Yay! Chapter 11. This is just some fun stuff to relieve the story from Byakuya's death. So, Haruka hangs out with the "gang". I hope you enjoy!

I'm going to dedicate this chapter to my friend Courtney for the Shikamaru-ness. XD.

Disclaimer- I do not own Naruto only my OCs Haruka, Akira. And the deceased Byakuya and Hisa.

Chapter 11 Swimming Fun!

Haruka's POV

"My feet ache" Shikamaru said as we walked toward our destination.

"Shikamaru! We've only been walking for 2 minutes!" Temari exclaimed standing next to him.

"Hn, troublesome."

I laughed. It was Me, Shikamaru, Temari, Kakashi, Chouji and Ino all walking. We were all in our swimming gear. Today we were going to the lake for a swim! The six of us were to meet Naruto, Sakura, Lee, TenTen, Neji, Hinata, and Kiba. Everybody else didn't want to go, well excluding Shikamaru, he was FORCED to go by his girlfriend Temari.

This would be the first time I actually hung out and had some fun in Konoha. It's been a few months.

We arrived at the lake and I could see that it was only me and Ino that was wearing a two piece. All the guys were in their trunks, except Kakashi. He had trunks but he still wore that silly mask. It started at him mouth and went all the way to his shoulders, he looked kind of silly.

"HEY YOU MADE IT! DATTE BAYO!" I looked over to see a blonde boy with a big grin on his face. Naruto.

"Hi Naruto-kun!!" I called over.

"C'mon in the water's fine!" Sakura said swimming over to me.

My eyes widened.

"No no, it's okay, i'll just sit down for a little while." I then took a spot near shore of the lake. I sat on the grass and dipped my feet into the water.

Naruto came out of the water and came over to me.

"C'mon Haruka-chan!!! Why won't you go in?"

I looked over to the blonde who was now sitting next to me.

"I-I" I sighed and put my head down.

"I can't swim.."

Naruto looked at me.

"Well c'mon! I'll teach you!!" He said pulling me up.

"No Naruto-kun you don't have to really, it's no big deal."

Naruto then smiled.

"HEY EVERYONE HARUKA-CHAN CAN'T SWIM! LET'S TEACH HER HOW!!"

I looked at Naruto, I wanted to kill him.

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A few hours later and Kiba was still trying show me the doggy paddle. This was hopeless.

"All right Haruka, let's try this one more time" Kiba said.

I stood up in soaking wet.

"Kiba-kun, let's face it i'm not going to be able to swim."

Kiba scratched the back of his head.

"Uhhhh..."

Shikamaru then came up to us all.

"What's going on?"

Temari rolled her eyes, "Where have you been?"

Shikamaru yawned.

"I fell asleep looking at the clouds." He responded.

"Well, while you were napping, Kiba-kun has been trying to teach Haruka-chan to swim."

Shikamaru looked at me.

"Just throw her in, she'll learn"

"SHIKAMARU!" All four girls (except Hinata) screamed. (That would be Temari, Ino, Sakura and TenTen)

"What it was just a suggestion" He said walking back to where he had just taken his nap.

"Well Haruka-chan you could just stay in the shallow end for now" Neji piped up.

I looked at Neji. "Uh, yeah that sounds good." I said.

"Great! Us Four girls will keep you company!" Sakura said cheerfully.

I smiled. "Thanks Guys."

So, we spent the last few hours playing in the shallow end due to the fact that I couldn't learn to swim. We played "Marco Polo", water volleyball and other fun things. We even splashed Shikamaru a few times to wake him up. It didn't work too well he just moved to a new spot; lazy kid.

It came time to leave. We all got out of the water and I said goodbye to everyone.

"Thanks Kiba-kun for trying" I said to him as he started to leave.

"Ah, it's no problem maybe next time it'll work" he said waving goodbye and left.

"Haruka-chan I'm going to head on home, I'll see you later" She said leaving.

Soon, it was just me and Kakashi left at the lake.

"Well, teaching me to swim was unsuccessful huh?"

Kakashi looked at me and smirked.

"There's still time to learn"

"Oh no. Kakashi what are you planning?" I said backing up.

Kakashi smiled through his mask and came towards me. He pulled me down into the water, it was shallow enough for me to stand.

"KAKASHI! THAT'S NOT FAIR!" I said opening my eyes and looking up.

Kakashi had pulled me down, and there I was laying on him again, only this time I wasn't covered in pizza sauce.

"You want to learn don't you?"

I nodded.

"Yeah"

Kakashi then started to sit up and I adjusted myself off of him sitting in the water.

"Okay, take my hand"

I took his hand and he lead me through the water...

I guess Shikamaru was right, just throwing me in did work.

To Be Continued...

A/n

That chapter was a bit scrambled in different places but it was just a filler chapter to have a little fun from what had just happened.

But, the next chapter gets back to the story...Akira returns again..and that means another person dies...But who? Will this story have a happy ending! You'll have to find out there's about 3 to 4 more chapters...

Okay, til next time

Hikari-Li Hatake