They dropped their bags at their feet.
The girls were stunned to see the inside of their…well they weren't sure if they could call it a cabin. It had wooden walls but it was well furnished. To the left on the wall was a staircase running along leading up to a loft looking area. To the right was a big opened living room with a large couch facing a plasma screen TV attached to the wall.
To the left of the plasma was a sliding door that let out to the wraparound porch that looked over a great scenery of trees.
There was a medium sized kitchen that had a fridge stocked with food. A small square table was place off to the side of it so the girls had a place to eat. Not only was there a sink to do dishes, but there were also dishes!
And from the fridge to sink was a large counter that held cabinets of more food.
The windows were very large and tons of light came through them making the entire down stairs bright and happy.
Each of them hesitated to take a second step further.
Then they completely freaked!!!
"WHOA LOOK AT THAT TV!" yelled Ino dashing towards it with hearts in her eyes.
"Do all camps have them? I mean…it's a PLASMA!" Tenten said throwing her arms out in front of herself.
"No. It was brought in just for us." Hinata told her sounding only the smallest bit smug.
Sakura lightly elbowed Hinata. "Your father is the coolest!" she told her with a smile. Hinata gave her a returning smile and they continued to watch Ino and Tenten run all around the living room.
"Check out how nice the bathroom is!" yelled Ino who had already walked inside of it "NO LATRINES!" she cheered falling to her knees and throwing her arms up.
"NO SPIDERS!" cheered Tenten.
"Boy we're really roughing it." Sakura said sarcastically as she rolled her eyes and laughed.
"I want to check out the rooms!" declared Tenten.
"How many are there again?" asked Ino.
"One for each of us, and they're furnished too!" Hinata added flippantly.
They all froze too excited to move.
Through all of their heads ran the same thought. 'Mr. Hyuuga is so generous!'
Ino ran to the stairs. Tenten then declared with a hard punch to the air. "I'M NEVER GOING BACK TO CAMP JUSTSU AGAIN!"
"Hurry up and lets go up stairs." called Ino who was already half way up with Sakura right at her tail.
They opened the first door at the top of the steps.
"Just a closet." Said Ino.
"A BIG CLOSET, considering it's in the hall." Sakura observed.
Ino shrugged. "This isn't even a hall it's more of a loft."
At the top of the stairs it looked like a big room with 5 doors along the walls, except there was an added hallway where another door was. To the right of the stairs was a HUGE window that showed the entire front of the camp, and the path which they had just climbed.
"Whoa look out the window." Tenten said as she leaned against the railing to get as close to the window as possible. "I can't believe we actually walked up all that!"
"WOW!" said Ino "We must be really fit."
"It'll look really pretty when the full moon is out." Said Hinata, they all agreed with a sigh, thinking of romantic thoughts.
"Well? COME ON; let's see what behind door number two." Cried Ino.
They went over to the door and Sakura opened it up. It was one of the bedrooms that was originally built to hold two campers but because of special orders, it only had one bed, a desk with a computer, a dresser, a closet and a…punching bag?
"What's with the punching bag?" asked Sakura as Tenten yelled out "DIBS!"
"That's strange," said Hinata " I told my father that Tenten would probably go nuts since she didn't have any of her work out equipment, but I guess he asked for one of the rooms to have this put in, and I guess he assumed it would be Tenten's room."
"YOUR DAD IS AMAZING!" yelled Tenten as she took off to the punching bag to give it a hug.
Sakura and Ino both sweat dropped. Hinata was not surprised by the reaction at all and laughed. "Yeah, he really does think of others at times."
"DOOR NUMBER THREE!" declared Ino.
They went over to the next door that was next to Tenten's and Ino opened it. No one could see it right away since Ino tried to get in first.
"MINE!" she yelled and ran over to the bed.
It was the same size as the first room, but inside stood a clothing manikin. Also was a bed, desk with a computer, dresser and closet.
"I'm starting to think your father had each room made for each of us." Said Sakura.
"Hey!" called Ino. "Guess who I am?" she laughed as she began to hug the manikin in the room.
At first Tenten didn't understand the joke that Ino and Sakura were laughing at, but then she caught on and her eyes glared evilly.
If looks could kill…
Hinata, always trying to be a pacifist first, tried to get all of their attention. "Look that way." Said Hinata "I bet the next room is mine!" she said excitedly.
They all ran after Hinata to the next door and watched her open it up. The door knob looked like a big crystal diamond. She burst the door open with her eyes full of stars, but then she quickly sweat dropped. All of the girls laughed at what had just happened.
"Well Hinata if you really want this as your room than be my guest!" laughed Sakura.
"But what would be your bed?" asked Tenten as she continued to laugh and role on the floor.
"Maybe….maybe…..the …..the….BATHTUB!" laughed Ino as she also fell on the floor from laughter.
"At least the bathroom is nice." Hinata said as she sweat dropped again.
The bathroom didn't have any windows but had a double sink, a full length mirror, and a spa bath that must have been added in by her father.
"OH COOL LOOK!" pointed out Sakura "The tub has JETS! That would have been fun to sleep in!" All of the girls laughed except for Hinata who just "hmpd"
"Can we just drop it you guys?"
The laughing Tenten helped pull Sakura up. "Yeah I want to find my room!" yelled Sakura.
"To the next door then." Said Ino as she jumped up off of the floor.
"I hope it's not another bathroom!" Tenten snickered.
"HA HA!" said Hinata sarcastically.
They went to the next door and Hinata opened it, but not before peeking inside to make sure it wasn't another bathroom. (AN: paranoid much?)
But indeed it was just another bedroom.
Same size as the others, but with a bookcase FILLED with different kinds of books. Also inside was a bed, desk with computer, dresser, and a closet.
"WHOA, look at all of those books!" awed Sakura as she gazed longingly at all the literature.
"Yup, this is yours!" Ino said as she rolled her eyes.
Hinata scratched her head in a confused manner. "Well, then where's mine?"
"You didn't see?" asked Sakura. "There was like a little hallway just around the corner, it had a door!" she reassured.
"Sweet! Let's go check it out!" Tenten said clapping her hands together.
They walked to the other door which was excluded from the others. Hinata opened it up wide and all of the girls dropped their jaws, with the exception of Hinata.
"Is this like…the master bedroom?" asked Ino "YOU'RE SO LUCKY HINATA!"
"Well it is only fair since Hinata's father paid for all of this." Said Tenten.
The room was certainly bigger than the others; it even had its own bathroom that looked just like the other one. What really got Hinata was the sliding door across from her bed.
'Where does that go?' Hinata wondered.
"HEY, where does that sliding door go to?" asked an enthusiastic Sakura.
Tenten had already made her way over to it to investigate. The other girls followed and met her outside to a private little deck. It wasn't as HUGE as the other deck but it did have a better and bigger view of the woods.
"HINATA you're SOOOooo lucky!" cried Ino as she leaned over the side.
"Man this is killer, and look down," Said Sakura "It's near the other deck."
"BE RIGHT BACK!" yelled Ino and Tenten at the same time.
"Hm?" Sakura turned around to watch after them. "Where do you suppose they're going?" she asked more to herself then to Hinata.
Hinata was inspecting the mini terrace and the tree that stood beside it. 'I could easily climb down from this. All I would have to do is slide down the metal beam that supports this deck, and if I wanted to climb back up I could just climb up that tree since it has so many branches. In fact it would probably be easier to just climb down the tree, but if there was a fire on the second floor I could quickly slide down the pole.' Thought Hinata.
"HEY GUYS!" yelled Ino and Tenten who had gone over to the other deck and were waving frantically.
"HEY!" Hinata yelled over as she waved back just as frantic. Her friends' high spirits only made hers higher.
Sakura leaned over the railing towards them. "Come on guys, we can have fun when we get our bags inside our rooms."
"What are you our mom?" yelled Ino as Hinata noticed Tenten muttered a silent "buzz kill."
"NO, I wouldn't want to have you as a daughter!" Sakura yelled back.
"And I wouldn't want to have a mother with a huge FOREHEAD!"
"SHUTUP PIG!"
"FOREHEAD!"
"BOAR!"
"BILLBOARD BROW!" ps casey is adorable
"OINKER!"
"SHUTUP!" yelled a frustrated Tenten.
"You guys we need to hurry up!" yelled Hinata. Sakura and Ino just retreated from where they were back to the front door to get the rest of their stuff. Tenten followed Ino but Hinata just stared outside her window looking over all the woods.
Hinata didn't know exactly why but she began to think of her favorite quote from one of her favorite oldies songs.
"There's something out there that I, can't resist,' (AN: From These dreams by Heart)
'Why did I just think of that song?' She thought
She shrugged it off and ran down stairs to get the rest of her bags, and she needed to get 8 more of them.
Running down stairs she passed Tenten who was bringing two huge duffel bags up to her room. Sakura was following right behind her with her own stuff, and Ino after her.
Hinata went to the door that was still left wide opened and looked at all of the bags that she still had to bring in.
She hung her head low and sweat dropped. 'It'll take a while to get them all in here.'
"Let me help you Hinata!" offered a very cheerful Tenten.
Hinata turned to face Tenten with tears of happiness rolling down her eyes. "Thank you Tenten!" she cried.
"I'll help you when I come back down!" yelled Ino from her room.
"THANKS IN ADVANCE!" Hinata yelled back up.
Tenten, Hinata, and Sakura, who was going outside for her last bag, all ran back to the barrel that held the rest of Hinata's bags.
"Hinata why did you bring so much stuff?" asked Sakura as she also picked up one of Hinata's pink bags with her last one
"I didn't want us to be bored!" she pouted.
"And we have some fun ideas for our enemies if we get any." Said Ino who had just run outside to join them.
"What makes you think we'll have enemies?" asked Sakura as she slung a Hyuuga bag over her shoulder.
"My psychic powers, they're never wrong!" Ino proudly said as she picked up two of Hinata's bags.
"Well that's true, you are pretty accurate when it comes to certain things." Sakura said trying to think of examples when that might have been.
"You're a psychic?" asked Tenten in disbelief.
"YUP," she said proudly "Most people have smarts and logic, and that works too, but when you have psychic powers it really makes life easier."
Tenten rolled her eyes. "Okay, okay, I'll believe you, but what makes you think we're going to have some enemies?"
"Well, actually I had a dream about a few weeks ago. I told Hinata and she just said that we would be prepared."
"So what do you have? Garlic? Wooden stakes? Horse shoes?"asked Tenten as Sakura giggled.
"HEY, nothing like that just a few tricks up the sleeve." Hinata said as she pointed to her pink trunk that had a lock on it.
"That looks heavy!" Sakura said eyeing up the large trunk.
"I'm not helping you carry that up two flights of stairs." Tenten said shaking her head at the trunk. Sakura swallowed and then nodded her head in agreement.
"If you don't…" Ino began as she spun on her heel to walk away. "Hinata will fall down the stairs." She concluded as she walked up to the door with the two bags in hand.
"How do you know? HUH, did you see the future?" asked a mystified Tenten. Sakura just rolled her eyes.
"No, but it looks too heavy for just one person to carry." She said disappearing into the cabin.
Tenten looked over at Hinata nervously. She didn't want that to happen. "Okay, I'll help you with the trunk Hinata!"
"Thanks!" Hinata said delighted.
"So what do you expect me to eat huh?" asked Naruto for the umpteenth time.
"Neji wake up Shikamaru so we can ask him how to get Naruto to shut up." Said Sasuke.
"You do it he's closer to you."
"HEY, don't talk about me like I'm not even in front of you!" yelled Naruto.
"Neji just throw a shoe at him."
"HEY!" yelled Naruto. They ignored him.
"Just because this is your limo doesn't mean I'll do whatever you ask, Uchiha."
"HEY!" They still ignored him.
"Fine then I'll just wake him up."
"TALK TO ME YOU LOSERS!" yelled Naruto…again.
"Naruto why don't you just shut up already." Said an annoyed Sasuke.
"Not until you turn around this car to get my ramen!" he demanded.
'I should have let him get the ramen when I had the chance!' thought Sasuke.
"Naruto isn't there anything that's more important to you then ramen?" asked Shikamaru who had only been pretending to sleep.
Regardless of his confusion, Naruto actually thought for a while, and he was really thinking.
"Actually there is one thing that is more important to me then ramen." He said as seriously as possible
"What is it, a girl?" asked Sasuke.
"A boy?" laughed Neji.
"It's us being your friends isn't it, Naruto?" said Shikamaru.
"WOW, you must be psychic Shikamaru." Said an excited Naruto.
"I don't believe in that kind of crap, but it was just obvious that we were more important to you then ramen since that's how we all feel about each other."
All of the guys seemed to be more interested in their feet at that moment, but Shikamaru was 100 percent right. They would all probably kill for each other but they would never admit to that, being guys and all.
The car ride became quiet for the next 30 minutes until they pulled up to the camp. The gravel under the tires was a clear indication that they had arrived.
As soon as it stopped Neji looked over at Shikamaru. "You truly are a genius Shikamaru." Neji smirked "You got Naruto to shut up."
"I haven't met a challenge yet." He said nonchalantly "But I was also trying to shut you all up so I could try to think."
"Whatever! Let's just get out of this limo already and go to our cabin!" yelled Naruto as he headed for the door.
"Naruto slow down." Sasuke said lazily. "We have to go to the camp office and get our cabin keys and sign up lists. Not to mention we're late so everyone is probably almost done unpacking and will be heading to the hall to get the summer lecture." Sasuke told him.
"And then the plan can commence." Naruto said with a tint of mischief in his eyes.
"Oh good, you remembered." Said Shikamaru. Naruto growled at that.
'I'm not that stupid, I wouldn't forget my own plan!' Naruto thought.
"Yes you would." Said Shikamaru.
"HEY WHAT?" said a very confused Naruto "YOU ARE PSYCHIC YOU CAN READ MY THOUGHTS!"
"No but I can just predict what you're thinking about."
"It's always disturbing when he does that." Said Neji
"Shikamaru can you just let us keep our thoughts to ourselves." Asked Sasuke. "Please?" he asked a little more disgruntled. He was always creeped-out at how Shikamaru could predict what they were thinking.
"Fine." He said as he stuck his hands into his pockets.
The guys just waited as the driver and the man who rode in the passenger's seat took out all of their bags.
"We'll go get your cabin key, brochures and anything else you might need at the camp's office." Said the driver as he bowed low to Sasuke.
"Thanks, we'll just wait here for you." said Sasuke as he bowed low too.
(AN: see Sasuke isn't ALWAYS a big ass! He's very polite!)
(AAN: Pfft! like once every one thousand days)
The two men walked away as Naruto hopped up on top of the limo.
"Naruto it's very disrespectful for you to sit on top of Sasuke's car since he brought us all down here." Said Shikamaru.
"Well he's the one that made me come down here in his car." Defended Naruto as he glared over at Sasuke.
"You scratch it you buy it." Sasuke simply shrugged.
(AAN: See what I mean?)
"Fine I'll get off of it!" Naruto said as he jumped off.
Twenty minutes later the limo driver and the other guy came back up to them with paper work and four keys.
"Master Sasuke, here are your sign up lists for all of the activities you can participate in. This is your cabin number and here are the keys." Said the driver as the other guy handed everything out. "The man at the desk suggested you go straight to the hall since we were late. Don't worry about your bags; we shall put them in your cabin in their respected rooms."
"Are we sharing rooms?" asked Neji.
"Yes, the best cabins have two large rooms that are made for four in a room, but Mr. Uchiha made it so there is only two in a room. If you don't mind, I suggest Master Uzumaki and Master Nara share a room, and Master Uchiha shares a room with Master Hyuuga."
"Sounds fine." Said Sasuke. Neji nodded in agreement.
"What a drag, now I'm stuck with Naruto." Complained Shikamaru.
"Yeah well Neji snores pretty loud so just be grateful." Said Naruto.
"I DO NOT!" yelled Neji.
"Let's just get to the hall already." Sasuke said rolling his eyes. "Thank you both, and have a safe trip back." He finished with a bow.
The four guys walked to the hall with their hands in their pockets, except for Naruto who put his hands behind his head.
They reached where the hall was and walked in through the double doors.
"YOU'RE LATE!" yelled the ENTIRE room.
The guys just stared at them blinking in disbelief. Were these people freaks about being on time?
An older man, about the age of 28, came into view as he started to walk towards the boys. His face seemed to be kind, in a way, and his hair was up in a spiky ponytail. But the most dominate feature he had was a scar across the bridge of his nose going from cheek to cheek.
"CALM DOWN!" he yelled out "It's not him, so continue your conversations." Everyone just resumed talking to each other as they probably had been earlier, but the four guys were continued to stare confused.
"WHATS GOING ON?" yelled Naruto towards the man; the man looked over his chart as he got closer to the four boys.
"Naruto Uzumaki?" he asked eyeing the blonde.
"Yeah, believe it! I'm Naruto Uzumaki, how'd you know?"
"You aren't on my list of campers who are at camp, so we had just assumed you ditched. We were told not to just keep an eye, but a group of people on you. Now, we aren't going to have a problem this summer…are we?" he asked raising an eyebrow towards the blonde.
"Yeeeahh, you don't have to worry about me. This place is supposed to straighten me out. I'll be good." 'hahahhahahahahah IN YOUR DREAMS PAL!'
"Well let me just tell you now Naruto, if I even see you a toe out of line," his eyes grew darker "I won't have the pleasure of dealing with you but our camp counselor Ibiki Sensei will, and he's a hard ass."
"For a second there I could have sworn he said he HAS a hard ass! HAHAHAHAHAHA' thought Naruto as he ignored whatever this guy was saying and laughing like a mad man in his mind.
"So what do we have here, Iruka?" asked a chilling voice that came from behind Naruto.
"Hm?" Naruto turned around to see a HUGE guy who must have been about 30 years old. Regardless of how hot it was outside this man wore a long black trench coat with the collar flipped up. On his head was a black bandanna, and even though his fists were smashed inside his jacket, Naruto could make out how physically powerful they were.
'This guy is HUGE! HE SHOULD BE WORKING AT A PRISON!' thought Naruto as he tried not to gulp.
"This is Naruto Ibiki, and we're supposed to keep a very special eye on him." Said the man who was just identified as Iruka.
Ibiki lifted his chin up to look down at Naruto. His right eyebrow shot up on his massive forehead and smirked. "Hmph. Not a problem at all, I don't know why they made such a big deal about him." He then leaned towards Naruto because, even though Naruto himself was tall, Ibiki was massive.
He looked Naruto square in the eye; all forms of amusement on his face were gone. "Well let me tell you something kid, you're really supposed to be with me at the other side of the camp for the brats that need to be straightened out,"
'So I've been told for like the millionth time now!' thought Naruto.
"If it wasn't for the Uchiha family you wouldn't be having such a fun summer. I hope you do realize there are some activities in which you must do because of how "special" you are. Just so you know, if you get caught doing any sort of prank, well for one, you'll be a very big disappointment to the Uchihas who believed that you could do better. So if you don't want to make them look bad in front of the camp board who said they were crazy for doing this, then you'll just keep in line, maybe even a few feet behind it."
'Is this guy for real?' thought Naruto who was no longer intimidated.
"Don't worry about Naruto." Said a different voice coming from behind them all.
'WHATS WITH ALL THESE PEOPLE SNEEKING UP ON ME?' Naruto screamed in his mind.
"I'm sure he'll follow the rules, while having a fun time of course." Said the man knowingly.
"Hey, who are you?" Naruto asked.
"YOU'RE LATE!" yelled the entire room again, but this time a little angrier.
"Who am I? Well, I'm Kakashi Hatake." He said slowly. "I'm the owner of this camp, which makes me Kakashi Sensei to you…and to you three boys." He added turning around to look at the three guys who had been silent for a while. "Don't think we forgot about you."
"I was kind of hoping you did." Sasuke said crossing his arms.
"Ah…Sasuke Uchiha." Kakashi decided. "I know your father gave you the best cabin and furnished it top dollar, but that doesn't mean we'll be going easy on you."
"Hn."
"Good, I'm glad you understand. Now your friend here I believe is, Neji Hyuuga…of the side branch?" Neji glared at him evilly. "Yep, I guess that means it's you, and this must be the Nara, Shikamaru right?"
"Yeah. That'll be me." He said unwillingly.
"Well good, I do enjoy your family's medicines. They work wonders on hangovers…or so I've been told..."
(AAN: Kakashi+ Hangover EQUALS Not physically possible)
"Then why haven't they kicked in yet?" laughed Naruto.
"Well, that settles it. My first impression of this group is… well … you're a bunch of idiots."
All four guys glared at him. "Now how are the rest of you!" he yelled (AN: as loud as Kakashi could yell) at the rest of the boys in the hall still waiting for him. He could just tell on their faces that they were pissed off already with his constant lateness.
Kakashi began to welcome them back to "Camp Shinobi" for another summer of fun, and torture. No one laughed at that joke either.
It basically went on like that and then he explained the major rules of the camp that were surprisingly basic.
"So….does anyone have any questions?" he looked through the crowd of bored to death boys, but one hand stuck up in the back. "Yes…you." Up stood Naruto. 'Oh goody.' Thought Kakashi.
"Yeah, I was wondering about the dance." Half the room perked up a bit "Will they be needing volunteers to help with the decorating of the cafeteria?"
"Actually it will be held in their dancing hall, but…..I was talking to the Head of the camp, and I think he mentioned that they might need help with things high up since they wouldn't want the girls getting hurt." Kakashi raised an eyebrow. "Why? Who did you have in mind?"
"Me, Believe it!"
"Sorry Naruto, but I don't think you're responsible enough to do such a task. Maybe if someone else more responsible than you offered to go along with you…then maybe would I consider letting you leave this camp to go to the girl's."
"Wait Kakashi Sensei," said Shikamaru who stood up next to Naruto "Maybe this is a good idea for Naruto. He can take his pranking system out on crafts for the dance. It'll also keep him from doing any sort of pranks here."
"Well then Shikamaru, do you volunteer to be his partner?"
"UHHHHHHHH…." 'AW MAN what a drag!' he thought. 'How do I get myself into these kinds of situations?'
"YEAH BELIEVE IT!" Naruto cheered.
"Fine then…you two can help them decorate for the dance. Anyone else wants to help please sign up at the main office. Now…..if you'll excuse me I have some reading to do."
"Everyone don't forget to hand in your forms by Thursday which is in three days!" yelled Iruka as everyone began to leave.
"How troublesome." Said Shikamaru as he Neji, Naruto, and Sasuke walked out of the hall with all of the other guys. "Now I have to go with the baka and decorate, for some troublesome dance."
"Who you calling a baka?" asked Naruto.
"Well moron he has blonde hair, loves ramen, and always cries out, 'believe it'" Shikamaru said mock Naruto.
"SHUT UP!"
"Actually this could work out better to our advantage." Neji said from the back of the group.
This caused them all to turn around and look at him.
"What do you mean?" asked Sasuke.
He explained. "Now that Shikamaru is going Naruto can't possibly screw up, and Shikamaru can do all of the complicated stuff that Naruto probably would have messed up anyways."
"HEY!"
"Sorry Naruto, so when is the dance, Saturday?"
"Yeah." Said Sasuke
"So you boys are already talking about the dance eh?" asked Iruka who was coming up to them. The guys just stared at him. "Well good, because I need to talk to Naruto and Shikamaru about it. You two will be going over, ESCORTED, to the camp by bus on Friday at 12:00 noon. You can meet me at the camp's main office, and you might want to wear clothes you don't mind getting dirty. Then on Saturday we'll meet again but at 8:30 in the morning to finish with the decorations."
"WE HAVE TO GO TWICE?" they both yelled.
"Yeah, sorry about that but they have a big dance room." Iruka laughed knowing just how big they were. Hey, years past he had to do it. He knows what they're about to endure.
"Anyway, I'll see you then at those times…which Shikamaru you remember, right?" Shikamaru nodded. Naruto glared. "Well see you then boys." He said as he walked away towards the camp's office.
They all began to walk forward to their cabin.
"Great, this is going to be such a drag." Said Shikamaru still making his way with his friends as he began to think of how troublesome his life was becoming.
"So where is our cabin?" asked Neji.
"It's up this path." Shikamaru said while pointing at the path they were taking.
They walked in silence the rest of the way up to their cabin, which was bliss to the three guys because they didn't have to hear Naruto's voice.
At the end of the path were three cabins. Two close to them and the one in the middle pushed back closer to the woods.
"Okay out of those three cabins which one is it?" asked Naruto who was eyeing up each one. They were all the same size so it was no big deal to him which one they were staying in.
"The one dead centered." Said Sasuke.
Neji walked towards it. "Number 117." He told them.
"HINATA ARE YOU UNPACKED YET?" yelled Ino who was down stairs lounging on the couch with the other girls.
"Here I come." She said as she started to run down the stairs.
"Do you have your sign-up sheets?" asked Sakura noticing her empty hands.
"OH!" she ran right back up stairs "SORRY!" she called out.
"So are you guys going to join any sports?" asked Tenten.
"Of course!" said Sakura. "Have to keep the body active!"
Ino looked indifferent. "Well maybe one…but I'm really looking forward to designing and cheerleading. I do like volleyball, and it looks like it could be fun."
"Maybe we should all do volleyball together," Offered Tenten "Hinata has a pretty good hit in her, so I bet she'll want to sign up for that."
"Sign up for what?" asked Hinata as she jogged over to sit next to Sakura.
"VOLLEYBALL!" the three girls said in unison.
"Sounds great, I'll do that. Now what else?" they all checked off volleyball and scanned the list
"Swimming?" offered Sakura.
"YEAH!" they all said checking off swimming.
"Art class?" asked Ino, the three girls all looked at each other for help, which Hinata was forced to give.
"Well Ino……it's just…..none of us are good at that kind of stuff. It's more of your thing and if we did it, it would probably come out in a big mess." Although her subtle approach was flawless, Ino still got upset.
"Well I'm checking that off." She said as she practically ripped through the paper.
"OH LOOK, it says at the bottom that there will be a sign up sheet at the office for anyone who wants to help decorate the dance hall for the dance. Anyone who signs up for art classes MUST do It." read Hinata.
"Are you interested in this?" asked Sakura.
"Well yes, only because it would look good for me to do it, you know? It looks bad that I get the best cabin here, but if I show I'm really contributing to the camp it won't look so bad."
"LOGIC!" smiled Tenten.
"So why don't I just sign up for the art classes too and…"
"THANK YOU HINATA!" yelled Ino as she ran over to hug Hinata.
"It's okay, but I'm actually excited about decorating." Hinata checked off art classes.
They continued to scan the list down picking things that they would enjoy doing for the rest of the summer.
In the end Ino had signed up for Volleyball, Swimming, Art Club, Cheerleading, modeling, the dancing club, and basketball.
Sakura signed up for Volleyball, Swimming, Cheerleading, lacrosse, and basketball.
Tenten signed up for Volleyball, Swimming, Cheerleading, (AN: they forced her) Lacrosse, Soccer, Basketball, Tennis, and wrestling.
Hinata signed up for Volleyball, Swimming, Art Club, Cheerleading, Young debaters, The book discussion group, The dancing club, and basketball.
Now not all of these things were every day. All sports, except for swimming, were for only every other day. Non-athletic activities were almost every day. This way the girls wouldn't be exhausted by the end of each day, and they would have time to do more than one kind of sport if they wanted.
"Hinata are you sure you want to sign up for all of those things?" asked Sakura.
"Yeah, it won't be so bad, but I think we should worry about Tenten." They all looked over at her list again.
"Tenten maybe you should give up a sport, it looks a little overwhelming." Said Ino.
"Guys, it's okay I can totally handle it!" she assured them. "This wouldn't be my first sport overload, and trust me it won't be the last." She said smiling delighted.
"Okay, but if you feel like you're in overdrive then you should quit one." Sakura advised the bunned girl.
"Okay, I'll quit CHEERLEADING!" she yelled with hatred in her eyes.
"ABSOLUTELY NOT!" yelled Ino and Sakura at once.
"You need to do something feminine." Ino told her with an authority saying she knew what was best for her.
"And cheerleading is what we're all doing, and you'll look so cute in a uniform." Sakura chirped in.
"Yeah but who am I going to be looking cute for?"
"Not the point." Ino said not missing a beat.
Before Tenten could protest more, they heard a low bubbly growl coming from somewhere in the room.
All of the girls looked around and then finally looked over at Hinata, she blushed a little.
"Sorry guys but, I guess I'm a tad hungry."
"Me too." Said Tenten as her stomach agreed.
"Let's make something to eat and then after it'll probably be time to go down to auditorium for the camp rules and stuff." Said Sakura as she brushed the wrinkles out of her shirt.
"GOOD! And while we're down there we can sign up to decorate for the dance." Said Hinata
"TOO THE KITCHEN!" yelled Ino in a similar tone to "CHARGE!"
Sasuke unlocked the cabin door and walked inside. The guys were stunned to see how nice it was, especially Naruto.
"WHOA, THIS IS BETTER THAN MY OWN APPARTMENT!" he yelled not believing his eyes.
"Is that a plasma TV, at camp?" asked a stunned Neji.
"Hn. Would you look at that." Smirked Sasuke. "It is."
Neji blinked once. "I'm never going back to Camp Jutsu again." He said slowly shaking his head.
"Is that an x-box 360?" asked Naruto as he went towards the game console.
"Wow, even I'm impressed." Said Shikamaru as he took a seat by the huge window.
"Our bags are already in our rooms, so can we play a game?" Asked a hopeful Naruto.
"Sure, what's there?" asked Sasuke, Naruto looked through all of the games that were next to the x-box 360.
"I can't find it." He said searching even quicker.
"Find what?" asked Neji.
"Perfect Dark, it's only just about the coolest x-box 360 game."
"How would you know, you don't own one." Said Shikamaru from his window seat.
"Well…I HEARD it was good." He defended.
"So what other games do we have?" asked Sasuke
"I guess we could play Halo 2." Offered Naruto as he showed them the case.
(AAN:WOOHOO!)
"Fine." They all said as they each grabbed a wireless remote.
They played there game for the next two hours until Shikamaru remembered about the sign-up sheets they needed to go through.
"Hey guys, shouldn't we fill out our forms for the things we want to do?"
"We have till Thursday." Said Sasuke as he killed Neji.
"But what if something you want is filled up already?" he asked again.
"Good point let's stop playing for a while and get this over with." Said Sasuke as he turned off the x-box 360 with his remote control. "Neji will you go get the sign up lists I think there in the kitchen." He added.
Without a word, Neji left the room and came back with the forms in hand. Each form had their names on it already so he just gave them out.
"WHAT!" yelled Naruto as he saw what he HAD to sign up for "They're making me do wrestling!"
"What's wrong with that?" asked Sasuke.
"Well I didn't want to do that this summer. I'd rather do swimming and basketball. Do they really think that WRESTLING will straighten me out?"
"It'll beat some sense into you." said Shikamaru.
"Well I'm going to be the best at it, believe it!"
"What else are you signed up for?" asked Neji.
"FOOTBALL?" he yelled again.
"They must really want to beat you up." laughed Sasuke.
"So what are you guys signing up for?" asked Naruto still looking at his own list.
"Basketball for sure." said Neji.
"Let's all sign up for that so we can all at least do one thing together." said Sasuke.
"Whatever." Shikamaru said as he checked off basketball.
"What about soccer?" asked Sasuke.
"Sounds good." said Naruto as they all checked off soccer.
"Hockey?" offered Neji.
"I don't like hockey." Said Shikamaru bluntly, the other three guys checked it off anyways. After going through the entire list the guys decided all their summer activities.
Shikamaru signed up for Basketball, soccer, and fencing.
Sasuke signed up for Basketball, soccer, football, hockey, and swimming.
Naruto was signed up for wrestling, football, basketball, soccer, hockey, and swimming.
Neji signed up for Basketball, soccer, wrestling, lacrosse, hockey, and fencing.
"Fencing?" asked Naruto as he looked at Shikamaru's list. "That's all you're signing up for? Just three things?"
"I try not to do much." He said half heartedly.
"More like nothing at all." Noted Naruto.
"Too bad cloud watching isn't an activity." Neji said musing over the idea.
"So why did you sign up for fencing?" asked Shikamaru.
"My father began teaching me how to fence when I was little. After he died it was always a nice way to get stress out on things."
"You any good?" asked Shikamaru quickly before there was any tension in the room.
"Actually, I am, how about you?" he asked sizing up Shikamaru.
"I've never done it before, but it's the only thing here that doesn't involve much movement or running." Now the guys could see why he chose to do fencing.
Sasuke stood up and looked outside the window. The sun was warm and the day looked nice, so naturally he wanted to go outside. He wouldn't call himself "outdoorsy" but on rainy days you thought of days like this one.
"Why don't we bring our forms down to the office, we can also walk around the camp and check it out."
"Okay, but when we do that we're playing more on the x-box for the next three days. I want to make the most of them before camp actually starts." said Naruto as he followed Sasuke outside the cabin, with the other guys right behind them.
It was Friday morning at the boy's camp and everything would officially start today. All of the guys had to go down to the camp's office to get their schedules for the summer. For some people, like Neji and Naruto who signed up for a lot, would have busy schedules. For people like Shikamaru who only signed up for three things, they would have hours in between each activity.
Shikamaru woke up at 6:45 which was good because the camp's annoying bell would be waking everyone up at 7:00.
'Stupid Naruto, saying that Neji is the one who snores, this guy is as loud as a bus!'
He took advantage of everyone sleeping and used the bathroom, which there was only one big one upstairs. It was well furnished with a tub brought in by Sasuke's father, but now the room looked like a total mess. Shikamaru didn't like it when the bathroom was dirty but he was too lazy to do anything about it.
When he was done using the bathroom he went down stairs to only find Neji in the kitchen already eating cereal.
"Did I wake you up?" asked Shikamaru as he got his own breakfast. He then remembered how Neji liked to wake up early to go for a jog before he did any physical activity for the day.
"No, I always wake up at 6:00 to go for a morning jog, but this place is really constricting. There's really no where to run."
Shikamaru sat down across from Neji eating in silence. After a few seconds of that they heard the camp bell, which was a loud horn. When it was over they could hear Naruto fall out of his bed yelling.
"WHATS WITH THE HORN?" they heard Naruto scream.
"SHUT UP DOBE!" they could hear Sasuke, two seconds later….
"HEY I'M USING THE BATHROOM!" yelled Sasuke.
"TOO BAD TEME, I'M GOING TO USE IT!" Naruto yelled right back.
They fought for the bathroom for a while, and from the sounds of it they were both giving it their all. Then they finally heard the door shut.
"Wonder who got it." Said Neji as he walked over to the sink to place his bowl in the sink.
"YOU SUCK SASUKE!" yelled Naruto who began slamming his fists into the door.
"Does that answer your question?" asked Shikamaru.
"What a dobe," smirked Neji "Should we go down to get our schedules; I'm sure it won't be crowded since everyone just woke up."
"Yeah let's go before Naruto tries to beat Sasuke up when he comes out of the bathroom."
Neji and Shikamaru got on their shoes and went to the camp's office. It was pretty empty, but they got their schedules and walked all the way back to their cabin.
"Do you think their fighting each other?" asked Neji as they approached the door.
"Of course they are." Said Shikamaru as he opened the door to see Sasuke locked in a sleeper hold by Naruto.
"We got the schedules." said Neji as he waved them in their faces.
"HELP!" chocked Sasuke, but the two guys just went to the kitchen to go over their schedule plan.
Ten minutes later Sasuke and Naruto came into the kitchen but they were beat up equally as bad.
"Thanks for the help." said Sasuke sarcastically as he sat next to Shikamaru.
"So what's first for the day?" asked Naruto as he opened up his schedule.
Swimming&Fencing-8:00-9:30 (Naruto Sasuke) (Neji Shikamaru)
Basketball- 10:00-11:00 (all four guys)
Wrestling- 11:00-12:30 (Neji Naruto)
Soccer- 1:00-2:30 (all four guys) MONDAYS&WEDNESDAYS
Lacrosse& Football- 2:30-3:30 (Neji) (Sasuke Naruto)
Hockey- 1:00-2:30(Neji Sasuke Naruto) TUESDAYS&THURSDAYS
"OH COOL! This decorating thing is a blessing in disguise! Now I won't have to go to football!"
"Well we might be back before then you never know."
Naruto groaned obnoxiously. "I want to get out of it soooooooo bad!" he whined.
"Well maybe decorating could take that long, I mean how big is the room where we're going to dance really be?" asked Shikamaru.
"WOW!" Ino yelled into the big room that would be for the dance. "You can hear a loud echo."
"No you're just loud." smirked Sakura.
"Don't even start you guys." warned Tenten who came between them ready for no-nonsense.
"What time again are we coming down here at?" asked Hinata.
"5:30." Said Ino "I heard that some guys from the guy camp are coming here at 12:00 to decorate the tops of the room so we don't have to."
"Well that was nice of them." said Tenten.
Sakura shook her head. "Nah. I heard it's just a bunch of delinquents that they wanted to get out of their camp so they wouldn't have to deal with them there."
"Will they be here when we decorate?" asked Hinata.
"I hope so!" said Ino with hearts in her eyes.
"So let's hurry you guys," said Tenten who began to walk away. "Basketball starts in five minutes and it's practically an eight minute walk." She said getting further away from them.
"OKAY OKAY we're coming." Cried Ino as she and the other girls picked up their bags to go to the basketball courts.
"So after you grab your opponent you shift your wait to your heal, either one you pick what's best, and you fllliiiiipp them like this." Said the wrestling teacher as he flipped one of the students in a demonstration "Now can everyone else try that?" All of the guys nodded and went to their partners to try the flip. Each one was successful in flipping his opponent. After they had each done it twice Naruto raised his hand.
"Excuse me Sensei but I have to go now since its 12:00."
"Yes, Iruka did inform me of this. You can leave now but I expect you to be at your best on Monday."
"No worries!" Naruto assured him. "I've got friends I can practice one!" He ran out of the room, bag in hand, and went straight to the camp's main office only to see Iruka and Shikamaru waiting for him by a bus.
"You're 7 minutes late Naruto." Said Shikamaru as Iruka handed him a five dollar bill.
"Sorry about that, so are we going now?"
"Yes let's enter the bus." said Iruka as he sat in the first seat.
"HEY! Where is everyone else?" yelled Naruto as he looked from left to right on the bus.
"Oh, no one else wanted to sign up to help. Go figure, now take a seat Naruto." Iruka said more sternly.
Naruto sat in the seat behind Iruka and 'hmpd'. Shikamaru sat to the right of Naruto already looking up at the clouds.
"Can we open some windows?" asked Shikamaru as the bus started up.
"Sure why not, but the air conditioner should start up pretty soon."
"MAN, it's like a billion degrees out! I hope they have air conditioning." complained Naruto.
The ride was almost thirty minutes and Naruto didn't stop complaining the entire way there. By the time they arrived at the camp there wasn't anyone in sight.
"Where is everyone?" asked Naruto as he tried to find a single person.
"Doing their activities, did you expect to see them?" asked Iruka while looking at his watch.
It was black and glossy.
"Well, YEAH I did expect to see actual people walking around." Naruto did another once over, but when no one was popping up he jumped into Shikamaru's seat to look through his side of the bus. Naruto kneed him accidentally so Shikamaru pushed him into the aisle.
"Come on let's just get this over with." He said as he got out of the bus stepping over Naruto.
Iruka lead them both to the dancing hall; fanning his face even though it was a very short walk, but it was really hot out. As soon as they reached the double doors he opened them up and they stepped inside.
Both boys dropped their jaws.
"THIS PLACE IS HUGE!" yelled Naruto causing an echo.
"Ah man………what a drag…" groaned Shikamaru as his eyes grew wider.
"Alright boys I guess you can get started. They want all of those Chinese lanterns hung up and with all of those streamers." The two boys looked at him as if that were impossible.
"But that's so high up, how will we get up there?"
"I'm glad you asked Naruto, that ladder over there should help you out. One of you will go up it and the other will hold the bottom for support, you got that?"
"Yeah whatever." Shikamaru said already on his way to the ladder.
"Too easy!" yelled Naruto suddenly completely determined.
"Well get started then, I'm going to inform the people at the camp office that we have arrived and that you two have begun." With that Iruka left back out the double doors.
"So, when do we start planning things?" whispered Naruto.
"Well first we need to do what they expect us to do. They'll watch us for a while of course but soon they'll leave to get into a cooler room."
"What are you talking about? It's really nice and cool in here." said Naruto as he rubbed his arms to get warm.
"That's why I have to go break the thermostat. The air-conditioning will go off and it'll be as hot as hell in here."
"Well can you at least break it in a few hours so we're not that hot?" asked Naruto who began to slide a cardboard box of streamers around with his foot.
"No, we need to do it now while Iruka Sensei is gone."
"!" groaned Naruto.
Shikamaru pulled out a thick pocket knife that had God knows what kinds of contraptions in it. He cracked open the thermostat and started to mess with a few wires. After about 30 seconds of tinkering he had done it, and the air went off. He put it all together and no one would be the wiser.
"Alright let's get to decorating, and when they leave then I'll go get the feathers from the art room." Shikamaru said as he stuck his pocket knife back in the front pocket of his jeans. Naruto's response was a curt nod, and he began to dig into the box of streamers.
Iruka sensei had gotten Asuma Sensei to help watch the two boys decorate, and to also make sure they weren't goofing off, but they were doing a pretty good job.
SO good in fact that they decided they didn't need to watch them anymore and they could go to the air conditioned main office.
"We'll come back later to make sure you're both almost done." Iruka assured them as he and Asuma made a dash for the main office.
"Keep up the good work!" they heard Asuma yell.
Shikamaru smirked proud of himself. "Just like in chess, make it look like the king is open and watch them go for the bait."
Naruto rolled his eyes and looked down at Shikamaru. "You always freak me out when you compare things to chess!" he yelled from the top of the ladder.
"NOW, we can do what we have to do." said Shikamaru as he went over to his book bag. Naruto placed his feet on the sides of the ladder and slid all the way down. As he got closer to Shikamaru he could see inside of his book bag where all the things they needed were.
"Okay, I'll go over to the art room and get bags of feathers." Shikamaru told him as he stood up from his crouch and stretched out his back.
"What if you get caught?" asked Naruto.
"I won't dobe. You just start setting everything up, just like we went over in the car." Shikamaru said as he walked out the back door which was to the left of a d j booth.
He found the art room easy since it was right across from the dancing hall. He broke into the back door and made it easily inside. There was no one in the entire building. To make things even more convenient, the supply closet was right next to the back door.
Inside he found three HUGE bags of feathers wrapped in plastic bags.
"Aw man! Next time give me a challenge!" he said out loud. He took two of the bags figuring that would be enough. And with that he made his way back to Naruto.
He walked into the dancing hall the same way he went out, and Naruto was just finishing up with his part of the plan.
"I got the feathers." Shikamaru told him as he held the two bags out to Naruto.
They opened the bags of feathers and distributed them on the 6 LARGE fans in the room. With them being so big, no one would be able to see the feathers that they laid out on them.
"After this you're gunna have to show me how to get the liquid in the sprinkler system."
Shikamaru smirked, again. "Where would you all be without me?"
Naruto rolled his eyes and began to mutter some incoherent things under his breath.
It was now 4:45 and Hinata and Ino were walking towards the art room. They didn't want to go back to their cabin because when they would get there it would only be another ten minutes before they had to go back to the dancing room to decorate.
"I'm glad we decided to leave our bags in the art room after basketball so we wouldn't have anything to carry after dance." Ino told Hinata.
Hinata nodded eagerly. "Yes, that was some smart thinking." She said as she wiped her forehead. "Holy enchiladas batman, it's like 30billion degrees out!"
"You're right Robin, but the bat cave is just a little further and the air is on HIGH!" laughed Ino. (AN: bat cave EQUALS art room)
"Well we should take a detour to the dance hall to see how the guys did." said Hinata who began to walk in the other direction.
"OH NOOO YOU DON'T!" yelled Ino as she grabbed Hinata's arm and pulled her the other way. "It's too far for me and I want to get cold."
"Well let me go over there, I'll run!" Hinata assured her as she started to jog away.
Ino rolled her eyes too hot and tired to argue. "Fine…RUN!" then Hinata began to run to the dance hall which wasn't that far but still very tiring.
After watching Hinata run away Ino scanned the grounds for a yellow bus. 'I don't see their bus anymore so I guess that means they all left already.' She walked up to the art room's door and the cold air pulled her inside.
It was 4:40 in the dance hall and Naruto and Shikamaru had covered four of the six fans.
"We don't have enough! There's still two whole fans that are empty, so what do we do now genius?" asked Naruto as he began to walk down the ladder.
"Don't worry, there's one other bag in the art room, I'll go get it." He said as he walked towards the door.
"Whatever. While you're doing that I'm taking a break." Naruto said as he walked over to lean against a wall.
He wasn't tired, but the hot air in the room with all the windows shut was getting to him. It was also getting to his stupid shirt. His sweat had it clinging to his body making it annoying to move around.
'Why hasn't Shikamaru complained about this problem?' he wondered to himself. 'Oh yeah, because I'm the one doing all the work!' Naruto tunneled his fingers through his hair and tugged a little at the collar of his shirt.
After a while, Shikamaru had been gone for about 7 minutes. This upset Naruto. It didn't take him so long the last time when he went on a feather plunder.
'Where the heck is he?' wondered Naruto. Then he focused on his other problem. "AAAUUGH! IT'S SO HOT IN HERE!'
Hinata finally got to the dance hall.
'That was a lot harder than it really looked' she thought as she was catching her breath after her sprint to the hall.
'Well I'm sure it was worth it.' She thought as she quietly opened the door to peer inside. 'WOW! Look at all the decorations, they're so pretty!' she thought as she admired all the work hanging from the ceiling. The lanterns were huge, and the streamers were a criss-cross of red and black.
"MAN!" yelled a voice startling Hinata who thought she was alone.
'HUH! Someone's here?' she thought as she came into the building just in time to see a guy begin to pull off his shirt.
'AHHHH MY GOSH!' she mentally screamed as she continued to watch him.
It all seemed to be in slow motion. The gray cotton of his shirt stuck to his skin stubbornly because of his sweat. When he pulled it off it messed up is hair causing it to stand up in straight spikes. Hinata bit her lip. It looked better messy to her. Then, with his shirt balled in his hand, he wiped off his chest.
And that's when Hinata really noticed it for the first time.
'That's a nice six pack,' Just thinking that made her blush a light crimson. 'I wonder how old he is?' she thought as she continued to stare unblinkingly towards him. He looked tired because his eyes were shut and he stretched out his arms more than once.
Her eyes lingered lower towards his legs. 'Tanned and toned.' she thought with a little bit of approval. Everything pointed to 'athlete' with him.
Knowing that she was still staring at him made Hinata embarrassed, but her feet seemed to be glued to the ground. Her neck unwilling to move anywhere.
But then he made a loud groaning noise freezing the rest of her body in place.
"Someone should REALLY turn the fans ON!" he complained out loud. "IT'S LIKE A BILLION DEGREES IN HERE!" he yelled again as he used his shirt to wipe his face.
"I'll get them!" Hinata yelled automatically. Then she quickly placed her hands over her mouth. 'CRAP! Why'd I just say that? Okay…calm down, it's too late he knows you're here so just follow through and turn the fans on.'
Naruto's eyes shot wide opened, his heart began to race. 'OH SHIT, WHO WAS THAT?' Someone else was in the room and they scared him. Naruto looked over to the front doors to see a girl standing there. His heart was already beating so fast because she startled him, but when he got a better look at her he practically didn't have a pulse!
Trim legs coming out from a frilly skirt that was lower than her thigh, but still pretty short. A slender waist. Long dark hair fallen all over her shoulders, but the part that made him gulp was how they spilled over her chest. Full-sized and round; placed nicely in a form fitting T-shirt tucked into the skirt.
Then her pretty legs began to move towards the wall. Naruto's eyes followed those legs as they moved as fluidly as liquid. The skirt did pretty little things as she moved, and her hair swayed back and forth.
He finally blinked. 'Whoa, that girl's really hot. Hot?' he mentally laughed as he forgot how only a minute ago he had been complaining about how hot it was in the hall. 'But now it seems to be getting hotter….and I'm sweating a lot! And…my heart's RACING!' he looked back at the girl whose arm seemed to be extending out as she neared the wall. 'Wait what did she say? Where's she going? SHE'S ABOUT TO TURN ON THE FANS!'
"WAIT STOP!" yelled Naruto who had just snapped back to reality. Hinata froze where she stood as she was about to turn on the switch for the fans. "UUUHH, sorry!" Naruto yelled nervously as he scratched the back of his head "It's probably a good idea if you don't turn on the fans."
"Oh, why not?" asked a confused Hinata.
"UMMMMMM, hmmmmmm," 'why indeed.'
He looked around for a scapegoat but found none. Then he saw how cute she looked standing confused like a lost animal. He smirked embarrassed. "It's….starting to get….a bit nicer in here." He said scratching his chin and looking in a different direction.
'Was he just flirting with me?' she blushed a little at the thought.
"You're right; it is getting a bit nicer in here." Naruto raised an eyebrow at her.
'Was she flirting with me? SCORE!' he thought as his cheeks heated up a bit.
Grinning, he walked over towards her and she sort of retreated backwards towards the doors. A large lump had formed in her throat now that she got a better view of his face. His smile seemed to be more beautiful than his body, damn him. She knew her face was turning red, but she hoped she could simply blame it on the heat.
"I'm sorry for coming in here." She said apologetically. "I'm really not supposed to be here until 5:30, I'm on the decorating committee. It looks nice in here. Did you do all of this by yourself?" 'Greeeat Hinata, now you're just rambling.'
He blinked once startled. "Oh, this," he gestured with his hands towards the ceiling. "Well I did most of it, but my friend helped me and he held the ladder."
"OH! There's someone else here too?" she asked as she looked around a little. "Where'd he go?"
"I think he went to the bathroom a while ago, must be having some trouble."
Hinata laughed at his joke.
He couldn't breathe. Her laugh shook his insides. 'Such a sweet noise.' He thought. "So where did you just come from?" he asked taking in her apparel. "You look too nice to have been playing a sport."
Hinata blushed a tad 'He thinks I look good!'
"Well I just did some dancing."
"So I guess that's getting you ready for the dance on Saturday, right?"
"Huh? OH, oh right I guess it is."
'Hinata keep it together! Stop getting lost in his deep blue eyes!' she wandered her eyes down to his chest where his perfect abs were. She blushed even more.
'Why isn't she looking at me anymore? OHHHhh.' Naruto grinned slyly.
"Oh, sorry about that." He said as he purposely put his arms behind his head.
'WHAT THE HELL! IS HE LIKE TRYING TO SHOW THEM OFF TO ME?'
"That's okay; it's getting pretty hot in here. I MEAN, it was already hot in here!" she corrected quickly.
'OH SHIT! Nice one Hinata no baka!' Naruto was about to flirt back, but she cut him off before he could get the chance.
"Well I should really be getting back now; I ditched my friend so I could come here." She said as she backed up to the door.
Naruto smiled warmly at her. "Well good, I mean I'm really glad you did or else I wouldn't have met you." Her smile grew wider.
"Yeah, I'm glad too." Her back just hit the back of the door and he was following her so in her mind it looked like he had just cornered her in. Alas Hinata forgot the door opened when you pushed it so she fell backwards with the door as it swung open. Naruto quickly grabbed her arm before she could hit the ground, and stood her back up next to him.
'I'm so close to him, I can practically feel his body heat.' She mentally squealed as she got so perfectly close to see that his face was even more perfect up much closer.
'She's really close to me, I can feel my heart POUNDING!'
They both nervously laughed as Hinata took a few steps out of the door, while Naruto was still in the building.
"YO ROBIN HURRY UP AND GET OVER HEAR!" yelled Ino who was standing half way out of the art room's door.
"Here I come!" yelled Hinata, Ino went back inside the art room.
Naruto didn't know who she was talking to but he did hear the person use the name Robin and she responded to it. Hinata shrugged as if duty called and she had to go. She didn't want to be rude and keep Ino waiting any longer, so she began to walk towards the art room.
"Sorry, I guess I'll see you tomorrow if you're helping us decorate the rest of the hall."
He barely heard her since he was trying to register where she was going. "Huh..? Oh yeah! I'LL BE HERE!" he yelled out to her as she started to run away.
"Naruto, who are you talking to?" asked a breathless Shikamaru "Did someone come in here?"
Naruto's hands were holding onto the door frame as he leaned his entire body out to watch her run away. Hearing Shikamaru's voice, he turned his head to display a huge smile on his face. "YEAH BELIEVE IT! THIS GIRL DID, AND SHE WAS HOT. She was the prettiest girl I've ever seen!"
"Did you even get her name?" asked Shikamaru as he opened up the new bag of feathers.
Naruto grinned turning his whole body toward his friend. "Yeah…Robin!" Naruto said with a blush as he walked towards Shikamaru feeling happier than he had ever been in his entire life!