Ukime: Here first! YEEES!
Megami: My scrolling button fucked up, oh well. Guess what!
Neji: What?
Gaara: Wait for it...
Megami: We have failed our readers! We didn't update as quick as usual!
Ukime: I know! I feel so ashamed!
Gaara: and that is why we shant deny their reading too long.
Neji: Disappointments...
Ukime: Shut up!
Gaara: He's been into Romano's bitch pills again
Megami: That or mine, I got stronger ones! XD
Gaara: Lord help us...
Neji: Why is it I'm always the one blamed for taking bitch pills?
Ukime: Because you respond.
Neji:... Well you still don't own Naruto.
Megami: *silent tear* He's been in Romano's, I can tell from the hurtful way he said that...
Neji:...
Chapter 14-Scars and Bruises
Ino looked at Tenten fidgeting.
"What is your problem?" She asked, looking quickly at the geometry teacher Kurenai.
"I have the sudden urge to kill someone." Tenten whispered back. Ino smirked.
"I bet I know just who it is." She said. Tenten raised an eyebrow. "Matsuri pancakes anyone?" Ino asked and snickered under her breath.
"But she likes Gaara." Tenten pointed out.
"Not anymore. Apparently they're next door, I just picked up on Neji's distress, now he has stalker!" Ino said. Tenten glared at the wall next to them, Neji on the other side sneezed loudly, loud enough to carry into the next room. Kurenai looked at the wall and continued teaching after a moment. Both girls paid attention after that, Ino intermittently snickering and Tenten drawing weapons she would use to kill Matsuri, so far her favorite was the fillet knife. Ino glanced over.
"I would use the fillet knife to skin her and then stab her with each and every kunai and shurinkun." She whispered then turned back to the board and continued taking notes as if she hadn't just planned a murder.
"Thanks" Tenten said and wrote it in the margin of her notebook. Ino nodded and chewed her purple pen.
"No problem, I planned like ten different ways to kill her yesterday." She said pulling a paper out of her shirt pocket, today she was wearing a purple button up with the sleeves slightly slashed. "Have a look." She said. Tenten did, and she was a little scared of Ino's mind. Number five was the Matsuri pancakes bit. There were also fried Matsuri chips and Matsuri muffins on there as well.
"Well then..." Tenten trailed off handing the paper back, making a mental note never to get on Ino's bad side. The blond nodded and started to pack her stuff.
"Almost done." She said. Kurenai sat at her desk and lounged, not caring about the kids anymore.
"I am now a tad afraid of your mind." Tenten said motioning to the pocket.
"My mind is a beautiful place full of bunnies and unicorns, but the unicorns are emo and the bunnies are cutting themselves." Ino said standing to stretch her legs. Tenten raised her eyebrow.
"Did you just come up with that?"
"Nope! I read it on an icon somewhere once." She said flipping her long blonde hair over her shoulder. The bell rang and the girls waited for the boys by the door. Gaara pulled Ino into a hug as soon as he saw her and Neji put his arm around Tenten.
"Why this all of a sudden?" Tenten asked. Neji looked around.
"I have a stalker...and I like you, I thought I proved that last night." he said. Tenten blushed.
Well, not the answer she was expecting, but she'd take it.
"Fair enough I suppose." Tenten turned around and saw Matsuri glaring daggers in their direction. Just for extra effect, she wrapped her arm around Neji's waist and flipped Matsuri off.
"What is her issue?" Ino asked, snickering.
"She hates the both of you." Gaara responded, almost smiling. Almost.
"That's amusing." Ino said, laughing.
"Good thing she doesn't know you two aren't together." Gaara said, gesturing to the brunettes. "She would not hesitate in taking advantage of the moment." Tenten looked back at the mousy brown girl, who was contemplating on following them. She thought better and scampered off. Tenten made a strange noise and turned back to Ino, Gaara, and Neji. She couldn't help but tingle when her shirt sleeve lifted slightly and her skin brushed Neji's.
"So, what's the plan?" Ino asked, sitting on the wall outside of the front doors.
"Plan for what?" Tenten asked.
"You two." She pointed at the brunettes. "Are you dating? Are you friends? Are you a pretend couple for when Matsuri saunters by?"
"Because it is damn aggravating." Gaara finished. Neji looked at Tenten, making her tingle all over.
"Well, in order for us to be dating, we would have to go on an actual date, correct?" Neji asked. Tenten nodded.
"Yeah." Ino said, looking enthralled. If she had popcorn, she would be set.
"Then, how would you like to go on an actual date. Alone." He looked at Ino when he said the last word. She looked outraged, her mouth open in astonishment.
"Jerk!" She said, aiming a kick at him. He lifted his arm and dodged it easily, considering Ino was on a wall.
"Uh, yeah. Sure." Tenten smiled. With that, the group went back to talking about other things, like the consistency of a Matsuri cake.
Gaara chatted with the others but something was on his mind. Ino looked at him as the other two started walking back to the entrance.
"Whats up?" She asked.
"I haven't taken you on a real date. No the roof doesn't count." He said. Ino nodded.
"Well we are allowed off campus as long as we have a pass and get back by 10." She said and skipped off to walk with Tenten and Neji. Gaara smirked, of course she would know. He walked slowly behind the group, but sped up when Matsuri came in view, him and Neji both putting an arm around their respective girls. Matsuri glared at the two girls and sped by. Both Ino and Tenten giggled then
"Did you see her face?" Ino said through the giggle.
"Yes!" Tenten laughed out.
"Priceless" The girls said at the same time.
"Neji? DO you happen to be questioning our sanity?" Gaara asked. The Hyuga looked thoughtful.
"Just a little." He said. The girls shrieked with laughter but quieted as soon as they entered the building. It was as if they hadn't been laughing at all. Ino went into the first room they saw, her meditation class.
"I don't need to do mind exercises." She said kissing Gaara on the cheek. Tenten was in the next room, leaving Neji and Gaara alone.
"Did you know we could go off campus?" Gaara asked, both boys classes were at the end of the hall. Neji nodded.
"I did. I also know that we need to be back by ten and I am planning to go to a fancy restaurant with Tenten." Neji said.
"Anywhere I can go." Gaara asked he had money to go fancy places as well; sometimes they didn't suit him though.
"Take her fancy Gaara. She will love you forever if you do, that's just Ino, but get the private room, she likes to throw food. It would be unseemly." Neji said outside his class room.
"She knows etiquette Neji; you just bring out the worst in her. And what about Tenten, does she like fancy?" Gaara asked making a valid point. Neji shrugged.
"If she does great, if not then I take her somewhere else next time." Neji said.
"Well you should get a private room too, both girls are quite alike." Gaara said and slipped into his class. Neji chuckled and went into his own. Gaara took his seat in one of the chairs provided and waited, a blonde woman with a humongous chest walked in. She stepped up to the board and wrote Earth Powers in huge block letters.
"Listen up you brats, I can teach you how to use this or tell you how to misuse it. I don't care either way." She said. Gaara raised a missing eyebrow. A pink haired girl in front raised her hand, making Gaara realize there weren't many people in the class. The blond woman called on her.
"What do you do?" She asked. The woman nodded.
"A valid question. I am super strong." She said shrugging.
"What does that have to do with earth?" The girl asked again, Gaara found her voice a bit irritating, he also recognized her as Neji's partner in sex ed.
"I break it when I attack, I can hurl pieces of it at people and crush them beneath it. Any more questions?" She said. The pink head shook then stopped.
"Well one. Can you teach me to do that?" She asked. The teacher nodded.
"I can." She said. Sakura looked ecstatic, Gaara just sat there. The other random students did as well, till one raised his hand.
"What is your name?" he asked. The busty blond put a hand on her hip.
"If you read the board it's up there." She said, Gaara looked at the board and saw Tsunade written in block letters as well. He sighed; he could tell this wasn't going to be a fun class, not with fan girl number one and drunken sailor number two in the same place.
Neji sat at the back of his classroom. The teacher gave him the creeps. He had beady little eyes and a creepy smile. The tag on his desk said 'Kidomaru'. Neji crossed his arms and listened to the whack job.
"Energy manipulation. It's a fantastic ability. Not many people possess it." What an idiot. Everyone had the ability, it just differed between bloodlines. Neji sighed and prepared himself for a moronic class. Hinata, who was sitting next to him, whispered.
"Neji, I-I noticed something." Neji suppressed the urge to sigh and looked at his cousin.
"What would that be, Hinata?" She glanced at the teacher again.
"He k-keeps looking at us."
"We're Hyuga's. Of course he's going to look at us." She nodded.
"Oh, o-of course." She sat back down and paid attention again.
"You two, in back." Kidomaru pointed at Neji and Hinata. "What clan? Or were you not paying attention."
"Hyuga, Spiderman." Neji said, only now noticing the teacher's six extra arms. Hinata made a strange noise and nodded.
"Hyuga, huh? Interesting. Two in the same class." He turned back around and walked towards the board.
'This is going to end badly.' Neji thought, almost seeing the teacher's mind turning in thought.
"Hinata." She looked at him. "Keep an eye on him." She nodded and turned around again.
The rest of the class resulted in Kidomaru telling his class complete lies about energy manipulation, it made Neji want to beat his head off the desk. Luckily, the bell rang right before he was about to. He and Hinata gathered their things to leave. Neji let Hinata out first, not really caring anymore.
"Hey, Hyuga." Neji turned in time to see a spear of sorts coming at him. He pushed it away, glaring at his teacher. "Keep your guard up."
"Bite me." With that, Neji left the room. He brooded all the way to where Gaara and Ino were waiting for Tenten. "She's not out of her class yet?" He asked, leaning against the wall. Ino started laughing.
"Nope."
"Why is she laughing? Never mind, I don't want to know." Neji said, crossing his arms. A few minutes later, Tenten opened the door, forming nasty bruises and bleeding in a few places.
"What happened?" Neji asked, slightly freaking.
"I won."
"You won?" Gaara and Neji asked at the same time. Tenten nodded and smiled. As she did this, a bleeding, bruised, and limping Matsuri left the room. She hobbled past Neji and Gaara, giving them strange looks.
"Tenten, what on Earth did you do?" Neji asked, approaching Tenten.
"It's my class. We were sparring. I won." She gave an evil smile and the group headed for their third class, which they all conveniently shared.
Neji: Well, I have now turned the tables.
Gaara: We were told not to play this game, it was between them.
Neji: I was sick of their game.
Ukime: Well maybe I'm sick of you! XD
Megami: UKIME! Now you're taking bitch pills cause I know you don't have your own. No more bitch pills for you ms crabby pants.
Ukime:... Neji, you told me that was Advil! GAH! I hate life...
Gaara: Neji lied...He wanted you to be a bitch, he's a masochist.
Megami: XD...
Neji: They're in the Advil bottle? Dammit, Romano...
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