"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this years sharp shooter contest." the man said over the loud speaker. "Our first round will be the archery round. Will the contestants stepped forward."
Tenten stepped forward with nine other people, it surprised her that she was the only girl. She picked up her bow, and looked at her arrows. There were five, that meant that she ha to get five bulls-eyes. She saw a guy at the end of the row, load all five arrows at once. She smirked and followed suit, he wasn't the only one who could do that.
"On your mark, shoot." Tenten released her arrows, and they all landed on the bulls-eye, so did the boy's. "Numbers, 2 and 8 you are out." the man said. They moved on to the second round, where they used flaming arrows, the next round they used spears, after that they used knives, and then flaming knives. The next round was swords, then they had to shoot arrows at a moving target. After that they used small pistils, then they had to use two pistols.
It was down to the last round, ad the only two people left were Tenten and the boy at the end. The last round was a free style round. The boy chose a pistol, while Tenten picked up a dagger.
"Well ladies and gentlemen this had been an exciting round!" the man said. "This is your freestyle round, all our contestants have to do, is get three bulls-eyes in a row. Contestant 10, you are first." the boy stepped up to the target, and shot. Once the smoke cleared he had two bulls-eyes, now all Tenten had to do was get three. She smirked as she stepped up, three knives in hand.
Tenten placed the blades of the three knives between her fingers, and turned her back on the target, when the whistle blew she threw the knives, and walked away. "And the winner of this years state sharp shooter contest is, number 9 Tenten!' the announcer said. Tenten smirked, and walked off the stage where her friends were waiting.
"Tenten, that was amazing!" Ino cooed, hugging her.
"Thanks. Ino...I...can't...breath."
"Sorry." she said.
"Tenten, that was beautiful." Neji said, wrapping her in his arms. "Who knew my beautiful Tenten was so skilled with...deadly..." Neji trailed off when this realization hit him.
"Um, Neji you better watch what you do to her." Sasuke pointed out.
"Yeah one time, I spilled grape juice on the skirt she let me borrow, and she chased me down the street with a kitchen knife." Sakura said, laughing.
"How is that funny?" Shikamaru asked.
"It wasn't Tenten's skirt, it was Ino's, they had bought the same one, and borrowed the same skirt from both of them."
"You what?!" Ino asked. "Sakura why I ougtta..."
"Ino calm down, troublesome woman." Shikamaru said trying to hold her away from Sakura's throat.
They all went out to eat on Neji's treat, and then went home, where the all fell asleep on the couch, Sakura in Sasuke's arms, Naruto in Hinata's arms, Tenten in Neji's arms, and Ino in Shikamarumaru's arms.
The girls were tired from yesterday. They had spent the whole night talking to new directors, and reporters, when they finally got home they all crashed on the couch. As soon as the boys were sure they were taken care of, they left. (Hey they cant stay the night every night.)
It was six in the morning, and Ino was waking. "Guys get up, do you member what today is?" she asked, when she got no response, she sighed. "Today is the Konoha beauty pageant." this was Ino's favorite time of the year, because she always won.
"Great, what time do you have to be there?" Sakura asked. Hugging her friend.
"Eight." Ino said with a smile. They all left to get ready, and called the guys.
"Sasuke?" Sakura asked, when Sasuke answered, not sounding too well. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing" Sasuke started hacking.
"Sasuke something's wrong, please tell me."
"It's nothing, here, Naruto wants to talk to Hinata."
Sakura could tell that was a lie, because Naruto sounded confused when Sasuke handed him the phone. Sakura handed the phone off as well, and told Hinata to find out what was wrong.
"Naruto?" she asked.
"Hey Hinata, sorry, but Me, Neji, and Sasuke are sick, we wont be able to hang today. But Shikamaru is still going to Io's thing."
"Oh, Naruto, don't worry, we'll be over soon. Do you need us to bring anything with us?"
"Ramen would be nice."
"Alright we'll be over as soon as we can. Here, Tenten wants to talk to Neji."
"Tenten?" Neji's voice asked.
"Hey, how are you feeling?" she asked.
"Not good, I think it's food poisoning." he said.
"Oh, Neji. Don't worry I'll bring you some alchaselzter."
"Tenten, you're a goddess. Does Sakura want to talk to Sasuke again?"
"Yeah
here."
"Sasuke?" Sakura asked, her voice filled with worry.
"Hn?" he asked.
"Sasuke do you want me to bring you anything?"
"Sakura, I don't want anything, just stay away." then the phone went dead. Sakura slammed the phone down, and ran up to her room, her eyes filled with tears.
"What happened?" Ino asked when she came down.
"All the guys but Shikamaru are sick, and we are going over to take care of them."
"Sorry Ino, but we'll have to watch your pageant from the guy's on TV." Tenten added when Hinata was done.
"Ok, but what's with Sakura?"
"I think Sasuke said something to upset her." Tenten said.
Sakura was in her room, throwing the picture of her and Sasuke out the window. She heard the glass break and was not satisfied. She also through out the extra clothes he had. "He's such a jerk " Sakura screamed into her pillow. All she was trying to do was help him, and all he did was shut her out. What had changed. He was supposed to trust her. Didn't he love her?
"Sakura?" Ino's voice called.
"Yeah?"
"We're going do you need anything?" she asked.
"No, I'm okay for now Ino, good luck."
"Okay, bye Sakura."
Sakura sat on her bed, wishing she could disappear for a bit.
"Neji?" Tenten called as they walked into the house.
"In the den." Neji called, his voice sounded hoarse.
Tenten
and Hinata walked in, Sasuke, Naruto and Neji were each laying on a
couch, there were tissues and medication everywhere. "Oh, Neji."
Tenten said falling on her knees, hugging Neji.
Hinata walked over
to Naruto and began to feed him his ramen. "Thanks Hinata-chan."
"Sasuke where are you going?" Tenten asked when Sasuke stood and pulled his shoes on.
"Nowhere he said, walking out the door. He felt guilty for treating Sakura like that. She was only trying to help him, and he treated her like a parasite. He had to do something. Grabbing a ladder from the garage, he placed it in his car and drove to Sakura's placing the ladder under her window. He saw something glisten in the light. He walked over, and saw the picture of him and Sakura. They had taken it that night at the cabin. Sakura was wearing her tank top, and Sakura was shirtless.
He placed the photo in his back pocket, and climbed the ladder. He reached the window and saw Sakura on her bed crying. His heart ripped. He sure was an ass wasn't her?
Sakura didn't know what to think. Sasuke was over protective, possessive, jealous, and they had spent so much time kissing, so why now was he shutting her out? Sakura knew she shouldn't be so mad, but she couldn't help it. She was about to turn on the TV so she could watch Ino, and while she was she felt an arm wrap around her waist, puling her up into a body, another arm turned her into a kiss, on the cheek.
"I'm sorry Sakura." Sasuke whispered into her ear. "I shouldn't have been so mean."
"Sasuke you shouldn't even be out of bed." Sakura said. "Here lay down." Sakura pulled the sheets out and let Sasuke lay in her bed. "I'll be back in a second.
"Shikamaru, I'm so nervous." Ino said. She had gotten through the first half of the show, and was behind in points.
"Don't worry babe." Shikamaru said wrapping his blond girl in his arms. "If you don't win then they must be denser than Naruto." Ino giggled, and walked out for the talent part. Ino danced, and well. She spun and dipped, and shimmied. She moved with grace and beauty.
Next was the elimination. Ino remained, and there were five girls left. Ino went through the swimsuit, gaining many cheers from the men for her bikini. Soon they were at the last part. The crowning. They were down to two Ino was either going to get Miss Congeniality or Miss Konoha.
And the Miss Congeniality who if for some reason the winner can to perform their duties, is Maria, which Means Ino Yamanaka is this years Miss Konoha." Ino received her crown and Shikamaru ran out and kissed his girl, passionately.
"Congrats."
he said on the way home.
"Thank you so much Shikamaru." Ino
said kiss him as he drove. "That was so close." she added
wrapping her arms around one of his leaning on his chest, falling
asleep.
"She's so damned cute." he thought.
