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

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of the characters. Part of this plot belongs to Renniseht Entreri and I don not own several places listed below. Or any songs that may be included.

A/N: Yay! Chapter that didn't take a month! Well, I now throw the karaoke thing away, and have a new surprise ) . I'm sure all of you has been to this place when you were little.

NarutosGirl52 - Thanks! My reaction.. hmm, I would be okay as long as whoever I get paired up with know's how to cook. .

Kiyoko-San - Thanks! Well, the first weird name I thought of was Bob, but that's a bit overused nowadays. I think the name I picked instead was better. BWAHAHAHHAHHA

ShadowTrunks - Thanks! I can't put the NaruxTema in yet! Lol. But thanks for being so excited. I'm new at this, so I'm having problems deciding how the couples are going to 'fall together'.

darkestviolet - Thanks!

Ryu-Hitori-Lenore-Evans - Thanks! Yeah basically just checks over. I'm sorry but no karaoke in this one. But I'm sure you'll find this chapter... interesting. Lol.

"speach"

'thoughts'

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Chapter Five - Tunnels and Pizza

"What do you mean someone booked before me!" Ino yelled.

"I-I-I- I'm sorry ma'am, but Uchiha-san has booked it for himself and his 'posse'." A boy that looked only about fifteen looked towards the back of the room, indicating where they were.

"But, but-"

"Just give it up Ino." Temari sighed.

"Where are we going to go?" asked Hinata.

"Hey! Let's go there!" Naruto pointed across the street to none other than Ichiraku Ramen.

"Naruto? No." Ino said. "Ramen is unhealthy."

"How about here?" Shikamaru suggested, walking one store down.

"Lazy! You just want to sit down."

"Mommy?" Kazuo pointed down the next block. "I wanna go there! It looks fun! Is it fun? I bet it's fun!"

Everyone turned their heads.

"That's perfect!" Kiba yelled.

"Ingenious!" Naruto grinned.

"Oh, no." Sakura slapped her forehead. There stood, the almighty, CHUCK E. CHEESE.

"I guess it'd be okay. Let's go people!" Ino said. 'It's just Chuck E. Cheese Ino, it's probably not the greasy and oily place everyone says it is. Oh it's a new one. I think.'

As soon as everyone got in Naruto and Kiba ran straight to the ball pit. Following them was Kira, Temari, Shikamaru who just thought it felt good, Takara, Seiichi, and the little birthday boy. Akina, somehow managed to make Neji and Tenten go into the tunnel with her. That's how good kids are at persuading. Chouji ran straight towards the pizza place along with Lee and Haya. And there stood the remaining people, Shino, Sakura, Hinata, Ino, Keiji, and Gaara.

"I'm surprised no one ran towards the games." Sakura stated with wide eyes. Her eyes then turned to Ino. Seeing the fear in Ino's eyes, she quickly started talking about how she went here years ago and that it was fun.

"This is very enjoyable." Gaara said saying it like he actually meant it. He was playing the traditional Whack a Mole. Typical.

Hinata giggled. "Yes this is quite fun. And I thought we needed to put coins in to play." Hinata said confused.

"Normally you would, put i payed before we came in." Ino explained. Hinata nodded and continued playing Chuck E. Cheese Ball.

Keiji tugged on Sakura's shirt. "I wanna go on the slide!" Hearing the word 'slide' Takara's ears perked up.

"Alright, Ino, Shino, why don't you come with us?" Sakura smiled. They walked towards the slide, and were soon joined by Takara.

"So, do we just slide over and over again?" Ino said.

"You don't have to, but you can Ino-san." Shino spoke for the first time that day.

Back over to the games, Hinata, Gaara, Seiichi and Lee were now competing with each other in Whack-a-Mole since Gaara refused to play another game.

And to the Play Structure. Naruto, Kiba, Kazuo, and Temari were having a ball fight. You basically just through the balls at each other. Shikamaru moved to the pizza place and hung out with Chouji. But not everyone was having fun.

"It's stuffy in here." Tenten said. She was a little afraid she would die from the heat, or the air shortage.

"No you think?" Neji snapped. He was not a happy camper. "Why did people invent such a thing?"

"So kids could have fun?" She answered, a bit pissed off at his attitude.

Akina looked at her parent fighting and decided to leave them to work it out. She quickly crawled to the slide and slid down, then ran to the slide.

"How could people have enjoyed this?"

"It's called a childhood Neji." Tenten rolled her eyes.

"I had a childhood!" Neji retorted.

"Oh, I believe you." Tenten snorted. Sure he did. Doing what? Reading books?

"For your informa-"

"Dead end genius, the only way is down."

They both peered down to see nothing other than the ball pit mountain. They were a good 4 meters above it.

"What kind of children's place is this?" Neji yelled. Tenten agreed.

"You go first." Tenten said. No, she wasn't scared. She just wanted to see him fall.

"No, I refuse to go down there."

"Go."

"No." Neji suddenly felt him falling. He looked up to see Tenten grinning innocently and glared at her.

"Hey look it's Neji!" Naruto yelled as soon as Neji fell to the bottom. Neji had a glare on his face. "Hey man, you need to loosen up." Naruto said, giving him a slap on the back.

Bad idea. Neji's glare intensified and he began throwing balls at Naruto. Temari and Kiba stood there surprised.

"Ball fight!" Kazuo yelled. Temari and Kiba shrugged and started throwing again.

Tenten looked down at the scene and started having second thoughts about going down there. Oh well. She cannon balled in and joined the fight.

Meanwhile, all the slide people had moved to the jumper.

"This is so fun!" Sakura laughed as she bounced up and down while holding Keiji's hands and going in circles.

Ino gaped. She had never seen her friend so care-free at a place like this.

"So Sakura-san? We just jump?" Shino asked politely.

"Yeah Shino! C'mon Ino! Just come in, you'll love it!" Sakura replied out of breath, having just fallen down. "Shino, drag her in! I would, but I'm a bit tired."

Shino nodded and stepped out and picked Ino up.

"Shino! Why are you doing this?" Ino yelled. No! Not the dirtyness!

"Sakura-san asked me to Ino-san." Shino replied.

"Just call me Sakura." Sakura smiled. 'Ino doesn't know how lucky she is to be paired up with someone like him. So polite and nice.'

Ino stood in the jumper, not moving, which caused everyone to start. Keiji, being the kid he was, didn't know what was going on and decided to start jumping again.

"I feel unstable.." Ino said. She then felt herself fall down.

Sakura laughed. "Wow, you didn't even have to move. Here's a secret, if someone is jumping, and you don't want to fall, you have to jump too." Sakura winked at Takara, Shino, and Keiji. Sakura put one finger up. Then two, then three. And before Ino knew it, she was being thrown around the jumper.

"I guess there's no way out of this." Ino sighed and started jumping along with them. "Hey this is pretty fun!"

"You act like you never done this before." Sakura stated.

Ino laughed nervously and Sakura gaped.

THE GAMERS

Gaara- 20, Hinata- 0, Lee- 0, Seiichi- 0.

Hinata sighed. She was getting tired of this, but she didn't want to leave Seiichi with Lee. For obvious reasons. He was nice and all. But to focused on his 'Fountain of Youth' and a bit on the crazy side.

They have been playing the same game for and hour. And Hinata has witnessed the impossible. Gaara laughing. No, not like a maniac, but a person who has been having fun. Maybe the assignment was changing him.. in good ways thank goodness. Hinata thought about taking Seiichi to get ice cream and leaving Gaara and Lee to play against each other. It would work out. Gaara was addicted to the game, and Lee never runs out of energy or get bored.

After two more games of Whack-a-Mole Hinata thought the ice cream thing was a good idea.

PIZZA PLACE

"Okay people! I hired another clown for the rest of the day since the other one's at the Sushi House!" Ino said.

AT THE SUSHI HOUSE

"Would you like me to make a balloon dog for you?" The clown asked pinching Sasuke's cheeks.

"Go away you fool!"

BACK TO THE PIZZA PLACE

"And it's almost cake time, so no more games. This is Frederick the Clown!" Ino said.

Frederick the Clown suddenly appeared on stage and then jumped off, doing a little flip.

"Hello friends!" Frederick exclaimed.

"Mommy I'm scared." Keiji whispered to Sakura while hiding behind her.

"Does anyone want a balloon animal?" Oh the false happiness.

"I want one!" Takara waved her hands. "Make me a pony!"

"Alrighty, little girl."

"Hey! This isn't a pony!" Takara frowned.

"Yes it is!" Frederick snapped with fire emitting from his body.

"Ah! Fire!" Takara yelled and pulled out a water gun. The white face paint on Fredrick's face washed off.

"Well-!" Frederick grabbed the water gun but stopped as he looked at all the teens staring at him weird. "Well, welli, wellington! Yes! Beef wellington!"

"You're weird!" Takara stated as she pointed at him, her little blonde pigtails bobbing.

"I never wanted to be a clown!" Frederick suddenly went into drama mode. "I really wanted to be one of those people who put the plastic at the end of shoelaces!"

"Okay mister whatever.." Takara said.

Frederick ignored her. "But that didn't work out! I had to go to clown college! And now it's like a perfect life!" he yelled with sarcasm.

"My name could've been something cool, like Finlay! I could've been a millionaire!" he continued.

"Right." Naruto laughed stretching out all the letters.

"But no! I'm just a clown!" Frederick started laughing.

"Mommy can we go home?" Keiji whispered.

"This what I do everyday!" Frederick slammed a pie into his face and continued laughing. "I would've been just 'Frederick' or my real name, 'Fredfrado' if I wasn't a clown!"

The maniacal laughter slowly died down to sobbing.

"I lost the woman of my dreams when I came to pick her up when I still had this flower on my head!" Frederick flicked the flower on his hat dejectedly and everyone stared in amusement as water squirted up and back in.

"I could've been in a house right now.., eating dinner with a beautiful wife and 9 beautiful kids."

"Woah man that's a lot." Naruto said.

"I could've been daddy!"

The girls met each others eyes and put a finger near their ear and rotating it in a circle while mouthing crazy.

Takara had a disgusted look on her face.

"I could've been anything I wanted too! But no! I decided to play class clown.. quite literally."

"I hope we don't end up like him." Kiba whispered to Naruto.

"They made me dress up in a costume, and do dances, and I obeyed because I wanted friends." The sobbing stopped and the laughing came back. "Did you hear that mom? I wanted friends! I wasn't the popular boy you thought I was!"

"Ino-san, I don't think this is safe for the children." Shino spoke.

"It's okay, I didn't pay yet." Ino gave herself a pat on the back for thinking ahead.

"I was a geek! A loser! An outcast!" Frederick waved his hands in the air. "I lied mom! LIED!"

"I don't see your mom." Takara said confused. Naruto nudged Temari. "Our daughter is so cool!" he laughed.

"You wanted me to show the world who I was? Well here you go!" Suddenly he ripped off his clown suit and ran outside into the streets nude. Thankfully, all the kids had their eyes covered by an adult hand.

"That is disgusting." Sakura blinked. "My eyes have been tainted!"

"Well that amused us for a good 15 minutes." Tenten said looking at the clock.

"So cake time?" Kiba suggested. Everyone nodded and sat down at a table like nothing happened.

ONE HOUR LATER

"Who knew ice-cream cake was better than ramen flavored cake?" Naruto asked lying on the couch back at his house.

"Gross." Temari said disgusted. Temari smiled. "Nice job today Takara!"

"Thank you very much!" Takara grinned. She has been being praised for the past hour after that clown episode.

"Yeah. Maybe we should put you into some kung-fu class for fun as a reward." Naruto suggested flipping channels on the television. Cable, every man's dream.

"Kung-fu sounds good. We'll talk about that tomorrow. I'm going to sleep." Temari motioned for Takara to follow her upstairs. "Night!"

Naruto sighed and got up. He knew now that if he stayed up watching television on a week day that he would wake Temari up, which would cause something that hurts him.

"Where's my sleeping hat?" He yelled.

A/N: Finished in one day! Awesome! If I keep waking up early, I'd probably update faster. So tell me wutcha guys thought about the clown. I didn't exactly know how to make him insane.. SO I made him a drama queen. Hmm I just noticed the title has NOTHING to do with the chapter. Well barely. Oh well! Keeping this short since I have nothing to say. P Edited: 10.01.2006