Chapter 3: You can learn the oddest things in gym Part 2

By Nyteness A.K.A. Nyte

Tenten's point of view

When Sasuke and Sakura came back into the gym, Shikamaru and Hinata were standing in position, getting ready for their fight. Shikamaru was just standing there, with his scythe planted beside him. It had taken large amounts of coaxing to actually get Shikamaru into the ring so they were only starting now. Hinata had her ready stance as well, her double ended scythe held straight in front of her with 2 hands. I spared Sasuke and Sakura a glance when they came in. Sakura resembled a tomato with reddish brown hair and you could see the lightest tinge of red on Sasuke's cheek.

What happened? I asked Sakura smirking.

Nothing, tell you later. She shook her head vehemently.

Something happen back there with that Sasuke guy? Ino asked slyly.

N-Nothing! Sakura cried. Hey, isn't this Hinata-chan's match? Why so late?

I smirked. Something happened, that's for sure and she wasn't going to tell us right now. Fine, be that way! We'll get it out of her later. Shikamaru was being incredible lazy. I explained casually. They should be starting now

He's so lazy, do you think he's possessed by sloth? Sakura asked curiously.

Nope, didn't sense anything abnormal. Ino replied. Hinata would tell us if there was

Ah well. The match is starting I heard the whistle blow and watched. Nobody made a move, tick. . . tock. . . tick. . . tock. . . Suddenly, Hinata flicked her wrist and her scythe went spinning like a boomerang towards Shikamaru. He dodged it by doing the splits in the air, and lunged towards Hinata. Hinata stood her ground until the last second when she vaulted over Shikamaru and caught her boomerang/scythe. She swung at his unprotected back, blade whistling with the speed of her blow.

"NO!" Ino exclaimed. "Hinata!"

At the last second, she stopped her blade a hair's breadth away from his back. "I win," She simply said and pulled her scythe back. A shocked silence filled the air. Whoever knew that shy, quiet, peaceful Hinata was capable of almost killing someone? Well, Sakura, Ino and I had seen her do it several times, but never has she ever come close to harming anyone in her mortal form! Hinata's growing up!

W-what'd you think guys? Hnata smiled at us.

"That was amazing Hinata-chan!" Naruto, that blond hyper, spiky haired guy exclaimed.

"T-t-t-th-a-a-ank you, N-naruto-kun," She turned around and smiled at the blond, red as a tomato and stuttering like crazy.

"He's right Hinata, you were great!" I chimed in.

The whole class seemed to break from the initial shock and started applauding tumultuously; all except for some girls sulking in the corner. I snorted, fan girls, pathetic.

"Good fight, I won't under estimate you again," Shikamaru half smirked at Hinata.

She smiled back awkwardly, "Thank you, Nara-san."

"Call me Shikamaru, Honorifics are troublesome," He yawned and promptly fell asleep. I saw Ino's eyes following him rather strangely.

See something you like? I smirked at her.

No! She exclaimed a little too quickly.

Ino-chan, I felt the slightest hint of jealousy in you, Hinata accused her gently.

Hey look, my match is starting! She said quickly, walking into the ring. Here, my weights. Ino tossed me her weights and her bandages, which I set down beside me with a thump. She got into her ready position, which was her arms crossed in front of her in fists and her feet planted shoulder width apart. Naruto did a standard position, his left arm curled at his side and his right fist thrust forward. Anko blew the whistle and the match started.

Naruto made the first move punching, straight ahead; aiming for Ino's chest. She moved out of the way and hooked her fist upwards, just missing Naruto's out stretched arms.

"So you're serious?" Naruto grinned with a mischievous look in his eye.

"Yep," Ino grinned back. They faced each other once again and then this time, Ino lunged towards Naruto. They started exchanging blow for blow never hitting the other. This guy was almost as good as Ino in goddess mode! She flipped over his head and tried to hit him off guard, but he turned around and met her blow for blow. Their yells became more tired and more breathy, but neither was giving up. I could see Anko checking her watch carefully. When I thought that finally, one of them would collapse, she blew her whistle. Almost automatically, they stopped, but not without Ino landing a punch on Naruto's chest, which winded him.

"Oops," She giggled when Naruto gasped for air.

"Ino!" Hinata exclaimed exasperated. She ran to Naruto's side and handed him a cream, which he waved away.

"Don't worry," He gasped. "I'll be fine in a minute," He smiled at Hinata wanely.

This Naruto guy can revive himself in under 5 minutes? Sakura exclaimed to me.

Yeah, that's odd, even though Ino's in Mortal mode, she'd wind a guy for maybe 10 minutes! With some broken ribs, of course, but this guy can still move! I responded, shocked. He's strong!

"Ouch, that's going to leave a bruise," Naruto winced as he picked himself off the floor.

"Only a bruise?" Hinata asked, with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah, I don't think anything's broken," He winced as he got up.

"Here, I'll take you to the nurse's office," She helped Naruto up and walked him towards the door.

How about that? Ino giggled as she walked out of the ring.

Yeah, he could still walk! Sakura exclaimed.

That, and Hinata actually said a few sentences without stuttering! Ino exclaimed.

Oh Hera, you're right, she did! Sakura exclaimed gleefully.

Am I the only one who noticed that dude heals abnormally fast? I asked my brows still furrowed. It doesn't make any sense! He should still be down! Ino has knocked out guys with a punch like that, and this guy barely even feels it! Bruises don't count as anything.

"Tenten?" Ino waved a hand in front of my face.

"Oh, yeah?" I responded stupidly, having just been shocked out of my thoughts.

"Can you fight against me instead of that Neji dude?" Ino asked. "He might freak out a little, but you know my moves."

"Sure, I guess, I need to warm up." I shrugged and we asked Anko. She said it was fine and we both took our places on the mat.

Ino grinned at me and I smirked back. We stood loose, my various weapons clinking at my side. Ino was my sparring partner, so I did know most of her moves and I knew how to counter them. We always stood loose tough, at the beginning so that Ino wouldn't be able to know which weapons I was going to use first and so I didn't know what move she was going to use. We had a mutual understanding that that was going to happen.

"Are you ready?" Anko asked us. We both nodded. She shrugged, and blew the whistle. In an instant we took off into the sky. I was reaching for my kunai and she was whipping her steel ribbons at me. I dodged easily, and sent my kunai directly towards her, she dodged but I was pulling out the rest of my arsenal. Shurikens, katana, more kunai, nunchaka, sai, and anything else in my arsenal I threw at her. I kept my favorite Katana hidden though. After my attack is done, it was her turn. As expected, Ino was twirling her steel bands around in circles and repealing all my attacks, sending my weapons in a bunch of different directions. Many girly shrieks ensued as people ducked to avoid the weapons. Sakura and Hinata weren't bothered, just spun their own weapons to protect themselves. When my last weapons had been repealed, Ino took her stance.

With an Unknown fury to all of them but the E-4, Ino started throwing her ribbons at me. I smirked and pulled out my favorite katana, which had been hiding in my shirt (get your mind out of the gutters!). I snapped it into place and counter struck Ino's lashes. Sakura might be the mistress when it came to swords, but to spar with Ino for several years, you had to be pretty good with defense. I felt Ino do her "Ultimate" attack and knew she wanted to end this.

Alright, Phoenix? I asked

You know it! She winked back to me. We descended from our aerial positions and jumped up again, this time heading straight for each other. At the top, we linked weapons, Ino's ribbons tangled around my katana, and we let go of our weapons and fell. I just did a back flip and Ino mirrored me.

We stood, not facing each other. Our weapons fell between us with a clatter. You could have slice the tension with a knife! I grinned

I think that was long enough. Hinata cut into both of our thoughts.

Yeah, it was Ino Sakura chimed in.

Fine. . . Ino sighed, 1 2 3 at the same time, we turned around. Ino jerked her ribbons back and flung my katana back at me.

"Good match," I smirked, catching my Katana in mid-air.

"You too," Ino smiled back.

"Is it over? Naruto asked puzzledly.

"It's over," Hinata laughed a little, "they always end off like that, 'phoenix position'"

Anko realized that the match was over and blew the whistle, just then, the bell ring. Darn it! I didn't get to fight the other guy!

"We won't need you to fight Neji since I already know what you can do now," Anko summarized. My mouth dropped open.

"NO!" I exclaimed, "can I fight him anyways?"

Anko chuckled, "Yeah sure, our next class, just ask him to spar with you." She waved good-bye and headed into the office. I groaned, I hate asking guys for things! With a resigned sigh, I pulled myself into the changeroom and got out of my gym clothes. Gym was the last period of the day (it was a double period) and we were headed out, chatting about the fights.

"That was amazing, Hinata!" Ino exclaimed, acting incredibly hyper. She was sipping an ice cappuccino.

"Th-thank you, but your match was exceptionally good," Hinata blushed, sipping some Columbian coffee.

"That I must agree with, fair Hinata," A voice came from behind us. Hinata jumped, almost spilling coffee over herself.

"H-hello N-Naruto-kun," Hinata stuttered.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Sakura screeched, holding her fist up, Ino cracked her knuckles as well. I had to hold back my laughter though, he looked so pathetic!

"Eeep! Hinata-chan! Hide me!" He squealed and scampered behind Hinata. We all started laughing at Naruto.

"W-what did y-you come for, N-Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked the boy behind her.

"Well, the guys and I just wanted to know, if you lovely ladies would come to the mall with us," He came out wearing his foxy grin again.

"Oh, ok," Ino smiled. She loved the mall.

"Sure, do they have an arcade?" I asked. I am not much of a shopper and usually send my time playing dance dance revolution when my friends are shopping.

"yep!" Naruto exclaimed. "So, we'll see you on Sunday, noon-ish, at the food court?" he asked We nodded in agreement. "Great! See you there!" he waved as he ran back to his friends.

Change Point of view to Neji

"They said yes!" Naruto hollered, out of breath.

"Great," Shikamaru yawned.

"Why did you drag me into this again?" I snorted, ticked off. I had better things to do than meet with a bunch of silly fan girls,

"Because you need to better know the girls!" Naruto exclaimed. "You and Tenten-san would get along nicely." He mused.

"Right, you just want to see the shy one again," Sasuke snorted.

"Yeah, so? She's cute!" Naruto defended himself. "At least I like girls!"

"... Naruto, we've gone over this before, I am NOT gay," Sasuke gritted his teeth.

"Prove it!" Naruto challenged, "Get a girlfriend from one of those new girls, just not Hinata. Then we'll know if you're gay!"

"Fine," Sasuke shrugged, "Which one?"

"Umm. . ." Naruto squinted his eyes, "go for. . ."

"Just go for the sword fighting one," I cut in impatiently, I wanted to get to the mall to practice DDR.

"Yeah! Sakura or whatever her name was!" Naruto agreed.

"Fine," Sasuke shrugged.

"This'll turn out to troublesome," Shikamaru predicted.

"Whatever, let's just go," I snorted edgily.

"To the mall!" Naruto exclaimed, and off we went, unaware of stalkers.

A/N: Done! Phew. . . That took a while. My updates will be less frequent, about once or twice a week for a little while.

Sorry about not showing the Nejiten fight but it's coming in a better setting. I wanted that fight to be special! It'll come, several times, with the story twist I was thinking of so hold on!

The girls actually find a minion of one of the sins, Envy in the mall next time, and the newest "mission" is rather surprising. So hang on tight for that!

Thank you to all the uber-kind reviewers! You guys really made my day with that many reviews. Please be ultra kind and leave another one on your way out!

By the way, Mushi-Chan pointed out a mistake I made. In chapter one, it says: "My name's Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki. I'm Tenshi High's loudest ninja and I want to be the president of Japan someday!" That was a mistake. It shuldn't be Ninja, it should be prankster. Ok? Ok.

Thanks again for the reviews and leave some more on your way out!

Ciao, Nyte.