At the girl's camp in cabin 117 Ino, Sakura, and Tenten were collapsed on their couch. Each of them were hanging over a part of it and none of them could move since all of their coaches made them do something extra for being late. The front door opened and Hinata trudged in tired out of her mind. The girls only greeted her by raising their hands, which was hard to do. Hinata dropped her bag and on the ground and walked over in front of the couch. She had no strength to go to her room and collapse on her bed, and the couch was currently occupied so she just fell to her knees.
"Ouch." Hinata said as she hit the hard floor. "You guys tired too?"
"Yeeeah." Ino moaned
"All of our coaches made us do something extra for being late." Tenten said.
"Same here." Hinata said "Even at the art club. Me and Ino had to clean off everyone's brushes since we walked in when she was talking."
"I got paint on my shirt for that." Ino said sounding exhausted.
"You shouldn't have taken off your apron." Hinata said giving a quiet laugh.
"I'm so hungry, should we go to the mess hall for dinner?" Sakura asked rubbing her stomach.
"Yeah, I can't wait for dinner." Tenten said as her stomach growled.
"If we can even walk there." Hinata said
"I know, walking up that hill was so hard to do." Ino said
"I just can't wait to sleep." Hinata said laying on the floor.
"Same!" Sakura yawned
"And then tomorrow, will be the competitions." Tenten yawned
"I just can't wait for them to be over." Sakura said as she tried to sit up right on the couch.
"Then all our couches will go easier on us." Ino said sounding relieved
"Not unless we lose a sport. They'll make us work harder so we can improve for next year." Tenten pointed out
"UGH, you're right!" Hinata said hitting her forehead.
'Then we better beat the guys at every single sport." Ino said sitting up right. They all sat quiet for a second when they realized that they only had one more day before seeing the guys. All at once the girls jumped to their feet and began to scream.
"WOOHOOOO!"
"I get to see Neji!" Tenten squealed as she hugged herself tightly
"I can finally see Shikamaru!" Ino said jumping up and down on the couch.
"I finally get to talk to Naruto!" Hinata yelled as she hugged herself tightly and spun around.
"Me and Sasuke are going to make out SO MUCH!" Sakura laughed as she jumped up and down with Ino on the couch. Ino just rolled her eyes at Sakura, but then began to laugh when she decided that she and Shikamaru were going to make out too!
All the girls forgot how fatigued they just were and all began to talk rapidly about what they would wear and how they should do their hair.
"Shouldn't we just wear what we need to wear for the sports?" Tenten asked. They all looked at her like she was crazy.
"Well…..we should at least make it look cute!" Ino said "And we'll have to wear our hair up differently then we normally do."
"Don't you even think about touching my buns!" Tenten threatened as she saw Ino's eyes look at her hair.
"Fine, fine." Ino said putting her hands up as if surrendering.
"Ino you should wear pigtails!" Sakura squealed with excitement.
"HINATA YOU TOO!" Ino yelled looking at Hinata's long indigo hair.
"Well…I guess I could, but I've never worn pigtails before."
"That's WHY you should!" Ino said putting her hands on her hips. "Sakura it's too bad your hair is still short, other wise you could have had pigtails too."
"Well it's not as short as it was in the beginning of the year." She pointed out.
"How short was it?" Tenten asked
"It was at least below my ear, now it touches my shoulders ever so nicely." Sakura said as she ran her fingers threw her pink locks. "Did you guys know that Tenten's hair is longer then mine?"
"WHAT?" Ino and Hinata both yelled
"Yeah it goes past her shoulders, and it has some waves in it." Sakura continued to say.
"Tenten!" Hinata yelled "WHY won't you show us your hair length?"
"It's nothing personal," Tenten said scratching the back of her head "I just prefer to keep it up at all times."
"That's just silly of you Tenten." Ino said "I want to see you with your hair down! Sakura says it looks really pretty and I just want to see TOO!"
"Yeah Tenten, if Sakura thinks it looks nice then you wont have to be worried about being embarrassed or something." Hinata said. Tenten began to feel the peer pressure.
"NO! I just want to leave it up, I'm not embarrassed er anything I just want it up in buns."
"PLEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!" All three girls asked giving their best smiles.
"NO." Tenten said crossing her arms.
"Please please pleeeeeeeeeeeeease!" they all asked again as they got down on their knees.
"Nope." She said seeing how pathetic they all looked.
"Come ON Tenten!" they all demanded
"….no." she said getting a little intimidated by them.
"YOU HAVE TO!" They all yelled
"I don't wanna."
"Tenten!" they all yelled
"What if you just wore it down just once." Hinata said trying to reason with everyone.
"Once?" Tenten asked sounding like once wasn't so bad.
"YEAH, just once. PLEEEEASE!" Ino and Sakura both cried
"Okay….JUST ONCE!" Tenten said putting up her index finger.
"SCORE!" They all yelled
"So when should I wear it down?" Tenten asked almost regretting the agreement.
"How about at the last dance!" Hinata offered
"YEAH! That sounds extremely perfect!" Sakura said cheering "And I can do your hair in some loose CURLS, even though your hair is already curly."
"Actually my hair isn't curly; it only gets like that because it's in buns all the time. My hair is naturally straight!"
"I'm SOOO excited to see!" Ino said jumping up and down like a maniac.
"Well I'm only going to do it for the dance, and nothing else." Tenten said
"We'll see about that." Hinata mumbled to Ino.
"What are you mumbling over there Hinata?" Tenten asked
"Nothing!" she said looking guilty.
"Come on you guys, let's go get dinner!" Sakura said walking to the door.
"FOOD!" Tenten cheered.
"When we get back we'll need to pack for tomorrow." Hinata said going to the door.
"I still think it being at the boy's camp means it's going to be rigged." Tenten said following Hinata.
"They can rig it if they want, but we're still going to win." Ino said as she shut the cabin door.
XXXOOO
The guys were all exhausted from the extra work their coaches made them do. They already ate dinner and were now all laying in their beds trying to get to sleep. It wasn't so hard for them tonight since they were extremely tired.
Neji had just realized earlier in the day that they would all be playing against the girls in just basketball. Sasuke and Naruto would be swimming against the girls, and he would be playing lacrosse against Tenten and Sakura. They would all play soccer against Tenten, and the guys were being forced to play volleyball since no one signed up for it so they would play against the girls in that too. Also, Neji heard a rumor of what the tie breaker might be this year. Most years they didn't need a tie breaker since the girls won more sports then the boys but regardless they always had a tie breaker waiting just in case. He heard that it might be a canoe race across a creek. They would have to go threw it and finish the race on streams that lead far away from the camps, so no one could watch who finished but there would be people there to tell who won. Neji just hoped that they wouldn't have to use the tie breaker and that the guys would just win.
'If the boy's win this year it'll be all because of us being here. There's no way we're going to loose, even if that means beating Tenten in the process. I mean…beating the girls. They're going to be here at 9:00 tomorrow, and the competitions wont start till 11:00 so then we can talk before it all starts. Maybe tomorrow I should tell her how I've been feeling lately.'
XXXOOO
Naruto went to sleep with only ONE thing on his mind. Ramen. When Naruto gave back Lee his green spandex he also convinced him into asking the lunch lady to make some ramen instead of chilly. She was really confused as to why, but she complied since Lee was her absolute favorite. Naruto ate his fill at lunch and at dinner. His stomach was very happy and because he was full he went to sleep really easy, the only thing he could think of was Ramen Ramen, and more Ramen.
XXXOOO
The next morning the girls were to all report to the auditorium at 8:15 so they could all enter the buses at 8:30 to get to the boy's camp at 9:00. All of the girls went to the auditorium, bags in hand, and were very excited to be seeing the guys soon. Some girls were more focused on beating the boys then flirting with them.
Ino, Sakura, Tenten, and Hinata sat in the second to last row with their bags sitting on the floor by their feet. They were all a little nervous but they tried to keep their cool. When Asuma went onto the stage to talk to the girls the entire room grew quiet. He tapped the microphone to make sure it was working and then he cleared his throat.
"Alright girls, I don't think I have to tell you how to behave once we reach the camp. We'll all be going to their mess hall to hang around until it's time to get started. We're guests here so I don't want any funny business going on, well okay you can have a little bit of that but we still need to show them that we're really there to have some fun. And…..KICK THE CRAP OUT OF THEM!" All of the girls began to cheer and scream like wild animals. "ALRIGHT, alright, now everyone will leave in just a minute. You'll all go on to the busses that will be here shortly. Each bus will have a councilor on them so no one will try to do anything that they shouldn't. To the rest of you, see you at Camp Shinobi." With that he walked off the stage and all the girls screamed and cheered. After ten more minutes of sitting and talking a councilor announced that the busses were here and that the girls could go out to them. Everyone practically rushed out the doors of the auditorium and pushed people aside. Since Ino had decided that they should be late so they could get the last seats in the auditorium, they were one of the first people out. They all ran to the very last bus that was parked in a line of busses. They sat in the last four seats and put their bags down with them so they wouldn't have to share a seat with someone if there weren't any more seats on the other busses.
The busses were off and they all rode for a good half hour before they were entering Camp Shinobi. All the buses lined up in the front of the camp and all the girls got off to go straight to the mess hall. A lot of the girls wandered around the area before actually going to the mess hall, they even talked to some boys who were delighted to talk to them.
When Ino, Sakura, Hinata, and Tenten got off of the bus they couldn't help but laugh at what they were just talking about. Kurenai was the councilor on their bus and Asuma couldn't find any bus that had a free seat so he went on their bus. Sakura dared Ino to yell 'Kiss her!' but Ino refused to do so. When Sakura said she'd pay her ten bucks Ino was more then happy to. After she yelled it she ducked her head behind her seat. Asuma and Kurenai both looked around and blushed madly. Everyone on the bus cracked up, and called people on other busses to tell them about it.
"Ten dollars please!" Ino said as they walked in the direction of the mess hall. Ino had her hair up in her regular ponytail since she was too occupied with perfecting Hinata's hair. Hinata had two pigtails that she had resting over her shoulders. She was wearing a red skirt since the first event was swimming and she could easily take it off when it was time for the event. She also had on a white baby tee and you could see her red bikini top through it. Sakura wore a pink skirt with a sea green tank top. She like the other girls was wearing her bathing suit under her clothes. Tenten wore her camo pants that went to her knees but since she was wearing her bathing suit she let them loose and the right side slanted to expose her bikini bottoms. She also borrowed Ino's black tube top that showed her stomach. Ino wore a black skirt and instead of a shirt over her bikini top she wore a blue long sleeved sweater that tied in the front so you could see her entire stomach.
"FINE! I'll give it to you when we get back to the cabin." Sakura said throwing her hands in the hair. "I still can't believe you did it though."
"Me too!" Ino said "I guess I'm just so great that I even surprise myself!" Sakura and Tenten rolled their eyes. They continued to walk around thinking they were going to the mess hall but none of them had a clue. They looked around to see if a group of girls were all heading somewhere at once which would probably mean they were heading to the mess hall, but all of the girls were talking to guys.
"I wonder where the guys are." Ino said as she looked around for any signs of them.
"Hey Kin, do you see him yet?" yelled Ami. All the girls turned around to see Kin, Ami, and Kasumi. They were all giggling with each other and were being even louder then normal.
"No but he should be around here somewhere." Kin laughed
"You still have to tell us his name!" Kasumi laughed
"And what he looks like!" Ami laughed
"Well he's the hottest guy here!" Kin laughed "You'll know when you see him!" she laughed as they all ran away in another direction.
"Wow, Kin found love." Sakura said
"Wonder who the poor soul is." Tenten said crossing her arms as Hinata and Ino laughed.
XXXOOO
The guys were heading down to the entrance at the camp. It was 9:16 when they left their cabin and they knew that the girls would get at the camp around 9:00. Once they got down there there were girls everywhere. A lot of them were eyeing the four guys up and down, but they just tried to ignore it.
"If they went to the mess hall already then that means they won't let us in." Shikamaru said "So we should try to find them quick."
"Hope they're still around." Sasuke said as he looked at groups of girls hoping to find them.
"I just can't wait for lunch!" Naruto said "Sanshou made extra ramen which means ramen again for LUNCH!" Naruto shouted.
"I still can't believe she made more ramen for you just because you got Lee to ask." Neji said looking around.
"Yeah, that Sanshou is pretty cool for an old woman. Maybe I can get on her good side too so she'll make me ramen whenever I want." Naruto laughed. As soon as Naruto did he bumped into somebody. "Hey….oh sorry about that." Naruto said as he turned around to face a girl with long black hair.
"That's okay." She laughed "My name's Kin." She stuck out her hand and Naruto shook it.
"You're name sounds really familiar for some reason." Naruto said letting go of her hand.
"Well it should, I am the prettiest girl in Camp Kunoichi. And you must be the hottest guy at Camp Shinobi." She said giving him a sexy smile. Naruto gulped hard and gave her a questioning look.
"Well…..thanks I guess." He said scratching the back of his head nervously.
"Actually….to tell you the truth I thought you were really hot from the first time I saw you at the dance." Kin said trying to act nervous. "I couldn't wait to see you again, so bumping into was just on purpose." Naruto blushed slightly. He never had a girl bump into him on purpose before, and a pretty one at that.
"Well…..uhh…sorry but…."
"Look there's Tenten!" Shikamaru said pointing to a head of buns running threw a group of girls.
"Let's go get her." Sasuke said following after Neji who already tried to follow her.
"Well I have to go now…butitwas…nice meeting you!" Naruto said hurriedly as he followed his friends.
"Bye Naruto! I'll cheer for you!"
"Okay!" he yelled as he ran threw the group of girls.
XXXOOO
Tenten could have sworn she heard Naruto laughing so she ran threw a big crowd of girls.
"Guys I think I can hear Naruto!" she yelled as she ran away.
"Really!" Hinata said getting nervous
"Calm down Hinata." Ino said "You shouldn't get nervous." It didn't matter; Hinata was already getting butterflies in her stomach. As they walked over to the group of girls to cut through and follow Tenten, she ran right back out and stopped them from going any further.
"I was wrong!" she yelled "It wasn't them, so let's just hurry to the mess hall!"
"No I really want to find…" Ino began to say but Tenten began to glare at her as if saying, 'INO shut up and do as I do.' Ino got the message loud and clear, Sakura caught on too.
"Well then let's go to the mess hall Hinata!" Tenten said shoving Hinata along.
"But…what about the guys?" Hinata asked as Sakura and Ino pushed her too.
"Oh, we can see them later!" Sakura said.
They found their way to the mess hall and sat down at a random table. Tenten dropped her soccer ball on the floor and it rolled across the room.
"Oh no!" she said watching it roll away.
"I got it Tenten, its closer to me!" Hinata said as she got up to fetch the ball. When she was gone Ino and Sakura leaned across the table to hear what Tenten had to say.
"Okay, I did see Naruto and the guys but what I saw wasn't really good."
"What'd you see?" Sakura asked
"Well I saw Kin, she was like flirting with Naruto and was blushing! Not to mention he was looking really nervous!" Sakura and Ino gasped. "Look, I could be wrong, but I know what I saw and didn't want Hinata to see it."
"Yeah I would have done that too." Sakura said "But like you said we don't know so let's not think the worst here, alright?"
"Yeah, and we wont tell Hinata either." Ino added. Juts like that Hinata walked back over with the soccer ball.
"I still don't get why you brought your soccer ball." Hinata said as she handed it to Tenten
"So I could warm up first." Tenten defended.
"So we have three hours before we do anything, what are we going to do now?" Hinata asked. The girls all looked at each other for an idea, but they couldn't think of anything.
XXXOOO
"Are you sure you saw Tenten go this way?" Neji asked as he looked around.
"Yeah, I saw her run this way." Shikamaru said looking around.
"Look there they are!" Sasuke said pointing off towards the mess hall. He could only see Tenten shove her friends in there, and didn't see Sakura. "They just went into the mess hall."
"Now we're not going to be able to see them for another three hours." Shikamaru said
"So then we'll just have to wait." Neji said. "No big deal."
"Oh yeah? Well I saw how fast you were running when Shikamaru said he saw Tenten." Sasuke said smirking at Neji. Neji chose to not respond to the comment.
"OOOH…..Kin is the girl that Zaku likes." Naruto said finally realizing why the name sounded so familiar.
"She's also the girl that Hinata pulled a prank on." Neji said
"Still can't believe they did all that." Sasuke said sounding proud.
"OH YEAH! Now I remember." Naruto said thinking back to when Hinata called Neji on his cell phone and told him what they had done. He smirked thinking about Hinata, then he cringed when he thought about Kin. "OH MY GOD!" he yelled
"What's wrong?" Sasuke asked
"That girl Kin likes me. But what about HINATA! How am I going to get that Kin girl away from me? Hinata is going to KILL ME!"
"Number one, I think you should worry more about Zaku then Hinata." Shikamaru said.
"And number two, Hinata isn't the jealous type." Neji pointed out. "If she knows you like her and not Kin, then who cares you'll be fine."
"Phew!" Naruto said wiping the sweat that started to form on his brow.
"But you still have to worry about Zaku." Sasuke quickly added.
"I can take him on." Naruto said swatting at something that wasn't there. "So let's rest up before the first event starts."
XXXOOO
Three hours went by rather quickly since most of the girls were really nervous. Half of the girls thought it was taking forever since they were only there to watch and support the girls. Kurenai came into the mess hall to tell the girls who were going to be in the swimming competitions that they needed to be at the pool, NOW. All the girls who were going to swim got up and left for the pool area. The pool was outside and had only three sets of tall bleachers. Most of the people would have to stand and watch.
When the girls got closer to the pool Livvy ran over to them. They hadn't seen her all day.
"Hey guys, are you excited?" she asked all cheerful.
"Ummm, no." Sakura said
"Aw come on, don't pull that on me. You need to think positive, it should be really easy. The girls have won this sport for nine years running, this year makes it TEN!"
"Great that makes me even more nervous." Sakura said as she held her stomach.
"Aw come on guys, cheer up!" Livvy said as they made it to the pool. When they walked closer to it and Ino took a look at the water she felt sick.
"I don't think anything will cheer me up." Ino said sounding sea sick.
"I know what will!" Livvy said determined "Did you know Kin moved out of my cabin?" All the girls stopped and faced Livvy.
"SHUT UP?" They all yelled in disbelief.
"No, it's totally TRUE! And when she left Temari threw an alarm clock dead center of her forehead!" All of the girls forgot about being nervous and began to laugh very hard. Other people stared but they didn't care. As their laughing began to slow down Ino heard her name being called.
"Ino?" the male voice asked.
XXXOOO
The four guys from cabin 117 went down to the pool early so they would be there before everyone else got there. Neji and Shikamaru weren't really supposed to but went anyways with Sasuke and Naruto. Once they walked in they already saw their other competitors were all ready in there. As they walked closer to the pool they heard a bunch of familiar laughing, laughter they all knew too well. They looked around and Shikamaru saw Ino.
"Ino?" he asked. Ino turned around and Shikamaru couldn't help but blush. She looked really hot in his opinion and he could see how surprised she was to see him, but a good surprised.
When Ino turned around she almost fell over just looking at Shikamaru. She forgot how hot he looked, and she missed him so much.
"SHIKAMARU!" she yelled as she ran over to hug him. Shikamaru almost fell over when she did, and he wished that he did fall over, but he stopped thinking perverted thoughts right away and hugged Ino tightly. He had no idea how much he missed her until that moment.
"Sasuke!" Sakura yelled as ran over to Sasuke to give him a hug. Sasuke couldn't believe how extremely hot Sakura was looking. At first he couldn't help but keep his eyes on her legs, but when she hugged him he was just happy to have her in his arms.
"WOE!" Livvy yelled "Where did you get these guys from, and where can I get one?" she asked jokingly. Tenten and Hinata laughed at her comment. Neji and Naruto walked over to Hinata, Tenten, and their friend. Naruto couldn't believe how nervous he got when he saw Hinata. He forgot all about her the day before when they were serving ramen but now if you asked him what his favorite flavor was he would probably say 'Hinata'. Naruto began to get seriously big butterflies in his stomach, and his palms got all sweaty. He couldn't believe this was the same Hinata from two weeks ago, and she didn't change that much, except for her hair style. He couldn't even stare at her directly which was really strange.
Hinata started to wonder why Naruto was acting all weird, and why he wasn't looking at her very direct.
"Neji, Naruto, this is our friend Livvy." Hinata said introducing her friend.
"It's nice to see you guys, but I really need to go. Don't want to be a fifth wheel." She mumbled as she giggled away. Tenten noticed Naruto not looking at Hinata, but then was focused on Neji when he cleared his throat.
'Oh no!' Tenten thought 'what should I say?'
"Hi, Tenten." He said
"Hi Neji, how have you been lately?" she smiled
"Just practicing for these competitions." He said
"So then are you ready to loose?" she laughed
"You wish." He said giving her a teasing smile.
"How about you Naruto, are you swimming?" Hinata asked
"He obviously is Hinata, he is wearing swim trunks." Neji pointed out.
"Well Neji, she's not looking at his swim trunks." Tenten teased. Hinata blushed.
"Yeah I am." Naruto said "What else are you going to do?"
"This, basketball, and volleyball." Hinata said "How about you?"
"This, basketball, soccer, and volleyball but I'm being forced." Naruto said. Hinata laughed at his reaction to volleyball, and sweet GOD did he miss it.
"Well this should be a good year to beat you guys." Hinata laughed
"Oh really?" Naruto asked almost slyly and raising an eyebrow. "And why's that?"
"No real reason, it's just…."
"YOU DON'T HAVE A PRAYER!" Tenten yelled finishing it off for Hinata.
"Hold on, what are you guys talking about?" Sasuke asked as he walked over with Sakura holding his hand.
"How we're going to beat you!" Hinata said sweetly
"Isn't that cute how they think that?" Naruto teased.
"PUH-lease, we are SO going to beat you guys." Tenten said smiling
"Well not this year." Neji said "It's going to be different."
"How so?" Tenten asked corking one of her eyebrows.
"Well this year, they have US." Neji said proudly.
"Well that's too bad because the girl's have something to counteract that this year." Tenten said also proudly.
"Lemme guess what that could be." Neji said "you?"
"Hell YES!" Ino yelled walking over with Shikamaru.
"Actually I think that puts it in our favor even more." Shikamaru said joining in the conversation. Before anybody could say anything else they all heard some girls yell.
"HOT DAMN! Look at the kid in spandex!" Everybody looked over at the pool entrance to see Rock Lee running towards them. The moment Tenten saw him she gulped hard. It didn't go unnoticed either. Neji, Hinata, Sakura, and Shikamaru heard her.
"Tenten!" Lee yelled as he ran over. Tenten turned a pale pink when he called her name. Almost a second later Lee had Tenten locked in a tight bear hug. Tenten didn't move. "Tenten, it is so great to see you! MY, you certainly have bloomed into a beautiful flower!" he said as he winked at her and giving her the good guy pose once he let her go. "HINATA! I can't believe it's YOU!" Lee yelled as he hugged her tightly too. Naruto didn't like Lee's "friendliness" towards Hinata.
"LEE, it's really great to see you!" Hinata said hugging him back.
"You have changed as well. Your hair is much longer than before; you too are blossoming into a beautiful flower."
"Thanks Lee, you look just the same as always." She said smiling.
"It is so good to see you both. Now who are your two friends?" Lee said talking about Ino and Sakura.
"This is Ino, and this is Sakura." Hinata said pointing to each girl. Sakura had already let go of Sasuke's hand.
"SAKURA!" Lee yelled. He went down on one knee and grabbed her right hand. "You are truly a figure of beauty. I would be honored if you were to go out with me!" Everybody, especially Sasuke, Tenten, and Sakura, dropped their jaws in complete shock.
"Lee, you seem really nice but….no." Lee fell over anime style while still holding her hand.
"Buh…buh…what's wrong with me?" he asked almost crying.
"It's not you Lee, it's just….I'm NOT interested."
"So hands OFF!" Sasuke yelled as he kicked Lee's hand from Sakura's. Sakura blushed at what Sasuke said, and Lee stood up to brush himself off.
"Oh I see. You both are already expressing love to the other. I understand now. You two must be dating." Sasuke and Sakura both turned a blinding red.
"Lee….shouldn't you be getting ready for soccer?" Neji asked growing aggravated with Lee's presence.
"I was on my way when I noticed Tenten." He said making Tenten blush. Neji noticed this and was not happy. "I suppose I should get back to that right away. I will see you my friends later!" he said as he began to jog away.
"That kid is seriously disturbed." Sakura said
"I know." Ino agreed "HOW COULD HE PICK YOU OVER ME?"
"Just drop it for now Ino," Sakura said "We need to stretch before we begin swimming." All the girls nodded. They then noticed a lot of people filling the stands already.
"HEY GUYS!" Livvy yelled from afar. "WE NEED TO GET READY!"
"HERE WE COME!" Sakura yelled "Bye guys, see you two later." She said addressing Neji and Shikamaru.
"Yeah, you both better hurry and grab a front row seat!" Ino said
"Alright then, good luck to you guys." Shikamaru said walking away with Neji.
"Thanks!" Ino said
"No I meant them." Shikamaru said pointing to Naruto and Sasuke
"HEY!" she yelled.
All of them went to the beginning part of the pool, where Shikamaru and Neji were lucky enough to get seats in the third row. The referee put them in order of boy girl boy girl. There were going to be two races of eleven people. They would have to swim to the end, back, to the end and back again.
The first group went up with Livvy in it. She won second place after a boy which she was very unhappy about. Now it was time for the second group to go.
In the beginning of the line, closest to where Shikamaru and Neji were sitting, Ino was first, followed by a boy, then Tenten, then Sasuke, then Sakura, then a boy, then Hinata, and then Naruto followed by more girls and boys. Before the girls went up to their starting points they had to take off their clothes, the guys just had to take off their shirts. When the guys lined up and noticed the girls weren't there they looked over back to the benches where they saw them taking their clothes off. Sasuke and Naruto couldn't help but shake when they watched Sakura and Hinata take off their skirts. It was then they realized that they didn't have one pieces on but TWO pieces.
From the bleachers Shikamaru watched fixedly as Ino got undressed. He also heard some wolf whistles from the crowd who were enjoying the view too. Neji also watched Tenten take off her tank top and pants. He had never seen a body like that before. He just realized how big her chest was at that moment.
"Check out those knockers!" A boy from behind Neji said. Neji clenched his fists; he also took a mental note to beat that guy later.
"Hey Yashiro." Some other guy yelled "It's that girl. Isn't she your girlfriend?"
"Huh? HEY, that's the girl who wrestles. I wouldn't mind wrestling her NOW." Yashiro said aroused. Neji was now officially going to kill Yashiro when no one was looking.
When the girls got back in the line Naruto couldn't help but stare at Hinata's, body. He had never seen a body like that before, AND he never thought Hinata would own one.
"Good luck Naruto." Hinata said as she looked over at him while he was staring at her. Hinata blushed and so did he.
"Yeah….you too Hinata!" he smiled
"NARUUUTO!" Yelled a female voice from the crowd. Naruto and Hinata both turned around to see Kin on the bleachers "GOOOOD LUCK!" She said as she blew him a kiss. Tenten witnessed all of this too. She watched Naruto to see what he would do. Naruto just rubbed the back of his head nervously.
"Uhhhh, THANKS." He said turning around nervously. Hinata kept staring at Kin, and when Kin looked at Hinata she smiled and waved.
"GOOD LUCK HINATA!" Kin yelled. Hinata just gave her a small wave and looked back at the pool.
'Naruto knows Kin? But…how?' Hinata looked over at Naruto. He was staring at the pool water but when he felt Hinata staring at him he looked at her.
"What?" he asked nervously
"Nothing." Hinata said getting ready to dive. Naruto looked at her longer and then he also got ready to dive.
When the gun went off they all swam real hard. Hinata was swimming even harder than she wanted to, but she was so mad at Kin for wishing Naruto good luck. Damn her!
At the end of the race Hinata won with Sasuke in second and Naruto in third. The people who were in first, second, and third place in both races were going to deicide the winner by doing the same thing as before. The line up was Livvy, the boy who won the first race, Hinata, Sasuke, Necima who was third in the first race, and Naruto. Naruto wanted to yell good luck to Hinata but Kin cut him off when she yelled to him.
"GOOOOO Naruto!" she yelled and screamed. Naruto waved nervously at her and then looked over at Hinata. Hinata looked focused and determined; she also looked a little miffed.
The gun went off and every person in the pool was giving it their all. When they were coming back their second time it was a tie between Naruto and Hinata. (AN: what are the odds?)
The referee decided that Naruto and Hinata would both have to race one more and final time. They would do the same thing as before and the first one to come back would be the winner.
"YOU CAN BEAT HER Naruto!" Kin yelled from the stands.
"HEY!" Livvy yelled "SHUT UP YOU TRADER!" Kin stuck her tongue out while Hinata and Naruto got ready for the next race. The referee held up the gun getting ready to fire. Naruto couldn't help but sneak a look at Hinata before the gun went off. He could have SWORN he saw her crying, but he convinced himself it was either water or sweat.
The gun went off and Hinata and Naruto swam as hard as they could. Hinata was holding back in the first two races, as she always does when she swims. She knew she could beat Naruto easy, and decided that she would to get back at Kin for not cheering her on. Hinata soon took off like a torpedo zooming right by Naruto. Naruto was really shocked as were all the other people who were watching. When Hinata touched the beginning of the pool indicating she won, Naruto had just turned at the end and was swimming back.
All the girls broke in a huge roar of cheers for Hinata. When Hinata got out of the pool a blue towel was wrapped around her along with hugs from all her friends.
"You were unbelievable!" Ino yelled
"I can't believe you can move that fast!" Livvy yelled
"ME NEITHER!" Tenten cried
"That's the first win of many!" Sakura sang.
Neji and Shikamaru went over to the pool over to Naruto and Sasuke.
"Nice work Naruto." Sasuke said
"We were all counting on you." Neji said
"Hey, not like I already don't feel bad about the whole thing, but in my defense I think Hinata takes some sort of steroid to go that fast!" They all looked over at the girls hugging Hinata. Naruto went over to her and hugged her from behind.
"YOU WERE AMAZING!" He yelled which made Hinata happy inside.
"Thank you Naruto!" Hinata laughed.
"Hinata since when can you swim that fast?" Neji asked as he walked over to her.
"Um….since forever." Hinata said laughing nervously.
"You could be an Olympic swimmer if you wanted to." Shikamaru said walking next to Neji.
"Thanks!" Hinata said happily.
"Tenten!" Kurenai yelled as she ran up to the group. "Come on lets get down to the soccer field. I want my best player warming up already!" Tenten was a little embarrassed but was happy that Neji got to hear from her coach that she was the best player.
"Alright Kurenai Sensei, I'll hurry up!" Tenten said wiping her head off with her towel.
"You better, soccer starts in a half an hour!" she said as she walked out of the pool area for the soccer field.
"You know Tenten; you're going to have to do your hair again since it's all wet." Sakura pointed out.
"Don't worry about it Sakura." She said with her teeth clenched. "Hinata let's go to the bathrooms." She said taking Hinata by the hand and going to their bags.
"I still don't understand why girls need to go to the bathroom together." Shikamaru said
Ino and Sakura just rolled their eyes as they went to go get their bags. All the people who were going to watch the soccer game were already in the bleachers waiting. Tenten got dressed in her soccer clothes and redid her buns so they were now perfect! She and Hinata both walked down to the field together. Hinata was wearing black shorts and a purple tank top; it was her basketball outfit, which would be next. Ino and Sakura caught up with them and they were both wearing their basketball clothes too. Ino had on red shorts with a blue tank top and Sakura had on green shorts with a pink tank top.
The three girls all were about to depart from Tenten when Hinata remembered something.
"Tenten! Don't forget about the plan!"
"Plan…? OH, operation Lee's weakness!" Tenten giggled.
"Yeah Tenten, go out there and play like a girl!" Ino cheered
"You can take on that bushy eyebrows guy any day of the week." Sakura said "As long as you play on his weakness." She added
"I know, I guess nobody is better at soccer then Lee, so I'll have to use his weakness." Tenten said
"And don't be surprised if it's Neji's weakness too!" Hinata laughed which made Tenten blush red.
"Yeah…right!" Tenten said
"I bet you five bucks its Neji's weakness too!" Sakura said
"I'll see your five bucks and raise you the ten that you owe and say that at first it looks as if Neji could careless, then he'll care, then he'll beat up Lee." Ino said crossing her arms over her chest proudly.
"HA, fine deal!" Sakura said shaking her hand. Hinata only sweat dropped.
"We'll be routing for you!" Hinata said hugging Tenten.
"Thanks guys!" she yelled as she ran to the field.
The girls all went over to the bleachers and made it to the top row. They could see the field and everyone on it. The boys were stretching out and the girls were going over what they would do.
"I hope we win!" Hinata said
"I hope the plan works." Sakura said
"Hey Hinata, your hair looks really cute like that." Ino said taking not of Hinata's pigtails that were curling.
"Oh, well it does that when it's wet and I don't blow dry it." She said as the boys and girls went on the field to start the game. "Okay, here they go."
"Here I go." Tenten said out loud as she gulped hard.
The referee brought the ball over to the center. Tenten was playing towards the back, and straight across from her was Neji. He was smiling at her which made Tenten's right knee quake. She smiled back and then heard the referee blow his whistle which meant the start of the game. Tenten then was brought back to reality and so was Neji. The ball was kicked by the boys but a girl got it back and started to bring it down the field.
The ball was basically being kicked back and forth from one person to the other. Ten minutes into the game and no one made a goal, and Rock Lee wasn't even in the game yet. The referee then blew his whistle and the boys team called for some subs. Rock Lee and Naruto both came in with two other boys. The girls switched some players out too including Tenten. The next five minutes had been the worst for the girls. Rock Lee had made four goals on his own. It wasn't looking good at all and Kurenai Sensei was freaking out!
"OKAY!" she yelled "We need to get Tenten in there, NOW!" she yelled "HEY REF, I WANT A SUB!" The referee blew his whistle and Tenten went into the game taking the place of an exhausted girl.
"He's…….too….fast." she huffed as she went to the benches.
'Alright Tenten, you can do this. I just have to play his weakness; as much as I wouldn't want to I HAVE to.'
Tenten ran in and they game started up with a guy taking the ball down to the goal. He past it to Naruto and Naruto ran it the rest of the way down.
'I have this in the bag!' Naruto thought as he got closer to the goal. As soon as he was about to kick Tenten came out of no where and took the ball from him.
"Huh?" Naruto turned around to see the back of Tenten. She was running really fast, and had the ball all to herself the rest of the way to the goal.
Lee was no where in sight, so Tenten lined up her shot and kicked scoring the first goal for the girls. Now the ball was in the boy's possession. Tenten was running across from Lee and he was about to receive the ball when he heard Tenten call out to him.
"OW, LEE my ankle!" she yelled slowing down grabbing her ankle. Lee forgot about the soccer ball coming for him and went over to help Tenten. The ball went to another girl on the team and she took it down to goal. She past it to someone else and they SCORED!
"Sorry Lee, but I'm fine now!" she smiled as she ran away from him. Lee looked confused but then decided to shrug it off.
"LEE….YOU IDIOT!" Naruto yelled "The ball was so YOURS!"
"Sorry Naruto, but Tenten needed help." Naruto looked over at Tenten who seemed to be doing just fine. Naruto saw Neji with the ball and then ran over to help him out.
"LET'S GO!" Naruto yelled to Lee.
Neji had the ball but didn't have an opened shot; he saw Sasuke open and kicked it to him. Sasuke got it and took it down even further. He saw Lee open and kicked it over to him.
"OUCH! LEE I NEED YOU!" Tenten yelled as she fell on her butt. Lee quickly ran over to her and the ball was taken by a girl. She kicked it to another girl who passed to another girl who shot and made the goal. "Sorry Lee, I'm cool now!" Tenten said getting up and running away. She ran right by Sasuke who began to wonder what had gotten into her. Shrugging it off and thinking that she was just being clumsy he continued to play.
The plan was working even better then expected. Alls Tenten had to do was pretend she needed help and Lee would come running to her rescue. The score was now 10 to 5 in the girls favor. Tenten was in most of the game, but wasn't getting tired just yet. Shikamaru was finally brought into the game and he quickly had a word with Neji, Naruto, and Sasuke.
"Every time Lee is about to get the ball Tenten pulls the damsel in distress act and he runs to her rescue." Shikamaru pointed out.
"Lee's weakness." Neji said smirking "Hinata is pretty smart."
"What's Hinata have to do with this?" Sasuke asked
"It doesn't matter, right now we just need a plan." Neji said thinking
"Don't worry about it, I already thought of one." Shikamaru said.
The whistle blew and all the players went back to the field. The guys had possession of the ball now, and they had a plan too. They were bringing the ball down the field and it was about to be passed to Lee who was even further down.
'Okay, here I go again.' Tenten thought as she prepared herself to topple over. She did but before she could do anything about it Neji was at her side helping her back up.
"Are you alright Tenten?" he asked looking at her slyly.
"I…um…"
'Oh crap…does he know our plan?'
"Thank you Neji." Tenten said as she stood on her own, just then a goal was scored by Lee.
"It was nice while it lasted." Neji said smirking "But we have our own little plan now." Tenten looked shocked at Neji, and now that they knew how to stop Tenten it would be the end.
"We only have three minutes left of this game, and we're still winning." Tenten smirked
"We'll see about that!" Neji said as he ran a few yards from her so he could be there if she tried to fall again. Tenten knew this was bad. She didn't know what to do to prevent Lee from scoring any more, he was too fast.
'Would faking a heart attack be too drastic?' she thought to herself. All of a sudden the referee blew his whistle. A girl form the team was brought out and another girl with pink hair was sent in.
"SAKURA?" Tenten yelled. Sakura ran over to Tenten and she must have borrowed someone else's outfit since she didn't own one. Sasuke and the other guys looked shocked and puzzled all at once as they saw her enter the field.
"Sakura…WHAT are you doing here?" Tenten asked
"Hinata knew that when Shikamaru was sent in that he would probably know our plan so she decided to send in me since I was probably Lee's new weakness." Tenten looked over at Hinata and she was waving at her along with Ino.
"I don't know about this." Tenten said shaking her head. "It could back fire on us."
"How so?" Sakura asked puzzled.
"Well," Tenten began to say in a hushed voice "He might try to show you how great he is and will be even more determined to win!"
"OOoh. Good point." Sakura said as they ran over to the center of the field. "Hopefully this plan works more then the last one, which by the way you pulled off greatly."
"Thanks! Here comes Lee." Lee had the soccer ball and was headed for the goal.
"HIIIII LEE!" Sakura yelled. Lee turned around to look and he practically stumbled when he saw Sakura. In the process he lost the ball and a girl took control over it.
"Sakura, you do your thing with Lee, I can take the game from here." Tenten said getting ready to run towards Naruto who was about to steal the ball from the girl.
"You sure?"
"Positive!" Tenten yelled as she ran away. Sakura shrugged her shoulders and began to wave to Lee. Lee couldn't help but drool and stare as Sakura waved to him. No girl has ever, especially one a hot as Sakura, waved at Lee like that.
Meanwhile Tenten chased after Naruto who stole the ball. She easily tripped him and sent him flying. Tenten took ball and made it back to the other end of the field, but Neji was blocking her shot so she passed to an opened girl. Her shot was clear and she made a goal. There was now less then a minute left in the game and there was no possible way for the guys to win. Sasuke wasn't so interested in the game anymore. He just kept glaring at Lee ogling Sakura. The score was eleven to six with less then a minute to go. Sasuke knew there was no hope for them then, so what he was about to do was just getting back at Lee.
Naruto then had the ball and had a clear path in front of him to run down. Before he could, Sasuke called Naruto and told him to give him the ball. Naruto did as he was told and kicked the soccer ball over to Sasuke. Sasuke began to run with it towards Lee, and his eyes grew dark.
"Hey Lee, HERE!" He yelled as he kicked the ball with all his might in the direction of the drooling Rock Lee. Lee had not idea what was going on, he only stared at Sakura who just kept waving cutely at him. Sakura then stopped waving when she saw Sasuke kick the ball to Lee.
'He has no idea the ball is heading for him. This isn't going to be pretty, I better do something.' She thought. It was too late because right before Sakura could warn Lee about the ball it came and hit him hard right in his boys.
BAM!
The ball hit its target, right in between Lee's legs. All of the guys who were watching, including Sasuke, cringed and put their hands over their own crotches protectively. Lee fell down to his hands and knees. He began to pant and his left eye was twitching. He was trying so hard to not scream and make himself look like a loser in front of Sakura, but the pain was too overbearing for him and he began to punch the ground repeatedly. Sakura felt sorry for him, it looked like he was bout to explode. She looked over at Sasuke and could see him also smirking a little. When he felt her stare he looked over at her and she looked disappointed in him. Just at that moment was when Gai and Kakashi ran over to aid Lee, well Gai ran Kakashi took his time.
"Lee….SPEAK TO ME!" he yelled as he got down on his knees to help him. A bunch of Lee's team mates just watched from where they were and all the girls got into a little group to talk about what just happened while they watched Lee in agonizing pain.
Meanwhile at the bleachers
"Did you see that?" Hinata asked Ino
"Yeah, Lee got hit in the nuts!" she said
"NO, well yeah, but I mean Sasuke kicked the ball at him purposely so it would hit him there."
"OOoooh, he must have been upset that Lee was ogling Sakura." Ino said stating the obvious.
"Poor Lee, because of our plan he got himself hurt." Hinata said feeling bad.
"Well it wasn't like he got kicked in the nuts. He was lucky it was only the soccer ball." Ino said
"You're right." Hinata said agreeing. "He should count his blessings."
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Well i hope you liked this chapter! Plenty more to come, but i wasnt sure if this one was okay so review and tell me! Thank you all SO muchly!