The Assignment - i aM taMi xPp
Summary - AU Naruto and the gang are in a slightly odd highschool. The gigantic warehouse across the street suddenly turned into a culdesac of houses. A certain project where people have to be paired together and take care of a 'baby' happens quite alot, doesn't it? So, Health teachers Kakashi and Gai decided to spice it up a bit. KibaxSakura, ShinoxIno, NarutoxTemari, ShikamaruxHinata, NejixTenten
A/N: Hi people! Well, I was reading over my story when I saw that all my 'scene changers' have been cut out. So, I was wondering if anyone could suggest any wordpad documents of something. And if it had spellcheck that would be nice too!
DemonFireGirlHotaru - Thanks! Mean and evil? Hmm. Maybe I could add that to the GaaxLee for fun haha.
pretti.stuff - Thanks! About the Sasuke and Naruto thing.. this is an AU story so it doesn't really have to be all about Team 7. Naruto is included in the story, but Sasuke, well he isn't exactly my favorite character.
scorpion05 - Thanks! Wow so many questions. Yupp, they get money for food, the school is going to give them enough money so that they can make the baby happy. The parents.. some of them will be included later in the chapter so you'll see! And last but not least they are all from ages 17 - 18 lol.
SaKuRa-E - Thanks! Kibasaku moment.. iunno yet. I'm trying not to make the romances move so quickly since they've only been in school for three days and I'm gonna try to end it when they graduate, which is like 10 months later. lol
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of the characters. Part of this plot belongs to Renniseht Entreri.
"speach"
'thoughts'
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Chapter Three - ?
"Yes mom, I know I said I was going to help Hitomi plan her wedding, but I've been a bit, uh busy." Sakura spoke into her cellular phone, shoulder shrugged up against her cheek with it inbetween. She was currently pouring milk into her cereal. She turned to look at the clock. 'It's only about seven, so I have about two hours til' everyone wakes up.'
"So her wedding is going to be during the spring? And she wants me to be her maid of honor? Cool. So when should I come over?" Sakura heard a noise and turned to look at the couch. "Hold on mom." She placed the phone on the table and walked over to the couch only to see a snoring Kiba with a remote in his hand.
"Mommy!" she heard a voice cry. "I can't reach the sink!"
"Kira? What are you doing up so early?" Sakura asked as she walked up the stairs. She picked up a stool and went to the bathroom.
"It's not early!" Kira replied. She ran down to the living room and yanked Kiba's watch off his arm and ran back up. "See?"
Sakura looked at the watch and her eyes grew wide. "10:30! But, that clock said-"
She was cut off by Kiba who was standing by the door. "All the clocks are wrong, I checked on the TV Guide channel." he yawned. He grabbed his watch back and put it back on the odd red shape that went around his wrist.
"We still have to check in with sensei and I need to leave in about an hour, and go to my cousin's house! Which reminds me, I still have my mom on hold!" Sakura said. She ran down the stairs and picked up the phone. "Mom? Yeah, I'll be there. Do you mind if I bring a few friends? And I need to tell you something really important. Kay, bye." She hung up and stuck her phone in her pocket.
"Hey Kiba! Can you wake Keiji up?" she yelled. "And get dressed unless you want to take care of the kids yourself for the rest of the day!" Sakura grabbed her purse and dug for her car keys.
Kiba walked down the stairs with Kira and Keiji in front of him. "So we are going to your cousin's house? Why exactly?" questioned Kiba.
"I promised her I'd help her with planning her wedding, and I'm her maid of honor so I still need to buy my dress and such. So let's go check in with sensei now, I need to be at her house by noon."
"Why are we taking the car? The school's right across the street." Kiba asked amused.
"We have to start driving to my cousin's house right after because she live's about an hour away." Sakura opened the front door and let everyone out then headed to her car.
"Crap. Do we need car seats?" Kiba whispered. He was replied with a shrug.
"Hey Sakura!"
Sakura looked up. Ino and Temari were sticking their heads out the window and waving from what she remembered as Tenten's house. She quickly waved back realizing how long she was quiet.
"Where ya going?"
"I don't have time to explain, but you can come along, I'm going to Hitomi's house right after I check in."
"I wish I could go, but we can't leave our 'husbands' alone with the children." Ino said. Temari nodded.
"You can bring them along and help me explain to my mom about why I'm living in a house with a man and two children." Sakura pleaded.
"My god Sakura, you haven't told her yet?"
"No, well I have to leave soon, so coming or not? I can fit about one more group of people in this van." she said. "And ask Hinata and Tenten if they wanna come! I'm going to go check in, if you guys are coming, meet me in the front of the school in a few minutes. Oh, and by the way there's a park nearby with a cafe, so you can hang out there."
"Mommy..? What about doggie?" Kira asked as Sakura got into the car. Kiba pointed to the top of his head. "Oooooh."
"Alright, let's go!"
An hour and a half later...
Sakura pulled over and parked her car with 4 other ones behind her. She got out of the seat, took a deep breath, and walked up to the house. She was about to ring the doorbell when the door flew open.
"Sakura dear!" a woman in her early 40's yelled pulling Sakura into a hug.
"Hi mom.." Sakura said nervously.
"So what's that important thing you wanted to tell me?" her mom asked excitedly.
"Well, I've been assigned to a project. And-"
Ino cut her off "And it requires her to live with someone- who is of the opposite sex along with a child for her health grade and gets her a fully-paid scholarship to any college." Sakura gave Ino a thankful look and Ino just smiled back.
Sakura's mom looked surprised. But then again, who wouldn't? She then smiled still a bit surprised though. "When do I get to meet them?" 'Oooh that teachers gonna get a slapping..'
"They're here now, I'll go get them." Sakura walked down the steps and walked towards Kira, Keiji, and Kiba. "Follow me, you have to meet my mom."
Kiba sighed and picked up Kira and Keiji.
"Mom, this is Kiba, Kira and Keiji." Sakura said.
"Oh my they are adorable. Well everyone's welcome to come in. Girls, Hitomi's in the kitchen." She told them. They all entered the house and took a seat in the living room. Except for Sakura who motioned for the girls to follow her. The guys sighed.
"They said they'd if we went with them that we wouldn't have to take care of the kids by ourselves, and guess what we end up doing?" Shikamaru stated. "How troublesome."
"Well as long as we're together.." Naruto said. Th guys laughed as he scratched the back of his head. "That came out wrong."
IN THE KITCHEN--
"I just don't know what to do! I mean, I need to pick my bridesmaids, pick colors, find a flower girl, and pick out the dresses for everyone! And I need to pick a resturaunt, a church, oh and flowers! I forgot about the flowers! And then.." A girl with dark red hair tied up in a high ponytail yelled. She was holding a notepad and a pen and scribbling down a list of stuff to do.
"Hitomi?" Sakura asked as she, Hinata, Ino, Tenten, and Temari entered the room.
"Oh, hey Sakura, Ino." She responded in a soft voice.
"This is Hinata, Tenten, and Temari by the way." Ino said. "Are you okay?"
Hitomi nodded. "I'm fine," she said. She tried to put a smile on her face, but suddenly started crying. "I'm having an emotional breakdown!" she cried. "And where's Seiichi? He's out bowling with his brother!"
"It's okay, we're going to help. So, let's start with your colors since it's the easiest." Hinata said patting Hitomi's back.
"How about silver? Silver's always nice." Ino suggested. Hitomi smiled and nodded, scribbling it down.
"Silver and what?" That question put the girls into deep thought. Everything goes good with silver!
"Maroon?" Tenten suggested after a few minutes of silence.
"Great!" Hitomi exclaimed. "So now we got the colors, and now I gotta find the people to wear the colors, aka the bridesmaids." She pulled out her cell phone and started dialing.
"Do you have your guest list yet?" Temari asked. Hitomi cursed and flipped her notepad to a different page. "And that reminds me about the invitations too!"
"When is your wedding?" Hinata asked. Sakura pointed to circled date on a calendar.
"Isn't it a bit early then?" Tenten asked.
"You can never be to early for these kinds of things." Ino replied.
"So, for the bridesmaids I'm done. And now I need a flower girl. I overheard what you told auntie. So would one of your 'daughters' like to be it?" Hitomi questioned.
"We'll ask. But we don't really know them yet." Tenten said.
"Anyone feel like dress shopping today?" HItomi smiled.
WITH THE BOYS---
Shikamaru, Shino, and Neji were sitting on the couch doing what looked like napping. Mostly because their eyes were closed. Unfortunately, Naruto and Kiba were the only ones left to take care of the kids.
"They all want to go to the park. Man! I should've pretended to sleep." Naruto complained.
"Well let's just take them there. Akamaru needs to go anyways." Kiba said. Both boys got up and formed a 'follow the leader' thing. It worked until they got out of the house.
"At least they're all running the same direction." Naruto said. Kiba slapped his forehead.
BACK TO THE GIRLS--
The girls walked into the living room surprised to see no kids and no Naruto or Kiba. They were all thinking the same thing.
"Shit." Ino said.
"Let's go look in the park." Hinata suggested. They took a step outside and saw the kids running around everywhere.
"Since they've been shut in the house all day, I guess we should let them play for a while." Tenten said. "Let's go find Naruto and Kiba and tell them we're going out. The sooner the better." The other girls agreed.
"I already see them." Temari said. "On the bench by the swings."
Temari started walking and the rest followed. "We're going dress shopping. Take care of the kids while we're gone." she ordered.
"Oh and this is my cousin Hitomi!" Sakura shouted after them.
THREE HOURS LATER--
"How's this one?" Hitomi questioned, trying on another dress. She turned around so everyone could see it. "I like it."
"Perfect!" They all squealed at the same time.
"Since there's another dress shop down there, why don't we get dresses for the welcoming dance on Friday?" Ino suggested.
"If we are all going to the dance, then who's going to look after the kids?" Temari asked.
"I guess I will stay.." Hinata said. "I'm not going to dance anyways."
"I'll stay with you!" Tenten quickly stated.
"No you won't Tenten. Remember the dare we made at Temari's birthday party? That you have to go to every school dance?" Ino stated smugly.
"I'll stay with her." Sakura smiled. "I'm not much of a dancing person either."
"So are you leaving now Sakura? Hinata?" Hitomi asked.
"Yeah. Want to come with us?" Sakura asked. She was currently reading all the messages that have just been sent. Mostly from Naruto complaining about the kids. "We need to get back as soon as possible."
"I can only imagine what's happening back there." Hinata said thoughtfully.
WITH THE BOYS--
Screams and yells were heard all around the Haruno household.
"Seiichi? Go catch your kitty and make sure she doesn't do anything bad." Naruto said. So far Kira, Kazuo, Takara, and of course Suki have decided to run around the house and play 'ninja'. Neji, Shikamaru, and Shino were no longer sleeping, but cleaning up parts of the house the kids messed up. Basically all the rooms on the bottom floor.
"Akina can help me find Kazuo? I'm guessing he's the leader of the little ninja group." Kiba asked. From what he's been seeing all day, Kazuo was a leader person. A very loud, hyper, happy, kind of leader person.
"Hello?" asked Sakura as she opened the front door. She was followed by Hinata and Hitomi.
"Holy crap!" Hitomi exclaimed. "What happened here?"
"The kids got hungry, so Naruto decided that he would teach them how to make cupcakes, of different flavors." Shino stated, he was holding a Mr.Clean swiper in one hand, and a bottle of WindEx in the other. He looked quite funny.
"There's eggs on the ceiling, eggs on the floor, flour on the couches and chairs, water on the rug, straberry juice on the windows..." Hitomi trailed off walking towards the kitchen. If this was what the livingroom looked like, she couldn't wait til she saw the kitchen.
Sakura continued for her, "A banana peel in the cd player?" she asked confused.
Shikamaru snorted, "That's funny, they didn't use bananas."
"Where are the kids? And Kiba and Naruto?" Hinata asked, also confused.
"Well, long story." Naruto said. He entered the room and took a seat. "Man, I'm tired."
Seiichi then entered the room with Suki. "I found her Mr.Yellow haired man!" Seiichi put on a proud smile and took a seat next to Keiji, who was playing with a mini vacuum cleaner.
Sakura and Hinata laughed. "Yellow haired man.." Even the simplest things are funny when they come from a kid.
Suddenly, a loud scream was heard. Everyone ran to the room it came from. There they saw Akina staring at the wall, and the other kids playing ninja.
"SPIDER!" Akina screeched again and ran behind Neji. Neji sighed and smacked his hand against the wall, killing the spider. The other people, minus Shino, looked at Neji's hand with disgust.
"Dude, next time you can get a napkin." Sakura said. She turned to look at the little ninjas. From what she can tell, Kazuo was the enemy, and Takara and Kira were fighting against him. With pillows. And before that, Suki was probably his summon.
Kiba made a low whistle. It was then that she looked around the room. "Aw man.. This is where my mom's going to be staying. Where is my mom?"
"She went out to some dinner party." Shikamaru said.
"Well, its only," she checked the clock "7:33, we have enough time to clean up the house. Hinata? Can you call Temari, Tenten, and Ino and tell them to get back here? It's only about a 10 minute ride. We have about an hour to clean up the house before my mom comes home. This may not be her house, but I'm going to get the blame anyways." Sakura sighed.
"Bring it on!" Naruto yelled looking at the cleaning utensils.
"Me and Hinata will take this room." Sakura stated. "Whoever's not cleaning has to take care of the kids!"
"How troublesome." Shikamaru sighed. He led them to the stairs and motioned for them to sit down. Everyone else exited the room and Naruto and Kiba went to the kitchen, while Neji and Shino went back to the living room.
Hinata grabbed an OxiClean carpet cleaner and started spraying the ground. Sakura grabbed a piece of cloth and spray and cleaned the windows.
Sakura sighed. She was the kind of person who likes silence, but sometimes it just gets annoying. She was trying to think of a conversation to start. Surprisingly, Hinata was the one who started it.
"So, what do you think about Friday?" Hinata asked.
"Since we are going to be taking care of all the kids, you wanna try to earn some money by taking care of other peoples?" Sakura suggested.
"That sounds good." Hinata said. I mean, how hard could it be to take care of a few more kids?
"We can just ask whoever's not going to help us. Who's house?"
"I think yours, because you have twice the equipment we need."
"That reminds me, I need to go shopping for food. Wanna go tomorrow?"
Hinata nodded. They didn't need another cookie disaster.
"How much money per kid? Minus ours." Sakura said. Ours meaning the group of friends.
"The prom starts at 6:00 so 10 dollars per hour? And 40 for the whole night? Or is that too much.. Should we cut it in half?"
"I'm sorry but I have no idea." Sakura said. She has never seen Hinata this way before. In her 7 years of knowing her. "We can decided later."
"We're back!" a loud yell echoed through the hall.
"Grab a mop and a bucket and start cleaning!" Sakura yelled back. Ino's head popped in to the room with a pout.
"But I just got my nails done!" Ino replied. When she was given that stare she sadly looked at her hands. "Fine."
Two days passed very quickly since no one had to go out at all. Before they knew it, it was prom night.
"Ino! Help me do my hair!" Tenten screamed. She was sitting in front of the mirror. She has been trying to do it herself, but that doesn't go very well when most of time your hair is tied in a simple bun, or ponytail. She had a towel wrapped around her since she was wearing her dress.
Hinata sighed. This has been going on for the past few hours. She didn't even get to go. Kind of reminds me of Cinderella. The doorbell rang. 'Must be the kids. I hope people read the sign. 5:00 to 12:00 PM. Where is Sakura?'
She walked to the door and opened it. Only to be greeted by Gaara, Lee, and a small little girl with light brown hair. She was quite surprised that Gaara was here. "Hello, who's this?" she asked, eyes pointing towards the girl.
"This is Haya!" Lee exclaimed. "I'm going to leave her in your care, and return later!" He then turned around and walked away. Leaving Gaara and Haya standing there amused.
"Would you like some help?" Gaara asked emotionlessly. Hinata's eyes grew wide.
"Sure. You can get part of the pay." Hinata said surprised.
"Hey Gaara!" Sakura called out as she entered the room. They were sort of related. So it was no surprise. He was her mother's 2nd cousin's cousin's daughters's husbands mom's son. "Haya, right? Everyone else is in the livingroom, you can go play with them."
"Have you got the night planned out?" Gaara asked.
Sakura nodded. "The only problem is that since it's 6 the kids need to have dinner. Which will be at 7 by the way. I've just finished bubble wrapping and plastic wrapping my kitchen. They're sure to make a mess."
"I'll cook then.." Hinata stated.
Sakura sighed. "I really don't want to have to clean up again. And this time, we don't have all the guys to help us since they decided they need to spike the punch at every dance. Those idiots."
Hinata looked at the piece of paper in her hand "We are getting kids from Tayuya and Chouji, Kin and Ichigo, and Sasame and Kankurou who also have twins."
"The bad news is I heard that Tayuya and Chouji's kid knows how to curse." Sakura winced.
The doorbell rang.
"Be prepared."
A/N: Wow what a corny chapter ending. Okay so it took me month to update and it's only a little bit longer than my other chapters, but it's an improvement! Now I know why author's feel so bad when they update late.. I really have no excuses except that I'm lazy and only write in the morning. Lol sorry! If anyone wants to suggest some things to happen in the storyline that'll be great cause I need to have a lot of things for them to do for the rest of the school year. In case anyone was wondering, the pairings are going to go slowly because like I just said, I have the whole school year. Thanks a lot to you guys for reviewing! It means a lot to me that people are actually taking the time to read my story. The next update will be sooner since I know what's gonna happen next, but maybe a week or so.. Just to tell you guys that banana peel thing happened to my class, I thought it was pretty funny haha. All the pairings at the end are just random, like the rest of this story. I haven't planned the story out so beware, anything can happen.. P Edited: 10.01.2006