A/N: Konnichiwa, readers! And how are you on this fine (insert time of day you are reading this)? Hope you enjoy, the fic, 'cause I had a reasonable amount of fun writing it! Lily and Kari are characters of my own invention. They're like my alter egos, different sides of me. So read on, and enjoy, o honored readers!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, just my dignity. Yet sometimes I wonder if I even have that…
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. : 1. Let's Get This Party Started: .
One fine summer's day, Lily and Kari, two teenage girls, were lounging about when they decided they should throw a party/sleepover with a twist sort of thing! And they decided that they wouldn't invite just anyone. Oh no… they were going to invite the characters of Naruto!
How will they do this, you may ask? Why, with a Dimension Jumper-Thingy, of course! It's only the most obvious thing in the world, silly!
After jumping through to the village of Konoha, Kari and Lily jumped headfirst into what Lily had named "Operation Retrieve the Characters of Naruto and Get Them to Come to the Par-tay!" Kari had even compiled a list! …Even though they already knew who to invite.
"Ooookay! First on the list is… Naruto!" Lily exclaimed. "And look, there he is! Hurrah!"
Naruto had been taking a stroll, thinking up some ways to overthrow – er, become the Hokage. "Hey, NARUTO!" Lily shouted. "WANNA COME TO OUR-" she was cut short by a whack to the head from Kari's trusty mallet. "Can you please try and go more than ten minutes without yelling?"
"Uhh…yeah?" Naruto's reply was slow, a little surprised that two people he'd never seen before knew who he was. "What is it?"
"Well, as I was saying before I was so RUDELY interrupted –" she threw a glare at Kari, who wasn't at all fazed, "-would you like to come to our party/sleepover with a twist sort of thing? It'll be fun!" She handed him a small invitation with their pictures in chibi-form on the front.
"Yeah, sure! Even though I don't really know you, it sounds cool!" And with that, he walked off.
"Wow. That was surprisingly easy." Kari said.
Lily rolled her eyes in an annoying I-told-you-so fashion, and they went to hunt down their next victim: Haruno Sakura! Dun dun dun!
Sakura was sitting idly on a bench, twirling her hair around her finger and looking around for her darling Sasuke, since she just LOVES him to death. Kari saw her first, because Lily was intently watching a butterfly flit around a flower bush. The pink-haired girl looked up and saw the two walking towards her. "Oh! Hello." she said a bit slowly.
"Hey. Do you wanna come to a party?" Kari isn't the greatest people person, as you can see, and this abrupt invitation caught Sakura off guard. "What…?" she asked.
Lily tore herself away from the butterfly to hand her another chibi-invite. "It'll be real fun!" she said. However, Sakura looked wary.
"I don't know… I mean, I don't even KNOW you two." she said. "And I'm pretty sure I'm not allowed to go to parties that random strangers invite me to."
Luckily, Kari thought of the perfect reason for her to go. "Sasuke will be there…" she said.
And it worked like a charm! "A party with Sasuke-kun! Of course I'll – wait. Will that pig Ino be there too?"
Lily almost ruined everything by spilling the beans to Sakura, but luckily a death glare from Kari silenced her. Lily then said, "Of course not!" and Sakura was satisfied with that.
Next on the list was Yamanaka Ino. She wasn't too hard to convince – all Lily and Kari had to tell her was that Sasuke was coming and Sakura wasn't, and she was all for it.
Unfortunately, not all the other guests were as easy to convince. Namely Sasuke. As the not-so-dynamic duo wandered across Konoha in search of him, they brainstormed on how to convince him to say "yes".
"Oh, I know! Why don't we tell him Sakura and Ino are coming?" Lily announced. "That's sure to make him say yes. Kari raised an eyebrow, thinking 'Oh yeah, like that'll work…'
Then it struck her. Reverse psychology! They would just tell Sasuke that he wasn't going to a party, but an…awards ceremony! To celebrate his awesome greatness! Yeah…and if you know Sasuke, you'll know his ego won't allow him to miss a chance to allow others to revel in his greatness. Does that make sense…?
And what do you know – it worked like a charm! Sasuke reluctantly agreed, but it didn't matter how he said it so long as he came. With his invite in hand, he walked off, feeling proud.
As Kari checked off the newest party guests from the list, she counted up the number of people that were left. "Hmmm… we've still got to find Lee, Shino, Tenten, Hinata, Kiba, Shikamaru, Chouji and Neji, and get them ALL to say yes. …That's gonna take some time…"
Lily must not have heard that last comment, because as soon as Kari had finished she said happily, "Yay! We're just a Frosted Flake away from getting this party/sleepover with a twist thing started!" Kari just sighed and shook her head.
Now, to save time and brainpower, I won't bore you with the details of exactly how Lily and Kari convinced the rest to come. All you need to know is that everyone said yes. And now, back to Kari's house, which will be the sight of the…you know – but not for another five days!
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A few hours before the party…
"And now… WE PREPARE!" Lily shouted to the heavens. Well, to the roof of Kari's house, but you get the picture. She was psyched for the party, and couldn't control herself.
Kari pulled out a whole mess of balloons, a balloon pump, those paper lanterns you hang from the ceiling, streamers, and various other party decorations from a nearby closet marked 'In Case Of Emergencies'. "All right." she said, holding the pump like a machine gun. "Let's do this."
The two attacked the house, decorating like there was no tomorrow. No one had ever been such fast decorating in the history of EVER! So it was no surprise that they were done in a matter of minutes.
"And now, I'll get the upstairs rooms ready!" Lily said, all set to tackle the next stage of preparing. But Kari had grabbed onto her collar just as she was about to motor upstairs, causing Lily to run rapidly in place and nearly burning a hole through the floor. "Hold it. I'LL handle the second floor, and you get out the food and drinks. We can't afford to have you getting lost – again."
"Yeah…" Lily sighed, her head drooping. "But I can't help it; your house is sooooo big! You've got, like, SEVEN rooms in this place…!"
By now, Kari had started to climb up the stairs, which led to, like, seven rooms… "And that's why we're having this thing at my place!" she called down to Lily, who was satisfied with that.
Once absolutely everything was ready, Lily and Kari were chillin' like some villains in the living room, waiting for the guests to come…when one of them did!
Lily leaped to the front door and opened it to find Tenten AND Neji at the door, each carrying large duffel bags. "Well, hello!" Lily exclaimed. "And congratulations on being the first guests to come! For that, you get a special reward."
She reached over to a nearby table and grabbed two crudely-made certificates. On the top they said "To Congratulate The 1st Guest, (insert name here)", and they looked as if they had been written with her left hand. Which, knowing Lily, they probably were.
"Uh…thanks?" Tenten said after taking the certificate – if you could call it that.
After the two were inside, Tenten nudged Neji with her elbow and hissed, "Say it!" Neji sighed and muttered rather hesitantly, "…Thank you for inviting us." He looked somewhat relieved when he was done.
Tenten saw the confused looks on Kari and Lily's faces and said, "Oh, you see, Neji is trying to become more 'personable'. You know," she added, when they only looked more confused, "he's trying to be friendlier." As they went upstairs to put away their things, the bell rang – again!
Ino stood at the door, carrying one duffel bag and a makeup case. "Hello!" she said, stepping into the doorway. When she saw Neji and Tenten coming down the stairs, she gave a sigh of relief. "Good, I'm not the last one here! I hate being the last to arrive to anything."
Kari said, "Go ahead and put your stuff upstairs. Any room you want is fi – " Before she could finish, the door bell rang. Again.
This time it was Shikamaru, with a small dark green backpack and a matching green bag. "Hey. Where can I put my stuff?"
"Put your stuff upstairs! In any room! 'Cause EVERYONE'S doing it!" Lily yelled. And Shikamaru did just that, though he said softly to himself, "Upstairs? So troublesome…sigh…"
And so it went; next to arrive was Sasuke, then Lee, Shino, Hinata, Chouji, Naruto, Kiba, and Sakura in that order.
When everyone's stuff was safely upstairs, the party guests just kind of…went around and did their own thing. Chouji was pigging out at the snack table, Sakura and Ino were glued to Sasuke, and he was trying desperately to get away.
Tenten and Hinata were sitting on a couch and talking, and Neji, in an attempt to become more "personable", was trying to strike up a conversation with Shikamaru. Lee decided he'd jump into the conversation, just for the heck of it. No one really knows where Shino went.
Slightly secluded from the others, Naruto and Kiba were playing rock-paper-scissors. Naruto was shouting at Kiba, insisting he cheated.
"How in the world can you cheat at a game as simple as rock-paper-scissors!" Kiba demanded as Akamaru barked his agreement.
"You chose rock like, a second after I chose scissors!" Naruto argued.
"Well, only idiots choose SCISSORS first." Kiba said, trying to make Naruto angry. "Rock totally owns scissors. I mean, that's why they come first in the game's name!" Something inside Naruto snapped. He yelled a battle cry and jumped at Kiba, knocking him over.
As the two rolled around on the ground and shouted things at each other that I can't repeat here, Shino came out of nowhere and pried Kiba away from Naruto. Naruto went to sulk in a corner and Kiba and Akamaru left to mingle with the others.
Meanwhile, Lily and Kari were watching what happened from the snack table. Lily whispered nervously to Kari, "A fight! Kari, what if we get in trouble with…them? What if they call off the whole thing!"
"It's nothing. We aren't going to get busted for it," Kari reassured her as she took a sip of fruity punch. "As long as it doesn't happen again, we'll be--"
Just then, Chouji looked up from stuffing his face. "Huh? What are you guys talking about?" Lily, whose back was turned to him, flinched and gave a little squeak. "Eeek! Uh…heh, hiiii Chouji! What do you mean, what are we talking about! We were just…er… we're busted, aren't we Kari?"
Lily's failed cover-up had attracted the attention of Neji, Shikamaru, and Lee – but mostly Lee. "Oooh, is something going on!" Lee jumped in. "Tell me, tell me, tell me!"
"Gah! Kari, I need some help over here!"
Kari sighed and set down her cup. "We'd better just tell them," she said to her friend. "They're going to have to know eventually." Lily nodded eagerly, glad to be out of the line of fire.
Neji raised an eyebrow and asked, "So there is something going on? I just assumed Lee was getting worked up over nothing as always. What is it?" Somehow everyone else had managed to hear this, and they had all come over. "Yeah, what is it!" some unidentified party guest called out.
"Okay, now that you're all here…you should know that this isn't you AVERAGE party/sleepover with a twist sort of thing…" Lily started. Hinata couldn't help thinking, Just what is an average party/sleepover with a twist supposed to be?
Kari continued, "You guys are actually going to be staying with us on a--" She leaned in closer to the group, and everyone leaned close as well. "--reality show."
For a second, no one spoke. The thought hadn't quite sunk in. And then it did.
"WHAT!" everyone yelled together. "A REALTIY SHOW!"
And…cue the panic.
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A/N: So… What do you think so far? It starts out kinda slow, I know, but it'll get better - I promise! The idea came to me gradually, and I've got plenty of chapter ideas in store. However if you DO have a suggestion for a future chappie, that's be much appreciated; in fact, I ENCOURAGE you to submit ideas! I'll try and review soon, so hang in there. Please review – constructive criticism welcomed, but please no flames!