OK so here's chapter 9. I started to read that book and I realized...How boring it was and how I'd rather just write fanfiction before I go back to jail...I mean school. So here's chapter 9! Three cheers for Procrastination!

By the way, this is a filler but I'm about a quarter of the way through writing chapter 10. It should be up sometime before Labor Day.

Thank you to all the reviews! They made me so happy and that is another reason I had to update! For you guys! That's how much you guys make me happy! Enjoy this chapter.

-One more note. This would have been up earlier today if I was able to log in. I'm pretty sure a lot of you had this same problem. I'm so sorry for the delay, but please enjoy this chapter.-

Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, I'd make sure school would be a thing of the imagination. Seeing as school is very much real...I do not own Naruto.


Tenten had been practicing with the bow and arrow for a good hour now. But she wasn't there alone. She had some how gotten Neji to come along with her. It didn't take much though when she went to ask, Naruto and Sasuke were fighting and Shikamaru was sleeping, so she pretty much thought she was saving Neji from boredom or hurting one of the ones fighting. It didn't matter to her, it was a victory nonetheless.

Getting tired of the quiet she put the bow and arrow down and sat down across from the very quiet boy.

"Why don't you talk?" She asked when he finally opened his eyes to look at her.

"Hn. I do talk." Neji replied. Tenten rolled her eyes at him.

"'Hn' Does not count as talking. What does it mean anyway?" Neji smirked.

"Hn." Tenten's left eye twitched.

"That's not funny, Neji."

"Hn."

"Seriously now... I'll shoot you." Neji could only smirk more.

"Would you really shoot me, Tenten?" He asked her his face awfully close to hers. Tenten gulped.

"...No...But I would have no trouble of doing so." She said she could feel her face growing hot and that only made her mad at herself. She turned her head and stood up. There was no way he was going to get to her like that, let alone see that he had. Feeling herself cooling off she finally looked at him he smirked up at her. Tenten wished she could wipe that smirk off his face. He had gotten her and he knew it...damn that Hyuuga.


"What a drag. Ino can't we just watch the clouds?" Shikamaru asked as they sat in the bushes. Ino glanced at him before her attention went back to the two sitting under the oak tree.

"We can watch the clouds when ever. I need to see how close those two are." Ino told him. Shikamaru sighed.

"Exactly...you need to see, not me. So why did you drag me here?"

"Because no one else wanted to come with me and I didn't want to come alone...I wish I knew what they were saying."

"Troublesome...Wake me up when you're done." Shikamaru said laying back.

"Oi. You bet not go to sleep." Ino hissed at him. One more sigh and Shikamaru watched the clouds instead.


Sakura had some how gotten Sasuke to walk around the camp with her. How she did it? She wasn't too sure herself, but she did it and she was proud of herself for it. Unfortunately it came with a price...he said absolutely nothing. She would just have to change that now wouldn't she?

"So, Sasuke. Do you have any siblings?" She asked him. Sasuke looked at her from the corner of his eye.

"Hn. I have an older brother." Sasuke said.

"Ah, I'm an only child. It must be nice having an older sibling." Sakura said. Sasuke scoffed, causing the pink haired girl to look at him.

"Not as nice as you'd think it would be." He told her.

"At least you have someone to talk to when none of your friends are around..." Sakura said. Sasuke shook his head slightly.

"Hn. They're always around. Plus my brother works with our father, so he's rarely around anyway." Sakura didn't reply. One because she knew that maybe she shouldn't have asked about siblings. Two because she knew better than to push the subject. But she got what she wanted, him to talk, and that's all that she really cared about.


"Hinata-chan, do you think we'll be friends after this?" Naruto asked the girl sitting next to him. They were currently kicking water on the edge of the lake, like little kids do.

Hinata looked over at the boy wondering what he meant by his question. "What do you mean Naruto-kun?" She noted that he seemed calm unlike the normally hyper Naruto she was used to being around the last week.

"I mean will we be friends? You girls go to a different school. And I want to know will we be friends after camp?" He asked staring up at the sky. Hinata looked up as well, thinking about it. She thought it would be kind of obvious. They would all exchange information and hang around town or something. But something told her Naruto wanted to hear it out loud, so he knew it was true.

"Of course Naruto-kun we'll be friends." She said smiling at him. Naruto looked at her and he smiled too.


The two counselors sat in the cool shade, something they did a lot when they weren't with the 'brats' as Deidara would call them, or simply the two weren't together.

"Deidara." Kimiko said suddenly causing the boy to look at her. "Think they can win?" She asked him.

"Yeah I do, un. Why?" Deidara asked her.

"Just because I really want to win this thing." Kimiko told him.

"Is there another reason to why , un?" He asked. Kimiko wouldn't meet his eyes as she shook her head no. "Liar. You want to beat Hisa don't you, un?" Deidara asked.

"What gave you that idea?" She asked him. Deidara smirked.

"Because you can't stand her and vice versa, un. You were always competing with her in things. This would be no different. Plus she's annoying, un."

"Hm. That didn't stop you from having your fun with her last summer." Kimiko said. Deidara smirked even more if possible.

"Are you jealous, un?" He asked bringing his face close to hers.. Kimiko backed up slightly, but to no avail he only grabbed her.

"I couldn't be jealous of that…" Kimiko said quietly a small blush appearing on her face. Sure she and Deidara were close, but this was…a new closeness for her.

"Good, un." Deidara said letting go of her and standing up. "Because she's got nothing on you." Kimiko's blush only deepened and he laughed a little before he walked away, leaving her there to think.

"There's no living with him after this…" She mumbled falling onto her back to stare at the sky. "Too bad we share a cabin." She added covering her face with her hands.


"Oh my gosh. Shikamaru! Did you see that?" Ino gasped looking down at the boy staring at the clouds. Shikamaru looked at her.

"I was too busy looking at the sky to care." Shikamaru said. Ino rolled her eyes.

"Deidara looked as though her was going to kiss her!" Ino said.

"Oh really? How exciting…"

"You're really boring you know that?" Ino asked.

"Troublesome. Can we go now?" He asked sitting up. Ino sighed but nodded since Deidara was gone anyway.

"Ok, let's go Shika-kun."

"Shika-kun?"

"You're name is too long."

"What a drag. Let's go." The lazy boy said grabbing the girl's arm and dragging her toward the cabins unseen by the lonely counselor under the tree.


Did not like the ending...Well, now I got myself an essay to write. Please do not hate me if I do not update in while. I do promise a chapter 10 though before school actually starts. Please Review will love you forever. -TwilightRaver-