First of all, I like to thank Punk-neko-gurl for reviewing for the last chapter...too bad I only have a few reviews...it feels as though I'm writing all of this for just a small community of people here...(tears forming in eyes)...I'm really sad right now...well, maybe this chapter will help me get people to review...i dunno...but it would be REALLY NICE OF YOU to post a review...here I go complaining again...I'm such a little kid...yeah that's me!. well...here we go...(says it with a quivering voice)
Disclaimer: I never ever will own Naruto. But it would be nice if I actually met the creator. Maybe he can give me some tips on how to draw...problem is...I don't live in JP and I can't speak Japanese...hopefully he speaks English...I dunno...
Beep, beep, beep. The alarm clock sang, its monotonous voice ringing in her head as she hesitantly stretched her arm outward to the alarm and switched it off. "Ugh...the alarm actually works now, huh?" She pulled up her covers as she yawned uproariously, grabbing her toothbrush and toothpaste from a nearby desk and walked out to the bathroom.
Maybe it isn't a good idea to wake up at 4:30 in the morning...With the toothbrush in her mouth, she softly took the handle and moved it in a circular motion, giving out many yawns as she did. As she spat out the foamy paste, her face went to look straight at the mirror, revealing lines underneath her eyes. "I really need to go bed right now..." Reaching out for the mouthwash, she thoroughly cleansed her throat as the bathroom door slammed open. In an instant, she swallowed a partial amount of it and spat amajority of it on the bathroom mirror. Gasping for air from the shock, she looked at the mirror as the mouthwash dripped down, reflecting an image of Sasuke wearing his swimsuit. "Why in the world are you up at this time, anyway Sasuke?"
Sasuke leaned an arm against the door and looked away from her gaze. "There's nothing wrong with waking up this early. I always wake up at this time."
Sakura eyed his outfit, not having a bother of what he just said. It was a casual looking style for a boys swimsuit, shorts a little above the knees and a string on the top, that adjusted how tight the swimming shorts would fit in. As usual, he wore black swimming shorts.
"You woke up, just to show me you're swimming suit? You're stupid. It doesn't even look good on you." She lied, walking past him but felt her movement come to a halt as he grabbed her wrist.
"Since, you're awake, try on your swimming suit and show me."
Sakura brought out her other hand as she tried to remove his hand off her wrist. "I don't have one!" She snapped, stomping on his foot.
He smirked as he flicked her head. "Liar. Show me." He tightened his grip as he saw her struggle her way out.
"I don't. I'm going to buy one today. So I have nothing to show you. Now, let go." Demanded Sakura, who pulled her arm away that she felt as though the her arm would be amputated.
At that moment, he released her and backed away to enter the bathroom but before he closed it, a punch jabbed him in the face with an angry Sakura outside, glaring at him. " I HATE YOU! YOU'RE SO ANNOYING!" She screamed, her knuckles cracking as the seconds passed on by.
Sasuke in all his composure sighed. "For so early in the morning, you really are noisy." Closing the door to the bathroom, Sakura turned around and heard the shower run.
Walking off furiously, she ran to her bed and shoved her face in her pillow. "Damn it! I hate him! I hate him!" She yelled in her pillow, the actual noise lowered down. After venting out her anger, she sat up, and leaned her back on the wall, cuddling the pillow toward her chest.
How in the world did I fall in love witha guy like that! I must be crazy!
"Oh! Stupid stupid stupid Sakura!" She insulted herself, banging her hands on her head.
WHAT IN THE WORLD DID YOU SEE IN A GUY LIKE THAT!
I don't know! I must've been blind when I was younger or something!
Falling onto her back, she yawned tiredly and covered her face with the pillow. "I hate him...so bad..." She quietly said and closed her eyes, hoping that she was able to relax her mind. Butin an instant, she had fallen back asleep.
"I shouldn't have fallen asleep again! I have twenty minutes until the party starts and I don't even have a swimsuit and a gift!" Sakura ran out the door and sped down to town, tilting her head from side-to-side as she tried to locate shops that were open. After running straight for more than five minutes, she stood there dumbfoundedly and panted, stress raising up inside of her.
DAMN IT! I CAN'T FIND ANYWHERE TO SHOP AT!
In frustration, she squealed in excitement, as a soft voice came out from behind her.
"Sakura, are you okay?" Hinata asked her, a hand placed along Sakura's shoulder.
Sakura stiffened as the hand was laid on her, calming down when she caught sight of Hinata's gentle face come into her vision."Oh, I'm okay...I'm just lost again." Sakura aimlessly tried to laugh out all her tension."Hey, Hinata, can you show me where you can buy a swimsuit and all? I gotta find one right away."
Hinata nodded as she held Sakura's wrist. "Yeah, I was on my way to buy a swimsuit for me as well so I don't mind."
Sakura's face brightened up as she hugged Hinata immediately. "Thank you so much, Hinata!"
"I-it's not a problem really." She struggled to say since Sakura tighthug made herfeel as though her lungs were crushed. Sakura released her and back away, finding that Hinata was dying of air. Once she gained control again, Hinata straightened her back and stood still. "Say, since you just got here and all, how about we a have a sleepover my place this Saturday with Tenten and Ino?"
"I thought that you're dad didn't allow anyone in your house." Sakura thought and placed a finger on her chin.
"Oh, I meant only for people living with us. Staying that night isn't bad." She cleared up, grabbing Sakura's wrist and ran forward. "Now that that settled, let's go before we're late!"
Raising a hand tilted to the side and placed over her eyes, Tenten searched across the beach to find barely anyone there. She inhaled with a hopeless look and laid her umbrella over her arm with her bag that carried her blanket, towel, and sunblock in the other hand.
Ino followed along with her, carrying her own bag filled with the same items and held a deflated beach ball and their gifts in the other hand. "Looks like the birthday boy isn't here either." She tapped her sunglasses down from her forehead and tipped her hat down to block the sun out from her eyes. "Especially when it's about to start as well..."
"He really needs to get rid of that laziness of his..." Tenten announced, walking over to an empty spot nearby the ocean and flapped her blanket outward, forcing it to fall slightly to the ground as she leaned over and smoothed out the wrinkles. "I swear...Ino, do something about it, he's your boyfriend."
Ino shifted her gaze at Ino and laughed as she repeated those words in her head. "Where the hell would you get that idea from anyway?" Applying sun block on her skin, she lied on herblanket and crossed her arms as she placed them behind her head. "You're really weird to actually say that, Ten. Don't be stupid. I'll never fall for a guy like that ever."
Pouting, Tenten struck the tip of the umbrella in the ground and flapped it open. "I'd really wish that you would be together, you know." She extended her hands to her hair and unrolled her hair buns, sliding the hair ties onto her wrists and redid the same hair style. "It really looks as though you admire him a lot."
Ino scoffed, as she tried to ignore her friend's responses. "I'm not interested. If you want to see some romance, then just go out with Neji or something."
Tenten blushed, grabbing a side of her hair and rolled it into a bun. "Yeah right. I hate that bastard. He never seems to ever pay attention to me and ignores me. We seriously don't match together." Finishing up that half of her hair, she began to roll the other, her face cooling off from turning red.
"Who's the bastard that you hate?" A voice crept behind them as the two girls shook from fright. At the same time, they turned their heads as they caught sight of Naruto, Shikamaru, Chouji, Lee, Sasuke, Kiba and Akamaru, and Neji right behind them, all wearing their swimming suits.
"O-oh it was nothing, Naruto!" Tenten stammered, her face returning back to pink. "I-I was just thinking of an old friend of mine that I had just met recently is all." She lied.
Naruto shrugged his shoulders and ran over a spot off to the right of them.
All five boys left with an extra person unknown to Tenten and had set up all their things at the area Naruto was at. I-I can't believe that they snuck up on us so quietly! Tenten thought to herself, her heart still pounding against her chest.
Seeing that Tenten was tense, she sighed shaking her head. "Geez Ten, just relax. They didn't even hear that. So just calm down." Ino said to her, in a tiredsome voice.
For a moment, the two of them were mute and watched the boys begin to set up their things as two familiar voices came from behind. "Ino! Tenten!" Sakura and Hinata yelled together, waving their hands above them.
Both Ino and Tenten stood up and patiently waited as their two friends began to close in the distant gap between them. "Good thing that you made it in time, we both figured that you two weren't gonna show up." Ino replied, taking their bags away and setting them down on the sand. "What took you guys that long anyway?"
Sakura scratched the back of her head. "O-oh, Hinata and I forgot to buy a swimsuit. Silly, huh?"
"Hey Lee," Kiba shoved him on the shoulder as Akamaru barked. "Sakura's over there with Ino and Ten. Don't you want to go and say, 'hi'"? He grinned childishly while slowly watching Lee's reaction grow.
Lee's eyes widened as he caught sight of Sakura. "SAKURA!" He called out to her, finding that her shoulders shook in fear. Lee chuckled lightly to himself, turning his head around to face the guys and smiled brightly at them and held a thumb up. "Oh Sakura-chan!" He sang loudly, skipping towards her. "My little angel on Earth! I love you so much!"
"Dammit man, act like a guy for once." Shikamaru declared to Lee who had already walked away from the group. He sighed deeply and stared up to the sky. "Look at what love does...he's another victim apparently..."
Naruto fell to the ground laughing and clutched his stomach. "Don't tell me that he still has that child-like crush, does he?"
"Retard. Why would anyone want to fall in love with an idiot like her?" Sasuke glumly stated, as he crossed his arms.
"So that's Sakura, huh?"
Chouji raised a stiff eyebrow and mumbled his answer while chewing on his chips. "You haven't met her these past few days, Sai?"
Sai shook his head as he watched her ran away from Lee who extended his arms out to embrace her. "But, she still seems the same as always though."
In an instant, Sakura flung an arm out and punched him in Lee in the face for him to stop chasing after her. "Dammit Lee! Stop following me as if you're some retard!" She spat out, stomping over back to Ino, Tenten, and Hinata.
Sai nodded his head. "Same as always."
"It'd would be best if you were to stay away from her though." Neji declared, removing his shirt.
"Yeah, it's sorta like that 'looks can kill' phrase." Kiba stated, stretching his arms out as he allowed Akamaru to roam around the beach.
"Tenten, are you alright? You look as though you can't breathe." Hinata questioned her, seeing that she pushed herself out forward and had a hand over her mouth.
"N-no, I'm fine. It's just..." Daring herself to move a muscle, she turned her head to her right as Hinata did the same. Taking a brief glimpse at the boys, her eye couldn't move away from Neji who in turn, looked her way. Quickly as she could, she switched her gaze to look at hands that shook unintentionally. "It's just..."
All three girls looked at her worriedly and watched their friend carry a look of panic on herself.
"...allergies!" Blood shot out all at once and all the girls shrieked.
Ino smirked, hiding her giggles with her hand. "PDA, huh?... Tenten, tell me who it is! I won't tell... " Ino stated slyly, pulling herself closer to her to hear what she was about to say.
"Ino! She doesn't have to tell!...Besides, isn't it already obvious?" Sakura asked, sitting down beside Ino. "It's..."
"Say it and I'll kill you." Tenten threatened, cracking her knuckles.
"Tenten! Please hold still." Hinata pulled out a tissue and wiped off the blood dripping down her nose. "Here, pinch your nose so you'll stop the bleeding." She instructed, letting go of it. "Don't swallow the blood or else, you'll choke."
Sakura observed Hinata help Tenten clean up her mess as she threw a soft smile at her. "Hinata, you're such a kind person." Sakura complimented. In return, she gleefully smiled back at her, as she continued to bring out tissues out for her friend.
"...but, with that innocence, you'll never lose your virginity...much less will a guy ever fall for you..guys like those kind of girls that are...wild...you can say" Ino completed her sentence and received a punch on the head from Sakura.
"Stupid, don't say that to her."
"Oh come on, she needs to learn how to be more social with guys...like me. They're so easy to talk to."
"You're such a bad model. Don't you even think of trying to influence her." Tenten sneered at her, with a face filled with irritation.
"Oh shut it, will you? You also have some inexperience as well. So watch closely. Sakura, let's go on with a little scheme." Ino whispered in Sakura's ear, leaving the two other girls paranoid. "Okay, got it?"
"Yeah, but--"
"Just do it billboard brow."
Sakura sighed and stood up from the ground at the same time as Ino. They slowly lifted the bottom of their shirt a bit and waited until the boys turned their way. In the next second, they both caught all of their attention immediately.
"Just what do you think that they're doing anyway?" Asked Naruto, who eagerly waited what was going to happen.
Sakura rolled her eyes in disbelief of how stupid a thing that she was doing and lifted her shirt up slowly, while Ino did the same. Showing a part of their stomach, the boys all gulped at the same time.
"Dude, isn't this the most kickass birthday wish that you ever got, Shikamaru?" Kiba playfully punched him on the shoulder as his friend brought his eyebrow up in curiousity.
"Sureis damn different." He responded, watching the two girls remove their clothing.
"Why the hell are they stripping in front of us?" Neji asked, rubbing his forehead. "There's a bathroom right nearby."
"Shut up!" Lee commanded, covering his mouth. "They might've forgotten that there was one. That's why they're doing it over here."
"One..." Ino whispered to Sakura. "Two...Flash!"
Right after that word, both girls pulled off their shirt, leaving all of the boys breathless with nosebleeds.
"Hey Ino, how come they act as though we nothing underneath our clothes? We're just wearing swimsuits after all." Sakura inquired, whispering in Ino's ear with a hand covering those words out from the others.
Ino shrugged her shoulders. "I dunno. I guess dorks like them have never seen girls like us before..." Ino brought her arms above her head and placed them around the back of her neck. "...But they all got nosebleeds so nothing to worry about. We kinda got revenge on Tenten for doing this." She turned her back away and faced Tenten and Hinata. "See, you guys. If you become more like this, guys will come crawling out to you in an instant."
Tenten shook her head. "You guys are seriously desperate."
Sakura gasped, eyeing Hinata who lied on the ground unconscious. As she neared closer to see if her visionhadn't deceived her, her eyes tookin the visual of a pale-faced Hinata, with a straight face that look as though it was about to burst hysterically. "Ino, I really do think that Hinata wasn't able to handle that.."
Ino walked over to Sakura and her hands were placed on her forehead. "She really needs to know how to be in control ofthese kind of things. Otherwise, she'll never learn at all."
Sakura grinned happily. "She's out cold. Well, it's a nice day for a swim." Sakura proclaimed, throwing her shirt behind her for the guys to catch out of her own enjoyment.
In mid-air, they all sought out for it and did their best to claim it as their own.
"Dammit fatass, move it! It's mine!" Kiba yelled, Akamaru helping him pull the shirt.
"I'm in love with thin girls, give it to me!" Chouji urged, tugging it from a corner.
"Back off, it's my party! So this'll be my gift from her." Shikamaru pointed out.
"No way! It belongs to me! This is my little honey bunny's shirt. It's mine, not yours." Lee said, trying to remove the others hands away from the shirt.
"Shut up, man! Guys don't talk like that." Shikamaru annoyedly yelled at him, kicking him away from the shirt.
"Let go of it!" Sai remarked, holding unto one part of the shirt with the other hand punching the others that were tugging unto the shirt as well. In the nextsecond, he fell toward the ground, both ofhis hands planted against the sand. "I never knew...that she actually would be that daring." He blushed.
"You were the one that said the she acts the same." Naruto stared, massaging his hand from losing the shirt.
Naruto sat there on the ground, admitting defeat as he chuckled to himself. From behind him, Sasuke sat with his back turned, in silence."Hey Sasuke, what's wrong?" Naruto difficultlyturned him around, the sandon the ground rushing along hisface as he tilted him his way andcaughta glimpse of blood still leaking out oh his nose."Damn..." Naruto said in surprise. "Hey, let go of your hand."
Sasuke shook his head.
Naruto pulled out his hands and jumped back from fright as he saw that the blood completely covered his cupped hands. "HOLY CRAP! The blood from you're nose isn't stopping!"
"You idiot, what does it look like to you?" He grumbled, covering his nose again. "How do I stop it?"
"Damn, this is no good. At this rate, you'll die from blood loss." Naruto thought in a over-exaggerated manner as he saw Sasuke roll his eyes. "Just don't think about what Ino and Sakura did. That'll make it stop."
"I can't. The image keeps on replaying in my mind."
Naruto stood up and turned his back, lifting a hand in the air. "See you at your funeral then." He dismissed himself as he jumped forward to grab hold of the shirt. "That's mine you bastards!"
Neji pushed his head aside and with all his force, he pulled hard on it. "I always thought that she was pretty. Now, I'm in love with her!"
Tenten sat there motionless as she watched the boys hysterically argue over the shirt. "I guess love really does make you crazy." Tenten thought aloud and resumed watching them. But as she looked their way toward them, they had already ripped the shirt in pieces.
"Look what you did, you idiots! You ripped the shirt into pieces." Shikamaru yelled.
"That means she has no extra shirt to wear..." Kiba thought outside of his head. "Hey Sakura, you can borrow my shirt if you want."
"The hell he said, use mine!" Chouji desperately shouted.
"No mine! My shirt!" Lee screamed out.
Sakura mindany attention to them and grabbed Hinata along the arms while Ino took her legsand lifted her off the ground. "Wait, hold on Ino. I need to take off my shorts first." She carefullly dropped Hinata on the ground with Ino's support and hurriedly slipped her shorts down and placed them onto her blanket, revealing to everyone that she wore a pink swimsuit where the top was a backlace and the bottom part of it was with a high cut along her hips. All the men gasped, Ino examined their faces and also took off her shorts, showing that she had the same top as Sakura but was only purple with purple bottoms with the same color. Ino grinned to herself and with Sakura they carried Hinata toward the ocean.
"Those shorts are mine! No one takes them!" Chouji stomped on the ground, rushing toward the girls spot and threw his bag of chips behind his back.
"I'm taking Ino's!" Kiba shouted, Akamaru following him from behind.
"There's no way in hell, you're gonna get it!" Shikamaru fought back, tackling Kiba to the ground.
All boys ran over to Tenten's spot and argued over which shorts the boys would take. "Oh my God..." Tenten shook her head in astonishment and got off from her seat, approaching her other friends who threw Hinata in the water.
Feeling the coolness of the water slimmer down her body, Hinata--in an alarmed manner, brought herself off from floating and panted as her heart raced.
"Relax, why don't you?" Ino declared, bringing out a laugh.
Hinata gasped for air. "I-I don't think I'll have enough courage to do something as revealing as that..."
Ino sighed and elevated her hand for it to relax on Hinata's arm. "I guess that it was a bit too much, was it?" Clasping her hands together, she smiled with her hands against her cheeks. "You do what Sakura and I and do and you'd be with a man and..." Narrowing her eyes into little slits she began to whisper. "...you two would be 'doing it' with him every single night."
" D-doing it?" Hinata's eyes rolled to the back of her head as she fell backwards, those words repeating in her head over and over, 'doing it with him every single night...doing it...every single night...', as she once again fainted. With closed eyes, she began to mumble.
"INO!" Sakura yelled, jogging over to her friend and dunking Ino's head into the water. "You should know that Hinata isn't comfortable with that!" Sakura released her hand and crossed her arms, leaving a drenched Ino bobbing her head up above the surface, dying for air.
"Hinata should know how to be comfortable with guys around her, like me."
Sakura rolled her eyes, Ino returned her with an evil glare.
"...I don't want to support so many children..." Hinata spoke softly. "...I don't want to experience labor..."
Sakura grumbled, pointing a finger at Ino. "UGH...Hinata is practically traumatized." Running over to Hinata she pulled her up, shaking her so that she was able to gain consciousness.
"Well, seems like Hinata hasn't learned the lesson that we showed her..." Noticing Tenten come their way, she waved a hand at her. "Hey, Ten! C'mere for a sec!"
Tenten had her slippers in her hand as she dropped them down on the beach ground, entering the water without removing away her clothes.
Ino sighed in disgust and shook her head with closed eyes. "Ten, you do have your swimsuit underneath your clothes, right? Take off your clothes then." Ino urged.
"I will later."
Ino snickered. "Hmm...being the tomboy that you are, are you too afraid to show the men some skin?"
"Hell no. Why would I? I wouldn't want to take them off in front of those obsessed boys. They'd come after me."
"Take it off."
"No, I said later."
"They won't look."
"No."
"C'mon don't be paranoid."
"NO!"
"Then what are you afraid of? You're not supposed to wear your clothes while swimming."
"No dammit!"
"Don't be stubborn. Just take it off. I know that no guy will see you take it off."
Tenten growled, finally giving in. "Fine. I will." Ino blocked her way in front of her as her shield and watched as Hinata woke up after a few minutes.
"Oh, you're awake now?" Ino asked, although it was obvious to her that Hinata was already conscious.
Hinata nodded, taking off her wet clothes as she threw them away toward the sand, showing off her one piece dark blue swimsuit that was held together by a backlace.
"You see Ten? Hinata was brave enough to do it."
"Hmph."
Ino carefully scrutinized Tenten's swimsuit and put her hands on her hips. "There's nothing really to hide. That outift looks nice on you." Tenten's swimsuit was yellowgreen and a two piece, the top part beinga tube top while the lower half was the same as the other girls.
Sakura giggled as she watched her friends fuss. Eyeing straightforward to where the boys were located at, she smiled. "Well, you guys. It looks like the men have finally stopped their obsession." She notified, watching them walk over to the boy's spot and saw several of them look their way over at them.
"Here Ten, I'll help you braid your hair." Ino insisted, reaching out for her hair.
Tenten waved her hand away. "I can do it myself."
"Hey Sakura." Hinata called out to her, waiting for her to turn her way. That moment when Sakura's face was turned to the side, her eyes shut instantly from water entering them and realized Hinata splashed water at her face. Rubbing her eyes in a hurry, she swung her arm back and let the water rustle to the side of her, creating a small wave that splashed Hinata.
Lee sighed, his face lying on his hand, as he enjoyed the sight of Sakura in her swimsuit and watched her laugh while she continously splashed her friends. "She looks so cute in that outfit." He declared, leaving all the others staring at him.
"You really are enjoying watching her with that swimsuit aren't you?" Naruto conjectured, stretching out his arms and legs as he still stared at him. "Don't you go thinking of those nasty thoughts."
Chouji reached out for his chips and stashed a handful of them in his mouth. "It's not like any of us could resist though. I mean the girls are wearing swimsuits, we get to see some skin on them, you know?"
"Since when did you have a liking of girls, bubba?" Kiba inquired, yawning lazily.
"Come again?" Chouji's eyes glowed as he wanted to clarify if Kiba had said anything insulting.
Kiba sat in shock. "Oh nothing."
"Yeah whatever. I'm gonna go and have some fun with the girls while you guys just leave your asses stuck to the ground. See ya!" Naruto taunted, running off to the ocean. A few seconds later the majority of them ran off him while Sai, Sasuke, and Neji stayed behind.
"Hey, aren't you gonna go along with them too?" Neji asked, adjusting his hair up into a higher ponytail.
"I just want to relax here for a few." Sai answered, observing his surroundings and found Sasuke sitting behind him, his nose still covered with his hands. "What's wrong with you?
Sasuke gave an evil glare toward him and looked away with no response exiting his mouth.
Neji walked over to him and sat down beside him. "God man, how the hell is your nose bleeding for that long?"
Sasuke let go of his hands, letting go of all the held up blood and stared at him, sticking his middle finger at him. "Piss off."
Sai raised an eyebrow and looked at him. "Man, it's as though you haven't seen a girl in a bikini before."
"I have, just yesterday...sort of..." Sasuke immediately remembered Naruto's impersonation of a girl and shivered at the thought.
"See then, your nose wouldn't be bleeding as much if it's just the same old stuff."
Sasuke hissed. "Leave me alone, will you?"crossing his arms in anger.
Sai looked at him with a mischevious face and remarked, "Having a bitchy-fit, huh?"
"You're the bitch...wearing belly shirts. Men don't wear belly shirts."
Sai scowled at him. "Hey, that was in style!"
"Homo."
Neji rolled his eyes as he continued watching the two argue.
"I said leave me alone." Sasuke repeated in annoyance although he was a little satisfied that the bleeding had stopped.
Without saying anything, Sai walked away, cursing at himself in frustration. Both of the other men sat there, silent and stared at their surroundings, with no interest.
"What the hell do you think you're doing over here? Go swim." Neji pulled Sasuke up and pushed him from behind. "I don't want anyone with me right now." He annoyedly stated.
Sasuke stumbled a few feet forward and finally gave in on being convinced to go away. He looked back at him, walking straight with his middle finger sticking up at him.
"You got the plan right, Lee?" Naruto questioned, Lee nodded his head in approval. In clarification, he cleared his throat and reviewed their plan again. "Okay, we both quietly sneak up to Sakura when she isn't paying any attention while we are both underwater, and when weare sure that we are both behind her, we reach out for the lace tied behind her neck and untie it. There, we get to see something awesome."
Lee frowned and saw the water glisten as the sun shone on it, revealing his own reflection. "Are you sure that doing something like that can be a bit cruel? She'll be embarassed by that."
Naruto punched his arm and growled. "She's wearing a swimsuit that practically makes her look half-naked. There's going to be no difference if we do this." He sighed and with determination, he looked Lee in the eye and gave him a thumb up. "Okay...1...2...3!" They both dunked their heads at three and swam underwater in a fast pace toward Sakura.
"Ten, how about you have a sleepover with us this Saturday? C'mon it'll be fun! We need to have a lot of catching up to do! So..." Sakura pleaded, her hands on Tenten's shoulders as she shook them violently.
"I will if you don't bring all the make-up and crap on me." Tenten agreed and in vexation removed Sakura's hands off from her shoulders. "If you do..." Tenten began to threaten, bringing a tight fist up to Ino, Hinata, and Sakura. "I swear I'll kill you..."
"Y-yeah, yeah, we p-promise." Ino stuttered, an eased look taking hold of her face.
Naruto poked Lee on his arm as blew bubbles out of his mouth. Indicating that they were close from range, he pointed upward for them to execute their plan.
"Kiba! Give me back my shorts!" Chouji exclaimed as he thumped in the water past Naruto and Lee. Both boys swirled around dizzily from the current movements and unknowingly swam forward toward Sakura as their heads bumped along the backside of her legs. She shook in a scared manner and screamed from fright.
"There's s-something under the water, you guys!" Sakura ran up to her friends and hid behind their backs as the girls stood there petrified to move.
Naruto and Lee bobbed their heads back up to the surface and inhaled a deep amount of air. "Damn it! We were so close reaching her! CHOUJI!"
Lee covered his mouth and ran his fingers through his hair, trying to organize each strand in it's proper place. "Well, I guess there's always another time..."
Naruto smirked as he grinned. "Lee! 1...2...3!" Naruto counted, dragging his head back down under the water as Lee hesitantly followed.
"You know Hinata, I have a good idea on how to take away your innocence." Ino stated, her pointer raised up in the air. "Go to Shikamaru over there and give him his birthday suit."
Hinata shook her head. "Birthday suit?" She said in confusion.
"Just pull down his shorts."
"W-WHY?"
"That's what a birthday suit is, you ditz...in the nude..."
Hinata blushed at the thought."But...everyone else will think that I'm getting horny."
All the girls laughed at her comment. "You see, you're starting to burst out of your shell. Now go. Tenten, you go with her too." Ino commanded.
"WHAT! I'm not going to do this!" Tenten fought back, her hands along her hips. "Ask Sakura."
Ino shook her head. "Sakura already has some experience with this kind of thing. Unlike you two, you have nothing. Now go!"
"S-so we're going to do this to lose our innocence? Cause if that's all to it, I'm okay with that." Hinata asked worriedly.
Ino rubbed her head and giggled to herself. "Hm...It's the first step, you can say...You saw Chouji running around with no shorts right? Well,just pull down Shikamaru's. No harm done there."
"You're so stupid, Ino." Tenten insulted.
"Oh, shut it, you virgin!"
Sakura's eyes squinted. "Ino, you're still one too."
Ino'e eyes gleamed as she pushed Sakura on the arms, forcing herto fall in the water. "Just so you know, I am not a virgin. I am not a little girl anymore...I am a..." Ino pressed her chin with her fingers and gleefully thought for a moment. "...sexy momma!"
Tenten splashed a wave of water at Ino. "Liar. Don't even think of acting like a non-virgin..." She walked away from Ino with Hinata toward Shikamaru, leaving Ino appalled at that thought that they were still willing to do the plan.
"Ino, you're really a bad role model." Sakura commented, rubbing her eyes to release all of the water that went in her eyes.
"NOW!" Naruto ordered loudly, springing up from the water as Lee dug in from the bottom, holding Sakura down at the ankles as Naruto tried totackle her.
Sakura swiftly turned her back, her eyes widening as Lee and Naruto approached her. With no hesitation, she stretched her arms out and reached for the boys' hair, causing them to whimper in pain. "Just what do you two think you're trying to do?"
"It was all Naruto's idea!" Lee admitted, holding unto his hair as he avoided Sakura's grip from tearing out his hair.
"No it wasn't!"
"Don't lie..." Sakura was now provoked, her voice deepening as she spoke.
Naruto gulped. "It was...just all a joke?"
Sakura tightened her grip on their heads and dropped them under the water. "You perverts! You two were trying to get a peek at me, weren't you?"
The words that tried to come out of the boys came out in a blur. Both Naruto and Lee blew out bubbles in return for their response.
Sakura held them in that position and sighed in astonishment. She let go of them, hoping that none of them died from suffocation. "I swear...you two...just find something else to do for your fun."
Both boys nodded their head and ran away, afraid of one of her more dangerous attempts to kill them.
"You know Sakura, you really need to calm down more often. That hot temper of yours really needs to cool off."
Sakura grumbled, covering her chest. "Hmph. Next time they try to pull a stunt like that, I won't stop to think of letting them go."
As the two girls scrutinized Shikamaru, they continued to carry out their conspiracy from right behind him, whispering to each other on what they were planning to do.
"Okay, Hinata, this is what we will do. So listen up. Right now, Shikamaru is standing there like a retardedidiot as always, doing nothing in his boredom. So this might be kind of easy to attempt. All we need to do is quietly swim behind him underwater without making a large amount of sound. Now what I'll do is hold him tight around his body while you pull down his shorts. Okay?" Tenten asked in clarification.
Hinata's heart pounded. "How come I have to get the job that has to do all of that dirty work anyway?"
Tenten pouted, flicking her braids out in front of her. "I'm going to basically hug him in front of everyone while you go underwater and pull down his shorts. No one will see that. I'm doing all the embarrasing things in front of themwhile you do that...so, i guess we're even."
Hinata nodded and took in a deep breath while Tenten stretched out her arms and looked at Ino who had her eyes stuck on the both of them with Sakura. "Ok, 1,2...3!"
Both the girls held their noses and hopped downward into water, swimming up ahead to their target.
"Hey Shikamaru! Why are you just standing there? It's your birthday. Do something to enjoy yourself." Naruto declared.
Shikamaru rolled his eyes. "I'm really not in the mood."
"Yeah, what's the point of having a party if you're not celebrating?" Sai floated on his back as he passed by him.
"My dad forced me to do this. He says by now I should have a girlfriend." Pointing in the direction of Ino and Sakura, he spoke again. "That's why I had to invite those girls for my party. I had no choice but to accept...and also, I have to invite all ofyou guys over along with them for the night in my place."
All of them stared at him in surprise.
Then suddenly, Tenten grabbed a hold of him behind his back and embraced him tightly, making sure that he wasn't at all loose. Shikamaru turned his head around and frowned. "What do you think you're doing, Ten?"
Tenten blushed as she hid her face behind his head and leaned on his back. "O-oh, I really like you without a shirt. It looks really nice like that..." She lied, snuggling her nose on his back in her act.
Shikamaru gasped slightly and in embarrassment, removed her arms around his body, as he walked forward.
"Yeah! Shikamaru! Give her some lovin'!" Kiba cheered on, continuing to howl toward him.
"I guess that sleepover thing could really be of some use for, Shikamaru. " Sasuke retorted, as he yawned.
Shikamaru shrugged his shoulders. "It wasn't my choice." He sighed and walked toward the shore, everyone resumed staring at him. Having an awkward feeling from the back of his head, he stared at everyone there. "Why the hell are you guys staring at me like that! I told you that it was my dad's idea."
Ino and Sakura burst out laughing, Tenten and Hinata approached them with fits of giggles rising over them.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SHIKAMARU!" All four of them screamed, laughing until their sides ached.
"Yeah, nice ass. Looking good there." Kiba teased, drowning himself in the water, trying to hide away his hysterical laugh.
"Dammit...girls..." He grumbled under his breath, jumping back into the water, with his face underneath the water. "Great. I don't even know where my shorts are either..."
Naruto smirked as he overheard Shikamaru sulk not far from him. "Shikamaru, wait there. I'll get my present for you." In an instant, Naruto hopped out of the water, everyone still laughing to death of the scene of Shikamaru's nudity.
Naruto ran back in a fast pace and threw the present out to him. "I bought some clothing for you to wear, so you're saved." Naruto grinned, the water slowing him down as he entered the ocean.
Shikamaru observed it, stretching the piece of clothing out to reveal it's true identity. "What the hell! IT'S A THONG!'
Naruto clutched his hands along his sides and accidently swallowed some of the water as he sank down.
Everyone continued laughing as they saw the thong extend wider everytime Shikamaru pulled it from the sides. It's not as though I have a choice at the moment..." As his last resort to avoid himself from humilation although it wouldn't make much difference, Shikamaru immediately turned pink and slipped it on. "It feels as though I have astick shoved up my ass whilewalking around in this thing..." He declared, trying the best he could to make it comfortable for his standards. "How the hell do girls wear these anyway? DAMMIT!"
Everyone around laughed as loud as they could and watched Shikamaru lower himself down below the water.
"Shikamaru!" Ino sang, waving a hand at him. "I want to see you walk around in that thing!"
"Tch. No way." At that moment, Naruto and Kiba approached him and grabbed him by the arms, one holding theother side. "HEY! LET ME GO!"
"Heh, you'renotgonna go anywhere." Naruto grinned.
"Yeah, you'll be the first guy in Konoha to wear a women's thong. Thinkabout it. Everyone'll know you." Kiba said, lifting him withNaruto off the water.
"What makesyou think that I'll actually carefor something like that?"
Everyone screamed out uproariously, watching the vital part of the scene, Shikamaru's butt (A/N: gobump, bump, bump. lol)jiggle from all his movement while trying to free himself from their grasp. "You jackasses! Let me go!"
"You're not going to be released that easy, you know." Naruto stated, laughing vigorously with the others.
Kiba and Naruto brought Shikamaru up toward the shore and held him there, loosening their grip a bit.
Ino and Sakura simulataneously whistled at him. "WOO! Shikamaru! You're so hot! WOO! STRIP FOR US SOMETIME!" They laughed at their comment and playfully punched each other on the shoulder to remove the pain of their never-ending laughter.
The next minute, Naruto and Kiba released Shikamaru as they returned to swim back in the water.
Shikamaru inhaled a deep breath as soon as everyone ceased laughing and quickly pacified all the embarassment that grew all over his body. ...and I happened to forget to bring a towel and extra clothing as well...damn...He entered the water and chuckled. "Ha ha...that was so funny...I was laughing my ass off..." He remarked sarcastically, crossing his arms.
Sai punched him on the shoulder and rid himself of the laughter that remained in him. "Seriously, you have to admit that was funny."
"In what way?"
"...it just is...anyways...it was just a joke so lighten up, will you?"
Chouji slowly swam up to his friends. "Yeah, at least we actually got to make you do something other than just standing in the water doing nothing."
Shikamaru gave out a dumbfounded look and then smiled. "Yeah, I guess so." He looked around at everyone who now held a straight faceand laughed out loud that an echo was heard. "...but I swear, next time I'll get all of you." He threatened and pounded his hands against the water, ripples clumping up to the air and splashing at everyone around him as they in turn, struck him back.
"Hey Ino, I'll go and get the beach volleyball, okay?" Tenten told her, her face tilted toward the side as she heard her reply.
"Yeah sure."
Tenten smiled to herself and brought herself out of the water. Tugging on her hair, she drained out the water filled in her hair and felt the droplets of water hit her feet as she walked over to her green slippers, slipping them unto her feet. The moment that she reached her towel to dry off, Neji caught her eye and she turned her head away. "Hey Neji. What are you doing staying out of the water?"
He didn't respond and continued reading his book, not even bringing his eyes up to look at her.
"C'mon!" She pulled him from his wrist and waited until at least a single reaction was done by him. Seeing that he didn't even flinch, she crumpled the lower lip and bit it. "Don't be so boring."
"I don't like swimming." He said frankly and shortly.
Tenten tugged his shoulder once again childishly as she tried to lift him off from his current position. "Just get up. How about we walk around the beach instead?"
Neji raised his eyebrow and placed his book on his lap. He raised his head up high and saw Tenten glaring at him. At first, her appearance was unclear but then he soon realized that it was her. He looked at her head-to-toe and analyzed her new hair style and outfit. "You look weird today."
Tenten irritatedly scrunched her eyebrows. "What do you mean 'weird'?"
"What do you think? You don't look like yourself." He replied simply.
"No no. Is it in a bad way?" She inquired, fidgeting with her hair.
He rolled his eyes and brought his book up again. "It doesn't even matter."
'It doesn't even matter' he says. Damn that pisses me off! Tenten gave out a fake smile. "Well...I don't want one of my friends to be stuck here all by himself. So..." This time with two hands, she grabbed hold of both of his arms and brought him facing her, noticing the difference in height. Crap...I'm only up to the bottom of his neck! It's almost impossible to kiss him from my height!Sliding her hands into his, she pulled both of them forward.
Making a step forward, he easily slipped his hand off hers. "I really just want to sit and stay here."
"Oh, that's okay." She thumpedto the ground and sat at the same time as him, smiling gratefully as she waited him to speak.
Neji cleared his thought and brought his book up to his face. "I meant alone."
"Oh."
"Would you please leave me alone?"
Tenten's eyes were hidden behind her bangs as she frowned at him, her eyes beginning to be filled with tears, and her hands clasped together. "Please? Can't I stay here and talk with you?"
He raised a brow at her and sighed. "What's that look for?"
She didn't reply and continued giving him her look.
"What do you think that look is for? If you even think that it's adorable in any way, it's far from from it. It's hideous."
Tenten fell backward on her back and stared up at the sky. Ouch...give me a break...that was my first shot at it and I get insulted for looking stupid...That hurt really bad.
That new look on you is weird. Change it." He demanded.
Tenten smiled brightly at him, his attention turning toward her.
"No, I meant the way your outfit and hair is."
"Oh."
After his last statement, his gaze went right in front of the book, leaving Tenten dumbstruck. She grinned to herself as she stood on her feet, brushing off the sand collected to her clothing. "Okay then, bye!" She ran off, a hand waved at him with the deflated volleyball in her hand. Once she reached the ocean, she jumped in rapidly and tossed the volleyball to Ino. "Hey, listen up guys. Bring some make-up over during the sleepover this Saturday, okay?"
All three girls squealed excitedly. "What changed your mind?" Hinata questioned, hopping up and down.
Tenten looked away, off toward the farther depths of the ocean and sighed. "Hm...you can say thatis because I kind of want to change my look after having my hair up in those buns forever."
"That's nice." Sakura replied, a creepy smile showing up on her lips. " ...or...could it be...to show off in front of a guy you like?"
Tenten swiftly shook her head and ran her hands in front of her face. "NO WAY! I'm just tired of the way I look, is all."
Ino clapped her hands and grinned. "So you want to rid yourself of your tomboyish state?"
Tenten rolled her eyes and sprayed her with water.
Well, here is the fourth chappie people! and please review! reviews are what this story needs to continue...it's sorta like this story is gonna die without the reviews...so please review...
i also happened to notadd the sleepover part of the birthdaytothis chapter of thestory...cause...i already think that this chapter is way too long...like 8500+ or something so i'm gonna add the sleepover thing in the next chappie.
SUMMARY FOR NEXT CHAPPIE (i'll just be brief on it):
-sleepover for Shikamaru's birthday
-school not exactly what you'd expect it to be
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I made shikamaru suffer in this chappie! sry shikamaru luvers out there! im sry shikamaru! still luv u though!
-XiaoyuKaede