Livvy was sleeping soundly in her bunk bed as the new day came. She had the top, which she didn't mind since the light was right above her and she could read her magazines, but last night before she went to sleep she got in a few more pages of The Secret Life Of Bees. She was having a very lovely dream about being at the beach with hot guys when all of a sudden she heard screaming.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" yelled two voices from upstairs.
"What's (yawn) going on?" asked one of the girls in the room.
"Sounds like Kin and Temari." Another girl said lazily as she turned over in her bed.
"Should we do something?" asked another girl who put her head under her pillow.
"Probably like a spider." Another girl said as she got under the covers.
"Stupid bitches…." Livvy mumbled as she cuddled her blanket. "Waking me up when I was having such a nice dream." Then it hit Livvy like a ton of bricks.
'THE PRANK!' she thought as her eyes shot wide opened.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" yelled Temari and Kin.
BOOM
"What are they doing?" asked one of the girls getting frustrated with the racket.
"That must be one big spider." The girl in the bunk bed opposite Livvy said as she stretched her arms. Livvy sat up in her bed letting her feet dangle over. She couldn't help but smirk a little since she knew what was going on.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS STUFF?" yelled Temari.
"THAT'S IT!" yelled the girl across from Livvy. She jumped off her bed and went to the door towards the hallway. "I'm going to see what the hell is going on."
"Me too!" Livvy and another girl said at once. Soon the entire room of girls was getting up to see what was going on. When they got into the hall the other room of girls was already out about to go up the stairs.
"Rude bitches." A few girls mumbled as they all went upstairs to see what the commotion was all about. They reached the door and the first girl opened the it slowly.
"OH. MY. GOD!"
XXXOOO
Temari was having an excellent dream about being Miss Teen Universe. She was walking down the runway with people cheering and clapping. When she reached the end a man in white placed the crown on her head.
"For me? You shouldn't have!" Then he put the sash around her. Another man in white handed her a huge bouquet of roses, they were Temari's favorite. She waved at the crowd and then smelt the flowers.
"PEW! These smell terrible!" she yelled as she threw the flowers to the ground. The entire audience gasped. "EW, I can still smell them. Wait, is that me? Do I smell bad? It's getting stronger! Is it coming from the flowers?" (AAHHHHH!) "What was that scream?" Temari looked around but no one in the audience was screaming. "Wait am I dreaming?" she thought as she woke up.
"Temari, TEMARI WAKE UP!" yelled Kin. Temari sat up in her bed and the first thing she noticed was the awful smell.
"Kin what the hell is that smell?" she asked covering her face with her hands.
"Temari look!" Kin yelled. Temari took her hands off her face and then looked around the room. The walls were covered in toilet paper! Temari looked down at her bed at what was laying on top of her.
"K..K…KA…Kin…there are mice on my bed!" she whispered.
"Ra…RA…..RACCOON!" Kin said as she pointed across the room to a raccoon curled in the corner.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" They both yelled as they jumped up on there beds frantically.
"MORE MICE ON THE FLOOR!" Temari yelled as she pointed to a bunch of mice running under their beds.
"Temari!" Kin said stunned.
"What…what…..what!" she said still freaking out.
"Something on your forehead." Kin said pointing at her forehead.
"WHAT IS IT?" she yelled as she smacked her forehead to get whatever was on it off.
"NO, it says something. Says…..Pigtails? It says pigtails in black marker."
"Kin, you have feathers in your hair!" Temari said as she realized her own hair had sticky stuff in it with feathers.
"BIRDS!" Kin yelled pointing at two black crows on their fan.
"Turn it on and they'll fly back out the window." Temari said. "Kin HOW could you be so stupid to leave the window opened!"
"I DID NOT!" she yelled. Kin went to the fan and pulled a long string attached to the switch, which she didn't realize was a new addition to the room. As soon as the fans went on the birds started to fly around the room yelling and cawing, and a bunch of little pieces of paper rained over them.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" yelled Temari and Kin.
BOOM
Temari and Kin both fell off of their beds and landed on their butts. Temari tried to stand up but slipped on more sticky stuff on the floor.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS STUFF?" Temari yelled frustrated.
"It's all over the floor." Kin said as she tried to stand up again using the bed to balance herself. Temari grabbed Kin around the hips so she could get up too but that only brought them both down hard to the floor. As Kin got off of Temari their door opened up.
"OH. MY. GOD!" The girl said, she was also accompanied by the rest of the cabin.
XXXOOO
Hinata woke up feeling a little uncomfortable. She looked around the room seeing that it wasn't hers.
'Tenten's room?' she thought as she looked down at the bed she was sleeping in. Sakura was also in the bed under the covers while Ino and Tenten had some pillows and a blanket on the floor. 'Oh yeah we all slept in here. I almost forgot!' Hinata yawned and stretched her arms.
"Hinata, are you awake?" Tenten asked from the floor. Hinata wiped her eyes and looked down now seeing that Ino and Tenten were talking to each other.
"Yeah, I'm up. Morning." She said lazily.
"Kick Sakura so she can wake up too." Ino said.
"I heard that you pig." Came the muffled voice of Sakura who sat up in the bed looking like a mess. Ino laughed quietly to herself.
"You should see yourself Sakura." Pointing at her hair.
"HA HA Ino you're so funny." Sakura scratched the back of her head and then her eyes went wide.
"You okay Sakura?" Tenten asked. Sakura began to look for something.
"Guys I uh……lost my shorts." She said nervously. Ino sort of looked around her area before realizing how far she and Sakura were that they couldn't be near her. Sakura looked under the blanket some more but couldn't find them. Hinata looked around her and looked down at the floor. As soon as she looked at the floor she looked straight to the ceiling rolling her eyes.
"I uh, found them." She said
"Where are they?" Sakura asked.
"There down on the floor, by my head." Hinata said picking them up with her two fingers. She threw them at Sakura's head which made her laugh.
"Sorry Hinata." Sakura said
"Just think Hinata." Ino said. "The only thing that was separating you from her was a thin layer of underwear." All of them laughed hard, especially Hinata.
"Just put back on your shorts." Hinata said. Sakura put them back on under the blanket and then got out of the bed.
"Tenten, how did you end up sleeping on the floor of your own room?" Sakura asked.
"Just being a good host I guess." She said. Sakura then walked over to the door.
"Going to get breakfast?" Hinata asked.
"Nope, going to take a shower." She smiled.
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!" Ino yelled as she grabbed Sakura by the ankles which made her fall over. "I'm getting that bathroom!" she yelled as she ran to open the door. She got it opened but then she fell over when Sakura grabbed her ankles.
"OH NO YOU DON'T!" Sakura yelled. Ino struggled to get free but Sakura held on too tight. While they were trying to get up Tenten jumped over them with her fresh clothes in hand. She made it to the bathroom and slammed the door.
"HAHAHAHAHA SUCKERS!" she yelled.
"DAMN YOU Tenten!" Sakura yelled.
"Way to go Sakura!" Ino yelled as she stood up and brushed herself off.
"WOE, you think this is my fault? I don't think so you pig!" Sakura yelled as she stood up too so she was in Ino's face.
"Wait a second!" Ino said out loud accidentally. 'Hinata's bathroom!'
'Wait a second?' Sakura thought 'What is she….HUH….Hinata's bathroom!'
All at once Ino and Sakura ran through the door. They tried to push the other aside which made them both fall over onto the floor. Ino tried to get up quickly but Sakura grabbed her around the waist. They were both stuck on the floor.
"GET OFF!" Ino yelled
"NO…I WANT HINATA'S BATHROOM!" Sakura yelled
"It was MY idea!" Ino yelled as she struggled to get up, but Sakura only held on tighter.
"No it wasn't PIG!" Sakura yelled back. As they continued to struggle to get up they began to notice Hinata's foot steps from behind. When they both looked up they saw Hinata dash for her door.
"NOOOO!" they both yelled as they tried to get up, but it was too late. Hinata ran in and locked her door.
"DARN!" Ino yelled letting her body go limp.
"Shoot." Sakura said getting up off the floor.
"Want to go down to the mess hall for pancakes?" Ino asked.
"Sure!" Sakura said acting very chipper and neglecting the fact that they were just fighting.
XXXOOO
Hinata and Tenten were now sitting in the kitchen eating their breakfast wondering why Ino and Sakura were so excited when they came back from the mess hall.
FLASHBACK
Hinata and Tenten finished their showers and came out into the hall at the same time.
"I'm done, one of you can have my bathroom!" Hinata called out.
"I'm done too so you don't have to fight to the death for Hinata's" Tenten called out waiting to see Ino and Sakura charge at them, yet nothing happened.
"INO? Sakura?" Hinata called out.
"I guess they went out?" Tenten asked
"Maybe to the mess hall?"
"Yeah probably, I mean we did just take long showers."
"True." They both went down stairs and as soon as they did the doors slammed open and in came Ino and Sakura bursting with laughter.
"PAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAAAHAHAAAHAAAHHHHAAAAA!" they laughed
"What's so funny guys?" Tenten asked
"Tell…..TELL you later." Sakura laughed as they went upstairs to shower."
"Um….weird." Hinata commented.
END FLASHBACK
"Maybe somebody did something funny down there." Tenten said giving an idea.
"I really don't have a clue." Hinata said chewing on toast.
SLAM
"Sounds like somebody's done." Tenten said looking up at the ceiling.
SLAM
"Guess they're both done." Hinata said commenting the second door slam which meant they were out of the bathrooms. They heard foot steps running down the stairs and coming for the kitchen. Quicker then quick, Ino and Sakura were both now in the kitchen sitting in at the kitchen tables with HUGE grins on.
"YOU WONT BELIEVE IT!" Ino laughed
"EVERYONE'S talking about it, at least everyone at the hills is." Sakura said while slowing her laughter.
"Talking about what?" Tenten asked.
"OUR PRANK!" They both laughed. Hinata and Tenten looked at each other in shock, then it turned into JOY!
"YOU MEAN IT WORKED?" Hinata yelled excited.
"I FORGOT ALL ABOUT IT!" Tenten laughed
"Of course it worked!" Ino said proudly.
"We forgot all about it too." Sakura said
"So what's going on?" Hinata asked
"Yeah, SPILL!" Tenten demanded anxiously.
"Well I'll start." Sakura said.
"So we walked into the mess hall to get pancakes for breakfast." Ino said "When we went up to get them some girl ran into the mess hall yelling to a bunch of girls at the very other end of the room."
"She kept yelling, YOU WON'T BELIEVE IT YOU WON'T BELIEVE IT!" Sakura said.
"We couldn't help but walk over to listen, everyone else was too." Ino said
"The girl said that Temari and Kin had been pranked BIG TIME!" Sakura laughed
"She said there were mice and crows and a RACCOON in there room!"
"And that the whole cabin upstairs smelt like the latrines."
"And they were covered in sticky stuff."
"And Temari had something written on her face." Sakura said grinning evilly.
"So what did they do?" Tenten asked "I mean Kin and Temari?"
"The girl said they complained to Asuma." Ino said
"And? What did he do?" Hinata asked
"LAUGHED!" Ino and Sakura said as they began to crack up. Hinata and Tenten began to crack up too.
"I can NOT wait to see what happens to Kin when she uses her "new" hair gell." Sakura laughed.
"STILL can't believe you did that!" Tenten laughed. They all continued to laugh for a while when Hinata checked the clock.
"GUYS, we need to go!" she exclaimed
"I can't wait for swimming!" Ino said as she stood up.
"I know! Livvy can tell us everything!" Tenten said following Ino out of the kitchen.
"And all of that for Neji's cell phone number." Hinata said walking out of the kitchen with Sakura behind her.
"Oh yeah…" Tenten said blushing. "But now it sounds kind of silly to do all of that for a guy's number. I mean I might never use it."
"Why wouldn't you?" Sakura asked as they walked upstairs.
"I can't just randomly call him and be like 'Oh hi Neji, how are things?' He'd be like 'how did you get my cell number? Are you stalking me?'."
"Then you can just say I gave it to you." Hinata said as they all reached the top of the steps.
"Yes, but then I would say, 'Oh I asked Hinata for it but I had to tepee a girl's cabin first and find mouse crap to put in the room so more mice and animals would be attracted inside.' He'd be like, 'Uhhhhhh…..crazy!' and then hang up."
"Poor, poor Tenten." Ino said standing at her door and shaking her head. "Life wasn't made to be simple."
"TRUE DAT!" Hinata and Sakura said at once.
"OOYFAH!" Tenten said while putting the back of her palm on her forehead. "Woe is me!" she sighed.
"You're so dramatic Tenten." Ino said walking into her room. "I love you for it."
"Dido!" Sakura said giving her the peace sign as she went into her room.
"Thanks guys!" Tenten said happily.
"Hurry and get dressed Tenten." Hinata said laughing "Or we're going to be late."
"Sorry mom!" Tenten teased.
"HEY!" Hinata said turning around, but Tenten already hid in her room and shut the door.
"Damn you." Hinata mumbled.
XXXOOO
Neji and Naruto were just leaving wrestling and heading to the mess hall to clean the dishes from the first lunch. They would have to stay and clean the dishes from the second lunch also which meant that they would miss the first half of Soccer, again.
"I hate doing dishes." Naruto said as they walked towards the mess hall.
"That's why they made it a punishment Naruto." Neji said simply. When they finally reached the mess hall they heard Kiba from behind them.
"Hey, wait up!" he yelled as he ran over to the doors. They both stopped and turned around to watch him run over. "Good, now we can all go in at once." He said catching his breath. Naruto and Neji didn't respond to him, instead they just continued to walk into the mess hall. Kiba followed them in.
'Jeeze just trying to be friendly.' Kiba thought as they walked to the kitchen.
"It's about time you boys got here!" one of the lunch ladies said. "These dishes are stacking up and we're almost out so get to cleaning!"
"And don't forget your hair nets." The other lunch lady laughed.
"Do we really need those since we're only cleaning the dishes?" Naruto asked.
"You're in the kitchen aren't cha? That means you're near food and that means Hairnets." The first old lunch lady said.
"Fine." Naruto said surrendering. They each got a hairnet on and began to scrub dishes.
Cleaning the dishes during lunch wasn't as bad as cleaning them during the morning or night since not everyone came to lunch. While the three guys were all cleaning they over heard a lunch lady having a conversation with the older lunch lady.
"…And I was so excited to see him again. That's why I made my famous chilly today for lunch." The old lunch lady said.
"Oh Sanshou, you spoil that boy!" the other lunch lady said as she made Mac and Cheese.
"Well he deserves it for being the most polite boy in this entire camp." She laughed. "I think I'm going to make chilly for dinner too!"
"So is he here now?" the other lunch lady asked
"Well since we're not serving the food today I'm not entirely sure, but a large amount of my chilly is gone so maybe he is." As if on cue the kitchen doors slammed open.
"SANSHOU!" yelled a boy who ran to her and twirled her in the air.
"Oh my goodness!" she laughed "You'll hurt yourself Lee, please don't do that anymore."
At the word 'Lee' Neji stopped washing dishes and slowly turned his head around to see a boy in green placing Sanshou back onto the floor. Neji's eyebrows were twitching and he slowly turned back to the sink trying not to draw attention to himself.
"Who's the freaky guy?" Naruto asked a little too loudly.
"shutup Naruto." Neji mumbled as he fumbled to pick up his dishes.
"That's the new kid." Kiba pointed out.
"But what's with his eyebrows?" Naruto asked "And look at his eyes, they're so creepy."
"SANSHOU!" Lee yelled again. "This is the greatest chilly I have ever tasted! It is indeed good to be back!"
"From the nut house." Naruto mumbled which made Kiba laugh.
"Yeah, where's this guy from?" Kiba laughed.
"Hey, enough joking around over there!" Sanshou yelled at the boys. "You still have too many dishes to do."
"Sanshou, allow me to help them with the dishes. It will go faster with four people instead of three." Lee said rolling up his sleeves.
"Oh NO Lee. You can't do that, these boys are on punishment."
"It's no problem at all." Lee said walking over to a box. "I remember where the hair nets are and everything, you see?" he said putting a hair net over his hair.
"He's gonna have to put some on his eyebrows." Naruto said. He and Kiba laughed like mad men.
"So, what is so funny?" Lee asked trying to be nice while walking over to the sinks. Neji tried to hide his face from Lee.
"It was nothing." Naruto said going back to his dishes.
"Hmmm, who should I help? You seem to be having some trouble, may I help you?" Lee asked Naruto.
"HEY, I'm doing just fine!" Naruto defended. Lee looked over at the quiet Neji.
"Well then why don't I help this young lady instead." Lee said with a smile.
"PAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAAHAAAAHAAAHAHAAAHAHAHAAA!" Kiba and Naruto laughed as they held their stomachs.
"That's…..THAT'S….HE'S A BOY!" Naruto laughed.
"Really? Well judging by the hair I just assumed that you were a…….gulp."
Neji turned around and his eyes were dark. He began to crack his knuckles.
"Neji?" Lee yelled.
'Oh crud I should have just pretended to be a girl.' Neji said forgetting that he was trying to hide from Lee.
"Neji! How have you been my old friend? It has been forever hasn't it?"
"Yeah Lee……not long enough." He mumbled.
"You know him?" Naruto asked confused.
"YES! We both went to Camp Jutsu together. We were rivals and I always tried to beat Neji, but he was always the best." Lee then put his arm around Neji and gave Kiba and Naruto the good guy pose. (Thumbs up) "But now me and Neji are close, like brothers!"
Naruto let out a short laugh but then stopped when he saw the evil in Neji's eyes.
"Neji, to what have you done to end up in this place?" Lee asked concerned for his friend. Neji grabbed the arm Lee put around his shoulder and took it off of him.
"I just got into a fight is all." Neji said nonchalantly.
"Neji, you know you should only fight when you are defending someone precious to you, or if they start it. To which one did it concern?"
"He was defending his girlfriend!" Naruto teased.
"SHUTUP!" Neji yelled as he showed signs of blushing.
"OH, Neji who is your girlfriend?" Lee asked curiously.
"I don't have a girlfriend." Neji said.
"Her name is Tenten!" Naruto laughed.
"NARUTO!" Neji yelled as he was about to strangle him.
"Tenten? You mean you are now dating Tenten?" Lee asked trying to think about what Tenten looked like. "How are you doing that? How do you see her?"
"She goes to our neighboring camp." Kiba said trying to be a part of the conversation.
"Neji sneaks out every night to see her!" Naruto laughed as Neji began to strangle him.
"Wow Neji, I never took you as a romantic." Lee said
"I DO NOT SNEAK OUT, THAT'S WHAT HE DOES!" Neji yelled pointing at Naruto. Everyone, including the cafeteria women froze and stared at Neji. Naruto began to sweat bullets since Neji just told everyone that he snuck out every night. Soon the women went back to work but couldn't help glare over at the boys from time to time.
"You STILL haven't finished the dishes!" Sanshou yelled.
"Sanshou forgive me, I must have distracted them. I will now wash all of these dishes by myself within ten minutes or I will run around this entire camp twenty times!" Lee proclaimed. Before anyone could protest he did the dishes at super speed. They couldn't take their eyes off of him; the speed he was going was incredible. The dirty dishes were becoming spotless faster then any of the three boys could have done if they all combined into one.
Nine minutes later Lee had finished and he was trying to catch his breath while putting his hands on his hips. "All (huff puff) done!" he said leaning against the counter. All three boys and Sanshou looked at him in amazement.
"Now, THAT'S how you do it!" she said as she clapped her hands together. "Nice work Lee, I'll make you some more chilly, and you boys will have some too!" she said as she walked over to her chilly pot.
"Wonderful!" Lee cheered "Sanshou's chilly is a miracle and can save lives. It helped me a lot last summer when I was training!"
"I don't know about the rest of you but….doesn't Lee look a little like….Gai Sensei?" Kiba asked as Lee continued to talk to Neji about his training.
"Now that you mention it…" Naruto began. "He does look like he could be a clone."
"Hm, wouldn't surprise me if he was." Kiba said crossing his arms.
"Yeah but he doesn't act very much like Gai." Naruto pointed out.
"Neji you and I must compete today in some sort of sport! The power of youth burns brightly in us both!" Lee yelled to Neji.
"Never mind." Naruto said sweat dropping.
Neji backed up and stood next to Naruto as Lee punched the air and went on about youth.
"Clones don't have bellybuttons so we should check if he has one." Naruto suggested.
"Well great plan there Naruto but which one of us will do it?" Neji asked.
"Yeah Naruto, wont it look like we're trying to molest him or something?" Kiba asked.
"Not if Neji does it, then it'll look okay since he does look like a girl." Naruto laughed.
"YOU'RE DEAD!" Neji yelled as he chased Naruto around. Before Neji could grab Naruto Lee stepped in between them.
"I see youth burns very bright in you this day!" he said joyfully.
'God shoot me.' Neji thought to himself as he walked over to sit down in a chair.
"By the way Neji, how is your cousin Hinata?" Lee asked "I haven't seen her in a really long time."
"You know Hinata?" Naruto exclaimed
"Of course I do. She was a very youthful flower, and one of the best female fighters at the camp. I only thought of her because you mentioned Tenten earlier, and they were best friends."
Naruto looked at Lee in almost disgust.
'It sounds plain weird when he calls her a youthful flower.' He thought as he also imagined himself throwing up.
"So were you and Hinata friends or something?" Kiba asked
"Of course we were friends! Hinata was an inspiration to everyone! She was so shy when she first came to camp, but by the end she was like a springtime of youth! Two years later I met her again and she had not changed." Lee smiled as he remembered Camp Jutsu and all the people in it.
"Hinata is fine. She and Tenten are both at the girl's camp next to us." Neji said.
"That's great!" Lee said while punching the air. "I guess this means that we will see them at the sports competitions. I can hardly wait to see them both, this will indeed be the best summer EVER!" he cheered. Sanshou came over with a tray of four bowls of her chilly.
"Here you boys go!" she smiled "You can sit over there unless you would rather eat back out in the mess hall."
"No this is just fine Sanshou, thank you very much." Lee took the tray over to a table she was pointing to in the back corner. All four boys sat down and grabbed a bowl of chilly. They all looked at it suspiciously except for Lee who grabbed a spoon and put a napkin on his lap. He inhaled the smell of the chilly deeply before digging in. Kiba, Naruto, and Neji all watched as he took his first bight. Lee began to eat it regularly but then his chewing stopped. They stared at him waiting for something else to happen but he only continued to stare straight ahead. Naruto was about to poke him when Lee jumped to his feet.
"WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" he yelled as his eyes grew with flames. He sat right back down fast and put mouthfuls of chilly into his mouth at a time. They all watched him for a second before looking at their food. Each of them took a spoon full and put it into their mouths. At first it wasn't too bad but then the spicy juices got to them and their mouths were on fire.
"WATER...WATER!" Kiba yelled.
Neji only stared straight ahead but his brow was sweating a lot.
"GET ME SOME BREAD!" Naruto yelled frantically.
A lunch lady came over with four cups of water, and she brought them over very quickly. She put them on the table but Naruto stood up shaking his head.
"NO……NO…BREAD...WE NEED BREAD!" the lunch lady looked puzzled but ran over to get four slices of bread. She gave them to Naruto and he ate a piece rather quickly. Kiba already downed his water, and Neji still didn't move.
"BLECK! The water ISN'T HELPING!" Kiba yelled. Naruto began to calm down more.
"Kiba you moron, when something is too spicy you eat bread to get rid of the burn. Drinking water only makes it worse. Neji here eat some." Naruto said waving the piece of bread in front of his face. Neji didn't comply right away but then finally took it from Naruto's hand with his right hand, which is where it stayed.
"Hmmm, Neji can't seem to get the bread up to his mouth." Lee said observing. "So I Rock Lee will feed it to him. I'll have to chew it up first and then…" Neji quickly shoved the piece of bread into his mouth and chewed it quickly. Kiba grabbed a piece of bread too and ate it. It was already starting to work for him and the burning began to stop.
"Naruto how'd you know that bread would work?" Kiba asked.
"After eating ramen for years you learn a thing or two about spicy foods, and hot foods."
"Well don't be too proud of that." Neji said getting back to normal.
"Whatever." Naruto said crossing his arms.
"So why wasn't this chilly too spicy for Lee?" Kiba asked
"There is yet anything too spicy for me!" Rock Lee said proudly. "Now let us all finish this food before it goes to waste." Lee began to dig right back into his meal but the other boys pushed their bowls to the center.
After they were done Lee stood up examining the other's bowls. "I suppose this chilly is too spicy for some people, however good food should never be unfinished. Therefore I will eat your bowls."
"Lee I'm not thinking that's a good idea." Neji said
"Nonsense. I can eat these bowls in no time." Lee proclaimed
"Lee you can't eat their food." Sanshou said walking over. "You'll get sick and won't be able to play any more of your sports. Not to mention they're won't be any room for dinner."
"You're right!" Lee said "Allow me to clean these dishes."
"Oh no Lee, that's their job not yours. One of you clean these bowls out." Sanshou said pointing to all three of them.
"Rock, Paper, Scissors?" Naruto asked.
"I'll do it." Neji said getting up and grabbing the bowls.
"That's fine with me." Kiba said staying seated and putting his hands behind his head. "I'll just sleep here till we need to wash the dishes again.
"OH NO!" Lee yelled as he slammed his fists down on the table. Naruto and Kiba looked at him wide eyed. "I HAVE NOT INTRODUCED MYSELF!" Everyone sweat dropped. "I am Rock Lee, my name isn't really Rock but it does sound cooler to say it that way." Lee put his hand out for one of them to shake. Kiba grabbed it reluctantly.
"Names Kiba Inuzuka, thanks for doing our dishes."
"The names Naruto Uzumaki, I'm going to be your future Hokage." He said shaking Lee's hand while giving him a toothy smile.
"Hokage eh? Well that is indeed an amazing goal to go after." He said giving him the good guy pose with his free hand. "I hope you can accomplish it!"
"I will…BELIEVE IT!" Naruto yelled getting enthusiastic. Lee was going to say some more when Sanshou called out to him.
Lee, lunch is over now don't you have somewhere to go?" she asked
"Oh yes, I have soccer now. I will have to catch up with you guys later." Lee ran out of the kitchen and back into the mess hall.
"Soccer? But we have soccer next too." Naruto said
"Great….JUUUST great." Neji said as he finished cleaning the bowls.
"That Lee is one colorful character." Kiba said "I guess he'll be some healthy competition."
"You have no idea." Neji said sitting back down.
"So even you're intimidated by him?" Naruto asked
"Didn't you hear him? I'm the best; he's just going to be really annoying. Even worse then you Naruto." He quickly added.
"HEY!" Naruto yelled
XXXOOO
Hinata was in her room talking on her cell phone with Hanabi. She was telling her all about the prank they did to Temari and Kin, who Hanabi didn't know but she enjoyed it anyways.
"Alright well I'm going to go now Hinata since dinner will be done soon."
"SO, you will remember to send me the 'care package', right?" Hinata asked before hanging up.
"Don't worry I have everything you want written down, but they might ask why the box is so big."
"Don't worry we'll think of something." She reassured her.
"Alright, but you have GOT to take a picture of Konohamaru for me when you do it all, okay? I'm going to send you my digital camera and you will use it!"
"I promise that you will get a picture of Konohamaru. AND, if you act now I'll even send you some pictures of him at the sport competitions and before the dance. How's that sound?"
"Alright, alright, I'll send you the package as early as I can. OKAY!"
"That's fine, thank you Hana!"
"You're welcome…..HEY!" Before Hanabi could yell at her sister for calling her Hana Hinata shut her phone. She ran down stairs to see Ino and Sakura talking on the couch.
"Hey guys!" she yelled from the stairs. "I just talked to Hanabi about sending us some, stuff."
"You sure we should still do this?" Sakura asked
"AbsofreaknLUTELY!" Ino said.
"Where's Tenten?" Hinata asked
"Bathroom." They both replied
"Alright…..well….I need to take a shower." Hinata said
"Why? You look fine from here." Ino commented
"Yeah but I feel a little grimy. I'll make it quick!" she said as she ran back up the stairs. Hinata went to her room and turned the shower water on. She tiptoed to her balcony and took out her cell phone. The screen said that it was 8:23.
'Okay, so I don't know when the boys have their dinner but maybe they're already done like us.' Hinata looked through her phone book to Neji's number. She really wanted to talk to him about the family business and if the name would be changed to her husband's last name. 'Centuries of the Hyuuga name, ruined because of me. I have to talk to somebody.' Hinata hit the dial button and her phone began to ring.
XXXOOO
Neji was finishing up his pile of dirty dishes from dinner. He almost wished Lee was there so he could do them in half the time, almost. Naruto still had to do another pile and Kiba had already finished. Only Sanshou was in the kitchen watching the boys, unfortunately for her she fell asleep in a chair.
Neji reached for his last plate when he heard something.
"Is that a dishwasher running?" he asked looking around the kitchen. Kiba and Naruto looked around too and saw a hug dishwasher in the corner of the room.
"Can't believe I never noticed that before." Naruto said.
"YOU MEAN THIS ENTIRE TIME THEY HAD A DISHWASHER?" Kiba yelled.
"It doesn't matter, I'm almost done." Neji said drying off his plate. "Now I'm done." He sat down in the chair next to Kiba and they both waited for Naruto to finish. As they sat waiting Neji went into his pocket to grab his cell phone.
"Shoot." He said out loud.
"What's wrong?" Kiba asked
"Nothing…..just forgot my phone." Neji said closing his eyes.
"You know you guys could help me out to make the waiting go faster." Naruto suggested.
"Yeah, don't think so." Kiba said closing his eyes.
"How about you Neji?"
"No freakin way." Neji said not opening his eyes.
XXXOOO
Shikamaru and Sasuke were both watching TV back at their cabin. They weren't watching anything unparticular, they were just really bored.
'Maybe we should sneak out again to see the girls.' Shikamaru thought. 'It's totally dead here, and the sky is cloudy.'
'I'd really like to see Sakura right now.' Sasuke thought 'I might shoot myself if I just stay sitting here!'
Ring Ring Ring
Sasuke and Shikamaru both went into their pockets to check if their cell phone was ringing.
"Yours?" Sasuke asked
"No, not mine. Where's it coming from?" they stood up and looked around the room. Sasuke went up stairs to his room where he heard the ringing come from. On the ground was Neji's cell phone.
"Hey it's Neji's! Should I answer it?" Sasuke asked Shikamaru who was right behind him.
"Yeah I'm bored." Shikamaru said walking into the room. Sasuke looked at the front of the phone to check the caller id. It only showed a number on the screen, but he decided to open it anyways.
"Hello?" he asked
"Hi….is…Neji there?" asked a confused voice.
"Who is it?" Shikamaru asked
"A girl." Sasuke whispered
"Damn, Hyuuga's lucky." Shikamaru said putting his hands in his pockets.
"Neji isn't here right now, who's this?"
"It's Hinata, Sasuke?"
"Hinata?" Sasuke said half surprised half excited.
"Hinata?" Shikamaru said getting interested.
"Yeah hi Hinata, what's up?"
"Oh nothing I just wanted to talk to Neji. I wasn't sure if he was still washing dishes or not, but I thought he would at least have his phone with him."
"I guess it fell out of his pocket." Sasuke said "but we can talk to you till he gets back." Sasuke said hopefully.
"Who's we?" Hinata asked
"Me and Shikamaru." Sasuke said switching the phone to speaker.
"Okay you're on speaker phone now." Sasuke informed her.
"Hi Shika!"
"Hey Hinata, how are you?"
"Fine, it's been a while huh?" Hinata laughed
"Well it does seem like a long time ago." Shikamaru said "I know we don't want to admit it but it was more fun with you girls."
"Oh really? Cause it was fun with you guys too."
"So…..what are they doing?" Shikamaru asked
"You mean Ino?" Hinata giggled. There was a slight pause.
"Shikamaru is blushing." Sasuke laughed
"So how's Sakura?" Shikamaru quickly added. There was another pause, Hinata only laughed at her friends.
"They actually think I'm taking a shower right now. I only told them that so I could call Neji and talk to him privately."
"Why what's wrong?" Sasuke asked.
"Well…..I guess I could talk to you guys about it. Sasuke you might understand since you know where I'm coming from, and Shikamaru you're smart so you can probably give me some good advice."
"Well shoot." Shikamaru said.
"Well…..it's just that….you both know I'm the heir to the Hyuuga Company, and to my family."
"Really?" Shikamaru asked sarcastically. Hinata could here Sasuke hit Shikamaru's head.
"Well Sakura asked me if I got married wouldn't that mean that the corporation and family name changes to my husband's last name?"
"So you're asking us that if you get married to…..well….let's say Naruto." Sasuke said. He could tell that she was probably blushing when he said Naruto's name. "So, hypothetically, you would marry him and change your last name to Uzumaki."
"Hypothetically." Shikamaru quickly added
"I mean that's what you do when you get married; the girl has to change her name to the guy's last name."
"But not all the time." Shikamaru added "Sometimes the girl keeps her last name."
"Couldn't the guy change his last name to my last name?" Hinata asked
"No." they both said at once which threw Hinata aback.
"A guy would never change his last name to his wife's last name." Shikamaru pointed out.
"Is this a guy thing or something?" Hinata asked
"Pretty much." Sasuke said.
"You know I see why you're stressing this." Shikamaru said "The Hyuuga's have been around longer then the Uchihas. Now when you get married the main branch name will end."
"What about Hanabi?" Sasuke asked "Oh wait, never mind she's a girl."
"Duh Sasuke. You SEE, this is so hard!" Hinata whined.
"Yeah it is, and I'm not even sure what you're going to do." Shikamaru said.
"Well that's why I called Neji, I'm sure he'll know what to do."
"Hopefully." Sasuke added.
"Maybe you should just talk to your father about this." Shikamaru said. "He'll know what to do better then us. And Hinata?"
"Yes?"
"You should really relax. Just forget about it for now."
"Yeah that's what Ino said." Hinata said letting out a sigh.
"Isn't that cute? You both think the same." Sasuke teased.
"HEY WE'RE BACK!" yelled Naruto's voice.
"Hinata did you hear that?" Sasuke asked
"Yeah, can you take me off speaker and give Neji his cell?"
"Sure." Sasuke said turning off the speaker phone.
"And Sasuke!"
"Yeah?" he asked as Shikamaru put his ear against the phone so he could hear too.
"Don't tell Naruto it's me, okay?"
"Why not?"
"Just DON'T!"
Neji and Naruto walked into the room with Naruto collapsing onto Sasuke's bed.
"So…..tired." He said
"Is that my phone?" Neji asked Sasuke
"Yeah, it rang so I answered it." Sasuke said
"Who is it?" Neji asked taking his phone.
"Your cousin." Sasuke said by accident. Sasuke and Shikamaru could have sworn that they heard Hinata smack her forehead. Naruto quickly looked up over at Neji to see if he was talking to Hinata.
"Your cousin Hanabi!" Shikamaru added quickly. "The one who is NOT a Hyuuga, that cousin."
"But Hanabi is a Hyuuga." Neji said very confused. Shikamaru began to show him signs of 'no' and 'shut up' Neji, being a genius, got the hint quick.
"OOOOH, right. Hanabi my non Hyuuga cousin." He said looking extremely guilty. "Hi there Hanabi, how are?"
"Neji, we need to talk." Hinata said very urgently.
"Yeah I have a minute, hold on." He covered the bottom part of the phone. "Sorry guys but I need to talk to Hanabi privately for a minute, can you all leave?"
"No problem." Shikamaru said as he and Sasuke walked out of the room. Neji looked over at Naruto. "You too." Naruto slowly walked out of the room yawning as he dragged his feet along. When he left the room Neji shut and locked the door. He walked to his window and opened it up to let in some of the night time noises so no one who was ease-dropping could hear his conversation.
"Alright "Hanabi" what's wrong?" Hinata took a deep breath and told Neji about her situation. Neji didn't talk to her until she was completely done explaining everything she knew about the subject.
"Neji….I'm just freaking out and I can't get it off my mind. I keep having nightmares about it all and they keep getting worse."
"Hinata, don't you think that Uncle Hiashi has already thought about all of this stuff. I mean I'm sure he started thinking about it when you were first born."
"Oh, I guess that's true."
"I'm sure he has a plan for you, I mean there's no way he'd ever let the company's last name change."
"I know." Hinata laughed "I mean Uzumaki Corporations? That just sounds so wrong." Hinata began to laugh a little thinking that Neji would too but he didn't. Neither of them spoke for a minute.
"Hinata…….what are you saying?" Neji asked
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"You just said that it would sound weird if our company's name changed to Uzumaki corporations."
"And…?"
"Do you plan on marrying him or something?" Hinata finally realized what she had just said and admitted. She began to blush and stumble over her words.
"WAIT….I mean….it was in my dream….it was a dream…justa dream….I was just telling you my dream!" Hinata was nearly hyperventilating.
"Hinata calm down. I can tell you really like him so…..would you just relax."
"Oh……right…….sorry."
"Just so we're back on topic, I don't know what Uncle Hiashi's plan is but I can tell you that the company's name wont change, to anything!"
"But now I'll just disappoint the generations of Hyuuga mains." Hinata sighed
"Hinata…..you could never disappoint anybody. I really don't know what to tell you except you should relax. You're on vacation; you're not supposed to worry about things."
"That's what Tenten said." Hinata laughed
"Well you should take our advice and wait till you get home to talk to Hiashi about it. Besides, you're not going to get married for a while so you can just chill."
"Thanks Neji. Don't know what I would do without you."
"You're welcome, just…"
"RELAX…I got it….thanks."
"Bye the way Hinata, you won't believe what old friend of ours came to this camp."
"Who?" Hinata asked confused 'A friend that is friends to me and Neji? Who on Earth could that be?'
"Rock Lee." Hinata almost fell over. She tried to hold in her laughter but some of it escaped.
"Are…pft….are you serious?" she asked controlling her giggles.
"Believe me I wish I was lieing to you. On the plus side that just gives us one stronger teammate to help us beat the girls in the competitions."
"You could have a hundred of Lee's and you would still loose. Besides, we know what Lee's weakness is."
"He has one?" Neji asked bewildered.
"Well of course he does, even you have one. We'll beat you guys easy." Hinata laughed.
"Even without Lee we would beat you." Neji said sounding determined.
"But STILL….I can't believe it. LEE…..of all people to meet up with it was him. I can't wait to tell Tenten, we were just talking about him last night."
"You were talking about him, why?"
"Girl business and none of yours. I'll see you in two weeks when the competitions are held. Night Neji, see you all then."
"Yeah, until then, but don't get your hopes up."
"Don't worry about us, just worry about us knowing your one weakness."
"You wouldn't." Neji said as his whole body froze.
"GooodNIGHT!" Hinata sang as she shut her phone.
"Hinata? HINATA! ugh." Neji hung up his phone and stuck it back into his pocket. 'Two more weeks, I wonder what her weakness is.'
XXXOOO
Hinata ran back down stairs feeling a little better about everything. She got to the bottom and couldn't see Sakura, Ino, or Tenten anywhere.
"Hey guys where are?" she asked as she noticed the porch door was slightly ajar.
Hinata went to it and could see them all standing by the edge of the porch obviously listening to her conversation with Neji.
'Should have known they wouldn't have believed me about taking a shower.' Hinata walked over to them.
"So did you hear it all alright?" she asked from behind. Sakura jumped a little and Ino laughed.
"You were talking to Neji, and you didn't TELL ME…..us." Tenten yelled.
"Sorry, it was just about the whole family name thing."
"See what you started Sakura?" Ino asked as Sakura sweat dropped.
"Sorry Hinata."
"It's okay, because while talking to him I found out something very important for all of the girls."
"What is it?" they asked.
"Okay, well…..get this." They all came in closer to Hinata so they could hear better. "Rock Lee is going to the boy's camp."
"WHAT!" Tenten yelled.
"I know, that's how I was too."
"Hey you both were just talking about him last night." Ino giggled
"So what, is this bad or something?" Sakura asked
"Oh definitely." Tenten said.
"Why?" asked Ino
"Because…..Lee is very athletic. He's probably good at anything and everything." Hinata exclaimed.
"So he's a threat basically." Ino said
"Yeah basically." Tenten said
"Which means we're going to have to buckle down on preparing for the competitions." Hinata said pacing the floor.
"But is two weeks enough?" Sakura asked
"It's just fine." Hinata said "We'll have to focus on training more if we want to beat the boys."
"Sounds easy enough." Sakura said
"We'll beat this boy Lee yet!" Ino exclaimed.
"Hopefully, but it wont be too hard." Hinata said.
"Really? You sure?" Tenten questioned.
"Of course I'm sure." Hinata said with confidence "We do have one ace up our sleeve."
"And what's that?" asked Sakura.
"Lee's weakness."