"Oi, Atsui, look at Yugito," Yugito heard Samui say as she half slept against Naruto. Samui broke out laughing at the fact that she was picking on her teammate about this earlier.
"Oi, what are you talking about. It's not like I'm snug- Holy shit!" Yugito said, jumping up from her half asleep state. She was snuggling up against Naruto in her sleep, and she actually enjoyed the feeling, which made her face burn hot.
"Haha, you should see the look on her face. I can't believe you're actually doing that. So, did anything else happen?" samui said, laughing even harder when Yugito's face grew even redder at the implications being made.
"It wasn't like that! I just sat down next to him after we were done talking, that's all!" Yugito yelled, waking up Naruto and his team.
"Oh, hi Yugito. Are you sick? Your face is all red," Naruto said in his clueless ways.
"Keep it down, dobe, we're trying to sleep," Sasuke said, dozing back into his rest.
"Samui-san, what's so funny?" Naruto asked, curious to what was causing the blonde girl's amusement.
"Oh, nothing, just that you two would make a cute couple," Samui said, receiving a punch to the jaw from Yugito and a deep blush from Naruto. Even through the punch, Samui laughed. Atsui threw in few chuckles, though stopped when Yugito threw him a threatening glare that could've scared Gaara.
"Hey, that's not funny! We just became friends!" Naruto yelled at Samui. "Besides, where would you get an idea like that?" Naruto asked, Yugito blushed, knowing the answer.
"Umm, I kind of snuggled up against you while sleeping, and Samui saw it," Yugito said, blushing deeper red than Hinata, and that was no easy thing to do. Naruto started speaking, blushing just as deep, only his words were unintelligable, causing Samui to hold her sides as she rolled around on the floor, laughing like it was the most hilarious thing ever, and to be honest, the only thing that rivalled it was when Jiraya was caught peeping on Tsunade, which ended in a nearly dead Toad Sage, and an angry slug sage that refused to heal him.
"Oi, Yugito, if we can get back to what we were originally waking you up for. They've decided too many teams have made it, so they're calling for a preliminary round, and those who survive their battles will move onto the Finals," Samui said, recovering from her laughing fit, while Naruto still blushed and spoke incoherently. Yugito was still blushing, but was able to understand what her teammate had said.
"Wait, preliminaries? How many teams made it, exactly?" Naruto asked, barely containing his incoherent questions, though he was still blushing feriously.
"8 teams, and there is still one hour left in this section of the exam. But I doubt any more teams will survive, there were 18 teams to begin with in this exam," Samui explained, watching as Naruto nodded in understanding.
"So, where are the prelim's being held?" Naruto asked.
"Right here," Samui said, gesturing around the room. For the first time, taking in the whole room, Naruto noticed a set of stairs leading up to a balcony type thing that stretched along the whole room. Then he noticed it; the rest of the rookie 12 had made it too, and he smiled.
"So, Yugito, are you going to sit with your team, or your new boyfriend?" Samui teased, receiving just the answer she wanted when Yugito blushed fiercely again.
"Hey, if you'll let me," Yugito said, playing right back. She playfully put her arm around Naruto, who blushed lightly in response, but got what Yugito was playing at and placed his own arm around Yugito, who blushed lightly back, but smiled.
"Hey, maybe I'll sit with you guys instead," Naruto teased back, causing Samui to laugh, and Yugito to wrap her arm tighter around Naruto, Naruto doing the same back. Wierd, this feels so, comfortable, yet I just met him, Yugito thought, while Naruto thoughts were along the same lines.
"Hello, earth to Yugito and Naruto, they're calling for us," Samui said, waving her hand in front of their faces.
"Huh, oh, right, prelims," Naruto said, not letting go of Yugito as she just nodded, keeping Naruto wrapped in her arm.
"Well, are you two going to let go of each other?" samui said, barely containing her laughter as both blondes jumped away, blushing.
"Alright, everybody *cough* line up in your seperate teams on the arena floor, and I'll *cough* explain the rules to you all," the proctor of the prelim's said, looking sickly. "Alright, there will be matches of one on one, which will be randomly chosen and presented on the screen behind me. When I start the match, then you may attack your opponent. I can call a match if I see one of the battling shinobi is unable to fight further, thus making the other opponent the winner. If anybody thinks that they can not make it any farther, please raise your hand now to save us the time," the proctor said, breaking into a small coughing fit. Only one person raised their hand, being one Kabuto Yakushi.
"All right, the first match will be announced, those whose names are called will stay in the arena, the rest will take their seats up above to watch the fight. Everybody watched as the names ran through on the board, so fast that one could only make out the letters, no names. Suddenly, it stopped, along with the hearts of the two blonde jinchuriki. The board read this:
Match #1: Naruto U. V.S. Yugito N.
AN: And that's a wrap. Hopefully, I see that as a cliffhanger, I don't know if you guys do, but thanks for reading, don't forget to review if you can. And P.S, I'm not really good with the fluff, so sorry.