Author's Note: Things spiral out of control once Hiashi leaves the younger shinobi alone.

****4-6-15: This was originally part of chapter 8****

Chapter 12: Teatime Chaos: Part 2 –Hanabi's True Colors

Misaki was very nervous because he had no idea what his cousin would do at this point.

"Well I guess the first thing you should know is …" Misaki heard Chino answering a question he didn't realize had been asked.

"Women have a higher status then men and they're outnumbered at almost 5 to 1 since most of the children born are female."

To that statement Hanabi remarked "That doesn't sound so bad."

Chino smiled sensing the girl probably wasn't into boys yet.
"We're generally far stronger than the men, almost 40% of which end up being gay, most likely out of avoiding being with a strong woman. [Rinku may have had some influence in increasing those numbers as of late.] Hence the whole legalized gay marriage thing. It cuts down on a lot of whining and tension" Chino continued.

"Perhaps I should arrange for my daughters to visit your village. There aren't enough available strong kunoichi here to act as role models." Hanabi's eyes lit up at her father's words.

"How does your village thrive with so few eligible men" Neji stated more than asked.

Misaki decided to treat it like a question and provided an answer.
"Most of the women end up marrying someone from outside of the village …. somehow." Possibly through kidnapping he suspected.

"Is that really safe for your village" Hinata wondered out loud without meaning to.

"Don't worry Hinata-san, men have a high fatality rate. Especially the foreign ones. And some just simply divorce, separate, whatever after the child is born and go into hiding" Chino stated a little too happily for the others' comfort.

"High fatality rate?" Hiashi asked skeptically.

"Uhh huh. When on missions the men have a higher probability of dying for starters" Chino explained. '

Yeah 'cause you use 'em as sacrifices and decoys among other things,' Misaki grumbled in his head.

"Then there's those who have to be killed because they threatened the security of the village" Chino continued.

'Because they wanted to escape for some foreign nation or some woman made it up because they wanted them dead,' Misaki continued in his thoughts.

"And there's those that snap and kill themselves" Chino went on.

'Again, they wanted to escape the crazy insanely strong female overlords,' Misaki thought, hoping he wasn't saying any of this out loud.

"Ohh and some end up dying from wounds they received during an argument with their spouse" Chino finished.

'Especially during that time of the month,' Misaki finished.

Throughout the explanation Misaki just sullenly nodded his head in confirmation of cousin's words. It was the only safe thing he could do and it kept him from making his internal dialogue external. Now that he saw more of the outside world he strongly believed the state of the Amazon Village was a result of most of the rest of the ninja world being the exact opposite and some strong kunoichi wasn't happy about it. There was a reason his home was called the AMAZON Village but he couldn't remember exactly what an Amazon was but must have had something to do with dangerous women. Speaking of dangerous women, he considered his cousin just as crazy and dangerous as any other kunoichi from the Village of Amazons and he didn't want Chino attacking him. Chino would attack him too without it fazing her that there are witnesses and it would be very inappropriate to start a fight in someone else's house.

It's no wonder Misaki agreed to take on this assignment as a servant of the Hyuga household, Neji thought while pitying the boy. He felt more of a connection with the weaker of the Kusannagi cousins than ever.

"I wanna go there!" Hanabi shouted.
"I'll see what I can do, but perhaps it would be best to wait until you're a little older."

Hiashi didn't want Hanabi picking up any strange ideas about when it's okay to kill men. Hanabi tried to protest but just then a servant came in to deliver a message to Hiashi. Luckily for Hiashi this gave him an excuse to leave the room and further discuss the matter with his younger daughter later.

"If you will excuse me this matter needs my immediate attention."

Chino smiled and answered with a "no problem Hiashi-sama. Go right ahead we'll be fine." As she said this she mock waved him away to emphasize her point. All would not be fine as it didn't take long for all hell to break loose once Hiashi was out of sight and no longer within distance of hearing those left behind.

Neji was the first to break since Hanabi had started up with him again but worse than before now that her father wasn't watching her. As a response to her demands, Neji purposefully poured some of the tea into her lap.

"Oops how clumsy of me."

Hanabi let out a string of curses before trying to use Neji's guard skirt as a towel. Hinata was in shock.

"Little girl's got quite a mouth on her" Chino commented amusedly.

Misaki made an attempt to hide under the table. Not such a bright idea considering the table wasn't that far off the ground. Neji and Hanabi continued going back and forth until they got back on the subject of Neji being like a woman.

"What's wrong? Is Lee not good enough for you or do you have some other man you'd rather marry instead?" Hanabi taunted.

"I will Not nor will I Ever consider marrying a man from this village!" Neji yelled, getting in Hanabi's face.

"Oh Really? Then maybe you should just marry Misaki-kun over there. He's not from this village and according to his cousin there's a good chance he's gay. You two servants deserve each other!"

At Hanabi's comments Misaki managed to get out from under the table and sat straight up while shouting indignantly.
"Hey! Keep me outof this and I swear to kami I'm not gay! That's why I took this assignment in the first place!"

Chino pouted before goading her cousin.
"O-o-oh-h-h, but you and Kenji would have been a cute couple. Or you and Jun. It wouldn't have mattered. Guess I can settle for you and Neji-san. Hinata-san and I can plan your shower. Right Hinata-san?"

Hinata promptly mumbled "I don't think I could do that."
Chino wished Hinata was capable of playing along.
"Why not?" she whined.

"Don't you dare try. Thanks to you, Uncle already has the idea in his head and just might agree to it."

"Don't encourage her" Misaki yelled at Neji.
"She'll try to make it happen just as a sick joke. I'm telling you the women of my village do stuff like this for their own amusement. I swear they're certifiable!"

"Hey!" Chino shouted while grabbing at Misaki.
"Just because there's a history of bipolar mania and various personality disorders runs in the family doesn't mean you get to …"

"What?" Neji yelled, cutting off the end of Chino's rant.

It was far too late to hope for a response. Chino had successfully pulled Misaki into a headlock and was totally focused on using her free hand to dig her knuckles into Misaki's neck near his collar bone. He in turn was desperately trying to escape. Hanabi took the opportunity the break in the conversation presented to start in on Neji again. Soon all was chaos as Hanabi made a lunge at Neji and ended up grappling with him. There was so much noise one couldn't possibly have understood most of the words coming out of the four arguing cousins' mouths, let alone follow what the hell was happening.

Hinata tried her best to diffuse the situation but her efforts were all in vain since her voice was too quiet to be heard and she couldn't get anywhere near either one of the pair of fighting cousins. Now while all this was going on Taka and Soramaru were doing their best to ignore the humans and enjoy their food. It was becoming increasingly difficult. Soramaru felt bad for Hinata. Over the course of the year that he spent at the Hyuga compound with Misaki he had developed a soft spot for the quiet heiress. She had always been gentle with him and snuck him treats whenever possible. Seeing Hinata struggle like this made him upset so he convinced Taka, who had become very annoyed and couldn't take much more, to help him get the humans to stop fighting. Taka divided at Chino and Misaki while Soramaru went after Neji and Hanabi. Both birds clawed, pecked, and flapped their wings at their targets until they stopped. Hinata sat back and watched as the others flailed their arms, pushed back and yelled.

It sounded like something along the lines of a chorus of "hey, stop or I'll, what the hell, knock it off will you, what gives, stupid birds, get away already, what's wrong with you, quit it, enough, and just stop I give up."

Soramaru now satisfied then landed next to Hinata after everything had calmed down. Hinata ruffled his feathers and thanked him for his help and Taka's too. The uneasy peace didn't last long before Neji and Hanabi started up again. This time Chino ended it when Hanabi crossed the line by threatening to use his curse mark to hurt Neji. She may have enjoyed driving Neji crazy but this was going too far.

"That's enough out of you" Chino practically commanded as she knocked Hanabi over with a gust of her wind chakra.
Neji was as surprised by this action as Hanabi. He thought the bird using ANBU girl was out to make his life a living hell by teasing him to the point of insanity.

"Why did you do that? You were teasing him too" Hanabi demanded.

"Yeah. For fun, notto hurt him." Chino explained.
"I was only joking and fooling around. It's how we do things where I'm from and then males get used to it or get over it. You were doing it to be vicious. Watch it or next time I'll light a fire under your skinny little ass. Literally. You may have your father fooled but I know you were deliberately trying to insult Neji and make him miserable. And to top it off you're devious enough to know to do it when Neji wouldn't do anything back because your father was in the room."

Hanabi glared down Chino hard but it didn't affect the ANBU in the least.
"Very clever of you to figure that all out. What are you going to do about it? Tell my father? He won't believe you."

'Damn she is e-vil', Misaki thought while he watched for his cousin's reaction.
Chino only initially glared back at the little Hyuga.

"I don't have to. You're bound to slip up eventually. And remember, I'm not the only one who knows the truth."
Hanabi looked like she was going to snap back at Chino but froze up the second her father came into view.

"That freaking lucky little [censored]…." Chino cursed under her breath as Hiashi returned to his seat.
She then proceeded to lightly knock her head repeatedly off the table out of frustration at Hanabi almost getting caught. That and she wanted to make sure she didn't attack the little brat and throttle a confession out of her right then and there.

Hiashi ignored Chino's actions deciding it must be another one of the Amazon village's customs.
"Well it seems like you all managed without me. Are we all getting along?"

Chino had to resist the urge to scream not a kid's chance in Orochimaru's lair at Hiashi along with some more colorful remarks aimed at his youngest daughter.

"Of course Father" Hanabi answered.
Everyone else was shocked into silence and Chino decided she was sure they were all staring at a demon in disguise.

"Wonderful. It's so good to hear that our two families will be able to maintain peaceful cooperation in the coming generation" Hiashi stated happily.
He was totally unaware of the true state of affairs.

'I'll only cooperate if he keeps that thing far away from me,' Chino thought bitterly as she stared at Hanabi.

"Well since you are all getting along so well wouldn't it be even more wonderful if all of your friends could get along with Kusannagi-san here? She will be here in the village for a while after all. You have not even gotten to know all the shinobi in your own age group yet, have you Kusannagi-san?"

Ignoring Hanabi Chino looked toward Hiashi.
"No sir I haven't. There are still a few I haven't even been introduced to yet."
Hiashi frowned.

"That won't do. Hinata, why don't you have a party for Kusannagi-san, here at the estate, and introduce her to everyone. It would be the proper thing to do."

Hinata smiled and clapped her hands together. "Oh yes Father. I think that's a great idea. You do too don't you Neji-san?" she cried happily.
Hinata secretly loved parties despite her shyness.

"It does sound like it could be a great idea but it's hard to find a time when we are all here in the village at the same time," Neji replied.

"Don't worry about that. I know for a fact that in a few days' time everyone your age willall be here at the same time. So that's settled then. The party is set for a few days from now."

No one dared contradict Hiashi so the plans for the party went underway that night.

Author's Note: As suggested in the end of this Chapter, Chapter 13 {title – Picnictime Situations} will cover the events at the picnic party for Chino at the Hyuga estate. The events of the party will also be broken down into 2 chapters. By the end of the picnic all of the Konoha 11 and Sai will be featured.