A/N: The TENTH chapter! I think this calls for a special celebration…
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
Chapter Ten:
The week passed slowly, and was filled with random conversations about a wide range of subjects. If you were to enter the house you would see Naruto rambling on about some pointless topic and Hinata smiling, nodding, and adding her opinions. Ino and Shikamaru were usually found sitting in one of the gardens with Ino listing flower names and them trying to figure out what the clouds looked like, or talking about the world over a game of shojo. Sakura and Sasuke could be found in her bedroom or his reading and discussing their plans for the future. Neji and Tenten were usually found in a clearing in the surrounding forests, throwing weapons at targets and having small taijutsu battles against each other. Tenten would be found talking to Neji, talking about important things like her weapons and Neji would listen to her and give short replies but none the less replies.
Sakura and Ino were the first to recover, and Sakura healed Hinata and Tenten's more serious injuries. By Friday the girls were back to normal, although they still had slight pains once and awhile. Right now all eight of them were gathered in the game room, the girls taking up one couch and the boys taking up the other two. They had decided to watch a movie that night and were now debating on what to watch.
"Mean Girls," Ino said.
"No, such a chick flick. How about Mission Impossible Two," Naruto said and the two commenced in a glaring contest.
"What genre movie do you guys want to watch?" Sakura asked. Her glasses were still broken so she didn't have them on.
"Action," Naruto said.
"Comedy," Ino said.
"Action and adventure," Shikamaru said.
"I d-don't really c-care," Hinata said.
"Fighting," Tenten said. Sakura sweat dropped. She should have guessed that Tenten would choose that.
"Fighting," Neji agreed.
"Fighting," Sasuke said.
"Well I wanted romance but seeing that we have four guys in the room will have to rule that out," Sakura said and bit her lower lip in concentration. Suddenly a light bulb appeared above her head. "Action and adventure goes with fighting, and I know just the movie that has all three. Plus it has a little bit of comedy and some romance as well," Sakura said.
"Well? What is it?" Ino asked impatiently.
"Zorro!" Sakura said with a smile, she thought she had out done herself with picking a movie that had what they all wanted in it.
"Ok," "Fine," "Whatever," "Just put it in already,"
"Getting there, getting there. What happened to patience these days?" Sakura grumbled at them and went to put the movie in. She found it among all the other movies they had all brought. She popped it in and pushed play. Grabbing the remote she sat down next to Tenten on the couch.
"Would anybody like popcorn?" Tenten asked standing up. She had already seen the movie so it didn't matter if she missed the beginning to go get refreshments. Seven hands raised in the air. "Would anybody like pop of any sort?" she asked. Again, seven hands went up. "Ok well then, I will be back,"
Five minutes into the movie and Tenten still wasn't back.
"Do you think she needs any help?" Naruto said worried and looking towards the door Tenten had left earlier. "I mean that had to be a lot of stuff to carry back,"
"I will go help her," Neji said and walked out of the room before anybody could say anything. They weren't going to anyway, they were too into the movie to pay any attention.
Upon entering the kitchen Neji found Tenten trying to juggle eight cans of soda, a humongous bowl of popcorn, and eight bowls to put the popcorn in. Needless to say, she wasn't succeeding.
"Need any help?" Neji asked and smirked as the popcorn nearly tipped onto the floor.
"N-no," Tenten said and tried to return the smirk but was too busy balancing everything.
"Ok then," Neji said and turned to leave again.
"Wait," Tenten yelled at him.
"Yes?" Neji said turning back.
"Ok, ok fine you win. I need your help, would you please help me?" Tenten pleaded with him.
"Hm…why should I?" Neji asked.
"Neji! Please?" Tenten begged and then the cans slipped from her grasp. They would have gone tumbling to the ground if Neji hadn't caught all eight of them as they fell. "Thanks!" Tenten exclaimed and went opened the door holding it for Neji.
They were walking to school, it was Monday, and it was the day they would get a test on their assignment. The girls had discussed it the night before and thought that they had learned a lot from the boys. They didn't know any of the specifics of the assignment except that they would have a test. They didn't know what kind of test so they didn't know what to expect.
Little did they know the boys had also discussed how the assignment had been going during the week. They hadn't talked much during the week spending it with their 'wives.' They also agreed that it had been going well, but knew they had no idea what was going to await them on the test.
Usually a test wouldn't have been a big deal, but that was when it came to math, science, reading, writing, and school based subjects. This was something that they had no experience with, and because it counted for such a large portion of their grades, they were a little bit nervous.
The regular fan girls were waiting outside the school but Ino did a genjutsu and nobody saw them. They arrived safely in their seats and awaited Kakashi.
Fifteen minutes later Kakashi showed up for class and all were a little surprised to see him there so early. Kakashi never came early, ever.
"Hey why are you here so early?" a boy called out from the back of the class.
"Did you forget Sam? We have a test today so I thought I would come in early and have enough time to give it to you. Now if you would all take your seats I will take roll and then the test can begin," Kakashi said in an all too cheery voice. It sent shivers down the student's spines.
Kakashi took roll and when he reached the girl's names he said "Nice to have you girls back with us. How do you feel?"
"Fine," "Great," "Content," "Better than ever,"
"Great, now let me tell you about the test. It will be twenty questions about your partner. I get to pick the questions. Don't worry though they will be within reason. I will not ask you to list all of their pets and their names since they were born because I doubt they told you. This is your first grade, so I won't be that hard. You will have this same assignment half way through the year and at the end. Each time you will get more questions and they will become more difficult. I will come around to the tables and ask the questions. Your partner will tell me if you get the question right," Kakashi said and moved to the first desk. "While you are waiting you can read or work on something quietly. If I find you cheating you will get a zero for both of you,"
"This is going to be fun," Tenten whispered sarcastically to Neji.
"Hn," Neji said smirking.
"You know everything about me, but I hardly know anything about you. I am going to fail!" Tenten said flopping her head down onto her desk.
"You know enough," Neji said calmly.
"Easy for you to say! You never talked on your own free will and you are a freaking prodigy!" Tenten grumbled.
"Oh god, I can't fail this assignment!" Naruto whined as he pulled on his hair.
"Don't worry Naruto all we did was talk for nearly a week. You know a lot about me. Besides did you hear Kakashi? He said he will be easy on us this time," Hinata said.
"Good point. Thanks for cheering me up Hinata," Naruto said giving her his fox grin. She smiled back at him.
"Oh this is so troublesome," Ino said looking at Shikamaru. He grinned at her. "What?" she asked.
"You just used my word!" he said and chuckled lightly. "You always tell me to find a better word to use and you just used the word yourself,"
"I knew I was hanging around you too much!" Ino said and turned away from him. This caused Shikamaru's grin to grow bigger.
"I don't see what people are fretting about, it's just a stupid test," Sasuke said looking at all of the anxious people sitting around the room. The boy Kakashi was currently testing was white as a sheet and sweating.
"I know what you mean. It's so annoying when people get nervous for no reason what so ever," Sakura said lifting her nose out of her book. Sasuke noticed that she wasn't wearing her glasses and hadn't been for the past week.
"You broke your glasses didn't you?" Sasuke asked and Sakura nodded. "What do you need them for anyway?"
"Um…I really don't need them. I just wear them because some people find my eyes unnerving. I mean who has jade eyes and pink hair?" Sakura said giving him a smile.
"I like your eyes, and you shouldn't wear glasses just because somebody doesn't like your eyes. To tell you the truth you looked freakier with your glasses on then without them," Sasuke said.
"Thanks for saying so Sasuke," Sakura said smiling at him.
"What do you think the questions are going to be Hinata?" Naruto asked looking at Hinata.
"Um…I…," Hinata began but was stopped when she saw Kakashi walk up behind Naruto.
"You will soon find out," a voice from behind Naruto's head said, it was Kakashi. Naruto jumped and spun around.
"What did you do that for?" Naruto yelled at him. "You could have given me a heart attack,"
"Unlikely. Let's get the test. Naruto I will ask you questions first. Are you ready?" Kakashi said raising his clipboard.
Naruto gulped.
A/N: Four chapters up in one day! Pretty good I think. Anyway, does anybody have any ideas for the questions to be asked to each person? I want some questions that will be the same for all of them but I also want some other ones that will be different for each. Anybody have any ideas? The next chapter will cover all of them being asked questions so it should be pretty long. Probably the longest chapter yet! Please review!
