Go See a Movie

NejiXTenten. Naruto's suggestion sounded idiotic. But when the other boys agreed, he thought it wouldn't HURT to give it a try.

I'm not making any money out of this!

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Act One

"When's that for?" Naruto asked.

"Tonight."

"I thought they don't have tickets for tonight anymore?"

"Heh! I have my connections!"

"The only connection I know you got is that with dogs!"

"Say that again, you…"

"Stop it you two. Really, you don't ever grow up, do you?"

Shikamaru stepped right in the middle of Naruto and Kiba, avoiding the possible confrontation, physical for sure, between the two. The last time- yesterday to be exact- that the two battled it out, the ANBU office was left in a wreck. He had always wondered why the two keeps on hanging out at their office when they're not ANBU at all. But of course, it's too tedious to ask.

"Well, whatever! We get to see it first!" Kiba laughed.

"It's so unfair! They told me they were sold out since yesterday!"

"How troublesome. It's the same whether you see it first or second or last. You still get to see the exact same thing so what's the point?"

"I guess it's only natural for someone like you to react that way…" The blond muttered.

"I'm 17, not six."

"What does your age have to do with this?" The two asked in unison.

"Nevermind." He sighed.

They were interrupted by the opening of the door. Neji walked in and went straight to his desk, as usual, without looking at them- as if they weren't there at all. Shikamaru hurried to his own desk, taking the topmost folder in the process.

"You're all full of energy so early in the morning." Neji commented as he scanned through sheets of piled reports on his desk.

"And when are you going?"

The ANBU captain lifted his face, meeting the gaze of the blond shinobi.

"Going where?"

"Here!" He said, grabbing two tickets from Kiba's hand so he can show it to the Byakugan wielder.

"And what's that about?"

"Tickets! Movie tickets! You're hopeless!"

"If you weren't holding them so close to my face I could have read that they were movie tickets."

"Ah- oh, then… when are you going?" Naruto said as he kept the tickets in his pocket.

"I'm not going." Neji said, going back to the reports.

"What?! You're missing the movie event of the year?!" He asked unbelievingly.

"I heard they used mad effects on this one!" Kiba added.

"What a waste of time."

"Ditto." Shikamaru commented.

"Horribly boring!" Naruto booed.

"I don't really know who influenced who…" Kiba said.

"Poor Tenten." Naruto added.

The white eyed shinobi froze.
Movies.
Tenten.
He forgot.
He totally forgot.
He stood up and left the room in the same manner that he entered, only three times faster.

"Hey Captain! Where are you going?" Kiba called out.

Kiba and Naruto both looked at Shikamaru's direction.

"That I don't know the answer." He shrugged.

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Yes, it's short, I know.

But I'll make the next chapter longer- I promise!