Neji and Tenten ran to the door as if their lives depended on it. Neji threw the door open almost knocking it off its hinges. He didn't know where Hinata was but he ran right to the kitchen for reasons unknown to anybody. Tenten was close behind him with her head looking from left to right hoping she would see Hinata. Tenten ran right into the back of Neji when he came to a complete halt! She didn't even complain and only went to his left side to see a horrifying shock.
"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING TO MY COUSIN?!?!!!!" Neji yelled before Tenten had the chance to yell "RAPE!"
"It's NOT what it looks like!" Naruto yelled as he got off of Hinata.
Neji and Tenten had witnessed a shirtless Naruto with his arms going under Hinata's arms to under her head. He was lying right on top of her and from how Neji and Tenten saw it it looked like they were about to do something so unseemly that Hinata's family would disown her right on the spot.
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!" Neji yelled as he pointed his index finger at Hinata who was standing up now. "IT LOOKED LIKE YOU WERE ABOUT TO DO EXACTLY WHAT YOU KNOW YOU WERE ABOUT TO DO!" Neji's nostrils flared wildly as he yelled some more. His face got so red it looked like steam would come out of his ears at any second.
"Neji let him explain!" Hinata yelled. "I think I'd like an explanation too." She said looking at Naruto angrily.
"Yeah Naruto, what exactly is going on here?" Tenten asked crossing her arms.
Naruto wiped the cold sweat that was forming on his brow. He cleared his throat and was about to give the greatest explanation of his life, and if that didn't work he'd probably give the best apology of his life instead.
FLASHBACK
'On the count of three….one….two…..THREE!'
Naruto charged at the person he thought was Sasuke ready to perform a move he learned in wrestling. The "Bow and Arrow" with some "Bulldog headlock" both involving breaking the other person's neck. Naruto noticed that before he hit his target it had just placed some clean plates down on the counter, and that's when it hit him.
'Sasuke would NEVER do the dishes. Then who is…..'
Naruto's blind rage began to clear up as he noticed that the person he was attacking wasn't Sasuke but it was Hinata! It was too late to stop what he was doing since he already had his arms around her neck. While in mid fall to the ground Hinata had no idea what was going on so she did the only natural thing she could think of.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" she yelled while falling and hitting the ground, however, before she could hit her head against the floor Naruto quickly maneuvered his arms so that they were no longer around her neck but wrapped around her head so she wouldn't get hurt.
'That's something she definitely doesn't need, another head injury!' Naruto thought as they hit the ground hard.
"HINATA! I am sosososososososososososososososososososososososososososososo SO sorry!" he yelled at her face. Her facial features were very dazed since she just hit the hard floor, but she turned normal again at hearing her cousin Neji's voice.
"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING TO MY COUSIN?!?!!!!"
END FLASHBACK
"That's exactly what happened." Naruto told them. "You've got to believe me! Oh come on, don't tell me that doesn't sound legit!"
"Hinata?" Neji asked looking over at her. Hinata's face was a mixture of annoyance and acceptance. She looked up at Naruto's distressed face and new that is was just an accident, so it was easy to forgive him.
"Okay Naruto, I forgive you. I know you didn't mean it." Hinata said smiling now.
"Well that's a relief. But seriously I had not idea it was you, could have sworn it was Sasuke."
"Well that's o-…wait a minute." Hinata said getting angry again. "You saying I look like Sasuke?"
"Yeah Naruto how'd you get the two confused? Sasuke has pointed hair, and Hinata has long flat hair. I don't get it." Tenten said.
"WAIT, I glanced into the kitchen really fast and saw dark hair. I JUST ASSUMED!"
"You know all you guys have dark hair actually," said Tenten. "Cept you Naruto." She giggled.
"Hinata do you forgive me now?" Naruto asked ignoring Tenten's comment.
"Okay, but I think you better watch it the next time you say I look like Sasuke." She warned.
"I swear I'll never make that mistake again!" he said with a grin.
Before Hinata could flirt back or say anything for that matter, Neji cut in with some more questioning.
"Naruto why aren't you wearing a shirt?" he asked firmly.
"I just finished taking a shower when the shower got freezing so I rushed down the stairs to kill who ever made it that way and only assumed that it was Sasuke. I also tucked my shirt in my pants so I could tackle him better."
"What move were you going to use?" Neji asked curiously.
"Bow and Arrow." Naruto put simply.
"Ew that sounds perverted considering what it looked like was going on in here when we walked in." Tenten said making Hinata blush.
"SO Hinata you were here cleaning our dishes?" Neji asked remembering.
"Yeah, and I just finished. Oh and…YOU PIGS!" Hinata yelled. "I KNOW YOU WERE RAISED BETTER THEN THAT!" she yelled mainly directly at Neji. "Okay but seriously, those dishes could kill on sight the cleanest person on Earth." Hinata told them.
"Oh Hinata, it couldn't have been that bad." Tenten said trying to think of what the kitchen must have looked like.
"Oh yeah? Well look at my hands!" Hinata said putting her right hand out to Tenten.
"OH MY GOD!" Tenten yelled at seeing the prunniest fingers in history. "I know this is something Ino would probably say, but you need a manicure and FAST!"
"Hinata since when do you know how to do dishes?" Neji asked curious.
"It doesn't take a monkey to know that soap plus hot water over dirty dishes will equal clean dishes." Hinata said sounding mathematical.
(AAN: actually I think it equals pie, but I'm still doing the math in my head. Carry on.)
"I bet Naruto couldn't do it." Neji smirked.
"And you could have?" Naruto asked.
"Hm, like Hinata said. It doesn't take a monkey to know how to clean dishes."
"Then why didn't you do it in the first place?" Hinata asked him smugly. Neji's smug attitude ended abruptly at Hinata's words. He sort of shifted his right foot uncomfortably as he tried to think of something to clever to retaliate with but he couldn't think of anything.
"Wow…..I wish I had the power to make Neji shut up." Naruto said before anyone could say anything else.
"So I am blessed with that power?" Hinata laughed as she gestured to herself with her left hand.
"I'm sure Tenten is too." Naruto laughed as Tenten's face turned blue.
"I THINK me and Hinata need to get back to the cabin." Tenten said trying to change the subject quickly. Tenten grabbed Hinata by the shoulders and began to push her to the door when Neji stopped them.
"Hinata can't go anywhere." He said sternly.
"Yeah, I want to stay!" Hinata demanded to Tenten as she shook her hands of her shoulders.
"Hinata, why the hell did you jump out of the window?" Neji asked getting to the real reason he came to his cabin. Naruto, still standing shirtless, was staring blankly at first Neji but now at Hinata. They all waited for an answer but Hinata decided to make her graceful exit instead. She grabbed Tenten by the shoulders and pushed her out the rest of the cabin.
"We really need to go, right Tenten?" she laughed nervously. "See you guys a little later!" Hinata yelled as the door shut behind them.
Neji continued to stare at the door in annoyance, and then in relief. He turned his gaze to the still blank Naruto who was looking at the door where Hinata was just at.
"Hinata jumped out of a window?" he asked staring blankly at Neji who now looked annoyed and pissed with Naruto.
"Yeah, right out of the nurse's office." Neji began to walk towards the stairs so that he could take a shower to wash himself clean of everything that had just happened and to also calm himself down. As he walked up he looked over at Naruto, who hadn't moved an inch, and continued to talk to him. "I bet if you asked her to jump off a building she would do it in a heartbeat." He said disappearing up stairs.
Naruto looked blankly at where Neji was and then right back at the door. He then pulled his shirt out from his pants and held it in front of himself as if he was examining it.
'She jumped out a window?' he thought. Naruto slowly began to smirk as he turned and walked into the kitchen. He noticed all of the clean dishes and couldn't wait to eat again off of them. 'She sure is something.' He thought to himself as he put his shirt back on so his hands were free for when he put the dishes away.
Tenten and Hinata were now walking back to the nurse's station as they both playful bumped the other playfully. Both of them together got guys to stop and gawk as they passed them by. You could see in their smiles that they enjoyed every second of it but they just waved them off and focused on getting back to the cabin. Up ahead Sasuke and Shikamaru were walking right towards them, and as they approached closer the two boys began to grow smiles at seeing Hinata.
"So…did Neji yell at you?" Sasuke asked as they all came to a complete stop.
"Nah, he was fine." Hinata said waving her hand as if it was no big deal. "I pretty much have the power to shut him up according to Naruto." She smiled.
"It's true. He was speechless." Tenten said backing Hinata up.
"So how are Neji and Naruto?" Shikamaru asked. "Please don't tell me they're eating each other back at the cabin."
"Actually I think we left everything pretty civil." Hinata told them.
"Not to mention spotless." Tenten said confusing the guys. "You'll see when you get there."
"Then let's get there already." Shikamaru said as he walked around them.
Sasuke followed him and the girls began to walk away too until Sasuke stopped them with his voice.
"Ino and Sakura were getting into some sort of argument. You be careful." He said not even bothering to stop his walking.
"Five bucks says Ino would win in the fight." Tenten heard Shikamaru say to Sasuke.
'Ten dollars says he's wrong.' Tenten thought to herself as they all continued to their destinations.
As they approached the doors to the nurse's station Hinata and Tenten could hear some very distinct death threats coming from it. They both looked at each other wondering if they should go in or not. Tenten gestured that Hinata go in first but then Hinata put her hands out as if to say "after you". Tenten let out a sigh and opened the door as she plodded in with Hinata hiding right behind her.
"I'm telling you it's not TRUE!" Sakura yelled to Ino.
"Yeah, I know you THINK that, but you're not listening to what I'M saying!" Ino yelled back.
"I heard you loud and clear the first time you PIG!" Sakura yelled.
"SO can you tell me how I'm wrong then?" Ino retorted. Tenten and Hinata walked against the wall so that they were far from the argument. Sakura closed her eyes and put her index finger up as she began to tell Ino why she was wrong about whatever she thought she was right about.
"If he liked her then he would have known from the VERY beginning that it wasn't her and was her twin sister who didn't drug him but told him that he was drugged. The guy is a total man whore in my opinion." Sakura finished a civilly as possible. Ino was loss of words, which was quite rare, to what Sakura had just said.
"Looks like Sakura won the fight." Hinata whispered to Tenten.
'Man, I should really start placing bets against Shikamaru.' Tenten thought as she thought of the easy ten bucks she could have just made.
"What were you guys just talking about?" Tenten asked.
"Soap Opera." They both put simply.
"Never mind I asked." Tenten said.
"So you two going to get dressed?" Hinata asked while looking at their attire. Ino and Sakura looked down noticing that they were both still wearing their robes and gowns.
"I guess we should get dressed now." Sakura said as she and Ino walked back into the back room. Just as they were doing so Kurenai Sensei walked in with a couple folders in her hands.
"Hello girls, glad to see you both dressed. Are Sakura and Ino in the back?" she asked.
"Yeah, they just went to get dressed." Hinata told her.
"Oh, well I think I left some folders back there. Kakashi Sensei is having some fit about me loosing them." Kurenai placed the folders in her hands on the table and walked to the door giving it a few taps. "Girls I'm coming in." she said as she began to open the door.
"Hey Kurenai Sensei!" Ino said as Kurenai shut the door behind her.
"I guess we're going to leave soon." Tenten said as she sat down in the chair closest to where the folders were. Hinata began to yawn as she nodded her head in agreement.
"It'll be sort of nice to go back home, and if they don't mind maybe they'll let us take a nap when we get back."
"Well isn't that just implied since we were in a boat accident yesterday?" Tenten asked as she looked from the folders to Hinata back to the folders. Hinata nodded yes and sat down on the opposite side of Tenten. She could see Tenten eyeing the folder up which gave her a sneaky idea.
"Dare you to open it up." Hinata whispered.
"Fine." Tenten said since ONE she wasn't about to back down from a challenge and TWO she really wanted to know what is in the folder, for shits and giggles.
She pulled the first one open and it was a pretty light folder. Not many papers in it, but all the papers that were in it were just a bunch of numbers and paperwork. Tenten shut it and put it aside as she went to the next one hoping to find it a little more interesting then the first. To her surprise it was FULL of papers and heavier to open up. Tenten skimmed the papers with her fingers and saw that they were all the same so she quickly snatched one and sat on it as she put the folders right as they were. She looked at Hinata who was snickering at what Tenten had just done. Sure it wasn't like stealing jewelry from a store but they were at camp where your biggest thrill was a bee sting, or for them having your boats fall a part in the water.
"What did it say?" Hinata mouthed as she looked at Tenten then the door then right back at Tenten. Tenten just shrugged not knowing what the paper was about, all she knew was it matched the others meaning Kurenai wouldn't miss it.
"It actually looked like a flyer." Tenten whispered. Just then the door opened up with Kurenai walking out holding two more folders in her hands. Tenten yelped at the sudden noise of the door.
"Sorry about that Tenten." Kurenai laughed as she walked over to her. "Now look girls, I just told the other girls that we would be leaving in a few minutes. I know I said around twelve but the bus has been waiting for a while so we think that we should leave soon."
"No problem." Hinata said.
"I'm ready." Tenten told her as she watched Kurenai's hands pick up the folders Tenten was just threw.
"Good, I'm just going to give these to Kakashi and grab Asuma. You all just stay in here, no wondering." She said as she walked out of the cabin.
Tenten stared at Hinata waiting for her to tell her if Kurenai was gone so she could look at the paper.
"She's gone!" Hinata said as she got up and ran over to Tenten. Tenten took the paper from under her butt and began to look at it. In her opinion her first impression was that it was a birthday invitation of some sort since it had two people dancing on the front.
They both read it to themselves; their eyes went from left to right always growing bigger as they past the next line. Once they were both finished reading it, or the more important parts of it, they both stared at each other wide eyed trying not to explode with cheers.
"Can…can you believe this?!" Tenten said with giggles down in her throat.
"The dance…it's going to be SO sweet!" Hinata said clenching her fists in excitement. "We have GOT to tell everybody about it."
"No no, we can't do that. It wouldn't be a surprise if we told everyone." Tenten warned. "We should just tell a few people, Ino and Sakura should know about it."
"How about Livvy and Temari?" Hinata asked.
"Well of course, they should know!" Tenten said in a duh sort of tone.
"Should know what?" Kiba asked as he walked in with a bag over his shoulder. Lee was right behind him as happy as ever.
"Nothing," Tenten said. "Just some girl stuff."
"Oh, well here you go." Kiba said as he unslung the bag over his Shoulder. "This is Temari's bag; can you ladies bring it to her when you leave?"
"Sure thing." Hinata said pulling the bag closer to her while Tenten folded the paper and pocketed it. "Good thing you found it cause we're leaving soon."
"Good thing Lee ran then." Kiba smiled. "It's too bad you guys are leaving, but I guess we'll see you at the dance then."
"You might, but you won't know it's us." Tenten giggled.
"Tenten!" Hinata scolded. "You said to not tell anybody!"
"Yeah, but then I said we should tell a few people." She corrected. "Kiba and Lee are a few people."
"Tenten, exactly what are you talking about?" Lee asked.
"The dance." She said simply. "It's going to be amazing!"
"Really? And how would that be?" Kiba asked.
"They're going to make the dance a MASKED dance." Hinata said excitedly. "We just found a flyer about it, but they haven't been handed out yet so don't tell anyone."
"Okay, so what's so great about a masked dance?" Kiba asked not understanding.
"Oh come on, the mystery of dancing with somebody that you don't know but the entire thing is intoxicating. Everybody looking at everyone shyly since they don't know who you are, it'll be like having our first dance again!" Tenten said with hearts in her eyes.
"Well hopefully not exactly like the first one where there were eggs and feathers." Hinata said remembering their first dance and what a disaster it was.
"Feathers and eggs?" Lee asked. "So there were birds at the dance?"
"Birds? Lee don't you remember the dance?" Kiba asked.
"No Kiba, Lee wasn't there remember. Lee came late to camp." Tenten told him.
"Oh right." Kiba said scratching his head remembering.
"So Lee this'll be like your first dance." Tenten said. "Of this summer I mean."
"ALL RIGHT!" Lee yelled as he punched the air. "I can't wait! I'm really going to look my best and dance with ONE HUNDRED GIRLS! Last year I danced with fifty." He told them all.
"It's true." Kiba said.
"But Lee, now it'll be harder for the girls to find you since you'll be wearing a mask." Hinata pointed out.
"Nah Hinata, they'll see his hair." Kiba told her.
"That sure is the truth." Tenten said while crossing her arms. Hinata looked at Lee, more like studied him, when a great idea came into her mind.
"Lee, why not do your hair different this year." She said making it sound like the best idea ever.
"HUH?" Kiba and Tenten both asked.
"Change my….hair?" he asked as he moved his eyes to look up at his hair, even though he really couldn't see it.
"YEAH! You could spike it with hair gell!" Hinata said. Kiba still didn't understand but Tenten grew very excited.
"YEAH LEE! You should really try that. It could be like a fun little experiment!"
"Fun for whom?" Lee asked grimly as he stared at the two girls who were plotting to take control over his head.
"Oh come on Lee, it won't look bad." Hinata said with a hint of evil in her eyes.
"…uhhhhuhhhuh…." Lee began to slowly back away from the tow girls who were nearing him.
"You guys!" came the voice of Sakura. "What are you doing to Lee?"
"Nothing yet, but soon we'll be spiking his hair for a test run." Tenten said not taking her eyes off of Lee and his hair.
"Tenten, how could you of all people do something like that to another person?" Sakura asked while crossing her arms. "I mean you won't change your buns."
Tenten stopped walking towards Lee, Sakura was right and she knew it.
"But but, Lee needs this. My hair is just fine!" Tenten said trying to sound convincing.
"Tons of people beg to differ." Ino said coming from behind Sakura.
"FINE! WE WON'T TOUCH HIS HAIR!" Tenten yelled as she stomped her foot like a little child.
"PHEW!" Lee yelled as he wiped the sweat that was forming on his brow. "Sakura Ino I owe you my life!"
"No worries Lee." Sakura said with a smile.
"You truly are amazing Sakura!" Lee said with stars in his eyes.
"Don't push it Lee." Sakura warned as she walked to behind the nurse's table.
"Hmmmm, you know….maybe Lee should spike his hair." Ino said.
"WHAT!" Lee yelled.
"Maybe just for the dance." Ino said. "You know Tenten is wearing her hair down for the dance so maybe you should too. It'll be a change for the two of you."
"Tenten, you're not going to wear your buns?" Lee asked mystified.
"JUST on the day of the dance. No other day, just that one and THAT'S it." Tenten exclaimed.
"I never thought I'd see the day where Tenten would wear her hair down." Lee said stupefied.
"Well if it's that big of a deal I'll bring a camera." Kiba said. Tenten grabbed Kiba by the collar in a very threatening way.
"You do that and I'll be forced to kill you!" she hissed.
"Okay, okay…let's all be cool here." Kiba said trying to calm her down.
"Good, so you understand then?" Tenten asked as she let him go. Kiba nodded furiously as he stuck his hands up in front of him and Tenten.
"No..p.problem." he said since he feared for his life.
"Good, I'm glad I made that quite clear." Tenten said crossing her arms in triumph. Kiba then noticed Ino a few feet behind Tenten and she was trying to say something to Kiba.
"I'll take a pic-ture!" she mouthed to him. While Tenten looked back at Lee Kiba felt it safe to nod in understanding to Ino.
"So if Tenten is doing her hair special against her free will, then maybe I should do it too so she isn't the only one." Lee said.
"Really Lee? You would do that….for me?" Tenten asked with stars in her eyes.
"No problem." He told her as he stuck his hands on his hips. "Anything you do I will do too!"
"Aw, I thought he was going to say anything you can do I can do better." Ino pouted.
"He didn't have to," Kiba told her. "It was just implied!"
"WHAT?!" Sakura, Ino, Tenten, and Hinata yelled.
"I was just kidding!" Kiba yelled as he backed up in fear.
"You know that sounded almost like a challenge." Hinata observed. "Someone doing Tenten's hair and then…"
"Someone doing Lee's." Ino finished. "It could be like a contest to see who gets the best input from people."
"Well if anybody is doing Lee's hair it should be ME." Tenten demanded. "I've always known exactly what to do to his hair."
"Tenten you can't do it since you could make his hair look bad and win." Sakura told her.
"I don't really care about your little competition but if Lee is going to let someone do his hair it should be me since I've known him longest and have been dieing to redo his hair ever since the day he changed it."
"Light bulb!" Ino yelled. "How about Tenten does Lee's hair right when we get to the camp for the dance? Then while we're here Sakura can do Tenten's."
"Sounds perfect, that way the people on the ride down won't get to see Tenten's hair." Sakura said. "Nice one Ino!"
"Alright, it looks like my hair is now in the lovely hands of Tenten. I have complete faith in you. BUT THIS IS THE ONE AND ONLY TIME YOU'LL EVER DO THIS TO ME!" Lee yelled making himself loud and clear.
"No sweat." Tenten smirked. "I think I'm getting goose bumps just thinking about it."
Kiba's ears then perked up at hearing something coming behind him. He turned to see through the opened entrance that Kurenai and Asuma Sensei were heading their way.
"Looks like we'll see you then." Kiba said at gesturing to the couple.
"Alright, Lee on the night of the dance you need to stay in your cabin so we can fix your hair." Tenten told him. "What number is it?"
"10." He told her.
"Consider us there. Get dressed and get ready for us to do your hair. IT'LL BE SO COOL!" Tenten squealed.
"No offense Tenten, but apart of me is a little nervous." Lee confessed.
"No worries Lee," Hinata said as she wrapped her arm around him. "All four of us will be there to supervise. You have nothing to fear."
"Kiba, Lee, just don't tell anyone about the you know what." Tenten warned.
"OR the hair thing, ESPECIALLY the hair thing." Hinata added.
"Roger!" Lee yelled.
"You can count on us." Kiba told them.
"What are you guys…" Sakura was then cut off by Tenten.
"We'll explain later. MUCHO important." Tenten told her as Kurenai and Asuma entered the room.
"You girls ready to get out of this boy camp already?" Kurenai asked them.
"Hells yes!" Tenten exclaimed. "Where's are bags?" she asked as she began to look around the floor.
"Bus is out front ladies." Asuma said as he walked right back out.
"Kiba and Lee right?" Kurenai asked.
"That's us." Kiba said.
"I'm glad you two boys are still here. Someone needs to clean up this breakfast mess we made…..so if you would be so kind. THANKS!" she yelled as she dashed out the door in a flash.
"…what the hell." Lee said making Kiba raise an eyebrow.
"Thanks guys!" Sang Sakura as she ran out too with a suitcase.
"Life savors the both of ya'!" Hinata yelled as she ran out too with her bag and Temari's.
"See you both at the dance!" Ino yelled as she ran by with her suitcase.
"And don't forget to NOT tell!" Tenten chirped as she ran right by them.
"You have fun now!" Kiba yelled as he tried to run away with the rest of them hoping Lee wouldn't notice. Unfortunately Lee grabbed him by the collar with just his right hand making Kiba fall to the ground.
"You're not going anywhere." He told him. "Now role up those sleeves and let's get to work." Lee said as he walked over to the table.
"..ah jeeze." Kiba complained as he trudged after Lee.
Hinata, Ino, Sakura, and Tenten were all comfortably sitting on their couch talking about the dance that would come up in just a few days. It had seemed like ages since they had a talk on the couch but they had a lot to talk about so they didn't bask in the moment. The bus had driven them up to the cabin so they wouldn't have to walk. No one was aloud to see them or see how they were doing until tomorrow so they could have some more rest, and they really didn't mind but they knew that when tomorrow hit and their activities resumed people would bombard them with questions coming from left and right.
"So okay, what kinds of masks are we going to wear?" Ino asked excited. "They would have to match our outfits, which we have because of Hanabi, and no one knew about it so no one has any. So where do we get them from?"
"It said something about them being provided at the meeting in two days." Tenten said reading the wrinkled paper she had put in her pants. "I'm guessing these flyers will be put up either today or tomorrow."
"Just think about it," Sakura said making them all pay attention to her. "We're the only ones who know about this dance in the entire camp."
"Plus Kiba and Lee." Tenten added. "Hope they don't tell anyone."
"So if they did then who cares?" Hinata said. "But I really wish I could be there to see the looks on all the guys' faces when they hear it's a masked dance. They'll all be mortified and bummed."
"True, not one of them will be as excited as us." Sakura said.
"And Shikamaru will probably say 'what a drag'." Ino said thinking about it.
"Oh don't worry Ino," Hinata said. "He says that to everything."
"Guys can we focus here?" Sakura asked gaining attention. "So now with this whole masked ball thing are we still going to do our plan?"
"Why wouldn't we?" Tenten asked. "It'll be payback."
"It'll be revenge." Ino said evilly.
"It'll be rewarding just to see their faces." Hinata smirked.
"Okay, just checking." Sakura laughed. "Hinata by the way I was going to ask you on the bus ride, but why are your hands prunny?"
Hinata looked down at her semi-prunny hands and then back up at Sakura.
"You should have seen the guys' kitchen. There were dishes piled to the ceiling, I wish I was exaggerating!" Hinata exclaimed. "So I cleaned them while I was there."
"Didn't Neji yell at you? I mean he was on a rampage." Ino told her.
"Nah he yelled at Naruto for…"
"For practically RAPEING HER!" Tenten yelled.
"WHAT THE HELL??!!!" Ino and Sakura both yelled as they jumped to their knees to listen to an explanation.
"HE DID NOT!" Hinata retorted.
"Me and Neji walked in on them and Naruto wasn't just shirtless but he was on top of her ON THE FLOOR!" Tenten told them.
"HUH!" They both gasped.
"You sleaze." Ino hissed teasingly.
"He tackled me by accident; it was all a HUGE misunderstanding I swear." Hinata tried to tell them.
"Okay, but he better watch himself the next time he's in heat or else I'll beat him for you." Sakura yelled as she punched the air.
"Aw thanks!" Hinata cheered.
"You know I can't believe you would wash their dishes." Ino said.
"What I can't believe is that Naruto and Neji didn't do them in the first place." Tenten said. "I mean think about it, with all that practice they had as a punishment."
"True." Ino and Hinata said at once.
"Okay, okay, that's all good and all but could we PLEASE get back to the dance. What kinds of masks are there going to be and will they clash with the outfits?"
"Beats me." Tenten said looking the paper over. "We're going to have to find out like the rest of the camp at the time they tell us."
"Oh come on." Said a voice from the door. "You always going to do what the camp tells you?"
"Temari!" all four girls said.
"I mean look at me and Livvy, they told us all to not see you but here we are." She said as she walked into the cabin with Livvy right behind her.
"Livvy!" all the girls cheered.
"Oh my Gosh are you guys okay!" Livvy asked excitedly as she ran over to them and began to exchange hugs with each girl. Temari was there standing awkwardly as she watched them all giggle and hug which she wanted to be apart of, but her guard was currently up and she wasn't about to loose her poise for them.
'AW screw it!' she thought as she went over and began to hug them.
"I'm so glad you guys are okay!" she laughed as she began to hug Ino then Tenten.
"And we have SOOO much to tell you both." Sakura said as she hugged Livvy.
"Can we start with the whole boat thing?" Temari asked as she hugged Hinata.
"Sure!" Hinata said as she let her go so Sakura could hug her. "And then we'll end it with the dance!"
Shikamaru had just finished a shower and was heading downstairs to see Neji, Naruto, and Sasuke playing on the x-box 360 and lounging on the couch. They were all playing Tony Hawks project 8, and Naruto seemed to be winning at it.
"Hey Shikamaru!" Sasuke called. "Next game you're in."
"Sure thing." Shikamaru said as he went to his usual chair in front of the huge window. He stared up and saw the clouds pass by with the wind in a very lazy manner. He thought to himself how lucky they were that that was all they ever had to do is just sit up there with the wind slowly taking them wherever. Shikamaru took in a deep breathe and then let it all out at once. He closed his eyes hoping that their game would last for a while so he could just kick back and relax.
"Alright Shikamaru, you're in." Naruto yelled as he threw him a wireless remote.
"uhg…so much for relaxing." He mumbled as he yawned and stood up.
"You know Shikamaru I don't think I've ever seen anyone with cloud envy before, but I think they should make it a disease or something." Naruto said.
"Now that you mention it Shikamaru does seem to be suffering from cloud envy." Neji said.
"Not to mention laziness." Sasuke added.
"Hey I don't suffer from laziness." Shikamaru said as he was about to sit on the couch. "I enjoy every minute of it."
"Touché'." Neji said as he turned his head to look at Shikamaru and then right back on the screen.
"Alright time to beat all four of you this time!" Naruto said as he prepared himself for his future victory.
"Whatever." Shikamaru said as the game started.
Nearly five minutes into the game Shikamaru was in the lead with Naruto right behind him as they were going full speed down a hill when their front door opened up. Sasuke and Neji, since they were already loosing, turned around to see who was coming in. Naruto just stayed focused on the game with a heavy determined face on while Shikamaru continued to beat him looking very laid-back.
"Don't you two know how to knock?" Neji asked annoyed as he watched Kiba and Lee walk into the cabin. Shikamaru turned around to see who came in thinking it was two of the girls but was let down at only seeing those two come in like they had some serious news to tell.
"We thought we'd just let our selves in." Kiba told them.
"SHINO!" Lee yelled outside the door. "HURRY OR YOU'LL MISS THE BIG NEWS!" slowly but surely Shino came into the cabin as slow as humanly possible. He looked at everyone on the couch and gave them a nod as he walked over to a wall to lean on.
"Okay that was weird," Kiba commented since the room went dead silent for Shino. "ANYWAYS we have the biggest news and we just have to tell you all."
"HOLD ON!" Naruto yelled as he continued to play the game. "I'm almost about to win!"
"In your dreams." Shikamaru said as he focused back on the game that he was wining whether he was looking at the T.V or not. "The game ends in five, four, three, two…"
"NNOOOOOOOOOOO!" Naruto yelled as he jumped up since Shikamaru's character just finished the race.
"Now that that's over with can you tell us what you guys want?" Sasuke asked as Neji turned the console off with his remote.
"Well we promised not to tell anybody this but the girls told us something about the dance." Kiba said.
"I'm still not sure if it's a good idea to tell them or not." Lee said. "After all we promised them we wouldn't."
"It's not like they can do anything about it since they left. I mean we wont see them till the dance so who cares." Kiba said.
"Would you just spill it already?" Shino asked a little impatient. "You'd better tell us now since you dragged me all the way up here."
"JUST GET ON WITH IT ALREADY!" Naruto yelled as he sat on the edge of the sofa.
"Alright already." Kiba said trying to calm Naruto down. "The girls said they found a flyer er' something that said our dance this week was going to be a masked dance. You know what that means dontcha'?"
Most of the guys gave blanks looks and were waiting for Kiba to tell them what it all meant. Kiba waited for one of them to say something but no one had an idea of what to say.
"So? What does it mean?" Shino asked trying to get the ball rolling.
"…uhhhh, actually I guess I really don't know what that means." He admitted as he sweat dropped. Everyone fell over anime style at Kiba's stupidity.
"THAT'S ALL?!" Naruto yelled.
"Kiba what was so exciting about that news?" Sasuke asked.
"Actually not much, but the girls seemed to be very secretive about it. They were snickering and everything. They told us not to tell but I thought some of us should know so we know what kind of corny things they'll be doing at the dance."
"So then that'll be the dance's theme I guess." Shikamaru said. "Like….a masquerade."
"Well on the plus side Sasuke, no girls will be able to find you." Naruto said.
"Are you kidding? They'll see his hair and know it's him." Kiba commented with almost a laugh. Sasuke gave Kiba a glare since him commenting on his hair made him think of when Sakura told called him a "Chicken-butt haircut" at the last dance.
"It's true Sasuke; everyone will be able to tell it's you because of your sharp hair." Lee exclaimed with a laugh.
"Yeah well what about you Lee?" Sasuke asked. "Everyone will tell it's you by your bowl haircut." Lee felt the top of his head knowing that his hair was cool because it looked like Gai Sensei's, but before he could tell Sasuke that Kiba interrupted.
"Actually Sasuke, Lee MMMMWAMMMPPP."
Lee had slapped his hand over Kiba's mouth to shut him up quick before he revealed yet another secret to everyone.
"Kiba you know Tenten told you not to say!" Lee said grabbing the attention of Neji. "If you reveal that secret then you'll reveal Tenten's!" Kiba got Lee's hand off of his mouth so that he could speak again.
"Aw come on, it's not that big of a DMEAL….GEEEEEEEE….WEETMOOOO!"(deal, Lee let go) Kiba tried to say. Lee not only had his hand over Kiba's mouth but had his other hand pulling Kiba's left arm around his back so he wouldn't move.
"Must be some secret if Lee is holding Kiba that way." Shikamaru told Neji. Neji only nodded. He wanted so badly to know what Tenten's secret was and why Lee, a guy who could make her blush, was in on it too.
"So it's a pretty goOD secret!" Naruto said getting excited to know. "Say Lee, what if I wrestle you and if I win you tell us."
"No Thank you." Lee said as he continued to have a firm grip over Kiba. Kiba was struggling to get free and Lee made it look easy to hold him that way. "Kiba shouldn't have even told you about the masks in the first place, so don't worry about it!" Lee said giving Naruto the thumbs up.
"Nah come on that's LAME. Just you and me, we can do it right out front." Naruto said as he jumped on top of the couch.
"You sure wont take no for an answer will you?" Lee asked.
"You got that right!" Naruto said as he stood firm on the couch.
"Then how about this?" Lee asked as he stuck his thumb going up to going down.
"Damn it Lee." Naruto said as he hopped over the couch. "You don't make anything interesting at all!"
"Sorry Naruto, but it is the wish of Hinata and Tenten that I don't say anything at all. I am a true friend unlike some who can not keep their big yap shut!" Lee said gripping Kiba tighter.
"Lee let him go already." Neji said standing up. "You might break him." Lee did let him go which made Kiba fall to the ground.
"What the HELL?!" Kiba yelled.
"So do you know what kinds of masks they're going to make us wear?" Neji asked.
"The girls never said, all they would say is it was going to be masked." Lee told him.
"I'm only going to say this once." Sasuke said. "It's not….that bad of an idea." He said trying not to look at anyone. "It'll be interesting and make things different, is all."
"Even I don't think it's going to be such a drag." Shikamaru said. "In fact it could probably be a blessing in disguise."
"How so?" Neji asked.
"Well I could dance with a girl and sleep at the same time." He told them all.
"Man you sure are lazy." Naruto mumbled.
"But won't they be able to see your eyes?" Shino asked making himself known again.
"Depends on what kind of mask you wear." Shikamaru shrugged.
"Do you think they'll make us wear them the whole time?" Sasuke asked.
"I sure hope so." Lee said to himself. 'I have no idea what Tenten is going to do to my hair. If it looks terrible then I could be a total laughing stock!'
"What was that Lee?" Neji asked.
"I said….I don't know." Lee put simply. Neji accepted this answer but he knew that it wasn't what Lee really said.
"You know this'll make the dance a little more interesting, like Sasuke said." Naruto told them. "Think of all the mischief that could be pulled with masks on! It's almost like a dream come true!"
"After that last dance I don't think there will be any more of that." Sasuke said without realizing Kiba and Shino were in the room.
"And what's that supposed to mean?" Shino asked.
"Exactly what I said." Sasuke said without loosing his cool. "I don't think there will be any of that…because now they'll probably make it so nothing remotely wrong happens." 'Alright that was a good save.' Sasuke thought to himself.
"So the dance is here this time right?" Kiba asked them. He got a few nods as a yes. "So last time people went down to decorate, does that mean that this time they'll come up here to decorate our hall?"
"I didn't even think of that." Naruto said getting excited. "Does that mean that the girls will be coming down here?"
"..huh..I highly doubt it." Shikamaru said lazily. "They only wanted the guys to help out since they didn't want the girls to get hurt on the ladders. Now I'm sure they'll just make us do it."
"Sucks to be you two then." Sasuke said to Shikamaru and Naruto making them both look up at him with a raised eyebrow.
"What do you mean?" Naruto asked completely clueless.
"hmp….didn't the both of you sign up for the decorating committee?" Sasuke asked with a smirk
"Yeah so, what's you your point?" Shikamaru asked.
"Well doesn't that mean you have to help decorate this one now too?" he asked them slyly.
"………….AW SHIT!" Naruto yelled. "I didn't want to help out with both dances, just the first ONE!"
"Man this is going to be such a drag." Shikamaru complained.
"Yeah," laughed Kiba "That's what you get for volunteering."
"I hope they don't want it all fancy just because it's going to be a masked dance now." Shikamaru said as he put his hands behind his head as he made himself comfortable on the couch. Kiba then began to walk over to their TV so he would be in front of them now while Lee just leaned against the back of the couch.
"I've heard that you guys had a plasma but MAN not bad." Kiba said checking their TV out.
"Yeah and you just interrupted a game we were having too." Naruto huffed.
"And you did Naruto a favor," Sasuke told Kiba. "He was loosing so now it was less humiliating for him since we weren't paying attention."
"Well you sure aren't one to talk." Naruto told him. "You were loosing to not only me and Shikamaru but Neji too! So don't say I was loosing when you were dead last!" Sasuke's response was a smirk, a shrug and a sweat drop.
"Served by Naruto……..that's gotta' suck." Neji mumbled which made Sasuke glare.
"So I guess you guys want to play?" Shikamaru asked. Kiba made a huge grin and then let it go as if he didn't care.
"Weeeeeell, since you just finished it's a new game right? I mean….if you want us to we could probably play a quick round or…"
"Juts grab a remote already!" Sasuke said. "Here take mine." He said throwing it to Kiba.
"AW MAN….WIRELESS?! You guys have it made up here. HEY! What do you have in that kitchen?"
"They have a kitchen?" Shino asked as he looked straight ahead of him to see the kitchen. "Mind if I check it out?" he asked as he walked towards it with Lee right behind him.
"COME ON COME ON COME ON! Can we PLEASE play the game already?!" Naruto yelled.
"Alright so it's Kiba, Neji, Shikamaru, and Naruto." Sasuke said as he stood up so Kiba could take his seat. "Now I think I'm going to make sure Shino and Lee don't eat all of our good food." Sasuke said as he walked to the kitchen.
"Yeah yeah, protect our food while we FINALLY play!" Naruto yelled as Neji turned the console back on for them.
"So what are we playing?" Kiba asked them.
"Tony Hawk's Project 8." Said Neji as he put his feet up on their table.
"Wow, I've never played that before. I might not be that good." Kiba said with a smirk.
"Don't worry, just watch me!" Naruto boasted. "I'm really good at it."
"Say Naruto, why not make a bet? Just to have a little more fun." Kiba suggested.
"Like what?" Naruto asked almost uninterested.
"Well let's say best two out of three. You win two out of three games here beating all three of us then I'll give you twenty dollars." Kiba told him.
"HA, you wanna bet me on my best game? Make it fifty and you got a deal!" he said sticking his hand out to him.
"HAHA, I like your style Naruto. FIFTY DOLLARS. Just go easy on me." Kiba told him as he let his hand go.
"We'll see about that." Naruto said gripping his controller getting ready to start the game.
"AAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!" Temari cued as she hugged her bag that Ino had given her earlier. She had pushed the coffee table back from the couch so she could sit on the floor and use it for back support. Livvy was right next to her and they were all staring from left to right Ino, Tenten, Sakura, and Hinata who was sitting on the arm of the couch. "I can't believe you KISSED him, and you told me he wasn't your boyfriend!"
"Look how red you are!" Livvy laughed as she pointed at Hinata's face.
"Can anyone tell me why exactly you made us repeat that part of the story?" Hinata asked.
"It was the BEST part!" Ino told her.
"Admit it Hinata, you loved reliving it." Sakura told her.
"In my mind maybe but most certainly not out loud with people!" she told them.
"Okay SO back to the whole dance thing?" Temari asked. "Livvy just had to hear how Hinata and Naruto kissed again."
"AW you loved it too!" Livvy told her.
"I KNOW!" Temari laughed with hearts in her eyes. "But back to the part about masks." She said in a most serious tone. "Whose crazy idea was it for us to wear these things?"
"I don't want to sound vain or anything, but why would they want us to hide our beautiful faces?!" Livvy giggled as she fanned her face with her hand.
"Beats me, but I guess they thought it would be a fun idea." Tenten told them.
"Livvy's right though." Sakura told them all. "It's true that they'll cover our faces, making it difficult to see who you're dancing with…"
"I mean you think you know who you're dancing with but it could be some PERV!" Ino told them.
"That's true too," Sakura told her. "But it's also romantic in a way. Dancing with a dark stranger, sounds fun to me!"
"Of course it does to you." Tenten told her. "Sasuke's hair is so spiky you'll be able to find him anywhere!"
"But Neji has long hair so all you have to do is find that." Sakura told her.
"And Shikamaru wears his in a spiky ponytail." Hinata also pointed out.
"And I've never seen hair as blonde as Naruto's." Ino added.
"Sorry Livvy, but Kiba is going to be hard to find since his hair isn't that different." Temari laughed.
"Shut up!" Livvy yelled as she shoved Temari. "I do not like him!"
"Why are you blushing then?" Temari asked slyly.
"You're just….making me nervous is all. AND I BET that you'll find LEE because of his hair!" Livvy yelled back. Tenten and Hinata exchanged mischievous looks with Ino and Sakura as Livvy and Temari bickered.
"How many times do I have to tell you, that kid just found my bag and used me as a temporary weight. He means nothing to me."
"Oh you say these things but you don't mean them." Livvy said patting Temari on the shoulder.
"Can I have Kiba's number? You have it in your cell right?" Temari asked getting a laugh from all four girls on the couch.
"HE'S JUST NICE IS ALL. I DON'T DATE ANYONE YOUNGER THEN ME." She then looked over at the couch of four girls who were younger then her. "No offense to people younger then me!" she laughed nervously.
"None taken." Ino said." It's just one of your turn offs, like how mine is shorter guys."
"Hey I'm the same age as you." Tenten pointed out. "We're both seventeen."
"My apologies." Livvy said.
"Hey if you want someone the same age as you I have someone in mind." Temari said.
"I DO NOT LIKE KIBA!" Livvy yelled. Everyone looked at her with wide eyes. "Oh….sorry." she whispered embarrassed.
"….uhh…anyways my brother Kankuro is seventeen too. You should meet him." Temari told her.
"You have a brother?" Sakura asked.
"Sadly I have two of them." Temari told them. "They both get to stay at home since Kakuro is convinced that all camps are nothing but pure torture since at his last camp they made him do the unspeakable!"
"What'd they make him do?"Hinata asked.
"I told you, it's unspeakable." Temari told her.
"So you dont know then?" Sakura asked.
"Not a clue."
"Wait a minute." Ino said. "Your brother is Kankuro?"
"Yeah so?"
"I...I know him!" She said as she showed a slight blush on her cheeks.