Chouji's Eating Habit

Chouji has an eating problem and the person who helps him through it is the person he gets feelings for. ChoNaru coupling

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. If I did, I would have made everyone hippies. GO HIPPIE POWER!!

Chapter Three The Chalenge

Chouji gave a loud sigh as he took out the sharp and pointy object out of his back pouch. "How does he do it?" Chouji asked the alarm clock. "How can Sasuke bare spilling his own blood?" Chouji took the kunai and tried to slice the skin on his wrist. "I can't do it!" Chouji cried out as he dropped the weapon. "How can I do it?" Quietly, Chouji looked around his room and found what he was looking for...A blindfold... Placing it around his head, Chouji raised the kunai a few inches above his left wrist and slowly drew it across the flesh that was his arm. Wincing at the pain a bit, Chouji sliced his wrist several more times until he got used to the pain. Suddenly, before he could go further, he heard footsteps coming towards his door. Hidding the kunai, his arm, and removing the blindfold, the door opened and Mrs. Akimichi stood in the door.

"What can't you do?"

"Nothing..." Chouji said quietly. "I can't do nothing."

"Okay...Just wanted to know what you couldn't do." With that, his mother left the room and shut the door returning to the kitchen.

"That was close..." Chouji said taking out the kunai and looking at his arm. He had sliced all the way up to his elbow and his palm in several places. "Wow... I think I'll try again tomorrow...No. Don't procrastinate the situation, Chouji," he said to himself. "You want to end you life as quickly as possible...But not today..." Chouji watched as the wounds slowely clotted. Chouji plased super glue over the cuts knowing that it would stop them from bleeding. He then went to the bathroom and cleaned the kunai off.

"This has got to suck!" Kiba said as the four boys went towards the gate of Konoha. "She knows that we're the only four left in the village but she still insistes that we go on this 'important' mission." Kiba was mad that Tsunade had interupted him and Akamaru from creating a new jutsu.

"Just think, Kiba," Naruto said with a grin. "You'll have more time to create it while you're away."

"Yeah, I guess so..." Kiba said with a sigh. "Hey, Chouji! Come on! We don't wanna leave you behind unless we have to!"

"I'm coming..." Chouji said absentmindedly. "I'm coming..."

"I wonder what's wrong with him," Naruto said as the three of them stopped to wait for their friend. "He hasn't seemed the same since the chunin exams."

"He must think that it is all his fault that Sasuke got away!" Lee stated to them. "He must be depressed thinking about that."

"Then let's try to cheer him up," Kiba said with a grin. "Who wants to try first?"

"Ah! A challenge is it?" Rock Lee asked with extreme excitement. "I will accept the challenge!"

"Well, if it's a challenge; who can refuse it?" Naruto asked with enthusiasm. "The first one to make him happy before we get back to Konoha get's a cup of ramen from the losers!"

"What if we all fail?" Kiba asked looking at the blonde. "What happens then?"

"We each treat Chouji to a cup of ramen."

"Like on a date?" Lee asked Naruto with a blank look on his face. "I dare not lose to this chalenge!"

"I guess you wanna go first," Kiba said with a snicker. "You have 4 days to get him to smile and laugh."

"Hello, Chouji!" Rock Lee said with one of his 'good guy' posses to Chouji. "How are you feeling on this fine sunny afternoon?" The platoon had decided to take a break for lunch and that was when Rock Lee made his first attempt.Chouji responded with a halfhearted wave wich only made Rock Lee want to make him even more happier. "Mind if I sit with you?"

"Sure," Chouji said to Lee as he took a seat next to him on the log. "So what do you want?"

"Does one need a reason to hang loose with friends?" Rock Lee said as he attempted some slang. "I'd say it's pretty radical that we're buddies."

"Why are you talking like that?" Chouji asked Lee with a look of confusion. "It doesn't fit you."

Lee's face drooped a bit but Lee smiled before Chouji could notice anything. "Well, let's get back to camp," Lee said with a grin. "The others are probably wondering where we are by now." Rock Lee lead the quiet Chouji back to the camp and shook his head to Naruto and Kiba.

Over the next three days, Rock Lee had tried variouse ways to make Chouji feel happy including telling him that he had a terrific body which only made Chouji more depressed. Now it was Kiba's turn this time. "You are a complete failure," Kiba said to Lee while Chouji was off gathering fire wood. "After tonight, It's my turn." With a wave, Kiba went off into the forest and to a small creek to wash up.

When Chouji arrived back at the camp, he dropped the firewood and within moments he had a decent sized fire going. "So who's gonna cook?"

"I will," Kiba said grinning. "I'm gonna make some of mum's favorite recipie!"

"And what's that?" Naruto asked with a strait face. "Canned dog food?"

"Hey! Don't diss the dog-food man!" Kiba shouted to Naruto. "Canned dog-food is the shit man!"

"Slang fits him better," Chouji said to Lee refering to their conversation they had on the log. "Green spandex and slang don't work well together when youth is in the mix."

"I will take that into concideration!" Lee shouted as he wrote the words of wisdom down. "Anymore needed information?"

"No...Not really," Chouji said with a sigh. "So I guess we're having dog-food then?"

"Leave them be," Lee said to Chouji. "I'll go cook." Half an hour later and deeper into the dog-food argument, Lee came back with eight fish. "We're having the RLFS!"

"RLFS?" Chouji, Naruto and Kiba all said in union. "What's that?"

"It's Rock Lee's Fish Suprise!" Lee shouted with a grin. "I made the recipie!"

Everyone gave a slight groan but ate the meal and Chouji went straight to bed without eating.