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No gym mats were harmed in the making of this FanFic

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The next Monday the gym finally reopened. Tenten was thrilled. "Yes! Soccer team here I come!" she yelled, jumping up and down. Ino sighed. "Yay… volleyball…" she muttered, sounding like she was dying just thinking about the game.

Temari rolled her eyes and walked into the locker room with the other two. She went over to an empty locker and took off her black micro-mini, tartan leggings, and her black vest. Under the vest she wore fishnets on her torso and arms, so she got those off as well and pulled on the shorts and tank top. The shorts were a little too short for some, but Temari was fine with it. Ino and Tenten had changed too, and the girls walked into the gym.

"By the way… I thought the gym was supposed to open last month," Temari said.

Ino grinned. "Something wrong with the foundation," she said.

"Hello youthful students!"

"Who is that?" Temari asked Ino.

"That's our gym teacher, Might Gai. He is a little… different."

'Tell me about it,' thought Temari, looking at his green jumpsuit, bowl hair cut and huge eyebrows. 'He looks like that Lee kid.'

"Today, youthful students, we will be studying…"

"It's going to be volleyball," Ino muttered dejectedly.

"Self-defense."

"What?" Ino yelled, a note of joy in her voice.

Gai nodded. "Indeed we will Ino. Principle Tsunade thought it would be a good idea to teach self-defense to the students, and I agreed. You will be paired up with each other," he said with a smile.

Ino scootched towards Tenten and Temari until Gai said; "By me."

Ino dropped her head. Temari was grinning though. She had studied Karate and Kendo for a while and knew how to defend herself. 'Piece of cake,' she thought triumphantly.

Tenten was also smirking. She had this in the bag.

"… Yamanaka Ino with Inuzaka Kiba," Might Gai said, as he paired the students up.

Ino gulped. She wasn't good at any kind of martial art, and you couldn't use yoga to fight off an attacker.

"… Tenten with Hyuga Neji…"

Tenten's jaw dropped. "Aw shit," she muttered.

"What?" Temari asked. Tenten looked at Temari dejectedly.

"He's going to go easy on me," she said.

"… and Subaku no Temari with Nara Shikamaru," Gai finished. Temari smirked. She could kick his ass.

"Alright, get with your partners please," Gai said. Ino inched towards Kiba nervously, Tenten went over to Neji, thinking about ways she could get him to actually attack her and Temari walked over to stand by Shikamaru with a big smirk on her face.

"Now, we have some mats here," Gai said, motioning to several very long mats on the floor. "It'll be 4 pairs to a mat, and we'll be first working on fending off an attack from the back." Tenten frowned.

"Um, Gai-sensei… who is going to be doing the attacking?" she asked.

"The boys." Temari shook her head. 'Kind of sexist,' she thought.

Tenten grumbled about how girls could be as strong as guys and Gai heard her. "I agree, youthful student Tenten, but Principle Tsunade thought it would be more useful for the girls. Now, lets get started."

He demonstrated a few different ways of fending off an attack from the back with a grumpy looking TA, and then grinned. "Get started!"

Ino, Tenten and Temari went over to one mat, and their partners followed. Ino looked nervous. "What's wrong Ino?" Temari asked.

"I've never done this before… and Kiba is reeaaally strong," Ino mumbled. Tenten giggled.

"Don't worry. Kiba may be a bit of a pervert, but I don't think he's do anything to bad." Ino didn't look reassured but she nodded. Tenten swaggered over to Neji.

"Ok Neji. I have one thing to ask."

"What?"

"For you to not go easy on me at all. 'Kay?" she asked, tilting her head to one side.

"Hn."

Tenten rolled her eyes and walked over to one part of the mat. She stood in front of Neji. "Ok, come on," she said.

It felt like someone had put an iron bar in front of her shoulders and pushed her on it. Tenten grimaced and tried to flip him over her. It didn't work. She tried again. Nothing. She tensed all her muscles and grunted, using all her strength to try it. She felt him move, but instead of going over her, he shifted so she tripped. He leaned over her. "Are you ok?"

She grimaced. "I wasn't expecting that," she grumbled, before standing. "Let's do it again," she demanded.

Temari stood in front of Shikamaru, the smirk still plastered on her face. He grabbed her and she started to flip him. Suddenly he was looking down at her as she lay on the mat. "That was sloppy of you," he said. She blinked and narrowed her eyes. 'So the lazyass actually can do something,' she thought. She stood up and he grabbed her again, but before he actually touched her, she grabbed his hands and turned as she yanked so he went flying into the mat.

A muffled 'ow' came from him and Temari grinned in satisfaction.

Ino stood nervously in front of Kiba and he grabbed her. She yelled, and kicked her foot up behind her on impulse. The whole gym went silent as Kiba grunted in pain. Ino gasped and looked back at him. He was on the ground. "Fuck," he muttered.

"Oops," Ino mouthed.

"As Ino has demonstrated the heel to the groin works well too," Gai said nervously as Ino helped Kiba up.

After school…

The girls had all gone to Temari's house after school that day. You could no longer see the original wall color in Temari's room seeing as she had papered them with posters of her favorite bands and musical artists such as Yoko Kanno, Emilie Autumn, and P!nk. They were talking about gym that day.

"…it was just hilarious!" Tenten exclaimed as she finished recalling Ino during gym that day. Ino glowered at Tenten.

"It was just a reflex!" she exclaimed. "Besides, Tenten, you weren't so great today either."

Tenten's face immediately fell.

"W-what happened?" Hinata asked.

"I was paired with Neji… apparently he is very fit…"

Sakura burst out laughing and Hinata bit her lip. "Well… h-he is three time champion of the regional Karate t-tournament," she mumbled.

Tenten froze. "What?" she hissed.

"U-um… he's w-won the r-regional K-karat--"

"Shit," Tenten said, sounding impressed. "I haven't even gotten to the city champion ships…" she muttered.

Sakura chuckled. "Well, Hinata did worse then all of you combined," she said. Hinata blushed and nodded her agreement.

"What happened?"

"… Hyuga Hinata with Uzumaki Naruto…"

Hinata froze. "W-what?" she stuttered, but Gai hadn't heard her. Naruto walked over.

"Hey Hinata. Guess we're partners," he said. Hinata thought her heart was going to stop. She nodded though.

"I g-guess so…"

Hinata was frozen in shock throughout most of Gai's demonstrations, but was woken from it when Sakura poked her in the ribs. "Oy, Hinata, come on," she said. They walked over to one of the mats with Naruto and Sasuke, and Sakura went over with Sasuke, leaving Hinata and Naruto their own corner.

"Um, Hinata, are you ok?" Naruto asked.

She nodded quickly. "I'I'm f-fine N-N-Naruto-kun." She stood in front of him. He grabbed her from behind. Hinata should have been expecting it, but she was still trying to wake herself up. Suddenly she felt Naruto behind her. 'H-he's so close to me…' she thought. Then the reality hit her and she passed out.

Tenten frowned. "Was that a sudden flashback?" she asked.

Sakura nodded slowly. "I think it was. That's strange."

Ino was laughing though. "Oh, Hinata, you poor girl," she said.

Hinata hung her head. "It was so embarrassing…" she muttered.

"I'll bet it was," Temari said.

Then Ino turned to Sakura. "Wait, Sakura, so you and Sasuke were paired up?" Sakura nodded, looking embarrassed. "How did that go?" Ino asked.

"Well… turns out when I was training in martial arts for the past few years… he was too… and he is a lot better then me," she said, sounding annoyed. Temari chuckled.

"Sounds like all of you girls are out of luck," she said. "I've been paired with Shikamaru, and he is to lazy to give a damn about it."

"Lucky," Ino said.

Tenten stood. "Well, I've got to go," she said. "I've got practice." She gave them all hugs before going outside. She started to jog to school. She had signed up for the soccer team, and they took her on without a second thought. Now with only a few weeks until the first game they had planned practices for every weekday evening. She got there just in time for warm-ups.

3 hours later…

Tenten shivered as she left the school grounds. It was nine o'clock and she was freezing. She jogged through the area. It was a few miles to her house, but she didn't want to go catch a bus so she had decided to run. She was passing the alley between Okadu Fitness and Sam's Nightclub when someone grabbed her. They yanked her by the waist into the alley and Tenten was winded before she thought to scream.

Whoever it was slammed her into a wall. She threw her bag down and pulled an Ino, kicking him in the groin. When he doubled over she freed herself and delivered a roundhouse kick to his head. He groaned and dropped to the ground. She didn't recognize whoever it was, but she did the first thing she thought of. She whipped her cell phone out.

"Yes, I'd like to report an attack."