"Are you okay? Did you get burned? What happened?" a frantic Shikamaru scanned over every part of Ino searching for burn marks, but coming up empty. Neji was less frantic as he only placed his hand on Hinata's shoulder. She nodded her wet head at him, and he nodded back. Letting her shoulder go, he stepped away so Naruto and Sasuke could make their own diagnosis.
Meanwhile, Ino, very well aware that the guy she liked was fussing over her well being, turned back to the door of the dancing room. "Did you break down the door?" she asked Shikamaru.
"We all did." He said gesturing his head towards Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji, each of them somewhat wet and disheveled. "So what happened? Where was the fire?"
"There was no fire, you don't have to worry. I pulled the alarm because Hinata needed some help."
Neji's head snapped over to Ino. "Hinata needed help?" Sasuke's head tilted slightly as he looked her over once more thinking he missed something.
"Hinata, what did you need help for?" asked Naruto.
Not knowing exactly how to respond, the Hyuuga heiress' mouth began to stumble over a good explanation. "Oh, well um….I….just…."
"HINATA!" yelled Kiba running over to them stopping in front of Hinata to catch a breath. "Are you okay?" he looked her from head to toe. "You seem okay, glad you're alright."
"Why would you care?" Ino snapped gaining the confused looks of each guy. "I saw you push Hinata out of your precious way when someone yelled fire!" She knew she was the one who yelled fired, but that was beside the point.
Naruto's ears hummed with anger. "YOU DID WHAT!" his voice let out on a crack.
"Pushed her out of your way?" Neji asked smoothly, Hyuuga calm trying hard not to break.
Sasuke shook his head for a third time. "No way." He said sounding disgusted. "Not even Kiba could be so low."
Shikamaru agreed with a nod. "I'm sure he's heard women and children go first."
Sasuke nodded. "They go before the men, and especially before the dogs."
All four guys glared him down, and he felt backed into a corner. He didn't know how to respond so he began to sputter. "Why, I didn't…I mean come on do you…think I would really…..oh COME ON!"
Neji, Sasuke, Shikamaru, and Naruto were getting ready to beat him senseless. Their fists were already squeezed tight, and their arms were ready to spring loose. Hinata tried to get their attention, but the blood lust in their eyes was too strong.
"You guys, I'm sure he didn't really mean to, he was just overreacting and…"
"Did he push you?" Naruto asked through clenched teeth- eyes fixed on Kiba.
"….I…um…."
"DID HE PUSH YOU!" They all yelled in unison.
"…Well…yes but, HuH! NARUTO!"
Too mad to hear her call his name, Naruto charged at Kiba and took him to the ground so fast it looked effortless. Kiba fought back and was doing well for himself. Naruto did have the upper hand because he was stronger than Kiba and knew how to fight; Kiba was improvising his moves with just simple punches and kicks, but mostly he was only able to block. Everyone circled the fight and were yelling and cheering. People passing by who could hear the fight stopped to watch what was going on. In the crowd were also Sakura and Tenten who were just coming back from lacrosse practice. Sakura could see Ino's hair close to all of the fighting so they tried to squeeze their way to them. Tenten used her lacrosse stick to hit people out of her way, and Sakura apologized as she past all of the victims.
"Ino, what's going on? Who's fighting down there?" asked Tenten who put her stick down on the floor.
"And why are you soaking wet?" wondered Sakura.
Ino looked at them horrified. "It's Naruto and Kiba."
"Why are they fighting?" asked Sakura forgetting her question.
"Well it's a long story but let's just say that it involves Hinata, and Kiba being a jerk to her."
"KILL HIM NARUTO!" yelled Tenten who joined in the crowd's cheers and chanting.
"Tenten!" yelled a shocked Sakura.
"What? He was being a jerk to Hinata!" She and Ino looked at her like "duh". Sakura then realized this and yelled.
"KNOCK HIS HEAD OFF NARUTO! CHA!"
'Oh no, this is my entire fault!' thought Hinata who was on the verge of tears "I want to stop them but I can't' She looked over to her three older "brothers" and could see them enjoying Kiba's beating by Naruto. If not Naruto, it would have defiantly been one of them. She ran up to Neji, who was standing between Sasuke and Shikamaru. Tripping over her own feet, she ended up falling to her knees right in front of him. Hinata grabbed his arms and desperately pulled on it. Neji was so shocked to see her down on the floor with tears running down her smooth cheeks, he could only gape at her.
"Neji….PLEASE…STOP THEM!" she cried. Sasuke and Shikamaru looked down at her too and started feeling really bad really fast. They didn't want to see Hinata cry, it just didn't look right.
All three of them didn't hesitate after she pleaded to Neji. They jumped into the fight to get Naruto and Kiba off of each other. Sasuke and Shikamaru got Naruto and Neji easily got Kiba.
'I can't hit him from this far!' "LEMME AT HIM!" yelled Naruto as he struggled against his holders. But Shikamaru and Sasuke were having none of that.
"Naruto STOP!" yelled Shikamaru. "THEY'LL KICK YOU OUT OF HERE!"
'I'll be kicked out…I won't get to go back to school with them. Shit!' "BUT…..HE…."
He heard Sasuke's voice, though it was struggling. "Naruto, we all want to kill him but look at what you're doing to Hinata!" he yelled. Naruto looked over at Hinata who was kneeling on the ground with Sakura trying to comfort her. She was crying and had her hands over her face trying to wipe them all away. 'Hinata. She's crying.' Naruto slowly calmed down, and when his friends felt the tension in his arms loosen up they dropped him with a huff. He didn't complain when he smacked against the ground, and kept his gaze locked on Hinata.
Iruka sensei finally made it through the crowd and was fuming mad, but Naruto didn't pay attention. He kept staring at Hinata and how upset she was, Sakura had her standing now. He wasn't aware of much at that moment, like the disappearance of his friends or Iruka in his face.
"-and Naruto if you think you're not going to be in trouble you have another thing coming. Do you know how over the line you went? Kakashi is going to be furious, not to mention Kiba's parents, the board, the Uchihas. Naruto you've disappointed a lot of people today!" yelled Iruka
'I'm always disappointing people but….Hinata….I'm sorry.'
As if on cue Hinata began to run through the crowds. Naruto shot up off the ground, ignoring Iruka's yelling, and ran after her. "HINATA…..WAIT!" He pushed his way through the entire crowd and when he was out of it he could see Hinata alone in the distance running towards the cafeteria.
"Hinata!" he called, but it was useless because she didn't even turn. She ran straight into the cafeteria's doors and disappeared. When Naruto got in he couldn't see her anywhere until he heard a door click shut. He headed over to it but then stopped in his tracks.
"Oh crap." He said as he noticed the door was to a girl's bathroom. He went up to it and gave it a few knocks. "Hinata…please come out…I'm sorry about what happened. I know I reacted badly but…would you please come out?" There was no response, and Naruto was about to do something that he could get killed for. "Hinata….if you don't come out…I'm gunna have to…" Naruto gulped and let out a shudder. "Come in there!" still no response. 'I just know I'm gunna be killed if I go in there.' Naruto took a deep breath and began to twist the door knob. The door began to open up and he slowly walked into the girls' bathroom.
It was bright in there, and very clean he also noticed. He looked around but saw no sign of Hinata. He bent down to see if her feet were in a stall but he couldn't see any.
"Hinata….?" He walked looking through each stall but, once he reached the last one there was no one there. "…Hinata….are you even in here?" He looked above the sinks and could see an opened window by them. "SHIT!" he ran over to the window and looked out it. He couldn't see Hinata in any direction, or any signs of which way she could have gone.
Defeated, Naruto walked out of the bathroom while cursing up a storm in his mind. He went back outside to his friends who he found near the sight of the fight. Along with them were Sakura, Ino, and Tenten. They all looked at him with a mixture of pity and awkwardness, and that only made him feel like a puppy coming in from the rain.
"Naruto, where did you go?" asked Sasuke.
He stood next to them, head down. "…bathroom..." he managed to reply.
Sakura erupted with anger. "WHAT! You mean you went to the bathroom instead of going after Hinata! Are you crazy! What the HELL! WHY COULDN'T YOU JUST HOLD IT?" she yelled.
"NO! NO! She ran to the bathroom so I followed her there." Sakura blushed at her outburst and Naruto ran his fingers through his hair. "Why do they even PUT widows in there?" he yelled falling to the ground.
Neji and Tenten both looked surprised by that. "You mean she went out of the window?" asked Tenten.
Naruto rolled his face into the grass and mumbled an 'I guess' into the dirt.
Ino let out a whistle. "Wow, she was really upset. I mean where was the 'Hyuuga calm' when you needed it?" she asked no one as she rang out her hair. It was still full of water from earlier.
Neji gave Ino a sideways look, and then looked down at Naruto. "Naruto, don't worry about it." He said. "If you didn't get Kiba it would have been one of us that Hinata would have cried about. She doesn't like to use violence, but words and solutions. I used to think that that made her weak and that she wouldn't make a good heir, but it really proves that she would make a great heir. Her job will be to solve problems all the time, and she's been doing that all of her life." And at that moment, everyone realized Neji's respect for Hinata, and he was right about Hinata being ready to be the heir to the Hyuuga Corporation.
"So, does anyone know where Hinata could be?" asked Ino
"Yeah, I bet I have an idea." Said Sakura
Naruto pushed half of his body up off the ground. "WHERE?" he asked Sakura urgently.
"Sorry Naruto, but I think she'll just want to be alone now. I've never seen Hinata cry so much about something like you getting hurt."
'Wait a minute. She cried about…' "…me…getting hurt. Is that why she cried?" He asked her.
The look on Naruto's face cried right into Sakura's heart and she wondered how much pain this was all putting him through. "Yes. That's why she cried." She explained. "But she also felt bad for Kiba too because she knew you would kick his ass, quote unquote I swear." She crossed her heart with her fingers to prove her words were true.
Neji thought about this new information. Maybe if someone either than Naruto fought Kiba she would have tried to stop it herself, but with Naruto it was different. 'Does she really like Naruto that much? Naruto Uzumaki?' Neji pondered on this for a minute before coming back to reality. "I think we should go back to cleaning with everyone else." They all nodded and Shikamaru helped Naruto to his feet.
"Yeah, especially you Naruto," said Ino "Iruka was so pissed when you ran away from him."
"That's too bad for him." He said as he shoved his hands in his pockets and turned to go back. That's when Tenten noticed his injury.
"Naruto, the side of your neck is bleeding. Do you want me to take you to the nurse's office?" she asked. He touched the side of his neck and found blood left behind on his finger tips.
"Yeah, thanks Tenten. Where is it?"
"Follow me." So Naruto followed Tenten who was being followed by Ino and Sakura. The three guys went back to the dancing hall to find a bunch of people talking about what had just happened. Iruka ran up to them the second they entered through the doors.
"WHERE IS Naruto?" he seethed.
"Nurse's office." Shikamaru told him walking away, but pointing over his shoulder with his thumb.
"Great, NO ONE GOES ANYWHERE!" yelled Iruka as he marched out of the building.
The girls and Naruto walked into the nurse's office to find Kiba sitting on a bed. When Kiba noticed Naruto walk in he immediately began to get up out of the bed to finish him off.
"Sit yourself down!" yelled a women's voice.
"Excuse me, Nurse Karen?" asked confused Tenten.
"Sorry no, I'm nurse Shizune. What happened to that boy over there?" she asked pointing at Naruto.
"He was…in a fight with…" Sakura didn't really know what to tell her except he fought that guy dying in the bed over there.
"Oh I see, so these two were in a little rumble, eh? I hope it was worth it because this boy over here had a sprained wrist. No sports for a while for him."
"Thanks for that Naruto!" Kiba growled.
"Shut up dog boy!"
With a smile that only made her more delightful, Shizune said, "Girls, you can leave now. I need to help these two morons!" She waved them off and turned back to her patients when they shut the door behind them. "Okay, Naruto I think. Why don't you come over here to this bed next to Kiba." Naruto did as he was told but stared death at Kiba the whole walk over. Shizune went over to Naruto and began to check out his injuries when Iruka came through the door.
"NARUTO!" he declared with a roar.
Shizune jumped as Naruto cringed. "Who are you? And WHY ARE YOU YELLING AT MY PATIENTS?" She pointed an accusing finger two inches away from his face. He almost didn't see her move away from her spot by Naruto.
Iruka put his hands up to show he meant no harm. "Oh, sorry." He apologized embarrassed. "Naruto you have a lot of explaining to do." Iruka said walking over to Naruto's bed.
"Don't blame me, it was dog-breath over there." He said pointing at Kiba "He pushed Hinata so I tackled him, but he fought back so there!"
"Regardless, you both are in trouble for fighting at a camp where we were all guests. I should make you both clean the rest of the dancing hall by your selves!"
Naruto crossed his arms over his chest stubbornly. "Fine with me, whatever you have to do to get Kiba away from Hinata."
Confused, Iruka asked, "Hinata? Why does she keep getting in the middle of this?" The boys didn't respond at first but then Kiba cleared his voice and began to grin.
"Naruto thinks she loves him!" he said, Shizune gasped.
"It doesn't matter!" yelled Naruto "Because I love her and this mutt keeps trying to be the good guy around her when he isn't!"
Iruka's eyes shot wide opened at Naruto's declaration. 'Did Naruto just say that he loved Hinata? Hinata Hyuuga? I didn't think he was capable of showing affection for other people.'
Shizune only awed at what Naruto said and had hearts in her eyes.
"That's so cute Naruto." She cried. "You two would look so cute together!"
"WHAT?" Kiba asked bewildered
"See Kiba, we look great together! So back the hell off or I'll give you the worst beating of your entire…"
"Naruto that's enough!" said Iruka dismissing the rest of his sentence. "Now boys, I'm going to have to talk to Kakashi about your punishment. You do realize you are in some serious trouble."
"AW MAN!" they both moaned.
Seeing the distress he was cause, Shizune returned to reality and tapped Iruka on the shoulder. "Iruka was it? I need you to leave because you're causing my patients trauma which they don't need right now. Come back to pick them up when you are about to leave."
He was startled at first, but quickly composed himself. "Yes, very well." His eyes turned into no-nonsense-eyes in a second and he aimed them at the two boys. "You give her any trouble, and you'll be sorry." He warned. They weren't that intimidated by Iruka but they did cooperate with him, and agreed with a nod.
Iruka left the room and Shizune went back to checking on Naruto.
"Ouch, that's going to be a fat lip for sure!" she said taping his bottom lip
"WHAT? Kiba I'm going to kill you."
"Yeah, well you gave me a black eye, dumb-ass!"
"Maybe instead of mutt I'll just call you spot from now on, jack-ass!"
Kiba threw his legs over the side of the bed towards Naruto, and glared. "You're lucky you got me by surprise or else I would have given TEN black eyes!"
Naruto sat on the edge of his bed and yelled back at Kiba. "YEAH? Well NEXT TIME YOU'RE GETTING A HUNDRED BLACK EYES!"
"Both of you need to shutup" Said Shizune calmly, "Now if you don't mind I'm going to put this shade around you both to give you some privacy. Just in case someone else comes in here. Also if you don't mind I'm going to put on some loud music. Now don't get out of those beds you two," she said as she pulled the shades around "or I'll use a rectal thermometer on you." Kiba gulped loudly and returned his whole body to the bed.
"What's that?" asked Naruto.
"You don't want to know." Kiba said practically shaking as the loud music turned on.
Shizune turned on the loud music and walked over to her closet. She opened it up to find Hinata sitting on the floor with her arms wrapped around her knees. She also had a blanket thrown over her shoulders because she was still wet from the sprinklers earlier.
Shizune knelt down in front of her smiling. "It's okay, they can't hear us. Do you want to leave; I shut the shades so you can use the front door."
"Thanks." Hinata muttered as she stood up and wiped her nose.
"Hey, are you okay? I mean mentally?"
She shrugged off the blanket and held it in her arms. "I'll be fine Shizune." She smiled sadly.
"So you heard what he said right?" Hinata blushed and shook her head, "He really likes you, you know. I think that's really sweet."
"I know. I shouldn't have run away. I really wanted to run over to him to see if he was okay, but…I knew…."
Shizune's hand pressed gently against her shoulder. "I know you didn't want to hurt Kiba's feelings, but maybe you should tell Kiba that you really don't like him that way. He should really find someone that likes dogs just as much as he does."
The thought of dogs reminded Hinata of Kiba's puppy, Akamaru. "Oh no, I just thought. I saw Akamaru run away from Kiba when he and Naruto fought. I should find him for Kiba."
"That's a good idea, and when you give him back you need to explain to him that what you did was an act of friendship and nothing more."
"I hope he understands that, and I hope Naruto gets it too."
"Okay, well hurry up and get out of here now. If that dog gets caught Kiba could be in real big trouble."
"Yeah, thank you Nurse Shizune! I mean Shizune." Hinata quickly left the nurse's office. She ran back to where Naruto and Kiba fought.
'So Akamaru ran that way. Maybe he went into those trees over there.' Hinata ran towards a bunch of trees but couldn't find Akamaru anywhere. She looked near a building to see if he had run under it, but there was no sign of him.
"Akamaru!" she yelled a little "Akamaru come here boy."
"Bark bark bark." She heard as Akamaru came out of nowhere. He jumped into Hinata's arms naturally and licked her face.
"Oh! Akamaru I'm so glad you're alright. Are you shivering? You don't have to worry; I'll take you back to Kiba."
"BarkBarkbark!"
Hinata began to walk back to the nurse's office when Tenten yelled over to her.
"Hinata! Where were ya? What do you have there?"
"Tenten! It's Kiba's dog I'm going to bring it back to him."
Tenten scratched behind the puppy's ears. "He's so cute, what's his name?"
"Akamaru, he can track things and he's not even a tracking dog."
"Cool." Said Tenten who was impressed "then Akamaru can you help me find my lacrosse stick?"
"Barkbarkbark!" he yelped as he jumped out of Hinata's arms towards nowhere in particular. He began to sniff Tenten and then he smelt the ground and walked around. The girl's followed him and he led them right to Tenten's lacrosse stick that was laid on the ground.
"WOW, I'm impressed. I can't believe he even knew what I was talking about." Akamaru began to sniff the area where Naruto and Kiba fought. He began to whimper and pawed at the ground.
"Oh I'm sorry Akamaru, Kiba is fine though. He only has a small injury, he'll be okay." Akamaru jumped back into Hinata's arms again and she and Tenten walked back to the nurse's office.
"Hinata, I'm not so sure if you giving Akamaru back to Kiba is a good idea. Naruto is in the nurse's office too, so maybe I should give him back."
As tempting as that was, Hinata shook her head no. "I really need to tell Kiba that we can't be anything but friends, so I have to do it."
"And if Naruto sees you?" asked Tenten
"I don't know. Maybe I'll ask Shizune to get him out of the room somehow so I can just see Kiba alone."
As they reached the nurse's office, Tenten realized something. "Hey wait! "How did you know that Shizune was the nurse?"
Hinata sweat dropped. "Oh, well I was sort of…hiding in the nurse's office." she laughed nervously.
"Oh, well okay then." Tenten started to laugh with her, "maybe I should go in and get Shizune to separate them so you can go in. Hold on I'll be right back." Tenten walked through the doors and Hinata just sat against the wall while petting Akamaru. She prayed that this would be easy.
Tenten slowly walked into the nurse's office and that Shizune had Naruto and Kiba draped. Shizune was at her desk with a quizzing look on her face as to why Tenten had come back. Tenten walked over and tried to tell Shizune that Hinata had Kiba's dog outside but she couldn't hear her because she had loud music playing.
"WhAT?" asked Shizune
"Hinata….Kiba's dog….outside….wants in…..Naruto out….okay?" It was hard to hear but Shizune got the message almost loud and clear. She got out of her chair and went over to Naruto. He was still sitting in his bed looking up at the ceiling probably counting the tiles.
"Naruto I need you to come with me into the examination room in the back. I need to check on you a little better, I think you're…um…face could be…broken?" she attempted to lie.
Naruto frantically touched his face. "NOOO MY FACE!" Kiba laughed as Naruto freaked out. Shizune lead him into the back room and shut the door.
"I'll be right back you stay in here." She went to the front door to get Hinata who was now standing up. Hinata walked into the room and went behind the curtain to see Kiba looking at the ceiling counting the tiles. Shizune turned down the music a bit so they could hear each other talk. Kiba looked up to see who his visitor was and was delighted to see it was Hinata holding Akamaru.
"Hey BUDDY!" he yelled as Akamaru leaped out of Hinata's arms and into Kiba's. "Sorry pal about earlier, I'm just so glad you're not hurt." He hugged his companion and looked up at Hinata, his face looking apologetic. "Hinata, I owe you an apology too. I know I might have…pushed you when I ran for the door earlier. I was worried about you but I knew I left Akamaru by the front and was worried that he was near the fire."
"You mean…you were just worried about Akamaru?"
"Yeah, sorry. I still should've made sure you were okay."
"No Kiba, it's okay. You know there really wasn't a fire, so I wasn't in real trouble. It just looked like you were trying to get the heck out of the building and you would push anyone out of your way."
He shook his head. "It doesn't matter that the building was or wasn't on fire. I should have grabbed you. I should have tried to get you out of there. I hope you can forgive me, I feel like such an ass I mean you got my dog for me." He looked back at Akamaru in his lap and pet him again. The motion seemed to soothe both master and animal.
Hinata how upset Kiba was with himself, but she still needed to tell him. "Kiba I'll forgive you but only if you understand something." She sat down on the bed with him. "Kiba, I really like you but…not like the way you like me. I really would like to be friends with you, but I don't see us ever being anything other than that. It's not you it's….just…"
"You like Naruto." He said with a knowing smile. Hinata blushed and nodded her head slowly. "Yeah. I guess I knew that." He let out a sigh, and then a laugh. "Well, I won't stand in his way. But if he hurts you, I'll have to take him down again." Hinata laughed, which shook some of her strands of hair in her face.
"Yeah. You and everyone else believe me." Kiba smiled and pulled some of Hinata's hair behind her ear. "What are you doing?" she asked.
"Just getting a better view of my friend." He said with a sincere smile. Hinata smiled back as she stood back up.
"I guess I'll go before Naruto comes back. Take care Kiba."
"Later Hinata." They both waved and Hinata disappeared behind the curtain as she left.
"You know Akamaru, I think I like being her friend better then chasing her. What do you think?"
"Barkbark!"
Kiba rubbed his belly, smiling. "Yeah, but if Naruto hurts her, I'll have to hurt him." As if on cue Naruto walked back to his bed.
"Hey, where did that puppy come from?" he asked pointing at Kiba's lap. Kiba wanted to say Hinata brought him back but figured that wasn't the best idea in the world.
"He found his way to me, he's a little genius."
"Tch." Naruto went back to his bed and sat down with 'hmp'. Kiba looked over at him, but he was crossing his arms and looking in the other direction.
He made a grimace, and then coughed. "Ah..Naruto?"
He turned and glared at Kiba. "What?"
"When I heard the fire alarm, I ran to the front door to find Akamaru. I didn't realize I pushed by Hinata, but I was worried that he was by the flames. Ya' know, none of the counselors know I bring him around with me. So no one would have known if he were still by the building or not. Not knowing where he is sometimes…is scary." He pet Akamaru to comfort himself. Naruto saw the sad look in Kiba's face, and his own anger melted away. He didn't have a pet himself, but being worried about others was something he could understand.
"I bet that was scary." Naruto said causing Kiba to look up surprised. "Not knowing if someone you care about is safe or not. Makes your whole body freak-out and react."
Wide eyed that Naruto was showing some compassion, Kiba nodded. "Yeah. It's just like that."
Naruto nodded then looked away. 'I didn't know if Hinata was safe or not. I guess just taking it out on Kiba was my body's way of reacting.' He gave Kiba a sideways glance and saw him grinning at Akamaru. His eye didn't look too bad, but he did beat him up bad. 'I thought they would have done what I did if they got there first.' He remembered how angry his friends were. 'Maybe I'm wrong.'
"Kiba?"
He looked up with an eyebrow raised. "Yeah?"
"I'm sorry I overreacted." He grinned sheepishly.
Kiba smirked. "Thanks, but I deserved it. I shouldn't have pushed Hinata out of the way."
Naruto grinned. "In that case, you're welcome."
Kiba rolled his eyes and went back to focusing on Akamaru, but Naruto grinned devilishly at him as he took in Kiba's attire.
"Sooo…did your mom really make you sign up for dancing? Or did you just lose a bet?"
Looking exhausted, Kiba responded, "Both."
"Huh?"
"I lost a bet to my mom, and this is what she wanted me to do for my humiliation."
"Your…mom wanted you to…" Kiba's horrified expression stopped Naruto.
"Mom's are scary…"
Naruto noisily gulped. 'Shikamaru always said mom's were scary…'
It was almost 6:00 and the dancing room was almost done. Sasuke was right that it would take three days to clean. Iruka was getting all of the guys back on the bus and asked Sasuke and Neji to get Kiba and Naruto. They gladly accepted and went down to the nurse's office. As they reached the doors to the building they could have sworn that they could hear music playing. They entered the nurse's office to see the nurse sitting at her desk reading a magazine. She looked up when they came closer to her desk.
"Are you two here to get these two knuckle heads?" she asked.
"Yes, that one belongs to us." Sasuke said pointing to Naruto who was having a rock paper scissors game with Kiba. Kiba was winning by five wins and Naruto only had four.
Neji walked over to their game. "Naruto, Kiba we're leaving let's go."
"Let me just beat Kiba hold on, he's winning. Rock…paper…scissors…SHOOT!"
Kiba had scissors and Naruto had rock.
"HA! One more!" yelled Naruto
"Rock…paper…scissors…SHOOT!" they both yelled
Kiba had scissors again and Naruto did rock again.
"SCORE!" yelled Naruto as he jumped out of his bed.
"Not fair, I'm playing with a sprained wrist. All I can do is scissors."
"Then how were you beating Naruto?" asked Sasuke
"The idiot kept doing paper."
Sasuke sighed and shook his head is shame at Naruto's stupidity.
"Well, I thought he had a strategy behind his moves."
"Don't try and defend you stupidity." Neji told him. "Come on let's get out of here." He said heading to the door.
"Wait, Kiba needs some help guys." said Naruto getting under Kiba's arm, Sasuke and Neji both exchanged looks that were puzzling. Sasuke decided to help Naruto with Kiba. They helped him out the door which Neji held for them. Shizune smiled to herself.
'Hinata, you really changed Kiba which in turn, also changed Naruto. You better hold onto that boy, he's a real keeper.'
The four guys continued to make their way to the bus when they heard music again.
"Do you hear that?" asked Neji stopping dead in his tracks
"Yeah, its music right?" asked Sasuke.
"Is there a voice with it?" asked Naruto.
"Sure is." Kiba told him. He was born with excellent hearing. "And it's coming from that building over there." he said pointing to the building coming up.
"Let's go see if it's that same voice we heard from before." said Sasuke. He had a suspicious feeling that he was supposed to know this voice. "Except this time let's not go crashing through the doors." The all nodded and went over to the auditorium doors. They put their ears against it and could hear a girl singing the song, "Ain't No Other Man", by Christina Aguilera.
Neji couldn't believe their luck. "This is the same person that we heard last time too."
"Hey guys, look at this paper on the door." said Naruto who put his hand on the paper.
"Singing Club?" read Sasuke.
"Oh, so it's an activity then." Said Neji satisfied.
"Should we look inside to see who's singing?" asked Naruto whose curiosity was getting the better of him.
"Why bother." Said Kiba who was still being held up by Naruto and Sasuke, "It's Hinata, can't you tell?"
"WHAT!" they all yelled simultaneously.
"What? Is it because I have such great hearing that I can tell its Hinata singing?"
"That might just be why." said Neji.
"Are you sure about this Kiba?" asked Sasuke.
"Oh yeah, that's her alright. Shouldn't you guys know her voice? I mean, you've probably known her longer than I have right?"
They didn't answer feeling like idiots who couldn't even tell their own "little sister's" voice. They went closer to the last door to push it open and see if Kiba was right. They pushed the door and saw a bunch of girls in the front rows cheering for the girl on stage. The girl on stage was dancing around with her back to the audience and the microphone in her hand. When she turned back to the front it was indeed Hinata Hyuuga blowing some serious pipes.
All of the guys were stunned with their mouths agape. They couldn't help but push the door open a little more to see her better.
As the song ended, all of the girls in the front rows applauded. Hinata gave a curtsy and jumped off of the stage landing on the floor with a dismount. She handed off the microphone to her teacher who was also applauding.
"Does anyone wish to challenge Miss Hyuuga?" she asked into the microphone. No one raised their hands and just looked down at their feet.
All of the guys pulled themselves away from the door and went back to the bus stunned out of their MINDS.
"That….was…." But Neji couldn't believe his little cousin could sing and move like that. His face was a mixture of horror and…and…and he didn't know what else.
Sasuke's expression was no different. "I can't believe how good Hinata is."
"She's….so…AWSOME!" yelled Naruto which made Kiba smirk a little.
"Wait until Shikamaru finds out." Said Sasuke again as they got to the bus.
"What took you all so long?" asked Iruka who was standing in the front of the bus tapping his clipboard.
Naruto grinned at him as he helped Kiba onto the bus. "Sorry, but Shizune kept asking questions about you that she made us answer." Kiba sat in the seat in front of Shikamaru.
"real…Really?" asked a blushing Iruka.
"Yeah it's true, Sensei." Said Kiba helping them out "Women, ya' know?"
"Yeah…yeah." Iruka sat down in his seat astounded.
"Hey what's going on?" asked Shikamaru who was confused out of his mind. He looked at Naruto sitting in the same seat as Kiba, and Kiba telling Sasuke something that made him laugh. He looked over at Neji for an explanation, but it was Naruto who spoke first.
"You're not going to believe us!" he began.
Hinata ran to her cabin to see Ino, Sakura, and Tenten talking on the couch.
"Why are you late?" asked Sakura.
"Juts my activities you know?" she said scratching the back of her head.
"Man all of you guys keep getting here late," said Ino "Care to explain why?" she looked over at Sakura and Tenten waiting for them to explain why they were late.
"Well….I… Sakura?"
"Ummm….you sees….Tenten?"
"No YOU!"
"Guys, what are you hiding?" asked Ino again as Hinata sat beside her
"Well, remember how yesterday I came late?" asked Tenten, everyone nodded yes, "Well I was really watching the guys cleaning. I couldn't pass up a chance to see Neji….especially if he was doing something domestic."
Sakura, looking guilty, began to admit why she had been late. "And when I snuck in through upstairs, because I did good call Ino, well I went to check out the guys cleaning the dancing room too. Tenten told me later that that's what she was doing. SOOO before we came back to our cabin today we went to check them out again." Ino was in shock.
"You mean, you didn't take me with you!" she fumed.
"Sorry." They both said.
"Guys…I have something to tell you too." said Hinata. "Why I'm so late."
"So we ALL have a secret?" cried Ino.
"Well I am doing an activity, but it's….the singing club."
Jumping to the edge of her seat, stars in her eyes, Sakura exclaimed, "You like to sing?"
"Oh sing for us!" cried Tenten.
"Wha…oh no way!"
"PLEEEASE!" begged all three.
"No way." She said crossing her arms over her chest.
Sakura rolled her eyes and sat back in her seat. "Pooh, you're no fun."
"Sakura, what's that on your arm?" observed Tenten.
"Oh this! Sasuke gave me his screen name. He said he had a computer at his cabin, so I'm going to go on later to chat with him."
"Do you think Neji has one?" asked a curious Tenten. They all looked at Hinata who shrugged.
"I don't know, maybe."
"When are you going on?" asked Ino "Because I want you to say hi to Shikamaru for me."
"Yeah I can do that, but not for another hour or more."
"So guys, what are we going to do now?" asked Hinata.
"We could play on that x-box 360 your dad gave us." suggested Tenten.
"Yeah we can play Perfect dark zero." offered Ino.
"Oh GREAT! I love her eye makeup it's sooo cute!" cried Sakura as she went to get the game.
Tenten sweat dropped, but also expected Sakura or Ino to say something like that. "Not to mention it's a good game." She rolled her eyes.
All of the guys were back at their cabin and just ate dinner at the mess hall. They were all really bored when Sasuke remembered he had Sakura's screen name. 'Maybe I should see if she's on…..Should I got on?... I bet she's waiting for me to come on.' Sasuke got out of his seat and headed for his room.
"Where are you going?" asked Neji who was about to start the x-box.
"I'm going to go on the computer." He said as he went for the stairs.
"Why? There aren't any games on it." said Shikamaru.
"I know but I thought I would go on my screen name."
"Why?" asked Naruto.
"Just because." He said disappearing.
"Should we go follow him, I'm bored." said Naruto who was sitting upside down on the couch.
"No, just let him sign on first." said Shikamaru. "Then we'll just run in on his conversation with whoever he wants to talk to."
Neji nodded as he took his seat with a remote. "Smart."
Sasuke signed on his name and added Sakura to his buddy list. He expected to see her screen name pop up saying she was on but nothing happened.
'Did I spell it right?' he thought as he looked down at his arm to where he wrote it. He tried it again and waited for something to happen but he got the same results. After fifteen minutes of waiting Cute n Pink signed on.
AIM Conversation
Cute n pink has just signed on
Cute n pink: HEY SASUKE!
Teh1337one: Yo I was wondering when you would come on
Cute n pink: sorry we were all playing perfect dark
Teh1337one: you were?
Cute n pink: yup, Hinata's dad gave us an x-box 360 and we were just playing it. I lost miserably
Teh1337one: we have one too but we don't have that game
Cute n pink: you should come over and play it here or we could take it to u!
Teh1337one: great I cant wait to see u
Cute n pink: me too
Sexiiblonde has entered chat room
Sexiiblonde: HI SASUKE!
Teh1337one: Ino?
Cute n pink: INO!
Teh1337one: howd u get in here
Sexiiblonde: im great with computers!
Cute n pink: Shikamaru is not here so GO AWAY!
Sexiiblonde: HAHA NOPE
Cute n Pink: brb
Teh1337one: where r u going
Sexiiblonde: I bet shes going to try to get into my room but I locked the door already. ONE STEP AHEAD FOREHEAD GIRL!
Cute n pink: you SUCK ino
Sexiiblonde: get Shikamaru Sasuke so we can talk to him too
Teh1337one: I'll go c…n/m they all just ran into my room brb
Outside the AIM Conversation
Shikamaru, Neji, and Naruto ran into Sasuke's room to see what he was doing. They came in to see he was chatting to Ino and Sakura.
"Why are you talking to Ino?" asked Neji.
"Well she sort of hacked into our conversation. I really don't know how though, but I was talking to Sakura before she came in."
"Who else is on?" asked Naruto peering over at the screen.
"Just them two. Sakura did say they each had their own computer. Maybe they'll go on later? Hey Shikamaru why don't you sign on your computer in your room. Ino wants to talk to you." Shikamaru walked out of the room looking like it was all too troublesome, but he was secretly happy about it all.
"Hey, I want to sign on." said Naruto. "Why didn't we get more than two computers?"
"Because I guess my parents thought we would be okay with just two."
"I never go online anyways." said Neji heading back downstairs.
"Yo wait up!" yelled Naruto as he chased after him.
AIM Conversation
Teh1337one: Okay Shikamaru is coming on too
Sexiiblonde: SWEET!
Cute n pink: stop yelling Ino I can hear you from my room
Sexiiblonde: duh we live next to each other…see!
Cute n pink: STOP BANGING ON THE WALL!
DarkestShadow as entered the chat room
Sexiiblonde: cool name SHIKA
DarkestShadow: thnx so what r u guys tlkn bout
Teh1337one: whose tlkn…these 2 r fighting
Sexiiblonde: r NOT!
Cute n pink: r NOT!
Darkest Shadow: that was a little weird
Teh1337one: Sakura Ino question
Sexiiblonde: yeah?
Cute n pink: what
Teh1337one: did you know Hinata liked to sing?
Cute n pink: she just told us today that she joined the singing club…weve never heard her
Sexiiblonde: we just found out today that she joined the singing club but she wouldn't sing for us! Y do you ask
Cute n pink: why?
Teh1337one: we heard her singing today and yesterday
Cute n pink: IS SHE GOOD!
Sexiiblonde: IS SHE GOOD!1!
DarkestShadow: real good
Teh1337one: she was unbelievable
Sexiiblonde: BRB
Cute n pink: BRB
Teh1337one: where do u think their goin?
DarkestShadow: this cant be good
(TEN MINUTES OF WAITING)
Cute n pink: this is Hinata….U HEARD ME SINGING!
Teh1337one: Hinata?
DarkestShadow: o shit
Cute n pink: WELL?
Teh1337one: yeah we did but u were really good Hinata
DarkestShadow: yeah u have a nice voice
Cute n pink: who else heard me?
Teh1337one: Nej Kiba Naruto
Cute n pink: Naruto!
Teh1337one: Neji
DarkestShadow: he liked ur singing too
Cute n pink: Naruto r u serious!
DarkestShadow: is that so bad?
(no response for 5 minutes)
Cute n pink: yo this is Tenten and Hinata is coming down to kill u guys Ino and Sakura went to stop her tho
Teh1337one: ah shit
Cute n pink is away
Outside of the AIM Conversation
"HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN!" yelled Hinata trying to get out the door "Naruto HEARD ME SINGING!"
"But Sasuke…said he liked it." said a struggling Sakura who had Hinata around the waist.
"Yeah Hinata…calm down…please!" cried Ino who grabbed her legs.
"Oh my GOSH, you guys are right." No longer resisting her friends' pull, Hinata calmed down and let her body collapse to the ground. However, the ground she collapsed on was actually Ino. "I mean, it's not the end of the world." Hinata continued to say.
"Right!" Sakura encouraged.
"He said he liked it, right?"
"Right!" she said again.
"..Hinata…" mumbled Ino from the ground.
"Now I just have to hide my face forever."
"What…no, you can't do that."
"..Hinata…"
"Why not, I just made a full of myself in front of Naruto!"
"No you didn't! I'm sure he liked your voice, but we wouldn't know since we've never heard you before."
"…..HINATA…."
"Why don't we hear you tomorrow?" said Tenten who had just come down stairs.
"YEAH!" agreed Sakura
"….but.."
"HINATA, GET YOUR ASS OFF OF ME NOW!" yelled Ino who was still being sat on by Hinata.
"Sorry." Hinata said as she scratched the back of her head in embarrassment.
"So we're going to hear you sing tomorrow?" asked Tenten.
"Wait…I'm not sure."
Sakura knelt down in front of her torn friend. "Oh I don't know why you're worrying about it so much Hinata, I'm sure your voice is beautiful."
"Well…I guess its okay of you guys come to hear me sing."
"Jeepers Hinata I would love to, but I'm currently stuck UNDER YOUR ASS!" yelled Ino.
"Oh YEAH! Sorry Ino, you're just so comfy." Hinata got up and considered herself lucky that it wasn't Tenten she fell on. 'She would have chucked my like a wild bull.'
"Yeah, yeah whatever." Ino went to sit on the couch.
Tenten sat beside her and patted her on the shoulder while showing a delighted smile. She twisted her head to Sakura. "Do you guys know that your conversation with Sasuke and Shikamaru is still up? I told them that Hinata was going down there to kill them. They're probably freaking out right about now."
"Whoops! I'll go sign off now." Said Ino as she jumped up out of her seat and dashed for the stairs.
Sakura followed close behind. "I'll go tell them that Hinata isn't on a rampage anymore."
Neji and Naruto were talking about nothing in particular when Shikamaru ran down stairs like a bat out of hell, not even bothering with the last four steps. The lazy genius jumped over them swiftly and headed to the two couch potatoes. Sasuke followed after him, also jumping the last four stairs as if they were slowing him down, and right into Shikamaru's back. A startled Naruto and Neji could only stare back at them lost and bewildered.
Sasuke yelled first. "She's coming! Hinata's coming down here to kill us!"
Neji jumped to his feet alert, startling Naruto who looked back and forth between his friends. "Wha..? What's going on?" he asked.
Shikamaru, looking completely shaken, explained, "Hinata found out we were watching her sing so now she's coming down here to kill us!"
"…..oh shit." Neji said as he looked around the room for something, "we should lock our windows and doors."
But Naruto saw no threat in Hinata coming down to see them. Even if she was angry, how could that be so bad? "You guys it's just Hinata…she wouldn't want to hurt us." Naruto told them.
All three guys looked at him like he was crazy.
"Remember that punch she gave you at the dance, well she was being nice. Believe me I know what she's capable of." said Neji as he locked their front door.
"So how do you know that she's coming down here?" asked Naruto.
"Idiot! Pay attention! Tenten told us online." Sasuke explained as he locked a window.
Neji stopped at the mention of her name. "You talked to Tenten?"
"For a second, she went on Sakura's screen name to tell us Hinata was coming down here. We were talking to Hinata too." said Shikamaru.
"She has a screen name?" asked Naruto.
"No she was on Sakura's name yelling at us." Shikamaru informed.
He nodded but then asked, "What did she say about me?" Shikamaru and Sasuke looked at each other to see what the other would say. They had nothing.
"Well I want to see. Was it bad?" Naruto asked as he ran upstairs into his room to look at the chatroom.
He sat down in the chair and scrawled up to the top of the conversation. He read it and when he got to the part with Hinata talking, he was surprised to see how upset she was that they, especially Naruto, heard her singing.
"I don't know why she would be so upset." said Naruto to the approaching feet of his friends. "Her voice is probably the best I've ever heard."
"Well I guess Hinata still has some shy nature in her." Sasuke decided. 'Not to mention she likes Naruto. So of course it would be a bigger deal for her.'
"Hey look," began Naruto "Cute n pink is typing something."
AIM Conversation
Cute n pink: its Sakura again, Hinata is no longer going to kill you but we're going to sign off now so we can do some fun girl things. Hopefully we'll get to see you tomorrow! BYES
Sexiiblonde: LATER SHIKA, and tell Naruto it wouldn't be such a bad idea if he apologized to Hinata for fighting Kiba.
Cute n pink has signed off
Sexiiblonde has signed off
END of AIM Conversation
"Naruto Ino thinks that it would be a good idea if you…"
"I know I can read too!" Naruto said interrupting Shikamaru "I guess I'd better get down to her then." He said standing up.
"You're going to go down to her cabin again?" asked Neji who was leaning on the door frame.
"Yeah, I don't mind going down there every night. It's great seeing Hinata. You guys want to come down?"
Shikamaru rubbed the back of his neck. "I don't know if it's such a good idea. Sakura said they were about to do some 'fun girl things'. That could mean anything and I really don't want to find out."
"Then why don't I leave in an hour or something. Girl things probably don't take that long right?"
"Nope, they could last way into the morning." Said Neji "Believe me I was over Hinata's house once when Hanabi had her friends over for a sleep over. It involved a lot of truth or dare, and them coming to my room to try and kiss me. It's not fun stuff."
"Well, what other kinds of stuff could they be doing?" asked Naruto again.
Neji shrugged. "Beats me."
"Okay, then maybe I'll just wait two hours."
"Naruto were you even listening to what Neji just said?" asked Sasuke.
"Three hours." He offered again.
"Naruto you idiot, they might just be up all night doing only God knows what and whatever it is no guy should go near them." stated Shikamaru.
"So are you saying four hours?" All of the guys fell over anime style.
"Why don't you just apologize to her tomorrow." offered Sasuke.
"Tomorrow?" he asked annoyed. He really didn't want to wait a whole 24 hours before he could see her again. Then he grinned when he found a loophole. "Fine I'll apologize tomorrow!"
"Good, so what should we do?" asked Shikamaru as he turned and headed down the stairs. "I'm bored and the clouds are blocking the sky so I can't watch anything."
Following behind him, Naruto laughed. "HAHA the clouds that you love so dearly turned on you at night!" Sasuke and Neji smirked at this because it was true.
"Whatever."
All of the girls were sitting in their pajamas on the floor painting each other's toes. Ino had purple being put on her by Sakura and she had put pink on her. Tenten had on a Barbie pink and she was putting baby blue on Hinata.
"When are we supposed to wash these green face masks off?" asked Tenten. She poked her face a couple of times with her pinky to test it. "It's kinda' dry right now."
"In an hour." said Ino. "I'm so glad I packed these. I knew they would be good for a good girls moment!"
"Not to mention their good chip dip." said Sakura putting a potato chip in a bowl of green face wash.
Ino looked disgusted. "I still can believe you're doing that." She watched Sakura put the chip in her mouth and enjoy it. Ino grimaced.
"Well why not? It's made with all natural ingredients, nothing was added, and it tastes delicious." All three girls watched as Sakura ate another chip and dip. They almost gagged.
"That is so nasty." said Hinata as she held her stomach in repulsion.
"You're all crazy," Sakura began to say with her mouth full, "This is the greatest snack ever!"
"Did you even read what's in it?" asked Tenten
"Of course I did. I have to check everything fruity I eat because I get really sick when I eat Barbados Cherries." Tenten scanned the face mask package for Barbados Cherries and everyone watched her search. When she reached the bottom of the list her eyes grew wide and she began to bight her lip.
"What's wrong, they're not on there, right? I checked!" Sakura exclaimed. "Don't kid around, Tenten!"
"Look here." Tenten said pointing to the third to last ingredient.
"So what? It says Acerola, big deal."
"Oh no." gasped Hinata.
Tenten stood more upright on her knees, alert. "Sakura! Acerola….? Also known as BARBADOS CHERRIES!"
"KYYAAAAAAA!" yelled Sakura as she jumped up and down frantically looking around for the solution to her problem as if it was just sitting around. "WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?"
"Okay, chill for a second." Said Ino trying to calm her down, "You're not allergic to it right, you only get sick?"
"Yeah."
"How do you get sick, like throwing up?"
"UUUUHHHH….." embarrassed she shook her head no, and hoped they could read between the lines.
"Don't you dare use the down stairs bathroom." Tenten warned.
"Isn't there any sort of acid medicine you could take?" asked Hinata.
"Well I guess so, but I WHOA ouch….my stomach is starting hurt." She held it in pain.
"We better hurry before flipper explodes." said Ino getting up to find some medicine.
"FLIPPER?" boomed a pissed off Sakura.
"Oh sorry, I mean FOREHEAD!" Ino called over her shoulder.
"I'm going to kill you for that PIG!" Sakura yelled as she clenched her stomach in agony.
"Hey, don't be yelling at the person who's getting you medicine!" yelled Ino from the kitchen. "For all you know I could be getting you…."
(AAN: "A Bomb!")
"Just hurry up Ino!" yelled Hinata
"No worries, look I got her some Pepto Bismal! It's pink just like your hair!"
"Is that suppose' to make me happy?" asked a twitching Sakura.
"No just piss you off, and its working!" Ino smiled widely as Hinata took the bottle from her.
"Here, I'm filling this little cup and you just drink it, okay?" she instructed.
(gulp) "Okay." Sakura took the cup hesitantly from Hinata and smelt it. She put it to her lips and just let it sit there for a while before she had to drink it.
"Don't make me shove the whole thing down your throat!" threatened Ino.
Sakura glared evilly at her and began to drink it down. When she was done she began to jump up and down.
"GROSS YUCK GAG NAST NASTY BLECK!" she yelled as she landed her butt onto the couch.
"See that wasn't so bad." Ino said as all three girls laughed at her childish antics.
"Well hopefully it just gets me better."
"You guys are we going to watch a scary movie now?" asked Tenten
"Oh right! Here I got "The Ring" Hinata told them. "This movie is so scary."
"Well it's not as bad as F E A R!" said Tenten.
"Put it in Hinata!" yelled Ino as she quickly claimed a seat not on the end. Tenten got the same seat she got last time which left Hinata with the end seat.
"I DON'T WANT THE END SEAT!" she cried "WHAT IF THAT LITTLE GIRL COMES TO THE BACK DOOR, I'M SO SCREWED!" Ino laughed at her.
"Now you know how I felt when I had to sit on the end." Hinata only crossed her arms over her chest and sat as close as she could to Tenten.
They started the movie at 10:45 and it was now almost 12:15 when it was just ending. The girls were relieved that it was almost over but they were still really scared. They did have a blanket but Ino and Sakura took that over and wouldn't share. Hinata and Tenten were holding each other as tightly as they could.
"That movie was good." said Ino from under the blanket.
Tenten glared at the lump of blanket that was Ino. "What was that? I can't hear you because you're under that blanket you HOGGER!"
"How did you guys even watch it from under there?" asked Hinata.
"Well it's not like this is the first time I've ever seen it." said Sakura, still under the blanket.
"Hinata lets scare them, follow me." whispered Tenten who quietly got up off of the couch and hid behind it. Hinata did the same and they were now behind Sakura and Ino.
"Hinata will you turn it off, the ending music is creepy." said Sakura.
"Hinata?" asked Ino when they heard no response.
The two girls looked out of the blanket to see that Tenten and Hinata were gone.
"OH NO THE GIRL TOOK THEM!" cried Ino.
"And we're next." gulped Sakura who began to bight her nails wide eyed.
"BOOOO!" yelled Tenten and Hinata jumping up behind them.
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" screamed Ino and Sakura as they fell off of the couch.
Hinata and Tenten began to laugh really hard; they both flipped over and landed on the couch laughing hysterically.
"Wha…Hey…HEY!" fumed Ino.
"THAT WASN'T FUNNY!" yelled Sakura.
"You should have seen your faces!" laughed Tenten.
"YOU GUYS ARE SO DEAD!" yelled Ino who grabbed a pillow and began to attack Hinata. Sakura grabbed a pillow and started to attack Tenten.
They were all having a big pillow fight with even Tenten and Hinata hitting each other. They were screaming and jumping on the couch as the other would hit them with all of their force.
"WE….SHOULD PLAY…SOME MUSIC!" yelled Sakura.
"Everyone calm down." said Ino who was almost out of energy. They all stopped and began to breathe heavily when there porch door was being knocked at.
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
"OH MY GOD!" yelled Ino as she went under her pillow.
"Calm down, look, it's just Naruto." said Tenten who went over to let him in.
"NO….WAIT don't let him in!" yelled Hinata running away.
"Why not?" asked Tenten who turned around to see Hinata ducking behind the couch.
"Because I have this mask on!" she explained worriedly. Ino and Sakura looked at each other, mischief in their eyes.
"Ask him what he wants, don't let him in." said Sakura to Tenten. Tenten walked over to the door but it was so dark she couldn't really see Naruto's face.
"What do you want Naruto?" she asked. She could tell he was nervous by the way he was bouncing on the balls of his feet and had his hands in his pockets.
"I just wanted to talk to Hinata. Is she awake?"
Before she could respond, Sakura was already shouting, "YES SHE IS, HOLD ON!" She and Ino dragged Hinata to the porch door.
"Please….No….STOP!" Hinata whined. They practically threw her at Naruto but she fell around him and went to the porches ledge. She grabbed onto it with both of her hands and kept her face away from Naruto.
"…Hinata?" began Naruto as she heard the door shut behind them, then a click.
'SHOOT! How am I supposed to talk to Naruto with this STUFF ON MY FACE?'
"Uhh….yes Naruto?" she asked not daring to peek over her shoulder.
Naruto stared at her back. His palms were sweaty and he wondered if apologizing was already a lost cause. He swallowed, and tried. "I'm just here to tell you how sorry I am about…hurting Kiba. I'm sorry that it made you upset but, I didn't want him to get away with pushing you so he could get out of the burning building. Umm…even though it really wasn't on fire."
Hinata began to smile. She couldn't tell how he looked, but she could hear how sorry he really was. "Naruto I, truthfully, wasn't worried about Kiba at all. I mean I was, but I was really upset that you could have gotten hurt. Are you okay?"
"Yeah, just a few scratches and a swollen lip." He said rubbing the back of his head
"Oh no." Hinata began to turn around but quickly turned back to face the other way.
'Why isn't she looking at me?' Naruto got a little sad and watched as Hinata put her left hand up to block her view of him.
'Maybe if I turn slightly I could see him, I'll just cover my face up so he can't see me?'
"Oh Naruto…..that does look a little bad. Does it hurt at all?"
"Well, actually yeah, I guess it does." He poked his lip, but there was only a small pain. It was nothing compared to what he had felt in his past.
Hinata's heart thumped. 'That time Shikamaru was hurt Ino kissed him to "make it all better". I wish I could do that for Naruto but, this stuff on my face! Note to self: kill Ino and Sakura. Another note to self: find better friends.'
"I'm sure it'll get better in time." She said looking away again.
He bounced on the balls of his feet nervously as he leaned towards her. "So…are we okay then Hinata?"
"Of course Naruto." They stood there for an excruciating three minutes before Naruto began to speak again.
"Well, I guess I'll just leave now." He headed to the stairs wondering why Hinata wouldn't even look at him. He was used to this kind of treatment of course. When he had nobody, people treated him like he was a nobody. A person that that no one gave a damn about. A person that had no future, so was merely just a waste of air. And nobody wanted him.
"Naruto!" Hinata yelled as she grabbed his hand to stop him from leaving. His heart got stuck in his throat as he turned around to see her. Her head hung really low, but she was grasping his hand like it was her lifeline.
"What's wrong?" he asked worriedly.
"I…I'm…sorry but I don't want you to see my face."
An eyebrow shot up confused. "WHA? Hinata why? Do have a zit or something because I don't care, I think you're perfect."
"Umm, it's not exactly a zit. But um…" she lifted her head up to look at Naruto.
"AAAHH!" he shouted a bit taken back by her green face. "I mean….SORRY I didn't mean to yell I wasn't expecting that." Hinata only laughed a little bit.
"Um sorry, I wish I could wash it off but I think they locked me out of the cabin. Oh my, gosh I'm pretty embarrassed."
He needed to make her feel better quick! "Well….uh that's okay. Actually I'm already used to it; I want to be green too!" Hinata laughed at him, but before he could relax again the back doors opened up abruptly.
"YOU DO?" yelled Sakura and Ino. They ran outside and grabbed Naruto only to force him on their cabin floor. Ino opened another package of face mask and began to apply some on him.
"HEY WAIT…..I WAS KIDDING….GET OFF OF ME!"
As they were putting Naruto's mask on, Hinata took advantage of the moment and began to wash hers off in the bathroom. When she came out, Naruto was laying flat on the floor while they painted his toe nails.
"HINATA! GET THEM OFF OF ME!" yelled Naruto as he struggled against the two females. He could fight against guys twice his size, but how was he supposed to fight girls?
"You guys," laughed Hinata. "Don't put any nail polish on him, it isn't nice."
Ino let out an exasperated sigh. "FINE, we'll stop. You're one lucky ducky Naruto." She informed him as she and Sakura stood up. "If your girlfriend wasn't here we would have painted your fingernails pink also."
"…g..girlfriend…?" Naruto gulped as he nervously looked over at Hinata who was blushing an intense red.
Updated this chapter as of November 28, 2010