Rather than all approach at once, the girls ended up arriving at the hot springs one by one. They found that an attendant was waiting for them outside the changing rooms of the hot springs. It was her job to inform the incoming genin where to go for their class.
"Tsunade-sama is waiting for you in pool number 3," she would tell each of the kunoichi as they entered.
"Arigato," they would all answer politely. They would enter the tent, undress, and make their way over to the aforementioned hot spring. They would sink in and turn to face Tsunade, plus any of the girls that had gotten there before them. It wasn't long before Sakura, Ino, Tenten, and Hinata had all assembled.
"Konichiwa," the hokage began.
"Konichiwa, Tsunade-sama," they all chorused.
"We decided to have these talks with you because these years are very important to your development. Your bodies are going through a lot of changes and we feel that you should have at least a little bit of knowledge as to what's going on. Now, how many of you have had a 'time of the month' yet?" All four of them raised their hands.
"Good, I don't have to go into that…but do you know how it affects chakra?" They remained silent.
"The way it works is simple-every twenty-eight days, you'll also gain an enormous amount of chakra, but afterwards you'll be weakened. Sort of like…have any of you seen Lee open a chakra gate?" Again, all four of them nodded. Sakura had seen him open five gates at the chuunin exams, and the other three had seen him open at least one during various training sessions afterwards. They all envisioned him opening a gate, receiving a large chakra boost, then being weakened. Then they imagined Lee PMSing, and burst out laughing. Tsunade continued once they died down.
"Okay, so that covers the primary changes…but you'll also go through some other changes in addition to that. For example, you'll start growing here," she shook her massive lovely lady lumps and caused a small tidal wave that engulfed all of them. They all gasped for air as they emerged from the hot water, and glared at her. She ignored them and continued.
"Which brings us to why I asked you to meet me here. You, stand up," she said, and pointed at Tenten. The girl nervously stood and Tsunade inspected her.
"Hm…you're going to keep growing for another couple years or so, I would imagine." Ino and Sakura then stood up together and stared each other down.
"I'm bigger!" Sakura asserted.
"Feh, you just wish that so you'd draw people's attention away from your forehead. I'm the more mature one." They began shouting insults at each other and were close to a fistfight.
"Girls, GIRLS!" Tsunade shouted. They both shut up and stared at her, and noticed that a vein above her temple was throbbing. "Both of you sit down. Now." They quickly sat. "You're both equally developed," she said, and then turned to the Hyuuga heiress. "It's your turn."
Hinata blushed slightly; she didn't like showing a whole lot of skin in public, hence the sweatshirt and full-length leggings. And now she was being asked to show, well, everything.
"Don't be shy," Tsunade coaxed.
I need to be brave, like Naruto-kun, she thought resolutely, and stood up.
"Holy crap, Hinata-chan!"
"Why do you hide a figure like that?"
"Naruto's more of a baka than any of us had ever imagined!"
"No way, if she spiced up her wardrobe a bit he'd be all over her." Hinata turned a dark shade of red and sank down into the hot spring so that just her nose, eyes, and hair were showing. The other girls assumed that it was only out of embarrassment, and naturally none of them noticed the sparkle of hope in her pearl-colored eyes. Tsunade cleared her throat.
"Well, I don't really have anything else to say to you girls, except don't do it until you're married."
"Sasuke-kun's mine," Sakura whispered as she glared at Ino.
"You wish, Forehead," Ino shot back.
"Anyway," Tsunade continued over the bickering fangirls, "I guess the four of you are dismissed." They all nodded their heads.
"Arigato, hokaga-sama," they chorused. The four of them stepped out of the hot spring and went into the changing room.
"Seriously, Hinata," Sakura said, "you should come shopping with us. We'll help you pick up something that'll grab Naruto's attention for sure!"
"A-arigato," she replied gratefully. "But, why do you want to help me?"
"Because you deserve to be happy," Sakura replied.
"Yeah, and also it'll keep the dobe away from me so I can concentrate on my Sasuke-kun!" Inner Sakura added.
After the four of them had changed, they headed out to buy Hinata something that would attract even someone as knuckleheaded as Naruto. They decided not to vary too much from what Hinata usually wore, and ended up just changing her top to a low-cut, gray T-shirt that clung to her figure and showed just a bit of cleavage.
"B-but…what will my tousan think? He won't let me wear something like this!" Ino shook her head sadly.
"Hinata-chan…you've gotta take some risks if you want to get the guy you want." The Hyuuga still looked skeptical, so she added "listen, if you really don't want him seeing you in it, just wear it underneath the sweatshirt. Then, take off the sweatshirt before going to see Naruto."
"H-hai. Arigato, Ino-chan." The sun was just beginning to set, so they all decided to head home.