-1Okay, here's what happened.

My brother and sister take Ice Skating lessons. (My sister uses one leg to move and drags the other, causing one foot to be bigger then the other. O.o) So, it was a Friday, and they were holding this special thing, where you got to skate from 7:30 to 10:00. So, I skated, killed my feet, then left. (My sister, who was the one who was most enthusiastic about the fact that we were going skating, was the one who skated the least, since she wimped out.) Then, I thought of this story.

Aren't I brilliant?

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Yup. Hinting pairings are in this one. And of course, it stars Neji and Sasuke. Again. ;;

Cold Play: The Dynamic Ice Duo!

Trip to Snow Country, Alcholic Chaos!

"Ice skate? They have an ice skate rink now!" Ino said, wide eyed.

"Yup! Team Kakashi, Team Gai, Team Asuma, and Team Kurenai are all invited! For a semi-private skating session at their grand opening as a thanks for our last success on rescuing their village. Um…I think it was in Snow Country."

"Oh. I remember! Well, I'm going to tell Chouji and Shikamaru, ja ne, Forehead girl!" Ino waved goodbye.

"Bye Ino-pig!" Sakura waved her off, then went to look to meet up with her team.

Sakura skipped over to the bridge, where she met Kakashi, Naruto, and Sasuke.

"Ah, Sakura. You've arrived. I was just about to announce something." Kakashi said.

"Mm." Sakura nodded. "Is it about going to Snow Country?"

Kakashi winced, then smiled. "Up to date as always, Sakura."

Sakura nodded. "I heard it from Tsunade-sama this morning. All four teams of you, Gai, Asuma, and Kurenai are going."

"Yes. That is correct, Sakura."

"But…if what you say is true, exactly when is this?" Naruto asked, inching forward.

"I don't know…" Sakura replied gloomily.

"Today."

"GEH!" Naruto and Sakura freaked. "Today!" Sakura exclaimed.

"Yes. Today it was announced and today it was assigned." Kakashi looked around for the nearest clock. "Hm…in just about two hours we must arrive at a boat with the others to get there. Well, let's get ready, and we'll meet at the entrance. Quickly though. Got it?"

Everyone nodded.

"Ah, matte, we don't need to buy skates do we?" Naruto asked.

"No. They're supplying us with that. Just bring your clothes, we're also spending two nights there at one of their new luxury hotels."

Sakura got stars in her eyes. Literally.

"Ah…! Luxury hotels! I can't wait!"

And they separated to get ready.

Sasuke sighed. Yet, another something that aggravated him. Packing.

Meanwhile, Team Gai had received the news as well. Lee was pretty worked up, and they had gone home to pack. That is, after another Gai-sensei and Lee moment, yet again.

"Hiashi-sama. I shall be gone for a couple days with Hinata-sama and my team, and we will return soon."

"Mm…" Hiashi nodded. "Be careful."

Neji winced at the comment. "Uh…Hai, Hiashi-sama. We shall. Arigato." He nodded, then left to his room, starting to pack.

Minutes later…

There was a knock at Neji's door. Neji looked behind him at the door.

"Come in." Hinata walked in.

"Hinata-sama? What is it?"

"Are you ready, Neji-nii-san?"

Neji nodded. "Mm. Just about." Neji lifted his bag and left with Hinata.

"Okay, Naruto; Here. Sakura; Here. Sasuke; Arrived. Everyone's here."

"Hinata, Shino, Kiba…My team has arrived as well."

"Ino-!"

"Shika-"

"Cho-!"

(A/N: I forgot if it was ShikaInoCho or InoShikaCho.)

"Yup. Mines here too." Asuma said.

"All my burning students of youth are present as well!" Gai said, proudly.

"Okay." Kakashi was the only one who replied.

"Yes! Let us set out for Snow Country!" Gai said. "Come my precious students!" He turned to the other jounins, with a small grin.

Kurenai winced, then grinned.

"Heh." Asuma closed his eyes.

"Hm…?" Kakashi had no idea then…"Oh."

"Last one there shall eat my dust! Come my youthful students! Let us show that we are the best among the best of these teams!"

Neji smirked. Tenten had a glint of challenge in her eyes as Lee, well, I think you know how Lee reacted by now.

"Yosh! Let's go!" And off they went. Like that. Poof. Right to the nearest port.

Everyone winced.

"Damn…they've been training."

"Hmpf. I'm not getting dragged behind." Sasuke left and disappeared along with the rest of Kakashi's team.

"I guess we should go too." Kurenai said finally.

"Let's go! Ino-Shika-Cho!" And off they went. Pretty soon they were all gone.

Turns out that the jounins got there first of course, with Kakashi and Gai tying. Neji tied with Sasuke, then came Lee and Naruto, then Tenten with Sakura in the last place. Behind them came the other teams.

"Why exactly do we always tie, Hyuuga?" Sasuke said, arms crossed.

"That, I'd like to know as well." Neji said in reply, arms crossed.

Sakura and Tenten sweatdropped. 'Great minds think alike?' they thought.

Naruto would be more worked up about the fact he lost to Neji and Sasuke, but he was too hungry for that.

"Mou…" He whined. "I'm hungry. Can we eat? Now?"

Kakashi smiled in amusement. "Let's check into the hotel, then we'll find something to eat before we start skating, now, shall we?"

"YES! LET US GO!" Gai said happily.

"Yes. I'm a bit hung-" Lee was cut off with someone's stomach growling.

Everybody looked at Naruto.

"Let's eat." Kiba said flatly.

"Yeah." Sakura agreed.

"Um…" Tenten held up a finger. "I think we need to get to Snow Country first? I mean, what are we going to eat? Leaves and salty water?"

"Hn. Seems like I'm not the only one who noticed." Neji smirked.

"Hmpf. My point exactly." Sasuke said.

Tenten laughed nervously.

"We should go. W-We wouldn't want to miss the ship." Hinata stated.

"Let's." Ino said, following the rest of the Konoha ninjas to the harbor towards the large ship that lay waiting for their arrival.

So, they got on the ship, and it wasn't a bad ride at all. With the nice, cool, sea breeze. Couple clouds for Shikamaru. Calm waves to stare at. That is, except when a certain area turned green because Chouji got a bit seasick from eating chips then going on a boat trip. No one looked in the water after that point.

Arrival…

"Wow…this village has really changed." Sakura said, looking around. The village they were staying at was the only village that didn't have snow. Or less of it.

"Yes. They set up adjustments after the last time we had visited them." Shino answered.

Naruto's stomach growled.

"Where's the hotellll…" He complained.

"Well, here we are!" Kakashi said, standing in front of a large building.

Silence.

"S-Sugoi…" Sakura stared, eyes wide enough to drop.

"I-It's h-huge…" Naruto awed.

"T-That's our hotel? The hotel we're staying at?" Kiba stared.

"Apparently, yes." Chouji stared, almost dropping his bag of chips. The rest of the jounins just grinned.

The hotel was like…a hotel that they had never seen before. It was several stories high, with plants, décor, water fountains, statues, the whole nine yards. (A/N: It's like…picture the best, richest, most expensive hotel you see nowadays.)

"Well, shall we go in?" Kakashi chirped. Almost. They all followed him in.

So, everybody went in and checked in.

Inside was decorated finely with the most expensive things you find nowadays. Pottery, china, flowers, rugs, silk…

They received these cards that were supposedly keys to unlock the door to their rooms. Kakashi with the two boys on his team. Asuma with the two boys in his team. Gai with the two boys on his team. And Kurenai watched over a separate room with only girls, while Shino and Kiba had their own room. Kurenai trusted them to be mature enough to have their own room.

All the rooms had a great view. Especially due to the fact that they were forty three stories above ground. Thankfully, no one was afraid of heights. Or, whoever was, didn't show it.

They were surprised to find that they had a three night fully supply of clothes in their room. It was…awkward. There was a note, asking if they would keep these clothes from gratitude, and to please enjoy.

Nobody wanted to be rude, not even Naruto, but the clothes showed a lot of…erm…skin. That was when they tried it on.

Ino looked at the large gap on the navy blue dress she received. Shikamaru did now want that much of his torso to be showing, especially when it was all the way down there. Chouji didn't want anyone to tell either.

Sakura felt very, very exposed wearing that dress. Naruto, heck, the threw it away once he tried it. Sasuke? A see through outfit? Not his type.

Hinata turned red. Let's just put it at that. Shino asked himself if they were crazy. Kiba just let Akamaru chew it up and spit it out.

Tenten decided to use the dress for target practice. Lee thought it wasn't comfortable, and Neji, HA! Threw it out the window. Yes. Mr. Punctual threw it out the window. Down from the forty third floor. And it hit somebody's head. And, they wore it.

For some reason, everybody kept looking at an area between that particular person's legs.

Everybody decided it'd be best to wear what they brought. Even the jounins.

It was pretty late by then, around eight, which was time for dinner. They walked down together, going into the hysterically large lobby at the map.

"…how do you read this thing?" Naruto scratched his head.

Sasuke stared for a moment. "There's a restaurant on the third floor sixteenth floor, thirty second floor, forty ninth floor, fifty second and the sixtieth floor." Sasuke paused. "Sixty?" he asked himself quietly, raising an eyebrow.

"It says that on the sixtieth floor, the restaurant has the best view of Snow country, while the floors of the restaurant move to give you an entire view of the city." Sakura read from the tourist guide.

"Why don't we just go there? It's pretty late anyway. This is getting troublesome and time consuming." Shikamaru was already bored.

"I agree. We should not spend so much time on looking for restaurants. Why don't we just take the sixtieth floor, as Shikamaru said." Shino added.

"Truce. We'll go to the sixtieth floor." Neji ended it.

"Hehe…let's just hope no one's afraid of heights! This is the sixtieth floor we're talking about!" Kiba grinned.

"Let's go! I'm starving!" Naruto whined, scurrying over to the elevator.

"I think we should go in separate elevators. One elevator is obviously not going to fit us…all…" The elevator door opened, and Asuma stopped talking.

"People who built this thing really knows how to extend the definition of 'large' to it's limits." Kurenai commented. It pretty much was a huge hotel . If they had been staying here by will, the bill would probably take up a life savings. Thankfully, they had quote on quote, "Earned" it. Not that they didn't work for it but…it was an unexpected encounter. Little more then expected.

Everybody got into the elevator, not squished at all. Even with Chouji. As they went up, everybody enjoyed the view from the ride up as well. (A/N: I don't think an elevator these days could fit sixteen people in one elevator, so just go along with the plot. Yeah…)

"Exactly when does the restaurant close?" Chouji asked.

"I saw it said it closed at midnight." Tenten replied.

"We've arrived. Let's get out before this elevator gives you a ride back down." Kakashi walked out…

And watched everyone else go back down.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

He sweatdropped. Guess High tech aren't always good tech.

Pretty soon, everybody came back up after a tired ride. Even Sasuke, Neji, and Shino were exhausted.

The Konoha Shinobis looked around. Hm. No wonder they had felt uncomfortable.

Everyone who was there were rich people. Wearing designer suits and clothing with full wallets and purses. Everyone was dressed formally…except the Konoha shinobis.

Kakashi sighed.

"I think this makes you want to change. So, the restrooms are around the corner, so go ahead."

"What about you guys?" Ino asked.

"We didn't bring our formal clothes." Kurenai answered.

"You just go ahead and hurry back." Asuma added. "Look around for us."

"And if you really cannot locate us, just have Neji or Hinata use their Byakugan." Gai thought for a moment. "In fact, stick with Neji or Hinata and never get lost!" Gai did a good guy pose with the ping. Ah…deafening…

So, all the genins went to the restrooms and changed, then came back out, with their clothes on. (A/N: No need for much of a description. It'd take too long. Boys wear suits, not ties, collar slightly open, girls wear dress with Tenten sneaking shorts under hers and that's it. No more. Neji has his hair down. Yeah.)

"Where are they?" Naruto looked around.

"Over there, N-Naruto-kun." Hinata pointed over a at large table in a so seemed reserved room.

They all walked over there, carefully trying not to invade anyone's privacy, even though it was hard not to.

They all sat down at the table that had been four tables put together, one team on each table. (A/N: No need for explanation, would only be useless information. Let's just say it just so happened that Sakura was sitting next to Sasuke who was sitting next to Neji who was sitting next to Tenten and end of story and that's all I'm going to say.)

Four waiters came out, one for each team. They greeted them happily, saying thanks for the successful mission before, then started to take their orders. Their tables was In a separate room, one that was made for private parties.

Naruto looked at the menu. All the dishes, he had no idea whatsoever what they were. So, he started to read the descriptions below until he found something that satisfied him. As did everyone else.

"Well, I'll order this." Kakashi said, pointing to the dish on the menu.

The server nodded, then asked what he wanted to drink.

"Mm…what do you have?" he asked.

"Well, we have…" The waiter started to go on and on about a list of wines. Then, lastly, he included Sake'.

Kakashi laughed nervously, scratching his neck. "Uh…yeah…I'll have that and Sake, if that's what you recommend."

"Mm! Okay then!" the waiter started scribbling on his notepad.

The rest of them finished ordering, then started to have a conversation.

Or…rather started one.

"Okay, here you go!" The waiter started passing out the dishes. Heck, they didn't even have their appetizer yet.

Everyone twitched. "That was…fast…"

So, they dug in. The food wasn't that bad. It had an interesting taste to it. Except the fact, that everyone fell dizzy and tired after that point.

Nobody knew why, that is, until Lee went into his drunken frenzy, Drunken Fist mode. That, was when they all realized that the food contained wine.

Ino, Shikamaru, and Chouji fell asleep. Naruto and Sakurawere like while Sasuke made his best efforts to hold his head up, with help from his arm. Finally, he couldn't help it, and fell face first into his rice balls and fish.

Shino kept shaking his head and Kiba kept snoring. Hinata had blush from the wine dose. Tenten was rubbing her temples while trying to help Neji and Gai keep Lee under control. Neji kept losing control and slipping off Lee's legs. Finally, when Lee went under control, falling asleep in the process, Neji let go and plundered to the ground, sleeping. Tenten couldn't help it and fell off her chair beside Neji, with Lee collapsing on top of both of them.

Only the jounins managed to stay under control, besides a slightly weak Kurenai who was weak against alcoholics. They all helped the genins back to their rooms.

Although it was kind of hard. So, Kakashi took Naruto and a fish sauce covered Sasuke back up to their room. Asuma with a surprisingly light Shikamaru and reluctantly took Chouji as well. Gai took Lee and Neji on his back, and Kurenai with Sakura, Ino, Tenten, and Hinata, but since she couldn't carry four at a time, Gai decided to be go into working hard youthful mode and carry Tenten for her, since Tenten was on his team and all.

All the genins had a slight blush on their face. Even Lee after his unexpected drunken fist frenzy. Shino's were barely visible though. But they were there. Sasuke had a blush too. It was just covered with fish and fish sauce. That's all.

Kurenai changed all the kunoichis clothes when she got back to the room. As did all the other jounins.

It was another long, surprisingly tiring day. Yet again. Tomorrow, they'd be going to the new Indoor Ice Rink, where'd they get to enjoy their time skating around on a large area covered in sick ice.

Joy.

…or so it seemed…

Ohohen: Well, that's the first chapter. The first chapter is just an introduction/epilogue or whatever. The next chapters will be focusing on the main point. Plot. Whatever.

Buahahahahahaha…I have got to draw a picture of all of them drunk…

Hm…I'm going to take a guess and say that you guys enjoyed Sasuke just falling over into his plate of fish, and fish sauce covered Takoyaki. Oh…Imagine that!

Then Neji just plummeting to the ground, then Tenten, then Lee! Falling across both of them like a bed! Hahahaha…Laughs away!

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