Demon: "Blah"
Inner Sakura:'Blah'
Thoughts: 'Blah'
Back where we left Shikamaru and Temari …
"Damn it Shikamaru, how do you skate on those things!" Temari roared with impatience, while Shikamaru just stared at her impassively, whereas Ino and Chouji had already given up on teaching the sand gal how to skate, and went somewhere else to have a bite.
"Mou, troublesome, just step on the ice and just glide on it." Shikamaru grumbled back to her.
"But what happens if I fall down!" Temari snapped back, ramming her fan down with anger, feeling a bit foolish.
"You won't be; I will be guiding you." Shikamaru replied
"But I don't want to step on the ice." Temari stubbornly refused and pouted at the same time.
"Troublesome, seems like I have no choice." Shikamaru muttered as he elongated his shadow to her much to her chagrin.
"Let me go this instant NoW!" Temari shrieked as she stepped onto the ice and imitating the actions that Shikamaru was doing on the ice.
"Sure, bossy woman." He replied as he dispelled the jutsu on her, causing her to lose her balance immediately, falling backwards, she closed her eyes bracing for the impact to come. When she didn't feel the hard cold ice on her back, rather something wet landed on her face. Cautiously she opened one of her eyes, having a bad feeling in the pit of stomach, only to find Shikamaru's face dripping with the smashed remains of the snowballs from the sand brothers, with his face too close to her and holding her in his arms.
"Well it's not that hard right, Temari?" Shikamaru asked her causing her to blush and earning more snowballs from her brothers on the face and on her.
"KANKURO! GAARA! THAT'S IT! This is war!" Temari roared at them, took off the skates and hurling them to one side, and scooping the snow to form a ball, and yelling at Shikamaru to help at the same time. But this time the lazy ninja didn't bother to utter his favorite quote as he assisted her in dishing out the deserved rewards to them…
At the other section of the lake …
Sasuke was staring into the frozen lake recalling certain memories at the frozen lake.
/Flashback/
"Otousan, shall we go ice skating prewty pleezzze." A boyish four year old Sasuke pleaded with his father with a puppy eyed look. Unfortunately his father did not fall for it and returned him with a cold glare.
"No! Why can't you be like your brother, he never even pester me about it!" his father snapped, ignoring the tears welling out from his son, as he dragged his brawling son away from the frozen lake. His elder brother stared at him impassively.
Back at the house:
"Come with me and not a word to Otousan at all." His elder brother, Itachi whispered to him as they slipped out of the house, Sasuke nodded and covered his mouth with his two cubby hands, keeping mousy quiet as possible. They were at the lake, with Itachi, showing him how to put on the skates and how to glide with them. After many hours at the lake, with a gleeful Sasuke shouting: 'Niisan is great' at the top of his childish voice…
/end of flashback/
'Niisan is shit.' Sasuke thought very bitterly as he stared out of the frozen lake that seems to be mocking him of his brother, his thoughts were snapped when Sakura was waving her hand right in front of him.
"Sasuke kun do you want to join me for ice skating." Sakura asked and at the same time she couldn't help blushing at what happened a few moments ago …
"If you asked someone to ice skate with you, you will become lovers forever." Shurin had whispered to her ear.
Sakura quickly shook her thoughts away, when she still saw him staring at the frozen lake, she slowly walked up to him and offer her hand to him.
He continued staring at the hand, till she became very impatient.
"What's with you? Are you chicken enough to ice skate?" Sakura snapped at him, voicing out the inner Sakura's thoughts. She covered her mouth in shock, as Sasuke just stared at her in shock, as normally Sakura will never ever insult him or call him chicken.
"Forget it, I go and skate by myself." She replied quickly, as she made a move to glide on the ice, to avoid him for the time being. She felt a grip on her arm; she slowly turned around to see Sasuke looking away from her shuffling his feet at the same time.
"Since you called me chicken, you might as well show me how to skate, since I forgot how to." Sasuke replied sheepishly to Sakura, causing a small smile on her face.
"Sure, Sasuke kun, just watch your step." She replied, leading him by his arm. As she patiently tried to lead him on the middle of the ice, he suddenly lost his balance and landed on top of her with lips locked together.
'Hell, yeah, this is a fairy tale come true …' Inner Sakura crowed with delight as she gave away her first kiss to Sasuke. But it didn't stop there, the whatever hidden passions he had for the pink haired girl were unleashed upon that kiss, the next thing they knew was, he started trailing kisses on her smooth milk cream neck and let his hands roamed through her body as she moaned under his hot kisses. They continued their makeup session, not aware that they are making out right in the middle of a public area where all eyes are staring at their passionate session.
" …" Tenten stared at the scene before her as she was gliding with Neji as true to his word that he was good in ice skating but she couldn't help hoping and wishing that he could do that to her but in a private place.
"Tenten …" Neji asked poking her at the same time, causing her to snap out of her thoughts.
"Yes, Neji kun?" Tenten asked back.
"Are you thinking of me doing that to you?" he asked, indicating the scene before them as they made another round on the ice.
"Err, yes, will you Neji?" she asked blushing at the same time.
"No." he simply reply
"Oh, I see …" she replied, feeling mixed feelings of disappointment and relief at the same time. Just then Neji did the unexpected, he just simply flipped her in his arms with his face looming closely to hers, earning a squeak of surprise from her.
"But I can do this to you." He whispered, zooming in and captured a kiss from her and a blush from her as he pulled her back to a standing position. He then coolly glided away from her. Tenten stood there, with a dazed look on her face.
"Neji kun … Wait up!" she yelled, running and stumbling trying to catch up with him.
"Huff … Puff … As expected of my eternal rival, Kakashi …" Gai panted as he struggled to maintain his balance on the ice but to no avail, whereas Kakashi was doing multitasking of skating and reading that porn book of his without even breaking a sweat, Lee just joined Gaara and Kankuro in their snowball fight, all for the flaming fire of youth.
Ok, let's us rewind back to where Gai was pointing at Kakashi and challenging him … (Winter- chan: I'm getting tired with the flash blacks. x)
"To seven rounds of ice- skating!" Gai announced, showing his trademark signature. "If I lose this match, I will do five thousand laps of handstands here." Kakashi groaned at the irony of Gai's challenge, knowing that he couldn't even last even a second trying to float on the ice. But once the proud beast set his mind to it, there is no way for him to back out of it, no matter how many kunai knives sticking on him. Oh well let some folks say: 'Once you set your mind to it, there is no way of backing out.'
"Sigh … It can't be help …" Kakashi muttered as he reluctantly accepted the challenge. So here we are with Gai, literally kissing the frozen ground and barely completed a round, trying to beat Kakashi. Gai groaned at his 'defeat', but much to Kakashi's dismay, he seemed to spring back to his usual self.
"So, my eternal rival Kakashi, I challenge you to see who can win the heart of the flower whose burning youth is in great danger!" Gai yelled. Kakashi just looked at him with an 'I can't be bothered' look.
"If you are thinking of Tsunade or Anko, you better give up, because their punches are harder for those who try to hit on them." Kakashi replied.
"No, no, not them, I mean her …" Gai replied pointing the intended target to him.
"Zhe yi ge ben xiao hai … (Really is a foolish child)" Shurin sang as she skated, pleased that she had managed to keep her balance on the ice without falling down flat on her face. She stopped suddenly, when Akamaru flashed past her wearing skates and barking happily, gaining her attention.
'Eh? I thought when folk pampered dogs would be dressing them up in those cute clothes or those spa salons; this is really bringing it to the next level.' She thought gwaking at the scene at the same time not noticing Kiba, the boy with red tattoos below his eyes accidentally rammed her, sending her gliding on high speed. Her mind just seemed to freeze at the accelerated speed that she was going.
'Shit! How to brake? Going to fall and crash!' her mind kept repeating as she somehow kept having flashbacks on her life as she braced for the miserable 1 minutes of fame. She closed her eyes as she braced for the hard cold ice when she felt herself leaning onto something warm and firm. Cautiously opened her eyes, she found herself looking face up to find herself in the arms of Kakashi. He stared at her with a bored look on his face. As she stared at him, she couldn't help feeling a blush on her face at his firm grip.
"Are you alright?" Kakashi asked her as he stared at her face, causing her to nod with a dazed look. They continued looking at each other, but the moment was short lived as she quickly pushed him away and skated as fast as she could.
'Falling down and making a fool of myself is better than that' she thought in a dazed look not noticing the voice howling hysterically and singing of 'Kakashi and Shuling sitting on the tree …' and Gai with tears steaming down his face and lips frozen stiff on the ice and executing his penalty on himself.
(Winter chan: Ok, ok, before all readers get too impatient …)
Naruto was trying to 'walk' on the ice with his skates but to no avail. He continued cussing at every step that he took.
"Oi, kit, you better giving up, this is not your thing." The deep dark voice chucked at his attempts.
'Shut your trap up, fox breath, I will master it, as I'm going to be the next hokage!' he snapped back at his 'tenant', as he got up but ended up sprawling on the ground and added more colorful language, much to the amusement of his tenant. Well when one has a demon being sealed inside them, who needs an inner self.
"fufufu, this is really entertaining, guess this makes things interesting." The most feared youkai lord chuckled at the antics of his jailer. Naruto just pouted as he struggled to get up.
"Ano, Nnnaruto kun," the shy girl with pearly white eyes stuttered out, gaining his attention as she twiddled with her fingers.
"Eh? Hinata chan?" Naruto asked out in surprise as he saw her before him.
"A..no… N…aruto kun?" Hinata paused and tried to still her beating heart, even thou, Shurin, Sakura, Ino, Hanabi, Tenten and Temari even Tsunade had lent her moral support over her being in love with her crush; she couldn't help, feeling very awkward just in front of him.
"Yes?" Naruto asked with patience, as he struggled to balance himself on the ice, but to no avail.
"Ano, ccan I teeach you how to i…ce s …kate?" she stuttered her question back at him.
"Yatta, thanks a lot, Hinata." Naruto cheered loudly, causing her to give a small smile and blush profusely at him.
After a few hours of stumbling, accidental touching on her mounts, profuse apologies, Kyuubi's laughing and goading, never ending blushes and patient teachings from Hinata …
"Yattta! Thanks Hinata chan!" Naruto cheered out loudly, with a blushing Hinata skating at his side.
Meanwhile, back to Neji and Tenten …
"…"
"Relax, Neji, she will be alright." Tenten replied, noticing the look on Neji's face, the overprotective mode, and tried to tug him along with her but to no avail.
"…"
"Neji!" Tenten shouted, trying to suppress the urge of poking a kunai at him.
"Sorry Tenten, Hinata is in trouble." Neji replied, leaving her stunned at the moment as he skated quickly towards them.
"Ano, congratulations Naruto kun." She spoke up quietly, even though they cured her of her stuttering, but she still hadn't gotten rid of her blushing and playing with her thumbs.
"Gee, thanks Hinata." Naruto replied, blushing at the same time when Kyuubi had specially sent him a mentally enhanced image of Hinata's mounts.
"Aano, Hhinata cchan?" Naruto this time in his whole life for 15 years, stuttered, causing Hinata to look at him in surprise, he swallowed hard as he tried very hard to block off the very graphic images that Kyuubi had so generously provided him.
"Yes, Naruto kun?" Hinata had thought for a moment that she had seen a fleeting glimpse of uncertainty in his eyes, but quietly shrugged to herself that it must be her imagination.
"I want to tell you something." He bent down and whispered to her ear.
"I love you." He replied quite sheepishly, causing her to gasp in shock. He then leaned forward to kiss her. The inner Hinata was squealing in happiness as she waited for the kiss.
"You are within my field of divinity," Neji coldly spoke as he quickly separated Naruto from Hinata and performed the Hakke Rokujuyon Sho on him.
"NARUTO KUN!" Hinata shouted in horror covering her mouth as she watched helplessly as he was sent flying and screaming to the other side of the frozen lake, on behalf of Neji.
-tbc-
Winter chan: Ben xiao hai song (A foolish child) is sung by Andy Lau, Neji have a overprotective brother mind set,thanks to everyone who took the time to read and review this chpt. Anyway next chpt is the last chapter, please read and review.
Ninja -x- Kunoichi: Well here's a bit more of nejten on this chpt.
gclp: well there are some crashes that you wanted. XD
serenity-angel92: Glad that you like it.