"I didn't trip on it I slipped on it!" Neji yelled.
"HINATA!" Sakura, Ino, and Tenten yelled as Ino and Sakura ran over to their friend. Sasuke and Neji turned around from their argument to see Naruto and Hinata immerging from the trees.
"HINATA!" Sasuke and Neji yelled. Sakura and Ino were already hugging Hinata and they were all crying.
"I can't believe you're okay!" Sakura cried.
"We were so worried!" Ino balled.
"Me? I was so worried about all of you!" Hinata cried.
"Hinata!" Neji said as he and Sasuke came over to them. Hinata let go of Ino and Sakura to hug Neji. She cried into his sweatshirt and wrapped her arms around him so tight. Neji's face was a mixture of calmness and relief, but his hug told Hinata that he was completely worried about her. His arms were even shaking a little bit when he tried to hold her tighter.
It felt good to be in her "brother's" arms where she felt safe, but now her other brothers wanted to see her as well.
"Looks like it was a good thing you were stuck with Naruto." Sasuke said as Hinata then gave him a very big and unexpected hug. "I don't think you have one scratch on you." he said as he hugged her back.
"Hey! Isn't any one going to say hi to me?" Naruto asked insulted that no one seemed to be worried about him.
"Hinata!" Shikamaru said as he walked over to Hinata giving her a hug.
"Aw, COME ON!" Naruto yelled as he pulled his hair.
"Where's Tenten?" Hinata asked looking around.
"I'm over here!" she said sitting on a stretcher. Hinata practically gasped when she saw her just sitting there. She ran over to Tenten along with Ino, Sakura, and Neji, who walked over.
"Good to have you back." Sasuke said to Naruto as he gave him his hand to shake. Naruto gave him a smirk and shook it has they both gave a "guy hug" which involved patting on the others back.
"Yeah, it was quiet without you." Shikamaru said as he did the same thing.
"Shikamaru how did you and Ino make it?" Naruto asked curious.
"Questions later," said a female counselor. "We need to get you checked out." She said as she put her hands on his shoulders and led him to one of the ambulances. Sasuke and Shikamaru followed right behind them.
"Tenten!" Hinata cried as she hugged her friend.
"Careful!" Neji warned as he cringed at seeing Hinata give Tenten a huge hug. "You might hurt her!"
"Neji calm down already." Sakura said putting her arm up in front of his chest to restrain him.
"Hinata I'm so happy you're alright!" Tenten cried.
"I'm just so happy to see you in one piece!" Hinata told her. "Why are you on this bed?" she whispered.
"Neji won't let me leave it." She whispered right back. Hinata let out a short laugh.
"Aw he likes you so much!" she whispered to her again as a few more tears rolled out of her eyes.
"Nah, he just wants to make sure I'm okay." She whispered as they broke their hug. Hinata smirked and shook her head no.
"So how did you all get here?" she asked looking at all of them. "And Ino, what did you and Shikamaru do?"
"You can all talk later." A male voice said from behind. They turned around to see Kotetsu. "Right now we need to get Miss Hyuuga checked out. Follow me to that ambulance and so someone can take a look at you." He said as he walked away with her right behind him. When they went to the back of an ambulance Hinata was surprised to see Sasuke and Shikamaru leaning against it.
"What are you watching?" Hinata asked noticing their smiles they were trying so hard to contain.
"Naruto." Sasuke laughed as he pointed inside the ambulance. Hinata peered around the corner to see Naruto in so much pain while a counselor was putting disinfectant on him.
"Hold still kid!" she yelled as she tried to put more on his arm. Hinata noticed that Naruto was practically covered from head to toe in bandages. Even across his chest he was wrapped up.
"How can I hold still when you're trying to KILL ME?!" Naruto yelled. Naruto heard Sasuke and Shikamaru laughing but then he heard some slight giggles. Naruto looked up and could see Hinata laughing at him too.
'OH SHIT!' he thought as he sat up straight. Naruto then stopped screaming and squirming since Hinata was watching.
"Hey I got another one for ya'!" Kotetsu said talking to the woman.
"Bring her in, I'm almost done with this kid." She said as she finished bandaging Naruto's arm. Kotetsu helped Hinata in the ambulance and she sat down on the bed opposite Naruto.
"We'll be right back." Sasuke called in as he and Shikamaru walked away behind Kotetsu.
"You both are lucky to not have as many wounds on you like your friends." The woman said as she began to check out Hinata's legs.
"Really?" Hinata asked.
"Yeah, that one girl actually was out cold when she was brought here."
"Oh my gosh, who?" Hinata asked.
"The girls who's wearing buns." Hinata put her hands to her face.
"I can't believe this! And she looked so fine too."
"How long ago did they get here before we did?" Naruto asked as he touched the bandages on his forehead.
"Almost an hour ago, maybe even less." The woman said as she took the warn bandages off of Hinata's knee. "OH MY! This wound looks terrible! What happened to you?" she asked Hinata.
"Oh this? I got this from basketball earlier in the beginning of the day. Come to think of it, it seems like forever ago since we've played basketball."
"Woe, that was today?" Naruto asked. "I could have sworn it was yesterday."
"Well no worries, I've got it in some fresh bandages now." She said as she finished with Hinata's knee and began to clean off her arms. She got bandages on her arms and a little Band-Aid on her left cheek. "Alright boy, now be a gentleman and step out of this ambulance so she can get some clothes on." The woman said with a stern voice. Naruto said nothing at all and jumped out. Once he landed he shouted up to her. "Happy?!"
The woman's response was pressing a button that slammed the doors automatically. Hinata laughed a little bit as the woman handed her sweatpants and a long sleeved shirt. Hinata got dressed in them but put her Camp Kunoichi sweatshirt on top.
"Alright you can come back in now!" The woman yelled as she through open the doors. There stood Naruto holding himself tightly and shivering in only his trunks since the woman had to bandage his chest. "OH MY!" she yelled as Naruto walked back in the ambulance shivering. "I guess I shouldn't have let you out shirtless." Naruto slowly glared at her as his teeth chattered. "WOOPS, there are sweatpants right there, I'll go get you a sweatshirt and I'll get you both something hot to drink." She said running out of the ambulance. Naruto slowly sat down back on his bed.
"Naruto, are you okay?" Hinata asked worriedly as she went over to him.
"Yeah….I'm f.fine." he chattered. Hinata smiled at him and took his hands in hers. Naruto smiled, she was pretty warm. "Oh my gosh, you're so cold!" she laughed as she put her right hand on his chest. That did it for Naruto and his face and neck turned red. Hinata didn't notice this since she was busy looking at all of Naruto's bandages.
'How could she have said that we were the ones that came out with not many scratches? Just looking at Naruto makes me wonder how he's alive. He has them across his chest, and on his arms. Aw even his hands are covered in them. How is he not in any pain?'
"Yeah I know I got a lot of these." He said seeing how she was looking at all his bandages.
"Sorry, how come you're not in so much pain?" she asked.
"Pft, this is nothing." He said no longer sounding cold. "I've been in worse pain."
"Like when she was putting disinfectant on you?" Hinata giggled. Naruto sweat dropped.
"I wasn't in real pain, it was like annoying pain." He said.
"Oh, okay!" Hinata smiled.
"It's true!" he yelled.
"Naruto I believe you." she said.
"Well your face says other wise." He told her.
"So do you want me to leave so you can get dressed?" she asked as she walked over and grabbed the black sweatpants where the woman said they would be.
"Yeah I guess you can leave, but I would have given you a hell of a show." He told her slyly.
"Naruto!" Hinata gasped as she blushed a hard red.
"I'm just playing with ya'!" he laughed as he stood up.
"Something tells me that you weren't." she said holding up the pants.
"Yeah, I wasn't!" he smiled. He leaned down and began to kiss Hinata again. To them it felt like they hadn't kissed in a very long time even though it was really only thirty minutes ago. Hinata dropped his pants so she could wrap her arms around his neck to deepen the kiss.
(AN: Yeah I know that sounded weird about her "dropping his pants" LMAO)
Naruto put his hands on her waist to pull her closer to him, and as soon as he did he could hear people gasping. He and Hinata both stopped and turned to look to see all of their friends staring at them from outside the ambulance.
"GO HINATA!" Ino cheered as she and Sakura smiled and laughed.
"It's about time." Tenten said standing with Neji holding his arm. Neji was going to yell at Naruto but Tenten's comment not only cut him off but shut him up. Neji just looked down at Tenten and raised an eyebrow at her which she didn't notice since she had hearts in her eyes.
"AWW, there first kiss was in an ambulance!" Sakura cooed.
"Actually this is our third kiss." Hinata corrected as she held Naruto's left hand and rubbed her head nervously with her left hand.
"YOU KISSED HINATA WHILE YOU WERE IN DANGER!?" Neji yelled as he grew fuming mad. Naruto didn't know how to answer his question, and he didn't want to get killed, so with his foot he pressed the button the female counselor had pressed earlier to shut the doors automatically.
"Looks like Naruto wants her all to himself." They heard Sasuke say.
"Naruto, OPEN THIS DOOR RIGHT NOW!" They heard Neji yell as he began to slam his fists against the doors.
"We're not going to do anything!" Naruto yelled back.
"YOUR INTENTIONS BETTER BE PURE IN THERE!" Neji yelled.
"How many firsts do you think they're going to have while they're in there?" They heard Ino ask. Hinata and Naruto both blushed madly at this.
"Naruto now you have to marry her!" They heard Shikamaru laugh. "But it's not like you weren't already planning that anyways." He added.
Five seconds of silence.
"AAAAAAWWWWW!" All the girls cooed.
Naruto and Hinata were now so red that they made cherries look pale.
"What are those two doing in there?" They heard the female counselor ask.
"Oh shit." Naruto quickly said.
"They're doing WHAT?" they heard Kotetsu yell.
"What are you guys telling them?!" Naruto yelled.
"Hinata you're not as reckless as Naruto so open this door RIGHT NOW!" Neji demanded.
"Ummmm……" (Looks at Naruto, looks at door, looks at Naruto, looks at door.) "Yeah I think I'll just stay here!" she laughed. "Making Neji mad is always fun." Hinata whispered to Naruto.
"I'LL KILL YOU Naruto!" Neji yelled as he began to bang on the doors! Naruto gulped.
"Hold on I have the keys." Kotetsu said as he began to unlock the door.
"Hinata how fast can Neji run when he's motivated by something?" Naruto asked staring at the door.
"He's pretty damn fast." She said. "Why?"
"What are the chances of me running away from him?" Naruto asked as the door began to open.
"……slim to none." She told him grimly.
Naruto let go of Hinata's hand and got ready to make a dash for the door right by Neji, but when the door opened he only saw Kotetsu there.
"Bet you're happy to see me." Kotetsu said giving a reassuring smile.
"Where'd everyone else go?" Hinata asked confused.
"We're taking you all back to the Camp now so you're friends just left to the other ambulances, except for…."
"ME!" Tenten said standing behind Kotetsu.
"Didn't even see you there." Hinata smiled as Kotetsu helped her into the ambulance. Tenten sat down on a bed and Hinata sat down right next to her. Kotetsu strapped them both on the bed so they could sit and then he shut the doors. Naruto sat on the opposite bed where Kotetsu sat as well. After he strapped them into the bed he yelled to the front telling them they were ready to go and then the ambulance started up.
"Don't worry about Neji Naruto." Tenten said. "I'm sure he'll calm down when we get back to camp."
"Who's he riding with?" Hinata asked as the ambulance began to move.
"He's with Sasuke, and Shikamaru. Sakura and Ino are together and a bunch of the counselors are with them. I'm in here just incase I faint again I guess."
"So are you okay then?" Hinata asked.
"Like fainting was going to bring me down. I mean you fainted today too." She said.
"I know I keep forgetting all of that was today." Hinata said.
"Sorry for interrupting you kids," Kotetsu said "But aren't any of you at all tired?"
"Not at all!" Tenten laughed.
"Me either." Hinata agreed. "OH, except for…."
They all looked over at Naruto and saw him sleeping. He was slouching to his left and began snoring pretty loudly.
"How cute!" Tenten squealed.
"Yeah he really is!" Hinata laughed.
(AAN: I thought girls hated snoring … 'How Cute!' I think any girl at that moment would punch him on da top of his head … I would! Lol)
Tenten began to giggle and hug Hinata. "A comment like that would have Neji kill him! I'm so happy for you though!" she laughed.
"For what?" Hinata asked even though she was pretty sure she knew the answer to that.
"For you and Naruto. You both are really cute together." She smiled.
"Thanks, it's getting pretty serious too!" Hinata said sitting up straighter and looking at Naruto more lovingly. At that moment he let out an even louder snore. Both of the girls laughed.
"Yup, that sure is attractive." Tenten commented.
"Yeah." Hinata said as she let out a sigh. Hinata continued to stare at Naruto for a while until Tenten nudged her. Hinata looked over at her friend but began to frown when she saw Tenten's frown. "What's wrong?"
"I just realized something." She said as her eyes became even sadder.
"What?" Hinata asked getting scared.
"We have less then a week left of camp." Tenten said. Hinata's eyes grew wide as the world around her totally froze at Tenten's words.
'Only a week left of Tenten. Only a few more weeks of summer, but more importantly.' Hinata looked over at Naruto. 'Only less then a week of Naruto. I'll only get to see him one more time at the end of the summer dance. After this….I'm never going to see him again.' Hinata's eyes stared blankly at Naruto's sleeping body. She replayed everything amazing that had happened to them that night, and the thought of loosing all of that brought a few silent tears to her eyes.
"Oh Hinata," Tenten said softly as she put her hand on Hinata's arm. "I'm sorry, I should have probably told you that when we got back to camp instead of now."
"Oh no, it's okay. I mean it doesn't make a difference that you told me now instead of later. I just….don't know what to think right now." Hinata said rubbing her forehead with her now wet hands. Tenten put her right arm around Hinata and Hinata leaned on her shoulder.
"We'll figure this out when we get back to our cabin." Tenten told her.
"Yeah." Was Hinata's only reply. Hinata could then feel sleep coming over her entire body. She did have a busy day after all, and not most people would still be awake. The same thing was happening with Tenten, she too was starting to fall asleep next to Hinata.
"Man!" said the unexpected voice of Kotetsu. Hinata and Tenten opened their eyes wide and looked over at him forgetting that he was there all along. They both felt a little embarrassed. "I definitely picked the wrong ambulance to ride in. All this talk about girl stuff and what not. I knew I should have taken the same ride as those three stoic guys." Kotetsu said as he crossed both his arms and legs, and hanging his head down so that he could get some sleep before they made it to the camp. Hinata and Tenten looked at each other and then began to giggle again. "AGAIN with the giggling!" Kotetsu complained as he tried to sleep. Hinata and Tenten got a little scared since he practically just yelled at them. They looked at each other wide eyed but then they began to silently laugh at what just happened.
Temari was looking out the window on the bus that was taking them back to the girl's camp. Livvy was sitting right next to her in the aisle seat. They were both sitting very uncomfortably since neither of them knew what was going on with their friends. Everybody at the camp was freaking out after they over heard some counselors talking saying neither the girls' team nor the boys' team had made it to the finish line yet. People were demanding to know what was going on making Asuma's job even more frustrating then it already had to be.
FLASHBACK
"Asuma what's going on?" yelled a random girl from outside of the office.
"Tell us what's going on already!" yelled a guy right next to her.
"Who's winning?!" yelled another guy.
"Are they even alive?" yelled another girl.
Asuma was sitting in Kakashi's desk with his head down.
'Bottle of sake would probably help me out now.' He thought to himself as he grabbed at his hair with his right hand. He still couldn't believe that they couldn't find any of the kids. He slammed his fist down on the desk in frustration at the noise that was coming from outside by all the campers. As soon as he did that he heard the shades shut.
"Huh?" Asuma looked up to see Kakashi closing the blinds.
"You know you shouldn't pull at your hair." Kakashi said as he walked over to a wall of photographs examining one of them. "You'll probably go bald if you keep it up." He said with a smirk.
"I don't have time for jokes right now Kakashi." Asuma said looking up at him. "I don't even know how you're taking this so well. These kids are out there somewhere and all we can do is sit here and wait for a report!" Asuma said sounding more frustrated with each word he spoke.
"I know it sounds like we're doing nothing, but this is all we can do now. Waiting for reports of if they find them, and if they find even just one of them….well we're the ones who make the call on what they do next. Right now while we wait we have to keep all those annoying kids in order." Kakashi said standing square in Asuma's direction. Asuma then looked over at the window where Kakashi had just closed the blinds.
"Wait a second." He said standing up. "Did I go deaf or did they all stop yelling?" he asked half jokingly. Kakashi raised an eyebrow and then walked over to the window. He opened the blinds again and to his surprise there was nobody there.
"Looking for something?" Kurenai asked as she walked in threw the front door.
"Where did all those kids go?" Asuma asked her as she walked closer to the desk.
"I believe that Temari got rid of them for you." she said with a grin.
"Temari eh? Well she is my best junior counselor I guess. I can always rely on her." Asuma said as he held his forehead in relief.
"Kurenai you'd better look out for her." Kakashi said as he looked back at the wall of pictures.
"Hm? Why would I do that?" Kurenai asked.
"Because if you don't take Asuma, she might just take him right from under your nose." Kakashi said making Asuma and Kurenai blush a mad red.
"Kakashi! Kakashi are you there? Answer already!" yelled a voice coming from the transmitter radio Kakashi had been holding in his left hand. Everyone was holding there breath when they heard Izumo's voice. Kakashi held the radio to his mouth and held in the button to respond back.
"I'm here, did you find any of the kids?" he asked it. There was a moment of static and the tension was thick in the room. Asuma was now standing next to Kurenai and she was holding her hands tightly around Asuma's arm as she waited for an answer.
"We see……two of them!" Izumo's voice said. "We're sending boats after them right now."
"Thank goodness!" Kurenai said letting out a sigh of relief.
"We'll call you right back when we find out which ones they are." Izumo said.
"Then call me on my office phone. I think the batteries are about to die soon." Kakashi yelled at his radio.
"I don't understand why you even used those 'walkie talkies' in the first place." Kurenai said as she put her hands on her hips.
"No real reason, it's just more fun this way." Kakashi said making Kurenai sweat drop. "Now we just wait for them to call us back, in the mean time I'm going to get us all some coffee to calm our nerves down, and don't think I'm going to disregard you holding Asuma's arm." Kakashi added before he walked out of his office. Kurenai and Asuma just stared at his back in a red shock, but the second he left they both let out a sigh of relief.
"Did you hear that?" Livvy asked Temari as she looked around the corner of Kakashi's office. She watched as Kakashi walked away going to go get that coffee she heard him talking about. Livvy looked back over at Temari who was squatting down on the balls of her feet trying not to fall over. "They found someone."
"Yeah, but who?" Temari asked. "For all we know that's all that could be…"
"TEMARI!" Livvy yelled. "I love ya' but if you keep giving me that attitude I'm going to slap you." Livvy said trying to sound serious. She did try, but at the end of her sentence she began to laugh. Temari was recently questioning Livvy's character. She could be happy one minute, then another minute she could be smart and logical. Temari smirked and let out a sigh.
"Sorry, I'll stop." She said to her friend. "Is Kakashi around anymore?"
"He's further away now. Probably heading for the cafeteria." Livvy said smirking.
"Hmp, I guess he doesn't know that that's where we sent everybody." Temari smirked.
"I still can't believe you got them all there." Livvy said sounding astonished.
"Well it wasn't that hard. I may be nicer then I used to be, but that doesn't mean I can't get people to do what I say." She smirked. Livvy began to laugh when Temari then shushed her. "Listen." She said as she leaned her ear against the wall of the cabin.
Inside the cabin
"No this is Asuma." Asuma said to the phone on the desk. "Kakashi went to…never mind, just tell us who you have!" he yelled.
There was a pause while the person on the other line talked to Asuma.
"I'll call for someone right now. You should have first aid down there anyways so treat them the best you can before the ambulance arrive." Asuma then hung up the phone for only a second so he could pick it up again to dial 911.
Back outside
"But who did they find?!" Livvy asked the wall anxiously.
"This is starting to get annoying." Temari commented.
"YOU TWO!" yelled a stern voice of a counselor. Livvy and Temari both cringed at the female voice, but they saw no one around them. They both crept around the office corner to see a female counselor yelling at two boys who were standing there looking guilty. "Everyone was to report to the cafeteria until further notice. Why are you all here snooping around?" she asked angrily. The first boy gulped clearly intimidated by the woman but he stood his ground.
"We…..were….uh….ju..just…"
"Well?" the counselor asked growing impatient.
"There you two are!" Temari said coming around the corner revealing herself.
"Temari…what are you doing?!" Livvy whispered.
"Temari what are you doing out here?" The female asked her.
"Asuma needs to see these two in his office. Their friends were just found." She lied.
"Oh, well then alright." The counselor said as she was about to walk away. "Why does he need to see them?"
"Uhh…"
"We're not sure yet." Livvy said coming into view. "But it's about our friends who were in the race."
"Okay, just wish Asuma told me that in the first place." She said as she walked away from them. Once she was out of ear shot the two guys looked over at Livvy and Temari gratefully.
"Thanks for that." The one who said nothing said. "You didn't have to do that you know."
"And if we didn't what would you have done then?" Temari asked.
"Disregard what she just said." Livvy said laughing nervously. "Maybe she was trying to say is what are you two doing over here?"
"….maybe.." Temari mumbled.
"Probably the same thing as you two." The same guy said. "Just trying to see if our friends are okay."
"Look you can hear better over here, let's just go listen and see if we can hear who they found!" Temari complained as they all went over to where the girls were. Temari pressed her ear against the wall and she could hear Asuma still talking on the phone. He was telling the person on the other line the location of where the ambulances needed to go.
"Alright………thank you." Asuma said as he hung up the phone.
"…so…" Kurenai began. "Who'd they find?"
Everyone was now pressed against the wall trying to listen to what Asuma was going to say.
"….Izumo said they had Shikamaru Nara and Ino Yamanaka." Asuma said.
"Ino!" Livvy cried. "Thank goodness!"
"I am relieved for your friend but also for Shikamaru!" said the boy who tried to stand his ground earlier.
"Gag me." Temari said silently as she tried to listen again.
"Is that all we know?" Kurenai asked Asuma.
"Izumo said the kids explained everything that happened and apparently the boats were going down a rough stream. Shikamaru described it as a river." Kurenai gasped. "So now we don't know what happened to the rest of them, not even Shikamaru or Ino know what's happened to them."
"This….isn't good guys." Temari said leaning away from the wall.
"What….what did they say?" Livvy asked anxiously.
"They said something about them going down a river and they don't know anything about the others."
"Oh my God." Livvy said.
"Is that all?" one of the guys asked.
"Yeah, that's all they said." Temari said.
"All who said?" Kakashi's voice asked from behind. They all turned to see a tall Kakashi standing with three cups of coffee.
"Uhhh..ummm….no one?" Temari asked as they all stood up.
"I see. Well then, Lee and Kiba could you escort these ladies and yourselves to the cafeteria?" Kakashi asked.
"Sure thing." Kiba said grudgingly.
"Yes sir!" Lee yelled.
"Oh brother." Temari moaned as she began to walk away towards the cafeteria with Livvy right behind her. Kiba and Lee walked on the sides of them towards the cafeteria which was filled with people.
"Now where do we sit?" Temari asked annoyed.
"Allow me to find you ladies some seats." Lee said as he dashed away to find them chairs or a bench.
"Is this guy for real?" Temari asked as she put her hands on her hips.
"Yeah, and I wish I could tell you it grows on you, but it doesn't." Kiba said making Livvy giggle.
"Well he's taking too long for my taste so let's just find our own….HUH!"
"I found us all chairs!" Lee yelled as he ran over carrying four chairs in his arms above his head.
"….uh….Lee don't you think you over did it a little?" Kiba asked astonished he was holding the chairs over his head with ease.
"Well I'm a little impressed." Temari said as Lee placed a chair down. She took it with a smirk and Livvy took the next one Lee put down.
"So now we just sit and wait I guess?" Livvy asked as Lee and Kiba sat down. Kiba sat on his chair backwards.
"We're going to have to." Temari said. "Wake me when you hear something." She said closing her eyes. Livvy smirked.
"Best we not talk to her until we hear some news." Livvy informed.
"Ha, you don't have to tell me twice." Kiba said as he put his hands behind his head.
"Well I will not sit here and do nothing." Lee declared as he fell to the ground and began to do pushups.
"WHA?!" Livvy screamed.
"If….I can do…..200 pushups…..then our friends will come…..back okay!" he declared. Livvy stared down at him like he was crazy. Even Temari opened up one eye to see if this guy was for real.
'That's a shame.' She thought. 'He is for real.' She then closed her eyes and tried to go back to pretending to be sleep.
Temari had pretended to be asleep for such a long time that she herself believed she was sleeping. She was completely oblivious to everything, and everyone around her.
"HERE I GO!" she suddenly heard Lee yell. She opened her eyes up lazily expecting to see Lee right in front of her but he was nowhere to be seen.
"….huh?...AAHHH!" she yelled as her chair was then lifted up high in the air. "WHAT THE HELL!!!" she yelled as her chair began to go up and down.
Lee was under her chair lifting her up and down using it as a form of exercise. His goal was to do 100 of them.
"LEE!...PUT ME…………….DOWN IF…………YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOOOUUU!" Temari yelled.
"…10….11…..12……13…….14………15………16……….17……."
"LEE, please put her down!" Livvy said staring at the fuming Temari.
"Lee you'd better put her down before she gets even more pissed!" Kiba yelled to him. "If that's even possible." He mumbled.
"…..but…YIOOOOOOW!" Lee yelled as Temari hit him hard on the head.
"PUT ME DOWN!" she yelled.
"Noo….problem.." Lee said as he put her chair down a little dizzily. Once back on the ground Temari stood with her arms crossed and ten veins on her forehead.
"I hope you have a death wish." She said shaking with anger.
"Oh my….PLEASE I WAS ONLY WORKING OUT! HAVE MERCY!" Lee cried as he fell to his knees.
"ATTENTION!" yelled a male counselor's voice.
"Great, so what does Ibiki want now?" Kiba asked annoyed.
"All of the girls will be returning to their camp now, all girl campers are to head out to their busses. NOW!" he yelled scaring most of the girls who ran out the doors.
"LEE!" Temari said sternly. Lee shook in fear as he was still on the floor waiting for the pain he knew he deserved. "You…..are one lucky ducky." She said as she began to walk away towards the doors.
"Nice meeting you both." Livvy said smiling.
"Same here!" Kiba said with a happy change of mood.
Livvy and Temari went to the first bus they saw and sat towards the front. Although they didn't show it they were both worried about their friends. As the bus started Temari soon revealed that to Livvy.
"I just hope they all get out of whatever they're in okay." She then looked out the window trying to focus her attention on something else. Livvy gave a weak smile.
"Me too." She said crossing her arms over her chest. "By the way….where are our bags?" Livvy asked realizing they both left their sport bags somewhere.
"I'm sure it'll turn up somewhere." Temari said still looking out the window. "And if you can't find yours I'm sure you can just call Kiba up and ask him if it turns up here. I know you both exchanged numbers." Temari said smirking at her friend. Livvy turned red and began to shake her hands.
"I hope you're not getting the wrong impression!" she yelled.
"Oh no…no. But don't let me stop you if you like that kid." Temari said teasing her friend.
"I do not!" Livvy defended. "He's just real nice is all. And I'm like a year older then him!"
"Okay, calm down." Temari said looking outside the window again.
END FLASHBACK
Sakura had just woken up from a very hard night of tossing and turning. She kept dreaming that she was drowning in the water and couldn't find a way out of it. When she woke up she was gasping for air and her forehead was very sweaty. Her entire body was overheating but she just figured it was because of her nightmare.
'Glad that dream is over.' She thought as she sat up and stretched her back. She looked over to her right and noticed Tenten sleeping in the next bed over. 'Tenten drools when she sleeps?' Sakura then looked down at her hands and could see the bandages wrapped around them when it hit her.
"Tenten?!" she yelled in complete shock. "Where am I?" Sakura yelled as she jumped to her feet now standing on the bed. She looked around and could see Ino to her left and Hinata one more over. Sakura looked around frantically at her surroundings. The entire time she thought she was in her room at the cabin, but here she was in some strange dim room that she had never seen before. Sakura looked down and then noticed that she was wearing a night gown, or was it a hospital gown?
"Sakura?" Tenten asked as she sat up in her bed while rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. "What are you…..yelling for?" she ywaned
"Tenten, WHERE ARE WE?!" Sakura yelled.
"Forehead shud-dup already!" Ino said very tiredly.
"Sakura, we're at the boy's camp nurse's room place thing." Tenten told her as she let out a yawn. "Calm down and go to sleep already." She said going back under her covers.
"….buh….Oh okay then." Sakura said jumping on the bed once and landing on her butt with a hard thump that made her hop up one more time. "What time is it?" she asked no one imperticular as she looked around for a clock. Before she could even find one she heard a strange creaking noise, a noise that sounded like it was coming off a boat. "…..what's that…AHHH!" Sakura yelled as her bed fell apart.
"SAKURA!" Ino and Tenten yelled as they threw their blankets off themselves. Hinata just woke up to all the yelling and was looking around to see what all the commotion was about.
"Is there a fire er something?" Hinata asked looking around lazily.
"Nah, Sakura's bed just broke." Tenten said as she helped Sakura up.
"Huh, how did it break?" Hinata asked as she put her legs over the edge of her bed.
"Her forehead was finally too much for it and the bed gave out." Ino said giving Sakura her hand. Sakura slapped hard and was back on her feet.
"INO PIG!" she yelled pointing an accusing finger at her.
"Calm down forehead, you know I was only kidding." Ino said crossing her arms.
"Why I oughta'!" Sakura yelled as electricity shot out of there eyes.
"What's all the commotion in here?" a mail voice asked.
"Huh…Kakashi?" Tenten asked. Kakashi switched on the lights that were by the door. The room lit up and the girls took note of how big it was, in fact they didn't even realize that right across from them was a curtain dividing the room into two.
"Is everything alright with you ladies?" he asked waving to them.
The girl's were about to respond when the realized something very important. They were all wearing simple hospital gowns with the backs out of them, the fact that they were all wearing pants didn't even faze them, but still when a guy comes into the room and that's all you're wearing you tend to freak out a little bit. Their faces all grew blue and they all began to sweat drop.
"PERVERT! GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!!!!!" They all yelled in unison as they grabbed pillows and put them in front of their bodies squeezing them for dear life while pointing an accusing finger at Kakashi.
"….Oh, well I didn't mean….." Kakashi began before he was interrupted by Neji, Naruto, Sasuke, and Shikamaru running around the curtain and attacking Kakashi.
They were all pummeling him not even knowing who they were beating on since they were all pretty much half asleep.
"ENOUGH!" Yelled the demanding voice of Asuma Sensei who was being followed by Kurenai. All four guys stopped doing what they were doing to look up at Asuma. When they looked back down at the pervert who was attacking the girls they all went grim seeing their Sensei.
"….Um, you could all probably get off of me now." Kakashi told them coolly. Each of the guys quickly got to their feet and stood in a row in front of where the curtain used to be before they pulled it aside so they could attack the pervert. Neji was wearing a hospital gown and had a pipe hiding behind his back; Naruto was also wearing a hospital gown and had a pillow in his hands; Sasuke who stood looking board in his hospital gown discreetly kicked his weapon of choice, an alarm clock, across the room so no one could see him with a weapon; and Shikamaru was in a hospital gown looking curiously at his weapon which was a rubber chicken.
"Where'd you get that thing from?" Naruto asked noticing Shikamaru looking at something in his hands.
"…..I have nooooo idea." He said holding up the rubber chicken with one hand to examine it.
"Alright, what's all the commotion about?" Asuma asked with some authority.
"They were being attacked by a pervert!" Naruto yelled worriedly. "We heard them yelling! By the way, am I the only one who thought it was our principal?" Naruto asked casually.
"No me too." Neji said.
"It did sound like Jiraiya." Sasuke said.
"So we're going to forget why I have this thing?" Shikamaru asked regarding the rubber chicken.
"You mean Jiraiya is still the principal?" Kakashi asked.
"Yeah, you mean you know him?" Naruto asked.
"No him? He was my principal too." Kakashi said.
"You mean you went to….." Sasuke was interrupted by Kurenai who was coughing to get everybody back on track.
"Oh, we heard the girls yelling about a pervert so we ran over here to get him." Sasuke said simply.
"So you mean you heard that and came running, but when I screamed you did NOTHING?" Sakura yelled.
"Guess we didn't hear you." Neji put simply.
"Did you hear about the rubber chicken though?" Shikamaru asked out loud.
"Is this because you're all wearing those gowns that you all yelled pervert?" Kurenai asked. They all nodded a yes. "You do know you're wearing shorts underneath right?"
"Oh I forgot…..but so what!" Ino said.
"So Kakashi why'd you come in here in the first place?" Asuma asked.
"I heard them screaming so I came in to check on them." He put simply.
"So Kakashi heard me scream and YOU guys didn't?" Sakura asked frustrated.
"ummmmmmmmmmm, guess so." Sasuke said.
"Pretty much." Neji said.
"Guess that's just how it is." Naruto put.
"squeak….squeak." went the rubber chicken as Shikamaru squeezed it.
"OKAY WE GET IT ALREADY! YOU HAVE A RUBBER CHICKEN!" Ino yelled.
"Oh, that thing." Kurenai said rubbing the back of her head nervously.
"And how did we get here?" Sakura asked.
"You mean you don't remember?" Naruto asked.
"She was sleeping the entire time." Ino said.
"Did you girls break that bed?" Kakashi asked as he noticed the toppled over bed.
"Can we just get some answers already?" Tenten asked.
"Yeah, even I don't know what's going on." Hinata said.
"Hinata when did you get here?" Neji asked.
"You mean you didn't notice me?" Hinata asked.
"He couldn't see you around the pig." Sakura said.
"SHUTUP! At least my over sized FOREHEAD didn't break the BED!" Ino yelled.
"YOU PIG!" Sakura yelled getting ready to start another fight up.
"oh my gosh, SHUT-UP ALREADY!" Kurenai yelled getting everybody to be quiet. "I'll just start from the beginning and we'll all just fill in the blanks, OKAY?" she asked. Everybody nodded silently.
"So I guess you should start when they got back to the camp." Asuma said.
"Right, okay so the ambulances came here but half of you were sleeping." Kurenai began.
"No it wasn't half." Kakashi corrected. "It was just Hinata, Tenten, Shikamaru, Ino, and Sakura. Well I guess that's one more then half." He said making everybody sweat drop.
"Any ways, Tenten, and Ino woke up and we had to force Shikamaru up. Hinata and Sakura just stayed sleeping so we had the guys help us carry them in while Neji helped Tenten walk in." Kurenai said. "When Hinata and Sakura were carried in we divided up the room so you could all have your privacy."
"I remember that." Ino said. "Me and Tenten helped dress you guys." Ino said to Sakura and Hinata.
"So then what about Shikamaru's rubber chicken?" Naruto asked. "I don't remember him going to sleep with that? And we all did that at the same time."
"Yeah….about that." Asuma said nervously. "We can explain that too."
"Shikamaru kept….well….asking for something in his sleep." Kurenai said.
"It was getting pretty annoying." Kakashi added.
"What was he asking for?" Hinata asked.
"Hinata when did you get here?" Neji joked.
"Shut-up Neji." Hinata said as Neji laughed.
"He was asking for his…Kub-" Kurenai was soon interrupted by Shikamaru.
"DON'T SAY IT!" Shikamaru yelled.
"Don't say, what?" Ino asked getting super interested in what Shikamaru didn't want them to know.
"..It's nothing." Shikamaru said shutting his eyes tight trying to avoid the subject.
"NOOOO." Naruto said figuring it out. "You were asking for!"
"Naruto I'm serious, don't say a word." Shikamaru threatened.
"You were saying her name again?" Sasuke asked. Neji began to snigger.
"HER NAME?!" Ino asked suspicious.
"uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh." Shikamaru was lost of words. "It's not what you think I swear." He tried to reassure her.
"Just say Shikamaru." Tenten said.
"He was asking for his….Kubby?" Kurenai said.
"K..Kubby?" Ino asked confused.
"Yeah, it was his stuffed toy when he was little!" Naruto laughed. Neji couldn't control himself anymore and began to laugh too.
"But the best part was…." Sasuke couldn't even get the words out.
"The stupid thing was a GIRL!" Naruto laughed.
The room was a fit of laughter with all of the guys and Hinata laughing at Shikamaru.
"We didn't know what to do since he wouldn't stop asking for the thing so we grabbed him that rubber chicken and it put him right to sleep." Kurenai said after her laughing was over.
"So then how did you have a rubber chicken?" Sakura asked.
"I don't know we found it in Kakashi's desk. Ask him." Kurenai said.
They all looked over at Kakashi who put his finger on his chin so he could think.
"hmmmmmmmmm…….I have no idea." He said making everybody fell over anime style. "Oh now I remember." Kakashi said. "I think I confiscated it from a kid last year." He said.
"So it sounds like all the questions were answered." Tenten said.
"But what happened to the bed?" Kakashi asked.
"We told you, Sakura's.."
"DON'T even finish that sentence." Sakura yelled at Ino.
"The bed is just old." Asuma said taking a good look at it. "It's a good thing Sakura didn't get hurt."
"Sakura you can sleep in the bed next to Tenten." Kurenai said. "Now that all of this is settled you should all go back to sleep. Tomorrow we'll take the girls back to their own camp."
"At what time?" Kakashi asked.
"We'll try to leave as soon as possible." Kurenai said making the room go dead quiet. All the girls got worried and looked over at the guys who were looking a little worried also.
"So 12:00 then?" Asuma asked.
"Yeah, I'm sleeping in. Goodnight girls, and get some sleep. You've earned it." Kurenai said walking out the door.
"We'll see you all in the morning." Kakashi said. "And Sakura try not to break anymore beds."
"HEY!" she yelled as he walked out of the room.
"We'll have breakfast ready for you in the morning. If you need any of us don't even bother asking since we'll all be at Kakashi's cabin. Goodnight to all of you." Asuma said walking out of the room. Once the door was shut there was an awkward silence that only lasted a second when Tenten started to laugh.
"That was weird." She said. "So Sakura, you don't remember coming in here at all?"
"No, I just remember being in the ambulance with Ino and falling asleep. I don't remember anything else."
"Not even Sasuke carrying you in?" Ino asked nudging her in the side.
"Really?" Sakura asked as she looked over at Sasuke.
"They asked me to help you in so I carried you." Sasuke said nonchalantly.
"And it was bridal style!" Tenten said with hearts in her eyes.
"Hold on." Neji said. "I think I remember Sasuke asking to carry Sakura in." Sasuke threw Neji a glare which didn't faze Neji at all.
"Well, Naruto wanted to carry Hinata!" Sasuke said pointing everybody's attention to Naruto.
"So what, they said they need someone to carry her." Naruto defended.
"Yeah. But when you volunteered they said no since you were too injured." Sasuke pointed out.
"Didn't you practically beg or something?" Shikamaru asked out loud as he tired to think back.
"No, he just took her anyways." Sasuke said.
"I'm not going to forget that Naruto." Neji said giving him the evil eye.
"SO WHAT! Why is everyone on my case?!" Naruto yelled.
"Thanks Naruto." Came the sweet voice of Hinata. Everyone looked over at her, with most of the guys raising their eyebrows. "You seem to be helping me out a lot today." She said looking down at the ground and showing a blush. Sasuke and Shikamaru couldn't help but smile. Hinata was sounding just like the little shy girl they grew up to know and love. To them it was like meeting their old friend for the first time in many years.
"Well…. Sure I'll help you any time you want." Naruto said with a big grin as he rubbed the back of his head. "Just ask me whatever you want and I'll be there!"
"I wouldn't make that promise Naruto." Ino warned. "You'll regret it someday."
"Well that's okay!" Naruto said cheerfully. His face soon turned from cheer to distraught when he realized he would never see her again. "I'll be there if it means I get to see you again." He said making everyone remember that they all only had one more precious week together.
"…Naruto..I.." Hinata began before Neji interrupted.
"Enough of all this talk. We all need to get some serious sleep. We all had a rough day so let's just all go back to sleep already, especially you Tenten….uh.and Hinata since both of you fainted earlier." He said closing his eyes and showing a faint blush.
"Smooth- real smooth Neji." Naruto said to Sasuke.
"He's right." Ino agreed. "We can all talk in the morning."
"Good, then let's just get some sleep already." Neji said walking away to a bed across the room. Once he turned around Tenten immediately blushed since she could see Neji's boxers because there were no backs to the hospital gowns.
"See you in the morning Sasuke." Sakura said. Sasuke gave her a very sincere smile, one that he would rarely give out, it told Sakura goodnight, I'm glad you're okay, and maybe even I love you? Sasuke then turned to go back to his bed but Sakura was having a hard time doing the same since he was only in his boxers and she just realized how fine an ass he had. Neji didn't say goodnight to any in particular since he just embarrassed himself earlier by showing concern for just Tenten. Tenten understood this and went back to her bed without saying goodnight to anybody, but deep down she could feel Neji saying goodnight to her and she hoped that he could feel her saying it back.
Shikamaru gave all the girls a wave of the arm as he walked back to his bed, but he looked only at Ino and gave her a wink. The wink didn't go unnoticed to Tenten who secretly saw it when she was in her bed. Ino smiled back at Shikamaru and gave him a small wave goodbye too as she went to her own bed.
Hinata walked over back to the curtain to close it so they could all have privacy again. Naruto didn't go anywhere and she was just going to teasingly pull it right in front of him but he grabbed her wrist to make her stop.
"Crazy day huh?" he asked her so only she could hear. Hinata nodded a yes.
"I'm just glad you were there to keep me safe." She whispered back to him. Naruto slid his hand that was around her wrist so that it was on her hand. Hinata continued to pull the curtain but this time Naruto followed her. They reached the wall and only could see each other a little bit. Hinata put her free hand on the wall which was right next to the door and light switch. She leaned against the wall and raised her eyebrows at Naruto as if asking him, 'So what now? Neji's right behind us.' Naruto's facial expression screamed, 'DAMN IT!'
"Oh well." Hinata shrugged.
"Good NIGHT Hinata." She could hear Neji yell. Hinata smiled and was about to shut the curtain when she realized how close her fingers were to the light switch. Hinata smirked and looked right back at Naruto and within a second the lights were off making the room so pitch black that noone could see anything.