Megami: First!
Ukime: Cheating!
Megami: Nope!
Ukime: Yes.
Megami: Whatever you say, Did you know Sam is currently reading!
Ukime: Yes, you told me she was.
Megami: No I mean like at this moment, she's commenting too! XD
Ukime: HOW!
Megami: I am facebooking with her!
Neji: That explains quite a bit, actually.
Gaara: How does it explain things?
Ukime: To Neji, it explains everything. Don't question him, he knows all! *dramatic hand gestures*
Megami: Suuuurrrreee
Gaara: I am allowed to question him, I am Kazekage!
Megami: Not in this story your aren't.
Gaara: yeah well you don't own Naruto.
Megami: Hurtful :(
Neji: Hurtful, but effective.
Megami: Neji your a bitch!
Neji: Yep.
Chapter 11- The Deadly Pool
Ino watched Neji purposely fail the test, knowing he did it completely because of his partner. Hidan looked slightly disappointed.
"Oh well then, not everyone can pass." He said and Neji left for his seat. The bell rang a few moment later and the four of them met in front of the door.
"Did you guy's know there's a pool." Tenten randomly said. Ino smirked, Neji didn't like the look on her face.
"Lets all go swimming!" She just about shouted and grabbed Tenten's hand pulling her to the dorms. "Meet you there!" She shouted taking the poor brunette hostage. Tenten sighed with exasperation, knowing her eccentric friend, something exciting was about to happen.
Ino modeled the purple bikini, that was having trouble containing her bust. Tenten sat in her red bikini, and frowned.
"Your gonna give Gaara a heart attack with that, no." She said. Ino nodded.
"Yeah, it's a little too revealing." She said.
"On the bright side you may get a reaction out of Neji." Tenten said. Ino frowned.
"Not that it's be great to get one from Mr. Stoic, I don't think Gaara would like that." Ino said stripping her Bikini top off and settling for her last one, a bit of Tankini mixed with a bikini. It contained her chest and still brought attention to her figure. Just the way she liked it. She finished dressing and went to knock on the boy's door. Gaara opened it in crimson swim trunks, Ino blushed at his pale uncovered chest.
"I was uh, just making sure you were good to go." She said, looking anywhere but him.
"I love your reactions to me." he said, closing the door and walking into the hallway. "Neji is having difficulties finding a bathing suit." Gaara said. Tenten walked out to wait with them. Neji came out a few moments later in dark blue swim trunks. He had a towel slung over his shoulder, and noticed Tenten blush when she looked at him, a little coloring on his cheeks at seeing her as well. She quickly covered herself with her towel, suddenly self conscious. All the way to the pool Gaara kept a possessive arm around Ino, growling at even the slightest look, she got fed up after the third person and elbowed him.
"That's enough." She said firmly, now when he growled it was in his head, where only Ino could hear it.
Tenten was regretting that she had mentioned a pool being in the school. Ino and Gaara were walking behind her, Ino was probably making sure she didn't scamper off. Neji was walking next to her, looking everywhere else. Tenten tightened her grip on the towel and kept walking.
"Where is it?" Ino asked. Tenten motioned her head to the left and Ino squealed. "Let's go!" She shouted, grabbing Tenten's hand. Tenten grabbed Neji's and Ino dragged them all into the pool area. Ino threw her towel on an empty chair and jumped in. Luckily, the little group of misfits were the only ones present, or else Ino would have slapped someone with her long hair. Gaara, Tenten, and Neji watched her, all having the same look on their faces.
"Jump in!" Ino shouted to them. They all shook their heads at the same time. Neji, because he just didn't want to. Tenten, because she didn't want to lose the towel. Gaara, because sand and water make mud.
"Fine." Ino swam to the edge and climbed out. A few passing classmates whistled, and Gaara would have torn their heads off if he hadn't been pushed in by Ino. She stood laughing while Neji stepped away from her.
'Push him in.' Tenten heard Ino think.
'No, he'll kill me.' Tenten thought back.
'No, he won't. Because I'll bite him. Do it.' Ino smirked at Tenten, making Neji turn around. He turned around just in time for Tenten to push him. As he fell towards the pool, he grabbed Tenten's wrist. She screamed like a frightened child as she was pulled in. Ino laughed and jumped in after them.
After swimming around for a while, Ino's stomach gurgled loud enough to be heard under water.
"I'm hungry." Ino said sheepishly.
"We've noticed." Gaara replied, climbing out of the pool. Tenten, who was currently trying to drown Neji, laughed.
"I heard from over here." Tenten laughed, looking at Ino. Neji, noticing Tenten's distraction, threw her off and launched her across the pool. She popped up and climbed out.
"Let's go eat!" Ino said, scrambling out of the pool.
"Alright, let's go!" Tenten said, attempting to help Neji. She offered her hand. He shook his head and continued.
"Whatever!" Tenten said. Ino walked over.
"Be kind and accept a hand!" Ino said, pushing Neji back in the pool. After he eventually fought his way back, they went to their rooms to get changed.
Gaara towled his hair off and waited for Neji to come out of the bathroom, he was already dressed, Neji took more time than Ino to get ready. And Ino took a while. Speaking of which she bounded through the open door, smiling and wearing a different shirt than she had for school.
:Are you ready yet?" She asked. Gaara pointed to the bathroom and shook his head.
"Yo mister woman! How about you stop preening and get ready to go, I am starving and I want food." She said pounding in the door. Neji stepped out a minute later and raised an eyebrow.
"Did you call me a woman?" He asked. Ino nodded and cocked a hip.
"You take more time, then me and Tenten combined, you are so a girl." Ino said. Neji looked at her strangely.
"And how would I prove not to be a girl." He asked.
"Besides whipping out the family jewels, which no one wants to see...Kiss Tenten." Ino said. Tenten had just walked in.
"Um, whatever I was volunteered for, no." She said seeing the look on Ino's face.
"See, that doesn't work, she doesn't want to kiss me." Neji said. Tenten flushed, her face matching Gaara's dark red shirt.
"Yes she does, tell tale blush." Ino said pointing. Neji shook his head.
"I don't have to prove my masculinity to you." Neji said and left out the door before everyone else. Ino smirked and fixed the shoulder of her shirt, which was slipping, as it was supposed to.
"Are you trying to make her die from lack of oxygen? First the pool, now a blush to rival my shirt." Gaara said looking at Ino. She smirked wider.
"Noooo I am trying to get them to stop pussy-footing around each other. No more awkward dances, like in the 1800's, this is now, and I know they like each other and really They need to stop this..." Ino trailed off trying to find the words.
"You already explained it, but I think maybe you should let them be, Tenten can take care of herself and so can Neji." Gaara said holding open the door of the cafe for Ino. She passed him and nodded thoughtfully.
"Maybe, but nothing wrong with a push in the right direction, right." She said smiling and taking her window seat at their usual table. Konan was working the evening shift.
"Hey, so what is it?" She asked, Ino looked thoughtful and as always gave everyone's order.
"Wildberry smoothie, Strawberry smoothie, Strawberry-Banana, and sprite." She said. Konan nodded and went to get the drinks.
"I thought you were hungry?" Neji asked.
"I don't know what I want yet." Ino said.
'Pushy woman.' Neji thought, only glancing at the menu. He wasn't hungry in the slightest.
'I heard that.' Ino thought back. Neji nodded.
'You were meant to.' Ino blew her straw wrapper at him, almost hitting him. It missed narrowly. Konan came back to take their orders, having already placed the smoothies (and sprite) on the table.
"Um, have them order first." Ino said, pointing a thumb without looking up from the menu. Gaara ordered a salad.
"Salad?" Tenten asked, not seeing him as the salad type. Gaara shrugged.
"I'm not very hungry." He said, sipping his smoothie.
"Uh huh... Well, I want the tomato soup, please." Tenten said. Konan nodded and wrote it down.
"I don't want anything, thank you." Neji said. Ino glared at him from above her menu.
"Order."
"I'm not hungry. Why order something I won't eat?" He asked.
"He has a good point." Gaara said, looking at Ino. Ino shut her menu and smiled at Konan.
"I would like the chicken ramen, with extra chunks of chicken, please." Ino said, not taking her eyes off Neji. He had a bad feeling. Konan wrote all their orders down and took the menus from the table.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Neji asked. Ino smiled innocently, leaning her chin on her hands. Gaara sipped his smoothie with a wondering look.
"Truth or dare?"
"We're not doing this." Neji said.
"Neji. Truth. Or. Dare."
"Neither." Ino glared. Tenten tried to hold back a snicker, but it resulted in smoothie coming out of her nose. Gaara raised a non-eyebrow at her.
"I will cause a scene." Ino said, looking at him.
"I don't doubt that." Ino stood up, but Gaara tapped her arm. She sat back down, watching Neji.
"You win this round." She said, angrily sipping her smoothie. Neji nodded.
"Let me guess, 'You won't be so lucky next time.'" Neji said, mimicking Ino.
"You know me already." Konan chose that moment to bring their food. For payback, Ino threw her extra chicken at Neji for the remainder of the meal.
Ukime: I can cheat too! Bwahaha!
Megami: I was facebooking...*bites Gaara*
Gaara: Would you stop that!
Ukime: She likes it too much.
Neji: Why do you always type 'L'?
Ukime: The buttons are really close together!
Megami: *lets go of Gaara's arm* I do it too.
Gaara: -_- Your drew blood again...
Megami: XD *licks Gaara's arm* Better?
Ukime: Oh, he's loads better.
Gaara: *looks at arm* I think your saliva closed the wound...
Neji: That kind of stuff happens around us...
Megami: Review so I can bite Gaara more!
Gaara:...You'd do it even if they didn't...
Ukime: Very true. *bites Gaara's other arm*
Gaara: *glares* Bitch!
Ukime: :) You like it.
Neji:... Just review.