It was odd how only fifteen minutes ago they were trying to capture the guys. Now they were just trying to get them out of their cabin without getting caught. The girls all went to different windows to see if the counselor was out there still looking around. To make things worse, however, there were now three counselors on the prowl.
"This isn't good you guys, look." Tenten said as she pointed out one of the windows. "They're checking the cabin next to us, and they'll be here to check on ours next!"
Sakura began to sweat. "But what are we going to do? If we try and sneak them out they'll be caught for sure!"
"We'll have to hide them." Hinata said as if they had no choice.
"But WHERE?" a frantic Ino asked. "They're going to check our cabin from top to bottom. Where are we going to hide four guys?"
Shikamaru let out a sigh. "Can I recommend something?" he asked raising his hand.
The girls all looked over at him. While freaking out, they sort of forgot the presence of the guys.
"What if we just hide in plain sight, you know?"
They didn't know. So they stared at him growing more confused by the second.
"Look, they're looking for guys right? So what if we just dress up to look like girls so-"
"NOOOOO!" yelled the rest of the guys cutting him off. They all jumped to their feet towering over Shikamaru. Sasuke took a step closer towards him.
"How can you be a genius and only come up with, that?" Sasuke asked sounding completely disgusted that Shikamaru would even suggest something that would threaten their masculinity.
"Well do you guys have any suggestions?" asked Shikamaru.
They did not.
Shikamaru smirked while still managing to look annoyed. "Didn't think so."
"Okay, we'll get you to look like girls," began Hinata "But you guys need to cooperate with us and just do as we say. I know it'll be going against the grain for you, but no complaining, alright?" There were no objections, just three distinct grunts from all guys sans the Nara. It wasn't the response she wanted, but it's the one she got.
Rolling her eyes, Hinata continued. "Tenten you can help Neji since his hair practically makes him look like a girl so it'll be easy for you. Sakura and Ino, you two are very experienced in hair and cosmetology, so take Sasuke and Shikamaru because they have enough hair to actually do stuff with. I guess I'll do the paperboy since he has short hair and I have a wig in my trunk of tricks."
The guys weren't happy about this plan AT ALL, and Neji was a little miffed because Hinata said his hair looked like a girls.
"Well, LET'S GO!" she prompted. "We're wasting time!"
Each girl took her guy into her room to get them into some pajamas that would let them pass for a girl.
Tenten had huge butterflies in her stomach as she saw Neji sit on her bed. She forced herself to focus on the objective at hand. She got some hair ties and began to brush Neji's hair.
Neji closed his eyes tight, and a small bit of pink showed on his fair skin. His right eyebrow began to twitch, but Tenten couldn't see that since she was standing behind him. 'This feels good!' Neji mentally screamed. He tried to push the nice soft feeling of the brush through his hair out of his head, and tried to concentrate on being caught instead. But then he would remember Tenten was the one doing the brushing and he got nervous all over again.
"I'm going to put your hair up into two pigtails." Tenten told him. She then shrugged. "That's all I know how to do, besides buns."
"I think I'd rather get caught by the people outside." Neji said as he crossed his arms tighter over his chest. 'Just make it quick! I can't stand how awkward this is!'
"Here, you can put on my robe." She said handing her bathrobe over."Just take off your sneakers and hide them under my bed." Neji did as she told him and while he was taking them off Hinata came into the room whispering something to Tenten and handing her some clip on earrings.
As soon as she slipped back out Neji cocked an eyebrow up at Tenten. "What did Hinata say?" he asked now wrapping the robe around him.
She only hesitated for a mere second. "Oh, she just wanted to give you these clip on earrings." She said handing him a pair of pearl clip-ons.
He wanted to question her again, but stopped. As soon as the earrings were placed in his hand he couldn't believe that he, Neji Hyuuga, was reduced to doing such a thing as dressing up like a girl.
Getting caught wouldn't be that bad, right?
Sakura took Sasuke into her room and gestured him to sit down on her computer desk chair. They didn't speak at all so it got to a point where it was just awkward. But while looking at the monitor Sasuke realized he had an ice breaker.
He turned to look at Sakura who was in her duffle bag rummaging for something."Do all of you have a computer?" he asked
"Uuuh, yeah! Each of us has one." She said as she pulled out a bottle of hair gel.
"What's that for?" asked Sasuke nervously.
'It's to rub all over your feet.' She thought rolling her eyes.
"I'm going to use it to style your hair." She explained even though she thought it was quite obvious that it was HAIR GEL. "I'm going to make your hair look like Hinata's when it was short." Sasuke only knew Hinata with short hair, so he knew what that looked like. "Then I want you to put my shirt on with my pajama pants." She said as she turned to chair in the direction of a big pink shirt and pink flannel pants.
The pit of his stomach turned and he wanted to hurl. "UGH, pink?"
"Hey what's wrong with pink?" she demanded since she felt her hair needed to be defended. He didn't catch on to that.
"I have nothing against it, but it's just a girl color."
"Well that is what I am, a GIRL."
'Oh, I noticed.' He thought slyly as she began to put green eye shadow on his eyes.
"Will this stuff come out?" he asked
"Yeah I have some eye makeup remover you can borrow. Just give it back when you're done okay?" teased Sakura
"whatever." He grumbled.
When his hair and makeup were done Sakura stepped out of the room so he could put on her clothes. When he said it was okay for her to come in she handed him a magnetic nose ring.
"Where did you get this?" he asked as he attempted to put it on.
Sakura smiled. "Hinata just gave it to me in the hall." She explained. "She thinks it'll be a good idea if you all have a little something extra." He rolled his eyes as he continued to fumble with the little magnet.
Ino had Shikamaru in her room which made them both REALLY nervous. Ino took out his hair and ran her fingers through it.
'OH my GOSH, his hair is soooooo soft!' she thought to herself delighted.
'That feels soooo goooood. I wonder if I can take a quick nap.'
"Okay, I'm just going to put curlers in your hair so that it looks like you're preparing for the dance." Ino began to role his hair up, and Shikamaru just sat there like a good little boy. When Ino was done she let him see with her mirror on the wall.
"Aw man, what a drag."
"Hey this was your idea, now I need you to put on this gray shirt and my shorts." Said Ino as she handed over the clothes
"You don't have any pants?" he asked "Because you know I have hairy legs, I am a guy after all."
"OH MY GOD! Hairy legs, my one of a couple of weaknesses!'
"Then you can put on some soccer socks, Tenten has some! I'll go borrow them for you, so now you get dressed." Ino left the room and Shikamaru changed into her clothes. He was intoxicated with the smell of them, was it the smell of flowers? He didn't know.
Ino came back into the room with a pair of soccer socks that were long, and she also had some dangly clip on earrings that Hinata gave her when she was out in the hall.
"I thought you went out to get socks not accessories." Shikamaru said as he put on the socks.
"Hinata thought it would be a good idea if you guys wore earrings too." Shikamaru accepted them with a sigh and Ino helped him put them on. "Now for the eye makeup!" she said clearly having too much fun dressing Shikamaru up.
Hinata had Naruto in her room and she wasn't sure if she was happy, excited or mad about it because all along this guy was her paperboy. THE paperboy. Naruto could tell she was upset with him, and the more he thought about it the more he didn't blame her for being mad.
"Listen..Hinata..I..i'm sorry for always throwing the paper at your house." He said sincerely. Hinata looked up at his face and she could tell he was serious and truthful.
"You know you always through it at MY window."
"OOOooh, sorry, AGAIN." Hinata grabbed out of the trunk a blonde wig that actually was the same color of Naruto's hair. The hair was really long though, it would almost reach Naruto's waist.
"Put this wig on, and I'll put it into pigtails for you." Naruto began to put it on but was doing it all wrong. "No, wait here let me do it." Hinata walked closer to Naruto who was standing up now and she had to use her toes to reach his head.
"Sorry about that." He laughed knowing she was struggling with his height.
"You can't help being tall." She said with a smile, after the wig was on she put it into two high pigtails so it wouldn't be so much in his way. She began to put foundation on his face and she even gave him eyeliner. Hinata then walked over to her own jewelry box to grab some fake earrings the guys could wear. She handed Naruto a pair of fake hoops.
"I put the clothes that you can wear on my bed, so get into them while I go give the girls these." Hinata left the room and Naruto got dressed in a long night gown that had long sleeves. He then admired himself in the mirror, and he thought he looked really good.
'I would totally date me!' he thought to his reflection, he looked around the room a little and then he noticed the balcony outside of Hinata's room. Before he could do much about it Hinata came right back into the room rushing Naruto out.
When they got into the hall the others were outside already, the guys couldn't help but laugh at the other.
"Everyone listen," began Ino "A few of us should hang down stairs and a few will pretend to sleep upstairs."
"Anyone have a better idea?" asked Sakura, they all looked at Shikamaru.
"What? It's a good plan." He told them.
"Thank you!" yelled Ino "Okay how about Tenten, Neji, and Shikamaru pretend to sleep, and the rest of us will play "Truth or Dare", sound good?" asked Ino looking around for objections, but everyone agreed this time and took their places.
Neji went into Tenten's room and went under her covers; he began thinking that they smelt really nice.
Tenten went into Sakura's room and Shikamaru went into Ino's. Shikamaru couldn't help it and he really went to sleep in her bed since he was so tired.
The others were down stairs sitting in a circle pretending to do each other's hair and reading out of magazines they pulled out from Ino's room. They were doing that for about 4 minutes until someone came knocking at the door.
Hinata got up and went over to the door to see three consolers standing there.
"Good morning," she said politely "Were we too loud? Sorry, we're just so excited about the dance!"
"No, I'm sorry," began one of the consolers "but we actually heard that there were some boys seen at the camp. We think the girls who told us might have made a mistake or are just playing a prank, but regardless we need to check out everyone's cabins."
Hinata gave them an innocent smile. "Sure, but just be quiet because some girls already went to bed."
"No problem we'll just do a once over." The three women walked in and went for the kitchen first. Hinata took a seat next to Naruto on the floor, and watched as Sakura played with Ino's hair and Sasuke played with Sakura's. Ino's idea. Naruto was laughing at Sasuke, but tried to keep it girly. Sasuke was getting pissed off at Naruto so he had an idea that forced him to give an evil smirk.
'OH NO! Sasuke's smirk, SHIT!' thought Naruto as he began to play with Hinata's hair too, just like Sasuke was.
"Hey Ino," said Sasuke in a girly voice "I thought we were going to play truth or dare."
"Great idea Sassy!"
"Sassy?" asked Sakura and Sasuke at the same time
"Hush, SOO, let's begin. Who wants to go first?" Sasuke raised his hand, but Naruto quickly yelled an anxious "ME!"
"Sakura truth or dare?" She pondered but then chose to do a dare as the three women went up stairs to check out the rooms.
"I dare you to tell us one of your most embarrassing moments."
"Well that's a crappy dare." Mumbled Sasuke.
"It's not EVEN a dare!" Ino complained.
Sakura unfazed but them began to think. "Oh! Well at school I walked around with toilet paper on my butt for almost an entire day. Nobody even bothered to tell me about until recess when Hinata came up to me and told me. That's when we first met!"
"How long ago did that happen?" asked "Sassy" in his regular voice, only more hushed.
"Eight years ago." Responded Sakura "Ino and Hinata were my first friends, and that's how I met Ino because she was friends with Hinata. I already knew who Ino was but we never really talked. Now we're all the best of friends." Ino and Hinata both smiled widely. They remembered that day very well because they all promised to be friends forever.
"Okay so how about you Hinata, truth or dare?"
"How about truth?" she shrugged. Ino sighed. She really liked the dares more rather than truths.
"Okay," Sakura grinned. "Tell us if anything ELSE happened with you and Naruto." she asked slyly.
"Good one!" Ino rejoiced. The game had hope yet!
"Nothing happened, I already told you everything! I don't know what Naruto told the guys though." They all looked at him and he just scratched the back of his head.
"I just said I'm not one to kiss and tell. Isn't that an expression? Didn't I use it right?"
"No, you made it sound like you kissed her." Sasuke told him.
"Pick someone Hinata." prompted Ino who was getting excited as the game started to progress.
"Okay how about you Sassy!" she laughed, Sasuke smiled because he didn't realize how much he missed Hinata's little laugh.
"Truth."
"Okay, and you have to at least tell me this, but which of my friends to you find prettiest?!"
Sasuke could feel himself blush, but he held it in as best he could.
"What kind of question is that Hinata?" he asked.
Hinata smiled delighted. "I never knew you to back away from a challenge Sasuke." She told him. "I guess people do change, so how about I give you an easier one, kay?" He just rolled his eyes. He saw the bait, but damn it he had to take it so he wouldn't not look like a whimp in front of people he didn't know….and Naruto who would never let him live it down.
He didn't really have to think, so he leaned over to whisper in Hinata's ear who he thought was prettiest. Hinata began to smile satisfied with his response.
"Hey, not fair we couldn't hear!" complained Naruto.
Sasuke shot him a glare. "Shut up Betsy, now truth or dare."
"Betsy?" he questioned the name Sasuke now dubbed him with.
"Pick one, Betsy." Laughed Ino
"I'll pick….truth!"
"LAME!" yelled Sakura and Ino. "It's like no one in this room has played this game except me and Sakura!" Ino continued.
"Fine not a problem, if you were a lesbian which one of us would you kiss?" Sasuke smirked.
"OH! Ummmmmm…..I guess I would kiss…..hinata."
"WHO?" asked Ino leaning in closer.
"HINATA!" yelled Naruto in his guy voice, 'SSHHHIIIIITTT!'
Hinata was blushing red nonstop, but no one noticed since they were worried about the counselors hearing Naruto's outburst. No one came so they figured they heard nothing, but as soon as they thought that they were safe, the three women came down the stairs.
"Okay, we checked it out and everything looks good." Said the first one. "Sorry to have done this in the first place."
"You should all probably get some sleep so you can look good for the dance!" said the next women.
"OH NO!" cried Naruto in his girl voice "My beauty sleep, how dumb of me to forget!"
Hinata, Sakura, Ino, and Sasuke all sweat dropped.
"Good night girls." They all said as they left the cabin.
"Phew! That was too close for comfort!" Sakura said as she fell back on the floor. She was mentally drained from worrying so much.
'These stupid guys need to get the heck out of here before those women come back to double check! CHA!'
"Alright let's go back up stairs to the others." Hinata said as they all went up stairs. Tenten was already in the hall getting Neji, so the rest of them went into Ino's room to get Shikamaru.
"Is he…uh..sleeping?" asked Sakura as she poked him.
'HE WASN'T EVEN AFRAID OF GETTING CAUGHT?! WE WERE ALL RISKING OUR LIVES DOWN THERE! I SHOULD STRANGLE HIM!'
Ino laughed at the sight of him in her bed. "He looks so peaceful we shouldn't wake him up." She said hoping that he could stay there for a little longer.
Party pooper Sasuke shook his head. "No, we have to get out of here because your camp might call ours and report boys. They'll probably inspect every cabin to make sure that all of the guys are there. We need to get out of here."
"Darn." Mumbled Ino who was disappointed that Shikamaru had to leave.
"Okay girls! Let's get the guys back into guy attire." Said Sakura, they each went back into their original rooms.
Tenten told Neji to do nothing until she took the makeup off of him so it wouldn't get on her robe. He promised he would be careful but she still wouldn't let him do a thing.
CLICK
"What was that noise?" asked Neji.
"Nothing!" said Tenten sweetly "Okay now you can get undressed and I'll help you take the makeup off."
Neji raised an eyebrow towards her, but instead of commenting on how she wouldn't let him do a thing a moment ago, he decided he needed to take all of the crap on him off like it was on FIRE!
Ino had a little bit of trouble waking up Shikamaru, he was really stubborn.
"Fine then I'll just undress you! Hope you don't mind that I get to see your BUTT!"
"I guess it would only be fair." Blurted Shikamaru. 'SHIT NOOOOO!'
"Excuse me? What is that suppose to mean?"
"Uhhh, sorry still dreaming!" he hopped up and began to take the hair curlers out.
'Straaange!' thought Ino
Sakura and Sasuke weren't talking to each other, as she was taking off his makeup. That's when Sakura remembered the truth he had to answer. She was dying to know who he thought was the prettiest!
'Not me, he's so hot I bet he could have ANY GIRL He WANTED!' thought Sakura.
"Is something wrong? You're not talking." observed Sasuke. "Is it not coming off?!" he asked more alert.
"HUH? Oh no it's fine, I'm just in deep thought." She told him. "But you might want to wash your hair out in our bathroom."
"Okay where's that?" he asked as he and Sakura stood up at the same time which caused them to bump heads.
"Oh sorry!" laughed Sakura as she held her head "It's my big forehead, it's gets in the way of everything!" she tried to hold back a few tears as she could hear the names people used to call her for her fore head. Ino called her forehead girl but it was okay because she was her best friend. If anyone else would call her that Ino would probably threaten them.
Sasuke could see her fighting back tears.
'Did I really hurt her, or is she really just upset about her forehead?'
"No, you don't have a big forehead." She looked up at him to see if he was serious or if he was laughing. He was being DEAD serious. "It's actually…..kind of cute." He said not looking at her and finding the opposite wall pretty fascinating.
'I CANT BELIEVE I JUST SAID THAT TO HER!'
'Did he really mean that?'
'CHA! HE THINKS I'M CUTE!'
"So where is your bathroom again?" He asked trying to quickly change the subject.
"OH! It's the door right next to mine to the right." He walked out of her room to the bathroom and she practically fainted.
'He didn't make fun of me! Or maybe he just felt sorry for me…?'
Sighing, Sakura walked over to her computer and shut her cell phone that had been on record.
Hinata and Naruto just got back into her room and he was about to take off his wig but she stopped him.
"Hold on Naruto, don't you want to look at yourself one last time as a girl?" she asked a little too quickly.
"Well, I guess. I am pretty sexy after all." He walked over to the mirror and began to giggle like a girl. "I didn't even name myself, oh no wait, I'm Betsy." Naruto began to turn around.
CLICK
"Hey what was that noise?"
"What noise?" asked a confused looking Hinata "I didn't hear anything. Hurry up Naruto it's starting to get kind of creepy that you're a girl."
He rubbed the back of his head nervously. "Yeah, I look better as a boy."
Hinata smiled a little. "I'll say…I MEAN!" Hinata was now red all over. She looked over at Naruto to see what his reaction was, but he was just smiling. "You can go and use my bathroom to get dressed in." she said as she gestured to the door behind him.
"Okay thanks." He went into the bathroom and shut the door behind him. He took of the wig and began to frantically wash off all of the makeup on his face. He got back into his own clothes but now he was just holding Hinata's night gown.
'I wonder if Hinata has ever slept in this.' He thought, and then he thought about what he heard Hinata just say.
Flashback
"Yeah, I look better as a boy."
"I'll say…I MEAN!"
End Flashback
Naruto looked over into the mirror and he had a very wide smile on, he was also sporting a small pink blush on his tanned cheeks. He started to wonder if Hinata could ever like him.
Naruto went into the bathroom, and then Hinata decided to fall onto her bed.
'I can't believe I said that. And he just smiled at me! I wonder if he heard!'
Hinata thought it would be okay if she got into her pajamas, Naruto would probably take a while anyways since he had to wash off his makeup. So Hinata put on pink shorts and then wondered if she should put a gray T-shirt on, or if she should wear her matching pink tank top. It was a little revealing, but then she decided to just let Naruto use his imagination. Hinata took off her other shirt and was pulling down the other one when she heard the bathroom door open up. She quickly turned around to see Naruto coming out of the bathroom, and he was blushing a bit.
'WOE, she already got dressed, and I saw her naked back! She's going to Kill me….no..NEJI IS GOING TO KILL ME! THEN SHIKAMARU IS GOING TO RESSURECT ME AND SASUKE IS GOING TO KILL ME WITH HELP FROM SHIKAMARU!'
'OH NO! DID HE SEE ANYTHING?' Hinata was no longer fair skinned. Her face, ears, neck, and arms were a lovely crimson.
"Na..Naruto did you see?" she asked embarrassed.
"NO! Just your lower back when you pulled down your shirt that's ALL!"
'Okay so I saw ALL of her back but it's not like I saw the rest of her!'
"OH GOOOD!" Hinata said relieved while letting out the long breath she had been holding in. "Okay let's get you guys out of here." They both walked out of the room into the hall where everyone else was already waiting.
At first there was no noise made from any of the friends, until Neji noticed Hinata's clothes and he was pretty sure she was not wearing them few minutes ago.
"HINATA YOU GOT DRESSED WITH HIM IN THE ROOM?!" Neji yelled while being held back by Tenten.
"NO, I used the bathroom!" she lied; Shikamaru and Sasuke gave evil looks at Naruto who just nodded in agreement with Hinata. If she was going to lie so was he.
Seeing that that wouldn't be enough for the three other guys, Ino quickly intervened. "Okay you guys you need to get out of here, QUICK!" she yelled.
Tenten began to descend the stairs. "I'll make sure the coast is clear!" she volunteered.
Once they were sure there was no more movement outside the guys all left through the porch door without a word. They did turn around to look up at the girls one more time, but they couldn't risk speaking anymore. Neji went first into the trees, and as each of them followed, the darkness swallowed them up. Soon they were gone and the girls went back inside.
Ino, Sakura, and Tenten all went to go get dressed into their pajamas and then planned on going into Hinata's room. Hinata was now on her balcony looking out over the path the guys took. She missed them all already, but she couldn't help missing Naruto a little bit more.
He was once her enemy being the paperboy, but just two encounters and now she was head over heels.
'Just like Romeo and Juliet.' She thought 'Now I just need him to come back to my balcony, climb up the tree and kiss me goodnight.'
"Hinata we got them!" yelled Ino who came running into her room. Hinata went over to her bed as did the other girls.
"Look how cute Shikamaru is." Said Ino as she showed everyone her cell phone picture of Shikamaru sleeping and looking like a girl.
"Not as good as seeing Neji Hyuuga in pigtails." Tenten said as she showed everyone her picture of Neji on her digital camera.
"I was afraid to take the picture so I recorded Sasuke and I can just pick one slide of it to be the picture. So it's like I have a billion pictures!" laughed Sakura as Hinata took her phone away from her to see what she got. They watched what was happening and 'awed' at when Sasuke said he thought her forehead was cute.
Hinata displayed a playful smirk. "Actually he thinks the reeeest of you is cute too." She teased.
"WHAT?" yelled Tenten and Ino at once. Tenten said it with confusion while Ino said it insulted.
Hinata explained. "We played truth or dare and he picked truth so I asked him which one of my friends he thought the prettiest was. He picked Sakura!"
"He didn't pick ME?!" yelled Ino.
"What do you care, I saw how you were looking at Shikamaru." Sakura accused her friend.
"And I saw how he was looking at you." added Tenten.
"Yeah right." Ino said as she crossed her arms
"Hinata let's see your picture." Asked Tenten, Hinata took out her digital camera and showed it to them.
"So tell us, do you like him as a boy or girl better?" teased Ino.
"HEY! Leave me alone!"
"Too bad we didn't get to see his nice six pack!" laughed Sakura as the other girls laughed too.
"SHUTUP!" yelled Hinata as she threw a pillow at them.
The guys were running frantically back to their cabins, but they were doing it very silently. Each of them was thinking about what had just happened to them, and it almost seemed like a dream. Everything happened so fast.
'I was ON TOP of Tenten, and that never looks good for anyone but MY GOD SHE WAS ON ME FIRST! She defiantly got prettier since I last saw her. I can't believe she was here, and Hinata was here. I saw how Naruto was looking at her, so I better keep a close eye on him.' Neji thought to himself as he threw Naruto a deadly glare.
'Shikamaru you IDIOT! It would only be FAIR! Moron! She still doesn't know that I was in the art room with her, and I think she might kill me if she knew! No she would definitely kill me. I just can't believe Hinata was there, she sure has changed a lot. She's no longer shy that's for sure. But I saw how Naruto was looking at her so I better watch him carefully.' Thought Shikamaru as he glared suspiciously at Naruto.
Sasuke looked irritated. 'Uchiha, you should have played it cool! Your forehead is cute! Great JUST great, you know she wasn't THAT cute. You didn't have to say anything at all. You could have said suck it up or don't let it get to you. I really didn't want to tell her how I really felt about her forehead.
It looked so cute I just wanted to kiss it.
Yup, that might have freaked her out. I still can't believe Hinata was here. After all of these years, she sure has changed! She's no longer that shy girl who used to hide behind me. I noticed how Naruto was looking at her, and I think he would be good for her. Regardless, I'm keeping my eyes on him! If he hurts her feelings, I'LL KILL HIM! And why did she beat him so bad? And what's with being the paperboy that got her so pissed? I better keep a REAL good eye on him. If he made her that mad then maybe he's not as good for her as I thought.' Thought Sasuke as he glared evilly at Naruto, but when wasn't he?
'If I tell anyone that I saw Hinata's back, (gulp) I can only imagine. I can't believe that they all know Hinata. I mean maybe she'll like them more than me. She did know them first, but…..maybe she could like a guy like ME! BELIEVE IT! Any girl could like me! I just have to make up for all those times I threw the paper at her window. HAHAHA that's so weird that it was always her window, it's like we were destined to be together. WOW, that would be SOOO COOOOL! (grumble) aw man I'm starting to get hungry. MMMM Ramen would be soo good right now,' Naruto imagines a huge bowl of ramen in the distance. He runs to it and he almost has it but then he notices Hinata in the far other direction. Even though Naruto is starving, he runs out to Hinata. 'WHOA! I just chose Hinata over Ramen, that's GOTTA mean something good, BELIEVE IT! UHHH…..why is everyone giving me death glares?'
"Hey what are you all looking at?" asked Naruto. The guys just looked away still running for their cabin. When they finally got there they all went straight to bed but couldn't get to sleep because of everything that just happened. Then after a while they did manage it.
It was early the next morning, and the girls were all very well rested, and very excited.
"TODAYS THE DANCE!" yelled Ino from the hallway.
"I think you just want to see Shikamaru." Laughed Sakura who was exiting her bedroom.
Ino put her hands on her slender hips. "Like YOU don't want to see Sasuke." She retorted.
"I do not." Blushed Sakura
"Well I could care less about Shikamaru." Said Ino as she turned her back to Sakura to hide her blush.
"You both are so pathetic. It's obvious you both badly want to see them." Came the voice of Tenten who was leaning on her door's frame.
"Well, what ABOUT NEJI?" Ino and Sakura both yelled.
"Huh? Neji, oh that's nothing. We're just old friends." She explained nonchalantly.
"HA LIIEEES!" cried Ino
"No TRUTHS!" retorted Tenten
"Oh, I saw how he looked at you Tenten." Sakura told her. "By the way how do you have his sweatshirt?"
"HEY! That's none of your business!" said Tenten as she ran down the stairs into the kitchen. Ino and Sakura chased after her.
"Tenten and Neji sitting in a tree!" they both yelled as they entered the kitchen to see Hinata already down there and Tenten with her head on the table giggling.
"Morning Hinata, when did you wake up?" asked Ino
She held an almost eaten bagel in her hand and on the table in front of her was a tub of cream cheese. "Ten minutes ago, I'm just SO excited about the dance!" she beamed.
"Are you sure you're not excited about Naruto being on the decorating committee with us?" asked Ino.
"Um no, of course not!" blushed Hinata.
"You're blushing!" teased Sakura.
"Okay, I am a little excited about it, but now I just don't know what to wear."
There was a minute of silence.
"WE'LL HELP YOU!" yelled Ino and Sakura as they yanked Hinata up the stairs to Hinata's room. Tenten followed too.
Then she went back to the kitchen for the tub of cream cheese and her own bagel. "Don't think I forgot about you." She told the bagel.
Meanwhile, upstairs they sat Hinata down and went through all of her clothes. They kept pulling out different things and saying stuff like 'no that won't do' or 'she'll look like a total hoe if she wears that' or 'I think I'll try that on'
"You guys shouldn't put too much work into this," said Tenten "she should just wear comfortable pants and a cute shirt. And at the dance tonight she should really WOW him, you know?" They all stared at Tenten in wonderment. She stared back eating her bagel. Tub of cheese in her arm.
"Then I've got it!" said Ino as she yanked out a black tank top with a yin yang symbol on it. "Wear this shirt and borrow Tenten's green pants that I wore yesterday. You'll look totally cute!" Everyone agreed with this idea, and so Hinata put it on with a Tiffany chain necklace that had a heart on it with the letter H engraved on the front. Hinata looked at herself in the mirror and nodded at herself in approval and when she showed everyone else they thought it was just perfect.
Later they were all back down stairs sitting around the breakfast table. "So what are you guys going to be doing all day?" asked Hinata to Sakura and Tenten who were sitting across the breakfast table eating.
"Oh, actually Sakura is going to do my hair for me." Said Tenten who dipped her last piece of bagel into the cream cheese. Hinata almost choked on her food.
"YOU'RE going to let her do your hair other than buns?"
"WELL, not exactly." Tenten tried to think of the best way to describe what Sakura would do, but Sakura beat her to it.
"I'm going to keep them in buns but I'm going to have some hair coming out of them. It'll look really cute! Then I'm going to do her makeup and…"
"WHOA WHOA WHOA! I never agreed to that!" said Tenten practically out of her chair.
"Okay well when I said makeup, I mean like eyeliner and some blush. I won't Barbie you up!"
"Well, okay, but not SO much." Tenten warned as she sat back in her chair throwing the last piece of bagel into her mouth.
"HAHA I knew you would not be able to resist the P.O.P!" cried Sakura
"HUH?" asked Tenten.
"Powers of Persuasion." Said Ino nonchalantly.
"OOooh."
Naruto and Shikamaru were running down to the main office for the bus. Their night's activity cause them to over sleep and they were late. But as they approached the bus they weren't tired anymore because they were both excited to see Hinata and Ino. They reached Iruka who was leaning against the bus door and shaking his head at the two.
"You two are late. The other guys were getting tired of waiting."
"Sorry about tha- HEY, wait what do you mean other guys?" asked Naruto.
They walked onto the bus and noticed about 8 other guys already sitting in seats towards the back with 2 closer up towards the front.
"HEY WHAT GIVES!" yelled Naruto getting the attention of the entire bus. "No one helped us out yesterday, so the hard part is over!"
"Sit down Naruto we're already late." Said Iruka taking the first seat behind the bus driver. Shikamaru sat two seats behind him and Naruto sat across from him. The bus began to move and Naruto was sitting in his seat upset with all the unnecessary people coming along with them. Where were they yesterday? He just wanted to hit somebody. His thoughts of violence were interrupted when a shadow began to loom over him. Naruto turned around with his eyebrows furrowed together to see who was getting so close.
So close to being punched!
"What do you want Kiba?" Naruto asked almost growling.
The guy addressed as Kiba gave a toothy grin, and with his canines being so pronounced, he looked like a smirking dog. "Just wanted to say thanks for doing all of the hard work for us." He said with a laugh "But you got to admit, of course we all came today so we could see what the other camps babes are like. I'm thinking about getting a summer romance with one of them."
"Which one?" asked a bored Naruto. 'Does she happen to be a vet you mut?'
"Dunno, but when I see her I'll make my move. The first girl that catches my eye, that's the one I'll get!"
"Good luck with that dog boy, cause I'm sure no girl would want to be caught dead near you." said Naruto
"HA, don't be jealous Naruto. No girl can resist my charm, and Akamaru's." out of nowhere came a bark, which made Naruto turn around more.
"You brought your dog?" Naruto thought it was risky, but even he knew that is was a sure fire way of getting a girl.
"Of course I did, I wasn't about to leave him in my cabin, he could get killed in that roach infested place!"
"Back off the roaches." Said the boy next to Kiba in the other seat.
"Oh, sorry Shino." Kiba said apologetically "Shino collects all the bugs he finds and brings them back to our cabin." He whispered to Naruto who looked disgusted by that thought. Kiba grimaced along with him.
The drive went on for about twenty more minutes and then they finally made it to the camp. All of the guys practically ran off of the bus and into the dancing hall, but Naruto and Shikamaru tried to take their time as they walked into the room. No reason they should look eager.
Hinata and Ino were decorating the gym with streamers across the walls. Hinata couldn't help but wonder why the guys were so late.
"Ino," she whispered "They are coming, right?"
"Duh, of course they are, they're just late!" she reassured her. Almost on cue a bunch of guys ran inside the dancing hall with Iruka yelling at them to hold on. Hinata and Ino looked at all of the guys but couldn't find Naruto. Ino felt a tad bad at first but then saw the door open and Shikamaru walked in.
"LOOK! It's Shikamaru…..HUH and Naruto!"
Shikamaru and Naruto looked around frantically, while still keeping their composure, for the girls.
"Look there's Ino and Hinata."Shikamaru pointed out. The two girls were at the other end of the hall, and the guys began to walk over to them until they noticed Kiba and Shino getting to them first. Naruto became angry when he saw Kiba practically flirting with Hinata. He didn't even try to hide how mad he was, not even when people were giving him odd looks.
"What the hell does Kiba think he's doing?" asked Shikamaru who was getting almost as mad as Naruto.
"Hinata better not be the girl he wants a summer romance with." Naruto said through his teeth as he clenched his fists tighter. Hearing that made Shikamaru even angrier.
They kept staring down Kiba's back since they couldn't see his front, and then they heard Hinata laugh at something Kiba just said. That had done it for Naruto, now he was going to kill Kiba!
"I'm going to KILL HIM!" said Naruto in a low voice.
They both almost charged down there but Iruka had stepped in front of them smiling, note board in hand.
"You two can help out over there," he said pointing to the far other side of the room from where Hinata and Ino were "They need help unfolding the tables where the food and drink will be. So get to it!" The two trudged over there but they never stopped looking at Ino and Hinata with Kiba.
Hinata and Ino were just laughing at something Kiba had just said, and Ino couldn't help but notice how mad Shikamaru and Naruto looked.
"So, anyways do you girls need help?" asked Kiba towards Ino.
"No actually, I was about to put more streamers over there on that wall." Ino said as she pointed to a wall across from them. Kiba was about to say more but Hinata interrupted.
"You can help me Kiba; I can't get the streamers high enough."
"Sure, Hinata I'll help you." Ino walked away to the other wall, which Naruto and Shikamaru both noticed, Shino went to help someone else, and Kiba took the streamers from Hinata. Naruto watched them without blinking. Kiba took the streamers from her but then he began to put them up right above her head. It looked like he was forcing her between him and the wall, like he was about to kiss her. Naruto was officially out of his mind! He didn't care who was watching him not work, he couldn't help but just stare at them. He could also see Hinata look a little worried and…..was that a blush on her face too! Shikamaru put his hand on Naruto's shoulder.
"Calm down Naruto, I know you want to rip him limb from limb but you don't know how badly I want to do the same."
'Well you don't like her like I do!' he growled in his mind.
"Hey KIBA!" yelled Ino which got Naruto's and Shikamaru's head to snap up in her direction. "Could you help me with these streamers?"
"Sure, okay!" he said as he finished Hinata's streamers and ran over to meet Ino. This was Naruto's chance to go over to Hinata, but of course he didn't realize that so Shikamaru had to help him out.
"Hey, what are you waiting for? If you go over there casually and then ask to help her, Kiba will have to help someone else."
"Okay, that's a good idea." Naruto began to walk around the room along the walls casually while he was putting up some red streamers, very badly, that he stole to get to Hinata. He was now Ten feet away from her, but he tried to keep it that far. Hinata looked up and was so happy to see Naruto near her.
"Hey Naruto!" she said as she continued to put the streamers up going in his direction.
"Hi." He said without giving her any eye contact.
'Huh? Is something wrong with Naruto? He's acting a little distant.'
Hinata just continued to put up her streamers, but slower this time. Then Naruto started to speak.
"So, you like Kiba?" he asked still not looking at her.
"What?...He's…..nice?" Hinata didn't understand where he was going with any of that.
"Tch. He's really funny too." he said a little louder while also ripping the streamer.
"Naruto, what's wrong? Kiba was really nice to us; do you two hold some sort of grudge?"
"NO, I just met him at camp." He said as he began to fix his streamer. Poorly.
"Then what's your problem?" Hinata asked a little frustrated.
He was getting even more upset, but it somehow kept turning into anger and he didn't know why. He looked at her. "Nothing, I DON'T HAVE ONE!" Naruto yelled a little too loudly. Nearly the entire room looked over at the two. After a few minutes of silence everyone began to do their work again but they were now whispering.
"Naruto, you've got everyone staring at us." Said Hinata feeling uncomfortable with everyone in the room.
"I'm sorry if I embarrass you, I bet Kiba wouldn't."
Although he wasn't looking at her she gave him a stern look. "No. I don't think he would." Hinata said seeing now that Naruto must have been jealous when Kiba was over with her. She should have been thrilled by this, but getting his crap was something she didn't deserve.
"Well we all can't be as godly as Kiba." Naruto growled.
"Yeah, that's true." Said Hinata taking advantage of this moment where Naruto was totally jealous. Hinata's never had someone act so jealous before in her entire life, and it made her feel more like a woman.
She began liking it.
'Okay, I don't want to be mean to Naruto anymore. I'll just…oh my gosh! He looks so hurt. HINATA YOU BITCH! Is Naruto so upset that he's…crying?'
Naruto couldn't believe that after one encounter with him, Hinata had fallen for Kiba. It was
killing him inside, ripping him piece by piece.
'SHIT! Why should I care so much! Great is that a tear in my eye! Maybe it'll just go away. Oh GREAT! It's GOING TO MY FACE!' Naruto wiped the tear of with his arm; thankfully it was only one and not a ton of them. He was pretty sure Hinata hadn't seen it; or if she did that it was sweat.
"Poor Shikamaru though," began Hinata.
'HUH? Shikamaru? Why is she bringing him up?' Naruto looked at her in confusion.
"I can tell how much he likes Ino; it's too bad now he has some competition."
"What are you talking about?" Naruto's pulse began to quicken. He was getting hopeful that it was all a big misunderstanding.
"Kiba was trying to flirt with Ino earlier, that's why I asked him to help me with streamers so he wouldn't bother Ino cause she looked totally annoyed with him. I don't know why she asked him to help her with her streamers now because she can do it herself. I just hope Shikamaru doesn't get jealous, even though it is attractive when a guy is so concerned for you like that." Hinata began to do her streamers again but with a smile.
Naruto stared at her confused for a minute but then put all the pieces together in his mind. He began to smile wildly!
'So she doesn't like Kiba, and he doesn't like her! I wonder if she could tell I was jealous, but she did say that was attractive so maybe she could. Does this mean she kind of likes me too?'
Naruto and Hinata were now standing next to each other while working on their streamers.
"Yeah, jealousy is something I like to avoid." Laughed Naruto, Hinata giggled along with him. "But, maybe he won't have to worry so much because it looks like Ino likes Shikamaru too."
"Yeah, I think she does too." Hinata lifted up her streamer up at the same time Naruto did so their hands touched. His hand was on top of hers, and neither of them pulled away. Hinata blushed and Naruto smiled even wider. They both look at each other smiling and blushing.
'I wonder if he'll kiss me!'
'I wonder if should kiss her!'
"Is it okay over here?" asked a woman from behind them. They both turned around to see Kurenai Sensei, one of Hinata's sports instructors, standing with her arms crossed over her chest. Hinata quickly put her hands down to her side, except Naruto put his hands behind his head, streamer still in hand.
"Yes Kurenai Sensei, we're good." Said Hinata, nervously.
"You're sure he's not bothering you Miss Hyuuga? If he is we'll have him moved away from you."
"Oh no that's okay really. This is Naruto, he's a friend. And we're about to go in the opposite direction anyways." She didn't show it but she was pretty embarrassed that Kurenai addressed her as "Miss Hyuuga".
"Okay, but I'm watching you carefully." She said to Naruto as she walked away back over to Iruka.
"Man, everyone wants to watch me closely like I'm going to do something wrong." Said Naruto, Hinata just laughed as she continued to hang her streamer up. Naruto began to hang his causing him to go over her just like Kiba had done before, except she was facing the wall and not Naruto. That's when Hinata's heart went to her throat. She froze where she stood so Naruto could pass her but he didn't seem to go anywhere. In fact, she wasn't so sure that he was hanging streamers anymore. So she slanted her head to the left to look, but then she noticed his tanned arm so close to her face. It was toned just like she had remembered, but this time it was so close she could make out a few veins bulging out, and that made her blush.
Hinata slowly tilted her head to look to her right where the other arm was. Just as impressive as the left, but probably stronger. She gulped. She began getting even more nervous.
Naruto knew he'd have to stand behind Hinata if he wanted to keep putting his streamers up, but as soon got behind her, he was completely distracted. Sure, last night she was really close when she was putting the wig on his head, but seeing her figure…
His first initial instinct was to wrap his arms around her small waste and burry his face in her hair taking in her scent. Everything about her was a tease.
So in mid streamer hang he froze. Swallowed hard. Tried not to drop the streamers in his now sweaty hands. Then he tried to continue hanging.
Well…he tried.
But they both found themselves in an awkward- yet amazing- moment that had them frozen in time.
Until…
"Keep it moving!" they heard Kurenai yell from afar. They both switched positions so now Naruto was on Hinata's left. They were both smiling widely. Hinata had red blush on her face as she fumbled to continue onward with her streamers.
Naruto began to hang his streamers pretty fast. Not that he wanted to move away from Hinata, but his adrenalin kicked up since he was so excited. He couldn't help but move quickly and happily.
Especially the "happily" part.
Shikamaru took note of everything they were doing from where he was. He was watching like a hawk since Hinata was like his little sister.
'I guess Naruto would be okay for Hinata. He does seem to care about her.' Shikamaru looked over towards where Kiba and Ino were and he didn't like it one bit. He knew that Ino must have called over Kiba because she could see how angry it made Naruto to see him with Hinata. Even though it was for a good cause, the fact that Kiba was being too friendly with Ino made him really annoyed.
'Man what a drag, I've only known her for maybe a day and she's on my mind constantly. Now I know how Naruto felt when Kiba was with Hinata, but I don't get it. Which one does Kiba like more? I'm supposed to be a genius and I can't even figure this out!' Shikamaru continued to glare evilly at Kiba as he continued to set up a table.
Meanwhile, Iruka decided to check out Naruto's streamer work.
A lot of it was…messy, for lack of a better word.
'I don't get it.' He thought to himself. 'I thought Naruto wanted to come back because he was worried the streamers weren't hung straight enough.' He raised an eyebrow as he appraised his past work along the wall. 'That's not exactly straight at all is it?'.
It was 5:30 and the entire dancing room was completely decorated. Now A few people were going to hang up some lights on the ceiling to make it look like night time, but for the people who weren't doing that, they were suppose to leave. Naruto and Shikamaru offered to help with the lights since they were up so high and they had done the ceiling before. They said goodbye to Ino and Hinata; and the girls walked out of the building with Kiba who ran up to them.
"I really don't like him." Naruto said as he watched Kiba hop in between Ino and Hinata.
"Me neither." Said Shikamaru who held the ladder as Naruto began to put up the lights.
Kiba was talking to Ino about something or other and both of the girls were pretending to listen. They nodded at all the right places to whatever he was saying about dogs. Kiba even showed them Akamaru, but Ino was mildly impressed. Hinata thought it was the cutest thing in the world. She's never really seen a puppy up close since all she had were attack dogs.
"Yeah Akamaru is really great, he can find you anything you want. He's like programmed to find things, it's too bad he wasn't born a blood hound because then he would be even better at tracking."
"Yeah, he's…..a cutey." Ino said bored out of her mind.
"I'll say, I wish I had a little puppy. I think I'll defiantly ask my father for one. But it would have to be just like Akamaru, a tracker who could find my homework instead of eat it." Kiba and Hinata laughed, Ino just stared at the clouds, but then noticed something yellow in front of her.
"THE BUS!" she yelled excited. "Looks like that's for you, we've got to go now Kiba but WOW was it great talking to ya!" She threw her arm around Hinata's shoulder and gave him a 'peace' sign with her fingers.
"Bye Kiba, bye Akamaru, see you at the dance!" said Hinata as she and Ino walked up a path.
"You better believe you will!" called back Kiba as he unzipped his jacket a little more for Akamaru. "So Akamaru what did you think of Ino?" Akamaru kind of gave out a yipping noise. This was discouraging to Kiba. "So…then what about Hinata?" Akamaru barked three times.
"Well they always say a dog knows best, so maybe I'll go for Hinata instead of Ino." Kiba then zipped up his jacket and went back onto the bus to see Shino already sitting in the seat they were in before. Kiba sat across from him and unzipped his jacket for Akamaru.
"So, did you find the girl for your "summer romance"?" Shino asked merely out of duty instead of real curiosity.
"Yeah, I think I did!" He told him enthusiastically. Akamaru barked happily as well.
"So, then who?"
Hinata and Ino made it back to their cabin to see Tenten styling a pair of adorable buns that were done by Sakura. They looked like they did before but she had some hair sticking out and they were tied up in nice black ribbons with orange, pink, and blue, pock-a-dots on them.
"I know, I just LOVE my hair! Sakura you're amazing, I know I've been saying it for an hour now but I really do love them!"
"Hey it wasn't a problem, but I CANT BELIEVE YOU WON'T LEAVE YOUR HAIR DOWN!"
"Gasp, Tenten! Sakura saw you with your hair down? I've never even seen you with your hair down." Said a shocked Hinata.
"Does Tenten look good with her hair down?" asked Ino as Tenten said, "Of course she saw me with my hair down, how else could she have done it?"
"Oh My GOD, Tenten looks AMAZING With her hair down! I don't know why she doesn't do it more often." Sakura beamed. Tenten just stared at Sakura with her eyebrows furrowed.
"Okay, you guys lets change the subject real quick to the DANCE!" Ino declared as she spun in a circle for emphasis.
"We really do need to hurry and get ready!" said Sakura; they all went into their rooms to get into their dresses. It took them all a half hour to do, they were that nice. Tenten was the first one to come out her room wearing a short black dress with purple, blue, pink, and orange poke-a-dots all over. Her shoes were black with three inches and her dress had two black straps around her shoulders.
Ino came out wearing a long light blue dress with spaghetti straps. Also on the front right part she had a broach on that looked like a sea green flower with three matching ribbons that were wavy and each its own length. Her shoes were also baby blue.
Sakura came out wearing a pink strapless dress, just as short as Tenten's but on the front across her chest were green ribbons criss-crossing over each other. Her shoes were also a matching pink with light green designs.
Hinata stepped out with a strapless white silk dress, one matching a kimono. Across her chest was what looked like a kimono sash that was light lavender. Her dress didn't go down to her feet like a kimono but was short just like Sakura's. She defiantly looked like she took the kimono to the twenty first century. Her shoes were white with a few designs in lavender.
"Okay, who wants to help me with my hair?" asked Ino, No one said a word.
"DIBS ON HINATA"S!" yelled Sakura who forced Hinata into the hallway bathroom. Hinata, being shoved so hard, tripped on the throw rug. She tried to stop herself by grabbing the sink but it was wet so she continued to slide while holding its edge. When the sink started to turn (keep in mind they have a double sink) she turned with it and her left foot wedging itself down into the toilet.
"AAAAHHHHH!" yelled Hinata who got her heel stuck down the toilet.
Everyone came in running shocked to find Hinata in such an awkward position. "Oh HINATA! I'm sooooooo sorry!" Sakura cried.
"Can't you get your foot out?" asked Ino.
Hinata tried to move her foot, but she could only feel pain in her ankle. "I can't, my foot is twisted awkwardly in the toilet."
"Well cant you take your foot out of your shoe?" asked Tenten.
"No, the buckle is against the bottom, and of course I thought I should buckle it doubly hard since this shoe was loose on me."
"What should we try to do?" asked Ino.
"ANYTHING!" yelled Hinata in pain, "I THINK I PULLED MY ANKLE IN THE PROCESS!"
"Let's butter it up!" offered Tenten.
"No we're going to have to yank it out." Said Sakura "Grab a part of her leg, not you Ino it'll be too crowded. Just make sure her head doesn't hit anything." They all got into their positions, and yanked on the count of three. It didn't really budge, and tears fell out of her eyes since it hurt so bad.
Sakura rubbed her forehead with the back of her hand. "Okay, this time Hinata you need to try and twist your ankle as we pull you out. God, we could be here a while."
The guys were all ready to go and everyone had almost boarded the buses. Neji, Sasuke, Naruto, and Shikamaru were taking their good old time to the bus, but they were anxious as hell! Naruto must have spent an hour on his outfit, which was just black pants, orange cotton shirt with buttoned sleeves, so he could role them up when he got hot and a yellow silk tie. He had his hands in his pockets since A) they were sweaty and B) He didn't want to mess up his hair which he tried too hard to perfect. Alas it looked just like it did every other day.
Shikamaru didn't spend so much time on his outfit which consisted of just black jeans, a light blue cotton shirt like Naruto's, and a black blazer on top. The only thing he did worry about was his cologne.
Neji wore the same as Shikamaru but instead of a blue shirt he wore white. He had very shiny shoes on though, and he made sure they were perfect!
Sasuke had on black pants with a navy blue cotton shirt like the rest of them and he wore a black tie. His hair was flawless as ever, but he did clean under his nails.
Yeah he did.
There was one bus left, and Kakashi was standing at its door.
He observed the four boys coming his way. "Well, look who's fashionably late." He teased. The guys just continued onto the bus.
They had to sit in the last seats of the bus and before they even went anywhere Kakashi just HAD to say some things.
"Now that everyone has arrived on bus number seven I just want to inform you of a few things, and it's not just for you, all of the other counselors on the other buses are giving the same speech. Now then, tonight you might meet some pretty girls, you may drink some punch, you might even dance. And if that special girl is there and you feel like hooking up in the middle of the dance floor, well I won't stop you." Half, no ALL of the guys were happy to hear that. "Ha, you actually believed me about that last part." Everyone fell over anime style "If I see anyone trying to pull anything at the dance tonight, you'll be in so much trouble that you might just spend the rest of your camping days with loveable old me. But if you really don't want to see me that much this summer, than why don't you just try to behave. Are we all clear…..Naruto?"
"SHUT UP!" yelled Naruto from the back.
"Good. Now that I think we're all settled I guess it's okay if we take off." Kakashi sat down and the bus began to pass the other busses that were waiting to leave.
"Well that was brutal." Sasuke said sarcastically.
"Actually you should take a look over at Gai's bus." Shikamaru said as they all looked out his window towards Gai Sensei's bus. Gai was walking up and down the aisles with a Barbie and Ken doll, yelling in a harsh voice. The guys couldn't help but thank GOD that they were late and were on Kakashi's bus.
The bus drive there seemed like forever instead of thirty minutes. All of the guys were nervous to meet the girls. So nervous that when the bus finally got there and they opened the doors they bolted for the door. So yeah, that nervous. Kakashi was already gone, while Naruto, Sasuke, Neji, and Shikamaru were taking their cool old time getting inside. They walked in and could see people already mingling with each other. They looked around and found it to be decent looking, except for some red streamer on the wall that looked like it was put up in an angry rage. (Yeah no one ever bothered to fix it)
There were a lot of girls there, but four were missing.
"Does anyone see Hinata?" asked Naruto who had found himself at the food table.
"No I don't." said Neji who was also looking for his cousin, and a pair of buns.
"Just look for some pink hair, and maybe she'll be near it." Said Sasuke looking for the pinkette of last night.
Remembering how loud Ino could be, Shikamaru said, "I bet if you listen hard enough you can hear Ino." He began to look for long blonde hair, but all of their searches were running useless.
"Maybe they didn't want to come." Neji said thinking of the only reason why they wouldn't be there.
"No WAY, Hinata really worked hard on this dance. She's just late!" Naruto defended.
"It's true, they are girls and girls do take a long time to get ready." Sasuke said knowingly. He had a mother after all.
Neji's then began to face a direction opposite them all. "Well, actually this is a good thing they're not here yet because I was thinking of ways to get them out of here before we pulled our prank."
The Uchiha smirked. "You're not worried about Tenten getting her pretty little dress dirty, are you?" He teased.
"NO, I'm only concerned about Hinata." Neji said matter-of-factly with obvious red darkening his pale skin.
Shikamaru let out a snort. "Well I'm concerned about Sakura getting her cute forehead dirty." He laughed no longer able to control himself.
At first he was shocked. "YOU HEARD THAT?!!" Sasuke yelled not sure if his pride was hurt.
"I couldn't resist!" laughed Shikamaru.
"Whose cute forehead?" asked Neji raising a quizzical brow. His lips twitching up at the corner. Naruto began to smirk as well.
"He's talking about nothing if he knows what's good for him." Shikamaru just smirked while holding in his laughter.
The guys moved their way to a wall, and just leaned against it thinking where the girls could possibly be. They all thought they would get a little fun time in before they pulled their great prank, but now it didn't seem so.
Neji did bring up a good point, they didn't want to get the girls dirty in their prank or they would kill them. They would have to charm them outside, but that would be hard to do.
While thinking more on the whereabouts of the girls, Naruto got a tap on his shoulder which made all of the guys look up at him.
"Do you want to dance?" Asked a girl.