Title: Trapped
Rate: PG13 –mainly-
Genre: Romance/General
Spoiler: None
Couples: NONYAOI – so all of you expecting shounen-ai or shouji-ai, I apologize. These are GENERAL couples: SasuSakuNaruLee, ShikaInoCho, NaruHinaKiba, NejiTenLee
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Trapped
Day 1: "Stupid."
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"Stupid." Was all Naruto had said as he sat down on the couch. They were stuck. All of them were trapped here…in this place…no escaping. Why did he least expected this? Because he didn't know that those entire damn Sensei's could think of anything worse…than this. Sure, the blonde knew that everyone knew that they couldn't get along with each other…not to say their own team mates…so how could they get comfortable with other teams?! It was crazy how even the Hokage agreed with this.
"You can say that again," Sasuke muttered. He too was angry; he was to be stuck here for a month. One month of no training, one month of no going outside, one month of dealing with these pathetic-annoying-loud mouth-fools. How could it get any worse? Oh, it could get worse. Especially when you had Sakura and Ino in the same room…then, hell would break loose. Obviously it did, as he tried to ignore the blunt shouting from the two kunoichis.
"Oh yeah FOREHEAD girl?! I'm just happy that I'm here with SASUKE-KUN!"
"What the HELL are you talking about INO-PIG?" Sakura insulted back, "SASUKE-KUN has no time for YOU."
There it went, what the hell were the teachers thinking planning this idiotic thing? Having all the students stuck in one house, what good would that do? It was either someone had really persuaded them or they were just stupid. Now it was impossible to escape, seeing that Kurenai had casted a barrier seal around the house. Was this part of Gai's doing? (He wasn't up to blaming his teacher for this crazy scheme, seeing that Gai-sensei was much weirder.) Sasuke couldn't find a single trace of humor in this, for a whole month he could imagine plenty of things. And getting along or silence wasn't in that category.
"Will you two just shut up?!" Tenten groaned and walked in the middle of the argument, reaching her arms outward so the two angry kunoichi's would keep their space. "We're trapped here for a whole MONTH, so please…can you two just try and get along? Don't be selfish and make a racket because there are more people then you two here…we all want to get it over with."
Neji smirked, but didn't really show it. He was glad that Tenten wasn't like the other girl's; she could be the…peace-maker probably. If the two loud-mouth females didn't shut-up, he thought he would kill them – well…maybe not kill but do something to have their mouths shut the whole time they were here. He too, had wondered why he was stuck in a place like this. If it wasn't for Gai's sudden 'idea', nothing like this would've ever happened. They would be training in the forest by now, but damn that Lee as well. He had to agree with Gai, and make it seem like this 'smart' plan was so smart…although it wasn't.
And now, they were here. Stuck in a house, with their worst enemies, how worse could it get?
Both Sakura and Ino bit their lips and turned around with a 'hmph'. Not bothering to say more, the pink-haired kunoichi dragged her two comrades upstairs while Ino did the same, instead taking them to the kitchen. Chouji grinned as they entered and he looked in the refrigerator. "What the hell…there's not much food in here…do you think they'll restack it every week…?"
Ino rolled her eyes but Shikamaru shook his head. "Nope…didn't you hear what Asuma said? He said that we'll be living on that food for a whole month…so try and not eat a lot…okay Chouji? We really like to survive till then."
Chouji's eyes widened in shock and Ino gasped, "But…" she began with worry, "There are twelve people…how would we be able to share this food for a whole month…?" It seemed like a stupid question to Shikamaru but he still answered, "I guess it depends on either 1 – starvation, or 2 – each team lives on their own and use their own tactics."
"…so you mean, play dirty." Ino inquired and her comrade just shrugged. "I wouldn't put it play dirty…maybe survival plan." Chouji nodded, and pulled out a bag of chips from his pocket, munching them down selfishly. "Yep, I agree…or else none of us will make it."
"Aw…Sakura-chan, let gooo!" Naruto whined in pain. Sasuke glared at her but followed along as she pulled on his arm. Finally as they made it through the hallway, the girl let them go harshly. "How dare that Ino-pig!" Sakura began to complain. "Sakura…stop it…it's getting annoying," Sasuke exclaimed while leaning against the wall. "We have more problems to deal with than your personal ones."
As Sasuke said this, Sakura pouted but her eyes suddenly scanned the hallway. "Hey…"
"So you realize too," Sasuke stated, having Naruto look at the two confused. "Eh? What do you mean Sasuke-bastard?" The Uchiha ignored Naruto and sighed, "I see how their doing this…"
"Wha-?" Naruto stood up and asked again, "What do you mean?"
"Jeeze Naruto…you are so..." Sakura paused and then just ignored insulting the blonde, "what Sasuke-kun means is that we're going to have trouble in this house because there are only three rooms and 4 teams, consisting of twelve people."
"Oh," Naruto tried to register this in his mind. "OH, I get it…so…we have to SHARE?!"
"Yes dobe," Sasuke rolled his eyes once again and looked in the room. It was small…what was the sensei's thinking? How were they all going to room and sleep? Especially with their luggage…it would take up more then one third of the space in each room. "It could be possible to have each team stay in one room…but then there'd be-," "-a team roomless," Sakura finished for him. "What if…the last team was to split up and each sharing a room with the other team?"
"And which team would make that sacrifice…?" Sasuke questioned at Sakura, which caused her to stop deep in thought. "We could –," Sakura began but Sasuke shook his head. "Do you think Naruto would get along with any of them?"
"Aw…you're just saying that because you don't get along with them either!" the fox-boy scoffed. That earned him a glare from the other male shinobi. Sakura sighed and began to exit the hallway; it was pointless staying up here. "Let's discuss this with everyone downstairs…" Sasuke turned his head to glare at Sakura but she had disappeared. Naruto blinked and ran down the stairways, leaving the raven-haired boy dead-last.
"Sakura-chan!"
"Naruto, stop calling my name."
"Sakura-chan!"
"Naruto!"
Sadly, the trip going downstairs was far from peaceful. They two comrades began to argue with each other which made everyone turn their attention to them…couldn't this place be silent for one moment?! It made half the shinobi's here irritated and angry. "Oh joy, they're back," Kiba stated flatly in the living room.
"Shut up Dog-boy," Naruto shot and seated himself next to Hinata; which made her blush deeply. "N-Naruto-kun…" was what she said as she fidgeted with her two index fingers. Kiba stared at the two with fire in his eyes and he pushed Naruto off the couch, "I wouldn't be sitting next to monkey-face if I were you Hinata." "Who are you calling Monkey-face Dog-boy!"
And yet, another argument erupted. Shikamaru and his team had joined in the living room, him sighing while Chouji continued to munch on his bag of chips. Ino glared at Sakura as their eyes met, so things just got worse.
Surprisingly, Neji's team was no longer in-sight. 'Where'd they go?' Sasuke thought as he walked out of the room, seeing that they couldn't be in the hallway where his team was or in the kitchen, because Shikamaru, Ino and Chouji had just been there. 'The only place left is the bathroom…or the Dining Room.' Well, he couldn't find a reason for all of them to go to the bathroom, so Neji, Tenten and Lee must've went into the dining room.
He was about to go in but then he then realized they were in a middle of a conversation.
"…can you believe this? We're stuck with idiots." Tenten scowled, sitting down on a wooden chair. Lee smirked, "Oh c'mon Tenten, cheer up. This will be a good session and time to get along with the rest of Konoha's shinobis!" Neji didn't say anything as he leaned against the wall, eyes on the wooden table.
"You're just happy because that Haruno girl Sakura is here." Tenten rested her arm on the table and frowned, "this wouldn't have happened if you didn't persuade Gai-sensei. Now we'll be hearing arguments everyday and I'm not sure if we can get out of here without being in one-piece!"
"Tenten, stop you're whining." Neji told her calmly and pushed himself off his position and began to walk towards the door. "I don't think it'd be worth it, like you said earlier…shouldn't we get along?"
Sasuke had realized that they would see him, and it wasn't his case to have them accuse him of 'eavesdropping' - so he retaliated from the scene, back to the noisy living room.
"Look who's talking," the weapon-specialist muttered and followed Neji. She knew that she would be the only person close enough to be put as close in Neji's status of 'friends'. She wouldn't even think he considered Lee was one, though they were a team. Maybe he thought of the other boy as a comrade. "Anyways…what should we do now that we're here?" She knew that Lee would answer: "We'll be all friends!" And after her thought had played, reality had struck as he spoke: "We'll be friends!"
Was it a girl intuition or what?
"Wow…they sure are loud…" Iruka-sensei muttered as he saw his students argue with each other. "Are you sure this was a good idea?" Inside, he was afraid that hell would break loose…but the teacher had to admit, this was amusing to watch. The other teacher's, even Juraiya and the 5th Hokage – Tsunade-sama had come to watch.
"Hey, ask Gai…it was his idea." Kakashi smirked, watching as his student Naruto start another argument with Kiba of Kurenai's. "You know…" The female kunoichi began, "I think Kiba likes Hinata…" "…I think Hinata likes Naruto," Juraiya spoke his thoughts. "Just look at them, I see love!" "Oh shut up hermit," Tsunade had her eyes focused on the screen; though her lip had twitched into a smirk.
After a few minutes of calming everything down, and Neji's team had entered the living room…the shinobis sat down quietly; making it seem like a miracle. The only people who were standing were Sakura and Shikamaru, other then Neji and Sasuke; who preferred to stand anyways.
"Anyways…" Sakura coughed, "I have matters to discuss."
"Same," Shikamaru stated and looked at everyone. "It's about food."
"Well, mine's about the rooms."
"Obviously I should go first because the food is more important."
Sakura's mouth widened, "W-what? Girl's go first though!"
"Well, my topic is urgent." The genius spoke simply.
"Well…so is mine!" Sakura retorted at him, "It's about the rooms!"
People began to groan as the two began to argue. "Just get to the POINT," Ino shouted.
Sakura glared at her but then ignored Shikamaru. "Alright, I'll go first. What I was saying was that, we might have to share rooms…seeing that we only have three rooms." Sudden gasps were heard and Sakura could sense perverted thoughts. It caused her to get uncomfortable and she sweat dropped, "The reason why this is such a deal is because there are twelve of us and only 3 rooms."
"Can't we just split up into a girl and boy room?" Shino finally spoke out through the whole conversation.
"If you haven't realized…there are more boys then girls." Sakura answered his question, but to only receive another reply. "Well, girls get one room and boys get two." She didn't know what else to say, it did come to good sense but there was no way she was going to room with Ino-pig!
"I disagree!" Both Ino and Sakura shouted in unison. It had seemed like they were thinking the same thing.
"Okay then…how are we supposed to do this?" Kiba questioned, "Because…I wanna eat."
"…Yeah," Naruto nodded, finally agreeing with his enemy. "Rameeen."
Shikamaru groaned, "That was what I was about to discuss!" He only received a glare from Sakura and the Nara boy sighed, letting her go ahead with what she was to say. "Alright," Sakura muttered loud enough for everyone to hear, "My team thought-,"
"Oh, your team thought," Ino butted in with a sneer. "Just say it!" Tenten shouted angrily. This was ridiculous; if everyone kept on arguing then they would get no where. No where would only mean that staying here was worthless but it wasn't like the Senseis would change their mind at all. "Everyone, just be quiet for a moment so we can hear the important detail. I know no one would want to sleep on the couch."
"I do!" Naruto shot with a grin, making Tenten glare at him. "It was supposed to be a metaphor."
"Right," Neji said under his breath, which only made the kunoichi angrier. This place was going to drive everyone insane!
"Anyways," the pink-haired kunoichi was finally irritated. "We were thinking that each team would get a room, because we're most familiar with our teammates. But one team would have to give up a room and split up, sharing with one of the other teams."
"…so there would be four people in a room," Shino implied; it was obvious though, because he knew that they would pick his team. Neji, Tenten and Lee wouldn't split up…well, Lee was different. But Neji would just get angry with everyone and he couldn't think of a team that would accept Lee…and even Tenten; sure she was the most common and best kunoichi in this room…but her behavior caused him to think otherwise. Then there was team seven, containing Sakura, Lee, and Naruto. Naruto didn't get along with anyone, maybe even his own teammates. Sasuke, same goes for him…even if Ino agreed to share her team's room with him, surely Shikamaru would complain and disagree. Sakura…she couldn't get along with Ino so her team was crossed out, and surely not with Neji's team. Now, there was Shikamaru's group…what was listed before gave enough reason why they wouldn't get along.
"And…you chose our team to be the one who has to split up?" The bug-specialist added to his last statement.
"Well…" Sakura blinked, she didn't expect him to say this. Naruto, Sasuke and her didn't really think about which team had to sacrifice…but now that she thought of it…Shino's team was the best to room with the other teams…they were the best team anyways to at least talk or get along…Sakura just had to make sure that Kiba wouldn't be rooming with them…or she wouldn't hear the end of Naruto's complaints.
"Yeah," Sakura was about to say but suddenly a low voice had answered for her.
"Figured much from the Uchiha," the dog-tamer muttered and turned away to face his female team mate, Hinata. "And why is it us that have to go through with this?" So, it was Sasuke who had beat her. Typical for him to be a smartass, he must've thought that she was going to say the wrong answer or something.
She used to like the Uchiha, but not anymore. Or so she persuaded herself, and what he did was wrong. No one had ever and would never speak when the Haruno Sakura was speaking. Who did he think he was? 'An Uchiha,' she told herself with a sigh. To her, if she was ever compared to Sasuke – it would be the worst thing ever. Sure, he was smart, best at everything…good looking, legendary, but still! He was a cold-hearted A-ranked ass hole. Okay…maybe Sakura did go too far…he wasn't an A-ranked…maybe B or C…but he was no better then Naruto! It had been over a year that they had been a team…and let's say, they've grown way too close and knew everything about each other.
The pink kunoichi even knew what time Naruto slept and when the Uchiha was hungry. Let's just say, this was woman's intuition, but she knew that her other comrades had grown a sixth sense as well. "Okay, fine…it's chosen that Dog-boy's team is going to room with the other teams." Wow, Naruto had said this without agreeing with anyone; maybe it was how it was supposed to be done or they would never end the matter without more arguing…Well…maybe there was going to be one more argument.
"What?!" Kiba sat up from his seat and growled at Naruto, "What do you mean our team?!"
"W-well…" Hinata raised her timid voice a bit loud, "I would say that it would…be the best idea that our team…"
"See! Hinata-chan agrees with me," the blonde stuck his tongue out at Kiba. "Now sit down Dog-boy."
"Why you…" it had seemed like the inu-tamer was going to throw a punch at him, but Shikamaru's voice interrupted them. "Now, if you guys would hear ME out, I was going to say something about our food…"
"Food!" Naruto cheered, "Is there good food?!"
"Naruto, just listen to me," this time Shikamaru seemed to have been short-tempered and he crossed his arms over his chest. "We might starve by the end of the month," his tone was serious and his eyes shifted to see everyone's reaction. Naruto's eyes had widened to saucer size, but others (mainly the girls) didn't really react…nor did Sasuke and Neji, as expected.
"S…starve…." Naruto stuttered, "What do you mean?!"
"Look retard," Shikamaru yelled, "look in the refrigerator your self. With all twelve of us, it's going to be hard to feed with a full three-meals everyday without running out of food within' a week till we get outta here."
"Have you thought about the girl's portion of the meal?" Sasuke asked calmly, looking at the genius. He nodded and Sasuke looked at Sakura, "Well, you can cut back on Sakura's meal by 2-times a day." As her name was mentioned, she turned around to see what the meaning of this was. Sure, she had gotten used to skipping breakfast but now the Uchiha was making her decisions. "Sasuke-kun," Sakura said his name flatly.
"Hn?" There was this smugged look on his face and Sakura wanted to smack him right then and there. "Grr!"
"Hm…I see where you're getting at, than I guess that Ino's meal would be cut down to two then…" Ino gapped at Shikamaru and threw a couch pillow at him. "Hey! I have the right to make my choice ya know!" "…but I thought you said you were on a diet." "You weren't s'pose to say that!" "What's so bad about telling people you're on a diet…?" "SHIKAMARU!"
"…your students sure are violent," Gai pointed out. He smiled at his angelic team, they didn't act immature one bit, and so he felt like bragging. "I'm glad mine isn't like that."
"You'll see how calm your students will be for long," Kakashi smirked and looked at the shocked Gai. "What do you mean by that?" He hated when his rival ruined his fantasy, that Kakashi! The rights to make fun of his students like that; that man would get what he deserved. "At least my students are normal."
"Then your students are plain," the silver-haired Jounin shot back with a smile. At least he had won this round, and he knew deep in side, Gai was burning. There was a moment of silence before Kurenai stood up; "So…who wants popcorn?"
When another moment of peace was taken place, everyone was in their room unpacking their luggage. It was chosen that Hinata stay with Sakura's team, Kiba with Shikamaru's, and Shino with Neji's. To their surprise, it had seemed like this was planned around because they had found four futons in the closet. Everyone's bags were put near the bathroom door, though Naruto wanted to be special and kept his bag near the futon. No one complained except Sakura said something which caused him to pout. "Aww…Sakura-chan, how come you have to be so mean to me?"
"I'm not being mean Naruto; I'm just stating the obvious."
"…and you say that's not mean," Sasuke snorted, but avoided her fiery eyes as she stared at him intently. He then felt her looking back at Naruto with a smile, "It's not me who's mean, it's Sasuke."
"Hell yeah," Naruto agreed and began to dig things out of his bag. "Thank god I brought extra ramen…I knew Kakashi-sensei was mean enough to not stock Ramen!"
To Hinata and Sakura's amazement, the bag was only filled with ramen. Sure, maybe a pair of boxers, but that was it. Period. Ramen, boxers, nothing else. "N-Naruto-kun…" Hinata began, but Sakura just silenced her with a shake on the head. "Forget it, he is Naruto after all." "Hey! What's that s'pose to mean?" she rolled her eyes and turned to Sasuke, "And what did you bring?"
"None of your business."
"Sasuke-kun!"
"…clothes and weapons."
As expected from the Uchiha to bring such things. Well, at least he was different from Naruto, which made her job easier being the only female in the team. At first the kunoichi was thrilled to be on the same team as Sasuke, but after…countless 'your annoying' statements, countless number of times she had been nice to him, which includes: giving him her share of food, weapons, helped him with his wounds, tended to his wounds, gave him reassuring words anyone would love to hear - he still didn't appreciate her one bit! Sure…she would ask him out a dozen times a week, stalk-err, follow him everywhere, agree with him although maybe sometimes Naruto was right for a change, or just practically bowed down on the ground he walked on…okay, maybe not but still! He didn't care one bit. So Sakura just felt…annoyed, yes, annoyed. She had than looked at Sasuke as…a team mate or maybe how she looked at Naruto…and found out that being in this team, with both Sasuke and Naruto were insane…because she was the least "normal" person to-speak.
For one, Sakura could prove that she wouldn't fight with her comrade every day. Well, maybe sometimes with Naruto…Two, at least she could cook and didn't whine for ramen or insult something. She didn't have enemies…maybe rival, but that was far different then what these two had.
"Okay then," Sakura spoke softly and turned to Hinata. "I see you came prepared as well…but…that's a lot of clothes."
The Hyuuga girl blushed and nodded silent, "Things…can happen and it has been cold lately…I wasn't sure if we had a washer machine or anything…"
"Oh," the other kunoichi pondered at this thought. Did this house have a washer machine? Because if it didn't…then they'd be deep in trouble with smelly clothes…which would be utterly terrible.
"Don't worry, I saw one near the hallway bathroom," the raven-haired boy answered her thoughts. "But it seemed like we might be in trouble with the soap…" Oh, so there was another situation. First the food, now this…how worst could it get? Other then 24/7 arguing, complaining, etc…things just couldn't get any --, "…I think I blew up my futon." Naruto's voice sounded half humorous yet serious. Oh yes, things just got worse.
"How could you blow up your futon?!" Sakura yelled at him.
"…then…maybe I popped the cushion or something…"
"It'd be no better then sleeping on the floor." Sasuke muttered and turned back to what he was doing, folding his clothes neatly. Oh, so the Uchiha didn't care, what did she have to do then? Take care of this all by her self? "You can use my futon Naruto-kun…"
Poor Hinata, Sakura eyed. She felt irresponsible for having the girl do this. And so, she mustered all her guts and sighed: "No…you can take my futon Naruto." That, well…surprised both Naruto and Sasuke. It was a rarity that the cherry-blossom showed her kindness to such an annoying boy like Naruto. Maybe they really got too close…which made Sasuke shiver. He had grown out of arguing with Naruto, but there was no way he would be generous enough to give Naruto something that would scratch his honor.
"Eh Sakura-chan?! Really?"
"Yes…"
"But where are you going to sleep?"
"With Sasuke."
That made the Uchiha heir almost fall backwards as Naruto's eyes widened, "EH?!" "I'm just joking," she giggled and Sasuke quickly went back to his regular posture and resumed doing what he had done; killing away the redness that burned on his cheeks. Naruto sighed in relief and looked at Hinata, "…why don't you two share futons then? Or you don't need to do this Sakura-chan…"
The girl shook her head and pulled out a strand of loose pink-hair behind her ear, giving him a soft smile. It caused Naruto to blush, 'she really does look cute when she smiles…' "It's okay," it broke him from his thoughts. "You can use my futon anyways, I know you'll be complaining about how hard the floor is by the next morning…and we need to stay here for a month anyways. Hinata…do you mind…?"
"Oh," the other kunoichi looked and smiled, "I—I don't mind at all."
"Yay!" Naruto cheered, "Problem solved!"
"Dobe," Sasuke stated and stood up, "I'm going downstairs and see what else is in this house."
------------------------------------------That night; Living Room
Sasuke had realized that this house was pretty big…not as big as his own but at least it didn't seem too small for twelve people. There were 4 bathrooms, one in each room and one upstairs in the hallway. Three bedrooms, a living room, dining room, kitchen, and that was mostly it. The living room though, thank god, was big and so was the dining room. The kitchen seemed to be around the size of the bedrooms, with a simple oven, microwave – those things that were needed in a house.
Sadly though, out of twelve people…only five people thought they knew how to cook.
"Naruto, shut up…you don't know how to cook." Sasuke stated flatly in front of the blonde's face, "I'm sure we'll leave it to…someone else." He though, did not know who was able to cook. Maybe Sakura…but he had only tried her food she had made a few times…that was on missions and that one time she had baked rice balls for him…he didn't particularly remember.
"I know how to cook ramen!"
"Naruto, just give up," Sakura sighed and looked at everyone else. "Well…it's almost 6 'o clock…so who's suggesting to cook? And I mean…we can't waste food so there's no second try in this." She was hoping that someone would pick her, because right now, no one really looked like a good cooker. She of course knew that Ino SUCKED at cooking…because as a half ex-best friend, she knew.
"Hinata…" Shino recommended, which made Sakura blink. Well…Hinata did look like that house type…but…who would know? "Huh, Hinata's the best choice…" Neji also agreed, which shocked the Haruno girl. "O-Okay…two for Hinata…" "I think I'll go with Hinata as well," Sasuke and Shikamaru added in, which now made the other girls jealous. Oh, so they thought that Hinata was so good at cooking huh? "Four…" this time Sakura was glad that Naruto didn't say anything. "Go Hinata, I'm in with her!" Kiba grinned as the shy girl blushed deep scarlet. "U-Um…thank you…"
"Hm…is Hinata really that good?" Chouji wondered and smiled slightly, "Alright…I'll go with her. Better then tasting Ino's raw fish!"
"Hey!" Ino smacked him and took his bag of chips, causing the giant shinobi to whine. "Ino, give me it back!"
Naruto was seated at the end of the table, rubbing his chin. "I guess Hin—," "Naruto," Sakura began, "You've tasted my cooking. Don't you like it?" She smiled sweetly at Naruto and Sasuke just snorted. He knew that she didn't want to lose when it came to home economics…but for the past few years now, she had focused on being a shinobi…who had time to practice cooking? 'Probably Hinata…that's why she's weaker then Sakura and Ino,' too bad the other two girls couldn't match up to Tenten. But what was he thinking about this for? Sasuke erased the thought from his mind.
"For my dear Sakura, everything would taste wonderful!" Lee clasped his hands in front of him with a dreamy expression, "I nominate my sweet Sakura to cook my wonderful meal!"
Naruto narrowed his eyes and raised his hands, "Well, I'll go for Sakura too!"
Tenten rolled her eyes, "Well isn't this based as favoritism now?"
Sakura just smirked and looked at Hinata, "its okay, mainly you've been chosen so you can cook ne?" It was a surprise that Sakura would give up that easily, but maybe she wasn't up for it? "Oh…okay then…" the kunoichi stood up and bowed slightly, "I'll begin on the meal now…what would you guys like…?"
"Ramen!"
"No dobe, something that we can all eat down."
"How about fried beef?"
"Eww Chouji, that's a lot of fat!" Ino complained, and was only retorted by Shikamaru: "Well jeeze, maybe you shouldn't be eating."
"Um Hinata…just make anything you want from the food we have," Tenten recommended, she was tired of the arguments…one, because it was almost night, two: she was hungry and three…she wasn't really up for this.
----------------------------------------After dinner; Kitchen
"That was good…" Naruto rubbed his filled up stomach with satisfaction. "Ne Hinata-chan, you're such a great cook." He grinned and looked at the empty plates…sure, he had eaten a lot more then most…okay, maybe not as much as Chouji, but still. They said they were on food problems, so how did Hinata cook so much food. "Hey…" the blonde began, "don't you think we ate too much?"
"Wow…Naruto realizes that he eats too much," Kiba laughed at the statement.
Sakura and Shikamaru had realized this, and the kunoichi nodded. "Well…Naruto is right. I mean…Hinata, how much food did you use…?"
She looked down at her fingers and smiled slightly, "Not much at all."
"But we looked at the refrigerator and saw how much food was in there," Ino said. "So even this much amount could've taken one fourth of what we had."
Hinata continued to stay quiet and shook her head. "I think Hinata has her ways," Neji inquired, standing up. "Now, shouldn't women's do their job and clean this up?" Sasuke broke out smirking and Naruto laughed, "Yeah!"
"What? Hey!" Ino whined, moving up to pull Shikamaru's sleeve before he could escape into the living room. "You guys ate too!" "See, I told you woman were bothersome, now let me go Ino." "No, not until you help clean up!" "But we guys do the hard job…" "Like what?" As they began to argue, the other male shinobis disappeared quietly. Before the kunoichis could do anything about it, they had glued themselves to the couch.
"Sasuke," Sakura went up to him and stood right there, her eyes staring at him.
"…"
"Sasuke-kun," she added the suffix and smiled, "C'mon."
"No."
"You ate too."
"But you're a girl."
"Oh, stop being sexist."
"I'm not; I'm just merely stating what normal girls would do. Unless you got too used to hanging around with guys and want to be total pigs like this."
That made her speechless, and she just huffed back in the kitchen. The nerve of that guy, and he even made fun of his own race!
"Nice Uchiha," Neji had a smugged face. Naruto just hollered in laughter's, "Sakura will get you later ya know." Of course he knew; it was obvious that she didn't like tolerating with him nowadays; which was half quite better and other half…not so quite better. Sasuke could imagine what she would do…maybe not go too far as killing him…maybe…something else…he didn't bother thinking any further.
The boys heard Shikamaru groan in pain, and they heard Ino's screams.
"SHIKAMARU! Why did you do that?!"
"Eh? But you're the one who told me to put it there."
"But I didn't know there as so many plates already! You should've just made another stack of plates!"
"Oh, I didn't realize that."
"You're the genius here, jeeze Shikamaru!"
"I wonder if we should help him…" Chouji took out a chocolate bar.
There was a long moment of silence.
"SHIKAMARU! I am going to kill you!"
The boys all looked at each other, and shook their heads in unison: "…nah."
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"Hinata's already asleep," Sakura stated as she sat beside the sleeping form of the Hyuuga girl. It was a surprise to see her first one under the covers…maybe the cooking and cleaning had worn her out. Though…they wouldn't have to clean extra if Shikamaru and Ino didn't mess around…that was a nightmare. He actually broke a few plates and Ino almost threw a glass cup at him…or maybe she did. The night had been hectic but…Sakura had to agree that Hinata's foods were pretty good.
"You should be getting to sleep too," Sasuke told her and looked at Naruto. "Well, I see that he's asleep." Of course Naruto would've jumped into the futon and slept instantly, just like a rock. But it had caused Sakura to wonder how he could ever blow up his futon…or pop it…and with what. "I guess I'll sleep then…"
She slid against her own blanket, and shared the other half of the futon with Hinata. It fitted perfectly for the two of them though, and Sakura was glad that Hinata was able to sleep peacefully without rolling or making any noise. "Um…Good night Sasuke."
She waited until he said something back to her, but as she already expected, he didn't. The girl was really tired of giving him a chance, maybe he wouldn't change…or maybe he wasn't interested in her at all. Who knew, this was Uchiha Sasuke.
As Sakura dozed off, Sasuke laid down and rested his head on the feathery pillow. His eyes turned to look at Sakura's sleeping form; her hair neatly grazing her face, which always made him wonder if she was really human or not – with such beautiful silky pink hair fitting against her angelic face. "Good night Sakura."
Naruto twitched, "And people think I sleep like a rock. I heard that Sasuke!"
Sasuke's eyes widened and he sat up, his blanket falling to his lap. "Naruto…"
"She's beautiful…isn't she?"
That question had come unexpectedly, which caused the Uchiha to blush slightly. "Go to sleep Naruto."
-------------------------------------10:00 P.M; Bedroom #2
"Shikamaru…you should be careful next time." Ino purposely squeezed her friend's injury and smile as he yelped in pain. "Ow Ino…will you stop? It wasn't my fault, really! It fell on its own!"
Chouji had long ago fallen asleep on the futon next to Shikamaru's, and so did Kiba. While he sat on Ino's, having her fix up the injury she had caused. Sadly, he wasn't able to avoid the glass cup she had thrown at him, and a piece of glass sliced against his arm, causing it to bleed slightly. Not only did she not apologize, she had said it was his fault that she threw it at him. Why must girls be so bothersome? He wanted an easy…boring life. Not something that consisted of dealing with girls like Ino.
He grunted in pain as Ino tightened the bandage she had wrapped around his injury. "That should do it," the blonde exclaimed and pushed him off her futon. "Now go to sleep…I can't believe you said that I didn't need breakfast."
"Well, I thought you didn't."
"Still! Why did you make the choice for me? It's not like you even pay attention!"
Shikamaru's eyes wandered to the ground and he walked to his futon. "Whatever, it's best to survive till the end of the month anyways."
"Hmph, fine. Good night." She scowled at him for the last time and turned over, having her back face the three boys. He could see her pajama under the blanket, which was a blue tank-top. He already say what her sweatpants were like, it was labeled all over 'Kiss me' in kanji. If Ino could pay this much attention to fashion, couldn't she do the same in fighting? But who was he to talk? Things just came to him naturally…and he didn't want to deal with another thrashing Ino for tonight. "Night," the boy finally said.
-------------------------------------10:00 P.M; Bedroom #3
"My dear Sakura…" Lee called out as he began to fall into his dream. "No…don't go there, I'm right here…"
"Stupid Lee," Tenten rolled her eyes and attention them towards Neji. "Sleep yet?"
Neji leaned against the wall and crossed his arms, he disliked lying down while sleeping…it just showed as being unprepared when someone was going to sneak in. That would leave anyone vulnerable…but not that he needed to do it here…unless any of the stupid males from the other teams tried to pull a prank – most likely Naruto.
"No," the pupil-less boy answered his female team mate.
"I see…well, when you are going to sleep…turn off the light for me." Another meaning for this statement was to tell him that she was going to go to sleep. "Good night Neji…"
"Hn."
A sigh was heard, there was never a 'good night' or even 'night' from him. He was so cold! Tenten just pulled the covers over her body and forced her self to sleep at such an unfamiliar atmosphere…it wasn't like she wasn't used to this. Of course the kunoichi was, camping out in woods or inns with their team on missions…but this time, it wasn't a mission. It was being stuck in a house with eleven other people.
'I'll worry more about this tomorrow…' she yawned slightly and fell asleep.
No one had even paid attention to Shino, as he sat down on his futon but neither did he sleep. Lee tumbled slightly out of his blankets, mumbling: "My dear Sakura…I will protect you!"
"Is he…always like this?" Shino asked curiously.
"Huh…always."
"I see…" the boy with the sunglasses shifted into a comfortable position, "I don't see why you put up with your group then." With this statement, Neji opened his eyes slightly and raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"
"They seem annoying in a way, you don't seem to-,"
"Their still my team mate, and no matter how much they annoy me; they're the only people who understand me."
"I see."
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Author's Note: Day one is over…I feel like I can get this story somewhere; and I want to show you how the NARUTO cast will progress throughout thirty days. Twelve people under one roof…how well does that go? And I can just smell that heat of romance burying up – if you read my Couple category, it had almost everyone falling for at least someone. The true couple at the ending won't be revealed yet though, so maybe your couple will be chosen ;D Thank you for reading this fiction, please review!
Clues: Also, have you noticed now that Sakura doesn't suffix Sasuke with the term '-kun' anymore? It's because she's sorta not that obsessive anymore, and found him quite annoying just like Naruto. Not only is it Naruto and Sakura arguing now, its three ways around: Naruto/Sasuke, Sakura/Naruto, Sakura/Sasuke, Sasuke/Sakura, Sasuke/Naruto, they just simply argue each other. I wanted to get Sakura 'slightly' over Sasuke so then it'd show that she matured, so it'd leave some space for other things. But to tell everyone, I'm a HARDCORE SasuSaku fan :D I wanted to make Sasuke OOC as well, so I apologize if you don't like it. I find it cute seeing scenes of Sasuke blushing; Sakura seems to have fun doing that to Sasuke. And I found that boy scene in the living room hilarious, poor Shikamaru.