All Girl Valentine Sleepover (Chapter 2)
"Well, I did all I can," said Shizune looking around the dark hospital wardroom. It was evening now and all three sound ninja had been treated. Kin was lying on her hospital bed on the far right still unconscious, a curtain separating her from the guys. Zaku was sleeping in his bed between Kin and Dosu. Dosu was awake but he lay in his bed exhausted and aching.
"Thank you," he murmured to Shizune. "But why...why did you help us? We were from the Sound."
Shizune shrugged smiling and headed for the door.
"I help everyone I can, even if they are from the Sound village," she replied. "You three aren't my enemies,"
After she left, Dosu heard Kin moving around in her bed. She whimpered and opened her eyes slowly.
"Why's it so dark? Where am I?" her voice sounded scared and confused to Dosu; very unlike her. Kin noticed it too. She felt very vulnerable and she hated it.
"Kin," said Dosu sitting up in his bed with great effort. "It's ok, we're in a hospital, and things are fine for now. We're safe."
His voice calmed her. She sat up in her bed, wincing, and pushed open the curtain. She looked across Zaku's bed to Dosu. She smiled slightly and struggled out of her bed.
"Kin," said Dosu lying back down. "Don't push yourself, you're still recovering."
But the former Sound kunoichi walked across the room to a table where her freshly washed clothes lay. Dosu closed his visible eye as she changed out of her hospital clothes. His visible eye was still closed when Kin walked across the room and crawled onto Dosu's bed. He wasn't alarmed, often on missions the three of them had to sleep close together, sometimes on the same mattress, but he was still slightly surprised. She put her head on his chest and lay down beside him. Dosu's visible eye shot open in shock and he blushed slightly. This was new.
"Thank you," Kin whispered, closing her eyes. Dosu's face burned.
"F-For what," he stuttered slightly, not knowing how to address such a situation. Was she coming onto him? "Z-Zaku's the one that rescued you from the village."
Kin didn't answer. She had fallen asleep again.
"Kin?" Dosu said nervously. Zaku turned in his sleep and grumbled. His eyes slowly opened and looked at Kin's empty bed. He sat up alarmed and looked to Dosu's bed. He gasped.
"Technically you are all a few minutes older so I guess I can tell you," said Kakashi smiling. "You see when Kurenai was nak-
"Finish that sentence Hatake and you wont live to return to the fight with the sound chuunin." Kurenai warned as she glared at him. She turned to Shino.
"I can't sense the sound ninjas' chakra anymore," she said to her student. He nodded and looked away. Kurenai looked at everyone else.
"Let's head back," she said and everyone nodded. It took only a couple of hours to get back because it had stopped snowing and they met up with Asuma and Chouji on the way who confirmed the Sound nin had retreated across another border. As they approached the gates Neji, Kakashi, Shino, and Sasuke noticed freshly spilled blood on the ground. It was splattered around as if three travelers were bleeding to death.
Once inside Konoha, the senseis turned to their students.
"Chouji, good job," said Asuma. "I'll treat you to barbecue tonight,"
"Yes! Pork and beef and chicken here I come!" the large boy cheered jubilantly.
He and his sensei went off. The other senseis dismissed their students. Then Gai turned to Kurenai and grinned.
"So I was wondering, Kurenai-chan," he said grinning. "If you…well… maybe wanted to be my val-
"Oi! Kurenai! Do you want to be my valentine?" interrupted Kakashi. Kurenai blushed as her eyes widened.
"W-what?." she stared at him in disbelief. Was this his idea of a joke..? She didn't like him that way so she wasn't about to get her strings pulled by the popular ladies man. But... she was free this evening. "Er, sure, Kakashi. Why not?"
"I'll pick you up in an hour to go to Ichiraku's. Then maybe we can go get a drink somewhere?" Kakashi asked without even a tint of pink in his face. She nodded and walked away slightly blushing, slightly still bewildered. Kakashi turned to Gai who was watching Kurenai walk away with huge eyes.
"Gah-…Gah-…uh" Gai stuttered. "Nooooooo!"
Gai went in a dark, blue corner to sulk. Kakashi sweat-dropped. "Um…"
"Kakashi!" Gai yelled standing up with fire in his eyes. "You cheated!"
"I didn't cheat," replied Kakashi shrugging. "I just asked her first, It's fair."
"I will start an anti-Kakashi club, eternal rival Kakashi!" yelled Gai with a fire background behind him.
"Who other than you will be in it?" asked Kakashi.
"Asuma!" snapped Gai. "He'll be angry and jealous when he finds out you stole Kurenai-chan from him!"
"Stole her?" asked Kakashi frowning. "She doesn't belong to him,"
"Well I'll beat you someday!" yelled Gai and he disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"Okay…" said Kakashi and he pulled out his book out of his pocket shrugging. " Guess I had better get ready for my date with Kurenai-chan-
He gasped and dropped his book, his visible eye was very wide, and his face went slightly pink. 'A DATE. WITH KURENAI.'
"Uh...uh- guh-uh…." Kakashi stuttered. What had he been thinking? He gulped. "Asuma is going to kill me….."
Hey, Sasuke," said the Hyuuga genius walking up to the raven-haired boy. "Have you seen my teammates?"
"No," Sasuke answered frowning. "Mine are missing too,"
"This can't be just a coincidence," said Shino walking up to both of them. "My teammates are also gone,"
"Damn it. Let's go find them," Sasuke said sighing. The three shinobi went off to find there teammates.
"You don't think they did anything stupid when we were gone do you?" asked Sasuke as they jumped through the trees in the Konoha forest.
"Hinata, Tenten, Sakura, and Lee, wouldn't," said Shino. "But Kiba and Naruto would probably cause a world war or something."
"We'd better find them fast then," said Neji. Shino stopped and put his ear to the branch of the tree he was standing on.
"Someone's coming up ahead," Shino said standing up and adjusting his sunglasses.
"Byakugan!" said Neji performing his hand sign. "It's Gaara,"
A rush of sand circled a while on a branch ahead and Gaara appeared.
"Have you seen my brother?" he demanded glaring. Sasuke spoke up. unafraid.
"We haven't. Have you seen our teammates?"
Gaara shook his head.
"Then let's hurry and find all of them," said Neji. "It will be faster if we all work together,"
The four shinobi headed off.
"Er…Anko?" said the man with a senbon between his lips.
"Hai?" Anko said looking up from her paperwork. Genma held out a small, white envelope. "Here,"
The Mitarashi looked at it then the man around her age and grinned mischievously, her look similar to a naughty cat's.
"Well well well, this sure is unexpected, Genma," she teased, smirking now as the jounin glanced away uncomfortably.
"This is from Ibiki," he explained quickly.
Genma was slightly relieved as she took it. He had sort of wanted to ask Anko out tonight too but it looked like Ibiki beat him to it. Which wasn't exactly a bad thing , he decided as he now recalled why he hadn't asked her out sooner. Honestly, he was a little frightened sometimes by the eccentric woman. She'd be interesting to go on a date with maybe but he was 32. Maybe it was time to settle down already.
'Oh well,' he thought to himself. 'I only thought to ask Anko out because Shizune-chan was busy. I'm more concerned about how Iruka will feel about it. He had been wanting to ask Anko out since they had graduated from the academy. Too bad the guy had never developed the backbone to actually do it. Ah well, I'll just try asking Shizune again if she isn't busy.'
"See ya," Genma said turning to walk away. Anko got up from her desk and fallowed him to the door after she read the paper in the envelope. He turned to see what she wanted. Anko smirked and kissed him on the cheek.
"Thank you very much, Genma," she said putting the letter in her coat pocket. Genma's face was slightly pink. Damn this flirtatious woman.
"Happy Valentine's Day," Anko said smiling and she walked out of the room to find Ibiki, leaving another shocked, pink-faced man alone in a room.
"Geez," thought Genma when he got over the shock. "Why can't Shizune-chan be more like that?"
"Hey, Ino?" asked Sakura as the group of Kunoichi fallowed Ino. "What is the mission exactly?"
Ino blushed and rubbed the back of her head grinning sheepishly. "Well…it's to well…um have a slumber party?"
"What?" yelled Tenten, Temari, and Sakura. Hinata didn't say anything but her eyes were wide in surprise.
"You want us to have a stupid slumber party!" demanded Temari angrily. She thought this was going to be something important. She'd been dying to vent out some anger since yesterday and now all there was to this mission was... girlishness?
"Pass," the seventeen-year old stated, about to walk away.
"Wait!" Ino called out, dismayed. "At least here me out,"
"Why didn't you tell us earlier?" Tenten asked frowning.
"And why do you want us to come to a slumber party?" Sakura asked, also skeptical of her old friend.
"Well I thought we needed some girl time," said Ino shrugging and smiling sheepishly. "Just one night to not worry about our ninja things, so we could just be…girls."
The other Kunoichi looked at her for a while and then finally smiled back.
"I've wanted to do that my whole life," Tenten admitted.
"Well…..I guess I'd like to get away from my brothers awhile…." said Temari doubtfully, mulling the idea over.
"It has been a while since we've been just girls…" whispered Hinata, smiling to herself.
"We could talk about girl stuff without stupid teammates like Naruto butting in!" exclaimed Sakura, relishing the idea.
"Let's go!" said Ino.
"Can we stop at the hospital first," said Tenten. "It's on the way. Tsunade-sama is constantly going there, and we might get to see her,"
"Ok, why not," said Ino smiling, and the kunoi- girls, headed to the hospital.
"D-Dosu?" stuttered Zaku, his eyes wide. He looked from the sleeping Kin to the blushing Dosu. Zaku scowled. "What the hell is going on here!" he demanded. Dosu sat up carefully so he wouldn't wake up Kin. He blushed more.
"I didn't do anything," he muttered looking at Zaku steadily. "She just came over here and-
"Liar!" yelled Zaku angrily. He struggled to get out of his bed. After he got up, he limped to Dosu's bed and glared at him. He looked at the two on the bed glaring with the utmost jealousy. Kin stirred and slowly opened her eyes. She sat up next to Dosu and looked from him to Zaku. Her face flushed.
"Zaku…I…" she began but he scowled and went back to his bed. After he laid back down on his bed he through his blankets over himself and was silent. Kin got off Dosu's bed slightly pink. She didn't look at Dosu, which was lucky for him because his face was very red.
"Kinuta Dosu?" said a nurse from outside the room. "I need to check your blood pressure. Please step outside and fallow me."
Dosu hurriedly shuffled out of bed, wincing in pain but eager to avoid the upcoming drama.
Kin sat down on her own bed and closed her eyes as Dosu changed into his freshly washed clothes. He left the room without looking back at Kin and leaving his hospital clothes on his bed. When he had gone, Kin stood up and opened her eyes. She sighed and looked over at Zaku's bed. She slowly walked over to the side of his bed.
"Zaku-kun?' she asked quietly. No answer. "Please talk to me….." she begged.
"What do you want?" he snapped from under the sheets.
"Nothing happened between Dosu and me," Kin whispered. "Honestly, I swear,"
"…."
"Please, at least talk to me," Kin whispered and tears formed in her eyes. The situation they were all in was bad enough without there being fighting amongst themselves.
"…"
Kin sighed and sat down on the edge of his bed. "Okay…well thanks for saving me at the village," she said, trying to get back on his good side. "If you hadn't had found replacements for Orochimaru's sacrifice he would have killed…" tears were rolling down Kin's face. She clenched her teeth in anger at her sign of weakness and choked back a sob.
"Zaku-kun…thank you so much…I…." Kin was sobbing now. Tears were streaming down her face. "I owe you everything..I-
Zaku couldn't take it anymore. He through off the sheets and grabbed Kin by the waist and pressed his lips on hers. Kin gasped and he took the opportunity to deepen the kiss. She let Zaku's tongue explore her mouth. Her face was red and her eyes were wide with shock but she didn't resist him. In fact, by the time Dosu walked back in she'd already closed her eyes and had her arms around Zaku's neck, kissing him back eagerly. Dosu stared.
"Naruto-baka!" yelled Sasuke jumping from a tree in front of the girl version of Naruto. He could rwegconized the dumb blonde's disguises anywhere. "What the heck do you think you're doing!"
"None of your business!" actually-dressed female Naruto snapped back.
"Kankuro," said Gaara glaring at his brother, his confusion somewhat obvious. "Why... are you in a dress? And looking like a girl?"
Gaara was quite creeped out about this. 'He's supposed to be my older brother?' Gaara thought sighing.
"Uh…I was forced, Gaara," replied Kankuro nervously. "They made me,"
"Lee?" asked Neji frowning. He was very disturbed. Lee looked a bit creepy as a girl. Well, creepier than usual anyways.
"I'm doing this to be close to Sakura-chan! Yosh!" replied Lee in his girl form. "If this disguise doesn't work Sakura will never return my love and I'll run 100 laps! That's a promise!"
Neji resisted the strong urge to face-palm.
Shino just looked at his teammate and sighed shaking his head. "Fool," he murmured.
"I didn't want to be the one left out," Kiba said shrugging.
"Left out in what?" asked Sasuke suspiciously.
"A very troublesome mission," replied Shikamaru sighing.
"You too, Shikamaru? How disappointing," said Shino, shaking his head.
"Hey, I was threatened, ok?" the shadow user defended himself indignantly. "Don't lump me in with these morons. This mission is NOT my idea!"
"What is it?" asked Gaara. "This mission?"
"We're going to disguise ourselves as girls and go on the girl's mission!" exclaimed Naruto. "Do you guys want to help?"
"No," replied Gaara, Shino, Sasuke, and Neji in unison.
"Great!" replied Naruto starting to walk away. "Now fallow us to Ino's house!"
"Baka," said Shikamaru. "Ino's house is the other way,"
Naruto stopped and turned around rubbing his head and grinning sheepishly. "I knew that,"
"I'll come too," Neji added suddenly, surpisngly the 3 other serious genin and even himself. "Just..to make sure you guys don't do anything stupid,"
There was a pause.
"Me too," Sasuke sighed finally. "I have nothing better to do today anyway..."
"I guess I don't have much of a choice," said Shino, adjusting his sunglasses. "I don't trust Kiba and Naruto to be very responsible. Also, it is most unpleasant to be left out of things by friends."
"...I'm going to check on my sister," said Gaara.
"Woot!" Naruto and Lee cheered.
All of the Shinobi fallowed the Nara to Ino's house.
"How troublesome," thought Shikamaru.
"The Konoha hospital is really big," said Temari looking around appreciatively.
"Yup, there are many talented medics here," replied Sakura proudly. A girl Tenten's age (14), ran by blushing madly.
"Hey, wasn't she that sound kunoichi that fought your teammate, Ino?" asked Tenten. "Back in the Chunnin exam?"
"I guess so," said Ino frowning.
"What's she doing in Konoha!" Temari demanded angrily. "She's probably a spy!"
Temari ran after Kin and the other girls fallowed.
"Hey, you!" Temari called.
Kin ran through the hospital blushing furiously. The past recent events were running through her head. Dosu had walked in on her and Zaku. Kin blushed harder. She had pulled away from Zaku to catch her breath and noticed Dosu in the doorway. She had ran past Dosu out of the room with her face flushed.
"I thought I told myself to go by the sound ninja rule and not fall in love with any of my teammates," she thought angrily. What had she been thinking? She cared about Zaku yes, but she'd never acted on her feelings. She'd always been sarcastic and tomboyish around him. Ugh...
"Hey, you!" called the seventeen-year old girl behind her. The blond sand kunoichi was catching up to her. Behind her were the all the other kunoichi Kin had seen in the chunnin preliminarily matches. Kin ran faster As Temari pulled out her fan.
"No!" yelled Sakura as she struggled to keep up with the rest of the kunoichi. "We're in a hospital! You might hurt someone!"
"Who cares!" yelled Temari looking back at her. "If anyone gets hurt, there are plenty of medics around!"
"Unless you kill them all," Sakura thought frowning even though Temari had put her fan away. Kin was running as fast as she could but her healing injuries caused her to slow down.
"If my blood pumps any faster, the bandages will be covered in blood," Kin thought. As she was in Temari's reach, Kin lost her balance and tripped. The blonde kunoichi stopped and looked down at her.
"What are you doing here?" Temari demanded, emerald eyes narrowing suspiciously.
"I have permission," Kin spat back, gritting her teeth in pain. "My teammates and I have left the sound. we have papers."
She pulled the temporary passport Shizune had given her. Kin struggled to her feet as the rest of the kunoichi ran up behind Temari.
"Konoha gave you permission?" Sakura asked surprised. Kin nodded, holding up her card.
"I don't believe that," Temari said frowning. "Konoha won't forgive sound ninja so easily."
"I told you," said Kin angrily. "My teammates and I left the sound,"
The leaf and sand kunoichi thought about this for a while before Ino spoke up.
"Alright then," she said a little uncertainly. "Er…do you want to join us on our sleepover?"
"What?" exclaimed Temari, Tenten, and Sakura. Kin and Hinata just looked shocked.
"Ino, are you sure?" asked Sakura looking at her friend as though she were mad.
"We're just girls right now, Sakura-chan," reminded Ino. "Not kunoichi,"
"Well…I don't know…" said Kin uncertainly looking at the kunoichi suspiciously.
"Kin?" Dosu's voice could be heard from another hallway. Kin went slightly pink.
"Ok, let's just go!" she said looking at Ino desperately. She had remembered Ino from the chunnin second exam in the Forest of Death. Ino had taken over her body, but now Kin didn't care. She just wanted to get away from her teammates.
"Fallow us," said Ino, and the leaf, sound, and sand, girls walked out of the hospital. Ino wasn't worried if Kin was dangerous or not. Hey, if lazy Shikamaru could beat her, she should have no problem!
'Hm...I wonder what Shikamaru's doing right now...' she thought as she guided the group of girls.