Well… this chapter made me laugh a lot, and I had to flip a coin whether to do one funny thing on here or not… and I'm proud of it now.
Enjoy!
Chapter 11
Unexpected Invitations
"Naruto! Wait for me!"
"Quiet Asuka!" Kiba scolded. "You're going to mess this up!"
"Both of you shut your traps!" Naruto demanded. "I got this, believe it!"
They poked their head out from atop the roof, staring down at their dark haired target.
"You got the stuff?" Asuka asked.
"Dude, the stuff is everywhere, there's unlimited ammo, of course I got it." Naruto said as he palmed the item.
"Don't over shoot it." Kiba reassured.
"I got this! Believe it!" he whispered-shouted at him as he held the object above the target's head, about ten feet above it.
"Come on Naruto, let it go before he moves." Asuka said.
He nodded his head, and dropped the item on their target, it splattered all over his head.
"What the…" the target rubbed his head and looked at the contents. "A snowball?" he looked around, even above him to see nobody there. "What a drag." The target put his hands behind his head and started walking away.
"Hurry Naruto! He's getting away!" Asuka shook Naruto's arms while whispering again.
"I got this." Kiba said as he picked up the bucket of snow and jumped at the target, putting the giant bucket of snow on top of the target, dumping the snow all over him.
"What the heck!?" he pulled the bucket off his head to see Naruto and Kiba running away.
Asuka started jogging and waving at him. "Thanks for being a great participant Shikamaru!" she winked at him and ran away.
Shikamaru sighed and kicked the bucket. "What a pain." He mumbled to himself before walking back into his house to change clothes.
"Who's next?" Asuka asked as she caught up with Naruto and Kiba.
"I don't know, what do you think Akamaru?" Kiba asked.
Akamaru popped his head out of Kiba's jacket and barked happily.
"I don't think he'll join." Asuka answered him.
"Since when do you speak dog?" Naruto asked irritably.
She gave him a stern look idiot.
"Oh, right, you got that dog with you all the time!" Naruto figured out.
"I got it! Follow me." Asuka ordered as she quickened her pace, getting ahead of them.
Naruto and Kiba gave each other questioning looks and followed her anyway.
"Look, totally defenseless." She pointed out the next target from the roof.
"Him? Are you sure?" Naruto asked.
"Positive." She answered.
"Wont he get mad?" Kiba asked.
"He'll get over it." she answered. "Now shush and watch the master work." She looked over his target, reading his favorite book. The worst I'll do is probably ruin his precious book. She thought as she dropped the snowball on his head.
The target looked around, seeing nobody, but he heard snickering from above him, so he quickly got up there and stood over Asuka. "What do you think you're doing Asuka?"
"Nothing Kakashi sensei!" she squeaked out as she scratched the back of her head.
"Are you sure?" he asked her.
"Yes sensei! It was merely an accident!" she saluted to him.
He arched an eyebrow at her, seeing through her lie, and was distracted long enough for Asuka's water clone to shove snow down his suit. His eye shot opened and reached for his back. "Cold! Cold! Cold! Cold!"
"Run!" Asuka yelled out as she got ahead of them.
"Hey! Wait up!" Naruto yelled after her.
"Asuka!" Kiba yelled too.
Kakashi chuckled and let the snow melt on his warm back. "If that's how you want to play it, bring it on." he vanished into a puff of smoke.
"I think we lost him." Asuka called out to them, right before she face planted into something soft and cold then fell over on top of it. "What the heck! Who puts a snowman in the middle of the street?!"
Kakashi appeared in a puff of smoke. "Correction, who drops a snowman on top of somebody?" he pointed up while smiling.
"What the…" she looked up to see another snowman falling its way down to her. "You've got to be-" the other snowman landed on top of her, making a snowman sandwich. Her arms and legs were twitching, she finally bursted out; shivering and sneezing, trying to keep herself warm.
Kakashi knelt down next to her. "Now, what did you learn today?"
She sneezed before answering. "D-don't throw a s-snowball at Ka-Kakashi sensei." She sneezed again.
He put a hand on the crown of her head, "Exactly." He disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Kiba and Naruto were laughing their butts off, rolling on the ground, trying not to cry of laughter.
Asuka gave them a death glare, but they didn't see, that's when an interesting idea shot thru her head; an evil grin spread across her face as she got up and walked to them. "You guys think it's funny?"
"Are you kidding?! It's hilarious!" Naruto answered.
"Yeah! What he said." Kiba complied as he held his gut.
Asuka started laughing with them, "Yeah, it is pretty funny huh?"
Kiba and Naruto nodded without looking at her.
"Then you know what's really funny? THIS!" she did some hand signs, "Water style, snow wave jutsu!"
The snow melded to her command, and went after Naruto and Kiba. Their eyes shot wide and their laughter stopped. They tried getting away, but the wave got them first and swept them away.
Asuka brushed her hands together and grinned. "That takes care of them, now to continue with the pranking mercenary style." She popped her neck and several other joints before hopping onto the roofs to find her next target.
Minutes past and she couldn't find a good target. She did find Sasuke though, but decided not too because he would most likely try to actually hurt her instead of playing along.
After standing on a single roof for a few moments, she nearly gave up trying to find another target.
"What are you doing up here?"
Asuka got startled and jumped as she turned around and covered herself, afraid of getting hit by Naruto or Kiba.
She sighed with relief "It's just you Neji," she laughed to herself before continuing, "what do you mean?"
"Your on my roof." He said coldly as he crossed his arms over his chest.
She looked around and realized he was right, it looked a lot like his place. She smiled and laughed nervously while scratching the back of her head. "My bad. Achoo!" she sneezed, still cold from the snowman galore Kakashi sensei put her through. She rubbed her arms and shivered.
"Is it that cold to you?" Neji asked.
"N-no, Kakashi sensei got back at me pretty good with a few snowmen." She replied, feeling her nose go numb.
"Before we continue with our conversation, you actually got Kakashi sensei, with a snowball I am guessing?"
She nodded and smiled at him.
He closed his eyes and looked away, "You are a fool, going after a jonin leveled shinobi with something as pathetic as a snowball." He pinched the bridge of his nose. "How long have you been out her?"
She shrugged her shoulders. "What time is it?"
"Around three o' clock."
Her eyes went wide in shock "I've been out here for hours, since before noon I've been out here."
He shook his head and sighed. "Want to come inside? Hinata made too much hot chocolate, and your face is nearly red, it'd bee better if you came inside and warmed up before doing anything else."
She smiled, this was the first time Neji invited her into his home, even though she invited him several times to hers, he never accepted, always had 'other things' to do as he said. "I'd love to Neji."
He nodded and leaded her down and through the front door. He offered to take her small purple jacket that only covered her arms and her rib cage. She nodded and let him take it, he was shocked by the weight of it.
"How much does this weigh?" he asked, barley able to take it and set it down on a shelf, seeing as the coat rack itself might fall if he put it on it.
She shrugged, "75 pounds I think… or was it 100… I lost count, thanks for taking it though." She smiled at him before he started leading her through the house.
She saw Hinata, her usual nervous self waving and saying hi to her, Asuka smiled and waved back. "Hey Hinata, Neji told me you had some hot chocolate."
She nodded, "Yes, I'll get it." she got Asuka a mug and poured the piping hot chocolate in it.
Asuka looked to her left to see a little kid, she smiled and knelt to the child. "Hey there, what's your name?"
"Hyuga Hanabi, Hyuga Hinata's younger sister, and Hyuga Neji's cousin. What of you?" the little girl had pretty, long dark brown hair with long parted bangs, she seemed quite polite and nice, a little more open than her older sister Hinata.
"I am Asuka, Neji's teammate, it is nice to meet you young one." She smiled at the child, and she smiled back. Hinata handed her the hot chocolate. "Thanks Hinata, I'll be sure to say hi to Naruto later for you."
Hinata quickly averted her eyes and started fiddling with her fingers as a light blush appeared on her cheeks. "Th-thank you, Asuka." She replied softly. She sat down at the table, "P-please, sit." She motioned her to a chair.
Asuka accepted the offer and sat down next to Hinata, Neji grabbed some hot chocolate and so did Hanabi. Neji sat across from Asuka, and Hanabi sat across from Hinata, sitting next to Neji.
"S-so Asuka, what were you doing before Neji invited you here?" Hinata asked shyly.
Asuka took a sip from her chocolate, it was REALLY bitter, but she swallowed it down anyway and held down the sour face. "I was pulling pranks with Naruto and Kiba for about an hour or two, messing with Shikamaru and Kakashi sensei. Shikamaru didn't do anything about it, but Kakashi sensei got me good." She giggled before taking another sip of the chocolate. "He got me to fall onto a snowman, then got another snowman to fall on top of me."
"Why would you pull a prank on a jonin?" Hanabi asked.
"Because, I've known him for a long time, and he has been my sensei every now and then back when I was training, but wasn't in the academy then." She took a giant gulp and placed the empty mug down, still straining to hold down the bitter chocolate.
"W-would you like m-more?" Hinata offered.
Don't be rude. Don't be rude. Don't be rude. "Sure." Dang it! Don't worry, you've tasted worse, remember Guy sensei trying to cook for you, if you can choke down that, you can drink sweet Hinata's hot chocolate!
Hinata grabbed her mug and poured more hot chocolate as they continued to talk.
"What, you've had the copy ninja train you?" Hanabi asked shockingly.
"Yup, Guy sensei too."
The child was in awe. "Neji! How come you were able to defeat her so easily in combat, but she's been trained by great shinobi!"
Asuka held up her hands, "Hold it! Neji told you about our sparing?"
Hanabi nodded her head excitedly.
"How much did he tell you?"
"The whole thing! You were easily defeated, even if you had your dog Hatsahashi as your partner." She seemed pretty happy talking about this.
Asuka giggled as Hinata set the hot chocolate down in front of Asuka. She took a sip and set it down before continuing. "First of all, it's 'Hatsuharu', second, he only defeated me so easily because I couldn't do my special move in time with my kunai claws."
Hanabi gave her a questioning look to Asuka, "Kunai claws? Can I see?"
She shrugged her shoulders, "Can I Neji?"
He slumped in his chair. "Sure, but don't go using it in here."
"Don't worry Neji, I have SOME house manors." She dug into her pouch and pulled out a coiled Kunai Claw and set the chain on the table.
"Can I touch it?" Hanabi asked.
"You can touch the chain, but don't touch the Kunai, you only learn that lesson once, unless your like me and have to learn it three times before it sinks into your head 'it's very pointy'."
Hanabi grabbed the chain, seeing how long it is and how thick the chain was. "Why do you carry something so heavy around?"
"It get's you stronger, the more you carry it, the more your body get's accustomed to the weight, that's when I add more." She finished and took a sip of her chocolate.
"You don't look very strong." She stated, pointing at Asuka's arms.
She smiled brightly and held up her skinny arms. "Yeah, I know, but looks can be VERY deceiving."
"Are you sure?" Hanabi asked, tilting her head to the side.
"Would you like to pick up my jacket?" she asked jokingly, pointing to her jacket.
Hanabi started getting up but Neji put a hand on her shoulder, forcing her to sit back down. "Don't."
Asuka put the Kunai Claw back in her pouch and took another sip of her chocolate and kept drinking it till it was empty and setting it down while taking a deep breath and exhaling. She then said this very quickly, "Neji has suppressed emotional feelings for me."
Neji was drinking his chocolate and spewed it out as soon as she said that. He coughed, trying to get his breath before replying to that. Hanabi was patting his back, helping him. "What?!"
"Hold your drink down next time." Asuka put an arm around Hinata, "That's right Hinata, one day, we might be related."
Hinata's face nearly turned completely red, "O-oh… u-um…"
"Well," Asuka sat up and stretched. "time for me to hit the old dusty trail." She got her jacket and put it on and ran out the front door. "Thanks for the hot chocolate Hinata! I look forward to it next time!"
Neji's eye was twitching, hot chocolate still coming out of his mouth while his jaw was wide open.
"Is that true Neji?" Hanabi asked.
He shook his head and took a deep breath, "No, it's not." he got out of his chair and ran after Asuka, leaving his mess for Hinata to clean up.
He activated his Byakugan and instantly found her chakra, he followed and pinned her up against the wall of the nearest building.
"Why would you say that? Right in front of both of my cousins!" he said as he held her up by the front of her black dress.
"You have a headache again."
He deactivated his Byakugan, "Answer the question."
"You know I can easily get out of this, right?"
He pinched the bridge of his nose and looked away. "I don't care Asuka, just answer." He looked back and saw to be holding a snowman. How did she do that? He wondered.
"I was bored, simple as that." She said as she was just a few feet away from him.
He turned around and quickly got a hold of her hair and the front of her dress and pinned her up against the wall again. "Answer, the question, you are driving my patients!"
"You like it ruff don't you?" she remarked.
He pulled on her hair and pushed on her harder. "Answer." He said angrily, staring through her eyes with daggers.
"I just did, I was simply bored. Why are you getting so worked up over this? It was just a joke." She held his hand that was holding her dress. "Let go."
He sighed and let go of her. "I don't know… I should be used to it by now."
"Unless… you do like me!" she stated.
A light blush spread across his cheeks and he looked away, turning his back on her. "I don't think so, you are merely fantasizing."
She jumped onto his back and cling to him. "Why are you blushing then?"
"I'm not blushing! It's cold out here!" he said as he was trying to get her off.
"We've been out here for not even five minutes, it's not cold yet." She jumped off of him and appeared right in front of him. "If your cold, then let me warm you up." She grabbed the collar of his shirt and pulled him down to be at eye level with her, then she kissed him on his nose and winked. "Your cute." She scampered off to her house and left Neji there.
He shook his head and rubbed his temples, trying to clear the blush before he got back home. "She's just weird…"
I KNOW WHAT YOUR THINKING! And now, Neji is not her second love interest… just a funny one. I flipped the coin whether for Asuka to say that Neji had feelings for her… I'm proud I put that in now, I really am.
I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it.
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2/11/13 *Young Love*