Daisies and Deodorant
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REVIEWS
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Thanks to all my wonderful reviewers! Wow… this fic has so many reviews already compared to my other ones…. Mm… the secret of reviewers… I still need to figure that one out… Anyways…
Spirit of the Dragon: HAHAHA! That was good. But I think TenTen was a little OOC. But I like her that way! Update soon! This is goin't to my favorites
Me: Thanx… lol you caught me. I don't know Tenten very well so I have a rather hard time capturing her personality… so another warning is expect EXTREMEM OOC WITH TENTEN PEOPLES! I need to have one over-obsessed girl in my fic, and I just decided to choose her
Sonic: Update update
Me: I will I will
Anonymous: Funny! Update soon!
Me: Thanks, I will update soon! Hopefully I can get my chapters beta-read so they can be more high quality and without all my stupid punctuation mistakes ;;
Clover715: hey this was a really good story i cant wait how they get the guys down there though. CONTINUE!
Me: Thank you… mm, you will all find out how they lure the boys to the tree house soon enough… /cackles like a witch/ mwahahaha!
MiKaNo-HiKaRi: Haha sounds good! Please update soon!
Me: Har har, I must warn you peoples I have not finished a story in my entire life except for Two in the Morning, my other Naruto fic. So I hope you reviewers/readers/critics will help pressure me on… I seriously need to finish something, fast…
Mint: Its a good idea for a story... Plz continue.
Me: I will! Or try to. Continue, that is. Blegh, how can I write a good story.../Goes and consults my writer's sense/ Meh, I must prevail!
Strengh-91-possibility-none: i like how you just put the dialogue yet you didn't leave anything out. update soon!
Me: lol thank you. The all-dialogue idea was one I never tried before because many people complained that they couldn't follow my characters… but with fanfictions its so much easier since everyone already knows the characters! I. Will. Prevail. In. UPDATING!
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Chapter 2
In the Beginning
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It had all begun with one sentence.
"Hey, are you actually a girl under there?"
"What!"
Evidently, Sakura did successfully punish Naruto for his usual loud-mouth brainless comment, but even so, she was disturbed by what he said.
After two hours of hard-core 'training' with Ino, she examined her dirtied and rather disgusting looking fingernails. It was like while she was asleep the moldy-dirt boogie man had come in the night and turned her fingernails into little portie potties or something. She smelled her hands. Ok, so they smelled like it too.
Then she sat by the small pool and examined her oily pink hair which she hadn't washed for two weeks straight due to long, excessive, and continuous missions which usually involved something that would dirty her up one way or another. Damn, it was so oily she could probably open up her own ramen noodle shop using the oil as the soup… she could just totally imagine Naruto slurping up that ramen… ew…
Finally, she sniffed under her armpit and almost passed out.
"Augh!" She gurgled, lying in the grass. Ino, who was stretching by the sidelines, raised an eyebrow.
"What the hell are you doing?"
Sakura stayed motionless for a second, before she rolled over and moaned. "There has got to be some better way."
"Better way of what?"
"Of being girls!"
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The day after, Sakura firmly established the Shinobi Girls Club of DOOM! by politely asking her old sensei, Umino Iruka, on how to establish a club.
"--so in clause 47.09 we state that to become a member of the Shinobi Girls Club of DOOM! You must be, a.) a shinobi b.) a girl and c.) twelve years and older. In clause 47.1 we state--"
Iruka-sensei sweat dropped as Sakura read through the clauses, terms, warrants, and other such things as he struggled to keep hold on the two filing cases he had been carrying out of the classroom before he was interrupted. Being a chuunin, he should have had no trouble carrying the two boxes, but as the hours ticked by as Sakura talked he could feel the boxes growing heavier and heavier…
"Alright, alright, Sakura, I'll go and talk to the Hokage about it, ok? I'll get him to sign an official certificate that the…er… what your little club called again?"
"The Shinobi Girls Club of DOOM! DOOM meaning 'Dangerous, Odor-inducing, Oily-haired Missions'."
"…er ok, that the Shinobi Girls Club of DOOM! is now an official club… um… I'll give it to you via Naruto ok? Next time we eat ramen…"
"Thank you sensei!"
"Er… bye."
Needless to say, Sakura was a little less than happy when Naruto gave her the ramen-oil stained certificate two days later ("NARUTO WHAT DID YOU DO!") but with a little white-out and a cleaning jutsu she had the official certificate framed and hanging by noon.
She stared at if for a good two hours.
"Damn." She said to herself. "I need some members, right?"
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So Sakura, in her impossibly large amount of spare time, recruited Ino (who gladly agree to join anything which involved makeup and girls) who then dragged in Hinata, which Neji was not very happy about.
"Excuse me, but what are you doing with my cousin?" He glared at Ino coldly with his arms crossed. Hinata squeaked and tried to hide behind the larger girl, and thankfully Ino was not in the mood for an arrogant, obnoxious girly boy at that moment.
"Now listen here little boy!" Ino snapped her fingers in Neji's rather surprised face, "I don't really care if you were the top shinobi of your graduating class! But Hinata is a shinobi, she is a girl, and she is definitely twelve years old, so SHE WILL JOIN THE SHINOBI GIRLS CLUB OF DOOM! WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT!"
"A-ano…" Hinata whimpered as Ino dragged her out of range from the Hyuuga Mansion. Neji glared daggers at their retreating backs before making an odd face.
"…shinobi girls club of doom...?"
A random soda bottle appeared behind him and hid him square in the head. Neji toppled over.
"That's the Shinobi Girls Club of DOOM! Neji! Not the shinobi girls club of doom. Woah that sounds cool. Hey Hinata wait up!" Tenten jumped out of some unsuspicious looking trees and raced after Ino. But not before picking Neji's unconscious form up, brushing him off, and propping up against the Hyuuga Mansion Gate. "Sorry Neji, hey Ino wait up!"
Therefore, in the course of another two days, Sakura had obtained three willing /cough/not/cough/ new members.
"Ok! As the leader of the Shinobi Girls Club of DOOM! I now will list out all the stuff we will do!" Sakura pulled out a pink fluffy rimmed notebook out of her pink cherry blossom backpack and flipped to some page in the middle. "Um… let's see… Tenten's tree house will now be our main club location… after every mission, you can come back to the tree house and rejuvenate using the lotions, shampoos, makeup-stuff, and body things to feel like a girl again…" Sakura was now squinting as she was trying to read her own handwriting, "Um… said items need to be purchased…" She flipped through some pages, "So we'll have our first ever fundraiser!"
Now, since this was an all-girl club, everyone was extremely excited. Everyone knew girls loved fundraisers.
After some squabbling (mostly between Ino and Sakura), Tenten finally took charge and ordered everyone to different tasks. By the time she was done with her bossing around, she was totally confident that the fundraiser was going to be a success. "Now… time to gather some… helpers…" She grinned, evil idea already forming in her mind.
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"Oh lord, these are so cute!" A random middle aged woman passerby happily picked up one of the many flower fans laid down neatly on the display table at the edge of the street. "These flowers are authentic, right? They smell so good, and they're pressed so they'll never loose their fragrance and beauty too…" The fat overflowing boy standing as clerk glared at her. Ino elbowed him sharply below the ribs. He jumped.
"Er… um… these fans were handmade using real paper and bamboo…. Um… Ino… how did it go again… ow! Ok, ok…. Also each individual bunch of flowers on each fan was hand-pressed… and that fragrance you're smelling…" Chouji paused. "Er…" He looked as if he'd seen a ghost. "Um…"
"Chouji… how troublesome… what are you doing here?"
Shikamaru, carrying a plastic bag over his shoulder, looked at the little fundraiser stand, bored out of his mind. He leaned forward and sniffed at the fans. "Hey, isn't this Sakura's perfume? Didn't she take that perfume class the summer when we graduated…? Then she started making all those wacko perfumes which was so troublesome since they distracted me from thinking…" He paused. "Damn that's got to be the most I've ever said."
"Shikamaru!" Tenten burst out of the back of the stall. She reeked of cherry blossom perfume. "Perfect! Another willing helper!"
"Willing?" Shikamaru raised an eyebrow.
"Yes," Tenten cackled, suddenly latching onto his arm with an iron-hold grip, "Very willing."
"What makes me think I'll join you in this troublesome fan-selling?"
Ino dug out a stuffed deer plush from her backpack and shook it in front of Shikamaru's face.
Squeezing it, it said in a squeaky voice, "I Love Grass!"
Shikamaru's eyes widened.
"Doe-doe!"
"Hahahaha!" Tenten laughed as she took the stuffed toy, "If you don't help out I'll drop little Doe-Doe" She dangled it above an intoxicating pot of pink stuff, "into this pot of perfume!"
In no time at all, Shikamaru was the one standing behind the counter as clerk.
A little girl came in front of the stand. "Ooh! Mommy these smell good! Mommy can I have one? Please? Please! This one! It's purple! I like purple, because your dress is purple and I like Mommy so can I get one please!" The anxious mother looked at Shikamaru expectantly.
Shikamaru took out an oily perfume-smelling note card and read, "These fans were handmade using real paper and bamboo. Each individual bunch of flowers on the fans was hand-pressed to keep the blah blah blah blah…. Bluh bluh bluh, blah blah blah…" He flipped through more little oily note cards. "Um… let's see… blah blah blah… bluh bluh bluh…"
The mother stared at him like he was crazy. "Blah blah blah? Bluh bluh bluh?" She questioned.
Shikamaru nodded. "Yes…" He stared at the card, "…so troublesome. Blah blah blah…. That cost 150 yen… blah blah blah… bluh bluh—" The mother hastily handed over the money, took the fan, and ran. Shikamaru looked at the money and dumped it into the little basket marked 'The Shinobi Girls Club of DOOM! (Dangerous, Odor-inducing, Oily-haired Missions) Fundraising Money'.
He looked back at Chouji, who was now in charge of sorting different flowers into different baskets. "How did they get you to help?"
"Ino stole my chips." Chouji mumbled. "Then she stole my wallet so I couldn't buy any more…"
"Ah…" Shikamaru said wisely.
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Thus, in the end, the girls eventually gathered enough money to buy several different types of lotion, perfume, bath-stuffs, makeup and other girly things. Though, when it came down to 'personal hygiene', there was, to say, a problem.
"What's deodorant?"
Everyone stared at the pale-eyed girl as she studied the shopping list. Feeling the hard gaze of her peers, Hinata shrank inward. "A-ano… did I… s-say something…bad?"
Ino faked a swoon. "Oh lord, Hinata doesn't know what deodorant is!"
"We shall open you to the world of baby powder and freshness!"
"…eh?"
Thus, the whole afternoon was spent pulling Hinata through piles and piles of deodorant bars and deodorant spray and little towelette-things that were supposed to 'wipe the scent away' ("Deodorant towels?" Hinata asked, confused) and after the first hour the smell was intoxicating.
"…so you know what to do when you choose deodorant right?"
Hinata blinked shyly and looked around, "um… ok…" She approached the deodorant bar section, "you're supposed to… choose the scent you want…" Hinata took a random deodorant bar, "Then open it…" She opened the cap, "And smell it right?"
The other girls nodded.
"Ok... and for the towelettes you can't really try them out until you buy them…" She looked into the deodorant spray section, "And for the spray you pick it up, open the cap and spray some in the air then smell it right?" She reached for an unsuspicious black bottle and was ready to spray. Sakura's eyes widened.
"Hinata don't!" She shrieked, but the white-eyed girl had already sprayed and everyone gagged and fell to the ground.
"Curse you Axxe! Curse you!" Ino let out a strangling sound on the floor, and Tenten was moaning and covering her nose.
"Oh gross…. we're going to smell like testosterone all day now…"
"Uh…" Hinata looked sheepishly at the guilty container of Axxe, "…sorry?"
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So life in the Shinobi Girls Club of DOOM! remained girlish and odd. After the fundraising episode, Tenten took official charge of the club since Sakura felt like she couldn't possibly order anyone around /cough/Ino/cough/ and planned a bunch of small events and things for them to do in their spare time.
Such events were birthday parties for their fellow shinobi (there was once when Tenten and Ino had sneak into an adult shop to get some Paradise books for Kakashi-sensei's birthday), fundraisers to buy certain shinobi better weapons ("I don't need any more stupid weapons Ino…. So…? So what if they're a little rusty and dull and can't cut through hair even if I used all my strength? Just leave me alone! Look, go push Chouji around ok? Sheesh…. so troublesome…") and random makeover days ("We need to get rid of that awful skin complexion of yours! Come here!").
Meetings were usually only and hour long and consisted of gossip and girl stuff (painting nails, accessorizing, etc. etc.)… until now. Now, there was something much bigger, much more fun, and totally more risky than any of the wacko mini-missions Tenten's put them up with before.
Damn, this was going to be fun.
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Author's notes: Lol sorry I went into flashback mode people. I know you want to hear more about the sleepover, but I couldn't get to that without some background info right? Just to make it up to you, I'm planning on writing a short extra on the Shinobi Girls Club of DOOM! So keep an eye out. Thanks for reading and please R/R! No flames! Thank you!