Hiya everyone! How'd you guys like the last chapter? Good? Bad?
Alright so for some reason, my document manager/file editor thing is acting up again and it's been taking out parts of sentences. Why? I don't know. Spelling errors are entirely my fault and I'll try my best to find them. I don't really feel like finding a beta, so please bear with me.
OHMAHGAWD! So sorry for my long leave of absence. I dunno why I haven't been writing for the longest time. But, I promise, from now on, I'll be updating at least 3 times a week. Thank you to those of you who have been patiently waiting while I was away, I really appreciate it.
Anyway thank you guys for your support. Please continue to enjoy.
On with the story!
Sasukes POV:
"Putting him in the bathtub while you clean up that mess." I smirked as I walked towards the bathroom. Po looked up and me and pressed his dirty paws on my shirt. I frowned and looked down at the blue eyed puppy. Something about him and the way he looked made me not as upset as I would have been had he have been ugly.
Hinatas POV:
Since school started two days ago, things have been kind of different. We're both really, really tired from work and school. Sasuke and I both have morning classes four days out of the week and we work in the afternoon. So when we get home, we're kind of drained. But, I enjoy my classes, especially Human Behavior. I thinks it's kind of fun to see what goes on in a persons head in some situations.
"Why the hell are books so damn expensive?" Ino griped as she chewed the end of her straw and squinted at her computer, making it seem as if she was trying to change the prices somehow. "Look!" She shouted. "200 fucking dollars for a stupid ass Algebra book! If I had known it would have cost this much, I woulda kept my book from my Junior year in high school. This is bullshit! Naruto, look!" She screeched, highly outraged. Naruto groaned as he put his Literature book down and trudged over.
"Are you fucking serious?! That's crazy!" He yelled, much like his equally loud girlfriend. It's kind of cute that the two of them act so much alike. " Eff that. Babe, just find a cheaper book." Naruto suggested as he lightly rubbed Inos shoulders, kissing her forehead as he turned to walk back over to his homework.
"The cheapest one is like, $100. Who has money like that?" Ino asked sadly as she clicked off of the book website and opened a word document.
"We can share my Algebra book, Ino." I told her as I scribbled a few notes down, not really looking up from my book.
"Really? You're a lifesaver. I owe you one." She smiled as I looked up at blue eyes.
"Can I use it now?" I asked, smiling at my best friend. She nodded. "If you cook order something for dinner? I've got work to do and I'm not letting Sasuke into the kitchen after what happened a few days ago." I laughed. Inos eyebrow raised as Sasuke plucked his headphones from his ears.
"How was I supposed to know that you're not supposed to open mussels?" He whined in mock-hurt, looking back down at his book.
"Dude, even I know that they open on their own." Naruto laughed, but was cut short as Sasuke chucked a pillow at him.
"Hey, you've got homework. We can tease Sasuke some other time." I smiled as Sasuke half smiled at me and continued his work. For about 35 minutes, we worked on our homework in a comfortable silence, making jokes and groaning for boredom every once in a while, until the door bell rang.
"I got it!" Naruto called, getting up quickly and stretching his back before answering the door.
"Yo, Naruto, what's up?" a husky, familiar voice said as the door was opened.
"Sup, Kiba? How much do I owe you?" Naruto asked, eyeballing the pizza boxes in Kibas arms.
"$25.50 and my video game. You said you'd give it back a week ago, dumbass." Kiba joked as Naruto paid and took the boxes from Kibas arms.
"Oh yeah. You can get that game back when you give me back the $100 I loaned you a year ago." Naruto smirked as Ino came to retrieve the pizza boxes.
"Whatever, man. You'll get it. I'll see you guys later." Kiba laughed as he turned to go towards his car.
"Why did you lend him $100?" Sasuke asked, taking a bite of his pizza that I had given him.
"He needed it to pay some guy back. Now he has to pay me back." Was Narutos reply as he settled back on the couch, taking a slice of pizza with him.
"Oh, the irony." Ino smiled.
"Sasuke." Naruto called an hour after everyone was finished with work, now lounging about in the living room.
"Yeah?" Sasuke asked, subtly shifting on the couch. I removed my legs from his lap, thinking that I had made him uncomfortable. I guess not since he pulled them back into his lap and ran his hands up my legs with a smirk. Pervert. I laughed.
"Have you thought about that frat thing I asked you about a few days ago?" Naruto asked, playing with Inos hair. She didn't seem to mind as she sipped from her soda can.
"No." Sasuke answered simply, still keeping eye contact with me. I could just feel Naruto frown.
" 'No' you haven't thought about it? Or 'No' you're not gonna join?" He asked. That's when Ino and I stared at Sasuke, wondering what his answer would be.
" I'm not doing it." Sasuke answered. Lamely, I might add.
"Why not?" Naruto, Ino and I asked in perfect sync. Sasuke smiled and shook his head.
"Because, it's stupid." He said, just as Po wandered into the living room, and barked at a plate that held a piece of pizza crust.
"It is not. Imagine how fun it could be." Ino said, watching Po strain to reach Sasukes plate. Sasuke reached a foot out and nudged Po away from the plate, resulting in Po biting Sasukes sock as he attempted to pull it off.
"Oh no, you're not ruining another one of my socks." Sasuke said, nudging Po again. " Fun as it may be, I'm not gonna risk becoming one of those self absorbed idiots."
"You've got the self absorbed thing down." Naruto joked, a pillow flying in his direction hit him in the face. "Kidding man, kidding." the blonde laughed. Ino and I laughed as Po snagged the crust that he had been trying so hard to get.
"Little runt." Sasuke commented with a playful roll of his eyes. He tries to act like he doesn't like Po when I know he does. He took a deep breath. "If it'll make you happy, I'll do it."
"Aww, Sasuke cares about making me happy." Naruto said in a mock-girly voice as he jumped on Sasuke, peppering his cheeks with butterfly kisses.
"Hey, man! Quit it." Sasuke laughed as he pushed Naruto away, sending him back to his seat next to Ino.
"Sasuke doesn't like to show affection in our relationship." Naruto joked in an effeminate tone, flicking his wrist from emphasis.
"Whatever." Sasuke laughed.
"Listen up, bitches. We don't let just anyone into Gamma Phi Beta. You're gonna hafta prove your worth to get in." The captain, or leader, of Gamma Phi Beta, Nemui, told us. Today marked the beginning of 'Hell Week' for all fraternities and sororities. To be quite honest, I don't see why they have to put us through a bunch of tests and whatnot just to join a group. I mean, I guess its like tryouts for sports or whatever. Nemui looked at 20 of us, all standing side by side in a line as if we were soldiers in her little army of freshman.
"Not everyone is going to get in, just know that. If you don't get in, too bad. Go find another one of those shitty little houses that have the audacity to call themselves a sorority." Katsuki, the lieutenant, said as she and Nemui scrutinized all off us, as if we were a herd of beef. "No one will give a fuck if you leave. However, if, by some miracle, you manage to get in, consider yourself the luckiest bitch in the world. That means you're the crème of the crop, the best of the best."
"So with that being said, if you don't think you can handle this, get the hell out right now and don't bring your sorry ass back." Nemui said in a menacing tone. About 8 girls turned around left and, I'm not going to lie, I wanted to go with them. I don't want to go through whatever it is that they have planned for us. But, I stayed for Ino sake. If she can tough it out, I can too. "Less freshman to worry about." Nemui said with a slight shrug of her shoulders.
"There are three challenges that you must pass in order to obtain a spot in Gamma Phi Beta." Katsuki explained, holding up 3 slender fingers. " The Transformation, The Raid and The Tagging. Pass all three of those, and you're in. Fail any one of them and you're out. Today, we'll start with, The Transformation." The lieutenant grinned. Several minutes later, twelve black salon chairs were placed in a line in the center of the houses' dressing room thing. It had several mirrors so I'm assuming this is where they did all of their make up and what not. Twelve senior sorority members, Nemui and Katsuki included, stood in front of us with four strips of colored paper. Yellow, Orange, Green and Blue.
"Pick a color." Nemui smiled. Ino and I looked at each other before doing as we were told. I chose the Yellow slip of paper and Ino chose the Orange one. Then, evil looking smiles crossed the members faces. "I hope you're happy with your new hair color." Nemui laughed. My eyes widened as I looked at Ino.
"Fuck this, I'm leaving. Kyoko are you coming with me?" One girl asked as she stood up, her friend trailing behind her. The two empty chairs where then taken out of the room.
"Anyone else?" Someone asked, I looked at Ino who gave me a look that let me know she was going to see this through to the end. And so, we stayed put. " Then let the transformation commence."
"Holy shit!" Ino whined as she looked at he newly styled hair. It was more strawberry blonde than orange and it actually looked kind of nice. Plus, the person who had done her hair made it look all curly and kind of cute. She still looked strange to me with her pale skin and blue eyes.
I, on the other hand, didn't look so good. Pale skin, lavender eyes and honey blonde hair was not a good combination. Granted it was styled nicely, similar to Inos', full of thick waves, I didn't even look like myself anymore.
"Hinata, you don't even look like you." Ino pointed out as I looked at myself and touched the hair that seemingly wasn't mine.
"Now that that's over. Time for your tans!" A senior member beamed as we were handed white robes. "Go strip and meet us in the back yard. I soon realized that I should have quit while I still looked like me, but now it was too late.
And 20 minutes later, there Ino and I were along with 6 other girls, bronzed in all of our glory. Two girls had left before we even got out side. We re-dressed and stood at attention in front of our leaders.
"That ends todays challenge. Tomorrow will be The Raid. Goodbye ladies." She laughed as we left the house. Sasuke's going to be surprised when I get home. I then heard someone say that the dye and tan only lasted a week. Well, that was a relief.
Sasukes POV:
"There's no way in hell I'm doing that. Hell no, Naruto." I bit out as I got ready to walk out of the frat house.
"But Sasuke, it's only temporary!" Naruto whined as he tried to pull me back. I stopped and thought about it for a minute. They were gonna make Naruto and I trade looks. And by looks, I mean my hair was gonna be blonde and his was gonna be black. That shit isn't gonna happen, temporary or not. But, I don't have it in me to back down from a challenge, especially not if Ryuuske gets the satisfaction of seeing me quit.
"Fine." I said simply, turning around to stand back in the line along with several other frat victims who were forced to trade looks with their friend. "But you owe me like you wouldn't believe, Naruto."
"Now, get to it." Ryuuske barked as we were forced to dye our own hair. I scowled and read the back of the box. If I'm gonna do this I'm gonna do it right.
And there we were 10 minutes later, standing in front of mirrors.
"Hey, I don't look half bad." Naruto commented as he admired his new look.
"I hate you." I told him, catching his attention.
"What?! Why?!" He shrieked. I growled lowly and grabbed my, now blonde, hair.
"For having this bright ass hair color, you moron." I scowled.
"It's not my fault. Its not gonna last long." He said, shrugging his shoulders as if this wasn't something dramatic. I silently cursed him, hoping he would get chronic diarrhea or something equally bad.
"Alright, losers. Come back tomorrow for the next challenge." A leader shouted before we were all kicked out.
"You comin' back tomorrow?" Naruto asked as we walked to the parking lot.
"Hell yeah. If I'm gonna go this far-" I said, pointing to my brightly colored hair which wasn't quiet as yellow as Narutos but still as obnoxious. "I'm gonna see it though to the end." I told him as I got in my car.
"Oookay man. I'll see you tomorrow." Naruto said as he walked away.
"I still hate you!" I yelled as I shook my head and started the car. I'm not looking forward to going home. Imagine what Hinata's going to say when she sees me. I sighed as I drove towards our apartment, mad as hell. Why did I let Naruto talk me into doing this? As I pulled into the empty driveway, I was suddenly glad that Hinata wasn't home yet. Now I've got the chance to take a shower and go to sleep before she sees me. Then again, she'll end up seeing me one way or another so it doesn't really matter. When I opened the door, I was attacked by a small, white ball that growled and started gnawing on my shoes as soon as I opened the door. "Relax, Po. It's me." I told the dog as I closed the door behind me and scooped him up. I actually like him, surprisingly.
He looked up at me with those big eyes of his and wagged his tail, barking and licking my hands with joy. I shook my head and carried him towards the back yard to let him out and fill his bowls. He barked again and ran around the back yard, scurrying back to me with a small, blue ball, practically begging me to play with him. I sighed and lightly tossed the ball a little ways behind him. He barked and ran after the ball, running towards me only seconds later. I played with him for a while, until he squatted to take a shit in the yard. I took that as my cue to leave. I closed the door and made my way to the bathroom to take a quick shower and start on my homework before Hinata got home.
I came out 15 minutes later, steam pouring from the bathroom.
"Who the heck are you?!" A blonde girl shouted as a cup came hurling at me, hitting me in the forehead.
"This is my house! Who the hell are you?!" I asked the random blonde woman who had just assaulted me in my own home as I fixed the towel around my waist and rubbed my forehead. Then, I stopped to get a good look at her. Her body looked familiar. Too familiar. I squinted and then stopped, clearly taken back by her pale eyes. "Hi-…Hinata?" I asked, taking a step towards her. She backed up and then stopped.
"Oh my god." She smiled and put her hand over her mouth. "Sasuke?" She said, meeting me half way in the hallway. We stood in front of each other, examining one another.
"What the hell happened to you?" I asked her as I ran a hand through her new, stranger hair. She did the same to me, just as shocked as I was.
"The Transformation." She said with mock emphasis. I ran my hands along her now bronzed arms.
"You look…." I began.
"Bad?" She asked, touching her hair self consciously. I shook my head.
"Not bad, just….Different." I told her.
"You look weird." She said with an honest smile. I nodded and sighed.
"I had to trade looks with Naruto." I explained as we both got over the initial shock of seeing one another.
"I chose mine." She admitted. My eyebrows shot into my oddly colored hair and she laughed. "Unknowingly. They told us to pick a color from four pieces of paper. It could have been worse, it could have been Orange, Blue or Green." She laughed as we walked into the bedroom. "You should see Ino." She told me as she sat on the bed.
"You should see Naruto." I told her as I dressed. Her soft footsteps made their way over to me and she wrapped her arms around my waist and breathed deeply.
"You know, you don't look half bad." She smiled as I turned around and looked down at her.
"Liar." I laughed as I bent down to kiss her. It lasted for a while until we both pulled away and eyeballed each other.
"Yeah, I'm going to need that dye to hurry up and wear off. This is just weird." She laughed as she ran her fingers through my hair.
Naruto and I sat there, in a hot ass room, filled with other sweaty ass guys. A sauna to be specific. See, this was day two of the three day challenge. 'Hell' is what the frat jackasses called this torture. Now, I like a hot shower as much as the next guy, but this shit is ridiculous. Naruto and I watched as three guys practically kill each other to get out of the searing hot room.
"8 more minutes." Naruto panted as he looked at the timer from outside the sauna. We were forced to be in here for 45 minute if we wanted to make it in.
"I'm gonna kill him." I seethed as I watched Ryuuske laugh from outside the hot room. Then, a small squeak followed by a foul stench filled the steamy box. "Who the fuck did it?" I snarled, eyeballing every guy in the room.
"Sorry man. I had Mexican last night." Some guy said as he rubbed the back of his head.
"How dare you fart in here! We could all die or pass the fuck out! The hell is wrong with you, man?!" Naruto yelled, face red and flushed from the intense heat.
"Dude, I said I was sorry" The guy mumbled, seemingly afraid of Naruto.
"Sorry doesn't clear the air." I told him as I turned up my nose at the foul odor.
"Times up.' Ryuuske said as he opened the door 8 minutes later. We almost passed out as soon as we hit the cold air.
"We'll see you guys tomorrow for the next challenge." Ryuuske grinned. I swear, I hate this son of a bitch...
Annnnnd, we're done! How was it? Not bad for my first day back, huh? Anyway, really sorry for my leave of absence. I hope you guys can forgive me.
Until next time!
Next Chapter: Challenge Accepted