Hinata felt a little useless while they set up their booth, but the moment they started the grill, most of the class realized that maybe a cooking stall wasn't as good of an idea as they all thought. Hinata, Sasori, Pein, and, surprisingly enough, Hidan were the only ones comfortable cooking. This left the rest of the class advertising and stocking drinks and food coolers.

Pein double-checked the supplies while Hinata followed him with a clipboard. Hinata flinched when she felt a headband being put on her head. She touched it to notice that it had ears coming off it. She made a face at Deidara as he jumped back with his hands up defensively and his own blond bunny ear headband. "It's all I'll ask. You can use it to keep your bangs back if you need to, yeah."

Hinata huffed and looked back to see her class president eyeing the headband. "It does bring more people." She was outnumbered.

Deidara was aggressively excited, presenting another headband. "Alright, now help me get this one on Sasori." That was going to be much harder.

Kisame glared at the shark fin Deidara wanted to put on his head. "Is this a hate crime? Is this where I find out you are racist?"

Deidara comically shrank. "I got everyone else to wear them, yeah!"

Kisame crossed his arms. "Kakuzu?" Deidara nodded. He must have paid him. "Konan?"

"Well… almost everyone, yeah." Deidara held it up. "I made it for you, uh."

"Just put it on." Itachi ducked his head and his brown rounded ears out of the stall.

"What are you doing here?" Kisame wondered. They weren't expecting him to be allowed to come.

Itachi leaned against the stall. "I'm allowed to hang out."

"What are you meant to be?" Kisame twisted his nose at the short ears.

"Weasel, Deidara wasn't all that creative with these." Itachi side-eyed him. Deidara just pouted and held out the fin as high as he could. Kisame groaned. This was stupid.

A giggle came from behind them as Kisame lowered his head to accept the stupid headband. Hinata held a hand over her mouth in her own little set of mouse ears. Hers were a little more elaborate and fluffy than Itachi's, and it looked like Deidara cornered her to put whiskers on her face and glitter around her eyes. The front of her uniform was covered in an apron with their class number and painted-on little mouse footprints.

… God, she looked cute.

"I didn't think you would be able to get them on." Hinata's eyes glittered, looking up at the fin. "It's cute."

Kisame's face heated up, now he had to keep it on, and he was going to hate every minute of it.

Hinata waved her hand down for him to come down to her level. Kisame lowered his head to let her fuss with his hair, repositioning the headband. She brushed the edges around his ears, and he felt his ear match the heat of his face. "It's kind of cheating to make you wear a fin."

Kisame puffed out his cheeks.

"What are you wearing?" Hinata blinked to see her cousin's face red for a different reason. Neji came down the sidewalk with an exasperated look.

Hinata touched the edge of the ears on her head as Kisame stood back up. "This was the tame option. Deidara-san wanted to put me in a ball gown."

"You look…" Neji's face twisted as he tried to be nice.

"I'm going to be cooking most of the time anyway." Hinata waved her hand inside. "What did your class do?"

"Lee and Tenten wanted to do self-defense demonstrations." Neji huffed, waving at his martial arts uniform. "So I get to be thrown on a mat all day."

Hinata pressed her lips together, unsure. "Hopefully, Lee doesn't hurt you."

"He's not the one I am worried about." Neji looked down the booths to Tenten sitting and waiting for the event to begin.

Kisame snorted, receiving looks from both of them.

Hinata found that she couldn't hobble around the others inside the stall. There wasn't enough room. So she resigned herself beside Hidan at the grill to stay out the other's way, running around and serving. Hidan was surprisingly good at grilling meat and vegetables, apparently his family owned restaurants. When Hinata thought about the Akatsuki pairs, she had mentally put him in the buy-in rich kids that needed help and not the scholarship kids, but she never really addressed that it meant that he was from a wealthy family. It did explain how he got away with so much.

"These are done." Hidan pointed.

Hinata collected them and set them aside for the others to dress and serve. "Are you going to culinary or business school after high school?"

"Nah, I'm going to a monastery." Hidan tossed more on the grill.

Hinata wasn't sure she heard him over the sizzling. "What?"

Hidan leaned his arm out to show a tattoo usually hidden by his school uniform. It looked self-made and gave her more questions than answers. "Going to dedicate my life to god. Fuck my parents."

Hinata blinked at him. Well, at least he had a plan. He had more figured out than she did. Who was she to judge?

"Hey!" Hinata turned head to one of the boys from the lower classes. "You look cute!" He and his friends ran off with their orders. Hinata and Sasori looked at each other.

"Maybe if Sasori would wear them, he would get that comment too." Hidan joked, tilting his goat horns and ears to the side.

Sasori caved until Deidara squealed with excitement and wanted a picture. Then he threatened to take them off if Deidara tried.

"Your nose is coming off. You're sweating so much. Take a break, yeah." Deidara pulled her out.

Hinata huffed in the cooler air outside their little booth and dabbed her face with a towel. "This is fun."

Deidara waited for her face to be dry, then uncapped and eyeliner with the teeth. "Hold still, uh." He put a hand under her chin and stuck his tongue out to focus on drawing the nose and whiskers back on. Hinata helped her face up patiently as he capped the pencil and reached in his pocket for the glitter. "You're a glamorous mouse, yeah."

Hinata giggled but tried to keep her face still as he reapplied makeup. "I'm going to sweat it all back off."

"And I will put on more," Deidara told her. It felt like a well-meaning threat. "Open your mouth, uh."

Hinata obediently parted her lips as he put on lipstick. "Why are you adding more?"

"It's getting later. This is your night look, un." Deidara capped the lipstick and pulled her hair out of the ponytail she pulled it back in.

"Hey, I need it back." Hinata protested.

"I can do better, yeah." Deidara started running his finger through the tangles she put in it moving around.

Kisame felt like a dumb billboard. Deidara, who was being a little too much of a micromanaging pain in the ass, not only made him the stupid fin headband but made him a cardboard advertisement vest to wear up and down the alley of booths. This wasn't needed, everyone would probably go around to see everyone else's booths, and seniors were the only ones allowed to cook, so the younger classes selling cakes were not going to do better than them.

It allowed Itachi to filter around and see everyone and say how he had been doing since he had been 'abroad.' The way Itachi could easily lie through his teeth was concerning. It made Kisame wonder if he had ever lied to him like that. Not that he would have been able to tell clearly.

Sasuke's class was doing something the girls planned to do with couples challenges, named friendship challenges to get the idea past the school board, but it was clear they were doing couples. Sasuke was sitting solidly out next to the scoreboard, so he couldn't be pulled in.

Itachi stopped to tease his brother, which was rich, because they were wearing dumb hats.

Sasuke raised an eyebrow at him. "I am surprised you're not hovering around Hinata." Kisame eyebrows twitched down. "Half my class has talked about asking her to come down to do the challenge with them."

Kisame jaw set. He really shouldn't be upset. Knowing Hinata, she wouldn't do that, well, knowingly. Hinata might be tricked into the 'friendship challenge' name.

"Bet she would do it with me." Sasuke got a smirk on his face as he put himself on thin ice.

"Keep it up, and I'll blow your fake little crush." Kisame hissed back.

Sasuke eyebrows shot up. "I didn't know you knew."

Kisame grumbled. He didn't want to admit he was severely jealous when he didn't know. "We should go make sure Hidan didn't start a bonfire."