Hey this is the third installment of the Camp is Fun! Story… thanks to everyone who has reviewed this, your advice is much appreciated. To those who believe that this story is progressing more than a bit fast, I think I'll just drag out the whole Shika-Tema-Ino love triangle thingy…although I think I'm going to fail miserably. By the way, I think I should add somewhere that Temari is EXTREMELY temperamental… It might be because of PMS?
DAY TWO
"Yosh! Rise and shine!" Gai sensei yelled the next morning.
"No… don't want to… don't make me!" Tenten murmured and snuggled deeper into Neji's embrace.
Neji slept on soundly, and Tenten envied him.
"UP!" their teacher yelled, and moved to take the blanket away.
"Gai-sensei?" Lee sat up and blinked. Tenten was grateful for this distraction.
"Lee you've woken up!"
"Gai-sensei!"
"Lee!"
"Gai-sensei!"
"Lee!"
"Let us go and run laps around the camp!"
"Yosh!"
"Thank god…" Tenten thought as she drifted off to sleep.
The kunoichi was woken up moments later, however, in a very new way. Neji had pulled her even closer to his body and had kissed her roughly, the summer heat nothing compared to the fire inside his very fervent kiss.
Neji slid his hands up and down Tenten's back, noting her shiver of pleasure. Tenten responded by running her own hands over Neji's chest, sculpted and firm beneath her touch.
The Hyuuga genius gently removed his lips from hers and reattached them on her neck, gently kissing the hollows and curves of her throat. His lips moved upwards, back to claim hers, and Tenten was about to repeat his ministrations to his own neck when she remembered Temari. She hesitated and Neji stopped, his breathing getting steadily deeper.
"What is it?" he asked. Tenten had a dark look on her face, and Neji knew why. "Temari?"
Tenten nodded, her face shuttered.
"You don't have to worry about her…I"
"You what? You let her kiss you!" Tenten did not bother to keep her voice down.
"I thought she was you!"
"But what did you do when you did find out? You just kept kissing her!"
"What else was I supposed to do? Just kill her without finding out who she was?"
"I don't know! But it's just that you could have just thrown her out of the way when she was talking to me!"
"I-"
"You what? Wanted her to kiss you more?"
"Tenten look…" Neji trailed off. Tenten had started crying and was sobbing on his chest. "I'm sorry. I'm really, really, really sorry. Why don't we just forget about her? She's just here to deliver a message, and then she'll probably be gone." Neji tried his best to soothe his girlfriend, and kissed her hair, scented like something fresh and fruity but sweet at the same time.
There was a timid knock on the door.
"Tenten?" Sakura called softly.
Tenten looked up at Neji, her eyes red and more of those tears marring her face. Neji thought she looked beautiful when she cried, but she was even more so when she was happy. He nodded and Tenten rolled softly out of the bed and walked outside.
"Sakura?"
"Tenten! Oh my gosh! It happened!" Sakura squealed.
"What happened?"
"He kissed me!"
"Sasuke?" Sakura nodded and Tenten gave her a hug. "I'm very happy for you!"
"So," Sakura said, putting her hands on her hips. She had kept her hair short, and she was still in a night dress that was short, satiny and pink. "What did he do? I knew something happened when you guys went 'swimming'. And you've just been crying…" Sakura sighed and hugged Tenten, then sat down on the porch.
"Well… I kissed him… and then Temari came, disguised as you, and then we were talking for a while and I told her what happened last night… because I knew you had hung up after I kissed him… but you did hear that sexy growl thingy he did right?" (By the look on Sakura's face, Tenten soon figured out the answer was a no.) "Anyway so he kissed me and there were those fan girls…. back to Temari, she went back to get my stuff and she was disguised as me this time, and she started kissing Neji. She was all over him, but Neji found out it wasn't her in the middle of kissing her and then I came back because I knew something was up. I saw them, thinking you had transformed into me, and then Neji got really angry because Temari was fully all over him, like goading me and biting his neck and stuff. He hit her, and she got thrown to the other side and fell into the water. I had to take her out and I carried her to you, because I knew Neji did not want to touch her." Tenten rambled on and Sakura's jaw dropping filled the awkward silence.
"Well… I'm glad you and Sasuke got together… what about Naruto?" Tenten asked quickly.
"Oh I think… hope… he's okay with it… I mean Hinata is definitely happier. So they probably got together too… Hey what do you thinks happening with Ino and Shikamaru? Do you think Temari…?" Sakura left the question unanswered and ran off in case her friend was in an emotional crisis due to the other blonde bombshell.
Tenten smiled grimly and walked back into the cabin.
"Interesting conversation…" Neji said mildly.
"I believe it is rude to eavesdrop." Tenten said.
"Hn. Yeah well you think a lot of things are rude, don't you?" Neji smirked and swiftly kissed Tenten's cheek before getting changed. Tenten sighed and tied her hair up.
She pulled on some clothes and walked over to the mirror to wash her face and brush her teeth. Neji came up behind her and she took his hand, holding him still as she inspected the puncture marks on his neck.
"Does it hurt?" she asked softly.
"Not as much as it hurts you. I just wanted her to disappear, but I couldn't kill her, as much as I wanted to. It kills me to see you cry." Neji rested his naked forehead against hers and he kissed her gently.
The sun had been up for a few hours now, it was around eight o'clock. Everyone seemed to have woken up and was presently assembling around the kitchen table.
"Okay good morning everyone! I trust you slept well?" Kakashi's question was met by silence. "Yosh. Breakfast will be ready…. Now. Go into the kitchen and Asuma will give you your breakfast… unless of course, you don't want to eat." There were a few moments of dead silence and then all of the shinobi rushed into the kitchen.
After breakfast, everyone was sitting around the table, talking about one thing or another. The girls of Konoha watched as Temari of the sand went round, flirting outrageously and incessantly with the male members of the Rookie Nine, pointedly avoiding Neji.
"I don't like having her here." Tenten announced after some time.
"…I don't know much about her, she seems nice enough…" Hinata said slowly. She wasn't one to talk negatively about people, and always thought the best of everyone.
"I think she might have something with Shikamaru." Tenten said. She was rewarded with a glare from Ino, and had the grace to blush at her tactless comment
"Do you like him, Ino?" Hinata asked for a while.
"No! He's just a friend." Ino looked away, and Sakura continued to say nothing. She just watched as Sasuke became angrier by the second. Tenten could also feel the heat radiating off him, similar to Neji's anger yesterday. Temari had obviously learned from her mistake, as she moved into the empty seat beside Chouji, who she had ignored.
"Today, we are going to do several activities… and it is all based around, simply, teamwork. Temari, you can join Kurenai's group for the duration of the activities, for as long as you like." Asuma explained.
"First activity, archery. We will explain more at the range, but just arrive there in around half an hour." Kurenai spoke evenly, and left the ninjas to their activities.
"Yay! Archery!" Tenten jumped around, ecstatic.
"Don't say that. It cuts your arms and stuff!" Sakura whined.
"Sakura, why are you so negative? You've done stuff that has cut more than just cut your arms!" Ino laughed.
Really? That sounds interesting..." Temari interrupted their conversation. The four girls turned around and looked at the older kunoichi.
"Hey, Temari." Tenten was the first to speak. Temari beamed at her and waited for the others to greet her.
"Hi, it's nice to meet you. I am Hyuuga Hinata." Hinata inclined her head slightly.
"Yamanaka Ino." Ino's reply was short and curt to the point of rudeness, but Temari ignored it.
"I'm Haruno Sakura. I was the one who healed you yesterday."
"Thanks for that… That guy is a bit freaky eh?"
"That guy happens to be-"
"Right behind you?" Neji's cool voice cut off Tenten's as he came to stand behind Temari. "Temari. Do not try and throw yourself at men such as Uchiha Sasuke and myself. You might just live to regret it." Neji turned on his heel and strode off. Temari grinned wickedly.
"Neji-kun? How's your neck?" she called out. Neji did not even register that he heard her. Tenten blushed angrily and said nothing.
Half an hour later, the shinobi all met up at the archery range, Temari seated comfortably between Kiba and an unnerved Shino. The other teams were seated together.
"Okay does that clear up the rules? No cheating or using chakra, got it? Your team total will declare who wins, so everyone try your best! You can help each other out, but you cannot shoot your team mate's quiver for them." Kurenai took a seat as one member from each team stood up and picked up a bow and a quiver of ten arrows.
Tenten smirked. This was the kind of thing she was good at. Temari was prettily asking Kiba if he could help her, and Naruto was already getting into it.
Tenten nocked the arrow and pulled the string back, sighting down the shaft. When she released it, the arrow flew straight and swift, hitting the bullseye, dead centre.
"Gai-sensei? What happens if I split the first arrow dead centre? And the one after that?"
Gai sensei rubbed his forehead. "I don't know. It's worth the same?"
Tenten was disappointed.
She nocked the next nine arrows and fired them in quick succession, all of them hitting the yellow target, the nine making a circle around the arrow sticking out of the centre.
She looked at Naruto's target. The arrows had all hit somewhere in the higher scoring rings, but missed the gold circle in the centre.
Temari was still firing arrows, Kiba breathing down her neck at each interval. The girl seemed absolutely capable of doing it herself, but would turn around and flutter her eyelashes at Shikamaru every few minutes, sending Ino into a murderous silence and Shikamaru into an embarrassed state. Kiba did not notice a thing.
"Tally your scores and add them together on the scoresheet." Kakashi instructed after Temari had sat down.
Tenten passed her bow to Lee and he began to enthusiastically fire arrows at the target, each one of them missing their own board and hitting someone else's.
Sakura was glaring down the shaft and coldly fired arrow after arrow. Tenten suspected the younger chuunin was imagining someone's face at the end of the shaft.
Shino seemed to be holding out well on his own, ignoring Temari's flirtatious advances.
Three hours later, and to no one's surprise, Team Gai was announced the winner of the archery challenge.
"We're going to have canoe races next, so change into swimmers and we'll have lunch." Asuma spoke briefly before disappearing to cook his students' food.
"5983 to 1269. Tenten you are like my best friend, but you're also like a... complete freak! I still don't get how you're that good!" Temari draped her arm around the girl's neck. Tenten grimaced and breathed deeply, trying hard to not cut off the other girl's arm.
"Hn. Yeah. Uh hey Temari? Could you please do me a favour... as a friend?" Tenten asked through gritted teeth.
Temari smiled serenely and Tenten took this as a signal to continue.
"Can you stay away from flirting with Neji, Sasuke and Naruto? They don't like it ... and neither do we. Look I'm sorry, but they're taken..." Tenten looked up at Temari who was still smiling.
"Sure thing! I'm sorry; I was just having some fun!"
"Yeah. That was happening too before Neji pushed you in the chest."
The smile slid off Temari's face.
"Yeah, tell your fully abusive boyfriend that his 'growling' is pathetic!" Temari glowered and flounced away.
Tenten rolled her eyes and Neji came up behind her, munching on a salad sandwich.
"What was that? You two seemed like you were getting along..." Neji's voice dripped with sarcasm.
"Haha. She told me to tell you that your 'growling' is pathetic." Tenten smiled as they walked back to their cabin to change.
"Really? Because I don't recall you telling me what you think of my... growling. I growl?"
Tenten smiled angelically, slipped out of her shoes and entered the small cabin.
After dinner, there was an emergency girl's meeting in Tenten's room. Tenten frowned as she remembered the events of that day.
Temari had sat with the teachers in their canoe, while she watched the Rookie Nine and Team Gai paddle in time and race each other. Whenever Team Gai and Team 7 drew in front of the other vessel, a wind would conveniently come out of no where and the small dingy canoe would capsize, leaving the other two teams to win.
Tenten knew this had been because of Temari, but, thankfully, the shinobi were soon allowed to spend the rest of the three hours swimming around in the salt water river.
"I thought they'd never leave!" Tenten groaned in frustration. It had taken her forever to convince both Lee and Neji to leave her to the cabin for a few hours, but the three other girls' arrivals had made them rethink Tenten's request.
"Marshmallows?" Hinata passed around the bag of the fluffy sweets.
"I really, really don't like her." Sakura said. She had choked on an entire mouthful of salty water, and it had burned her throat when she coughed it back up again. The marshmallows seemed to have a soothing effect and she ate some more.
"I don't even know why she's here. Why can't she just leave?" Ino grumbled as she squished the fluffy ball of sugar. Tenten cocked an eyebrow at her and she blushed, saying, "What? I always eat marshmallows like this!"
"I think she's just here because she's bored… and needs some people to keep her amused." Hinata suggested.
"More like some men to eat and some catfights to start!" Sakura smiled at her own comment and popped more marshmallows in her mouth.
"Okay… so what will the topic of this meeting?" Tenten asked as she took the bag. She tossed several of the marshmallows into the air and caught them in her mouth.
"Um… I don't know… I think it shouldn't be about bitching behind Temari's back. I think she's just lonely." Hinata commented.
"What? You're taking her side?" Ino cried. "She's there and she's fully all over each of our boyfriends and making moves on Shi-"
"I thought you said you only thought of him as a team mate. Are you feeling threatened by me, Yamanaka Ino?" Temari said from the doorway.
"No. Just leave him alone." Ino looked away.
"Are you girls having a party? Can I join? It's been a while since I've had a good sleepover. Well with girls… anyway." Temari smiled slyly.
Tenten rolled her eyes, and passed on the marshmallows.
"Let's play a game," Temari said slowly. She had procured a tub of triple chocolate fudge ice-cream and a few spoons. She joined the four kunoichi on the blanket spread out over the middle of the room.
"What game?" Hinata asked, not liking the awkward silences.
"We are going to have a DMC!" Temari placed a marshmallow on the heap of ice-cream on her spoon and ate both.
"What's a DMC?" Sakura asked.
"It's a Deep and Meaningful Conversation, duh!" Temari smiled and passed along the ice cream and marshmallows. "The rules are that you cannot lie, can't talk over someone else or leave someone out. Whatever is said in this room stays in this room. Break any of these rules, and face the humiliation of whatever we decide, as a group, to do to you."
The shadows grew long at Temari's comment, and Ino sneezed, hiding a giggle.
"Okay… the DMC begins… now." Temari sat back and waited for someone to say something.
There were a few moments of silence, filled with the sound of the marshmallow bag rattling and the ice cream being scooped from the tub and eaten. Tenten did not mind the silence, it was much better than fighting. The chocolate ice cream in the tub in her hand was filled with caramel fudge, chocolate chips and chocolate sauce.
"First topic…ice cream." Tenten said.
"What?" Temari was amused by this girl.
"Ice cream. Where did you get this from?" Tenten asked. The silence was slowly leaking away, taking with it, some of the tension.
The night wore on, and the topic went from ice cream to boys and the DMC was focused around the latter.
"Temari, who do you like?" Hinata asked.
"I like… this guy."
"And?" Ino asked.
"He's a foreign ninja, and he is not from my village."
"What's he like?" Sakura was interested.
"Um, well… he's not like the others…"
"Since when are they ever are like the others?" Tenten smiled. "I think none of these boys are even like each other, so I guess…" she trailed off as the others glared at her.
"Geez Tenten, you're more analytical than I am!" Sakura smiled at her friends glowering face.
"Well yeah… he's really quiet, and I like him a lot. But I think he doesn't like me, he's definitely fallen for another woman in his team." Temari's voice had a bitter edge to it.
"No way. That's just too cruel…" Ino said.
"Well I guess you can say that. He's a bit oblivious to everything I say to him, and I don't know if he…" Temari's eyes welled up once more, and there was a knock on the door.
"Hey, Team Gai, it's time to sleep!" Kurenai poked her head in and saw a bleary eyed Temari and the rest of the Konoha kunoichi sitting around, eating biscuits and lots and lots of chocolate, while drinking hot chocolate.
"Stop with the coffee. It's time for sleep, and I think the male members of Team Gai would like theirs too." Kurenai smiled.
The four girls filed out of the room past Kurenai, taking with them the empty ice cream tub, bags of marshmallows, thermos of hot chocolate, packets of biscuits and chocolate wrappings.
"Good night guys!" Temari called out as she made her way back to her cabin, escorted by Kurenai.
Later that night, Tenten lay awake in Neji's arms. She was distractedly drawing small circles on his chest with her finger, and thinking about what she had said and talked about with the others.
"Tenten? What are you thinking about?" Neji kissed her forehead.
"Oh um… nothing." Tenten blushed under Neji's scrutiny
"Really? Why did you lock me out of here for five hours and let Temari in after five minutes?" Neji asked.
Neji heard his kunoichi mumble something about a DMC, boys and ice cream.
He smiled and left the subject alone, knowing that girly stuff was not something he needed to know about. Still, he was curious about one thing…
"What do you think of Temari now that you have had a DMC… or ice cream or whatever?"
Tenten blushed and replied, "She's okay. Hinata just thinks she's doing all this stuff because she's lonely and bored."
"Really?" Neji smiled.
Tenten smiled back and playfully nibbled Neji's bottom lip before kissing him.
Sorry- I'm going through a major editing session, and stuff's getting cut out….