Note: I happened to write this on Naruto's birthday, and a bit after Fujiwara's birthday.
Disclaimer: I'm bored, so let's make this short. I do not own Naruto.
Fuji: Believe it!
Naruto: Hey, that's my line!
-quarrel, Fuji takes out her mallet, Naruto uses Kagebunshin no Jutsu-
As I said, I do not own Naruto. They sort of act on their own.
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Chapter Ten: Birthday Bash, a.k.a. The Chase
The lights flicked on. I squinted in the brightness, until my adjusted to the light. The dark silhouette revealed itself to be Kiba Inuzuka.
I wondered for a brief (very brief) moment if Machiyo Inuzuka would make a good name. The image was immediately replaced by pictures of angry mobs of fangirls.
Kiba's face was sunburnt.
"Ohmigosh, what did you do to your face?"
"You left me in the desert," he spat.
"Oops." So that's what we forgot!
After a long silence, Kiba spoke.
"We'll be having a party tomorrow night for Fuji and Naruto. Bring them presents. It's their birthday."
"Ohhhhh… Oh my. I FORGOT FUJI'S BIRTHDAY! IT WAS LAST THURSDAY! Ohmigosh, ohmigosh, ohmigosh…"
Kiba walked away, leaving me to freak out over Fuji's birthday. And then I thought of the perfectest birthday present ever.
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Me and the others split up into two groups to kidnap, er, fetch Fuji and Naruto. They were both easy to lure. Naruto followed the smell of ramen; Fuji wanted to get her hands on a Sasuke poster.
We were having the party at the Kage's office, on the condition that we have sake in the drinks. We got Shizune really drunk, and then we could do whatever we want. After cake and dancing (Shizune's drunk dance was perfect for blackmail) we showed them our presents. I stood proud as I was about to show her my present.
"Look at my present first, Fuji-chan!" I said.
"Where's my present?" Naruto whined.
"Look, we'll get to you later. Fuji's birthday was first so it's only fair for her to get her presents first."
"Oh, alright then. Here's my present, Fuji-chan!" He handed her a sock (a stinky one) (with holes).
"Why would you give me a sock?"
"It was last minute and the other sock is missing, so I gave it to you!"
"Er, right."
"Hey! I wanna give her a present!" I shouted, shoving Naruto away. I went forward with the widest grin on my face. She looked at my hands. They were empty. She looked over my shoulder. Nothing there either.
"I give up. Where is it?"
"Aww, so cute!" I glomped her and hugged her as tightly as I could.
"That's your present?!" she choked.
"No. it's outside." I pulled her out of the building, and there it was, a huge yellow box with a red ribbon on top.
"Aww, how do you open it?"
"There's a door at the back."
"Oh." She circled the box until she found the doorknob. She turned it, and out rolled Sasuke, gagged and bound.
Fuji squealed.
Her next present was from Hinata, a pair of fluffy bunny slippers. Fuji put them on for Hinata. When she did, however, she started bouncing all over the place like she was on a pogo stick.
Hinata kept apologizing profusely, while Fuji tried her best to convince her that it was fine. When they finally calmed down, Kiba gave her his present.
Wrapped with a big red ribbon, was a bone.
"Why would you give me a bone?"
I nudged her and whispered in her ear, "I'm pretty sure he's gone through so much to give up his favorite bone."
"Why would you know that?"
"Uh… no reason…"
When she inspected her present, she saw teeth marks and her hands touched something wet. "Ugh, is this dog slobber?!"
Kiba took back his present. "Uh, lemme clean that for you."
Sakura's present was a challenge.
"Just because you got Sasuke for a birthday present," she said, "doesn't mean you get to kiss him."
"Is that a challenge?"
"Yeah, so what if it is?"
"First to kiss him wins. Winner keeps Sasuke."
"You're on."
Shino gave her a red butterfly. Sasuke gave her a rock.
"A rock?!"
"That was the rock you threw in my window." Fuji flipped the rock over and saw her handwriting that said: "I love you Sasuke-kun!"
Chouji presented her with two bags of chips, then took back the other bag. Gaara's present was mistletoe.
"Why would you give me mistletoe? It's not even Christmas."
Gaara demonstrated the mechanics to her, using Hinata as an example.
"See? Insta-kiss."
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Next are Naruto's presents (since I really need to get to the good part I'll just write a list)
Fuji- the missing partner of his favorite sock he just gave away. Don't ask.
Hinata- a bowl of ramen
Sakura- a promise not to punch him for that day (but he was so annoying that she ended up beating him up anyway)
Me- A cool gift certificate at Ichiraku's
Sasuke- a brick
Kiba, Gaara, and Neji- a very scary look, and more ramen
Chouji- he ran out of chips to give away
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After that, we all helped ourselves to cake and dancing. Again. Shizune got un-drunk (apparently it is a special power only she possesses) and kicked us out.
"Okay, what do we do now?"
"We still have those blackmail pictures. We could get back in."
"I don't think I could still dance anymore. Plus, I'm stuffed."
"Yeah, well, why don't we just play spin the bottle?"
Everyone agreed. We all sat in a circle and grabbed an empty bottle.
"Okay, who's spinning the bottle?"
"Ooh, me!" Almost all of us raised our hands. After a few minutes of (violent) bickering, we gave up and settled this with a most complicated high-class jutsu: Eenie, meenie, miney, mo.
And mo picked Gaara. He spun the bottle and it pointed to, you guessed it, Hinata. An evil smirk pasted itself on his face as he thought of the question.
"Will you marry me?"
"NO!"
"Why not?'
"Gaara, that's two questions."
"Well if you won't answer my question, you have to do a dare."
'Fine then"
"Marry me."
"Gaara!"
Kiba stepped up. "Hey, the lady said no."
"Back off dog boy."
"Ooh, this s getting interesting. Pass me the popcorn, please."
"Here."
"Thanks."
Kiba made the first move. He lunged at Gaara, grabbing only air when he landed. He fell with a loud thud on the ground.
-insert cool action fight thing here, etc.-
Gaara was poised for a final blow on the head. At that instant, a white butterfly few in front of him and made him miss Kiba by half an inch.
Hinata ran in front of him. "Hinata, what are you—" his words were met with a slap that left that left as definite a mark as his rival's tattoo.
"Gaara, I don't need protection. I can definitely fend for myself. I'm stronger than I look and you now that. I don't need a man to complete me, and I definitely don't need you."
Kiba smiled. Hinata shot him a nasty look. "That goes for you too Kiba. In fact…" She stood on a stool and called the attention of everyone present.
"Um… hi. I just want you to hear this: I am officially off boys. No dating, no courting, no BLUSHING will ever come from me towards you and vice versa."
She stepped off her makeshift podium and briskly walked away. She shook her head, rubbing her fingers on her temples.
She would need time to collect her thoughts.
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Hiashi is very, very happy.
Shibi wants grandkids.
Shikaku is very, very excited.
Chouza's putting his whole family on a diet.
Kiba is still determined.
Naruto finally sees Hinata like the strong-willed person she is.
Gaara still loves her.
But guess what? Hinata doesn't care.
Lately, Hiashi had been toting Hinata around as if she were his prized trophy. And in a way, she was. You know that white butterfly? That was a shadow image of a butterfly flying in a forest more than ten feet away. She can make kagebunshin of other things! With that, the total number of new bloodlines she had discovered is two. Add that to the prestige and high status of a Hyuuga, especially in the main branch, she truly is a trophy to be proud of. More reason to hate guys.
But no matter how rude she has acted in front of the "lower species", a lot of them are still in pursuit.
How ironic. Before she'd sworn off boys, she'd been a complete nobody. Now, well, you know.
A week after, while Hiashi was boring Hinata with yet another extravagant old-man party just for her, talking to really important people. Really important single people. Really important single guy people.
And that's when she snapped.
She jerked her hand away and started to run.
She didn't know which way she was going. She kept running not knowing where she might end up, as long as she was going far, far away. She kept her legs pumping until she stopped in front of a huge house. Surely, she thought, a house as big as that would be rich enough not to notice a few items gone here and there.
So she ran inside, grabbed a few provisions she thought might come in handy in a backpack, and filled the rest of the bag with food.
When Hiashi came home looking very grumpy and mean, a brave housemaid approached him and informed him that some girl broke in and emptied the fridge.
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-End of chappie.