At the girl's camp everyone was training and practicing for the annual sports competitions. The girl's had been winning it for twenty years and they all, especially the coaches and the campers who had been there for years, wanted to make it twenty-one. Kurenai was 100 percent determined to beat Gai's basketball team since that was always the one sport the girls failed miserably in. That and wrestling which was taken out ten years ago since the boys were much stronger then the girls and could seriously hurt them. Tenten tried to get girls to sign a petition saying they wanted wrestling back but a lot of girls, even the girls on the wrestling team, didn't care and didn't want to sign. The only signatures Tenten could get were herself, Hinata, Sakura, Livvy, Ladonna, and Temari.
FLASHBACK
"Tenten!" Temari yelled running over to Tenten and Hinata. "I heard about your petition and I wan to sign it too!"
"You do?" Tenten asked confused.
"Of course I do. I think the girls could take down the boys in wrestling. Hey, I wouldn't mind routing us on, even if it was you!" she said signing the petition that was attached to a clipboard.
"Gee……thanks?" Hinata watched Temari very closely to see if she would smirk evilly or write somebody else's name down on the board but as far as Hinata was concerned Temari was very serious about the cause.
"There you go!" she said smiling.
"Thanks for it Temari," Hinata said "But we don't think this petition is going to work."
"Aw bummer." Temari said very disappointed. "Lucky for the guys then, right?"
Hinata and Tenten looked at each other both wondering the same thing. 'Is she being for real?'
"Well I'll see you guys later. Asuma Sensei asked me to help him with something and I don't want to miss that!" Temari started to walk off towards Asuma's office.
"Was that a little weird?" Tenten asked
"Yeah, very weird." Hinata said as they watched Temari walk away.
END FLASHBACK
Temari had been acting differently towards everyone. She was acting a little nicer and was always chipper. Kin had no idea why, and tried to snap Temari back into her old self, but as far as Temari was concerned she was just fine.
"I'm acting differently?" she would ask Kin "Hmm, nope I think I'm acting just fine. Maybe it's just such a nice day out, and that's why I'm acting particularly HAPPY!"
No one knew why Temari was acting all different, but it happened after the prank that was pulled on her and Kin. Kin didn't like this knew Temari at all, and wanted her old friend back so they could make fun of people together. It was like Kin didn't know Temari anymore. They did have a few laughs once in a while but they both seemed to be getting even more distant. Kin was so close to dropping Temari and making some new friends, but still had some hope for her.
Nobody else seemed to complain about the new Temari, instead everyone kept asking the same question.
"CAN WE KEEP HER?"
Every day the new Temari seemed to be getting nicer and nicer with no explanation at all. Ino still didn't trust her, and thought it was all some sort of trick.
"Just watch your back when she comes near you." Ino kept saying "But take advantage of her being nice before she gets knocked back to her senses."
The girls actually never got a chance to be around Temari being nice since they were either hanging out in their cabin or practicing for the boys vs. girls competitions. The girls always hung out together when they could since they felt they didn't have enough time to hang out do to their activities. They always just played on their x-box, talked, put makeup on Tenten, talked, chatted to each other on aim in each of their rooms, made up new cheers, and talked. They all decided that they wouldn't see the boys till the competitions, and that sounded completely impossible but they managed to hold up for two weeks solid.
The girls all decided to not call them, sneak out to see them, or chat with them online. They absolutely did NOT see them at all. Ino could no longer take it and thought she was the only one who was going to SNAP if she didn't get to see Shikamaru again.
"WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS ANYWAYS?" Ino fumed as she jumped up and down on the couch in the living room.
"INO, calm down!" Sakura yelled sitting on the other end of the couch "you think you're the only one who wants to see the guys! I'm really killing myself over here!"
"Sorry Ino it was my idea." Hinata said "But I thought we should just focus on practicing for the competitions."
"UGGGGH….HINATA!" Ino yelled as she fell to her knees on the couch. "I miss Shikamaru soooo much!"
"Two weeks has been soooo long!" Tenten complained from the floor.
"Come on guys, it hasn't been so bad." Hinata said trying to convince them.
"Hinata….are you HEARING YOURSELF!" Ino yelled "I'm never going to see Shikamaru again…EVER! I finally get a guy to kiss me and like me and now I don't even get to see him!"
"I know." Sakura sighed "I miss kissing Sasuke, even if it was only once."
"What do you mean once?" Hinata asked "You both were making out for two hours!" Sakura sweat dropped.
"Well……still it was just once. He's probably forgotten all about me." Sakura let another sigh of sadness out realizing that Sasuke had probably moved on.
"Sakura, there's no way he forgot about you, trust me okay? We're going to see them in two days, I think we can last that long." Hinata said
"Gosh Hinata you're acting pretty calm." Ino said "Don't tell me you've already forgotten about Naruto. Maybe you don't really like him." Hinata looked a little shocked.
"No way Ino……I still like him. But don't you think that not seeing him for a while will just make seeing him even more exciting?" They all looked at each other nodding their heads.
"Oh…I SEE! This isn't really just focusing on the competitions." Ino began "You just want Naruto to want you more! That's BRILLIANT HINATA!" Ino said clapping her hands together.
"AND, we're also getting better at our sports since we don't have guys to distract us." Tenten pointed out. "Gosh Hinata you really thought this threw."
"NAH, it just ended up that way. Ino's right I'll admit, I don't want to see Naruto every day when it's so much more romantic to see him in two weeks."
"Absence makes the heart grow founder." Ino pointed out
"Or forgetful." Sakura added sadly.
"Sakura! Why must you make our happy moment sadder?" Ino asked
"I'm sorry guys!" she said scratching the back of her head nervously. "I just miss Sasuke a whole lot, and I'm just afraid that he'll just forget me and…"
"Sakura take a chill pill." Hinata said "Sasuke won't forget you because believe me he really likes you." Sakura smiled a little bit. "You all need to chill because Ino, Shikamaru really likes you and it doesn't take a genius to tell that Neji likes you Tenten." Ino and Tenten both blushed. "Now I've know these guys for a while and believe me their probably going crazy cause they can't see you anymore."
"HA, you think?" Tenten asked.
"Well……maybe, but they wont forget you that's for sure." Hinata said trying to convince them. All the girls sighed and began to think to themselves.
"What's todays date?" Sakura asked looking up at the ceiling. Tenten pulled out her cell phone and looked at the screen.
"It's Thursday July, 30." Tenten said putting her phone back in her pocket.
"Competitions start August first." Ino said "Can you believe summer is almost over?"
"I know." Sakura said agreeing. "It feels like it was just yesterday we came to this camp."
"I know," Ino said shaking her head yes. "We came to camp July seventh and now it's been almost a month! We only have a week left at this camp!"
"And then no more boys." Tenten sighed.
"No more guys?" Sakura exclaimed "how about no more Tenten!"
"That's right!" Ino said sadly "Tenten you became like our best friend.
"AAWWW, I'm going to miss you all SO much!" Tenten cried as Sakura went over to sit next to her. Ino did too and Hinata sat down next to her.
"This has really been the best summer EVER, like you have NO idea!" Tenten exclaimed.
"Well it's not over yet!" Hinata said hugging Tenten. "We can come back next year!"
"WE SHOULD!" Ino decided
"WE WILL!" Sakura yelled
"I WILL IF YOU GUYS WILL!" Tenten cried
"We need to make this the best week ever!" Ino said hugging Ino and Hinata.
"I need to take more pictures for my Webshots!" Sakura said hugging them all.
"AND you better get pics of you and Sasuke together too!" Ino said.
"NO, we need to get pics of each of us with our guy!" Sakura laughed.
"No problem!" Ino said hugging them all tighter.
They all hugged a little longer before they all broke it at once.
"I think we should sleep now since tomorrow is the last day we can get in some practice." Hinata said standing up. Sakura helped up Tenten and Ino was helped up by Hinata.
"Yeah let's go to sleep." Yawned Tenten
They all walked up stairs and went to their beds. Each of them were a little upset after realizing summer was almost over. They wouldn't get to see their new friend Tenten anymore, and she wouldn't get to see them either. They wouldn't even get to see the guys which was almost heartbreaking. Sure they only knew them a few days but never had they felt so strongly about someone.
Ino couldn't go to sleep right away so she decided to lean outside her window. The sky was clear out and she could make out all of constellations. Ino began to study them after she and Shikamaru both laid out together that one night. It was all really interesting to her and she thought the next time she and Shikamaru looked at the stars together she could impress him by pointing them all out.
'But I'm sure he already knows them all. He's so smart; he's too good for me. He deserves somebody smart instead of a dumb blonde.' Ino sighed as she pulled herself back inside. She went into her bed and cuddled the covers. She remembered that night Shikamaru fell asleep in her bed that it smelt like him all night. The smell was almost intoxicating, and Ino loved it! She hugged the covers more at the memory of him and began to drift asleep.
Tenten, before going to sleep, always did a few punches on her punching bag. Tonight she didn't feel like doing anything, instead she laid flat on her back on her bed. She stared right up at the ceiling thinking about her new friends and Neji.
'I actually made friends. The only friend I ever had was Hinata at camp and at school I'm just a loner. But here…….. I've made best friends with Sakura and Ino and I think I found something with Neji. I can't wait to see him. JUST TWO MORE DAYS! I hope he doesn't forget about me, I mean I hope it's not awkward when I see him. Oh how should I approach him? "Yo Neji, What's up?" or I could just walk by him and pretend he's not even there. Then he'd think I'd forgot all about him and then he would just forget about me too! I can't let THAT happen. Hmmmmmm. Well if he's with the other guys and I'm with the girls then I'm sure Ino or Sakura will yell HI and that's pretty much an icebreaker for everyone. UGH!' Tenten covered her head with her pillow. 'Boys are so confusing!' Tenten started to fall asleep. 'I'm sure he hasn't thought about me.'
Sakura was still awake thinking if Sasuke still thought about cared about her, or even thought about her.
'I'm sure he thought about me, I bet it was once though. I mean I don't expect him to think about me every night, even though I do. Well tomorrow I'm going to work extra hard and when he sees me at the competitions he'll see that I wasn't just doing girl stuff. He'll see how strong I am in all the sports I do. It's going to be so sweet!' Sakura thought as she fell asleep satisfied with her strategy.
Hinata was in her bed writing in her vacation journal. It wasn't exactly a diary, she always wrote in it when she went to camp or on vacations. Mostly every night she wrote about something. Attached to her book was a ribbon which she normally used to show the last page she had written in but lately she kept it in the page all about Naruto. It said how they met and how they almost kissed. It said everything about him and how much she really liked him. Every night she would read it again and again, it never got boring to her, reading about what she wrote about Naruto. In her current entry she wrote about how soon she would see Naruto in two days and was over excited that she couldn't sleep! After Hinata was done she dropped her book carelessly on the floor next to her dresser, on the ground, where her lamp shined brightest. She switched the lamp off and covered herself in her covers. She couldn't help but smile for a while when she thought about seeing Naruto.
'I want to impress him soo much. I want to show him how good at sports I am, even if that means beating him in the process. They do have Lee though, but I guess that's not even a threat anymore. We DO know his weakness.' Hinata couldn't help but grin evilly. 'This is going to be year twenty-one! OH! I should put use that new shampoo Hanabi sent in the care package. I'll smell SOO good!' Hinata finally started to fall asleep with happy thoughts in her mind about Saturday.
XXXOOO
The guys had been training and practicing for the boys vs. girls competitions for the past two weeks. They had improved greatly and KNEW that this was the year that their camp would finally win! Most of the guys at the camp were ecstatic about it all, except for four who were even more thrilled!
In cabin 117 all four guys had tried to focus on training then being with the girls. It was hard for all of them even though they didn't admit it. It was almost shocking when the girls called them on Neji's cell phone to tell them that they didn't want to see them at all for the next two weeks. Not until the competitions. They were all really confused as to why, but the girls clearly said that they just wanted to focus more on getting ready for the competitions. The guys didn't show that they cared but they were really upset that they didn't want to see them.
FLASHBACK
"We never did anything to them….right?" Shikamaru asked
"I don't think so. Did you Naruto?" Sasuke asked
"You got me." He said simply shrugging.
"I think this is the perfect opportunity for us all to train even harder now that we don't have them as distractions." Neji said.
"Good idea." Sasuke said
"Did you hear that Naruto?" Shikamaru asked "No more sneaking out to see Hinata."
"Yeah, it's cool." He said shrugging. All of the guys looked at him strangely. Was Naruto really saying this? The guy who beat Kiba up twice for being too close to Hinata?
"Naruto…..you feeling alright?" Sasuke asked
"Yeah, why?" Naruto asked confused
"I guess we were all expecting you to blow a tantrum since Hinata doesn't want to see you for two weeks." Shikamaru said bluntly.
"So what? She just wants to do her best at the competitions. I'll see her then right?"
"Naruto…." Neji began "You are the weirdest guy I have ever met."
"WHAT? Why do you guys think I'm acting differently?" Naruto fumed
"Never mind, he's back." Sasuke said heading up stairs to his room.
"HEY! What's THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN?" He yelled as they all went up stairs.
END FLASHBACK
The guys were currently playing Halo on the x-box. They were excited about seeing the girls in two days even though they didn't let it show. They did let it show whenever they won a game by jumping around or yelling, especially Neji who let his enthusiasm get a little out of control. When he won the first game he jumped up on the couch and pointed at Naruto who was sitting right next to him.
"IN YOUR FACE!" he yelled as she jumped up two times. When he sat back down They all looked at him strangely.
"Chill Neji, it's just a video game." Naruto said moving away from Neji slowly.
"Yeah, where the hell was your Hyuuga Calm?" Sasuke asked who was sitting on the floor.
"I can't get excited about beating you at a video game?" he asked defensively
"Not when you're going to act all weird about it." Naruto said beginning the next game.
An hour later they were playing their sixth game when Neji remembered something.
"Sasuke what did your mom want?" he asked. Sasuke, even though he was playing the game turned around to face Neji.
"What are you talking about?" Sasuke asked as someone shot his character.
"Your mom sent you a package, did you open it yet?"
"I got a package?"
"Didn't Naruto give it to you?" Shikamaru asked pausing the game. Sasuke looked over at Naruto.
"No." Sasuke said waiting for Naruto to give an explanation.
"Oh yeah! I forgot I put it in your room." Everyone sweat dropped. Sasuke got up and the others did the same. They all went into Sasuke's room but didn't see a package.
"Well…..Naruto where is it?" Sasuke asked. In a flash Naruto looked under Sasuke's bed, a second later he looked under Neji's. He was frantically looking around for it when Shikamaru found it.
"WHERE WAS IT?" Naruto asked as they put it on Sasuke's bed.
"Behind the door." Shikamaru said simply pointing to the door.
"OOH yeah." Naruto said as he looked at the door. Sasuke had already begun to open the box. When he finally opened it he saw a permit learning book on the top.
He picked it up and saw a note under it, and as he opened it up Shikamaru took the permit book away from him. Sasuke read to them what the letter said.
"My mom wants me to start studying for my permit. She says I'm going to take the test when I get home and wishes me a happy birthday." Neji took the letter from Sasuke but he quickly snatched it back. "Hands Off!" he yelled as Naruto snatched it away from him.
"HEEEEEY! What's it say?" Naruto yelled as he ran to Neji's bed.
"Give it Naruto!" Sasuke yelled as he chased after him. Naruto ran away from Sasuke but he started to read the letter out loud.
"Dear Sasuke! Happy Sixteenth birthday to my baby boy!" all the guys started to smirk. "Sorry we couldn't be there on your birthday, but we were all thinking about you. Now I got you the permit book so I want you to study it because when you get back home you're taking the test blah blah blah….where's the good stuff? HEY! When you leave camp there will be a surprise for you?" All the guys got interested, except Sasuke who continued to chase Naruto for the letter. "We love you Sasuke and get started on your summer reading. You forgot your books at home. Yeah Sasuke, don't forget to read!" Naruto laughed. "It says with hugs and kisses!" Naruto said falling over onto the floor. All the guys were laughing and Sasuke snatched his letter before Naruto realized he missed the most embarrassing part of the letter. It didn't matter since while Sasuke was chasing Naruto, Neji and Shikamaru went threw his package.
"Here are those books." Shikamaru said taking three hard back books out.
"And…..LOOK AT THIS!" Neji said as he grabbed something white out of the box. Sasuke looked over to see Neji pull out what he had feared. "Uchiha….your mommy packed you…"
"UNDERWEAR!" Naruto laughed as he fell over on the ground in laughter.
"They're not even boxers!" Shikamaru laughed.
"Gimme those!" Sasuke yelled as he snatched them away from Neji.
"No problem." He said putting both hands in front of him.
"There are MORE!" Shikamaru said going back into the box.
"GET OUT OF MY BOX!" Sasuke yelled pushing Shikamaru away. Naruto was still cracking up over on the floor, and holding his sides tightly.
"Is your butt really this big?" Neji asked holding up a pair of underwear.
"HOW'D YOU GET…..GIVE THOSE BACK!" Sasuke yelled swiping them from Neji and putting them back in the box. As Sasuke shoved them all back to the bottom he noticed a smaller box that was tightly secure in the corner. He took it out but none of the guys saw him since they were all laughing on the floor. Sasuke opened the box and found a chocolate cake perfectly intact and safely secure in a plastic box with those plastic peanuts all around it.
"Looks like double chocolate chip, that's my favorite." He said as he closed the rest of the box and walked out of the room with the cake.
"HAHAHAHA…huh…..chocolate?" Naruto sat up and watched Sasuke leave the room with a cake. "CAKE!" Naruto yelled as he went after Sasuke.
"Cake?" Shikamaru and Neji asked as they sat up and saw Naruto chasing Sasuke. They both looked at each other wondering what to do next.
"I like cake." Neji said. They both stared at each other and then got up to chase after Sasuke and the cake.
Sasuke was now in the kitchen and he got out a knife, fork, and plate. Naruto, Neji, and Shikamaru all stood at the doorway looking hungrily at the cake. Sasuke began to cut down the middle when he looked up.
"OOooh, did you want some of this?" he smirked
They all nodded at him, and Naruto was drooling at this point.
"Hmp….you're going to have to do something for it." He said cutting into the cake again.
Neji didn't like the sound of that. Sasuke was probably going to make him beg for the cake, which he wouldn't do for anyone.
"Shikamaru, go grab a paper and pen." Sasuke said. Shikamaru let out a sigh and also mumbled "What a drag." But he did as he was told and gave Sasuke the pen and paper. "Now I want you to write down what I tell you."
"Is this going to help me get cake?" Shikamaru asked before he sat down.
"It's all you have to do….if you're lucky." Shikamaru still sat down next to Sasuke. "Naruto, how badly do you want this cake?" he asked. Naruto wiped the drool off his face and straightened up.
"Umm….Not that much!" he said shrugging his shoulders.
"You sure about that? It has chocolate chips in it you know." Sasuke said placing a piece of cake on his plate. Naruto couldn't help but let out some more drool. Chocolate was his favorite. "Alls I want you to do is carry my books for the first two months of school."
"TWO MONTHS?" Naruto yelled "What are we, going steady? Do I LOOK like you're boyfriend or something?"
"No, just a pack mule." Sasuke said taking a bight of his cake. Naruto couldn't take it; he was hungry and really liked chocolate.
"Is that all?" he asked
"Well…..it was but since you brought that up I think I'll make you do something else too." Sasuke said growing evil. Naruto gulped, he knew Sasuke would probably give him something terrible to do. "I've got it! I want you to go to Bushy Brow's cabin and ask to borrow one of his workout suits." Being two weeks, Sasuke had already met Lee at Soccer and basketball. He knew that whenever Lee had free time he would workout and he always did it in spandex, and he did it with Gai Sensei, his idol.
"WHAT? BUT I'LL LOOK LIKE SUCH A LOSER!" Naruto yelled
"Fine, never mind." Sasuke said taking another bight of his cake.
"PHEW!" Naruto said wiping off his forehead.
"I want you to wear it out of his cabin!" Naruto froze. Neji even cringed for him. Rock Lee's workout clothes always smelt weird.
"You….want..me…..to….buh…frume…cloks…." Neji hit Naruto against the head.
'I hate it when he gets like that.' Neji thought
"YOU WANT ME TO WEAR HIS WORKOUT CLOTHES?"
"Still not good enough for you? Well I guess you can also..."
"NO no…fine I'll do it." Naruto said with a sigh.
"Shikamaru right up an agreement for Naruto to sign, that way he can't weasel his way out of this one." Shikamaru began to right down everything Naruto had to do and he drew lines where Naruto had to sign his name or put his initials.
"Here you are Naruto," Shikamaru said. "And its air tight, not like the last one we made."
"Oh yeah, I remember that." Neji said thinking to the last time Naruto and Sasuke made up a contract. Naruto found a loophole and didn't have to do anything on the contract.
Naruto read it over and began to sign in places. He handed it back over to Shikamaru who looked at it to make sure he didn't sign in the wrong places.
"Alright it's good." He said giving it to Sasuke. Sasuke looked at it too and smiled pleased with himself.
"Okay Naruto, this should only take you ten minutes to do." He smirked
"Fine….I'll be right back." Naruto said as he left the cabin. Sasuke then gave his attention to Neji. Neji mentally gulped since he didn't want to do it in real life.
"So what should I make you do?" Sasuke asked out loud. Neji just stared him down.
"I should make you do something too." Sasuke began to think and Neji began to think that he really didn't want cake anymore. Before he could tell Sasuke to forget about it Sasuke thought of something. "I know, I want you to say that I'm better then you." Neji looked a little confused.
'That's it? Nothing else? I don't have to do anything? There has got to be some sort of catch.'
"What's the catch?" Neji asked
"What makes you think that there's a catch?" Sasuke asked
"Because I know you, and there has to be some sort of catch."
"Well, there isn't. Alls you have to do is say 'Sasuke Uchiha is better then me Neji Hyuuga.' And that's it."
"Fine I'll say it." Before Neji could open his mouth again Sasuke pulled out his cell phone and turned it on to record. Neji looked at Sasuke angrily.
"So you thought that I was just going to let you say it and that would be it?" Sasuke gave him his trade mark smirk. Neji was about to say no but then he looked at the chocolate cake. Neji liked cake. Neji swallowed a lump in his throat and began to speak.
XXXOOO
Naruto was running down to Lee's cabin. Lee had his cabin on the other side of camp and Naruto wasn't sure if when Sasuke said that it should only take him ten minutes if he meant he had to do it in ten minutes. Naruto got there in five minutes flat. He banged hard on Lee's cabin door and didn't stop even when the door opened. He began to hit the guy who opened the door.
"HEY!...CUT IT OUT!" the person yelled. Naruto then stopped realizing what he was doing. He looked at the person who opened the door and it was not Lee. This guy seemed to be slouching over and he had bandages all over his body.
"What the heck happened to YOU?" Naruto yelled forgetting that he was on a mission. Soon another guy with brown spiky hair appeared at the door. He looked at Naruto and then began to laugh.
"Maybe he should demonstrate what happened." The boy said sounding evil. Naruto took a step back but then he planted his feet down on the ground showing he wasn't scared of their threats.
"Where's Rock Lee? Is this his cabin?" Soon the two guys were pushed aside and Lee appeared at the front.
"Naruto my friend, what can I help you with?" Lee said giving off his trade mark smile.
"LEE, I just wanted to ask if I could borrow your….your……workout clothes!" Naruto finally spat out. Lee got confused.
"Well….sure Naruto, but why may I ask?" Naruto pushed his was into the cabin and went to the first bag he saw. He began to throw things out of it as he searched for Lee's clothes.
"Naruto, my workout clothes aren't in there." Lee said
"What? Why not?" Naruto asked as he stopped throwing clothes out.
"Because that's MY bag!" the guy with bandages said cracking his knuckles. Naruto sweat dropped and tried to put the clothes back in the bag.
"HEY LOOK!" The boy with spiky brown hair yelled as he bent down to pick something up. "Dosu I didn't know you wore…"
"TIGHTY WHITIES!" Naruto laughed. Dosu snatched them back from the boy.
"Zaku you moron!" Dosu yelled as he hit Zaku on the head. Even though his head hurt Zaku still laughed and fell over onto the floor.
"YOU WEAR TIGHTY WHITIES!" he laughed. Lee was also laughing but not so much that he had to fall over on the ground.
"These things are more like….NOT SO WHITEY TIGHTIES!" Naruto laughed as he held in his sides.
"It's TRUE!" Zaku laughed "Those things are yellOH!" Dosu just kicked Zaku in the side since he was on the ground. Naruto quickly jumped to his feet and went behind Lee.
"Enough of this." Lee said as Dosu walked towards Naruto. "Naruto my clothes are in that bag right there." Lee said pointing across the small cabin. Naruto cautiously went to the bag and began to look for what he needed. When he found the green spandex suit he began to undress himself and put it on.
"Uh….Naruto…what are you doing?" Lee asked
"I have to put it on." Naruto said as he stepped into it.
"Just so you know Naruto, Zaku here is attracted to men." Dosu said.
"I AM NOT!" Zaku yelled from his bed.
"Oh that's right, I forgot all about Kin." Dosu teased.
"SHUTUP!" Zaku yelled
"Whose Kin?" Naruto asked as he sipped up the spandex.
"A girl Zaku kissed at the dance." Dosu said
"Zaku, this is wonderful! You truly are a great example of youth!" Lee said giving him the good guy pose. "I only wish I too could find the perfect girl for me."
"She's not my GIRL!" Zaku yelled as he began to get red.
'Why does the name Kin sound so familiar to me?' Naruto thought as he picked up his clothes. Naruto finished putting it one, and Lee's workout clothes would have been too big for Naruto since he's taller then him, but since Naruto was well built it showed most of his muscles and fit nicely.
"I'll bring this back to you tomorrow!" Naruto yelled as he ran out of the cabin. He ran so fast that he didn't hear Lee call out to him. As he ran it felt disturbingly uncomfortable. He knew he wouldn't be back in time, but he still wasn't sure if Sasuke was timing him or not.
He finally approached his cabin and went straight to the kitchen where Neji, Sasuke, and Shikamaru were all eating cake. Once they saw Naruto they all took out their cell phones and began to take pictures of him. Naruto looked very frustrated and annoyed but he didn't move.
"Alright Naruto, you can have some cake." Naruto grew happy and sat down at the table. Sasuke put in front of him a slice of the cake and Naruto began to eat it happily.
"SO….what….did Neji….do?" Naruto asked between bights of his cake.
"I'd rather not talk about it." Neji said as he finished eating. ON!" Naruto whined
"Don't worry about it Naruto. I have it recorded." Sasuke said as he played the recording.
"Sasuke Uchiha is better then I, Neji Hyuuga of the Hyuuga Clan." Neji said
Neji cringed and Naruto looked at Sasuke in shock.
"HEY, why did he only have to say something?" Naruto demanded. "THIS ISNT FAIR!"
"Hey, it's what we agreed on." Sasuke said simply.
"ERgggghh." Naruto clenched his fists and then continued to eat his cake.
After they were done eating the finished their game of Halo and went to bed.
Every night it seemed harder for Neji to get to sleep. He couldn't help but wonder if Tenten was still up or what she was doing, or how she was. He always thought about how she kissed him on the cheek. That night he couldn't even sleep! He only thought about her. He knew he always thought she was cute, and he even really liked her at the end of summer camp last year. He forgot about her over the school year but when summer came again he couldn't help but wonder how she was.
Now that Neji knew she liked him he started to doubt it. He heard her say that she wanted to kiss him, but what if she didn't want to anymore.
'I guess I'll see her Saturday, but how should I approach her? I've never felt so nervous in my entire life before.' He thought as he let out a sigh. 'No one has ever made me feel this way before.'
Shikamaru went to sleep faster than he had in a while. Lately it seemed like he was up all night just thinking about Ino, and what she was doing. He feared that this is what it felt like to have a girlfriend.
'WAIT! Did I just call Ino my girlfriend? Ugh…..I did. What am I going to do when I can't see her anymore? That will have to be the end of…..well….what ever we have, er had.'
Shikamaru fell asleep disappointed; he even had a dream about Ino leaving him forever, which was going to happen in real life anyways.
Sasuke really never thought about Sakura before he went to sleep, but knowing that he would see her in only two days he almost didn't have a choice. She was just in his mind. He couldn't help but wish he could be with her right now, holding her in his arms. He liked her in his arms, he felt like he had someone to protect. He also really liked kissing her. He never imagined himself in a hundred years having his first kiss at camp.
'Hope we can do that again before I go back home.' He thought to himself as he fell asleep.
Naruto couldn't sleep again for the umpteenth time. Every night he would just lie in his bed looking straight up at his ceiling. He acted like he was okay with not seeing Hinata for a while, but in reality he was tearing himself up inside. Now that it was only two more days till he saw her it was getting even harder for him to sleep. Not seeing Hinata actually improved his training for the boys vs. girls competitions. He didn't want to look lame in front of Hinata so he practiced even harder than he had previous weeks. A lot of his coaches took note of how much better he had been doing. He wasn't pulling pranks and was improving even more then expected. Kakashi could even see this, and was very glad that Naruto had finally straightened out, sort of.
Naruto was still hyper and a knucklehead but he now had some more self control within the past two weeks. Naruto's school would definitely let him go back if he stayed this way till then.
Naruto looked over at Shikamaru and knew he must have been having some sort of bad dream since he kept tossing and turning. Naruto really didn't care if his dream would be good or bad, he just wanted to SLEEP!
'MAN, ramen would be so good right about now. That stuff always gets me to sleep no matter how awake I am.' Naruto let out a yawn and prepared himself for dream land, but it never came. 'Maybe I should make myself tired. I could take a walk. Around the camp I guess, OR. I could go see HINATA! WAIT, calm down…..two more days. No big problem. I just need to wait two more measly days. You can do it Uzumaki, I can do it.' Naruto then began to fall asleep after giving himself a pep talk.
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The next morning at the girl's camp, cabin 117 was running a little late. They over slept a tad, and tried to rush threw their normal morning rituals. It was almost easier for Sakura since she decided to shower at night rather then battle somebody for a bathroom.
"WE ARE SOO LATE FOR SWIMMING!" Sakura yelled as she ran down the stairs with her bag in hand. The rest of them ran down behind her except for Hinata who just finished getting dressed.
"HINATA HURRY!" Ino yelled from the door.
"Here I come!" she yelled back as she grabbed her bag that was on the floor next to her dresser, on the ground, where her lamp shined brightest. It was left opened and she just zipped it up not thinking anything of it. When she got to the stairs she slipped and let go of her bag. It rolled the rest of the way down the stairs mixing everything in it all up. Hinata picked it up and ran out the door with her friends.
Tenten and Hinata ran to the locker rooms to get dressed since they didn't put their bathing suit on before hand. Ino and Sakura asked Tenten and Hinata to put their bags in a locker near theirs so they could just go to the pool. Hinata and Tenten quickly put on their suits and shoved their bags into lockers. Hinata had Sakura's and she put it in a locker first since she had to put Sakura's lacrosse stick in it. Hinata looked around for another opened locker but couldn't find one anywhere.
"Let's go Hinata!" Tenten yelled as she rushed out to the pool. Hinata just decided to put her bag in with Sakura's bag. It didn't shut all the way but Hinata knew that she didn't carry anything valuable with her, and it's not like any of these lockers had locks on them so she didn't care. She ran out after Tenten and their swim coach wasn't too upset about them all being a half an hour late.
"FIVE LAPS BEFORE YOU ALL LEAVE!" The coach yelled at them.
The coach made them all work really hard since tomorrow the competitions would begin. She made her especially strong swimmers do more than the others. Livvy, Hinata, Tenten, and Necima were in five races with each other before the class ended. Hinata won the first four but Necima won the last one.
"That's only because she takes her time and we were putting are hearts into each one. Therefore we were more tired then her, so she won by default." Tenten mumbled as they all walked to the lockers.
"YOU FOUR!" yelled the coach who was indicating Hinata, Sakura, Tenten, and Ino. "You owe me FIVE laps, get started. Tenten and Hinata why don't you just do two." Hinata and Tenten were very happy about that. After the first two laps were done Tenten and Hinata waited for Sakura and Ino to finish. When they were finished they both got out of the pool and Ino was upset that Tenten and Hinata didn't have to do all five laps.
"Well that's because we already did like a trillion laps already." Tenten defended
"Yeah well I'm just saying that one of you better beat the boys or I'm going to be pissed that you didn't have to do more laps." Ino said as they held the locker door open for a bunch of girls who were already done and dressed.
"Looks like we might be a little late for volleyball." Sakura said as they went into the locker room. "Where's my stuff Hinata?" she asked.
"Oh sorry but I put my stuff in your locker since there weren't any more." Hinata said as they all walked around to the section of lockers Tenten and Hinata put their things. When they walked to them they saw Kin with two girls sitting on the bench right across from where Hinata put her things. One of the girls began to look a little nervous when she noticed Hinata.
"Hey Hinata." Kin said standing up off the bench. The other two girls stood up as well.
"Hi Kin." Hinata said simply as her friends watched Kin carefully.
"These are my new friends Kasumi and Ami." Kin said pointing to each one as she said their names. Kasumi was the nervous looking one and had a lot of curly hair. Ami had straight black hair and was looking as evil as Kin was. They all had their arms crossed over their chests. (AN: In the manga Ami was the girl who made fun of Sakura in a flashback, then Ino threw flowers in her mouth saying they were poisonous. Kasumi was the girl with Ami and had like a big fro of brown curly hair.)
"Yeah, we know these two." Sakura said "Nice to see you guys again." She said mainly to Ami.
"To bad the feeling isn't mutual." Ami said.
"You guys know them?" Tenten asked Ino
"Yeah they go to our school. I haven't seen them here at all though."
"Look, we're not here to start something." Kin said "I'm here to just say sorry for being mean to you guys. I don't know why but Temari is acting nicer so I think that maybe I should be too." Kin stuck her hand out to Hinata so she could shake it. Hinata didn't hesitate and took it. "I hope this is okay for an apology. And I hope you see this as a truce." Kin let go of Hinata's hand and began to smile to them all. "Well, we'll see you guys later." She said as she motioned to her two friends to follow her. They all walked away and Hinata's friends all watched them.
"Wonder what got into her." Tenten said as she opened her locker up.
"Well that was nice of her." Sakura said happily
"Yeah," Hinata said "I'm glad we finally made peace with them." Hinata said as she opened up her locker. Once she did her bag toppled out and a book fell out. Once the book hit the ground it made a loud echoing sound since the locker room was only being occupied by four girls. All four girls looked at the book that was on the floor.
"What's that?" Ino asked as she walked closer to it.
"HEY! This is my vacation journal. I write down my vacations and stuff in it." Hinata said picking the book up.
"I remember!" Tenten said "You would write in it like every night!"
"Why do you have it with you?" Sakura asked grabbing her stuff out of the locker.
"I guess I dropped it in my bag last night by accident." Hinata opened the book up to where she left the ribbon. At first it didn't faze her but then she realized that the ribbon wasn't where she left it originally. It was up in the front where she wrote stuff from Camp Jutsu. 'Maybe it moved itself when I dropped my bag down the stairs.' She thought as she stuck it back into her bag.
They all got dressed and rushed down to volleyball. The volleyball coach was making them all work extra hard since volleyball was always won by the girls.
"YOU FOUR WILL STAY AN EXTRA FIVE MINUTES FOR BEING LATE!" the coach yelled at Ino, Sakura, Tenten, and Hinata.
"I think we're going to be late to all of our activities." Ino sad sadly
"This is going to be a long day isn't it." Sakura asked
"UGH!" all the girls moaned.
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Kin, Kasumi, and Ami all sat together at a lunch table. They made sure no one else sat with them, so they gave people evil stares when they tried to take a seat.
"I can't believe how lucky we were." Kin said
"Tell me about it." Ami said "But what are we going to do with this information?"
"Umm….USE it hello!" Kin yelled.
"Alls the page said was she liked a guy named Naruto." Kasumi said
"Yeah, and we don't even know who that is. We only know he's a blond with the greatest blue eyes on earth." Ami said
"Well actually I think I have a pretty good idea who Naruto is." Kin said.
"Really, so you know what he looks like?" Ami asked
"Yep, I think he's the guy she was dancing with at the dance. They were the first people on the floor." Ami and Kasumi both tried to think back to the dance. They both recalled Hinata being the first person to be on the dancing floor, but Ami was more interested in Sakura.
"I think I remember who he was." Kasumi said "Yeah, I'm pretty sure. That has got to be him."
"Okay so now that we know what he looks like what are we going to do about it?" Ami asked
"Actually I know exactly what I'M going to do." Kin said growing evil.
"Well...WHAT THEN!" Ami yelled getting frustrated.
"I'm going to pretend to like Naruto so that he'll be with me and not Hinata."
"Sooo, you're going to make her…jealous?" Kasumi asked
"DUH with a capitol D Kasumi. No guy can resist me, that's for sure. This guy should be no different."
"But what about Zaku?" Ami teased "I KNOW I saw you both kissing at the dance."
"Well….thatwasjusta…..a…..um….we were…" Kin began to turn red.
"Kin likes Zaku!" Kasumi sang.
"SHUTUP!" she yelled "besides he won't be around when I'm doing it. So now you guys have a part in this plan. Keep Zaku away from me when I'm with Naruto, OKAY?"
"Roger!" they both laughed as they saluted her. Kin just rolled her eyes at them.
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Temari was in her room reading the Secret Life of Bees that Livvy had leant her. She said she was done so it was okay if she wanted to check it out, but she had to give it to Hinata when she was done. As Temari read the book Kin walked in with her as usual Kin expression on her face. The one that said I'm better than you. Temari looked up once from the book to watch Kin go to her bed and then she continued to read it again. Kin looked disappointedly at Temari. She was giving her only one more shot before she totally dropped her and moved on.
"Temari, some girl at lunch today fell and dropped her lunch all over the floor. I couldn't see her but I laughed my ass off when I heard her fall!"
"I saw her too; I helped her out and gave her my lunch." Temari said still reading the book.
"Why?" Kin asked crossly
"Because I wasn't hungry." Temari put simply.
"Oh, well I'm sure you did something to it, right?"
"No."
"Why not!" Kin asked crossing her arms.
"Cause I didn't feel like doing anything." She said turning the page of the book.
"I would have at least spat in it before giving to her."
"I guess that's what you would do, but I think that's disgusting, not to mention childish."
Kin grew angry at Temari. That was her last chance and she blew it, now she wouldn't have any friends at camp and the only person she would blame would be herself. Kin could already imagine Temari breaking down in front of her, which made her smile evilly. Kin went under her bed and grabbed her duffle bag. She unzipped it and began to stick her clothes from the dresser in it. Temari didn't even notice what she was doing, she was too into her book.
"TEMARI!" yelled a girl from downstairs. "ASUMA SENSEIS HERE AND WANTS TO TALK TO YOU!" Temari quickly dropped the book and ran down the stairs to Asuma who was standing outside. He asked her if she would help him out later that day with a bunch of files he took out. He wanted her to help him file them all up again. Temari agreed right away and told Asuma that she would see him in his office in an hour. When she went up to her room Kin was carrying her duffle bag over her shoulder.
"Hey…..where are you going?" she asked leaning against the door frame.
"I'm moving out." Kin said simply
"And where do you think you're going to go?"
"I'm going to share a cabin with my friend Ami, she said I could." Kin said walking over to the door.
"Fine with me." Temari said getting mad.
"Well then get out of my way." Kin said annoyed. Temari stepped away from the door and Kin went down stairs. Temari went into her room and looked at the empty side that was Kin's. She noticed that Kin left her portable alarm clock on the dresser. Oh how Temari hated that thing. Temari took it and went down stairs to see a bunch of girls looking out the window towards Kin wondering where she was going. When they saw Temari come down the stairs with an alarm clock they all stopped whispering and watched her go outside too.
"HEY!" she called out "You forgot your stupid clock!" She said as she chucked it at the back of her head. Kin began to turn around and when she did she got nailed in the face with the clock. It forced her to fall over onto the ground. Temari smiled at her fallen body satisfied and she went back into the cabin. When she shut the door the girl's all did something they never thought they would do in a million years. They all cheered for Temari.
"You GO girl!"
"DING DONG THE WICKED WITCH IS DEAD!"
"She looks SO pissed!"
"You're my HERO!"
"You are the greatest!"
"OH MY GOD….that was AH-SOME!"
"I can't believe you just did that."
"Throw something else at her!"
"Where the heck is my CAMERA?"
"I'm taking pictures with my cell right now!"
"Temari you'da GIRL!"
"Temari is SOOOO COOOL!"
"GOOOOOO TEMARI!"
"Girls, girls…..calm down." Temari said easing them away from her with her hands. "I was only giving her back that annoying abomination of a clock. Not my problem that she turned her face into it." All of the girls laughed and began to give her more compliments. Temari had become nicer, but all in all…..she was the same Temari. She wasn't going to take any shit from anyone, but she wasn't going to give it to them if they didn't deserve it either.