Naruto-

Ambitions and Issue

Chapter 5- Step Five: Consistency

Ino leaned back on the couch and turned to Sakura who was eating ice cream out of a carton, "What do you want to watch next?"

Sakura looked at the large pile of movies, "We've done all the romance movies, so how about an action movie with a hot guy in it?"

Ino snagged another cookie, what was another one to the other hundreds? Her diet was down the drain momentarily, "James Bond."

"Exactly what I was thinking," Sakura got up to put the DVD in, "How do you think Tenten's doing?"

"Probaby like a kid in a candy shop," Ino stared at her chocolate chip cookie then promptly grabbed the whip cream can and slathered some on top. "Though she's probably pretending to have a horrible time, she always was a bad actor. Honestly, I feel for Neji right now. Why is she so resistant? I think the whole situation is the most romantic thing I've ever seen." She sighed as she bit into her whip cream cookie.

Content that the movie was playing, Sakura turned around and cringed, "Eww, that's just nasty. How can you stand to eat that?" She sat down and pulled the bowl of chips into her lap, "And besides Tenten has some good logic in it."

"Puh-leeze," Ino rolled her eyes dramatically, "How can there be any logic involved when you get proposed to the hottest, not to mention totally smart and successful, childhood friend that totally likes you back under the moonlight?" She sighed and had stars in her eyes, "I wish Shikamaru would do that some day."

"Don't hold your breath for that," Sakura turned away from the explosions and gunshots, "Hmmm…let me think. It would tamper it if you had confessed to that same hot and successful, which why is hot first?"

"When isn't hot first?"

"Good point. Anyways, back to my point, confessed to him first, but he chickens out and never responds and avoids you for the rest of day, thus signaling denial and flat out refusal," Sakura paused to make a dramatic point, "That might hurt the ego a bit."

Ino thought it through, "So are you telling me that Tenten is totally denying him on the basis of a bruised ego!?"

"Yup, she's going to make him crawl through broken glass even before she considers him seriously."

"But he's already won."

"That's what she doesn't know," Sakura looked around the room, "We'd better clean up before she finds out we ate most of her chocolate."

"Can we do it later? James Bond is taking his shirt off."

Sakura stared at the screen. Shrugged, "Sure, why not?"

"Yes!" Tenten cheered, and turned to smugly smirk at Neji, "Beat that." Neji turned to concentrate at the three milk jugs, "It'll be easy as pie, which by the way, you're not getting."

Tenten made a puppy dog face at Neji, "No Pie?"

"…fine, one. Now be quiet, I'm going to beat you now." Neji gripped the ball and tossed it…and hit two down and the third rattled in its spot. He glared at it to make it fall.

Beside him, Tenten laughed, "Ha, right! I beat the invincible Neji!" She turned around and started to do a little victory dance.

Tapping her shoulder, Neji pointed towards the last pin, "I wouldn't cheer yet."

She quickly turned around and gapped at the last dropped pin, "But-but- but- it wasn't down two seconds ago…did you glare at it to fall?" She glared at him accusingly.

Ignoring the accusation, he pulled out a sheet of paper, "Well, according to the scoreboard. I win," he smiled innocently on the outside, though she knew on the inside he was cackling, "So that means, we get to ride a ride of my choice."

"Oh no."

"Oh yes," he guided her away from the pins.

"I HATE YOU!!" She screamed as she fell from the platform to the ground 150 feet below.

Neji from the bottom yelled back, "I KNOW. SAY IT…."

Falling towards her doom, she mustered a breath which she had been holding in and yelled, "NEJI IS THE BEST AND ULTIMATE RULER!! AND I BOW TO HIM!" Neji would never forget this, "NOW WOULD YOU GET ME DOWN FROM HERE!?"

Neji held in his sniggers as he gestured towards the worker to untie her. It was amusing to see Tenten freaking out bouncing on a rope.

Mean while, Tenten attached to the rope glared in front of her. Oh was he going to get it. Some day…

--author's note--

I see Bride's whites comming soon.

NinjaPower signing out!