Chapter Eleven
Calmly Kakashi walked over to one of the two couches lining the wall, sat down and, began to read. Tenten, Neji, and Sakura, the first two having not met him and the latter having only met him once(in her memory), simply stared at the grey haired man. The others (minus Hinata) left the room to discuss the problem.
"Why is he even here?" Ino asked after they were a safe distance away.
"He uhh, he probably just...uhh..." Naruto floundered reminding every one of a certain shy girl.
With out waiting for any more questions to be asked or ideas to be voiced Sasuke walked back into the living room of his house. As a group the rest of the genin and the lone chunin tip toed after him.
As calmly as Kakashi had been, the raven haired ninja stepped past the three still staring genin, stopped in front of his mentor, pulled the book from his hands, and tossed it out the window which he then shut, locked and stood in front of. Following suit Ino and Tenten stood in front of another figuring that together they could take Kakashi. Naruto then stood in front of the last window in the room and every one else crossed their arms and glared at him(except Hinata because she's too nice to do that, Neji who just glared and Sakura who really didn't get what was going on).
Kakashi walked out of the room and straight to the front door. Opening it with one hand and waving with the other he called,
"I'll send Jiriya over later."
Worriedly Naruto said, "If he does we should lock the girls in windowless room." and then realizing that they still had nothing to do he continued, "Let's play truth or dare."
"Sure, why not."
"I guess, but no perverted dares. Got it?"
"You don't have to choose dare you know."
"Actually I think we should just not play with truth, it makes it boring."
"No way I like truth!"
"You would you're a girl."
"Got a problem with that?"
"N-no girls are great, wonderful even."
"Maybe we should start playing now."
"Ok here are the rules, no perverted dares, guys can only give and receive dares but a girl can ask another girl truth, and no refusing dares unless they are life threatening or break a major law. Oh and you can dare any one you want, but you can't dare the same person twice in a row."
"C'mon Ino, I suggested the game can't I make the rules?" Naruto whined even while every one else was murmuring agreement. Eventually every one situated themselves in a circle around the couch Hinata was sitting on, with the bag of semi-melted ice still on her ankle. Neji and Sasuke in particular did not look happy but seemed to have been forced to play. Shikamaru was sitting in the circle but leaning against the couch snoring. In the center of the teens three candles burned brightly on the ground giving a shadowy and almost sinister glow to every one's faces.
Naruto being the person to suggest playing was allowed to go first, "Ok Sasuke, I dare you to," he paused dramatically, "go to the kitchen and get us something to eat, I'm starving!" (Cue group sweat drop).
Even thought it was a stupid dare Sasuke still had to complete the task and arrived back with varius snacks that at least one person in the large group was bound to like. Since he had been the one dared it was Suske's turn to bring embarrassment to another.
"Neji, I dare you to fight me." Or not.
"Nope no fights, that's stupid and it could end the game if some one gets hurt." Ino interruped while all the girls nodded. The boys being out numbered (Shikamaru was sleeping and any way, as Ino pointed out, he would have opted for the less troublesome option or possibly not have voted at all) succumbed to the girls will and Sasuke was forced to think of another dare.
"Ok, Neji I dare you to leave my house."
"I dare you to let me stay." Why Neji wanted to stay was a mystery to Tenten but hey, she wasn't going to argue with him.
"Every one I dare you all not to dare me again." And to make sure he didn't get vetoed on that Sasuke gave Ino the most frightening glare he could. Which was either pretty scary to Ino or she thought his dare was okay because she didn't say any thing.
It was then decided that in the event that every one was dared the person to the left of the darer would give the next one, and that person happened to be Tenten.
"Ok Ino truth or dare?"
"Umm...dare."
"Ok you have to spend the rest of the night with Shikamaru." Tenten grinned evilly.
"Oh yeah? Well Tenten truth or dare?"
"Truth." Tenten smiled smugly. Ino however just ginned unerving the brunette quite a bit.
"Do you like Neji, as more than a friend?" Blushing (fortunately in the semi-darkness no could tell) Tenten looked at the ground,
"Okay, fine dare." A flicker of disappointment crossed Neji's face but Hinata being the only person who saw couldn't even be sure she was correct. After all Neji was an ice cube right?
"You've gotta spend the rest of the night with Neji." Ino replied predictably.
"While were on this topic then Naruto spend the rest of tonight caring for Hinata." Tenten said.
"What you think I wouldn't do that?!" Naruto yelled once again making Hinata blush. Tapping his chin Naruto turned to Sakura,
"I guess it's you and Sasuke then."
"Fine but to make things more interesting you guys all have to spend your time in a different room than every one else." Sakura replied.
"You know that means you and Sasuke are going to be alone to." Ino pointed out.
"So is the game over?"
"I guess..."
"Well that was waste of time."
"Are you saying you don't want to spend time with me?!"
"Yes."
"Zzzzz..."
"Shikamaru WAKE UP!"
'Umm, could we have like an hour before the dare's start?"
"Why?"
"'Cause guy's are idiots and we need time to prepare ourselves and talk and stuff."
"I guess, but what about Hinata she can't walk."
"She can lean on Sakura's shoulder."
"Why mine? Not that I mind Hinata."
"That's all right I can walk." Hinata resolved standing up and limping to a room with an open door, carrying the bag of melting ice. The three girls followed her, Ino who was last shut the door after her.
The room itself was pretty bare one small couch with a white sheet covering it and a wooden rocking chair. Situating themselves on the floor and making sure that Hinata sat on the couch the girls began to chat. At first things like why they showed up at Sasuke's house and what they had done earlier that day but soon the inevitable happened.
"Why did you dare me to spend the rest of the night with Shikamaru?" Ino asked raising an eye brow.
"'Cause you like him."
"I guess but the only time we talk is when we argue, all the other times I don't know what to say. I always was able to tell Sasuke I loved him, yet I can barely say more than three sentences to Shikamaru before there's an akward silence."
"You know what I think," Sakura cut in, "I think that you never really liked Sasuke. He was more or less a distraction. You know like you always knew you liked Shikamaru but since you were childhood friends you turned you attention to Sasuke."
"Umm, maybe? Actually it is possible, I guess. Hey wait I never told you that Shikamaru and I were childhood friends!" To that Sakura looked at first surprised and then she smiled, just a bit.
At that moment Naruto poked his head in the door, "Hour's up."
"What no way we've only been in here for like a half hour!" Tenten exclaimed.
"Well, we're bored. And Ino you need to wake Shikamaru up and tell him what's going on."
Ok I lied, there wasn't much fluff. But I have an excuse, there's been a change of plans. In stead of just doing some fluffiness I've decided that next chapter there will be blushing, idiocy, and a big(or maybe not so big) surprise.
-Fumei