Part Seven

When I woke up, I was groggier than I'd ever been. I wasn't really aware of where I was, what I was doing, what had happened. I barely remembered anything at all. I didn't even bother to open my eyes. All I knew was that I was comfortable and not ready to get up yet.

One by one the memories of what had happened…I dunno how long ago…came back. The party, the power outage, the Seven Minutes in Heaven game, the poundings of Naruto and Kiba. And of course, Hinata. I smiled pleasantly at the thought of her and what had happened, faintly thinking that I should ask her out sometime today, or maybe tomorrow. I remembered that we had got caught, but I didn't remember anything after that. I decided if I didn't remember it, it probably wasn't all that important, and so I rolled over to the right on my big bed. I was now on my right side.

My bed…??? Huh, when did I get on a bed? …ohhh, I must have fainted after Hinata did too…they probably carried me here…wonder how she's doing right now. Oh well, might as well take advantage of being in a bed while I'm in it still. I rolled a little more over to the right. I was laying on my stomach now. Maybe I'll catch some shut-eye; today was hectic. Though I'd have to say, it's the best birthday I'd ever had. Again I rolled over to the right, laying on my right side now, and I felt something warm and kinda plushy...ish… touch my back. Mmm…that feels kinda nice…wait a sec…what the hell is that? I don't remember having a thermal heater in my bed! I rolled all the way back over to the right so I was on my back again, shot my eyes open, sat up in my bed and looked to my right.

There was Hinata, sleeping soundly on the right side of the bed. I didn't really know how she got there, but I just kinda smiled and thought, Wow…she's really cute when she's sleeping…well, I might as well cuddle with her, right? I laid back down on my back, thinking about how to go about cuddling with her without waking her up.

It took me a few moments afterwards to realize that we were both completely naked in the same bed, and what had touched my back was Hinata's breast.

I almost made an S-rank freakout session right there when I realized this. Thankfully, I had enough self control to keep it confined to my head, and I frantically searched for my clothes. I spotted them on the floor on the left side of the bed, where I'd been sleeping. I carefully got out of bed, and quietly put my clothes back on so as to not wake Hinata. My mind was racing with questions and possible explanations. What the hell happened after we got caught!?!? I don't remember anything! Did I really…I looked at the completely nude Hinata in my bed, under the covers, and thought, Did we really…? I looked around. It was my room alright, same king-sized bed that I'd had for only a couple months (I used to have a Twin sized, but I got tired of kicking the other end of the bed, so I upgraded), same windows, same shelves of books, comics, video games, albums and DVDs, same dresser which had my radio on top.

I kept thinking, Did we really…did we really? I don't remember doing that…did we really!?

I looked at my alarm clock on my dresser next to the radio, and it read 8:43 P.M. Geez…how long have we been out for? Four, five hours? I glanced outside to see that, while it was dark, it looked like the storm's winds and thunder had calmed. Now it was just raining heavily, nothing too dangerous. I faintly heard commotion outside of my bedroom, and thought that everyone was probably still here. I realized that if the alarm clock was on, that meant the power had come back, so they were probably able to occupy themselves well enough without me. I opened my door, quietly closed it behind me, and went downstairs to see what was going on, trying to look normal as if I'd woken up from a nap.

Naruto was playing ping pong with Kiba while Choji, Shikamaru, Rock Lee and Tenten had utilized my multitap for my PS2 and had started a four-player game of Champions: Return to Arms. Neji, Sasuke and Shino were talking in their own corner, as usual, but it seemed that Sakura and Ino were talking amongst each other as well instead of fighting over Sasuke. I came down quietly, and the first person that saw me was Ino, who turned around and asked, "So James, how was it!?"

"…how was what?" I asked.

Ino smiled and said, "Don't play dumb with me! You and Hinata got it ON up there!!! And I mean you got it OOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!"

My face turned red and I said, "I dunno…I don't remember doing anything. The last thing I remember is when she fainted on me during Seven Minutes in Heaven, and then I blacked out too."

Ino cocked an eyebrow and said, "Really? We could hear you two from all the way down here!!! Crystal clear too; we heard every dirty thing you said to her!"

"You should be ashamed of yourself!" Sakura said jokingly, "She used to be the most innocent out of all of us! Now you had to go and ruin that for her!"

"Hey, I don't remember a thing about it, okay!?" I said

Kiba, while still playing ping-pong, said, "Well, we sure remembered it! Made a hell of a lot of noise up there, you two did. Seriously, she said more dirty things to you than you said to her! And this is Hinata we're talking about here! She's got such a dirty mind, she might even rival Jirayah!"

I took joking offense to that. "NO ONE MATCHES JIRAYA ON THAT!!!" I yelled, "BLASPHEMY!!! Haha, but no seriously, I don't remember a single thing of it! Really, I don't!"

"Dude…" Shikamaru started without looking away from his game, "You two were going so hard up there, and even I was starting to get a boner just listening."

"I couldn't help but sneak a tiny peek," Ino confessed, "and to my surprise, SHE was on top of YOU! James, you were getting rode on so fiercely that I'm surprised your dick didn't get torn off!!! You got rode on like a freakin' mechanical bull set on the highest setting possible!!!"

My eyes widened. "Whoa…" was all I could say to that.

"EEE!" I heard Hinata yelp from upstairs. "Where's my clothes!!!!!!!!"

I sighed, wondering what the hell happened. Ino was just sitting there, grinning, loving every minute of my internal turmoil. After a little bit Hinata came down and said, "James, what's going on!?"

"Don't ask me, I have no freakin' clue!" I said to her.

"Did we really…?" she asked, but trailed off.

"I don't know, I've been asking the same question myself." I told her, "I have no memory of it."

"Me neither…" she said.

"The guys down here are saying-" I started, but I got cut off by Ino, who finished, "-saying that you two were fucking each other like animals! We could hear you two all the way down here!"

Hinata's eyes widened, and her face turned red. Mine did too. Did we really…?

Everyone seemed to have stopped what they were doing to look at either me, Hinata or Ino.

Ino held up three fingers suddenly. I didn't get it at all.

She put one finger down. She had two fingers up now.

One more finger down. She now had only her index finger up.

Then she looked at everyone, looked at me, and pointed at me.

Everyone yelled at Hinata and I simultaneously, "YOU'BE BEEN PUNK'D!!!"

I couldn't believe it for a few moments. Then after that I burst out into laughter, and everyone else did too. We all were laughing our asses off for a good ten minutes after that.

"So lemme get this straight," I started, "You guys completely undressed both of us, put us in my bedroom, in my bed, put the clothes on each end of the floor next to where we were sleeping on the bed, and told us we had sex all as a prank!?"

"Yup, pretty much," Ino piped up, "It was all my idea too!"

"Ino," I said.

"Hmm?"

"You are one brilliant, sadistic prankster!"

"Thank you!"

"So…that means we didn't have sex?"

"Nah, you didn't."

**

Well, I'd gotten my answer. We hadn't had sex that day. The rest of the day went very well, played a lot of games, had a great time overall.

At about 11:00, Hinata was getting ready to leave. We all smiled and said bye to her, and she went through the door. Something in me told me to go after her, so I followed my instincts and ran out the door and outside in the rain to her. I finally caught up to her when I said, "Hinata…"

"Hmm?"

"Will you…umm…"

"…"

In the meantime, we were both getting drenched with rain. It was raining hard out there.

"Hinata, will you go out with me?"

Time stood still for a few moments. Then she almost tackled me and kissed me. "Of course." She said to me.

I'd have to say, it was probably the best birthday of my life.