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7 Days, Come What May
Chapter V: The Cure to Snoring

Meanwhile, Lee roamed around in the hallway, not knowing what to do and where to go. He’d just been kicked out of his own room (by Ino) and had been dragging his stuff around with him for the last twenty minutes. He glanced down at the doors in the hallway. ‘I might as well try knocking on a door…maybe someone will let me sleep with them,’ Lee thought humbly.
Lee stopped in front of room 005 and knocked gently on the wooden door.
KNOCK, KNOCK!
Promptly, someone came to open the door. It turned out to be Neji.
“Oh. Lee,” Neji stated, as if to ask Lee what business had he there.
“Hi, Neji! I was wondering if…I could…” Lee wanted to say ‘sleep in your room’ but he got goosebumps just thinking about sleeping in the same room with the white-eyed Hyuuga boy.
The idea somehow occurred to Lee as very, very freaky.
“…hang out in your room for a while?” Lee finished the sentence unconvincingly.
Neji shot Lee an odd look and stepped back for Lee to come into the room. Apparently, Neji’s roommate was Shino, who was drinking coffee by the window. ‘Ooh, they have room service at this place…’ Lee thought randomly. Neji’s and Shino’s stuff were all already unpacked into the wooden closet.
Shino turned to acknowledge Lee when Lee came into the room but he did not say anything. After a moment, Shino turned back to drinking his coffee and staring out of the window. Lee awkwardly sat down on the sofa while Neji sat on his bed.
“So, why’re you really here?” Neji spoke to Lee again.
“Hehehehe…well I’m a terrible liar huh…actually Ino kicked me out of the room,” Lee replied sheepishly.
Neji smirked. “I see. You can sleep on the sofa.”
“Yea, thanks for understanding,” Lee responded gratefully.
Suddenly, Shino turned their way. “Lee, can you bring me the sugar on that table?”
“Come get it yourself, Aburame,” Neji spoke up.
“I was not talking to you, Hyuuga.”
“U-Uhh…guys, GUYS? We’re ROOMMATES here…we’re supposed to have fun….” Lee tried to stop the comfortable staring.
“Shut up,” Neji and Shino said in unison.
Lee sighed. Being stuck in a room with Neji and Shino was not any better than being verbally abused by Ino.
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While Neji, Shino, and Lee got stuck to sleeping in the same room, Kiba and his dog, Akamaru, got their own room.
“Ahhhh! This is SO nice! I get my own room while other people get roommates!” Kiba lay down on his soft bed in the most comfortable position imaginable.
Akamaru was munching on all the room service food that Kiba had ordered up.
“YES, I LOVE THIS VACATION! Don’t you, Akamaru?”
“Ruff! Ruff!” the dog happily replied.
“Hmm…I wonder how that Bug Freak Shino and Hinata are doing…”
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The rest of that eventful day went along pretty normally. The crew had their dinner (homemade by Auntie Midori) and went to sleep. Unluckily, some people had trouble sleeping...
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Hinata shifted around in her bed, trying to sleep. Sure, she liked Naruto a lot, but she sure did not like his snoring one bit. She’d be shifted around for the last twenty minutes now. ‘I’ll wait a little bit more, see if he stops…’ she thought hopefully.
After about five more minutes passed, Hinata could not stand the snoring any longer. Being the shy girl that she was, she had no plans to wake Naruto up and tell him to shut up. Instead, she just sat up on her bed and stared a Naruto’s snoring face. Hinata blushed and dreamily sighed. She couldn’t make herself angry at someone with such an honest, peaceful face.
Hinata got up from her bed and went to sit on Naruto’s bed. She watched him a while more and leaned in closer to examine his face. ‘What am I doing?’ Hinata blushed again at the thought of being this close to Naruto.
“Hinata-chan…” Naruto suddenly blurted out.
Hinata was so shocked that she practically separated the close distance between in a matter of seconds.
“N-N-Naruto…?” Hinata whispered quietly in response to his calling her name.
Naruto did not reply, and Hinata realized with relief that he had just been talking in his sleep. She let out the breath that she had just been holding. Out of the blue, Naruto’s sleepy hand reached out to squeeze Hinata’s hand. ‘What?! W-What am I supposed to do now?’ Hinata blushed into a deeper shade of red.
Hinata slowly and gently tried to pry Naruto’s hand away from hers but it didn’t work. So, she began to pull away harder. ‘I hope he doesn’t wake up.’ Just at that moment, Naruto woke up to the tugging at his hand. He opened his eyes.
“Hinata-chan?” he lay on the bed with a questioning look on his face. “What are you doing up this late?
Naruto yawned and sat up to look at the red-face Hyuuga girl.
“N-Naruto! I-I was…just…I mean…” Hinata did not know how to explain.
The situation could be very well misunderstood by Naruto. Naruto took a look at Hinata for a while and put his hand on her forehead.
“What is it, Hinata-chan? Are you sick?” Naruto rested his hands on Hinata’s forehead for a while.
It was a bit hot (probably from her blushing so hard). Naruto’s eyes widened.
“Hinata-chan! You’re sick!” he exclaimed worriedly.
“I-It’s okay, Naruto-kun, I’m not sick…” Hinata said timidly. “Please don’t worry about me. I’m sorry for interrupting your sleep. You can go back to sleep now, Naruto-kun.”
“You sure, Hinata-chan?” Naruto asked again with that concerned look on his face.
Hinata was just blushing too hard. She trembled and backed away a bit. Naruto continued to examine the Hyuuga girl, trying to think about why she might be up. Then, all of a sudden, he grinned at her slyly.
“Oooh….I know, Hinata-chan, you’re trying to take advantage of my cute self while I was sleeping, is that it?” Naruto asked teasingly and gave her his sweetest smile.
“N-No! Naruto-kun…It’s not like that…” Hinata blushed even harder (if that was even possible) and backed away a little bit more. Naruto, however, scooted up closer to her.
“Aww…Hinata-chan…don’t be so shy…I know you like me…”he grinned mischievously.
Hinata’s eyes widened. “W-What? How did you—“
Hinata gasped when Naruto leaned in closer to her. ‘What is he doing?! I-Is he trying to kiss me?!’
“I was just kidding, Hinata-chan,” Naruto whispered playfully into Hinata’s ear.
“O-Oh!” Hinata exclaimed, getting red again. ‘W-Whew…I-I thought that was going to be…a kiss…and…I almost let out that I like him…’
Naruto took a look at Hinata’s red face and chuckled light-heartedly. “You’re so funny, Hinata-chan, you actually took me seriously? No one ever does that, you know.”
“T-That was mean, Naruto-kun!” Hinata remarked, frowning lightly with her face red with embarrassment.
“Awww….Hinata, don’t be mad at me again, okay? Even thought you look so cute even when you’re frowning!” Naruto gave her his most charming smile again.
Hinata cracked a smile. ‘I can always forgive Naruto-kun when he’s this cute…’ she thought dreamily. The Hyuuga girl ended up giggling. Naruto took another look at her and laughed good-naturedly along with her.
“Hinata-chan…actually, I know that you can’t sleep because of my snoring, is that right?” Naruto asked Hinata when the two were done with the giggles.
“Umm..well…” Hinata did not want to state the obvious.
“Hahahahaha…that’s okay, you can say it, Hinata-chan. I forgot to take my snoring medicine Tsunade gave me anyway,” he grinned at her sheepishly and got up to get his medicine.
Hinata shyly smiled at Naruto’s dark form taking his medicine. She got into her own bed and pulled the covers over herself. When Naruto finished taking his medicine, he walked over to her bed and sat on it.
“This is for apologizing for my Hinata-chan for keeping you up,” he said cutely and leaned over to give Hinata a light kiss on her forehead. “Goodnight, Hinata-chan.”
Hinata was mesmerized for a moment at Naruto’s sudden actions. “G-Goodnight, Naruto-kun.”
Naruto smiled again at Hinata’s reply and got up and went to his own bed to sleep.
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Meanwhile, some people took more serious measures to shut up the snoring. For example, Temari and Shikamaru. Temari got up from her bed for the second time that night with her pillow in her had.
“SHUT THE HELL UP!!!” Temari screamed into Shikamaru’s ear while hitting him hard with her pillow.
“Ey, ey! WOMAN. Take it easy. That was not loud at all!” Shikamaru raised both of his arms to block the pillow blows.
Temari glared at him through the dark.
“If I hear another peep from you, genius…” she whispered harshly into his face.
“Yes, Yes, Temari-sama. How troublesome…” Shikamaru carelessly waved the threat off and went back to sleep.
Temari smirked and went back to her own bed and slept. Unfortunately, just three minutes later, Shikamaru started to snore again. Temari got up from her bed with a murderous expression on her face. This time, she did not hold the pillow in her had. She slowly walked over to Shikamaru’s bed and placed her hand on his neck. His eyes fluttered open immediately as she began to strangle him.
“Hey! S-Stop strangling me! I c-can’t breathe!” Shikamaru choked, attempting to pull Temari’s hands off his neck.
“I told you this would happen,” she hissed at him viciously. “Don’t underestimate me.”
Temari lifted Shikamaru off the bed, holding him by his neck. Her eyes sparkled at him as she smiled at him triumphantly. Shikamaru looked down at her with a shocked expression on his face…at first. All of a sudden, Temari felt her muscles freeze. She couldn’t move. Her eyes widened at Shikamaru’s now smirking face.
“T-The shadow jutsu…” Temari stammered with a hint of fear in her voice.
Shikamaru’s smiled at her coolly. He pried Temari’s now weak fingers from his neck.
“Woman, I’d have to admit you’re pretty good. It’s troublesome that I have to use my shadow jutsu this late at night,” Shikamaru remarked, smiling casually at Temari’s pissed off face.
“Let go of me,” Temari growled through gritted teeth.
“Sure, sure, woman. It’s too troublesome and tiring to use the shadow jutsu too long anyway,” Shikamaru decided, and then released the sand ninja from his shadow jutsu.
Temari gave Shikamaru a death glare and growled. “HOW am I gonna shut you up and get some sleep then, idiot?”
Shikamaru shrugged, yawned, and carelessly got into his bed again. Temari silently fumed. She felt like punching the lazy ninja on the bed in front of her, but she knew better. Even though Shikamaru gave the appearance of being asleep, Temari knew that he was aware of what she was doing.
Then, Temari’s eyes spotted the bandage roll on the bedside next to Shikamaru. Her eyes lit up and she smiled. Temari quickly tore a small strip of the bandage off of the roll and lightly pasted it on Shikamaru’s mouth. Shikamaru’s eyes shot open when he felt the bandage on his lips. He gave Temari a questioning face.
Temari determinedly beamed back at him. She put one finger on Shikamaru’s lips to smooth out the bandage. After that, she bent down and poked one of Shikamaru’s cheeks with her finger. Apparently, Temari was amused at how annoyed Shikamaru looked when she did that. So, she pinched both of Shikamaru’s cheeks and stretched them. Temari giggled at Shikamaru’s even more annoyed expression.
“Hehehehe…now, genius,” she mocked. “This should keep you quiet the rest of the night, ne?”
Shikamaru gave Temari an exasperated look. He lifted his hand up to peel off the bandage but she caught his hand.
“Don’t. I want to get some sleep tonight,” she told him in a playful but warning tone.
Shikamaru gave Temari another annoyed look. She giggled again and bent down and planted a small kiss on Shikamaru’s bandaged mouth. His eyes widened at what she did. His face went unexpectedly red.
“You look quite cute there, genius!” she exclaimed happily and skipped into her own bed.
“How troublesome,” Shikamaru quietly murmured, a long while after Temari had gone to sleep.
His cheeks were still red. The rest of the night, the Nara did not utter a sound.

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Chapter I: [link]
Chapter II: [link]
Chapter III: [link]
Chapter IV: [link]

Description
Chapter I: [link]
Chapter II: [link]
Chapter III: [link]
Chapter IV: [link]

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Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

7 Days, Come What May
Chapter V: The Cure to Snoring

Meanwhile, Lee roamed around in the hallway, not knowing what to do and where to go. He’d just been kicked out of his own room (by Ino) and had been dragging his stuff around with him for the last twenty minutes. He glanced down at the doors in the hallway. ‘I might as well try knocking on a door…maybe someone will let me sleep with them,’ Lee thought humbly.
Lee stopped in front of room 005 and knocked gently on the wooden door.
KNOCK, KNOCK!
Promptly, someone came to open the door. It turned out to be Neji.
“Oh. Lee,” Neji stated, as if to ask Lee what business had he there.
“Hi, Neji! I was wondering if…I could…” Lee wanted to say ‘sleep in your room’ but he got goosebumps just thinking about sleeping in the same room with the white-eyed Hyuuga boy.
The idea somehow occurred to Lee as very, very freaky.
“…hang out in your room for a while?” Lee finished the sentence unconvincingly.
Neji shot Lee an odd look and stepped back for Lee to come into the room. Apparently, Neji’s roommate was Shino, who was drinking coffee by the window. ‘Ooh, they have room service at this place…’ Lee thought randomly. Neji’s and Shino’s stuff were all already unpacked into the wooden closet.
Shino turned to acknowledge Lee when Lee came into the room but he did not say anything. After a moment, Shino turned back to drinking his coffee and staring out of the window. Lee awkwardly sat down on the sofa while Neji sat on his bed.
“So, why’re you really here?” Neji spoke to Lee again.
“Hehehehe…well I’m a terrible liar huh…actually Ino kicked me out of the room,” Lee replied sheepishly.
Neji smirked. “I see. You can sleep on the sofa.”
“Yea, thanks for understanding,” Lee responded gratefully.
Suddenly, Shino turned their way. “Lee, can you bring me the sugar on that table?”
“Come get it yourself, Aburame,” Neji spoke up.
“I was not talking to you, Hyuuga.”
“U-Uhh…guys, GUYS? We’re ROOMMATES here…we’re supposed to have fun….” Lee tried to stop the comfortable staring.
“Shut up,” Neji and Shino said in unison.
Lee sighed. Being stuck in a room with Neji and Shino was not any better than being verbally abused by Ino.
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While Neji, Shino, and Lee got stuck to sleeping in the same room, Kiba and his dog, Akamaru, got their own room.
“Ahhhh! This is SO nice! I get my own room while other people get roommates!” Kiba lay down on his soft bed in the most comfortable position imaginable.
Akamaru was munching on all the room service food that Kiba had ordered up.
“YES, I LOVE THIS VACATION! Don’t you, Akamaru?”
“Ruff! Ruff!” the dog happily replied.
“Hmm…I wonder how that Bug Freak Shino and Hinata are doing…”
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The rest of that eventful day went along pretty normally. The crew had their dinner (homemade by Auntie Midori) and went to sleep. Unluckily, some people had trouble sleeping...
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Hinata shifted around in her bed, trying to sleep. Sure, she liked Naruto a lot, but she sure did not like his snoring one bit. She’d be shifted around for the last twenty minutes now. ‘I’ll wait a little bit more, see if he stops…’ she thought hopefully.
After about five more minutes passed, Hinata could not stand the snoring any longer. Being the shy girl that she was, she had no plans to wake Naruto up and tell him to shut up. Instead, she just sat up on her bed and stared a Naruto’s snoring face. Hinata blushed and dreamily sighed. She couldn’t make herself angry at someone with such an honest, peaceful face.
Hinata got up from her bed and went to sit on Naruto’s bed. She watched him a while more and leaned in closer to examine his face. ‘What am I doing?’ Hinata blushed again at the thought of being this close to Naruto.
“Hinata-chan…” Naruto suddenly blurted out.
Hinata was so shocked that she practically separated the close distance between in a matter of seconds.
“N-N-Naruto…?” Hinata whispered quietly in response to his calling her name.
Naruto did not reply, and Hinata realized with relief that he had just been talking in his sleep. She let out the breath that she had just been holding. Out of the blue, Naruto’s sleepy hand reached out to squeeze Hinata’s hand. ‘What?! W-What am I supposed to do now?’ Hinata blushed into a deeper shade of red.
Hinata slowly and gently tried to pry Naruto’s hand away from hers but it didn’t work. So, she began to pull away harder. ‘I hope he doesn’t wake up.’ Just at that moment, Naruto woke up to the tugging at his hand. He opened his eyes.
“Hinata-chan?” he lay on the bed with a questioning look on his face. “What are you doing up this late?
Naruto yawned and sat up to look at the red-face Hyuuga girl.
“N-Naruto! I-I was…just…I mean…” Hinata did not know how to explain.
The situation could be very well misunderstood by Naruto. Naruto took a look at Hinata for a while and put his hand on her forehead.
“What is it, Hinata-chan? Are you sick?” Naruto rested his hands on Hinata’s forehead for a while.
It was a bit hot (probably from her blushing so hard). Naruto’s eyes widened.
“Hinata-chan! You’re sick!” he exclaimed worriedly.
“I-It’s okay, Naruto-kun, I’m not sick…” Hinata said timidly. “Please don’t worry about me. I’m sorry for interrupting your sleep. You can go back to sleep now, Naruto-kun.”
“You sure, Hinata-chan?” Naruto asked again with that concerned look on his face.
Hinata was just blushing too hard. She trembled and backed away a bit. Naruto continued to examine the Hyuuga girl, trying to think about why she might be up. Then, all of a sudden, he grinned at her slyly.
“Oooh….I know, Hinata-chan, you’re trying to take advantage of my cute self while I was sleeping, is that it?” Naruto asked teasingly and gave her his sweetest smile.
“N-No! Naruto-kun…It’s not like that…” Hinata blushed even harder (if that was even possible) and backed away a little bit more. Naruto, however, scooted up closer to her.
“Aww…Hinata-chan…don’t be so shy…I know you like me…”he grinned mischievously.
Hinata’s eyes widened. “W-What? How did you—“
Hinata gasped when Naruto leaned in closer to her. ‘What is he doing?! I-Is he trying to kiss me?!’
“I was just kidding, Hinata-chan,” Naruto whispered playfully into Hinata’s ear.
“O-Oh!” Hinata exclaimed, getting red again. ‘W-Whew…I-I thought that was going to be…a kiss…and…I almost let out that I like him…’
Naruto took a look at Hinata’s red face and chuckled light-heartedly. “You’re so funny, Hinata-chan, you actually took me seriously? No one ever does that, you know.”
“T-That was mean, Naruto-kun!” Hinata remarked, frowning lightly with her face red with embarrassment.
“Awww….Hinata, don’t be mad at me again, okay? Even thought you look so cute even when you’re frowning!” Naruto gave her his most charming smile again.
Hinata cracked a smile. ‘I can always forgive Naruto-kun when he’s this cute…’ she thought dreamily. The Hyuuga girl ended up giggling. Naruto took another look at her and laughed good-naturedly along with her.
“Hinata-chan…actually, I know that you can’t sleep because of my snoring, is that right?” Naruto asked Hinata when the two were done with the giggles.
“Umm..well…” Hinata did not want to state the obvious.
“Hahahahaha…that’s okay, you can say it, Hinata-chan. I forgot to take my snoring medicine Tsunade gave me anyway,” he grinned at her sheepishly and got up to get his medicine.
Hinata shyly smiled at Naruto’s dark form taking his medicine. She got into her own bed and pulled the covers over herself. When Naruto finished taking his medicine, he walked over to her bed and sat on it.
“This is for apologizing for my Hinata-chan for keeping you up,” he said cutely and leaned over to give Hinata a light kiss on her forehead. “Goodnight, Hinata-chan.”
Hinata was mesmerized for a moment at Naruto’s sudden actions. “G-Goodnight, Naruto-kun.”
Naruto smiled again at Hinata’s reply and got up and went to his own bed to sleep.
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Meanwhile, some people took more serious measures to shut up the snoring. For example, Temari and Shikamaru. Temari got up from her bed for the second time that night with her pillow in her had.
“SHUT THE HELL UP!!!” Temari screamed into Shikamaru’s ear while hitting him hard with her pillow.
“Ey, ey! WOMAN. Take it easy. That was not loud at all!” Shikamaru raised both of his arms to block the pillow blows.
Temari glared at him through the dark.
“If I hear another peep from you, genius…” she whispered harshly into his face.
“Yes, Yes, Temari-sama. How troublesome…” Shikamaru carelessly waved the threat off and went back to sleep.
Temari smirked and went back to her own bed and slept. Unfortunately, just three minutes later, Shikamaru started to snore again. Temari got up from her bed with a murderous expression on her face. This time, she did not hold the pillow in her had. She slowly walked over to Shikamaru’s bed and placed her hand on his neck. His eyes fluttered open immediately as she began to strangle him.
“Hey! S-Stop strangling me! I c-can’t breathe!” Shikamaru choked, attempting to pull Temari’s hands off his neck.
“I told you this would happen,” she hissed at him viciously. “Don’t underestimate me.”
Temari lifted Shikamaru off the bed, holding him by his neck. Her eyes sparkled at him as she smiled at him triumphantly. Shikamaru looked down at her with a shocked expression on his face…at first. All of a sudden, Temari felt her muscles freeze. She couldn’t move. Her eyes widened at Shikamaru’s now smirking face.
“T-The shadow jutsu…” Temari stammered with a hint of fear in her voice.
Shikamaru’s smiled at her coolly. He pried Temari’s now weak fingers from his neck.
“Woman, I’d have to admit you’re pretty good. It’s troublesome that I have to use my shadow jutsu this late at night,” Shikamaru remarked, smiling casually at Temari’s pissed off face.
“Let go of me,” Temari growled through gritted teeth.
“Sure, sure, woman. It’s too troublesome and tiring to use the shadow jutsu too long anyway,” Shikamaru decided, and then released the sand ninja from his shadow jutsu.
Temari gave Shikamaru a death glare and growled. “HOW am I gonna shut you up and get some sleep then, idiot?”
Shikamaru shrugged, yawned, and carelessly got into his bed again. Temari silently fumed. She felt like punching the lazy ninja on the bed in front of her, but she knew better. Even though Shikamaru gave the appearance of being asleep, Temari knew that he was aware of what she was doing.
Then, Temari’s eyes spotted the bandage roll on the bedside next to Shikamaru. Her eyes lit up and she smiled. Temari quickly tore a small strip of the bandage off of the roll and lightly pasted it on Shikamaru’s mouth. Shikamaru’s eyes shot open when he felt the bandage on his lips. He gave Temari a questioning face.
Temari determinedly beamed back at him. She put one finger on Shikamaru’s lips to smooth out the bandage. After that, she bent down and poked one of Shikamaru’s cheeks with her finger. Apparently, Temari was amused at how annoyed Shikamaru looked when she did that. So, she pinched both of Shikamaru’s cheeks and stretched them. Temari giggled at Shikamaru’s even more annoyed expression.
“Hehehehe…now, genius,” she mocked. “This should keep you quiet the rest of the night, ne?”
Shikamaru gave Temari an exasperated look. He lifted his hand up to peel off the bandage but she caught his hand.
“Don’t. I want to get some sleep tonight,” she told him in a playful but warning tone.
Shikamaru gave Temari another annoyed look. She giggled again and bent down and planted a small kiss on Shikamaru’s bandaged mouth. His eyes widened at what she did. His face went unexpectedly red.
“You look quite cute there, genius!” she exclaimed happily and skipped into her own bed.
“How troublesome,” Shikamaru quietly murmured, a long while after Temari had gone to sleep.
His cheeks were still red. The rest of the night, the Nara did not utter a sound.

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Chapter I: [link]
Chapter II: [link]
Chapter III: [link]
Chapter IV: [link]