Disclaimer: Everything, except our OCs and the Earth, belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.

Author's Note: It's Reila here! Welcome to Chapter Five! Um, wel, right now it's about 10 o'clock at night where I am and it's the day after the Fourth of July, so to all you Americans out there- HAPPY DAY AFTER!! 'Course where I am, there are still fireworks going off (the beach is amazing!) Anyways, please enjoy Chapter Five while I watch fireworks over the sand, night!

# Chapter Five: The Spitballs of Fate #

#Heather's POV#

'Naruto and Sasuke are sitting in front of me eating... Well, Naruto's eating, Sasuke's just kinda... sitting there... Oh well. This. Is. Fucking. Awesome.' I thought to myself as I bit my lip hard to keep from letting out a fangirl-ish squeal. Truth be told, I never liked Sasuke. The guy always seemed to get on my nerves. That stuck up emo. Naruto on the other hand...

"Hey, Hinata! Hey, Neji!" Naruto greeted between bites. Hinata managed to stutter out a simple hello and sat on one of the stools. Neji muttered something incoherent beneath his breath. Hanabi didn't seem to take much notice of him and sat down next to her older sister. "What are you guys doing here?"

Sasuke scoffed, "They're here to eat, baka, what else?"

"Well, you're not eating!"

"That's cause I'm not hungry, I'm just waiting on you so we can get some training done."

"Oh, yeah!"

Neji sighed, knowing he'd probably have to explain Molly and my presence later, so he might as well do it now. "Actually, Tsunade-sama has put us in charge of showing our two new transfers from Wave Country around." He motioned to us with his hand.

Upon hearing this, Sasuke and Naruto turned around and looked at us; Naruto's mouth was full of noodles that had yet to be swallowed. I twitched under their gazes and adjusted my plaid skirt uncertainly.

"Konichiwa!" Naruto shouted after finally swallowing his mouthful. "My name's Uzumaki Naruto, the next Hokage!" He then pointed to Sasuke and added with a bit of distaste in his voice, "And that's Uchiha Sasuke." He paused of a second to put down his chopsticks. "What are your names?"

Molly went first. "My name's Tsai Molly," she began and eyed me to introduce myself.

I hesitated for a moment, hoping that Molly would just tell them my name. When it became apparent that she wasn't going to help me out
in the least, I managed to say without squeaking, "I'm Foley Heather. It's a pleasure to meet you." 'You have no idea.' I silently added.

Naruto cocked his head to the side and asked, "How long are you two staying here?"

Sasuke sighed. "Were you listening? They're transfers, that means their staying here for good."

"We hope," Molly and I said at the same time as we took our seats, Molly next to Hanabi and I next to Naruto. Molly looked up at Neji
and asked, "You're paying, right?" Molly grinned and fluttered her eyelashes up at him. "Please?"

Neji sighed. "I'm pretty sure Hinata has enough," he pauses to look at her and she nodded her head. "I think it would be best if I headed on home. Besides, someone has to tell Hiashi-sama that you'll be running late." He lifted up a banner and walked out of the bar.

"Bye, Neji!" Molly waved playfully.

The owner of Ichiraku- 'Oh god, what's his name?' I thought franticly. 'I know I know it! I know I do! Gah! What is it? Teuchi? Teuchi? That's it!'- Teuchi's daughter, Ayame, took our order. I just order what Naruto was having; He had finished off so many bowls it had to be good. Then again, Naruto eats every type of ramen. Molly got the same thing.

I had a hard time with the chopsticks. Sure I knew how to use them; I had just never tried using them with noodles before. Molly yelled something about: "Yes! My Asian heritage has proven useful!" or something weird like that. I just kind picked up one or two noodles at a time... 'I know someone's looking at me weird.'

"Uh, Heather-chan," Naruto began with a raised brow, "Why are you eating like that?"

'Holy shiznic!' I thought (yeah "shiznic" is my word), 'Naruto just referred to me as chan squeal' I stuttered and began muttering like an idiot. "I... well-uh, it's just that-" I turned to Molly for assistance. "Help me."

"She's just not to use to it is all," Molly said casually as if some people here actually use forks or something. She helped me out and let the conversation drop like it was nothing.

After about ten minutes I managed to finish off a bowl, just one. I never was a big eater. People always liked to joke about me being an anorexic (even though it's not true). I mean, if my stomach's the size of a grape I don't think that's my fault.

Naruto gaped, "You're only having one bowl?!"

"Uh, yeah?" I said unsurely.

"That can't be good for you!" he exclaimed.

"Well that can't be good for you," I said, pointing at the very large stack- excuse me- two stacks- of ramen bowls in front of him.

#Naruto's POV#

I laughed at Heather's reply and then something flew past my face, drawing my attention to its source, her friend, Molly.

"Damnit, I missed him," she sighed, grabbing another piece of her straw wrapper and jamming it up her straw, aiming at Sasuke, who wasn't paying attention.

"Hey, Heather-chan, what's up with Molly-chan?" I asked curiously as the other girl shot another spitball at Sasuke, this one missing him by inches; I watched as she cursed silently under her breath again. "And was she hitting on Neji earlier?"

Heather glanced at Molly and then looked back at me, confusion on her face.

"Nothing's up with Molly," she answered. "She acts like that all the time: hyperactive, stupid, annoying; she's my best friend! And she probably wasn't hitting on Neji earlier; I think she was fooling around."

"Probably?" I asked, grinning.

"I'm pretty sure she was messing around; wait, just a second," Heather answered, her face a mixture of curiosity and confusion as she turned to ask Molly about her earlier interaction with Neji; if Heather felt comfortable asking Molly these sort of questions than their friendship was obviously very easy... and rather funny.

Just as Heather started talking, another spitball whizzed past my face, this one nailing Sasuke in the ear. Instantly, I was laughing.

"Yes! Bullseye!" Molly crowed as she grabbed her chopsticks and finished off what looked to be her second bowl of ramen.

Sasuke instantly turned on her, eyes glaring and dark.

"What the hell was that for, baka?!" he yelled at her, obviously angry and very close to homicidal.

Molly looked at him, but seemed to be staring past him.

"You know, I always hated you; I kept telling Caitie you were gay," she said, obviously not paying attention to what she was saying.

Heather was staring at Molly in horror, but I kept laughing.

"Sasuke! Gay?" my laughter rang out through the ramen bar and down the street, making people stop and stare at us. "Never."

Heather grabbed Molly by the collar of her shirt and pulled her friend's head near her own, starting to whisper in her ear.

#Molly's POV#

"You, you idiot, you baka! Fuck! You're not supposed to know Sasuke, you idiot!" Heather whisper-screamed at me as she shook me by my collar; my head rolling like a bobble-head remake of an anime character.

"Uh-oh," I muttered as I looked over at the two friends, my eyes stuck to the freaking stupid Uchiha as I looked around nervously. "You know we should probably blow this place before they decide that we're both completely mental."

"Yeah, yeah," Heather said, distractedly, glancing over at Hinata and Hanabi. "We need to get out of here."

Hinata looked up at us and then over at the guy that ran the ramen bar (who the hell is he?) and the check magically appeared.

How the hell did she do that? I thought in amazement, as Hinata quietly paid and stood up, Hanabi quietly following suit.

Hanabi simply walked out the entrance of the ramen bar, grinning at us, and motioning for us to follow while Hinata said her good-byes to the other two shinobi.

"N-n-naruto-kun," she mumbled as she stood by the entrance. "Good-bye"

Here she trailed off and, without even a second glance at Sasuke, moved one of the banners and slipped outside.

"Bye Naruto-kun, Sasuke-baka," I called out happily, running past the still fuming Uchiha and outside, grabbing Heather's hand as I went.

"Bye, Naruto-kun, Sasuke-kun!" Heather said over her shoulder as I dragged her outside and down the street to catch up with Hanabi and Hinata, who were already halfway down the road.

#Naruto's POV#

After the girls had left, I looked after them for a moment.

"That was odd" I commented to Sasuke as I stretched out my arms over my head. "But very entertaining."

"Shut up, Naruto," Sasuke said angrily, wiping the last spitball Molly had hit him with off his ear. "Are you done yet?"

I looked down at the collection of bowls in front of me and grinned.

"Yeah, I guess; let's go do whatever you wanted to do," I said, as I stood up, stretching out my whole body.

"Train," Sasuke said sternly, handing over a wad of bills to Teuchi as he lifted his lazy ass off of the chair it had been glued to since we came in.

"Yeah, yeah," I said easily, walking out of Ichiraku's with my arms behind my head, breathing in the warm night air. "Whatever you say."

#Molly's POV#

Heather and I followed Hinata and Hanabi to practically the other side of Konoha before we even got our first glimpse of the famous Hyuuga compound. The sun would be setting in maybe half an hour, which let me get a good look at our temporary home and what I saw made me freeze up a little.

First off, the thing was friggin huge. They either have a lot of relatives with nothing to do during the day, or they just hire people to come pretend to be Hyuugas; personally, I'm leaning more towards the second option. Secondly, there were so many trees and little mini parks (which I found out later were actually Japanese styled gardens), that I was instantly in love with it; something you probably haven't noticed, but if I have to choose between outside and inside, I'm going outside and I absolutely love nature. Finally, the whole compound was like a little mini village. Shit, I bet they wouldn't even have to leave the compound to go to the grocery store or get ice cream or anything like that; they could've been estranged from the village a long time ago and just sort of lived in this little mini world of theirs.

Well, now that I'd gotten all of that out of my system, I just followed Hinata and Hanabi (who'd very nicely grabbed my hand after I just stood there for about a minute, probably drooling all over the floor) into the compound, eventually reclaiming my hand from Hanabi and following after her of my own free will.

Well, this is just great. I know all about getting lost on my first day of high school, or messing up on the first day of a job, but how the hell am I going to explain getting lost in one small section of Konoha and messing up at life? I thought, my eyes flitting around to commit as much of the Hyuuga compound to memory as I could before I was forced to find my own way around.

#Neji's POV#

'How long does it take to finish a few bowls of ramen?' I sighed and leaned against the door of our house. Hiashi had specifically instructed me to wait for the girls to get back (meaning I was to stand outside until they got here). Not only that, but he said that they're my responsibility as long as they're living here in the compound.

'This is going to be a very long few weeks,' I banged my head against the side of the house. 'But since I'm suppose to watch over them, maybe I'll figure out what those two girls are really doing here.'

"Hey, Neji-san!"

I looked up to see my cousins and our guests walking my direction. Heather was waving at me, a grin spread widely across her face. Molly seemed to be gazing around in wonder (I bet she didn't even notice me yet). When Molly finally did notice me, a glower made its way to her features. What was it about me that she resented so much? My cousins were walking silently alongside them, giving the occasional glance every once and a while.

I scowled. "Took you guys long enough."

"G-gomen, Neji-nii-san," Hinata stuttered as she crept past me.

"Yeah," Heather chuckled and pointed in the direction of her companion, "Molly felt the need to shoot spit balls at Sasuke while we were eating. Which is perfectly normal for her of course." Molly smiled innocently.

I raised an eyebrow at this. 'Okaaaaaay.' I turned to Molly, who still didn't look too happy to see me, and asked, "Were you really that bored?"

Her gaze lowered and she looked at me mockingly. "You're next, Hyuuga..." she whispered insidiously, trying desperately to keep a straight face. "When you least expect it... when you least expect it..."

"Yes, I'm sure," I rolled my eyes as I slid the door open for them and allowed the girls inside.