Yay, an update!

I got some requests and comments on NaruHina. I was planning on the couple, but after 5 chapters I still lack inspiration. I don't think NaruHina will come in this chapter, but I'm trying as soon as possible!

Disclaimer: Bah.. don't own Naruto

Chapter 6: Beach Volleyball

"And what were you guys planning on doing with us if you win?" Tenten asked, crossing her arms in front of her chest.

The muscled brunet grinned. "I think you know exactly what we want." He said.

Sakura and Tenten looked each other in the eyes. A sweat drop had appeared on their head. They were thinking one thing: 'Perverts.'

Sakura turned to Sasuke, Lee and Neji. She looked with a warning look, had one fist on her hip and pointed the other one at the guys like a teacher. "You lose, you die." She threatened.

Lee went standing in his nice guy pose. "I won't lose Sakura! That's a promise!" He sealed his promise with a tooth ping. Nobody bothered to find that weird anymore, Lee just is weird. One day you've got to get used to it.

Sasuke smirked. 'Like I'll let them take Sakura. I've always protected her; I'm not giving her up with something stupid as losing a volleyball game.'

"I'm not completely happy with the deal." Tenten said. "You guys can go too far, if you know what I mean."

The muscled brunet looked backwards at his companions, and they grinned to each other. "And what do you want to do about it?" He asked as a real macho.

"Yeah, what do you want to do about it?" Another muscled blond bozo repeated. He laughed stupid and looked proud to his 'leader', but he only got an oh-shut-up-look of the muscled brunet.

Tenten raised an eyebrow, still standing with her arms crossed. "First of all IF you win, which I highly doubt, it's Sakura and I who determine the 'line'. When we say no, it means no. Got it?"

The muscled brunet looked thoughtful, but decided to agree. "Sounds fair, ok de-"

"AND if you cross the line, these fine gentlemen by my side," Tenten paused for a second to look at Neji, Lee and Sasuke", will show absolutely no mercy. Any form of sexual intimidation will be punished in a very, very painful way." Tenten had a sinister, dark look on her face when she finished her demand.

The groups of muscled bozos didn't believe that those three guys could do any harm to them (Hah, we know better!). But the look on Tenten's face spoke otherwise, which made them doubt about their thoughts.

"Do I make myself clear?" Tenten demanded like a commanding officer, looking straight at the four male bimbos.

The muscled group gulped, not sure if the brown-haired girl named Tenten was bragging. "Yes Ma'am!" They said in chorus.

Tenten smirked. Then she turned to Neji, Lee and Sasuke. "What do you guys think? Do we have a deal?" She asked, knowing what the answer will be.

"YOSH!" Lee cheered, lifting his fist in the air.

Neji looked at Tenten and smirked. He always thought it was cute how demanding Tenten could be. He and Lee never gave in to those things, but now she could get things her way he could tell that she was completely satisfied by the way she was smiling. He looked Tenten straight in the eyes, and spoke the magic words. "We have a deal."

Sasuke looked at Sakura. When their eyes met, he gave a warm smile at her. Sakura hid her mouth behind her hands and smiled shyly, a pink blush spread over her cheeks. "I'm in." Sasuke looked a moment longer at Sakura before he turned his gaze away.

"Let the game begin!" Tenten cheered, god she was excited.


"Wha-wha-whaaat? I've got to b-be the judge?" Hinata asked loud, eyes wide of surprise.

"Pleeeeease, you're so good at it." Tenten said begging; she held her hands against each other in front of her face.

Hinata wasn't really the type who would say no, especially not to one of her best friends. She looked thoughtfully at Tenten. "Alright, I'll do it." Hinata said sighing, getting a friends-hug from Tenten.

In the meanwhile, the muscled bimbos collected quite some fan girls. Apparently they were rather popular among girls. Proudly they showed their muscles, flexed a little bit and were flirting with some girls. The girls just looked dreamy and had harts in their eyes. ("I love you! Marry me! Take me with you! Kiss me! Be my boyfriend!")

"Good luck, you'll need it." A red-haired girl around her age said to Tenten.

"Huh, why?" Tenten asked confused, raising an eyebrow.

"They were the school's volleyball champions a couple of years ago." The red-haired girl answered.

"Wow… bummer." Tenten said with squeezed eyes and a sweat drop on her head. Then she looked questionably at the red-haired girl.

The red-haired girl looked annoyed back. "What?"

"I thought you were one of their fan girls?" Tenten asked while she pointed at the muscled bozos and the horny girls around them.

The red-haired girl looked with a sick expression on her face. "What? No!" She said disgusted. "Excuse me. No I went to the same school as them. That's all."

"Aha, well that sucks." Tenten said.

"Yes, yes it does." The read-haired girl sighed.

"So, do you think we stand a chance?" Tenten asked hopefully.

"I don't know. I must admit that they play good for beach bimbos, but they've got too much testosterone. I think eventually that's going to be their weakness." The red-haired girl replied.

"So you think we stand a chance?" Tenten asked, smiling sheepishly.

The red-haired girl just sighed, shook her head and walked away, letting a confused Tenten stand there. Tenten also shook her head, and went back to Neji, Lee and Sasuke who were ready to play.

"Guys, that girl over there just told me that they were the school's volleyball champions. I'm a little worried; I don't really like the idea of being the date of one of those horny bastards." Tenten told.

"Don't worry Tenten! I've promised Sakura I won't lose, I never break my promise!" Lee said loud.

"Never underestimate you're opponent Lee." Neji said in a sort of scowling way. He had learned this in a hard way in the chuunin exam. He had underestimated Naruto, and got beaten like hell. "I think it will be a good idea if we ask Shikamaru to plan strategies." Neji continued.

"Yes that's a good idea!" Tenten said enthusiastically. She walked over to Shikamaru and bent over to look him in the eyes, blocking his view on the sky. Shikamaru looked at Tenten, and she grinned back.

"What do you want?" Shikamaru asked annoyed.

"I want to ask you a favour." Tenten answered, still grinning.

Shikamaru sighed, but he knew Tenten wouldn't go away easily. "Well?"

"Could you watch the game for us, and if it's not too much trouble, think of some strategies?" Tenten asked with her sweetest smile.

"And why should I do that?" Shikamaru asked, not liking the idea of watching a volleyball game.

"Because…" Tenten said with a dark face. "If you don't, there is a high possibility we lose. And if we lose, Sakura and I will be stuck with those guys; I don't really like that idea. So if you don't think of strategies and we lose, I will be very mad and I will take that out on you."

A huge sweatdrop appeared on Shikamaru's head. 'Why do women always have to be so troublesome?' Shikamaru sighed. "I guess that I don't have a choice then."

"Yay! I knew you wouldn't refuse!" Tenten cheered.

'Not that I had much of a choice.' Shikamaru thought defeated.

In the meanwhile, Naruto had come back from swimming. He didn't understand what was going on. Everyone was looking so serious; even Shikamaru was awake! 'There's something terribly wrong!' He thought panicked.

"Lee!" Naruto yelled, Lee has always been his source for information. It was automatically that Naruto called Lee when he was around.

"What's wrong Naruto?" Lee yelled back.

"What's wrong Naruto? What's wrong here you mean! Everybody looks deadly serious!" Naruto yelled back.

"We are going to pla- No wait a minute!" Lee yelled back and walked over to Naruto. "Ok I'll explain, we're having a volleyball match against the group of muscled bimbos over there." Lee explained while he pointed in the direction of the muscled bozos. "And if we lose, Sakura and Tenten will be their date."

"What? Sakura will be with those guys?" Naruto yelled in surprise.

"Yes Naruto, just like I said." Lee said.

"We can't lose! Who are on the team?" Naruto asked panicking.

"Neji, Tenten and Sasuke. Of course I'm on the team also." Lee answered.

"Lee, can't you put me on the team? I hate it to watch and do nothing!" Naruto asked desperately.

"No Naruto, we already have thought of a team formation. Only when someone can't play anymore, you can play in the team. I'm sorry, Naruto." Lee answered.

"Hey Lee! Are you coming? We're going to play!" Tenten waved at Lee.

"I'm coming!" Lee shouted back and ran of.

Naruto looked disappointed. He really wanted to play and beat those arrogant bastards! But for now the best he could do was believe in his friends and hope that they will win.


Then the match began. Hinata threw the ball at Tenten and her team. Tenten caught the ball fluently and threw it at Sasuke so he could serve.

Sasuke stood in the position, hit the ball and the game was on.

As advanced volleyball players, the bimbo-team had no trouble with catching the ball. They fluently played the ball to each other.

The ball went low to the ground and Tenten had to dive so the ball wouldn't touch the ground. With her fists together she smashed the ball up. Neji, who stood next to her, could just reach the ball to play it to Lee who stood behind him. Lee smashed the ball over the net. The game went on.

Tenten and her team hadn't expected that it would be this tough against muscled guys who thought more about their sex-appeal then their dignity. They were really good; it was hard to break their defence. The score was 15 for the bimbo-team and 13 for Tenten and her team. The first one who scores 21 points wins. For now Tenten had no idea who would win. Anything could happen; she was getting more nervous.

Then another ball came, served by the bimbo-team. Tenten stood in front at the net. It was a short ball which came towards her. Tenten easily played the ball backwards to Sasuke. When she had passed the ball, her bikini top had moved. Not that much was shown though.

Sasuke passed the ball to Lee, who smashed the ball from behind the field over the net. The ball went straight to the muscled brunet. Unfortunately for the muscled brunet he didn't notice there was a ball coming straight at him because he was watching how Tenten fixed her bikini top.

The ball hit his shoulder and fell to the ground, which brought him back to earth. Not because it was a point for the other team, but because a ball thrown by Rock Lee hits hard. He could get a bruise, oh no the horror! "AAAH IT HIT ME! Oh my god, I will get an ugly bruise! My shoulder oh my beautiful shoulder!" He screamed in horror and ran around like a real sissy.

Tenten, Neji and Sasuke looked with a please-spare-me-look. After that a huge sweat drop appeared on their head when Lee was crying with sympathy for the guy he had hit. Also at that moment Shikamaru asked for a time-out and called the team over.

"I just noticed something that can help us win." Shikamaru started. "You all must have noticed that Lee hit that sissy with the ball right?"

"That was coincidence." Neji said.

"So you think Lee threw a ball and it accidentally hit an advanced volleyball player?" Shikamaru asked not expecting an answer. "Come on, think! Had nobody seen why he hadn't noticed the ball?" Shikamaru asked impatiently.

They all thought for a moment. But couldn't think of anything, they were so busy with the ball that they hardly had time to keep an eye on the other team.

"We were to busy watching over the ball, we haven't noticed anything." Sasuke said.

"Sasuke's right. It costs too much time to focus on the ball. Besides, after I passed the ball to Sasuke I didn't watch what happened because I was fixing my …" Tenten's mouth formed in an o-shape. Shikamaru smirked at her; finally someone knew what he was pointing at.

"Fixing what?" Neji asked, wanting to know what she and Shikamaru knew. Sasuke and Lee were curious also. What the hell did those two know what they didn't know?

Tenten hadn't answered jet, and Sakura had joined the group. They were playing over her and Tenten, she had the right to know what the plans were! Of course she had watched the game, and saw that Tenten was busy fixing her bikini top.

Sakura decided to tell them what was going on since Tenten kept her mouth shut. "She was fixing her bi- HMPFH!" Sakura was cut of by a hand of Tenten closing her mouth.

"Ha ha ha, that's not important! Now let's just listen to Shikamaru's plan shall we?" Tenten said in a very happy way. Sasuke and Neji looked at her suspiciously.

"Look, the team that you are against consists only of males with a high testosterone level." Shikamaru continued. "It makes them very competitive and aggressive in their game. But it's also a weak point, because they have a highly interest for the opposite gender."

"So, where are you heading?" Sasuke asked impatiently.

"You still don't get it?" Tenten asked annoyed.

"What can we do about that?" Lee asked, thinking of a plan.

"We could let Sakura or Ino walk around to distract them…" Sasuke proposed.

"That could help sometimes, but they will also be focused on the ball and the game. The chance that they constantly look at Sakura and Ino is small. Besides, they eventually will notice that it's just a way of distracting and will focus on the game instead." Tenten explained.

"Hey Tenten, you're a girl right?" Neji asked suddenly.

"Wow when did you find that out?" Tenten said rolling her eyes, sounding a bit insulted.

"I have an idea, Tenten stay still." Neji said. He walked over to Tenten and began to untie her buns.

"Neji… what are you doing?" Tenten asked nervous. He was so close, she could hardly breathe!

Neji was busy with untying her buns while he started explaining. "First, you're a girl and that is what we need for the plan." Neji began, half of Tenten's left-bun untied. "Second, you're their opponent. So they have to keep an eye on you, which they probably already did." Neji started with untying Tenten's right bun. "Third, like I thought before, you have beautiful long hair. There's no way those bastards won't look at you." Neji could barely prevent saying how beautiful her figure was, and how elegant she moved. What would Tenten think if he said al that?

Neji was done with untying and observed the result. He cupped his chin with his right hand, supporting his elbow with is left hand. Neji watched how her long silky hair waved along with the wind. Her long hair made her look very feminine, she looked stunning. "Not bad at all." He said.

"I think this will work." Shikamaru said, nodding in agreement.

"Hn." Sasuke didn't say much. His interest went to somebody else, a certain pink haired kunoichi with emerald green eyes.

"Wow Tenten, I didn't know you looked so beautiful with your hair down!" Lee said in amazement.

Neji looked proud at Tenten. 'As my training partner she is very beautiful, but very dangerous.' He had to smile at the thought.

"Now Tenten, all you need to do is distract them once in a while. Distract them enough so we can win, but also concentrate on the game itself." Shikamaru said.

"B-but how do I do that?" Tenten asked lightly nervous.

"You're a creative girl. You'll think up something." Shikamaru said, smiling teasingly.

'Bastard.' She thought.

"All we need to do, Lee, Sasuke,"Neji continued to his other team mates, "is not passing the ball to Tenten. If we pass the ball to her, shout her name. In that way she can focus on distracting the other team."

Lee and Sasuke nodded in agreement.

Tenten turned to Sakura. "Sakura, can you give me some tips? I have no idea how I can distract them!" Tenten asked desperately.

"With guys like that it's not that hard. Here, I have some tricks for you." Sakura held Tenten's shoulder and pulled Tenten closer to herself so she could whisper in her ear. Once in a while Tenten nodded and she and Sakura sometimes chuckled because of some ideas. "Got it?" Sakura asked. Tenten smiled and nodded.

"Shall we continue?" Tenten asked at the others.

Neji, Sasuke and Lee nodded and went back to the volleyball field. Tenten stuck up her thumb at Sakura and winked before she went back.

Tenten decided to stand left at the net. Sasuke stood next to her, on the right side of the net. Tenten looked backwards to look if Neji was ready before Lee served the ball.

When Lee had served the ball, the game continued. After some ice on his shoulder, the muscled brunet was able to play again. He caught Lee's ball and passed it to his other team mates. They had played the ball quickly back to Tenten and her team mates.

Unfortunately the ball came towards Tenten so she couldn't set the plan in action. Sighing she passed the ball backwards to Neji. When Neji caught the ball he played it to Sasuke. Tenten looked at Sasuke before he caught the ball, he pointed to the guy in front of Tenten with his eyes. Tenten got the hint. Sasuke smashed the ball to the black haired bimbo in front of Tenten.

The black haired bimbo wasn't paying attention to the ball. He was watching how the beautiful brown haired girl stood in front of him, smiling with a sparkling laugh keeping eye contact with him.

Tenten waved with her fingers flirtingly at the black haired bimbo. Because he was paying so much attention to Tenten, that the ball hit his chest and fell to the ground. He looked astonished at the ball, and then back at Tenten.

Tenten looked innocently and raised her shoulders. She stuck up her thumb at Neji, who smiled at her in reply. A shy blush crept up Tenten's cheeks. She felt very warm inside.

After some bikini fixing, body shaking, sweet smiling, hair waving and everything they had scored many points. For now, Tenten and her team had scored 7 more points. Now it was 20 for Tenten and her team and 19 for the bimbo team. They had to score one more point and they win!

Unfortunately the bimbo team smashed one ball back very low. Lee tried to reach it, but failed. Now it was an equal score, 20-20. Nobody had any idea who would win. Everything was possible, again. Tenten got very nervous.

At the side, Sakura had watched the game in amusement. But now she was worrying a lot. Losing was a very high possibility now, what if that happened? Sakura thought for a solution.

The bimbo team was about to serve. Sakura thought of something quick. She had an idea and pulled Ino with her.

"Sakura what are you doing?" Ino asked annoyed.

"You've got to help me." Sakura said. She whispered her idea in Ino's ear. Ino smiled and agreed. They ran to the side of the bimbo team.

Sakura saw that a blond bimbo was about to serve. Sakura and Ino now stood at the side. "Yoo-hoo!" They called sweetly. The blond haired bimbo looked to his right to see Sakura and Ino waving at him sweetly. Sakura winked while Ino blew a hand kiss. The blond bimbo blushed and tried to focus on the ball. But he was too distracted; he hardly could focus on the ball. He hit the ball too hard. The ball flew over the net, and over the other players. It landed out of the field.

"OUT!" Hinata shouted. With this, Tenten and her team had scored 21 points, and had won! "WINNER!" Hinata called and pointed lightly at Tenten, Neji, Sasuke and Lee.

Lee was jumping and yelling from excitement. Tenten also cheered in happiness. She turned around, and came face to face with Neji. He smiled at her and Tenten smiled wide back. She took Neji in a victory huge and cheered 'we won' in his ear. Neji smiled and the hug continued for another moment. Tenten felt all warm inside and the weird feeling in her stomach was back. But it felt nice, she wished this moment never stopped.

Of course Naruto got overexcited too. He had watched the game the whole time next to Hinata. "WE WON! WE WON!" He yelled excited. In his excitement, he hugged Hinata of happiness.

Hinata didn't know what came over her. She suddenly was in the warm arms of a cheering Naruto. She became all red end felt warm. No she felt hot, too hot. Hinata was all red and passed out in Naruto's arms.

Naruto looked surprised at the unconscious girl in his arms. "Hinata? Are you alright?" Naruto asked worriedly. "What's wrong?" Hinata remained unconscious. Naruto saw she was all red, and thought it was because of the warmth.

"I'm bringing Hinata back to the hotel, she doesn't look right!" Naruto called to his friends, while he had Hinata on his back. They all nodded and let Naruto take care of Hinata.

Sakura was so glad she wasn't going to be a date of those creepy horny bimbos. She looked for Sasuke to thank him for winning. She didn't have to seek long. He was still standing on the field and Sakura ran over to him.

"Sasuke! You've won! How ever am I going to thank you?" Sakura was smiling excited at Sasuke.

"I know how you can thank me." Sasuke said, a smile crept up his face. He pulled Sakura in his arms and kissed her soft on the mouth.

Sasuke had pulled back to quickly for Sakura's idea. "I don't think I've thanked you enough." Sakura said teasingly. He smiled when Sakura leaned in and their lips met again.


Wow, this chapter took me long to write! But since I had much spare time this week I could write rather quickly on this story.

And I've surprised myself; I suddenly had inspiration for a NaruHina moment! Only there was absolutely no ShikaIno in this chapter (bad me!). I'm sorry for the ShikaIno fans!

I hope everyone liked this chapter, and please review! (be easy on the flames please)

Groetjes en kusjes (greets and kisses)

Shamira