Okay here it is everyone the finally chapter of the story and as promised i did my best to put some romance in the chapter. (i promise the next story im working on will have much more romance) so yeah please read and review i can't believe i finally finished it. :-) okay so yeah enjoy. I love everyone who reviewed you all are the greatest.
Disclaimer: i didn't own naruto in the first 10 chapters why shouldnow be any different
A Very Proper Ending
After they had arrived back at the mansion and all necessary information had been given to the lords and a message was on its way to Konoha with details of the mission, the teenagers departed to their own rooms and passed out upon their own beds. At about eleven o'clock Tenten began to wake, groaning about the unimaginable pain in her head. She sat up trying to remember what had happened before…well before anything. Slowly it was coming back to her as she saw her reflection in the mirror on the back wall of the room. Her head turned quickly as her eyes scanned the other three beds in the room; her friends were fine, and just like her, still dressed in their kimonos. Her head snapped around again when the door to the room opened and the princesses walked it. They were now dressed in their regular home kimonos and carrying trays of food.
"Good morning Tenten, how is your head feeling?" Harumi asked as she set the tray down on the bed side table.
"Like I listened to jack hammer for six hours straight" She said laying her head back down on her pillows. "Any chance you could tell me why?"
"Sorry we didn't get there until you had lost consciousness" Akiko said.
"What do you mean 'didn't get there', certainly you didn't follow us?" She sounded shocked.
"Actually that is exactly what they did" Sakura was now awake "I know I was shocked too." She began to eat the brunch the other girls had brought up. Ino and Hinata were also beginning to wake, most likely from the talking now going on.
"So wait after I went out of it the guys showed up with you four, you fought, you won, and we came home? Why does it seem that that went off just a little too flawlessly?" Tenten asked suspiciously.
"Well really it did, nobody was really injured, obviously your fine and knowing Lee he'll be able to walk on his ankle properly again by tonight." Sakura explained.
"Well then I guess it really did go off that flawlessly."
"Including are fabulous performance, I never thought we could pull it off but if I didn't know my self I'd say I really was a princess." Ino said as she brushed out her hair.
"We did have that one incident"
"And we handled it perfectly" Ino retorted.
"Yeah because I'm sure any average princess could have managed to catch every plate without dropping a signal crumb of food." Sakura told her.
"Whatever, oh but do you know what bothers me the most?"
"What?" The other seven asked together.
"We worked so hard to learn that dance and we never got to actually do it."
"You know you're right, it's kind of upsetting that we didn't get to dance." Tenten said depressingly.
"At least you will know what you are doing if the need to dance ever comes up in another mission." Hinata said brightly.
"Yeah I guess" Tenten sighed. The princesses looked around at the girls. They felt bad that they didn't get to dance; it would have been the highlight of the whole mission for them. Suddenly Harumi's eyes widened, she had an idea.
"I think that you all need to get some more rest, you only slept for about five hours and you have had a really long week. The other proper girls did not know what the pink haired princess was up to but went with it and gathered up the empty plates. No complaints came from the kunochi who simply buried themselves in their blankets and quickly fell to sleep.
In the hallway Yukiko asked about the cause of Harumi's extra large smile.
"It is nothing really just that I had an idea that might cheer up the girls but we need to persuade the boys to help us." Harumi explained as they stopped out side the boy's door.
"What kind of idea, and do you really think that the boys would help us?" Yukiko asked "They might not want too."
"Well it is not like they have to do anything hard, I just thought the girls should get their opportunity to dance and for that we would need their help" Harumi motioned to the boy's room.
"They defiantly will not help us." Yukiko said and Suzu barked in agreement.
"Well they might, they care about those girls and it would make them happy and I know I do not know much about romance and stuff but I really think that some of those girls like some of those boys and that some of those boys like some of those girls." Harumi said sounding very sure of herself. "Remember the sleepover"
"They never said who they liked for sure" Akiko said siding with Yukiko
"But they did imply it" Natsumi took Harumi's side. Harumi and Natsumi had a very persuasive way with their friends. Sound familiar. "It will be like a thank you for helping us out and putting up with our fathers; and if they do like those boys it will be very cute for them to dance together."
"Okay" They agreed and Harumi knocked on the wooden door.
Later that Night
Tenten could feel her head hurting again. The medicine from earlier must have been wearing off. She reluctantly opened her eyes and pushed herself up. Outside the window the sun was now setting and there was no bright light to hurt her eyes. She sat up all the way and glanced at the bed side table where a second dose of medicine and a glass of water sat next to the digital clock that's red numbers blinked 6:30. She didn't need the rumble from her stomach to tell her it was nearing dinner time. She took the medicine and went to wake the others so they could all change before going down stairs. By changed they hadn't meant into nice clothes they meant into the comfortable pajamas they had worn the night before.
"Hey Tenten aren't you going to put your hair up" Hinata asked. Tenten had been sitting in front of the mirror, hair parted and ready to put up when she stopped.
"I'm too tired too." She answered lamely. The four of them got up to leave when Harumi came dashing into the room.
"Oh hey Harumi we were just on are way down stairs for dinner, don't mind are appearance" Sakura said. Harumi had hoped they might have stayed in their dresses and just made themselves presentable but too late.
"Okay let's go" Harumi said. She made the walk down to the dinning room as long as possible. Taking slow steps, asking them how they were feeling or if they needing to go to the bathroom; anything to give those people in the dinning room more time to…prepare.
Some of the boys were very easy to sway. Naruto agreed so long as he could dance with Hinata because she wouldn't step on his feet and she would mind if he stepped on hers. Lee and Kiba also agreed but the princesses had been hoping Sasuke, Neji, and Shikamaru would have made it a little easier. However they did pay the most attention when Harumi explained her idea and she took this to believe they didn't want anyone else dancing with certain teammates of theirs. They did agree after awhile of begging and pleading. They spent all afternoon trying to teach the boys how to dance and almost wished to blow the surprise just so the girls could laugh at the boys like they laughed at them. They were not surprised Neji knew what to do and that although Sasuke and Shino had never learned to dance were treating it seriously. Kiba, Lee, and Naruto were too hyper to teach properly and Chouji and Shikamaru proved too uninterested to learn. They knew the basics though and that would be enough to put a smile on their friends' faces.
Their time was up and Harumi was opening the door to the dinning hall. The large table had been pushed back and the chairs lined the wall. Sitting on the end of the table was Hinata's music player which Akiko had snuck from her bag while the four had been sleeping. They had quite a bit of trouble setting it up but they finally had accomplished it. They girls' eyes stared around the room confused. All the boys were there but none of them were sitting down to eat, in fact no food was around at all.
"What's going on?" Ino asked curiously.
"Well" Natsumi started "We knew how depressed you all were about not getting to dance or for learning for no reason at all. So we convinced-"
"With some difficulty" Akiko interupted
"-your teammates to learn a few steps and to dance with you." Natsumi smiled. Her smile looked as if it had hidden meaning.
"So let's begin" Yukiko said also smiling at the looks on there faces and she pressed what they had learned was the start button on the music player. Naruto came forward took Hinata's hands nearly dragging the still confused and now very embarrassed girl to the middle of the floor.
"Come on Hinata lets dance." The dark haired girl could only nod in response. The boys reluctantly, but only because they were embarrassed, paired off with each of the girls.
(Now finally some romance, I hope its good enough)
Sasuke and Sakura first…I'm not very good at writing them together
Sakura had been very surprised to find that Sasuke was going to dance with her. 'Not that it's a big deal or anything' she told herself.
'Who are you trying to kid?' Her inner voice asked her.
'Myself, is it working?'
'Nope'
"Nice pjs" Sasuke was saying in a very sarcastic tone as she finished off her inner argument.
"Well so sorry I didn't know I was going to a formal event" Sakura said in a fake angry tone but still adjusted the bright green shirt. They danced for a little a bit not really speaking or even looking in each others direction. Sakura glanced to the middle of the room and noticed Naruto and Hinata still dancing. Hinata's cheeks were still and very deep shade of pink; Naruto had just complemented her on something.
"Naruto is so dense." She said more to herself then Sasuke but he still responded to the comment.
"If you mean about the fact that the Hyuuga girl likes him then yeah, he is" Sakura eyes finally looked at his.
"How did you know Hinata liked him?" She asked the only ones who were supposed to know were herself, Ino and Tenten.
"You would have to be as dense as Naruto not to know" he answered. 'True, Hinata isn't exactly good at hiding the fact.' She thought. "You however are a little harder to read."
"What?"
"Well I can't tell if you like someone, at least not anymore." There was still confusion in her green eyes. "It used to be very obvious that you liked me, but now I can't tell who you like"
'Who ever said I stopped liking you' she wouldn't dare say that out loud but, "Is there any particular reason you have been observing if you could tell who it is I like." She tried to sound uninterested.
"Maybe" He said coolly. 'Crap maybe I said too much' he thought not so coolly.
"Oh well if you really wanted to know, you could have just asked" She smiled.
"Really?" he was surprised.
"Maybe" her smile turned into a smirk.
Moving on to Ino and Shikamaru
Sakura's surprise was nothing to the surprise Ino got. Shikamaru actually got up off his lazy butt to do something for someone else. She would have to talk to the princesses about how they did it. Despite her surprise she didn't question him about it right away but instead danced in what was one of very few silent moments shared between them where one wasn't complaining and the other just being loud. It did bug her though.
'What is going on? We never had an awkward silence before. That's reserved for people who like each other not who are just friends.' She thought.
'Well it could mean that you might like him as more then just a friend' her logic told her. She tried not to listen to it but that left her to listen to the silence. The suspense finally got to her about the reason he learned to dance for her and she had to ask. Or you know ask in a very Ino like way.
"So it wasn't too troublesome to learn how to dance just for me?" She looked at him straight in eyes. He stared back at her. He hadn't really looked at her the whole time; honestly the whole dancing thing was pretty embarrassing.
'Why did I learn to dance for such a troublesome girl' he wondered to himself.
'Maybe it's because you like to see that troublesome girl smile' Shikamaru continued to watch Ino as she waited for an answer. She wasn't really smiling; it was defiantly more smirk like. Trying to come up with a good response he kept getting distracted. He noticed how the color of her shirt exactly matched her eyes and two hair ties holding up her ponytail one blue and one white matched her pjs. She always matched, even when mismatched clothes were in style she matched. Thinking about that he realized doing that everyday was ten times more troublesome then just learning to dance.
"I guess it wasn't too troublesome" He said and watched the smirk on her face turn gracefully into a smile. He smiled to even though he had wanted to prove his own inner voice wrong, but really when was he ever wrong.
Now Naruto and Hinata (Because we have to save the best for last)
"Ouch" Hinata squeaked as Naruto once again stepped on her small feet.
"Sorry…again" He quickly apologized. That was maybe the fifth time.
"Its o-okay Naruto, I know you don't mean to"
"You should really be dancing with someone other then me" he said as he watched his feet and moved to the music.
"Why is that?" 'Good no stuttering' she thought confidently.
"Well you're a really good dancer and I'm…not"
"That's not true" Hinata started to protest "You just need a little more practice" She tried to reassure him the same way he had done for her a hundred times before.
He grinned a big grin and attempted to twirl her around. It almost worked until Naruto's foot got in the way and she tripped. He caught her before she fell too hard and she had to look away from his bright blue eyes. They were way to close to her lavender colored ones.
"You're really sweet to let me keep trying Hinata" She didn't say anything but gave him a small shy smile.
'He says I'm sweet but he is the really sweet one'
'I wonder why Hinata is always acting so shy around me. She used to act shy around everyone but now it's just me' Naruto tried to come up with a logical explanation for the dark haired girl's odd behavior. He had once asked Sakura and Sasuke after running across Hinata and her team at the ramen stand. They both rolled their eyes before walking away muttering something about how dense and oblivious he was. He also remembered watching a TV show were the main girl character always acted shy and silly around the boy she liked. He thought pretty hard and stepped on Hinata's foot again after loosing focus.
"Oh sorry" He winced just thinking about the pain her foot must be in.
"Its okay" She said hiding the pain in her foot. Then he decided to ask her.
"Hey Hinata are you all shy and stuff around me because you like me?"
And last but not least Neji and Tenten (Don't worry we get back to Naruto and Hinata)
Unlike the other girls Tenten had not been surprised at all when Neji and asked her to dance. Really who else would he dance with? He wasn't really social and wouldn't dance with someone he had just met like any of the princesses or Ino and Sakura who he only acknowledged through association with herself and Hinata. Which only left her and Hinata but really that meant only her. It was well known Tenten was really the only girl he would ever put up with. Although she wasn't surprised she was very much pleased about the whole situation.
"So you and the other boys learned to dance, I bet that was an interesting experience" she had watched Lee for a moment as he tried to dance with Harumi who was on the verge of very improper giggles. She was also trying to coax the truth out of him about already knowing how to dance.
"Yeah it was" Not a lie. Sure he already knew how to dance but it was still an interesting experience. After the guys had finally stopped bugging him about knowing how, the princesses had somehow convinced him to help them teach the others. He decided the only reason he was even considering doing this was because he may sort of kind of like Tenten and it would make her happy if he did this; or at least that's what the princesses had said.
"So did you have any trouble with it?" She asked trying to sound as if she didn't already know.
What was he going to say? He wasn't about to say he had trouble learning anything but saying he had no trouble at all was a bit suspicious. Especially to Tenten who knew him better then anyone else.
"Hn." She wanted to laugh. That was the answer he always gave her when he didn't have his usual straight forward answer.
"Neji give it up, Hinata told us that first day we started practicing that all the Hyuugas have to learn how to dance." She said smiling up at him.
"Yeah well I guess for once one of their traditions finally came in handy" He wanted to change the subject and quickly asked how her head was feeling.
"Oh its feels okay right now but I just took some medicine so I'm sure the pain will come back in a few hours." She was quiet for a moment "Hinata said while I was unconscious you carried me back here. Something about Lee spraining his ankle, though he looks fine now, and you said you would do it instead"
"Oh umm…yeah" He said wishing she had not brought that up.
"That was really nice of you, to help me and Lee out" She said looking down at her feet. She had turned light pink in her cheeks after making him feel awkward.
"I did it more to help you then to help Lee" He said also looking away from her. Tenten tried to come up with a response but before she could she heard Naruto saying something loudly.
"Umm…Hinata?" Naruto was kneeling on the ground next to Hinata who seemed to have fainted.
"Naruto what did you do?!" Sakura had rushed over to the girl and was quickly followed by everyone else.
"I didn't do anything! I just asked her if she acted all funny around me because she liked me and then she looked all red in the face and fainted." Naruto said defensively. The group around him all smacked their foreheads.
After Hinata had passed out the girls had carried her back up to their room and the princesses brought up some dinner for them. Though the girls would have loved to stay down stairs and dance the night away, they were still tired and they had to leave early in the morning the next day so sleep was really a good idea. However when the girls fell to sleep that night they had grand smiles on their faces.
They were back in Konoha by late afternoon the next day. The girls had all insisted that Harumi, Yukiko, Natsumi and Akiko come and visit them any time they wanted. As did they insist that Sakura, Hinata, Tenten, and Ino come over anytime they liked and that they would always be welcome. To some it up it had been a very long good-bye. Naruto, having one bright moment, decided he'd better not question Hinata again anytime soon. Maybe he would try again in about a week. Shikamaru and Ino had been experiencing many more of those, slowly becoming less uncommon, awkward silences when left alone for any period of time. Sasuke and Sakura were continuing to mess with each others heads and were becoming more aware of the fact that they both liked each other. Tenten had not forgotten what Neji had said right before Hinata and Naruto's incident. They had taken to both Sasuke and Sakura's and Shikamaru and Ino's habits. After their training they would either have an awkward silence or Tenten would tease Neji about something or another. Overall things were back to normal, for the most part, and as far as the changes went everyone figured they would be for the better. That is in a bit when it came time for the four pairs to get together.
Oh its sad that the story is over. i'll have to get started on my next one right away. (it's like the mandatory high school fic but i think my idea is very original) anyways please review i hope everyone liked my story.
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