sakura and Ten Ten sweat dropped and looked at each other with the same word in mind: heathens.

"It's Naruto's fault they're so hellish," Sakura muttered, Hinata waving back at them as they entered the house. "He swears and acts like a moron in front of them, it's only natural they'd cling onto that. Poor Hinata."

"Well, she does want more of them," Ten Ten sighed. "And if she liked Naruto while he was an idiot, it's only natural she'd love her kids for the same reasons."

"Ten Ten perv~" Ino gurgled, wriggling over her back. "Touching my butt while I'm unconscious…"

"Go back to sleep, moron. Be grateful when someone carries you."

Shino was waiting to take her off their hands when they arrived at her house. He didn't say anything, but both of them smiled at the care he took carrying her into the house. They made fun of her and the way she was crazy about him, but it wasn't hard to see why when he did things like that. And for someone who loved talking as much as Ino, having someone who would listen to just about anything was a pretty good deal.

"Makes me almost wish Kiba'd hurry up and ask me to marry him," Ten Ten mused, she and Sakura trudging up the road. They passed a couple people they knew along the way and waved cheerfully. "Almost, anyway."

"It almost makes me wish I had someone else around so it would be easier to relate to you crazies," Sakura said with light hearted joking. "I'm not really lonely, but there's nothing like planning a wedding to show you what you're missing out on."

"Have you considered anyone to take as a date?" Ten Ten pried. Sakura knew she could probably set her up with someone if she said no, since Ten Ten knew just about everyone for some reason or another. The thing was, Sakura wasn't really sure she wanted to deal with having to entertain someone she didn't know with the added stress of being the maid of honor. Her date would probably do a lot of sitting around waiting for her to be done tending to Ino and crew. It didn't sound fun. Even to her.

"You know, I don't think I'm going to go with anyone," she finally said carefully. Ten Ten was clearly not convinced that was a good idea.

"I'm not gonna give you the generic friend talk about how you deserve to be happy blah blah blah because you should already know that," the brunette started. "But I'll tell you right now, your vagina doesn't have a brain. All it knows is that it's getting dried up, and you've probably got dust and stuff collecting up there, and someday when you finally decide to do it, something's just gonna fall out-"

"ENOUGH IMAGERY," Sakura shouted, punching her shoulder. "Geez. You realize it's not medically possible to-"

"The point is," Ten Ten interrupted, poking Sakura between the eyes, "you are an extremely classy lady compared to us, and the last chance I have to have some fun setting someone up. Let me work for you. I've got some good ones in mind! Seriously."

Sakura hesitated, sighed and looked away. "Alright. What've you got for me."

Ten Ten smirked. "That depends. Are you looking for a challenge, or do you want something easy and natural? Or do you want," she paused, seemed to think of something completely eye-wideningly perfect, and whispered coyly, "the wild card?"

"Easy," Sakura deadpanned for the second time that evening, Ten Ten falling over in the street. "I don't have time for an asshole or someone who can't understand what I'm going through right now. I am extremely busy." She thought for a moment, then narrowed her eyes and pointed at her boisterous friend. "And I'm not guaranteeing any of your friends sex. I don't know what you consider 'natural' in your relationships, but Kiba has the excuse of going into heat. I'll take a normal, healthy, conversationally adept human being, thank you."

"I was hoping you'd say that," Ten Ten said wickedly, eyes alight. "I've known you long enough to know what kind of challenge you could handle."

"I DON'T WANT A GODDAMN CHALLENGE," Sakura screeched, Ten Ten ignoring the fangs she'd developed and sparkling with heroic delusions. "GIVE ME SOMEONE NORMAL."

"Then it's settled," Ten Ten said cheerfully. "I've been looking for someone who could go with Neji. You guys will be perfect."

Sakura froze, mind scratching her thoughts out like nails on a chalk board. "…Neji?"

"Yep. He's about the same as you. He isn't in the wedding party, but he grumbles every time I mention setting him up. He's not too demanding. And he can carry on a conversation. Which is what you wanted, right?" she asked pointedly, Sakura growing smaller under her finger.

Neji would indeed probably work as a friendly date to a wedding. On the surface, this sounded like a good setup. But Sakura had been on too many episodes of The Ten Ten Show to be fooled by surface appearances. Take Hinata's wedding, for example. She had done a reasonable amount of planning for that as well, and had agreed to let Ten Ten set her up. The thing about that though, was that when Ten Ten set you up, she expected you to stick it out. For life. Being a natural competitor, Sakura knew she couldn't stand losing. Even if it wasn't even losing. Sakura failing at a relationship she'd conceived was a loss in her bracket, and that was unacceptable. If she was going on a "date" with Neji, chances were Ten Ten would do everything in her power to make sure he felt obligated to propose to her by the time Ino was on her honeymoon. And Neji was, if anything, normal. He had a future. The scars of being flogged into a relationship with Ten Ten's friend would scar him for life.

Sakura looked into her friends scary brown eyes. "I…I guess…that's fine…"

It was probably the wishy-washiest she'd sounded for months, and it was enough for Ten Ten to whip the dogs and holler 'mush'. Sakura hoped that, for once, being wishy-washy wouldn't end up equaling torture and regret.

Neji, huh…

She trudged through her front door and fell over the couch, snoring softly into the blanket she'd left there from movie night a couple days ago.

I suppose this is something I can handle.

If there's any mistakes you caught, please inform me. I'm still trying to re-familiarize with the Naruto series. Hope you liked it, though. :)