Since...several (aka like four) people wanted a sequel...well...

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Much Ado about Pompoms - Naruto and Hinata


"Naruto and Hinata!" called out the principal in her usual loud voice. Hinata blushed a fiery red, making her way to receive the usual set of keys.

"Thank you," she smiled shyly, and then noticed the principal's disgruntled expression. Worriedly the pale-eyed girl tried to make up for the awkward silence by small-talking. "Um...what happened to your shirt?"

Tsunade's eye twitched and she threw a malevolent glare in TenTen's direction.

Hinata took that as a dismissal.

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"Uh...Naruto?"

"What?"

"Uh...nothing."

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The second day

"...N-naruto??"

"What?"

"Um, nothing..."

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The third day

"N-naruto..."

"What?"

"Uh...nothing."

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The fourth day

Finally Hinata decided that she was much too shy. She loved saying his name, loved looking at him. She loved him. She'd woken up and had told herself no, control the impulse to touch him.

So she breathed.

He smelled...of...

Ramen. She leaned in quietly, happily. His hair was in disarray, his nightcap fallen off. She moved closer, touching the pompom, and held it up to her nose.

Ah. Ramen...Naruto.

He twitched. Embarrassed and blushing, Hinata jumped up and away.

It was then she noticed she still held the nightcap.

As Naruto turned his back and started to snore, a thought hit Hinata.

Why give it back?

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The fifth day

A loud snore was followed by an "oomph". Naruto hit the floor, still fast asleep. He was tangled up in his blankets; however, his pillow was left on his bed and therefore within range of...

Hinata tiptoed to his bed and pressed the pillow to her nsoe. Mm. Ramen.

She hummed slightly, jamming the pillow under her sheets.

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The sixth day

He was grinning in his dream. Intoxicated, Hinata walked over to him. With no nightcap, he looked so...cute. But his covers were messy. He muttered something about Sakura - Hinata frowned - and rolled over.

Revealing two dirty pairs of socks.

Almost joyfully she snatched them up.

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The seventh day

In the morning Hinata paused at the foot of his bed. She was shocked.

His...

Was that...

Yes. It was.

At a few thousand miles per second she contained her urge to scream in ecstacy and hugged the object to herself. She added it to her collection.

...Red and polka-dotted?

...We may never know...

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The eighth day

In science class, Naruto was nearly finished the pre-test. It was a study to show how much one had learned of science...A waste of time and money, he mused.

The last question caught his eye.

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or Endothermic (absorbs heat)?

His eyes lit up. He had knowledge about this...he peeked around. Shikamaru wrote a proof about Boyle's law. Gas cools off when it expands and heats when it is compressed.

Naruto added that to his paper.

Hmm... he wondered, and then a plan formed in his head.

Two hours later, he was the last student to finish his test and handed it in to Kakashi.

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The ninth day

Naruto winced as he heard a loud scream from a room close by. That sounded like...TenTen... (A/N: See First chap.)

He gathered up his books and cast a fleeting look at Sakura. He stuck the key into his room and pushed the door open, ready to take a loooooooooong bath after a particularly exhausting day.

"Uh...wait...where are my towels?"

He spied Hinata, who was sleeping.

"...I guess the janitor or someone mistook it..."

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The tenth day

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It was eight o'clock, the time read. Oh, no!!! I'm late for class! Hinata threw the covers off her bed in her hurry.

Naruto blinked, yawning. "Oh...um, Hinata? It's Satur - ..." He failed to finish his sentence as he saw what was underneath her covers.

"Uh...Hinata?" Suddenly he realized, and jumped up, his face flushed. "Why the hell do you have my boxers?!"

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Aftermath...or, should we say, afterscience?

Name: Naruto Uzumaki

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or Endothermic (absorbs heat)?

(First paragraph is copied from Shikamaru).

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell and the rate they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let us look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially.

Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand as souls are added. This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. Of course, if Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Sakura Haruno, "...that it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you.", and take into account the fact that I still have not succeeded in having a relationship with her, then, #2 cannot be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and will not freeze."

He got an A.

THE END


I hope you liked this chapter as much as I liked to write it :)

By the way, that bonus question & answer was a quote I stumbled across. The author is "Unknown."

Thanks for reading!!! If I get enough reviews, I'll make a third chapter about Sasuke and Sakura.