MEANWHILE!!!
"I sure hope everyone looks great tomorrow for the pictures." said Kiba. "And that nothing is out of place or wrong."
"Now why would anything be out of place or wrong?" Sakura laughed.
"I don't know." Said Kiba. "I get these feelings about things sometimes."
"It's true." Said Hinata as if someone had stood up to them both and said, "NO! I DON'T BELIEVE YOU!!"
"On a completely random and unrelated note, have you told Sasuke that you're pregnant?" Ino asked Tashoku.
"Um…no…" Tashoku said uneasily. "There hasn't been a good moment yet. It has to be just right."
"Yeah but you are aware that he's just about the only person who doesn't know." Said Ino.
"Well, besides all the other men, yes." Said Tashoku.
"I don't think he'll be happy about being the last to find out." Said Ino. Everyone looked at each other with a nervous look. "Especially if KIBA found out before him."
"What's wrong with that?" asked Kiba. "I think I deserve to know. I'm the grandfather too!"
"Yeah but…" started Ino. "I think it's still best if we all pretend that we didn't know ahead of time."
"I don't think I should need to pretend." Said Kiba defiantly.
"Kiba, please…" said Hinata.
"We'll just tell Sasuke when Kiba's not around." Said Sakura as if she had ANY say whatsoever.
The younger girls, meanwhile, had ventured off to retrieve the Sexy Ninjas Unlimited Magazines that had been confiscated from them earlier.
"How can anyone be so naturally good looking?" sighed Moujo as she opened up the Uchiha Edition. "Especially an entire family?" She swooned at the mere thought of the entire Uchiha family, then looked at the picture and almost fainted.
"We're just gifted I guess." Said Hana casually. "Unlike SOME families…" she added, looking in Kajitsu's direction.
"What's that supposed to mean?!" Kajitsu demanded.
"I wasn't saying anything." Said Hana but you KNEW she was.
"Guys, just stop fighting and look at the pictures." Said Moujo.
"Ew, my brothers." Said Hana. "I'm not going to lose consciousness on THEIR account no matter how good looking they are. Instead…" She picked up the other issue that wasn't entirely centered around the Uchihas and opened it. Then she sighed.
"Lee is so handsome." She said. "But more so in real life."
"He's definitely more attractive than anyone in your family." Said Kajitsu as she tugged on the magazine a little so that she could see too.
"Um…excuse me?" said Hana. "I may find him more attractive than anyone in my family but only because they're my family. But even YOU have to admit that my family is all around better looking than just about every family in the world."
"Whoa…" said Kajitsu. "That was a pretty arrogant thing to say just then."
"Oh come on." Said Hana. "Everyone knows it to be true. What other family has a magazine EDITION dedicated to them?"
"It's only because there are so many of you and your clan is being revived!" said Kajitsu.
"You tell yourself that." Said Hana. "Moujo agrees with me, don't you?"
"What?" asked Moujo obliviously since she was FAR too busy admiring the many sexy pictures of Senjou.
MEANWHILE!!!
"So you've never officially beaten Neji in a fight?" said Shika as he, Cho, Lil Gai and Lee all sat around on a bed like they were girls at a slumber party.
"No…" Lee said, bowing his head in shame.
"I bet you could beat him NOW, Dad!" said Lil Gai.
"No, no." said Lee with a sigh. "I'd best not even try."
"I bet you could beat him too!" said Cho. "Reach for your dreams!"
"You think so?" said Lee in a slightly excited tone.
"YEAH!" said Shika, Cho AND Lil Gai.
"YEAH!" said Lee, standing up as a wave crashed behind him. "I bet I could!! I'm going to go challenge him right now!"
Lee jumped up from the bed and started marching for the door but the three youths sprinted over to the door and dove in front of it.
"We didn't mean…NOW…" said Shika cautiously.
"Oh." Said Lee. "TOMORROW then."
"Yes!" said Cho. "Tomorrow!"
"But Cho, don't be ridiculous." Said Shika. "We have pictures tomorrow."
"I think it was a given that I meant AFTER the pictures, Shika." Said Cho in the 'DOI!!!' tone.
"Now I'm pumped!" said Lee. "I bet I could beat Neji! I've been training non-stop for as long as I can remember!"
"Go dad!" cheered Lil Gai. "Neji's out of shape!"
"Don't say that, Lil Gai!" said Lee. "Never underestimate your opponent!"
"Awwww!!" Lil Gai yelled dramatically as his eyes burned with fire.
MEANWHILE!!
Neji, meanwhile, was massaging his leg. He had reason to believe he had pulled a muscle while ice skating but was FAR above announcing it to everyone or even sharing it with the people in his room. Especially since he hadn't done much skating.
"Has anyone gotten the ice yet?" he asked suddenly.
"Dad's getting it now." Said Shikataro who was only sitting there foolishly looking like Vash the Stampede.
"HEY DAD!!" came Hichou's voice from the bathroom. "DAD!!"
"What is it Hichou?" said Neji since he didn't feel like getting up.
Hichou came rushing out of the bathroom. "Hey!" he said. "Did you know the shower in here WORKS?!"
Neji and Shikataro stared at Hichou questioningly.
"It's so cool!" Hichou said enthusiastically when he got no reaction. He figured they just didn't understand the full extent of the coolness.
"That is excellent, Hichou." Said Neji finally.
"Yeah!" said Hichou as he ran back into the bathroom. All he needed was a bit of a reaction.
"Um." Said Shikataro. He didn't know what else to say.
MEANWHILE!!
"Okay, so by your logic Sasuke…" started Naruto. "You get BOTH beds while me, Inoshi and Chouji share that one cot?"
"I never said that Naruto." Said Sasuke though he might very well HAVE said it, just not consciously. Then he stopped to try and remember what he had said. "Chouji gets that bed, we already decided that."
"Yes…" said Chouji.
"And I get this bed." Said Sasuke.
"That leaves me and Inoshi to share the cot?" asked Naruto.
"I don't mind." Said Inoshi quietly. "I'll take the floor if you don't want to share it."
"I'm not going to make you sleep on the floor." Said Naruto to Inoshi. "I still don't see what's wrong with me and Inoshi taking the bed for tonight and you taking the cot."
"Because I'm better than you." Said Sasuke.
Naruto raised his hand to make a point, but once Sasuke got in this mode, there was literally absolutely no way to reason with him otherwise.
"FINE!" Naruto said finally. "I'll sleep on the cot. Inoshi, you take the bed with your psychopathic mother. I don't care."
Sasuke glared at Naruto. "Did you just call me a 'mother'?" he said sternly.
"No." lied Naruto.
"You DID." Said Sasuke, slamming his hand on a table that just so happened to be right there for the slamming.
"So what if I did?" said Naruto. "Haven't you trained yourself by now to ignore the things I say?"
"That's it, Naruto." Said Sasuke. "You have to fight me. Right now."
"Let's not fight!" said Chouji.
Inoshi gave a sigh of relief because he had WANTED to say that, but he was afraid that his father might do something to harm him if he did. Sure, there's not really any proof that Sasuke has ever HIT any of his children, but Inoshi can still fear his father.
MEANWHILE!!
"What if he doesn't wake up in time?" asked Senjou nervously looking over in Pansuke's direction.
"Even if he doesn't, who cares?" Said Sasuke Jr.
"I think his parents will." Said Senjou. "Kiba might get angry if his pictures aren't perfect."
"You know, he might be happy." Said Lil Lee. "Because if Pansuke's not in them, then Kobiru can't be in them and that would just make Kiba's day."
"Do you think Kobiru has some make-up to cover-up Pansuke's eye?" asked Senjou, entirely to himself. "It's getting awfully dark and visible."
"Senjou, shut up." Said Sasuke Jr.
"Now about the bed arrangement for tonight." Said Lil Lee. "I assume they're not staying the same."
"They are." Said Sasuke Jr. "And unless you want to go to bed right now, then I suggest we don't bring them up again."
Lil Lee pouted and crossed his arms.
It was then that the little babies woke up and they needed to be tended to. So that was done. Woooo.
MEANWHILE!!!
"Well, I think it's bedtime!" said Tenten to the youngest girls even though she really didn't have any authority whatsoever since no one there was related to her. But since she WAS the oldest, I guess that made her the most important.
"Not YET!" complained Hana, Kajitsu and Moujo. And Hiyoko.
"Off to bed!" said Tenten. They all paused and then got in their sleeping bags.
"I'm going to sleep out here tonight!" said Moujo. "I hope my family isn't offended."
"I guess we have to go to bed too." Said Kobiru.
"The sooner you go to bed, the sooner you'll wake up!" said Tashoku excitedly to her mother.
"I'm so excited!" said Hinata who just looked so giddy. How would she be getting to sleep? No one really knows.
Though I don't think the biggest problem is HINATA getting to sleep.
"Kiba, let's go to bed." Said Hinata.
"Hinata, there's no way I'm going to be able to go to sleep so I'm just not going to even bother and I'm going to stay up all night." Admitted Kiba sadly.
"Kiba, you don't want to be tired tomorrow." Said Hinata.
"Hey!" yelled Kiba at Kobiru as he was distracted. "You better not be using one of OUR sleeping bags! I'll know!"
"I'm going to be sleeping in Tashoku's room!" said Kobiru.
"Not as long as I'M around!" said Kiba angrily.
"Kiba, remember what we talked about?" said Hinata, pulling him aside but everyone could hear them anyway. "Kobiru is seven months pregnant and therefore needs the comfort of a bed."
"But she doesn't DESERVE it." said Kiba with a childishly over-animated frown.
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"Tonight I'm going to wear the pajamas with…" started Cho as he pulled out a pair of pajamas from his suitcase only to look up to see Shika holding an identical pair.
"OMG CHO!!" yelled Shika. "We are telepathically linked or something."
"It's so weird that we would pick out the SAME pair of pajamas to wear!!" said Cho.
"It's a twin thing!!!" exclaimed Shika.
"All right, time for bed!" said Lee as he ran over to the bed. Lil Gai followed after him wearing the exact same pair of pajamas.
"We didn't even PLAN this!" Lil Gai said, referring to the fact that the two of them had the same pajamas.
"Dear lord!" said Cho. "It's like you guys are twins too!"
"You know, people have said that before." Said Lee thoughtfully as he rubbed his chin.
"It's an honor to be your twin, father!" said Lil Gai excitedly.
Shika and Cho exchanged glances. Even though they were a little strange themselves, they still knew when people were normal and when they were not.
MEANWHILE!!
"Dad…" said Hichou as he lied down in his bed. "These pants are uncomfortable."
"Well Hichou, we don't want to have another repeat of last night, now do we?" said Neji.
"No." said Shikamaru bitterly. "No we don't."
Neji ignored Shikamaru.
The four of them lied there in silence for a little while.
"We didn't eat today." Said Shikamaru suddenly. "At all."
No one really said anything in response to that.
"That's true." Neji agreed finally.
Quietness ensued.
"I'm hungry now." Said Shikataro.
There was another void of silence.
"Too bad." Shikamaru said. "Go to sleep."
Everyone simultaneously rolled over in bed and went to sleep.
MEANWHILE!!!
Inoshi was sitting in the bathroom with the door closed. He was typing. As long as his dadoo didn't see the light of his computer, it probably wouldn't bother him.
"Who left the bathroom light on?" came Sasuke's voice suddenly.
"You did." Said Naruto.
"No I didn't." Sasuke retorted. "I turned it off before I got in bed. YOU'RE the one who left it on."
"I did not!" Naruto said defensively.
Inoshi shut the computer, opened the door and leaned out to where the three were all lying.
"Um…I was just using it." he said. "But…uh…I'm done now!"
He turned off the light and gave a heavy sigh. He would be getting no work done tonight either.
"This is going to be a lot of fun guys." Said Chouji randomly. Everyone rolled over and looked at him. He was lying in his bed with his hands folded as they rested on his belly. "My only regret in life is that I don't have my own child to share this moment with."
"You can always adopt, I guess." Said Inoshi as he put his computer away in its case.
"Well, when you were young, all of you children sort of filled that gap of loneliness that I felt." Chouji continued. Sasuke opened one up and kept a watchful eye on Chouji to make sure he didn't eat and/or rape Inoshi.
"People grow up." Said Inoshi as he started pulling his own blankets aside.
"Remember when I used to babysit you, Inoshi." Said Chouji. "And I'd lie on the couch and you'd all lie around me?"
"Yeah…" said Inoshi.
"Well I was just—" started Chouji.
"Get in bed, Inoshi." Said Sasuke firmly. "Now."
MEANWHILE!!!
"He's not waking up." Said Lil Lee, kicking Pansuke slightly. "Can we just leave him there?"
"What, so you can get an entire bed to yourself?" said Sasuke Jr. "No."
"Why does it matter?" said Lil Lee. "I had to sleep in the same bed as Pansuke last night so I think I deserve my own bed tonight."
"I kinda want my own bed." Said Senjou with a sigh.
"Yeah, me too." Said Sasuke Jr. "But we can't ALL have our own beds so there's no sense discussing it anymore."
"Fine, but if you're SO obsessed with moving Pansuke in that bed just so I won't be the only one who gets my own bed, then you can do it." said Lil Lee, getting in his own bed.
"It really doesn't matter." Said Senjou to Sasuke Jr.
"Well, it's an entire night." Said Sasuke Jr. "I say we do SOMETHING to decide who rightfully gets a bed to themselves."
"Well, I should get it because I had to sleep with Pansuke last night." Said Lil Lee. "And this is my bed."
"I really don't care." Said Senjou. "It would be nice to have my own bed but I have slept on the ground many times, slept with ten people in one room and much worse."
"Wow." Said Lil Lee. "Being an ANBU must be tough."
Senjou coughed slightly. "Not THAT tough." He said, not really knowing the kind of comment that could potentially distract the conversation AWAY from that subject.
"Then maybe the best should get the bed." Said Sasuke Jr.
"…That would put you last wouldn't it?" said Lil Lee. "Considering Senjou's an ANBU, I'm a special jounin and you're only a jounin. Not to mention the fact that I beat you in the tournament."
Sasuke Jr. only glared at Lil Lee with this look that certainly implied he was about to pull out some genjutsu and just make it so he got his own bed and Senjou got his own bed.
Then, just when they were about to come to a conclusion, Pansuke rose from the ground.
"Ow…my head…" he whined, rubbing his face.
"Well, THAT problem is solved." Sasuke Jr. said with a shrug.
"God damn." Said Lil Lee.