Disclaimer: Sigh... I don't own Naruto... But I do own Chi and Hai!
2020: Haha... Don't expect me to live up to the amazing length of Chapter Four in this chapter... And it's late so I'm being really stupid...
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Chi and Hai's Wonderful World of Naruto- In Our Minds!
Chapter Five: Operation LeeTen? The Girls Get Serious!
"Alright then, everyone! We have a new mission!" Sakura called. "Operation LeeTen!"
Everyone cheered, except Tenten, who protested wildly.
"What?! Where did that come from? Don't turn me into a project... NO! NO WAY! I will not tell him!"
"ANYWAY!" Tenten shouted. "Back to my original point: What if he doesn't like me back?"
"That is why we will make you IRRESITABLE!" Ino danced around, nursing a new idea- of a...
"MAKEOVER!" Temari and Sakura shouted.
"WHAT?!"
"YEAH!" Ino was really getting into it. "You all can sleep over here. And we can go shopping tomorrow, and we can get our hair done, and our nails... and we can- OH! Hah... It's a surprise!" She whispered to Temari and Sakura, who yelled their enthusiasm.
Hinata, Chi, and Hai sat quietly towards the fringe of the excitement, watching the madness unfold. "You guys ever get the feeling that you're being ignored?" Chi said.
Hinata nodded wisely. "I-it h-h-happens to me a-all the t-t-t-t-time."
"Eh. Flailing off the face of the Earth."
"You mean falling, Hai."
"Eh. Whatever."
"WHAT?! No! I can't stay here! I don't have anything, pajamas or clothes for tomorrow..." Tenten was scrambling for any excuse to get away.
"It's OK! I have spare nightclothes, and we can just put the clothes your wearing now through a wash cycle!" Ino jumped up and ran out of the room, yelling for her mother.
Temari and Sakura were snickering at whatever Ino had told them earlier, and Tenten glared at them. "Tell me, or knock it off!" She yelled.
"OK, yeah, here we go!" Ino ran back into the room with a handful of clothes, presumably pajamas, and distributed them among her friends. "We can get changed in here, seeing as how we all have the same womanly parts." She slipped into her pajamas, and the others followed suite.
"Let's play truth or dare!" Ino yelled after they had all changed.
"Haven't we had enough of these kinds of games?" Chi called.
"NEVER! We can start with you, then, Chi-chan."
Relief flooded through Tenten.
"OK, who wants to ask?"
"I'll do it!" Temari said. "Alright then, Chi-chan, Truth or Dare?"
"I refuse to play this asinine game!"
Hai scribbled something on a piece of paper. "Eh... tr... th... THERE!" On the paper she had written: I refuse to play this asinine game. "See, if you rearrange the r, and the u, and the h, and the two ts, she totally said truth."
After a pause, Temari got back into it. "So, Chi-chan, if you had a choice, whose baby would you have?"
"WHAT?!" Chi had jumped up in shock.
"Heeeey, nice one, Yotsuba-chan." Hai and Temari exchanged high-fives.
"Hold on, Temari-chan," Sakura said. "Chi-chan and Hai-chan have only been here for about a day. They've barely met any guys. That question hardly seems fair."
Everyone turned to the two newcomers, remembering for the first time in a while that they hadn't even been in the Leaf for 24 hours.
"Hey, yeah, she's right!" Hai remembered too. "I just remembered that we havn't been here for long."
"Wooow, genius." Chi patted her on the back. Nevermind the fact that she kind of, um, forgot as well.
"Hmm. That kind of hinders the game a bit." Temari mused. "Um... What can we do now?"
"Nothing." Ino sighed.
"Well, I fail to see how that's a bad thing, seeing as how you're all perverted!" Tenten said.
After a slightly long argument and a few catfights, the girls decided to go to sleep so they could get up early and kick-start Operation LeeTen. Temari slept on the couch, Hinata was in some corner somewhere, Ino sprawled into a rather uncomfortable-looking position on an armchair, Hai fell out cold in the middle of the floor, Chi curled up a few feet away, Tenten selected the farthest point from everyone else in the room, and Sakura had found a bunch of blankets in Ino's room and made herself a makeshift bed.
"Ca-CAW! Ca-CAW! Ca-CAW!"
"Ehwha, wherezafire?" Sakura shot out of her blanketed sleep, as did everyone else.
Temari began swearing. "...Damn bi-" She stopped, as everyone stared at Hai sitting by the window.
Doing bird calls.
At six-thirty in the morning.
"Eh? Oh. Mornin' all!" She turned and said brightly, just noticing the skeptical and angry looks.
"Hai..." Chi staggered into a sitting position. "What... in the hell..."
"Um. Well, I woke up early and thought I should try some bird calls. You know, to keep in practice. Ca-CAW! See? I sound just like a whatever-it-was bird or the other."
"OK, no! Whatever the hell you were thinking, it was NOT a good idea to do bird calls at six-thirty in the morning while six other girls are trying to sleep! And what are you doing up? You're the girl who sleeps, on average, twelve hours a night!"
Hai shrugged. "It's the insomnia phase. I am an inconsistant insomniatic. Either I sleep really well for a LONG time, or I sleep poorly. Very poorly. If at all. It's about a ninety-seven-to-three ratio."
"However interesting this is..." Sakura rubbed her eyes. "It doesn't change the fact... that it is six-thirty... and you woke all of us up by doing bird calls..."
"Cheese follows the way of stars and dances in yonder pumpkin field... I LOVE YOU NARUTO-KUN...!"
Everyone turned from Hai to Hinata. They assumed she had a glazed look in her eyes- seriously, who could tell if she did?- but the dreamy smile and slightly slurred, stutterless speech gave them the impression she was sleep-talking. They all sweatdropped as she jumped up and began spinning around.
"Umm... Hinata-chan?" Ino grabbed her arm, and Hinata snapped into consciousness.
"Wh-what? W-wh-what's g-going on?" She looked around, confused.
"Um, Hinata-chan, I don't know what it is you dream about..." Tenten had a slightly worried expression on her face. "... But I don't think I want to know."
"Anyway... back to the original idiot- I mean, issue..." Chi grabbed Hai by her collar. "Going unpunished this will not be."
Temari's ears perked up at this. "I do enjoy imposing punishments. Hmmm. What shall we make you do, Hai-chan?"
Hai sweatdropped as everyone grinned maliciously at her and rubbed their hands together, evil mastermind-like.
"It should be something really bad, since she woke us up so early."
"Maybe to do with a guy?"
"Hmm, maybe Kiba-kun? After last night and all..."
Hai blinked. "Eh? Kiba... Oh, that's the Inu-kun with the little white dog, who wouldn't leave me alone. I remember him! What about him?"
Once again, everyone stared at her.
"Um, Hai-chan?" Chi sounded worried. "Have you kicked in early to Alzheimer's (A/N: yes, even ninja get alzheimer's)?"
"Eh. Alzheimer's? I don't think so. Why?"
"OK, let me ask you this first: What did we do last night?"
Hai frowned. "We were at a party here, at Ino-chan's house."
"And at the party...?"
Her brow furrowed in thought. "Um. Inu-kun and Kankuro-kun wouldn't leave me alone. And you hid me from them. And people were talking. And we gossiped about how hideous Sakura's hair color is-"
Sakura jumped up. "WHAT?!"
"I mean um, how unique and refreshing pink hair is."
Chi took a deep breath. "And what did we do at the party?"
"Um. Inu-kun and Kankuro-kun wouldn't leave me al-"
"I KNOW!!" Chi almost screamed. "I mean, yes, Hai, I know, you've already said. What specific party game did we play?"
"Um. Twister!"
She took a deep breath. "No."
"Clue."
"No."
"Poker."
"No."
"DDR X-treme."
"No..."
"Legos."
Chi grit her teeth. "No, Hai..."
Hai scratched her head. "Umm... Oh! I've got it. Spam-sculpting contest!"
"What the-? NO! Where did that even come from?"
By this point everyone had sweatdropped again and began to worry very deeply about Hai's sanity.
Finally, Chi snapped. "ZOMG HAI! NO! Alright? NO! Are you listening?"
Hai looked startled. "Eh-h? Yes, yes, Neechama!"
"Last night... we played Seven Minutes in Heaven. And you went into the closet with the dog guy. I really don't know what you did in there, but you came out all dazed. And whatsisface Mr. Doggie had a very um, wild look in his eyes."
There was an uncomfortable silence as Hai stared blankly at Chi, processing this newfound information.
"WHAAAAAAAAAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"
People in the five-mile-radius surrounding Ino's house jumped at the sudden, loud shriek.
The girls felt as if their eardrums had burst.
"Holy sh- Hai-chan!" Temari rubbed her ears. "That was almost ultrasonic!"
Hai, meanwhile, had started hyperventilating. "Eh... but... so... Inu... closet... eh... heaven... and the... me... EHHHH?!?! KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Everyone continued to stare.
"Ummm..." Sakura looked at Chi. "That was, like, four minutes without her taking a single breath."
Hai had started going into violent spasms of some sort; laughter, tears, or hysterics? It was hard to tell.
"WAAHHHHH! Neechama... Neeeechaamaaaaa...! -hic- He...-hic- and -hic- I... first, -hic- though... -hic my fih -hic- fih -hic- fih -hic-..." She jumped up. "HE STOLE MY FIRST KISS!" She then broke down into sobs once again.
"Wait, so, how old is she again?" Ino pointed to the hysterical girl.
Chi sighed. "She's fifteen. Same as all of you, I'll guess. I'm sixteen."
Ino, Sakura, and Hinata nodded, while Tenten said, "I'm sixteen too."
And Temari was the oldest, (A/N: Just went to check my Naruto Fan Guide book thingy) at eighteen (2 years older then Tenten, who is a year older than Naruto's contemporaries).
BACK TO THE PLOT, THANK YOU
"Holy pigs! She's fifteen and never been kissed?!" Ino was shocked. Tenten, Sakura, and Hinata all shifted uncomfortably. Ino stared. "You three neither?! What about you?" She whirled to Temari, who grinned.
"Born heartbreaker," she said, pointing to herself.
Ino turned to Chi, who shrugged.
"A few times."
Ino turned back to the other three. "We're going to have to do something about you three, then..." she muttered.
Temari stood up. "Hey, I don't know about all of you, but I think we should get back to the original point- Hai-chan's punishment!"
This eased the worried expression on most of the girls' faces.
"Shouldn't we do something about her first?" Sakura pointed to Hai, who was still hysteric... isizing.
"Oh, she'll be fine." Chi rubbed her temples. "She woke up early so I predict she'll fall asleep in T-minus ten seconds." The next glance at Hai revealed Chi's prediction to be truthful. "Toldja so."
"Alright then," Temari said, disregarding the strangeness that had thus far been their entire day, "Punishment for Hai-chan."
"Right." As long as it's not me... Tenten would comply, thankful it wasn't her.
"So, Chi-chan, what should it be?" Ino asked. "I mean, you know her best, and what she hates and can't do and stuff."
Chi thought. "Well... if it's something like eating a ridiculous amount of food, or throwing herself down a flight of steps, or Sharpieing 'Free Hugs!' on her forehead, that wouldn't work, because she does things like that anyway. Anything that could potentially cause her physical harm, people to stare at her strangely, or something that extends beyond the limits of normal humans. But she's very bad at dealing with her own emotions, board games, balancing, and cleaning things."
It was quiet for a minute.
"We don't have to think about it now." Sakura said. "We can think of it later..." she looked puposefully at Tenten. "You know, while we're out shopping."
"Oh yeah! That was the whole original purpose for today." Ino jumped up. "Our clothes should be through the wash cycle by now! Someone wake her up." She nudged the unconcious Hai with her foot before leaping out of the room, presumably to get the clothes.
"She didn't have to be that gentle." Chi said, walking over to Hai. She delilvered a swift kick to the sleeping girl, who shot up, yelling incoherently. Hai blinked and looked around, her gaze finally resting on Chi.
"Neechama..." tears shone in the corner of her eye. "It's true...? Me and Inu-kun...?"
Chi nodded. "I'm sorry, Hai."
"The clothes!" Ino came back into the room with a pile of clothes.
After everyone had changed, and a leash and collar had been placed on Tenten, the girls headed out. Chi and Hai had never been shopping in the Leaf, and Ino and Sakura had prepared a grande shoppe tour for them, a route passing most of the best stores in the village.
"So most of you know, except you two, that the annual Seven Days of Celebration is in a few days." Sakura said. "It's a seven-day celebration-"
"DUH!"
"Shut it, pig! Anyway, it's a week-long celebration we hold every year to celebrate Tsunade-sama becoming Hokage. It may seem a little self-centered, but it's really just an excuse to have a long holiday. Every year six new themes are selected for the days- the last one is always the Celebration Day."
"Tsunade-sama always announces the themes on the day before the first celebration, which is the day after tomorow," Ino told the two newcomers.
Sakura grinned. "Ino-pig, you forget who is Tsunade-sama's apprentice is. I know for a fact the six themes this year!"
After much begging and pleading, she finally gave in. "The first day is Animal Day, to dress up as an animal. Then Hero Day, to dress up as your hero. Food Day. Siamese Twin Day. Competiton Day, which is like a sports festival. Finally, Lovers Day. And this year there is an added twist- you can enter a 'Best Team' contest, but you have to pick a partner for the whole week, to dress up with you. You don't have to, but if you do, you have to have to same partner all week. So try to pick one, you know, of the opposite gender, or else you'll spend Lovers Day with a girl. Unless you like that kind of thing, of course. Whichever team wins the most points at the end of the week gets to be the Star Couple on Celebration Day."
"So, what if you don't have the same partner all week?" Temari asked.
"You're disqualified."
Hai thought for a minute. "So if you don't want to dress up, you don't have to."
"Correct."
"And if you want to dress up, but not with anybody, that's OK too."
"Yes. But you won't be able to participate in the 'Best Team' contest."
"So, can you explain what Siamese Twin Day is?" Chi was curious.
"Basically, Siamese Twin Day is where you have to connect yourself somehow to your partner for the entire day."
"And what's with Food Day?"
"It's pretty much an eating contest day."
Temari tugged on Tenten's leash. "And we are making sure she will spend the week as Lee-kun's partner."
Sakura grinned an evil grin. "Without a doubt. Which brings us back to the plot..." The girls stopped in front of a large building with a large sign reading, 'VIANCA: Clothes for All Occasions'.
"Vianca-san has one of the best selections of clothes in all the Leaf!" Ino squealed, jumping into the store.
The inside was like... a warehouse. The single cavernous room was stocked almost beyond capacity with every type of clothing article imaginable, in every color, pattern, and style know to humanity- and some only known to dolphins.
"First on the list of things to do is: Get Lee-kun to ask Ten-chan to be his partner." Sakura told them. "So we have to make her as irresistable as possible. I'll get Vianca-san."
"Ahn' no need to go'n'get me, Sakurah-chan." A beautiful woman with marigold-blond hair braided to her waist appeared next to Sakura. She had coal-black eyes that reflected every light shone near them, and thin ruby-red lips. "Ah'm already heeyah."
"Vianca-san! You remember Temari," Vianca nodded, and Sakura pointed Chi and Hai. "And these two are Tsubasa Chitomo and Okami Haipa."
Vianca held out her hand to them, shaking first Chi's hand, then Hai's. "Chee-chan, Haai-chan... what luhvely names. Ah'm Vellella Vianca. So wheeyah ah you frum?"
Chi and Hai hadn't prepared for this. What to say? Their story was too wierd, too long...
"Oh, they're Ten-chan's cousins from the... outskirts of the Land of Fire." Sakura covered quickly.
"Oh, Teyn-chan's cousins, how nahce... Speekin' of, is that you taaied up theya, Teyn-chan?"
"Vianca-san, Ten-chan has a boy she likes and we're trying to get her to be so pretty that he'll ask her to be his partner to the Celebration."
"Ah mahykovah! Luhvely!" She tured around and shouted, "VIOLA! VALENCIA! VANESSA! VALARIE! VIVIAN! VERONICA! VIVACE!"
Almost immediately, seven girls appeared.
Dark red hair and brown eyes, the tallest: "Hi, I'm Veronica Velox."
Strawberry blonde and pale brown eyes, second-tallest: "I'm Vivian Velox."
Shortest with wild, buff-yellow hair and golden brown eyes: "Valarie Velox, is me!"
Slightly taller than her, pale yellow hair and deep brown eyes: "I'm Vanessa... Velox..."
Same height as her, dark yellow hair and mischeivious blue eyes: "Vivace Vauxhall, at your service."
Same height as Vivian, with Vianca's hair color and deep blue eues: "I am Viola Vellella."
And slightly sorter than her, again with Vianca's hair color and deep green eyes: "And I happen to be Valencia Vellella!"
Vianca smiled. "Viola ahn' Valencia ah mah little sistahs; Veronica, Vivian, Valarie, ahn' Vanessa are all sistahs, cousins to us, ahn' Vivace is ahlso ah cousin."
Vianca Vellella, Viola Vellella, Valencia Vellella, Veronica Velox, Vivian Velox, Valarie Velox, Vanessa Velox, and Vivache Vauxhall. Enough to give one a headache, no? It's murder on the fingers, let me tell you.
"Guhrls, Teyn-chan needs ah mahykovah to impress ah boy! Ahn' the reyst of theym need 'Nawtice Meh' ah-fits. Nahw, Veronica-"
"HOLD IT!" Tenten yelled. "I do not need a makeover! I do not want a makeover! I will not have a makeover!" She began struggling against her collar and leash.
Ino leaned closer to her. "We'll let you go, Tenten-chan, if and only if you swear on your honor as a kunoichi that we can give you a makeover for Celebration Day. And just get you some new outfits for the days untill the Celebration starts."
Tenten thought it over. The Celebration Day was more than a week away. That was plenty of time for suicide or to run away. Plus, they'd probably forget in four days. She nodded.
Vianca and the other Vs sighed. "Suhm peopahl." She muttered. "Ah wehll. Y'all hayve chore t'do! Git to it!" As quickly as they had come, Viola, Valencia, Veronica, Vivian, Valarie, Vanessa, and Vivache dispersed. Vianca turned back to the girls. "Nahw theyn, what ah' ya'll lookin' fawr?"
Temari spoke this time. "Um... let's see. Three outfits for Tenten-chan, one slightly formal, one more casual, the other can be whatever. And one slightly formal each for the rest of us."
Vianca nodded, studying each of them. "Hmm. Hmmmmm. Ahlraht. Ah think Ah've gaht it." She dashed away.
"So, Hai-chan, Chi-chan, how do you like Vellella Vianca?" Ino asked.
Chi and Hai blinked. "She's um... well..." Chi tried to think of describing words for her, and failed.
Sakura laughed. "Yeah, that's Vianca-san."
"Ki-chan! What is she doing?" Hai asked.
Sakura blinked. "Ki-chan...? Oh, whatever. She's gone to find the best clothes to flatter our figures and look the best on us."
"Heeyah we go!" She was back. "Sakurah-chan, Eeno-chan, Tehmahri-chan, Hinahtah-chan (A/N: yeah, Hinata's still there!), Chee-chan, Haai-chan, and three fawr you, Teyn-chan."
Sakura reached into her pocket. "I've got this, guys. But you have to buy food." She paid.
Hai was confused. "Wait, don't we need to try it on or something?"
Ino laughed. "There's no need. Vianca-san can always find something that you'll love. Trust us."
So they walked out with their new outfits. After making Tenten change into the more casual outfit.
"I don't see what the point is!" She complained in her new clothes.
It was a silky top that was tighter on the top, highlighting her breasts. It was gold-and-brown with purple patterns on top of it. The bottoms were a pair of tight black pants. They would have done her hair, but she threatened them with death if they tried- and some instinct told them she wasn't kidding-, so her hair remained in her signature chigons.
"Tenten-chan, you look hot, so shut up and stop complaining!" Temari tugged the leash.
"And I don't see why I have to wear this stupid thing!"
"So you don't run away." Sakura told her. "Oh, look, there's some of the guys..."
Walking by the Ameguriama, they saw Shikamaru, Chouji, Neji, Lee, and Naruto. Tenten began struggling against her lead, in vain.
Ino waved. "Hi guys!"
Shikamaru rolled his eyes. "What a drag. It's the Spaz Queen. Come to throw us out of the shop here?"
"WHAT DID YOU SAY, YOU LAZY GOOD-FOR-NOTHING?!?!"
He sighed. "What a drag..."
"Tenten? Are you on... a leash?" Lee asked, Neji trying not to laugh. "And is that a new shirt? It looks nice on you," he said sincerily.
"No, Lee, this is a new piano." Tenten snapped, then immediately felt sorry. "Um. I mean... argh. Sorry, Lee. Some idiot or the other woke us all up really early today," she said with a glare at an oblivious Hai.
"Would it happen to have anything to do with the shriek at about six-forty-five this morning?"
She sighed. "No... earlier than that, even." Lee reached over to pat her shoulder, and Neji suddenly erupted into laughter. Everyone stared at Neji and his display of OOCness until he calmed himself.
"Ah ha... sorry. It's just that this morning I saw a brown dog in a gold-and purple shirt, and it had little bobbed ears." Everyone imagined it. In their minds' eyes, they saw Tenten as she was now morph into a little dog. It got a chuckle out of most everyone. Well, except Lee.
"I do not see what is so funny," he said, frowning.
"They're imagining me as a dog, I imagine." Tenten muttered.
Lee jumped into the middle of everyone. "How can you all see Tenten as a dog? She looks very beautiful!" As soon as this statement registered in their brains, both he and Tenten turned violent shades of red. Which caused everyone to laugh harder. Except for Hai. But that was only because she was paying no attention at all.
"HEY!"
Everyone turned at her sudden outburst. She pointed at a little brown dog.
Wearing a gold-and-purple shirt with little bobbed ears.
With an excited bark, it ran over to Tenten and jumped into her arms.
"Ten-chan, that's just scary." Sakura chuckled.
"It looks exactly like her!" Ino was laughing harder.
Neji was pretty much beyond the point of hysterics.
Chouji was laughing, artfully not choking on his dumplings as he did so.
Shikamaru only sighed.
Hinata... was somewhere. I think she ran away when she saw Naruto.
Who was also laughing very hard.
Temari had to sit down before she fell down, she was laughing so hard.
Chi was doing her best not to laugh- it was rude, after all. However, she was failing miserably.
"I don't see it." Hai was confused. "What's so funny? It's a dog. A dog. BECAUSE it is a dog..." And then she burst out laughing. "I see it now!"
And Lee? Well, he was keeping to the fringe of the excitement after his last outburst.
A lady soon came up to claim the dog. When she saw it in Tenten's arms, everyone could tell that she was doing her best not to laugh. "Oh... oh my." The lady said with a faint giggle. "Tenken, have you found yourself a twin?"
That, and the look of sheer horrification on Tenten's face, made everyone go into another fit of hysterics.
Tenten was still looking shocked after the lady- and Tenken- had left.
"I look like a dog... I look like a dog..." When Lee came up to try and comfort her, she grabbed him by his shoulders and shook him violently. "ITS NAME, LEE! THE NAME! IT WAS NAMED TENKEN! IT LOOKED JUST LIKE ME AND IT WAS NAMED TENKEN!"
Hai struggled to stand. "Oh... hahahah... OK... heheh... no more... heh... no more... oh, my sides..." Soon they had all regained their cool. Except for Naruto- you can't regain what you never had.
"So what are you all doing here?" Shikamaru- who hadn't been laughing in the first place- was leaning on the wall of the Ameguriama.
"We were giving Te-" Temari clapped a hand over Ino's mouth.
"We were just teeelling Chi-chan and Hai-chan about the best places to shop. And getting new clothes."
"What are you doing here?" Sakura returned the question.
Shikamaru shrugged. "Well, after Ino threw us out last night, we decided to have a man-party at Naruto's house. Your brothers," he turned to Temari, "didn't come. Shino actually kind of vanished, and Kiba went to his own house. So when we woke up this morning, we went for a bit of a walk, then stopped here to eat. By the way, did any of you have anything to do with the loud shriek we heard at around six-forty-five?"
All the girls turned to stare at Hai, who was deep in thought.
"But if you guys were having a man-party, wouldn't you need men first?"
The girls were- once again- in hysterics, and if looks could kill, Hai would have been dead five times over.
"Diss!"
"That was way mean, Hai-chan!"
"... But completely true...!"
After taking a few minutes to get themselves under control, the girls were fine.
"OK... OK. Serious thoughts now." Sakura breathed. "Now then. Are you guys ready for the Celebration?"
"Of course! BELEIVE IT!"
"Any idea who you're going to ask to be your partner?"
Four quick glances at an oblivious Hai. Five voices, "No."
"Well, you have until the Announcement Day. That's the day after tomorrow." Sakura reminded them.
"Let's hope Tsunade isn't drunk this year..."
They all shuddered.
Suddenly, there was a puff of smoke, and a tall figure emerged.
"HOLY CUMQUATS!" Hai yelled. "SPACE INVADERS FROM THE PLANET XITERON!"
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2020: YAYZ! It is totally long again!
I told you I was being stupid...
But I absofreakinglutely loved Tenken! That is quality humor there, folks!
Hinata was more or less nonexistant there.
Hai's Nicknames (again)
Ki-chan, her nickname for Sakura. Ki means tree, and Sakuras are cherry blossom trees.
NEXT TIME!
Jonin Madness: Chi Appeals Better to Older Guys!