A/N: Hey there guys! Sorry that I didn't upload this chapter to the site earlier. I was really busy thinking about the plot and all that. Hope everyone enjoys this chapter as much as much as I enjoyed writing it!
Chapter 5 A dance in the moonlight part II
All the girls and boys from Kakashi's, Kurenai's, Gai's and Asuma's team weren't at the main square yet where the festival was going to be held. They were still finding their way there. All the instructors knew who was underneath each mask since they went out together and brought their students the masks.
"Help me Gai, how do I get Kurenai to dance with me?" Asuma requested.
"Asuma, even though you look like you're 40, you still act like a 14 year old youth. Sit back, relax and watch the master of youth teach you a lesson!" Gai said with a smile that revealed his shiny white teeth.
He walked up to where Kurenai was standing.
"Kurenai, would you care to dance with me?" Gai asked.
"Not if my life depended on it Gai," Kurenai snorted.
Gai walked back to the other instructors hopelessly. "Some help Gai," Asuma said sarcastically.
Iruka and Kakashi however were laughing at the display.
"What the hell are you laughing at Kakashi?" Gai asked furiously.
Kakashi, who wasn't paying any attention to what Gai said, looked up at him with a confused look.
"KAKASHI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"I'll show you Asuma," Iruka said confidently. So he walked up nervously to where Anko, Chizune, Kurenai and Tsunade were standing.
"Anko, will you dance with me?" Iruka asked hopefully.
"Might as well, if I say no to you then Gai will bug me to dance with him," Anko said smiling.
So Iruka and Anko walked to the middle of the square and started to dance slowly to the soft music.
Gai saw this and his mouth dropped wide open. How could Iruka do that when he had no professional training? I'm the master of dates and dances! He thought gloriously.
"Look, we're almost at the square!" TenTen pointed out.
"At last," Sakura mumbled. It was extremely hard to walk around in a kimono but somehow Sakura miraculously managed.
"I wonder if Neji-nii-san and Naruto-kun are here yet..." Hinata asked in a voice you could barely hear.
"Don't worry Hinata, knowing the guys, they're probably at home playing poker or something like that," Ino said thinking of Shikamaru. His face almost brought tears to her sapphire blue eyes.
They were almost at the square's entrance when they were knocked over by some people running fast.
Sakura fell back immediately and a strong arm caught her just in time. She breathed in relief. She was afraid of wrecking her pretty kimono. She looked up to see who her knight in shining armour was and she was shocked to meet someone's onyx black eyes. Is that Rock Lee? She thought shivering. After all this time, Lee still scares me with his thick brows!
She quickly got up and brushed back a piece of her pink hair from her face. "Thanks,"
"That's ok, just be careful. Lee and Naruto are in their competitive moods again." He said gently.
So it's not Lee. Thank god! Then who is he? She thought. All Sakura could do was stare into his pretty black eyes. Then she snapped out of her little trance, thanks to TenTen.
"Come on already! The first dance is going to begin soon!" TenTen called out to them.
"Who are you?" Sakura asked him.
"That's the point of the masks isn't it? To let someone wonder who you are," He pointed out.
"Oh yeah," Sakura said giggling.
Her voice sounds like Sakura but then again, I can't tell because of her mask. How many people in this village have pink cotton candy hair again? He thought.
Both of them made it to the square and said a quick bye when they spotted their friends.
"That should've been me helping up Sakura-san!" Lee wailed miserably.
"It's your fault think-brows! You just had to challenge me to a race at the last minute!" Naruto snapped.
"Who cares about who started it? Sasuke was the one who helped Sakura anyway," Shino said coolly.
At the mention of Sasuke's name, Lee and Naruto were fuming with rage. How come he always had to come in and play hero to Sakura? Sure Naruto had a crush on Hinata now, but he wanted Sakura to respect him.
All the instructors saw their students and walked up to them. Gai, Kakashi and Asuma to the boys and Kurenai to the girls.
"Hey there girls. Glad you could make it in time for the first dance," Kurenai said.
"Kurenai-sensei, you look beautiful," Hinata said softly.
"Thanks Hinata, same with you. Sakura, TenTen and Ino, your kimonos make your figures look perfect," Kurenai said ecstatically.
"Thanks Kurenai, your hair looks great" Ino complimented.
Kurenai had her hair up into a bun with two strands of hair let down.
"Tonight's the big night. You have no missions tonight since it's the holidays. But you have one goal, to dance with one of the boys over there. Unfortunately, you don't know who you're dancing with, since they all have masks on," Kurenai said pointing to where the guys were.
"Lee, why are you crying?" Gai asked his student.
"It's fate. That's what made you want to race Naruto and knock Sakura over," Neji said calmly.
Lee still sniffling ran up to hug his teacher. That comment from Neji made him want to punch that idiot hard in his white face. That would show him not to continue on and on about 'fate and destiny'.
"Great, now the girls know that it's Lee and Gai hugging. I mean it's so obvious isn't it?" Choji asked.
"Yeah. Who else gets so emotional and then runs up to hug their teacher?" Shikamaru pointed out.
Naruto, who had seen this scene before when his team met Lee during the Chuunin exam, was laughing his head off.
"Hide me Shikamaru!" Choji yelped and hid behind Shikamaru.
"Why Choji?" Shikamaru asked him.
"Our parents are standing over there. My dad thinks I'm at home learning how to cook my own meals, not here at the festival! Plus, he'll laugh at me when he finds out I borrowed one of his kimonos! Mine won't fit me anymore!" Choji whispered nervously.
Kiba heard it and looked at Choji's kimono. It made him look 10 kilos bigger, but other than that, it looked ok on him. No one could probably tell that it was his father's at first unless they asked him.
"Arf Arf!" It was Akamaru barking softly. Kiba had to sneak his puppy with him. Akamaru couldn't stand being apart from Kiba. But if Kiba let Akamaru sit on his head, then the girls would know that it's him right away. So he had no choice, but to hide his puppy inside his kimono.
"Was that Akamaru I heard?" Shino asked.
"Umm....maybe....that was my excitement to dance with the girls," Kiba said laughing nervously.
Shino glared at him. He didn't know why Kiba had to lie to him. He already knew that Kiba intended to bring Akamaru with him. He heard Kiba talk to Akamaru when they were at the Hyuuga mansion earlier in the afternoon.
"Boys, you have a mission tonight. To get one of the girls to dance with you. Since there are four of them and eight of you, you might have to share your dancing partners with others," Asuma explained.
"Kakashi-sensei, are you going to ask a lady to dance with you? The fifth is still available for you, if you want her that is," Naruto whispered slyly.
"Hmmm? Naruto? I might dance with her, you never know," Kakashi replied lazily.
This was the only occasion where he didn't bring his dirty book with him. He would've brought it, but the other instructors made a deal with him. If he dared to bring the book with him and read it that night, then he'd have to go up and be a backup dancer for Gai. Gai was planning on performing that night. Kakashi didn't want to humiliate himself in front of his students, so he had to give in to them.
"Eww sensei. I was just joking. She's a fifty year old grandmother. Sure she looks like she's 25, but eww," Naruto said in disgust and walked away from Kakashi.
"Do you get the mission?" Asuma asked the boys again.
"I get the point Asuma!" Shikamaru shouted.
"Good, because the girls are walking to the middle of the square already and you don't want them to dance with anyone else do you?" Asuma said teasingly.
But to his surprise all the boys walked out to the square already.
"Look, the silver moon is out already," Hinata said pointing to the sky.
"It's beautiful," Sakura breathed.
"Yeah, we agree," TenTen and Ino said in agreement.
Sakura was still staring at the beautiful moon, until someone tapped her lightly on the shoulder. It was the boy with the black onyx eyes again.
"Care to dance with me?" He asked.
"Not really, but I accept," Sakura said blissfully.
He took her hand and held onto it until he found a spot for them to dance.
"How romantic," Hinata said.
"Want to dance with me fair damsel?" A familiar voice asked Ino.
With his round stomach, large face and big kimono, Ino knew instantly that it was Choji. She wanted to dance with her other team mate, not him. If she danced with him, Shikamaru might assume that she was over him and she liked Choji.
"No thanks Choji," Ino said and walked off sulking.
How'd she know it was me already? She's so smart, that's why I admire her and like her, thought Choji.
"Want to dance with me?" Someone asked Hinata. That startled her so she quickly turned around. She was staring into these big blue eyes. Instantly she knew that it was Naruto, so she quickly accepted before another girl decided to dance with him. One month ago, Naruto had gotten popular with the girls, and she knew that they only liked him because Sasuke-kun was rumoured to have a crush on someone.
Ino was still stomping around looking for Shikamaru. Boy was he hard to find!
Neji was standing nearby to where Sasuke and his partner were dancing. He thought instantly that it was Sakura, because of her pink hair. He felt a little jealous since he was about to ask her to dance with him until Sasuke saw him and quickly ran to her and asked her to dance with him instead.
How'd I change this fast? If this festival happened in the winter break, I wouldn't have cared who that Sasuke danced with. Now I'm actually feeling jealous! This is bad, Neji thought.
Ino finally thought she spotted Shikamaru. She ran up to him and tapped him on his shoulder. When the guy turned around, she was shocked! Sure he looked like Shikamaru, but it was actually his father! What was Mr.Nara doing here at the festival? Before he could see who he was, she dashed off quickly.
"Oh my god, that was so close," Ino said to herself.
"What was so close?" A voice from behind her asked.
She turned around quickly and met a boy's strong gaze. Is that Shikamaru? She thought.
"Never mind then. Want to dance?" He asked.
She gulped. What if it was? She and Sakura had planned to humiliate him onstage when Ino was singing. She felt relieved to see him, so she ran up to him and wrapped her arms tightly around him.
If this is actually Ino, I want to get out of here as quickly as possible. Then again, I heard rumours that Ino's cousin was visiting Konoha, thought Shikamaru. Maybe it's her cousin hugging me, not her.
"Yes! I want to dance!" She said excitedly.
So then he led Ino to a spot on the square and they started dancing.
"Isn't it beautiful?" Sakura asked him.
"It's perfect," He told her.
Sakura wrapped her arms around his neck and whispered to him, "Nothing in my whole life can compare to this moment," This is perfect; nothing could spoil our special moment. Sakura thought.
"I like dancing with you," He said.
Neji who had seen enough of Sasuke dancing with Sakura walked up to them and cut in.
"May I cut in?" Neji asked.
I can think of one thing though, someone cutting in on my dance with the date of my dreams! Sakura thought angrily.
Sasuke who knew that he shouldn't mess with Hyuuga Neji, said "Whatever, I enjoyed dancing with you,"
Then he walked over to the refreshment table to get a drink.
Then Neji took Sakura's hand and started to dance slowly with her.
"Sasuke, looked like that Hyuuga guy ruined your moment," said Kakashi.
"I can see that Kakashi-sensei," Sasuke replied calmly.
I know who she is, but does she know it's me?
Lee was walking around with Gai and asking girls to dance with him. All of them claimed to have danced enough already or were waiting for their boyfriends to come to the festival. Lee had had enough of their pathetic excuses!
"Gai-sensei, let's find Sakura-san!" Lee declared.
"That's my boy Lee!" Gai said cheerfully.
TenTen was still walking around looking for someone to dance with. Many guys had asked her to dance with them, but she declined them all. She didn't want to dance with them. She was still looking for him. But so far, she had no luck. Where was he?
"Asuma, do you have the courage to ask her now?" Iruka asked him impatiently. He had just finished dancing with Anko.
"Not really, Iruka," Asuma admitted.
"Good luck!" Iruka said and pushed Asuma to Kurenai.
"I've been looking for you all night!" Kurenai exclaimed.
"You have?" Asuma asked sounding surprised.
"Yeah. You're the only one I want to dance with. Gai's too embarrassing, Kakashi won't pay attention and Anko started to really like Iruka. You're the only suitable guy around here," Kurenai said with a little smile.
"Want to dance with me then?' Asuma asked confidently.
"I've been waiting all this time for you to say that," Kurenai said softly.
Asuma took her hand and took her out to the square.
"Hey! Look, Kurenai and Asuma are dancing!" Naruto said excitedly.
"I know, at last two instructors started dancing with each other. The rest are either too embarrassed to dance or not bothered to," Hinata said softly.
TenTen was still looking for him until she bumped into someone.
"Watch it!" He said sharply.
"I'm so so sorry!" TenTen said.
"Never mind. I'm used to it. Besides, do you want to dance with me?" He asked her.
"Why not?" TenTen said brightly. She grabbed his hand and found a spot on the square.
"I don't know how to dance," He said.
TenTen smiled and looked into his eyes. They were pretty dark brown ones. She pulled his hand and placed it on her hip. With his other hand, she held it with hers.
"Thanks," He said.
I wonder who TenTen is dancing with? Ino thought.
"What's wrong?" He asked.
"Nothing. Everything's perfect," Ino whispered. Then she placed her head onto his shoulder.
Kakashi smiled. He knew who everyone was dancing with. Now he was stuck with a sulky Sasuke. So Sasuke does like her, he thought. This is just like out of one of my 'Come Come Paradise' books. Two men after one lady. Sigh.
Sasuke leaned back against the wall. This was going to be a long night. And he was going to be stuck watching Neji dance with Sakura. Unless he had something to do about it. He smirked.
A/N: How was that chapter? Was it good? Bad? Please tell me by your reviews. Thanks people! Til' the sixth chapter!
Next chapter: A dance in the moonlight part III