Disclaimer: 'I despise having to repeat the same thing all over again…' -Shino
Author's note:
TADAAAAA! THE NEXT CHAPTER! Wow, I'm ACTUALLY alive...
On with the fanfic!
CHAPTER IX: SWITCH! INOSHIKA OPERATION PART I!
Silence. Dead silence.
No cricket, no snake, no whatever! Not even a fucking tumbleweed, damnit!
The two looked at each other, dazed, scared, their minds turned into a puddle of slimy, icky, goo.
Thanks to Nejis' hollering.
Okay, recompose yourself, Hyuga! He thought. Pause. HOW? His other sane self said. I don't know, just do it!
While they were trying to rack their brains for any way to get out of this very humiliating situation, their alien monsters, Kari and Ari, were looking at Neji and Ten-ten back and forth, wondering what had happened.
"What happened, Neji-san? Why did you shout?" Kari asked, looking down at his master.
"NOTHING! NOTHING AT ALL! YOU HAVE NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT, ARI-CHAN! EVERYTHING IS HAPPY AND DANDY!" Neji said; pulling his little alien and patting it like a dog. Kari, Ten-tens' alien looked unconvinced.
"But I heard you! You shouted to the whole world (Neji cringed here) that you like Te-mmph!" poor little Kari had her mouth covered by her master, Ten-ten, who was blushing like there was no tomorrow.
"Shhhh! You didn't hear anything! Nothing!" Ten-ten said frantically, shaking her alien up and down. When Karis' mouth was uncovered… Yep, you guessed it.
She barfed.
And out came the cereal in a pile of yellow goo.
"Yuck…" Ten-ten said, and sighed. "Good thing I didn't have my hand in your mouth when you barfed."
"EIIIIWWW! THAT IS LIKE, SO DISGUSTING!" Neji said, standing on one foot and hugging the tree. Kari, Ari and Ten-ten sweatdropped.
"It's your fault, you know. You didn't want Ari to know that you shouted that you liked Te-mmmph!" Once again, Karis' mouth was clamped shut by her master.
The silence that had been born earlier settled once again between the two blushing idiots.
Recompose! Recompose, Neji! Cool it! Yeah, cool it- IS THAT A SPIDER! Neji blinked at the leaf. Oh, just an ant- AN ANT! NO! RECOMPOSE! ANT! NO! ANT! NO! HAIR! OH MY God! A SPLIT END! Neji and Ten-ten blurted out at the same time.
"You didn't hear anything!" Neji spluttered.
"You didn't say anything!" Ten-ten screeched.
Real smooth, Neji… he thought, inwardly slapping himself.
"RIGHT!" they said in unison. "IT'S A SECRET!"
That lunch…
"YOU WHAAAATTTT!"
Of course, the voice was Narutos', and guess what? HE WAS SCREAMING AT Neji! (GASP!) Didn't see that one comin', huh? (Readers: yeah right… Hikari: sarcasm is a foreign language for you guys, huh? Readers: GET ON WITH THE STORY!)
So much for keeping it a secret… Neji thought. How had they found out? Well, Naruto was passing by a vacant table, on his way to the usual table under the beech tree, and there was Neji! (Gasp! Readers glare. Sorry, couldn't help it…) He had asked what was the matter with Neji, and Neji replied with a 'bother-me-and-you're-dead' glare. Shikamaru had noticed the two, and he came over. And guess what! He wanted to know why Neji was so gloomy! (Gasp! Readers clutch AK-47s' in their hands… ehehehe… couldn't help it…) Neji merely gave him a 'shut-up-before-I-poke-you-to-death' glare. Sasuke came over, and was about to ask why they weren't at the usual place. But Neji, thinking he was about to ask the same thing, had shouted the whole reason, every detail. Yes, even the split end issue. To this moment, he kept glancing at the end of his ponytail… anyhu; his attention was now drawn away from his perfectly healthy- looking hair, and was now focused at his so-called best friends. One was stuttering like an idiot –which reminded him STRONGLY of Hinata, another was yawning, and the last was smirking evilly. Not a pretty good sight.
"Geez, Naruto. Not so loud…" he muttered under his breath, as he saw the Uchihas' mouth open ever so slightly. Sasuke never spoke with his mouth wide open. Unless he was shouting at a certain blond dobe…
"God, I never thought you'd do anything as stupid as that, Neji. I thought better of you…" Sasuke said, his smirk widening. Neji tried his best not to roll his eyes in aggravation. Why? Simply because. Shikamaru yawned, and swirled the noodles of his carbonara lazily around his plate. He expertly twirled carbonara strands around his silver fork, and stuffed it into his yawning mouth.
"So nice to have supporting friends, huh?" Neji said sarcastically, thrusting his fork into a buffalo wing. Naruto shook his head and stuffed pesto in his mouth while Shikamaru snorted at Nejis' remark.
"What you want us to say? 'Good job with your idiocy, Neji! We are sooo proud of you!'" Shikamaru said in fake enthusiasm, complete with clasping hands, and a not-so-ecstatic pat on Nejis' back, making him, Neji, spit out his cola.
"No," he coughed, wiping his mouth with a handkerchief while Naruto burst into fistfuls of laughter and Sasuke snorted. "But a comforting 'That was pretty bad, wanna eat ice cream?' would've worked…" Neji continued, thrusting his fork, yet again, into his already mutilated buffalo wings, and taking a bite. Shikamaru again snorted.
"Puh-leeze, Neji. What do you think of us? GAY?" Shikamaru said, stuffing the last of his carbonara and pushing away the now empty plate.
"And I think you meant, 'that was pretty stupid of you, Neji. Want us to stuff ice cream in your face so that you'll realize what you did?' Neji." Sasuke said, taking a bite out of his Korean barbeque. Neji blushed. Either from embarrassment or the thought of Ten-ten or both, Sasuke couldn't tell. He merely snickered and stuffed a spoonful of yellow rice into his mouth. Shikamaru then turned to his haughtily chewing cousin.
"Ei, 'cuz. Can I ask a favor?" Shikamaru asked, twirling the ice in his glass with his straw. Sasuke looked skeptically at Shikamarus' direction. Shikamaru never asked favors. Okay, so he did, but he did it rarely.
"I guess-" he muttered, but Shika cut him off. "It's just about the alien capturing schedule. Nothing big."
"I guess… sure. What is it?" Sasuke asked, pushing away his empty plate and leaning back. They were now under the beech tree, and Sasuke was seated conveniently just in front of the beech tree's bark, so when he leaned back, he was rested comfortably on the wooden trunk. He closed his eyes sleepily as he waited for his cousins' reply.
"You're scheduled to capture aliens with Sakura later this afternoon, right?" he asked. Shikamaru smirked inwardly as he saw a tinge of pink slowly creep up Sasukes' pale cheeks. He opened one bleary eye.
"Yeah, so?"
"I wanted to switch today. I mean me and Ino will be capturing this afternoon, and you'll be capturing on the afternoon after the next." He said lazily. Sasuke smiled haughtily.
"Why? Gonna try your luck with Ino?" he teased, and then smirking triumphantly when he saw a tinge of pink appear on Shikamarus' placid face.
"No. We're gonna try our luck with a science project. The less time we capture, the more we can finish the damned project earlier. So stop it, 'cuz. I'm not in the mood." Sasuke merely shrugged. They may not be close, but Sasuke knew when and when not to tease Shikamaru. He rarely opens his mouth anyway, and they both have a pretty deep understanding.
"Sure."
At the other end of the lunch area, on the same time Naruto had hollered an ear-shattering 'What!' at Neji…
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! WHOO! OH YEAH! WHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAAAA! AHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!"
Yes, it came from Sakura's table. She and Ino were sitting on top of a table, laughing their heads off with what Ten-ten had just mentioned.
Go figure.
Hinata was trying her best not to laugh, but she couldn't help but let out a few suppressed giggles.
Like I said, go figure.
Ten-ten blushed both from anger and humiliation at her three friends.
"Geez, guys. Not so loud…" she muttered under her breath. (A/N: hmmm… where have I heard that before…?) Ten-ten inwardly moaned in agony when she saw Sakura's lips form a smile. An evil, deceitful and haughty smile. Ooh, not too well…
"God, I never thought Neji'd do anything as stupid as that. I thought better of him…" Sakura said, her 'smile' widening. Hinata gave another set of silent chuckles. Ino grinned at Ten-ten and stuffed carbonara in her mouth. She chewed, a sinister smile on her face, and Ten-ten knew she was in trouble.
"SO nice to have supportive friends…" she muttered, thrusting her fork into her already mutilated buffalo wings.(A/n: whistle, whistle, whistle…) Hinata blushed and looked away, and Ino merely snorted.
"What you want us to say? 'Oh! You should've taken the chance and kissed him!'" Ino said in fake enthusiasm, complete with clasping hands, and a not-so-ecstatic pat on Ten-tens' back, making her, Ten-ten, spit out her cola.
"No," Ten-ten coughed, wiping her mouth with a handkerchief. "But a 'that was a really bad situation, want to have some ice cream?' would've worked…" Ten-ten continued, thrusting of what was left from her buffalo wings. (A/n: I swear I've read this before somewhere…) Ino snorted.
"Whatever… Neji-LOVER! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAA! OH MY God! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!" Ino said, and she fell off the chair. Sakura snorted, and she looked over to where the 'chick catchers' were eating. She sweatdropped as she saw Neji continuously jabbing his buffalo wings- if it still looked like buffalo wings…- and she double sweatdropped as she saw that Ten-ten was jabbing her buffalo wings in the same fashion, at the same time.
If they weren't jabbing Buffalo wings, it'd be really cute and romantic… them doing the same thing… Sakura thought, shaking her pink head. Ino climbed back on her chair, giggles and deep breaths coming from her mouth. A few blades of grass had stuck to her violet top, and her hair was strewn haphazardly with a combination of dried leaves, dirt and a few bugs. As she looked at Sakura, a sudden thought entered her blond head.
"Oh, yeah, Sakura? Can I ask for a favor?" she asked. Sakura turned to look at Ino.
She doesn't look evil… hmm… I think she's pretty serious… she shrugged and nodded her head.
"I was wondering if we could switch alien capturing today. Shika-baka and me have some dissecting thingy for biology. Talk about a fun way to spend the weekend…" she mumbled irritably, then, said, "…I was planning on buying that new blouse…" Sakura sweatdropped.
"Fine, just make sure you get a high grade, or I'll feed you to my alien." She threatened. Ino chuckled.
"Oh, c'mon, Sakura! Capturing aliens! How hard could that be?"
Oh, how wrong Ino was…
Cute (no lies! ;) Author's note:
Okay, this isn't really very funny, but the next chappie will be! I sweaaar! This is just a cliffie intro (I'm SO evil) and I was having second thoughts about putting a sneak peek, but then, the story wouldn't be interesting, would it? (Insert abnormally evil laugh here)
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