Okay so im putting this chapter up sooner because i'm going to the beach for a couple of days and wont have time to update or type. I did my best to spell and grammar check it but its getting late im tired. and i really hope everyone likes it. While typing i got an idea for a oneshot (nejixtenten of course) if i can find the information i need i will work on that. Well i hope you all enjoy this like i said don't expect another update for a while and to all those who review thanks a lot i love yall.

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The Proper Way to Cook, Serve and Eat

Tenten, Ino, Sakura and Hinata all sat watching Natsumi run around the kitchen taking all sorts of food, utensils, and cookware from the cabinets and the refrigerator and setting them up along the counter. The boys took seats around the large table in the back of the kitchen. They were interested to know if any of them could actually cook. Once Natsumi had finished setting up it looked like a professional's kitchen, she then stood in front of the girls who were all still soaking their feet.

"So I am going to be teaching you how to make a simple dish, but it will still be impressive. It will need to taste good and look pretty, understand" Natsumi sounded like a general instructing their troops. The girls all nodded. They pulled their feet from the water slipped on their own shoes and joined Natsumi at the counter.

"Okay so first you need to wash your hands really good and make sure your hair is pulled back. You must pull your hair back before you wash your hands because if you don't you have to wash your hands again." Tenten, Hinata and Ino all had their hair pulled up but Sakura, whose pigtails hung forward had to fix hers. She put her hair back in a low ponytail and joined the others in scrubbing their hands at the sink. Natsumi shocked them by inspected their hands when they were done and sending them all back to scrub again. The other girls had taken a seat at the back of the room with the boys. They didn't see any need to help, Natsumi had it all covered. Finally they were clean enough to cook and she went on with the next explanation.

"Alright so next you want to time out your preparation for each part so it will be complete at the same time, you do not want a cold dish to get warm or and warm dish to chill because you started it to early. You need to make sure everything is precise" Then handing each of them a cook book with the recipes highlighted she told them to work out when they would need to start each part. They leaned against the counter working it out while Natsumi wondered over to the table. She looked at Suzu who was sleeping under Yukiko's chair.

"Yukiko if you could please take Suzu out of the kitchen that would be great" She said sweetly. Yukiko sighed this must happen a lot.

"Hear that Suzu, she is kicking us out again" she said jokingly, she took Suzu by the collar and led her from the room.

"What about Akamaru, does he have to leave too?" Kiba asked. Akamaru picked his head up from his nap.

"If it would not be too much trouble" Natsumi said. She did not want to seem mean but she rather not have the dogs and their fur around her food. Kiba stood up. "Come on Akamaru" He said and followed the others out the door.

"Alright" Natsumi turned back to the girls who looked confused as they stared at the cook books. "Do you think you got it?"

"Defiantly"

"Yeah I think so"

"Maybe"

"I'll try"

Even though they said this none of them were too confident about it. "So we need to turn on the stove right?" Sakura asked looking over at one of the stoves, because of course there is more then one. 'Just to confuse us more' she thought.

"Yes and then we will…?" She wanted one of them to answer for her.

"Boil two pots of water?" Ino guessed trying to remember what the recipes instructed.

"Very good" she then pointed to the counter covered in cookware "Which two pots do we use?" Hinata walked to the counter looked over them and pick up two very different sized pots.

"These two?" she said holding them up. Natsumi nodded.

"But we only turn the big one on now because it will take longer to boil" Tenten added.

"Correct"

From this point they started getting less questions correct and repeatedly had to rush back to the books to check what they were doing. Each girl seemed to encounter their own problem with one of the steps.

Ino and Sakura had started one of their classic pointless arguments while mixing batter. It was the same batter but they need a large portion so were mixing two bowls of it. Sakura asked Ino to pass the eggs right as she started to stir her eggs into the batter which, somehow, led to both of them shouting. Ino with her arm raised ready to throw two eggs at Sakura and Sakura with her arm raised ready to swing at her with a whisk. At this point Hinata walked over, not looking at either of them, and took the eggs from Ino and the whisk from Sakura. She placed them on the counter next to the bowl, still not speaking; she cracked each egg in with one hand, picked up the whisk and whipped them in. She turned back around, the whole room gawking at her, gave the whisk back to Sakura and went back to what she had been doing before. Tenten and many of the boys around the table erupted with laughter; Naruto laughing the hardest. Tenten could see Hinata smiling as she stirred one of the pots on the stove.

The next issue didn't come until they had started on chopping vegetables. Natsumi had brought out three knife blocks each with twelve sharp knives in them and said they would be chopping peppers, onions and assortment of other vegetables that were set up along the chopping boards. Neji and Lee had noticed the grin on Tenten face widen an incredible amount. Once they had been given the okay to chop Lee and Neji got up from their seats and quickly stopped Tenten as she went to the knives. Neji had grabbed hold of Tenten's wrists as Lee held the block of knives up out of her reach.

"Oh I promised it wouldn't happen again, please I'll be extra careful, really." Tenten was pleading with them. Everyone else in the room was very confused with this strange display. "You can trust me"

"You think we can trust her?" Lee asked Neji as he lowered the block.

Neji glanced at Tenten who was looking down at her feet frowning slightly. He nodded to him and released her wrists; Lee put the knives back on the counter and they went back to their seats.

"What was that all about?" Sasuke asked once they sat down.

"Tenten once decide to…experiment with using kitchen knives at training. When they proved to be difficult to use she went obsessive with them until we managed to take them all away" Neji explained still keeping an eye on Tenten as she chopped the peppers.

"Gai sensei banned her from using them ever again" Lee said "and that night we took them all from her kitchen while she was sleeping." For someone who had all her kitchen utensils taken away she was doing a very good job of chopping and even finished with her vegetables before Natsumi.

Many of the other interruptions came from Natsumi telling them to wash their hands. After switching to a different dish, or pushing hair from their eyes that refused to stay in the elastics. After a while they attempted to push it away with their elbows to avoid being forced to the sink; this usually left flour or some other ingredients smeared on their faces or arms. At one point they had to cut the fat from the raw chicken which none of them were to enthusiastic to do so when asked to wash hands again they were glad to.

Soon they were done with preparations for the food and found themselves around the sink again washing hands for a final time. They all took their seats again to wait for farther instructions.

"May I go get the others now, I am sure they would like to eat" Akiko asked her blonde friend as she checked the temperature on all the foods.

"Yes they can come back in" Akiko left to look for the 'dog loving duo' and Natsumi started to explain place settings.

"Okay so these plates are for this and these forks for that" She was explaining as she walked around the table setting a place setting in front of each of the boys, Harumi and herself, then had them set up their own, Akiko's and Yukiko's. The boys had been paying some attention to what forks were used to eat which food because honestly they didn't want to look like a bunch of idiots either. Natsumi and Harumi did a scan of the table moving around the various silverware. As they were being shown in what order to serve the food and which to serve with which Akiko came back, Yukiko, Kiba and the two dogs behind her. Suzu seemed to have gotten over her dislike of Akamaru but not by much. They took their seats, the dogs under the table by their owner's feet. Hinata, Ino, Tenten and Sakura each picked up a different dish and walked to the table trying to balance them. 'I hope we get better at this, Friday we'll have to do it wearing heels' Ino thought nearly dropping her dish. They listened as they were told how much of each food to give.

"A women's portion is always a little smaller because we do not want to seem like gluttons but we also do not want it too small because we do not want it to look like we are obsessed with staying skinny. Being too skinny it not good." The attempts at getting portions right was pathetic really. Trying not to give to much they gave too little, then remembering they were not to do that would give an extra large serving and soon everyone have different amounts of the same food on each plate.

"Well we still have tomorrow and the next day" Harumi said glancing down the table at the four girls who were now dumping the pans into the sink.

"We will try harder tomorrow we promise." Sakura said as she took her seat at the table. "So is there a special way to eat the food too?"

"Yes, well it's not really a special way you just have to use good table manners." Natsumi picked up her fork sort of demonstrating how it was done. "you sit with a straight back, no elbows on the table, don't cross your legs if anything place your feet close together under your chair." She started going down a mental list. "Never take too large of a bite of food we do not need to look silly trying to swallow. Do not talk with your mouth full that is self explanatory, and don't gulp down your drink." It went on like this while everyone ate of course it took a while to convince anyone to try the food scared that it might have been poisoned. Finally they were forced to eat it by some threats issued and it turned out to not be that bad.

"Wow this part is really good" Naruto said not sure of what he was eating. "Didn't you make this part Hinata?" she nodded. "Well then you're a really good cook." And of course upon hearing this she started staring directly at her food trying to hind the fact that she was blushing. Many times they would begin to slouch in their seats or accidentally put their elbow on the table and would jerk up to the proper position upon realization. They also spent a lot of time cutting their food into small pieces, probably smaller then necessary.

Soon they had eaten all the food on the table and were visited by the maids who started cleaning the dishes and counter tops where they now realized a huge mess was.

"I have a question, if you all have maids then why is it that you must learn to cook?" Ino asked.

"Well we usually help the maids anyways, and it is a good wife skill to know how to cook it impresses them." By them Akiko was referring to the suitors.

"Do you actually know anything about these suitors?" Tenten asked.

"Well no we don't know much" Yukiko admitted "We do know that all four of them are brothers though."

"Why is that?"

"Well see none of us are related" Harumi explained "so by us marrying four brothers we would actually be one united village or something to that effect."

"Oh I see, sort of"

"So you don't get a say in this marriage thing at all its like arranged?" Hinata asked.

"Yes"

"That's sucks really, who would ever want an arranged marriage. What about true love, and that connection between two people or at the very least knowing something about each other?" Sakura said Tenten, Ino and Hinata all nodded.

"Yeah you said it yourself anything they need to find out about you they can just ask your fathers but really they don't seem to know much about you either." Tenten said.

The four princesses sighed they knew this was all true. "We really would all love to have true love but that is not what the village wants and we can not let the village down, you all must understand how that works" Now it was their turn to sigh. On too many occasions had they had to worry about personal stuff and the welfare of Konoha. The conversation seemed to stop there.

The Lords also stopped by for a few minutes for a report on how the training was going. Harumi stood up and curtsied to her father.

"I believe the training is going very well for the first day sir" she said "We are about to move on to the dance lessons upstairs."

"Alright" Lord Asari said. He glanced at the mess the maids were cleaning and then to the twelve Ninja sitting around the table. The other girls had gotten up to curtsy to their fathers. They left the room.

"So would you all like to start your dance lessons now?" Natsumi asked.

"Do we really have any choice?" Ino asked back.

"Nope" she giggled and they all got up pushing their chairs in, leaving the kitchen and heading up the stairs. They walked through the large dinning hall and entrance hall, up the massive stair case, down another hall and up a much smaller stair case.

"This place is like a maze, how do you know where to go?" Sakura asked trying to remember which turns they had taken.

"We have visited here for as long as we can remember" Akiko said

"I do remember getting lost here once when I was five I think" Yukiko said "It was dark and I needed to use the bathroom, Suzu had found me in one of the halls and led me back to my room"

They took one last turn and entered a very large room with a wooden floor and mirrors all around.

Hope everyone like it, don't expect an update till at least next week.

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