A/N: Misamisa3: I'm not going to complain anymore! ^^ This chapter is a bit longer than the last. ^^ and Please Review =) and feel free to point out any mistakes.
I DO NOT OWN NARUTO. If I did… well most people wouldn't like it very much or me for that matter. Hehe.=P
Rushing out of the Hana dorm and into the cherry blossoms, two girls were bent on misfortune and revenge. The older looking female, with two hair buns radiated vengeance while the shorter girl, who seemed to still be in her teenage years had a Cheshire cat grin on her face.
"Okay, Hanabi. What building and room is he in?" barked Tenten, her fists clenched into a tight ball at the sides of her thighs.
Reaching into the pocket of her Aeropostale hoodie, Hanabi took out a folded letter addressed to Neji, still holding that grin, Hanabi read out old: "Dear Mr. Hyuuga, Neji…. We are please to inform you of your approval into the Aka dorm…. You will be placed into room 408 alongside Mr. Matso Lee…."
"Lee! That overprotective—ahh! No wonder he wouldn't answer any of my calls or messages either!"
"Nee, Tenten-chan." Quickly pulling on her elbow to prevent her from running into a couple. "Where is the Aka dorm?"
"Huh? Oh umm." Stopping for a minute Tenten look out a creased map. "It shouldn't be too far from the Hana dorm. Just across the cherry blossom courtyard, which we are in, and over the famous Sayuri Bridge. I'll be hard to miss, since it's just as big as the Hana dorm."
"Then what are we waiting for! Lets hurry before nee-chan calls him to warm 'bout us!"
Pressing the number 4 in the elevator, Neji waited for the doors to close only to find a grinning blonde to stop his anticipated departure to the fourth floor. Neji's eye twitched as he realized who that blonde actually was.
"Oi! Neji, looks like we're in the same dorm building." The elevator doors opened to widen the entrance of the blonde and his orange luggage and duffle bag as he called out this 'friend'. "Oi! Teme, hurry your butt up! I'm not waiting on you're sorry butt any more!"
Slowly walking into the elevator with a glare, Sasuke nodded at the presence of the Hyuuga as Neji did the same. The Uchiha had a navy blue luggage and duffle bag, on it was the Uchiha crest embedded in it. The elevator doors started to close again but a green arm prevented them to do so, Neji's right eye twitched again but at his roommate's actions.
"Good morning! Neji-kun, Naruto-kun, Sasuke-kun! Is it not such a youthful day to start off our glorious embark on our lives on this wonderful campus!" Jumping in, Lee carried his heavy neon green luggage on his shoulders and an equally colored shade of green hiking backpack loosely on his other shoulder.
Lee was standing in the center of the elevator; Neji was corned into the left, Sasuke into the right corner with Naruto. The doors began to close again, but just Neji's luck a pale hand stopped the closing doors again, this time a guy with a faked smile entered with a two huge canvas under his arm, a large black luggage rolling behind him, with a large gray duffle bag under his other arm.
So basically an elevator with 5 males, each one with big rolling traveling bags (5), two hiking backpacks, three large gray duffle bags, and two canvases in a small sized elevator meant for three. None of them seemed to object to the number four pressed, so it was safe to assume they were all on the fourth floor. The doors were closing again, much to Neji's pleasure but pleasure seem to quickly turn into fear, as a feminine hand stopped the elevator again, this time an angry Tenten and Hanabi 'tried' to walk in, emphasis on the tried. All five males were literally squished between the other's personal belongings and the walls of the elevator; all personal space was long gone once Lee entered the elevator.
"NEJI HYUUGA! YOU INSENSITIVE PRICK! ---."
"TENTEN-CHAN! How good to see you!" trying to diverge Tenten's anger from his roommate onto himself, Lee quickly pushed past everyone's belonging to beam at Tenten from the outer edge from inside of the elevator. Taking a few steps back to avoid Lee's smile, the elevator's doors quickly closed, leaving an enthralled Tenten and ticked Hanabi on the first floor.
"Sigh, arigato." Sighed Neji, quickly regaining his cool composure waiting on the fourth ring from the elevator, waiting for his encounter with an angry Tenten.
Stomping her foot onto the velvet carpet, Tenten let out a growl. Hanabi was too caught up the dorm itself to realize Tenten was dragging her up the stairs. "Wow! Aka dorm looks just like the Hana dorm, except for a couple of minor changes like the color. Ne, where are we going?"
"Where do you think?! We're going to the fourth floor! I'm not going to let your cousin get away with this so easily, he has some apologizing to do!" Pushing past some guys walking down and up the staircase, it was obvious who she was about to confront, she kept mumbling 'Neji' under her breath. Let's just say, instead of being pumped up to see the first relationship fight of the year, most guys decided it would be better to not interfere.
Being caught up in Neji's and Tenten's dilemma, Hanabi failed to notice the vibration coming from her skinny jean's pocket. As they walked up from the first floor to the second.
Looking down at her cell phone, Hinata sat on the couch with a worried face: Hanabi always picks up her phone. The female Hyuuga, managed to unpack all her belongings with ease, she laid on the khaki colored couch, looking at the white ceiling above her, a knock awoke her from her pensive state.
Walking towards the door, Hinata looked through the peep hole to see two blondes standing besides each other. Cautiously opening the door, Hinata opened it enough so they could see her completely but just enough to be able to close it just incase if they were to fight again.
"A-ano. How can I help y-you?"
The older looking blonde, Hinata recalled was named Temari first spoke up. "Hehe, we just wanted to um apologize for almost, uhh crashing into you a little while back in the hallway. Ne, My name is Sabaku Temari by the way." Weakly smiled Temari, nudging the girl next to her to speak up.
"Yeah! And I'm Yamanaka, Ino! Pleased to meet you, um…"
"H-Hyuuga, Hinata."
"Yeah! Hinata-san! Sorry 'bout the fight earlier, we were just being idiots, hehe. Anyways, to make it up to you why don't we go out for some sushi! Our treat, and we don't take no for answer, so let's go!" pulling the shy Hyuuga out of the room, Ino locked arms with her and abruptly turned to grab Temari's arm as well.
"Ano, but I'm---"started Hinata, until Temari interrupted.
"Our treat? What are you talking about? I hope you have enough money for all three of us." Frowned Temari, as the three girls entered the elevator.
"Enough money, of course not! But I was flirting with this cute senior the other day who said his uncle owned a sushi placed on campus, called Hiro's Sushi, and he invited me for some free sushi if I went out on a date with him!" smiled Ino, as she pressed the number one.
"Let's just hope he still remembers you, if not you better start wishing that the restaurant is part of the meal plan on campus."
"Quit worryin' before you start worryin' Hinata-san too, I got this covered!" The elevator's doors opened again, "By the way, are you new to this campus too, Hinata-san?"
"H-Hai, I'm a freshman—"
"Really?! Me too! That's a relief; I thought I was going to be all lonesome during the freshmen activities later in the day! Temari-chan is a junior so she couldn't be much help for me, since she has her own junior activities to go to." Smiled Ino, as she walked between Temari and Hinata. Ino gazed at the cherry blossoms with a bit of distain on her face.
Noticing Ino's sudden repulsion at the cherry blossoms, Hinata spoke up: "Ano, Yamanaka-san are you okay?"
"Huh? Oh I guess I am. But you can call me Ino, 'Yamanaka-san' makes me sounds old, hehe. The cherry blossoms just remind me of someone. But enough of being quiet! We're almost there!" Leaving the two girls behind, Ino jogged a head leaving a frowning Temari.
"She's so horrible at keeping her emotions in check." Sighed Temari. She looked a head to see Ino waving her arms around wildly in front of the sushi bar; unfortunately it was also across the coffee house that had started the whole problem in the first place. "I wouldn't worry about Ino, her mood swings are known to even rival the most infuriating pregnant women. Just our luck the restaurant had to be directly across that coffee house. Hopefully he isn't there."
"A-Ano, does the Lily have a-anything to do with the, um conflict in the hallway? I'm truly sorry but I d-didn't mean to eavesdrop but I o-overheard and well umm…" trailed off Hinata blushing like tomato.
Looking down at the blushing Hyuuga, Temari smiled: "Ne, you're working yourself up over eavesdropping on our fight earlier? You don't have to be sorry for that Hinata-san! I'm sure anyone in a five miles radius could have over heard us, we were pretty loud by the way, hehe." Observing the cherry blossom's petals as they glided in the air, Temari's eyes landed back at the coffee house that had caused so much turmoil earlier. "Hai… that coffee house has been a favorite of mine ever since my freshmen year, when Ino told me that she was coming to KU (Konoha University --- BTW I changed the name of the university ^^) I told her to meet me there after she finished unpacking. Ino had made it to the coffee house before me, but right before I could enter… this guy stopped me. He was a freshman named Hisagawa Sai. You can probably guess what happened next from what you probably overheard at the dorms."
"H-Hai. So this Hisagawa-san person, f-flirted and asked out both you and Ino-san, and that c-caused the conflict in the hallway between the t-two of you. How horrible!" Frowned Hinata, she looked up to see Temari weakly smiling.
"At least now that you know, if you ever see a guy named Hisagawa Sai, you'll be sure to know to stay away. Guys like that are complete jerks and womanizer. That baka must also be a man-whore and two-timer, the way he easily got me and Ino to go all lovey-dovey on him by just talking to him for a couple of minutes."
Nearing closer to the sushi bar, Ino looked ready to blow with impatience. "Hey! You guys are taking like forever and a day to get here! Hurry your butts over here!"
"Ne Tenten-chan! Can you slow down? My thighs are killing me!" whined Hanabi as they reached halfway up towards fourth floor that just happened to the longest staircase, being even more spirally than the first to second floor. "These steps are huge! And I'm getting a little dizzy looking down from all the way up here." Hanabi wouldn't admit it but she was terrified of walking up a huge flight of stairs and being able to look down to the ground.
"We're almost there! Just a little bit more."
"But Tenten-chan!" Stopping mid-step, Hanabi flung arms across the railing, unfortunately looking below at the starting point of their decent. Before she could vomit, she was pulled by an arm. Tenten was besides her pointing at her back.
"What are you waiting for? Get on. It'll be faster this way, just don't puke on me. If you feel the need to puke, just hold it until we reach Neji. Then you can puke on him instead."
"Arigato, Tenten-chan!" climbing on her back, Hanabi hugged Tenten's neck from behind, clenching her eyes shut as the sophomore girl jogged up the steps. 'I guess I can help you out Neji-nii-san, maybe just this once. Since your girlfriend is actually nice unlike other girls who wouldn't even think about carrying me.' Thought Hanabi before drifting off into sleep.
Reaching the fourth floor, Tenten realized Hanabi fell asleep on her back. "Now what was that room number she said was his?" whispered Tenten. "402, 404, 406… 408! Aha!" Adjusting the young Hyuuga on her back, Tenten used her free hand to knock on the dark colored door. No response.
"That jerk," Lifting her fist to knock again, the door was opened by a smiling Lee wearing a white head band across his forehead with the word 'youthful' across in bold red ink. "Lee, where is Neji?"
Tenten tried to push past Lee only to be stop by the door's chains on the other side that kept it open but closed for those outside the room. "Neji? I only fathom on who this so called 'Neji' is. Perhaps you have the wrong room, Tenten-chan! Do not let the power of old age keep you from being youthful! Please do continue your search!" Trying to close the door, Tenten quickly slid her foot to keep it somewhat open.
"Look Lee," said Tenten as a dark aura appeared around her. "I know for a fact that this is Neji's room and I also know for a fact that I am not old! You got that! So don't go around telling me that you don't know who Neji is, we've both known him since we were little tykes in elementary school. So---."
"Tenten." A voice came from behind Tenten, monotone and calm. A pregnant silence followed before the holder of the voice was suddenly strangled by two crazed hands. "Ten-ten, choke, Let me, choke, go!" suffocated Neji, as he tried to pry his girlfriend off of him.
"Never!" declared Tenten as a sleepy Hanabi began to wake up on Tenten's back.
Waking up to see a shocked and gapping Lee trying to get Tenten off Neji, an enthralled Tenten trying to throttle her dear cousin, and that said cousin turning blue from a lack of oxygen. "Ahh! Are you choking Neji-nii-san?"
"What do you, choke, suppose, choke?" Trying his best to glare at his younger cousin, whom he assumed told his girlfriend his whereabouts, Neji quickly tried to retrieve some oxygen back into his lungs as Lee called out Naruto to help him pull Tenten away from him.
"Let me at him! That insensitive jerk left me waiting at that restaurant for hours! Even the waiters felt sorry for me, they offered me a free meal! Do you know how embarrassed I felt!" huffed Tenten as Lee and Naruto held her from the nearly suffocating Neji, as Hanabi climbed down from her back. "They placed a bet on me, betting on the time I would finally realize that my date set me up and leave the restaurant! Just so you know you made a Kazuki Kato a very happy waiter!" (A random Asian actor's name that popped into my head. I'm very sorry if you're a fan of him, I just needed a name and his just seemed like the perfect one.)
"Gomen-nasi. (I'm sorry)" wheezed Neji, before straightening himself up and regaining his cool composure. Reaching into his pocket, Tenten continued.
"Sorry isn't enough Hyuuga Neji! You caused some emotional and appearance damage, I can't enter that restaurant ever again! And to make it worse you didn't even reply to any of my text messages or calls!"
Pulling out a little burgundy colored box, Neji began: "I would have answered my phone, but since Hanabi-chan had decided to borrow it without permission that day, I could not do so." Neji directed his glare at the sleepy Hanabi who weakly smiled.
"Hey! If I didn't use your phone, I would have gone over my minutes and text messages! Father doesn't have me on the unlimited plan like you Neji-nii-san! I had no choice!" explained Hanabi, as she desperately tried to make her reason sound as important as she thought it sound like. "And besides, you should have known that you had a date with Tenten-chan later that day."
"I was aware of my date with Tenten, but you also had to wiggle your way out of babysitting Hitomi-obaa-chan (grandma Hitomi). Uncle had forced me to overlook her as she searched for her 50th anniversary gift for Ryo-ojii-san. You are aware of how persuading and time-consuming Hitomi-obaa-chan is, Hanabi-chan."
Looking shocked, Hanabi started backing up towards the elevator with a weak smile, until she met with a cold hand on her shoulder. "Is that true, Hanabi?" asked Tenten with a strained smile on her face. Out of all the people in the hallway with an exception of Naruto, they all knew how Grandma Hitomi truly was and how unbelievable that her husband Ryo was still alive after being married to her for fifty years.
"Hai." Replied Hanabi looking down as she tried to play the guilty and remorse card. "But I didn't know Neji-nii-san had a date with you that day! I honestly and truly did not know!"
Opening the little burgundy box, Neji pulled out a silver necklace that Tenten had had her eye on since the spring. "Gomen-nasi Tenten, I am aware that this does not help completely with the personal damage but at least you will be wearing the necklace you've wanted for over five months now---"
"Oi! Can't you be any more romantic, Neji. Sheesh it's like a rock trying to give his girlfriend another rock on chain." Snickered Naruto, just before Tenten powerfully hit him over the head. "Oi! Whatya do that for?!"
"Sorry, but you were being insensitive, Naruto. Someday some girl out there in the world is going to try to have you do something somewhat romantic for her, and you'll be looking like a clueless guy." Proclaimed Tenten.
"So I'm a clueless guy?" asked Neji as put the necklace around Tenten's neck.
"Of course! But I wouldn't want you anyway otherwise, Neji-kun."
Suddenly tears of joy ran down Lee's face as he swung his arm over Naruto's shoulders. "Is it not beautiful, Naruto-kun?! They've regained their youthful love once again, just like in high school! What Joy!" sobbed Lee into Naruto's shoulder as the blonde tried to pry off bushy brows off him.
"I wouldn't know bushy brows. I didn't go to high school with you guys." Stated Naruto as he slid away from Lee's grasp. "Just martial arts camp over the summer with you guys and Sasuke-teme."
Reaching into her skinny jean's pocket, Hanabi flip her phone open to find a missed call from Hinata, which was over an hour ago. Whoops.
Looking up, Hanabi's eyes immediately met his Neji's. A silent conversation between the two, before Neji let his annoyance get the better of him.
"You left Hinata-sama alone to unpack by herself, didn't you Hanabi-chan." The way Neji said it sounded more like a statement than a question as he snatched the cell phone out of Hanabi's grasp. "The sole reason you came with us to KU was to help us unpack, not to start an unnecessary fight and run around campus looking for fun."
"Hai I know but I just couldn't help myself, Neji-nii-san!" whined Hanabi; she tried to use the puppy look on her cousin for the second time today. Seeing that it wouldn't work again, Hanabi quickly clung to Neji's sleeve shaking it madly and forcing tears to come out of her eyes.
"Oi! Who's Hinata?" questioned Naruto as Neji began to drag Hanabi towards the elevator. Shrugging it off, Naruto figured he'll meet her sooner or later. Walking back Naruto realized something as he kept yanking on his door's handle. "Darn. I left my stupid keys inside!" Looking back, Naruto found that everyone was gone, just his luck too, Sasuke just had to go before the whole Neji-TenTen-relationship-fight. "Darn it all!"
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