a/n: Chapter number three, ready! Super-sorry for such a huge delay – I'll try not to do it again… Thanks (again!) to my reviewers – you guys are what keeps me hanging in there! I only wish a few more people would review… Sorry to leave off at such an ill-timed spot last chapter but the truth is… ((leans in closer)) I suck at Truth or Dare! I needed some time to think up of the right questions and dares so this chapter would be even MORE enjoyable! I hope you like it!
Disclaimer: You know it and I know it. I only own Kari and Lily and the plot.
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"Aaaaaaaall righty then!" Lily waved her arm toward the large living room, which had been cleared of furniture and was now filled with pillows. "Let's begin our game!"
As previously told, everyone was dressed in their jammies before coming down. Naruto had those funny pajamas he wears in the show, Sakura had a pink nightgown to match her hair, and Sasuke had PJ's similar to his normal clothes but without the ridiculous collar; his shorts were now long dark blue pants decorated with Uchiha fans.
Chouji was wearing an oversized – and I mean REALLY oversized – orange shirt and matching pants, Ino was wearing a not-as-big-as-Chouji's yellow t-shirt and yellow pajama bottoms, and Shikamaru was dressed in dark green shorts and a green shirt.
Lee's green pajamas were the craziest by far – he had on one of those one-piece things with the feet covered and a bunny-eared hood. Neji and Tenten shook their heads when they saw him; one was wearing a purple nightgown, and the other was dressed in all white custom-made pajamas. Try and guess which was wearing which.
Hinata was dressed in an adorable baby blue gown, Kiba was wearing all red, and Shino didn't look like he had changed at all – except for the dark blue nightcap he was wearing with yellow stars and a fluffy ball on the end.
Kari said "Now since you're down here, we should tell you that instead of Truth or Dare…we're just going to play it with dares only."
"So it'll be Dare or Dare!" Lily cheered.
"Wait!" Shikamaru said. "I'm not playing. I'm not going to sit here and endure torment for the sake of someone else's amusement. It's just stupid."
Kari glared at him. "Yes Shikamaru, you are going to play. And you will like it – or else."
Ino grinned evilly and rubbed her hands together. "I'm looking forward to seeing you humiliated, Shikamaru! Prepare to suffer!"
Once everyone was seated in a circle, Lily pulled a bottle from behind her back. "I'll spin this," she explained, "and whoever it lands on will pick someone to give a dare to. Then that person will pick their next victim, and so on and so forth!"
She gave the bottle a mighty spin, and it slowed to a stop. Everyone looked up to see that the bottle had landed on…
…SHINO!
He looked down at the bottle and flicked it ever so slightly so that it landed on Kiba.
"Aw yeah, I'm first!" he whooped. He then proceeded to look around the circle thoughtfully and then snapped his fingers.
"I've got the perfect one! Neji…"
Neji looked up at him, surprised. He had come into the game expecting the worst, and now he was even more anxious.
"…I dare you…TO DO THE CHICKEN DANCE!" Kiba finished. Neji stared at him in shock. Surely he couldn't expect him, Hyuuga Neji to do the Chicken Dance!
"Of course I can," Kiba said. "And I do. Now do it, there's no backing out!"
Lee nudged Neji, who was still in shock, with his elbow and said, "Come on, Neji! I'll even provide background music for you!"
"Lee, I don't really think you're helping." Sasuke said. "But I'm mot complaining. I, for one, do want to see Neji dance."
"Yeah Neji, show us your stuff!" Naruto shouted. "If you've got any stuff to show, that is…"
With a mighty sigh Neji stood up and everyone commenced to singing the Chicken Dance song. Yes, even the ever-stoic Shino could not resist the temptations of singing the addictive song.
Neji then tucked his hands under his arms like wings, 'flapping' them weakly as the ragtag chorus sang, "I don't wanna be a chicken, I don't wanna be a duck…" He then put his hands like duck bills and opened them briefly twice, though not as weakly as his wing-flapping; he seemed to be gaining confidence.
Next was the part everyone was waiting for – some good old-fashioned booty -shakin', courtesy of Neji. When everyone sang, "SO I SHAKE MY BUTT!" Neji shocked the crowd by shaking his butt like there was no tomorrow.
And you know what? He actually seemed to be enjoying himself!
Everyone was stunned, even more so than when Neji had originally been dared – their jaws dropped to the ground with a little 'ka-ching!' sound in the background as they stared at Neji shaking what his momma gave him. Once he stopped, the look of enjoyment was quickly wiped off his face and he sat down, more embarrassed than he had ever been before.
"Well, there goes the rest of my dignity," he muttered to himself. He then noticed Lily, Naruto and Kiba's backs were turned to the group and they were giggling over something. He leaned over slightly, but Lily saw him and gasped, then hastily stuffed the object under a pillow.
"Okay!" she yelled a little too loudly. "Neji, choose someone!"
After careful consideration, Neji decided upon Sasuke.
Before Sasuke could protest, Naruto flipped out, yelling, "Neji, NOOO! I have to dare Sasuke! My life depends on it! PLEEEEAAASE!" He was on his knees with his hands together and in front of him – as if he were praying to the Holy Neji.
Neji sighed, and said, "All right! Sheesh… then I choose Tenten."
"What? Why?" Tenten complained. "There are so many others you could dare!"
Neji crossed his arms defiantly. "No. I already gave up one of my choices, and I don't plan on doing it again. Besides, I have the perfect dare."
Tenten whimpered slightly. She was afraid that Neji was enraged after doing the Chicken Dance and he would dare her to do something incredibly cruel. Like…eating month-old pizza or licking someone's foot!
"I dare you…to let down your hair."
At first Tenten sighed and thanked the Dare Gods for sparing her the wrath of old pizza. Then she realized that she could never let her hair down – EVER!
"No Neji, please! Don't make me do it! Um…I'll eat month-old pizza or lick someone's foot instead, but please don't make me take my hair down!" Tenten begged, but Neji flat-out refused.
"I already told you, I'm NOT going to change my mind."
"But COME ON! I can't ever let down my hair! I don't want a repeat of what happened last time…" she said, her eyes darting from side to side.
"Aww, come on Tenten! Are you scaaaared?" Lee nudged Tenten with his elbow.
"Yes! Isn't it obvious!" she glared at him, and he immediately stopped hid nudging.
Neji crossed his arms and faced Tenten. "Well?" he said with the slightest hint of a smirk. "What are you waiting for?" He was clearly enjoying this. But not as much as he enjoyed dancing the Chicken Dance. And nothing will ever top that.
With a sigh, Tenten slowly brought her hands up to her head and, in one swift move, untied both her buns. Her dark, wavy hair spilled over her shoulders. "There. Are you happy now, Neji?"
"Yes, very." He gave Tenten the world's cockiest look, and she scowled. "Well, it's better than making a fool of myself by doing the Chicken Dance!"
Neji's face instantly fell. "You're not gonna let me live that down, are you? Ever?"
"Nope." Then, out of nowhere, Tenten screamed, "WHY ARE YOU ALL LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT! STOP IT!"
Everyone looked up from their assorted activities they had started, since someone letting their hair down isn't what you call "a laugh and a half".
What exactly is "half a laugh" anyway? Ah well. The world may never know.
Chouji looked up from his conversation with Shikamaru, startled. "What? No offense Tenten, but I don't think anyone was looking at you."
"Yeah, we only looked for like, a second after you let your hair down." Ino said as she finished the last braid in Sakura's hair, since they were on good terms for now. "It wasn't that exciting."
"And just plain dumb!" Naruto chimed in. He then flinched, half expecting someone to hit him since it happens so often. When no one hit him he looked from side to side, sighed, and relaxed.
"NEXT!" Lily said. "Tenten, choose your victim!"
Tenten shook her head. "I still haven't recovered." Oddly enough, her hair was back in her two signature buns.
"Ooookay…" Kari rolled her eyes, then reached for the bottle and spun. The next person it landed on was…
HINATA!
Hinata looked at the bottle as if it was a cockroach or a huge bowl of tapioca pudding, and her face immediately went red. "M-me! Oh no, I couldn't…I wouldn't want to hurt anyone's feelings…"
"Of course you can!" Kiba said, giving her a pat on the back. "Hurting other people's feelings is the whole point of the game! Why, just look at what I made Neji do!"
"We ALL saw that, Kiba," Shino said, pushing his glasses up all Shino-like. "I don't think I can ever forget that horrible performance."
"Hey…" Neji muttered to no one. Silly Neji!
Lily pouted. "Fine then!" She then spun the bottle. It slowed to a stop directly between Lee and Shikamaru. Lee giggled, causing Shikamaru – and everyone within a five-mile radius – to cringe at the sound.
"You know what, Lee?" Shikamaru said, crossing his arms. "Just take it."
"GASP!" Lee gasped, putting his hand over his heart. "You'd do that for little ol' me?"
"I really couldn't care less."
"Well okay then! I choose…" he pointed his finger in the air and twirled it around the circle of people-tude, to build suspense. After a while, people started to get annoyed.
"You know, I love to build dramatic tension as much as the next person, but this is ridiculous." Kari sighed and shook her head. "Get on with it--"
"NARUTO!" Lee yelled, pointing at Naruto, who gasped. "I CHALLENGE YOU! Wait, that's not right…oh, yeah. I DARE YOU TO…dress up in this cow suit for the rest of tonight, and all of tomorrow!" He whipped out a cow suit from his pocket.
The cow suit was one piece, complete with stubby horns, giant black spots, and…an udder!
"No way!" Naruto said, slapping the suit out of Lee's hands and across the room. "Ordinarily I'd have no problem with dressing in weird animal suits, but come on! That thing has an udder! AN UDDER!"
"Oh, come on Naruto! Are you chicken?" Sakura taunted him.
"Technically, if he put on the suit, he'd be cow." Chouji said, looking proud of himself.
Sakura looked at him in confusion. "Does that make any sense at all?" She sighed to herself after getting no response and decided to just drop it before she got any more confused.
Lee waved the suit in front of Naruto, begging, "Please? I guarantee you won't even know the udders are there! Pleeeaaase!"
With a defeated look, Naruto grabbed the suit, walked into the bathroom with his head hung low, and stepped out a few minutes later. Needless to say, he looked downright silly as a cow. He also looked funny, goofy, comical, and anything else along those lines you can think of.
Everyone looked at him and, as if they planned it (I wouldn't be surprised if they did), everyone fell down laughing. Yes, EVERYONE did.
Naruto pouted and said, "Oh, come on! It's not THAT funny…" This only caused everyone to laugh harder.
"Mooo moo!" someone called out. Another (very confused) person called out "Tweet, tweet! Ahaha!"
Once he rejoined the circle and everyone had settled down, Naruto jabbed his finger in Sasuke's face. Not really, though. Heaven forbid anything should happen to Sasuke's gorgeous face.
…I hope you know I was being sarcastic…
"All right Sasuke! Prepare yourself for the most brutal of all brutal dares! Wahahaha!" he raised his hooves in the air and laughed a diabolical laugh.
Sasuke rolled his eyes. "You know I find it very hard to take you seriously Naruto… but it's even harder when you're in a cow suit."
"Oh yeah! Well…shut up!" Naruto yelled. He sat down and was promptly smacked upside the head by Sakura. "Owww!"
Rubbing the bump on his head, Naruto said, "Sasuke, I dare you to…let one of the girls give you a makeover!"
Sasuke froze. "…A MAKEOVER! Where in the world did you get that sick idea? I won't let ANYONE give me a makeover." He then added, "I'm much too cool for that."
"Yeah!" Sakura chimed in. "As much as I'd looove to give Sasuke a makeover, I wouldn't do it against his will!"
"Me either!" Ino said. "Tenten is too traumatized--" she pointed to Tenten, who was sitting in a corner by herself – "—Hinata definitely wouldn't do that, and neither would Kari. So there."
Naruto raised his finger in the air. "Yeah, but LILY would! …Right, Lily?"
"But of course!" Lily stood triumphantly with an armful of cosmetics. In a whirlwind of blush, eye shadow, and "Passion Peach" lipstick, she attacked Sasuke. When he emerged, he looked more like a circus clown than anything else.
By this time Naruto, Kiba, and Lee were rolling on the floor and laughing wildly. Shikamaru could only stare in awe, Shino's eyes were wide behind his glasses, and Kari said – while clearly suppressing laughter, "Well well, you certainly look lovely."
Sakura and Ino were crying, "What have you done to him!" Lily just kept standing there all triumphant-like.
"Well, Bozo the Clown still needs to pick his victim!" Lily laughed. "Go ahead Sasuke!"
With a glare (this only made the people that were laughing laugh even harder) Sasuke stood up and said, "I'm not doing anything until I get this stuff off my face."
Lily looked at the back of the makeup box and gasped. "Well, about that…you can't remove the makeup for 24 hours…heh heh."
"You mean I'm stuck like this until tomorrow?" Sasuke's face changed from angry to exhausted in an instant. "That's just great. I pass."
With a sigh, Kari spun the bottle yet again. It slowed to a stop in front of…
Lily. Insert gasps and dramatic music here.
"Ahahaha!" Lightning flashed outside as Lily laughed an evil laugh. She then turned to the circle of people and said, "Shino! I dare you…to eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich!"
Question marks instantly formed over everyone's heads. They clearly wondered how eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich was even remotely funny or humiliating.
Surprisingly, Hinata was the first one to speak up. "Umm…why do you want him to eat a sandwich? Maybe I missed something, but…" she paused to dart a quick look at everyone before fidgeting with the sleeve of her dress again, "…I don't see how that's funny."
"EXACTLY!" everyone said at the same time. Lily shook her head, as if they were all missing out on something obvious.
"Isn't it so obvious? Look at those mysterious glasses and extremely high collar! Shino is very clearly a vampire!" She looked proud of herself, but everyone else was only more confused.
Shikamaru said, "First of all, just because Shino covers his face with collar and wears sunglasses all the time doesn't mean he's a vampire."
"Well, have you ever seen his whole face!" Lily challenged.
"No…"
"Exactly." Lily crossed her arms and gave Shikamaru a smug look.
He sighed, and continued. "Like I said before, that's not even proof he's a vampire. Secondly, even if Shino was a vampire, what does a peanut butter and jelly sandwich have to do with anything?"
Rolling her eyes, Lily said, "Everyone knows peanut butter and jelly sandwiches mess with vampires' equilibrium! If he eats one, it means he's not a vampire."
Shino was silent the whole time, sending a 'there's-no-way-I'll-do-something-so-stupid' signal. It was so strong that even Lily felt it.
She pulled out a plated peanut butter and jelly sandwich from behind her and held it out in front of Shino. "Oh, come on Shino – just one bite. Unless you're scared to…' She waved it in front of him, but he slapped it out of her hands.
"Oh, okay…but don't think I won't keep my eye on you! Kari, it's your turn." Lily rested her chin in her hands and sighed in defeat.
Ino opened her mouth to complain, but Kari put her hand up to stop her. "Yes, it is fair that I can go without spinning the bottle. It's my house."
Ino just shrugged, but Sakura tried to cut in. "Hey--"
"Chouji didn't get to go because he fell asleep before Sasuke got his makeover. Just for that, Sakura, you're next."
Sakura whimpered and drew away from Kari. "What are you gonna do to me…?"
Pulling a small bottle from her pocket, Kari said menacingly, "Sakura…I dare you to dye your hair green."
The pink-haired girl gasped and grabbed one of her bangs. "But I didn't do anything! First I have to cut my hair, now I have to dye it? That's not fair!"
"I tried to warn you," Lily said mockingly to Sakura.
"…No, you didn't."
"Oh. Well, maybe I imagined it."
The two stopped talking when Kari shook the bottle of dye gently and said, "Come on, Sakura, you might as well get it over with."
Ino laughed quietly to herself, but Sakura still heard. "Hey! I heard that, you pig!"
"Who are you calling a pig, Miss I've-Got-A-Forehead-the Size-of-Pluto!"
Something snapped inside Sakura with that comment. Her eye twitched fro a brief moment, then she snatched the bottle of dye from Kari and stormed into the bathroom.
After ten minutes, Sakura emerged from the bathroom with a scowl and a head of bright green hair. She plopped down in the circle and said, "There! Are you satisfied, Ino, you witch?"
Lee gasped, then cried, "Oh, my dear Sakura! What have those fiends done to your once-rosy locks!"
"I'm stunned!" Naruto said, putting his hand over his heart.
Neji shook his head, saying to himself, "And just when this night couldn't get any weirder…"
Shikamaru slowly stood up and stretched. "Well, I'm done with this," he said. "I'm going to bed."
"I couldn't agree with you more," Sasuke grumbled as he got to his feet. He followed Shikamaru up the stairs, muttering to himself all the way.
"Oh, wait for me, Sasuke!" Ino scrambled to her feet and started after Sasuke.
"I don't even know why I bothered staying…" Shino walked up the stairs after the two. He stopped, looked down at Chouji, and added, "And I am not carrying him up the stairs."
Shyly, Hinata stood up and said, "Um, I think I'll go too. He is my teammate, after all." Kiba jumped up and the two of them walked up the stairs.
"Neji, wait for me!" Lee cried as he followed Neji, already halfway to his room. Tenten followed after the two silently.
Naruto yawned and trudged up the stairs, only to have a very irritated Sakura shove past him to get to her room.
Lily and Kari stood and looked down at Chouji. They looked up at each other at the same time and said together, "He can sleep down here tonight."
As they went up the stairs, Kari flicked the lights off, leaving the room in darkness. It almost looked peaceful – well, as peaceful as a room can be once fourteen kids have just finished playing a rousing game of Truth or Dare can be.
And that's not so peaceful, considering the people that were there.
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a/n: Super sorry about the huge delay! I've been super busy lately, but the next chappie should be up (hopefully!) by the end of next week. Ta-ta, until next time!
. : run, kiddies, run… : .