Everybody gasped as they watched Hinata fall onto the ground. She had been distracted when Ami and Kasumi called out Kin's name. Hinata began to stand up, and Kin saw this as the perfect time to strike. She ran at Hinata getting ready to push her down by the shoulders when something hit her hard in the forehead causing her to fall backwards. Kin looked up in shock to see Sakura standing with her arm straight out so that she would run into it.
'How she get there so fast?' Kin thought as she stared wide eyed at Sakura's back. 'How did I hit her?'
"Kin!" Kasumi yelled as she helped her friend to her feet.
"You're going to regret that…..FOREHEAD!" Ami yelled as she stuck up her fists.
"WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL HER!" Ino yelled stepping in front of Ami.
"YOU heard me!" Ami said grinning. Ino's muscles began to tense.
"You guys don't fight!" Tenten yelled running in between them.
'Tenten stopping a fight?' Neji thought 'Well that's strange.'
"TENTEN!" Ino yelled
"Do you want to get in trouble?" Tenten asked. Ino looked back at Ami; she then became less tense and looked her up and down.
"You're not even worth it." Ino said turning her back to Ami.
"Don't turn your back on ME you BANCHIE!" Ami yelled as she charged at Ino.
POW
Tenten had her fist in Ami's stomach, and Ami was bent over in pain.
"Tenten?" Ino yelled shocked.
"Did you hear what she just called you?" Tenten yelled pointing at Ami who was on the floor.
"Are you guys okay?" Hinata asked standing next to them with Sakura.
"Well how about you?" Ino asked worriedly.
"What? You mean that little love tap she just gave me? PFT, it was nothing." Hinata said putting her hands on her hips. Ami, Kin, and Kasumi were now all standing up hands on hips, except for Kin who was full of RAGE!
"You're DEAD Hinata!" Kin yelled getting ready to attack Hinata again.
"You better not try." Tenten said taking a step forward. "Hinata was the number one female fighter at Camp Jutsu. Doesn't that mean anything to you? She can take all three of you down, hard! For your own safety, back away slowly cause her calm is as good as gone!"
"You think that little threat scares me? HA! I'm not impressed by a little 16 year old. This is just between me and her." Kin said pointing to Hinata. "And when it's over," Kin looked over at Naruto seductively "It'll be between me….and him!"
Hinata ran at Kin with a sharp uppercut to the nose which forced her head all the way back and blood to come out of her right nostril. Before Kin could even recover from the blow Hinata punched her in the stomach so her head would go down and she could punch her in the face again to give her a black eye. Kin faced the ground panting for breathes but she managed to stay on her feet. Hinata wasn't satisfied yet. She charged at her again but before she could even touch Kin a pair of arms were wrapped around her.
Hinata stood in shock at first since she didn't know why she wasn't moving. When she turned around she saw Naruto behind her but his eyes were shut.
'Oh no. What am I doing?' Hinata thought as she saw Naruto's face. She looked over at Kin who was holding her bleeding nose. 'I lost my calm for a second, and look what happened. Now I know how Naruto felt when I was around Kiba.'
"Naruto…." Hinata said little above a whisper. She still stared at Kin who was being helped to stand straight by Ami and Kasumi who got under her arms.
"Fine…." Kin said. Her eyes were hidden by her hair and the blood from her nose flowed down to her wickedness of a smirk. "You….can have him…."
"He was always mine you wench." Hinata said mumbling only so low that she and maybe even Naruto could only hear. Naruto's grip began to loosen up on her.
"Sides…." She coughed "He's not that great anyways, unless you like losers with big egos and no talent to match."
BAM
Hinata charged at Kin with her right fist and knocked her in the face to the ground. (AN: kind of like the time Naruto finally smashed Haku's Ice mirrors when he had the fox's powers. That kind of punch.)
"wOw Hinata!" Ino said sounding impressed.
"Hinata stop!" Neji yelled running over to her.
"HINATA!" Naruto yelled as he also ran over to her. "What's gotten into you?"
"CAT FIGHT!" yelled a random voice from behind. They turned to look and saw a lot of people who were watching the fight with Kin and Hinata. It had drawn a crowd.
"Any of the coaches around?" Sakura asked getting worried that they would get in trouble.
"Not yet." Tenten said.
"HINATA!" Naruto yelled as he grabbed her by the shoulders. "You could get into serious trouble! What were you thinking!"
"Hinata, do you understand how bad this is?" Neji asked turning her to him. "Hiashi is going to be furious! It'll be in the newspapers!"
"And I'm going to have to deliver them!" Naruto yelled. Hinata let out a short laugh.
"WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?" Asuma yelled as he and the other Senseis ran over to the scene.
"Oh shoot." Ino said.
"GET THE NURSE!" Kurenai yelled as she helped hold Kin up.
"What happened?" Asuma asked looking around for an answer.
"I saw what happened!" someone said from behind the group who had already walked over to Hinata. They all turned around to see Temari standing with her hands on her hips.
"Hold on a second." Hinata said raising her hand.
"What is it Hinata?" Kakashi asked
"Just give me…..a….seconnnnd." Hinata said as she fainted over.
"HINATA!" Naruto yelled.
"Give her some room!" Sakura yelled as she pushed people away. "Naruto, lay her down on your lap. CAN WE GET A STRETCHER OUT HERE?" she demanded.
"You heard her." Kakashi said looking over at Iruka.
"OH, right of course." Iruka said running away. Naruto sat down on the ground and had Hinata's head on his lap. She briefly woke up when he placed her down.
"Na…..naruto. sorry." She said closing her eyes. Naruto looked at how injured Hinata was. He looked over at Kin and grew angry. A hand came down onto Naruto's right shoulder.
"Naruto." Sakura whispered "Don't worry; we'll get her for this."
XXXOOO
Hinata was slowly waking up but her eyes were forced to close with the light from a window pouring right down on her. She began to sit up in the bed she was currently laying in but was pushed back lightly.
"I think it's best if you just stayed laying." A female voice said. Hinata's eyes shot wide opened when she heard the voice. She saw Temari sitting next to her in a chair, and she was smiling at her.
"What…ow….happened?" Hinata asked rubbing her head.
"Simple. Earlier you hit your head hard on the ground during the basketball game. When you head butted Kin you only made it worse, so you fainted." She said simply.
"But why didn't it just happen after I head butted her?" Hinata asked eyes on Temari.
"Probably because you were more determined to beat her shitless and forced yourself to fight, but when you no longer had to, it went straight to your head." Hinata gave out a small laugh.
"So, why are you here?"
"I told Asuma the whole story. I saw it all happen before any of your fans did." Hinata got real confused.
"Fans?"
"You know, all the people who were watching the fight. Just the entertainment people here at this camp appreciate. Two girls in a cat fight, they were disappointed that it didn't continue."
"Oh!" Hinata blushed and then looked around the room she was in. It wasn't really a room but a bed with the curtain pulled around her. "So where are all my friends?"
"Well they all wanted to stay, especially your boyfriend, but Asuma made them all leave so you could rest and so they could continue in the competitions."
"He's not my boyfriend!" Hinata quickly yelled as she sat up in her bed.
"Woe, calm down!" Temari laughed "It just looked that way since you were fighting Kin for him."
"Oh." Hinata said while blushing.
"So why don't you just ask him out already?" Temari asked leaning back in her chair.
"UH……." Hinata looked down at her lap.
"Okay, never mind I asked."
"So how's Kin, and did any of my friends get in trouble?" Hinata asked worriedly.
"Well you don't have to worry about them. I got to Asuma and I told him that it was a fight between just you and Kin. I also told him that she started it and you were just defending yourself."
"So how bad does Kin look?" Hinata cringed.
"Well after what you did to her, let's just say she won't be able to cover it up with makeup." Temari laughed.
"I can't believe I lost my Hyuuga calm." Hinata said putting her hands on her forehead.
"Your last name is Hyuuga?" Temari asked curiously.
"Yeah, what did you think it was?" Hinata asked
"Well I didn't know your last name. Now it makes sense. The reason you and your friends brought up that wheel barrel full of bags to the Hills. You weren't being paid, they were yours!"
"Yeah, we live in the Hills." Hinata said
"So your father got you into the Hills? What number is it?"
"117."
"WOE! I heard so much about that. I heard that you have a plasma screen in it!" Temari said jumping out of her chair.
"Well……yeah but we rarely use it."
"Pft, I'll take it if you don't want it!" Hinata laughed at Temari's reaction.
"Temari, why are you acting so…..nice?" Hinata finally asked. Temari smiled as she sat back in her chair.
"Well, I'm sure you heard about the prank that was pulled in my room a few weeks ago."
"Umm……..yeah I might have heard something." Hinata said
"Well whoever did it obviously didn't like me or Kin. I don't want to be hated anymore by anyone, so I figured I'd just be nice. I always thought people respected me, but they really only feared me. This whole being nice thing has gotten me more friends then I ever hoped to have. But……this doesn't mean I'm a softy!" she yelled
"I believe you!" Hinata said sweat dropping. "You can catch more flies with honey then with vinegar."
There was a small silence between them before Hinata decided to speak up again.
"Temari, why did you help me?" she asked
"What do you mean?" Temari asked
"I mean you told Asuma that Kin started the fight, and you told him we were the only ones involved."
"Oh." Temari closed her eyes and crossed her arms over her chest. "Well I mainly did it to get back at Kin, this doesn't really make us friends you know." Hinata smiled at Temari.
"Whatever you say." Hinata then looked out of the window to her left. It was bright out but she could see some rain clouds.
'Those weren't there earlier.' Hinata thought.
"Temari, how long have I been asleep?" Hinata asked as she looked back over at Temari.
"Just a couple of hours." Temari said nonchalantly.
"WHAT?" Hinata yelled
"Yeah, you missed the lacrosse game and the volleyball game."
"WHAT?" Hinata yelled again.
"Were you in any of them?" Temari asked
"Yeah volleyball!"
"Well it didn't matter because the guys won that one."
"WHAT?" Hinata yelled again.
"And they won the Lacrosse game too."
"……." Hinata fell backwards in her bed. "This can't be happening." She said
"I know it stinks that we lost but…."
"NO, I wanted to watch Naruto mess up in volleyball!" Hinata said.
"You wanted to watch your boyfriend screw up?" Temari asked confused.
"He's not my boyfriend!" Hinata yelled.
"Not yet!" Temari pointed out. Hinata's face then flushed.
"So is everyone doing the obstacle now?" Hinata asked trying to change the subject.
"It supposed to start soon. They pick random girls and boys to do it, and it shouldn't be so bad because all they have to do is jog threw tires, climb monkey bars, climb over a wall, run through mud, and then tag their next teammate."
"That's not so bad. But it does put a lot of pressure on the girls since the guys won three events and we only won two."
"Looks like the guys are going to win this year after all." Temari said sounding depressed.
"NO way." Hinata said making Temari look at her directly. "We'll win this event for sure; you just have to think positively."
"I am thinking positively. I'm positive the guys are going to win."
"I don't think that's what Hinata meant." Asuma Sensei said walking around the curtain.
"Asuma!" Temari said all lit up. "What are you doing here?"
"I need to talk to Hinata, alone if you don't mind."
"No problem." Temari said waving her hand good bye "I'll check on you later Hinata, I'll go watch the game and tell you what happens."
"Thanks Temari." Hinata smiled. Temari smiled knowing she was thanking her for more then just that, but for helping her and her friends out.
"Don't mention it." She said disappearing behind the curtain.
"Hinata, how are you feeling?" Asuma asked taking Temari's seat.
"My head's hurting but other then that I feel fine."
"You obviously haven't looked in a mirror yet!" Temari yelled from the other side of the curtain.
"Good bye Temari!" Asuma yelled. He waited to hear the door to shut behind her. When it did he looked back at Hinata who had a grim expression on her face.
"You don't look that bad." Asuma tried to reassure her. Hinata looked around her bed for a mirror or something with a reflection but there were none.
"Hinata, you know I need to tell your father about this." Hinata's eyes grew wide.
"NO, you can't tell him about this! I'll never be able to come back to this camp again!"
"Hinata it' my job to inform a parent if their child is hurt, and you were unconscious! It'll look really bad for this camp if we don't tell him now!"
"But then he'll pick me up EARLY! I don't want to leave!" she said practically jumping over the side of her bed.
"Asuma the girl just had a head injury, now you're causing her trauma!" yelled Kurenai who walked around the curtain.
"I wasn't, I was just…..she was just…." Asuma tried to speak but he couldn't think of anything to say.
"I'm okay Kurenai." Hinata said getting both of their attention. "But there has got to be a way for you to not tell my father about this." She pleaded to Asuma.
"Hinata Asuma is right, we have to tell him. We need to tell him that some girl started a fight with you and you defended yourself." Hinata grew confused.
'I forgot, Temari told them that Kin started the fight and I only finished it. Maybe I won't get into trouble.'
"I'm going to call him right now on the nurse's phone." Asuma said standing up.
"Do you even know her father's number?" Kurenai asked. Asuma sweat dropped.
"Well I'll just call up my secretary first and ask her to go to Miss Hinata's file. I'll be right back." Asuma walked around the curtain with his hands in his pockets. Kurenai then took the seat next to Hinata's bed.
"We really missed you out there." She told Hinata. "We lost both Lacrosse and Volleyball."
"I know, Temari told me." Hinata said sitting up more in her bed.
"You know it wasn't just your teammates who missed you out there, some of the guys missed you too." Kurenai said winking her eye which Hinata didn't see since she quickly looked straight ahead.
"Oh…..really?" Hinata asked trying to look interested in something else.
'Nothing but a curtain.' She thought
"Another fight almost broke out during the volleyball game."
"Really?" Hinata asked looking back at Kurenai. "Who?"
"It was between Sakura and Ami."
"But….Ami doesn't even play volleyball." Hinata said sounding lost.
"She was standing near the side lines when Sakura hit the ball and it got her smack in the face." Hinata let out a small laugh.
"Sorry, they didn't fight did they?"
"No it was prevented before anyone could do anything, but it seems to me like they already know each other."
"They do." Hinata said. Kurenai widened her eyes. "We all go to school together; Ami and Sakura have a little bit of history."
"How little?" Kurenai asked getting interested.
"When we were little Ami used to make fun of Sakura for her large forehead, and personally I don't think it's that big."
"So, all you girls go to the same school? I mean you Noyamas?" Hinata raised her eyebrow. "Asuma told me about your little name."
"Ino, Sakura, and I all go to the same all girl school down in south Konoha, but Tenten lives in north Konoha. We used to go to Camp Jutsu together every summer until I suggested we try this place out."
"So do you like it better here?" Kurenai asked
"Definitely!" Hinata blushed as she tried to hide her smile.
"Is it because of that boy?" Kurenai asked referring to Naruto.
"Huh? Ummm……." Hinata began to twist the blanket that was over her.
"Sorry Hinata." Kurenai laughed "But that is what you and Kin were fighting about right? Temari said you and Naruto were holding hands and she threw you to the ground."
"Huh?"
'Oh right, Temari must have told them that that's what happened. Well technically that is what happened, so I guess you couldn't call it lying'
"Yeah, that's what happened." Hinata said finally loosening her grip on the blanket.
"I can't believe she would just attack you like that, and over a boy!" Kurenai said starting to get angry at Kin. "I can only imagine what kind of punishment she's going to get."
"Punishment?" Hinata asked worriedly
"Don't worry Hinata; I'm sure you won't get a punishment since you were only defending yourself."
'Kin's going to get punished because of me. I feel terrible, I should tell the truth.'
"Kurenai?"
"Yes Hinata?"
'WAIT A MINUTE! Because of her I thought Naruto was mad at me, which got me hurt! PFT, like I'm going to tell everyone I started the fight. I'll just keep my mouth shut.'
"Nothing, never mind." Hinata said looking way from Kurenai.
"Hinata!" Asuma said coming around the curtain with a phone in his hand. "Your father would like to talk to you."
'He actually got a hold of my father?' Hinata took the phone from Asuma and put it to her ear. She was about to talk to him when she realized Asuma and Kurenai were still in her "room".
"OH, right sorry. We'll leave!" Kurenai said as she pushed Asuma around the other side of the curtain.
"Hello father." Hinata said.
"HINATA, are you alright? What happened?" Her father yelled causing Hinata to take the phone away from her ear.
"Well this girl got a little jealous that….I was…."
"Hinata are you starting from the beginning of the story here? Do you and this girl have some sort of history together?"
"No father! She was just a very mean girl. Neji can tell you all about her too!"
"Neji? How does Neji know her?" Hinata's father asked confused.
"Neji's actually at Camp Shinobi which is right next to our camp."
"Your sensei did tell me that you were having your annual competitions or something. He said that you were at that camp right now?"
"Yes, and Neji is here too, but not here with me in this room, just at this camp."
"Now how badly injured are you?" Hinata's father asked getting back to business.
"Well early I tripped and hit my head, and later I got hit by the girl who attacked me so I fainted."
"YOU FAINTED! FOR HOW LONG?" he yelled
"For probably…and hour or so." She lied "I was also tired from just finishing basketball and from fighting her. I was able to defend myself no problem."
"Well of course you did, you were the best fighter at camp Jutsu, or so I was told by your senseis." Hinata held her breath. Her father knew she was one of the best fighters at camp? "How badly was this girl hurt?"
"I don't know I haven't seen her." There was a silence between them. Hinata knew that Hiashi was trying to get his thoughts together about the entire situation. If word got out about her getting into a fight the newspapers would probably put it on the front page.
"Father….will you please let me stay here at camp?" Hiashi cleared his throat to say something but Hinata cut him off. "I really love it here! This has been the greatest summer ever, and I just want to stay!" Hinata was practically yelling at her father which threw him back. "This whole fight thing will be forgotten and I'm sure the girl will be sent out of the camp so it won't happen again!"
"Hinata." Hiashi said cutting in before she got carried away. "I had no intention of letting you come home early."
"R..really?" Hinata asked looking at the phone in disbelief.
"Nothing is broken on you, is there?"
"Not even a sprain." Hinata said shaking her head.
"Then stay there for the rest of the week. You should enjoy it, especially since your friend Tenten is down there. I know how you always miss her, so you should stay down there to be with her as long as you can. That is why you want to stay so bad right?"
"Well….yes, and there're other reasons."
"Like what?" he asked sternly.
"I made some news friends here." Hinata blushed.
"Life long friends like Tenten?" Hiashi asked.
"I can definitely see us being life long friends." Hinata said trying not to lie to her father.
"Good. Hinata you know when you come back I want the whole story on this girl, you hear me? It was all in defense in your part so even if word leeks out to the media, you should be okay. I want you to relax on your last few days at camp."
"Yes father."
"I'm going to make it official with your senseis too."
"Alright father, should I give Asuma the phone now?"
"Very well, see you in a few days, and take it easy."
"I already feel better, nearly a 100 percent!" Hiashi smiled.
"Well don't get active till your beyond that."
"I will father." Hinata put the phone down on her lap. "Asuma, you can have the phone back." Asuma quickly popped back around the curtain grabbing the phone from Hinata.
"Thank you Hinata." Asuma said taking the phone away from her. As he walked back around the curtain so he could have his conversation privately Hinata wondered if he was eaves dropping on her own conversation with her father. Hinata looked over at the window to see a few rain drops on it.
"It's going to rain," she said out loud "That's too bad." She closed her eyes and began to fall asleep.
XXXOOO
Naruto was walking faster then his friends as they headed for the nurse's office to see how Hinata was doing. Despite the rain that had begun to pour down on them they all kept up the same pace.
"We'd better hurry and get there." Sakura said "Or we'll be too wet for the tie-breaker."
"I still think those girls were on steroids." Shikamaru said from the back of the group.
"Yeah, their running abilities were a little out of the ordinary." Sasuke pointed out.
"Don't be jealous guys!" Ino smiled "Those girls are just super competitive is all, it's just too bad that we can't use them in the tie-breaker."
"You're right," Tenten said as she stepped in a puddle "The tie-breaker is supposed to be a canoe race or something and that takes a lot of upper body strength."
"Something all those girls had." Sakura said
"Can you guys hurry up?" Naruto called from the front. They all picked up their pace and were almost at the doors of the nurse's office. They noticed someone leaning against the door, and to their surprise it was Temari.
"I watched the end of the race." Temari said as they all stopped and stood in front of her. "Looks like the girls will win yet again."
"There's still one more competition left." Neji said.
"Alls that means is one more event to smoke you in." she smirked.
"How's Hinata?" Tenten asked worriedly. Temari's face grew serious.
"She's………a lot better. Don't worry, I just peeked inside and she was sleeping again."
"Again?" Sasuke asked
"So you mean, she woke up?" Sakura asked
"That's right, and she's just peachy keen!" Naruto clenched his fists when he heard Kin's name.
"And what about Kin?" Shikamaru asked
"That little princess is fine too, but let me tell you, Hinata got her good. She was sleeping when I looked in her room and you wouldn't even recognize her."
"Can we go in?" Ino asked
"I guess you all should since you're in the rain. Just stay in the front part of the office though since Hinata is still sleeping."
They all quietly walked in and stood in front of the nurse's desk. There was a small four person couch so Tenten, Ino, and Sakura sat down. Shikamaru and Sasuke leaned against the nurse's high desk and Naruto and Neji stood close to where Hinata was sleeping. They couldn't see or hear her but were convinced she was still there. Naruto didn't like to wait so he began to pace around. The girls watched him walk back and forth which made Ino laugh.
"What's so funny?" Sakura asked
"It looks like Naruto's an expecting father by the way he's pacing back and forth." All three girls giggled to themselves.
"We'll tell Hinata that one later." Tenten giggled "She'll faint over it." Suddenly the door opened with Asuma and Kurenai walking in.
"Shouldn't you all be at the mess hall?" Asuma asked the group. "Everyone was instructed to go there do to the rain."
"We can't just sit around with Hinata still sleeping." Shikamaru said.
"We're really worried about her Asuma Sensei." Sakura said standing up with her hands close to her chest.
"We know you're worried about her but you all still need to leave and wait in the mess hall till the rain lets up or she wakes up." Asuma said crossing his arms.
"Now hold on." Naruto said walking over towards Asuma. "What if we yeAAAHHHH!" Naruto yelled as he slipped on a puddle of water and landed on his back.
"Naruto!" Sakura yelled
"WHAT THE HECK!" Naruto yelled as he got to his feet. "Where'd that puddle of water come from?"
"The water from your clothes." Shikamaru said.
"Naruto, you're too loud!" Sakura told him "You'll wake up Hinata."
"Too late." Temari said peeking around the curtain "She's already awake." Naruto quickly ran over to where Temari was pulling the curtain and went inside. Hinata was beginning to sit up right in her bed, while wiping her eyes. Naruto went to the side of the bed where a chair was. Hinata looked up after wiping away the sleepiness in her eyes to see Naruto looking down at her intently which caused her to blush.
"Hinata…." He whispered. "Are you….okay?" he asked slowly pushing away some hair that was on her face. He touched her gently thinking that if he touched her any harder she would some how brake. Hinata grabbed Naruto's hand and placed it on her cheek.
"I'm fine." She smiled warmly. They both stared into each others eyes; Naruto's being full of worry while Hinata's were full of reassurance. She looked fine and Naruto began to believe that she was by just looking at her.
"HINATA!" Ino, Tenten, and Sakura squealed as they ran into the room ruining their quiet moment.
"You feeling okay?" Tenten asked going to the other side of the bed. Ino and Sakura threw Naruto away from Hinata and Ino grabbed Hinata's right hand.
"We were so worried about you!" Ino said near tears.
"How's your head feel?" Sakura asked putting the back of her hand against her forehead.
"It feels fine, I feel fine." Hinata said taking Sakura's hand away from her. "Is Neji here?"
"Right here." Sasuke said pointing at Neji who was walking in right behind him with Shikamaru.
"How are you feeling?" Neji asked standing besides Tenten.
"I feel fine. I bet I could even stand up and play some sports if I wanted to. But Neji just a heads up, my father is probably going to talk to you about what happened." Neji gave Hinata a very confused look.
"Hiashi? Why is he going to call me?"
"I was talking to him on the phone a while ago. He wants to know what happened to me here but wants your side of the story. I told him you were there."
"Why didn't you just tell him when you had him on the phone?" Neji asked
"Well I tried….but…." Hinata began to trail off. How was she supposed to tell her father the only reason she was in a fight was because of a boy? Her father would lock her in her room for the rest of her life!
"Don't worry Hinata." Neji said putting his hand up to silence her. "When Hiashi calls me I'll just tell him the truth."
"That's what I'm afraid of." Hinata said looking down at her lap.
"KIN!" Two loud voices yelled as the front doors slammed opened.
"What's going on?" Tenten asked out loud.
"Looks like Kin's flunkies brought her sports bag." Temari observed from the side of the curtain. "Wonder why they brought that in here." She said closing the curtain again.
"I'll go do some snooping." Ino offered. Temari put her hand up as to stop Ino from walking any further.
"Nah, I'll go check out what's going on." Temari smirked and walked around the curtain.
"Well that was nice of her." Sakura said still staring at the spot where Temari was standing.
"Hinata stay down." Tenten said when Hinata began to slide her feet over the bed.
"No, I'm fine. I just need to get out of this stiff bed." She put her hands firmly down on the bed to push herself up.
"I wouldn't try that if I were you." Sakura warned. Hinata just shook her head and stood up.
"See," she said taking a few steps forward. "Nothing to iiiT!" Hinata began to feel light headed and fell forward with Ino and Sakura catching her by the arms.
"Told you so!" Sakura chirped
"How'd you know she'd fall over?" Ino asked.
"That's how I always feel when I lay down and get up real fast. I'm sure it makes it even worse when you do it after a head injury." Sakura said helping Ino help Hinata to sit on her bed again.
"Okay you were right," Hinata admitted "Just don't tell Asuma or he'll make me take it easy from now on."
"I bet he won't even let you do the tie-breaker." Tenten said pouting.
"WHAT!" Hinata yelled jumping to her feet.
"OH, that's right." Ino said scratching the back of her head. "We forgot to tell her that we won our last event."
"so….WE WON?" Hinata asked getting excited.
"YEP!" Sakura said proudly "But none of us were in it."
"That's okay," Hinata said "That just means that we could all do the tie-breaker!"
"That's right!" Tenten said realizing it too. "We should try to convince Kurenai to let us all do it."
"But they won't let Hinata do it since she got hurt." Neji pointed out.
"I'll just have to convince them that I'm better." She shrugged
"Hinata, you shouldn't push yourself." Said the muffled voice of Naruto who was getting up off the floor.
"I was beginning to wonder where you were." Sasuke said.
"You mean you couldn't even see me? Oh COME ON! You were standing right next to me." Naruto said pointing an accusing finger at Sasuke who was standing with his arms crossed and eyes closed.
"Sasuke's a very stolid person, isn't he?" Tenten said to Neji.
"What are you talking about?" Ino said over hearing her. "All three of these guys are emotionless, except for Naruto." She said looking over at Naruto who was still yelling at Sasuke. Sasuke only responded to his yelling with a shrug, and all of Naruto's yelling was starting to give Sakura a head-ache.
"I'm going out to the front; it's too….crowed in here." She said giving Naruto the evil eye.
"I'll join you." Sasuke said walking out behind her.
"Pft, whatever." Ino said rolling her eyes to focus back on Hinata. Hinata began to stand up again but didn't walk any where. "Don't go anywhere." Ino warned her "Cause Sakura isn't here to catch you if you fall."
"I'm just going to take it slow." She said looking up at the ceiling.
"Hinata if you really don't think you're body is going to be able to do much the rest of the day then you might as well lay back down." Naruto said walking closer to her.
"Naruto's right." Neji said.
"Wow, never thought I'd hear Naruto and right in the same sentence without does nothing in between them." Shikamaru said leaning against Hinata's bed. Shikamaru leaned against the controls that made the bed move up or down. He hit the up button hard which forced the top part of the bed to hit Hinata causing her to fall into Naruto who was standing where Sakura was once standing. Hinata's arms wrapped around Naruto when she fell and her head fell right into his chest.
"Ouch…" Hinata moaned ignoring the fact that she was so close to Naruto.
"Good plan Shikamaru!" Ino giggled. Hinata then realized where she was and let go of Naruto.
"Sorry Hinata!" Shikamaru said beginning to freak out.
"You okay?" Tenten laughed
"I'm okay," Hinata blushed "Even thought my landing was kind of hard." Naruto began to smile wickedly at what Hinata unintentionally said.
"Well I do work out every day!" He said flexing his muscles.
"Let's try not to get cocky." Ino said rolling her eyes.
"Well that's Naruto for ya." Shikamaru said
"AM NOT!" Naruto defended.
"Hey guys!" Sakura said running around the curtain. "You're NOT going to believe what Ami and Kasumi brought Kin."
"You mean while you were hooking up with Sasuke you noticed?" Ino teased. Sakura blushed a red as did Sasuke who was only standing right behind her.
"Anyways! They brought her some clothes to get dressed into AND she packed her hair gel."
All of the guys looked confused, but the girls all understood.
"I can't wait to see what happens." Tenten said growing evil.
"What's wrong with it?" Shikamaru asked.
"It's a girl thing, don't get involved." Neji warned. Shikamaru shrugged his shoulders.
"Temari is still spying on them." Sakura said as she walked back to the other side of the curtain. She walked back over the couch and Sasuke sat down on it.
"Haha….can you believe they thought we were hooking up?" Sakura asked nervously.
"Oh…yeah." Sasuke said turning red while keeping his stolid posture.
"Yeah…." Sakura said sitting down on the arm of the couch.
They both just sat their quietly just tapping their feet nervously or looking around the room. Sakura cleared her throat to say something but no words came out. Before she could try to say something again Sasuke interrupted her.
"Do you wanna……" He began to look at her blushing a strong red.
"Hook up?" she finished.
"Well I wasn't going to say that…." Sakura became embarrassed and looked down at her swinging legs. "But we can if you want." Sakura's legs stopped moving and she slowly looked over at Sasuke. His brow was sweating and she could hear him gulping hard, which he was praying she didn't hear.
"Sounds good to me!" she smiled. Before Sakura could even think Sasuke pulled her down onto his lap and locked lips with her. Her eyes were opened wide to the surprise of it all while his were shut. His lips were so hungry for her and she could tell by the quickness of his kissing. Sakura wrapped her arms around the back of his head to deepen the kiss that was getting harder by the second.
Temari was walking back from Kin's door when she noticed Sakura and Sasuke on the couch together. She stood right in front of them but they didn't notice her.
"Uh-HEM!" Temari said clearing her throat. Sasuke and Sakura stopped right away but Sakura didn't leave Sasuke's lap.
"Oh….hi Temari." Sakura said unwrapping her arms from Sasuke's head. "How long have YOU been there?"
"You mean you haven't noticed?" she laughed as she crossed her arms. Sakura and Sasuke looked at each other. "I'll just leave you two alone." She said walking back to Hinata's room. When she went behind the curtain again Sasuke and Sakura let out the air they were holding in.
"That was embarrassing." Sakura said rubbing her head.
"Yeah." Sasuke agreed as his face continued to glow a profound red.
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Temari walked back around the curtain to see Hinata standing with Tenten with their arms linked. They were both pointing at Ino and Shikamaru who were both blushing.
"What's going on?" Temari asked
"Just teasing those two love birds!" Hinata laughed still pointing at Ino, and Shikamaru who was standing very uncomfortably.
"Well….you're one to talk." Ino said pointing a finger at Hinata.
"How'd this all start?" Temari said cutting in.
"I'll shed some light on it for ya." Naruto said clearing is throat. Everyone in the room looked at him as he began to explain.
FLASHBACK
After Sakura left, Ino began to laugh which made everybody look at her.
"They were so making out." She laughed holding in her sides.
"Yeah they probably were." Hinata agreed.
"How are you girls so sure of this?" Shikamaru asked
"It's just a girl thing." Ino put simply. "We know everything."
"What kind of logic is that?" Neji asked.
"Ino logic." Tenten said "But it's true as far as I'm concerned." Neji was then convinced.
"Ino logic? The whole thing sounds pretty lame." Naruto said. One of Ino's veins popped.
"Yeah, I think your logic, needs some logic." Shikamaru added. Ino's mouth was a gape. She was so shocked at Shikamaru.
"oooooooooo." Naruto said poking Shikamaru. "You're in trooouble." Shikamaru got nervous.
"What I do?" he asked shaking.
"You just dissed Ino!" Hinata said nearly laughing.
"So did Naruto!" Shikamaru said defending himself.
"Yeah but she's not my girlfriend." Naruto said nonchalantly. Ino and Shikamaru both stiffened, as Tenten along with Hinata grew evil grins.
"Yeah Shikamaru, how could you not agree with your girlfriend?" Hinata teased. Shikamaru's face grew completely red.
"I'm not….his…." Ino couldn't spit out the words. Shikamaru couldn't even speak at that moment.
"Don't even say you're not his girlfriend when you both hooked up in the woods." Tenten said. Now Ino and Shikamaru looked like they would die of a heat stroke.
"When you guys get married can I be in your wedding?" Hinata laughed as she skipped over to Tenten who moved around the other side of Neji.
"ME TOO!" Tenten yelled as she and Hinata linked arms. "We'll walk down the aisle like this!"
"No fair, I wanted to walk down with Hinata!" Naruto whined.
"There's no one on earth that I'd rather walk down the aisle with." Hinata said growing hearts in her eyes. "I just want to wrap my arm around your strong arm!"
"Well that's why it's there." Naruto said as he flexed his arm again causing some of his shirt to rip.
"WOE Naruto, you're so cool!" Neji said putting his hands on his face in awe.
"Naruto let me spit shine your shoes." Ino said getting down on her knees.
"You look a little tense Naruto, mind if I rub your back?" Shikamaru asked already rubbing Naruto's shoulders.
"You're all too kind, please stop. Except you Shikamaru, you keep doing that." Naruto said as everyone in the room looked at him in awe.
"WHAT?" Ino yelled interrupting Naruto who was explaining what happened. "Let me shine your shoes? YOU'RE WEARING SNEAKERS!"
"You're so cool? Pft, yeah right." Neji scoffed.
"And that part…about your back….sort of creepy." Shikamaru said.
"So you mean, that's not what happened?" Temari laughed.
"NO!" everyone in the room yelled.
"Let me tell you what happened." Tenten offered.
CONTINUE FLASHBACK
"No fair, I wanted to walk down with Hinata!" Naruto whined.
"Too bad!" Hinata said sticking out her tongue.
"Now what kind of dresses are you going to make us wear?" Tenten asked. Ino looked at them with her mouth wide open.
"Oh LOOK!" Hinata said pointing at them both. "Their mouths are opened, their matching!"
"And their faces are red!" Tenten said pointing at them too.
END FLASHBACK
"That's when you came in." Tenten finished by crossing her arms.
"Oh I see now." Temari said putting her hands on her hips. "Hey, can I be in this wedding too?"
"WE'RE NOT GETTING MARRIED!" Ino and Shikamaru both yelled. They both looked at each other and began to blush again.
"Dang, you sure?" Hinata asked.
"HEY, would you just cut it out already!" Ino demanded. "Don't even get me started on you four! Hinata and Naruto almost kissing but never actually doing it. AND Tenten and Neji who both think the other doesn't like the other." Naruto, Neji, Tenten, and Hinata all turned red and began to fidget in their place. None of them looked at the other but instead looked to another part of the room that might be interesting.
'Nothing but a curtain.' They all thought.
"Yeah, that's what I thought." Ino smiled satisfied. Shikamaru began to relax to since everybody in the room seemed to feel a little awkward and not just himself.
"Oh I get it now." Temari said. "You all like each other." She smirked. Then everybody went back to feeling awkward. "Hey no worries, it looks so cute that all you little kids like each other."
"Little kids? HEY, I'm 17!" Tenten yelled. "Do I look 16? Cause Kin called me a little sixteen year old earlier." Hinata's response was a shrug.
"Still younger than me?" Temari shrugged.
"Um….if it's okay with everyone, can we go get Asuma and tell him I'm fine." Hinata said trying to change the subject.
"Good idea!" Ino said nervously. "Let's get out of here." Ino hurriedly walked over to the curtain and began to pull it all the way around so it would no longer be a room. When she did all the girls gasped as they saw Sasuke and Sakura making out on the couch.
"You guys?" Hinata called out. Sasuke and Sakura immediately stopped. They both jumped to their feet and rubbed the back of their heads nervously.
"Hey guys!" Sakura said.
"Well excuuuuse us for interrupting." Ino teased.
"Ew, they were like eating each other." Tenten giggled.
"SHUT UP Tenten!" Sakura yelled.
"Don't blame her for stating the plain in sight." Hinata laughed.
"We're going to go get Asuma." Shikamaru told Sasuke and Sakura. Thankful that Shikamaru changed the subject for him, Sasuke offered to run out and find him.
"I'll go with you too." Sakura said heading out the door after him. She shut the door behind her and walked next to Sasuke.
"You know that they're just going to think that we're only leaving to make out." Sasuke told her.
"It was either that or stay in there and have them give me the third degree about what we were doing."
"Well….wasn't it pretty obvious what we were doing?" Sasuke asked. Sakura began to smirk and so did Sasuke. She grabbed his left hand and linked her fingers around his. As they continued to walk around in the slowly dieing rain Sakura could feel Sasuke squeezing her hand every now and again. She squeezed his hand back every time. After five minutes of walking around the camp looking for a sign of Asuma Sasuke let go of Sakura's hand.
'Hey he let go! Maybe he doesn't want to me seen with me? Hey wait!'
Sasuke put his arm around Sakura's shoulders. She looked up at him and blushed a small shade of pink.
"Sorry," he told her "But if I were wearing a jacket I would have just lent that to you." Sakura gave him a confused expression. "You just look cold is all." he smiled. Sakura then shivered realizing with the lightly pouring rain and her having no sleeves, she was cold. Sasuke felt her shiver and he wrapped his arm around her tighter. Sakura then stopped walking which made Sasuke stop. He looked down at her and she tip-toed up to kiss his lips. He kissed back but wasn't sure why she kissed him in the first place.
"Your lips looked a little cold." She told him when they broke apart. Sasuke smiled at her warmly and tightened his arm around her. She put her arm around his waste and leaned into him. His body was giving off warm heat that she loved!
"See Asuma anywhere?" Sasuke asked.
"Who cares." She said almost intoxicated.
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"You know they only left to make-out, right?" Ino asked everyone in the room. Everyone shook their heads yes. "Luckys." She mumbled to herself.
"Heard that!" Tenten laughed.
"Heard what?" Hinata asked.
"NOTHING!" Ino yelled as she covered Tenten's mouth. Hinata raised an eyebrow.
Suddenly the door swung open to reveal Kiba, and Lee. They were both fighting their way threw but the other was blocking the other.
"Get out of my way!" Kiba yelled.
"I had my foot in the door first, let ME threw!" Lee demanded as they both twisted around to get in.
"No way!" Kiba yelled pushing Lee's head away.
"Yes way!" Lee yelled pushing Kiba's stomach.
"Guys?" Hinata asked "What are you doing?" Kiba and Lee both stopped bickering and straightened up.
"HINATA!" They both yelled happy to see their friend standing. Lee ran in and hugged Hinata.
"We were all worried about you down at the mess hall!" Lee said.
"WOE, give her some room!" Kiba yelled pulling Lee off of Hinata.
"Thanks Kiba." Hinata said catching her breath.
"Don't mention it." He said dropping Lee on the ground, which Neji couldn't help but laugh at. "How are you feeling?"
"Well enough to beat the guys at the tie breaker." She said putting her hands on her hips.
"Oh no!" Kiba said getting everyone to worry. "She's delusional! QUICK, somebody put her in a bed. She obviously took one too many blows to the head!"
"SHUT UP!" Hinata yelled as she hit him in the head. Kiba fell to the floor and Lee stood up.
"Nice hit Hinata!" Lee said giving her the thumbs up.
"Shud-ap." Kiba told Lee when he stood up.
"Serves you right for thinking we're going to loose." Ino told him.
"Yeah, we're SO going to win." Tenten said happily.
"Hm, that's strange." Neji said. Tenten looked up at Neji in confusion. "Hinata was the one who got the head injury yet, Tenten's the delusional one." Tenten shook her fist at Neji while a big vein in her forehead throbbed.
"You'd better watch yourself Hyuuga!" she yelled. Neji's only response was closing his eyes and crossing his arms.
"Guys," Hinata said "When we convince Asuma that I'm better we have to beg Kurenai to let us four do the canoe race."
"YEAH!" Ino agreed. "And I know just what to tell her too!"
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Excuse me for the long update. Remember the days where i updated the very next day? Now it takes me two weeks because i started school. OH WELL! I hope you enjoyed it! But let me tell you this. My ENTIRE inspiration for the story is about to FINALLY happen in my next chapter. Well this next one or the one after. have a nice day!