When Really Good Looking Vampires End Up in a Bookstore Near You
By
Laughing Still
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, wish I did but I don't.
A/N: Thank you to all you who have read/reviewed my stories! I am delighted you like them and very touched you took the time to review them. Hope you enjoy this one! :)
Jealousy is an ugly thing.
It's been said who knows how many times before, but usually they forget to mention that it also amusing, occasionally put some unfortunate person in the OR, and, sometimes, it is the stuff of legends. This time was one of those times, though no one knew it yet. Before we get ahead of ourselves however, we had better start at the beginning.
Team 7 of Konoha had been out training since dawn and all four of its members were ready to pass out from exhaustion though it was only obvious in two of them. Since it was summer, Kakashi-sensei had made the three a deal; if they were at the training grounds a half hour before dawn, (usually about 5 a.m.) they would quit training at noon and the rest of the afternoon was theirs to use as they pleased. So, here they were at noon, trying not to keel over from heat exhaustion.
"Alright, you guys are free." Kakashi-sensei said, leaning against a shady tree trunk and pulling out his favorite orange book. "See you later. Good job."
And with that, he opened the book and instantly got lost in the questionable world of Icha Icha Paradise.
"Sakura-chan! Come to lunch with me? We can go swimming afterwards!" Naruto shouted, thoroughly deafening his teammates.
"Oh, sorry Naruto." The pinkette began, looking truly remorseful. "But I can't."
"What?! Why not?!"
"Because I have things." She said distractedly, glancing at her watch and getting up hastily. "See you."
"What kinds of things?" Naruto demanded.
"A date. I gotta go. Sorry."
It was as though she had just uttered the foulest swearword known to man. Naruto's jaw dropped, Kakashi-sensei was jerked out of his book to stare at his only female student and the last Uchiha looked as though he had suddenly been carved from stone.
"You got Sasuke-teme to go on a date with you?!" Naruto yelled.
WHACK!
"Ouch! Sakura-chan!"
"Ahh! Sorry guys! I have to go! He's waiting for me!" The 17 year old took off running. "Be sure to take care of your head Naruto! See you!"
Within seconds she was gone from sight.
"Take care of my head? She never says that after she hits me." Naruto mumbled, rubbing the sore spot and looking after Sakura. He turned back to the two others and his eyes landed on Sasuke.
"Wait a minute! Sakura-chan didn't hit me! You did! What was that for?!"
Sasuke scoffed. "Dobe."
"Hey! Don't call me that Teme!"
"Wonder who Sakura has a date with." Kakashi's voice asked idly. He turned the page and looked at Sasuke.
His student observed him coolly and Kakashi resisted the urge to hit him with his hardback book in the hopes of knocking some sense into him. He tried again.
"She seemed pretty excited about it."
"Hn." The Uchiha heir grunted, getting up and walking in the opposite direction Sakura had taken.
"Hey Teme! Wait up! Let's go get ramen!"
Naruto scrambled after Sasuke, nearly tripping over a log in his hurry.
Kakashi rolled his eyes and settled more comfortably into the tree. Once upon a time he had hoped that his students would indulge his inner romantic and fall for their pink haired teammate. That dream however had been ruthlessly murdered when he had seen the cold eyes of Uchiha Sasuke and the first time Naruto had opened his mouth. One of his students was a clueless ramen obsessed demon vessel and the other had absolutely no sense of the romantic whatsoever, not exactly who he would have chosen to fall in love with the girl who was a combination of a niece and daughter to him. Kakashi shrugged and shoved the thought into the back of his mind, burying himself in his book again. At least someone knew how to write a romance.
3 training fields away, the four members of Team 8 were eating lunch, Kiba and Kurenai-sensei predominantly carrying on the conversation. Kurenai-sensei laughed as Kiba finished telling one of Akamaru's many adventures. Hinata smiled and petted the sleeping dog affectionately.
"K-Kurenai-sensei, w-what time is it?"
Her sensei looked up at the sun above them. "About noon. Why?"
Hinata paled suddenly and scrambled up, waking Akamaru up in the process and causing her companions to stare at her.
"M-may I b-be excused K-Kurenai-sen-s-sei?" she asked, going back to her normal shade of red at all the attention.
"Of course but why?" Kurenai looked puzzled. "Is something wrong?"
Hinata went tomato red and started pressing her pointer fingers together. "N-n-n-no. N-not a-at a-all. I-I j-j-just h-have t-t-to b-be s-somew-where a-and I h-have t-to g-go n-now."
"What? Got a hot date or something?" Kiba teased.
Hinata looked as though she were about to faint and was suddenly very interested in her sandals. Then, without any warning, she gave a tiny nod.
"WHAT?!"
Kurenai-sensei dropped the piece of bread she was holding.
"Kiba, please desist from yelling so loudly, you are damaging my hearing." Aburame Shino requested. He wasn't looking at Kiba though and his voice was distant, as though his mind was elsewhere.
Hinata fidgeted.
"WHO ON EARTH WITH?!" Kiba bellowed, only making Hinata more uncomfortable.
"Kiba!" Kurenai scolded, snapping out of her shock.
"I-I r-really h-h-have t-to g-go." Hinata stammered, turning and starting to run.
"I know! It's with that blond idiot Naruto! You finally admitted you liked him and—and—"
He keeled over, his brain too traumatized to maintain consciousness.
"NEJI-KUN, MY YOUTHFUL STUDENT! I FEAR I MUST INTTERUPT YOUR YOUTHFUL ACTIVITIES WITH OUR YOUTHFUL TENTEN-CHAN TO CALL YOU TO THE MIDDAY MEAL! COME, MY YOUTHFUL STUDENTS!"
The Hyuuga prodigy turned to look at his eccentric sensei and nearly lost an ear in the process, courtesy of his sparring partner. There was an ominous thunk and Tenten grinned as Neji's eyes widened a fraction of an inch.
"WELL DONE MY YOUTHFUL TEAMMATE!" Lee shouted, clapping.
Neji glared at him.
"Thanks Lee." Tenten said, jumping out of her tree and landing beside her sensei. "I'm starving, are you?"
"AH! THAT SHOWS YOUR YOUTHFULLNESS IS WELL IN HAND! OH! MY YOUTHFUL BLOSSOM IS GROWNING UP! OH! THE POWER OF YOUTH!" Gai-sensei yelled happily, anime tears streaming down his face.
"SO TRUE GAI-SENSEI!" Lee shouted back, tears pouring down his face as well.
"OH LEE!"
"GAI-SENSEI!"
"LEE!"
"Um, Gai-sensei?" Tenten asked.
The man never even heard her.
"GAI-SENSEI!"
"LEE!"
"GAI-SENSEI!"
"Gai-sensei?" she tried again, slightly louder.
"LEE!"
"GAI-SENSEI!" Tenten and Lee yelled at the exact same time.
"L—"
WHAM!
A kunai had suddenly been embedded into the bark of the tree right in between Lee and Gai-sensei. All three turned to Neji.
"Tenten had a question." He said, not looking at any of them.
Tenten flushed but swore to thank him later.
"YES MY YOUTHFUL TENTEN-CHAN!"
"Um, I was wondering if I could have the rest of today off."
"WHAT EVER FOR MY YOUTHFUL BLOSSOM?! YOU NEED MORE TRAINING TO KEEP YOUR YOUTHFULLNESS IN PEAK CONDITION!"
"Um, yeah, well…" Tenten blushed again and fiddled with one of her many weapons, uncharacteristically shy. This wasn't helped by the fact that everyone was staring at her—yes, even Neji was paying attention to her.
"Um, well, I'm kind of meeting someone for lunch and—"
"OUR YOUTHFUL TENTEN-CHAN IS GOING ON A DATE!" Lee bellowed at the top of his voice, tears flowing in rivers down his cheeks. "OUR TENTEN-CHAN IS GROWING UP!"
At this, Gai-sensei completely dissolved and Neji rounded on his sparring partner.
"GO MY YOUTHFUL STUDENT! I WILL NOT STAND IN THE WAY OF YOUR YOUTHFUL IMPULSES!"
"HOW WONDERFUL!"
"You what?!"
"MY SWEET POPPY MAY YOUR SCENT INTOXICATE YOUR SUITOR TO WORSHIP YOUR YOUTHFUL BEAUTY AND MAY YOU LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER IN ALL YOUTHFULLNESS!"
"IT IS WITH THE YOUTHFUL UCHIHA-SAN IS IT NOT?"
"Who?!"
"OH MY YOUTHFUL FLOWER! WORDS FAIL TO DESCRIBE MY EMOTIONS AT THIS MOMENT! IF I WERE SO FORTUNATE AS TO BE YOUR BEAU YOUR RADIENT YOUTHFULLNESS WOULD BEWITCH ME INSTANTLY!"
"IT IS AT SHUSHUYA YES? THE MOST YOUTHFUL PLACE IN ALL FIRE COUNTRY!"
"Where?!"
"Um, I, um, h-have t-to go! H-he's waiting!" Tenten squeaked, gone in the blink of an eye.
"Sensei, Please?"
"No."
"Sense—"
"No."
"Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease?!"
"No, Ino."
The girl huffed and shoved a loose piece of hair out of her way. She looked at her team and huffed again. Chouji was calmly eating his Barbeque chips, ignoring everything else and that lazy Shikamaru was lying in the grass and staring up at his beloved clouds, half asleep. And then there was her sensei who was sitting on a convenient rock and smoking his usual cigarette.
"Ino, sit down and eat your lunch. I'm not letting you off and that's final."
Ino sat down and sulkily began to unpack her lunch.
"Troublesome." Shikamaru muttered.
Ino sent him a death glare and would have smacked him but he was too far away. She settled for stony silence and occasionally sniffing as though her heart had just been broken.
"Come on Ino, cheer up." Chouji said, being the first to crack. He put his hand into his chip bag and pulled out the biggest chip he could find, waved it in front of her.
She couldn't help smiling slightly though she was still mad at Asuma-sensei. She accepted the chip and bit into it, not remembering the last time she had had one.
"After all, you can reschedule with the girls later right?"
"But this wasn't with the girls Chouji!" she exclaimed, horrified that he didn't know. "This was with the love of my life!"
Asuma-sensei choked on his cigarette smoke. "What?"
Ino turned to him. "Yes, I was going to meet him at Amaguriama and he's waiting for me!" she whined, throwing her food down in distaste, seeing his face before her eyes.
There was silence and Ino gave it up, feeling her heart break inside of her for the second time in her life.
"How emotionally scarred would you be if I didn't let you go?" Asuma asked almost randomly.
"Asuma-sensei, my heart is broken!" Ino shrieked, tears threatening to fall. "You can't get anymore scarred than that! You're the most horrid sensei ever!"
Her sensei sighed and rolled his eyes. "Good, I thought so. Thanks for letting me know."
There was another small silence as Ino sobbed again and Chouji sighed.
"Come on Ino, please cheer up?"
"My heart is broken Chouji! I'm not sure how I'll live though this! I only just got over Sasuke and now Asuma-sensei just broke it again! I can't believe how mean he is! My beloved is waiting for me and I won't be there and he'll never forgive me and he'll dump me and then my heart will be even more fragmented and you're all so mean and I hate you!"
She was just drawing another deep breath to continue her rant and tell them all exactly how she hated them when Asuma-sensei stepped in.
"Ino." He sighed, his face resembling that of a martyr's. "If you promise to shut up, you can go."
There was about two seconds of in which she complied with his request and then—
" .GOSH!" she screamed, pouncing on her sensei and kissing him on the cheek. "Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou Asuma-sensei-kun! You love me! Oh! I have got to go! I'm late! AHH! Take care guys! See you! Gah! My hair is an absolute mess! What am I going to do?!"
She dashed off, yanking her ponytail out and letting her hair fly free. Three pairs of eyes stared after her.
"This guy must be amazing." Asuma said, touching the place where his student had kissed him. "She's never done that. Do you two know him?"
Chouji shook his head, eating another chip. "Nope, you Shika?"
His comrade sighed. "Troublesome."