Tenten and Sakura stared at Hinata for a second, before bursting out laughing.
"You've got to be kidding, Hinata. We're not going to fall for that..." Sakura said through her laughter. Suddenly, a scream came from down the hall, where the boys' room was.
"That sounded like Kiba..." Tenten said, stopping her laughter abruptly.
"I'm telling you, I'M KIBA!" Hinata shouted. "We must have switched bodies!"
Sakura looked from Hinata to the doorway and back with a serious look on her face. "You're seriously telling the truth, aren't you?"
Kiba nodded vigorously.
"Wow," Tenten said in awe. She looked at Sakura. "Do you think something could have happened to us too?"
Sakura's eyes widened. "You're dream! About Neji! That isn't normal, right?"
Tenten blushed. "Uh...no! Not normal at all!"
Sakura raised an eyebrow.
"Ok...maybe a little normal. But I don't dream about stuff THAT bad normally!" Tenten looked away awkwardly.
Kiba grinned. "You like Neji! Holy crap! Wait until I tell him about this!"
Sakura glared at him. "Shut up, Kiba. You're not telling anyone anything except that you and Hinata switched bodies. Got it?"
Kiba shrugged, his grin fading. Almost as quickly, it returned. "Whoa...I can't believe I didn't think of this sooner!" He reached down to pull his shirt out, but Sakura smacked his hand.
"You are NOT looking at Hinata's chest!" she exclaimed. Kiba crossed his arms and grumbled.
"Looks like someone likes Hinata..." Tenten said with grin. Kiba huffed and didn't reply.
Suddenly the bedroom door burst open to reveal a panting, very red-faced Neji. He scanned the room until he saw Tenten. Their eyes locked, and Neji clenched his fists and seemed to be restraining himself. Sakura looked at Tenten to see her doing the same thing.
"Are you guys okay?" Sakura asked uncertainly.
Tenten set her jaw and closed her eyes tightly. "I'm...fine..." she said through gritted teeth.
Neji, meanwhile, was taking deep breaths, slowly backing away out of the room.
They heard footsteps, and Naruto barreled into the back of Neji with "Kiba" right behind him.
"Give me my body back!" the real Kiba cried, pointing at his own body.
"K-Kiba?" Hinata stuttered from behind Naruto. "We switched bodies!" she cried.
Naruto had knocked Neji down on accident, and as Hinata ran over to Kiba, he stood up, looking back up at Tenten, who's eyes were still squeezed shut. "You...baka..." he growled at Naruto, taking deep breaths once again. "You broke my concentration! I can't...help it..." He took a step towards Tenten, while the other four stared. Tenten's eyes jerked open when she heard him move, and something in her eyes seemed to snap.
"Aaaah...Neji! I'm...sorry! I can't hold on!" Tenten cried. After a moment of seeming to be dragged towards him by an invisible force, Tenten gave up, running over to him and wrapping her arms around his neck, smashing their lips together in the process. Neji immediately responded, and everyone stared open-mouthed as Neji led them to Tenten's bed, collapsing on it with her under him.
At that moment, the butler walked in. He stared at the two teenagers with raised eyebrows. "Well, it seems those drinks have kicked in!" he said.
Sakura looked at him. "What!?"
He smiled at her. "I wasn't supposed to tell you until after you drank them." He walked over and yanked Neji off of Tenten, simultaneously keeping them separated while he talked. "The drinks are meant to slow down your progress at finding the treasure. Since they're a year ahead of you four..." He gestured towards Tenten and Neji, who were still fighting to get at each other. He chuckled. "As you can tell, the potions start out pretty strong. But it'll get easier. Anyway, their potion is a little more disabling than the other two, to sort of set a handicap and make everything even."
"But...what does ours do?" Sakura asked, gesturing towards a confused Naruto.
"You'll find out later, on your own. "
Naruto glared at Kiba. "Why couldn't we have gotten the green potion?" Naruto complained. "I wouldn't have minded switching bodies with Sakura-chan..." He wiggled his eyebrows at Sakura, who mentally puked.
She glared at him angrily, aiming a kick at his shin. Naruto wasn't prepared, and it connected. "Ow!" he cried out. Sakura smiled smugly, and pulled her foot back. Naruto fell to the ground suddenly, his leg being pulled out from underneath him. Sakura looked down, confused, and saw that her shoe was still touching Naruto's leg. She tried to pull it back again, but Naruto's leg came with it. She looked up at the butler.
"It's stuck!"
The butler grinned. "Well, now you know what it does. As the days pass by it'll be weaker, but for right now that should last for a full minute. Well...I have business to attend to, so..."
"Wait!" Kiba cried out. "You said the potions start out stronger. How does that apply to me and Hin...Sakura, I really like your pajama bottoms! They're so...crap."
Once the butler left, they all stared at each other. After a moment, Tenten and Neji locked eyes again, and Kiba jumped in between them and held his arms out. "Oh no you don't!" Tenten and Neji looked away from each other awkwardly.
"Soo...should we get started on the treasure hunt, then?" Sakura asked, testing her foot and finding that she was free again. Naruto stood up.
"Of course we should!" he cried with a grin. "I won't let these potions stop me!" He looked at Sakura. "We just don't have to touch!"
"Well, what about us?" Kiba asked, gesturing to the other four shinobi.
Naruto shrugged. "It's a competition! We don't have to worry about you guys!" He turned to leave, and Sakura grabbed his arm.
"I don't believe how selfish you're being, Naruto!" Sakura cried, pulling him back towards her. She moved to let go, and sighed, glaring at him. Her hand was stuck. "We should all work together to get through this. Especially since Tenten and Neji CANNOT be left alone, at least not today."
"BASEBALL!" Hinata shouted. They all looked at her. "Sorry..." she mumbled. "I had to get it out."
Sakura shook her head and gave Hinata a weird look, before turning back to the rest of them. "Anyway, I think we should search together. We probably won't even find it today. But just in case, the first one to spot the marble is the one declared the winner. Okay?"
Everyone agreed, and Sakura led the way out of the room and down the hall. Once they were in the room they had eaten in the night before, Sakura turned to Hinata. "Where do you think we should look first?"
"Um...we could start at the front of the house and go towards the back, I guess..." she suggested. Sakura nodded.
"You lead the way."
Hinata led them back to the front door, and they began their search in that first living room.
After a few minutes, Sakura looked at the rest of them. "I don't see anything." She scanned their faces slowly, stopping at Neji and Tenten and looking down slightly. "Hands!" she exclaimed, and Neji and Tenten quickly released each other's hands.
"Sorry..." Tenten mumbled. Neji looked away guiltily without a word.
Sakura sighed. "Alright, let's go on to another room, then." She led the rest of them away, but turned back to see Naruto staring up at the ceiling absentmindedly. "Come on, Naruto!" she said, grabbing his hand and tugging him towards the group. She looked down at their joined hands and sighed. "This is gonna be a long day."
