A/N: Hi! This is Hira! I would like to say thanks a lot to everyone who reviewed our story and since my partner Yuki is busy writing our NejiTen fic, so I'm alone here... but that's not important! Enjoy the story!
NARUTO'S FIRST DATE CHAPTER 3
RING
RING!
"AWW! SHUT UP ALREADY!" Naruto scolded his alarm clock, he told it to be quiet because nobody can interrupt his sleep and stay alive. He pulled his blanket up to his head, but maybe one thing Naruto forgot was an alarm clock didn't have ear, barely any soul.
RING
RING!
"Hmm... 7.15 a.m..." Naruto murmured as he glanced at his alarm clock.
RING!
-SMACK!- and that made the alarm clock stopped ringing forever, pieces of metal and small materials were all that was left from once red alarm clock.
That's better... thought Naruto and closed his eyes again, blanket was pulled back to cover his head. But the lucky star was not on his side today.
"YAAAA—HOOO! HIYA NARUTO! WAKE UP, DUDE!" An extremely loud voice was heard outside his window, and as if one loud shout wasn't enough, the voice's owner was banging his window with...something, Naruto was pretty sure that it was a heavy and large object, and those barking sound made Naruto winced.
"SHADDUP KIBA! CAN'T YOU SEE I'M SLEEPING!" Naruto sat on his bed and shouted to the happy dog boy.
"Of course, if not, why would I bang your window? More important than that..." Kiba grinned, he threw the hammer he's been using to his side (wonder how that window didn't crash) and showed Naruto his travel bag.
"What? You have a new bag? What a nice bag, now go!" Naruto said sarcastically and started to think that this was revenge from Neji since he annoyed Neji's sleep yesterday. This incident made Naruto vowed not to interrupt anyone again.
"No, not my bag! Although it IS new... but not that! You see Nar—" Kiba's words were cut off by a knock in his bedroom door, followed by Chouji and Lee who barged in into his bedroom, while two others familiar figures belonged to none other than Neji and Shikamaru were waiting outside.
"Hi, Naruto-kun! Can we come in?" Lee asked, grinning.
"You didn't have to ask, you're inside already..." said Naruto, and with a blink of eye, the blonde realized that all of the people who barged in his house today have one thing in common.
"Why did all of you bring travel bag?" Naruto asked quizzically.
"Hokage-sama told us to train at the mountain for one week starting today so we picked you up because you're the only one who didn't come to the Hokage Tower this morning..." Lee told Naruto.
"Oh, I see... but how come I'm the only one who didn't know?"
"We don't know about you but our sensei told us yesterday..." Chouji informed.
"Huh? But Kakashi-sensei didn't say anything!" right after Naruto finished his sentence, a loud 'POOF' were heard and Hatake Kakashi appeared out of thin air.
"Hello boys," he greeted and turned his attention to Naruto.
"I'm sorry I'm late to tell you this but you must gather in the Hokage Tower today at 7 a.m!" Kakashi smiled.
"I will appreciate it if you come... hmmm, two hours earlier, Kakashi-sensei," Naruto smiled dangerously.
So the mistake was on the silver-haired jounin all along. His weird hobby had made Naruto clueless about this information. Too bad Naruto was in a bad mood and one good thing: Kakashi was stronger than Naruto, had he not, Kakashi was already wrapped up in bandage, lying helplessly in hospital ICU room.
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The boys walked out from Konoha in silence, the only sound heard was Chouji munching on his potato chips. And it was still silent when they started to hike the mountain, it was paradise for our certain lazy chuunin. Well, but that didn't last long because we had two loudmouths in the groups.
In which Kiba was the first one to break up the silence.
"How 'bout a race? The last who reach the cottage must cooking and do the cleaning stuffs!" Kiba suggested, Akamaru barked in agreement.
"Cooking?" said Naruto.
"Of course? What did you expect? A chef to make you your meals?" Shikamaru replied, "... man, this is troublesome..." he added his infamous quote.
"I agree!" Lee smiled.
"Yeah, me too..." Neji added, some challanges wouldn't hurt, would it?
"I won't lose to you this time, Neji-kun!" Lee faced his rival.
"Lee, you've challenged me yesterday..."
"Oh yeah? Yesterday I lose, but today I'll win! You know Gai-sensei always told us that our youth is—"
"Well! I hereby proclaimed that our standing spot is the start line!" Kiba cut off before he heard Lee's 'useful' advices about how you should fill your youth with every possible thing to reach your destination and how rivalry could make you stronger because it filled you with 'I won't lose' and determination.
Well, yeah. That was not bad but Lee's weird style of sharing it (filled with poetry things that didn't click in your brain) was not a pleasant thing to hear.
"Any objection? Raise your hand please..." asked Kiba, his black eyes scanned each party member.
Everyone pointed to Shikamaru before Shikamaru raised his hand. "Thank you.." Shikamaru thanked, because he didn't have to raise his hand. Raising hand is so troublesome.
"Anybody else?"
Long silence filled in. Even Chouji agreed ("I'm hungry so we must reach the cottage as fast as we could.")
"OKAY! On my count... 1, 2..." Kiba counted.
"Hey wai—" Shikamaru tried to stop Kiba.
"GO!" Everyone minus Shikamaru disappeared in a blur of black, running in a top speed to the cottage up in the mountain.
"Aw... man," Shikamaru sighed. After muttering his favorite line of 'this is troublesome' he leapt and ran after the others, following their chakra trail. Of course, he could walk and not participating but it was possible to get lost. The wood was covered in pine trees and since he didn't bring a map and asking directions was so troublesome (like he had anyone to ask).
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Surprisingly, after another few minutes Shikamaru was in front, followed by Neji, then Naruto and Lee, Kiba and was a few meters behind them and Chouji already left behind since he spotted a cake store and decided to stop by.
Ha... I'll win! I'll win and I can free from the troublesome job! Shikamaru thought.
But the happiness didn't last long because Neji ran past him.
"What?" Shikamaru tried to ran faster, a thought of throwing kunai at Neji popped out in his mind. His hand reached for his kunai pouch when...
"Don't throw it, Shikamaru... that'll will violating the rules, besides... he's your friend, and throwing kunai is troublesome," Angel-Shika appeared with a 'POOF'.
Angel-Shika, was the good side of Shikamaru. His appearance was like chibi-Shikamaru wearing white robes and carrying harp. A glowing golden halo bobbing atop his head and a pair of small white wings attached on his back.
"Don't listen to him! Throw it! That will make you win this race and you'll free from those troublesome jobs!" Devil-Shika appeared too.
Devil-Shika, an exact opposite from Angel-Shika, as you could see from the name. A chibi-Shikamaru with red spandex, devilish tail and a pair of small red horns nestled on his head, if he laughed, a pair of fangs could be seen. He waved his trident around, ordering Shikamaru to do bad stuffs.
"But, Neji is..." said Shikamaru, hesitating.
"Throw it!" Devil-Shika nudged.
"Don't listen to him!" Angel-Shika bobbed atop of Shikamaru's head.
"You'll free from those troublesome jobs!"
"Hey... that's right... THROW IT SHIKAMARU!"
Devil-Shika and Shikamaru sweatdropped.
"But Neji..."
"THAT DOESN'T MATTER! THROW IT!" Angel-Shika shouted.
"O-Okay..." Shikamaru took two kunais from his pouch and with perfect accuracy, he aimed at Neji's sleeves and pants.
One jabbed past Neji's sleeve into a tree and the other embedded on the same tree right after it went past Neji's pants.
"Shikamaru!" Neji shouted.
"Kiba didn't say that we couldn't use weapons right? Sorry Neji but I'll win!" Shikamaru ran past the still-pinned Neji, hissing as his other hand tried to reach the stubborn kunai.
Naruto already copied Shikamaru's job and pinned Lee into a nearby tree with his shurikens. The weird angle made the poor bowl-haired boy couldn't move a single muscle.
"Naruto-kun! Lemme gooo!" Lee half-ordered, half-pleading.
"Sorry Thick Brows but Shikamaru was right, we can use weapons! I'm the one who will win this!" Naruto grinned at Lee and sped up to chase Shikamaru.
Neji managed to pull the last kunai from his pants when Naruto ran past him. The Hyuuga smirked and leapt into the air. With his current speed, it didn't take long for Neji to come up side-to-side with Naruto.
Oh shit, I already used all my shurikens to pinned thick brows... Naruto made a mental note, but something else... something else told him not to do that to Neji... just Neji. Wonder why? But now all he needed to prior on was how to win.
"Naruto, how about giving up?" Neji smirked.
"Hell no! I won't take back my words! That's my ninja way!"
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A few minutes later...
Yeah! The finish line! Shikamaru thought happily when the wooden cottage came into view. Who ever thought that Shikamaru would do THIS lot of movement in one day? Angel-Shika and Devil-Shika hugged each other in happiness in an earlier celebration.
SWISHED!
Shikamaru was pinned to a tree by two kunais and a shuriken, perfectly sealing both of his hands.
Neji and Naruto ran past him.
"HEY!"
"Sorry, Shikamaru! We can use weapon right? I have weapons too you know!" Neji waved goodbye at him.
Neji and Naruto faced each other, sparks of blue electricity erected from both eyes and connected their gaze in an unmentioned challenge. They were the only ones who left.
"You won't stand a chance!" Naruto ran past Neji.
"Oh yeah?" Neji ran past ahead after another leap.
Naruto extended his arm quickly when Neji's figure was an inch or so ahead. He made it to crumpled Neji's shirt between his fingers and pulled the unsuspecting Hyuuga prodigy backwards. Slamming him to the ground with his body on top of the older boy.
"I'll win!"
"Oh no you won't!" Neji gave a light punch to Naruto's face, enough to make Naruto stumbled backwards and freed himself from the other's custody.
"Hey! It's HURT!" Naruto growled and tried to smack Neji back, but the older boy ducked it and made Naruto lost his balance. Neji took this chance to grab Naruto's shirt and rolled, now Naruto was squirming underneath him.
"It's not that easy!"
Both of them started fighting anime-style.
"LEMME GO!"
"NOT UNTIL YOU GIVE UP!"
"NO WAY! I WON'T TAKE BACK MY WORDS! THAT'S MY NINJA WAY!"
"YOU SAID THAT IN THE PREVIOUS PAGE!"
"SO WHAT?"
"Hey, lover birds! Are you done yet?" Kiba asked.
"Huh?" Neji and Naruto stopped biting and punching each other, they looked up and saw everybody was already inside of the cottage.
"WAA! SINCE WHEN DID YOU---" Naruto shouted.
"Since you guys started fighting like that! We have time to pulled out the kunais and chase you guys..." Lee explained. "I win Neji-kun!" he made a victory sign. Neji just muttered 'whatever'.
"And you know what? You guys must do the cleaning and cooking! Ganbatte!" Kiba added while he entered the small cottage.
Both Neji and Naruto growled while they muttered a different, colorful curses.
"Oh yeah, and until when you will remain like that?" asked Kiba again, poking his head out from the door.
Neji and Naruto looked at each other and realized their 'compromising' position. Both blushed deeply and quickly entangled each other. Neji stood up followed by a grumpy Naruto.
"So it looked like I'll stuck up with you for the entire week, huh?" Neji asked.
"So what? Unhappy?"
Not really...Neji added mentally.
"Hey, Lover birds! You're getting in or not?" Kiba shouted, he found out that teasing them with those words was fun.
"WE'RE NOT LOVER BIRDS, FREAKY DOG BOY!" Neji and Naruto blushed and shouted in unison before they walked together to the cottage.
-TBC-
A/N: Hmmh, yeah, so... basically we love the Shikamaru-Shoutai so I made their appearance in this fic. But now, I'm still confuse about inserting Sasuke and Shino or not... So, review guys and give me advice about it!