A/N: Don't ask why I haven't updated in a while. It's a long story…
Hinata finally finished setting up the equipment. She looked around to find her 3 friends watching from afar. Noting that they were giggling, she started to walk towards them with a suspicious look. Her walk was kind of bouncy and lazy; her face was a flushed pink; her hair was coming apart. She stood in front of the 3 and put her hands on her hips.
"What so funny?" Hinata scanned over the girls. Temari was the first to notice she was there. She put a hand over her mouth to cover her giggling. She nudged the other two on either side of her to stop. Tenten pushed her back, but she noticed why she had nudged her. Sakura couldn't control herself. She was beat red from laughing.
"Oh Hinata. Its nothing. Just that Naruto got a little close to you there." Temari stated in between giggles. She put her hands on her hips and bent over a little. Sakura and Tenten nodded.
"Oh! That? He said he was gonna get me a slushie or something." Hinata waved her hand as if she didn't care. She stood with one leg straight and one bent.
"Mhmm. I bet." Tenten folded her arms and walked passed her to the front of the park to the microphone.
"Hinata, you've got all three of those boys under your spell. Even Gaara. Face it, hun, you're a playaaaaa." Sakura also walked passed her and went up to the mike along with Tenten. All Temari did was shake her head and followed.
"Huh?" Hinata ran back to them. Hinata began to explain to them until she heard a mike turning on.
Tenten turned on the mike.
"Check, check 1 2." She tapped the microphone a few times. She caught the people's attention at the park.
"Welcome again to another year of the Annual Konoha Races! Its your hosts Tenten," She gave the mike to Sakura.
"Sakura!" The two had roaring claps form the crowd.
"Temari!" Sakura had passed it to her. The crowd had even more claps for her.
"Ino!" No one gave an applause for her. The group wasn't even sure where she came from.
"And Hinata!" Hinata did a small pose at the end of her introduction. The crowd had the most applause for her.
"Well we're going to announce the groups." Hinata ruffled with a piece a paper with the names on it.
"Group 1: Shikamaru, Chouji, and Sasuke."
"What a drag. I don't wanna be with that lame emo kid." Shikamaru put his hands in his pockets and looked up with sighing.
"I heard that, deer boy." Sasuke walked over to him with an evil glare; his hands also in his pockets.
"Come on! Can't we settle this with something to eat?" Chouji stepped in with his hands in a chip bag. Crumbs were all over his face and shirt.
"Ugh." The other two shook their heads.
"Group 2: Shino, Neji, and Lee." Hinata announced while looking around for them.
"Damnit." Shino slowly turned toward the energetic, bushy-browed boy. Those green tights scared him.
"NEEJJII!! We are together even in the races! We can win with our will-power!" Lee clenched his fists together.
"Lee, for once, just shut up." Neji walked passed Lee over to Shino.
"How do you handle this guy?" Shino asked.
"You get use to it. Especially if you have Gai as a sensei."
"Ohh. I see." Shino nodded and stood quietly by the Hyuuga. Both watched Lee as he rambled on to Gai about the races.
All attention was at Hinata again.
"Group 3: Gaara, Naruto, and Kiba." Hinata turned to look at them.
All three were surprised to hear that. "WHAT?!" The 3 guys looked at each other with a deathly gleam in their eyes. Each of them growled of hissed at each other.
"How'd I get paired with these two anyways?" Gaara folded his arms over his chest. He stared blankly at the two before him.
"This is the EXACT reason why I didn't want to come today. I knew I was gonna be paired with you two." Kiba turned his back on his two teammates.
"Well then. You two can just go to hell!" Naruto folded his arms also, while stomping in place.
"Get together everyone!" Sakura said cheerfully. She grabbed the mike out of Hinata's hand, only wanting attention from Sasuke. He sighed.
"Our first race for the day is tug-o-war! Group 1 and 2, please take your mark!" Sakura lead them to a long, thick rope by the center of the field. She noticed Sasuke was right behind her. She slowly bent over to pick up the rope.
Sasuke paid no attention to her.
'Ohh man….' Sakura dreaded in her mind. She tried so hard for him to notice her.
"Okay. I'm going to hold the rope in the middle." As she explained, the two teams were ready to pull.
"Whoever gets this flag to their side first wins and you move to the next round. The loser has to sit out. Are you ready?" Sakura looked at both teams. Each of the boys nodded. On the teams, Shino and Shikamaru were in the front, then came Chouji and Lee, and last Sasuke and Neji were in the back.
"PULL!" Sakura let go of the rope. Simultaneously, the two boys both started to tug with all their might. They both started to tug back. All of them started to turn red.
Shikamaru felt them losing. Sasuke felt like he was pulled harder than the three. The two of them started to tug harder and fall backwards. Their feet became slippery. They knew why.
"Chouji! What are you doing?!" Shikamaru looked back to see him getting tired. Chouji was breathing heavily and panting. Sweat began to drop down his face. He began to fall down.
"Oh damn." Sasuke said, while starting to let go of the rope.
"We lost." So the two let go of the rope. The other team fell down, winning by default.
"I want some chips." Chouji said in between pants. He was spread out on the ground.
"You really need to get a better team mate, Shikamaru." Sasuke started to walk off, but Shikamaru pulled his collar back.
"You know I'm really tired of you and your smartass." Shikamaru was about to punch Sasuke until a quick-hand stopped him. Both of the boys looked up.
"Sakura?" Sasuke looked amazed. She was stand there, holding Shikamaru's fist. She had rage in her eyes. Her face was down towards the ground.
"Hurt him and you die." She said in a dark voice. She didn't dare look up. Shikamaru had a sudden fright in his body. He slowly let go of Sasuke's collar, pushing him and then walking over to Chouji.
Sakura looked up and blinked. She stared into space for a while before turning to Sasuke. She started to fake-laugh and scratched her head. She put one hand behind her back while looking at Sasuke.
"That was pretty cool." Sasuke said to her and walked off like nothing happened.
Sakura began to blush. Her eyes became big. She raced over to Tenten, Temari, and Hinata. She began to jump up and down.
"HE SAID THAT WAS PRETTY COOL!" Sakura began to dance and sing her own song.
"Looks like someone's happy." Temari watched the girl dance with both hands on her hip, leaning slightly towards her right.
All three of the girls began to laugh.
"Looks like Gaara's team is up next." Hinata said while sighing. She looked to her left to see three boys staring at her. She cautiously waved at them and gave a weary smile. The three waved back, thinking that she was waving to one individual.
"Ugh. I guess I am a playaaa."
A/N: Well I finally updated! You likey this chappie? I don't even know if I did my best on this. Ohh well. REVIEW!