"How can i tell you?"
A HinaNaru (also a SasuSaku, ShikaIno) pairing!
Authors notes: Hello... so sorry again for the long delay... hehehe.... okay... chapter 20!? were almost at the end of our story...!!! a couple more chapters? okay...! okay... lets get on with it!
Disclaimer : Of course, the naruto series is not mine... if it was... hinata would appear more frequently and theyed get engaged in the series (you gotta love both of em) well... Naruto, Hinata-san, Ino, Sakura, Sasuke, Shikamaru, Kakashi and some other minor/major characters are NOT mine i tell you!!! (but i wish they were... TT)
How can I tell you? - Chapter 20
Time of their lives.
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Lets fast forward to the next night... May the 13th... (about 6pm)Shikamaru, Neji, Sasuke, and of course... Naruto... who was already complaining about the time girls take to get to a place....
"geez... how long will we wait?"
Sasuke gave naruto a smirk,
"heh...youre the one with the date... it's your problem..."
"oh hell with it... where are those-"
Then someone poked Naruto on the back... It was Izumi and Hana.
"you were saying?" Izumi asked the jonin.
"er... nothing?"
"okay... umm... where's gaara kun?"
Naruto raised an eyebrow...
"I dunno... I thought he was going to be with you?"
"yeah... but i guess he 's with Temari and Kankuro... do you have an idea where ino and Hinata are right now?"
"I have no idea..."
Shikamaru laughed as the convo between Izumi and Naruto continued. He looked behind him, seeing 5 people coming their way.
"Hey... Naruto... they're here..."
Everyone looked behind them to see Hinata, Ino, Temari, Kankuro, and Gaara come to them.
Hinata walked up to Naruto and started to twiddle her fingers as usual.
"h-hi...N-naruto..."
"hi... y-you look great today!"
Both Naruto and Hinata looked at the floor and blushed.
"thanks..."
Hinata was wearing the Kimono that Izumi picked out for her... She had her hair done by ino. Naruto thought that the orchid that hung over her right ear just fit her very well..
---
"so... er.... where do you wanna go tonight?" Ino asked the lazy chuunin in front of her.
Shikamaru gave a smile... Ino was wearing a ponytail just like before... it was her first in 4 years... and instead of the band that held her ponytail together before, it was a red ribbon that had matched her purple kimono. Shikamaru always knew Ino had a thing for Purple stuff...
"no where specific... anyway... you look good today..."
Ino blushed for a moment and held Shikamaru's hand.
"Comeon.. we have to play some games! Hinata, Naruto, izumi, Hana-chan, Sasuke-kun, Neji, Temari, Kankuro, Gaara... see you guys later!"
"this is going to be so-"
"yeah yeah yeah right... troublesome! I know! lets go Shikamaru!" Ino said as she dragged shikamaru towards the booths.
"oh well... er.. see you guys later... if im still alive..."
Neji Laughed.
"heh... see ya... good luck with Ino..."
Naruto and hinata had been quite quiet for some time now... maybe it was time that they talked right?
Naruto scratched his head
"heh... er... Hinata... um... should we go now?"
"um... but where will we go...?"
"to the booths! That stupid Tenma gave us a tab of 3 million... it was my fault actually..."
"no... I think It was my fault..."
Neji looked at his cousin with a raised eyebrow.
"no... it wasnt... Naruto was too clumsy..."
"but... i fainted... right? Naruto wouldnt knock over that vase if it wasnt for me..."
Neji shook his head... the old Hinata that he had hated was coming back again... and he was just willing to give up something to help his cousin get her confidence back... his pride...
"and It was my fault... If I wasnt too harsh on you before... you wouldnt be like this..."
"no... its not your fault..."
"well it is... you wouldnt be like this at all if it wasnt for me..."
Hinata looked at Neji surprized... she knew that neji had an unbreakable pride... and it was the first time he took the blame for something... she smiled at her cousin and hugged him.
"Thank you neji-niisan..."
Naruto and the rest smiled at the view... It seems that Neji and Hinata are finally patched up as a family... this would signal the peace between the branch and head family of the famous hyuuga clan.
"for what?" Neji asked after Hinata let him go.
"for being there for me... im thankful that you helped me to start striving to get stronger... thank you..."
Neji was flattered but of course he didnt want to show it... he just smiled and crossed his arms.
"no problem hinata..."
Naruto laughed.
"okay.. now hinata shall we go now? we have to pay the tab by midnight..."
Hinata smiled at naruto.
"yeah! comeon naruto-kun... lets go!" Hinata said as she took Naruto's hand and happily ran with him to the booth areas...
Sasuke Smiled, he looked at his fellow comrades, smiling at them.
"heh... now what will we do to get cash?"
Temari thought for a while...
"kankuro and I plan to take bets on the lotteries..."
"okay... what about you Izumi... Hana?"
Izumi jumped at Gaara and smiled happily.
"heh... of course! Im going wherever gaara-kun goes!"
Gaara tried to get her off of him.
"get off of me..."
"no! Im staying with you...!"
"but at least not on my back... get off of me.."
Izumi jumped off of gaara's back and sighed.
"oh well.. okies.. Hana coming with us?"
"um.... im not sure... im not a ninja so I cant do much..."
Sasuke smiled.
"so what are you good at?"
"um... cooking... and um....dancing..."
"heh... none of us here knows how to dance... that will be good for us..."
"'kay..."
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2 Hours later....
Ino and Shikamaru had won about 500,000 yen... Most of them are Shikamaru's winnings on some Questionnaire contests, while ino contributed some by some good guesses.
Shikamaru counted the yen they won... exactly 500,000 yen...
"wow... well... we did good back there ino..."
"yeah! you did a hell of a job there too! you didnt even give the opponents time to even think and you answered most questions under 6 seconds...!"
Shikamaru rolled his eyes... trying to make his blush less noticed.
"stop flattering me... you did good too..."
"yeah... at making guesses..."
Shikamaru dug his hands into his pockets...
"at least you answered them right..."
"well I guess i was just having a lucky streak...hehehe"
Shikamaru smiled and looked at Ino from top to bottom for the 40th time that night. She looked great. The purple Kimono looked good on her, especially with that red ribbon on her hair. Shikamaru liked this because Ino hadnt worn a ponytail for such a long time... he had missed it, a little... okay.. a little too much, and Shikamaru blushed when Ino held his hand and went closer to him.
"heh..."
----
Meanwhile with Sasuke's Group... They were busy with booths that regarded strength... speed and accuracy...
"hyaaa!" Neji shouted, throwing a kunai at a target... well he missed by a milimeter..
"hmph... too bad Tenten's not here... this would be easy with her... Hey! another one!"
While Neji was busy at throwing Kunai games... Sasuke was busy with racing games. He had already won about 6 games and gotten a million yen...
"pft... this is nothing... "
Izumi and Gaara? They have a booth of their own... run by Hana, Kankuro and Temari of course... they were making the most money.... by making a 'show' by making izumi and gaara have a duel...
"bets! who will get bets!" Hana annouced.
Three men raised their hands...
"I'll take a thousand on the Scary guy!!!"
"that's cheap....! 5000 on the Red head!!"
Temari laughed at the sight... more people voted on gaara to win... too bad they dont understand when it was said that looks could be decieving...
"hahaha... no one's betting on Izumi... seems she looks more Innocent.. no one even sees that she could beat Gaara on one move! hahaha"
Kankuro sighed, trying to stop himself from laughing too...
"heh... we made a million yen... heh... not bad at all... not bad... but gaara would kill us..."
"dont worry... Izumi-chan got us covered... Right izumi?"
Izumi looked at Temari and smiled confidenly.
"yup!"
----
We have seen what the others have done... Naruto and Hinata? okay! here they are!
Naruto faced towards a fountain... He and hinata had just gotten some luck on some contests...
"gaaaahh... that was tiring... the bad part is... we just got a lousy 250000 yen... I bet that stupid sasuke got more than a million by now..."
"were not sure about that naruto-kun... most probrobly it would depend on how they perform on the games they joined... "
Naruto smiled at hinata...
"heh... i guess so...."
A few moments of silence passed... It was broken when Shikamaru and Ino had bumped into them.
"heyy! Hinata-chann!"
Hinata looked behind her.
"oh Ino-san... how did it go?"
"well it was kinda fun... shika did a great job on answering questions!"
Shikamaru rolled his eyes... Ino had been prasing him for almost the whole time they were together...
"it wasnt that great ino..."
"oh yeah... okay... here.. answer this question... (its a riddle i translated from my native language...) ' Im a deep well, filled with knives... what am i?'"
Naruto just gave out a vauge 'eh!?'. Shikamaru rolled his eyes again and just blurted out the answer, even if he didnt want to..
"the answer is your mouth..."
"and what about question number #42? 'who is a friend, never parting from you 'til end?'"
"of course my shadow..."
"told you... you did great!"
Shikamaru gave a violent blush and looked away. He had a dislike for attention, but he got the opposite of what he wanted when he turned to chuunin 4 years ago.
"whatever..."
Hinata sweatdropped at them.
"but well... it seems you two had a hell of a time I suppose?"
Ino smiled at the navy-haired medic.
"hell yeah! It was fun... learned a few things too..."
in the middle of Ino and hinata's conversation, Tenma had come near them. with a girl that was awfully familiar to Shikamaru.
"hello guys! got my money yet?"
Shikamaru raised an eyebrow.
"no... not yet... but who's the girl?"
"my girlfriend..... Gimeina ..."
Naruto looked at him angrily...
'hmph... he had a girlfriend all along and he was flirting with Hinata all this time...that no good two-timing jerk...'
Shikamaru was also thinking of something else...
'who is she... she looks so familiar...'
"nice to meet you Gimena..." Shikamaru greeted despite his thoughts.
The black haired girl smiled.
"yes... it was nice to meet you too Nara Shikamaru..."
"how did you know my name?" shikamaru asked with a raised eyebrow.
Gimena snickered.
"hahahah.... i have my sources..."
"mendokusee..."
Tenma took Gimena's hand and smiled when he saw a group of people coming their way.
"well Gimena-chan and I are going now... and I hope I get the payment by later on tonight..."
Naruto rolled his eyes...
"yeah yeah whatever... I had made 250000 already.. dont freak out..."
Shikamaru laughed as tenma and his girlfriend walked away.
"heh... 250 thousand yen? we made 500000..." he said pointing to himself.
"gah... everyone's besting me!"
"That's lame... 500000? my group got at least 2 million yen... "
Naruto looked behind him. It was Sasuke...
"oh great... now I totally flunked it..."
Hinata sweatdropped and then smiled at naruto, rubbing his back to comfort him.
"dont worry naruto... what matters is that we're handling this crisis as a team..."
Hana beamed up and skipped to naruto, hoping she could help hinata cheer him up.
"yeah... so what if we made more than you? it'll all be gone once we pay the tab for that vase..."
"yeah... i know... anyways... we got?"
"2,250,000 yen... we still lack 250 thousand... at this time the only contest that would be still open is the group singing contest at the middle square..." Temari noted holding a pamphlet.
Naruto raised an eyebrow...
"oh well... my fault anyway... Im in..."
"okay... its one... we need three.... and oh yeah.. the girl's group singing competition is over ino..."
"damn..." ino cursed... she was hoping to get to sing too...
"okay... who's up for it... Kankuro.... no talent... cant sing... Gaara... izumi... too tired from battles... hmm.... Chouji...?"
Chouji sighed then continued on his bag of chips.
"nah...munch munch... cant sing either..."
"oh okay... so... Uchiha? Shikamaru?"
"no way...." Sasuke complained, "im not going to sing! ever..."
"I cant sing... its too troublesome...!"
Temari had a scary look on her face.
"if you two dont get in there and sing... i'll ask gaara to mash the pulp outta ya!"
Sasuke and Shikamaru gulped... as Shikamaru's father once said...'a angry woman is a bad thing..'.
"yeah...yeah... okay....we'll do it..." Shikamaru said in an annoyed tone after seeing Sasuke sigh in defeat.
"Then fine... off to the stage we go!" Temari said as she led the group towards the square.
Ino skipped up and down while following temari.
"Yay! im going to hear Shikamaru sing! horray!"
"mendokusee...zettai medokusee... (absolutely troublesome)!" Shikamaru complained.
Naruto looked worried.
"can I really do this? i havent sung since the academy... heh...what do you think hinata?"
Hinata started twiddling her fingers.
"well... I beleive you can do it Naruto-kun... youre an incredible ninja.. maybe you can sing too right?"
A smile trickled on Naruto's face.
"heh... its good i have a friend like you hinata... you always have faith in me..."
A blush appeared on Hinata's face...
"heh... im just returning all the things you have done for me..." Hinata said before she walk faster and caught up with Ino. Leaving Naruto with a smiling face following the rest towards the stage of the singing contest...
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phew... that was it! sorry for the long delay... I had a big attack of a writer's block... add that to assignments... projects, notebook re-writes and some stupid 'i dont have time but im not doing anything at all... to lazy at the moment' attacks... hehehe... oh well... thanks for the patient reviewers! oh and by the way... im having a poll! please answer this on your review... im counting the votes... for the song that will be sung by Shikamaru, Naruto, and Sasuke...
a ) why not give me a chance...? (ba't di mo pagbigyan) - a filipino song... translated from my native language. It has really relative lyrics to the three guys. and yeah.. its a good song beleive me...
b ) The reason - a popular song everywhere at the moment... hehehe. its english but it doesnt have as much 'hit' in it for Naruto's case...
there... either try it english or translated its up to you... dont forget to vote or else i wont be able to even make the chapter. BTW... we have at least 3 chapters to go... at my estimate. Please continue supporting me on this fic! thanx!
A HinaNaru (also a SasuSaku, ShikaIno) pairing!
Authors notes: Hello... so sorry again for the long delay... hehehe.... okay... chapter 20!? were almost at the end of our story...!!! a couple more chapters? okay...! okay... lets get on with it!
Disclaimer : Of course, the naruto series is not mine... if it was... hinata would appear more frequently and theyed get engaged in the series (you gotta love both of em) well... Naruto, Hinata-san, Ino, Sakura, Sasuke, Shikamaru, Kakashi and some other minor/major characters are NOT mine i tell you!!! (but i wish they were... TT)
How can I tell you? - Chapter 20
Time of their lives.
------------------
Lets fast forward to the next night... May the 13th... (about 6pm)Shikamaru, Neji, Sasuke, and of course... Naruto... who was already complaining about the time girls take to get to a place....
"geez... how long will we wait?"
Sasuke gave naruto a smirk,
"heh...youre the one with the date... it's your problem..."
"oh hell with it... where are those-"
Then someone poked Naruto on the back... It was Izumi and Hana.
"you were saying?" Izumi asked the jonin.
"er... nothing?"
"okay... umm... where's gaara kun?"
Naruto raised an eyebrow...
"I dunno... I thought he was going to be with you?"
"yeah... but i guess he 's with Temari and Kankuro... do you have an idea where ino and Hinata are right now?"
"I have no idea..."
Shikamaru laughed as the convo between Izumi and Naruto continued. He looked behind him, seeing 5 people coming their way.
"Hey... Naruto... they're here..."
Everyone looked behind them to see Hinata, Ino, Temari, Kankuro, and Gaara come to them.
Hinata walked up to Naruto and started to twiddle her fingers as usual.
"h-hi...N-naruto..."
"hi... y-you look great today!"
Both Naruto and Hinata looked at the floor and blushed.
"thanks..."
Hinata was wearing the Kimono that Izumi picked out for her... She had her hair done by ino. Naruto thought that the orchid that hung over her right ear just fit her very well..
---
"so... er.... where do you wanna go tonight?" Ino asked the lazy chuunin in front of her.
Shikamaru gave a smile... Ino was wearing a ponytail just like before... it was her first in 4 years... and instead of the band that held her ponytail together before, it was a red ribbon that had matched her purple kimono. Shikamaru always knew Ino had a thing for Purple stuff...
"no where specific... anyway... you look good today..."
Ino blushed for a moment and held Shikamaru's hand.
"Comeon.. we have to play some games! Hinata, Naruto, izumi, Hana-chan, Sasuke-kun, Neji, Temari, Kankuro, Gaara... see you guys later!"
"this is going to be so-"
"yeah yeah yeah right... troublesome! I know! lets go Shikamaru!" Ino said as she dragged shikamaru towards the booths.
"oh well... er.. see you guys later... if im still alive..."
Neji Laughed.
"heh... see ya... good luck with Ino..."
Naruto and hinata had been quite quiet for some time now... maybe it was time that they talked right?
Naruto scratched his head
"heh... er... Hinata... um... should we go now?"
"um... but where will we go...?"
"to the booths! That stupid Tenma gave us a tab of 3 million... it was my fault actually..."
"no... I think It was my fault..."
Neji looked at his cousin with a raised eyebrow.
"no... it wasnt... Naruto was too clumsy..."
"but... i fainted... right? Naruto wouldnt knock over that vase if it wasnt for me..."
Neji shook his head... the old Hinata that he had hated was coming back again... and he was just willing to give up something to help his cousin get her confidence back... his pride...
"and It was my fault... If I wasnt too harsh on you before... you wouldnt be like this..."
"no... its not your fault..."
"well it is... you wouldnt be like this at all if it wasnt for me..."
Hinata looked at Neji surprized... she knew that neji had an unbreakable pride... and it was the first time he took the blame for something... she smiled at her cousin and hugged him.
"Thank you neji-niisan..."
Naruto and the rest smiled at the view... It seems that Neji and Hinata are finally patched up as a family... this would signal the peace between the branch and head family of the famous hyuuga clan.
"for what?" Neji asked after Hinata let him go.
"for being there for me... im thankful that you helped me to start striving to get stronger... thank you..."
Neji was flattered but of course he didnt want to show it... he just smiled and crossed his arms.
"no problem hinata..."
Naruto laughed.
"okay.. now hinata shall we go now? we have to pay the tab by midnight..."
Hinata smiled at naruto.
"yeah! comeon naruto-kun... lets go!" Hinata said as she took Naruto's hand and happily ran with him to the booth areas...
Sasuke Smiled, he looked at his fellow comrades, smiling at them.
"heh... now what will we do to get cash?"
Temari thought for a while...
"kankuro and I plan to take bets on the lotteries..."
"okay... what about you Izumi... Hana?"
Izumi jumped at Gaara and smiled happily.
"heh... of course! Im going wherever gaara-kun goes!"
Gaara tried to get her off of him.
"get off of me..."
"no! Im staying with you...!"
"but at least not on my back... get off of me.."
Izumi jumped off of gaara's back and sighed.
"oh well.. okies.. Hana coming with us?"
"um.... im not sure... im not a ninja so I cant do much..."
Sasuke smiled.
"so what are you good at?"
"um... cooking... and um....dancing..."
"heh... none of us here knows how to dance... that will be good for us..."
"'kay..."
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2 Hours later....
Ino and Shikamaru had won about 500,000 yen... Most of them are Shikamaru's winnings on some Questionnaire contests, while ino contributed some by some good guesses.
Shikamaru counted the yen they won... exactly 500,000 yen...
"wow... well... we did good back there ino..."
"yeah! you did a hell of a job there too! you didnt even give the opponents time to even think and you answered most questions under 6 seconds...!"
Shikamaru rolled his eyes... trying to make his blush less noticed.
"stop flattering me... you did good too..."
"yeah... at making guesses..."
Shikamaru dug his hands into his pockets...
"at least you answered them right..."
"well I guess i was just having a lucky streak...hehehe"
Shikamaru smiled and looked at Ino from top to bottom for the 40th time that night. She looked great. The purple Kimono looked good on her, especially with that red ribbon on her hair. Shikamaru liked this because Ino hadnt worn a ponytail for such a long time... he had missed it, a little... okay.. a little too much, and Shikamaru blushed when Ino held his hand and went closer to him.
"heh..."
----
Meanwhile with Sasuke's Group... They were busy with booths that regarded strength... speed and accuracy...
"hyaaa!" Neji shouted, throwing a kunai at a target... well he missed by a milimeter..
"hmph... too bad Tenten's not here... this would be easy with her... Hey! another one!"
While Neji was busy at throwing Kunai games... Sasuke was busy with racing games. He had already won about 6 games and gotten a million yen...
"pft... this is nothing... "
Izumi and Gaara? They have a booth of their own... run by Hana, Kankuro and Temari of course... they were making the most money.... by making a 'show' by making izumi and gaara have a duel...
"bets! who will get bets!" Hana annouced.
Three men raised their hands...
"I'll take a thousand on the Scary guy!!!"
"that's cheap....! 5000 on the Red head!!"
Temari laughed at the sight... more people voted on gaara to win... too bad they dont understand when it was said that looks could be decieving...
"hahaha... no one's betting on Izumi... seems she looks more Innocent.. no one even sees that she could beat Gaara on one move! hahaha"
Kankuro sighed, trying to stop himself from laughing too...
"heh... we made a million yen... heh... not bad at all... not bad... but gaara would kill us..."
"dont worry... Izumi-chan got us covered... Right izumi?"
Izumi looked at Temari and smiled confidenly.
"yup!"
----
We have seen what the others have done... Naruto and Hinata? okay! here they are!
Naruto faced towards a fountain... He and hinata had just gotten some luck on some contests...
"gaaaahh... that was tiring... the bad part is... we just got a lousy 250000 yen... I bet that stupid sasuke got more than a million by now..."
"were not sure about that naruto-kun... most probrobly it would depend on how they perform on the games they joined... "
Naruto smiled at hinata...
"heh... i guess so...."
A few moments of silence passed... It was broken when Shikamaru and Ino had bumped into them.
"heyy! Hinata-chann!"
Hinata looked behind her.
"oh Ino-san... how did it go?"
"well it was kinda fun... shika did a great job on answering questions!"
Shikamaru rolled his eyes... Ino had been prasing him for almost the whole time they were together...
"it wasnt that great ino..."
"oh yeah... okay... here.. answer this question... (its a riddle i translated from my native language...) ' Im a deep well, filled with knives... what am i?'"
Naruto just gave out a vauge 'eh!?'. Shikamaru rolled his eyes again and just blurted out the answer, even if he didnt want to..
"the answer is your mouth..."
"and what about question number #42? 'who is a friend, never parting from you 'til end?'"
"of course my shadow..."
"told you... you did great!"
Shikamaru gave a violent blush and looked away. He had a dislike for attention, but he got the opposite of what he wanted when he turned to chuunin 4 years ago.
"whatever..."
Hinata sweatdropped at them.
"but well... it seems you two had a hell of a time I suppose?"
Ino smiled at the navy-haired medic.
"hell yeah! It was fun... learned a few things too..."
in the middle of Ino and hinata's conversation, Tenma had come near them. with a girl that was awfully familiar to Shikamaru.
"hello guys! got my money yet?"
Shikamaru raised an eyebrow.
"no... not yet... but who's the girl?"
"my girlfriend..... Gimeina ..."
Naruto looked at him angrily...
'hmph... he had a girlfriend all along and he was flirting with Hinata all this time...that no good two-timing jerk...'
Shikamaru was also thinking of something else...
'who is she... she looks so familiar...'
"nice to meet you Gimena..." Shikamaru greeted despite his thoughts.
The black haired girl smiled.
"yes... it was nice to meet you too Nara Shikamaru..."
"how did you know my name?" shikamaru asked with a raised eyebrow.
Gimena snickered.
"hahahah.... i have my sources..."
"mendokusee..."
Tenma took Gimena's hand and smiled when he saw a group of people coming their way.
"well Gimena-chan and I are going now... and I hope I get the payment by later on tonight..."
Naruto rolled his eyes...
"yeah yeah whatever... I had made 250000 already.. dont freak out..."
Shikamaru laughed as tenma and his girlfriend walked away.
"heh... 250 thousand yen? we made 500000..." he said pointing to himself.
"gah... everyone's besting me!"
"That's lame... 500000? my group got at least 2 million yen... "
Naruto looked behind him. It was Sasuke...
"oh great... now I totally flunked it..."
Hinata sweatdropped and then smiled at naruto, rubbing his back to comfort him.
"dont worry naruto... what matters is that we're handling this crisis as a team..."
Hana beamed up and skipped to naruto, hoping she could help hinata cheer him up.
"yeah... so what if we made more than you? it'll all be gone once we pay the tab for that vase..."
"yeah... i know... anyways... we got?"
"2,250,000 yen... we still lack 250 thousand... at this time the only contest that would be still open is the group singing contest at the middle square..." Temari noted holding a pamphlet.
Naruto raised an eyebrow...
"oh well... my fault anyway... Im in..."
"okay... its one... we need three.... and oh yeah.. the girl's group singing competition is over ino..."
"damn..." ino cursed... she was hoping to get to sing too...
"okay... who's up for it... Kankuro.... no talent... cant sing... Gaara... izumi... too tired from battles... hmm.... Chouji...?"
Chouji sighed then continued on his bag of chips.
"nah...munch munch... cant sing either..."
"oh okay... so... Uchiha? Shikamaru?"
"no way...." Sasuke complained, "im not going to sing! ever..."
"I cant sing... its too troublesome...!"
Temari had a scary look on her face.
"if you two dont get in there and sing... i'll ask gaara to mash the pulp outta ya!"
Sasuke and Shikamaru gulped... as Shikamaru's father once said...'a angry woman is a bad thing..'.
"yeah...yeah... okay....we'll do it..." Shikamaru said in an annoyed tone after seeing Sasuke sigh in defeat.
"Then fine... off to the stage we go!" Temari said as she led the group towards the square.
Ino skipped up and down while following temari.
"Yay! im going to hear Shikamaru sing! horray!"
"mendokusee...zettai medokusee... (absolutely troublesome)!" Shikamaru complained.
Naruto looked worried.
"can I really do this? i havent sung since the academy... heh...what do you think hinata?"
Hinata started twiddling her fingers.
"well... I beleive you can do it Naruto-kun... youre an incredible ninja.. maybe you can sing too right?"
A smile trickled on Naruto's face.
"heh... its good i have a friend like you hinata... you always have faith in me..."
A blush appeared on Hinata's face...
"heh... im just returning all the things you have done for me..." Hinata said before she walk faster and caught up with Ino. Leaving Naruto with a smiling face following the rest towards the stage of the singing contest...
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phew... that was it! sorry for the long delay... I had a big attack of a writer's block... add that to assignments... projects, notebook re-writes and some stupid 'i dont have time but im not doing anything at all... to lazy at the moment' attacks... hehehe... oh well... thanks for the patient reviewers! oh and by the way... im having a poll! please answer this on your review... im counting the votes... for the song that will be sung by Shikamaru, Naruto, and Sasuke...
a ) why not give me a chance...? (ba't di mo pagbigyan) - a filipino song... translated from my native language. It has really relative lyrics to the three guys. and yeah.. its a good song beleive me...
b ) The reason - a popular song everywhere at the moment... hehehe. its english but it doesnt have as much 'hit' in it for Naruto's case...
there... either try it english or translated its up to you... dont forget to vote or else i wont be able to even make the chapter. BTW... we have at least 3 chapters to go... at my estimate. Please continue supporting me on this fic! thanx!
