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"Hey Saki, can you pass me the ketchup?"

"Yeah, just give me the salt and pepper." Sakura and Hinata made the exchange, both putting their desired condiment or spice on their fries. The four girls sat in the food court of the mall, enjoying their lunch break away from the store.

"Uhh! This really hit the spot!" Tenten's eyes almost rolled to the back of her head as she chewed on one of her tempura sushi. Licking the sticky rice off her fingers she smiled happily. "Damn, that was good. Do you guys even know how much I was craving sushi?!"

Ino finished a mozzarella stick before answering. "How could we not? You've been talking about it all morning. I could even hear you over the thousands of guys and girls that came to the store just to stare at us."

Hinata sighed at that. "Why can't we just work in peace? Why do hormonally crazed teens have to flock to us and those other four?"

"Speak of the devil; heading towards us at my ten o'clock."

Hinata and Tenten, who were opposite of Ino and Sakura, turned to look at what the pink haired girl was talking about. Walking towards them in the best clothes and heels they could afford, which consisted of the most expensive clothes in the city, were Karin, Tayuya, Ami, and Kin. They didn't hide that they were looking for them as they strode up to them, arrogant and self-important expressions on their faces. They sat down next to them, angling their chairs to face them; backs straight and heads high to keep up the appearance that they were above the other four girls. Karin greeted them. "Whores."

"Cum-guzzling Slutasaurus Rexes."

"…what?"

"Oh nothing." Smirking coyly, Hinata waved them off, but not taking her comment back nonetheless. Ino and Sakura laughed while Tenten high-fived her.

Kin glared hard at the lavender eyed girl. "Look bitch, we're just here to have a nice little chat. Insult us again… and your ass is gonna get beat." The smile she gave her at the end only sufficed to agitating the girl slightly, but angering her all the same.

"What do you want? We're on our break if you didn't notice?"

"Oh that's precisely why we're here. There is really no other time to talk to you girls." Ami was filing her nails as she talked to them, showing how insignificant they were to her by not bothering to look at them. "We're always busy with our boyfriends and school and other things that we hardly ever get to hang with you four."

Ino looked between her three best friends as they did the same. "Cut the bull, what do you want?"

"She already said it; we want to hang out with you girls."

"Do we have to remind you of how much smarter we are than you guys? We've been through this before; popular girls want to befriend us, popular girls want to use us. Oldest trick in the book." Tenten was not putting up with the fake smiles they were giving them; they were ruining her sushi moment. "Now considering that we know you bitches don't want anything from us y'all can only be wanting to be nosy, so what do you wanna know?"

Tayuya let out an exasperated, yet relieved, sigh. "About time, you bitches were just beating around the fucking bush." She didn't even acknowledge the halfhearted glares her friends gave her. "Now, down to business. There's been a lot of rumors going around about you whores these past two weeks. Aside from that misplaced nickname that the idiot population has given you, I mean, Princesses? Really? That should be us; we're the ones dating the kings of the school. No wait, that would make us the queens. So… we could tell you bitches to bow the fuck down."

Sakura tried very hard not to jump out her seat and hit the girl as she clenched her fist under the table. "Back. To your point, slore."

Condescending smile and tone still in place, the salmon haired girl crossed her legs and leaned forward a little. "That's right, I was making a point. Thanks for reminding me peasant. Everyone knows you four disappeared when y'all were twelve, went somewhere for six years, and now you're back. You guys know Kakashi-sensei, even met with him on several occasions we assume. You four have been working at Paradise since it opened three weeks ago. Now here's where we have pieced things together that still don't make sense. You four met with Kakashi-sensei in May, maybe even April too, to take aptitude tests for this school year. But, Kakashi was working here at that point in time, and we don't recall him ever taking a sick day in either month; he was here even on the last day of school in June. Now adding all those up you girls would have had to be here in Konoha for Kakashi-sensei to tutor you and still be able to go to work the next day. But... what school lets out in April?"

After no response came for a minute Karin, Ami, and Kin started giggling. The redhead high-fived her sister. "Nice job sis, you dumbfounded the dumb."

Tayuya's smirk grew even more. "It's the not that hard."

Ino starting to speak moved their attention away from themselves. "We're not dumbfounded, we're just surprised. We didn't know we were in the presence of Sherlock Holmes."

"Don't you mean Sherlock Hoes?"

Karin glared. "Okay whores, we get it; you think you're funny. Answer the fucking question."

Hinata popped a tatter tot in her mouth before turning back to them. "Did the words home school ever come to mind?"

Now the four other girls paused, thinking over the question. Finally, after two minutes of looking between each other and the girls they were questioning, Kin spoke. "Okay… I have enough pride to admit that we didn't think of that. But, don't believe for a second that we'll take that. You four are still way too suspicious to have been home schooled for six years. You can't have been home-"

"Wait!" The seven girls looked to the redhead that had called out. Karin had a growing smug smirk as she looked at the pink haired girl. "Like Kin-chan was about to say, you four can't have been home schooled. I remember Sasuke-kun told me that Haruno had displayed a very manly skill at Wasteland before school started, something she had 'picked up on' at her old school. I don't believe you four would have gone to parties, especially parties with alcohol, if you were home schooled. Now how do you plan to lie your way out of this?"

Before anyone could answer an alarm went off. Tenten grabbed her phone. Turning her phone so that the girlfriends of the school's Playboys could see the alarm that said 'Back to work bitch' on her phone and smiled. "Ooh, time's up. That's all the time we had for 20 Questions and a Bitch; we hope to get better contestants next time. Buh-bye!" They got up and moved towards the trash can nearby. They were almost out of the food court when the angry females called out to them.

"Don't think this is over! We will find out!"

Sakura stopped and glared back at them, her own anger radiating off her. "Drop it. Now… or we'll make you." They continued walking, missing the intrigued expressions the statement got in response.

Once they were back in the store and in the back clocking in Ino spoke. "What they said reminded me though, aren't we supposed to be coming up with ideas for the back-to-school dance?"

The other three gasped. "Shit! That's right!"

"Wait, didn't Tsunade-sama say we only had two weeks to plan it?!"

"Um, two weeks is up guys!"

Ino watched her frantic friends as she thought up a plan. Just as she was narrowing down options in her head Naruto walked through the door, most likely to get something. Blue eyes lit up at the sight of the blond. "Perfect."

"Huh?" Four blank stares were given.

"We're gonna plan it out tonight; at the house. Shouldn't be a problem. Naruto, do you guys have any plans tonight?"

He scratched the back of his neck, thinking. "Um… yeah. We're gonna hang with the girls." Seeing all four pairs of eyes narrow, but not knowing the true reason for their anger, he backtracked. "B-but! I can go tell the guys and we can cancel."

"Good, you should go do that." Ino's blinding smile made the boy nervous; a feeling that was slowly turning into scared. "Tell them y'all can come over a couple of hours after we get off work. So I'd say around seven? No, eight; we have to get food probably and I wanna take a nap."

"So pretty much what you're saying is… we're gonna have a party at you guys house?"

"If you guys behave and we get done quickly then fine, we can hang out."

The grin on his face foretold everything but behaving nicely. Forgetting what he had originally gone to the back for he walked back out to the front. "Hey guys! Party across the street tonight!"

They couldn't have slapped their heads any faster.

"How many times are you gonna jam on the doorbell, Dobe?"

"Shut up, Teme! I've only pressed it twice."

"Maybe they're still out?"

"Naw, I saw them pull in an hour ago."

The four guys stood outside their neighbors' house, waiting to be let in. It was nearly nine thirty at night and already dark. They were beginning to get wary of the wildlife that still inhabited the forested community when yelling was heard on the other side of the door. They each looked at each other and waited still. When no footsteps could be heard Naruto did the one thing he knew shouldn't have worked. He turned the knob. The door openly slowly.

"You have got to be kidding me…"

Neji raised an eyebrow at the carelessness then proceeded to walk in. "Didn't they use the garage when they came home an hour ago? So this door has been unlocked since we got off work at five?"

Neither of his three friends answered him as they walked further into the house. It was similar to theirs. A long wooden entryway with a coat rack that held two jackets and a hat, table, and mirror. Not much further the hall split, a corridor to the left leading to the kitchen and a finely polished staircase to go upstairs, a side hall down the immediate left of the stairs leading to a spare bedroom and a study. The living to the right of the stairs was barren and no sounds were coming from the second floor. "No! Stop!" All four heads whipped to the left side of the house.

"You don't think…?"

"The kitchen. Go!"

They ran down the corridor, bypassing the dining room to the left when they found it as empty as the living room. Bursting into the kitchen they came upon a mess. Plastic bags were thrown all over, a bag of chips were crushed and burst open. The refrigerator doors, some cabinets and the pantry door were open. A very expensive purse, one they knew to be Ino's, lay upside down on the floor, items littering the floor around it. One item happening to be the blonde's open wallet. They walked in and accessed everything. Shikamaru bent over and picked it up. "Her cards are still in it but no cash or change."

"Probably didn't have the chance to take them." Neji said from behind the wood and marble island, upturning each bag.

Sasuke looked thoroughly in the pantry before stepping out. "But where are they?"

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Stop, please!"

"Wasn't that Tenten?!"

Naruto raced to the door and looked into the den. Just as he was about to look away he noticed a light. "Guys! Down here!" They followed the blond past the second living and into the hall at the very back of the room. "Where does this even lead? I haven't been past the kitchen." The white walled side hall only had one door at the very end. They seemed to have been walking for what felt like minutes, a distance that was easily half the size of a football field. The door was slightly ajar, their voices becoming clearer as they got closer.

"Sakura, stop! That's enough!"

"No! Let me go!" They could hear the green eyed girl struggling, as if she was being held down or back.

There was a high pitched squeal, a crash, and then Hinata's voice coming from far away. "Fucking bitch! That hurt, ow!"

They decided to storm in then; but what met their eyes surprised them. The room was a huge garage with, from just a quick glance, around ten cars, three garage doors, four sets of toolboxes on a table, a TV, and a large lounge chair with several beanbags littered around it. They could only see the residents of the house in the large room; Tenten stood facing Sakura, who was being held back by Ino, with a broom in her hands and Hinata lay in a pile of boxes on the other side of a car next to the other three. The girls turned to face them, equally surprised at seeing them.

Shikamaru was the first to speak. "What is going on?"

"Yeah! Where's the burglar?!"

"…huh?" They straightened themselves, not without the brunette throwing a cautious look towards Sakura. Ino let her go, Hinata pulled herself out of the cardboard pile and walked back around the car, and Tenten lowered the broom. "What are you talking about? What burglar?"

Before Naruto could shout out again Neji held up his hand. "Wait. We came over for the meeting but found your door unlocked. When we came in we heard screaming and yelling. Then when we came further in to investigate we found the kitchen in chaos. We assumed the worst but it looks like we were wrong."

Sakura, still with an angered expression, turned back to the brown eyed girl. "You left the door unlocked again?! Tenten! What if someone had broken in?! We'd be fighting over spilled food while someone is stealing our stuff because of you!"

"Hey! It wasn't me this time! I came in first remember?!"

"Spilled food?" The two girls turned to the Uchiha. His face was growing more and more frustrated. "The chips all on the floor in the kitchen? You were fighting over spilled chips? That doesn't explain the whole mess, and Ino's purse on the floor."

"Is it really on the floor? Crap, that thing was expensive! I knew I shouldn't have put it on the edge." She ran past them and back into the house.

As they followed her Hinata explained what happened, walking with a little bit of a limp. "When we got home we started putting the food away, throwing the bags on the floor to pick up later cause that's just how we do it. We were just done when a bag fell and Tenny here stepped on it, making it pop really loud. Sakura thought she did it on purpose and started chasing her; and Tenten had grabbed the broom, to clean up, started using it to defend herself. We ended up in the garage trying to stop Saki from killing her. Once Porkie grabbed her she started kicking. I was between them when they started swinging so I had to completely jump over the car to get out the way of both her kicks and the broom; I think I jabbed my thigh with one of those corners too hard." Now all in the kitchen she sat on one of the stools in front of the island. She pressed on the muscle and winced. "Yup. It's gonna bruise. Fabulous."

"I'll look at it after we clean up. Just sit there while we do this." Sakura called to her as she started picking up the bags. Tenten went to work sweeping up the scattered chips and Ino, after picking up her purse, went about making sure everything was put away. The guys just watched, Naruto, Shikamaru and Sasuke taking the remaining three chairs while Neji helped Tenten sweep, to which she glared saying she didn't need any help.

"So are we not going to mention the gigantic garage you guys have?"

Ino looked to the other blue eyed person in the room. "What about it?"

"Uh, well, it's huge! It's twice the size of ours and you even have a lounge area! How could you not have told us about it?!"

"Sorry, didn't know it was dire information." She pulled out bowls and napkins as Sakura and Tenten finished up and brought out food. "You've seen us pull out of our driveway at least three times. How didn't you notice that it wrapped around to the back? Plus it's kinda obvious that we have more space on that side of the house."

Naruto frowned. "You know I don't pay attention to that stuff."

"Oh, we know what you guys pay attention to." Hinata muttered almost not under her breath. She stood up, keeping from putting weight on her right leg. "I'm gonna go change so you can look at it better Saki. Be right back."

"Kay."

The guys watched as she limped out, hopping lightly out the door. Sasuke turned back to her friends. "Aren't going to help her up the stairs?"

Sakura glanced up at him and went back to pouring chips in a bowl. "No. She's got it."

"But isn't it gonna be hard to go up all those steps?" Neji asked, still listening for the sound of his sister falling.

"She's fine, trust me. This is nothing." They didn't know how to feel about this statement but did nothing nonetheless. No more than seven minutes later the indigo haired girl returned, now with a cropped orange hoodie and drawstring black cotton shorts with Rain U in silver on the bottom corner. She placed the papers she had in her hand on the counter, as well as some ointment, and grabbed a pencil out of the drawer of the island.

"Now we can begin this meeting." She turned her lavender tinged eyes towards her cousin. "Neji, stop looking at me. Not only am I wearing this for a better examination but this is also my house, I can wear whatever I want."

They all snickered as the boy scoffed and looked away. Sakura came over and pressed gently on the muscle. After measuring the girls minute reactions she told her what they both knew. "As I thought, deep muscle bruise. Simple thing."

"Perfect." Hinata let out an exasperated sigh before applying the cream. "Anyway, I call this meeting into order. Let's start with a theme and go on from there. I am now taking suggestions."

"Lingere."

"Victoria Secret."

"Beach!"

"Sleepwear."

"I'm gonna slit all your throats."

"Hey! Beach is a legitimate theme! Dattebayo!"

"Girls, any suggestions?" Hinata completely ignored the blond and turned to the eating females.

Tenten shrugged, dipping a chip in salsa. "I really have no clue. Matter of fact, I don't even know why we have to do this."

"Cause Tsunade likes to be a troublesome gold digger."

"Wait, hey! Tsunade-sama isn't a gold digger! Yeah sure, she married Jiraiya, whose filthy rich, for the wrong reasons really, but she already has tons of money."

"Pinkie, she's a freaking principal of a school. I don't think she makes that much money."

"She was a doctor for over twenty years, Uchiha; with a doctorate in over five fields. Maybe if you got that dick pulled out of your ass you would pay attention to shit other than your own fucking riches… ya insufferable duck ass prick."

"Oooooo!"

"What the fuck did you just say to me?!"

Smack!

Everyone turned to the impatient indigo haired girl. She was looking between the two yelling teens, a deep frown on her face. "We get it, you're teens, you have sexual tension for each other. Now can we please get back to the topic at hand so finish already?" After looking everyone in the eye she picked the notepad and pen back up. "Thank you. Now, any better suggestions for a theme?"

No one said anything as they thought. Ino placed her Mucho Mango can back down before voicing her thought. "What about Masquerade?"

"Like a masked ball?"

"Yeah, why not?" She sipped her drink again and shrugged. "It doesn't have to be anything too fancy right?"

"Ino, we're coming up with ideas for a back to school dance, not homecoming."

"Well fuck! Let's just ditch the fucking dance and make it for homecoming! Why the eff are we making plans for a 'back to school dance' when we have homecoming right around the corner anyway?!"

They all looked between each and just admitted she was right. Hinata wrote the idea down. "Okay, we have a theme. We might as well make it fancy as all hell if it's gonna be for homecoming. So what else do we need?"

Shikamaru nodded to get her attention. "Dress code. I'm sure you don't want some people wearing miniskirts and others wearing Victorian style gowns."

"Oh, true. So how about a black tie affair masquerade?"

Neji nodded, bent over a plate of bagel bites. "That's good. But let's add in that you can wear one other color with the attire."

"Like a pop color!" Tenten yelled out, mouth full of a bagel bite she stole off his plate.

He glared at her. "Exactly."

Naruto looked over Hinata's shoulder. "We have a theme, dress code, we can leave Tsunade to the food, we will definitely pick out a DJ, and… that's it! Let's party!"

She swatted at him. "No it's not! We still need to pick out the décor!"

"Black and white! Simple! Maybe some silver drapes and we don't need to do anything about the carpet 'cause we always have homecoming at Senju Hotel!" He snatched the notepad, wrote it down, closed it and placed the pen back in the drawer. "There we go! Let's have some fun now!"

Sakura sighed heavily. "Okay fine, fine! We can go chill in the media room upstairs. You guys can grab the food and bring it up there."

"Why do we have to do it? We're your guests." Sasuke glared at her. She returned it.

"Because this is our house and what we say goes. Plus, I'm sure I'm not the only one that wants to change."

"Why do you need to change?"

"Ugh! You guys are in freaking sweats and basketball shorts and muscle tees! Ino, Tenten, and I are still in jeans and nice shirts. So yeah, I'd like to change."

The black eyed boy raised an eyebrow but decided not to say anything. They grabbed the bowls of chips, salsa and dip jars, bags of snacks, and put the drinks in a cooler with ice and placed cups and plates on top. They directed them to the room while they went to change. The media room was above the garage and spanned the whole length of it. Part of the room held a small theater with a large 120 inch projection screen, with four dark red theater chairs in front of it. A dark wood cabinet on the side held multiple game systems hooked up to the projector, other games and things, and tons of DVDs. The other part of the room was occupied by a black sectional couch, a matching black lounge chair, a large wooden coffee table and what seemed like a dozen different colored beanbag chairs. A huge flat screen TV was mounted on the wall before the couch with a surround sound system connected to it. The designer of the house was wise enough to place a bathroom and closet at the end of the room. When the girls did come five minutes later the guys were still looking around the room amazed.

Sakura flopped onto the couch, asymmetrical gray sweater lying out around her. She picked a piece of lint off her dark green sweatpants before sticking her hand in the pocket. "What's wrong?"

"This room is huge…"

The girls laughed at their response. Ino leaned up from her purple beanbag chair to get some popcorn. Her yoga shorts stayed in place but her pink shirt, that said 'cookies, tequila, and hakuna matata' in neon green letters, rumpled up a little at the movement. "Yeah, it is. Nice huh?"

"We were ecstatic when they told us about this room. Almost as excited as we were about the garage." Wearing a tan tank top with black letters saying 'life is about kicking ass, not kissing it' and rolled up gray sweats Tenten turned on the surround sound and turned up the music.

Hinata dipped a chip in the jar of Ruffles Ultimate Smokehouse Bacon and spun around on her left leg after putting it in her mouth. "So what are we gonna do?"

The guys either grabbed a seat on the sofa or a bean bag and some food and drink, their awe dimming down. "Well we can't have a dance off when the only real people with skill is Naruto, Hinata, and Sasuke though I don't think Sasuke counts himself in that category since he learned from Naruto." The black haired boy scoffed at Shikamaru's statement but said nothing. "I'm sure none of us are childish enough to play truth or dare. It would be too troublesome for us to pick out a movie, or a game for that matter, without at least two of us getting into a fight."

"I have an idea." Everyone turned to Neji, waiting his plan. "Why not a game of I've Never?"

"Neji, I don't think the girls are gonna wanna-"

"I'm game."

"Sure!"

"I'll go get the liquor and shot glasses."

"Who's going first?"

"What?!" All four guys looked at them in surprise, even the person who suggested the game not believing they would go with it. "You actually wanna play? Like, the legit game and not the kiddie one?"

Ino shrugged and smiled. "Why not? We've played it before at parties and I highly doubt you guys can do any serious harm."

Sakura quickly returned with a bottle of Jack Daniels and eight shot glasses. "We almost didn't have enough glasses if I hadn't found the last two in the dishwasher. There would have been some indirect kissing between some guys."

The girls laughed as each guy frowned. They all gathered around the table, sitting on the sofa and floor. As Sasuke sat down he got an idea and put his legs across Sakura's lap. "To make up for all the annoyances you've put me threw these past three weeks I think you should be my personal footrest."

The smirk on her face made her frown. She shoved his legs off, efficiently knocking him off balance, went back to distributing the glasses. "If you had asked nicely I would've let you since I'm in a good mood. Granted, I don't think your girlfriend would like that... but I don't particularly care about her feelings, and just her in general."

"Speaking of which, before we start, I have a question."

"Yes, Kolache?"

Ino's eye twitched as the boy smirked. "Ignoring that, my question is would the plans you canceled earlier happen to have been with your so-called girlfriends?"

"Yeah, what about it?"

"Oh nothing, I was just wondering how pissed they are. Considering you're with us I'm assuming they're going to be out for blood on Monday."

"Eh, maybe. We only told them we were couldn't make it due to school related things."

"You guys are horrible."

Tenten bounced anxiously from her spot on the floor. "Can we start already? I've been waiting to let loose for a while now!"

"Okay, I'll start then if you're getting impatient. Remember the rules: complete honesty or you take two shots." Hinata filled everyone's glass. "I've never… had sex in the back of a car."

Sasuke, Naruto, Shikamaru, Sakura, and Tenten took a shot.

"Fuck! It burns!"

"It's whiskey idiot, of course it burns." Shikamaru let out a raspy breath and refilled his glass.

"I can't believe Haruno took a shot."

"Shut up prick."

Naruto shook his head and decided to go next, setting the game to go around counter clockwise. "I've never… threw up at a party."

Neji, Sakura, Ino and Hinata took a shot.

"Haha! Hyuga's can't hold their liquor!" The blond bellowed out, earning glares from them.

"Fuck off. You know the only reason I did throw up was because you guys made me chug a whole bottle of Crown Royal."

Hinata laughed harshly. "Ha! Try downing three full water bottles of Skittles Vodka in two minutes."

Naruto gave her an unimpressed look. "So what? I'll give you the amount and the time it took but that's just some fruity drink."

"You really have no clue what it really is do you? Skittles Vodka is Skittles that's been dissolved in pure vodka and strained out a day later. It's only vodka with food coloring and the slightest bit of sugar and flavor." She would have smirked at his face if she still hadn't felt a little discomfort. "Yeah, that's what I thought."

"Okay I'm next!" Sakura narrowed her eyes at the group mischievously. "I've never… lost a game of chicken."

Naruto, Hinata, and Ino took a shot.

Sasuke swirled his glass slowly as he thought. "I've never… failed a test."

Naruto, Tenten, and Ino took a shot.

"Weak."

"Shut up."

"I've never… cursed out a girl."

Sakura, Hinata, Ino and Tenten took a shot.

"That's a damn lie!"

Neji would have ignored Tenten if not for the fact that she was glaring death at him. "See Tenten, to put it simply… I don't count you as a girl."

The whole room went silent, the only sound being the music playing in the background. Her brown eyes started twitching and her fingers fidgeted, grabbing for something that wasn't there. Everyone stared, curiosity and a hint of sympathy for the long brunet haired boy in their expressions. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. When she opened them she picked up both his and her glasses and turned her steely gaze toward him. "Despite people having already taken their shots you lied, take the punishment. You take the two shots or you get the fuck out my house. Option one lets you keep your eyes. Option two involves me handling a very large spork and no anesthesia. Pick. Wisely."

He took the shots without question. She smiled happily.

"Okay, my turn! I've never… pretended to be gentleman to pick up chicks."

Sasuke and Naruto took their shots with a glare toward the Hyuga male.

"What?! That was meant for Neji! Why didn't you take a shot?!"

"Because I've never pretended. You just bring out the worst in me." His smug expression made her really wanna get that spork.

"I guess it's my turn." Shikamaru ran his finger around the rim of the small cup. He started chuckling, causing an unease to go through the group. With his intelligence he could come up with anything that could embarrass them; Ino was a prime example of this. "I've never… done Zumba."

To the girls surprise everyone took the shot. Before they could open their mouths a single 'Don't fucking ask' was thrown out. They and Shikamaru snickered and snorted for a while.

Ino wiped her eyes. "Okay, okay, it's my turn. I think I'll target someone too." She received three suspicious looks. "I've never… accidentally thrown stuff out of rage, and wind up breaking it."

"Damn it Pig! It was only an alarm clock!"

"And a cellphone, and a glass cup, and a freaking wooden spoon."

Sakura took her shot. When her glass hit the table after she heard a second ping. Sasuke unclenched his eyes and turned just in time to see her looking. "It's not that hard to believe."

"Before we go another round, let's take stock of everybody." Hinata thought around her lightly fogged state to remember how many shots everyone took. "So I know I took four shots. Sasuke, Tenten, and Neji also took four. If my memory and math is right Sakura, Naruto and Ino took five shots. And, even though I didn't think it was possible, Shikamaru only took one shot."

"What?!"

"That's impossible!"

"Another round!"

"No." Shikamaru leaned back and lounged in his bean bag. "Let's listen to the smart person here and not do another round. Think this over: three people have already taken five shots and four people have taken four. That's shots of undiluted whiskey; not mixed with anything. The water's not going to help either. Not only would the numbers double by time we finished a second round but everyone is gonna be targeting others, which increases the numbers even more. Now I'm sure you girls don't want to be cleaning up vomit and anything else we make a mess of. Do you?"

They looked at each, the possibilities running through their brains. "Nope. We're good."

"Aww, way to go pineapple head! There goes our fun." Naruto threw himself back on the sofa, promptly hitting Hinata on her leg in the process. Responsively she lurched over her right thigh, her body wanting to go into a fetal position. Naruto shot up, worry written all over his face; his hands hovered over her, not knowing what to do. "Oh gosh, damn! I'm so sorry Hinata! I didn't mean to hit you!"

The muted curses she mouthed could almost be heard. She straightened herself slowly, a wince still on her face. "It's okay, I know you didn't mean to. It's just still tender. I'll be good in a minute."

"Are you sure Hinata? Shouldn't you be elevating it?"

"Yeah, but I've had so many of these I know how to work around it without causing any unnecessary pain." She smiled at her brother. "See, I'm feeling better already."

Sakura let out a deep sigh. "Just put it up, Nata. They've been worrying about it ever since we got to the kitchen earlier. It'll both them at ease and let it heal faster."

She rolled her lavender eyes. "Fine." She scooted the glasses out of her way and put her knee-high sock clad leg on the table. "Okay, so what are we doing now?"

"How about we watch a movie?"

"Which screen should we use though?"

Sasuke nodded to the flat screen. "It'll be easier to put it on flat screen, since there are only four seats over there and there's a whole couch over here." They all agreed and decided, after much arguing like the Nara heir had called earlier, on watching Talladega Nights then Death Race. Grabbing almost a dozen blankets from the closet and placing the beanbags around as footrests they got comfortable on the couch and put the movie in. When the main menu came on Hinata sat up from her leaned position.

"Wait, let me get my IcyHot. You guys can start; I'll only take a few minutes to get it."

"You sure?"

"Tenny, we've seen this movie over ten times. I can recite the lines anytime." She laughed and moved to get up but stopped when she felt arms under her knees and around her back. She couldn't even protest before she was already in the air. "Naruto! Put me down!"

He flashed a smile at her before it fell and turned solemn. "Nope. Since I was the one who hit you and caused you to be in pain I'll help you move around without you having to rely on your leg."

"You didn't cause me to be in pain. Well you did hit me but that was an accident and I was already injured. I can walk to my room and back by myself."

"No can do. Just enjoy the ride." He was already out the door. Distant laughter could be heard coming from the room. Begrudgingly she directed him to her room down the hall and past the stairs. When they reached the door he looked back with wonder. "Wow, this is exactly where my room is across the street."

She chose not to answer and opened the door, as best she could from her position. He walked in and turned on the light. The slightly messy room lit up revealing her faux leather queen sized bed, the black and white paisley sheets tidy despite the organized clutter around the room, where the tube of ointment was placed. He placed her next to it and backed away to look around. She watched as he did so, very sure she hadn't left anything incriminating out but still uncertain. Just when she stopped looking he called her. Her head shot up and noticed he was looking at a particular picture she had on her dresser. "Is that Konan-chan?"

"Yup. That was in 8th grade I believe, we had just got back from a dance and were hanging out. That was a fun night…" She smiled at the memory, looking at their goofy faces from afar.

"You four went to school with Konan-chan in 8th grade? Wasn't she like, a senior by then?"

"Yeah… we were only in the same school for three years before she graduated."

"And that's the same school y'all went to before you moved here? Did you do dance there too, besides taking lessons when you were young?"

The cream was long forgotten now. Her mind was thinking everything it could about his questions at once. "…hmm, all six years."

"Wow, that's incredible! You must be really dedicated. What with you having done it all that time; even knowing how to handle injuries well." His blue eyes skimmed over everything he could lay them on. She made many pictures, some from when she was really small, no doubt elementary school times and before, a good number of her and her friends and parents, and even some recent ones. But he could only see very few of the Six Years of Mystery as he called it. She had tons of CDs, a handful of books, and other knickknacks scattered around. He had examined the clothes she had around and had spied a few alluring articles that made him want to pick them up and fully look at it but knew better not to. Thinking of revealing clothing he turned back to the short shorts clad girl. Her eyes looked glassy and a distressed expression was on her paler than normal face. Her hand was on her thigh and the cream had rolled onto the floor. "Hinata! Are you okay?! What's wrong?!"

"H-huh?" She blinked her eyes and her vision began to focus around their wateriness on his naturally tanned face. "W-wh-what did you s-say?"

He reached out and picked up the tube. Looking at her leg he could see she had applied barely any. "I asked if you were okay. You hadn't answered me, or spoken for that matter, in a while. Are you still hurting?"

He watched as she looked down at her hand and realize she was still gripping her pale skin tightly. She released it and looked at the red palm. "Y-yeah. I-I'm fine, thanks."

Not feeling all too convinced he grabbed the water bottle left on the dresser, uncapped it, and gave it to her. "Here. Drink that." She complied and tossed it back. As she did so he decided to help her out more and finish what she was doing. He squeezed some of the lotion like cream out onto his hand and rubbed his palms together. He expected the hiss that escaped her mouth as he begun to massage the muscle. He made sure to get every inch that caused her to flinch and curse. "Don't worry Hinata-chan, I'm almost done." His hands ran up and down her upper thigh, going from the outside to the inside. She showed no complaint against the massage other than the pained face she wore as he did so. The whole therapy lasted no more than three minutes and when he was done he noted that she didn't look so much in pain as she looked relieved. He didn't realize how close he was until she opened her eyes and looked directly at him. He backed up sheepishly and turned his head, feeling odd and unexpectedly embarrassed. "How does your leg feel now?"

"So much better. Thanks Naruto." He turned to see her smiling gratefully at him. He couldn't help but to smile back. "I don't think I'll be needing the IcyHot again for the rest of the night actually."

"Well that's good. You looked to be in a whole lot of pain so I didn't know what else to do."

Hinata looked away for a second, thinking. "Yeah… but that was a really good deep tissue massage. Where did you learn that?"

He felt his normal attitude coming back as he smirked. "You see, when you pick up chicks like I do then you gotta pick up a few tricks." He laughed as she rolled her eyes.

"Of course that's what you use it for." She laughed at his playful expression. "How about you use it for better things than on easy girls?"

He raised a blond eyebrow. "Like what?"

"Like being my masseur? I've always wanted my own massage therapist."

"Are you suggesting what I think you're suggesting Miss Hyuga?" The raised eyebrow turned into two wriggling ones.

"I don't know what you're talking about. I was talking about as a career you dirty minded freak." She laughed at his face and tossed the empty bottle into the trash bin.

"Yeah right, I already have my career laid out for me as you know." He sat on the bed next to her and looked at her injured leg. He pinched the skin lightly, earning himself a smack on the head. He only chuckled. "I may be a dirty minded freak but you were thinking it too for you to even think I was thinking it."

She smiled to herself and kicked her feet. "Nope. Wasn't at all. Why would I want someone like you to fool around with? I've had better."

Naruto looked over at her face and thought about her question and his answer. "What do you mean someone like you? What's wrong with fooling around with a freak? I at least admit I'm one. And you don't even know what I bring to the table to even say you've had better." He smiled as she fell back on the bed, giggling and laughing away. "What's so funny?"

"Everything! Ahahaha! You admit to being someone who likes to have sex a lot and do different things. You offended when I wasn't being serious at all!"

Naruto watched her until she stopped and looked at him expectantly for his response. He didn't think at all about what he did next. He leaned down and kissed her, flush on her mouth. She didn't put up any fight as he dipped her head back as far as the bed beneath them would allow. Shifting his weight he now hovered over her, only his left arm keeping him up. Her hands wound themselves into his blond hair as his did the same in her long indigo locks. He nudged her mouth with his tongue and she complied, twisting her head so they both could get better access to the others mouth. But Naruto wasn't allowing her to do a thing she wanted, he now remembered he had a point to prove. Sucking in her bottom lip he bit and sucked on the swelling flesh. Her short gasps of breath encouraged him more and more. His right hand slid from her hair, down her torso, dipping at her waist, and to her thigh. The slap he applied there resulted in exactly what he wanted. He extended his tongue as deep in her mouth as was possible and comfortable; tracing her lips, flicking and sucking her own tongue. He pulled away and trailed kisses down to her neck, feeling her racing pulse. Gracing his teeth against the pale skin he left wet kisses up and down and across the stretch of flesh. He knew what she thought was next. Smirking he placed a chaste kiss on the spot he was at and pulled away.

Hinata glared at the smirking boy, still catching her breath. She pushed him off her and sat up, brushing her hair behind her. A shiver ran up her spine when he pulled her hair away from her face, his finger ghosting her neck. He breathed a chuckle into her ear as he spoke in a whisper. "As I said, there's nothing wrong with fooling around with a freak."

One last shiver racked her body before she hurriedly stood up to put space between them. Her heart was still racing behind her ribs but she showed him no sign of it. She looked him up and down; his muscle shirt clinging tightly to the taut physique beneath it and his sweatpants sitting low on his hips even while he was sitting. She cursed herself as a blush rose on her face when he noticed her looking and flexed his open-to-viewing arms. "I'm so done with you right now."

His loud laugh pierced her as she heard him get off the bed. "No, you're not. We're still neighbors."

Lavender eyes turned to look at him and glare. "And you still have a girlfriend." He paused. "Yeah, exactly. We should be getting back by the way. It's been well over twenty minutes. I'm sure we've missed half the movie if it's been longer." He didn't say anything, probably still thinking about her comment. Her eyes widened when he squatted in front of her. "What are you doing?"

"Giving you a piggy back ride. Duh."

"Uh, why?"

"Cause your leg could still act up. Again, duh."

"But it feels fine."

"Afraid I'll bite? Because you shouldn't be, I've already done that and felt your thighs up. Which are fantastic by the way." She could just see the smug and arrogant look on his face. Revenge needed to be enacted. "Oof! Hey! I didn't say jump on me! And stop bouncing!"

She giggled girlishly in his ear and smiled when she felt his hair stand on end. "I may not be one but I know what freaks like Naruto-kun. Wouldn't it be a good thing if I jumped on you? Bouncing included?" Pushing her chest against his back as he stood up fully she giggled more as an unsteady breath passed through his lips. "Now be a good boy and mush!" She could only grin and laugh as the distressed boy carried her back to their friends and a very exciting night.

Hey guys! Hope you liked this monthly update! Sad that it is only monthly updating right now. Also I'm going to take some of your advice and make this story Rated: M because, as you can see, if just makes the story flow better with that limit gone. So yeah, it won't be anything very graphic but it'll be up there lol. Go to the tumblr page for more goodies :)

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