6 Months with the Hyuuga Family
By: Whipped Coffee

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I don't own Naruto.
If I did, I wouldn't be here, now would I?

Month One
Day Fourteen & Sixteen

Chapter 11—Ruined

"It's been over 3 hours… could something have happened to Neji and Tenten?" Ino asked worriedly. It took her a while, but she definitely noticed an odd emptiness when she realized that Tenten was gone.

"M-Maybe I should go look for them." Hinata said, as she stood up.

"No need to," came Neji's voice.

"Found them!" Naruto yelled, pointing at the soaking wet Neji and Tenten.

Ino rolled her eyes at Naruto, who was grinning at that he supposedly 'found' them. Hinata ignored Ino's actions, and looked at Neji and Tenten's wet clothes. "N-Neji-niisan, Tenten, w-what happened to you?" Hinata asked, staring at them in shock.

They were both as wet as Kiba, and maybe even wetter. Only, they didn't have any raincoats, so that made was what made it worse for them. Their clothes seemed to be part of their body, with the way that it was sticking to them. Tenten suppressed a shiver as she took a step into the room. "What do you think happened to us?" She asked in a dangerous voice. Part of her wanted to make the others suffer for not coming to find them, but the other part of her blamed someone else.

"Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go and kill Kairi."

Hinata panicked as the Ino stared at Tenten's retreating back confusedly. Hinata bit her tongue as she tried to think up of a lie. This wasn't good… That meant that they figured everything out. Which meant... Hinata widened her eyes in horror.

"Kairi? Isn't she still in the bathroom or something? Ino (who was still cnofused) asked Tenten, who stopped in her tracks. "Come to think of it... why is she still in the bathroom. What in the world is she doing?" Ino made a face as she thought of the endless possibilities. "That is just disgusting!" She said, more so to herself than to anyone else.

"I'm going to kill her..." Tenten grumbled hotly as she resumed walking out the door.

"T-Tenten!" Hinata suddenly stepped in, stopping Tenten in her steps. She fiddled with the hem of her shirt. Now that she had stopped Tenten from possibly hurting Kairi badly (or at least that was what Hinata thought Tenten would do), she had no idea what to say. "I-I..." She stuttered nervously, her face getting hotter and hotter as all eyes set on her. "The ghost story..." She said quietly. "The ghost story is fake," she said in a slightly louder voice, although Tenten had to strain her ears to hear what Hinata was saying. "I-It... It was a part of Kairi-chan's plans to get Neji and Tenten together..." Hinata mumbled out.

Although Tenten was slightly peeved at what Kairi was planning to do, she couldn't help but blush at the fact. Why she was doing it, she had no idea. "What an idiot," Tenten said hotly. She turned towards Neji, waiting for him to comment on the stupidity of Kairi's actions. Unfortunately, he seemed to be ignoring everything around him.

Tenten suddenly felt awkward in the situation that she realized that she was in. After all, it was a plan to get her and Neji together – where in the world did they get the idea of getting them together in the first place? Unable to take anymore of the awkward silence, she proceeded to step out of the room, going back to her goal of killing Kairi.

"T-Tenten!" Hinata stopped her once again. Although she didn't agree withwhat Kairi did, seeing Tenten say that she was going to hurt Kairi made her fear what was going to happen. "M-Maybe... Maybe we can do it another way..." Hinata suggested, suddenly thinking of an idea.

Tenten raised a brow at her.


"Stop snoring."

Kiba nearly fell down as he heard a few words from Kairi. He rubbed his tired eyes as he propped himself back up against the wall. "What did you say...?" Kiba asked tiredly, yawning as he stretched his arms.

"Oh, nothing," Kairi said, dismissing the matter quickly. Truthfully, Kiba hadn't been snoring. The only reason as to why she had woken him was that she wasn't going to endure it along – she needed someone to suffer with her.

No, Kairi wasn't a sadist at all.

Kairi suddenly frowned as she adjusted her headphones.

Why couldn't she hear anythinhg?

She tried playing with the sound levels on the controller, but nothing came through. Kiba only stared at her with half lidded eyes that were threatening to close any second. Right when they were about to close, he felt a large impact on his face.

"What was that for!" Kiba asked irritably, rubbing his sore chin as he glared at the culprit.

"See if you can hear anything," she said quickly, not wanting to deal with another one of his arguments.

"You didn't have to throw it at me..." He mumbled to himself as he placed the headphones on his ears. "I don't hear anything," he said, throwing it back to Kairi the moment he heard silence.

"I hear something!"

"You're obviously imagining it."

"No, you're an idiot."

"You're imagining it just like how you imagined that I was snoring."

"So you were awake!"

"Hm? What? Oh, I think I hear something too!"

"God Kiba, you just killed it. I don't hear anything anymore."

"...You didn't hear anything from the beginning, did you?"

"I think they might be making out."

"You're disgusting..."

"Says the freak who eats his dog."

"I WOULD NEVER EAT AKAMARU!"

"Well, it looked like you were eating him from the way I saw it."

"You're obviously blind."

"And you're obviously a retard. Now that we've got this cleared up—where are they!" Kairi whined in frustration. "Did I go a little too far with them?" She asked.

Kiba rolled his eyes. "Of course not," he drawled on sarcastically. "Aside from a stupid ghost story that isn't even the least bit realistic, a fake woman's voice that sounds like a man, and that stupid piece of crap you call a piano—of course you didn't go too far."

Kairi ignored Kiba, not even bothering to try to retort to that.

"Maybe they escaped."

"How would they escape?" Kairi questioned, furrowing her brow.

"What are you talking about," Kiba asked, giving Kairi a strange look.

"Didn't you say, 'maybe they escaped'?" Kairi asked, reciprocating the strange look.

"No... didn't you say that? Besides, that voice was a girl's. Why would I sound like that," Kiba scoffed as he crossed his arms.

"Who knows," Kairi said in a dry voice. "We all know that you haven't hit puberty yet."

"Hey, girls mature faster than boys, okay?" Kiba said in a defensive state. "It's not my fault," he grumbled to himself.

"You both are idiots."

"...Tell me that you said that, Kiba."

"Did I just not make myself clear? I don't sound like a fucking—"

A horrible screeching filled the air. Kairi hid behind Kiba, who continuously tried to hide behind her. "Be a man! What are you so afraid of?" Kairi shouted over the loud noise, trying to get behind Kiba.

"You're manlier than I am!" He cried, trying to hide behind her.

"Take that back!" Kairi screamed into his ear.

"Not until you take back what you said about me not hitting puberty!"

"You guys are impossible..."

Tenten stepped out into view, making Kiba and Kairi freeze at the sight. "Tenten?" She screamed (whether it was relief or anger, Tenten didn't know). "Oh thank god," she said, grabbing onto Tenten's arm. "I thought I was going to die!"

Tenten gave Kairi a strange look as she shrugged Kairi's iron grip off her arm. "You're an idiot for thinking something so stupid could work," Tenten said, giving Kairi a hard glare.

"I have no idea what you're talking about..." Kairi said nervously as she shifted her eyes back and forth. After a moment of silence, Kairi broke down. "Okay, fine! But it was all Kiba's idea!"

"Wha...?" Kiba's mouth flopped open like a fish.

"Why else would he come here!" Kairi said, nodding at her brilliant lie.

"I'm not an idiot," Tenten said flatly.

"Oh hey look, I got a text from Shino... They need me back at the cafe, I guess I'll see you guys in school!" Kiba said quickly, rushing towards a random direction.

"You - !" Kairi was about to chase after Kiba, but was stopped when Tenten placed a hand on her shoulder. "...oh, fine. Just not the face," Kairi whimpered as she covered her face.

"You both are huge idiots."


Day Sixteen

"I barely had any sleep the past two nights night," Ino complained as she stared at herself in her compact mirror, checking her eye bags. "Do you think it's noticeable?"

"It's the size of Mount Fuji," Kairi said with disinterest as she yawned. She brushed away the tears that formed in her eyes as a result. "Man, remind me to never have a sleepover with you guys again," she said in a tired voice.

"You're the one who came up with that ridiculous plan," Tenten said, glancing at Kairi sideways.

"And well, it would've been perfect if Neji's stupid brain hadn't got involved with it," Kairi muttered to herself.

"It's not the size of Mount Fuji, is it Hinata?"

"A-Ano..."

"You can barely see it, Ino."

"I beg to differ. I think it's quite large."

"Shut up Kairi, if you keep saying that, then Ino will—"

"Hinata, it's not that big, right?"?

"W-Well..."

"You're stuttering! That means it's huge!"

"W-Wha—"

"Oh, there's the bell!" Tenten cut in, picking up her bag from the ground. "I'll see you guys later," she said, giving them a wave as she rushed into the crowd of students.

"Oh my goodness, is that a pimple?"


"I would like to introduce a new student to you. Please come in!" Asuma said.

As usual, the chatter of the students stopped as soon as the door opened. Some of the girls looked expectantly at the door, as if they already knew that it'll be a hot guy. They were on the tip of their seats (Tenten swore she saw a girl falling from her seat) as they anticipated what was going to happen next. Unfortunately, the next sight made them scoff and turn back to their gossip.

'Ouch,' Tenten thought, amused. The new student had a dark hoodie over his blazer (wasn't that against the school code?), and the one thing that probably turned off the girls in the room was the make-up on his face. It was bizarre, really. Who ever heard of purple make-up on a guy's face?

"Let's welcome Kankuro-san. Why don't you introduce yourself?" Asuma asked, following the old tradition of introducing yourself to a class. He ignored the fact that the majority of the class was basically ignoring the new kid. He would have to remember to assign them more homework at the end of class.

The new student nodded to him. He turned to face the class. It got some what quieter, and to this, he smirked. "My name is Kankuro. I used to go to this school, but later I was transferred to another school. I came here for personal reasons, with my brother and sister."

"Take a seat and we'll get started," Asuma said, walking towards the chalkboard.

"Kankuro's back...?" Tenten heard Kairi mutter to herself.

"You know him?" Tenten asked curiously. Well, he did say that he used to go to the school.

"Ino will have a ball," Kairi muttered to herself as she let out a short laugh.

"Is something funny, Akita-san?" Asuma's voice held a dangerous tone at the student who decided to interrupt his lesson with an unnecessary laugh.

"Not at all, Asuma-sensei!"


Lunch happened to come by faster than Tenten thought. After her attempt to try to find out what Kairi was muttering to herself about (Asuma hadn't taken the laughter quite happily. Apparently he was a bit more peeved today than any other day – he had assigned thrice as much homework as he usually did), she tried to find out what happened by asking Sasuke. But of course, the stoic Uchiha only ignored her after her question, not even showing the slightest amount of interest in her question.

"So, what happened?" Tenten asked Kairi as soon as she arrived at their table.

Kairi looked around every other second, ignoring Tenten. She finally gave up looking for someone through the tall figures of the students. She stood up, looking past Tenten as she looked. "Who are you looking for?"

"I'll tell you later once I—Shikamaru!" Kairi shouted, waving her hand to him, beckoning him to walk faster towards them. He only walked slower (if that was possible, at the pace that he was going), which made Kairi narrow her eyes in annoyance. "Walk faster!" She hissed.

"What?" He asked in a bored voice three minutes later as he sat down at the table. Kairi glared at his passiveness. "Haven't you heard?"

"What are you talking about?

"Kankuro's back! You don't know?"

"He's back?" Shikamaru echoed. He widened his used-to-be lazy eyes. "You mean he came with—"

Kairi nodded her head.

"What are you guys talking about," Tenten said in an exasperated voice. One of the things she hated about being a new kid: she had no idea what happened before she came to the school, thus making her feel left out. But she couldn't see why they couldn't spare some time to explain to her what was happening.

By that time, Ino came towards the, noticing that Kairi and Shikamaru were having a heated conversation. Which was a surprise for Ino, since she never saw Shikamaru talking that animatedly to someone before. "What's with them?" She threw then a strange look as she asked Tenten.

"I have no idea," Tenten grumbled as she started poking at her school lunch.

"Ino, I have bad news." Kairi said, finally breaking out of the conversation with Shikamaru.

Ino sipped her juice calmly as she raised her brow at Kairi. "What?"

"Kankuro's back."

"So?" Ino gave Kairi another strange look. "Who's Kankuro?" Right after she said that, her face paled.

One after another, the others arrived at the table. Tenten glared at her lunch in annoyance as she still had yet to know what was happening. All she figured out was that Kankuro was a disliked person.

"And things were finally looking up for us," Ino grumbled.

"What are you talking about?" Tenten asked. If there were more people, that meant that her question had to get answered by someone.

And she was right.

Hinata pulled Tenten away from the table, seeing as though they were already in a predicament. "K-Kankuro-san's sister, T-Temari-san... was uh," Tenten could barely hear Hinata's soft voice in the large cafeteria. "She was Shikamaru's ex-girlfriend. T-They were together for about t-two years, until Temari-san had to move to another p-place. They were b-both hoping for a long-distance r-relationship, but then S-Shikamaru stopped calling, e-mailing, and lost a-all connection with Temari-san. Ino-chan had had a crush on Shikamaru ever since he s-started dating Temari-san, but she n-never did anything about it, until when T-Temari-san moved," Tenten could already guessed what Ino did, "Ino-chan took it as a chance to get Shikamaru and she did… but now since s-she came back…" Hinata trailed off as she shifted her eyes from left to right.

"They don't act like a couple at all," Tenten stated as she stared at the distance between Shikamaru and Ino.

"I don't know about that," Hinata said softly.

"Didn't Shikamaru break up with Temari?"

"I don't think he did..." Hinata said. "Or he never had the chance to."

"How stupid," Tenten said, frowning. "He should've broken up with Temari-san the moment he got together with Ino!"

"M-Maybe he was looking for the right time to tell her..."

"Which would've been never..." Tenten grumbled as the two walked back to the table.

Even at this point, the two weren't showing any displays of affection. They only stared at each other, without exchanging any words. It was as if they had telepathy—though Tenten knew that that wasn't true. She stared at Ino and Shikamaru, suddenly feeling something in her heart. She ignored it—now wasn't the time to think about herself.

Ino slowly turned her head to the side, breaking off eye contact with Shikamaru.

"So, you dumped me for her, huh?


Edit—Saturday, May 1, 2010

I took out some parts... ah, this chapter became shorter instead of longer (: Oh well.

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