Fangirl Assassin

A challenge from Aracade – Written by Sailor Ranger

I'd like to clarify that I deviated from the original idea/challenge Aracade gave me. Originally the idea was to have the fangirls be assassins or something, but I got confused during the writing process and came up with this. Enjoy!

Hinata found herself cornered by one of the most dangerous group in all of Konoha. None had dared to defy them and survived to tell the tale. She had been dodging them for the past five weeks, but it finally happened. She'd been cornered by them.

Two of them she'd known for years, the third only for a couple years, through Neji. She'd never thought they'd hunt her down like this, she thought she'd been secretive enough to go under their radars. "H...Hello S...Sakura-san... Ino-san... Tenten-san... w...what d...do yyou wwant?" She asked politely, trying to edge out from the cornered position she found herself in.

Sakura stepped in to pin the poor girl in further. "You're overdue Hinata..."

While Tenten moved in on her other side, Ino moved forward to press in on the shy heiress. The shrinking violet pulled back nervously her fingers poking each other. "O...Overdue... f...for what?"

She knew exactly what she was overdue for, but she wasn't ready to admit it. They wanted her to register as a fangirl. She wasn't a fangirl however, she might stalk Naruto, obsess over him, have a secret shrine in her basement with a plush doll of him on the altar, and pray every night that he would come through her window, take her in his strong, passionate arms and carry her away on a pristine white unicorn where they would fly to the fairy world and they'd make sweet passionate love all night long, but she wasn't a fangirl.

She didn't have a single fangirl quality about her. After all, she wasn't stalking Naruto, obsessing about him, worrying about him whenever he was out of sight, or acting insanely jealous or anything. She just happened to follow Naruto during her training in observational recon, think about him all the time, worship at the secret shrine in her basement, thought about his health and well being occasionally when he happened to be away from her, and considered every girl that got near him a vile temptress out to corrupt her sweet and innocent Naruto-kun. Nope, not a single fangirl quality to be found in her, even if she happened to set off a couple 'minor' explosive tags just a little too close to his clan houses after he stole Naruto-kun's first pure kiss.

"You know exactly what we're talking about Hinata..." Ino stated flatly, with a cold and calculating look to her eyes. "You're overdue for registering yourself as Naruto's first fangirl, and starting up his fan club."

"Ano... I... I'm n...not a f...fangirl..." Hinata stuttered out, feeling trapped by the trio of girls who seemed to know her deepest and darkest secrets. She thought she'd hidden her fangirl actions so well, when they happened that was. Which were nowhere near often enough to actually classify as fangirling.

"You just spent Four hours and thirty-five minutes drooling over Naruto as he trained shirtless, and before that you watched with your Byakugan as he bathed," Tenten cut in, reading them off like a list of charges. "Yesterday you attempted to join him at the ramen stand, and after he left, bought the bowl and chopsticks from the waitress. Then you went into your house, and didn't emerge for several hours. Checks with clan members stated that they could not find you, and when you did emerge, you proceeded directly to watching Naruto train."

"Tha...that wasn't f...fangirling... th...that..." Hinata began, only to be cut off by Ino.

"You were fangirling without a license Hinata, and that is very bad if you got caught," Ino stated while slinging an arm around the shy girl's shoulders. "See, fangirls with a license get little perks, like not getting the police called on us... and special attacks..."

"A...attacks?" Hinata asked curiously, as she'd never heard that before.

"Yep... the first and most basic is the squeal... which can rupture eardrums, and stun the target allowing for easier capture. Then there's the Righteous Rage Strike... remember the attack Sakura performed on Naruto after he fell on Sasuke and they accidentally kissed?" Ino explained, adding the last carefully. After getting a nod, she continued. "The flames of her righteous fury helped her attacks be stronger and more powerful... We could teach you... and all you'd have to do is become Naruto's only fangirl..."

"So far," Tenten cut in, getting curious looks from the three other girls. "What? Come on, you can't tell me you didn't see it!"

"See what?" Sakura asked curiously, getting nods of agreement to the question from the others.

With a sigh, Tenten rubbed her forehead as she carefully plotted out her words. "Think about it girls... He's hard working, cheerful guy, with a huge heart, and likely among the most approachable of the males we have to choose from... His stamina makes a Sisyphus look like a Nara... And those whisker marks give him a dangerous edge that will drive some girls wild... It's a miracle he doesn't already have a fan club already..."

"So... she wouldn't be the only fangirl it seems..." Ino teased with a raised eyebrow at the weapon mistress. Her smirk was almost pure evil as she turned her attention on the other fangirl.

"Easy there Ino, I'm a card carrying Neji fangirl, remember?" Tenten answered, holding up the laminated card that looked like a pink and sparkly driver's license. "Oh and Hinata... when you get to planning out the cards... go for something tasteful and simple..."

While Tenten gave Hinata advice about the card, Ino harrumphed and crossed her arms over her chest turning a cold calculating glare on the older girl. After a minute she muttered under her breath. "If that card's worth anything, Sakura's not a violent tomboy that I experimented with... many times..."

The fist that collided with the top of her skull alerted her to the fact that Sakura could read lips very well. Tenten decided that she might want to take Hinata away before the fight involved them and scared her away again. Hinata... Hinata was reading the fangirling handbook that Sakura had given her. It didn't seem as bad as she thought...

Now all she needed to do was get all this nonsense out of the way before Naruto began training under the waterfall later. She had a brand new high-powered tele-photo lens that was begging for such a picture. But she wasn't a fangirl...

At least... not yet...