MEANWHILE!!!
"It's almost lunch time." Said Kiba. "Should we just get in touch with the rest of the kids and tell them to meet us back here? Then we could get something to eat."
"That sounds like a good idea." Said Hinata.
"I would offer to go off and find them, but the chlorine and water just screws up my sense of smell." Sighed Kiba as if it were a tragedy.
"Why don't you just use your eyes?" asked Tenten.
"Because that's Hinata's job!" said Kiba. "She looks for them and then we'll send someone fast to go and get them! Let's see…who's fast…?"
"Sasuke…" said Naruto. "…WAS. Then he became a housewife."
Sasuke went to bitch slap Naruto but Naruto caught Sasuke's hand before he even made contact. Sasuke looked thoroughly surprised that Naruto was able to catch his hand like that, so he just dismissed it as lucky.
"I'LL get them!" said Lee, pointing proudly to himself. "Once you tell me where they are of course."
Hinata used her Byakugan to spot that the children were all within the confines of the Lazy River. With the exception of Senjou, Hichou, Kajitsu and Hana, of course.
Then Lee was off to retrieve them. Unfortunately, 'The Lazy River' was quite the LARGE and LAZY river so a general statement of "They're in the Lazy River!" was an essentially useless piece of information.
So Lee did the embarrassing dad thing. He got up on the highest point of the terrain and screamed, "CHILDREN!!! OH CHILDREN!!! WHEREVER ARE YOU?!"
"HEY!!" yelled Lil Gai, pointing directly at Lee. "IT'S DAD!!! HI DAD!!"
Lil Lee slapped his forehead and shook his head in embarrassment.
"Just be thankful he isn't YOUR dad." Said Kobiru.
Lil Lee looked at Kobiru questionably and was just about to inform her that Lee was, in fact, his father, but Lee had just ran over to the edge of the water and was now waving his arms around foolishly. So the kids sighed and got out of the water before he embarrassed himself or them anymore.
"What?" asked Inoshi.
"We're going to have lunch." Said Lee. "And we're thinking that we should eat as one big happy family!!"
"That sounds like a great idea!!" exclaimed Lil Gai.
Everyone else agreed and frolicked back to the cabana.
"Oh!!" said Kiba, standing up and spotting Kobiru. "It's Kobiru!! What a pleasant surprise!!" Then he squeezed the can of soda he was holding so tightly that it exploded.
"Hi Mr. Inuzuka!" said Kobiru, waving.
Hinata immediately handed Kiba a napkin to clean up the soda that was now all over him, but he just looked SO focused on glaring at Kobiru that he couldn't be bothered with such trifles.
"Naruto and Sakura went off to get lunches for you kids." Said Tenten.
"You guys all have packed lunches but we don't?" said Sasuke Jr. looking mightily confused. He had packed lunches all his life and now to NOT have one while everyone else did utterly dumbfounded him. Especially when he looked around to see that all of their lunches were in brown paper bags with names scrawled across the front in his father's handwriting that compulsively makes lunches.
"We didn't know you were going to come." Sasuke said in response to Sasuke Jr.'s unintentional expression of surprise.
Kobiru decided to take this opportunity while everyone was talking to meet Lil Lee's dad. Now, she remembered that Tashoku had said that Lil Lee's dad looked and acted like an alien…
She spotted someone who looked like Lil Lee. He also had white eyes, which kind of made him look alienish…
"Hi!" Kobiru said, greeting Neji who was sitting in a secluded part of the cabana where he wouldn't be bothered by… PEOPLE.
He looked up from his novel. "Hi." He said finally, remembering her only as the annoying girl who had wanted to put a twenty-fifth person in a tiny house the night before.
"So um…" Kobiru said absentmindedly. "I don't think I ever really met you. My name is Kobiru!"
"Good to know." Said Neji, sounding ALMOST sarcastic.
Kobiru didn't really catch it. "About your son…" she began.
"Yes?" said Neji, putting his novel down immediately. "What about him?"
"I just wanted to make sure it was all right with you if I got a little closer to him." Kobiru said in a very straightforward fashion.
"You mean…watch him?" Neji asked, a little confused.
"I guess…" Kobiru said.
"I can take care of my heir by myself." Neji replied.
"I don't think you understand." Said Kobiru.
Neji looked offended. "Excuse me?" he said, never hearing such insolence.
"He's at that age when he needs a woman in his life!" said Kobiru. "No boy can grow up without a woman in his life!"
Neji scratched his chin. "My heir does seem a little out of touch with women…" he said. "There never really was a mother…"
"Right!" said Kobiru. "Then you approve?"
"What… you want to baby-sit him?" Neji asked.
Kobiru laughed but Neji looked utterly serious. "Oh." Said Kobiru. "Um… does he… really need it?"
"He's a little young to be without supervision." Said Neji. "If, when we go out again and leave the children at home, you want to watch my heir and take care of him in my absence then I will allow it. Be warned, though, he can be quite the handful at times."
"…Okay." Said Kobiru. "That sounds…okay…"
It was then that Naruto and Sakura returned with huge trays filled with food that was prepared and served in bulk.
"This looks questionable." Said Lil Lee.
"It's FINE!" said Naruto as he reached for his bagged lunch only to find it was completely empty. "Hey!! Why don't I have a lunch?!"
"You think I packed you one?" Sasuke said.
"So you just wrote my name on an empty bag and opened it up so it looked like something was in it so I would be led into believing that there was something there so I wouldn't buy or pack myself anything?!" Naruto yelled all in one breath.
"Yes." said Sasuke. But then he paused. "Wait…no. Actually…yeah. Yeah, that's what I did."
"Sasuke!" said Ino. "You're setting a bad example for our children!" Sure enough, the six little Uchihas were all crowded around Sasuke, listening to his every word.
"I mean…" Sasuke said. "An animal must have eaten it…"
"You can have mine." Said Shino as he held out his lunch for Naruto. "I'm not hungry."
Naruto was about to take it and thank Shino when he noticed a bug fall out of Shino's sleeve, bounce off the bag and then land on the ground. Upon landing, it scurried around for a moment and then crawled up Shino's pant leg.
"Actually…no thanks…" Naruto said politely.
"DAD!!" yelled Hichou as he ran over to Neji who was eating his organic Hyuuga lunch. "Look!! Look!! Watch me!! I figured out how to do the Heavenly Spin!"
Neji watched just like Hichou instructed. Everyone else watched curiously as well as Hichou began spinning around in a circle. After a moment of senseless spinning, Neji put his hand on Hichou's head, which put him to an immediate stop. "I'm dizzy!" Hichou announced with a laugh.
"Very good Hichou." Said Neji. "Keep working at it."
Everyone would have made fun of Neji for having such a demented son but Neji is EVER so scary and, come to think of it, so is Hichou…
"Wait…he's your son too?" said Kobiru who was sitting next to Neji so she could make a good impression.
"Too?" said Neji with a raised eyebrow.
"Oh!" laughed Kobiru. "You were talking about HIM when you said you wanted me to baby-sit your son!"
"Whom else would I be talking about?" Neji said.
"Yeah…I thought it was a little weird." Said Kobiru.
"My heir?" asked Neji.
"No no no…" said Kobiru. But then she figured she really didn't have anything to say on the matter any further so she waved and walked away without another word. She walked over to where Tashoku was sitting with Sasuke Jr. and Lil Lee to her left and Hinata and Kiba to her right. "Hey Mr. and Mrs. Inuzuka!"
"That's it!" said Kiba as he slammed his unopened bag on the table and stood up. "That was the last straw!"
"Kiba…" said Hinata quietly. "She really hadn't done anything yet…"
"YET!" said Kiba. "She WILL, Hinata! She WILL!!"
"Daaa-aad!" whined Tashoku.
"Fine." Said Kiba. "I'LL go eat over THERE." Kiba picked up all his food and marched over to the other side of the cabana where he continued eating while glaring at Kobiru.
"Don't mind him." Said Hinata. "He MEANS well."
"No, mom, I don't think he does." Said Tashoku.
"Why does Kiba hate you so much?" asked Lil Gai to Kobiru.
"I don't know!" said Kobiru in the most puzzled tone ever.
"Maybe she switched places with him on a waterslide too." Said Sasuke Jr., sounding somewhat bitter.
"Oh I'M SORRY Sasuke!" laughed Kobiru but it sounded more like she was laughing AT him as opposed to laughing WITH him. Had he been laughing at all…
"Wait, what happened?" asked Ino.
"Nothing." Said Sasuke Jr. because he wasn't about to admit that Kobiru caught him off guard.
"Dad, I'm done." Said Senjou to Sasuke. "Can we go on more slides?"
"I thought you couldn't go on any slides." Said Inoshi.
"I can as long as I'm with someone who is five feet or taller." Senjou replied. "So will you take me, Dad?"
"Let me finish eating." Said Sasuke. "And you still have to wait a half an hour after you finish eating before going in the water."
"That's just an old wife's tale!!" said Naruto.
One by one, everyone proved Naruto wrong with their sources to back it up.
"I knew it was true, I just wanted to contradict Sasuke so I could annoy him." Said Naruto.
"You failed in doing so." Said Sasuke. "Because I am NOT annoyed, only amused that you would do something so stupid in attempt to annoy me and then not succeed."
"Sasuke, that's a lie and you know it." said Sakura. "While Naruto may not have annoyed you THIS time, every other time he has."
"Sakura…don't get involved." Advised Ino.
"Oh and what are you going to try and do about it?" said Sakura.
"Excuse me, between the two of us, I'M the active Jounin ninja so I wouldn't talk about 'doing something'." Said Ino.
"Someone should wake up Shikamaru so he doesn't miss lunch." Said Chouji randomly. It was just random enough to cease all the fighting and make everyone extremely confused. "I'LL take care of it." said Chouji.
"You do that Chouji." Said everyone.
After everyone finished eating (including Shikamaru and Shikataro) everyone was idle for a moment.
"Okaaaaaaay…" said no one in particular.
"I don't think we should have to worry about the half an hour rule." Said Naruto. "I mean…we'll be fine! We're ninjas! Well…MOST of us are anyway."
"Yeah!" Tenten. "Most of us ARE ninjas! But I'm not!"
"YEAH!!" agreed everyone else who wasn't a ninja with the exception of Sasuke who was still in denial. As far as he was concerned, he was the best ninja out of them all. Even Shikamaru. No, ESPECIALLY Shikamaru.