The entire group settled into an uncomfortably sleezy hotel in the outskirts of Albany, every one of them shaken up from the ordeal near the border. Haku was in an odd state where it seemed to be that he couldn't stop shaking, Shikamaru sat against a wall of the hotel room in the fetal position, shifty eyed and muttering. Naruto just sat in the driver seat of the car staring at the ceiling. Sasuke and Gaara, oddly enough, seemed overall uneffected by the ordeal, except for the fact that they were refusing to see anyone and everyone, going off on anyone who had the sheer gall to attept to speak to them, in most cases of which, this ended up being Temari, who more than readily returned their anger. It was Naruto who finally broke the spell over everyone by finally calling a meeting among the group.
"Okay, so here's the situation, the car isn't doing that bad, albeit only an eigth of a tank of gas left, we aren't that bad on money, and if we're going to make it to Dallas and back we'll have to put in some major hours on the ashphalt, but after everything that just happened, well, I just want to be sure everyone still wants to continue, so, I think we should take a vote, Temari?"
"Well, despite the little fiasco with the cops I'm still totally up for it."
"Okay so that's one, Shikamaru?"
"The whole situation is just too tiresome, but I can't leave my girlfriend in a confined space with a large number of sexually frustrated college guys, she'd have to sleep in a corner every night, so yeah, I'm still going."
"And what about you Gaara?"
"Well, I'm kind of in the same boat as Shikamaru, I can't leave you guys with my sister for this whole trip, and well-"At this Gaara cast an almost unnoticeable galnce toward Haku as he said this,"But yeah, I just can't let that haappen."
"Stick in the mud, cough, I mean Sasuke."
"You know Naruto, if I was any lesser a person I could just up and destroy this trip by saying no, but I don't intend to see Fugaku or Itachi for about a month so I'll come, for now."
"And Haku"
"Well, is it just me, am I the only one who has noticed this by now, really, am I the only one with the knowlegde of this, really?"
"What are you talking about?" Temari asked, exasperated.
"This whole entire trip is so rediculously cliched, honestly!, I could see it now, a movie trailer for this!"
Haku cleared his throat and he took on a much deeper, breathier tone,
"This Summer, six college students embark on a journey of hapiness, romance, self-discovery and an experience that will change their life as they know it, Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis, and that one chick with the rack from National Lampoon's Van WIlder, haaaaaaaa, The Roadtrip, rated PG-13."
"Haku,"
"Yea Temari?"
"Have I ever told you how much of a sexist pig you are?"
"Maybe once twice, three times, maybe four, I stopped counting after fourty-seven."
"Hey Naruto, how big is your trunk?"
"Ummmm, pretty big, it can fit a couple of sports duffle bags in it, maybe five cubic feet, give or take, maybe, why do you ask?"
"Really?"
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX "Alright guys, just for the record I never consented to this, and if I wanted to I could press charges and sue the pants off you all!"
"I'm sorry Haku but until you learn your lesson I'm afraid I can't let you out, also, Temari might do inexplicable things to me if I did." Naruto said while tapping on the lid of the trunk they had just put Haku in.
"I don"t think he can hear you." Gaara pointed out with a righteous look on his face, arms crossed across his chest.
"Oh oh oh, guys, you are gonna love this," Naruto said while giggling to himself,"Uh yeah Haku, if you see a spider in there, don't smash it, Shino was having me hold onto it for a while, oh yeah and,we're about 200 miles from the border so if you drank anything recently you're going to have to hold it for about three hours."
Immediately upon hearing these words Haku first remembered the bottle of water he'd had earlier, and then he remembered he was deathly afraid of spiders.
"I guess it's a good thing I'm not clausterphobic, that would not be cool, caught in a triple whammy for three hours, I can't begin to imagine what that would be like."
Haku thought to himself,"Is it just me or is this trunk getting smaller?"
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Do you think we were too harsh on Haku?" Gaara asked, "I mean he did make a good point and the joke was alright, c'mon, did we have to lock the guy in the trunk, we didn't even let the guy take a leak before hand, that's pretty twisted, not to mention he thinks there's one of Shino's freak insects crawling around in there with him."
"Yeah, so?" Naruto replied,"I'm a dick, I was also getting him back for that one thing, a couple weeks ago, at that party...,besides I don't think any of us would dare apose Temari"
"I honestly don't know what the big deal all of you have with me, Shika treats me right, like a lady!"
"A lady!, please, you've got more balls than a Roman candle!"
"Haku? how did you hear that!?" Temari said, turning around in the back seat."You know what, forget it. So Naruto what are you getting back at Haku for?"
"I'd really rather not say..."
A barrage of 'oh come ons' and 'we need something to entertain us' and from one paticular "stick in the mud" 'don't be a bitch.
"Ughhhh, fine, so me and Haku-"
Flashback
"Haku, check out the babes!"
"Really Naruto, is that absolutely necessary?"
"Is what necessary?" "I mean, we are in college, and we are guys, but is it absolutely necessary for us to go around flaunting our masculinity like we're some kind of bodyuilder living on the primal section of his brain, I mean, Women aren't property, they're people, just like you and me."
"Haku..., You are going to start making sense right this minute or else I'm punch you right in the gut."
"Uhhh, nevermind, it's just that-"
"Oh! Blondes three o' clock."
Haku wandered about the party for a few minutes thinking of his conversation with Naruto.
"Then again, maybe I jumped to conclusions, he's probably just bein' a guy, I should go apologize."
Haku worked his way through the crowd to the vicinity in which he remembered last talking to Naruto, there Naruto sat in the center of a ring of Women.
"He never learns does he?" Haku whispered to himself,"Can't believe I'm going to do this."
Haku undid his hair from the pony tail he had it bound in and worked his way into the ring surrounding Naruto and sat on his lap and in the girliest voice he could manage he said to Naruto,"Oh silly, how could you run away from me like that, give us a hug."
All the girls around Naruto took this as their cue to leave and slowly dispersed, giggling and muttering amonst themselves as they did so.
End Falshback
"I guess Haku's been in there long enough," Temari said sighing,"Let's let him out."
The group surrounded the rear of the car as Naruto took his keys to unlock the trunk, almost the moment Naruto turned the key Haku burst out hyperventilating and beet red.
"I, am going to kill, you all..."
"Oh well don't you look terrible, here I'll kiss it and make it better."
Gaara then pulled Haku in close and pressed his forehead against Haku's, putting space between them he planted a kiss upon his brow.
"Now quit complaining."
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (A/N)Sorry it took me so long to update again, I had a horrid computer failure, not going to go into detail.
"Okay, so here's the situation, the car isn't doing that bad, albeit only an eigth of a tank of gas left, we aren't that bad on money, and if we're going to make it to Dallas and back we'll have to put in some major hours on the ashphalt, but after everything that just happened, well, I just want to be sure everyone still wants to continue, so, I think we should take a vote, Temari?"
"Well, despite the little fiasco with the cops I'm still totally up for it."
"Okay so that's one, Shikamaru?"
"The whole situation is just too tiresome, but I can't leave my girlfriend in a confined space with a large number of sexually frustrated college guys, she'd have to sleep in a corner every night, so yeah, I'm still going."
"And what about you Gaara?"
"Well, I'm kind of in the same boat as Shikamaru, I can't leave you guys with my sister for this whole trip, and well-"At this Gaara cast an almost unnoticeable galnce toward Haku as he said this,"But yeah, I just can't let that haappen."
"Stick in the mud, cough, I mean Sasuke."
"You know Naruto, if I was any lesser a person I could just up and destroy this trip by saying no, but I don't intend to see Fugaku or Itachi for about a month so I'll come, for now."
"And Haku"
"Well, is it just me, am I the only one who has noticed this by now, really, am I the only one with the knowlegde of this, really?"
"What are you talking about?" Temari asked, exasperated.
"This whole entire trip is so rediculously cliched, honestly!, I could see it now, a movie trailer for this!"
Haku cleared his throat and he took on a much deeper, breathier tone,
"This Summer, six college students embark on a journey of hapiness, romance, self-discovery and an experience that will change their life as they know it, Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis, and that one chick with the rack from National Lampoon's Van WIlder, haaaaaaaa, The Roadtrip, rated PG-13."
"Haku,"
"Yea Temari?"
"Have I ever told you how much of a sexist pig you are?"
"Maybe once twice, three times, maybe four, I stopped counting after fourty-seven."
"Hey Naruto, how big is your trunk?"
"Ummmm, pretty big, it can fit a couple of sports duffle bags in it, maybe five cubic feet, give or take, maybe, why do you ask?"
"Really?"
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX "Alright guys, just for the record I never consented to this, and if I wanted to I could press charges and sue the pants off you all!"
"I'm sorry Haku but until you learn your lesson I'm afraid I can't let you out, also, Temari might do inexplicable things to me if I did." Naruto said while tapping on the lid of the trunk they had just put Haku in.
"I don"t think he can hear you." Gaara pointed out with a righteous look on his face, arms crossed across his chest.
"Oh oh oh, guys, you are gonna love this," Naruto said while giggling to himself,"Uh yeah Haku, if you see a spider in there, don't smash it, Shino was having me hold onto it for a while, oh yeah and,we're about 200 miles from the border so if you drank anything recently you're going to have to hold it for about three hours."
Immediately upon hearing these words Haku first remembered the bottle of water he'd had earlier, and then he remembered he was deathly afraid of spiders.
"I guess it's a good thing I'm not clausterphobic, that would not be cool, caught in a triple whammy for three hours, I can't begin to imagine what that would be like."
Haku thought to himself,"Is it just me or is this trunk getting smaller?"
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Do you think we were too harsh on Haku?" Gaara asked, "I mean he did make a good point and the joke was alright, c'mon, did we have to lock the guy in the trunk, we didn't even let the guy take a leak before hand, that's pretty twisted, not to mention he thinks there's one of Shino's freak insects crawling around in there with him."
"Yeah, so?" Naruto replied,"I'm a dick, I was also getting him back for that one thing, a couple weeks ago, at that party...,besides I don't think any of us would dare apose Temari"
"I honestly don't know what the big deal all of you have with me, Shika treats me right, like a lady!"
"A lady!, please, you've got more balls than a Roman candle!"
"Haku? how did you hear that!?" Temari said, turning around in the back seat."You know what, forget it. So Naruto what are you getting back at Haku for?"
"I'd really rather not say..."
A barrage of 'oh come ons' and 'we need something to entertain us' and from one paticular "stick in the mud" 'don't be a bitch.
"Ughhhh, fine, so me and Haku-"
Flashback
"Haku, check out the babes!"
"Really Naruto, is that absolutely necessary?"
"Is what necessary?" "I mean, we are in college, and we are guys, but is it absolutely necessary for us to go around flaunting our masculinity like we're some kind of bodyuilder living on the primal section of his brain, I mean, Women aren't property, they're people, just like you and me."
"Haku..., You are going to start making sense right this minute or else I'm punch you right in the gut."
"Uhhh, nevermind, it's just that-"
"Oh! Blondes three o' clock."
Haku wandered about the party for a few minutes thinking of his conversation with Naruto.
"Then again, maybe I jumped to conclusions, he's probably just bein' a guy, I should go apologize."
Haku worked his way through the crowd to the vicinity in which he remembered last talking to Naruto, there Naruto sat in the center of a ring of Women.
"He never learns does he?" Haku whispered to himself,"Can't believe I'm going to do this."
Haku undid his hair from the pony tail he had it bound in and worked his way into the ring surrounding Naruto and sat on his lap and in the girliest voice he could manage he said to Naruto,"Oh silly, how could you run away from me like that, give us a hug."
All the girls around Naruto took this as their cue to leave and slowly dispersed, giggling and muttering amonst themselves as they did so.
End Falshback
"I guess Haku's been in there long enough," Temari said sighing,"Let's let him out."
The group surrounded the rear of the car as Naruto took his keys to unlock the trunk, almost the moment Naruto turned the key Haku burst out hyperventilating and beet red.
"I, am going to kill, you all..."
"Oh well don't you look terrible, here I'll kiss it and make it better."
Gaara then pulled Haku in close and pressed his forehead against Haku's, putting space between them he planted a kiss upon his brow.
"Now quit complaining."
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (A/N)Sorry it took me so long to update again, I had a horrid computer failure, not going to go into detail.
