Okay i am so sorry about taking forever and a day to update but school is beng really tough on me this year so please forgive me. Okay so this chapter was inspired by a lot of things. The song 'I wanna be like other girls' the sleepover scene in the princess diares two my own personal sleepovers etc. anyways as usual forgive and forget all grammar/spelling mistakes, i'm doing the best i can here but you know i went to save changes on it and it had logged me out and deleted my changes. it's a long chapter i can't read through it again. hope you all enjoy the chapter, the next one is when they meet the suitors. ;-)
Disclaimer: don't own Naruto
The Proper Sleepover
"I am not sure if we are allowed to do this" Harumi was saying as Ino pulled her, the others following, into the girls large guest room.
"Why wouldn't you be allowed to? I mean really, its just a little sleepover." Sakura joined in forcing the four girls down onto one of the couches in the middle of the room. The princesses looked a bit worried as if they were somehow committing a crime.
"Come on we won't do anything too bad. It will be like your own little lessons, sleepover basics, sleepover cooking, sleepover dancing, and proper sleepover wardrobe" Ino said as she pulled her extra large purple and white duffle bag from under her bed, once again dumping its contents across the purple comforter. The look on the proper girls faces were somewhere between sheer anxiety and excitement. "We will be going somewhat out of order, but that's just one of many things to love about sleepovers their very random." Sakura, Hinata and Tenten were also taking out their own pajamas.
"Umm…so what are these sleepover basics?" Yukiko asked as she pet Suzu nervously.
"Well the basics are staying up late, doing each others hair and makeup, blasting music and of course the traditional game of truth or dare" With each basic the girls would gasp.
"I really do not think that we should be doing these things." Harumi was glancing at the door, excepting someone to come busting in and scold them; no one came. Ino had retrieved not one but three pairs of clothes from her bag so had Sakura.
"Nothing bad is going to happen" insisted Ino as she and Sakura forced a pair of pajamas into each of the girl's hands. "Now change into these" They looked at her as if she was insane.
"Have you all ever even worn clothes like these before?" Tenten questioned. They didn't say anything instead of trying to get out of it they gave in and got up to go change in the bathroom that was connected to the bedroom. They all began to change Ino's pj's are a sky blue cami and white shorts that went to her knees. Sakura's are a bright green t-shirt and dark blue shorts. Hinata's a lavender colored tank top and white pajama pants patterned with lavender colored stars and Tenten's a large aqua colored t-shirt that hung so long it almost covered her black shorts. The princesses came out from the bathroom looking even more subconscious in Ino and Sakura's clothes then Hinata and Tenten had. All of them had on a tank top and matching pj pants like Hinata's just in different colors and patterns.
"There you guys look great" Sakura said clapping her hands together "Now we need to sneak down to the kitchen to get some snacks." Tenten said leading the way to the door.
"Are we allowed to do this?" Akiko asked.
"No, why do you think she said sneak?" Ino said. "Come on lets go."
Slowly and reluctantly they followed only stopping by the door to put their slippers on.
"No, No, No, no slippers" Sakura said "Sleepover rule and we have to follow sleepover rules. We go barefooted." They kicked the shoes back off next to the door and the eight of them entered the dark hallway. They quickly tiptoed down the hall past the boy's room being as quiet as they could manage.
In the boy's room
The boys lay in their room on their own bunks all still wide awake and becoming irritated. Not because they themselves couldn't sleep but because a certain blonde haired blue eyed ninja could not sit still and kept mumbling loudly into his pillow.
"Naruto would you please shut up and stop moving around, the rest of us are trying to get to sleep." Shikamaru said as he covered his head with his pillow trying to drown out the noise.
"What do you think I'm trying to do?!" Naruto shouted as he sat up and chucked his own pillow across the room at Shikamaru. "Why can't I sleep?!"
"You and the rest of us can't sleep because we are so used to using all of are energy during the day, the fact that we have done nothing for nearly four days straight are bodies don't think we need sleep." Sasuke explained hoping it would shut him up, it didn't.
"We'll this sucks, let's do something" he said lying back down and staring at the ceiling.
"Like what?"
"I don't know help me think of something." They thought and thought and thought but no of them could think of something to do. It was late, dark and honestly their room unlike the girl's was dull and boring. Suddenly Neji sat up on his bed and looked over at the door.
"What's up Neji, did you think of something?" Kiba asked. Neji had not even paid attention to the previous conversation let alone think of something for them to do.
"No" he said "but the girls are sneaking downstairs." Everyone sat up and looked at the door completely forgetting that they, unlike Neji, could not see through the wall.
"What do you think they're doing?" Chouji asked.
"How are we supposed to know?"
"I KNOW WHAT WE CAN DO!" Naruto shouted jumping off his top bunk. "We can-"
"You want us to spy on the girls don't you?" Sasuke said sounding uninterested.
Naruto looked upset about being interrupted but his attitude quickly changed. "So are we going to or not?" he asked impatiently. The rest of the guys looked at each other and silently agreed before joining Naruto who had not bothered to wait for their answers.
Back with the Girls
"So what kind of food are we going to need?" Natsumi questioned as they followed the path they knew very well to get to the kitchen; the boys following a little distance behind.
"Well it won't actually be food, more like a bunch of snacks, junk food." Ino said. They came to the large staircase. "You know what would be fun?" Sakura said looking at the stairs railing.
"I think I know" Tenten said both she and Sakura jumped on the railing sliding down much quicker then it would have been walking. "Come on slide down"
"You guys have to try" Ino said. They stared at the railing then over it looking at the height they were at.
"I don't know if I can" Yukiko said stepping back.
"You'll be fine don't worry" Hinata reassured them. Cautiously they balanced them selves and slid slowly down once they reached the bottom, taking much longer then Tenten and Sakura had, Ino and Hinata followed and unknown to them so did the boys. They sneaked through the dinning room and stairs finally entering the kitchen. The boys waited on the stairs peering through the crack in the door.
"Alright so what do we need again?" Natsumi asked again hoping to get the food quickly. She was almost sure it was against their fathers' rules to eat somewhere then in the kitchen or dinning room.
"Where do you keep things like chips and candy, or ice cream" Sakura said.
"I am not sure if we have any of that kind of stuff" the proper blonde girl admitted. She looked at Harumi, Yukiko and Akiko hoping they might know where to find that stuff.
"Well that's okay; we'll just have to look for it." Ino said. They began searching through cabinets and the refrigerator for it. Finally Tenten found it.
"BINGO!" she shouted a little louder then she should have but know one cared they were looking up at Tenten who was standing on the counter going through one on the higher up cabinets. "I think I found what we're looking for" She tossed down a couple of bags which Ino and Sakura caught then a couple of boxes that Hinata caught landing them perfectly on top of each other. Tenten jumped down to join them with a bottle of soda in her hand. The boxes contained candies and cookies, and the bags were filled with pretzels, chips, and one with marshmallows.
"I do not think we are allowed to eat this stuff, are we?" Yukiko asked Harumi. They looked uncertain.
"The only reason we keep this stuff around is for when we have guests staying who have younger kids." Natsumi explained. "I guess they would not mind too much if we ate some of it." She opened another cupboard and took out some large bowls to put the snacks in.
(With the boys)
Shikamaru and Kiba were doing their best to keep Chouji held back and Sasuke did his best with Naruto. Both had been deprived of their usual amounts of junk food and now watching as the girls filled the bowls to the brim and gathered them up to bring to the room, let's just say they were beginning to drool and it was not a pretty sight. When the boys noticed them coming back they hurried quickly and quietly up the stairs still forcing Naruto and Chouji along behind them. They reached the top and dived under the dinning room's large table, the legs of many chairs shielding them from view. The girls entered, completely unknown to the fact that they were being watched, Ino, Sakura and Tenten each stealing treats from the others hands unable to wait till they were back up in the room. Suzu looked towards the able, they were sure they had been caught but the dog just continued on after Yukiko.
"Are they really going to eat all that?" Lee whispered to the others.
"The most I've ever seen Ino eat of junk food in one setting was a hand full of chips or a chocolate bar." Shikamaru said, Chouji nodded in agreement.
"Sakura's about the same way, I think" Sasuke said.
"I didn't know Hinata ate sweets" Kiba said "Did you?" He looked at Shino who just shrugged at him. They all looked around at Lee and Neji obviously wondering about their own female teammate's dietary habits. Lee looked confused as ever.
"I've seen Tenten eat a whole box of cereal before training, I'm not surprised" Neji said and slowly began to move out from under the table. The others followed Naruto and Chouji finally giving up on retrieving the food. Outside the dinning hall the girls had made it up the stairs and out of sight before the boys entered and by the time they had caught up the girl were back in the room. They adjusted the door enough so they could see into the room without being seen themselves. Sometimes it was a plus being a ninja. The girls were huddled around something in the corner of the room except the princesses who sat on the couches looking at the fattening foods around the table with uncertain expressions.
(Back to girls P.o.V)
"So what are we going to listen to?" Ino asked as they hooked up Hinata's music player.
"Let's just play them in order for now." Sakura said and tapped a button letting the music fill the room.
"What are you guys waiting for dig in!" Tenten told the girls and picked up one of the marshmallows. Still a bit uncertain they began to eat the snacks and they were now all grouped around the circular table.
"So what comes next?" Harumi asked she was examining a marshmallow, before putting it into her mouth. She smiled. (I don't know about the rest of you but I smile when I eat marshmallows)
"Well we have covered the sleepover foods and most of the wardrobe-" they looked at her confused "We still have to fix your hair is all and paint your nails, but we can do that while we move on to the games" Ino explained.
"What kind games?" Yukiko asked.
"Oh well of course like I said earlier the traditional game of truth or dare must be played."
"What's the point of playing that game if we already know everything about each other?" Hinata said.
"Well as that may be true for us we don't know much about these four and as for us we could ask-" Ino thought for a second "non-boy related questions and there is always the dares."
"You are going to ask us non-boy related questions?" Tenten looked at her skeptically.
"Do you really think I can't handle not talking about boys" Ino asked taken aback.
"So there won't be any 'who do you have a crush on?' or 'why were you talking to this person?' or 'who's she cutest boy in Konoha?'" Tenten asked as she counted off the questions on fingers. Ino nodded smiling innocently. "Alright I'm in"
"Me too"
"And me" Sakura and Hinata agreed. They looked at the girls as they looked uncomfortable around the room.
"We promise to go easy on you" Ino urged them.
"Alright" Harumi gave in the other followed her lead.
"Okay so I believe everyone knows how this works, we ask truth or dare and once you pick no backing out. Oh and no disgusting dares tonight, we don't need food poisoning tomorrow." Ino explained. "So who's first?"
They all looked around the circle at each other, none really wanted to go first. On the other side of the door the boys were just as tense to see who would go first.
"I'll go" Hinata said quietly, not sure if this was a good idea.
"Alright Hinata, truth or dare?" Sakura asked her.
"Truth" she decided. They all sat there thinking for a moment; or longer.
"This sucks what are we supposed to ask her" Ino nearly shouted in frustration.
"There must be something we can ask her."
"How about while we try to come up with something I go" Sakura said.
"Alright but were coming back to you Hinata" Tenten said.
"Ok Sakura, truth or dare."
"Dare"
"Alright" Ino said "I dare you-" she looked around the room thinking. Her eyes stopped on Sakura again who was sitting cross legged with the bowl of cookies in her lap and watched her eat them steadily. "I got it, Sakura you can't eat any of the junk food for the rest of the night."
Sakura looked shocked, then thoroughly depressed before placing the bowl on the table. "Fine, I can do that no problem" said Sakura trying to show more confidence.
"Alright well we still don't have a dare for Hinata so we can move on to Tenten" Ino said now looking at Tenten who was brushing out her hair. "Truth or dare?"
Tenten stopped brushing for a second and answered "truth."
"Okay let's think, what to ask Tenten?" Sakura said.
"Well we can't tease her with boy questions, so…" said Ino.
"How about" Hinata started "Have you ever skipped out on training?"
"Hinata what kind of question is that, do you really think Tenten would skip out on training."
"Well actually-" Tenten said quietly
"Wait you've really skipped training before" Ino said in a disbelieving tone. She nodded.
"When?" they all asked together
On the other side of the door Neji and Lee were very confused as far as they knew she had never skipped training, she'd been sent home a few times under different circumstances.
"Well, it was about a month ago" she began the story "It was something I was debating about because we were actually going to have a group training session. Normally I just train with Neji. But anyways usually the session is exhausting and annoying so I kind of 'accidentally' tore my shirt on a 'bush', which means in code I purposely cut it with my kunai. Not too much but I know enough about Gai sensei to know he'd freak out."
"Why would he freak?" Ino asked
"His exact words were that I 'was exposing too much of my youthfulness', something about the boys being around, and then he sent me home and I was not aloud to return unless I was 'decent'" every girl around the circle had burst out laughing.
"Yeah so I went home and put on like a cami and short shorts so I was still not decent then sat in front of a Seventh Heaven (A/N: I like this show, if you don't too bad) marathon eating chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream from the carton." She finished.
"No way" Ino said "that's one of my favorite shows"
"And that's my favorite ice cream" Sakura said.
"I so wanted to watch that marathon but nooo I didn't think to skip my own training"
Tenten was laughing at her friends reactions and on the other side of the door the boys were shocked Tenten would miss training to do something so girly.
'She left me with those two idiots so she could watch tv and eat ice cream all day.' Neji thought
"That's brilliant Tenten; I may have to try that sometime." Sakura said "Oh there's a Gilmore Girls (also a pretty good show) marathon on next weekend maybe we can all skip out and watch it over at my house."
"I can get out of training no problem" Ino said
"I can ask Kurenai sensei if I can leave early." Said Hinata.
"I can try to get out again but it may be difficult" Tenten assumed the same trick wouldn't work twice.
In the hall
"I can't believe it they're all going to skip out on training to watch some stupid girly show" Naruto said a little louder then he should have and Sasuke and Kiba pushed him to the ground trying to keep him quiet.
'If she thinks she is leaving me with those two again she better think again' Neji thought again to himself.
"Alright alright, let's move on." Tenten said. "I think its time the princesses get a turn."
"Good idea, Yukiko truth or dare" Ino rounded on the girls who were politely giggling at the kunichis planning. "Umm…dare" She answered.
"Wow it took us forever to get a dare out of Hinata" Sakura recalled the many past sleepovers. They grouped together to come up with a good dare.
"Perfect" Ino jumped up from her spot in the circle and began digging through Hinata's bag. "Sakura tell her the dare"
She nodded. "Your dare is to sing to the song Ino is about to put on."
This didn't seem to disturb Yukiko to much but… "You mean like a hymn, what if I don't know the words"
"Well that's what Ino's taking care of, we can hook up Hinata's music player to a karaoke machine." This didn't help answer her question. "A karaoke machine displays the words and you read along." This made more since "And it's not exactly a hymn it's more upbeat." Now she looked a little worried.
"I don't know if I can sing upbeat, at least not by myself." She looked at her friends.
"Okay so we make it a group dare, sound good" Tenten said "You can all sing. Hey Hinata will you change your turn from truth to dare?"
"I could I guess, why" Tenten asked suspiciously.
"Just change please"
"Okay"
"Alright and Hinata will start you off" Tenten was now helping Ino with the karaoke machine and looking for the song.
"Wait what" Hinata said suddenly.
"Oh come on Hinata you sing better then the rest of us, besides we'll join in too for the first verse then they can take over." Ino said in the bag were four microphones and Ino passed one to Yukiko and Akiko, the second to Harumi and Natsumi, the third to Hinata with Tenten sitting beside her and the final one she and Sakura would share.
"Okay this song is called 'I wanna be like other girls.' I think it is a very good song for the situation." Ino said and pressed the play button
Hinata began to sing first:
I wanna be like other girls
I wanna see what other girls see
Just to be free like other girls
The other three join in:
GET TO BE
nanana,na.na.na,nanana,na.na.na,nanana,na.na.na,
wooooo
To wear my old jeans
To eat a whole cake
Feel the sun on my feet
Be quiet, be crazy
Be anything I want to be
Dance around in my underwear
To walk by myself
Do nothing all day
To eat a whole cake
Be cranky with frosting
No cameras
No pressures
No phonies
No hairjam
No people who think that they know me but don't
No platform shoes
I wanna be like other girls
I wanna see what other girls see
Just to be free like other girls
woooo woooo
I wanna be like other girls
I wanna see what other girls see
Just to be free like other girls
The princesses sing next verse:
GET TO BE
nanana,na.na.na.,nanana,na.na.na.,nanana,
na.na.na.,nanana,woooo
To stay in one place
To sleep until 3
To meet a nice guy who likes me for me
No cameras
No pressures
No phonies
No hairjam
No people who think that they know me but don't
No platform shoes
All join in:
2x
I wanna be like other girls
I wanna see what other girls see
Just to be free like other girls
woooo woooo
I wanna be like other girls
I wanna see what other girls see
Just to be free like other girls
Just to be free like other girls
GET TO BE
By the time the song had come to an end they were all very much into it. Sakura and Ino were dancing around the room stealing their microphone from each other. Tenten and Hinata were singing loudly, who would have thought Hinata's voice could be so loud. Akiko, Harumi, Natsumi and Yukiko were looking more confident then they had all week and were also bopping their heads to the music. The rest of the night went on similar to this, singing karaoke, doing their hair or painting their nails, the boys watching up until Ino was dared to go steal something from their own room and they just only made it back into their bunks before she was sneaking in the other girls waiting at the door. The proper princesses looked as if she was stealing from a bank and not from her friends. By two in the morning they realized that the next day was going to be along one and went to sleep.
i hope everyone enjoyed, reviews would be nice.
Thanks for reading, excpect another long wait update. (sorry)
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