30 Fun Things to Do in an Elevator:
Disclaimer: I don't own NARUTO© or Kishimoto's lovely characters, and the "STUFF or THINGS" to do in an elevator. Every one of them I don't own. OH, and elevators. Don't own that either.
Chapter 2: Offer name tags to everybody and wear yours upside down.
Hyuga Neji sighed pitifully as he leaned his head back against his passenger seat car window. Naruto, that main blonde guy with whisker tattoos sat next to him by the other window; Tenten and Lee rode up front with the chocolate-eyed girl drumming her fingers against the steering wheel, calmly carousing Neji's impressive vehicle down the winding roads ahead.
"Okay, should we go to Konoha Airport first, or that tall business building by the park?" Tenten chirped, glancing in the rearview mirror and winked at Neji. He rolled his moony eyes and groaned. She was taunting him, and shoving 'you lose! We won!' all over his ego after she learned about his hard way of going through with all this ridiculousness.
"Ooh! Ooh! How about the youthful Hospital!" suggested a youth-eccentric guy, raising a pointer finger in the air and wiggling his enormous eyebrows in anticipation.
The girl with twin buns rolled her eyes. "You only want to go there because Haruno Sakura volunteers there."
Lee sheepishly blushed. "Sakura-chan of blooming youth!"
"Yeah, but today is not her shift, sniff… Hey, how about the plaza?" Naruto tilted his head.
Tenten nodded. "Yeah! Okay then, Konoha Plaza it is!"
Neji sighed again and scowled out the window. His reflection startled him, by illumining a scary smirk.
"Ooh, this is rather nerve-racking." Tenten shivered and sheepishly nodded at Naruto.
The blonde nodded furiously back, "But the fun is just about to begin!" he pumped his fist up.
"Oh! Youthful button pressing!" Lee squealed with delight before energetically poking his finger against the 'up' and 'down' button various times while giggling.
Then Tenten wiggled her eyebrows at Neji and smiled knowingly. "Today's gonna be interesting, huh?"
The long-haired boy scowled even deeper, with his bottom lip poking out. "Hn."
And with that, the elevator doors groaned open and the teens curiously peered inside.
"Oi, nobody is in here! That gives us more time."
"Perfect."
After a few seconds of settling in, they awkwardly twiddled their fingers; the elevator-rising feeling from the pits of their stomach slightly igniting their nervousness.
"D'ya have the name tags, Naruto?" Tenten glanced expectedly at him.
"Hai! Write your names and wear 'em like this!" Naruto showed them his name tag proudly, which was obediently and improperly stuck on his chest upside down.
The teens passed around a silver and a hot pink sharpie. Neji ended up using the pink sharpie to write his name.
"Hehe," Lee poked the sulking boy, "I did not youthfully know you liked happy colors of youth, my youthful eternal rival!"
"Hn!" Neji sharply gruntedback jerking his head at Lee to intimidate him.
Lee just waved him off and focused on what Tenten was staring at. "Is that youthful looking thing the emergency button?"
The brown eyed girl stared harder and mumbled, "Well it's red…and it says 'Do Not Press Unless Emergency'. Could be…" just as the elevator doors opened and revealed a chatting couple, and three store clerks.
Naruto grimaced. The store clerks of the Plaza. They could get them in trouble.
Everybody gulped as the expecting people squeezed in.
Doo doo dum dee, dada da dum… the agonizing elevator music droned on and made time thick and unbearable and heavy and gooey and-
"THIS IS TAKING FOREVER." Tenten blurted while shaking a fist at the ceiling, causing the others to flinch and back away.
5 seconds later…
Neji remembered the bet, and tried to look pleasant when his eyes met Naruto's. The blonde wiggled his eyebrows threateningly.
Don't mess up…OR IT'S DATING TIME WITH TEMARI, HEYY!
Neji's lip was secretly bitten in anguish as he recalled his childhood memories and tried to link them little by little to somehow explain how he ended up here, being forced to date once and for all, and in a bet with both sides repelling Neji's will. Why was everyone pressuring him! He has limitations and physical boundaries just like any other teenager out there… He'll go to the next step when he's READY DAMN IT!
"Hey Neji…I can see that your eyebrow is desperately trying to twitch."
Neji gulped and tried to grin –which unexpectedly came up looking like this: 8D – and slowly turned to Tenten, "What makes you say that?"
Naruto and Tenten and Lee shared a sneaky glance at each other. Neji just wanted some rabid birds to peck through the elevator cabin and transport him back to his safe, white, dorm room NOW.
"Everything," Tenten retorted. She saw the pissed off look on Neji's face and wondered if she should let this go, since she is Neji's only sane best friend.
BUT THIS SO MUCH MORE FUN!
"Remember. If you faaaillll, Naruto, Lee and I will personally travel to Suna and kidnap Gaara's sister. You should be thankful that we're willing to do all that taxing labor! And I mean taxing literally, the gas prices these days, not to mention a parking fee and can you believe, Neji, that the taxes for our favorite giant KONA-Slushies™ rose up for a grand total of ¥377 ($3.75)! It's insane!"
"…"
"Yes, my youthful friend, it's such a shame Tenten, my favorite youthful choice was sweet succulent cherry, because, fufufu, it reminded me of this sweet youthful dream love of mine! Anyhow, youthful eternal rival Neji-kun! Together with our youth, we shall also toil in labor with you in this youth-mighty scheme! For our youthful hearts are ONE!"
"…What they both said, dattebayo!"
"…ALRIGHT ALRIGHT, FOR THE LOVE OF HIASHI-SAMA'S DAMN RED SLIPPERS, THERE, I'M GRINNING. HAPPY?"
The others' eyes couldn't possibly widen any further, nor be so speechless and half-dead than at that moment.
And the other already mentally disturbed occupants in the elevator couldn't have picked a better time than to scram.
But the doors did not give in.
Neji just continued in half-mild irritation, other half-mild sadist satisfaction and grabbed the name-tag stickers and sharpies from his "friends" slack hands and wondered where his acting skills have been this whole time, "HERE. AS APPRECIATION OF ACCOMPYNING US IN THIS FATEFUL ELEVATOR CABIN ON THIS STUPID CLOUDY DAY, FILL OUT YOUR NAMES AND LETS GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER."
"WHOOO, there you go, my youthful eternal rival! LET THE FOUNTAINS AND GEYSERS OF YOUR INNER SPRINGTIME YOUTH AND FRIENDSHIP SOCIALIZING URGES BLAST OUT AND GLITTER ENCHANTLY!"
2 questionable minutes later…
By now all the other passengers had placed the name tags on their chest and were muttering in polite greeting with each other now and then raising an eyebrow at the teens' upside down name-tags.
Well, everything seemed to have worked out, despite the angry way it was done in.
"Stop complaining, at least I did it, and I, Hyuga Neji, the clan's prized prodigy, nephew of Hyuga Hiashi, son of his deceased twin Hyuga Hizashi, will NEVER ever back out from a –forced on- task."
Tenten by then was scowling in annoyance and patted indignant Neji's shoulder and already agreed with Naruto that they would never force a bet with Neji again.
"Why is your intro so long…?"
"Hn."
The elevator dinged open, startling the teens.
After those looonnng 3.45 minutes together, you'd think they'd hug and laugh their farewells with the other occupants but instead they all rushed out leaving the teens alone on the empty elevator cabin to unwillingly reflect on how to not cause another unmentionable scene.
But, in that one minute they did, the elevator dinged open again and a young couple totally enamored entered and giggled amongst themselves.
Naruto snatched back the nametags and sharpies from Neji, and broke the silence.
"Um, here are nametags!"
Tenten, Lee and Neji watched in anticipation as the couple blinked at Naruto and warmly complied.
The nervousness dissipated from the teens and they excitedly checked out their names.
They read 'Ken', and 'Barbie'.
Both in pink.
The giggling couple held hands and whispered in each other's ears. Naruto made a silent gagging expression while Lee and Tenten stared longingly, 'cause come on, what kind of girl and Rock Lee wouldn't want love? Neji, however, facing one of the walls, decided to pinch his face in a disturbing, outlying smile.
"So uh…how long are you guys together?" The whiskered blonde stared intently at the couple, trying to make a conversation and ignore the strange aura creeping from Neji's direction.
The couple glanced at Naruto and the girl spoke up, "Oh, for 5 days. We met 6 days ago and look!" she squealed while wiggling her fingers and showing off her hand. "We're engaged!"
Everybody ogled at the sparkly diamond ring with a gold band and studded silver disks. Very fancy.
"Hai," the boy grinned broadly, "The wedding is the day after tomorrow."
"…"
"…"
"…"
"…youth…"
"GOOD GAWD. What's wrong with you guys?" Tenten looked aghast. "You just met!"
"So? It was soul-mate love at first sight, right sweet-cheeks?" the young woman replied, just as cheery giving her lover an affectionate smile.
The young man smiled broadly back at her, "Yes, my wittle muffin-wuffin."
"Oh for the love of fate…" Neji rolled his eyes and muttered, breaking from his strange demeanor.
"Awww pet names," Tenten tried to smile without lifting a nostril in a disturbed manner.
"Hey, Tenten's pet name could be Bun Bun, dattebayo!"
"WHAT?"
"Well, you looked jealous, dattebayo!"
"Hn. Naruto, you better not say tha-"
"That's right, Tenten of youth! We shall name you Bun Bun and you shall be our youthful Bun Bun!"
Tenten's eyes suddenly darkened and her bangs seemed to stick up as if struck by static, and Neji gulped as she did her rare, but crazy lip snarl that never ceased to freak him out.
"You guys wanna die?" Tenten darkly poised and she advanced toward them.
"H-hn…!"
"I think I just crapped mah-self…"
"Oh lord of youth…"
"Hold me, Barbie!"
"Oh grow up, Ken!"
Later that day, the cerulean eye colored boy rested his face against his palm; resting his weight on his elbow on the green grass at the public park. Neji napped, leaning his head against a large tree behind him. The monstrous eye-browed boy had other youthful affairs to attend to.
"You know Tenten; this whole idea of elevator pranks isn't so bad! Well except Neji's bet, and his reaction, and Ken and Barbie…and Lee and I giving you friendly suggestions for possible nicknames…ahem."
"Huh. That's a lot…"
"But think of the next tasks, Tenten! I'm so thrilled and excited but maybe somebody might kill us..."
Said girl sat crisscrossed, basking in the shade of the cool air. The brown haired girl's cheek expanded from the dango she was eating. Chewing thoughtfully, while playing with her bangs, Tenten snorted. "You, of all people come up with murder as a worry factor? Don't worry about it, we might get arrested and tortured, but murdered? Get outta here."
"I don't know…"
"Psh. Come on, Naruto. You of all people should be the one encouraging us and saying that line that always confuses me. Battecayo? Or was it Cackapayo?"
"It's Dattebayo!"
"Whatever."
"Well…I guess you're right... Yeah! Tomorrow we go with everything we got! And courage! Obviously our pranks aren't welcome."
"Duh, you think?"
"Sometimes. Especially at night; that's when I try to figure out my lost childhood."
Tenten wanted to slap her forehead. Or maybe his forehead…
Naruto licked his lips in thought, "As I was saying…why don't we wear disguises?"
"Disguises?"
"Yeah! …Like black masks with…potato sacks!"
"Huh? You idiot!" Tenten looked shocked, "Then we'll look like robbers! That's even worse!"
"…You really think so?"
"Ugh."
"Fine! Then, you get a fake mustache, and I'll get a pink wig. Neji doesn't need anything but makeup; he could immediately be taken for a girl!"
Neji twitched again in his nap.
"Ha, exactly! But a mustache? And a pink wig?"
"What? Pink hair isn't common to you? Look at Sakura-chan! LOOK. AT. GORGEOUS. SAKURA. CHAN."
"…?"
"…Oh haha, lost myself there, pfeeheehee…"
"…Yeah… I'll use the mustache disguise...for a few of the tasks." Tenten guarded herself unless Naruto lashed out again. Eeek…bizarre in a frightening way.
The blonde grinned, "Good! How about a Charlie Chaplin mustache?"
"…You think it'll look good?"
"Sure! Or how 'bout a goatee?"
"Yuck! I'll stick with classic Charlie." Tenten chewed happily.
"Cool. Then how about Lee?" Naruto tried to picture Lee without those thick eyebrows.
…Whoa, the brows do wonders!
"Uh, how about in normal clothes?"
"Hmmm... Oh! He could be a suit-wearing gangster!"
Tenten raised a nostril, surprised, "A suit-wearing gangster? That's even worse than the stupid black masks and potato sacks idea, stuuupiid!"
"How rude! Then how about a hippie?"
"…That I like."
"Shweet. We are so ready," Naruto sanded his hands together and grinned excitedly.
Tenten giggled along and used the pink sharpie to draw a little heart on Neji's bandaged forehead. Naruto gasped at this.
The girl smirked. "Perfect. For tomorrow, we need Neji to have a little attitude for his disguise. Heh."
And with that, Neji dreamt of the same lines, but in a scarier setting. In a man eating elevator.
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