Chapter 7:

Temari was bored out of her mind.

"We need to do something, something fun!" Temari said.

"What do you suppose we do?" Hinata asked.

"I dunno, Temari's fun is slapping Shikamaru so…" Tenten was stopped by Temari's blow.

"That may be fun, but that's not what I mean!" Temari said. They were in homeroom and had free time, so they were discussing an event.

"How about we go to Ichiraku Ramen?" Hinata suggested. "Naruto-kun said it was really good." Hinata said.

"That's because he only eats ramen." Temari said.

"But I heard it was good too." Tenten mentioned. Hinata gave her a thankful glance and Tenten smiled.

"Fine. We'll go there." Temari said. She pulled out her cell phone and called Kankuro.

"We're not supposed to--!" Hinata was cut off by Temari.

"Cell phones are fine!" Temari reassured Hinata as she entered Kankuro's number.

Kankuro was listening to his iphone. He heard the ring and pulled out his cell phone. He looked at Temari's name.

'Why the hell is she calling me?' He thought. 'It was during 'Stronger'.' He thought as he answered. (That's the only rap song I can think of right now since I'm a rock fan.)

"What do you want Temari?" He asked.

"Kankuro, I'm going to go out after school so you need to take care of Gaara." Temari said.

"What!? That's bullshit!" He shouted making Iruka turn. He hid his iphone and smiled. Iruka sighed.

"No swearing in class Kankuro. You know the rules." He said. Since Kankuro shouted a lot, he didn't think much of the fact that he was shouting.

"Dude, you know I can't control him." Kankuro whispered into the phone.

"Dude, he's not going to kill you." Temari said.

"YES, he is." Kankuro said.

"Don't worry, I heard Matsuri is planning to call him today so he'll be occupied for at least 5 hours and I think that'll be enough." Temari said.

"You think?" He asked.

"I'm sure." She said wondering why Kankuro was getting the idea that Gaara hated him.

"…" Kankuro silently went back to his music.

'Shit…after telling the emo chicks that he wore eyeliner because he liked them, he will definitely kill me. Especially since the emo chicks are after him now.' Kankuro thought as he skipped the song and went to the next one.

"…Can I invite Naruto-kun…?" Hinata asked.

"Yeah, actually we should each invite a guy." Temari said.

"Shikamaru." Tenten whispered to Hinata.

Temari ignored them. "So at 4 o'clock?" Temari asked.

"Fine with me." Tenten said.

"Perfect." Hinata said thinking of Naruto.

When school let out, Temari pulled out her ipod. "I got some new tunes." She said passing it to Tenten since Hinata was into classical music which Temari didn't have much interest in.

Tenten played her favorite 'All the small things' by Blink 182. (I'm listening to it right now! XD) She had seen the music video millions of times and still laughed at it every time.

"Can I borrow your ipod today?" Tenten asked. Temari nodded.

Tenten was listening to 'Lazy Generation' by F-ups when she entered her building. (She must have been thinking of Shika-kun when she bought the song XD)

"What's this?" Gai asked snatching Temari's ipod from Tenten's hand and started checking the songs.

"Um….Gai-sensei!" Tenten said trying to take back the ipod.

"What is this!?" Gai-sensei asked in shock. "Such unyouthful music!" He shouted. (What is 'youthful' music anyway?)

"Let me see Gai-sensei!" Lee said and Gai-sensei showed it to him. They both gasped. "Tenten, this music rots the soul! The only thing worse is rap about those things." Lee said doing the quotation signs that Dr. Evil does in 'Austin Powers'. Unfortunately, Tenten knew exactly what he was talking about.

"What the heck are you talking about?" Neji asked entering.

"Oh Neji! Tenten is listening to unyouthful music!" Lee and Gai-sensei said as if the world was going to end. Neji took the ipod and scanned the songs. Since he didn't listen to much, not even those rhythms you listen to while doing meditation and yoga and stuff.

"It can't be that bad." He said giving the ipod back to Temari. "And anyways, you don't have an ipod right?" He asked Tenten. Tenten nodded.

"This is Temari's." Tenten explained. "I'm borrowing it." Tenten said.

"Oh, well she fits this kind of music…" Gai-sensei said settling down. "Lee, since we are down now, how about we go run 1,000 laps to kill the time?" Gai-sensei asked.

"Yes Sensei! As soon as I finish my homework!" Lee said and dashed to his room to start his homework.

"That's my Lee!" He said.

"…You okay?" Neji asked.

"Yeah I'm fine." Tenten replied. Then remembering what Temari had said, she asked, "Have you been to Ichiraku Ramen yet?"

"…No." He said.

"Oh, well, Temari, Hinata, Naruto, Shikamaru, and I are going so do you want to go?" Tenten asked praying for a yes. Neji thought it over. Since he had free time, he nodded. Tenten smiled. "We're going at 4 o'clock!" Tenten said going to her room to start her homework.

"Why were you late?" Temari asked in a threatening manner.

"Sorry." Tenten apologized. Then she looked at her watch. "But I was only a minute late." Tenten said looking at her watch.

"Late is late." Temari said as she started to enter Ichiraku Ramen.

"Yeah!" Naruto said as he entered and took a seat. "Yo, O-chan!"

"Oh, hi Naruto." He said. "The usual?" He asked.

"Yup!" He said. He prepared it quickly and turned to the others.

"Friends?" He asked. Naruto nodded. He smiled and said, "What would you guys like?"

Hinata, Neji, and Shikamaru ordered shio-aji (salt flavored.) and, Temari and Tenten ordered shoyu-aji (shoyu flavored.).

"This reminds me of the ramen place we used to go." Tenten said as she ate her ramen.

"Yeah it kinda does." Temari agreed.

"When was that?" Shikamaru asked.

"During middle school I think." Temari said.

"Wasn't that when you were still in 'Furyou mode'?" Tenten asked. (Furyou means bad, or tough, kinda like a yankee. Furyou mode basically means when she was pissed off and beating stuff.)

"Yeah I guess so." Temari said laughing.

"Furyou?" Shikamaru asked looking a little scared.

"That's a while back though." Temari said laughing. "Gaara, Kankuro and I were still young when our mother died. Our father paid no attention to us so I had to take care of them. Since I wasn't good, I got frustrated a lot and would yell at my dad, he would get annoyed and then he slapped me once. I stopped annoying him, but I still needed to release my anger, so I started randomly beating things." Temari said. She showed a little sadness in her eyes.

"This kid once tried to make me stop; I beat him up so bad. I almost felt sorry, but I ran away. I was sitting on a swing at a nearby park just staring at the ground. That was the day I met Tenten." Temari said. Tenten smiled a little remembering the time.

"She was crying that day. I looked at her, but ignored her. She just sat on the swing next to me and kept on crying. Eventually, I asked her what was wrong. She just looked at me sniffling. She said her mother had died and that she was all alone." Temari said.

'So she doesn't have any parents…' Neji thought silently listening.

"We just sat there until it was really late. When she was done, she asked me what I was doing. I told her, she took my hand and smiled. 'Then we're the same.' She said smiling. I nodded. She walked me home saying there was no place she needed to be. She came a lot after that." Temari finished. She patted Tenten on the head and Tenten smiled.

There was an awkward silence.

"More ramen please!" Naruto shouted interrupting the silence. The girls laughed. Shikamaru glanced at Temari blushing a little.

"Bye!" Tenten waved at Temari before following Neji. "Wait up!" She shouted running after him. (Don't you notice how she says that to Neji so often.)

Chapter 7 rewritten! Hope you liked it!