Hinata opened her eyes to the familiar sight of the ceiling in the nurse's office. Hushed whispers were the only sound the echoed off the tile walls.
"What about the dress?"
"Yeah, we should really start looking for one,"
"Do you know her size?"
"No, but she's probably something small,"
"Well, I saw this really cute dress the other day-"
"Lee, shut up,"
Hinata sat up and saw the SFHHAHQA sitting in a circle at the edge of the room, whispering quietly. Kiba turned around and saw her sitting up.
"Well, look who finally decided to join us," He said, grinning. The others turned around too.
"Hinata!" Tenten said. "You okay?"
"Oh, yeah," Hinata said quietly. "I'm fine,"
"Well, that's good! You had me scared for a bit there!" that all too familiar voice said. Hinata looked toward the circle of chairs to have her worst fear confirmed. It was Naruto.
"N-naruto? What are you doing here?" She asked timidly.
"Oh, I just wanted to make sure you were alright and everything," He said.
Hinata began to feel faint and swayed back and forth until Kiba's strong hands caught her.
"No way you're fainting on us again!" Kiba said, steadying her.
"Yeah!" Tenten chimed in. "We have important matters to discuss!"
"Im-important matters?" Hinata asked.
"Yeah! Let's see, we should go over the different competition catagories, the dress, campaign strategies…" Tenten said, ticking the different items off on her fingers.
Oh right. That. I hope they won't be too mad when I tell them about Sakura and Ino.
"So, I think, maybe-"
"I can't win!" Hinata blurted out. Everyone turned to stare at her.
"I-I'm sorry," she continued, bowing her head. "Sakura and Ino are going all out and so I'll lose by a lot. I'm so sorry,"
Tenten snorted and Hinata looked up.
"You'll lose for sure with an attitude like that," Tenten looked at her. "You haven't even started yet. How do you know you're going to lose?"
Lee jumped up. "Yes! The flower of victory blooms best in-"
"Lee, shut up. This is my pep talk,"
Lee sat down dejectedly.
Tenten turned back to Hinata. "Look, the point is you can't let them scare you. You've got to keep going-" She paused. "For the students. For us. And most of all," She poked Hinata's shoulder. "For yourself,"
It was silent for a couple moments before Shikamaru broke the silence.
"You call that a pep talk?"
"Shut up!" Tenten yelled. "I don't see you trying to do anything to help Hinata!" Hinata giggled and everyone started laughing.
"Okay, okay, we should get back to work," Tenten said. "Let's see, we still have to go over the dress, campaign stuff- Oh, and Hinata? We decided to have Naruto run with you so we can draw in more voters. That okay?"
Hinata fought the urge to faint and smiled instead. "Yeah, sure!"
Author's Note: Poor Lee, always the comic relief...
Well, hello there. Sorry it took me so long to update (these last couple weeks have been crazy!) Anways, thanks for taking time to read to the bottom. As always, your reviews are much appreciated and really make my day so could you leave some? I would really appreciate it! So, anyways, I'll stop babbling now so you can go do something else. And I'll try to get up the next chapter as quick as possible! Although no guarantees how fast that will be...