Thanks a lot for the reviewers out there, and thanks for your suggestions, Kirin-touchan and Momochi Zabuza! Thanks a lot! (I used your suggestion in this chapter Kirin-touchan, see if you can find it, I changed it a little though).
NARUTO'S FIRST DATE CHAPTER 4The small cottage only has one bedroom, so all of them must share it. One kitchen, one living room and one bathroom. Tsunade has said that they don't have to worry about food, since she already arranged everything. The only thing they must worry is about their training.
Neji and Naruto walked half-heartedly to the kitchen. They examined the food there...canned-sardines, breads, canned-fruit, syrup, cup ramen ("Thank Goodness! I can't live without my ramen! Even though I brought them myself..." said Naruto), potato chips (but there's not much left, since Chouji ate most of them a minute ago), pasta and other stuff. And there was also rice, it seemed that Tsunade already prepared it all for them.
"So... these are our one week food supply?" asked Naruto.
"Yeah... any ideas about the menu?" Neji asked back.
"Oh, of course! I have a delicious menu set for tomorrow!" exclaimed Naruto.
"You have?"
"Yes! For breakfast we'll have miso ramen, for lunch we'll have chikara ramen, and for dinner we'll have meat ramen! How's that?"
"... (sweatdropped)"
"Oh, you don't like it? Then what about shoyu ramen for breakfast, fish-flavored ramen for lunch, and spicy ramen for dinner?"
"Naru—"
"Hmmh, but I prefer super spicy ramen for breakfast, miso ramen for lunch and maybe stamina ramen for dinner, oh! But miso ramen—"
"NARUTO!"
"W-what?" Naruto was taken aback by Neji's voice.
"Naruto, I'm sorry I have to tell you this but... I. don't. think. they. will. like. those. kind. of. menu. including. me. do. you. understand?" Neji stretched his words.
"But ramen is so delicious..." said Naruto with an 'oh-why-they-wouldn't-understand' expression.
Then both of them started arguing about the menu. Naruto insisted that they should have ramen but Neji said no. After that problem was settled and they agreed that it's not a full-ramen menu they started arguing about the amount of food they should cook. Naruto said that they should cook a lot since Chouji is in the group. Neji said that it's right but if they cooked a lot they'll run out the supplies quickly so they must force Chouji to have diet for one week. But then Naruto said that Chouji can't get on diet since he'll eat everything if he's hungry including his own bag.
"So what? If he wants to eat his bag then he can eat it..." said Neji, matter-of-factly.
"THEN? IF HE'S HUNGRY AGAIN AND HE ATE OUR BAG? HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THAT?" Naruto shouted in front of Neji's face.
"I didn't say he CAN eat our bags, did I?" Neji said calmly.
Veins popped in Naruto's head, he reached out and yanked Neji's collar down, he brought the taller boy to the same eye-level.
"THIS IS A SERIOUS MATTER! AND... don't..." Naruto's voice slowly faded, he realized a fact that his and Neji's face were so close.
Well, a little bit TOO close actually. Naruto can felt Neji's hot breath against his skin, a little bit more and he can kiss those soft lips. Suddenly Naruto can felt his heart pounding loudly, a blush crept to his cheeks. He quickly pushed Neji away gently.
"S-Sorry... I-I..." Naruto played his fingers Hinata-style.
Neji just stayed silent, but he quickly turned his body to hide his own blush. Fortunately, Lee came into the kitchen.
"YOU GUYS!" he jumped in with his usual cheerful style. Luckily, he didn't realize the fact that both boys in the kitchen were blushing madly.
"What? Go out, Lee... it's still," Neji glanced at the clock. "9.15 a.m so it's not lunch time yet, besides, we're busy,"
"No, Neji-kun... I just want to inform you that—"
"I know, you don't like spicy stuff..." Neji cut off.
"Yes, but I also—"
"I know, you want ketchup too."
"Yes, but—"
"I know, you want some mustard too..."
"—" Lee opened his mouth to talk.
"I know, you want—"
"GEEZ! WILL YOU LET ME TALK FOR A MOMENT!" Lee roared with a volume that made Neji's hair flew backwards anime-style.
"DON'T SHOUT IN FRONT OF MY FACE LIKE THAT!" Neji shouted back and made Lee's hair flew backwards.
"OH YEAH? AND WHY IS THAT?" Lee shouted back and... you know.
"BECAUSE IT IS ANNOYING!"
"A-hum..." Naruto coughed a bit, trying to get their attention.
"AND YOU SAY MY ATTITUDE IS ANNOYING?"
"A-HUM!" Naruto coughed harder before this shouting competition got out of hand.
"WELL, CAN'T YOU SEE THAT YOURSELF?" Neji shouted and created the similar scene like the previous one.
"WILL YOU GUYS STOP SHOUTING AND LISTEN TO ME DAMMIT!" Naruto decided to join this shouting competition.
Both Lee and Neji shut up immediately.
"Okay, so... thick brows... you said that you have something to say, what is that?" asked Naruto.
"Oh, I just want to inform you that—" he stopped for a moment to see if Neji decided to cut off, and after Neji didn't show any signs of cutting his sentence, he continued. "We found a nature hot spring not too far from here, so..."
"Nature hot spring? WOW! Why didn't you say earlier?" said Naruto excitedly.
Lee sweatdropped. "Yeah, sure..."
"So? Anything else?" Neji asked his teammate.
"The others were going to start our morning training so I come to pick you up. Oh, and they said they'll try the hot spring after it," Lee informed.
"Well then, tell them we'll be there in a minute..." said Naruto.
"Ok! See you soon!" with that, Lee jumped out from the kitchen to join the other team member.
"Sure sounds great..." said Neji while he started putting the food in the cupboard.
Naruto glanced at the Hyuuga. Actually Naruto has something to say to Neji. But the arguing and Lee was on his way.
"Neji?"
"What?"
"I, um, just wanna say sorry for my harsh attitude earlier and 'that' one... I was..." he trailed off.
"I don't mind, really... I'm the one who should say sorry, Naruto... about this morning, when, you know... incident at the race."
"Oh...yeah, but actually you don't need to..."
"But..." both blushed.
Dead silence.
"Lover birds! Come quick! We'll start the training soon!" Kiba walked into the kitchen. He bowed just in time to avoid the frying pan that flew to his face.
"How many times do we have to tell you! We're not lover birds! It was a coincidence that we ended up in... that position," Naruto and Neji blushed when Naruto said the last word.
"I'm happy, really!" Inner Neji added.
"But you're blushing!"
"Why you... KIBA COME BACK HERE!" Naruto shouted when Kiba turned his body and walked away. Naruto then started to chase Kiba but he stopped in the kitchen door and turned his head back to Neji.
"Neji, sorry... I... anyway, it looked like we'll spend a lot of time together so will you give me some more tips so I can date Sakura-chan? You know... we're not finished yesterday 'cause..."
Neji lowered his head a bit and answered.
"... yeah, sure..."
"REALLY! THANKS NEJI! YOU'RE REALLY MY BEST FRIEND! Now... KIBA YOU BASTARD!" Naruto ran out from the kitchen to give the dog boy a punch or two.
Neji finished his arranging job quickly and walked away to join the others in morning training. Maybe later, the hot spring will be fun.
At least he hoped so...
-TBC-
Author's note: IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T READ, I'LL BE VERY VERY BUSY NEXT WEEK BUT IF YOU GUYS POST THE REVIEW I'LL UPDATE! AND IF NOT...I won't update next week! Easy isn't it?