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Chapter 4- P.E. (Painful Experience)
It was another day of school. Another day of people trying to hide away from Lee. It got so out of hand that Asuma Sensei had to give him detention. "Sorry kid, but you're freaking us out," Asuma said, smoking.
"Sensei, if you want to stay youthful, I suggest you stop smoking," Lee said matter-of-factly.
"Another hour of detention will do you some good," Asuma said. So now poor Rock Lee had 2 hours of detention today. (awwwww!)
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Chouji was alking towards Gai Sensei's P.E. class when he heard someone fall to the ground. He looked down and saw Hinata lying on the ground. The force of Chouji's belly knocked me over, Hinata thought.
"Are you okay?" Chouji asked, helping her up. He took hold of her hand and felt something in his hand. Hinata blushed and said," Y-yes."Although Chouji hadn't noticed, Shino waas by Hinata's side.
"Hinata, after what happened yesterday during practice I suggest you take it easy," Shino said. Hinata blushed again and stuttered,"I g-got t-to g-go n-now," and ran to P.E. like if her life depended on it. "See ya later Chouji," Shino said and walked to his next class.
Chouji looked at his hand and saw that he had a folded up letter. He unfolded it and read it silently to himself. "I knew immediately when I first saw you that you were the one," he read. "Because even though we're young, I know what I feel about you." Let me try to understand this more clearly. Hinata has feelings for me? Me, Chouji, the one everybody makes fun of for being fat? I don't believe it! My mom was right when she said that one day girls would find me attractive!
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Chouji was always a little self-conscious when it came to changing in P.E. He didn't exactly have an "athletic" figure with the abs, muscles, you get the picture. But since he found out that Hinata liked him, he decided to show a little more skin (if you know what I mean).
"Chouji, what are you wearing!" Shikamaru asked his best friend. Chouji was wearing a fish-net shirt (like Shikamaru's but without the vest) and spandex shorts. Let's just say it wasn't a pretty sight.
"My P.E. uniform.What? You don't like?" Chouji said. Shikamaru didn't want to make him feel bad, so he lied and said he looked good.
Gai Sensei blew his whistle. "Alright my Youthful rays of Sunshine. Run around the Gymnasium for 20 minutes after we do our warm-ups. I want 50 push-ups and 50 sit-ups. Go!" Gai said.
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Ten minutes of running is hard on a girl like me, Temari thought as she drank from the water fountain in the gymnasium. She turned around to continue running when she saw Chouji all up in her grill. Agh, Fat Boy is stalking me. (Not really, he was just walking too slow that he seemed to be in slow motion.)
All of a sudden, Gai Sensei comes out of nowhere and blows his whistle for everyone to hurry up. Chouji is so surprised that he throws his hands in the air and runs for his life like a crazy lunatic.
"Well, what's this that he dropped ? A note to me perhaps?" Temari said. "My heart burns with passion for you. I can't keep these emotions bottled inside any longer and I just had to tell you, even if you don't feel the same way," Temari read aloud, while running. Ewww! Chouji Akamunchi likes me! Instead of his heart burning, he should burn some calories off, thought Temari, disturbed by the letter.
Ten minutes later, Temari went to the locker rooms with the other girls to change. Temari was pist. She asked Shikamaru out on a date again, but he refused. Actually, he said she was too troublesome to go out with. And now Chouji had a crush on her. How come I always attract the wrong guys? Temari thought. She was yelling, hitting and kicking stuff. All the girls thought it would be wise to to get out of her way.
Oh no! You don't think she found out about the letter Shikamaru gave me? Ino thought. I know they're not going out, but she acts like she owns him and she gets jealous. and Shikamaru is too lazy to do anything about it.
"Damn it!" yelled Temari and rolled the letter (scroll style) and threw it. All the girls had their mouths opened in shick, and the letter landed right inside Tenten's mouth. Temari calmed herself down (a little) and started to change quickly because the bell was going to ring in one minute.
This note looks familiar, Tenten thought with half the paper in her mouth, and the other half sticking out of her mouth. She took it out and before she unrolled it completely, she had a pretty good idea what it was. Oh no! It came back to haunt me! She screamed inside her head.
"Come on Tenten read it. What does it say?" Sakura said. Before Tenten could say anything, the bell rang. "Ah, saved by the bell," she said and quickly walked out of the locker room before Sakura, Ino. and Hinata could question her about the note.
As Tenten was walking to her next class, she couldn't help but think how Temari got the letter from her locker. "Oh shit, Temari can use this information as blackmail!" Tenten said, panicking.
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During lunchtime, Tenten found the courage to talk to Temari, one on one. "Hey Temari! Mind if we talk privately?" Tenten asked, a little timidly. Temari was eating lunch with Kin and looked at Tenten with a scowl on her face.
"What do you want Meatball head?" Temari said.
"I just want to talk with you...alone," Tenten said. Temari looked at Kin and she gave her an "it's ok by me" look.
"Fine, but you better make this quick. You have five minutes," Temari said. Tenten nodded.
They walked until they were out of earshot. "Please! Please don't tell anyone! I'll do anything!" Tenten begged.
"What are you talking about? Did Lee start giving you drugs?" Temari said, totally weirded out by Tenten's behavior.
"No! That's the problem. I'll do anything for you if you just don't tell anyone," Tenten pleaded. Temari was confused, but here was someone willing to do anything for her. You can't let chances like that go by.
"Well, I need you to do something for me. I need you to keep Chouji Akamichi off my back for a few days. No questions asked," Temari said.
Hell no! Tenten thought, but she was desperate and had to kiss up to Temari. "Fine," Tenten said and she and Temari shook hands to settle the deal.
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Curious, very curious. Why would Tenten and Temari shake hands? thought Neji. He wasn't spying on them, but lately he was following Tenten ever since that day with Naruto. Something strange is going on, and I'm going to find out.
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Where am I? I feel so lost. This is unknown territory for me, Lee thought. He was outside the detention room, staring at that door. He opened the door and saw the detention sensei asleep on his desk. He saw some mean looking kids who looked like they could beat the crap out of him. Then he noticed Naruto, Shikamaru, Shino and Ino.
"Hey guys! What are you doing here!" Lee yelled, almost waking the sensei up.
"Well, I'm in here for pulling a prank in Iruka Sensei's class. He didn't seem to find it funny," Naruto said.
"I fell asleep in class. And I didn't turn in my homework for Kakashi's class, although I swear I did," Shikamaru said.
"Me and Shino are here cause we were passing notes in class," Ino said, blushing. Great, I'm sitting in between Shikamaru and Shino. Shikamaru likes me and Shino thinks I like Shikamaru. What a bad position I'm in.
"Why are you here?" Naruto asked Lee.
"It's because Asuma sensei said 'I'm freaking people out.' But I don't know where he got that crazy idea. I don't freak you guys out, do I?" Lees asked.
"Oh no, no way," they all said, lying.
"Then you won't mind if I sit here?" Lee said, pointing a chair next to Naruto. Before they could say anything, Lee sat down. Great, detention with Lee, thought Ino.
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The next day at school, Chouji was ambushed by Tenten when he was near Temari in the lunchline.
"Hey Chouji, wassup wit you!You know that we haven't talked like in forever?" Tenten said trying to lead Chouji to the other lunchline (there were two, but one was shorter than the other).
No girl has ever really wanted to talk to me, unless, could it be? Tenten likes me! I guess I must be getting sexier everyday, thought Chouji.