This is the final chapter of Camp is Fun! I hope everyone had as much fun reading this as I had writing this fic… CLICHÉ MUCH! I'll re word that- I hope you had fun reading it.
Keiren (the one I know- you know who you are!), if you're reading this, you suck. This was on the site for like 2 weeks before you had a SECOND waah about me not letting you friggin read my stories. And another fifty million years before you got round to reading it.
And sorry (especially) to: ANYONE WHO THOUGHT THE LAST CHAPTER WAS AN ANTI-CLIMAX! (I thought it was….)
Enjoy!
DAY FIVE
When Tenten woke up the next day, it was of her own accord. No one woke her up, at all, and she did not have strange dreams. Better still, a very Naked Hyuuga Neji was lying practically on top of her.
"Good morning." A Naked and awake Hyuuga Neji greeted, kissing her forehead.
"Morning," Tenten said as she smiled. Memories came rushing back, and Tenten realised that her eyes felt like they were going to fall out of their sockets because she had cried last night, while Neji had held her. While the both of them had been Naked.
"I have to stop thinking about this Nakedness." Tenten thought. That was hard, especially when she was…
"Tenten, you have to stop thinking so loudly. It makes you frown. Frowning gives you wrinkles." Neji smiled.
"I was contemplating my…actions of last night." She said.
Neji's smile faded as he kissed her tenderly.
"You don't have to worry about it."
"But you don't get it! I was going to! It's just that something was telling me not to… and I couldn't… so we didn't…" Tenten sighed and lay on her back, her arms crossed. "Where's our blanket?" she asked after some time.
"I don't know. On the floor maybe? It's too hot for a blanket anyway- we're in the middle of summer." Neji said. He smiled and kissed her shoulder.
"This Naked thing could take some time getting used to…" Tenten mumbled.
"Hn." Neji agreed.
"That's not being very sociable, Neji."
"Hn."
"Are you going to say anything else other than 'Hn'?"
Neji smirked and kissed her.
"I guess not…" Tenten said a few breathless minutes later. "What's the time?"
"I don't know… somewhere around ten?" Neji looked around for a clock.
"Okay… hey do you want to help me make pancakes? I have to start now because they'll all be gone by the time the teachers wake up if I just cook them all on my own."
"Sure… why not ask the other girls?" Neji asked
"Because they'll all probably be helping restraining Lee, Chouji, Kiba, Akamaru and Naruto from eating my pancakes before I get a decent pile." Tenten said.
She rolled over Neji and out of bed, landing on all fours on the blanket.
She stood up and tossed her hair over her shoulder.
"Get up! I have to start soon… before they tear apart the kitchen!" Tenten pulled Neji out of the bed and got dressed, with some difficulty, as Neji kept kissing her every few seconds, and then whined a bit when she was fully dressed.
She and Neji both jogged briskly to the kitchen and locked all of the windows and doors, making sure that no hungry people would try and kill them for not making their breakfast fast enough.
Tenten gathered up ingredients while Neji gathered utensils.
"We'll need six bowls. Those big mixing ones and they're steel." Tenten called out from behind the fridge door. She got out three cartons of eggs and a few bottles of milk.
From the cupboard, she found four bags of self-raising flour and sugar.
"These will have to do." Tenten said, tying on an apron Neji handed her.
Neji smiled and separated the utensils.
"Okay…" Tenten paced for a few moments. "Okay." Tenten stopped and opened the egg cartons.
"Four eggs per bowl. Just crack them in and whisk them." Tenten got to work on her three bowls, and Neji started on his.
"Uh… one cup of sugar." Tenten measured out and scooped in the sugar, then whisked it, watching Neji do the same.
"Gradually add the two cups of milk." Tenten instructed and poured in the milk, and mixed it together.
"Sift in the two cups of flour… and it should be getting thick." Tenten said. She finished her first bowl and lit the stainless steel gas stoves.
"I like this kitchen. It's all new…" Tenten commented as she rummaged out five same sized pans, and then melted butter in each of them, making sure to turn on the fan.
"Can you help me mix together my last few? I'll cook the first batch…" Tenten ladled out the batter into the pans and found large dinner plates.
Neji continued to mix the batter methodically and was soon helping Tenten to cook the pancakes.
After the first bowl of batter had been used up, Sakura pounded on the door.
"Tenten? Neji? Naruto, Kiba, Akamaru and Chouji are coming. How much pancakes have you made?"
Tenten spooned more of the batter into the pan and opened the door, letting in the pink haired kunoichi.
"Wow. That smells great… oh my gosh- is that how much you've made so far?" Sakura gestured to the two stacks of pancakes.
"Yeah." Tenten handed her a tray of cutlery, plates and spreads. "I'll bring them out in a minute."
Neji flipped the pancakes in the five separate pans. They were so alluringly puffy and golden. He just wanted to eat them.
"Tenten? Can I eat one?" he whined, uncharacteristically.
Tenten picked up the two heavy pancake laden plates.
"No. You can eat some at the end…" she turned and walked out of the room and hastily slid them onto the table at which Naruto, Kiba, Akamaru and Chouji were seated at, then turned and just as hastily walked back into the kitchen.
Neji sighed and piled the five pancakes onto the plate and poured more batter into the pans. He did not complain, though. Tenten was a hard taskmistress in her kitchen and did not appreciate whining of any kind. He bit his tongue and continued to cook the pancakes.
Sakura and Ino took out the next few plates. They gave one to the boys who had awoken, and kept some for themselves, knowing that Neji and Tenten would need help.
More pans were heated, more butter was melted and the piles of pancakes grew, and shrank, as everyone else in the camp woke up to eat breakfast. Eventually, it was announced that everyone was full- even Chouji, and Tenten and Neji were left alone in the kitchen.
Tenten smiled at Neji and took out chocolate chips and blueberries from the fridge.
"What are they for?" Neji asked. He had been cooking for a little bit less than an hour and he was ravenous.
"They, genius, are for our pancakes." Tenten split the last half bowl of batter into half and tipped the blueberries into one bowl, and the chocolate chips into the other, gently folding them in. Neji watched as the kunoichi then cooked them.
Ten minutes later, Neji was experiencing the bliss of blueberry pancakes with maple syrup and vanilla ice cream.
"Yum. These are … yum." Neji couldn't find any other way to say it. The pancakes were as fluffy as he thought they would be, but with the blueberries, maple syrup and the vanilla ice cream… he was in heaven.
Tenten smiled.
"I have to say so myself- they are pretty damn good." Tenten smiled. Neji didn't look like he'd even had pancakes before. She dropped her fork.
"You have never had pancakes before?" she asked incredulously.
"Uh…" Neji shifted the pieces of pancake around… "No."
Tenten sat there with her jaw hanging, flour in her hair, on her hands and on her clothes, even though she had been wearing an apron.
Neji swapped the plates, bringing the half eaten chocolate chip pancakes to him. It didn't work very well, because Tenten was still sitting beside him, and could still finish eating her half of the pancakes.
"Tenten, will you marry me? I'm addicted to these pancakes." Neji asked, completely casual.
"What? If you're only going to marry me because of my culinary skills, I say… no." Tenten laughed and then abruptly kissed him. They both tasted like maple syrup.
"I loved those pancakes, Tenten."
Tenten and Neji looked up.
Temari was standing in the doorway, a smirk on her face.
"Hey. How'd you sleep?" Tenten asked, quickly recovering from the embarrassment of Temari catching her kissing Neji.
"Hmm, not too bad. That slut keeps hanging all over Shika-kun!" Temari snarled, and glared at a coughing Tenten.
"You did that same thing, you know." Tenten said. Temari slumped down in a chair opposite to Tenten's.
"Yeah I know… it's just that I wasn't seriously planning on doing anything. The only reason I came here was to say hi to Shikamaru, and then yeah, stuff just… happened." Temari said, putting a significant strain on the last word.
Neji snorted. He cut more of the delicious pancakes with the layer of maple syrup and ice cream in between, taking no notice whatsoever to the sand kunoichi's glare.
"Neji is just… insensitive. When it comes to this kind of stuff… and when it doesn't involve him." Tenten added hastily when Neji looked at her. "So why didn't you leave?"
"I don't know… it just seemed like a good idea to just stay and get to know everyone, you know, improve personal relationships…" Temari smiled as Neji stood up and began to wash the dishes.
"What is everyone doing now?" Tenten asked, sliding the half eaten pancakes over to Temari.
"These are the best pancakes I have ever had. Anyway, they're all swimming, or packing, or being a slut." Temari said between bites.
Tenten rolled her eyes and left the table to go and help Neji.
Temari smiled and picked up the plate and walked out of the room, sensing the conversation had ended.
Tenten smirked as Neji sighed.
"What's so bad about her?" she asked, stacking up the dirty dishes that needed to be washed.
Neji turned on the hot water tap and waited for it to heat up.
"She's just so… moody all the time! Sometimes she's nice, other times she is really angry, some times she's as demure as Hinata used to be and then in the next second, she's as bloody flirtatious as Yamanaka and Haruno put together… I just don't get it." Neji sighed as he poured detergent into the hot water.
Tenten smiled.
"You're not meant to get it." She said finally. "Temari is kind of a mystery… I think that she's a bit of mystery even to herself. I think it's a sign of her insecurities but, then again, I could be wrong. Temari from the Sand… the name suits her because her mind shifts whenever the wind changes direction."
There was silence. It had hung around a lot during the camp, and Tenten was beginning to get annoyed by it.
Neji didn't mind the hush in the room, and just continued to wash the dishes until there were none left to clean.
He dried his hands briskly with a paper towel, not trusting the thin mangy cloths called "tea towels". He turned around and picked up the fork.
"She took the pancakes."
Tenten jerked out the plug and watched the water drain from the sink, her eyes unfocused, like she was seeing but not looking.
"Hn." Neji put his balled fists on his waist. "She took the best pancakes in the world away from me."
Tenten sighed. "Come on. Stop whining, I have to go pack." She took the Hyuuga by the hand and dragged him out of the kitchen, back in the direction of their cabin. He stopped resisting after a few meters and walked leisurely beside her, hand in hand.
Lee had already placed his packed up belongings outside and had left to go swimming with the others down t the river.
Tenten slipped out of her shoes and went inside to begin packing. Neji dragged his own bag over to the doorway, keeping it open while he watched his girlfriend struggle to pack everything neatly so that she could close her small suitcase.
"You know, I find it funny how when someone goes away, and they can never seem to pack everything back in the right order so that they can close it properly." Neji smirked as he watched. Tenten growled.
"Another thing I find funny is that some people can never seem to close their suitcase after re-packing, no matter how small and neatly they pack." Neji commented, the insolent smirk still on his face.
Tenten snarled and pulled out a katana. She whirled around and slashed at the Hyuuga. Neji frowned and pulled out a kunai, blocking the blow with the small weapon, the shock making his arm jolt.
"You've gotten better." Neji nodded with approval.
Tenten hissed.
"Your help would be appreciated, Neji." She said through gritted teeth.
He smirked once more.
"What will I get out of the task?"
"Um… how about I don't kill you?" Tenten growled, frustrated.
Neji kissed her, inwardly smirking as the katana dropped to the floor as she surrendered to the sensation of his lips against hers.
"Mm… Thanks." Tenten smiled dreamily, her irritation melting away.
"You're welcome." Neji kissed her swiftly on the cheek and set about helping her pack up the rest of her belongings, using his Byakugan to check around in case she had left anything anywhere in the house.
Tenten had brought two bags with her- a suitcase and her small backpack. After some thought, she packed her swimmers, towel, and some extra weapon holsters into the latter and slung it over her shoulder.
"Let's go up for one more swim at the water hole." Tenten suggested as she dragged her bag outside. "Somehow, it makes your skin smoother."
Neji shut the door.
"Mineral water, Tenten." He smirked.
"right." Tenten rubbed her head.
"Let's go then." He slung his own bag over his shoulder and the pair walked up, for the last time, up to the waterhole.
It was a brilliantly hot summer's day. Tenten and Neji gladly immersed themselves in the icy cold water.
"No water fights." Neji said as Tenten smiled mischievously at him. Her face fell into a pout.
"You're pouting?" Neji asked. "Have you been taking lessons from Temari? Are you Temari?"
"Yes, no and no!" Tenten said, slightly confused. She shrugged after a few moments and floated around for a few minutes on her back, staring up at the sky, slightly bitten at the corner of her vision by the grey rocks. She closed her eyes and let her mind wander, forgetting that Neji was also in the water.
There was a flurry of movement in the water, and something flitted behind Tenten's head, then her swimmers came loose at the top.
"What the hell are you doing Hyuuga?" Tenten demanded, holding up her swimmers with one hand while treading with just her legs. "You're such a perve!"
"What?" Neji asked, innocently. "What did I do? I was just swimming!"
"You're not innocent, even I know that." She shivered. The water was weighing down her swimmers and, somehow, she couldn't tie her swimmers tight enough so her cleavage wouldn't fall out. She groaned. "It's all your fault you know."
Neji smirked.
"Would you like some help?" he asked politely, coming to tread water behind her.
"Yes, but I want to get to the rocks first. My legs are getting tired." Tenten swam back to the edge of the water, all the while holding her swimmers, and Neji tried hard to keep a smirk off his face.
Tenten stood up, with her back to him, and he gently tied the straps together, ending in a tidy bow, trying hard to just focus on the knot, and not what he could see over her shoulder.
Tenten felt goose bumps spring up once more as she felt Neji's warm breath on the nape of her neck, just before he kissed her. She turned around and allowed herself to be kissed on the lips, and kissed him back, with all of her being.
Neji broke away from her lips and they smiled gently at each other for a few moments.
"I'm hungry." Tenten said, spoiling the moment. It was now past noon, and they knew they would have to leave soon. Neji walked to the large gap in the encircling rocks and laid his towel down in the sun, along with his pack and Tenten's. She smiled in thanks and positioned herself on her towel, drying in the summer heat.
From his bag, Neji unpacked several items- a bottle, a few containers and smaller bag.
"You planned this, didn't you?" Tenten asked.
"No! Why would I do such a thing?" he replied with a question of his own, both of them knowing the answer.
They were soon both enjoying a lunch of salad sandwiches, and a bottle of lemon iced tea. Tenten reclined in the sun, and smiled dreamily, as she had last night.
"Thanks." She murmured.
"You're welcome." He whispered back. Neji packed the empty boxes and the bottle back into the bag and he, too, lounged in the sun for several moments before he remembered the last unopened bag. Lee had prepared the pack for him, and he had also included dessert, with one fork.
He sat up and opened the bag. Inside was a generous slice of cheesecake and one fork. Neji sighed. It made him look lax and unoriginal.
"What's in the bag?" Tenten asked, curious about what Neji would do next.
"Cheesecake."
"Cheesecake? Why?"
"To eat." Neji smirked as he passed her a fork, and Tenten rolled her eyes.
Neji gently drew the cheesecake, on its plate, out from the bag.
Tenten cut off a small portion, and noticed that Neji was watching her with an expression of painstaking longing in his eyes.
"What?" Tenten asked, only after the small piece of the dessert had disappeared. "Don't you have a fork?" she frowned.
Neji smiled and rubbed her forehead, and she smiled back.
"Don't frown, it gives you wrinkles… And no, I don't have a fork."
"Well, I guess that is to be expected from Lee." She smiled as Neji tried not to gape at her.
"Does it bother you?" Neji asked, very close to her ear.
She shivered as the whisper sent a pleasant tingle down her spine.
"Not in the least." she whispered in his ear. She tenderly placed her lips on his earlobe
Neji sighed and his mouth soon found their way to Tenten's.
Lee found them, moments later, mouths firmly fused, and he did not, for once, take a photo. He cleared his throat.
Tenten blushed. Neji lifted his mouth from hers and looked up at Lee's emerald half clad figure.
"Sorry to interrupt, but er… we're leaving in half an hour." He turned and walked away.
Tenten blushed harder at his remark, and retreating back. Neji was lying on top of her, every inch of his long body pressed up against hers. He had untied the top strap of her bathing suit, and one of his hands were under her head, the other upon the curve of her hip. Tenten had one arm around his waist; half tugging at one side of his shorts, and her other hand was entwined gently within the long tresses of his hair.
The kunoichi smiled as Neji gently kissed her neck, and his mouth continued further down her pale expanse of unmarred skin.
"Oh. My. God. Everyone! Tenten and Neji are DOING I-" Neji had jumped up, quick as a flash, and had silenced Sakura's tongue by clamping a hand over her mouth. Unfortunately for him, Sasuke had been behind her and had pushed the Hyuuga away, with quite a lot of strength. Neji had anticipated the attack and eluded the blow, causing both Sakura and Sasuke to stumble.
The two glared at each other for moments and relaxed.
Tenten blushed and quickly tied her swimmers to maintain some kind of modesty after the intrusion, and Sakura gave her a look of many meanings.
"What the hell were you trying to do to her?" Sasuke demanded angrily. Sakura placed a hand on his arm, and he calmed, but not by much.
"Silencing her, because what came out of her mouth was something that I wanted everyone to believe was true." Neji stated equably.
Sasuke cocked an eyebrow, as did Sakura.
"So you weren't…" she trailed off with another meaningful look at Tenten, who blushed and shook her head.
After a few moments, Tenten pulled on her clothes over her dry bathing suit and sat down, motioning for everyone else to do the same.
"So why were you up here?" Sasuke asked.
"Getting some privacy, before you two came." Neji replied. Tenten glared at him, and punched him playfully.
Sasuke looked up at Tenten.
"Swimming in mineral water. Makes your skin smooth..." She stated. Sakura's eyes gleamed. She jumped up, quickly stripped, and ran into the enclosed area. The kunoichi screamed moments later.
"…But it's icy cold." Tenten finished. They turned around and Sakura was in the middle of the pool, shivering violently, water still churning around her.
Sasuke sighed. He pulled a towel out of his bag and draped it around Sakura's shoulders when she got out of the water.
"I'll talk to you later, Tenten!" Sakura called out as Sasuke led her down the hill, into the sunshine where she could thaw.
Tenten sighed and shook her head.
"All your fault." She muttered.
Fifteen minutes later, everyone was boarding the bus. They had said their goodbyes to the sand kunoichi, and everyone had noted that her attitude towards Ino and Shikamaru was more than a bit frosty.
Lee was handing around a thick green notebook, along with a lime green pen.
"What do you think has changed within your group over the past few days?" Tenten and Neji read aloud. Tenten smiled and wrote something in, signed it and handed both items to Neji whose eyes widened at what the kunoichi wrote. He looked at her and smirked before writing his reply.
Tenten talked softly with Sakura, and they both established the fact that Tenten and Neji had not gone any further than kissing. Sakura returned to her seat with Sasuke and fell asleep.
Lee had passed the book around at least fifty times in the past hour, with a new question to be answered each time. Tenten had become slightly irate and had threatened to burn the book if he did not let everyone sleep. Lee hastily sat back down, and scribbled away in his messy scrawl.
Neji smiled contentedly. The Hyuuga was sitting with his back on the glass window on the bus and Tenten was on his lap, her head resting on his chest. He took a quick glance around. Sakura and Sasuke were sitting in a similar position, Hinata's head was in Naruto's lap and he was stroking her hair and Ino was sleeping with her head on Shikamaru's shoulder.
"Tenten?" he said after a while. He had sensed she had woken up, and wanted to ask her something. "What's the first thing you're going to do when you get home?"
Tenten looked up and kissed Neji's chin.
"I don't know," she admitted, "maybe unpack; kill that baka who keeps partying all night or some weapons sharpening or practise."
He smiled and kissed her bare forehead.
"What are you going to do, Neji?" she asked later, as they were walking back to the kunoichi's house.
"I think I have an idea." He growled, quite seductively, in her ear.
Tenten was intrigued.
"Go on,"
"It goes along the lines of…" Neji kissed her ear, cheek, and then softly, once on the lips.
"Oh. Okay." Tenten said weakly. They entered the apartment complex, and pulled their luggage into the lift. Tenten pressed level 5, and the lift ascended to that level.
Tenten threw her keys at Neji when she heard some music pounding through the building, the source somewhere down the hall.
"There's something I have to do." She explained, some what mysteriously. She pulled something out of her bag, and walked calmly down the hall.
Neji shrugged and placed the bags inside, then followed her footsteps.
The kunoichi knocked on the door. When there was no answer, she kicked it down without waiting.
"Sorry for interrupting." She said calmly.
About eighty drunk and vacant faces looked at her. Twenty more were sober including, it seemed, the owner of the apartment.
"What the hell are you doing in here? I thought you got the message last time- we don't need any extra guests, no matter how much you want to join- invites only, babe." He said.
Neji stiffened and glared. The owner smiled.
"I see you've brought back up this time." He sneered. Tenten punched him in the face, and he fell back onto the floor, blood leaking out of his nose.
"I don't need backup." Tenten replied.
She turned around and Neji jumped forward, landing a blow on some girl who had attempted to hit Tenten with her back turned. She slumped to the ground, unconscious.
Tenten sighed. She'd hoped it wouldn't have to come to this. But then again, she was glad for the excuse to punch someone who really deserved it.
A minute later, the apartment was filled with about a hundred unconscious people- some of whom had attempted to hurt Neji and Tenten in some way, others who were unconscious from alcohol consumption. It hadn't even been much of a fight- those who looked menacingly upon the two ninja were generally bumped soon after in some fashion, such as a punch or a poke, and fell to the ground.
They had learned that it took more than just that bubbly confidence that alcoholic drinks gave you to injure a shinobi.
Tenten smiled and cut up all forms of audio entertainment that lay littered about in the apartment with her katana.
"I've always wanted to do that." She said to Neji as they shut the door. Everyone would just wake up with a few bruises, except for the owner- who had a broken nose.
Neji smirked.
"What?"
"Nothing." This comment was rewarded with a playful punch on the arm which did not lack conviction.
Tenten grumbled about something and she emptied her small bag into the empty laundry basket. She could never be bothered to do her laundry, but her apartment had, luckily, a laundry service- something which Tenten often took for granted, especially in her line of work.
Tenten took a step back and almost tripped over her feet when she crashed into Neji, who gracefully caught her in his arms.
"Hey Neji? About that idea…" she said, not moving from her current position as she traced the outline of his lips.
Neji hadn't forgotten.
Okay, I'm sorry if it was a bad ending- I'm not very good at them… well anyway, if you didn't like it, the good news is that it is the end of the story! I'm just too weird. anyhow, if anyone wants a sequel, please say so- but it might take a while (I'm out of ideas for now)