First of all I have to apologize to all who liked to read my stories for my laziness; I had so much to do at work the last weeks and was just too empty in my head to write anything. I'm thinking about a sequel for my Kakashi/OC story, but I have to write this story first. I was thinking about it quite a while, but somehow I haven't wrote it earlier. It's Naru/Hina and as second Neji/Ten. Somehow I was just too stupid to find a suitable beginning, so I tried a funny start. I hope you like it, and if you do, then please write some reviews! There's nothing more motivating than reading them.
I DO NOT OWN NARUTO!
It was a beautiful summer day, no missions, no training, and enough time to just do nothing. Reason enough for the girls to meet and hang around together. They had met at the waterfall to enjoy their leisure time and chat a little. Since it was a boy-free-day all of them wore their newest bikinis.
"That's wonderful." Ino mumbled, stretching herself and shoving her head in a more comfortable position. She lay on a cover sunbathing.
"You better watch out, Blondie." Tenten grinned. "Not that you become red."
"I used sun crème, but thanks for your worries." She grinned at her. "By the way, that hat of yours is truly stylish."
"Don't you dare mocking about my hat!" She laughed. "That's a present from my aunt. And I think together with these sunglasses it really suits me."
"And you're right." Hinata smiled. "It truly suits."
"See? Hinata knows about stuff like that."
"Yeah, yeah." Ino mumbled. "I give up."
Hinata wore a base cap, sat on her cover and read a book but now poked Sakura.
"Time to turn round." She smiled.
"Thanks." She mumbled and turned to lie on her tummy.
"By the way, nice bandana Sakura-chan."
"Thanks." She yawned. "Was a present."
"OY! Present? From who?" Ino asked wide grinning. "Naruto? Lee?"
"No!" Sakura shot back. "Kakashi-sensei, to my last birthday. Jealous?"
"Hmpf."
Tenten and Hinata giggled, those little games between Sakura and Ino were part of daily program.
"This peace is wonderful." Sakura mumbled after a while.
"Yeah, you're so right." Tenten sighed. "No stupid talk about the 'bloom of youth' no crazy '500 laps around the village' and best of all, NO training."
"Sounds like your team sometimes jumps on your nerves." Sakura stated.
"Yeah, sometimes it's really annoying. Lee always tries to challenge Neji, but he just ignores him. Means most of the time, sometimes I'm that fed up with this that I leave and train on my own."
"Understandable." Ino said.
"But my team isn't really better. Choji can't walk past any store that sells food without buying something. He's always munching, and Shikamaru is too lazy to even complain about that. But the most annoying thing is, I had to make the b-day cake for Shikamaru three times! The first two fell victim to Choji's munch-attacks." And she pulled a face.
"Munch-attacks are horrible, I know that. It's the same with Naruto and ramen. But my team isn't easy too. At the beginning we always had those 'bastard-dobe-teme-baka-arguments', and now Naruto is shouting about 'Penis-boy'." All of them laughed. "But the most horrible thing is that he always, and I really mean always, jumps into problems. Plus he's so loud all the time, last time I nearly became deaf as he called his 'Sakura-chaaaaan'."
"I can't complain about my team." Hinata stated. "Shino is quiet, Kiba and Akamaru are sort of loud sometimes, but it's in balance."
"But Shino is a bug-freak." Ino stated. "And Kiba smells like a dog."
"I'm used to that, so I don't recognise anymore. Sometimes they argue, but most of the time it's peaceful."
"Sounds like you have caught the best team." Tenten grinned.
"But honestly, I like my team and I will never change it." She laughed.
"Same with me." Ino smiled.
"And me." Hinata laughed, and all three were looking at Sakura.
"Hey, what do you look?" she said. "I haven't my old team, so that doesn't count."
"Yo, billboard-brow." Ino teased her. "Then let's count the old one."
"Honestly, I WANT IT BACK!" she called.
"See, that's a start." The blonde grinned.
"SAKURA-CHAAAN!" Naruto shouted, running up and down in the village, looking for her. As he turned around a corner he bumped into something, better someone.
"Better watch where you ran, baka." Shikamaru mumbled, standing next to Choji, who set Narutos running a dead end.
"By the way, why are you shouting like crazy?"
"I'm looking for Sakura-chan, but I can't find her."
"Strange." The Nara mumbled.
"We're looking for Ino too." Choji stated, as he put another hand full of chips in his mouth.
"Maybe they're together?" Naruto mumbled, while standing up and brushing the dust from his clothes.
"Then let's look together." Choji grinned.
They didn't find the girls, but they found another new formed squad: Neji, Lee, Shino and Kiba with Akamaru.
"Have you seen Tenten and Hinata?" Kiba asked.
"No. Have you seen Ino and Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked back.
"No."
"What a drag." Shikamaru mumbled.
"I guess they hang around together." Neji stated.
They looked for them for nearly two hours, but without effort.
"Man, it's definitely too hot to run around like that today." Kiba stated and Akamaru barked.
"I think we need to cool down."
"How about going to the waterfall?" Lee asked.
"Yeah!" Naruto said. "It's nice there."
"Then let's go."
As they reached the river they heard someone laughing, and as they listened closer they recognised the sources. The long searched Kunoichis!
"Finally found them." Naruto grinned and started to walk towards the noise, but Lee stopped him.
"I don't think that they want us to disturb them."
"I'd say bushy-brows is right." Kiba grinned. "They are talking about us, so better if we stay where we are."
"Yeah. Ino is a kick-ass if you disturb her." Choji said munching.
"I don't care…" Naruto started.
"Yo, Sakura can become very spooky, if she's angry, you should know that by now. Better give it a rest." Kiba laughed.
"Kiba is right." Shino stated. "They wanted to be alone if they went here without telling us."
"Right." Shikamaru said, lying down under a tree. "As long as I have my peace I don't care what they do."
"Yeah." Neji stated, sitting down in the shadows too, and soon the rest followed.
"Girls, I need a cool down." Ino grinned. "Who joins?"
"Me!" Tenten said, jumping to her feet, putting hat and glasses down.
"Me too." Sakura grinned.
"And me." Hinata smiled, and all four of them ran laughing towards the waterfall. A while later they took their stuff and wandered a little, so they have enough sun again, and they got nearer to the boys without recognising.
"Man, in two days mission again." Tenten sighed. "If the weather is staying that beautiful it's really annoying."
"Better than being stuck up in that smelly hospital." Sakura sighed. "But it's better than going on mission with 'Penis-boy' and Naruto. Plus Kakashi-sensei is still not really healthy again, and Yamato would be squad-leader again."
"So you don't like him?" Ino asked.
"Naa, not like Kakashi-sensei. I'm so used to those rotten excuses and his lazy manner that I really miss him on missions. And I just can't stand Narutos arguments with Sai, they're even more exhausting like the steady ones with Sasuke-kun. And sharing a tent with them isn't pretty well either. Sai sleeps like a death, Kakashi-sensei sometimes snores, Naruto slobbers and Sasuke-kun talked while he slept."
"You're kidding!" Ino laughed.
"No, I'm honest."
"It's not like that with us." Tenten grinned. "Guy-sensei always talks some 'youthful' crap while sleeping, Neji sleeps like someone had knocked him out and Lee is always moving, it looks like he's practising taijutsu even when he sleeps."
"Cute." The other three laughed.
"I always wonder how Shikamaru is able to sleep at night, since he's that lazy during the day, but it's possible." Ino stated, shrugging her shoulders. "Asuma-sensei was used to swear while sleeping, a habit that Shikamaru had taken somehow. Sure, most of the time it sounds like the stuff he's saying the whole day…"
"What a drag…" the rest said laughing in unison.
"I see you got it." Ino grinned. "And Choji is always mumbling something about food, recipes and stuff. I sometimes had to leave the tent or I'll become hungry."
"Hmm, the only ones moving at night in our team where Kiba and Akamaru. Sometimes their legs are twitching and both of them grumble."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah, and somehow it seems like Shino's buzzing."
"With bugs inside…" Ino shivered. "No wonder…"
"Would you please stop that, Ino-chan?" Hinata said. "Shino-kun is really nice."
"I believe you, but despite that he's somehow like a freak show."
"Sure Ino-pig." Sakura grinned. "Mind-switching, Shadow-catching and supersizing isn't like a freak show after all…"
Tenten and Sakura laughed.
"You shouldn't mock. You have 'Penis-boy' and your crazy blonde knucklehead. You have the most trouble-making squad after all."
"Yeah, but despite that Naruto is really ok." Sakura said, huffing.
"Ha! You even missed him as he was gone!"
"The whole village did, because it was that quiet!"
"Actually I enjoyed it." Ino grinned. "I know, if we ask Hinata, she missed him most."
"Ino, stop teasing her! If she luvs him, it's ok. Better than your new found 'Penis-boy'-obsession."
Tenten now roared with laughter.
"Oy! Shut up." Ino moaned. "You and your crush for her strange cousin." She nodded to Hinata.
"Neji isn't strange!" Tenten protested loudly. "He's cute." She stated silently.
Hinata now started laughing.
"What's up with you now?" Sakura asked curious.
"I… I just thought about Neji-nii-san's face, if you tell him he's cuuuute." She giggled.
"I'd bet he would fell over with twitching brows." Ino grinned.
"I don't think so." Tenten shot back. "And he's ways better and cooler than your stupid Sai." She stuck out her tongue and started laughing.
"She has a point." Sakura stated grinning.
"You better say nothing." Ino teased. "Despite you, we have the ones around…"
"Hey, that's unfair." Sakura said. "And you know that. Sasuke-kun will come back, I know that."
"That's what you think."
"And you think that Sai is the right one for you, huh?" Sakura teased. "You only date him because he has some similarities to Sasuke-kun."
"And who does our billboard-brow think would 'suit' me better, huh?" Ino asked.
"Clearly." Sakura grinned. "Girls, all together." And she said in unison with Tenten and Hinata: "Shikamaru!"
"Whaat?! That lazy-butt?"
"Right, he didn't deserve a tyrannical monster-Barbie like you." Sakura grinned.
"Well, I think that's 1:0 for Sakura." Tenten laughed.
"You only say that to tease me…" Ino stated.
"No, I don't" Sakura answered. "I say that because you always smash something if you see him walking around with Temari."
"Sakura has a point." Tenten said. "Remember, the last time you scared the living shit out of a whole academy class because of your expression and the killing intent one could sense."
"That's… not… true…" Ino tried to defend herself.
"See! I know I was right!"
"Why can't you talk about anything else?"
"Why should we? We all know for ages that Hinata has a big crush on Naruto and that Tenten has fallen head over heels for Neji, and you all know pretty well that I still wait for Sasuke-kun. You see, there's nothing else to talk about." Sakura stated bluntly.
"Hmpf." Ino made, and lay down again.
"Plus I'm one step ahead of you all." Sakura grinned. "Because I already told Sasuke-kun that I love him."
"Not everyone has it as easy as you." Tenten said. "Do you really think I just can walk over to Neji and say 'by the way, I love you'? He would laugh… or faint… or kill me… or maybe everything... And Naruto is too stupid to even see that with Hinata. You could make a big sign, write it in big letters all over the Hokage-faces and Naruto would be too stupid to see."
"Tenten has a point." Ino stated.
"I know, no need to tell me." Sakura sighed. "Maybe I'll knock it into his head." Sakura said. "I couldn't believe that he munched your valentines chocolate and only said 'thanks' and left."
"He really did that?" Ino asked curious, now sitting upright again. Hinata only nodded.
"Man!" Tenten slapped her forehead. "That's stupid!"
"More than stupid." Sakura and Ino said in unison.
"Maybe someday he'll recognise." Hinata said blushing.
The boys heard everything they said, due to the fact they weren't that far away from them anymore.
Kiba and Shino grinned widely as they talked about Naruto, because they already had known about her crush a while before the Chunin-exams back then, the thing with Sakura and Sasuke was clear too. But that with Neji and Shikamaru was new. Lee looked at Neji with a big grin, and Neji looked at Shikamaru, both unbelievingly looks in their eyes. Choji only grinned while chewing and Kiba now was rolling on the floor laughing.
"I always told you that she likes you." Lee said chuckling to Neji.
"Yeah, and that with Hinata was obvious too." Kiba grinned.
"Man, am I truly that blind?" Naruto asked.
"Definitely yes!" all of them said in unison.
"Oy, that's hard."
"I… oy." Neji said, and Lee patted him on his shoulder.
"Take your chance." He winked.
"I'll take my chance to make a bolt." Shikamaru said and stood up.
"I'll join." Neji said quickly and together they left.
"Look at these chickens." Kiba grinned.
"That was too much for one day." Shino stated, slightly grinning. "It'll take a while and they'll cope with it."