Suna's Kekkei Genkai
Chapter Seven: Return
Hinata was beside herself with glee, but shaking like a leave as well. Neji had come up to her the day before and stated that whether she wanted to or not she was going on a date with Naruto the next day. She was now sitting on her bed watching Neji go through her closet looking for an outfit for her.
"Do you not own anything that's date worthy?" Neji finally demanded stepping away from the violated closet.
"Um...I ..I never needed an outfit for a..a date," Hinata said not looking at him.
Neji thought for a moment then walked out muttering that he'd be right back.
"WHAT?!?!"
"You don't have to yell!" Sakura said, stomping her foot on the floor of Naruto's room.
"But I've never been on a date before," Naruto cried. "I wouldn't know what to say or do!"
"Naruto, I have never seen you unable to say or do anything," Sakura said. "Besides Hinata wont care. She like you a lot."
"Since when?"
(twitch) "Since like forever."
"And no one told me?!"
"It was plain as day, baka!" Sakura said. She went over to his drawers and began looking through them. "Don't you have anything that isn't orange?"
"Um..no. Well, I have my swirl shirt and the white pants Sasuke lent me and I haven't returned..." Naruto sat on his bed figiting.
"I'll be back," Sakura said heading for the door. "Stay here, and don't you dare move," she added as Naruto moved to stand.
Sasuke opened the door and saw Sakura standing there, smiling. "What?"
"Sasuke-kun I was wondering if you could do me a favor?" she asked sweetly.
"I'm not going out with you," he said starting to close the door.
"No, I don't want to go out with you," Sakura told him.
Sasuke paused. Did he hear right? Sakura didn't want to go out with him? "Why the hell not?!" he asked, slightly offended. She'd been asking him forever and now suddenly she doesn't want to!? (Shukaku: Any idiot who doesn't know this yet, H-R hates Sasuke. Like a lot.)
"Because," Sakura said placing a hand on her hips. "Will you do me a favor or not?"
"What is it?"
"Do you have any nice none ninja clothes that I can borrow for the night?"
"....?..........why?" Sasuke asked suspisiously.
"So I can go out tonight as a boy and get laid," she replied.
"!!!!" Sasuke's eyes bulged. "WHAT??!?!"
"I'm kidding," Sakura said waving his reaction away. "It's none of your business. Will you lend me the clothes, or to I have to take them?" Sakura gave him a deadly look that made Sasuke's skin crawl. She had never looked at him like that. The only other time he'd seen that face on her was back in the first few episodes of Naruto when he and Naruto accidently kissed and Sakura beat Naruto up. Now he knew why Naruto had nearly dehydrated from sweating.
Meanwhile, at TenTen's house...
Tenten (Shukaku: wow...you actually included her in one of you fics! H-R: Shut up....) frowned as she walked into her room. Absolutely nothing in her room was where she had left it earlier. The closet was empty and its contents were skoon all over the floor. Her dresser was empty and her bed had even been moved as if someone wanted to look under it. There was a note pinned to the wall on the oposite side of the room. Tenten went up and read the note.
Tenten, Hinata-sama needs an outfit for her date tonight. You weren't here so I helped myself-Neji
"......" Tenten glared at the note and went back outside to demolish another tree in frustration with her weapons.
Tsunade took a deep breathe as she and Gaara (H-R glomps gaara: HE'S BACK!!!!) entered the fire country once again. It didn't matter how much Konoha ever got on her nerves, it felt good to be home. She turned to tell Gaara to hurry up, but there was nothing in front of her except her three bulging bags she had made Gaara carry for 'training'. Glaring evilly at the bags as though it was their fault, she grabbed the bags and went to search for a doomed sand-nin.
Sakura walked up to the place where she and Lee had decided to meet. Lee was already there with a bouque of flowers for her. He hadn't noticed her yet so she didn't approach right away. Lee wasn't wearing his green outfit, but black slacks and a botton down shirt. It made a world of difference.
"Good afternoon, Sakura-san!" Lee called.
"Hi!" she called back. "Are you sure it's ok if we do the double date thing?"
"Of course, Sakura-san," Lee asured her for like the fifth time. "Naruto-kun has never been on a date before, so we should go to help him out." He didn't say anything, but he'd never been on a date before either and was scared spittless. Actually, Sakura was feeling the same way, the only other date she had been on was with Naruto, but that was only for ramen, so that didn't count.
They both smiled at each other and went to the restaurant where they were all meeting.
Five days later (yes it took Tsunade and Gaara five days to actually get to the village. What can I say? the villages in the fire country have lots of gambling places.) Tsunade and Gaara stepped through the Konoha Gates.
And were immediately bombarded by people.
Everyone cheered as they greeted their Hokage back to the village. Neither Gaara nor Tsunade knew how they knew that they would be there. Both were being squished by masses of people. Gaara, knowing that no one in the crowd was here to see him, pushed his way through the mass of people and gasped for breath as he got out.
"GAARA!!!" Gaara looked up in time to see a purple blur run up to him and wrap it's arms around him in a hug. Over the purple blur's shoulder he saw an orange blur coming at him as well.
GLOMP!
"DOG PILE!!!!" Kiba suddenly came out of nowhere and knocked all three over and threw himself on top of them. (SNG: -jumps in, too- GRIN!)
"Why did you do that?" Gaara asked the energetic Inuzuma, fixing the beany hat he was wearing.
"It felt like the appropriate time for it." Kiba answered, climbing off with a grin.
Naruto and Temari (duh) got off Gaara and helped him up. Kankurou, and the other gennin (plus one chunin) stood not far away laughing or grinning at the site of Gaara getting glomped twice and dogpiled. Every one greeted him and Kankurou surprised Gaara (and himself) by giving him a (manly) hug. Temari made a small incohirent noise of joy then glomped Gaara again. Gaara, having never been glomped, hugged, or dogpiled before, was quite beside himself and did not know what to do.
"We missed you so much!" she squealed. "Guess what?" she didn't wait for him to guess. "We're going to have a party of some sorts."
Flashback
"WHOO!! This is a great party isn't it?!" a very drunk Tsunade shouted in Gaara's ear, as the miserable sand nin desperately wished that he could disappear.
End Flashback
"What sort of party?" Gaara asked, shivering at the flashback.
"Not really a party, we're just going out to eat," Kankurou assured him.
Gaara shrugged. "Ok."
The fifteen teenagers went to Fudruckers because H-R went their saturday for dinner and loved it. (Shukaku: Their milkshakes were pretty good. H-R: They were the best!) They pushed a bunch of tables together, ordered then sat down to talk. This is the order in which they sat: Gaara, Kankurou, Temari and Shikamaru, then Ino, Sasuke, Chouji, Kiba, Sakura and Lee, Shino, Tenten, Hinata and Naruto, Neji sat next to Gaara, but had no chance to talk to him because Narutokept talking over the Hyuga to the sand-nin. The few people who knew about Neji's 'secret' noticed the Hyuga's frustration and were trying not to laugh. Their orders were called and everyone got up to get their's Neji jumped up and offered to get Gaara's for him. Gaara sat back down and looked at Kankurou in confusion as his brother burst out laughing, banging his fists on the table.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" Gaara demanded.
Kankurou attempted to say something, trying a few times, but failed miserably and began laughing again.
Neji brought his and Gaara's plate down. "Do you want something to drink?"
That was it. Kankurou cracked and through that crack seeped the annoying ability that all siblings and friends (which he and Neji had become) possess to embarrass and annoy. "Oh, no!" Kankurou said taking Gaara's cup from Neji. "I'll get it for him!"
Neji frown at him and muttered out of the corner of his mouth, "No, I'll get it for him."
"He's my brother, I'll get it for him!"
"No, I will!"
"I will!"
"I will!"
"I will!"
"I will!"
Gaara: "???"
"I will!"
"I will!!"
"You will!"
"You will!"
"ALRIGHT! FINE!" Kankurou grabbed the cup and stormed up to get the drink.
"Goddamnit," Neji muttered when he realised Kankurou tricked him.
Gaara tugged on Temari's sleeve. "I'm confused."
"Don't worry it's not your fault," she said patting his shoulder.
'Go Kankurou...' Shikamaru said to himself, covering his laugh by taking a drink.
Gots's nothing to say.
Shukaku: Thats a first...
TWACK!!
Shukaku: .