Naruto Primer: Chouji/Hinata/Ino
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"I can't believe Shikamaru left early!" said Ino as she and Chouji sat at the table of that awesome restaurant that you can cook the food right there on the table because there's a grill there. "And Asuma too. Where is Asuma anyway?"
"Doesn't matter!" Chouji said. "More for us!"
"This isn't exactly how I wanted to spend my day though…" Ino sighed, leaning back in her chair.
Hinata had just returned from her discussion with her teacher. Kiba had gone off to do his thing, and who knows exactly what Shino did? So now Hinata was alone so she was just wandering around. That's when she entered the restaurant where you can cook things right at the table because there's a grill in the middle of it.
"Hey, isn't that Hinata?" said Ino, leaning over to get a better look and noticing that Hinata was all alone. "We've got more food than we need and she's not with anyone else. Hinata! Over here!"
Hinata looked up and came over. "Yes?" she said timidly.
"You want to sit down with us?" Ino said, moving over.
"Oh, I don't want to intrude." Hinata said.
"It's no trouble." Said Ino. "Otherwise, Chouji will eat it all and he doesn't need it."
"Okay then." Said Hinata with a smile as she sat down next to Ino.
"Hey, congratulations on winning the competition!" Ino said.
"Thanks!" said Hinata. "Though, I didn't really do much to help us win."
"Don't say that!" said Ino. "We're girls! Girl power! We have to stick together and can't just lie back and let the guys take all the credit for our victories!"
"No, I'm not just saying that." Hinata confessed. "I honestly didn't do much at all. At times, I felt as though I was slowly down my team, in fact. Then again, I feel like that most of the time."
Hinata then became all angsty.
"Why do you feel that way?" Ino questioned. "That's so weird because Chouji and Shikamaru are always the ones slowing ME down!"
"That's not true!" said Chouji, slamming his fist on the table.
"Isn't Shikamaru a chuunin?" Hinata asked.
"Yeah but he doesn't really deserve it." Ino replied.
"That's not true!!" Chouji argued. "Shikamaru was awesome in the chuunin exam so he deserves to be one!"
"I think Sasuke deserves it before anyone else!" Ino continued.
"Not before Shikamaru." Chouji insisted.
"What about Naruto?" Hinata asked. "I think he did really well in the final part of the exam…"
"It was really amazing that he could beat Neji and all, but I think it was just a fluke though." Ino answered.
"You think so?" Hinata asked. "I don't know…"
"It doesn't matter how well anyone did in the chuunin exam because Shikamaru was the only one that passed and that's all that matters!" Chouji said. "It doesn't matter who WE think should have passed."
"Yeah, especially since all three of us didn't even get passed the preliminaries…" Ino agreed.
"We still gave it our all though!" said Hinata.
"Yeah!" said Ino. "And that's all that counts!"
"Right." Said Chouji sarcastically.
"Hey, if you have something to say, say it." Ino threatened. "Don't mutter it under your breath!"
"All I said was 'Right'!" Chouji argued.
"Sure, sure." Said Ino, sitting back in her chair. Then, all of a sudden, she sat back up and looked all excited. "I forgot all about this but I think Lee asked me out on a date the other day!!"
"Lee? Rock Lee?" said Chouji.
"You think?" Hinata asked.
"Yeah!" said Ino. "We both showed up at a café area. I had gotten an anonymous letter from someone and Lee JUST SO HAPPENED to be at the same place for the same amount of time as I was. He had flowers and everything. Then he fabricated some story out of nowhere that he was waiting for someone too but I think he just wanted to spend time with me."
"I thought he liked Sakura." Said Chouji.
"Apparently not anymore." Ino replied. She didn't know whether or not to be happy about it. It didn't matter who liked her because her heart was only for Sasuke. "I just thought it was a little TOO coincidental that my potential date never showed up and his potential date never showed up."
"Maybe someone set you up." Hinata suggested.
Ino laughed. "Yeah right!" she said. "Who would set me up with Lee? That doesn't make any sense at all!"
"Yes, I suppose that would be weird…" Hinata admitted.
"If you could go out with anyone in the entire world, who would it be?" Ino said, but it was more like a question to herself. "That's a pretty easy question. I would go out with Sasuke of course!! What do you think he would say? If Sakura was here, she would say, 'I think he would want to go out with Naruto!' Sakura is such an idiot!"
"Why would Sasuke want to go out with Naruto?" Chouji asked.
"Sakura's trying to convince me that Sasuke's gay so that she can have him all to herself once I give up on him." Ino replied.
"But Naruto's not gay, is he?" Hinata asked nervously.
"Who cares?" said Ino.
"Oh…right…" Hinata replied.
"But, I don't believe her!" Ino said. "Even though Sasuke's never shown interest in another girl. And he's kissed Naruto. And he really only hangs around with other guys. But ALL guys do that, right?"
She paused.
"Right?" she repeated when she got no response.
"Oh right." Said Chouji and Hinata quickly so that the reply wasn't really all that reassuring to Ino.
"So…what are you two doing here anyway?" Hinata asked, trying to change the subject.
"Well," Ino replied immediately since she wanted to get off the topic of Sasuke's sexuality preference as well. "Asuma took us here for whatever reason he has and then he took off after a few minutes. So we hung around and ate for a while but then Shikamaru said, 'This is FAR too troublesome!' quote unquote, and left a little while ago." She even added a crazy voice impression of Shikamaru and everything!
"We were just finishing up and then we were going to leave." Chouji said.
"I actually planned on leaving but then I saw you and decided to strike up a conversation!" Ino explained.
"Oh, that's so nice!" said Hinata.
"So how about we go off and do something else since I'm bored with just sitting around here watching Chouji eat!" Ino said, standing up.
"LET'S GO!!!" said Chouji, Ino and Hinata as they jumped up and punched the air.