A/N So… I have some pretty big news. I've finished writing this story (don't worry, there are still five chapters after this one). This is the first story I've completely finished, but I still have plans for things that happen after the end of this. So maybe (but not a big maybe, since I still want to write this) I'll have a sequel. I think I will.

Chapter 10

"Ready? Start!" Pens were flying across papers to sign them as fast as the people could, but Hinata was still sitting there, scribbling her pen on the first page and shaking it, glaring the pen down. After a few seconds of that, she stopped and looked to Naruto next to her, who put his pen down between every sign to turn the page. Hinata only smirked before quickly swapping her pen for his when he wasn't looking and started signing herself while Naruto was stuck with the broken pen. After it failing miserably for him, Naruto eventually threw the pen down and sat back in the chair with his arms crossed over his chest, knowing he had lost.

Hinata was making up for the time that was wasted on her broken pen and was signing with both hands, switching back and forth as she moved pages away to sign more. When the buzzer sounded for the end of the round, it wasn't even possible to tell she had lost time in the beginning with how large her stack was. Signed papers were counted, and Hinata managed to place in the top three, while Naruto and two of the main hosts were eliminated from the round. "Neji, what was that with you in the beginning?"

Hinata blushed a little, realizing she had been caught by the host. "My pen wasn't working. So I switched it with Naruto's…" There were chuckles around the room while Naruto glared Hinata down, but she didn't focus on his as the round started again. And again, she placed in the top three with Sai and Sasuke, while three others were eliminated. With only the six left, another round started, but the top three were still the same and the bottom two were eliminated, leaving the four for the last round.

As Hinata sat in her spot, she saw her pen roll off the table, but whoever was sitting next to her was fast in grabbing it, handing the pen back to her. The round started right after that, and as Hinata went to write again, her pen was once again not working. She stared down the person who handed it next to her before reaching over and easily plucking the pen from his hand, using it to write on her own now and not giving it back to him. He realized he had lost and just sat back in his seat, not believing that a kid like Hinata would just do that to him and started planning revenge.

When the buzzer sounded one last time, the papers that the three band members had signed were counted up. Sasuke and Hinata tied and were both given a running ball, but as the papers were going to be thrown out, Hinata stopped the crew member doing so. "Can I have all those?"

"Why?" Everyone on the set was honestly confused and looked at Hinata strangely, but she didn't seem to notice or care.

"I could become rich off of selling all those signatures!" And the laughter started again, thinking she was joking. But it was a good idea, and the crew member ended up gathering the papers into a pile. They just didn't go to Hinata. "I was serious!"

"Aren't you already rich? You probably have as much money as any of us." One of the quiet members gestured to all the older stars on the set, before looking back at Hinata.

But she was shaking her head. "I haven't gotten paid for joining Kitsune yet…" Because it's all going to my brother. It's in his name anyways.

A few jokes were made in good humor over it, and Hinata realized she wasn't going to live down that moment. But after the first game came the bells hide and seek throughout the building, with modified rules.

Both main cast member teams were going to hunt for Kitsune, and if all four were caught, the teams would get a running ball for each member caught. Walkie-talkies were handed out to all of the members, and bells were tied onto the shoes of the two chasing teams before they were all separated to start in different places. As soon as they were allowed to, Kitsune was opening the list of places with the parts of a puzzle map of the five nations. Once assigned where they had to go, the four split up.

But once Hinata was out of sight, the other three came back together, and Sasuke switched the channel on the walkie-talkie before starting to talk. "He set off. Where are we meeting?" A crackled reply came through and they were off, running to the place they were just told to go to.

Hinata, however, was still running up the flights of stairs, her walkie-talkie pressed to her ear as she heard everything. All she could do was smile as she turned to the camera person following right behind her. "It's one versus eleven? This is going to be fun…" She reached her floor and made the way across to the storage room she had to search, sneaking inside and turning on the lights, only to turn them back off when they were really bright. "They might be meeting together, but they would have to be stupid to leave the whole place unguarded as they met." As if to prove her right, the walkie-talkie came back to life, the whole meeting being broadcast through it to those searching for her.

When Hinata found the puzzle piece she was searching for, she stuffed it into her pocket before looking at where the next piece closest to her would be. And then she set off again.

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Hinata had already found two pieces by the time she even heard bells. But as soon as she did, she took off running, leaving the cameraman completely lost with how quickly she left. He couldn't even find her no matter how much he searched, and eventually gave up to stake out at the place she was heading to until she appeared.

But she was hiding inside one of the storage rooms inside one of the filing cabinets. The door opened not too long after she crammed herself inside there and the light barely came through a slight crack. She heard the sound of bells on the shoe of whoever was there, but the person didn't think to check inside the cabinets, instead checking behind a few places and leaving, deciding she wasn't there. Hinata sighed as soon as the searcher left before climbing out of the small space she fit into and taking off out of the room once again. Deciding the main stairs would be too risky now that others would be searching, she took a back set that was definitely not meant to be seen by anyone but maybe the janitors, and almost fell down them a few times before she reached the next floor, where Naruto was supposed to look. She had figured out by now that no one else was looking, so she snuck out of the stair case and scrambled to find the room, eluding the cameras once again as she hid from another person with bells who ran right past the closet she was hiding in.

She crept into the room where the piece was supposed to be and searched for a little over a minute before she found it and stuffed it into her pocket with the others. Two more to go… There was no need for her to even check where the next piece was since she already knew, and she was a little afraid of how much time was left. As she went back down her hidden staircase, her camera person passed right by, missing her completely as she started down.

Switching the channel on her walkie-talkie back to the one it was supposed to be on, she finally spoke into it. "Where are you guys? Do any of you have pieces?"

"Naruto and I were caught and Sai is hiding somewhere. Where are you?" Sasuke's voice came through, but Hinata could hear more people behind him and knew they were trying to trick her into giving where she was.

So she would trick them back. "I'm still on the first one. I can't find it anywhere." She paused in going down the stairs as she spoke so they wouldn't be heard and also to listen for anyone nearby. Nothing.

"Find it and then find the other one up there and Naruto's. Sai will get the other two." But she could hear the bells running in the background and knew they were going for her first spot. So she ran as fast as she could down to get to the basement, where Sasuke's piece was supposed to be.

It was definitely the most difficult piece to find, but nobody was searching the basement for her yet, so Hinata was able to search carefully. After finally finding it taped over the real place on a map, she could only smile and stuff it into her pocket. "One more to go. And where's my camera person?"

But she didn't have time to think about that, as she was diving into the doorway for the staircase as two pairs of feet with bells started coming out of an elevator. With them patrolling the floor now, Hinata had to sneak up the stairs as quietly as she could. When she reached the last floor with no problems, she let out a sigh before walking out of the staircase.

And right into one of the chasers. Without even wasting time on saying anything, she dodged his grab for her and took off faster than she had run all night, leaving another camera behind. Her original finally picked up on her, but it was only for a few seconds before she was gone again, too fast to be caught by anyone.

There was one last place there was supposed to be a piece, but there was also only a little over ten minutes left in the race. Hinata snuck into the room, knowing there would be somebody in there. But she was lucky that they didn't see her as she crawled in and found the piece on top of one of the first desks in there. She grabbed it and ran out, so that by the time it was realized she had been there, she would be gone.

The puzzle board was in the Hokage's office on the top floor, so Hinata didn't even waste time going to a hidden staircase, instead running up the main one as fast as she could and then faster. By the time she reached the top, there was little over a minute left, but she didn't pay attention to that as she entered the office. On the desk sat the puzzle board and she pulled out the pieces from her pocket, putting them into place as fast as she could. The door opened as more than one chaser came running in, but Hinata put the last two pieces in at the same time with only seconds to spare. Barely believing it, she fell back into the Hokage's chair. "I did it… I beat all of them." One of the staff members pulled out the boxes of Running Balls and first handed Hinata the lone one that said Neji on it, before pulling out four green ones with the names of all the members of Kitsune written on them.

"Why does he get the Running Ball? We still tricked him." A finger was pointed at Hinata, but she just shook her head before it was explained by the PD.

"He figured it out in the beginning. It's on tape." A computer with one of the few scenes that were caught of Hinata was turned around and she spoke right into the camera what they were supposed to be doing.

"But why do the other members of their team get the Running Balls? They didn't complete their mission…" It seemed none of them wanted to accept that they lost the chance at two running balls when none of them had any yet.

"Neji completed the team mission as well. The whole team gets the balls." With no other points that wanted to be argued, filming ended as they returned back downstairs, Hinata with three balls in one pocket and carrying the puzzle as well.

"Sasuke said Sai was hiding… Where is he?" Shrugs went around the elevator, but no one seemed too worried about him. As if to answer them, when they reached the main floor with Sasuke, Naruto, and a few other chasers, Sai was there with them.

Tables were set up with different makings of some sort of tea, and Hinata realized right away she was going to regret this next competition.