"Sakura, my baby! My love! My reason! My one true desire! I beg of thee! Nay! I demand that ye come to camp this summer!" My best friend Ino yelled to me over the phone. I'm pretty sure that if I could have somehow seen her, there would be large anime-style tears running down her face. Too bad she has to be a bitch and live in Canada!

"Ino, I go there every other year, as in I skip one between! And since I went last year…" I felt bad telling her that I couldn't go. She was my best friend and those were really the only time that we actually got to see each other. "I can't afford it this year!"

"I'll pay for you! Please, please, please! Say that you'll go! There's someone that we've been trying to get you to meet for the past forever!" she begged me. Hah! Now I really do wish that I could see her! Ino never begs for anything! She usually just yells until people become so annoyed that they give her what she wants.

"But... didn't you say that there was a gang! I heard that they only show up during even numbered years! Ino, I'm too young to be murdered by a gang!" I could practically hear her rolling her eyes over the phone and shaking her head. Come to think of it, I could hear her shaking her head with a weird rattling noise. Must be her tiny brain rolling around in there. Either that or her earrings.

"Yes, there is a gang but they're a bunch of pansies really. One of them is blind, one of them is constantly giving lectures on art, and the rest are cocky bastards who are afraid of their own shadows (trust me, I have proof). Say you'll go?"

"Why do you want me there so often? I thought that you could only handle the awesomeness of me once every two years!"

"Yes, but there's someone that we've wanted you to meet since forever" (by we she means herself and the rest of 'our group'). "He's super-hot, but he always every-other year that you're not. I'm pretty sure that you guys are either gonna date or end up as best friends!" Ino squealed and I winced at just how high-pitched she could go.

"Fine, I'll go if: you pay for me, let me pack my own bags, and the next time that we hang out, we don't go shopping. Oh, and just saying, but don't get your hopes up about this guy. I remember the last time that you tried to set me up with someone… that reminds me! His ball retrieval surgery went well in case you're interested" I heard my phone beep that it was out of batteries. "Ino, my phone is dying! I gotta go!"

"Mkay, but before you do, the guy's name is-", but I never did hear the mystery guy's name, because at that moment, my phone decided that it was gonna follow its own warning and die tragically. Not really, but I did have to run to the nearest charger. And about that guy, guess that I'll just have to wait Ino calls again to hear his name!

ELSEWHERE

"Mkay, but before you do, the guy's name is Kiba Inuzuka!" Ino said happily into her phone.

"…"

"Sakura?"

"…"

"Sakura! Are you there? Oh my god! Her phone actually died!"

"…"

"Or that bitch hung up on me…"

"…"

"I'm gonna hang up my phone and stop talking into it like a loser now"

"Kiba my man! Tenten just called me, and she told me that she just got a phone call from Sasuke, who got a phone call from Temari, who got a phone call from Shikamaru, who got a phone call from Neji, who had just gotten off the phone with Ino, who told him that the girl that we want you to meet is coming to camp this summer!"

"Hunh?" I responded into the phone. I really have no idea what the blabbering blonde idiot just said.

"Isn't it great?" he yelled. Guess he thinks that I actually just understood him. Better set him straight.

"Isn't what great?"

"Whoa! You spoke more than one syllable!"

"No kidding dumb ass, I'm not Sasgay! Isn't what great?" I repeated.

"Oh! The girl that we want to set you up wit- I mean that we want you to meet, is coming to camp this summer!" he exclaimed as thought this was a good thing. I really have no idea if it is or not. I also hadn't missed the fact that he had started to say 'set you up with', but I chose to ignore it.

"Great. I still don't get what's so great about this girl."

"She's exactly like you! Minus the 'I'm so hot that every girl in a 100 mile radius wants to bang me' over confident attitude! Hey! You should join the Akatsuki! I bet that they'd love yo have you! And you fit the bill perfectly! OMG! Sasuke's brother is in it! He could totally set you up!" Trust Naruto to get so off track, especially about a highly dangerous gang of criminals. I don't care what Ino says about them being pansies that are afraid of their shadows. They're kinda sorta really scary guys. Not that I'm afraid but…

"What do you mean, 'exactly like me?"

"She pulls pranks all the time just like you, and she's really athletic, she's a black belt in karate, Kung-Fu, tai-jutsu, and like, a million other martial arts, like you are. Her favourite food is red-bean ice cream, like yours, and she goes to the camp every other year too!"

"If she goes to camp every other year just like me, why haven't we met yet?"

"She doesn't make smart ass responses like that! Why can't you be more like Sakura?"

"Who?"

"The girl, Sakura! Promise that you'll meet her Kiba? She's definitely either gonna be your best friend, or your girlfriend!"

"Of course idiot. I guess we'll just wait and see, won't we?"

"But it's true! You just wait and see Kiba!"

"That's what I just said. We'll see. Dumbass"

"Don't you argue with me mister-"

"Bye Naruto."

"Don't you hang up on me young man! I don't appreciate your arguing..." too late. I hung up. I sighed and stretched, walking over to my bed and laying down.

ELSEWHERE ELSWHERE!

"Don't you hang up on me young man! I don't appreciate your arguing! I'm going to be the president of the United States someday, so you had better learn to listen to me, or you're going to find yourself in a really awkward spot! Speaking of awkward spots, I've got this one that I just can't seem to itch, right between my shoulder blades. I wonder if I could reach it… nope! I need a longer spoon. But… the only one long enough is my ramen spoon! Speaking of ramen, I'm really hungry. I'm gonna go get food. Bye Kiba!"

"…"

"Kiba? I said bye!"

"He hung up on me!"

"…"

"I wonder when…"

"…"

"Yeah, I'm just gonna put down the phone and make some ramen now…"