Chapter 4: Trouble Arises
It turned out that everyone decided to chill here at my place and relax seeing as how there was nothing else to do today. I really wanted to relax with Kiba but this was nice too. Everyone was able to entertain themselves and everyone else.
"Hinata I challenge you to a game!" He pulled out some cards and started to shuffle. "Its a little game called *Oichu-Kabu Basically the goal of the game is to reach nine. As in baccarat, the last digit of any total over ten makes your hand: a fifteen counts as five, a twelve as two, and a twenty as zero. Having two of the same card makes it the card number: a ten and a ten equals ten, one and a one equals one..." Hinata blushed but agreed. She looked happy to have Naruto ask her to do something with him. Of course Naruto lost. He lost a few more games against Tenten, Chouji, and Kiba.
The other girls talked about what they should make for dinner and the guys reminisce about the crazy things going on such as the remaining Akatsuki and the attacks and so on.
I walked out of the kitchen and stood in the doorway to see how happy everyone was. Though I do prefer the quiet, relaxed atmosphere, I enjoy this just the same. Ino came behind me and rested her chin on my shoulder.
"So, any plans for the first date?" I looked over to see her smiling at the scene of our friends.
"I have an idea, I just don't know if he'll find it that interesting." I could feel her shaking her head, disagreeing.
"Shikamaru, you should know that it doesn't matter what you do. At least not all the time, but it's really about the time you two spend together. You both will be with each other so I'm sure he'll love the fact that you two are doing it together." She looked at me out of the corner of her eyes and smiled with me.
"You know you are one of the most troublesome people I know, but love." We both started to laugh a little. After recomposing ourselves, we sat down with everyone else. It was relaxing until Sakura, Tenten and Ino announced a game.
"Okay, here's the plan for now. We are all going to play truth or dare. You all have to play no ifs, ands, or buts. Plus there are some rules. First of all, you have to pick one or the other so no passing. Second if you choose dare you have to complete whatever that dare is." As Tenten finished explaining she placed an empty bottle down in the center of everyone.
I was about to get up until Kiba pulled me into him.
"Come on Shika, it'll be fun!" I sighed in defeat and leaned against him. The weapon nin spun the bottle and everyone watched intensely to see who the first victim would be. It stopped on Hinata. She was already blushing.
The weapon nin asked Hinata the question. "Truth or dare?"
It seemed as if she was having the most intense mental battle but picked dare, which shocked everyone including herself.
"Alright Hinata, I dare you to go all out on Naruto's mouth." I swear I could see the Hyuuga hesitate, but she looked up and crawled over to Naruto and looked at him. This was becoming more interesting since we've never seen Hinata act like this.
"Naruto I love you." She didn't stutter, or look away. She said it straight to his face and kept eye contact. "I've always loved you Naruto, I wanted to tell you sooner but I just could never find the right time. But I decided it was either now or never." She gave a small smile and leaned in.
Her lips touched Naruto's and once that contact was made, it slowly became a battle of dominance and she was winning.
After about ten minutes, what was once surprising and shocking, slowly became irritating to others since they wanted to continue the game. Eventually they finally stopped and in the end she crawled into his lap.
"I love you too Hinata. I'm sorry it took so long for me to realize it." The two looked so cute together causing me to look over to Kiba who for a moment looked so calm and serene, his face was really beautiful. I should probably say handsome but either way he looked perfect. I ended up pulling him into my lap and kissed his neck.
"About damn time." Kiba shouted playfully. Naruto stuck out his tongue.
"I could say the same thing to you Kiba." Hinata chuckled knowing her friend all too well. He blushed at that and leaned against me.
"So if Kiba, Shikamaru, Hinata, and Naruto focus we can move on." Sakura laughed.
The game went on for maybe two or three hours, and within that time many things were told, discovered and many things happened. But it calmed down and evening started to roll around. Again I was wondering why everyone was still here and why no one left.
"Okay it's almost 5; I think we should head to the market and figure what to make for dinner." The pink haired kunoichi talked amongst the other girls while the guys just laid there starving.
"I swear you guys are useless without us girls around." Ino paused then smiled. "Well most of you anyway." The girls headed towards the kitchen deciding to make a list of what to get, but they stopped after writing 'Shopping List'.
"Well it would be easy to make a list if we knew what we were making. You know you guys could help out too you know." Sakura yelled. Chouji and Naruto both thought of the same things.
"Ramen!" Yelled Naruto and Chouji.
"NO!" Ino, Sakura and Tenten shouted in unison. "We'll have an actual meal tonight!"
"Well, how about we just do a barbeque? I mean we can all go to the store and grab stuff and make it good and healthy so everyone gets a little but of everything?" Kiba stated looking around. I sighed at how troublesome dinner was becoming.
Everyone thought about it than nodded in agreement. Naruto stood up on the table.
"Alright then! This will be an A rank mission! There will be three teams of three and we each have ten minutes to head out and get some good food. Those who fail will pay the consequence!" The hyper blonde stood on the coffee table and just laughed away, at least until I kicked him off the table.
"What the hell was that for Shikamaru?"
"No standing on the table idiot. It's not for standing on. Besides what is this so called "consequence"? I looked at him a little intrigued.
"You'll just have to wait and see, I'm sure someone will be at least a minute or two late." He gave his trademark grin.
"How are we supposed to know when the ten minutes are up?" Kiba sat up also intrigued. The hyper blonde ran over to his bag and pulled out a timer.
"This is what Kakashi sensei used when he put us through our training exercise three years ago."
"How will we decide teams?" Lee asked very excited for a challenge.
He went back to his bag and pulled out small pieces of paper and numbered them 1-3 and then put it in the vase that was on the table. After everyone got their paper Naruto pointed to three spots in the living room and assigned a number to each spot.
"Ones will go on the long couch over there, twos will go by the TV, and threes will go by the door."
Everyone moved and the teams were done. Team one was made up of Lee, Naruto, and Chouji. Team two was made up of Sakura, Kiba, and Tenten. Team three was made up of Hinata, Ino and I. This was going to be interesting.
Kiba gave me a look as if he was challenging me. "Looks like you three might be in a bit of trouble."
I smirked, "We'll see about that dog boy." he smiled.
"Alright let's get the ball rolling!" The hyper blonde was enjoying himself too much. But everyone nodded and was ready for this "mission" Naruto invented.
He set the timer for ten minutes and then let everyone get ready. By the time we were done we were all outside in front of my house.
"Ready!"
"Set!"
"Go!"
We all took off quickly.
"I swear if missions were more like this, it would be a little more fun." Ino laughed. Hinata and I just laughed with her.
"So what do you think we should grab?" I asked now realizing we weren't heading anywhere particular. We decided to stop and figure that out before anything else.
"Maybe we could grab some desserts?" Hinata was looking over at a bakery.
"That sounds great! Come on Shikamaru!" Ino and Hinata were looking at everything through the window.
"Sounds good to me." With that we headed into the bakery and browsed through everything. After about four minutes they finally picked out a giant white chocolate raspberry cake, at least two dozen cookies, and maybe 15 sweet bean buns.
"I think we have about 4 minutes to get back. Let's hurry." The blonde smiled. Thankfully we weren't too far; we were back at my place within half a minute.
"I wonder where everyone else is." Hinata looked around than to the timer noticing there was only a minute left.
"Maybe they were just having some problems trying to decide what to grab?" The blonde shrugged giving a small smile; seeming a little unsure herself.
"I have a bad feeling...something just doesn't feel right." The timer went off and we all looked at each other. After turning it off we waited a couple minutes.
"Something really isn't right." I looked back at Hinata. "Hinata use your Byakugan and see where everyone is." The blue haired nin nodded and activated her Byakugan.
"I found everyone but it looks as if they aren't alone. I haven't seen these people before, and that's not all. There's someone heading towards us. Both Ino and I tensed hearing this.
"Come on out, I know you're here." Hinata called out to whoever was hiding.
"So you must be from the Hyuuga clan. I would expect no less from you." He jumped down. He looked a bit older than us as well as a bit taller, he had a light skin tone and his hair was short and black. He had a headband on but no symbol.
"Why are you here and what do you want?" Ino asked getting nervous.
"I'm sorry that's none of your business, plus we don't wanna fight. We just came here for looking for someone from the Nara clan, and we believe it's him." He pointed to me. Ino and Hinata stood between me and him.
"I'm sorry but we won't allow you to do as you please." Hinata stood her ground.
"He isn't going anywhere. If you want him you're going to have to go through us. He started to chuckle.
"I won't go easy on you two just because you're cute." The three of us glared at him.
"Don't underestimate us because we're girls! Let's go Hinata!" Ino shouted and ran towards him.
"Take this!" The blonde sent him flying through the trees with a roundhouse kick. She than pulled out a few paper bombs and threw them towards the mysterious attacker.
"Did I get him?" she stared intently before a barrage of kunai shot out of the smoke. Hinata quickly jumped in front of Ino.
"Protective 8 Trigrams, 64 Palms!" She deflected the simple attack. The man lunged for Hinata ready to take her down.
"Ninja Art! Shadow Stitching Jutsu!" My shadows quickly weaved around the girls piercing the him before he too close. He than just hovered in the air being suspended by my shadows. As I released my jutsu he fell to the ground.
"Well that wasn't too much of a challenge. I hope everyone else is okay." Ino sighed while looking back at Hinata and I.
"That wasn't even good enough for a warm up." He got up, catching us off guard, and lunged for both Hinata and grabbing Ino by the throats. They were gasping for air.
"Ninja Art! Shadow Possession Jutsu!"
"So you really are the one we're looking for. You made this mission much easier." He smiled at me. He chucked the two kunoichi towards me and dodged my shadow.
'Shit.' I quickly ran towards them and caught them.
"Are you two okay?" I looked over them while they recomposed themselves.
"Yeah we're fine. Just wondering why he isn't dead." The blonde glared.
"Don't worry he's within my range." Hinata glared.
As she got into stance he ran towards us unaware of the Hyuuga beside him.
"What! How did you-" Hinata already on the offense.
"8 trigrams 2 palms!"
Already caught Ino and I relaxed.
"4 palms! 8 palms! 16 palms! 32 palms! 64 palms!" She finished the assault sending him flying a good distance.
"And here's for good measures!" Ino yelled as she threw a few paper bombs towards the guy.
"Nice job Hinata, Shikamaru! We totally kicked his ass!" The blonde ran towards her.
"INO! HINATA! BEHIND YOU!" I shouted seeing the man right behind them.
As soon as they relaized what was going on, a hit landed on both of them knocking them out. He reached down and picked them up by their throats.
"If you want your pretty liitle friends to live you'll come with me. And don't think about using your shadow. I'm far out of your range." I glared at him.
'Damn he already figured out my range? Shit...I'm sorry guys it looks like a have no choice.' I stood and slowly walked over to him.
"So you don't try anything..." He threw the two girls towards my house. Before I could do anything a sharp pain shot through my neck. Next thing I knew everything was slowly going dark. The last thing I see is Ino getting up and screaming.
'Sorry Ino. I'm sorry Kiba.' Than the darkness completely takes over.
I know it may have dragged on a little but I was going somewhere with it! I just hope this will hold you over until chapter 5. Oh and I should let you know I'll be switching to back and forth from Shikamaru's P.O.V. and 3rd Person so hopefully you guys will be okay with that. So heres the usual " Please review! I want feedback on what you think and such!" Thanks!
P.S. I wanted to give a big thanks to TheSecretCrusader for their review! (Really got me pumped and motivated!) Tadashi Fire Wolf, because of your reviews and your support! And last but not least, JaydenNara because I read your story and that got me working harder!
*- Oicho-Kabu is a traditional Japanese card game that is similar to the Western card games, blackjack and baccarat. It is typically played with special kabufuda cards.
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