See Chapter 1 for Disclaimer/Warnings

AN: This is a shorter chapter, but it seemed like a good stopping spot. This is actually only part of chapter 2, I'm working on the next part now, but am not sure how long it will take me.

Chapter 2: Day 1 Part 1: Anko, Neji, Kiba, Hinata, Chickens and Traps

Those who hadn't won anybody slowly made their way out of the clearing and to the mission room to see what new missions they would have to do this year. Those who had won calmly led their prizes home. Well most of them were calm, Kakashi, however was trying not to hyperventilate at the thought that he was going to spend every waking minute and maybe even some non-waking minutes with the blonde for the entire upcoming week.

It was rather obvious when the ANBU reached the mission room as they let out a loud yell and could be heard to mutter about that damn Kakashi. They really noticed his absence as he would usually take the majority of the missions during this week. Now, a lot more of them had to be out on missions, which meant they were going to miss out on the fun of watching what the new ANBU were forced to do. Thus the screams of horror and disbelief.

Hinata jumped when she heard the screaming of the ANBU. "Ano, Anko-sama. What was that?"

"Just the mad pleas of some upset ANBU." Anko cackled.

"Ano, Should we help them?"

"No need. Don't worry your pretty little head about it, ne?"

"Are we there yet?" Kiba asked.

"Hush, puppy. We'll be there soon."

"Where are we going anyway?"

"I said quiet!"

"Hai, Anko-sama."

Anko finally stopped in front of a one story house with 3 bedrooms and an attic. "Here we are!" Anko grinned widely, unlocking the door and ushering the three newbie ANBU into her house. Kiba and Neji sweatdropped at Anko's quick change in mood. They both wondered what they had gotten themselves into and what was in store for them in this house. Kiba made the mistake of being the first to walk through the door. He had to quickly use his ninja reflexes to dodge all the shuriken that came flying at him.

Kiba finally found a spot near the middle of the room that was free of flying shuriken. Hinata was standing in the door staring at Kiba and the shuriken in shock. Anko had collapsed against the wall and was cackling. Of course, the shuriken didn't attack her as the trap was based off of chakra, so it attacked everyone except for Anko. Neji was still standing outside. He didn't have the slightest clue what had happened due to the soundproofing Anko had around the house and the fact that he was standing behind the door without his Byakugan activated.

All Neji knew was that Hinata was still standing in the doorway and holding him up. Getting impatient, Neji walked closer to Hinata and noticed the shocked look on Hinata's face. Knowing that meant she could probably stand there all day before coming out of her shock, Neji pushed passed Hinata and into the house. Neji was completely unprepared for the onslaught of rubber chickens that came flying at him. Despite that he still managed to avoid most of them. When he realized what the flying things were he stopped dodging all of the rubber chickens.

This was a big mistake as Anko had prepared a very special rubber chicken. It was twice the size of the normal rubber chickens and it's mouth clenched and unclenched as it flew through the air making it's way towards Neji. Neji realized too late just exactly what the rubber chicken was aiming for. He attempted to dodge it and was only moderately successful. Instead of hitting him in the shoulder like it was intended to. Neji had jumped up and to the side and managed to instead get hit right around his prized possession. Not only that, but It had caught it when it's mouth was open and so when it closed it's mouth like it had been doing it bit down on a very tender spot.

Neji howled and tried to shake the thing off having completely lost his cool with the unexpected attack on his second brain. Hinata started at Neji's scream, however, she didn't stay in the land of the moving for very long. Her brain soon tumbled back into shock as it attempted to process the unexpected image of her cousin hopping around and howling. She was having a lot of trouble with this as the images her brain was receiving just didn't compute with her knowledge of Neji.

Anko was cackling even more now. She had actually intended the rubber chickens for Hinata, but this was turning out to be even better than she had imagined. She still would have liked to have seen Hinata's face, as the rubber chicken went hurtling for her mouth, but cracking the older Hyuuga's cool exterior even this much, this early on was a huge point for her. She had hoped the rubber chickens would bring out a different side of Hinata, but for now she would just have to wait and see. Anko looked forward to seeing how Hinata handled the trap meant for Neji. As much as she wanted to see that, it looked like she might have to first kickstart the girl a bit. That way Hinata would actually make it inside the house, instead of standing in the doorway.

It had taken Anko forever to figure out what to do for Neji. She really wanted to see him show some emotion other than superiority or anger. She had briefly considered chocolates, but quickly threw that idea out as she was sure that the guy got enough of those from his fangirls and she was definitely not a fangirl. She did think he probably looked rather hot without clothes though. Maybe she could trick him into taking off his clothes. No, probably not, he was a ninja after all. Oh well, it couldn't hurt to try and blow the clothes up anyway.

Now, Hinata was the one who had to deal with the trap. She was still standing motionless in the doorway with a shocked expression on her face. Anko thought it probably had something to do with the fact that the rubber chicken was still attached to Neji. "Oi. Hinata." Anko yelled loudly. When she finally got the girls attention, she asked, "Aren't you going to help your cousin?"

"What?" Hinata blushed. "Oh." She closed the door and stepped into the room. The final mistake. The door locked with an ominous click, but no other sound was heard. After seeing what happened to Kiba and Neji, Hinata was concerned and activated her byakugan. She looked around for what trap she might have activated, but she didn't see anything. Remembering Neji's pain, she went to walk over to him and help him, only to see multiple explosive notes coming at her. Never before had she more wished that she had learned the Eight Trigram Palms Heavenly Spin like Neji.

Even though she was in ANBU, she had focused on non-Hyuuga techniques. Quickly flashing through jutsu she decided to use a water jutsu on the exploding notes right as they were about to explode. She covered them in bubbles of water and let them explode. This did contain the explosion, however, it also wet the streamers and confetti that came out of the exploding notes. Needless to say, Anko, was not pleased that her celebration banner and party decorations were ruined. "You've ruined it. Ruined it! I was just trying to congratulate you on surviving. Well I'm not sure I want you to survive any longer."

"Eek!" Hinata squeaked.

"Just kidding." Anko cackled. "I can't believe you believed me. Ha ha ha."

It was only when Neji screamed again that Hinata remembered her cousin's situation. She wondered why Kiba had not moved to help Neji at all. Then she realized that Kiba couldn't move because he was too busy rolling on the floor laughing. He couldn't wait to tell the others about what happened to Neji. Nobody had ever seen the Hyuuga prude screaming like a girl before. He really wished he had a camera to take pictures with. 'Maybe Anko has pictures. I wonder if she would let me borrow some to show to the gang.'

Ignoring the laughing Kiba, Hinata went over to Neji and grasped the rubber chicken with both hands and pulled it off of Neji. It continued to try and bite the air, but since there was nothing for it to grab and Hinata had a firm hold on it, it was no longer wreaking havoc. Hinata wanted to make an impression on Anko, in hopes that Anko would give her a good review. Hinata knew that many people thought she wasn't cut out for ANBU and she wanted to prove them wrong.

Given that nothing else had happened while she was rescuing Neji, Hinata incorrectly assumed that all the traps in this area had been set off. She was getting tired of holding the mechanical rubber chicken and decided that it really should be returned to Anko. Walking over to Anko, Hinata shrieked in surprise as she almost fell in a hole that appeared in front of her. In order to reach Anko, she had to continually dodge a bunch of small holes that kept popping up.

In this section, Anko had had Kurenai set up a genjutsu that would make people think that there were holes appearing in the perfectly solid floor. Finally, Hinata traversed the section with the genjutsu and reached Anko. Anko was still laughing her head off at Neji and to some extent Hinata, since the girl hadn't figured out that there was a genjutsu there. Seeing Hinata getting close to her, she tried to calm down her cackling, but was doing a very poor job.

"I believe this belongs to you. " Hinata handed the rubber chicken over to Anko. This made Anko laugh even harder. Hinata did her best to not show fear and she mostly succeeded, but having Anko cackling and holding a mechanical biting rubber chicken in her hands was a very scary site. Especially since Anko was having trouble breathing and as such the rubber chicken tilted dangerously towards Hinata and the floor and any other objects near Anko as Anko leaned in those directions trying to control her laughter.

Hinata slowly walked over to where Kiba and Neji were. Kiba had stopped laughing and was staring at Anko in something close to shock and a little bit of fear. Hinata, Neji, and Kiba all glanced at Anko and then at each other. In one quick decision they all agreed that they would try to stick together. After all, numbers do matter, especially when you don't know what to expect from a crazy woman with a pension for snakes and traps.