(Later the Next Morning)
"So is everyone clear on the plan?" Sakura asked. They had made a plan last night before going to bed.
"Hai!" TenTen said. "The school year starts in a week. Today is Monday. So we need to get our parents to sign the paperwork for Konoha High, and then we copy the information over to the paperwork for Shinobi Academy. We send the paperwork in and order the uniforms today. We also need to request dorms together."
"And tomorrow or Tuesday, we ask for money from our parents for a new wardrobe for school and we all go out and buy boy's clothes." Ino continued for TenTen.
"Wednesday we pack all our stuff. Nothing is planned for Thursday or Friday." Temari continued for Ino.
"Saturday, we get my chauffeur to drive us and all our stuff to Konoha in my family's limo. The limo is the only thing that everything will fit in. (Hinata's a rich Hyuuga) Then we spend the night in a hotel fixing our hair, trying on our uniforms and all that." Hinata continued for Temari.
"Sunday, we go to our dorms and put all our stuff up, get our schedules and everything. And then on Monday we start Shinobi academy." Sakura finished for everyone.
"I guess that's it." TenTen said.
"I feel like we are forgetting something." Ino said.
"Oh, right. How are we going to hide our breasts? That would be a dead giveaway that we are girls." Temari said.
"I have an aunt who owns a clothing line and designs clothes why don't we ask her." TenTen told them.
"I just we can do that on Thursday since we have nothing planned." Sakura said.
"I still feel like we're forgetting something!" Ino said.
"Hinata, isn't your cousin Neji going to Shinobi Academy?" Sakura asked.
"Yes." Hinata timidly answered.
"Oh, crap." Temari said.
"He will be able to recognize you even with cut hair." TenTen commented.
"We'll just have to give her color contacts and dye her hair. Sorry Hinata." Sakura told them.
"Its okay." Hinata answered.
"What about names?" Ino asked.
"We will write down fake names on the paperwork. Anybody got an idea for their new boy name?" Sakura answered.
"How about Google?" TenTen answered.
"That's a stupid name." Ino remarked.
"No you baka! I mean lets look on the internet for ideas for names." TenTen corrected her.
"Oh."
"That's a good idea! Lets do that." Sakura commented and everyone agreed.
(Later after the Long Internet Search)
"I'm Tetsuya Aoki." Said Sakura Haruno
"I'm Ronin Arakawa." Said TenTen (No last name)
"I'm Tsubasa Yamada." Said Temari (No last name)
"I'm Toshi Mitsu." Said Ino Yamanaka
"I'm Yasuo Taji." Said Hinata Hyuuga (In the new names their first names are listed first and then their surnames)
"I can't believe how hard it was to find those names on the internet!" Sakura exclaimed.
"I know! It really was hard!" TenTen agreed.
"You guys we need to get our parents to sign the paperwork." Ino informed them.
"Okay! Everyone do your best to convince your parents to sign the paperwork and meet back at my house to copy the information over to the Shinobi Academy paperwork." Sakura told them.
And they all left.
It was kinda hard for them to get their parents to agree.
Hinata's dad thought she was a failure so he didn't care what school she went to.
TenTen's parents didn't want their child to go to Konoha but TenTen got them to agree eventually.
Temari's parents had the same issue as TenTen's parents. But Temari did get them to agree.
Ino's dad agreed right away and wished her luck at her new school.
Sakura's mother, Tsunade also agreed. She was proud of her for being so independent and picking her own school.
(Later after copying over the information to the Shinobi Academy paperwork and ordering the uniforms)
"Ok. That's it for today. Tomorrow we shop for boy's clothes. Get money from your parents and meet me at the Suna mall tomorrow at noon at the west entrance. After you've had lunch." Sakura told them.
They all agreed and left Sakura's house.
(The Next Day)
"I feel really weird." Ino said.
"What was that Ino?" Sakura asked.
"I mean here we are in the boy's section picking out boy's clothes. I mean look at all those people giving us weird looks." Ino pointed out.
"Ah, screw them! Who cares what they think?" Temari said.
"Me." Ino said.
"You're way too self-conscious." Sakura said.
When they tried on the clothes they got even more weird looks but Temari and Sakura gave them all death glares and they backed off.
When they went to check out and buy their clothes they had to wait for the cashier. When he showed up Sakura heard him mutter, "Oh great a bunch of cross-dressing tomboys." Which really pissed her off.
"Excuse me?" Sakura asked.
"What?" The cashier asked.
"I heard what you said."
"Oh that. Well its true isn't it? That's why you're buying boy clothes."
"Don't go and make assumptions like that. For all you know we could be buying these clothes for our brothers who are too lazy to shop."
"I saw you trying them on. If you're planning on wearing those clothes why are you hiding the fact that you are buying them for yourself now? Let me guess you girls wish that you were boys, that's why you want to dress like boys. I mean why wouldn't you want to be boys? Boys are stronger and better then girls."
All the girls were getting mad now.
"If I had known that this place had sexist pigheads like you working here. I wouldn't have come here. Actually I think I'll leave right now-" Sakura was about to walk away from the register and take her business elsewhere with the rest of the girls when…
"I'm sorry miss, is there a problem here?" Another employee appeared. "I'm the manager of this store."
"Actually there is. Your cashier is being sexist and harassing us." Sakura told him.
"What? I-" The cashier was about to come to his own defense when the manager cut him off.
"Is that true?" He asked.
All the girls nodded.
"You're fired." He said to the cashier.
The cashier glared at Sakura, took off his employee nametag and left.
"At this store we strive for 100 percent customer satisfaction. We're sorry about that cashier and to make up for it we will give you a 10 discount." He smiled.
"Thank you." Sakura smiled.
(Later at the Food Court after the girls had gotten smoothies)
"Well I'm in a good mood. I got a sexist jerk fired, we got the clothes we needed and with a 10 discount." Sakura said.
"Definitely what I'd call a good day." Temari agreed.
(Thursday) (Nothing happened on Wednesday all they did was pack, pretty uneventful)
"So this is your aunt's clothing factory TenTen?" Sakura asked, as she looked around at all the clothes that were being manufactured.
"Yep. Oh, and just so you know, I know my aunt. She won't give us the thing we need unless she knows the reason. So we will need to tell her. But don't worry she'll be proud of us, she doesn't like the sexist prejudices that boys are better than girls either." TenTen said.
"I sure hope so." Sakura said.
"Auntie Kurenai!" TenTen rang out running to her aunt after she spotted her.
"Ohayo TenTen!" Kurenai greeted.
TenTen and Kurenai had a friendly hug.
"What are you doing here?" Kurenai asked
"Uh, well… Do you make anything we can put on under our shirts to make us look flat-chested?" TenTen asked innocently.
"What? Most girls your age want bigger breasts but you want to be flat? Why exactly?" Kurenai asked dumbfounded.
"Uh, well me and all these girls are disguising ourselves and entering Shinobi Academy as boys." TenTen said innocently.
Kurenai laughed. "You're kidding, right?"
"No." TenTen answered seriously and all the girls nodded in agreement.
"Woah. Kids these days." Kurenai muttered. "Do your parents know about this?"
(Kurenai and the girls have a long boring conversation about how their parents don't know, Kurenai can't tell them. And about why they are entering a boy's school, etc. I don't want to bore you to death if I haven't already so I'm not including the conversation.)
"Ok, I won't tell your parents. I think what you guys are doing is pretty admirable." Kurenai smiled. "If you wore denim vests under your uniforms that might work. But wait, they would just come out on the sides so you'd need wires in the denim vests. I guess that would make you look completely flat. That wouldn't be too hard to make, how many do you need?"
"Probably five each." TenTen answered for the group.
"Lets see that would be twenty five denim vests with wires on the sides. I could have those done by tomorrow night. But I need all of your measurements to make sure they will fit you." Kurenai informed them.
"Okay."
Kurenai took all of their measurements. The girls left and came back the next night to pick the vests up.
"Thank you Auntie Kurenai!" TenTen said as Kurenai was giving each girl her pack of five denim vests.
"So how much do you want us to pay you?" Sakura asked.
"Pay me? Nothing! This is gift for my niece TenTen. Just go and do your best at Shinobi Academy. The next time I see you I want you to be ninjas." Kurenai smiled.
"Alright! We'll do our best!" Sakura said as the girls waved goodbye.
(Saturday)
Sakura stared out of the limo Hinata's family let them use. They were leaving Suna and they were headed to Konoha.
'I wonder what it will be like there.' Sakura thought.
"So Sakura what's on your mind?" Ino asked.
"Huh? Nothing I was just wondering what Konoha will be like." Sakura answered. "I more curious to what's on her mind." She pointed to Temari who was staring at the giant fan she was holding.
"Huh? Me?" Temari asked.
"Yeah you. Where did you get that fan?" Sakura asked.
"My parents gave it to me. They said that every generation in my family they give the first-born male a fan to use as their weapon when they become a ninja. Since I'm my parents' only child they never had any use for this fan that they were planning to give to their first son. So they gave it to me as a good luck charm. I guess I can use it as my weapon instead though."
"Cool." Sakura replied and Temari smiled.
(Later at the Hotel)
"What? You only reserved one room Hinata?" Sakura asked as the girls brought their luggage up to the room. "Will we all be able to fit?"
"Well, I thought it would be easier to cut our hair and everything if we were in the same room. And it has three beds and we can share the beds." Hinata said.
"I guess you're right. I just didn't know that they made hotel rooms that big." Sakura said.
(Later once all the girls had all their luggage in the room and they were all settled in)
"Sakura… I'm not sure about this are you sure you know what you are doing?" Ino said really nervous because Sakura was holding a pair of scissors to Ino hair.
"Don't worry. It'll be fine." Sakura answered as she started cutting Ino's hair.
Once she was done. Ino went into the bathroom that was in their room. She looked in the mirror. Her hair came down to the nape of her neck. Her hair curved outwards on the ends, not all in different directions but all combed together neatly. Her hair was as long as the one long big bang that she always had in the front of her face. She didn't look bad. She did look like a boy a little bit but that was the idea.
Next was TenTen. Sakura basically just cut off her two big brown hair buns. Then she combed her hair. The outcome was that TenTen's hair was short and feathery in layers. It was the slightest bit longer in the front but that just made those hairs frame her face. She looked boyish and it looked really good.
Next was Temari. She wouldn't let Sakura cut her hair because she already had a hairstyle in mind. She took down her four big ponytails in went in the bathroom. And when she came back out her hair was all in long spikes that curved over a pair of goggles that she was wearing on her forehead. The goggles had clear lens with a black frame and band. No cloth was behind them they were just plain goggles. A small tuff of hair was poking out from under the little band in the center that connected the two frames. The spikes that were curving over the goggles came down to her eyebrows and one big spike on each side came down in front of her ears and stopped at her jaw. The spikes at the back of her head didn't go past the nape of her neck. (Think of Pain's hairstyle from Faeries Landing just without the long ponytail) She looked boyish and hot.
Sakura tried to stifle a giggle but she failed miserably.
"What's so funny?" Temari asked her.
"What's with the goggles?" Sakura asked.
Temari got a little irritated. "If I'm going to be using a fan as my weapon then I'm going to be trying to control wind. I've never done that before so when I'm practicing I might blow the wind in the wrong direction and end up getting debris in my eyes. These will prevent that. And I'm wearing them now because I thought they looked good. Do they look bad?"
All the girls said "No!" in unison.
"They look really cool. I just thought it was odd for you to be wearing goggles." Sakura admitted.
"Okay then." Temari said.
Sakura had Hinata dye her hair black and she gave her a pair of blue contacts to make sure that her cousin didn't recognize her. The dye made her bangs spikier so they weren't so square anymore. Sakura cut her hair to where her hair didn't spike up in the back, it was flat and she thinned out the tuffs of hair in front of her ears. Then she combed her bangs down to the sides and brought out long strands of hair from behind her ears and combed them into her bangs to frame her face. With the black hair and the blue eyes she looked like a really cute boy.
Ino cut Sakura's hair where it was combed back completely flat down to the nape of her neck. In the front she cut her bangs to be three spiky tuffs on each side. One came down to her eyebrows, the next one to her cheek and the last one down to her jaw. It was hard for her to look like a boy with pink hair, but she didn't want to dye it.
All the girls put on their uniforms and denim vests under it to see how they looked as boys.
Luckily there was a big mirror in the room that all of them could see what they looked like at the same time.
They all burst out laughing.
"What the hell are we doing?" Sakura laughed.
"We're a bunch of crazy idiots!" Ino laughed.
"You got that right!" TenTen laughed.
"We actually look like boys!" Hinata laughed.
"Oh! My! God! We are insane!" Temari laughed.
Once they stopped laughing-
"Ok. So we're getting into our dorms tomorrow. I'm pretty nervous." TenTen admitted.
"Me too. But we will be fine." Ino said.
"We should all get to bed now." Sakura said and with that they did the thing where they all put their hands in and raise them up and them went to bed.
(The Next Day)
"Okay so while all you guys were getting our luggage out of limo I got the list of dorm arrangements." Temari said. All the girls were struggling try to carry the heavy suitcases out of the limo except Sakura because she had super strength; it was easy for her to carry all the stuff.
The girls weren't wearing their uniforms yet because tomorrow was when the school actually started but they were all wearing boy's clothes and the vest. If you didn't know any better you would have thought they were actually boys.
"The dorms are doubles. We requested dorms together so we are all together in dorms right next to each other. Ronin (TenTen) and me Tsubasa (Temari) are in dorm 202 in dorm 2. Toshi (Ino) and Yasuo (Hinata) in dorm 203 in dorm 2. And uh… Tetsuya (Sakura) you are in dorm 201 in dorm 2 with… you might wanna look at this." Temari announced to the group. (They are now going to the school so they have to called each other by their fake names)
"What about it?" Tetsuya asked.
"Well… There's five of us and the dorms are doubles so one of us…" Tsubasa was reluctant to announce the bad news.
"Oh, just give me that!" Tetsuya snatched it out of her hands.
"WTF? I'M STUCK WITH NEJI!"
A/N: If you are reading this author's note that means I didn't bore you to death with this super long chapter yay! So do you guys like it? I made all the girls only childs so Temari isn't related to Kankuro and Gaara. I'm guessing it might be hard for you to remember who is who with their new names. So I'll put this key so you can come back and look at this if you get confused its their names and meanings:
Sakura: Tetsuya (become iron), Aoki (blue tree)
TenTen: Ronin (samurai without a master), Arakawa (rough, river)
Temari: Tsubasa (wings), Yamada (mountain)
Ino: Toshi (mirror image), Mitsu (shine; reflect)
Hinata: Yasuo (peaceful one), Taji (silver and yellow color)
I picked names that I thought applied to them. I couldn't find anything to do with wind for Temari so I went with Tsubasa. As for Sakura this story is about her and her friends quest to become strong so Tetsuya (become iron) really suits her. I couldn't find anything to do with weapons for TenTen and Ronin just seemed to fit. Ino, got Toshi (mirror image) because it sorta goes along with her mind switch jutsu. Hinata, got Yasuo because peaceful one really described her and her last name is sorta like the color of her eyes (without the color contacts).
Now I really am boring you guys to death with this author's note. Bwa ha ha! jk. I promise the next chapter won't be so boring! It will be better! Please review!
