Warning: This chapter is rated EC for Extreme Cuteness. Very fluffy, sweet moments. XD

This is the last chapter... (sniff) I'm so sad...

Chapter 11 : Happy Endings?

The heated argument continued for a while after Temari left. It went on long enough for a crowd of people to gather around and start cheering them on. It was all just verbal fighting, but then somehow the hitting started...

But it wasn't long until they all found themselves falling off the their feet and hitting the ground. Sasuke, who hit ground face first, yelled a curse word and scrambled up to see who had knocked them all down.

Temari stood there, feet apart, one arm poised in front of her, the other behind her, holding her open fan. "Did I get your attention, idiots?" Evidently, she'd used her fan to create a strong wind that knocked them down.

"WHAT DO YOU WANT?" screamed Ino.

"I was trying to tell you something!" Temari said. "The guys didn't plan this!"

"How do you know all this anyway?" Sakura asked.

"Because," Temari said, "The same thing happened to me."

"Oooh, someone gave you the note too? Who?" Naruto asked, grinning.

"You just don't get it, do you, Naruto?" Sakura said.

"Shikamaru, or so I thought," Temari said. (Everyone winced.) "But really, he didn't. It just seemed like it. We already talked about it. And I'm sure there's a good explanation for all your 'note problems' too."

"Okay, then explain!" Ino shouted.

"First, you tell me where and how Sasuke gave you the note," Temari said.

"Okay, well, it was Wednesday afternoon, and I was with Choji and Shikamaru, and Sasuke came by, and I asked him if he had one of those papers that gave the day and time of the dance, because I'd lost mine. And instead of giving me the paper, he gave me that beautiful love note!"

"Ugh," Sakura snorted with disgust.

"I kept it with me, but then I lost it. The last time I saw it, it was by my bedroom window."

"Okay, now, Tenten, what about you?"

Tenten turned her gaze from Ino to Temari. "Oh, uh, well, Neji said he had a gift for me in my bag later in the day on Thursday, so I went to look, and the note was there. I think I lost it walking home after that, but really, I didn't mind."

"Okay, and you, Hinata?"

Hinata looked down and said, "Well, I... I passed by Naruto-kun when I took a walk on Thursday morning, a-and... I was talking to him... a-a-and I saw a paper sticking out of h-his bag, and I asked him... w-what it was... a-a-and then the wind blew it, and i-i-it came at me... a-and I caught it and tried to give it b-b-back to him... and he said I could have it... and then I read it... a-a-and... I fainted, and whe I woke up, the note was gone." She blushed.

"Okay, I get it now!" Temari said. "First, the wind blew the note into Sasuke's bag. Sakura read it and thought he was asking her to the dance. Then, later on, when Sasuke meant to give Ino the paper for the dance, he accidently gave her the love note, so then Ino thought she was going to the dance with him. Then, that night, while Ino was sleeping, the wind carried the note out the window, and somehow it was carried into Naruto's bag. Then in the morning, Naruto gave Hinata the note. Then when Hinata fainted, the wind carried it into Tenten's bag. Tenten read the note, then on the way home, the wind carried it away again."

"Wow," Sakura said.

"It has been kinda windy out lately..." Ino mumbled. "BUT WAIT! Then... then Sasuke... he won't... he's not..."

"Yeah, that's right! I'm not your date!" Sasuke snapped.

"But Neji, if the gift you gave me wasn't the note, then what was it?" Tenten asked.

"It was some new kunai for training!"

Tenten froze. "Oh. That's where they came from. Right... Then, I wore all this stupid stuff for nothing?" She looked at her uncomfortable shoes.

Everyone began to get up and go their seperate ways. Hinata looked over at Naruto. She didn't say anything, but her eyes said it all. Slowly, she got up from her seat and began to walk away.

"Hinata, where are you going?" Naruto asked. He ran over to her.

"O-oh... I... I just thought..." she said slowly, tapping her fingers together. "I thought... s-since you w-weren't really m-m-my... date to the dance... I sh-should leave..."

"Don't worry about it, Hinata!" Naruto said. "I'll be your date!"

Hinata blushed. "R-r-really?"

"Yeah! Believe it!" Naruto said, grinning. Hinata always felt happy and at peace seeing that grin.

"T-t-thank you, Naruto-kun," she said, not knowing what else to say.

"Don't mention it," Naruto said. "I do think you're kind of cute, y'know, Hinata?"

Hinata blushed a very, very deep shade of red. Her face was redder than a tomato when Naruto leaned toward her and gently kissed her on the cheek. Hinata was frozen as Naruto stood straight again and grinned. Then Hinata slowly began to fall backward...

"Whoa! Hinata-chan!" Naruto said. He quickly caught her in his arms. Hinata smiled a little, looked at him, and said, "A-a-arigatou... N-N-Naruto-kun..."

Tenten, still on the ground, put her head in her hands. "Well, great, she got her happy ending." She sighed. "Maybe I should go home." She stayed there for a minute, listening to the slow song that was now playing. She turned around quickly and looked at the people on the dance floor. All of them were girls slow-dancing with their own dates. All of them smiled and talked, and hugged. Tenten sighed again and turned back around. She looked down at her orange heels, that she hated so much, and then she saw another pair of shoes walk up in front of hers and stop.

"Hey, are you okay?"

Tenten looked up. It was Neji. He looked so cute in that white dress shirt, too...

"I'm fine," she said, looking down again. He could tell she wasn't, though. He kneeled down in front of her and gently took her hand. Tenten looked up at him, and for a moment, they just looked at each other; brown eyes to pearl eyes, and pearl eyes to brown eyes.

"You know, you look really good in that dress, even if you do think it's stupid," Neji said, smiling.

Tenten didn't know what to say. She'd never seen Neji this nice.

"In fact, you always look good."

Tenten smiled back.

"Do you want to dance with me?" Neji asked.

Tenten couldn't help herself. She let out a little scream, Neji winced a little bit and then quickly she said, "Oh my god! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! That came out of nowhere!..."

Neji laughed a little and said, "It's okay!"

Tenten took a deep breath, closed her eyes for a moment, then opened the again, looking at Neji, and said, "Okay, I'll dance with you."

They both smiled again, and Neji helped pull her up. Neji standing on her left, put one arm around Tenten's waist, and they both walked to the crowd of dancing couples together.

They passed Sakura and Ino and the way, and the two girls sighed.

"They're so cute together..." Sakura said.

"Yeah," said Ino.

For a moment, they watched as Neji and Tenten found a spot on the "dance floor" and began to dance, then they realized that they had agreed on something and glared at each other. But it didn't take long for both of them to stop and just look at each other.

"Ino?" Sakura said.

"Yeah?"

"I'm tired of fighting with you. Do you think... maybe... we can be friends again?"

Ino blinked, then she smiled. "Sure. Why not?"

"Yeah, I mean, how stupid of us was it to break up over a guy?" Sakura laughed.

"Really stupid!" Ino said, also giggling.

"And for us to think Sasuke was asking us to go to the dance with him?"

"I know! I mean, really. Sasuke? Ask someone to the dance? Heh, not likely!"

They both laughed together. "Besides," Ino said, calming down. "That other guy over there is cuter..." she said, pointing to a boy about their age, leaning on the iron gates and drinking from a bottle of root beer.

"Should I go talk to him?" Ino asked.

"He's not going to be there forever!" Sakura said.

Ino grinned, then got up and walked over to him. Sakura sighed and looked back over at Neji and Tenten. Now they were dancing to a more lively song. They were both having a lot of fun, laughing, and smiling.

"They really do make a cute couple," Sakura said to herself. She looked over to Ino and the boy. They were talking, and Sakura assumed they liked each other, since they were both beaming.

"It's not even spring and love is in the air!" she said.

"I guess," she heard a familiar voice next to her say.

She turned around, a little surprised, and said, "Oh, hi, Sasuke."

Sasuke, sitting next to her, smiled a little bit, something Sakura never really saw him do, unless he just beat the crap of his opponent in battle.

"Hey, I'm really sorry about the whole thing about the note, it was really stupid..."

"It was, wasn't it?" he said.

"Hey." Somehow she knew that he had forgiven her, though, just looking at his smile.

"Y'know, Sakura..." he started, taking a deep breath.

"Yeah?"

"This is... hard to admit. But..."

Sakura cotinued to look at him, waiting for what he would say next, her emerald eyes filled with wonder.

"When you came to tell me you would go to the dance with me, I probably would have, if Ino hadn't been there."

Sakura laughed a little. "I thought you hated girls who just obsess over you all the time."

"Well, see, I do. But there's this one fangirl, who's a lot nicer and smarter than the others, and I am secretly a fanboy of her. And her name is Haruno Sakura."

Sakura just stared at him for a minute. He... liked her? Really? She couldn't believe it. She just absolutely couldn't believe it.

"Are... you serious?" she asked.

"Yeah."

He smiled again. And this wasn't the smug I-just-kicked-your-butt smile. This was a real, genuine, warm, kind smile. His midnight-black eyes had the same smile in them, too.

"But all those times... and you always acted like you didn't like me..."

"You want proof that I really do love you?"

Sakura blushed slightly. 'Oh my god, he just said "I", "love", and "you" all in the same sentence!' she thought. She heard this noise, a pounding beat, and for a quick second owndered what it was before she realized it was her heart.

"Um... proof?"

Sasuke smiled a little more, then slowly leaned forward and kissed her. On the lips. Right there. As soon as she felt his lips meet hers, she stopped breathing. She was a little shocked, and she felt very happy at the same time.

"CHA! HE DOES LOVE ME!" Inner Sakura screamed, then she began to dance all around Sakura's mind.

"Sakura?"

Sakura gasped a little, panicking in her mind at the lack of oxygen. "Y-y-yeah?"

He looked at her, and she knew he was waiting for her to say something.

"O-oh!" Sakura said. She blushed, a very deep shade of red. "T-t-thank you."

And they both smiled, a little nervously, but still they both showed their happiness in their eyes.

Meanwhile, Temari wandered through the crowd until she saw Shikamaru sitting on a bench nearby. He looked like he was mumbling something.

She approached him, and he looked up at her. "Where were you?"

"Oh, nowhere..."

He gaze shifted to the fan on her back, the black paint gleaming in the lights. "Okay."

"You, I was just thinking..." Temari said, sitting down beside him, "...about that note."

He looked at her, and she could she the look of questioning in his eyes. "W-what about it?"

"Well, it seems like we're not the only ones who've had a few little mishaps with that note."

"Oh, great. What a drag..."

Temari smiled a little, and tried her best to make her gaze look soft and loving, however hard it was due to her usually cruel nature. "Maybe this note wasn't so bad, though, Shikamaru. Maybe it was actually one of the best things that's ever happened to us."

Shikamaru looked back over to her, sighed, and then smiled. "Okay. I'll take your word for it."

THE END

Maybe I could have done a little more with the ending, but I guess that's for all you readers to decide:D

I hope you liked the story! I'm thinking of doing a Naruto high school fic next... Beware teh high school fic-ness... Well, that's all I can really think of to say. I hope you read my next story, too!

THNX 4 READIN' N' REVIEWIN', Y'ALL!

-mizz neko