Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, I am only borrowing the characters
Author: pheonixphire
Genre: Romance/Humor
Rating: T
Pairings: SasuSaku, NejiTen, NaruHina, ShikaIno
Summery: Four teams, four sensei's, one island, one vacation. The rookie nine and Team Gai, students and sensei's, are sent on a vacation to relax, Hokage's orders. What madness will ensue? or will romance bloom instead?
Vacation in Paradise
Chapter Sixteen
The Cat
"KIBA!" Hatami yelled at the sleeping ninja. Takiya yipped, jumping from Hatami's arms to Kiba's head.
"HOLY SHIT!" Kiba cursed, as he fell out of his bed, landing face first on the floor. Akamaru looked at his owner from the bed and barked. He jumped onto Kiba's back and bounded over to Takiya. The two of them exchanged greetings, before running out of the room.
"And good morning to you too," Hatami said, helping Kiba up.
"What are you doing here?" Kiba asked. He walked into the bathroom and quickly changed.
"What? I can't even come visit?" Hatami said, pretending to be offended. Kiba raised an eyebrow and proceed out the door.
"Have you had breakfast yet?" he asked.
"Nope, came straight here," Hatami answered, following Kiba down to the kitchen. There, they found Tenten frying eggs and Neji making toast. Shino was pouring milk.
"Morning," Kiba called, sitting down. Hatami waved, before sitting down on the table. Kiba pulled out the dog food and called the Akamaru and Takiya over.
"You're up early," Tenten said.
"No, really?" Kiba said, glaring slightly at Hatami.
"What?" Hatami asked.
Tenten and Neji placed the toast and eggs on plates. Shino walked over with the cups of milk. Hatami jumped off the table and pulled a chair over. The five of them proceeded to eat their breakfast.
When they were done, Tenten and Neji raced out of the cabin, claiming that they were going to go spar and Shino ran away, leaving Kiba and Hatami with the dishes.
"Damn," Kiba said, surveying the dirty dishes and cups.
"We might as well get started, they aren't gonna clean themselves," Hatami said. Kiba shrugged. He cleared the table, passing the plates to Hatami, who was rinsing them and placing them on the counter to dry. By the time they were done, the dogs had finished eating their breakfast.
"See, that didn't take to long," Hatami said. "Come on, let's go play with Akamaru and Takiya." Kiba nodded and followed. After a while of goofing off with the dogs, the two humans, sat down to rest. The four had almost fallen asleep when banging on the door woke them up.
"KIBA!" Naruto yelled.
"What the hell?" Kiba asked, walking over to the door. Opening it, he sidestepped to avoid Naruto's fist, not wanting to have what he had done to Sasuke done to him.
"What do you want?" Kiba asked.
"The sensei's want to talk to us," Naruto asked. Kiba turned to Hatami. She shrugged.
"I'll stay here with the dogs," she said.
"Okay," Kiba said. He turned to Naruto and followed him out the door. He looked at the others, gathered around the middle of the clearing.
"Well, Asuma?" Ino asked.
"What do you want to talk to us about, Kakashi?" Sakura asked.
"Well, we decided that you all were getting lazy, so we set up a test for you," Kurenai answered.
Before she could continue, Tenten interrupted with "Where's Gai?"
"We don't know," Asuma said, "He said something about Midorii and he raced off with Lee."
"That explains a lot?" Tenten muttered.
"May I continue?" Kurenai asked.
"Go ahead," Kakashi said, pulling out his book.
"Basically, we hid your headbands in the forest, go find them," Kurenai said.
"Or else," Kakashi added.
"Or else what?" Ino asked.
"We haven't gotten that far yet," Asuma admitted.
"Okay…" Sakura said, sweatdropping, like everyone else.
Neji activated his Byakugan and looked around. He walked off and came back a few moments later.
"Found it," he said. Everyone turned to see him holding his headband.
"Cheater," Tenten muttered. Neji smirked and handed her her headband. "They didn't say you couldn't use your Byakugan, after all, " Tenten said, taking her headband. Neji rolled his eyes and walked back to his cabin.
"Well, that was fun," Tenten said, turning to the group "Have a good day." She laughed and followed Neji back to the cabin. The others glared at the two.
"Well, what are you waiting for?" Kurenai asked. The others shrugged and walked off to find their headbands.
The nine shinobi walked in a group, searching for their headbands.
Sakura tripped over Ino's headband after fifteen minutes and collided with Sasuke. He crashed into a tree, making a headband fall from the upper branches. The headband collided with his head and he glared at it, it was Naruto's.
Akamaru sniffed out Chouji's headband a few minutes later. Shino's bugs found Hinata's and Sakura's headbands. Naruto found Shikamaru's headband in a puddle. Hinata's used her Byakugan and found Shino's and Sasuke's. Ino found a patch of flowers and ended up finding Kiba's headband half buried in the dirt.
After several hours, everyone's headbands had been returned to their owners, with plenty of jokes and pranks, like Naruto and Kiba putting water in Sasuke's headband, Shikamaru, by Ino's urging, forcing everyone to do a stupid dance using his shadow jutsu (He included Ino and ended up almost being beat up by her), and Sakura and Sasuke stealing Naruto's and Kiba's headbands, coating them with honey, and putting them near a bee hive.
As the shinobi headed back to their cabins, they heard a cat. Looking up, they found a fat white cat with black tipped ears, paws, and a black tipped plumy tail, sitting on a tree branch on an old oak tree.
"That looks like Tokira," Kiba said. He turned to Shino.
"We need Hatami and the dogs," Kiba said. Shino nodded and told his bugs what to do.
Several minutes later, the two dogs arrived, with Hatami right behind them.
"What happened?" she asked.
"Is that Tokira?" Kiba said, pointing at the cat in the tree. Hatami squinted against the sun and looked at the cat.
"Oh my god, it is," Hatami said. "Somebody go get Kizumi."
"I'll go," Shino said. "But I don't know where she lives."
"Takiya knows" Hatami said. Takiya yipped at Akamaru and the two of them raced off. Shino nodded and followed the two dogs.
"Now we just need to get her down," Kiba said.
"How did she get up there in the first place?" Hatami asked. "She's forty nine days pregnant!"
"The cat's pregnant?" Sakura asked.
"That's just perfect," Kiba said. "How are we supposed to get her down without hurting the kittens?"
"Hatami, what happened!" Kizumi asked. She had just arrived with Shino and the two dogs.
"We found Tokira," Hatami said, pointing.
"Oh jeez," Kizumi said, looking at the cat.
"Didn't you notice she was gone?" Kiba asked.
"She's usually sleeping these days and I don't like to bother her," Kizumi replied, worried.
"Tokira never runs away," Hatami added.
"Let's just get her down." Kizumi said.
"How?" Kiba asked.
"Sasuke, you can climb trees, can't you? Why don't you go get the cat?" Naruto asked.
"I...uh…I don't want to…" Sasuke said, flustered.
"More like you can't," Naruto said. He turned to Sakura. "He's allergic to cats," he whispered, loud enough that everyone heard. Sasuke glared at Naruto and turned to sulk. Everyone laughed. Sakura giggled, but stopped when she saw Sasuke's face.
"It's okay Sasuke," Sakura said. "Don't worry about it."
"Anyone else have a way to get Tokira down?" Kizumi asked.
"Hey Shikamaru, why don't you use your shadow jutsu to get the cat down?' Ino asked.
"It won't work on animals," Shikamaru replied, he was watching the clouds.
"Can't anyone, besides Sasuke, climb?" Kiba asked.
"Oh! I can! I can!" Naruto said. He ran towards the tree and started running up the trunk. Halfway there, he tripped and tumbled down, right into Hinata. The two rolled to the floor, Naruto laughing and Hinata blushing like mad.
"Well, it was worth a try," Kiba said.
"Any other bright ideas?" Hatami asked.
"We could use food to lure her down," Chouji suggested.
"That might actually work!" Ino said.
"Anybody have cat food?" Naruto asked. They all turned expectantly toward Kizumi.
"What?" she asked. "I don't walk around with cat food in my pocket! I don't even have pockets."
"Well, so much for that idea," Kiba said. The eleven humans and two dogs sat down to think.
A cat meowed at them and walked up to Kizumi, purring and rubbing her leg.
"Tokira!" Kizumi said, petting the cat.
"How did she get down?" Hatami asked.
"Shino…" Kiba said. "Why didn't you say something earlier?"
"It was funny to watch you guys," Shino replied.
"Wait, how did Tokira get down?" Kizumi asked.
"I had my bugs bring her down," Shino said. Kizumi jumped up.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" she said, hugging Shino. Although Kizumi didn't notice Shino turning red, everyone else did.
"SHINO AND KIZUMI SITTING IN A TREE! K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" Ino and Sakura started singing. Their song broke off when they noticed an unsettling amount of bugs around them.
"Sasuke!" Sakura screeched.
"Shikamaruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!" Ino whined.
"Shino…" Sasuke and Shikamaru said, warningly. Shino shrugged.
They spent the rest of the afternoon playing around and goofing off. Shino and Kizumi talked in the corner, while Kiba and Hatami pranked almost everyone. After the sun had set the shinobi had nearly all fallen asleep.
"Come on, I'll take you home," Shino said to Kizumi. The two of them walked off, Tokira asleep in Kizumi's arms.
"I guess I should be getting home to," Hatami said.
"I'll come with you," Kiba said. "Akamaru! Takiya! Let's go." The two humans and two dogs followed Shino and Kizumi back to the village.
"Awwwww," Sakura and Ino cooed.
"Alright, alright, let's get back to the cabins, it's getting late," Naruto said. Hinata giggled at the two and at Naruto's disgust. The remaining shinobi headed back to the clearing where their cabins were.
"Good night," Kizumi said. Shino nodded. Kizumi hesitated and hugged Shino once again. "Thank you."
"You're welcome," Shino said, returning the hug. Kizumi smiled and walked into her home.
"Awwww" Hatami said.
"Shino finally found someone," Kiba said. "Took him long enough."
Hatami turned toward Kiba. "Good night," she said, kissing him on the cheek.
"Good night," Kiba said, hugging her. "See you tomorrow okay?" Hatami nodded and walked into the house.
"We'd better get back to the cabins," Kiba said to Shino. Akamaru barked.
"I heard what you said about me," Shino told Kiba. Kiba laughed awkwardly.
"I was…kidding?" Kiba backed away from Shino, and ran for his life.
And today is my birthday so I decided to update. Yay! And Chapter 17 is coming up very soon. The bad news is, I got a Mac, but apparantly the Document Edit/Preview doesn't work on Macintosh, so I have to use the Windows and blah blah blah. It takes a little longer for everthing to get posted, basically. Well, I hope you enjoyed the chapter. One more chapter for Kiba, Hatami, Shino, and Kizumi, and then we get to the four main pairings. Three chapters for each of those. Two for Kakashi and Kurenai, and some other chapters which I won't tell you about because it would ruin the suspence and stuff. Hopefully, I'll finish before summer vacation is over...Review. -pheonixphire