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The lights turned on to reveal a completely empty stage. There was a long pause before anything happened. Finally, the doors in the back of the stage swung open to reveal a disheveled Koharu.
"I am so sorry I'm late everyone!" she cried out as she ran forward, her hair flying everywhere. "I kind of fell asleep while waiting on more requests and then totally forgot about the show."
"That is no excuse," Tenshi muttered, coming up behind her while pulling the cart with the Jar of Doom on it behind her.
"Well, I was waiting for Risako-chan to review," Koharu pouted, pushing her pointer fingers together. Tears came to her eyes as she looked ar her best friend. "A-And she never did!"
Rivers of tears came flowing out of Koharu's eyes as Tenshi sighed in exasperation. She held out a box of tissues and Koharu's stack of request cards.
"We have to get started for those who have sent in requests and Yuko-san," Tenshi reasoned with her friend. Koharu perked up a little at her friend's words.
"O-Okay," she sniffled softly, taking her cards and ignoring the tissues. She slapped herself on the cheeks and shook her head. When she stopped shaking her head, she grinned at Tenshi and waved at the camera. "Okay everyone! Let's get this show on the road!"
Lights turned on in the lounge to reveal Jiraiya sitting next to Orochimaru who was licking his lips at Sasuke. Sasuke on the other hand was cringing into Naruto, who was grimacing for the boy chained to him. Shikamaru was sitting calmly next to Chouji though Gaara was glaring at him from next to Kankuro. Lee and Gai were talking animatedly over an irritated Neji. Sakura was in a glaring match with Karin from across the circle while Kiba just lounged next to ChibiSasori with Akamaru sniffing Sasori's hand.
"As always, it's my turn first!" Koharu said excitedly, motioning to the middle of the stage. The Chair rose up onto the stage much to the cast's fear. "First off is Jiraiya and Orochimaru so please come up boys!"
The Chair turned to face the lounge, shooting out its straps to wrap around the two sannin. Orochimaru was perplexed at the Chair's actions, having never been there before. Jiraiya sighed as he was pulled into the Chair with Orochimaru slightly in his lap. Koharu seemed to dance over to them with a large smile on her face.
"Now, Jiraiya first," she said with a small giggle. "What was your opinion of your genin team from when you were a kid?"
"Well," Jiraiay thought briefly, knowing not to take too long because of the Chair's defenses. "We were interesting and a lot of fun, though that old hag could've lightened up a bit and played along with what me and Oro did."
Koharu waited a moment to make sure he wasn't lying before turning to Orochimaru. "Same question."
"They were a waste of my time," Orochimaru said in his higher pitched, hiss like voice. Koharu laughed softly as she waited a moment as the Chair's defenses kicked in. Orochimaru froze for a moment before he began laughing. "What is this? Some kind of joke?"
Koharu frowned, glancing towards Tenshi for the dial of the Chair. Tenshi nodded as she looked down at the ready dial. She watched as it moved up to the number two. Orochimaru hissed softly as the image in his head turned into a song.
"Are you try to make fools of yourselves or are you wanting me to for some reason change my answer?"
Koharu nearly growled in annouyance, beginning to really want to hurt the sannin right at that moment. She waited another moment before Orochimaru began to lick his lips like a snake.
"God Damn it! Tenshi turn it to level four!" Koharu yelled at her comrade. Tenshi nodded and turned the small knob on the dial. Orochimaru hissed as if he was in pain. Koharu began to chuckle as she looked on at his face that had a look of mix pain and wanting on it. "Level four distorts the image from level three into a more. . . perverted fashion."
Orochimaru hissed softly, his arms twitching. "It was fun, but it held me back."
The Chair finally released the two at his words, the images in Orochimaru's head disappearing. Orochimaru stood with a little help from Jiraiya and the two walked back to the lounge, Orochimaru's eyes never leaving Sasuke as they sat down again.
"Shikamaru!" Koharu called happily, her good mood returning as soon as she got a truthful answer out of Orochimaru. The ninja stood slowly before the Chair could wrap its straps around him and drag him to it. "Ah, I see you're still very tired, Shika. Well, please answer me this, would you ever play soccer with Hidan's head?"
"It's too troublesome to even play soccer," Shikamaru answered. Koharu blinked as the Chair released him, slightly surprised that this was all his answer consisted of. Shikamaru slowly walked back to the lounge as Koharu flipped to the next card.
"Kankuro!" Koharu called out happily. The Chair turned slowly towards the lounge as Kankuro stood. He took a few steps towards the Chair as it wrapped its straps around him. The Chair brought him to it with a little too much force. Koharu smiled down at him as the Chair turned so he face her. Kankuro grinned back up at her as she reread the question for him. "What are your feelings of having your little brother stolen away by ChibiSasori?"
"Ah, he wasn't much of a little brother anyway," Kankuro shrugged a little even though the straps restricted his movements. "Though, it kind of sucks that he so readily accepts that Sasori guy as his brother before me."
Tears sprang up in Koharu's eyes as Kankuro answered, feeling bad that he now felt how he did towards Gaara. "Oh Kankuro, I'm sorry my baby Sasori took your little brother away! Why don't you be both of their's big brother?"
Kankuro chuckled a little as the Chair release him and Koharu immediately hugged him. "It's fine, it's fine. The kid made his decision, he always makes his own decisions without anyone else. It really doesn't bug me so much."
Koharu released him sadly and let him go back to the lounge before reading the next card. She immediately perked up at her final question for the episode. She turned to the lounge with a large smile on her face. "Sasuke!"
Sasuke froze at her call, Naruto having to pull him up and to the Chair before the Chair's straps came after them. Koharu smiled as she looked back and forth between the two ninjas. "Sasuke, what are your true feelings for Naruto?"
Sasuke and Naruto blushed and refused to look at each other. Sasuke flinched when he took too long to answer and the first level defenses kicked in. Sasuke frowned and almost seemed to grimace, but kept his mouth shut about his feelings. The second level quickly kicked in, but Sasuke still kept his mouth shut. Koharu frowned at this, sure that Sasuke would have cracked by now. She glanced over at Tenshi and raised an eyebrow. Tenshi shrugged slightly, her eyes trained between the dial and what was happening at the Chair. Sasuke gritted his teeth as he growled, the third level defenses kicking in. Sasuke blushed furiously at the image that appeared in his head.
"I, uh, I," he tried to say, but began stammering as the fourth level activated. Sasuke groaned softly and looked down in defeat, his eyes closing as he watched the image in his head. "Naruto."
Everyone's eyes widened slightly at his moan, Naruto's face turning as red as a tomato.
"Well then," Koharu laughed lightly, clapping her hands together. "It looks like we all now know for certain that Sasuke at least lusts after Naruto."
Sasuke blushed furiously as Naruto stammered giberish from next to Sasuke. The Chair released the two before it slowly sank back into the stage. Koharu turned to Tenshi with a small smile. Tenshi brought out her cards and read through the first one. She showed it to Koharu who went to the Jar of Doom as Tenshi turned towards the lounge.
"Shikamaru, you can sleep again," she told him, reaching out for the wand Koharu brought out of the Jar of Doom. Shikamaru was so busy falling into a happy sleep that he didn't even realize what was about to happen. Tenshi waved the wand in her hand and he suddenly turned into a young child. He looked nearly the same except for having much rounder features and a less bored expression on his face. Tenshi then handed back the wand to Koharu before she turned to Lee and Gai. "You two are not allowed to wear green or spandex or talk about the flames of youth."
"B-But!" Lee tried to argue, but Tenshi was already moving on.
"This leads us into our next request," Tenshi said as if Lee hadn't said anything.
"And to help us with this is our good old friends, the Hitachiin twins!" Koharu introduced, spotlights turning on to reveal the two twins. A trap door opened beneath the lounge and everyone plunged into it. All of the lights turned off and turned on a few minutes later to reveal the two hostess and two twins in chairs around a spotlight. Hikaru and Kaoru had microphones in one of their hands and note cards in their other.
"First we have the two sannins, Jiraiya and Orochimaru," Hikaru introduced as a man with long blonde hair and a blue tunic over dark pants and a man with white hair and a pink flower around his neck came forward.
"The two are dressed as Peony and Dist from Tales of the Abyss," Kaoru informed everyone. The two fell down a trap door as two others stepped up. "Next we have the second version of Sync and Largo the Black Lion."
A little boy with dark green hair wearing a long white coat, deep black pants, and black gloves on stepped forward with a small smile on his face. Next to him was a large man a large scithe in his hand and a black coat hardly wrapped around his body as he stepped forward in dark brown boots.
"Sync and Largo are being portrayed by ChibiShikarmaru and Chouji," Hikaru told them as he read the cards that the twins had hastilly prepared before they had come. Koharu quickly ran forward and scooped up Shikamaru before the trap door could open and take them away. She came back to the chairs as Chouji was sent down the trap door and placed Shikamaru on her seat.
"There we go," she murmured as she pulled up another chair for her to sit in. "We don't want our new little one to get hurt by falling through that trap door."
She motioned for the twins to continue with the small fashion show.
"Next up is Team 7," Hikaru told them as three people came up to the spotlight. The first was a man with a small glare on his face with spikey red hair, his clothes a mix of black and deep red along with the sword at his hip. The next man was a blonde with a large smile that was wearing knee high brown boots, black pants, and an orange vest over a white dress shirt. The final person to step up was a woman with short pink hair. She had thigh high white boots, a blue and white dress with puffed long sleeves, and a bow and arrows strapped to her back.
"They are playing Asch, Guy, and Natalia," Kaoru informed all of them. "The next character is from Tales of Symphonia and his name is Zelos."
A man with a cocky smile and long red hair came sauntering into the spotlight. He had puffed white pants, a long red vest, and upperarm length gloves that were \ black and red.
"Thank you Kankuro for dressing as Zelos," Hikaru said quickly as the teen was dropped down the trap door that was linked back to the lounge. Hikaru flipped to the next card as three people stepped up. "And now we have Lee, Gai, and Neji dressing for us."
"Lee is playing Lloyd, Gai is playing Kratos, and Neji is playing Regal, who are all from Tales of Symphonia," Kaoru informed everyone as the three stepped into the spotlight. Lee's hair was spiked slightly as he had on large red gloves and boots, black pants, and a red jacket with white buttons all over it. A sword was strapped to either of his hips. Gai's hair was spiked even more than Lee's while he had on a dark blue cape, dark blue pants, a dark blue vest, dark blue upperarm length gloves, lighter blue gloves over the dark blue, and white boots that had light blue belts strapped along the top that matched the two belts around his hips. Neji's semi-tassled short hair seemed to be gelled into its position as he came forward in a skin tight white shirt that only covered his upper chest and shoulders, green pants with brown belts along the side, and grey shin guards strapped to his legs. Kohar blinked at Neji for a moment before a sly grin crossed her face.
"We should have done this a long time ago," she murmured to Tenshi as she watched the three fall through the trap door.
"Next up we have Nephry," Kaoru said as a woman stepped forward.
"Played by Karin," Hikaru introduced. The woman came forward and everyone was shocked. Karin actually looked pretty good. Her red hair was pulled up into a small bun that let the rest of her hair cascade down behind her. She had on a tight black dress that showed off a lot of cleavage, a white blazer over it that was held together with a brown belt, and white tights on her legs under her black pencil skirt and black high heels. She shreiked as she fell down into the trap door, obviously not used to heels as she wobbled forward. A final group of a tall teen and two young girls stepped into the light. The man's hair was spiked to the left, a white coat covering the top hald of his chest and arms while baggy brown pants covered his legs and a sword was strapped to his back. The smaller of the two little girls clutching at the man's hands had her red hair tied into pigtails on either side of her head, a dark blue dress on, matching silver gaunlets and boots, and a blow up battle axe over her shoulder. The other little girl had a black hat on over her red hair, a black and pink dress on with a vest over it, arm warmers held to her upperarms with thick brown belts, and black and pink boots on that also had thick brown belts strapped to the top. Behind her was a trail of dolls that began in her free hand. "Our final group is consisted of Kiba, Gaara, and Sasori."
"Who are playing Luke, Presea, and Arietta in turn," Kaoru said as his brother finished. Koharu squealed and rushed to the two little boys that were dressed as girls. She quickly gathered the two up and took them back to her and Tenshi and ChibiShakmaru's chairs before the trap door opened for Kiba. The lights turned off on the stage for a moment before they turned back on to reveal the stage as it was before the costume changes.
"Alright," Tenshi sighed, bringing out her cards again as she stood up. She turned to Karin and Sakura, who were back to glaring at each other. "Sakura, Karin, come here."
The two were surprised by her request, but stood to go to the center of the stage anyway. When they reached the spot that Tenshi was standing at, Tenshi looked from one to the other with an amused smile.
"Say that you hate Sasuke," she instructed to them. The two froze and blinked at her.
"I would never!" Karin yelled at her after unfreezing herself. Tenshi looked at her slyly, reaching back for the table with the Jar of Doom on it.
"There are consequences for if you refuse to do a request you know," she murmured as the Jar of Doom slowly rolled to her. Sakura blinked at her before turning to look at the Jar with fear in her eyes.
"I-I hate Sasuke," she said quickly. Tenshi nodded as the Jar of Doom touched her hand, removing the lid as she watched Karin's reaction carefully. Karin looked extremely nervous as Tenshi reached into the Jar of Doom.
"I hate Sasuke too!" she nearly screamed as Tenshi began to pull out her hand. Koharu began laughing from her seat on the hostesses' couch, waving her hand towards a relieved looking Sasuke. Tenshi shook her head at her friend's actions as she finished pulling her hand out of the Jar of Doom with rainbow stripped duct tape. Karin backed away slowly. "W-Wait! I did the request!"
"I know," Tenshi said as she pulled off a long piece from the roll and smiled thinly at the red head. "This is the next one."
Karin really screamed as Tenshi pounced on her with duct tape readily in hand. In record time, Karin was strapped completely to the wall in a big colorful mess of tape.
"You're getting good at that," Koharu complimented her friend, smiling up at the weeping Karin.
"It's easier now since she stops struggling when I get her hands and feet taped down," Tenshi replied, putting down the empty roll of tape to pick up her cards. She read the next one and smiled a little. Koharu tried to read the card after seeing her pleased reaction, but Tenshi moved out of her way and went to the lounge. As she walked passed him, Tenshi pulled Neji along with her as she went to stand in front of Naruto and Sasuke. The two still refused to look at each other from earlier, which made Tenshi smile devilishly. She pulled a confused Neji in front of her before pushing him into Naruto's lap. "You two need to kiss without holding back."
Neji turned to look at her, but she grabbed the top of his head and forced him to look at Naruto. The two stared at each other for a moment before Naruto leaned forward and kissed Neji. Out of the corner of her eye, Tenshi saw Koharu go beet red and begin to shake a little. Tenshi chuckled a little as she looked on as Naruto and Neji kissed each other. Naruto reached up his uncuffed hand and tried to pull Neji closer to him, smiling into the kiss. This seemed to set Sasuke off as the raven haired teen shoved Neji out of Naruto's lap. Neji and Naruto blinked at the obviously angry Sasuke. Sasuke growled deeply before grabbing Naruto and kissing him feircely. Naruto's eyes widened as Sasuke kissed him before he began to kiss the other member of Team 7 back. Before anyone else could move, Koharu had scooped up Neji and had run back to behind the stage. Tenshi sighed softly before pulling Sasuke off of Naruto.
"I need him for the next request too," she said in a monotone voice. Sasuke glared at her as she reached down and uncuffed the two. Tenshi pulled Naruto up to stand next to her before turning to Chouji. "Naruto, Chouji, you are about to have a ramen eating contest."
The two boys blinked at her for a moment before they grinned at each other. Tenshi snapped and the lights turned on to see a ramen cart sitting at one end with a ready chef. Everyone grouped around the cart as Naruto and Chouji sat down in the two stools. The chef placed a bowl of ramen in front of each of the ninjas, the steam visible coming off of the fresh ramen. Tenshi waited for the chef to turn back to make more before she motioned for the two boys to begin. Naruto immeidately began slurping up the noodles while Chouji just picked up the entire bowl and ate the entire bowl in less than a bite. Everyone made disgusted faces at the two as they ate bowl after bowl of ramen, somehow even getting ahead of the chef's ability to make them more. Moments seemed to pass as the two waited on another bowl from the chef, but neither of them managed to receive it. By the time the chef had prepared them each a bowl, the two had passed out on the counter to the cart. Tenshi looked back and forth between them and then their stacks of bowls, mentally counting each one.
"It's a tie," she announced after a moment, slightly impressed that they both managed to eat fifteen bowls within the few minutes they had been around the cart. Jiraiya threw Naruto over his shoulder as Gai picked up Chouji. The two mentors placed the teen ninjas on the couches so they can relax before turning back to Tenshi for the next request. Tenshi brought out her cards and froze, rereading the text on the card in disbelief.
"Hi guys!" Koharu called out, coming back in with a disheveled Neji right behind her. Koharu came over to her fellow hostess and slung an arm over her shoulder. "What did I miss?"
Koharu frowned when Tenshi didn't answer her. Koharu looked down at Tenshi, who's gaze was still on the card. Koharu snatched the card from Tenshi's grasp and read through it, snickering as she did so. Koharu turned to Kiba and whispered something in his ear. He blushed slightly for a moment before he nodded, his cocky grin returning as he went up to Tenshi. Tenshi was still frozen as he walked up to her and tilted her head up to look at him. Kiba grinned down at her before he leaned in and kissed her straight on the lips. Tenshi tensed at his touch, but then melted into the kiss. Koharu tried not laugh when Tenshi wrapped her arms around Kiba's neck and the dog like boy wrapped his free hand around her waist. She looked down at the next request that appeared on Tenshi's card, her smile growing. Koharu turned to the Jar of Doom and reached in. The others split their gazes between watching the kiss and watching Koharu draw a small stereo out of the Jar. Koharu turned and whispered in Sasuke's ear. Sasuke then turned and started a chain of whispered amongst the other ninjas. Koharu smiled when everyone nodded that they were ready, hitting play on the stereo. When neither Kiba nor Tenshi seemed to notice the music, Gaara and ChibiShikamaru walked up to behind Kiba. The two kicked out, hitting the teen behind the knees. Kiba fell, breaking the kiss. Tenshi blinked at the sudden loss of contact and looked down at the two boys.
"Gaara, I told you not to hit," she reprimanded the young boy as she knelt to help Kiba. Gaara pouted and turned towards his new brother. Koharu giggled as she took Sasori's little hands and began to lead him in a waltz.
"Come on and partner up everyone," she called out joyfully to everyone. "We are supposed to be ending the show with a ballroom dance."
Sakura nearly pounced on Sasuke, but missed because the raven haired teen had already turned and began to dance with the still unconcious Naruto. Lee took advantage of Sakura's stunned expression and began to pull her along in the dance. Shikamaru looked up at Tenshi, only to see that Kiba was already rocking with her back and forth. Gaara patted him on the arm and Shikamaru looked at the younger boy with a small smile. The two began to stumble around, trying to figure out the dance moves that the others were doing. Gai swung around and grabbed a shocked Neji around the waist, pulling the teen into an exaggerated dance. Jiraiya opted to sit out from dancing as he sat next to the unconcious Chouji. Kankuro backed away from Orochimaru's hungry look and went to go talk to the much older ninja. Orochimaru looked around, hurt that he had no dance partner. He sighed and began dancing by himself, twirling around the couples dancing.
"Um, I want to use my freebie now!" Tenshi said, turning her head to look at her friend. Koharu looked at her curiously, only to see a small blush on the other girl's face. "I want to keep Kiba. You know, like you have Neji."
Koharu began to snicker. "Oh dear, watch out then Kiba. You are about to be completely dominated, right Neji?"
"Y-Yes," Neji squeaked out, not actually hearing what they had been saying through his annoyance, but knowing better than to say no to Koharu. Tenshi sighed, rolling her eyes as she stepped a little away from Kiba.
"We have one more request you know," she called to Koharu. The brunette sighed and stepped away from Sasori to turn to Shikamaru. She pulled out a wand and handed it to him as she reached into the Jar. She pulled out a large golden staff with a blue gem held to it by a web of gold. Koharu stood and began making symbols in the air. A bright purple circle formed around Shikamaru and began to glow brightly. Suddenly, it all disappeared and Koharu sighed softly.
"I don't know how Yuko-san does that so much," Koharu said, completely exhausted. She smiled weakly and waved at the camera. "We'll see you guys next time. Please remember that there will only be four more episodes if no one else send in requests! Bye!"
Oh God, I sounded like such a pervert as I wrote this. Gah, Sasuke, Naruto, why in the world are you two such a good couple! And Neji, why are you so f-ing hot that no matter how I write something I sound like a pervert?