6 Months with the Hyuuga Family
By: Whipped Coffee
Disclaimer
I don't own Naruto.
If I did, I wouldn't be here, now would I?
Month One
Day Eleven
Chapter 7—Hot Issue
Day Eleven
"I need your answer. I don't have forever you know."
Tenten looked up. She felt like she was half dead; scratch that, she felt like she was fully dead. Insomnia was a bitch; well okay, so it wasn't insomnia, it was just her. Cramming was not good, she found out. She had forgotten that she had a huge exam on enthalpy and entropy and whatnot the next day in class, as a result of that nonsense encounter with the three girls. She worried for nothing—so far, nothing happened yet, and she made a slight interaction with Neji (although it was in the Hyuuga Manor—she doubt that any of the girls would be there to notice, but she shouldn't underestimate them, since they did have at least a hundred fan girls in his fan club). All that time spent for worrying should have been spent for studying—she cursed silently to herself as she tried to stay awake.
Sasuke gave Tenten a strange look as he sat down in his seat. "You look hideous."
Tenten felt a vein throb in her head as she heard his blunt remark. "Thanks for noticing," Tenten grumbled sarcastically.
"Yes or no?" He asked, ignoring her comment.
"No," she replied confidently, or as confident as a half awake person can.
"Hn," Sasuke stared at Tenten, as if waiting for her bluff. Realizing that she wasn't going to go back on her word, he only smirked. "You know, there are other ways to find out what happened between Hyuuga and Haruno."
Tenten's half lidded eyes snapped opened. "What are you trying to say?" She asked. He must have made that one up—although it was too coincidental for it to be nearly the same thing as what she was trying to find out.
"You agree to their deal about leaving Hyuuga alone just for an exchange of information about the Hyuuga..." He replied back in a tone that sounded like he should've done the same, although he would never voice that out loud.
Tenten bit her lip as she narrowed her eyes. At least she was a bit more than half awake now. As she thought over her choices, a new voice dropped into the conversation. "I'd rather not have you say what happened, Uchiha."
"How long were you here, Hyuuga?" Sasuke asked, narrowing his eyes. It was too troublesome to have him interrupt when it looked like Tenten was ready to change her mind.
"Well I do have class here, if that's what you were wondering." Of course, Neji also narrowed his eyes at him.
She went back to being drowsy, now that her concentration was broken. She could barely keep up with their intensifying glares—not that she wanted to, anyways. As she almost drifted off to sleep, a hard shove woke her up from nearly banging her head on her desk.
"Alright class! Settle down, settle down! Get back to your seats!" Kakashi yelled, making everyone scram to their seats. For once, he felt like teaching the bothersome kids.
Everyone was staring expectantly at their masked teacher. "Ok, now that you've settled down, you can do whatever you want." But that feeling quickly vanished as he eyed his new edition of his favorite series. "I'm leaving for a meeting in 15 minutes, so there's really nothing to teach," he continued eyeing his book as he gave his students his reason, "I'll give you your homework, and that is all." Kakashi said as he wrote the homework on the board. He then proceeded to ignore the loud students as he leaned back comfortably in his seat, reading his favorite book covered by a book cover.
Tenten frowned at Kakashi's laziness.
That was not worth waking up for.
Ignoring all the surrounding noises, she let her head fall on her desk, enjoying the coolness she felt. As soon as her mind drifted off to cloud nine, a note interrupted her thoughts. The sharp corner of the folded loose leaf scratched her neck, and Tenten made a pained face, although she didn't complain. She felt no need to turn around—she just knew that it was Sasuke—and glare at the Uchiha, since she would only be replied with a blank stare (or a glare).
I need your answer.
Tenten felt her vein throb again, but his short and blunt sentences. She had gotten a scratch on her neck for that? She scribbled her answer down quickly, throwing it back at Sasuke. She hoped she hit his eye—even though she had perfect aim, she knew that Sasuke would dodge it if he saw it coming.
But apparently he didn't.
She smiled to herself as he hissed in pain.
You have bad aim.
She narrowed her eyes at his response—which was totally irrelevant from her reply. And she had bad aim? Was he kidding? Tenten frowned at that thought—of course he wasn't kidding. He didn't even know how to make a joke. She scribbled down a fast reply.
I aimed for you, stupid.
She turned towards Neji to her left, wondering what he was doing for the remaining ten minutes. She wasn't surprised—after all, he was just blankly staring ahead. She frowned at his lack of social skills; she would have to teach those to him someday.
Look—I don't really want to spend the whole night with you, nevertheless an hour. Just show up at my house presentably without those stupid hair buns of yours and after that, we can just do whatever the hell we want separately.
Tenten glared at the piece of paper. If that was all he wanted to do, then why did he go through all that trouble to ask her out on a 'date'?
Uchihas are sure strange.
And what did he mean, 'stupid hair buns'? Tenten self consciously reached up to her hair buns. She thought they were fine—sure, she had gotten a few weird comments about it, a few insulting ones, and there were the occasional, "they're so cute", ones, but stupid? The nerve of that...
Stupid hair buns? Are you kidding me? Have you seen that hideous chicken you call hair that sits on top of your head? If you needed a fake date, why didn't you just say that from the start? Instead of giving me weird questions and putting me through all that stupid confusion...
Satisfied with her response, she threw it behind her shoulder. As she waited for a reply, she looked to her right, wondering what everyone else was doing.
She should've just stared straight.
Girls glared at her with hatred, and there were a few guys that just glared at her for some unknown reason. She gulped to herself as she stared in front of the classroom. Maybe they were staring at someone other than her—but not, that couldn't be it. Sasuke and Neji surrounded her.
Stupid Uchiha.
My hair is not chicken.
Really, Uchiha was stupid.
Do you need a mirror? There's one in the bathroom if you need one.
Tenten hummed to herself as she waited for his reply. If he answered back with a five worded sentence, she felt the need to rip it up and throw it in his face. He was straying awfully far from the main topic—guess Uchihas had A.D.D.
7 o'clock, Uchiha Manor. If you're late, the story is getting posted.
Tenten felt the urge to turn around and strangle him. But of course, she had to keep her reputation clean, even though it was smudged a bit with the he-she story floating around...
You love ignoring everything I say, don't you? Don't worry, I'll come extra early, just for you.
She wondered if her sarcasm was clear through the note, but immediately changed her mind when she felt a hot glare on the back of her head. Before she could get a reply, the bell rang, signaling the end of the period.
Time flies when you're making fun of chicken haired Uchihas.
Tenten sat in the cafeteria at their usual table. She caught a glimpse of the hyper blonde that she didn't see yesterday—or rather, in the past few days.
"Hey Tenten! I heard about the 'He-She' story yesterday! I can't believe teme put that up!" Naruto yelled, frowning at Sasuke's actions. He slurped his ramen (Tenten had no idea where he had gotten that in the first place, but felt a bit scared to ask) rather loudly before commenting on Sasuke again. "Teme is so mean!"
Tenten laughed at Naruto's simple insult. "He's not nice, either," Tenten said. "Where were you yesterday?" She asked curiously. On second thought, she hadn't seen any of the guys yesterday, except for Sasuke who showed up from nowhere.
"Oh, I was helping Kakashi-sensei with some planning!" Naruto replied cheerfully.
"Planning?" It was suspicious, the way Naruto said it. "Planning what?"
"Oh, you'll find out." Naruto said, with an odd twinkle in his eye.
Tenten nodded her head unsurely as the others came running up to her. Or, more like, Ino came running up to her. "What did you say?" Ino demanded.
"Fake date."
"...What?"
"Fake date."
"...What?"
"Fake. Date."
"...What in the—"
"Stupid, she said fake date," Kairi rolled her eyes as she sat down next to Tenten. "It hasn't sunk into her brain yet, give her some time. She is such a blonde..." Kairi muttered to herself.
Ino scrunched up her face, clearly not liking Kairi's comment. Her expression was quickly replaced with a grin as the 'fake date' sunk into her head. "So he didn't really ask you out? He just needed a fake date?" She asked with a smile.
"I-Ino!" Hinata said incredulously. "T-That's not a nice way to—"
"Oh, it's fine Hinata," Tenten said, waving the matter off.
"Ino needs an ego boost anyways," Kairi snickered at her own joke, biting into her sandwich happily.
Naruto frowned, looking back and forth between Kairi and Ino, not knowing what was going on. He shrugged to himself, not bothering to ask as he continued to slurp happily on his beloved ramen. Hinata blushed as she stared at Naruto—it felt like it had been weeks since she last saw him, but it was only a few days. She only had one class with him, and he had missed it since he was kicked out for 'misbehavior'.
Ino chose to ignore Kairi's comment, not letting her anger boil over. She sat down next to Naruto (although not too close, since the ramen soup was splattering everywhere from his constant slurping) and started poking at her salad. "So, if you're going on a fake date, what are you doing afterwards?"
Tenten shrugged. "We'll probably go our own ways."
"If S-Sasuke-san needs to go somewhere... he can stay at the Manor," Hinata suggested softly. Her voice was quieter than usual—Tenten guessed that it was because of a certain boy sitting across from her. "It's unsafe to be out at nights..."
Tenten frowned. "I don't want to see him at all, so why bring him to the Hyuuga Manor...?" She mumbled. "But if you insist, Hinata..." Tenten sighed, nodding along.
"Hey, hey, hey! Can I come too?" Naruto asked, finally finishing his ramen.
"Oh Naruto! You were so quiet I forget that you were even here," Kairi said. She pondered thoughtfully to herself before making her observation, "and that's the quietest you've ever been."
"And the quietest you'll ever see!" Naruto said with a big grin. "Now, I can come right? Hinata-chan, you don't mind, would you?" Naruto asked, staring at Hinata with his big eyes. "Neji will be there right? So it's okay, right?"
Hinata blushed as Naruto looked at her with his cerulean eyes. She nodded timidly. "Yes, Naruto-kun…" She blushed harder, if that was even possible, as she tried to avoid eye contact with him.
"YAY!" Naruto shouted excitedly, doing his own little dance.
"Since he wants to go," Tenten said, looking at Hinata, "would it be okay to invite everyone?"
"O-Of course!" Hinata nodded.
"I'm not going."
"Why not?" Tenten frowned at Kairi.
"She's afraid of the dark," Ino smiled at Kairi's horror-stricken face. The expression quickly changed to annoyance as she glanced at Ino. "Do you want me to shove a fork up your nose?"
"K-Kairi!"
"She's going, no worries," Ino replied for Kairi.
Kairi glared at Ino, "When did you make my decisions for me, mom?" Noticing that she wasn't going to get a reply back any time soon, she turned towards Tenten. "Now all you have to do is to get ask Neji if you could stay in his room. After all, we're not staying in the same room… are we?" Kairi asked, eyeing Tenten. "If we do, I am so out of there."
"She's got boy-phobia," Ino whispered to Tenten. Tenten giggled at that, and Ino smiled at Kairi.
Kairi glared at Ino. "I do not! I just don't believe that it's right to sleep with a guy before you get married!"
Ino rolled her eyes. "If you don't sleep with a guy, then how do you expect to get married?" Ino sighed as she took a bite of her sandwich. "Kairi, you're so young and naive."
Kairi rolled her eyes too. "Ino, you've been sleeping with guys since you were eleven years old," Kairi ignored Ino's protests and shouts of "no!", and Naruto's cries of "what? Ino isn't a virgin?" and continued on, "Of course you think you have to sleep with guys before you get married," Kairi said, smirking at Ino. "Or, are you sticking with our goal sheets, where you put that you would sleep with at least… how many guys was it? A hundred something, before you get married?" Kairi grinned at Ino's anger.
"Kairi!" Ino shouted. "It was only a hundred, and that was my favorite number back then! And you were the one who gave me that stupid goal quiz to figure out what my goal was!"
Kairi grinned. "Whatever you say..."
Ino huffed. "I still say you're afraid to be even in the same room as a guy overnight…" That earned a glare from Kairi.
Hinata giggled and Naruto grinned widely (although was still confused if Ino was still a virgin or not) at their argument. Tenten rolled her eyes. "Well, we could stay in my room or Hinata's… but Hinata's room is so much bigger!" Tenten commented.
"Then it's settled! We're gonna stay at Hinata's room then! And the guys are gonna stay in Neji's room!" Ino concluded, as all her anger vanished. "And I'll ask Shikamaru to come too! Surely, he'll say yes."
"Actually… Now that you mention it… I have to ask Neji." Tenten said.
She had a feeling that he wouldn't agree to this.
"No."
"Please?"
"No."
"Please?"
"No."
"Please?"
"No."
Tenten felt a vein throb in her forehead, much like how it did during her note passing with Sasuke. "Why not?" She asked.
"Because I will not have three idiots trashing my room," Neji replied calmly, walking ahead of Tenten and Hinata on their way towards the Hyuuga Manor.
"P-Please Neji-niisan?" Hinata asked.
"Why don't you just have them stay in another room? Why have them stay in mine? They're going to keep me up all night," Neji said
"B-Because then that wouldn't be r-right. We could put them i-in the guest rooms, but I d-don't think that they will l-like that." Hinata explained.
Neji did not respond to Hinata's explanations. Instead, he continued to walk at a quick pace, as if trying to get into his room, fast, in order to lock himself in and not let any others in. "Haven't you ever had a sleepover before? You don't stick people in guest rooms! It's more fun if you're all in the same room," Tenten said, trying to catch up with Neji's long strides.
Neji didn't say anything, but continued walking. Tenten took this as a no. "You can kick them out as soon as they start getting too loud," Tenten negotiated.
"Fine," Neji finally agreed, although was a bit unhappy with the sleeping arrangements.
Neji hoped that he could live to see the morning light on the day of the cursed 'sleepover'.
Edit—Friday, April 09, 2010
I want to delete this story so much at this moment. ): I don't get how so many of you liked it, but thank you so much for the reviews! I would've shot myself if I had to read something like this xD Hopefully my next story would be better...
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