Gaara P.O.V.
The dance was almost over now and lots of people had started taking breaks. Kiba was getting angry because most of the songs that were being played were slow songs, so Naruto and Hinata had been dancing for a while. He sat there with his arms crossed looking out on the dance floor. Then he turned to me. "Can I kill Naruto?" he asked. I looked at him.
"I don't really care. It would give me something to watch though," I told him.
"Kiba, you're not killing Naruto," Temari said.
"But he's been on the dance floor with my girlfriend for over three songs now!" he yelled. Temari sighed.
"You said he could dance with her," she said.
"Yeah, but he was implying one song! Not every damn slow song that came on!" he yelled.
"Want me to go with you to find him?" I asked. "I'll help you beat him up."
"No Gaara, there isn't going to be any fighting," Kankuro said joining in the conversation. I sighed.
One song later Hinata and Naruto came back laughing and smiling. "Took you long enough," Kiba said. Naruto blushed.
"Hinata wanted to keep dancing with me since she knew you didn't like slow songs," he said. "She just didn't want to trouble you."
"A likely story," Kiba said standing up angrily.
"No, it's true Kiba. I asked him to keep dancing with me," Hinata said a little scared now.
"Whatever, come on Hinata, let go dance," he said. Hinata nodded and followed him down to the dance floor.
"What was that all about?" Naruto asked me.
"He was a little mad that you were dancing with his girlfriend," I told him.
"But he said I could!" Naruto yelled.
"Yeah, but you implied one dance," I told him. He sighed.
"So he's really angry?" he asked. I nodded. Naruto shook his head and slouched in his chair. "What am I going to do?" he asked.
"I don't know," I told him. I glance over and saw Temari standing up. She started walking towards us. She sat down beside Naruto.
"Naruto, do you like Hinata?" she asked. Naruto turned red.
"No, we're just friends. And she's Kiba's girlfriend," he told her. "I can't like her; if I did it would wreck our friendship." Temari just nodded and went back to where she was sitting with Lee and Kankuro.
Temari P.O.V.
A few minutes after I sat down with Kankuro and Lee, Sasuke came back. He went and sat with Naruto and Gaara. I watched them as they started talking, and soon it seemed like Naruto had cheered up. I looked over onto the dance floor. The Akatsuki had started playing a song, but so far there was no singing. I watched as Deidara got off the stage and left the gym. This song must not have any singing at all. I got up and headed for the stairs. "Where are you going?" Gaara asked.
"Uh, for a drink," I told him. He raised an eye brow at me, but didn't say anything. So I headed down the stairs and out the gym doors.
I found Deidara at the water fountain in the hallway getting a drink and I went over to him. "You know you can get sick from drinking out of water fountains," I said. He looked at me and smiled.
"Well I don't have any money for a drink from the vending machine," he told me. "So I guess I'll have to settle for a cold." I laughed.
"What happened to the money from the shirts?" I asked.
"Itachi took it all. He said he doesn't trust anyone with it, and that he is saving it so we can actually travel to all the places on those shirts this summer," he told me.
"Well I have some money," I said.
"I can't let you pay for my drink. That wouldn't be very gentlemen like," he said.
"Then how about I buy one for myself and give you half?" I asked.
"I guess that would be ok," he said with a smile.
We walked down the hallway together to the lunchroom. It was where the closest vending machine was, and it was also the cheapest one. The drinks in it only cost a dollar, where all the other ones in the school cost two. But I guess that's because this one came in cans, and people rather pay the extra dollar for the bottle. I put the money in the machine and pick a Pepsi. Deidara smiled. "Good choice, I like those too," he said and I blushed a little. Then I opened the can, and took a drink. We started walking back to the gym and I handed him the pop. "You only took one drink though," he said looking at the can.
"I wasn't really thirsty anyways. I actually just left the gym to see you," I told him. He looked at me. "And I've made up my mind too," I said. I looked up at him. "Deidara, will you go out with me again?" I asked. He looked at me for a few seconds.
"Are you sure that's what you want? Are you sure you're over Shikamaru?" he asked as he finished the pop and threw it into a nearby bin. Tiers started to fill my eyes.
"Why do you keep asking me that? I said I want to get back with you, and I mean it," I told him.
"I'm just not convinced that you're over him," he said. "What are you going to do if he comes back?"
"I don't even know when or if he's coming back! He didn't even know! He had no information or anything! He just broke up with me and left!" I yelled starting to cry. I stopped walking and fell to my knees. "I-I want to be with you Deidara. I realise that I might have made a mistake breaking up with you. And I broke up with you in a curl way. I know how you felt now, when I just broke up with you and left," I said looking up at him. He reached out a hand, and I grabbed it. Then he pulled me up into a hug.
"I really like you Temari, and if you're sure you want to get back with me, then I'll accept you as my girlfriend again," he said. I looked up at him still crying. He took his hand and whipped my tears away. "You don't need to cry anymore, I'm here now," he said. I buried my face in his chest and held tightly onto the front of his shirt.
Once I had calmed down Deidara and I went back to gym. "So I guess you have to go back and sing now," I said. He shook his head.
"They wanted to give me a break so I don't lose my voice for our consort tonight," Deidara told me. "They are letting me rest for a few songs. Right now they are just going to play some songs we just made but don't have words to yet." I looked up at him. "In other words," he said. "Would you like to dance?" I smiled and nodded.
We went out onto the dance floor and danced for a bit. Then another slow song came on. As we started to dance to it, Deidara looked down at me. "This feels like the last school dance we went to together," he said.
"Only this time I'm not breaking up with you, right?" I asked. He shook his head.
"I wasn't going to say that," he told me. "I was going to say. This time we know how to dance from gym, and it feels like a happier atmosphere." I smiled up and him, and we continued to dance.
Kankuro P.O.V.
I sat in the bleachers with Lee, Gaara, Sasuke, and Naruto. I felt like we were the only ones in the school not dancing. Even the teachers that were supposed to be supervising were dancing. I sighed as I watched everyone on the dance floor move slowly and in unison to the slow dance. "What's wrong, Kankuro?" Lee asked.
"Nothing, I'm just really bored sitting up here," I said.
"Are you calling us boring now?" Gaara asked.
"No, I'm just tired of sitting here," I told him.
"We could go for a walk," Sasuke suggested.
"You always what to go for a walk," Naruto pouted. "Why don't you ever want to do anything else?"
"Like what?" Sasuke asked. Naruto paused for a moment to think, and then shrugged. "Exactly," Sasuke said. Naruto stuck his tongue out at him and he just sighed.
"I could go for a walk," Lee said. "It will get our youthfulness going again." We gave Lee a weird look, but he didn't seem to notice.
"Alright then, let's go," I said standing up. The rest of the guys followed as I headed to the stairs and out of the gym.
We walked around the school for a little bit, avoiding the teachers' lounge and the principal's office. We were only allowed in the main hallway from the gym to the cafeteria during the dance because the teachers didn't want kids sneaking out and making trouble. We were all the way up stairs and in one of the grade twelve hallways when we heard voices. "Ino, can we go back now?" it was Chouji's voice.
"No, we weren't doing anything in the dance anyways. What's the point in going back?" she asked.
"But messing with peoples lockers is kind of boring too," he said.
"But it will be fun watching losers that wrecked my perfect school get in trouble," she told him.
"You mean those siblings?" Shino asked.
"Of cores those siblings, this school was my perfect creation before they came! Everyone knew their place in the school and kept it. The losers were the losers, the popular kids were the popular kids, and the kids in the middle had chances to change around. Sasuke was quiet and loved by all the girls, Hinata was popular and would never go out with a guy like Kiba, Tenten was a spy for us, and Sakura was still alive. Everyone stayed in their own age group, the rich kids stayed with the rich kids, the poor kids stayed with the poor kids, brothers and sisters never communicated with each other in school because of the age thing, and no one would be caught dead dating someone out of their age range innless it was a popular kid. It was the perfect school for people like us! But ever since those new kids came it's been slowly falling apart at our fingers! If we could just find a way to get at least one of them expelled, then the other two might back down. We could get this school back to the way it was," Ino told them.
I couldn't take it. I couldn't listen to this girl anymore. I clenched my fist and started to head in the direction of the talking. Everyone else seemed to feel the same way, since they followed me without saying anything to stop me. We turned a corner to see Ino, Shino, and Chouji playing around with one of the lockers. They were writing on it, and trying to unlock it. "You stupid blond which, what the hell are you doing?" I yelled at Ino. She looked up and me and the other boys scared, but didn't say anything. "I asked you a damn question, answer me!" I yelled at her again.
"Hey, don't yell at her like that!" Chouji said angrily.
"Shut up Chouji!" I yelled. "You know, Ino, if you weren't a girl I would have beaten the crap out of you by now!"
"Wow Kankuro, calm down, I've never seen you act like this before," Gaara said. "Besides, you never let me act this way." I turned around to him.
"I'm just pissed off! That girl is such an idiot! I hate people like her!" I yelled.
"Well well, it seems big brother here can't practice what he preaches," Ino said. I spun around angrily to face her and her friends. "If you don't allow your little brother to act in this manner, then why should you be able to? And to a girl none the less," she said with a smirk and put a hand on her hips. I clenched my fist, but Gaara put his hand on my shoulder to stop me. I took a deep breath and calmed down.
"You know, we really hate you Ino," Gaara said. Ino shrugged.
"I don't care what you think of me. I'm just trying to get the perfect school back that you wrecked," she told him.
"They didn't wreck anything," Lee said. "I'd say they fixed it." Naruto nodded.
"Oh who cares what you think? You two are just saying that because you use to be lonely losers, and now you have a whole group of friends. Well you may be like that now, but the rest of the school is falling apart. And I'm sure Sasuke will agree that he is one of the people that had a much better life before those three losers came," Ino said.
"You're wrong, I don't agree with that at all," Sasuke told her. She looked at him in shock. "I always hated being a popular kid. I never wanted to be one, but you forced me into it. I would have much rather been with Kiba and Naruto all those years that you and Sakura were with me. Truth is I have fun with these guys, and can be myself around them. I could never do that with you and Sakura. You two always threatened to tell people things about me. You told me that if I didn't act the way you wanted me to, that you would tell everyone lies about me. You just wanted to be near me because it made you and Sakura look cool to be around someone like me. I hated every minute I was with you guys."
"But we made you popular. You could have any girl you wanted. You had tons of friends, and everyone looked up to you!" Ino yelled.
"Maybe so, but you two were annoying as hell. I would have much rather be a loser and have fun then be popular and hate my life," he told her. Ino crossed her arms and leaned onto one leg.
"Well it doesn't matter anyways," she said calming down. "Soon one of those three new kids will be expelled, and everything can go back to normal. Vandalizing school property is a big crime you know. And if they don't get expelled then the grade twelve's will have a few words for them."
"You're plan isn't going to work!" Naruto yelled angrily. Ino shrugged.
"And what are you guys going to do? You're the biggest losers out of your little group," she told him. Naruto clenched his fist.
"Hey, where are the others anyways?" Chouji asked staring at the group.
"Why do you care?" I asked.
"I was just wondering where Shikamaru was," he said a little more quietly.
"Why should we tell you? He told us the story about how you just left him," Gaara told him plainly. Chouji didn't say anything. He just looked at the floor.
"He's gone," Sasuke told him.
"What?" Chouji asked looking up at him.
"He moved to Suna," Sasuke told him. "He left just before lunch." Chouji looked to the floor with a sad look on his face.
"Why does it even matter, Chouji? He was a loser anyways, and you left him a long time ago to be with us. If anything you should be happy that he's gone. He's one less person we have to deal with," Ino told him. He didn't say anything. "Well anyways, since we've been found out we better go. We've done enough damage for now." Ino turned her back to us and motioned for Chouji and Shino to follow. Shino went right away, but Chouji never. He stood there for a few more seconds. Then Ino turned to him. "Chouji, hurry up or we'll leave you!" she yelled at him. He nodded and went running after them.
Gaara P.O.V.
Once Chouji, Ino, and Shino had turned the corner I went over to the locker they were at. I stared at it for a few moments and then started to laugh. "What's so funny?" Kankuro asked walking over to me. The other three followed.
"I don't get it," Lee said staring at it intensely. Naruto tilted his head in confusion, and Sasuke didn't say anything.
"I don't see how you find this funny," Kankuro said. "We can get in trouble for this."
"Don't you get it? It's so obvious we never did it. I mean who would be stupid enough write their own names on something they wrecked," I said pointing to mine, Kankuro's, and Temari's names scratched into the locker. "I knew Ino was an idiot."
"Well I guess we don't have to worry too much about this then," Kankuro said. "They'll probably be back with the principle soon though."
"We should probably leave then," Sasuke said. "We aren't supposed to be over here anyways."
"But I want to watch them make fools of themselves," I said a little disappointed.
"It's better if we're not here when they get back. Just in case the principle sees us," Kankuro told me. I sighed and nodded. If Ino, Chouji, and Shino were going to go get a teacher or the principle then they would be getting in trouble once they got here. We weren't supposed to leave the main hallway if we left the dance after all. And who ever followed them here would find it funny that they knew about it. So I followed Kankuro, Lee, Naruto, and Sasuke back to the gym.