Hm…weird. I thought there would be more people reading this story. Since I personally think it's pretty funny. J
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
Is it the summary? I can't think of a good summary. I mean, what? PLEASE READ VERY FUNNY THE END? I don't know. That wouldn't be very good. It'd be best if it did tell you a bit about the actual story. Which it does. But not many people read it though. I mean, it does feature the Dreaded Tricksters right?
Cold Play: They Dynamic Ice Duo!
Chapter Three: Beginning Preparations
It was the next morning yet again. And the Konoha shinobi were all eating breakfast at a local resturaunt downtown. Yes. Snow Country was that huge now.
They were all eating this unusual food called 'Pancakes', 'Waffles', 'French Toast', 'Bagels' and 'Muffins'. Each shinobi could choose from the many stacks of plates of this…new food. Not that they minded. It wasn't that bad. But it made the feel a bit…fat. Except Chouji though. He'd enjoy it anyhow.
'Better start training immediately when we get back to Konoha…' They thought. Except Chouji who was too busy gnawing on a biscuit. With butter.
"This is the table of the Konoha ninjas, I believe?" a young, formally dressed man came up to their table.
"What? Are you the server?" Kiba asked.
The man shook his head.
"No. I just came to deliver this to you." he handed out a brochure to everyone on the table. And a dog treat to Akamaru, of course.
Akamaru did an 'Arf'.
The man smiled and pat Akamaru gently.
"A skating contest?" Sakura looked up at the man. Naruto bit into a piece of his syrup smothered pancake, while paying attention. Everyone was eating and reading the brochure as well as paying attention as well.
How?
Um…they're ninjas. Duh. They're supposed to be able to multi-task. And if they don't then THAT'S TOO BAD. They do here. :P
"Yes. We noticed that you guys didn't do the semi-private skating lesson, since you seemed to have control over skating." he said.
Sasuke and Neji twitched, moving their eyes, not wanting to catch anyone's attention.
"So, since we also saw you enjoyed your time there, we would like to announce that there is a figure skating competition four days from today. So we would like you to stay a bit longer, if you would like."
"What about the hotel? We're not paying for it, are we?" Asuma asked, raising an eyebrow.
"No! No! Of course not! We'll cover the hotel and all the expenses! Like we are now!" He assured hastily. "So will you stay?"
All of the Konoha shinobis wondered exactly WHY they wanted them to stay. But they didn't think it mattered. And it really didn't.
They all nodded. The man's face lit up.
"I suppose a longer vacation would hurt no one." Kurenai thought out loud.
"I-I enjoy staying in Snow Country…So I would like to stay longer." Hinata added.
"Yes! Skating was very exciting yesterday!" Lee burned up.
"Lee…your food is already hot…" Tenten said, not wanting to touch Lee in case of receiving a first degree burn.
"Okay! Then it's settled. We'll stay until a day after the figure skating competition." Kakashi confirmed.
"We should tell Tsunade-sama about this…" Kiba murmured.
"Ah…don't worry. We shall take care of that Kiba-san!"
"Uh…o…kay…" Kiba didn't know what to say…
"Hai! I shall go report this right away!" The man scurried off.
The Konoha Shinobis finished their meal, and were now walking around the streets.
"Oi, Kakashi-sensei. Where exactly does all this information go to?" Naruto asked. "And…where are we going now?"
Kakashi looked down at Naruto.
"We have to get our tickets for the Figure Skating competition! I don't believe they'll actually send them to us, even if we're the guests of honor."
"We won't have to pay for them, right?" Kiba asked Kakashi.
"Iie. I only said that we were going to get them, not buy them. And if we did have to pay for them, I don't think we would be staying any longer."
They all arrived at the same dome they were at yesterday, in other words, the Ice Rink.
Surprisingly though, Sasuke and Neji didn't seem to have any particular reactions to the view, even if they were badly humiliated yesterday.
"Hm…Where could it be…" Kakashi looked around for the Ticket Booth.
"It is over there, Kakashi-sensei." Hinata pointed over at a building with a four large lines. It was said, "Snow Country Figure Ice Skating Competition". It was decided into four sections, two of which they saw said, "Tickets" and "Sign Up".
"Well, it seems that the lines are very long, but some are shorter then others." Asuma turned to the genin and chuunin.
"We'll go to separate lines and meet back right here, okay?" Kurenai asked for confirmation from the smaller ranked ninjas.
They nodded, and they parted.
It turns out that three of the lines were for the tickets, depending on how you pay, or if you're just here to pick up. The last line was one to sign up for the next year figure skating competition.
All the shinobis of Konoha either went to the first, second, or third lines. The last line, the one where you sign up, was the shortest. No one bothered going there since they had no tickets to sell there.
Sasuke and Neji walked around and blended in with a group that was going to the third line, then quickly dispersed to the fourth one.
They waited in line, and finally, the were the last customers and people to sign up.
The ticket holder was just about to greet them, until she recognized who they were.
"We would like to enter the Figure Skating Competition, please." Sasuke said, hands in pockets.
"And we request that we will be partners in doing so." Neji added, arms crossed.
"I-I'm sorry…" The holder blushed crimson of their presence. "I just sold out the last place and we can't t-take anymore…"
Sasuke and Neji exchanged looks. Then, immediately, they disappeared.
"And-eh?" The holder looked around. 'Where'd they go?' She wondered.
Suddenly, she felt a warm breath on both sides of her neck.
"I'm sure you can make…" Sasuke started seductively.
"An exception for us…" Neji continued seductively.
"Correct?" Both finished seductively.
The ticket holder dared no to turn her head, as she felt that they were so close that she could feel their breaths on her bare neck.
She slowly lifted her hands and signed them both up, handing them both passes.
"P-Present this to the guard, and they shall l-let you two in…"
Sasuke and Neji satisfyingly took the admission tickets and nodded to each other. They went back to their former places.
"A-Also, there is a private skating rink in a separate room from the public one, so if you just show your pass, they'll let you in a-as well."
"Thank you." they said, leaving.
The holder laughed nervously, waving dreamily to them as they left. She had no idea if she was to feel bad or good inside.
Sasuke and Neji looked around at their meeting spot. They were the first ones back.
About a half an hour later, all of the ninjas were back.
"Hey, how'd you get back so quickly?" Shikamaru raised an eyebrow at them.
Sasuke and Neji paused for a moment, thinking of an excuse.
"The people in front of us was a large group, and they decided not to go because they had another activity to attend the day of the Competition." they said finally.
"Oh. Lucky." Naruto frowned.
"Now that we have our tickets, why don't we go do some more skating?" Kakashi suggested.
Everyone nodded.
"Yosh! Let us go!" Lee made a fist and hurried in.
Everyone winced, sweat dropping.
The Konoha guests of Honor entered, kindly asking for their skates and going out to the skating rinks. Sasuke and Neji took their skates as well, but they went into the bathroom for a couple minutes, purposely waiting for the rest to finish tying their skates and setting off to the ice rink once again.
When they had left, Sasuke and Neji crept stealthily out of the rink doors, showing the pass to the guard at the front entrance for permission to take the skates out of the Public Ice Rink.
"Do not let anyone know this. We ask this as a favor."
The guard nodded, and watched confusedly as they crept out to the back of the public ice rink.
"Ah…you must be one of the Konoha Shinobis!" One of the two guards exclaimed.
"Can we have your autographs?" The other one said.
Wince.
"S-Sure…"
Automatic doors opened, and two figures entered.
"Let's go."
Sakura skated around, noticing someone was missing.
'Where has Sasuke-kun gone to?' She thought.
Tenten was thinking the same thing.
'Neji's not here. Where'd he go?' She wondered. She'd ask Lee, but everywhere that Lee skated became thin ice, so she decided not to.
"I'm sure wherever he is, he'll be fine. Being the prodigy/genius he is." They thought out loud. (Sakura said Prodigy referring to Sasuke, Tenten said genius referring to Neji.)
About twenty minutes before they had to leave, it was about 6:30 PM. They had already left for lunch, unknown to where Sasuke and Neji was.
Of those twenty minutes, Sasuke and Neji came back, looking just fine on the outside, but inside, they were entirely numb and sore all over. Cold, too.
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura had just skated past one of the entrances to the rink, and saw Sasuke and Neji walk in. She stepped out and hurried over to Sasuke's side.
Tenten noticed that Sakura had stepped out, and wondered what she was doing. She was so consumed in what Sakura was doing, she didn't notice that she was headed towards a wall. But Neji did. He had saw her skate past the entrance.
"Tenten! Watch-"
"Huh?" Tenten turned her head to the front, but it was too late.
CRASH!
She had already ran into a wall.
Neji walked over with his skates on, to peer out of the entrance to see if Tenten was okay, even if she was on the other side. He peered out, wincing.
Tenten rubbed her head painfully.
"Augh…" She stood up slowly, skating over to Neji. Neji watched as she did so.
"Neji, where were you? Even Lee wondered where you were, I bet."
"Sasuke-kun, where were you exactly?" Sakura asked.
"Nowhere in particular. It doesn't matter now." Sasuke walked passed Sakura, and Sakura felt that Sasuke was very, cold.
Tenten watched as Sasuke and Neji walked out to the ice rink again, and yet again, started to trip and fall.
"Hey, Tenten. Does Sasuke and Neji seem cold to you?" Sakura asked, walking over to Tenten.
Tenten nodded.
"Yes. Sasuke was cold too?"
"Mm."
Both girls stared at the two prodigies, who had continued with their falling.
They sweatdropped.
Yet again, Sakura and Tenten skated out to the rink to the two boys, helping them skate around arm in arm, hand in hand.
They only had fifteen minutes of skating time, so pretty soon, they had to leave.
"Oi, Neji. Where exactly did you go, anyway?" Tenten asked, leaning in on Neji.
"It doesn't matter now. I'm here right now." he replied, shifting a brief glance at Tenten before continuing to walk away.
Sasuke and Neji would have stayed behind with the group, but they didn't want Sakura and Tenten to notice that they were twitching from the insults, yet again.
"So…what are we going to have for dinner?" Chouji asked while headed out of the Ice Rink.
"Well, we were introduced to a new resturaunt not so far from here." Kurenai said, pulling out a traveler's guide the Jounins had received earlier today.
"No alcohol?" Ino asked.
"No alcohol." Asuma said, thankfully.
All the genin and chuunin sighed in relief.
(A/N: Speaking of all the genin and the chuunin, I was just watching episode 185, and the ending was FREAKING HILARIOUS! Everyone had one of those baby 'Onbaa's. EVERYONE! Lee, Sakura, Ino, Tenten, Neji, EVEN AKAMARU AND TON-TON! It was adorably hilarious. X3)
So, they arrived at the resturaunt, with happy service, and everyone was happy. Everyone got what they wanted, (The Waitress slipped Sasuke an extra basket of Tomatoes to-go for his looks.) and everyone left happy. (A/N: Oh my gosh, IHOP Commercial. XD)
After dinner, it was 9:30, with still a half an hour to go. So, they all decided that they'd go wherever they want to tonight in particular, just warning if anyone goes into trouble no one can help them if they can't.
So Naruto, Sakura, and Kakashi decided to go shopping around before going to the movies with Lee, Gai, and Tenten. Team Gai decided they'd go food sampling around and shopping before they left. Team Kurenai heard of a nature walk and exhibit just outside of the Snow Country, not so far away so they went there. Team Asuma went to watch a Parody play that Shikamaru had caught sight of when they were headed towards the resturaunt. Pretty soon Team Kurenai decided to watch the Parody with Team Asuma as well.
When Naruto and his group was leaving for shopping and souvenirs, Sakura noticed that Sasuke was walking the other way. She stopped and turned around midway.
"Sasuke-kun? Where are you going?" She asked.
Sasuke turned to look at her for a brief moment, then turned away.
"No where in particular. Just some business I have to take care of." and started walking away, hands stuffed in his pockets.
"Hm." Sakura made a concerned face, then walked away. (A/N: As you can see, I don't like making Sakura so chirpy.)
Neji walked away from his group too.
"Oi, Neji. Where are you going?" Tenten asked. Lee and Gai had already sped away, going stall to stall.
Neji looked at Tenten as he spoke
"Somewhere not too far from here. I shall return soon." and turned away, walking.
"Okay then…"
Private Ice Rink
"We have much to cover."
"I know. We should get started on the routine pretty soon too. We don't have much time."
"Agreed. Let's."
That night, Sasuke and Neji returned to the hotel a half hour later then the last Konoha Shinobi that had entered. They crept silently into the room, quickly showering and then going off to sleep, with an unusual smirk on their face in the process.
Naruto stared at his dear closest teammate and friend. He raised an eyebrow.
'What's up with him?' he thought.
Lee was thinking the exact same thing.
'Neji returns later then the rest of us. Where could he possibly have gone? Why is he smirking in such a way? Hm…'
That night, for some reason, Sasuke and Neji had nightmares about the Curry of Life. They were sweating and they pulled their covers over their head. This, only made poor Naruto to be more confused. But he was too tired to care. But being the great friend that he is, he got up and grabbed a tissue out of a nearby tissue box that sat on a small nightstand that was between he and Sasuke. There was another one between Kakashi and Naruto as well.
Naruto poked him. "Oi…Sasuke-teme. Your sweating." Sasuke turned the other way, back towards Naruto.
"Sasuke-teme…you're going to smell tomorrow if you don't get up!" He shook Sasuke by a shoulder.
Sasuke turned the other way, and took down his covers slightly to reveal frantic eyes and a lot of sweat.
Naruto raised an eyebrow.
"Sasuke…do you have a fever?" Naruto felt his head.
Naruto immediately pulled away, shaking his hand.
"You're really sweaty, Sasuke-teme! What nightmare did you have?"
"You don't want to know, Naruto." He mumbled under the covers.
"Sheesh." he started wiping Sasuke's head with the tissue. Sasuke winced. He'd care, but he didn't feel like it. So he let Naruto continue. Naruto did always seem like a brother to him anyway. Besides, he hadn't had this warm, welcoming, family relationship feeling in what seemed like ages now.
Kakashi was secretly watching them.
'My, my…isn't that nice…I knew they'd get along just fine…like long time brothers…'
Pretty soon, Naruto fell back asleep, and this time, Sasuke dreamt…dreamt about winning something…with Neji…and then Sakura came and…
"Neji." Lee nudged Neji. Neji was frowning. He stirred, shuddering. He turned to face a half-asleep Lee, when he opened his eyes.
"What…"
"You are sweating. Badly." Neji just now noticed that his headrest was very wet. With sweat.
"…Oh."
"Are you okay?"
"I'm not sure…"
Lee studied Neji's bright read sweaty face.
"Neji-kun, you must have a fever…" Lee felt Neji's face. Neji blinked as he felt Lee's hand on his forehead. Neji was breathing shallowly.
"No…it's not that…" Lee thought for a moment.
Then…
"I KNOW! YOU HAD A NIGHTMARE!"
Neji would hit Lee upside the head if he weren't so exhausted.
"Let me help you." Lee crawled behind him, grabbing a tissue and starting to wipe his head. Then, he ran into the bathroom to get a wet towel and cooling off Neji's face.
"Here." He handed Neji one too. Neji started, but then Neji was too weak to move, so Lee just continued.
After a while, Lee leaned in on Neji slightly, with a suspicious, yet amusing look.
"So…Neji-kun…what nightmare did you have that haunted you so badly?" he asked.
Neji made an effort to glare, then turned away.
"Or was it a dream?" he continued.
"To you it would be. Let's just put it that way." Neji covered himself again.
"Thanks for caring." He said. "Now get off my case and go to sleep."
"No no need for gratitude!" Lee said, springing tears. "We friendly rivals shall always help each other when in need!" Lee started burning up again.
"Lee…you are going to burn the sheets if you continue." Neji stated flatly, back still turned.
"Oh…hai…" Lee laid back down and covered himself again. "Good night, Neji-kun."
"Hn…Good night…"
At this point, Gai was crying the Pacific by now.
Ohohen: I had wanted to finish this a long time ago, but I never brought myself up to it. Now that it's summer, I have to work a lot more. (And I'm only -Insert my age here- D: ) Yeah…sucks.
I have another idea on my head about Naruto. And I just need to figure out the planning. Yes…
I was just watching episode 84-86 again. Yay Itachi. Beat up that little prick of a brother you have. :D Go Jiraiya! W00t!
Ah yes…Tsunade and her inhuman strength. Go show Superman that we females are actually useful in this male-dominated world of ours! (They can't even give Tenten an episode to herself. D: With all these fillers and such.)
One more thing. If you reviewed by the name of 'Angst-sama' on the Neji and Sasuke series, I'm sorry if you found the story OOC. But, that must mean you review the same thing for every single Naruto story you read, just about. All you say is OOC, don't you? Well, I guess that's too bad for you. I just don't feel like caring about your ridiculous review anyway. You just added a point to my review. Some people don't even read the reviews. They only look at the number. And thanks to you, my number went up.
There's this one thing I don't like about this story. The way that it goes Sakura, then Tenten, and it's just the same thing. Then Naruto and Lee, just about he same thing. Gai and Kakashi, SAME THING. -Sigh-
Damn…this was a long chapter…