Dedicated to: My Friend Heather, who forced me to stop reading other things and put this up. And I expect her to review since she NEVER gets on Yahoo and I can't talk to her.
Word count: 1,958
Of Hotels and Roommates: Chapter 1, Finding Your Roommates
Tsunade had already sent out messengers to retrieve all the important genin, now all that was left to do was wait. She leant back in her chair and propped her legs up on her desk, admiring her finely polished toenails.
"Lady Tsunade, they're here." a voice called through the door.
"Send em in."
The door opened up and in stepped Shizune with the young members of Team 7, Team 8, Team 10 and the visiting Team Sand.
"Old Lady, this better be good, I was about to go get some ramen!" Naruto yelled. Sasuke slapped him in the head. "Owww…" Hinata smiled.
"Vacation. That's it. This idea is as clichéd as I don't know what, but at this point I don't care. I've gotten each of you a ticket to stay in a hotel in a neighboring non-ninja village. There is a pool, a bath house, daily meals, and each person will have one roommate. Three lucky people will be sharing a room. Separate beds." the Hokage announced, winking at all the guys as she did so.
"Take your tickets. Be here tomorrow and we'll send you off. We probably won't put it into this story though because that would be boring. Any questions?" No one said anything. "Dismissed." The genin left the rooms obediently.
"Thank god for silencing and restraining jutsus."
"So this is it, eh? I guess it isn't swanky, but it's okay." Kiba said as the rest of the gang filed into the hotel lobby, albeit some grudgingly. The whole place was ornate with green and gold.
A man with, what looked like, a pole on the top of his head glared at them from a managers desk. He got up from his desk and walked over to them briskly. "Can I help you?" They could now see that the pole was his hair.
"Yes," said Sakura, taking control of the situation, "We have fourteen rooms reserved for a week long stay by order of the Fifth Hokage of the Leaf Village." she finished formally.
"Ahhh." His expression changed at once from utterly annoyed to a fake smile. "Fallow me please." He started to walk off to the right, so all the genin decided to fallow him so they could figure out what was going to happen with this story, thus creating a plot, which in turn can give authors ideas, and we all know what happens when writers get ideas; chaos ensues for unlucky characters and there is always a comedy fic attached to it, so we can all be sure that there will be puns (lord help us all). (A/N: Oh yah, Run ons Baby!)
Mr. Pole-for-hair led them down a hallway. At each turn they took, there was a soda machine and ice machine at the beginning of the way. The carpets were red with little triangles and swirls on them (Yay for detail).
'Here comes the fun part.' The man laughed out loud, stopping at the next hallway. "Each of you will be in one of these rooms," he indicated the whole hallway, up and down with his arms, "Take these. Grab the one that matches you ticket number." he held out a group of packets. Inside each of them was a key. "I hope you looked at your tickets carefully before you grabbed them." and on that note, he was gone.
-Silence-
"Oh no." all the females in the area said, even the old lady walking to her room, though she didn't know why.
"What?" Kiba and Naruto asked.
"Everyone check your ticket numbers." Ino commanded. All the boys looked down at their ticket numbers, shrugged, then stared at the blonde.
"Don't you get it? We took our tickets assuming that they were all the same, but they aren't! Those tickets decide who we room with!!" Tenten clarified. All the boys faces immediately changed from their former expressions to looks of astonishment. Gaara remained unfazed because he doesn't care, as long as he can play his Gameboy.
"No..." Shikamaru said, getting on his knees. "Please just don't put me with Ino. That's all I ask." he prayed quietly. Fortunately for him, Ino couldn't hear because she was too busy fantasizing about Sasuke to be observant.
"This is just some weird game. We have to try our keys in all the doors until we get the right one, I guess. Here goes." Sakura said, plunging her key into one of the doors. Nothing happened. She tried the handle, but it was still locked.
"I guess we'll just have to split up and ch-check all the doors ours-selves." Hinata put in.
"Good idea Hinata! Your so smart!" Naruto complemented. Sakura sighed at his stupidity, while Hinata blushed.
"Thanks Naruto..." she mumbled quietly.
"Kay, everyone pick a door and try your keys. If you are granted access, call out to everyone that you have yours, then go inside and wait for your partner, or partners if you're the lucky one." Temari announced, checking a door herself. Nothing happened.
Everyone split up and checked the doors, and after two tries, Tenten called out that she had one, then stepped inside her room.
Hearing this, Neji immediately ran over to her door and begged, "Tenten! You have to let me sleep with you!" Kiba, who happened to be at the door across from Neji, raised his eyebrows in a suggestive manner at the Hyuuga. "Oh shut up Inuzuka, you know that's not what I meant." Neji said crossly.
"Neji," Tenten opened the door, "I would but I can't. You have to 'earn' this room. Try your key." she said, closing the door.
Neji hurriedly stuck his key into the door and-
"I got one!" two more people called out.
-nothing happened. "Noooo!" Neji cried dramatically, falling to his knees.
"I got one!" three more people called out. Neji finally regained his composure and tried to play it off as if he hadn't just had a break down.
After a few more minutes, all the kids had found their rooms:
The Uchiha stuck his key into the hole of room #207. A green light flashed on his key and a little beep sounded of. "Got mine." he told Neji who was next to him. He smirked at the male Hyuuga.
Sasuke opened the door to find the light on and a purple suitcase on the floor next to one of the beds. "Ugh, that looks like Ino's. I don't want to share a room with her." he mimed in a panicked voice. "As long as it isn't Ino or Naruto, I'll be alright."
The light to the bathroom was on and Sasuke could here a sink running. Suddenly the sink shut off, there was a slight shuffling, then the door opened to reveal-
"So I'm stuck with you? Whatever. Don't touch my stuff and I'm sure I won't rip your head off." a girl with four spiky blonde pigtails stated without emotion.
"Ditto." said Sasuke, relieved.
"Finally." Shikamaru said, sighing as he opened a door at the very end of the hallway. He was a little disappointed though, because on the door was a sign that read: Three person room. Three beds. Slightly larger than the rest. "I guess at least they make up for."
There were two suitcases lying nest to the beds. On one of the beds was a boy with dark red hair and on the other sat a boy with a black drape-like thing on his head. The latter was unpacking his bags, the former glaring at the wall.
"Well it could have been worse." Kankuro said, looking at Shikamaru.
"…" Gaara sat emotionless.
"Yah you could have been rooming with Ino." Shikamaru commented, falling onto his bed. Kankuro shivered.
"Yay, I hope no one's here yet." said Sakura, entering into her room and turning the lights on. There was a bathroom door directly next to her on the left, then two beds on the same side, with a little night stand in between. There was a window on the far side, underneath it a heater, and beside that was a mini table with two chairs. On the right wall were two dressers and a trashcan.
"Pretty cool, huh?"
"Choji, when did you get in here? You scared me."
"Oh just a second after you." he said nonchalantly.
"Oh." Sakura said, face expressionless. 'At least it wasn't Naruto.'
"Poor Neji…" Tenten muttered while staring at the ceiling. "I hope he at least got a good roommate." A beeping sound interrupted her thoughts of her baby- I mean Neji. Yah...Neji.
A boy with a high collar jacket and sunglasses stepped into the room. He gave her a quick glance before gliding over to his bed.
"Guess I got you, eh?"
"It appears so." said the young Aburame.
"Naruto, y-you can…share a room…with m-me if you can't find yours." Hinata offered meekly. She had already found hers and was standing outside it waiting for Naruto.
Overhearing Hinata's proposal, Lee offered that he too would allow Naruto to stay in his room.
"Thanks guys, but I'll find it eventually!" Naruto said enthusiastically. At that moment the door he tried granted him access. "See ya later!" he said disappearing inside.
"I think I will try this door!" said Lee, sticking his key into the door that was already occupied by Hinata. The female was staring sadly at Naruto's door when a beeping interrupted her thoughts.
"Looks like I will be rooming with you!" Lee yelled/said. Hinata nodded the stepped inside the room with Lee.
'Arg!' Neji thought in his head as he frantically pushed his key into random doors. Finally he found one and ran inside, jumping on the bed, suitcase and all. He regretted it a second later, because the suitcase came up and hit him between the eyes. "Owww…"
"Thanks guys, but I'll find it eventually!" Neji heard through the door, fallowed by a beep and the door opening. "Hey Neji."
"Naruto." Neji greeted coolly. 'Could have been worse. Ino…'
Ino sneezed and then stepped into her room. She sneezed again and sat down on one of the beds. The blonde hadn't bothered to turn the lights on, hoping to scare the next person that entered the room. Beside her were a pair of eyes watching her intently. "Ahhh!" the girl screeched.
"What is it?!?" yelled another pair of eyes coming from the bathroom.
"Ahhh!" Ino screamed again.
"Oh geezum." Kiba groaned. 'I get stuck with her.'
Ino sneezed.
A/N: Yah, I threw that little myth about sneezing in there; When you sneeze it means someone is talking about you, and a lot of people happened to be talking about Ino. I have no idea how many total chapters I'm going to have, but there will NOT be anything to do with the Akatsuki. I have no plot right now, and I don't think I'll ever get one. There will be a few pairs I suppose, But there won't be any SasuSaku because I've been reading to much of that one lately, so it most likely will be KibaSaku I think. Other possible ones I'm thinking about are NejiTen, NaruHina, and ShikaTema, and even possibly, InoCho(Which I've never even thought of doing before). I vowed I wouldn't put more than one couple in this story, but screw my plans, I have Money :D