Tenten went up into her room since everyone seemed to be preoccupied. She decided to take at hot bath and get into her pajamas which were just green shorts and a baggy gray shirt. She didn't feel like drying her hair but she did put them up into two buns. She went into her room when she was done in the bathroom, and she wanted to work on the punching bag a little bit before she went to sleep but wasn't sure if she would be disturbing Hinata and Naruto down stairs. God only knows what those two were doing. Tenten shivered at the thought of Hinata doing something utterly perverted with a guy. Naruto did seem like a real nice guy though, Tenten approved of him.
Tenten wasn't really that tired, but she wanted to do something before she went to sleep. Ino would always spend hours at a time reading magazines so she thought she would give that a shot. She went into Ino's room to find three magazines on her desk; they even were marked with sticky notes on certain pages. Tenten took them all to her room and sat on her bed. She opened one up at a sticky note that said 'quiz' on it. In big red letters at the top of the page read 'IS HE IN TO YOU'
'Okay, well I guess there's no point in doing this since it's obvious that Neji doesn't like me. Wouldn't he have been here if he did? But of course not, I mean Neji Hyuuga? Heartthrob and adored by like a lot of girls. Smartest kid in the North Konoha area, no way would he like me, Tenten. Just Tenten.' She quickly flipped the pages to another sticky note that said 'hot dresses' so she took a look at them. They were all pretty, and Tenten almost wished she could buy a couple of them. 'Better make sure I don't tell the others that I was actually considering buying these dresses.' She continued to flip threw the pages and found an article about a woman who didn't get her first kiss till she was twenty three, and it wasn't even given by the man she married.
'That is so going to be me, maybe even older.' Tenten quickly discarded the magazine and began to open another one. It was just as lame as the first one, and even more depressing. Ino had written on the front of it 'ICKY'. Maybe it was because it wasn't a very good magazine or maybe it was because Hilary Duff was the cover girl.
'I wish I had a marker to draw on her face with.' She thought as she threw the magazine even further than the last. Tenten began to skim through the next magazine and found another quiz inside that said 'Are you too girly?' written in pink.
'Yup, I'm going to take this quiz!' she thought as she read the questions.
Are you into dancing and singing
Do you often find your self doodling hearts on the corner of your page
Do you think about your boy toy at least ten times a day
Does half your wardrobe involve skirts
is pink one of your top three favorite colors
Do you like yoga
Do you always color coordinate everything you touch
Can you name the three best designers for purses
Do you like to pick flowers and blow bubbles
Do you flirt with ten guys a day
After going over the dumbest questions of her life, Tenten found out that she was NOT GIRLY, according to the quiz.
You're not very flirtatious and probably start fights instead of settle them with your words. You'd rather be one of the guys, then be with one of the guys. You probably have never gotten a cuticle scrub in your entire life, and you probably prefer kick boxing instead of buying shoes for a fun dance. Boys probably see you only as another guy, and you have probably never worn pink or owned a dress in your life.
'Stupid quiz!' she thought as she threw it on the floor with the others. That damn book new her too well and it made her sound like she was born the wrong gender. Tenten couldn't help but think of how true the results for the first quiz would have been.
'If I took it to see if Neji liked me, would it say no? That's probably what it would say/' Tenten got under her covers and switched her lights off. She was beginning to get upset about everything. 'If Neji really did like me, wouldn't he have come down here to see me? All of the other guys did, EVEN SASUKE. He and Sakura are probably on their way to third base by now.' Tenten laughed a little at that thought 'I guess I should go to sleep and forget all about Neji…he isn't that great. He's….just another guy. That's probably how I look to him too, just one of the guys.' Tenten began to cry into her pillow, which is how she fell asleep.
Ino and Shikamaru were currently making out all over the grass. Shikamaru was on top of Ino who had her hands wrapped delicately around his neck. They had been kissing for the longest time which was, to both, probably the greatest feeling they had ever experienced. Ino was sucking on Shikamaru's lower lip and he was trying to get in some breaths but she kept deepening the kiss when she pulled him closer. Shikamaru kept his hand on the grass by her head, but he gently put his other hand behind her neck pulling her closer to him. He got his tongue inside her mouth and he already knew it like the back of his hand. Ino was letting out shorter breaths and small moans of pleasure. Shikamaru never thought in his wildest dreams that he would make a girl feel this way, and he never expected the girl to look as good as Ino. He always envisioned his future wife, or girlfriend for that matter, to be just a plain girl just like how he was a plain guy. But Ino…she was shaped like a super model, and could probably be one if she wanted to. He opened his eyes a bit to see Ino and how happy she looked. He couldn't believe he was doing this. Twenty-four hours ago he thought she had hated him, but now he could probably get to third base with her, not that he would try that. He wanted to treat her with respect, just like every girl deserved to be treated. He still couldn't believe that he just grabbed her and kissed her. Deep down inside that's what he wanted to do from the start but when he heard Sasuke was going to get his first kiss he knew he had to spring into action.
FLASHBACK
"KISS HER!" yelled Hinata and Tenten
'I bet he's about to kiss Sakura, no way am I letting him be first!'
"DON'T KISS HER!"
"Wait, WHY!" he heard Sasuke yell as he leaned Ino back a little and kissed her passionately.
"BECAUSE I JUST KISSED INO WHICH MEANS I'M THE FIRST ONE IN THE GROUP TO HAVE THEIR FIRST KISS!"
"I'm your fist kiss?" asked Ino shyly
"INO HAD HER FIRST KISS BEFORE ME!" yelled Sakura from behind the door.
"Yeah, is that okay?" he whispered back to her "Sorry if you didn't want me to take away your first kiss. I wasn't thinking….I really should have." Ino got out of his lap, which he missed right away. She sat on her knees and put his hands in hers.
"NO, I'm……really happy that you were my first kiss." Ino leaned over towards him and they softly kissed each other.
END FLASHBACK
Shikamaru and Ino were taking a little breather as they lay together on the ground with their legs intertwining. Ino had her head down on Shikamaru's chest which was pretty muscular.
'I wonder what he looks like under this shirt?' thought Ino as she began to stroke the lower part of it. Shikamaru quickly grabbed her hand.
"That tickles." He said almost monotone
"Then maybe I should keep doing it." She said teasingly as she tried to pull her hand back from his grasp. He tightened his grip on her hand so she couldn't get him again.
"I'm serious Ino." He said with a little more authority
"You forgot I have two hands!" she said as she sat up and tried to get his stomach with her other hand. He grabbed it with his other hand and twisted her around to pin her to the ground.
"How about I tickle you!" he said playfully
"I'm not ticklish so good luck."
"Yeah right." he said as he attacked her sides, but she didn't even laugh. He went for under her arms but she didn't do anything.
"Told YA!" she smiled
"Hold on, I'm not done searching." He said as he went to her feet.
'Where the hell is he going?' she asked herself as she sat up to get a better look. He took off her flip-flop and began to tickle her feet. She immediately began to kick out at him as he found her weak spot.
"There it is!" he said as he continued to tickle her foot. She kept kicking him but it had no effect and she kept missing him.
"Please STOP!" she laughed "I'll do anything!"
"NOPE, don't think so!" he laughed as he continued the torture, but Ino finally got out of his hands and began to crawl away from him. He jumped her and grabbed her around her shoulders which made her fall flat to her chest with Shikamaru flat against her.
"I'm not letting you get away from me!" he said into her ear
"You better not!" she said laughing "Now get off of me!"
"You might try to run."
"I won't run away from you, I would never!" Shikamaru slowly got off of her and then she forced him to the ground.
"Hey, what are you doing?"
"Gonna make you pay for tickling me!"
"You think you can hold me down and tickle me at the same time? Good luck."
"Oh, I'm not going to tickle you." she said as she went down to kiss him. "I'm just going to kiss you till you can't even breathe."
"Wait you can't do that, that's torture!"
"It's not torture if you're enjoying it!" she laughed
"Damn you." he said as she started to kiss the crap out of him. He kissed back too, of course, and also tried to keep them together so it would be hard for her too to breathe.
Sasuke had Sakura sitting in his lap on the floor. He was kissing her neck and she kept running her fingers through his hair. It was so relaxing and they were both enjoying every second of it. Sasuke slowly made his way back to Sakura's mouth again and he started to kiss her softly which was defiantly a change since he had been kissing her so roughly. Sakura didn't mind how he was kissing her as long as he was kissing her! Sakura put her hands up the back of Sasuke's shirt and could feel how hot and sticky he was. She began to rub it deeply with her fingers which Sasuke really enjoyed. She was making her way up to his neck but his shirt clung to her arms and wouldn't let her. Sasuke could feel this and was disappointed that she couldn't reach all the way up.
"Would it… be easier if I… just took off my shirt?" he asked trying to talk and kiss at the same time, Sakura pulled away from the kissing and put her forehead on his.
"That might look really bad to someone if they saw us up here with your shirt off. We are, after all, on the front porch. Someone is bound to just walk by and see the two of us out here."
"Oh….well…then if you can't go up…will you go down?" Sakura blushed madly at what he just said and she could tell that he was too.
"UhhhhHHhhmMmm S..Sasuke….I d.dd don't…"
"It's okay Sakura," he said as he gulped "I was only kidding."
"OH…well, Sasuke! Don't freak me out like that! I thought you were being serious."
'Damn I wasn't being serious, but if she said yes I would have let her.'
'That was soo nerve racking! I almost said yes! I totally would have!'
There was a small awkward silence between the two as they just sat there. Sakura had already pulled her hands from his shirt and had them around his neck again.
"Geeze Sasuke now a gay baby was born."
"Huh? What are you talking about?"
"Whenever there is an awkward silence a gay baby was born."
"What kind of logic is that?"
"Ino logic, she told me that a long time ago."
"Well I don't think you should listen to Ino logic anymore, it might make you dumber." Sakura laughed at this since it was so true. When she met Ino and Hinata she believed everything Ino said. She totally looked up to her, but after a long time of that she felt in the end they were both equals. Sasuke began to rub his nose on Sakura's which made her smile sweetly.
"You still with me?" he asked "You look like you're in a daze or something."
"Sorry." She said nervously "Yeah, I'm still with you."
"Good, cause you're not going any where." He said as he began to kiss her again.
Hinata and Naruto were tightly bound in the blanket, they couldn't even see the way out of it. Hinata wanted to push her self up since she wasn't a huge fan of tight spaces but she couldn't or else she might hurt Naruto. Hinata could see that Naruto was sweating and she almost was too since it was so hot in there. The cabin was already hot; they didn't have any air condition so they always slept with the windows up.
Naruto's arms were flat down on his side just like Hinata's which meant he couldn't move.
'Oh my god Hinata is right on top of me. All the guys would kill me if they saw me. Crap is it getting hotter in here or is that just me? AHH it think it is me, and my heart is pounding since Hinata is on top of me. I bet she can feel that since she's laying right on it. AW MAN, her chest is right on me! It feels really nice, OH NO SHE"S LOOKING AT ME! Can she hear my thoughts?'
"Naruto how are we…suppose to get our selves out of here?"
"I'm not sure…we could role over and see if the blanket would come off of us but…then I might crush you with my body." Naruto blushed a little. They knew he was right about him crushing her though, he was a lot bigger than her and she was really petite, but not scrawny.
"We can't role over the other way either because the couch is blocking us." Said Hinata
"Maybe we should ask Tenten for some help." Said Naruto
"We can't, I can hear her taking a bath right now. The water is still running. We could ask Sasuke and Sakura to help us."
"Sasuke? Is he here?"
"Yeah, he's making out with Sakura right outside our front door."
"He was the first one to get his first kiss!"
"No, that would be Shikamaru and Ino. But they're not here; they went for a walk to probably making out some more."
'SHIKAMARU got his first kiss before ME? AND he was first? Man this sucks!'
"So are we going to ask for Sasuke's help?"
"What. NO no way! He would kill me if he saw us like this. I might as well get caught by Neji. Not to mention it makes me look like a total loser being stuck in a blanket."
Hinata laughed at him a little. "Sorry Naruto, then what do you want to do?"
"Well….ugh oh man. This is bad."
"Well there are only two things we could try." Said Hinata
"What?" asked a hopeful Naruto
"Well one we could just role over on the ground till it let's us go."
"And have a flat Hinata? What's the other one?"
"Well...I could wish us out of here!" she smiled "I mean it got you here so maybe it can get us out of here."
"Yeah," he began with a laugh "But what if it doesn't work?"
"You're right. I wished that you would kiss me and that didn't even work." Naruto couldn't breathe, his face was turning red, and he began to sweat some more.
'Should I kiss her now? Is this the perfect time to kiss her? I don't want to mess up.'
'Should I let him kiss me? That was like the biggest hint in the world for him to kiss me!'
"You're right." Hinata began
"What?"
"The wishing thing might not work so why don't we just role over. It's okay if you're…on top of me."
"…umm..uh okay. I guess, if…if you're okay with that." He said falling over his words.
"Yeah let's try it on three. One…two…three!" They rolled over hard to the right, Hinata to the left. They almost didn't get all the way over but Naruto gave it a little bit more of a push so now they switched sides. When Naruto landed on Hinata he got her good in the stomach and she let out a moan of pain.
"Sorry sorry sorry! You okay? Should we role over again?"
"No, I'm fine. You are heavy though, but you can't help it. Actually I think I have an idea now that we're like this."
"Well let's have it."
"Well, you're strong so I'm sure you could lift us both up. The blanket isn't so tight around our legs so what if I spread mine out enough so that you can get on your knees? You could just pull backwards and since the blanket is around both of us you'll pull me up too. What do you say?" Naruto practically stopped listening to her when she said that she should spread her legs apart. He couldn't help but shake nervously at the thought of Hinata….
'Oh shit oh shit. Hinata spreading her legs apart. OH NO, I think I'm starting to bulge! I bet she can feel that! AW MAN IVE NEVER HAD SO MUCH HATE FOR A BLANKET BEFORE!'
"Naruto...Are you ready to try it?"
"HUH? OH….well yeah sure. It…it sounds like a good idea, just count it off."
"Yeah, but now I don't think I can open my legs wide enough for you to kneel down. I'm still going to try it out though."
'If she does that and I pull her up, what if she feels me…'
"One…two…three." He heard Hinata say as she spread her legs just enough for him to kneel down.
"Okay Naruto, lift us up." Naruto was hesitant at first but he began to pull his back backwards and could feel them getting up. Now they were stuck like that, unfortunately. Naruto was on his knees with Hinata up against his body and her legs were spread apart around him. Yes, it was awkward as anything but what made it worse was Naruto kept having wrong thoughts which made him bulge a little more, and Hinata could feel this too.
'OH.MY.GOD!' she thought 'Is…he…oh my gosh I think he is! OH SHIT! I better get us out of here before we do something we might regret.'
Now that they were up off of the ground Hinata could feel her arms moving more loosely. She pushed against the sides of the blanket and thankfully hit where the opening was. She ripped open the blanket and they both fell out of it into the cooler air of the cabin.
"THANK GOD!" Hinata exclaimed as she scurried her little body out of there.
"Good plan Hinata." Naruto said getting the top part of the blanket off of his head.
"I don't know about you, but I think I need some water!" she said as she got up to go the kitchen. "Do you want some?" she yelled
"Yeah, I'm really hot!" he yelled as he got out of the rest of the blanket
'Oh, I know how hot you are Naruto.' Thought Hinata as she filled a glass with cold water from the faucet. She came back into the room to see Naruto sitting on the couch with his hands on his knees getting up to grab the water.
"Thanks." He said as he inhaled the entire glass down. Hinata only drank half of hers but was amazed that he could drink that much in less then thirty seconds.
"Do you want the rest of mine?" she asked offering her glass.
"Yeah sure!" he said as he grabbed the glass from her and through it at his face. He rubbed all of the water on his face and then through his hair. The rest of the water went on his shirt and Hinata could almost make out his hard abs.
"Sorry about that, guess I was hotter than I thought."
"Uh huh, sure." She said not taking her eyes off of his abs
'Why isn't she looking up at me? What is she looking at? Oh the water on my shirt. OOooohh.'
"Hey Hinata, my face is up here." Hinata slowly hit reality and looked up at Naruto to see him giving her the 'busted' expression. "If you really wanted to just see me with my shirt off again you could have just asked." Hinata blushed a very hard red, and Naruto only smiled at her.
"I wasn't…I didn't…I don't…"
"It's okay Hinata I'm just playing with you." Hinata put the glasses on the kitchen counter just incase they wanted something else to drink they could just reuse those.
"So, what do you want to do? It's really pretty outside. Do you want to sit on the hammock?"
"Yeah, it's my new favorite place!" Naruto and Hinata went out onto the porch towards the hammock. Naruto was the gentlemen and let Hinata sit down first where ever she wanted, and they laid down like they did before except they were next to each other and not on top of each other.
Neji was having a hard time sleeping in his bed. Even in the worst of situations he could always manage to get to sleep no matter what. For some reason he just couldn't.
'I keep thinking about Tenten. I feel bad that I haven't apologized to her yet. Maybe I should have followed Naruto's example and got out of here with the rest of them. Still, maybe I could see her tomorrow when we all go to their camp. I could try to find her, and if I get caught I might not get into that much trouble.'
Neji finally got to sleep with Tenten in his mind; he still didn't know what he was going to do or if she would forgive him.
All of the guys left the girl's cabin at 1:00 in the morning. It was a very quiet walk back and Sasuke and Shikamaru kept eyeing Naruto.
"We didn't do anything!" he said at seeing their deadly glares.
"You sure about that? Because you look a little…uncomfortable." Said Shikamaru taking note of Naruto's problem.
"What! No I don't! I feel great!"
"So you gonna tell us what you two were doing, or are we going to have to beat it out of you?" asked Sasuke
"We didn't do anything! We only hung out on the hammock, but the real question is what were you two doing."
"…Nothing." Said Sasuke
"Nothing." Said Shikamaru who became interested at the sky just then, but when isn't he?
"Well Hinata told me that you guys were making out with Ino and Sakura. You better hope they don't have older brothers because I bet you guys were doing some impure things." Sasuke and Shikamaru tensed at the mention of older brothers. If they hurt these girls, which they would never, their older brothers would probably hunt them down.
"Well that's not going to happen since they live in South Konoha and we live in North." Said Shikamaru
"How'd you know that?" asked a relived Sasuke
"They're friends with Hinata and I heard them mention earlier that they all go to the same school, so there you go."
"So what, you don't think they have cars? I mean I ride my bike down there and back in one day, so they could do the same."
"Well you don't have to worry about it Naruto because even if they did have older brothers they wouldn't want to hurt us because we're probably the greatest thing that's ever happened to them."
"Wow Sasuke you sure are an ass." Said Naruto plainly
"Watch it dobe, its okay because we're not going to hurt them. Right Shikamaru?"
"Yup." He said simply
"So….do you guys like…I don't know. Love them…at all?" Naruto asked in a hushed voice. Sasuke and Shikamaru both began to look down at their feet. Could they have fallen in love with Ino and Sakura so quickly? Is it even possible to do that, they've only know them for two days and they already feel a connection with them.
"Naruto...a.are you trying to tell me that you're in love with Hinata?" asked Shikamaru trying to quickly put the question on him and not them.
"So what if I am?" he said as he put his hands behind his head.
"You're in love with her?" asked Sasuke
"Yes….I think…I AM I AM I AM BELIEVE IT!"
BAM
Naruto was just hit in the head for screaming so loudly by Sasuke.
"HEY!"
"Don't yell you idiot. Are you sure you're in love with her? You do know that you've only known her for two days right?"
"Yeah I'm sure, didn't you just hear me shout that? You guys, I've never felt like this before. I don't know, I know it's not a crush, and it's not just an attraction, so what else could it be?"
"Sexual tension." Offered Shikamaru
"NONO, it's not that, well it could be a little bit of that but believe me it's love."
"So what do you think Neji will say?" asked Sasuke
Naruto gulped and went so white that a ghost would have thought he was seeing a ghost.
"What……what if he doesn't approve of it? Am I really that bad for Hinata?"
"Naruto I think that if Neji says no he'll have a good reason for it. If he says yes then I think you're good." said Shikamaru
The rest of the walk was done in deep thought. Each guy was thinking deeply about their own problem.
'Do I love Sakura?'
'Do I love Ino?'
'Will Neji approve?'
Early in the night, around 1:30, all three guys had returned to their cabin and hit the hay. It was quiet for a while until someone started to sleeptalk.
"Hinata…..I love you…too. Neji? I'll beat him up….I'll…kill em."
'Is Naruto still sleeptalking?' thought Shikamaru who was so close to going over and beating him up.
BANG BANG BANG
'What the hell was that?' thought Shikamaru 'Whose banging on our wall?'
In the other room Sasuke's head was coming off of his bed and his feet were on the wall. At times he would move them like he walking, but then he would begin to kick out like he was running.
'Sakura….i'm coming over to you….i'm coming.'
'I'm trying…to get to….you too Tenten.' Said a sleeping Neji who could sort of hear Sasuke but he thought he was Tenten.
'Where'd you go?' asked Sasuke who was slurring his words together
'right here…in front of you…come' ere.'
Back in the other room Shikamaru couldn't take Naruto talking to him anymore. He got up and put a pillow down on his face, which stopped Naruto entirely. Feeling satisfied Shikamaru went back to his bed to hopefully get some sleep but then he could hear Naruto muttering something.
'You're a great kisser Hinata.'
'What the hell is he talking about?' thought Shikamaru as he picked up the pillow. 'WHAT THE HELL, MY PILLOW IS WET!'
'Wait…Hinata I wanna kiss u sum more.'
"WOE!" yelled Shikamaru throwing the pillow across the room. "Okay that does it, I'm sleeping down stairs." Shikamaru grabbed an unkissed pillow and blanket and went down stairs to the sofa. "Glad I got out of there before he got to third base with it." Said Shikamaru as he laughed to himself.
It was 5:00 in the morning and Tenten's alarm went off right on schedule. She hit it once but it didn't go off. She hit it harder, but that only made it louder. She sat up in her bed and stared the clock down.
"You've just made one powerful enemy." She told it as she unplugged the clock, but it continued to beep. 'This thing is like Satan reincarnated into a clock!' she thought as she hit all of the buttons to turn it off. After five long minutes of cursing and beating Tenten decided it was going to turn off so she just turned the volume down on low. She ran into the bathroom and brushed her teeth. She quietly got on her running shorts and pink tank top. She silently slipped outside in the disappearing darkness and began to do her morning jog around the camp. She was still feeling horrible about last night. Neji never came and that was just heartbreaking. Tenten thought that maybe she was wrong about him and that he really did like her. He did seem concerned about her when they pulled the prank, and looked sorry for it but he never apologized.
Just thinking about Neji turned Tenten's jog into a fierce run. She wasn't even on her normal route; she had found herself taking the longer way around the camp which could also take her back to her cabin. This unfamiliar path had more twists and turns then her normal smooth path. It had thick routes shooting from the ground and low branches. Tenten avoided all of these with ease. She was so upset that she didn't pay mind to them. Normally her jog would take an hour, but an hour had past and she wasn't even done yet.
'This is taking longer than I thought, even on the longer path I thought with the running it would just go at the same rate. Hey, is that a bench? SWEET!' Tenten continued to run, but now she was aiming for the bench. It was old and had a bunch of things carved into them. Mostly a bunch of hearts that had initials in them, and also things like Roy was here.
'Screw you Roy, I wish Neji was here. Now I'm stuck on this stupid bench, it's not even comfortable. I think I'm gonna have a butt load of splinters. I'm so tired; I really wish I was in my bed right now.'
After about ten minutes of relaxing and cursing herself for forgetting to bring a water bottle, Tenten ran off into a brisk jog. It was relaxing at first, but then she remembered thinking about Neji.
'Shit, I need to forget about him he's messing up my jog. Great, I'm running again.'
Tenten ran for the next fifteen minutes and could see the back of her cabin when she got to the top of a hill. 'Oh good, I'm almost there. Maybe I should just start to walk the rest of the way.' As Tenten slowed down her run she didn't see a route coming out of the ground. She tripped over it and fell down the dirt road. She ended up on her back, but she hit her head on a rock stuck in the road. Tenten's vision was a little muffled and her leg hurt a little bit. She could feel a run of blood going down the side of her leg.
"Tenten!" came a male voice running down the hill she had just fallen down. "Tenten are you alright? Asked the voice again as it picked her up.
"I'm...okay...Neji?" Tenten looked up at him in disbelief. "What are you doing here?"
"Put your arm around my neck I'll help you up." Tenten did as she was told but once she was up she let go of him to stand on her own.
"Tenten let me help you."
"Don't bother Neji, I always keep a bandage in my pocket, its small put it's just a scrape." Neji watched as she pulled a small bandage from her tight pants, her shirt was even tight, and it was sticking to her body because she was sweating so much. Her body was glazed in sweat and Neji took note of that a while ago. Tenten bent over to place the bandage on her leg and Neji couldn't help but see down her shirt. Neji always knew Tenten was a girl and he tried to treat her that way, but seeing down her shirt made him think of her more of a woman.
'HOLD IT TOGETHER MAN!' he mentally yelled as he looked away blushing 'Crap I'm heating up, need to go Hyuuga calm. Just calm down, calm down.' Neji calmed down and looked over at Tenten who had turned around, her back facing him. Neji looked down at her butt and her pants were sticking to it so he could see every bit of her curves. He quickly looked away and punched himself hard in the stomach so he would focus on the pain and not her.
"Neji, what are you doing here?" asked Tenten as they both turned around to face each other.
"I…came here to apologize to you, about the prank." Tenten's eyes grew so wide
"You…you did?"
"Yeah that's why I'm here, but I don't understand why you are."
"Well I jog every morning around the camp, but since something…was on my mind I sort of took the wrong path, and it's twice as big. I was just lucky that it ends up behind my cabin. Why are you here on this path?"
"This is what we used last time to get here."
"Oh." There was an awkward silence between them for a while but then Neji began to speak.
"Tenten, I really want you to know that I wanted to get you out of there, that was my plan, but….when we were…dancing. I got so preoccupied and I forgot about everything, and probably not just the prank but being with you made me forget everything in the world." Tenten couldn't even breathe at that point, her face was so red and her pulse had just gone up. Neji's face was getting redder too. She was just staring at him and he couldn't tell if she didn't believe him or she was just taking aback by it all.
"Neji….I….um," Tenten then cleared her throat a little and then looked back into his lavender eyes. "I just want to say sorry for over reacting to it all. I..."
"No Tenten you didn't do anything!" cut in Neji
"No, just listen. In the end after all of the feathers and whatever the other stuff was off, I thought of how funny the joke really was. It's okay, BUT to prove you're truly sorry I want you to do something for me." Tenten began to blush a little which made Neji blush.
"I'll do anything for you." he said trying to not show the nervousness in his voice.
"Okay just stand how you are and don't move." Neji nodded and watched as Tenten turned her back to him. She took a step forward and looked at the distance between them. She faced forward again and just stood there.
'I thought she was going to maybe kiss me, but now I'm not sure what she's going to do.'
'I trust him, I trust him completely. This is completely effortless, no problem. If Neji likes me then this should work. He should be watching me intently right now. Okay here I go.'
Neji just stared at the back of Tenten, he made sure not to linger his eyes down to anywhere, even though he so badly wanted to. He then noticed Tenten falling backwards towards him, which really caught him off guard. He quickly caught her under the arms like Hinata had done before. He pulled her back up so that she was now standing up.
"Are you crazy? What were you thinking?"
"You did it Neji; I knew I could trust you!" Tenten jumped up and hugged him tightly. Neji blushed madly, and was so confused at that moment.
"What….what did I do?"
"The trust test, I'm so happy you passed! That means you must care…I mean…we're friends and you pass, also you're forgiven."
"Well I couldn't let you get hurt, not while I had something to say about it." Tenten blushed which made Neji feel good. He grabbed her hand and they laced their fingers together which made them both blush. "Come one, I'll walk you back to your cabin. I hope you have a first aid kit, because I think you should get disinfectant on your cut."
Tenten smiled at how much Neji cared about her. When they held hands she could have sworn she felt him shake with nerves, and that made her feel like such a women.
It was 6:30 at the girl's cabin and Hinata was woken up by her hungry stomach. She went down stairs to see what she should have.
'I guess I should have some cereal, I have that every morning though. There isn't anything else to have though. I wonder what they serve down at the mess hall. What time is it opened till? 6:00 to 7:00 I think, I bet I could run down there and see what they have. Oh wait, I could just go to the Hill's mess hall, their opened the same time. I'll just go over there real fast to see if they have anything besides cereal.' Hinata put on her sneakers and went out the front door to be greeted by Tenten and Neji hand in hand. She looked confused at them but smiled slyly at seeing how tightly they were holding hands.
"Well well well, look whose here. You might want to come in now before you get caught." Neji and Tenten let go of each other really fast and Tenten shoved Neji through the door.
"I can't believe I forgotabout that, and we came in so casually I'm surprised we didn't get caught."
"Yeah, let's just hope that that's true."
"Hinata, Tenten has an injury, can you treat her?" asked Neji
"Yeah sure, come into the kitchen I'll get the first aid kit."
They walked into the kitchen and Tenten sat down on one of the kitchen chairs. Neji sat right next to her and Hinata kneeled down on the floor as she went threw the kit. She ripped off Tenten's bandage and to Neji's surprise she didn't scream, or wince for that matter. Hinata sprayed on disinfectant on her cut and put a fresh bandage on top of it.
"There you go, good as new." Hinata patted her leg where the injury was and began to clean up the mess she made. Tenten kissed her finger and touched it the bandage.
"Why'd you do that?" asked Neji
"To ensure that it would heal faster hasn't your mother ever kissed your booboo?"
"….no." he said plainly "I really don't think kissing a booboo makes them get better faster." Tenten laughed at him
"Of course it does, it makes everything better. I'll prove it to you."
"How?"
"Next time you get hurt I'll kiss you to make it all better. I mean not you, your booboo, um your injury I mean!" Neji blushed a little bit and then he stuck his hand out to Tenten.
"Deal, we'll see if it works." They both shook hands while Ino walked in.
"HUH! Neji, what are you doing here?" she said teasingly winking at Tenten
"He was just helping me out Ino, I got hurt."
"Oh my gosh, are you okay?" she asked seriously
"Oh no I'm fine. Neji helped me back to the cabin and Hinata just cleaned it."
"Neji helped you back to the cabin? Were you two…together?"
"NO!" they both yelled
"I came down here to apologize to Tenten about the dance thing, sorry by the way, and she had just tripped down the hill. I'm sure she could have taken care of herself though, but I brought her back so that I would know she was okay."
"AAAAWWWWWW!" Ino, Hinata, and Sakura, who had been listening from the kitchen entrance, cooed.
"OOOkay, well I think Neji should leave now since he could get into trouble."
"I'll just sneak out through the back. I'm pretty fast, and can get by."
"Oh, Neji I was wondering, did you sign up for fencing?" asked Hinata "I know how much you like it."
"Yeah I did, why?"
"Did you know Tenten came in first place in the female fencing competition last year. She told us that last night before we watched a movie."
"Really?" asked Neji getting interested in the subject "Out of how many?"
"Hundred-fifty!" said Ino
"That's really impressive. We should fight together one day and see whose better."
"Well, me naturally. I'm lighter, and I don't just stand there I also punch and kick my opponent."
"Me too, so this should be real interesting than. We'll have to fight soon." He put his hand out to shake hers and she did the same. They began to shake hands when Ino pushed Tenten in the back which made her fall into Neji's chest. Neji, who was very strong didn't fall over like they had hoped he would, but Tenten was so close to his body at that moment. When she fell her left hand went straight for his chest to brake her fall, she could feel how hard he was under his shirt. She looked up at him blushing and he couldn't even think of anything to say.
"Sorry!" she practically yelled as she jumped five feet back. "Clumsy Ino you know! She's always tipping over, like when you push a cow and they just fall!"
"Riiight! Okay well I'm going to go now. Porch door is….that way! Okay, see you all later." Neji hurriedly made his way to the door and when he shut it behind him, or so they all thought, Tenten started to charge at Ino who was held back by Hinata.
"WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!" Ino only laughed
"You two haven't even kissed yet! I thought if I gave you a little push in the right direction, literally, that maybe that would help things out a bit more."
"Look, I want to kiss Neji, but if he doesn't want to kiss me then I don't want him to kiss me, not even if it was by accident. And besides Neji is a real shy person who hides it all behind Hyuuga honor. I'm sure if he wanted to kiss me he would be very gentlemen about it."
"AAAWWW!" cried all three girls
"You know a lot about Neji, how is that?" asked Hinata
"Well, I've….liked him for a long time. I was disappointed when I new I was going to a different camp and he would be going to camp Jutsu. I think this is destiny, he's here, I'm here. Don't cha think?"
"AAAWWW!" they all cried again
"Yeah, maybe you two are going to be together forever!" said Sakura
"Yeah I think you two would be the greatest couple. Now, about me being compared to a cow." Said Ino getting a little mad.
"Better then being a pig, wouldn't you say?" said Sakura
Neji ran back to the path, but not before he heard everything the girls were saying in the kitchen.
'Tenten LIKES ME!' he mentally punched the air 'I can't believe I'm so happy about this. I always thought that I could get any girl I wanted, and I really wanted Tenten. I thought she was too good for everyone, but she wants me too. She's liked me for a long time! THIS IS SO GREAT!'
Back at the guy cabin all of the guys woke up at 7:10 and they were all having breakfast in the kitchen. When Neji walked into the cabin he went straight to the kitchen too. He grabbed cereal and sat down next to Shikamaru who was the first one to ask where he was.
"So Neji, where'd you go?"
"To apologize to Tenten, I told you guys she wasn't mad at me."
"I'm sure she was and just didn't want to hurt your feelings." Said Sasuke
"Shut up Sasuke! How could anyone hate Neji, he's a lot better then you that's for sure." Defended Naruto
"Um, thanks Naruto. He's right you know Sasuke."
"Damn straight." Said Naruto
'Why is Naruto defending Neji? Normally he would just agree with me and say believe it.' Thought Sasuke as he got up to put his bowl on top of their tower of dishes.
'I guess Naruto just wants to get on Neji's good side so he'll approve of him for Hinata.' Thought Shikamaru who was also putting his bowl in the sink.
"I'm getting dressed, we should probably try to walk down to the bus this time." Said Sasuke as he walked out of the kitchen.
"Man, walking is such a drag." Added Shikamaru as he left the kitchen also
"Maybe we can actually finish cleaning it all up today. I want to get to wrestling again." Said Naruto finishing his food
"You do? I thought you didn't want to do wrestling." Said Neji
"At first, but now it's a great way to learn how to defend someone you care about. So you can always protect them, unless they prefer to protect themselves of course."
"I guess that's true, well I can't wait to get back to it too. That and fencing."
"Maybe I should try fencing; I'll just quit something else like swimming."
"Why would you do that? You wouldn't like fencing and you love to swim, besides didn't you know Hinata does swimming too? You'll get to swim against her in that boys vs. girls challenge thing."
"What? What challenge boys vs. girls thing?"
"In the middle of summer the boys and girls compete in a few different sports and competitions. The girls have been winning every one for the past twenty years, this year would make twenty one."
"Well it won't make twenty one this year because we'll take them out!"
"Yeah, if anyone thinks I'm going to loose to a girls they've got another thing coming."
"ALRIGHT! This year guys are going to rule the camps!" cried Naruto as he jumped up out of his seat. "I can't wait to wipe the floor with them all, this is going to be so sweet."
"Well one of the completions is swimming, and Hinata is going to be in that I assume. SO are you going to wipe the floor with her?" Asked a smirky Neji
"Whaa….I didn't know, she might not…..AW MAN! I don't want to hurt Hinata!"
"It's not like you're breaking her heart or anything because she'll want a serious competitor."
"And I'm serious, about everything I like!"
"Well, I guess that's good to know."
"Okay good, I'm glad you know that I'm serious!"
"Naruto shouldn't you go get dressed now?"
"I'm seriously going to do that!" Naruto ran out of the kitchen and ran up stairs to his room. Shikamaru and Sasuke were already done and were heading down the stairs. They waited for Naruto for about five minutes and decided to just leave without him. They were almost at the bus when they could hear Naruto yelling behind them.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU GUYS WAIT FOR ME?"
"Well it was nice and quiet while it lasted." Said Shikamaru who walked onto the bus, they all sat in the last seats again since they were the only ones available. Naruto got on the bus fuming mad and cursing as he made it to his seat.
"Well look whose here." Said Kiba who was sitting in front of the seat Naruto took
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE FOR?" yelled Naruto as the bus started up.
"Not like I really want to tell anybody or anything, but I signed up for…dance." All the guys that were around them laughed hysterically at Kiba, especially Naruto.
"HAHAHAHAHAAAAHAHAHAHAA I can't believe you DANCE HAHAHAHAHAHHAAAHAHAHAHAA!"
"SO WHAT! My mom is making me do it!"
"Yeah right!" laughed Sasuke
"So then that doesn't explain why you're here." Laughed Shikamaru
"The girls camp's dancing club needs guys to help them dance, so they took us from the guy's camp's dancing club to be their partners."
The guys looked around the bus to see a bunch of guys with bags that held probably dancing supplies, or whatever.
"HAhAHA, there's more of them!" laughed Naruto as everyone except Neji laughed
"Guys, hold on." He said in a serious tone which made them stop right away, "Hinata is in the dancing club."
"And Ino!" added Shikamaru
"WAIT, you're right I forgot!"
"Oh good, I didn't know that Hinata was in the dance club. Maybe I'll ask her to be my partner." Smirked Kiba, all of the guys grew dark and fierce.
"You better not be thinking about doing anything with Hinata, or I'll kill you." said Naruto darkly
"Last time I checked she hated your guts, what makes you think she'll even give you a second glance?"
"My cousin forgave him a while ago, I think it's because she likes him so you can just back off of her. You're not her type anyways so don't think just because she's nice to you means your somehow in."
"Oh I see, so you'd rather have that idiot over there date her and not me? You sure about that?" Neji just stared coldly at him, "Fine, but we'll have to see what Hinata says, and if you are right then maybe I'll just go back to that Ino girl." Shikamaru practically jumped his eat but Sasuke interjected.
"Why don't you turn around dog-boy before something happens to that mutt that you're hiding in your jacket." Kiba's eyes grew evil and dark
"You have no idea who you're messing with." He said
"Yeah, well you don't either." Said Sasuke as all the guys backed him up on it, Kiba turned around but he could feel their stares. No one in the back talked the rest of the way to camp and when they got there they couldn't find Kiba any where.
"Stupid runt, he fled just when I was about to kill him." Said Naruto
"Not if I kill him first." Said Neji, Shikamaru, and Sasuke all at once.
"Hurry up you four and get in here." Said Iruka who was watching them today. All four guys walked into the hall again but not before they scanned the area of Kiba, who was still no where to be seen.
Ino and Hinata were at their dancing club and there was suppose to be a big surprise for them, but they didn't know what. All of the girls were chatting loudly when their dance teacher walked in with a bunch of guys behind her. All of the girls stared at the guys in shock and awe, all except for Hinata and Ino.
"Ladies," began the instructor "We now have partners for you to dance with instead of each other. Now I want you all to pick your own partner but I want you to pick them because your heights are almost the same and not because they have a cute butt. Trust me they don't I've checked." All of the guys backed away from the teacher trying to cover their butts. "I was just kidding, what a bunch of wimps. Okay now everyone pick your partners roughly your height. If there aren't enough guys then you girls will have to partner with a girl again." All of the girls, minus Ino and Hinata, ran over to the guys so they wouldn't have to be stuck with a girl.
"Please be my partner." Said Ino clutching Hinata's arm "I really don't want a guy all up on me."
"Fine deal, lets hide behind everyone." They backed up towards the wall but Hinata bumped into something, or rather someone.
"Well Hinata, looks like fate put us together again." Said Kiba, Hinata realized how close she was to him and quickly jumped back.
"Sorry Kiba but me and Ino are going to be partners." She said as she pointed her head towards Ino
'Oh no you wont." Said their teacher who was walking over to them "Samantha doesn't have a partner and her and Ino are almost the same height. They'll be perfect together, and Hinata excellent choice. He's perfect for you." Hinata blushed and Kiba only smiled real wide as he grabbed her hand and brought her to the dance floor. Hinata put her fingers up to her head making it look like a gun. 'shoot me!' she mouthed to Ino who looked a little worried.
"Now everyone stand in a line," the class did as they were told "Now ladies we're going to practice the move where the gentleman is suppose to hold your left arm up and hold your right leg."
'NO NOT THIS! He'll be like TOUCHING ME!' thought Hinata
'No problem.' Thought Kiba staring at Hinata without blinking
"Alright, first position please." All of the girls turned their backs to the guys. The guys went up closer behind them so they could grab them. "Second position please!" The girls raised their left arms up above their heads and the guys grabbed their hands. "Third Please!" Hinata gulped and raised her leg up a little so Kiba could grab it and pull it out further. They were both concentrating very well, and everyone else was having trouble.
"NO NO NO!" yelled the teacher "Ladies gentlemen please watch Hinata and Kiba; they are making perfection over here. Everyone please move off the floor." She said as she clapped her hands. Everyone left the floor and saw how Kiba was holding Hinata. Hinata looked over for Ino but couldn't see her anywhere. She kept on her concentrating face and didn't even realize that the teacher had put on music. "Now I want you to show us the moves again with this music. After step three please free style together."
'SHIT, I think I'm going to kill this woman!'
'SCORE, now I can grab Hinata even higher! I bet I can lift her above my head even.'
Kiba grinned a little at his thoughts as he let go of Hinata. She took her position again in front of him as the music began to pick up tempo.
"Now….begin!" the teacher sang along with the beat of the music.
Kiba and Hinata began to dance to with the music this time. Their movements were flawless and so smooth. They reached step three and Kiba had Hinata's leg up higher this time, she was very flexible. They began to free stile a bit with Kiba spinning Hinata while holding her arm still above her head. She spun and had her extended leg tucked in. Hinata soon stopped with a halt and began to jump and dance away from Kiba. He followed her by jumping along with her. He figured this is where he could easily get under her legs, grab her, and lift her up and he would continue to leap. He began to go down to get her but then the fire alarm went off. The sprinklers began to poor down a lot of water and the alarm was only getting louder.
"FIRE!" yelled one of the girls which made the entire room scream
"CALM DOWN!" yelled the teacher "EVERYONE EVACUATE!" Everyone all at once began to run but slipped on the water on the floor. Hinata was dumbfounded at all that was happening when she saw Ino walking up to her not paying mind to how wet she was getting.
"Saved you huh?" she asked with a smile
"Ino, you're a saint I owe you my life!" Hinata cried as she hugged Ino
"Hey, where is Kiba anyways?" asked Ino as she looked around
"He was the first one running out of here when someone yelled fire. He practically pushed me out of the way, and I wasn't even in his way."
"I'm the one who yelled fire, but it was for an emergency."
"THE DOOR IS JAMMED!" yelled a couple of people who made it to the door without falling so much.
"SHIT, I didn't know the stupid door was jammed or I wouldn't have pulled the alarm."
"No that's okay. We can drown in here as long as I don't have to dance with Kiba." The girls both laughed and tried to walk over to the door. They fell a dozen times before making it over to the other group. They could see Iruka Sensei threw the glass and he was trying to open the door which was jammed. The alarm was making it hard for everyone to hear, it practically damaged their hearing since the alarm was right next to the door.
"EVERYONE BACK UP I'LL RAM THE DOOR!" yelled Iruka who took a few steps back. The students and dance instructor all stood back and watched as Iruka tried and failed to open the door.
"We're all going to burn alive." yelled a few students
BAM
Someone ran the door open from the outside and everyone evacuated. When Hinata and Ino made it to the doors they saw Naruto, Shikamaru, Neji, and Sasuke all wet waiting for them to get out.
"Shikamaru!" yelled Ino as she hugged a relieved Shikamaru who returned her hug back really tightly.
"Are you okay? Did you get burned? What happened?"