Chapter 25

"You know what?"

"What?"

"You're an idiot?"

Naruto glared at Kiba, who was snickering at his comment, before turning back to me to answer the question.

"Has anyone talked to the girls? School has been out for, like," he glanced at his wrist to check the time. "....three hours now."

My mouth dropped open slightly. "You mean to tell me that I have been sitting here, watching Shika blast zombies into next week all day, and not have one single second on that thing?" I demanded and pointed at the game console.

Shikamaru shot a glance over his shoulder before resuming his crazed gun shots on screen. I glared at his back.

"Oi, what about the girls? Usually one of us has heard from them by now." Naruto said a little louder, gaining our attention as he frowned slightly in worry.

Kankurou yawned and stretched on my bed, which I still wanted to kill him for. Though if Gaara was occupying the other one with that look of warning etched on his face, I would avoid it to. Still, I didn't want him on my bed! It was....it was just....it was my bed!

"Naruto," he said as he sat up and propped his chin in his hand that rested on his knee. "...you are so whipped."

The tension that immediatly flooded into the room made me stiffen and retreat a few steps. The back of my legs knocked against Gaara's bed, and I plopped down on the mattress all the while keeping my eyes wide open and staring at the males. The testosterone levels shot through the roof, along with wounded pride.

I never could understand what was so wrong about guys being tied up with girls. Or 'whipped' in their slang. If you liked the girl, then there was no point in denying it. And from the look that Naruto was giving Kankurou at the moment, the jibe had deffinatly rubbed him the wrong way entirely. It looked like Naruto was going to rip Kankurou apart and throw the pieces out the window.

I leaned foreward.

"I am not whipped." Naruto ground out, glaring at the brunette across from him.

Kankurou snorted. "Coming from the guy that lets his girlfriend use him as a punching bag."'

"Says the guy that allows his girlfriend to be the man in the relationship." Naruto shot back and smirked superiorly at the middle Sabaku.

"Are you always this stupid, or are you making a special effort today!" Kankurou sneered.

Naruto took a threatning step foreward."Hey, everyone is entitled to be stupid, you just abuse the privilege!"

"Push-over!"

"Make-up wearing sissy!"

"Ramen sucks!"

".........."

The actions following that last comment had to do something with Naruto's battle cry and Kankurou's grunt as the blonde shot across the room and launched himself onto the male. A crash echoed around the room as they flipped off the bed and landed in a heap of flailing limbs on the hardwood floor.

Kiba jumped out of the way, tripping and choking on his own bursts of laughter as Shikamaru paused the game -it's a miracle!- and moved it and himself safely out of the way from the fighting pair. I jerked my legs onto the bed as they rolled toward me, almost dragging me down in the furray with them, and giggled hysterically as the passed.

Feeling the bed shift behind me, I looked over my shoulder at Gaara. I grinned up at him and he only rolled his eyes. Though the quirk in his lips was not missed by me.

His eyes seemed to glint dangerously in the light, or lack thereof, as he stalked across the room and stood in the path of the oncoming fight. Kankurou and Naruto were oblivious as they continued to punch, kick, poke, bite, and even headbutt each other in there frustration. It seemed they were really having some difficulties in disentangling themselves from each other, and only making it worse by fighting harder.

Though the noise was pretty loud, Gaara's deep, cold voice was easily heard over the scuffle.

"Quit pissing me off, I'm running out of places to hide the bodies." he growled and glared at each person in turn, freezing them successfully.

I was still in a minor state of shock that Gaara had actually made a joke. I wiggled my finger in my ear and stared at him.

"Did you just make a joke?" I asked with a curious expression.

"...No."

I would deffinatly have to hunt those bodies down later then.

"But Gaara!" Naruto whined as he kicked Kankurou in the shin, earning him a jab in the kidney by the older males' elbow. "He started it!"

"I don't care who started it, just get the hell up before I-..."

Much to Gaara's irratation, the door to our room decided to slam open at that moment and whack the wall behind it loudly as figures stormed into the room. I gulped and shrank back at the hard looks and dangrous air surrounding them. It could rival Gaara's murder looks.

"Sakura?"

"Tenten!"

Kankurou's and Naruto's scramble became more frantic as they tried to pull themselves away from each other and get to the shocked, but very pissed off, girls at the door. An indigo colored head sidled past the two in the doorway and scurried into the room. As fast as she came in, Hinata was in Kiba's arms and hiding her face in the crook of his neck.

"Heh, I'm happy to see you to, Hinata." Kiba grinned and cradled her form in his lap as he leaned back in the chair he had grabbed when the door slammed open.

Temari pushed her way in next and shot glances around the room. Landing on Shikamaru, her brow furrowed slightly and she stepped over to him. Shikamaru stared lazily at her and blinked in surprise when she promptly pushed her lips roughly against his own. Now, Temari and Shikamaru were all over each other when the chance presented itself, but not in front of other people. So it came as a bit of a shock when the sandy haired female kissed him with an audience watching.

That was the second clue that let Shikamaru know something wasn't right. The first being the door almost flying off the hinges.

I was a little bit on the nervous side. Now, considering that Gaara and me had sent out those pictures of Naruto last night, I'm almost positive that that was the reason that Sakura was staring at him with eyes narrowed to slits. And why I could hear her grinding her teeth from across the room.

So I had anticipated a very pissed blossom, but I never expected two couples all over each other -maybe just one since Hinata and Kiba were just sitting there. Then there was Tenten, standing beside Sakura, who looked torn between shock and anger.

"Tenten, it's not what it looks like. I just - ugh!...Naruto that was my stomach!" Kankurou snapped as he pushed Naruto away from him.

"OW! My nose!" Naruto complained as he finally broke away from the middle Sabaku and rolled away.

"Oh my God! It's true!" Sakura wailed and backed up to lean against the door, jumping slightly when it closed behind her. Her emerald eyes were wide and staring at Naruto like he had just appeared out of thin air.

The blonde tilted his head. "Eh? What's true?"

Tenten smacked her forehead and dragged her hand down her face. Her brown eyes locked with Kankurou, and she frowned.

"I didn't do anything. Don't give me that look." Kankurou said and crossed his arms.

Kiba snorted. "Right, because rolling around on the floor with Naruto isn't 'doing anything'."

Tenten and Sakura gasped in sync as their eyes widened to saucers. Hinata snapped her head up and stared owlishly at the occupants in the room and Temari covered her eyes with her hand.

I bit my lip at the suggestive words that had came out of Kiba's mouth. It wasn't his fault, he didn't know what he was confirming to them. Oh, how I felt so bad for him.

He frowned. "What? What did I say?"

"Not my man!" Tenten yelled and jumped at Kankurou.

In a flash she was on him and attacking him with her mouth. From what I could see, it looked like she was attempting to swallow his face, and frankly, I was a bit frightened. Pulling Gaara's blanket to cover the bottome half of my face, I tried to make myself invisible as Sakura walked up to Naruto.

"You can't be! It's a lie!" she declared. "Please tell me they were lying about you!"

Naruto stood before her bewildred. "S-Sakura?"

The pink haired female gripped his shoulders under her firm hands and stared into his blue eyes with her own wide emerald ones.

"Naruto, you can't be gay!"

"...........WHAT?!?"

Hmm, well I really don't think I have to worry about Temari sending me to an early grave. At this rate, Naruto and Sakura would join forces and beat me to mush with rubber tires before dumping me into a river. How graceful. It seemed it is possible to continue sticking your feet in your mouth even after you pass two. I wouldn't be surprised if after I graduated, I ended up being the cause of all of us being sent to a therapist.

How troublesome.

I'm sorry for spelling and grammer mistakes if there were some. I just finished posting another chapter for 'Worth It' and it took me an hour to read through that one and critique it. Forgive me.

I hope you liked the chapter, I found it very entertaining. Humour right up to the end. Man you just have to love comedy, because if we didn't have humour the world would end in a great big blast of bomb prone acid. Me go sleepy now, so please review! Thank you!!!!!!!