SKANK
Chapter 9
A/N: I graduated.
"Tenten, you didn't turn in the homework assignment," Hatake-sensei said after class the next day. His tone reeked of boredom, but still had an air of disappointment. Tenten felt annoyed and guilty, not really in the mood to deal with academic stress.
"Sorry about that sensei. It won't happen again," she apologized, wanting to get of the classroom quickly and away from the pressure.
"So how will you make it up?" He asked while drumming his fingers on his desk and rested his chin on his other hand. He looked up at her waiting for answer. Had this been any other situation and had she been any other girl, she would have melted from his sheer good looks. However, she was Tenten and could only focus on getting to her next class to talk to Hinata.
"Um, I'll do well on the next test I guess," she said, unsure of what he wanted to hear. "I promise," she assured.
"Alright, I'll trust you on that," he sighed, dismissing her.
"Right, see you tomorrow sensei."
Tenten made it to her world literature class in record time in her 5-inch Giuseppe Zanotti platform sling-backs. She took a seat next to Hinata and leaned over to her. "Hey, do you wanna come over today after school and…help me with pre-calc?" She asked slyly once Sakura and Ino took their seats behind her.
"Oooh, then we can come over later and like get ready for the cross country meet!" Sakura butted in, looking adorable in her coral scalloped Ali Ro dress. In fact, all the girls were rockin' their dresses, Ino in a Blumarine belted floral print dress, Tenten in an edgy black Nanette Lepore piece with a fancy studded design, and Hinata sporting a sweet La Via 18 vintage-print collared dress.
"Uhm, sure," Hinata agreed to Tenten's question.
"Sounds okay to me," Tenten nodded to Hinata and the other girls.
"Sweet, I'll bring the paint!" Ino confirmed, earning an odd look from Tenten, but she decided not to question it.
"We also need to figure out which party we'll like go to after the game tomorrow night," Sakura brought up. Tenten nearly groaned since she almost forgot about having to wear the mascot uniform. Not to mention, the game was away at another school, which meant cheering in front of an entirely different audience.
"I-I suggest Kiba's?" Hinata spoke up, glowing a light pink shade.
Sakura smirked an all-knowing smirk. "Of course! Kiba's it is, for our darling Hinata over here."
The lunch table that day was an embarrassing disaster for Tenten to say the least. After escaping from physics class and receiving many compliments on her outfit from random people in the halls, she sat down at their indoor lunch table and noticed the guys were joining them that day. She took a seat next to Ino and across from Itachi. Sakura was flirting with both Naruto and Sasuke by trying to get Sasuke to do something he didn't want to do and then saying Naruto was better and cooler for wanting to do it to try and make the younger Uchiha brother jealous and agree. Hinata was listening to Kiba telling her a joke that was most likely inappropriate, but giggled anyway. Tenten wondered if Ino felt weird with not being able to go out in public with her boyfriend and all, but she saw Deidara sitting rather close to her, shoulders touching, and determined that the blonde beach bum couldn't be too lonely at all. Neji was noticeably absent from the group.
"Feeling better?" The tall handsome senior sitting across from her asked.
"Er, yeah," she replied softly and not meeting his gaze.
"Really, you don't sound any better than you did last night," he stated innocently.
"No really, I'm fine, just a little tired is all," she responded with a deadly smile. He knew he was embarrassing her, but she wouldn't let the others at the table notice it. Ino was already shamelessly eavesdropping in on their conversation. It wouldn't be soon till Sakura and the Hinata noticed.
"Right, we were up pretty late," he pointed out, flashing a challenging look into Tenten's brown eyes.
She decided to play along. "Well, you can't expect a girl to sleep after being so forceful."
By now, the whole table was keenly listening in on the two. Deidara was smirking. Sasuke had an eyebrow cocked while Naruto and Kiba were nearly gaping.
"Are you saying you didn't enjoy it?" The older brother posed, earning an 'ooooh' from Kiba.
Tenten blinked a few times and shot him a wide-eyed victory stare and a smile, "Don't accuse." She got up and threw away the remains of her lunch. She heard Naruto saying "duuuuude" and didn't even bother looking back. It took her a moment to realize it, but she finally recognized what had just taken place was flirting. She smirked as she felt the sisters coming up behind her while exiting the cafeteria.
"Oh."
"My."
"God!" They finished for each other as the stepped in front of the tall brunette, preventing her from escaping. They all looked at her expectantly with wide eyes, small smiles, and slack jaws.
"What?" Tenten finally said, pretending as if nothing weird happened.
"Like what the hell was that with Itachi?" Sakura nearly shrieked. Much to Tenten's relief she sounded more intrigued than accusing.
The brunette smirked, "Can't this wait till the Sx4?"
"Well at least like give us a hint!" The pink haired cutie demanded after sighing a dramatic sigh.
"Fine, we were on the phone," Tenten replied, hoping it was vague enough to keep them wondering and out of her hair.
The girls were silent, as if thinking. Hinata spoke up first, "You don't mean-"
"PHONE SEX?" Ino blurted out, causing passerbys to blush and raise some eyebrows. However, it didn't bother the blonde seeing as she didn't even blush or look around to see if anyone had heard her.
Tenten flushed a bit, but kept her cool, knowing how shameless the girls could be by now. "I'm neither confirming nor denying that," she responded nonchalantly.
Sakura groaned, but let up, "Fine, be that way Busty. But you better like give us all the details if you want us to help you with him."
"Of course, of course," the brunette assured, dreading the idea of their idea of help.
After school, Tenten and Hinata sat at Tenten's kitchen table snacking on organic raspberries and water crackers while pretending to be studying for the sake of Tenten's mother. Once she left, the girls shut the books and got some serious talking in.
"We have plenty of extra rooms, just live here," the brunette suggested, leaning across the table.
"B-But what will you t-tell your m-mom?" Hinata asked, obviously not too keen on the idea.
"I'll just say it's stressful in your house. I'm sure she'd understand and not try to delve too deep into it," Tenten assured.
"But m-my f-father, he'll find me, a-and your f-family could get in a lot of t-trouble."
"What kind of trouble? We have lawyers; you can even get emancipated if you want to take it that far."
"W-What's 'emancipated?'" The navy haired girl inquired.
"Well, I guess you could say it's like getting a divorce from your parents," the brown eyed girl explained, trying to make it sound appealing.
"I-I don't know. I-I don't w-want t-to put that kind of b-burden on your f-family."
"It's burdening knowing that you're suffering!" Tenten stated while unintentionally raising her voice and slapping her hands down on the table.
"Ah, I-I'm sorry. I-I j-just have t-to think about it s-some more," Hinata said meekly, hiding her face.
"Hinata-"
Before Tenten could push the issue any further, she heard the French doors at the entrance of her house burst open, the rustling of plastic bags, and Sakura's high pitched voice, "We're here! Time to make ourselves look totally hot for the meet!"
The brunette sighed, but got up from her seat and but on a cheery smile to greet the other girls. "Hey, we're in the kitchen," she called out as she peeked into the foyer to let them know where she and Hinata were.
"Alright, let's go up to your room and like get ready. I got all the supplies we need," the pink haired girl giggled as she and Ino held up the plastic bags in their arms.
"What's in there?" Tenten asked a little warily.
"Oh, you'll see," Sakura replied in a sing-song voice and preceded up the stairs with the rest of the girls ensue.
"Are you sure we can show up like this?" Tenten questioned from the back seat of Sakura's hot pink Hummer.
"No, but we're like completely covered, there shouldn't be a problem with it," The pink haired girl responded without a care in the world. She didn't have time for insecurities and what if's, the only important thing to her was getting the attention of Sasuke.
"If there's going to be any problem, it'll be because we're so ridiculously hot the runners might dehydrate," Ino smirked from the passenger seat.
Tenten rolled her eyes. "Aw, you made a funny," she said sarcastically as she slipped out of the car, wishing that the pink vehicle didn't attract so much attention in their direction.
"Hey, we're helping you get Itachi. You want him, this is how you do it," the blonde retorted as she got out of the car too and slammed the door shut.
"I only want to be here as much as you want to be here," Tenten stated, knowing Ino wasn't keen on being there in the first place.
"Come on you guys! You don't want like me and Hinata to steal like all the attention!" Sakura beckoned impatiently.
The two girls gave each other a knowing look and groaned and then jogged up a bit to catch up with the other two sisters. Once they were all together, as they approached the tent area and starting line, they looked like something out of a Gwen Stefani music video. Ino was wearing a green bikini top and True Religion denim cut-off shorts so short that the front pockets were sticking out the bottom, Hinata in a skin tight white spaghetti strap tank dress that showed off way too much of her ample chest and womanly thighs, Sakura sported what looked a plain white man's T-shirt that had been cut off right beneath her boobs and a white Lacoste pleated miniskirt, and Tenten in a Kelly-green sports bra and black Under Armour compression shorts. Not only were they more than half naked in front of not only parents, peers, teachers, and people from other schools, but they had painted each other in the school colors. Ino and Tenten were snow white all the way down to their matching Christian Louboutin white high-tops covered in sparkling studs, while Sakura and Hinata were painted green.
Tenten was hoping she didn't look as uncomfortable as she felt. Out of the corner of her eye, she could see adults scowling and gaping at them along with runners from other schools. She felt like she wanted to run back to Sakura's car, go home and wear a burka for the rest of her life. However, the cat calls and wolf whistles they got as they made their way to the Konoha stake out made her roll her shoulders back and stick heir chin up a little higher.
"Well damn, I definitely like this so much better than the mascot outfit."
The tall brunette girl nearly screamed as Itachi's voice came from behind her and could feel his breath on her ear lobe. She whipped her head around to see the older Uchiha brother smirking in his cross country uniform and tried to hold back the urge to make a snide remark about the length of his running shorts.
"Nice thighs," she sniggered.
"Nice ass," he retorted with a sly wink.
The quick comeback caused Tenten to turn bright red and turn herself around, accidentally bumping Sakura with her butt. However, the pink haired girl hardly noticed and took it as an opportunity to push herself closer to Sasuke, who obviously liked the amount of skin she was showing.
Itachi laughed at her, causing her to put on a pout. "Shut up, it's not like I came out here for you. I'm here for Sakura," Tenten defended as she glanced over to the flirtatious pink-head.
"Of course," he replied sarcastically, "How could I be so stuck-up to think such a thing? Anyway, I like that shirt she's wearing. You should wear that next time."
The brunette felt the corner of her lip twitch at the comment. "No way, I'm too-"
"Busty?" Itachi finished for her with a crack.
She glared at him and crossed her arms over her chest. "Shut up," she repeated, "besides, who ever say there would be a next time?"
Before he could answer, another tall male figure appeared behind Itachi.
"Tenten, if you have time to show up at these events dressed…like that, then you should have time to study for my class," Hatake-sensei said in a dry voice as he eyed her up and down once with no expression showing on his handsome face.
"Um, don't worry sensei, I'm studying with Hinata," she stuttered once, feeling rather vulnerable.
The teacher raised an eyebrow causing Tenten to look over at Hinata, who was getting hit on by two guys from another school. The clear eyed girl met her stare and saw Hatake-sensei standing with the brunette. Tenten shot her a look, but Hinata immediately but subtly shook her head "no."
"I hope that works out for you," the silver haired teacher remarked and then disappeared in the crowd of people.
Tenten awkwardly stared after him before Itachi grabbed her attention, "Coach is a strange one. I think he has a thing for you."
The junior girl gave him a glare of disbelief, "You're the weird one. Don't say creepy shit like that. Besides, he's just a lazy cactus head."
"Cactus head?"
"Yes, a cactus head."
The meet ended well. Itachi placed top five while Sasuke was not too far behind him in the top ten. Tenten couldn't help but cheer along with the other girls as their names were announced. Afterwards, she posed in many pictures with the sisters, members of Konoha's cross country team, and even people from other schools and random spectators.
When she got home, she ran up to her room sneakily so she wouldn't have to face her parents about her attire, or lack of. She showered and scrubbed off all the paint, and then changed into some Juicy sweats and a University of Central Konoha sweater, feeling nice to be fully covered up. After grabbing a bag of organic veggie crisps from the pantry, she curled up in front of the TV and listened to the rumbling of the thunder of a nearby storm.
During the latest episode of Gossip Girl, a bright lightning strike and a booming thunder crash took her from dozing off to fully alert and awake. She heard the rain coming down in sheets outside and something else. She listened a little closer and heard the door bell going off like crazy. She immediately bolted up off the couch and ran to the door. She looked outside the glass to the side of the French doors and saw a distorted male figure standing on her porch. Cautiously and slowly she opened the door only to see Neji standing there completely soaked from head to toe.
"Is Hinata here?"
