Author's Note:

Leah: There's something important today…but I forgot what…

Eva: -not amused-

Leah: ;D

Eva: It's my birthday!!!!!11one!!!! And my party's tomorrow and there's gonna be pocky and movies and ramen and more pocky and more ramen…if any of you know where I live you're invited :D

Anyway…

Yeah.

I'm officially one year younger than Leah and Claire! One. As in not two! –squee-

I really like how this chapter turned out and

FINALS ARE OVER!!!!! 00

I passed all of them, and got a 3.5 gpa

I AM SO HAPPY!

Leah: I've met someone worse than Jenny. We shall just call her Beasty. She's a total bitch and she's convinced that everyone loves her even though it couldn't be farther away from the truth.

Eva: And she got pregnant! At FIFTEEN! She's younger than ME! -.-

Sick pathetic bitch….

…

Why is the pocky always gone?

Leah: That's a good question….

Claire: –is dead-

Chapter 4:

Leah sat cross-legged on the ground, supporting her sketchbook with her left arm and violently erasing her picture with her right hand. Sai looked up, noticing the amount of eraser dust she was depositing on the floor. "Neji might be mad if you make his floor too dirty," he told her.

Leah offered no response except to glare at him. She really couldn't have anyway, because Sai was painting, and painting didn't require erasers. And of course there was no way he would spill anything because of his super ninja powers. Stupid super ninja powers, though Leah angrily.

She was doubly frustrated with herself for ending up in this situation in the first place. Since Sai had learned she was also an artist, like himself, he had offered to help her. She had refused at first, but he renewed the offer again later when he heard her complaining about being a 'sucky artist'. Unfortunately, Eva and Claire had been there too. They had enthusiastically argued that she should go, and, ignoring her protests, they agreed to it for her.

To compensate, she said demanded that they at least come with her so she wouldn't have to be alone with Sai and her social awkward-ness. She had planned to punish them by making them bored with, but it wasn't going exactly as planned. Sakura had wanted to ask Hinata something and announced she would be going to the Hyuuga's, so Sai and Leah and Eva would have to come too. Claire didn't want to be left out and Naruto had nothing better to do, so they invited themselves as well. Eventually, all six of them ended up going, along with Neji and Hinata's other visitors, Lee and Shikamaru.

Despite these obstacles, Leah had managed to drag them away from the more entertaining ninjas, thinking her plan for boredom-torture was infallible. Yet it seemed the universe was working against her. Claire had stolen some Pocky from the vast kitchens of the rich family's house, and with this simple act, all her desires were currently fulfilled. Eva had her iPod with her, so she could listen to music while watching Sai draw, which also proved entertaining.

Leah stabbed at the picture, attempting to channel a little bit of her anger into the small black hole made by the pencil. She looked up at Sai again, hoping to glare, but the ghostly white ninja was not there.

"Hmm…"

"GAH!" Leah jumped and flung her pencil up in the air when she realized Sai was standing right behind her. Ghostly was for damn certain…

He caught the pencil before it flew out of reach, and handed it back to her. She accepted it numbly. Ninja was for damn certain too.

"Err…I know it sucks," she mumbled, suddenly feeling very self-conscious knowing that a much more capable artist was examining her work. "I can't draw guys, and I was trying to practice, and—"

"Leah, your picture is fine," Sai said, cutting her off before she could ramble him to death.

Leah blinked. "It is?"

Sai nodded. "There's just one problem."

Leah's heart sank. She knew she couldn't receive a complement from someone as blunt and critical as Sai. "It's the height isn't it? My old art teacher pounded it into my head that people should be five to six heads tall and so now I can't draw them and when I do they're all disproportionate and I just can't fix it because—"

"It's not the height."

"Really? Then it must the head. I can't draw faces either, they're all—"

"Stop criticizing yourself. It's not the head either."

"…Then what is it?" Leah questioned.

"Well, I thought it would be obvious," Sai said calmly, putting on his false smile, "He doesn't have a penis."

A blush erupted on Leah's face and Claire sat up, choking on a piece of Pocky that had gone down the wrong way. Eva, however, burst out laughing. "He's right, Leah," she said thoughtfully between giggles, having come over to observe from her other shoulder.

"Uhm…It's…that's because, he's um, wearing clothes," she mumbled, voice faltering.

Sai remained helpfully persistent. "No, but you see, there's a bulg—"

Leah swatted his hand away, covering the offending picture with her arms. "That's okay, Sai, I'll fix it myself!" she squeaked.

"Actually," he mused, then looked at her. "Are you using Naruto as a model?"

"Yes, Sai, I am," Leah huffed.

"Oh, it's fine then," he smiled.

"You don't give them penises or asses?" Eva smirked, referring to an assless picture of Gaara she had received from Leah several years ago when she had been obsessing over him, "Gosh, Leah, these poor people—"

"I feel uncomfortable drawing those parts! Shut up! Leave me alone," Leah said.

"H-honestly, Eva," Claire said, eyes watering as an after-effect of choking on the Pocky. She was still squeamish about perverted comments even at the age of 17. "Go pester Jiraiya. Leave us out of your pervy escapades."

"Ooh, Jiraiya's here?" Eva perked up.

"Yes! Torture him instead of us!"

Sai looked at Claire, puzzled, "I don't mind--"

"Don't care! You stop pervifying things too!" Claire snapped, "Eva, leave!"

Eva did not need to be told, and had already scampered off to find the other Konoha inhabitant that was as perverted as she was.

xXx

Fortunately, Jiraiya was easily spotted, partially due to the fact that he was around six feet tall and partially due to the fact that he had a giant mane of white hair. Eva ran up to him just as he was turning around.

"You must be one of the girls Tsunade told me about," he said.

She nodded. "I'm Eva. Can I read your books?"

Jiraiya blinked at her, caught slightly off guard. "Aren't you a little young to be...er...interested in that kind of stuff?"

Eva lowered her eyebrows, slightly annoyed. "I'm sixteen."

"Oh. I guess that's a little better. I didn't know because you're so sho--" he stopped himself before finishing the word, away of the death glare she was giving him. "sho...shu...sure...ly pure...and uninterested in this kind of stuff!" he corrected himself, laughing nervously and rubbing the back of his neck, much like Naruto.

"Nice save," Eva grumbled. The comment was soon forgotten though, because she was on a mission of her own kind. "So can I have some of your books?" she repeated in a considerably happier tone.

"If you exchange them for money," Jiraiya grinned deviously.

Eva pouted. "No fair! Aren't I a special case, since Tsunade told you about me?"

The sannin snapped his fingers. "Tsunade! Right! She sent me here for a reason...what was it?" he pondered this, forgetting about the persistent Goth. Said Goth waited for about a minute before clearing her throat irritably. Jiraiya turned. "Huh?" Eva held out her hand, putting on a convincing smile. "Sorry, I don't give out handouts. Especially not those that would corrupt the innocent youth of children," he smirked, patting her on the head like a dog.

Eva gaped at him. "You said sixteen was fine though!"

"I said it was better. If you want the books, pay for them!"

Eva sniffed irritably and slumped against the side of the Hyuuga's house.

Wait a minute. Hyuuga...

XxX

"Nejiiiiiiiiiii…"

"AH!" Neji jumped back as he rounded the corner, having come face-to-face with his new nemesis. "How…did you get in here?" he asked Eva, making sure to put at least three feet of personal space between them. She had taken up her friends' hobby of braiding his hair.

She ignored his question, her sadistic nature causing her to giggle as she realized the control she had over him. "I'll go away if you let me borrow more money…" Eva tempted.

"What do you need to buy?" he inquired suspiciously, narrowing his eerie white eyes.

Eva's cheeks colored slightly, "Um…books?" she said vaguely.

"Then why are you acting suspicious? What kind of books?"

"Books that you read…?"

"Eva…"

"Why do you care what I read anyway? You hate me!" Eva protested.

"Because," Neji replied irritably, "if you buy a book called, oh, I don't know, How to Murder the Hokage for example, I don't want to be implicated as an accessory to murder!"

Eva released a tensed breath she had been holding. "Oh, well it's nothing like that."

Neji gave her a skeptical look.

"Really! I swear on…my swords that I am not buying murdering books," she said, unintentionally holding up her left hand to swear instead of her right.

Neji studied her for a moment. She stood there smiling innocently up at him. He decided she wasn't smart enough to murder someone, and grudgingly handed over the cash.

She squealed joyfully and bowed, almost falling down in her haste. She barely even paused when she righted herself to rush past him, sliding across the smooth wooden floor with ease. Neji sighed, wondering if he had just done something very, very bad.

A crash not three seconds after she had left his line of sight told him he had. Though he feared what he might find when he turned around, he knew it would be best to survey the damage now to get it over with, like ripping off a Band-Aid.

There was a gaping hole where none should be. Frayed edges resulting in a rip from a papery cloth-like material made up the perimeter of it. A foot was wedged between two sides of the deepest rip, which was the origin for the rest of the hole. The foot twitched almost comically, and Eva slowly craned her neck over to turn around and dislodge it. She stood up, looking at the damage she had done to the door a little abashedly.

"Er…Sorry about that." She edged out of sight and left him staring at the wreck in horror, a vein starting to twitch in his forehead.

Leah and Claire appeared about half a minute later, making three people who had their eyes locked on the catastrophic architecture. "Eva?"

Neji nodded, still in shock.

Claire shrugged. "Don't worry about it Neji. That's what being rich is for." She and Leah snickered and turned to leave, but Neji suddenly snapped out of his trance, getting an idea.

"Hey, do you know what kind of books she would be buying?"

The girls glanced at each other, an uncomfortable smirk creeping across their faces.

"You don't want to know," Leah assured him.

"Yes I do, I have to make sure it's not a threat! She used my money so if it gets traced back to me—"

"It's not a threat. You just don't want to know," Claire argued.

"Just tell me," Neji insisted irritably.

The two sadistic teenagers giggled again, then together they responded, "Porn."

xXx

Since Sai was busy drawing and Neji was busy mourning his destroyed door, the girls decided that their current unsupervised position would be the best chance they'd get to buy Eva's porn.

Eva poked herself in the stomach, bored with just walking. "I'm fat."

"You're not fat," the other two said in unison.

"I am fat," Eva protested, "I'm fat and I'm weak. I can barely even swing my swords." She sighed dispiritedly. "I need to train…"

"I can help you train!"

They jerked their heads in the direction of the voice. There stood Lee, in all his green jump-suited glory. Eva giggled, not because she thought he was a complete dork, but because she was a complete dork.

"What do you say?" he asked energetically, getting within a foot of Eva's face.

"Uhh…" she said. She glanced at her friends. They shook their heads. Neither one of them were at all pleased with the prospect of physical activity.

Not that this mattered to Eva. "Okay!" she squealed, grabbing Leah and Claire by the wrists and dragging them along.

"No, Eva!" Leah whined. "I don't want to go…."

Eva blinked. "But it'll be fun," she protested.

"How is working out fun? It requires effort. And I'm lazy"

"Seriously Eva, you're the only one that wants to work out," Claire added.

She ignored them, and they kept walking.

Within a minute or two they reached the courtyard with equipment for training. Lee instructed them to get in push-up position, and Eva did so enthusiastically; Claire and Leah, not so much. Lee started doing vertical push-ups and the three girls began their own exercises as well. Eva did about ten push-ups before she collapsed, Claire made twenty-one, and Leah made twenty-four and gave up, not wanting to do unnecessary work.

When they were on the floor dying, Lee was counting his out-loud. "51, 52, 53, 54, 55…."

The girls could only stare in awe as he continued without a single drop of sweat falling onto the ground. Eva began doing sit-ups, and Claire and Leah, after exchanging a look between them, sat down and began talking. Lee saw Eva's effort and cried out, "Self-motivation! How youthful!"

Eva smiled and continued with renewed enthusiasm. She made it to one hundred and fifty three sit-ups before being forced to stop by her inability to lift her body into the needed position.

Lee got to six hundred of his vertical push-ups before he stopped. "Eva, great! You're done! Let's go run a few miles, okay? We'll start off easy, maybe nine or ten."

Eva blinked. Nine or ten? She could hardly do one. "Um…I don't think that's such a great idea."

"Why not?"

"I'm going to…slow you down," she protested, trying to get out of this. It was true, anyways.

"You'll do fine!" Lee disputed. "I'm sure you're a great runner!"

"Yeah Eva, let's run," Leah added evilly, knowing the she was a much better runner than Eva.

Claire laughed. "No…Eva's the worst out of the three of us. It's really pathetic."

"Then would you two like to come running?" Lee mused.

"No," Claire said quickly.

"Why not?"

"My foot fell off."

"Your…foot fell off…." He said it slowly, as if to confirm clarity.

"Yes. My foot is no longer attached to my leg."

He blinked, and reaching over, poked her foot. "No, your foot's right there."

"No it's not. My foot is a myth."

"Imagination! How amazing, Claire!" His smile spread across his face as the realization dawned on him.

"I think we're going to go now," Leah mumbled, standing up and beginning to back up.

"But wait, don't you want a jumpsuit?" With a grin, he held up three green spandex outfits.

Claire and Leah quickly backed off; the dreaded things had finally made their appearance. Eva, however, walked up to it curiously, poking the material and giggling as it wiggled. She looked at Lee. "Do you have it in black?"

Claire's jaw dropped. "Are you saying that, if you got it in black…you would actually wear that thing?"

"Why not?" Eva shrugged. "At the very least I would keep it as a souvenir.

"But it's…spandex. How could you even consider wearing spandex?" She flinched.

"Black is un-youthful," Lee whimpered. "Why wouldn't you want it in this gorgeous green color?!"

"I um, think Leah's right," Eva began. "We probably should get going."

"Nonsense. You have to come running with me!" Lee protested. He began to jog towards the road, and the girls sighed and took off after him. The way he said it just made them feel…obligated to.

They ran for a while, he practically had to walk to let Eva keep up. Claire and Leah easily jogged ahead, although they were getting a little tired and bored with this. After about three miles, they completely gave up. Turning around, the girls walked all of the way back to the Hyuuga mansion. On their way through the city, Eva spotted a book shop. A sign on the front said, 'Now carrying the new Icha Icha book!'

Taking the money out of her pocket, the Goth ducked into the store. She walked to the new releases section and got the newest one first, and then wandered around until she had found the other three. She happily skipped up to the cash register and set the pile on the counter. "I'll take these, please."

"Aren't you a bit young to be reading that series?" The man at the table asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I'm sixteen."

"Still…"

"Then I'm perfectly old enough. And I have money." She handed him the money. He grudgingly bagged them for her, and she brought out the first one, strolling out of the store while reading it.

She walked extremely slowly the entire way back to the Hyuuga mansion.

The three girls walked through the house and after some trial and error, reached the garden. Lying in the perfectly-taken care of grass was Shikamaru, watching as the clouds drifted by. They lay down next to him, Leah and Claire on their backs, and Eva on her stomach, immersed in her porn.

After a few minutes, Claire pulled out her pocky and began munching on it slowly, savoring every bite.

Shikamaru rolled his head lazily towards them, noticing that they looked a little worn out, "I heard Lee got you," he said.

Claire nodded, "Eva's fault."

Shikamaru propped himself up onto his elbows and continued to look at the sky, "I don't know where that kid gets so much energy, I can't work out half as much as he does…then again, I'm a longer range fighter so I don't need to."

"Hn," Claire grunted, "I agree."

They stared at clouds for a few more minutes, except for Eva who was quickly reading the first Icha Icha book. One of them occasionally pointed out an interesting shape, but other than that they just shared pocky and tried to beat each other up for brief instances.

"Hm, what do you think that one looks like? I know it resembles something but I just can't place a finger on it," Leah mused, pointing to fluffy cloud.

"Swordfish?" Shikamaru offered.

"Pocky?" Claire said, munching on the said food.

"Penis?" Sai said, having stepped outside as well.

"I agree with Sai," Eva muttered, completely immersed in, what was her opinion, the best series ever.

Leah, Claire, and Shikamaru choked on their pocky at Sai's perverted, yet expected comment.

Leah swallowed hard and glared at Sai, "Actually, I think Shikamaru was the closest. I do not see those shapes in clouds," Leah snapped.

Sai smiled again, "I do. It looks like a penis."

"No it doesn't!" Claire yelled.

"Shut up and get your mind out of the gutter!" Shikamaru said just as forcefully.

Sai just smiled. Eva laughed.

XxX

"I remembered what it was!" Jiraiya announced as he burst through the door (or rather, what was left of it).

Leah yelped and would have fallen off something if she hadn't been sitting on the ground. Claire jumped and cussed, losing another stick of pocky to gravity this time instead of her lungs. Eva remained on the grass, humming to her iPod and reading her porn until Claire kicked her in the side. She took out the headphones and looked up, grinning once she saw who it was.

"My youth was corrupted long before I read your books," she pointed out triumphantly. "Which are amazing, by the way."

Jiraiya shrugged, not much bothered by his defeat.

"You came here for a reason," Claire pointed out.

"Huh? Oh yeah," he said. What a swell representation of one of Konoha's greatest ninjas. "Right. Tsunade asked me to tell you three that she wanted to see you in her office ASAP."

"That's it?" Leah asked. Jiraiya nodded.

"The woman is freaking impatient…It's only been like…18 hours since we saw her last," Claire grumbled, rising to her feet.

"I guess that means she likes you," the white-haired man offered.

Eva grimaced. "Somehow, I don't think that's it."

xXx

Tsunade smiled upon seeing Claire, Eva, and Leah enter her office. It wasn't a friendly smile or a smile that one would use in an awkward situation. It was a formal smile, completely cold, but almost grim. She laced her hands together on the desk and looked at the three girls before her.

"I've been unusually lenient up till now. You're on your last chance. Is there anything you'd like to confess to before I have to resort to more drastic measures?" Tsunade asked threateningly. Shizune and Jiraiya stood behind her desk, appearing neutral while masking a small hint of concern for the young girls. The other familiar jounin were also present, though they weren't as familiar with the girls and probably took Tsunade's side in the matter of their guilt.

"What?" Eva asked, sounding innocently confused.

"Confess to what?" Claire said.

Leah just stood there like the lump she was and didn't say anything. Instead, she just looked extremely nervous.

Tsunade shook her head to herself. "Naruto, Sakura, Sai," she address, "Grab them."

Sakura raised an eyebrow, "Tsunade-sama?"

"Why? They're our friends," Naruto said.

Sai did as he was told and grabbed Claire's hands and held them tightly behind her back. Claire winced and was tempted to kick him really hard in a certain place with her heel. She didn't only because the likelihood of her missing was extremely high and she didn't want to make a fool of herself. Instead she settled with growling 'Hokage's bitch' under her breath.

Naruto looked around, as if he was just noticing all of the other people in the room, "What's going on here, dattebayo?" he asked softly.

His and Sakura's eyes were wide with concern. Why was their Hokage treating their new friends so rudely? It wasn't like her. What concerned them even more so was the fact that other important people were in the office as well. This was extremely unusual, and even a bit scary.

Tsunade narrowed her eyes, "Sakura and Naruto, restrain the two other and I will explain," she said slowly.

Naruto hesitated, but gently took Leah's wrists and held then behind her back. She didn't fight, knowing that she didn't stand a chance against him, even in his relaxed position. Sakura held Eva in a similar fashion then looked up to Tsunade. The two ninjas still seemed confused.

Tsunade's face remained grim, "Thank you. As you three may have already guessed, these girls are not here on just visiting terms."

Sai nodded in assent. Naruto and Sakura just blinked. They had suspected it, but had been happier with telling themselves the girls were just friends of the Hokage.

Everyone stood quietly, waiting for someone to break the silence. Asuma coughed, briefly disturbing the quiet. But it returned quickly as they all waited for someone to say something.

"Then, why are they here, Tsunade-sama?" Sakura asked carefully.

Tsunade straightened up and folded her hands on her lap, "These three girls have been associated with the Akatsuki for the past five or so months, isn't that right?"

Naruto's hands shut around Leah's wrists like a steel trap, squeezing her hands painfully together. Eva yelped as Sakura followed suit, except applying some force on a pressure point located on the underside of Eva's wrist.

"Dammit woman! How many times must I tell you that we don't know any Antarcticans?!" Claire shouted in frustration.

Jinxes seemed to be out to get Claire these days. As soon as she oh so strongly defended herself and her friends, there was a muffled sound coming from her pocket. Everyone turned to Claire, curious, or in Eva and Leah's case, panicked.

Author's Note:

Leah: Why was I made the worst athlete?

Eva: I asked you how many you thought you could do and…yeah!

I

GOT
MY
PORN. And I swear I will keep it for the rest of the story.

Leah: I'm going to run away now.

Eva: That was a bit blunt, even for me, huh?

Leah: Yeah…yeah it was.

Eva: Um…reader peoples…I apologize for my blatant perversion…yeah….

Leah: I fear what she'll make Deidara do to me….

Eva: -evil smile- -goes back to book-

Claire: -is still dead and even more so after that-

Eva: I want to make this clear though. Claire wrote a VERY large portion of this chapter, she's just dead as we're writing the author's notes. So…yeah….