Back to our favorite shinobi.
Poolside fun, anyone?
While Kakashi went to put the moves on Kurenai, the girls went to put the moves on the boys. Which was a lot like putting moves on a brick wall. When Temari called them to invite them to hang out that pool, Shikamaru gave her a very Shikamaru answer.
"Mmm, sound troublesome."
"What? What do you mean?" she asked, twirling the cord in her finger, trying not to reach into the phone and shake him senseless.
"Y'know...There might be little kids there and they pee in the pool."
"We're swimming, not drinking. Besides we'll be in the deep end so there's no worries about anyone peeing in the pool."
"I dunno...Naruto doesn't look house-trained."
"WHAT!" came a familiar yell. "I AM TO HOUSE-TRAINED. You're just afraid you'll get a nose-bleed if you see Temari come out of her top."
"WHAT! It's not that at all!"
"Henge! Oh, Shikamaru, hooold me! My top came off on the sliiiiide." There was the sound of the phone being dropped and feet running.
"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" Shikamaru's yelled though it sounded distant. Temari held the phone from her ear and looked into the earpiece as if she could see the chaos forming.
"Nosebleed! Nosebleed!" There was a thwack. "ACK! Gaara?"
"You just made me see my sister naked. I'll kill you."
"Yeah, no one wants to see that cow naked. I almost lost my lunch." Obviously Kankurou. She made a mental note to kick his ass later or at least drown him. Feet approached the phone and it was picked up again.
"Uh...yeah. So anyway, I'll meet you guys down at the pool. I guess it won't be too bad."
Temari turned and gave the girls a thumbs up. There was silent cheering. "Great! I'll see you guys in thirty minutes. Don't forget your trunks!"
"Fine, fine...Uh...What are you wearing?" There was a pause. "I mean, I don't care. I just... You see, I was wondering...I..."
"BOOBIIIIES!" Naruto screamed.
"...Bye." The phone was put down. By the tone of his voice, it sounded like Shikamaru was going to kill someone. Someone blonde, loud, and named Naruto. Temari was pleased.
She hung the phone up and clapped her hands together. "Okay, girls. We've got boys to seduce!" She made a fist. "Sakura! Sasuke is the quiet, uninterested type. You must be subtle...sly...but! determined. Be mysterious and cool."
Sakura saluted. "Yes, ma'am!"
"Ten-ten!"
"Willing and waiting, general!" She saluted.
"Neji...thinks he's invunerable. Be persistent and sexy. His brain will quickly melt and you can conquer his will. Move in quick like the snake, surround him like the air, then conquer him with the passion of fire!"
"YES!"
Temari looked at Hinata, who looked like she was being sentenced to hug a wall of nails. "Hinata...sweet, innocent, Hinata. Careful, precise, gentle...Hinata," Temari cooed. "Your love just yelled the word 'boobies' at the top of his lungs. He's got the attention span of a gold-fish. He won't know you exist unless..." The older girl sat down beside her friend and put her arm around her shoulders. "Unless you grab him by the balls and say, 'HEY! I LIKE YOU!' buuuuuut...I don't think that's you kind of thing, right?"
Wide-eyed Hinata couldn't speak. Grab...Naruto...by the...She went pale as rice and hugged a pillow for comfort and support. Temari nodded her head.
"I have just the thing for you. I brought several bathing suits for the seduction of my lazy but wonderful Shikamaru... I'll let you borrow one."
"Will...will I look good?" Hinata asked nervously, her cheeks burning.
Temari covered her mouth and laughed. She gave Hinata a dangerous look. The look of a woman on a mission. "Look good? My dear, if Naruto doesn't notice you, he very well may not be interested in women at all. All right troops! We have five minutes. HUSTLE!" The girls dashed to the luggages, minus Hinata who was petrified with the possibility that Naruto was gay, and began to dig through their clothing for their 'weapons'.
The boys lazed around for a few minutes to finish their breakfast. Naruto poured ketchup all over his eggs much to the disgust of Sasuke. Neji enjoyed the many flavors of syrup on his waffles. Lee was doing push-ups. His count was a meager 367...368...369. Kiba and Shikamaru played video games, having finished their food quickly, while Gaara tried to fend his brother away from his sausages.
"Get your own!" Gaara had his elbow in Kankurou's cheek, trying to push him away.
Kankurou reached around with his fork and tried to spear a link from the plate. "I didn't order any."
"Well, tough! Get away from my plate!"
"Share, dammit! We're family."
"I'll kill you!"
"...Temari naked."
Gaara recoiled enough for Kankurou to capture a sweet delicious roll of maple-flavored pork. "EW! DAMMIT! GIVE IT BACK!"
"Hahaha! Nyaaaaaah." He pulled his eyelid down and stuck out his tongue. Gaara sat up and reached over to retrieve his lost sausage. With his greater size and longer arms, Kankurou kept him at bay.
"You'r so immature! Kankurou, I'm warning you..."
"Temari naked."
"EW! STOP!"
"Temari naked. Temari naked. Temari naked."
Gaara glared at him and held his plate up."Take...the damn...sausages, you son-of-a-" Just as Kankurou reached over to impale all of the sausages, his fork and the first sausage turned to sand and poured all over the plate. "Oops! You spilt sand all over the plate...Tough luck, big brother. Sorry, still want them?"
"... You suck, freak."
"Fatass..."
"Shrimp."
"Pig." They boys bantered back and forth, Gaara between bites of food, the sand shifting off before it reached his mouth.
Shikamaru destroyed Kiba again in Ninja vs Samurai 3. Kiba pouted and reached over to pet Akamaru who was allowed to 'do the dishes' by licking plates. The lazy ninja yawned and looked over to the clock. "We better get going you guys. The girls'll get mad if we don't show up on time."
The boys separated to get their trunks. Naruto quickly stripped and put on his black trunks with a flame motif on the bottoms. Sasuke's were simply black with a purple cobra coiling up one leg. Shikamaru's were standar green with the village symbol in black and his family name in kanji on one leg. Neji's were white with tiger strips on one leg. Kankurou and Gaara came from opposite sides of the room only discover they had the same taste in trunks. The older brother sported black with a red sand symbol while the younger brother wore red with a black sand symbol.
"Copy-cat."
"Dummy."
"How original. Did you make that up on your own or did you steal it from me?"
"I'll-" Gaara began threateningly.
"Kill-" Kankurou said along with Gaara.
"You...God, I hate you so...so much."
Lee stretched and put his hands on his sides. All faces in the room became filled with mixed emotions. Shock, fear, confusion, disgust, embarrasment, humor... But no one could deny that Lee was proud as he sported his green speedos with a turtle shell print on the back. "All right guys! I'm ready!"
"Turtle" Kankurou held up one hand like a scale. "Crotch..."He held up his other hand and looked at them both. He pretend to weigh them, moving his hands up and down. "...I can make approximately 100 jokes from this situation."
Shikamaru facepalmed. "Please don't."
Kankurou shrugged and put his hands in his pockets. "I'm just saying, the possibilities are grand."
Kiba came out of the bathroom. His trunks were a wolf print. "Let's go! I love swimming and I get to see Hinata in a sexy, skin-tight-" His eyes caught Neji giving him a dirty look. "...Did I say Hinata? I meant..."
"Shut up?"
"Yeah. That sounds good," he agreed looking like a scolded puppy.
Naruto grabbed up a few things from the pile of loot Gaara earned. "I got the toys." He tossed Neji the inflatable screwdriver. He caught it and put it over his shoulder like sword. So the troupe of young men walked down to the pool. The smell of chlorine and the sounds of watery fun hit them immediately. Kiba had an small dinosaur innertube on his head, Akamaru perched in the middle of it. Kankurou was given (read: he took them) the inflatable boxing gloves. He would try to punch Gaara but, arms crossed, the short ninja's sand would come up. Kankurou's efforts were just to irritate him.
"BOYS!" Temari called out to them. She approached in a purple one piece with fishnet across the middle and as the straps. It was nearly backless as she gave a twirl and hugged Shikamaru. "You're right on time."
Having the girl of his dreams draped around his neck with nothing but a thin layer of netting and lycra between them made Nara Shikamaru flush furiously. He was painfully aware of the intense gaze of Temari's two brothers behind him so his hands were in the air, no where near Temari or her body. Gaara was after all the one carrying the water gun.
"Ah, h...hey...Te..Temari," Shikamaru stammered. He forgot himself and put his hands on her waist. He heard the sound of Gaara pumping pressure into the gun and pushed her away like a time bomb, pocketing his hands.
Temari leaned to the side and looked at her brothers. "Hello, dear brothers." Kankurou was looking at Shikamaru and punching the gloves together. Gaara was still pumping in preparation of head shot to certain leaf ninja. When the two noticed their sister giving them 'the eye', the immediately put on airs of innocence. "So, shall we hit the water?"
Kiba ran past them as he held on to the inner tube on his head and cannonballed into the water. Akamaru gave a joyous yip before the water them. The rest raised their arms to shield from the splash. Naruto was about to jump in when Temari caught him by the back of his trunks and pulled him back. She spun him around, making him slightly dizzy, and pushed him at Hinata. The girl put up her hands instinctively and caught Naruto against her chest. The two looked at each other for a few seconds before splitting and looking embarrassed. Temari looked at Neji who raised an eyebrow knowingly.Her response was the 'V for victory' sign.
"Ah, sorry about that Hinata-chan. I-" He looked over to her and almost swallowed his tongue. Her bathing suit was a two piece, a very simply lavender string bikini. Naruto immediately turned around and wiped his nose with the back of his hand. He turned back around and grinned, his cheeks flushed from smeared blood. "Uuuuuuuuh...Nice bathing suit!" He sidestepped and chuckled nervously before falling backwards into the water.
Hinata blinked and sat at the waters edge for second to get used to the water before slipping in completely. Naruto gave a high-pitched yell and ducked under the water. However, the words of advice friends gave her gave her courage. She pinched her nose and submerged.
"Well, that was wierd." Kankurou propped his arm on Gaara's head.
Tired of Kankurou's antics, the younger boy turned his head and pointed to a group of girls on the far side of the pool. " Hotties at nine'o clock and if I'm not mistaken the forecast is a 50 chance of C-cu-" Gaara was left wide eyed. He had no idea that his brother could move that fast. "-ps."
Sasuke smirked and looked down at the tiled for the pool for a second. He saw Sakura's reflection beside him. She had on a conservative black one piece. Her hair was pinned up though two strands trailed on each side of her face. She had her arms crossed and was looking across the pool, solemn and uninterested.
"Sakura?"
"Hm?"
"Are you okay? You seem..." She yawned and walked away, leaving Sasuke confused. He shrugged a little and put his hands in his pockets again. He looked over to her, she was talking to a blonde boy, kind of weak looking, most likely a civilian.
Ten-ten gave a stretch. "My, my. Sakura's tastes sure have changed since all of this country boys have been talking to her."
"...Hmph." Sasuke pretended that he didn't care or mind. But what was she doing talking to such weak guys after she was falling all over herself over him?
"Yeah, but you have to admit that she's kind of classy and some of these civilians are so much more polite than ninja boys can be sometimes," Temari chimed in. Ten-ten nodded her agreement. "Don't sweat it, Sasuke. You're a pretty rough guy. You'll probably end up with a rough girl... like Ino."
Sasuke frowned. He looked back and Sakura. The blonde boy bowed to here and took her hand. She was laughing as he twirled her around like a dancer. Sasuke narrowed his eyes. "Mmmnnnnn..." Ten-ten and Temari exchanged a brief look before Temari grabbed Shikamaru and dragged him away leaving Ten-ten, Neji, and Gaara.
Gaara.
Somehow...someway, she had to get rid of him somehow. Ten-ten looked around the pool. "Hey! Let's all hit the slide. She pointed the swirling mass of plastic tubing the spiralled almost the entire circumference of the natatorium. The watched a girl sit in the top then slide down. Occasionally they could catch her screams between the cut-outs in the tubing but only briefly. At the bottom of the slide her body shot into the water like a torpedo.
The plan was simple. Neji and Ten-ten slide in first, Gaara would go last, giving Ten-ten enough time to drag her prey away to be claimed completely by her fire of passion. She ran forward and beckoned them on. "Come on! We don't want to be waiting in line all day." The boys shrugged and followed her right into her trap.