All four girls were walking to their next activity which was Soccer for Tenten and the Art Club for Hinata and Ino. Sakura was all done her activities and was heading back to the cabin, but not before she could get a little peak at Sasuke cleaning the dancing room up. It was a little upsetting when they figured that this was their last time cleaning and they wouldn't be seeing them for a while, unless they snuck out again. Hinata and Ino were excited about art class today because they were going to be painting pictures on canvasses.
"I think I'm going to like this." Hinata told Ino "I've never really painted anything before."
"Really? Well it's a lot of fun, and it's totally relaxing sometimes."
"Everybody please, now today we're going to paint and we'll be doing this pretty much the rest of days you come here. You're going to be painting today a sky for your picture. What you'll do is just come up to this box and pick out a color. Now you can't tell what color it is since the tops of the lids are all black. Whatever color you get you need base your entire picture around it. Say you get black, well then your picture could be at night and it could be scary if you wanted. Say you get orange then you could be making a sunset over a beach. Now everyone come up here and pick you first color."
All if the girls went up to the box and grabbed a random jar of paint. Ino got a sky blue, and Hinata got a very dark purple.
"Ino can we trade, I'm just not liking this color."
"Well that's the cool thing about this project. You get a color that you might not pick normally and turn it into something that's….like…about you. I'm actually very happy I got this first color, and I can't wait to see what I do with it."
"So you're not going to trade me?"
"NO TRADING!" yelled their teacher to two girls who were switching jars.
"Does that answer it for you?" Ino laughed.
"Well okay, let's see what kind of sky I can get with dark purple." Hinata said opening up the jar.
At the end of class when they all went to the sinks to wash their brushes it seemed like everyone had really figured the color out, even the people who had a sea green color. Hinata couldn't help but find her picture to be very familiar.
"Hinata is everything okay; you keep staring at your picture intently." Said the teacher
"Well nothings wrong with it, but I just feel a sense of…..familiarity with it. And it's just a sky and it seems familiar."
"Oh well that's good, does staring at it make you feel happy, or are you feeling another emotion towards it?"
"Actually, I feel very happy. I really love this sky and it doesn't even take up my entire page just the first three fourths."
"Good, now I want you to feel what kinds of clouds you would put in it. That's what we're doing tomorrow."
"Clouds at night?" Hinata asked while looking at her picture as if that was impossible.
"Well of course there are clouds at night, but if you don't want clouds then you don't have to put any in." the teacher said walking away to help the students at the sinks.
"Hinata are you ready to go yet?" asked Ino as she walked back to her picture
"Yeah let me just put my apron away." She said hanging it up with all of the other aprons.
Hinata and Ino walked out of the building together and were walking in the same direction for a while.
"So how's your book thing and debater thing going?" Ino asked
"It's going, but I'm sure it's not as interesting as modeling."
"Well that's true, today they're letting us wear heals and we have to practice on them. I hope I get like the highest heals there. I just want to show off how good I am at it."
"Well I guess I'll see you later then."
"You will cause we all agreed that we would go down to hear you sing." Ino said as she walked in the opposite direction.
"….wha….?But…"
"See you then!" Ino yelled as she walked away not turning around.
Sakura was walking down with Ino down to where Tenten was having wrestling practice. Her wrestling ended earlier then Hinata's singing which they were all going to go to. When they reached the gym they could see Tenten just finishing up. She ran over to them when she was completely done.
"Hey you guys, just let me get changed I'll be out in two minutes."
"Okay we'll wait outside." Said Sakura
TEN MINUTES LATER
"Okay I'm ready!" said a chipper Tenten who looked like she took a shower before getting dressed.
"You said two minutes." Said Ino
"You said you were just getting dressed." Added Sakura
"Do you really want to be with someone who stinks?" asked Tenten
"Whatever we can still hear Hinata sing, we still have time."
They all walked over to the auditorium where they could hear music being played. They quietly crept inside and sat in the back rows as a girl went on stage to sing a song. Her song was three minutes long but right after her another girl went up to sing.
"This "club" is more like karaoke if you ask Me." supposed Tenten.
"Yeah and where is Hinata? I don't even see her." Said Sakura
"No I see her; she's on the side of the stage. I guess that means she's going next." Said Ino
Ino was right because after the girl was done singing Hinata grabbed the microphone and waited for her music to begin.
"Oh my gosh this is Jessica Simpson I think." Said Sakura
"Yeah it's called A Public Affair." Said Ino
Hinata began to sing the song and the girls all figured she was singing it because they were all there watching. They weren't sure if Hinata could see where they were sitting, but they knew she knew they were there. Hinata was also moving around on the stage moving back and forth. The girls thought it would have been cool if she was wearing roller blades too just like in the music video.
Hinata was done and the entire singing club applauded her performance. Tenten, Sakura, and Ino all stood up and shouted at her.
"Go HINATA!" they all yelled "YOU'RE AWSOME!" Hinata blushed at her friend's comments but then she turned even redder when she saw four guys clapping behind them at the doors. All the girls heard this too and turned around to see Sasuke, Neji, Naruto, and Shikamaru standing at the door clapping for Hinata.
'Oh my gosh, that's Naruto and them! They heard me and now they're applauding for me!' Hinata felt a little dizzy, but controlled her self so she wouldn't faint. She handed the microphone to the next girl who really didn't want to go up after Hinata since she was so good. The girl however took the microphone from her and was about to start her own song. Hinata jumped off the stage and ran over to her friends who were amazed at Hinata.
"That was so amazing!" Ino cried as she hugged Hinata
"Why didn't you tell us you liked to sing?" asked Tenten
"I guess I'm just shy when it comes to singing." Hinata said blushing
"Do I have to beat the shyness out of you again?" laughed Tenten
"Hinata does Hiashi know you like to sing?" Neji asked as the guys walked over
"No he doesn't, this is just something I like to do in my free time." Hinata said as Naruto scooped her up in his arms.
"Hinata you're so amazing!" he said spinning her around
"Naruto put her down." Sasuke said while putting his hands in his pockets. Naruto didn't and just kept spinning her, Hinata didn't mind so much but she knew people were probably staring at her.
"Naruto you might drop her!" Neji said looking worriedly at his cousin in Naruto's arms.
"Fine I'll put her down," he put her back onto the ground but then he embraced her tightly, "But I'm not letting go of her!"
"AAw that's so cute." Tenten cued as she watched Naruto and Hinata hugging. Neji took note of this, how Tenten thought that that was cute.
"Excuse me ladies and gentlemen." Said Hinata's singing teacher "But you are interrupting our performers, would you all leave now please. Miss Hyuuga please take your seat back down with the rest of your peers." Hinata waved goodbye and ran back down to her seat in the second row. The others walked out of the auditorium a little embarrassed that they were just scolded by the teacher.
"Why are you guys down here?" Sakura asked when they were twenty feet away from the doors.
"We were done cleaning so we came down to hear Hinata sing again. Didn't know you guys would be there too, that's just a plus." Said Sasuke
"AAW!" Sakura cried as she took his hand
"That is so cute." Tenten said out loud, which Neji took note of.
"So is the dancing hall really cleaned up completely?" Ino asked
"Not a feather in sight." Shikamaru said staring off at some clouds. Ino looked up too at the big fluffy cloud that looked just like a pig. Shikamaru wouldn't stop staring at it.
"So that means that we won't get to see you guys anymore." Said Tenten
"We'll get to see you in two weeks when we all compete in sports." Said Neji plainly
"Yeah but that's so far away." Sakura sad sadly
"Well I'm sure you'll see Naruto every day since he likes to sneak out after hours to see Hinata." Said Sasuke
"We don't want to see him!" said Sakura as Naruto fell over anime style
"Hey what's wrong with me!" he yelled
"You're just…..Naruto." Sakura replied seriously which made Naruto annoyed and Sasuke smirk.
"What she's trying to say is you're not Sasuke." Translated Tenten
"You're damn straight I'm not Sasuke. I'm much better then him." He said proudly
"You wish you were baka."
"Shut up TEME!"
"Both of you need to shut it!" demanded Tenten
"Well look who it is, The Noyamas." Said Asuma Sensei who was walking towards them with a large box in his hands. "Where is the fourth Noyama at?" he asked looking around for Hinata.
"She's doing her last activity." Said Sakura
"Noyamas?" asked Naruto Neji and Sasuke.
"Oh that's what we call our selves." Sakura told them "Tenten came up with it. It means the hills which is where we live, get it?"
"Oh." Was the response from Neji and Sasuke but Naruto still didn't get why.
"Why would you call your selves that? Sounds kind of stupid."
"Take that back!" Tenten demanded shaking her fists at Naruto
"Okay okay calm down. It's an okay name, but you could have had something cooler."
"Like what, Ramen lovers?" asked Neji
"YEAH! That's so cool, why don't we call ourselves that!"
"Is he serious?" Ino asked Shikamaru who was still looking up at the cloud shaped like a pig.
"Yeah Naruto loves Ramen."
"What a weird guy." She said continuing to stare at the cloud.
"Well it's nice to see you young men escort these ladies around, or is it the other way around?"
"We're walking them to their bus." Sakura said sweetly
"But I heard their bus wasn't here yet." Asuma said looking confused
"Oh." Sakura sweat dropped
"Kurenai Sensei was looking for you." Tenten added in quickly
"Really?" Asuma asked blushing.
"Yeah….but I don't know if she still is, it was a while ago."
"Guess I should go find her then." He said already moving his head around as if starting his search. "Alright, see you Noyamas later." He said as he went on his marry little way.
"I'm guessing Asuma likes this Kurenai?" asked Sasuke
"No, it's just implied." Sakura said "Thanks for that save Tenten."
"No problem." She said as they began to walk to the dancing hall.
"So your bus isn't even here yet?" Sakura asked Sasuke
"No, I guess it's because we ended earlier then expected." He responded as she swung their hands a little.
"Ino," whispered Tenten "Look how cute they look with their hands together.
"Yeah, I think they look good together." Neji couldn't help but over hear their conversation. He was taking note of all the things Tenten liked or thought were cute. He wanted to hold hands with Tenten but he wasn't sure if she would want to.
'Tenten's liked me for a long time she said. She even said that she wanted to kiss me but would wait for me since I'm shy. I don't think I'm shy; I just want to respect her space. I guess holding her hand now wouldn't be such a good idea, kind of awkward I think.'
Neji looked over at Sasuke and Sakura just causally holding hands like it was no big deal. He stared down into his own hand and could see how empty it looked. He let out a sigh that he thought was only noticeable to him, however Tenten heard it and couldn't help but see him stare at Sasuke then back at his hand.
'This would be a great moment for me to hold his hand. Oh my gosh I'm not sure though, I mean this is Neji we're talking about. Well we are almost at the dancing hall so maybe another time when I can hold his hand longer.'
They all made it to their destination and just hung out in the front waiting for the bus to come but it still wasn't there yet. Naruto kept looking out in the distance for Hinata hoping she would just pop up and start running for him before the bus came. Thankfully it was late and they were all still there waiting with a bunch of other guys.
Neji and Tenten were just talking about all the sports they were doing this summer when a guy with brown hair and eyes to match came over to them.
"Hey Neji, whose your friend?" he asked eyeing Tenten
"Hi I'm Tenten." she said giving him her hand. He took it gladly and introduced himself.
"My name is Yashiro, sorry about my friend Neji who was so rude to not introduce me to you earlier." Tenten giggled a little
"You're definitely not my friend." Neji said "Just my wrestling partner."
"Oh, so you're a wrestler too?" Tenten asked
"Of course I am, and let this hard body go to waste? I don't think so." Yashiro said flexing his muscles
"Well I do wrestling here at the girl's camp."
"You….oh…you wrestle?" he asked starting to get uninterested
"Yeah!"
"Oh….sorry but I really don't think it's a girls place to wrestle. Shouldn't you be a cheerleader or something?" Tenten began to shake in anger and also because she was a little hurt. Neji could read her like a book and new this guy had upset her.
POW
Neji just punched Yashiro in the stomach which got everyone around them to pay attention. Yashiro looked to be in so much pain.
"Wrestling, you sure about that?" asked Tenten proudly "You couldn't even take a punch."
Yashiro didn't respond but moaned as he sunk to the ground.
"YASHIRO!" yelled his two friends who ran over to help him up, "Yashiro you alright?" asked the first one while the other confronted Neji.
"You have no idea who you're messing with." He said as he cracked his knuckles.
Neji just stared that guy down as if he wasn't even a threat to an infant. He began to smirk which made the guy a little nervous since he knew when Neji Hyuuga smirked like that he either had something to say before he took you out or he would just take you out. Luckily for him he had something to say.
"You really don't want me to embarrass you in front of girls do you?" Neji asked taking a step towards him which made him step back.
"Why bother, there's only two here." He said shakily. Neji was now pissed off that he was saying there were only two girls here and Tenten didn't count. Neji rushed at the guy and took him to the ground. He threw him some real hard punches and a lot of people were cheering him on. Tenten wanted to cry at the guys comment but at the same time she was so happy that Neji was defending her.
"Tenten back up." Sasuke said putting his arm in front of her and pulling her away from the fight.
"Here Tenten." Shikamaru said giving her his hand and pulling her over behind him with Ino and Sakura.
Tenten felt strange being treated like a girl by the guys. More then anything she wanted to kick that guys ass for saying she wasn't a girl but Neji got to him first. He was defending Tenten and even though at first she was upset that he did, because she can take care of her self, she was happy that someone was defending her. She felt so warm inside that she was being treated this way and not like one of the guys. Each of them were treating her nicely and were protecting her like the male instinct told them to. Protect the female. Even Naruto, who she was just arguing with earlier, stood in front of her so she wouldn't get hurt.
The fight just continued on until the guy Neji was fighting couldn't even move. Neji was satisfied and when he stood up he looked over at Yashiro and his other friend as if asking if they were going to try something. They didn't move and just stared at their friend stunned.
"You guys better run before he does to you what he did to your friend." Said Naruto
They didn't need to be told that twice and got as far away from Neji as they could.
"Oh great this cant be good." Sakura told Ino "How are they going to explain an injured guy walking onto the bus?"
"Neji are you alright?" Tenten asked as he walked back over to her. He was going to say something but instead she just hugged him which took him off guard. He got really nervous but thought it would probably be a good idea if he hugged her back. He looked down at her and she was crying into his chest so he pulled her closer to comfort her more.
"I'm fine but what about you?"
"I could have taken them on myself!" she said getting even more upset but only held him tighter.
"But when they said that about you they made me upset too, and I would never let anyone get away with that, and I wouldn't want you to get hurt if I could have done something to stop it." Tenten was very surprised with Neji's response which made her cry some more. He held onto her even closer so she was so close to his body that she could feel his heart beating. It sounded like he was running a triathlon or maybe he was still tired from beating the guy shitless, which is what Tenten figured but whatever the reason his heart was beating so fast for it wasn't beating for her, or was it?
"Hey! What's going on over here?" yelled Asuma sensei who was also with Kurenai.
"Oh crud." Ino said looking worriedly at Sakura
"Who did this!" demanded Asuma as Kurenai helped the boy sit up
"It was Neji!" yelled a boy in the crowd who sounded just like Yashiro
"Whose Neji?" demanded Asuma scanning the crowd.
"I am." Asuma turned around to see a boy he saw with the Noyamas just earlier. He was letting go of a crying Tenten and stepped forward. Tenten was still holding his arm tightly feeling if she let go he might disappear.
"What happened?" he asked walking over to him.
"Asuma Sensei," Sakura said coming from behind the guys with Ino right behind her. "That boy was making fun of Tenten, he was being really cruel!" she said pointing to the boy in Kurenai's hands. Kurenai instantly dropped the boy and let his head drop to the ground. No way was she about to help a boy who was making fun of her star basketball student.
"It's true Asuma Sensei, he really hurt her feelings and Neji was just defending her." Ino added
"Still there is no excuse for injuring another camper. Neji you're coming with me, Kurenai please go get nurse Shizune so she can see to this boy." Kurenai ran to the nurse's office while Neji and Asuma walked to his office. Tenten couldn't help but feel somehow responsible for what Neji getting into trouble.
"You don't have to worry Tenten," Sasuke said from behind her placing his hand on her shoulder "Neji wont be in that much trouble, he'll just explain his situation again and I'm sure they'll just leave him with some sort of punishment that wont be too bad."
"Sasuke is right Tenten," said Shikamaru "He'll be alright, I'm sure Kakashi wont do too much about it since he's so lazy."
"Coming from the laziest guy in the world." Naruto said out loud
"Hey guys, you're all still here?" asked Hinata who ran over to her friends "Where's Neji?"
"Neji just got into trouble for beating that guy up." Sakura said pointing to the guy still on the floor waiting for Shizune to arrive.
"So what exactly happened?" she asked them growing serious. Shikamaru and Sakura explained everything to every detail and Hinata paid very close attention. When they were done telling her everything Shizune and Kurenai had arrived with a stretcher.
"I'm going to go to Asuma's office and get him out of there." Hinata said as she walked in the direction Neji and Asuma took earlier.
"Hinata what do you plan on doing?" Sasuke asked
"I'm not sure, but I'll get him out of there." She said walking away very confidently
"Yep, I think she'll make a great heir to her father's company." Sakura said smiling at her friend. Naruto watched Hinata walk off and saw how confident she looked. If she was going to have to be leader of a company then she would need someone strong to be at her side. Naruto knew that that someone couldn't be him since he wasn't smart enough, but he knew that in the future he would be, and that he'd be Hokage and then he would be worthy of her.
'I could be good for her, I can, I really can. I just need to straighten out a bit, and then her father would accept me.'
"Wonder what she's going to say." Said Shikamaru
"Oh don't worry; Hinata is really good at the powers of persuasion." Ino said "She just has a way with words, not to mention who her father is and no one wants to get tangled up with him."
"That's true, anyone who knows who the Hyuugas know not to mess with them." Said Sakura
"Same goes for the Uchihas." Shikamaru added
"She's probably going to take a while." Ino said "Hopefully the bus doesn't come or Neji will miss it."
"The bus won't leave without him." Sasuke said "One of us will tell the driver that……is….that Kakashi driving the bus?" They all looked over to see Kakashi driving the school bus towards the group of boys. He had some trouble stopping it but he managed somehow and opened the doors for them to all enter in.
Some guys entered it but Naruto ran to the door and held onto the sides of the bus so he could lean in.
"Kakashi, we can't go any where yet!" he yelled
"Ummm…..why?"
"Because Asuma needs to talk to you." Sasuke said right behind Naruto
"Oh, I see. Well, I guess I'll go pay him a visit." He said taking the keys out of the ignition and stepping outside of the bus. "Umm…….which way to his office?"
Everyone sweat dropped and pointed to Asuma's office which was dead center of camp.
"Oh right, thanks." Kakashi reluctantly said as he began to walk in the pointed direction.
They all watched him walk to the building and then go inside of it. They were all quiet while they waited for someone to come out of it, but no one ever did. Everyone was waiting about thirty minutes before Kakashi and Asuma walked out together towards the nurse's office. After another ten minutes Kakashi and a blushing Asuma walked out of the nurse's office back to Asuma's.
"Does he look a little red?" asked Naruto
"He looks like he's blushing, and Kakashi looks like he's laughing." Said Ino
"I can only imagine what must have happened in there." Said Sakura as she watched the two senseis enter the office.
They all waited another ten minutes before Hinata and Neji walked out side by side. Hinata gave her friends a small smile and Neji just walked with his hands in his pockets with his head down. When they reached the group Tenten embraced Neji in a hug.
"Neji, what happened?" she asked. They all waited for a response but got none; Neji didn't even hug Tenten back. "Neji, what happened?" she asked growing concerned
"Neji's not going to be in any trouble." Hinata said getting everyone's attention, "We explained everything that happened, then Asuma and Kakashi went to see how bad the guy Neji beat up was, and after that they just decided on a small punishment."
"Well?" asked Sasuke
"What's his punishment?" asked Shikamaru. Hinata looked over at Neji hoping he would say, but she could see him grow even more distraught.
"He has to clean dishes at the boy's camp for a week." Hinata said
"That's not so bad." Said Shikamaru
"But that's not why Neji is so upset." Hinata added
"Then what is?" Sasuke asked as they all looked over at Neji. Tenten already let go of him and just stared with the others waiting for an answer. Neji crossed his arms and shut his eyes tightly trying to fight some emotion back but his right eyebrow was twitching.
"Tell us Already!" Naruto yelled
"They want me to wear…..a……"
"A what?" they all asked getting anxious
"A……hairnet." He said with his eyebrow still twitching.
Everyone looked at each other trying to hold in their laughter so they wouldn't hurt Neji's feelings but Naruto couldn't take it any more.
"PAHAHAHAAAHAHAAHHAHAAA! You…YOU….YOU HAVE TO WEAR A HAIRNET!"
"Naruto!" Sakura yelled as she hit him across the head "You'll hurt his feelings!"
"Nice going Sakura." Shikamaru said still laughing a bit.
"Uhh…OH sorry Neji!" she said embarrassed
"Neji…uhhhh…a hairnet isn't so bad." Tenten tried to tell him
"Are you wearing one because you look like a girl?" Naruto laughed some more
"I'LL KILL YOU!" Neji yelled chasing Naruto around
"Neji you don't want to get into trouble for beating up another person do you?" Hinata yelled at him frantically. Neji stopped dead in his tracks and clenched his fists.
"I DON'T CARE I CAN TAKE MY FRUSTRATION OUT ON HIM!" he began to chase Naruto around again.
"Neji….PLEASE….STOP….HELP!"
"Neji…Naruto!" yelled Kakashi which made the two boys stop dead in their tracks with Naruto falling over. "Naruto I guess I forgot to talk to you and Kiba yesterday about your punishment for fighting. Well because of Hinata and her talking to us about Neji's punishment I think that you and Kiba should join him in washing the dishes in our cafeteria."
"WHAT!" Naruto yelled
"Sounds good to me." Neji smirked satisfied
"Oh…that involves hairnets too." Kakashi said heading for the bus.
"NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo!" Naruto was practically pulling his own hair out. "They can't do this to me!"
"It won't be so bad Naruto." Hinata said trying to comfort him "You should have heard what they wanted Neji to do. He's lucky I recommended this."
"What were they going to make him do?" asked Sasuke
"DON'T TELL!" demanded Neji
"Believe me guys you…don't want to know." Hinata said smiling at them
"Not only do I have to clean dishes but I have to wear a HAIRNET….AND work with smelly dog boy."
"I'm sure it won't be that bad." Ino said getting annoyed with the unnecessary drama. "You're only washing dishes for like a week, and don't guys always clean off their trays? You should be fine."
"Ino are you serious?" asked Sakura "Guys are pigs and leave everything messy and gross! Their job is going to suck."
"Thanks for helping us out here Sakura." Naruto said giving her an evil eye
"Oh…sorry!" she said sweat dropping.
"Boys lets get on the bus." Kakashi said as he entered the bus himself sitting in the driver's seat. He took out a map and began to look at it the wrong way. "I know I've done this before but I forget how to get back. Let's see."
"Anyone else trust Kakashi's sense of direction?" Sasuke asked worriedly
"Guess I'm going to have to get us back to camp." Shikamaru said grudgingly
"How, you gonna drive?" laughed Ino
"I do have my license." He said raising his eyebrow
"WOW! Do you have a car too?" Ino asked with stars in her eyes
"uhh no." he said almost wishing he lied. "So you don't have your license yet?"
"HA, yeah right!" laughed Sakura "Her parents wont let her get it till she's seventeen! I'm getting mine at the end of the summer." She said trying to impress Sasuke "What about you Sasuke?"
"Actually, I'm….."
"WE NEED TO GET ONTO THE BUS!" Shikamaru said pushing his friends away "We'll see you girls later!" he said looking very guilty.
"Wait….I didn't even get to say goodbye to Hinata!" Naruto complained as he was forced onto the bus.
All of the girls stood there dumbfounded at what just happened. When all four guys made their way to the back of the bus Tenten was the first to speak.
"What was that about?"
"You got me." Ino said shrugging then putting her hands on her hips.
"I only asked him if he had a car. Maybe he doesn't." Sakura said trying to figure out why Shikamaru tried to get them all out of there.
"Oh well." Hinata said shrugging her shoulders, "Lets go get something to eat, I'm starved!"
"Yeah….okay." Sakura said as they walked along side of the bus to go back to their cabin. They all looked up at the windows to see if they could see the guys and they saw them all sitting in the last four seats. The guys were all talking intently about something and when they noticed that the girls were juts outside their window they all waved nervously at them.
"BYE SHIKAMARU!" Ino yelled as she waved frantically at him. He only smiled even more nervously but then he yelled something to the front of the bus. Naruto then got up out of his seat and yelled something towards the front of the bus along with Neji and Sasuke. They stood there staring for a minute then they all sat back down with a humpf.
After another minute the bus started up and Naruto went back to his window to yell goodbye at Hinata but they were still walking away with only their heads turned towards the bus in confusion.
"That was a little strange." Said Tenten
"You're telling me, I can only imagine what was going on in there." Said Ino
"Well that gives us two things to guess about." Said Sakura put her index finger on her chin. "Why Shikamaru forced them all onto the bus and what they were all talking about."
"I think we should just try to figure out what was happening on the bus." Hinata said trying to get them to forget about Shikamaru pushing them all onto the bus. She definitely knew why and knew that Sasuke might not appreciate it if she told them.
Shikamaru pushed all of the guys onto the bus and they all got the last four seats on the back of the bus. Shikamaru in front of Naruto to the left and Sasuke in front of Neji to the right behind the driver's seat.
"So…WHY did you push us all onto the bus?" Naruto asked
"I guess…um….just so…." Shikamaru didn't really know what to say or if he should say anything at all.
"It's because I'm not even sixteen yet." Sasuke said "Remember Naruto my birthday is in July?"
"Oh. Yeah I forgot about that." He said remembering that Sasuke wasn't even sixteen which meant he didn't even have his permit yet.
"Well I guess that means Sakura is sixteen." Said Neji stating the obvious
"BYE SHIKAMARU!" they all heard Ino yell which made them turn around to look out Shikamaru's window. They all waved at her a little nervously.
"Look at that hot chick!" yelled a guy from the front of the bus
"Back off!" Shikamaru yelled to the guy
"No way, look at the hot girl with blue hair!" another guy yelled which got all of the guys looking out the windows. "Man I'd do that!"
"THE HELL YOU WILL!" yelled Naruto as Neji yelled
"NOT IF YOU"RE DEAD!" as Sasuke yelled
"YOU'D BETTER WATCH YOURSELF!"
"All of you better shut up or you'll all be washing dishes for a week, and that would make two weeks for you Neji and Naruto!" Kakashi yelled from the front getting everyone to shut up. "Alright good, now let's get out of here." He started the bus up and put the map away. Everyone was sitting back down and Naruto turned to his window so he could say goodbye to Hinata but she was already far away from the bus.
The guys had made it back to their camp and were bored out of their minds. They were throwing suggestions at each other but the others weren't so interested.
"Get more food at the mess hall?" Naruto asked
"Have dinner twice? Yeah right." Said Sasuke
"Kick a ball around on a field?" offered Neji
"No energy." Said Shikamaru
"Halo?" asked Sasuke
"Neji already beat that game." Naruto said "and we've played all of the other games and they weren't even fun."
"Sakura said that they had Perfect Dark at their cabin." Sasuke said
"Lucky them." Neji said almost wishing that they had the game.
"Wait…I GOT IT!" yelled Naruto. They all looked over at him with bored expressions, "We could build a house of cards!" None of them protested, even though it was the dumbest idea ever, but none of them had other ideas so they went along with it.
"Where are cards?" asked Shikamaru
"I've got two packs!" Naruto said rushing to his room and back with two packs of cards. "Sasuke and Shikamaru divide yours and I'll divide mine with Neji. We'll each make our own." Sasuke divided his cards and gave half to Shikamaru. Naruto did the same and gave his half to Neji. Naruto put his back to his friends and began to build his on the floor.
"You're not going to show us?" asked Sasuke
"No way, you night copy my idea." He said defending his area
"Whatever." Sasuke said as he went onto the floor same as Naruto and began to build his card house without anyone looking. Shikamaru and Neji did the same as the other two.
All four girls were in their living room thinking of things to do. Ino and Sakura were sitting on the couch and Hinata and Tenten were sitting in front of them on the floor.
"Should we paint our nails again?" asked Ino
"No." they all responded
"We could watch a scary movie." Offered Sakura
"NO!" they all yelled
"Want to play perfect dark?" asked Tenten
"HEY!" Sakura yelled getting an idea "Why don't we go to the guy's cabing and bring perfect dark with us."
"Are you serious?" asked Ino
"Yeah why not?" she asked
"One do they even have an x-box?" asked Tenten
"Yes Sasuke told me that they did have an x-box but they didn't have perfect dark which is what they all wanted to play."
"We don't even know what way to go." Said Ino
"Actually I know the way." Tenten said "When I went for a jog Neji told me that that was the same path they used to get to our cabin."
"But we don't know where they live." Ino said again
"Oh yeah." Tenten and Sakura said sadly
"No wait…I DO!" Hinata said getting excited
"How?" they all asked
"Naruto said that their cabin number was OUR cabin number!"
"SWEET!" yelled Sakura
"Then we should go!" Tenten yelled standing up with Hinata. They all looked at Ino to see if she would object anymore but then she jumped up happy too.
"LETS GO!" she yelled happily
"First I want to cute myself up." Sakura said running for the stairs.
"ME TOO!" they all yelled
The girls had made it threw the woods without any problem or getting lost once. Alls they had to do was walk straight threw the path until they reached an opening where the back of cabins were.
"Now alls we have to do is find which one number 117 is." Sakura said
They quietly walked in front of the last cabin and looked to see what number it was so they knew if they were close or not.
"Look, its number 117." Said Tenten
"How lucky is that?" asked Ino "They're the last cabin just like us."
"You're sure that he said it was our cabin's number?" Sakura asked Hinata
"Of course, but maybe we should sneak a look threw the window. Just in case." They all nodded in understanding and snuck up to the front of the cabin. Before they got close enough they heard a male voice off in the distance.
"EEK!" they all yelped as they got down on all fours and crawled the rest of the way there. They looked around to see a figure walking into a cabin. They waited to see if there was anyone else outside but no one was coming so they crawled along side the cabin to the window.
"Listen I can hear Naruto." Tenten said. They all surrounded the window trying to hear what the guys were doing, and making sure no one else was in there with them.
"Okay you guys." They heard Naruto say "Let's see what you guys got."
"Got?" Ino whispered to her friends
"One…two…three!" Naruto said as they waited to hear if anything happened.
"Sasuke we were all suppose to show at the same time!" said Naruto
"Sorry wuss, here you go!" Sasuke said. Naruto began to crack up.
"PAAHAHAHAHA! Look how tiny yours is!" he laughed along side with Neji and Shikamaru. "It's so pathetic!"
"Uuum, what are they talking about?" Sakura asked grimly, but the other girls were just as freaked out as she was.
"Well check mine out!" Neji said proudly
"WOW," said Naruto "That's so HUGE!"
"But watch how well I can do it." Neji said again.
(Inside the house Neji began to stack up more cards on top of his already large house of cards, and he was doing it really fast like he was a prow at it.)
"WOE!" all four guys went,
"Look at how tall you're making it!" said Shikamaru
"It's just getting taller and taller." Naruto said in awe
"Holy CRAP what the hell are they doing in there?" asked Sakura who was freaking out with her companions.
"It…it…doesn't sound….right!" Ino said shaking
"HA, how jealous are you Naruto?" Neji asked
"So what if you're making it taller, big deal. Mine is longer anyways." He said proudly
"So what if it's long," said Shikamaru "It's no good if it's not tall."
"No one cares if it's tall!" he said defending his house of cards
"Well think if you got married. Don't you think your wife would want one that's tall and not long?" asked Shikamaru
Naruto thought a minute about it.
"Yeah Naruto!" Sasuke teased "Don't you think Hinata is going to want a tall one?"
All of the girl's outside, especially Hinata, began to tremble and flush.
"So what, we'll just use her father's!" he said right back at Sasuke
All of the girl's eyes went wide at that moment, and their jaws dropped down to the ground. They all looked at each other but couldn't find any words to say.
"Hiashi wouldn't just give you his." Neji said "You would have to wait till he was dead first."
None of the girl's had a pulse anymore and their eyes were twitching.
"Shikamaru let's check yours out." Sasuke said
"Wow that's pretty good." Neji said
"You should make it into a hotel." Naruto said
"Did…he just…say...you should take it to a hotel?" Ino asked
"I could have sworn…that that's…what he said." Hinata said clenching her arms tightly
"Yeah it's that great I guess." Shikamaru said proudly. "I don't mind boasting about it."
"You know what we should do?" asked Sasuke "We should combined them all and make a really BIG one."
"You just want to do that because yours is sooo small!" said Naruto
"They want to combine them all?" Tenten asked freaking out.
"I regret coming here!" Sakura said "These guys are total perverts!"
"Especially Neji!" Ino said "Did you hear what he was doing to his?"
"NARUTO DON'T TOUCH IT!" yelled Shikamaru
"Neji?" Tenten asked, "Are you even listening to Naruto? He wants to use Hinata's fathers!"
"That was very wrong, poor Hinata is still in a state of shock over it." Sakura pointed over to her friend who was red all over. Ino then put her hand on Sakura's shoulder in a comforting way.
"Sorry about Sasuke being….small."
"INO!" Sakura yelled at her while whispering.
"NARUTO DON'T TOUCH IT!" Shikamaru yelled again.
Ten seconds later
"NARUTO YOU BROKE IT!" Shikamaru yelled
The door then slammed open with Ino at the door followed by Tenten then Sakura then Hinata. Their veins were all popping out of their heads.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN…….here?" Ino and the rest of the girls noticed that the guys all had their pants on and there were three houses made of cards around on the floor. Naruto was about to be strangled by Shikamaru and they were both standing on a bunch of cards.
"Tenten?" Neji asked looking at her but then he quickly went straight to his cousin. "Hinata? What are you doing here, you could get caught and get into trouble!"
"We….were….Sakura tell them!" They all looked at Sakura and she stood frozen.
"UM….we were bored and thought it would be a fun idea to bring…" Sakura went into her purse that she had across her shoulder and she pulled out perfect dark. "Sasuke said you didn't have this game so we thought we could all play it."
"Great let's play it!" said an excited Naruto.
"Yeah give it here I'll put it in for you." Sasuke said taking it away from Sakura.
"Fine, but only a few games, I don't want you guys getting into trouble." Neji said as he walked over to the couch.
Hinata noticed that he said "You guys" and not just "Hinata". She wondered if he even cared about the rest of them or if he was just worried about Tenten, and some what of Hinata.
The girls were still a little dazed about what they thought they had heard, but they tried to just forget about it quickly before the guys noticed them acting even weirder then they already were.
"Why are you girls acting weird?" asked Shikamaru
Too late
"What…what makes you think we're acting weird?" Ino asked crossing her arms
"For starters you all just came crashing through our door." Shikamaru said pointing at the still opened door. "You might want to shut that unless you want somebody seeing you here." Tenten shut the door but looked around outside to see if anyone had heard their loud outburst before completely shutting it.
"We were just excited to play perfect dark with you. That's all!" Ino said trying to sound convincing. Shikamaru really didn't press further since he didn't want to get into details since it would be too troublesome.
"So who's going to play first?" Sakura asked "I guess two guys and two of us girls are going to have to play at a time."
"Well, being Sakura's idea, why don't you play first with me and Sasuke?" Shikamaru said.
"Okay and Ino can be the other girl." Sakura said as they grabbed their controllers.
"Now I have to wait!" Naruto complained
"You know you girls can sit down." Sasuke said as he sat on the floor in front of the TV.
Sakura sat next to Sasuke and Shikamaru went over to sit next to Ino who sat by Sakura. Tenten didn't move right away and was trying to figure out if she should just sit over with Neji. She tried to make it look like it was no big deal, and sat herself to the right side of him. Neji looked over at her for a second but then focused his gaze back on the TV. Tenten curled her feet up so they were almost touching him and Neji had his feet up on a table. He moved his legs down a little and they almost touched her feet. He quickly kept them elevated above her and could feel the tension between him and Tenten. They were both watching what was happening, but Tenten looked away like it was not a big deal.
Naruto sat on the other end of the couch watching what was going on and he couldn't help but feel utterly confused. He could tell they both liked each other and wasn't sure why they wouldn't just tell the other yet. That's when Hinata walked over besides him and just stood smiling at him.
"Naruto, can I sit next to you?" she asked politely
"Of COURSE!" he said jumping out of his seat and letting her sit where he was.
"You didn't have to move Naruto, I could have just sat next to you and Neji." she said taking her seat.
"No I don't mind, can I get you anything?"
"No I'm fine." She smiled. Naruto sat right next to her on the couch and put his feet on the table next to Hinata who was already making herself right at home. As they all sat there watching Sasuke, Sakura, Shikamaru, and Ino begin their game Naruto nudged Hinata playfully in the side. Hinata nudged him back and a second later he nudged her again. Neji and Tenten noticed the couch moving and they looked over to see Hinata and Naruto both shoving the other. Naruto was now poking her in the side which was making her laugh since it was in a very ticklish area. Hinata grabbed his right hand with her left so he couldn't do it anymore. Naruto began to lace his fingers with hers which made Hinata blush a little. She just held Naruto's hand and leaned her head on his shoulder. He put his head on hers and they were both thinking of the time they laid together on the hammock holding hands just like that with Naruto's head on hers.
Neji badly wanted to do something like that with Tenten. He couldn't help but look over at her a little to see what she was doing. She was just sitting there watching the game on the TV. Neji knew he couldn't try to do anything to her because ONE he didn't know how to act that way around girls he only knew how to be strict and straight. TWO, Tenten wasn't really like a girly girl, she was like a tomboy. Trying to even hold her hand might make her flip him over on instinct. Neji was in a real dilemma, so he decided to just drop the matter and continue to watch the game, but he couldn't help but notice Hinata and Naruto having a thumb war.
"OUCH! Naruto you're really good at this." Hinata said looking at her defeated thumb.
"Its not your fault you have such small fingers….you can't help it!" he said giving her a toothy smile. Hinata couldn't help but give him a smile back with a raised eyebrow.
"Guess you're right Naruto, you're really smart you know!"
"I have my moments." He said getting ready to have another thumb war with her.
Tenten watched from the side of her eye Naruto and Hinata having a thumb war. It was so cute she thought. She wished her and Neji could do something cute like that, but she knew she could never do anything like that with him because ONE if he even grabbed her hand she might flip him on contact. TWO he didn't know how to act that way around girls, he only knew how to be strict and straight. Tenten was in a dilemma so she decided to just forget about it and continue watching the video game her friends were playing.
"My guy looks like he has a wedgie." Ino said pointing out her characters flaw. "Did you hear that Tenten?" Ino asked not turning around to face her friend "He has a wedgie!" Ino began to laugh but stopped when a pillow hit her in the back of the head.
"HEY!" she yelled turning around
"It slipped." Tenten shrugged in her seat.
"Ino NOOOO. You were just killed." Shikamaru said to his teammate
"Sorry Shika!" she said very cutely "Don't be too mad at me, I'm not good like you are."
Tenten noticed Shikamaru, like any guy would, smile with pride at Ino's comment.
'Of course! I should do poorly so Neji will have to help me out! But if I do that then we would loose and he wouldn't like that. What should I do? HHHHMMM!'
"You guys it's your turn." Sakura said standing up and handing her remote over to Tenten
"FINALLY!" Naruto yelled as he stood up and stretched out of his seat.
They all went and sat on the floor next to their teammate. Naruto was already whispering his plans of action into Hinata's ear. Tenten was envious of how cute that was, she longed for Neji to do something like that with her. She would never get to feel that way with anyone ever. Even if she was married to Neji, he would never do cute things for her or whisper in her ear.
Tenten let out a sigh as she was thinking of what was the best approach.
'Should I try to kick their asses at this game? If we won I bet Hinata would get all pouty and Naruto would try to cheer her up by doing something cute, and if we won then Neji would just act like well of course I Neji Hyuuga won the game because I AM Neji Hyuuga. So if we lost and they won Naruto and Hinata would cheer and Naruto would be like I knew we could do it, it's because you're on my team! And if we lost Neji might be like it wasn't I Neji Hyuuga but my weak teammate. If I played by myself I would have won! Oh curse the day Tenten was my weak teammate. Man….there isn't a real WIN situation for me is there.'
"Okay, let's GO!" Naruto yelled as the game began
"You ready Neji?" Tenten asked him. She could tell how determined he looked and that he didn't want to loose but in the end it was just a game to him, unless Naruto beat him then it would be all her fault.
Neji then did something Tenten NEVER expected. He leaned over to her and kissed her cheek. The game was already in motion but neither of their characters moved.
"A kiss for luck." He said as he smiled and faced the screen looking a little flushed.
"Neji……" Tenten smiled at him blushing "but I don't need luck."
"I know you don't need luck but, that was for me." She began to feel really light headed at his comment.
Tenten leaned over to Neji and kissed his cheek too. Neji looked completely shocked, you could have sworn he was just told that one of his family members died, but instead his face was turning bright red.
"If you wanted luck, you should have just asked." Tenten said blushing even more at her bold move. She then turned to play her game like nothing happened, and she left Neji just staring at her for a while. He finally turned back to the game with a smile on his face. He was so happy that he tried to do something that he thought Naruto might do to Hinata. It worked like a charm and he now knew, for sure now, that Tenten likes cute stuff like what Naruto was doing with Hinata. He and Tenten began to play their game as if nothing had happened, but they both had great big smiles on their faces.
'Soooo, how should I play the game now?' Tenten thought to herself as she saw Naruto's character in her screen which was practically a sitting duck.
Sorry for the update being so late. I've been occupied with other things lately and it was hard getting onto the computer. HOPE YOU LIKED IT!