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Chapter 3 – The Underpants
One of the S.S. Shinobi crew members consulted his cabin booking sheet and looked at the three new passengers before him. "Cabin 3 is available, that is if you three don't mind sharing."
"I'm a lady! You don't expect me to share a room with two guys, imagine what would happen to me!" Karin screeched.
"Absolutely nothing," Suigetsu muttered under his breath.
"There is another room available with a female occupant," said the crew member.
"Great, I'll take it, and charge all of this to The Hidden Village of Sound," Karin said.
"Sure, okay, you're in cabin 17." The crew member handed her a card.
Karin made her way to cabin 17 and Jugo and Suigetsu made their way to cabin 3. Karin slid her card into the slot and the door clicked open. A girl with long, straight indigo hair was unpacking her belongings, "H-hello," she greeted Karin with a stutter.
Karin grinned, 'Hey new roomie."
"I'm Hinata, I'm glad someone will be staying here."
"Karin. Hey, are you from Konoha?"
"Yes, why?" Hinata asked, folding a swimsuit.
"So you must know Sasuke Uchiha!"
"...Kind of," Hinata said, she honestly did not pay much attention to him, her attention being mostly devoted to Naruto. Sasuke had gone to the shinobi party with her and overall he was nice but a bit dull and he kept hinting that Kiba liked her, so she wasn't really sure what to make of Sasuke.
"I need to know everything about him!" Karin yelled, making Hinata jump slightly. Karin had a notebook out and her pen was poised, ready to take notes. It's wrong to give out information about ninja! Hinata thought, and she shook her head, "I-I'm sorry, I can't tell you. It's against the rules of the ninja."
"Oh, I don't want to know about his techniques, I want to know what's his favourite colour, his favourite food, his favourite movie, if he's single – that sort of thing," Karin said, her cheeks were red. Hinata smiled, this girl clearly had a crush on Sasuke, Hinata was a sucker for helping people with crushes, but this was going to be a hard one.
"Well, he is s-single, I think..." Hinata offered. Karin stood up suddenly, "Thank you! That was all I needed to know!" if he wasn't single, that wouldn't have stopped me either, thought Karin as she dashed out of the door to find the love of her life. She ran all the way up to the upper deck, which oversaw the rest of the ship, so she could stage a casual run-in with Sasuke when he emerged from...well wherever he was at the moment. Karin glanced around for a good spot to wait, it was then that she saw something remarkable. She grinned naughtily.
-X-
Things were ever so peaceful when Naruto was asleep, Sasuke didn't have to put up with his annoying voice, his idiotic comments and his random outbursts of "I'm going to become Hokage!" Yes, things were quite tranquil at the moment, Sasuke could think, but then he found out that his thoughts were not so safe either. He was thinking about things that clearly didn't make sense and hence shouldn't even be thought about. He tried to clear his mind and think about something useful – like vengeance. Oh yes, I will kill you Itachi...right after I – no! Going into bad thought land again, bad thoughts, bad thoughts, Sasuke was having an internal freak out. Maybe I'll just go into the forest and train for a while, that should help but oh wait, I can't do that because I'm on a freaking ship! Ah, what the hell, I'll just go challenge Kiba since Naruto is asleep. Sasuke opened the door to his cabin and stepped outside, I love the sea breeze, hmmm that smell is familiar, he thought, closing his eyes and enjoying the moment. "Hello Sasuke-kun," said a soft voice.
He opened his eyes and located the source of the smell – it was Hinata Hyuga and her lavender scented...whatever it was. He nodded at her.
"How are you?" she asked so politely that Sasuke couldn't be rude and ignore her.
"Fine."
Why is this girl talking to me, she doesn't usually talk to me, Sasuke wondered, eyeing her suspiciously but she wasn't even looking at him. She was standing with her hands folded in front of her, smiling and looking out to sea with her hair blowing out in the breeze. Sasuke realized he was staring when Hinata said, "Sasuke-kun?"
"What? I was thinking!" Sasuke said sharply, covering for his stare.
"O-oh, sorry," she stammered.
"Hn."
"Did Karin speak with you yet?" she asked, still smiling.
Goddamit, why must she smile like that? Sasuke wondered angrily, and then once he got over that, he realized what she had just asked him. "Who is that?"
"The girl Kiba-kun saved from drowning – she has red hair and wears glasses."
Something inside Sasuke snapped, "What? Oh no no no, you tell her to stay the hell away from me or she'll be dealing with the business end of my chidori!"
Hinata looked more baffled than scared, "O-oh okay, why?"
"She gives off a bad vibe..." Sasuke said, scowling. One of the cabin doors opened and out walked Gaara, "Hello Hinata-san, Sasuke-kun, am I interrupting something?" he asked, looking from a worried-looking Hinata to a glaring Sasuke.
"N-no, I'm just leaving," Hinata said, "Bye Gaara-kun, bye Sasuke-kun."
"May I speak with you for a moment, Sasuke-kun?" Gaara asked in his low voice.
Sasuke looked up and for a fraction of a second, his eyes widened and he looked like he was on the verge of a mental breakdown. "NO!"
Gaara blinked, all he wanted to do was ask Sasuke if he knew where the bathrooms were on the ship.
"Naruto, wake up!" Sasuke said, grabbing the boy and shaking the sleep out of him.
"Nyah, I don't wanna go back to the academy, please don't me go back...they'll take my ramen," Naruto said, clearly still asleep.
"Wake up you idiot!" Sasuke shook him more violently.
"W-whass going on?" Naruto asked, rubbing his eyes and looking annoyed.
"That priestess did something to me," Sasuke said.
"Hmm what?"
"I don't know, but after her prediction...things have been getting...strange."
"How?" Naruto asked, now he was awake and interested.
"Every red-haired person on this ship is out to get me and...and..." Sasuke couldn't bring himself to talk about the next part just yet.
"You're just being paranoid," Naruto told his friend, "Besides, there aren't any red-haired people on the ship."
"What about Gaara and that girl that nearly drown?"
"Oh yeah! But that's just two people, Sasuke."
Naruto's right, no need to lose my cool. That's right, I'm an Uchiha, I'm cool by default. Maybe I'm just seasick...without the throwing up part. Nothing to worry about, Sasuke thought as he tried to calm down.
-X-
"This has got to be his, it's so elegant, stylish – this symbol on it must be some designer symbol. It's so sexy I'm in love!" Karin squealed, she looked to see if anyone was wandering about and when the coast was clear, she snatched the garment off the clothes line.
"Such soft fabric!" she gushed, then she held it up to her nose and her eyes went all unfocused, "Smells dreamy, I'll be keeping you." She giggled and stashed the pair of spankies in the pocket of her shorts. She took a slow walk back to her room, eager to run into Sasuke, but he was nowhere in sight. Hinata was writing in her journal when Karin got back.
"See what I have," Karin said in a sing-song voice, holding up the spankies.
Hinata blushed, "I-is that someone's underpants?"
"Yup, it's Sasuke's! I took it from the clothes line on the upper deck!"
"How do you know that's h-his?"
"Oh I know it is because it just reeks of sexiness and awesomeness," Karin said, and she tucked it under her pillow. Hinata gulped, wondering about this girls mentality.
"H-he might get mad if he finds out that you've taken his...his..."
"He won't find out, well, not until we're married anyway!"
-X-
That evening, Hidan emerged from a very refreshing shower which soothed all of his frustrations that he got from not being able to perform sacrifices on board the ship.
"Dammit Hidan, cover up when you get out of the shower, that's what towels are for!" Kakuzu snarled. Hidan was standing in their cabin, butt naked and dripping with water.
"I forgot to take my fucking towel, get over it old man."
"So you walked all the way from the bathroom area to this cabin...naked?"
"Yeah, the ocean breeze is so refreshing on the - "
"Shut up Hidan, and put some clothes on or I'll kill you," Kakuzu threatened.
"Empty threats again, fine, I'll put clothes on," Hidan said, opening his drawer, he searched around for his clothes but couldn't find any.
"The top draw is mine," Kakuzu said.
"Why do you get the fucking top draw?" Hidan said and yanked open the bottom draw, "Hey did the maid bring back our clothes from the upper deck?"
"Yeah."
"Then where the fuck is my underpants?" Hidan asked, throwing stuff out, looking for his underpants. 'That was my last clean pair, I need them!"
"What? You had only one pair of underwear?" Kakuzu asked, although in the back of his mind he thought that was very cost effective, just buy one and wash and wear.
"Of course not you dumbshit, I forgot to put the others out for washing!"
"Then that's your own fault."
"Oh fuck you! I must find it, that was my last clean pair and my one of a kind spankies with the Jashin symbol on them made from the softest cotton!" Hidan said in outrage, standing up and giving Kakuzu a full frontal and unwanted view. "Put your clothes on," Kakuzu growled.
Hidan reluctantly slipped into a pair of boxers, "Fucking maid must've gotten it mixed up with one of the other members underwear, but I will find it..."
Will Hidan find out who has his underwear?
Will Sasuke go insane?
Find out in the next chapter: He talks in his sleep
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