Wow...I have such bad grammar...jeez, my English teacher would not be proud. Ahahaha, I forgot that October 10th was Naruto's birthday. Gomen gomen. I'll say it right now, Happy Belated Birthday Naruto-kun! Please don't kill me for forgetting your birthday. XD Anyways, here are me comments to those who have reviewed.
To those who said great story, great chapter etc.: Thank you very much! I'm glad you like it. This may be weird or something but I like reading my own stories, especially this one. For some reason I really like it. Ehehehe
K a Z a - Q: I really do tend to forget things and mention things. I have such bad memory. Ahaha
pei-chan: Okay those who haven't seen GSD cover your eyes and ears. Aha, Yes Stellar does die. It was sad, I loved her too! And so far, I love your story!
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some-anime-gal: Yes, where was Sakura's mom in chapter 5? Let's just say she disappeared somewhere. Hehe
And er, I'm sure I've forgotten some...please don't kill me! I'll put more up on next chapter. And also a little note to myself: Edit more carefully!
Oh yes, three C2's! I'm so happy. I hate high school...it's so boring...Halloween's coming soon though...I like saying random things...haha Enjoy the show!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto so blah.
Aren't You too Old for Halloween? Part I
Sakura arrived at school wearing her usual uniform with her waist-long hair tied up in a ponytail. It would usually be let down but today she felt like a need for change, also because she had bags under her eyes. Sakura and the others had stayed up late cleaning up her house after the food fight last night.
It was a miracle she had stain remover in her house because tomato sauce and carpet do not go well together.
Slowly she trudged her feet towards her desk and flopped down on the chair. She leaned over and rested her head on her arms which were lying on the desk.
"Oi, Sakura-chan...are you okay?" asked Naruto jabbing her in the ribs.
Her head snapped up and she glared at him.
"I'm fine, just tired from last night."
"Oh yeah, that was fun ne?"
Grinning Sakura nodded her head. It certainly was fun; she had to do it again with her friends next year.
"Surprisingly, Ino's cooking wasn't that bad." drawled Shikamaru walking over.
"I heard that!" came Ino's voice. She stormed over and punched Shikamaru in the arm.
"I'm not that bad in cooking!"
"Well at least everyone's alive this time."
"What's that suppose to mean!"
"Your cooking kills."
Naruto and Sakura sweat-dropped as the "lover's quarrel" raged on.
"You're all so noisy in the morning." grunted Neji as he stepped into the classroom with Tenten and her arm linked with his. Tenten giggled as she watched her two friends fight.
"Hey Neji, where's Hinata-chan?" asked Sakura looking away from Ino and Shikamaru.
"She's coming. Running late."
As if on cue, Hinata slid open the door with a slam and rushed in. (Slide door)
"A-am I late?" she panted.
"Nope, just a few minutes till class starts. But that old ass is never on time." said Tenten.
"Where's Uchiha?" asked Neji.
"Wouldn't know. Sasuke-teme is never this late."
"Do you think something happened to him?" asked Sakura with worry.
"Nah, that idiot's fine."
"Okay..." Sakura said with uncertainty.
"Besides even if he was late it wouldn't matter. Kakashi-sensei is never on time remember? He wouldn't even know who was late or not." assured Tenten.
All of them laughed with the exception of Shikamaru and Ino who were still at the moment, arguing. But by now they seemed to be arguing over something else. Something very pointless.
"I-Ino-chan, Shikamaru, p-please calm down." Hinata said to her two friends.
Almost instantly they stopped and looked at the shy girl then looked at each other, then turned away from each other back-to-back and hmphed.
Shikamaru was muttering about how troublesome girls were and how annoying arguing with Ino was.
Ino was muttering about how she wanted to stab Shikamaru with a pencil and how he should die a slow painful death.
The door to the classroom opened with a bang. All of them turned and saw Sasuke walking over towards them with a pissed look on his face.
"Morning Sasuke-kun!" Sakura said brightly. He just looked at her and glared. Taken back, she lowered her head.
"Sasuke that wasn't nice!" scolded Ino.
He shrugged.
"At least say something to her." frowned Naruto.
"Didn't have to give her a glare." came Shikamaru.
"Where were you anyways?" asked Tenten with curiosity.
"None of your business."
"Don't be cold Sasuke-teme!"
"Aw, he's always like that." pouted Ino.
"S-Sakura-chan, i-it's okay. Don't be upset, Sasuke is always like that when he's in a bad mood." Hinata said quietly to her upset friend. Sakura raised her head and looked at Hinata and smiled a small smile and nodded. (And we shall never know what Sasuke did to get pissed off because he's very secretive)
Once again the door slid open and their lazy teacher was seen sauntering in.
"Okay class get back to your seats."
"Holy shit! Did hell freeze over!" shouted Naruto. The whole class snickered.
"Quiet down. Uzumaki-san, if you continue you will be back here after school cleaning the whole classroom."
With that Naruto shut his mouth.
"As you all know every year our school holds a Halloween carnival on the grounds. This year our class is put in charge of organizing, building booths, etc."
The class grinned. It was almost that time of year again. There were three weeks till Halloween. The best part was the carnival that would be held at the school. Every year, three weeks before Halloween, a class in the school would be in charge of taking care of the whole carnival ordeal. This year, Kakashi's are the lucky group of people who get to do it.
"Alright!" shouted a boy with short light brown hair.
"This is going to be the best ever!" squealed a girl with blond hair tied up with two pigtails.
"We're going to make this year's the best yet!" cheered a few others.
Kakashi raised his hand.
"Okay, settle down. We need to decide who does what okay?"
They all nodded with grins on their faces...except for Neji and Sasuke.
"Okay so we'll need at least fifteen people for booths, ten for food, eight for the haunted house, and the rest for planning and arranging rides. (Note it's a big class so there are 35 people.)"
There was chatter of excitement going around. All of them saying what they wanted to do.
"I know what to do for a booth!"
"Ohhh, do you think we should help out with food?"
"I call the haunted house!"
I could go on, but I wouldn't.
Again Kakashi raised his hand and the room was silent. He slowly walked over to the chalkboard and began to write.
"Okay, so this how we'll decide the jobs. More like I decide the jobs."
"Awww!" they all groaned in unison.
"Okay, people for food will be:
Ami, Midori, Yume, Shinji, Hatori, Kinji, Masai, Kina, Nari, and Yumi"
Half of the people chosen cheered as they wanted the job and the other half groaned.
"Thank god Ino wasn't chosen." muttered Shikamaru.
"Are you still going on about that? It's getting old!" said Sasuke rolling his eyes.
"People in charge of booths will be..."
The list just went on. (Can't think of 15+ names. Forgive me. lol) There were some complaints, some cheering, some grunts and other noises made. Most of the people looked happy for what they were chosen for. Finally it was time for the choosing on who would create the haunted house. Only eight people were left jobless and it was obvious who would help. (Guess which eight! If you don't know...-whacks you in head-)
"Kakashi-sensei," started Ino. "There are eight of us left jobless. What are we going to do?"
"Well isn't that obvious Miss. Yamanaka? The ones who will be responsible on building and creating the haunted house will be: Neji, Tenten, Shikamaru, Hinata, Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke and you."
Their mouth's dropped open.
"Are you serious Kakashi-sensei?" asked Sakura in disbelief.
"Of course. Do you have a problem with it Miss. Haruno?"
"No Kakashi-sensei."
"Good, now all of you, you only have 3 weeks and a bit to complete this. I want you all to work on it starting today. It may seem you have a lot of time, but in reality you don't. I expect this to be good. Before I forget, since Halloween is on a Monday this year the carnival will be on the 27th, 28th and 31st of October."
With that the bell rang signalling the end of their first class of the day.
"Haunted house? This is gonna be great!" shouted Naruto with a mouth full of food.
"Gross! Naruto swallow before you talk! You're spitting it everywhere!" screamed Ino in disgust.
It was lunch time and at the moment they were all hard at work thinking up of themes for the haunted house. It was so exciting, them in charge of creating a haunted house!
"Eheheh, sorry." grinned Naruto sheepishly.
"Well what are we going to do?" asked Sakura.
"I'm thinking of something with chainsaws." said Tenten.
"Uh...are we allowed chainsaws?" questioned Sakura.
"I don't know."
"I doubt we'd be allowed to, so something else!" said Ino.
"W-what about a child's play house?" piped up Hinata.
"Hinata-chan! That's a great idea!" exclaimed Naruto, once again talking with his mouth full.
All of them looked at him with grossed out faces.
"Shut your mouth dobe."
"What for!"
"You're spitting on us again." Sasuke said as he wiped off the flecks of food that landed on him which erupted from Naruto's mouth.
Hinata blushed.
"Y-you really think so?"
Swallowing Naruto smiled at her, "Yeah! It'd look so cool! We could have like children's nursery rhymes being sung and all that stuff."
"You know I really like that idea!" said Sakura thoughtfully.
"Oh, I have all these scary clown stuff at my house! We could use that for decorations and smear fake blood on them too!" said Ino excitedly.
"What do you guys think?" Tenten asked pointing at Neji, Sasuke and Shikamaru.
"It's fine." came Neji's reply.
"Good." drawled Shikamaru lazily.
"Hn."
"You know you should really broaden your vocabulary." said Sakura sarcastically.
Sasuke rolled his eyes and sighed, "Whatever."
"Uh...we'll take his answers as 'Yes Hinata-chan's idea is good'." said Tenten.
"So why don't we head home and to shops right away and gather materials? Then start creating our haunted house today after school!" suggested Naruto.
They all nodded.
"But before we do that, shouldn't we make a list of what we'll need and what to buy?" asked Shikamaru.
"Oh yeah, that."
"Okay so we'll need fake blood. Lots of it. Children's dolls, scary ones, cute ones. Just children's dolls." listed Ino.
"T-the porcelain d-dolls are the scariest (You know the glass ones. God I hate them. So freaky.)"
They nodded. They seriously scare the shit out of you.
"So we'll buy some of those too."
"Um guys...where are we gonna get the stuff? I mean it's not going to come cheap." stated Naruto.
"Dollar store. They have the stuff there; it's cheap plus it's all good quality." (Discount Dave's rock!)
"Wait where's the house going to be anyways?" asked Sakura.
"It's inside the school gym. We set it up like a maze. For three weeks no one can use that area in the school." explained Neji.
"Oh...okay!"
For the next 15 minutes they listed what was needed and what was to be bought. How to set it up and organized times for who would be doing what. All of them could not wait until school finished.
"Okay, so you guys got everything?" questioned Tenten.
Nods were seen.
"Okay good. Let's head to the gym."
School had ended 10 minutes ago. All eight of them were now heading to the gym creating a haunted house. More like a haunted maze.
During their lunch period they had dashed out of the school to gather and buy the things they needed. Things like fake blood, dolls, types of eerie singing of nursery rhymes and such.
"This is going to be so much fun!" squealed Naruto like a little school girl. They looked at him weirded out.
"Um, did you just squeal like a school girl?" asked Shikamaru in shock.
"I think he just did..." said Ino.
"He did." stated Sasuke.
"What! I'm not the only one that squeals like a school girl! There was this one time when Sasuke saw this rat and he-"
Before Naruto could finish the story a hand was covering his mouth.
"Another word and you die." hissed Sasuke into Naruto's ear.
Shrugging, Naruto nodded and shut-up.
"Okay then..." said Sakura.
"Yeah, so let's get started!" exclaimed Ino happily as the reached the gym. All the girls and Naruto bounced towards the gym all bubbly and happy while the guys were trudging along carrying the materials they needed to decorate their house.
"You know what..." Shikamaru said slowly.
"What." asked Neji.
"Maybe we could scare the girls..."
"It's a waste of time." Sasuke said plainly.
"It could be fun."
"Won't it be too troublesome?" Neji asked eyeing his lazy friend.
"Hey, getting a chance to scare Ino is not troublesome."
The other two thought for a moment. Scaring the crap out of the girls and Naruto would certainly be fun. But then again having to deal with a pissed off Tenten, Sakura and Ino would not be good. Ah to hell with it! They didn't care about the pissed off girls anymore, the thought of scaring them was just screaming "Do it! You know you wanna!"
"Alright." agreed Sasuke smirking.
"We'll need to plan this out first." pointed out Neji.
"Of course we do." grinned Shikamaru evilly. "Sasuke you..." Shikamaru quietly instructed the raven haired boy. Upon hearing the plan, Sasuke smirked. "Neji you'll..." Like Sasuke Neji smirked as well but then frowned and then started to smirk again. "Shikamaru then you..." Neji and Sasuke looked at him oddly; Shikamaru was talking to himself and instructing himself. He was now arguing with himself.
"No I won't do that." Shikamaru hissed fiercely.
"Yes you will do it!" he hissed at himself this time with malice.
"I'm not doing it!"
Neji cleared his throat. "Ahem..."
"What!" Shikamaru hissed at Neji.
"Who are you talking to..." asked Sasuke.
"Myself of course!" Shikamaru spat. He hated being interrupted when talking to people! In a few moments he realized his own answer. He had been talking to himself! Damn, his secret had been revealed! Oh well...
"I mean, I was uh. Talking to um..."
"Save the excuse." said Neji rolling his eyes.
"Are you guys coming or not!" shouted Naruto in the background.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever." shouted Sasuke back to Naruto.
"Well hurry it up!"
"Just make sure you get the bunny heads got it?" said Shikamaru.
Sasuke nodded.
"Neji you get the fake chainsaw but can make real chainsaw noises. (What the...)"
Neji nodded as well.
"Shikamaru you get the plastic butcher knife."
"No I won't take the plastic butcher knife!"
"Yes you will!"
"Here we go again." muttered Neji. (Shikamaru has mental problems! Ahahaha)
"Shikamaru, shut-up and let's go." said Sasuke annoyed.
Shikamaru's head shot up and he nodded.
All of them were now busy with setting up the haunted house. Except it wasn't a haunted house anymore but a haunted maze. The drama club had gratefully lended furniture from previous plays to the group that was going to set up the haunted "maze".
"Okay, so we've set up the maze. What do we do now?" asked Ino.
"Um...we start putting up the blood, putting up the dolls and stuff. Oh yeah we need to cut out windows." said Tenten.
""M-make sure the w-windows are crooked."
"So do we split up into groups?" asked Sakura.
"Yeah, so Sakura will put up the dolls, Naruto and Hinata will be cutting out windows, and then Ino and I will splatter the walls of the maze with blood." said Tenten.
"Aww! Tenten and Ino have the best jobs!" pouted Naruto.
"Oh stop your whining Naruto! It's like you don't want to work with Hinata-chan!"
"I'm not whining! And I love working with Hinata-chan!"
Hearing this Hinata's face turned bright red. Naruto-kun likes working with me!
"Where are Sasuke, Neji and Shi-kun?"
"Wouldn't know. I saw them an hour ago walking in here doing something after they handed us half the materials. I think they might be doing something else somewhere in these walls."
"Well, they'd better do a good job!"
"I'm sure they will." smiled Hinata.
"Okay guys! Let's split up!"
They nodded and went their separate ways.
"Hinata-chan, so we make the windows crooked?"
"Yes."
"Do you have something to cut them out?"
"I have two exactoknives with me. We'll draw the windows out in pencil first then cut them and then paint the outside with the dark blue paint we bought."
"Alright!"
Naruto and Hinata both started to work. Drawing, cutting and painting. It was easier said than done. A few of the windows looked odd and a few just didn't look like windows at all.
"Ehh, this is really hard Hinata-chan. How many have we done so far?"
"I think it was 6 Naruto-kun."
"Okay."
With that, silence was in the air with both of them working away cutting windows and drawing them. Until...
"AH! HINATA-CHAN!"
Hinata jumped at least a few meters in the air. Naruto's sudden outburst had scared her. She rushed to his side thinking that something terrible had happened to her Naruto-kun.
"Naruto-kun! What's wrong! Are you okay!" she asked in a high pitched squeak as she was still freaked out by his outburst. He had his back facing her so all she could see was the back of his uniform. Quickly he turned around with his foxy grin plastered on his face.
"I did it! I got the perfect window!"
Hinata dropped anime-style on the floor.
When Naruto saw her drop on the floor he frowned then bent down to her.
"Hinata-chan...are you okay?"
Slowly she rose up from her spot.
"N-Naruto-kun..." she began. "DON'T FREAKIN SCARE ME LIKE THAT YOU HEAR!" (HOLY CRAP! That was so ooc for Hinata! snicker)
Naruto backed away into a corner. Never in his life had he seen Hinata so pissed off. Also, because she had a knife in her hand, and who knows what she's going to do with it. She was practically waving it around in the air.
"H-Hinata-chan, c-calm d-down." whimpered Naruto who was failing miserably at calming the pissed of Hyuuga. "C-could you also p-put the knife d-down?"
She stomped her way to Naruto and glared at him with all her might. Then she relaxed and looked at him with calm eyes. Too calm for his liking.
"Naruto-kun, please don't do that again next time." she said sweetly.
He looked at her shocked. Was that his Hinata-chan? Jeez, it was like she changed her mood from calm to deadly then back to calm in a matter of seconds!
"She probably got that from Neji." he muttered.
"Do you understand Naruto-kun?" asked Hinata with a glint in her eyes.
"H-hai H-Hinata-chan." obviously still freaked out by the shy girl.
Note to self. Never tick off a Hyuuga...ever again! Well not Hinata-chan but Neji? It's always fun pissing him off.
"Good. Now what was it that made you scream?"
"Uh um never mind..."
"Oh, okay!" she said brightly and skipped off to work like nothing had happened.
Scary...defiantly scary!
Meanwhile somewhere else in the maze...
"So...how do we get this stuff on the wall?"
"Fling the bucket of fake blood on the walls?"
"No, that'll just waste the stuff."
"You're right...then what do we do?" asked a exasperated Ino.
"How about use paint brushes and slap it on and then take globs of it and fling it at the walls."
"That sounds good Tenten."
"Okay, so where do we get paint brushes..."
"I saw a couple in the bag. Hinata said that she'd leave two in the bag just in case we needed them."
"Hinata, always thinks of everything." grinned Tenten.
"How do you think they're doing?"
"Not to sure. Hinata's probably getting all red and jittery because Naruto's with her."
Ino laughed. "I'm sure she's not red and jittery."
"Yeah, they're probably too busy to even talk to each other."
Both of them pried open the bucket of fake blood and dipped their brushes in. (It's the big painter kind. The one's you paint your walls with.) Then they slapped the brushes on the walls leaving a big smudge. In a few minutes the maze walls were bloodied and stained.
"Can we fling the blood now?" asked Ino.
"Yeah, sure!"
"Man, this is going to be fun!"
Tenten and Ino laughed. They dipped their brushes in once more, this time trying to take as much blood on their brushes as they can. With war cries they flung the blood onto the walls.
They kept doing it until they finished a rather large portion of the maze.
"That was fun." panted Tenten.
"Yup, can't wait till the other walls."
Both of the girls grinned and skipped away to the next part of the maze where they would bloody and stain walls like no tomorrow.
Sakura sighed.
"Great, I just have to work alone putting up these freakish dolls."
For what seemed to be eternity, Sakura had walked around part of the mazy putting up the scary looking clowns, plastic dolls, ripped off stuffed animals heads and bloodied them as if they had been butchered.
In honest truth, Sakura was getting freaked out. She was alone, no one to talk to, just her and those freaky looking stuffed animals and dolls. They seemed to give off an eerie vibe. She shuddered just thinking about it.
"I wonder how the others are doing." she said to herself.
"Well, at least Sasuke-kun and the others are doing the ripping and bloodying the heads and not me."
She and the girls plus Naruto had given the job of ripping the heads off the stuffed bunnies and bloodying them to Shikamaru, Neji and Sasuke. Well, it was more like they just said they were doing it no questions asked, anyone who wanted to do it too bad.
"This is so boring!" Sakura whined to herself.
"Great, now I'm talking to myself. I'm going crazy."
Sakura kept working and working and working until she heard footsteps. Her head shot up in surprise.
"Eh? Ino and the others are done already?"
The footsteps were heading in her direction of course. But then they stopped. In that instant that they stopped. The lights had flickered off. The power had shut down.
Quiet snickers and laughter was unheard by the others. Only 3people could hear it and it was the people who were laughing.
"Let operation scare the girls and Naruto begin." the boy snickered evilly.
I'm so mean, not letting you know what they're going to do. But you might already know. Hehe This chapter will turn into either a 2 part or a 3 part chapter. I'm still deciding on it. I think that this time my grammar will be better since I edited very carefully. You know what? This 3 part chapter will fall nicely into place as Halloween is only 2 weeks away. I'm so good at planning. Woo! Go me!
Anyways, the next few sentences will be ranting about the Naruto dub as I haven't ranted on it yet. Anyone who doesn't want to read or hear about it you have been warned! As I was saying about the Naruto dub...I have 3 words to give you. It. Is. Horrible. I'm sorry for those who like it but I just hate hearing their voices and the way they say each other's names. Especially Naruto's, Sasuke's, Sakura's, and Kakashi's name. I just wish they wouldn't go with the proper Japanese way on saying the names. But anyways, that's mostly what I wanted to say. My rant is now over.
Don't forget to review! Oh yes, I started a new fic if anyone's interested. It's also a SasuSaku, NejiTen, etc. fic. It's called My SoCalled Perfect Life and it is also another AU fiction. Please read and review it. Thank you!
Jeez...this was one long authors note...
Orange Range rocks!
I'm out!
