Author's Note: Hey all.

It took a little longer than expected, but I finally finished! I'm glad you guys really liked the first half of this extended one-shot, and I hope you like this half just as much. If not, just let me know, and I'll learn from my mistakes.

This will be the last one for a little while. I feel that people have been waiting quite some time for a new chapter from my first fic, so I want to get at least one more out the door before I come trudging back this way. If you have any ideas in the meantime, just let me know!

Again, I hope you like it!

Obsessively Shadowing (Part 2)

"Why did we leave? I wanted to know who the hell put that stuff in my food!"

Konohamaru was still sore over the whole affair. Instead of discovering which veritable son-of-a-bitch had slipped something into his food, Hanabi had simply informed the hostess that they needed to leave, and paid for their appetizers. Being a member of the Hyūga clan, the woman could only graciously accept, and they bolted out the door, Konohamaru still spouting flames out of his mouth.

But now, they had finally been quelled after generous portions of whatever liquid happened to be nearby, and now he wanted answers.

"We could have at least asked if there was someone new working there tonight!"

Hanabi pulled on his arm a little harder. "Absolutely not! If my dad found out we made a scene at his favorite restaurant, I'd never hear the end of it!"

"To be fair, Hanabi, we kind of already made one."

His date spun on her toes and glared at him, which was especially frightening considering her heritage. Konohamaru whimpered into submission, and trailed after her.

Unbeknownst to either of them, however, was that the culprits behind their hasty retreat from the restaurant were still following them. Naruto and Hinata had shed their burglar outfits (much to her joy), and instead used a simple transformation technique to alter their appearances into those of senior citizens.

"This is great!" Naruto said with excitement. "They have no idea! Where do you think they're going now?"

Hinata played her part well, shrugging her tired old shoulders. "It l-looks like they're going back to the compound. Maybe Hanabi-chan had something else planned?"

"Good! That means another thing we can bring to ruin! This day just gets better and better!"

Hinata sighed. She was afraid he was taking this too far, but she had to admit she enjoyed seeing him so happy. She decided the pros outweighed the cons, and continued to go along with it.

She had guessed right. Hanabi dragged Konohamaru all the way back to the compound, and into the kitchen, where she planned on making them a lunch, without having to worry about more food being poisoned. As Hanabi gathered some things together, she sent Konohamaru off to clean up so he could help her.

Hinata and Naruto watched him walk by from another room, peeking through the doorway.

"What should we do now?" Hinata asked. "They're onto us if you mess with their f-food again."

Naruto pulled his bag of tricks around, and began digging through once more. He threw out whoopee cushion, a container of salt mislabeled as sugar, and several other more juvenile tools. He let out an enthusiastic "A-ha!", and pulled out a delicate scroll from the bottom of the bag.

"This also cost me a pretty penny when I was traveling with Ero-sennin, and I was beginning to wonder if I would ever get a chance to use it!"

He suddenly darted from the room, straight after Konohamaru. He disregarded the amount of noise he was making, and strode straight up to him as if nothing was wrong. "Hey, Konohamaru!"

"Naruto-nīchan? What're you doing—?"

Naruto interrupted him by opening the scroll in his face. A small cloud of dust popped out, and with a gentle breath, Naruto blew it into Konohamaru's face. The look of surprise relaxed, and Konohamaru's arms fell limp at his sides.

"Naruto-kun, what did you do to him?" Hinata asked, worried. She waved her arm in front of Konohamaru's face, but he only giggled at her. "This seems a little unethical."

"Nonsense!" Naruto said with a smile. "It's not like I could force him to do anything. He just becomes a little more susceptible to suggestion, provided it's about whatever he was already going to do."

Hinata's eyes narrowed. "B-but Naruto-kun…Konohamaru was about to…" She froze. "No. Absolutely not! Do not even think about it!"

But Naruto was so lost in his fun that he didn't hear her. He leaned over, whispered something into Konohamaru's ear, and almost choked on his own laughter as Konohamaru bent over in the middle of the hallway, unzipped his fly, and started 'relieving himself' in the middle of the house.

His merriment became too much for him. Naruto let out a loud guffaw, and clamped a hand over his mouth when he realized his mistake.

"What's going on in there?" they heard Hanabi's voice say, alongside her footsteps. Hinata swallowed her anger, and dragged Naruto into the other room again before they were seen, and the only thing Hanabi did see, was Konohamaru pissing all over the hardwood floor.

Hinata had shut the door to better hide themselves, but she could hear the violence through the door. Konohamaru snapped out of his daze almost as quickly as he had fallen in, and tried in vain to keep Hanabi's wrath from him.

Hinata was watching them from the other side of the door, when Hanabi suddenly spun around, her own Byakugan active. Immediately, Hinata deactivated her own, and masked as much of her own chakra as she could, shooting Naruto a desperate glance s she dragged them as far across the room as she could without making any noise. He caught her message just before Hanabi's eyes fell on the room they were hiding in, and although Hanabi's eyes seemed to linger on their spot for a few tense seconds, Hinata almost sighed with relief when she saw a bug of some kind skittering across the wall. That must have been what Hanabi had seen, she decided, because her little sister watched the insect for a few more seconds, before finally turning back around.

"Maybe there were some lingering after-effects to what you ate at the restaurant," she announced, hoisting Konohamaru back to his feet. "Go get a rag and some soap, and mop this up before anyone else sees, and I might just let you walk away from this."

Nearly pissing himself again out of fear, Konohamaru hurried off to comply.

The coast was clear, and the first thing Hinata did was slap Naruto across the back of his head. "That was too far, and you know it! This is my house, remember!"

Naruto pouted. "But Konohamaru's gonna clean it up and everything! It was just a harmless little prank, Hinata!"

Hinata wasn't having any of it. She grabbed onto his ear, and pinched. "Don't push this too far, Naruto-kun. You don't want the entire Hyūga clan coming after you, do you?"

"D-does that include you too?"

Hinata nodded. "Yes, it does."

Naruto dropped his eyes to the floor, feeling dejected. "Aww gee, I'm sorry Hinata! I just wanted to have a little fun, and I guess I got carried away! I didn't mean to. Can you forgive me?"

She tried her best to keep a straight face, but Hinata couldn't help but smile at the way he looked at her. Hinata patted him on the head. "Of course I forgive you. Just promise me you won't get too carried away again, okay?"

Naruto perked up almost immediately. "Great! Because now, it's your sister's turn! Let's go!"

He led her towards the kitchen. "Go see what your sister is doing. I'll let you devise whatever scheme you want while I go check on Konohamaru and make sure he doesn't suspect anything!" He slunk off back down the hallway.

Just as he was out of earshot, Hinata heard her sister speak up. "Why is Naruto so dead set on ruining my date?"

Hinata walked casually into the kitchen, sitting down at the table. "How long have you known?"

Hanabi tapped her temple. "With these, does it matter? I would have figured it out eventually. Now, I'll ask again: why is Naruto trying to ruin my date with Konohamaru, and why are you helping him, now that I think about it?"

"He just wanted to have a little fun," Hinata replied, twiddling her thumbs. "I didn't think he would get so…excited about it."

"Your boyfriend's like a puppy. He gets too excited. I don't know how he did it, but I'm assuming he was the one behind Konohamaru peeing all over the floor. If dad even catches a whiff of that…"

Hinata held her hands up. "I know, I know! I told him that was too far. Now he wants me to see what you're doing, and decide how we can prank you as w-well."

Her sister smirked, and crossed the kitchen. She wrapped her arm over Hinata's shoulders, and prodded her in the stomach with the wooden spoon she was holding. "And what do you want to do? Because I think you want to get Naruto back for getting a little over zealous. Am I wrong?" She waggled her eyebrows.

"Naruto-kun and I are in a relationship, Hanabi-chan," Hinata protested, twiddling her fingers together. "I don't th-think he would like that very much."

Hanabi nodded. "Right, just like we didn't like him tricking Konohamaru into peeing on our floor. Come on, let's get him back! He won't even see it coming! Help your little sis out, will you?"

"You sound like you already have something in mind…" Hinata replied. Honestly, is pranking one another all everyone else in this village ever thought about?

"As a matter of fact, I do, and I'm going through with it with or without you. Are you in, or out?" Hanabi stuck her hand out, waiting for her sister. "I promise it won't hurt him, okay? And I won't pee on his floor either."

Hinata accepted her sister's hand, and they officially shook on it. "Fine, but promise me you won't overdo it."

"Of course I promise! When have I ever overdone it?" Hanabi asked.

Nearly every sparring session Hinata had endured when they were children came to mind.

"We have to sell this, so just go along with whatever Naruto wants to do for now, until I can figure out what to do to get him back. If he suspects something I'll need you to throw him off my trail, okay? He's probably waiting for you somewhere, so you better get back to him." She waved her sister off, and returned to making lunch as before.

Naruto was in fact waiting for his girlfriend out in the garden, hiding behind a tree and giggling like an idiot.

Hinata sighed. "What did you do to him this time, Naruto-kun?"

"Nothing too fancy. He was carrying so much stuff from the broom closet that he couldn't see where he was going, so I tripped him. The water and soap went everywhere!"

She tried to hide it. Hinata was actually a little excited to get him back. Naruto thought he was untouchable when it came to pranking, and his confidence made him completely trusting.

"What did your sister say?" he asked, creeping up underneath the window looking into the kitchen. He took a peek, and darted back into hiding before he was seen. "Is she making them a lunch?"

Hinata froze. Hanabi hadn't told her what to say in case Naruto asked, so she needed to think on her feet. "Y-yes! They plan on taking it into the gardens."

Naruto rubbed his hands together. "Perfect! There are lots of places to hide, and plenty of things we can do out here. I'm thinking Bees. Are you thinking Bees? Oh! Or maybe ants. Plenty of ants out here, I bet."

His girlfriend visibly cringed. She didn't want to lead her sister into that, but she knew she had to play along for now. "You go look for places to hide, I'll go see what my sister's up to."

Naruto agreed readily, and raced off like a child given free rein in a candy store. Hinata snuck back to the window, and caught Hanabi's attention. She couldn't just open the window and tell her, since Konohamaru had finally come back, and was sitting with his back to the window, so she resorted to violent gesturing to try and convey her message.

She spied a basket filled with flowers nearby, and grabbed it, dumping out the flowers and waving it in the air through the window. Hanabi looked lost. Hinata made an eating motion out of the basket, but Hanabi was still clueless.

Hinata slapped her forehead. She started waving her arms like a maniac, and mouthed the word 'picnic' over and over until it finally dawned on Hanabi what she was talking about. She gave the o.k., and Hinata ducked out of sight before Konohamaru could see her.

Hanabi and Konohamaru appeared a few minutes later, looking for a spot to sit down with their food. Hanabi's acting was atrocious; she exaggerated every word that came out of her mouth, and her eyes darted around the garden as she looked for Hinata and Naruto. She might have even waved at them had she actually spotted them.

"Here, Konohamaru! Over here!" she said, pointing to a spot underneath a large tree. "This spot is oh so perfect. Let us sit here!" She skipped over to the patch of grass, and started unfolding the cloth she had brought out with her.

"Why the hell are you talking like that?" Konohamaru muttered under his breath.

"Did you say something, Konohamaru-kun?" Hanabi asked, in perhaps too sweetly of a voice. "I thought I heard you say something."

Konohamaru saw something strange in the way she looked at him, and decided it was best to keep it to himself. He zipped his mouth closed, and helped Hanabi unpack their lunch in silence.

Meanwhile, Naruto was busy preparing his next strike. He had found an old ramen container buried in the bottom of his bag, and was using the scent to attract as many ants as possible. Slowly but surely, several trails were weaving their way underneath the brush, and Hinata was growing increasingly uncomfortable the closer they got. As far as the ants were concerned, she and Naruto were the only thing between them and a feast.

"Okay, I'm going to go slip this into their basket," Naruto whispered, stalking off behind Hanabi and Konohamaru.

Hinata saw her chance. She and her sister had developed a system of communicating with one another in case their father was angry with one of them, and they needed to stay out of his way until things calmed down. Until now, Hinata hadn't the need to use it, but Naruto was too close, and would smell trouble if Hinata contacted her sister directly.

She pursed her lips, and whistled a distinctive tune. It was similar to that of one of the many songbirds that populated the garden, but lower-pitched, alerting Hanabi that 'someone' was coming. But instead of their father, it was Naruto.

Hanabi's ear perked up at the sound, and when she spied a flash of orange stalking through the bushes, she tried not to let it show. Instead, she pulled a small piece of food from her basket, and tossed it towards Hinata, effectively changing the status quo.

Hinata was going to put it in Naruto's bag, but he came back more quickly than expected. As he snuck up behind her, she let out a tiny "Eep!" and the food fell to the ground, right where Naruto sat down.

"The package is in place," Naruto informed her, looking quite pleased with himself. Now all we have to do is wait for the ants to show up, and then we…"

Hinata stopped listening to him, her attention drawn to the scores of ants sneaking up behind Naruto. She clamped a hand over her mouth as he went on oblivious to the danger, and as thousands of hungry ants crawled towards their prize. They couldn't discern the difference between the food being underneath Naruto, and the food being Naruto, so the vast majority of them started crawling down his pants.

It was like watching a time bomb go off. Naruto's smile started to fade as a strange sensation spread on his ass. Then he frowned. Then he looked at Hinata, his eyes glazed over as he tried to make sense of what was happening inside the seat of his pants.

"Hinata…" he began, quietly. "I think there's something crawling on my—"

Hinata moved fast, before he could cry out, she shoved her sleeve into his mouth, and restrained him with her other three limbs. While some part of her felt bad watching Naruto squirmed in her arms, his ass assaulted by thousands of biting ants, it was just as hard to keep from laughing as it was to hold on.

Hanabi, however, had no such inhibitions. Naruto was far too busy with his own dilemma to hear her, so she cackled and guffawed to her heart's content.

"Did something funny just happen?" Konohamaru asked, out of the loop. "Why are you laughing so much?"

Hanabi leaned over and whispered something into his ear, and the look of realization was incredibly obvious. He stared at his date with his mouth hanging open like a fish's, in complete and total shock.

"You have got to be kidding me…" he muttered to himself, scanning the bushes for Naruto and Hinata. He saw movement behind one of the larger shrubs, and was getting to his feet, but Hanabi pulled him back down and whispered more into his ear. Whatever she had said must not have convinced him, because with as much theatricality as he could manage, he pointed to Naruto's hiding spot.

"Naruto! I'm gonna kick your ass for this!" He jumped into the bushes. Hinata was thrown away in the confusion, out into the open.

"Yeah, get him, Konohamaru!" Hanabi cheered, grinning wickedly. "Teach his ass a lesson!"

Naruto came stumbling through the bushes a few seconds later, tightly wrapped up in Konohamaru's scarf. From the way he was still trying to reach back to his ass, Konohamaru had taken advantage of Naruto's concentration being elsewhere.

"Hey, what the hell's the big idea!?" Naruto cried, trying to free himself. What are you doing?"

Konohamaru laughed. "What am I doing? Why, I'm getting revenge, of course! Hanabi-chan here tells me you're the reason that or date's been one of the worst in history!"

"How did you find out about that? I was so careful!" Naruto's eyes searched for truth, and he found it when Hinata's wouldn't meet his own. "Hinata…it was you?"

"Don't blame your girlfriend, Naruto," said Hanabi, stepping forward. "I knew about long before she came clean. She thought you were taking things a little too far, and we're inclined to agree."

Naruto hissed. "Me? Overdo it? Never! You guys just can't take a joke! I'll show you all what it means to get pranked! Mark my words!" He started laughing maniacally, minus the occasional grunt of pain when a lingering and took a bite out of his ass. By now, it more than likely resembled a piece of hamburger meat more than it did a rear-end.

"As if!" Konohamaru snorted. "It's our turn, so prepare yourself." He stomped back into the woods and returned holding Naruto's bag of tricks. "Let's see what we have in here…"

Naruto began to sweat as he watched Konohamaru dig through the bag's contents, hoping he wouldn't find anything too dangerous.

Konohamaru grinned. "An eye for an eye, I've been told." He produced a very familiar bottle, shaking it in his hands. "I was hoping I'd come across this."

"Get that stuff away from me!" Naruto yelped, leaping to his feet. He tried hopping away, but Konohamaru stepped on the trail of his scarf, and Naruto plunged back to the ground, bouncing off the dirt by his chin.

Konohamaru took his chance. He pinched Naruto's nose between two fingers, and poured as much of the sauce down Naruto's throat as he could. The reaction was almost immediate. Naruto's face turned bright red, his eyes welled with tears, and soon he was snorting flames from his nose, rolling in the grass in vain.

Naruto spied a pond nearby, and rolled as fast as he belly could carry him. He plunged into the water, and howled.

Hanabi started laughing, pouring the rest of the ice out of the cooler and onto the ground. "Didn't think that one through, did you?"

It was the worst of the two worlds. Inside his mouth was hellfire, but on the outside, he was drenched in ice cold water. Even though fire was shooting out of his mouth, it did nothing to warm him.

From the sidelines, Hinata was beginning to feel uncomfortable with this. She still supported Naruto, and watching him endure this was a little hard. It was still funny, but hard.

"I th-think that's enough, everyone…" she said, trying to speak over the growing chaos. "I'm sure Naruto-kun's learned his lesson."

"Not yet!" Konohamaru declared! "There's still one more piece of unfinished business left to attend to…" As everything else fell silent around them, the sound of him unzipping his pants was deafening.

Naruto started squirming harder than ever, a stream of foul curses tearing past his lips. He tried rolling away, but Konohamaru fumbled after him, reading to enact his piss-brand of revenge.

Hinata could watch no longer. She leaped into action. With one precise strike, she cut Naruto's bindings, freeing him. While he jumped to safety, Hinata distracted Konohamaru by throwing the remnants of his scarf in his face, and pushing him into her sister. They tumbled into the ice water, crying out in surprise.

"Go go go!" Hinata hissed, sprinting out of her own garden, following Naruto down the street. They left a cloud of dust in their wake.

Hanabi, sputtering and shivering, hoisted Konohamaru and herself out of the water.

"Dammit, Hinata!" she growled, sneezing. "You'll pay for this!" She sneezed again, wiping her nose.

Konohamaru wiped the excess water from his eyes, his teeth chattering. "C-can we just finish our date, please? No m-more pranking or anything like that?"

Hanabi wanted to argue, but he looked so pitiful standing there, freezing. As fun as an evening of getting back at Naruto would have been, maybe it was for the best to drop it for now.

She sighed. "Alright. Let's head inside. I'll get the food together and you can go shower off, okay?"

Konohamaru smiled from ear to ear, and gratefully headed inside. Hanabi scooped together what remained of their meal, and followed him.

Back at Naruto's apartment, he and Hinata had spent the rest of the day recuperating from the day's events. After a multi-hour nap, their stomachs were grumbling, and it was time for dinner. Naruto offered to make it in thanks for Hinata bailing him out, and as he cooked, she sat in the kitchen with him, looking through the rest of Naruto's bag, which she had grabbed before leaving.

"How long did it take you to get all this stuff together?" she asked.

"Years and years, and I'm always on the lookout for more," he explained. "I guess I should find something soon, to get back at your sister and Konohamaru. No one pulls one over me like that!"

Hinata smiled sweetly. "I'm s-sorry I helped them. I didn't really know what I was doing."

Naruto turned around, and shot her a happy smile. "Oh, don't worry about that! You didn't really do anything, you know? Besides, I guess I was getting a little crazy out there."

They sat in comfortable silence for a few more minutes, while Hinata reached the last few items in Naruto's bag. She recognized a shaker that Naruto had deemed 'too far' back at the restaurant. A vacant smile on her lips, she turned it over in her hands. "Naruto-kun?" she called.

"Hmm?"

"What's this in here? You never told me what it did."

Naruto chuckled quietly when he saw it. "That, my dear, is one of the most powerful laxatives known to man. Even the smallest amount can put anyone on the toilet for hours. I haven't found a good enough excuse to use it yet."

As he went back to his cooking, Hinata sat frozen in her seat. In the chaos of their escape, Hinata had grabbed something out of Naruto's bag to take one last revenge on Konohamaru and her sister. As she stared at the now empty shaker, she considered that maybe from now on, she should be a little more careful.

She pocketed the shaker, hoping Naruto forgot about it. There was nothing she could do for her sister and Konohamaru now but hope they didn't have to endure this for long.

The world of pranking could be a dangerous one, after all. Perhaps this battle of wits was but the first of many…

Author's Note: I have a feeling that Naruto and Hinata vs. Hanabi and Konohamaru could be the start to a beautiful (and violent) relationship, so I decided to leave things open. Perhaps we'll see another round in the future?

Anyway, let me know if you liked it or not! If you have an idea for a one-shot, just let me know. I'll be writing another chapter for my first (and largest) fic, so if you haven't checked it out yet, I hope to see you there sometime!

Until next time.