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Chapter 9 --- Fish
Ten-ten's POV
"Hina-chan!" the door opened and…
…SLAM! The door was just slammed on our faces. Okay…I didn't know Hinata had it in her to do that.
"Hina-chan…" I whined, pounding on the door to the Hyuuga mansion. Hinata reopened it with a sigh. She was too kind for her own good. Sakkie grinned and skipped inside. I smiled and ran after her. Ouch, I bumped into something. I don't remember a wall being there…I looked up to see Hiashi glaring down at me. I got up quickly and bowed down with respect.
"Are they sleeping over again?" Hiashi addressed Hinata, still keeping his glare on me.
"Yes, Father." Hinata replied, fidgeting. Hiashi nodded once and walked away.
"Does he still hold a grudge on us from our last sleepover?" I whispered to Hinata. Somehow, I could still feel his glare on me. I turned back to see that no, he wasn't glaring at me. In fact, he wasn't even there. Creepy…
"Everyone has." Hinata said, glaring at the floor.
"Oh, c'mon Hinata. All we did were only harmless jokes." I replied with a roll of my eyes.
"Yeah, if putting mice in Neji's pillow, serving rats at our dinner, putting buckets of water on top of every door, taking pictures of my girl cousins in the shower and sending it off to be published in Icha-Icha, cutting off a idon'tevenwannarememberit part of Hiashi's underwear and posting a big picture of me and Naruto in the living room wall all in one night counts as harmless jokes then sure, that's all you did." She said without stuttering once throughout her whole speech…wow.
Note to Self: Always make Hina-chan angry. Then maybe she'll lose her stuttering habit.
"Oh, c'mon Hina-chan. It's not like we'll use the same tricks on the same people." Sakkie said, suddenly appearing out of nowhere to join the conversation.
"Besides, I already promised Neji that I won't put mice in his pillow anymore. And I didn't even need to promise. We're known for our originality…" I grinned. Hinata stomped defeated, back to her room. Sakkie and I high-fived before running to join her.
(Somewhere)
"Neji."
"Hai, Hiashi-sama?"
"Keep an eye on those two. And prevent unnecessary problems from arising again."
"Hai!"
(Hinata's Room)
"You're sleeping here." She said, dragging two mattress to her room and dropping it beside her bed. We then helped her gather sheets and pillows and set up our bed.
"Hina-chan, let's watch a horror movie." Sakkie said, staring longingly at the flat screen T.V. just at the foot of Hinata's bed.
"N-No." Hinata said…
"Why?" I whined.
"Because…my father won't allow it." Hinata said with a sigh. This is exactly why we don't get along much with Hinata. She's such a goody-two-shoes.
"Urgh, boring old geezer." I sighed, still having goose bumps after that strange encounter with our teammate's father.
"Tennie, let's go look for something fun to do." Sakkie said sounding bored. I nodded and got up to follow her.
"Don't cause any trouble you two!" Hinata called as we exited her room.
"We won't!" we promised as we skipped down the hallways of the Hyuuga mansion, earning a few glares along the way.
"What do you think we should do?" Sakkie asked, raising a brow at me.
"I think…um…Let's go catch fish and put it in their fountain in their backyard." I suggested with a mischievous glint in my eyes.
"Let's go." She said.
(Somewhere in the Hyuuga Mansion)
*Knock Knock*
"Hello, welcome to the Hyuu—shishou!"
"Hanabi, it's great to see you again. I haven't seen you since you graduated under me."
"It's great to see you again, Yai-sama."
"Tche, yeah. The first time I saw you, the first thing that got to my head was, 'This girl's got raw talent, I can smell it'."
"Yeah? The first time I saw you, the first thing that got into my head was, 'Isn't she a little too young?'" they both chuckled. "So, what brings you here?"
"Work. Seems like your nee-chan's teammates caused trouble to the Uchiha Sasuke and Konoha Empress Hotel wants them to clean up their mess."
"Ooh, can I help you on this one?"
"Sure, why not? I'm technically in your property after all."
"Cool."
(Back Near the Fountain)
"Hey Tennie!" Sakkie called, from far away. She ran towards me and dropped a pail of fish.
"Sakkie, these are…dead fish…" I said, staring at the pail of lifeless fish.
"Yeah, it's much easier buying it off the market than catching it. But, no worries. We never said all we'd put would be alive fish." She chuckled. I grinned back. "I'll go get some angelfish to add off the pet shop, bye!" she yelled, waving. I waved back and watched her leave. I sighed. Why can't I be the one to go buy the fish while she put it in? I picked up one smelly dead fish and tossed it to the fountain. I watched as it floated around, grinning widely as it did so. I'm pretty proud of our originality this time. I picked up another lifeless smelly fish but before I could toss it in, a hand stopped me. Okay, who is it this time? I looked up to see the piercing eyes of…
"What do you think you're doing?" Neji said, interrupting me from my thoughts.
"Well, I…I…we…me and Sakkie thought that your compound kinda lacks animals. Either they just don't like this place, or they're too scared of you. So we decided to help and decorate your fountain with…fish." I explained with a grin.
"Uhuh, dead fish…?" Neji raised an eyebrow.
"Oh, well…that's so that they won't be scared or run away. I mean, who's ever heard of a scared dead fish? Or a dead fish that ran away? Ingenious, huh?" I replied.
"Riiight…" Neji said before picking up the pail of dead fish and leaving. I stood there dazed. I swear, if I get exposed to those deep...pearly...white...dazzling...eyes, I'll probably die of aheartbeatingtoofast…have you ever heard of that disease? This is the last time Neji will ever make me weak in the knees. Urgh, I hate him for that.
Note To Self: Play a prank on Neji and make it EMBARRASSING!!!
That should do as payback for making me look so weak…and fragile…and breakable…around him…Anyway…wait a minute, did I just let Neji get away with my fish? I did. Wait, WHAT? Damn, where'd he go? Those fish cost money!!!!
Yeah, I know, lame. I just had to get this out, and I didn't do it properly. Sorry, I'm just not in the mood for writing today. Sorry, really…I'm watching 'The Time Traveler's Wife' has anyone seen that yet? It's like, sooo great! Anyway, I'll be back in two weeks! ^^
M.A.
