High School Life!: Year 1
Chapter XI: The Sports Festival Part 2: More Normal Events? Wait! These Aren't Normal! Or Are They?
by Kikoru Sijan
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of the characters in Naruto. Plus, I'm to lazy to pretend I do and then say I don't. xD
"Regular speech"
'Inner thoughts' (sometimes sounds, like 'boom')
"Non-inner thoughts"
A/N: Argh, started this late, and updated late. I suck, ne? xD I'm sorry. Gomen, gomen. But it's here.
Everyone settled down to eat lunch. The ate sat where they usually ate, under the cherry blossom tree (there were only some green leaves left, the flowers fell already), with Chouji, Shino, Lee, and Kiba joining them.
"So…that was…interesting," Tenten said, deciding to break the silence. She was expecting to start a conversation, but there were only murmurs of agreement and Uchiha Sasuke/Hyuuga Neji language. Everyone began to eat food.
"Can we talk?!" Tenten exclaimed angrily.
"Sure," Sakura said, now occupied with blowing a piece of astray hair. Sasuke began to twitch in annoyance when Sakura wouldn't move the piece of pink hair away. Sasuke sighed and pulled her hair back. "Urm…arigatou, Sasuke-kun," Sakura said, not really sure what to say.
"Hn. It was getting annoying."
"Aw…Sakura's so lucky…" Tenten thought. "He actually likes her...Kawaii desu!"
"Muahahaha! I knew Sasuke liked her!" Ino exclaimed in her mind.
"Time for the next events!" Tsunade yelled, breaking the silence. "And if I say so myself, these aren't as fun…More normal if you ask me…" Everyone packed up their bentos, for exception of the ones who didn't bring, and walked to the field in the back to find what seemed to be a very intricate obstacle course. The thing was, it was concealed in walls.
"Welcome to the Konoha Labyrinth!" Sakura raised an eyebrow.
"This is normal? Freaky…"
'Dear, dear, Sakura-chan, this school was made freaky,' inner Sakura remarked.
"Everyone, you will have to do this in pairs," Tsunade said. Many began to say "whatever". A grin spread on Tsunade and Kurenai's face.
"But, they will be your science partners." Groans were heard.
"But I wanted to be with Sasuke-kun!"
"So did I!"
"Me, too!"
"Sasuke-kun, don't leave me!" Both Sakura and Sasuke rolled their eyes.
"Stupid fangirls," both of them mumbled. They glared at each other.
"Stop copying me."
"No, you stop."
"Shut up!" Sakura said, turning away, and crossing her arms. Sasuke sighed and put his hands in his pockets.
"Hn." Many sweat dropped at what happened, except the fangirls, who were growling. How dare she tell their Uchiha Sasuke to shut up?! The other Uchiha brother, Itachi, couldn't help but start to chuckle.
"Well," Tsunade said, trying to get the attention back to her, "There will be no obstacles really. Just have to find a way to get out. Whoever gets out first will get 10 points for their team! Begin!" Everyone jumped. Talk about an unexpected beginning.
"C'mon, Hinata-chan!" Naruto yelled, dragging Hinata with him.
"H-Hai!"
"Shika-kun! We can't fall behind!" Ino dragged Shikamaru in.
"Talk about hyperactive blonds," Sakura said. Tenten nodded. "But I think we should get going, too." The two girls walked off with their stoic partners.
Naruto and Hinata
"So, what do we do, Hinata-chan?" Naruto said, sitting on the grassy ground, cross-legged, trying to think. He did, but sadly it was of ramen. "Eat ramen?"
"Um…Naruto-kun, I think we could do that another time…" Hinata answered, deep in thought.
"So, maybe Friday?" Naruto asked. "After school?" Hinata squeaked. "You don't have to go if you don't want to. I'll just drag teme along with me."
"Iie! I-I'll go!" Hinata stammered loudly, face flushed. Naruto grinned happily.
"Yay! And, Hinata-chan, I have an idea!" Naruto exclaimed excitedly. "We can use your byakugan! Dattebayo!" Hinata stared at him, surprised he could actually think of this while she couldn't. Her surprise turned into happiness, however. She activated her byakugan and began searching.
"An exit!" Hinata cried.
"Yatta!" The two ran towards the exit.
Neji and Tenten
In a different path, these two weren't using a method much different from Naruto and Hinata's. Of course, it took a bit more effort and time, but it still involved the Hyuuga tactics.
Tenten was flinging a number of weapons at the supposedly thin walls. She actually managed to break some. She began to pant.
"Bastard…You can at least help!" Tenten complained. Neji shrugged.
"I'm using the byakugan to see what walls to demolish. I am helping."
"Whatever! Can't you do that blue, spinny thing and everything shoots out when I throw stuff at you?" Neji thought for a moment.
"Actually, that may work." Neji did the said move as Tenten threw various objects at in. In an instant, many walls around them were destroyed.
"Yatta!" Tenten exclaimed, hugging Neji, who coincidentally turned a tint of red.
Shikamaru and Ino
"How are we going to do this?" Ino said, clearly frustrated.
"Troublesome. Can you just shut up for now? I'm trying to think of a troublesome plan," Shikamaru replied, almost hissing. His hands were in a strange formation and he was sitting cross-legged on the ground, eyebrows furrowed and all. Ino crossed her arms, but she stayed quiet until she heard the slapping sound of Shikamaru's hand connecting with his forehead.
"How could I be so stupid? This troublesome woman's getting to my head," Shikamaru muttered, low enough for Ino not to hear. He really didn't want more torture. "Ino, we just have to climb to the top of the wall and balance," Shikamaru instructed. Ino stared at him, trying to decide if her partner had become a mad scientist or if he was just plain crazy.
"Are you crazy?!" Apparently, she decided on crazy. I mean, he never did much of the work in science, he just told her what to do.
"No, because you actually have good balance. If I remember correctly, when I was looking through the troublesome files, Yamanaka Ino actually was the captain of the cheerleading team in junior high." Ino's face flushed while Shikamaru's adorned a lazy smirk.
"Whatever." They both jumped high and the two managed to balance. The wall was actually very thick and easy to walk on. So easy that it was easy to run. So run they did.
Sasuke and Sakura
"What do we do?" Sakura asked, pacing around. Sasuke just shook his head at the obvious plan in his head, but he let Sakura ramble. "What do you think, Sasuke-kun?"
"Hn." Sakura pouted. Oh, yes, this Uchiha loved to aggravate her.
"No really…"
"Hn."
"Is that all you can say?!"
"Aa…"
"Will you stop it?!" Sakura said, ready to punch Sasuke, who raised an eyebrow.
"Instead of punching me, why don't you punch the walls?" Sasuke said. Sakura stared. And stared. And stared.
"Oh….right…" Sakura began to demolish the walls, meeting many frightened people along the way. Now they were getting somewhere.
Finish line
"Who do you think will win, Kakashi?" Tsunade asked. Kakashi shrugged and continued his "mature reading". Tsunade twitched. "You better an-"
"Oh, look. Here they come," Kakashi stated, not even looking up from his book.
"It's you guys…again," Tsunade deadpanned, frowning slightly. Ino and Shikamaru jumped down from the walls. Some grinned, some smirked, one smiled nervously. "Well, we'll have to bring down the walls."
'Click' With the push of a button, all the walls slid downwards, into the ground, before they were camouflaged. Tsunade scowled. She noticed that too many to be a few walls were severely damaged. Less sake for her, more money for school repairs. She really needed to get the school renovated over the summer, or maybe winter before the next school year started…
Screams were heard from some students. How would you feel if all the walls suddenly dropped into the ground? Especially if you decided to lean on it.
"The winners of this race are these eight. Class 1-3 and 2-1 get 40 points," Tsunade drawled, almost bored. Actually, she was bored. Really, this was no fun. Cheers from those two classes were loud. "Now, it's the normal races. In groups of eight."
"Well, pretty normal. The first one will be explained here," Itachi said, pointing to two tables at the very front of the race. Papers were face down. "Each team will send one member to the table, and they have to take one piece of paper. They all have the same thing, so basically, you might have to wait, slowing your team down."
"After that, you go over there," Kurenai said, pointing to the two tables about 30 meters away. There were bowls of ramen on it. "This is ramen eating. After the person has fulfilled their turn with the first event, they must go to their team and tag a person. After they eat three bowls of different flavored ramen, they must go back to their team."
"See, I told you not to doubt it! There is a ramen eating contest!" Sakura whispered smugly. Sasuke scowled.
"Hn."
"Hinata-chyaaan! You were right!" Naruto exclaimed, giving Hinata a big bear hug. Hinata was speechless. She herself didn't think that was going to happen.
"Then, we're going to do a riddle. Send a person to us. Whoever from a group of people gets it first will go, and we will send them back to pick somebody for the next station," Kakashi said.
"The next station, you brats, is a 100 meter dash. After that, it's archery. You must shoot 10 arrows right on bulls eye. That's the end…oh, wait, there's a synchronized swimming competition. Also, there will be a quick swimming race in freestyle, and we'll finish the day with a water relay. Understood?" Tsunade said.
"Hai!" the students chorused.
"Now, begin!"
"Go, Sakura!" Ino said, pushing her friend out.
"Okay, okay!" Sakura ran to the table and took one slip of paper.
"A person with red eyes?!" everyone exclaimed when they read it.
"Shit," the Uchiha brothers said. They turned to each other. "Don't activate the sharingan." They nodded. All the fangirls immediately headed towards them however.
"Sasuke-kun, come with me!"
"Me, Itachi-kun! Me!"
"I know your eyes are red…they make you look so much sexier. Do it for me?" a girl said, trying to imitate a seductive tone, though to the brothers it sounded like nails against a chalkboard.
Sakura sighed. No way was she going for the Uchihas. She decided to get Kakashi-sensei, who nobody really knew about. She ran to her perverted teacher.
"Kakashi-sensei! Can you come with me?" Sakura asked sweetly. Kakashi looked up from his book.
"How'd you know? I didn't expect anyone to pick me," Kakashi said, grinning sheepishly beneath his mask. She brought him to the table, and he lifted his mask a bit, just so his eye was revealed. Tsunade smiled.
"Wonderful thinking. You're the first to move on." A boy from another class brought Kurenai with him, to which Tsunade approved of. Sakura ran quickly to Naruto, and when she pushed him out, she heard the boy from the other class swear. There was no doubt Naruto was going to win that race.
By now, the fangirls gave up on Itachi and Sasuke, who refused every single time and wouldn't activate their sharingan. They were trying now to get Kurenai, for nobody knew much about Kakashi at all.
"Go, Naruto!" Sakura yelled. Hinata was silently cheering him on.
"I hope you win, Naruto-kun!" Naruto ran to the table and Jiraiya, the vice principal and health teacher-not to mention pervert-, pushed a bowl of miso ramen toward him. Naruto happily broke his chopsticks and said a quick and muffled, "Itadakimasu!" before slurping the ramen quickly. He quickly finished the soup up.
Next was spicy beef ramen. Naruto, also finished that, nearly burning his throat from gulping down the red tinted soup a little too quickly.
"HOOOOOOOT!" Naruto yelled. "Ow!" He just caused more damage in his throat. Some others were already getting very red in the face, and were trying not to spit out all the ramen. At least Naruto already finished it.
"Calm down, kiddo. The last one should help you a bit," Jiraiya said, pushing a bowl of normal, plain ramen with some chicken broth. Definitely soothing, at least to Naruto. He finished it in a flash, and quickly ran to the other team.
"Lazy ass, you go! It's thinking…but I don't see how this relates to sports at all…" Shikamaru nodded and sauntered toward to where Kakashi was. The two men waited for a few others to join them before Kakashi started the riddle, smirking evilly beneath the mask.
"Okay, everyone. I will only say this once, and only once. Now, there are only six people that can get in a round house, the two owners, the gardener, the butcher, the maid, and the cook. One day, both owners were murdered, and since there were only four others that could get in, the police interrogated each of them.
"The police asked each of them where they were at the time of the murder. The gardener said, 'It couldn't have been me. I was outside watering the flowers.' The butcher said, 'It couldn't have been me. I was chopping the chicken for dinner.' The maid said, 'It couldn't have been me. I was cleaning the corner.' Lastly, the cook said, 'It couldn't have been me. I was cooking dinner.'
"Who was the real murderer? I'll give you five minutes before I ask for the answer and switch riddles. If anyone gets before that, then I'll have to switch a riddle once they leave." Mumbling was heard before Shikamaru decided to break the whispering, knowing the answer from the start.
"It was obviously the troublesome maid," Shikamaru stated. Kakashi looked at him skeptically. I mean, the boy could have gotten a lucky guess.
"How so?"
"She said she was cleaning a corner in the round house. Round things don't have corners." Kakashi grinned.
"Good job, Shikamaru. You may leave," Kakashi said. Shikamaru strolled toward the team. In the distance, Kakashi was reciting the next, and rather easy, riddle. "If you go from the first floor to the fourth floor in an elevator, it takes one minute without stopping. In the same building and elevator, however, when you come down, it took four minutes without stopping on the elevator. Why is that?" More mumbling was heard as Shikamaru rolled his eyes.
"The guy obviously decided to stay on the fourth floor for a while," Shikamaru said lowly, so nobody would hear. Anyway, he almost arrived where their team was standing. "Yo, Sasuke, your turn…" Sasuke was already on his way, however. It seemed another boy was already half-way through, trying to taunt the speedy Uchiha.
"Hah, a chicken-hair like you can't catch up?" the boy yelled. Sasuke smirked before actually passing the boy. The boy stared at him wide-eyed.
"W-what?!"
"Che. Idiot." When Sasuke crossed the finish line, Tenten went to archery. Meanwhile, the others were getting into their swimming suits. Tenten walked over to the targets confidently. She took a bow, inspected it, and tried it without the arrow.
"Pretty good…" Tenten took an arrow. "Concentrate…concentrate…"
'Whoosh'
'Whoosh'
'Whoosh'
'Whoosh'
'Whoosh'
'Whoosh'
'Whoosh'
'Whoosh'
'Whoosh'
'Whoosh' All of the ten arrows hit bulls eye. Some arrows even became split. Cheering was heard.
"Whooo! Go, Tenten! Now you have to get changed for swimming!" Sakura and Ino called. Tenten nodded and ran. Soon after, everyone was finished with the race, panting and scowling.
"Well, these eight win again. Well, just the first part. We'll see the others. Okay, next up is synchronized swimming! We'll give you twenty minutes to think of a routine!" Tsunade announced. Sakura gasped.
"Is that enough time for you guys?" Sakura asked Ino and Hinata. They nodded confidently before huddling. After twenty minutes of quiet discussion, the two girls stepped back and smiled. In an…how would you say it? Evil. Yes, Hinata, innocent Hinata-chan, was smiling evilly. Now, Ino, we can all believe. Right?
"Who would like to go first?" Tsunade asked. Nobody dare raised their hands, all praying that somebody would raise their hands. All except Ino and Hinata. Both of them started their routine, without any music and extras. They dived off the diving board and twisted perfectly. They spun with so much force that when they slipped into the cool water, the liquid began to spin in a beautiful way. They came back up, sprinkling water everywhere, so that it shone in the sunlight.
They began to swim, criss-crossing each other and such. Once, they even managed to do a beautiful spin in the air. Their form was graceful, and loud cheering was heard soon after the routine.
"That was amazing!" Sakura exclaimed when the two came back. The next routines went on, but most of it was just swimming. The diving in some of them weren't great coughcoughhorriblecoughcough, and some groups backed out at last minute, unsure of their abilities.
"The points are counted!" Tsunade announced after much discussion with Kakashi, Kurenai, and Asuma. "The winner is……Yamanaka Ino and Hyuuga Hinata." Tsunade didn't sound excited at all, as if she knew it was going to happen. Class 1-3 and 2-1 were in first place, though other groups had won second, giving them high scores as well. Only a few classes were left with no points.
"Now, it's time for the swimming race. Swimmers, please get ready. You'll be swimming freestyle today. Swim to the other side of the wall, tap the wall, do a spin, and swim right on back," Tsunade explained after the cheering had died down. Neji took his position. "Ready. Set. Go!" The swimmers dived in, all of them swimming quickly. At first, three came in the front, Neji and two other second years.
Afterwards, one of them shot forward unexpectedly. Neji and the other boy were still at the same pace. Though the other boy was struggling to catch up, Neji stayed calm and kept his pace.
"What the hell is he doing?" Tenten hissed under her breath. Ino shrugged.
"I think he's not going to let them beat him. He's not really that type of person. If you ask me, he's kinda like Sasuke, 'cept he's a lot less cold hearted…" Ino whispered.
Tenten clenched her fist. Everyone else had worked quite hard-even Naruto, though he enjoyed it-to win their races. They were already in first, but truthfully, if they lost this swimming race, the other team, class 1-1 and 2-4, were going to catch up to them. They would only be winning by one point, and if that happened, the whole sports festival could go to the other team. They'd have to end up in second place, which Tenten thought would be a little disappointing after all they did.
"That bastard better not mess this up for us." Neji was still in second, now ahead of the boy he was first at the same pace as. The boy in first began to slow down, almost thinking that his victory was definite. At the last two meters, Neji shot forward quickly and finished the race in first, leaving the other boy dumbfounded.
Neji smirked. "You should watch more carefully next time." He got out of the pool as Shikamaru tossed him a dry, white towel. "Thanks." Shikamaru nodded slightly in reply, staring at the sky, once again cursing the heavens for not sending white fluffs across the blueness. Truthfully, it was becoming too blue for Shikamaru's liking.
Tenten sighed in relief. "I thought you were going to screw that up for us!" she admitted to Neji, who raised an eyebrow in response.
"Why would I do that?" Tenten began to laugh.
"You're right, Ino. He really is like Sasuke!"
"I'm not anything like that Uchiha/Hyuuga," both boys said, glaring at each other and the two girls. The others sweat dropped. They just unknowingly contradicted themselves. "Hn." Once again, they contradicted themselves.
"Neji-niisan, Sasuke-san, I don't think it's time to fight. We need to do the water relay," Hinata explained calmly. "If it's okay, I suggest we do them in the same formation as in swimming class, Shikamaru-san." (Refer to chapter 7 if you can't remember.)
Shikamaru nodded. "It worked well last time." So, the eight got into formation, and a starting whistle was blown. The harsh and piercing sound filled the air, and splashes were heard from the divers.
The race wasn't much different from the other time, except Shikamaru was still brooding over the fact that he couldn't see any clouds. That slowed the team down significantly, but Sasuke managed to swim fast enough to catch up for lazy Shikamaru.
Again, they won…sadly for some students and Tsunade, who thought she needed more entertainment and sake. The nice, crisp taste of sake…yes, that would calm her down…
However, she didn't have any at the moment. She sighed heavily, not because she was sake-free, but because classes 1-3 and 2-1 had won almost every single event, if not all of them.
"So, do you think this was fair?" Tsunade asked, facing Kakashi, Jiraiya, Kurenai, Asuma, and Shizune.
Kakashi shrugged, he was a bit busy with his reading, but he managed to glance upwards a bit. Jiraiya sighed as heavily as Tsunade.
"It does seem a bit unfair…" Jiraiya said. "I mean, how could we miss putting them on the same team?"
"With all due respect, Tsunade-sama, but I personally think that students may start to think you and Jiraiya-sama are favoring your apprentices…" Kurenai put in.
Tsunade once again sighed. "But they won fairly. It was our own fault that we put them on the same team; they just managed to work well together."
"I think that those brats won, even though they used special tactics," Asuma said, inhaling the smoke from his cigarette. He leaned back in his chair. "I think they win. The rest of the brats would complain about how their team won anyway."
"I think Asuma-san is right," Shizune said, petting Tonton, Tsunade's pig, lightly on the head. "They did win. I don't think they used any cheating, because I don't really remember when anybody said they cheated." Tsunade rubbed her temples.
"Okay, I'll announce this now. Thank you for your opinions, except you, Kakashi." Kakashi just shrugged, peering his lone eye around.
"Where is Orochimaru anyway?" Kakashi asked. Tsunade sighed.
"He said he had to be there while he prepared his students. Apparently, he's also teaching Kurenai's science class right now. Some others are filling in for you guys." Kakashi nodded before turning back to his book, giggling occasionally and whispering suspiciously to Jiraiya, aka the author of the famous Icha Icha series.
"The winner is," Tsunade's voice boomed over the microphone, pausing for a dramatic effect, "Class 1-3 and class 2-1! Second place goes to classes 1-1 and 2-4! Third is classes 1-5 and 2-3! Congratulations!" Tsunade finished, feigning a happy voice. Cheers and groans were heard, like the normal. "You should all be happy that you participated and tried your best!"
"Argh…this speech is so corny!" Tsunade thought.
"You may all return to your homeroom and change. It's dismissal anyway, so you are all free to go!" Tsunade exclaimed. People began to walk into the school building, and she sighed in relief. She finally got rid of those annoying children!
"Ne, ne. That was a weird sports festival, don't you think?" Sakura asked everyone. They all shrugged.
"Yea…pretty much," Ino replied. "Though you have to admit, it was pretty fun."
"And troublesome," Shikamaru added. "There were no clouds today…" Ino bonked him on the head.
"Is that all you ever talk about?! Troublesome clouds?" Ino snarled. Shikamaru scowled, rubbing his head.
"No, and clouds are actually one of the least troublesome things in the world," Shikamaru replied.
"Eh, Ino, I heard Hinata is going with Naruto for ramen on Friday. Is it true?" Tenten asked excitedly. Hinata immediately turned red, but Naruto nodded enthusiastically.
"Yep, yep! We're going to have a great time, dattebayo!" Naruto exclaimed. He stopped when he felt eyes trying to burn a whole through his shirt. He turned to meet the same type of eyes as dear Hinata-chan, except, they were another Hyuuga's.
"You better not do anything to her," Neji growled, giving Naruto his best glare. Overprotective much? Yep. "And she better still have her virginity."
Hinata then did something very unexpected. She tapped Neji hard on his shoulder; her face adorned a scowl. "I appreciate that you're trying to protect me, Neji-niisan, but I think I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself. I also doubt that Naruto-kun would do something as drastic as that, and I expect you to have more trust in him." Sakura then hugged Hinata in front of a stunned audience.
"Yay! Hinata stood up for herself!" Sakura cheered extremely happy for her friend. "And to Neji no less!" Soon afterwards, Naruto began to cheer with the rosette-haired girl. Sasuke began to smirk.
"What are you smirking at, Uchiha?" Neji hissed.
"Nothing, Hyuuga. Just your cousin's finally learned to stand up for herself." Neji decided to look back at Hinata and then at Naruto.
"Maybe he's not really that bad…if Hinata-san loves him that much…I suppose it's alright." Neji himself spared a glance at Tenten before shaking his head.
"Bye!" Sakura called as the others, including herself, entered their classroom, 1-3. "See you tomorrow, Tenten!"
"Ja!" Tenten called back waving. When they were halfway up the stairs, Tenten began to speak.
"Um…Neji, c-could you w-walk me home t-today?" Tenten said, stuttering as much as Hinata used to.
"Aa…Why not?"
With Neji and Tenten on their walk home…
"Neji-kun, do you think that today was fun?" Tenten asked suddenly, hands clasped behind her back. The sky began to turn a pink color as she stared at the sky.
Neji shrugged, one eyebrow raised. "Aa…I guess," Neji replied simply. Tenten sighed. No matter how many times she tried to start a conversation, Neji always managed to lead it to nowhere.
"I wonder if this is how Sakura feels when she's talking to Sasuke…It might even be worse."
"And since when did you call me 'Neji-kun'. Last time I checked, it was just 'Neji'," Neji remarked, a bit puzzled by the added suffix. He was guessing Tenten didn't even realize, since she jumped abruptly and turned her head to the side, trying to hide a growing blush.
"Well…G-gomen. Do you just want me to call you 'Neji'?" Tenten asked. Neji shrugged.
"Hn. It's alright. Anyway, I like it better when you call me that."
"What? Neji-kun?" Now Neji was the one trying to hide his blush.
"Aa…"
"Okay, then!" Tenten exclaimed. There was a moment of silence before Tenten decided to speak up again. "Your birthday is soon, ne?"
"Aa...Actually it's on Monday. July 3," Neji admitted.
"So…are you having a party after school or something?"
"I suppose so."
"Well…ja! I need to get going!" Neji put his hand up in a gesture of goodbye before walking off.
Next Chapter Preview: Neji's Birthday! The Chaos at School! And Tenten's Jealous of Fangirls?!
"Happy birthday, Neji-kun!" the fangirls from class 2-1 cried when Neji walked in with Tenten. They gave her a glare, which she, quite happily, returned. Neji sighed. This was going to be a hell of a day…He already got tons of presents in his locker falling out. Heart shaped ones. With sparkly glitter. Neji shivered. Even thinking about the presents made him sick.
"Uchiha, you are so lucky your birthday is after the school year ends…"
A/N: I'm sorry! This chapter was up late, and I have an explanation. I was at somebody's house last night, and they had no internet, so I really couldn't work on this! I'm sorry, but it's here!!!
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