"He…haha, oh man Neji!" Tenten laughed clutching her sides, tears forming the corner of her eyes. Beside her Hinata stifled laughter with her gloved hand while Kiba made no effort to conceal his own amusement. Tenten knew that she really shouldn't be laughing. It had after all been her idea to go skating and she knew that she should feel guilty, but the sight of Neji lying there on the ice had her sides in stitches.
It wasn't that Neji was a bad skater. Far from it, he was probably the most graceful of them all on the ice, but all it had taken was one bump on the smooth surface to send him tumbling down and sliding across the ice right into a pile of snow the four of them had cleared away. Tenten tried to suppress her laughter to chuckles and skated over to her boyfriend, his pride very well wounded as she began helping him out of the snow.
"This is just like the sledding last year…" she said, still snickering slightly as Neji turned over and glared accusingly at her. "What? Don't look at me like that, you're the one who tripped!" She playfully shoved his shoulder and started to get up when Neji grabbed her wrist and shoved her face first into the pile of snow that he had just been freed of. Tenten shrieked and pulled back, surprised at Neji's sudden playfulness, especially in the company of his cousin and younger friend. She grinned mischievously before grabbing a handful of snow and throwing it at her boyfriend, her face now dripping and cold.
"WAHOOO!" yelled Kiba as he sped across the ice towards them, pushing a screaming Hinata in front of him, and tossed her into the snow beside Tenten before leaping into it himself. Tenten covered her eyes to shield them from the spray of snow and then Neji grabbed her again, pulling her into the snow with him. They wrestled for a few minutes before Neji gained the upper hand and trapped her in a headlock.
"Alright, Hyuga, this is war!" she yelled at him, wiggling free of his grasp and scooting away from him, back onto the ice. She grabbed Hinata with her, the two of them skating far away from the men to the other side of the pond. "BRING IT!" she shouted at them.
Neji and Kiba stood up, exchanged glances, grinned at each other and then started racing across the ice towards the girls.
The once silent night erupted into a cacophony of noise and the screams, giggles and bellowing could be heard back at the training grounds.