Noah and Chris's Birthday Party

Neji's P.O.V.

I woke up to the sound of screaming.

"MY COOKIES! CHRIS GIVE THEM BACK!"

"NEVER! I WANT ONE!"

"DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH MY COO-NOOO! YOU'RE DEAD FOR THAT!"

I got out of bed and stuck my head round my door. The hall was empty. I quickly pulled on a t-shirt and went to the door across from mine, Ammi's room, and knocked.

The door swung open and Ammi came out in a strappy navy blue top, dark trousers and some fluffy grey socks. Her hair was all flicky at the front, and she had on a necklace with a little figure that rested just below her neck. Her eyes showed she was ready to kill.

"Yeah, I know Noah, c'mon and-wait, Neji?" She asked, looking half awake and confused.

"What's with all the screaming?" I asked, yawning.

Ammi scowled. "Soph and Chris. They're fighting again. In fact, I've had enough. Back in a minute." She disappeared into her room, closing the door behind her. She reappeared gripping what looked like a baseball bat in her right hand. She gave me a look and then whisked past me, bolting down the stairs at inhuman speed.

I quickly followed her to try and stop a massacre from happening, but when I got down I saw Ammi smashing the remains of some machine with her baseball bat.

"NOOOOOOOOOO! AMMI!" Soph wailed. "WHY? MY COOKIE MACHINE!"

Ammi threw down her baseball bat and turned towards Soph.

"Well, that is what happens when you INSIST on waking everyone up EVERY. SINGLE. MORNING." She said the last part through gritted teeth.

"What can I say? Cookies are my one food love..." Soph said, going into a daze.

Ammi went into the living room and sat on a couch, pulling the sketchpad and pencils she'd gotten last night from under her seat. She folded the pad around a red folder and began to draw. Soph and Chris began cleaning up the cookie mess and soon Noah and the others came wandering down the stairs. When Noah saw the mess he looked at Ammi.

"What happened?" He asked.

"I dealt with our problem." She mumbled, sounding distracted.

Noah just nodded and walked into the kitchen, going through a few cupboards. Everyone crashed on the couches, well, everyone except Shikamaru, who hadn't appeared down yet.

I sat down next to Ammi and looked at her sketchpad. She was drawing someone's hair and face in. As I watched, the drawing soon took the shape of Kakashi, sitting reading Make-Out Paradise, just like he was in the corner of the room right now.

"That's amazing..." I murmured, still staring at the drawing.

Ammi looked up. "What, this? This is just a quick scribble, I'm gonna use it as a reference for another drawing."

"Reference? It looks fine the way it is." I said, looking up at her. She smiled and turned her gaze towards the window.

"Thanks, but really, this is nothing. C'mon, I'll show you my latest drawing" She stood up and took my hand, dragging me up the stairs to her room. On the way to the stairs I could see Soph smirking at us. I gave her a look of confusion and she turned away. Girls, I'll never understand them.

Soph's P.O.V.

I watched as Ammi dragged Neji by the hand to her room, and smirked at the sight. Neji saw me and looked confused, but I just turned away and went to the kitchen, sitting down at the table.

Everyone looked really tired. To be fair, it was seven in the morning. I guess Ammi had a point in smashing my cookie mixer. But still! My cookies are my life!

I sighed and turned on my laptop, which went everywhere I did. I checked my e-mails and then began to type another chapter to my story. Yeah, I should mention, writing is my life. I put my stories online, and people get to read them and vote for them. It's pretty awesome. After about ten minutes I shut the lid and went into the living room. I sat on the floor at the foot of one of the many couches, and went online to order a new cookie mixer. Then I went back to my writing.

"...What's that?" A voice asked, and I jumped. I hadn't noticed Gaara was lying down on the couch when I'd sat down. Now he was peering over my shoulder, looking at the screen.

"Oh, this?" I said, looking up at him. "It's a laptop, you don't have these in your world?" I asked, tilting my head to the side.

"No, we have those," He said. "I mean what you're writing."

I blushed slightly. "Oh, it's nothing, just something I do in my spare time."

"It's really good." He whispered. I ran a hand through my hair and looked down.

"No it isn't, it's just something to keep me entertained." I told him.

I could feel his gaze on me. I turned and rested my head on the edge of the couch, inches away from Gaara.

"What?" I whispered.

"Nothing," He said, and turned his eyes back to the computer screen. I sighed and turned around, closing my document and shutting down my laptop. I slid it under the couch and then shoved Gaara's legs off the couch, sitting down.

He looked at me, stunned, and then his eyes narrowed. I smiled brightly. He glared at me some more and then he whipped his legs up again and plonked them on my lap. I just stared at him. Then I shoved his legs off the couch again. So, he flung them right back into my lap. I gave him a look while he gave me a cheeky smirk.

Hm...must think of something...OH! I KNOW!

I smiled mischievously, and shoved his legs off the couch again. but before he could lift them back up, I tackled him, screaming; "OH NO YOU DON'T YOU MUFFIN!"

I ended up lying on top of him, laughing while he smiled slightly. Oh. My. God. Gaara smiled. WOO! VICTORY!

We locked eyes, and suddenly I couldn't move. I was trapped in his gaze, and he seemed trapped in mine. After what seemed like forever someone coughed. I looked up.

Every single person was staring at us. Even Noah from the kitchen and Chris from the staircase.

I felt my face go bright red. I looked at Gaara and saw he wasn't as pale as usual either. So I did what came naturally to me.

I jumped up, grabbed Gaara's hand and ran up the stairs screaming; "RUN AWAY MUFFIN RUN AWAAAAAAAAAAAY!"

I practically dragged Gaara into my room and flopped onto the bed, tired from running. Gaara just stood next to the door, smirking slightly.

I rolled over and leaned on my elbows, looking at him. "What now?" I asked. "It's getting kinda creepy with all the staring. And you can come into my room, you know."

Seriously though, the staring was starting to creep me out. Every time I looked at him he seemed to have already beaten me to it.

"Nothing..." He said quietly, averting his gaze. I sighed and rolled back over, staring at the ceiling.

My mind began to wander and suddenly I remembered something. I sprang up off the bed and rummaged under it, digging out two parcels. I could feel Gaara's confused gaze on me, but I didn't care. I pulled out two rather large boxes and sat them on the bed.

Gaara looked at them and just stared at me. "What are-?"

"Presents. It's Noah and Chris's birthday today!" I quickly told him, going into my closet and pulling out wrapping paper and some cello tape.

Don't ask how I forgot my best friends' birthdays. I do that sometimes. Ammi and Chris sometimes call me a goldfish because of it. I suppose its true...at times.

"Can you hold this fold for me?" I asked Gaara, gesturing to the paper fold I'd just made. He came over and folded it up while I taped it. He helped me finish Noah's and then we attempted Chris's, which was more awkward.

Five sheets of crumpled wrapping paper later, I moaned in frustration and stomped into Ammi's room. She and Neji were sitting cross-legged on her bed facing each other and discussing their drawings. They both looked up when I came in, and Ammi looked annoyed.

"Soph, you know to knock before coming into my room!" She hissed. Oops. I'd forgotten she hates having people in her room. But this was important, so stuff her rules!

"Yeah yeah, I know, but I can't wrap Chris's present! Even with Gaara helping me!" I looked around her room, and saw two neatly wrapped packages sitting in her little den. She looked at Neji and sighed.

"l'll be back," She said, leaving Neji in her room to help me wrap Chris's present. "Just do whatever, but pleeeaaaase don't break anything!" She begged, shooting a pointed look at me.

"It was an accident!" I defended.

"Suuuuure it was..." She said sarcastically, walking out her room with me trailing behind her. Neji just looked at her, then me, and went back to quickly sketching. As I left the room, I was sure he was sketching her, and she was sketching him. Hmm...awesome!

Neji's P.O.V.

Ammi left the room with Soph behind her, and I quickly added a few details I could remember of Ammi before sitting down the sketchpad and looking round her room.

Looking at it, I knew it was the smallest bedroom, mines was way bigger than this. She had a big double bed with dark covers and a fluffy maroon throw over it, a dark mahogany desk, a built in wardrobe with big sliding mirror doors, an en suite and finally her little den. Well, if you consider the den, it's one of the biggest rooms out of all the bedrooms. The den looks really small, but if you lift the shaggy light brown carpet, there's a trap door that takes you to a secret room on the floor below. She told me that everybody just thought it was a room with damp problems, or thats what she'd told them, when it was accessible from a door downstairs, which she'd had removed. She told me not to tell the others, even Soph didn't know about it. She'd taken me down to her den, and what I saw was just...wow. Everything important to her was down there; her pictures of friends and family, her guitar, her saxophone, some sketchpads and coloured pencils, her personal computer, and other personal family relics she had from her parents. The roof was slanted, as if it was under the stairs, which I assumed it was from the position of the room. The walls were a light cream and covered in drawings, and the carpet was about a foot thick. She had beanbags in the corner where she just relaxed, and a small TV on a bracket on the wall. How she got all this in here without anyone noticing, I have no idea, but it doesn't really matter.

I was tempted to go back down to it, but just as I was about to get off the bed Ammi came back in and smiled at me. I gave her a small smile back, and she walked over and plopped herself onto the bed and sat in front of me.

"Right, five more minutes of sketching and then we have to set up Noah and Chris's party." She put on music by some band called Linkin Park and then we went back to drawing. I began to draw in her facial features, and when I looked up I locked eyes with her. We stayed like that for a couple of seconds when Soph shouted; "AMMI, NEJI! NOAH AND CHRIS ARE AWAY OUT! GET YO BAHOOKIE'S DOWN HERE AND HELP SET UP THE PARTY!" I looked away from Ammi, and Ammi took our drawings and put them in her desk while I got the guy's presents from the den. We carried them between us and took the lift downstairs to help set up for what was sure to be one hell of a party.

"AAAH! CRAP! THEY'RE BACK!" Soph screeched, and we all froze. We could hear the door opening and Noah, Chris and Kakashi's voices float through the room. "Neji!" Sophie hissed. "Go stall them! Ammi'll come and get you when we're finished!" She shoved me towards the hallway, and then went back to decorating.

"Sorry about her," Ammi murmured as she walked past me. "She gets seriously uncontrollable when it comes to decorating or setting up something."

I nodded and then went into the hall, trying to think of an excuse to stop them from going into the living room.

I gave Kakashi a look, and instantly he knew why I was out here .At least I had someone on my side.

"So, how was shopping?" I asked casually, blocking the door into the living room.

"Uhh...fine...we just got food." Noah said, eyeing me suspiciously.

"Well, what did you get?" I asked, looking at Kakashi for help.

"Oh, well they got some apples, didn't you boys? And some chicken for sunday." Kakashi said, smiling his closed-eye smile.

"Oh that sounds nice." I answered, smiling slightly. Man, I was bad at this. Just then Ammi appeared at my side, whispered 'We're done!' and then grabbed Kakashi and I's arms and dragged us into the living room, pulling us down behind a table.

"Okay, what's going oo-"

"!" We all screamed, jumping up from behind the couches and tables and almost giving Noah and Chris a heart attack.

"What the-"

"HAAAAAPPYYYY BIIIIIRTHDAAAAY!""" Soph sang, dancing over to them with two presents in her hands. Ammi went over and took the shopping into the kitchen, her hands flying as she put everything in cupboards. She was back in watching them both open their presents in seconds. Then she quickly went around everyone with a bag, handing them each two boxes. She gave me two and then stood next to me, smiling to herself.

"What're these?" I whispered to her.

"Presents for Noah and Chris. I remember birthdays, unlike someone." She looked at Soph, and then back to Noah and Chris, who were staring at their presents, speechless.

Ammi smirked as they struggled for words. Noah held in his hand what looked like a gaming console, and Chris had a midnight metallic blue bass guitar.

"This-this isn't even out in Japan!" Noah stuttered. "And it's getting released there first! How'd you get it?"

"I have my ways..." Soph said, smirking at him.

Chris smiled at Soph. "This is awesome and all, but I can't play it without an amplifier, which-"

"Which is where I come in." Ammi said, stepping forward. She gestured to two wrapped boxes sitting next to the table, and they went over to them and began to open them.

Wow, their faces were priceless. They looked like little kids in a toy shop. Chris had gotten an amplifier, (Which wasn't easy to wrap, or get downstairs.) and Noah had gotten a gaming chair, with three-sixty surround sound and a built in controller.

"Do you like them?" Ammi asked. They both tackled her and Soph with a hug, almost killing them in the process.

"I'll take that as a yes." Ammi choked out. "Right, go see what everyone else got you, and then we can have fun!" She said, slipping away from them and back next to me.

As they made their way around everyone, I realised Ammi had gotten them the perfect presents. They were just little things, but they fitted with everything they had so far. For Chris there were guitar picks, strings, play-along CD's and other things that were for guitars. Noah had controllers, games, accesory's for the console and a few other things. In the boxes Ammi had given me were spare amplifier leads for Chris and a controller docking station for Noah. They thanked everybody and then Noah began hooking up his console to the TV while Chris plugged in the bass and began to play.

Music was cranked up, disco and strobe lights were turned on as the normal ones were turned off, and then the party started...

Ammi's P.O.V.

As I leaned against the doorway into the kitchen, all I could do was stare at the scene in front of me. I should never have let them near the wine and beer. (A/N they're about 16, like in Shippuden, so yes, they are drinking underage XD Don't try this at home kids! This is a one off!) BIGGEST. MISTAKE. EVER.

See, we'd all had fun, eating cake and having a go on Noah's new console and Chris's bass, but then Chris suggested they break out the booze, and, well...let me just tell you.

Kakashi was reading his book while downing a beer, his eyes getting more lost with every sip. Naruto stumbled over to him and sat down, mumbling; "Kakashi? Why's that books so interesting to youu? Can I see? Just this once!"

Kakashi, who looked completly out of it, said; "Suuure you can, Naruto! I'll even explain it..." And after a few minutes of whispering and reading Kakashi said; "...and that's how that happens!"

Naruto passed out right there.

So, Kakashi being Kakashi, put his book away and crawled over to Noah, who was shouting abuse at the screen while playing some randomer online, and asked him if he could play. Noah handed him a controller and then went back to his rant.

Shikamaru was sleeping on the couch, completely oblivious to what was happening around him. Kiba was at the DJ decks, spinning the discs while shouting random things like; "I'M DAVID GUETTA! WHOEVER THAT IS!" While Akamaru was doing back flips around the room. Yes, Kiba had given his DOG a saucer of beer.

Sakura was following Sasuke around, all gooey-eyed and saying things like; "Oh, SASUKE! Did I tell you I love you? Please marry me, I'm soooooo desperate!" While Sasuke leaned against a wall and slid down it, his words slurred. To me it sounded like; "Goooooo aaaaawaaaaaaaaaaayy yyyyyouuu pppppinkkkk pixxxieee youuurree huurtinggg myy eaaaarssss." He covered his ears and then fell asleep.

Wow, he was gonna have SOME hangover in the morning.

Chris and Temari were partying hardcore to Kiba's ear-splitting DJ-ing, and Gaara was somewhere upstairs, with Soph after him, making sure he didn't break anything.

And I had everything on tape. Because I'm just that evil and awesome.

I was watching it all through my video camera, muttering, "My weird and wonderful friends."

"I'm not sure about the wonderful part, but they are definitely weird." A voice said behind me. I jumped and turned around, closing my camera.

"Oh, Neji." I looked at him closely. He looked completely calm and normal. "Wait, you're not drinking?" I asked, tilting my head slightly. He shook his head.

"I've saw how Rock Lee reacted to an elixir, I'm pretty sure this would be worse than that. Plus, I had a similar idea to you, film it to shame them all tomorrow." He smirked slightly.

"Wow, didn't know you had an evil side to you, Neji." I smirked and showed him the video I'd couldn't stop laughing at it.

"And now..." I said, taking his hand and leading him upstairs to my den. Once we got there I started up my computer. "...we put the video on Youtube."

We both smirked and I plugged my camera into my computer, downloaded it to my computer and then onto my Youtube channel. I labelled it; "Naruto Cosplayer's Get Drunk" and pressed upload. Then Neji and I fell asleep on the beanbags as we watched the number of views and comments go through the roof.