Lucky Star

Chapter 4- Marmalade Pie

"MOU!! Why do I get the cleaning shift today!?!" Our lovely heroine sang in the middle of her lonely castle while being abused by her evil stepmother. Fine, actually, our lovely heroine is in rags right now holding a mop and she isn't singing right now. Maybe it's considered singing to the screeching tree monkeys, but that's another thing entirely, and her "evil stepmother" is Ino. Yes, this all screams fairy tales, doesn't it? Back to the story.

Ino looked up from her magazine and sighed, "You get the lovely job of cleaning the entire shop because the boss somehow found out that you attempted to poison a customer." Tenten glared at the bucket, "I think that rat Hyuga some how spilled the beans."

"Excuse me, the rat Hyuga is still here in the corner hearing every word you're saying."

"What are you still doing here Hyuga?" Tenten demanded brandishing the mop like a sword.

Neji rolled his eyes, "Put that down, you look even sillier than you normally do." Tenten suspiciously put down the mop. "I'm still here because Hinata is still on shift. I waiting for her to be done to take her home. And besides, why would I" Neji arrogantly swishing his long hair, "ever spill the beans as you so nicely put." Neji gave her a bland look, "It was kind of obvious when Kiba was barfing in the bathroom for 5 hours, which if I heard correctly, you have to clean." Neji turned to see Tenten with a dark cloud over her head that was raining, hailing, and thundering at the same time. Neji smirked and continued, "Before you try that next time, make sure you get rid of the red letters that say anything about hate." Tenten was glaring at him considering how to kill him, she was debating over skewered and fried or slowly tortured by starving him and eating cake in front of him.

Saving Neji's butt from torture of starvation and cake was Hinata, who came out like she was afraid a bomb was going to explode at any minute, "Umm…Neji, are you ready to go?" Neji disregarded Tenten as he passed and left. Hinata hesistantly patted Tenten's shoulder, "It's alright. It isn't that bad, consider Naruto's last punishment." They both, including Ino who had nothing else to do, went into flashback mode.

Flashback

"WHY!?!" Naruto yelled from his post, which he was tied to. In front of him was a fishing pole with a orange book attached to it. It would every once in awhile be in front of him so he could read and then jerk back.

"Come back Icha Icha Paradise! I love you!!!"

End flashback

"Sigh" They all did simultaneously. Tenten looked towards Hinta, "And how was that suppose to make me feel better?" Hinata shrugged, "Hey, I tried. Bye!" And Hinata proceed to skip out of the shop. Ino and Tenten looked at each other with raised eyebrows. Ino was the one to turn away, "I really don't want to know what she's thinking."

Tenten shrugged and so life went on.

---O.o O.O---

The dark shadows were once again in their normal place. "Don't we have anything else to do besides spy on them?" Dark shadow number one asked.

"No, now shut up! I'm trying to get all of this down."

"…So when are you going to do your big plan?"

"…soon…soon." Dark shadow number two said as it started to cackled, "MWUHAHAHAHA-cough How in the heck did I get a hair ball?"

"…beats me."

---author note--

What is the big plan? Who are the dark shadows? Will Tenten ever clean the bathroom!?! All these question and more, in the next chapter of Lucky Star! -plays cheesy ending music-