Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO!
"I can't believe that the ball is in three days!" cried Sakura, her arms flailing. "I'm so excited!"
"Well, well," Ino said, walking up behind her, "Is that Sakura I see?"
"Hello, Ino-pig," Sakura spat, wrinkling her face in disgust.
Ino smirked, flipping her blonde hair. "Hey billboard brow, did they post the list for the dance?"
Sakura glared and gave agitated sigh. "Ino, don't think that you're going to end up with Sasuke because love will prevail in the end for the two of us!" She gave a determined look.
"Dream on!" Ino replied, rolling her eyes."
The Hokage came up behind them, his footsteps could be heard resounding throughout the halls, signaling he was there.
Tap, tap
Tap, tap
"There!" he said proudly, looking over his work. He turned around. "Here is the list for the dance, hand picked by myself!"
Hidden Leaf Village Pairings:
Hinata/Sasuke
Tenten/Neji
Sakura/Chouji
Ino/Shikamaru
Peddle/Naruto
Chaperones:
Kakashi/Makoto
Inner Sakura: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Not food boy, anyone but him!
Ino stared at the list. "I'm with Shikamaru… Shikamaru?" she cried in agony. "Why am I not with Sasuke?"
"Well, who is?" Sakura asked, glancing at the list again.
"Hinata is!" they both screamed simultaneously.
"I guess I won't be with Naruto," Hinata said timidly, playing with her fingers. "Well, I'm happy for Peddle."
Tenten rubbed Hinata on the shoulder. "It's okay; don't worry about anything!" She glanced at the list.
Inner Tenten: Ohmigosh, I'm with Neji! Oh, yes! I'm so happy! Score one for Tenten!"
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Sasuke glared as Neji came into his line of sight, his Byakugan deactivated. "What do you want?"
"I'm just here to tell you what's going on."
"And that is?"
"You're going to the dance with Hinata," he glared, sending shivers up Sasuke's spine.
"Who the hell said that I'm going to any stupid dance anyways?" He tried to ignore the Hyuuga genius, but his silver gaze was too much.
"You have to go or else you can't enter the preliminaries for the Chunin exam."
"What!"
"For a minute there, I thought the Great Uchiha Sasuke was running away," Naruto, who had been listening to the whole conversation, said.
"Shut up, Naruto." He snapped, annoyed with the blonde boy already.
"Sasuke would never run away; he would never let me or the team down," Kakashi said, popping in out of nowhere as usual.
"Kakashi, you're here early… well, earlier than usual anyway," Naruto said, giving his trademark bumbling smirk.
"That's because I'm chaperoning with the new sensei Makoto. She's hott."
"Well, I thought Sasuke was being a scaredy cat," Naruto stuck out his tongue; Sasuke wanted to bite it off.
"I'm not like you, Naruto."
"Hey? Who are you calling a scaredy cat?" He cried, his cheeks puffing up in indignation. "I'm Naruto Uzumaki, the next Hokage! Believe it!"
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Munch, munch
Crunch, crunch
"Could you be anymore rude?" The blonde haired girl cried in irritation, massaging her forehead.
"Peddle, lighten up. Are you unhappy because you're going to the dance with the loser Naruto?"
"Don't call him that!" She glared at Shikamaru. "Well, what are your true feelings about Ino?"
"She's cute," he said, after a moment's hesitation, "but way to Sasuke crazy."
"Hey, Chouji, you're going with Sakura, right?"
"Yeah, and I'm staying close to the food and punch!"
"Hey," Peddle said, tapping him teasingly on the nose, "when you think about it, Sasuke is under fed and Chouji is over fed." She looked proud, as if she had had a brilliant idea.
"Hey, Peddle, are you going to eat that?"
She just stared. "Chouji, you are seriously not helping your case at all.
No one could possibly prepare themselves for the upcoming dance, or who it might bring together.
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