Summary: Two not-so-average groups of boys and girls meet up in one Hyuga Summer Mansion. It wasn't the summer they expected, especially with their parents agreeing to this. What will happen: romance or chaos? We'll see about that. They didn't exactly want this.
: - : Summer Love, Summer Vacation or Both? : - :
by: HeavenlySwirl
'Troublesome…'
'What am I going to say?'
'Hn.'
'A minute has already passed…'
Silence hung in the air as four pairs of eyes shifted across the room. Eyes that withheld various emotions: both the pair of white pallid and onyx eyes showed disinterest, tan colored eyes drooped in drowsiness and the usually bright blue ones, were filled of despair and misery.
Unfortunately for the fourth teen, it was his turn.
He glanced around his friends. The Hyuga could only stare at him, seeing the nervousness that was clearly etched on his friend's face.
"Hn," The Uchiha finally joined the others as he finished making the final adjustments with the wire connections. He sat on the black leather couch beside the blond and the Hyuga.
Naruto gulped. "Ready guys?" he asked, tightly gripping the remote and finally turning to face the flat screen television.
"Ready," his friends muttered.
-…Connecting… -
The screen's light lit the room and out with it, a red-headed female glowered at the boys from the TV screen. "You're late."
Definitely, they'd be starting this conversation in excuses and a staring contest.
"Ahh.. kaa-san, sorry I was just, " Naruto scratched his head and focused his eyes on what was behind her. He could see that they were all in their cruise ship lobby, with their fathers having tea and talking about business, nonetheless.
"Save it." His mother gave him 'the-look.' That definite look that meant: shut-up-and-don't-be-like-your-godfather-Kakashi. He sighed, "Okay."
"Anyway," A raven-haired petite woman interjected, Uchiha Mikoto, breaking the ice. She smiled at the young boys, "Good morning."
"Good morning," the boys greeted back dryly.
"We have something to tell you," She smiled again, sweetly. And already her son, Sasuke, could read that there was something behind that smile. It wasn't going to be good for his part.
Better yet, their part, as he saw all of their mothers' eyes lit with amusement.
"What is it?" Sasuke bluntly asked. He had no doubt that this had something to do with the recent satellite convo.
The boys looked at each other and listened carefully. They were all too familiar with the last week's conversation. Every word was stuck in their minds. After all, they only did this once a week, maybe two or three times if there was an emergency.
"Oh, since someone whined the last time about," Kushina began. "Why we didn't give you any sisters," She glared at his only son.
His complain was actually, according to him, reasonable. Their mothers were telling them to get girlfriends as they topped the Dream Boys List in the most famous gossip magazine, the Konoha Bingo book. Naruto tried to explain that he couldn't since he was friends with Neji and Sasuke who were either afraid or hated girls (to which he got a payback after they ended the convo) due to their persistent fan girls and a Shikamaru, who thinks that every woman in the world is so troublesome!
A tan-skinned woman came forward, Nara Yoshino, clapped her hands. "And since all of us were best friends since high school, we wanted you to make friends with girls like your fathers did."
But that didn't happen. All of them were homeschooled because of two facts: firstly, they had treacherous fan girls ruining their day…even bodyguards couldn't handle them and secondly, Neji, Sasuke and Shikamaru were all geniuses—Naruto was only average but he was very creative, too creative that he could shun all of his friends combined.
They were finishing each others' sentences; all who's left was Neji's mother, Hyuga Sayuri. "And since Neji here has a cousin and it's been a long time since he has been with her, I invited Hinata and her friends to come and spend time here with you during the summer!" She gleefully proclaimed, emphasizing the word 'friends'.
"What?" Astonishment shown on the boys faces.
They were going to live with girls. Girls. GIRLS!
Sasuke deadpanned. Shikamaru mumbled 'troublesome mothers'. Neji just stared at her mother, brows raised in confusion.
"Really? Yes! Finally!" Naruto cheered. "Woohoo! Oh, what do they look like?" With that question, Naruto received death glares from his friends. He ignored it though and proceeded asking their parents.
"Shikamaru!" Yoshino, not pleased at his previous statement, glared at him with her hands on her hips. "I personally know one; she was born after the day you were born. Her mother and I shared the same room in the Haruno hospital."
Mikoto snapped her fingers, "Isn't the other one named Haruno Sakura?"
Yoshino nodded, "Yeah, she's the only daughter of the Haruno's."
"Ahh, I see. So she does come from a good family." Mikoto smiled and glanced at her son.
Naruto snickered, "Uchiha Sakura,"
Sasuke twitched at the mentioned name. "Dobe!"
"Teme!"
"Dobe!"
"Cut it!" Kushina stopped the two from bickering. Honestly, seeing Sasuke and Naruto bicker when she and Mikoto were best friends…she sighed.
"When are they going to arrive?" Neji asked. He didn't particularly like the idea, but he was glad to see Hinata again.
"About 3 pm," His mother said. "Neji, I expect you to show them around." His son's brows furrowed into a scowl but she matched it with her own. "They're mothers are fully aware of the situation, so they are expecting that they will have a good time. One of their fathers is a close client of your uncle's and the two are the Nara family's friends."
"So this is for business purposes only?"
"We never know," His mother replied. "I'm sure you'd get along well with Hinata's best friend, Tenten-san. She's half-Chinese and has learned different types of martial arts albeit you'd have a great time sparring with her."
"Hn,"
"Neji, do we agree?"
"Yes," Neji nodded obediently.
"Hey, kaa-san can I talk to tou-san now?" Naruto asked.
"Right," Kushina called on Minato and sat on the chair that was previous occupied by her husband. The remaining women followed suit.
Uchiha Fugaku, Hyuga Hizashi, Namikaze Minato and Nara Shikaku occupied the chairs in front of the camera and looked at their sons.
"Just go along with this, you know how your mother can be," Shikaku was the first to speak, directing his words to Shikamaru.
"Don't do anything inappropriate," Fugaku told them.
"Why would we," Sasuke replied. "We're not even interested."
"Hey, I'm interested!" Naruto said.
"Naruto," Minato focused his eyes on his son, a stern look on his face.
"Ahh," Naruto realized how wrong that meant. "No, I won't. I mean, I just want to meet them."
"Is Hiashi-san alright with this?" Neji asked his father.
"I'm not quite sure," Hizashi glanced behind his shoulder. "I only know your mother had discussed this to Nanami-san." He looked again at the screen. "She may have mentioned that Hinata wanted to introduce you to her new friends, I'm guessing that's where it all started."
"I see."
"Prepare the house, tell them Hinata is coming."
"Aa."
Silence. Pause.
"So, that's it then." Minato nodded to them. He turned around and called the females to face the camera. The females did so, waving their free hands from drinking coffee and told their goodbyes.
"Bye," The teenage boys said in chorus.
-…Connection Aborted… -
The boys sighed. Their mothers surely prepared a very unpredictable summer for them. They knew they couldn't escape this, not unless they wanted to be punished. Although in Naruto's case…why would he escape? He was going to meet girls!
But, at the same time he was sympathetic with his best friends. They had problem with girls and their mothers had taken the responsibility to fully sort them out.
It was going to be a long summer…