Lucky Star

Chapter 2- Strawberry cake a la mode

RING RING crash "Man…now I need a new alarm clock and a new phone." She grabbed the remnants of the phone and answered it, "Hello Tenten speaking."

"Hi Tenten. Sorry to bother you this early."

"Not a bother at all Hinata, as long as you're not calling me to tell me that Boss needs me to come in early today." Hinata on the other line started to mutter, "What Hinata, I can't understand you."

"Sakura's sick and no one else is here and can't come. Naruto is banned from coming the entire week and Ino has to watch her parent's shop. And I can't cook and do the counter at the same time." At this point, Hinata was begging and pleading with her. Tenten sighed and looked at the clock, there went her day off, "Strawberry cake?" Tenten could have sworn she heard Hinata's head rattling from the constant nodding, "Oh you bet! You're the best! Bye!" Tenten stared at the phone, the phone stared back. clunk Tenten got up to go to her closet and pulled out a box, "And this is why I love Christmas. Everyone gets me alarm clocks or phones. Oh! It's a panda bear!" And this is how Tenten's marvelous day got started.

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Tenten ran into the Lucky Star 40 minutes later, "Sorry, I'm late. I ran into a tree."

Customers in the shop stared at her like an idiot. "What! Tell me you've never ran into a tree!" Tenten exclaimed. "Not all of us are idiots like you are," a voice behind her said. Tenten turned around and glared at the speaker of the voice, the infamous Neji Hyuga, "Well, not all of us have sticks up our asses." Tenten glared at Neji one last time before getting behind the counter, as she passed Hinata she whispered, "What is your cousin doing here? You could have mentioned that when you called me."

"Would you have come if I had?" Tenten grimaced, frowned and scowled in a 10 second period.

"Fine, I wouldn't have." As Tenten was putting on her apron, she shooed Hinata away, "Go. Be the fortunate one to be able to hide the in the back." Hinata smiled and pointed out, "You too would have been back here if it weren't for those guys that hit on you the moment you got in when you were applying."

Tenten turned around and frowned at her, "You know, Neji totally planned that because he loves me oh so much." Hinata by now had a smirk on, "Yeah, I know." Tenten sighed looking at the line of customers, "Go away, start baking stuff enjoying the peace and quiet of the kitchen," She sighed looking dejected, "I'll just be here waiting for my strawberry cake at break."

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"Ok, here you go. One strawberry cake with all the fillings." Hinata said carrying out a large tray to the counter.

"YAY!!!! CAKEY!!"

Hinata sweatdropped, "I know the shop is empty, but could you keep your voice down?"

Tenten who was looking at the cake proceeded to glare at Hinata, "First I get worked to death on a day that isn't my shift, then I have to deal with all sorts of idiots, including that bastard, and now you want me to keep my voice down. You wouldn't want to make the cake seem unappreciated, would you?"

"That bastard," who was sitting in the corner of the shop, turned to glare at her, "Hinata, could you please hurry up, so I don't catch stupiditous."

Tenten was in mock shock, "You mean…you don't have stupiditous already!?! Then what's the reasoning behind your idioticy?"

twitch Hinata, wary, slowly and quietly back up and got out of there. Tenten and Neji by now were having a verbal battle.

"I don't have stupiditous, that's you Misses "I run into trees!"

"HEY, that was an accident! And you'er right! You don't have stupiditous…you have Bastarditious! Silly me!" Tenten brushed him off and started to eat the cake that was feeling dejected for not being eaten yet.

"You do know I could beat you up to a nice pulp now, don't you?"

"You do know that if you did, if you could which you can't, that Hinata would beat you to a nice pulp now, don't you?"

Neji blanched at this, remembering the last time Hinata really got "mad" at him and proceeded to make his week a torture.

Tenten continued, "So it's in your good interest that you just sit there and shut up, Nejina."

"I hate you," Neji glared at her

"I hate you too," Tenten said starting to take a bit out of the humongous cake.

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Two dark forms were sitting in front of a moniter watching the action, "You know what we have to do now, don't you?"

"Torture them to tell us the recipe to the cake?" The other dark form asked the first looking up from his book

"…No!" whack "We get them together and they'll help me with the plot for my next bestseller!"

"Why don't you just create something like other writers?" The other form proceeded to ignore the monitor, while the other dark form was in rapture with it, "No, nothing created can beat real life, especially juicy action such as this." The first dark form pondered a moment, "After we get these two together, then we can torture them to tell us the recipe."

"Agreed."