Naruto (c) Masashi Kishimoto

Dedication: Sara, who loves NaruHina more than life itself sometimes...girl you make me smile with your violence. Yay! Violence :)

The Hyuga beach house was packed with teenage bodies. The boys were down stairs having an anything goes Halo party, complete with nachos, cookies and banana muffins. The bagel bites and cheese sticks were confiscated by the girls, who had also taken the ice cream sandwiches and cookie dough. They were upstairs, away from the loud make population.

There were three TVs, three Xbox360’s and twelve hormone driven boys. Four to each console. Itachi, Sasuke, Suigetsu and Jugo were on Sasuke’s Xbox, they were the red team. Gaara, Shikamaru, Kankuro and Sai, were jammed onto Gaara’s Xbox and were the yellow team. Neji’s Xbox was operated by Naruto, Lee, and Kiba and of course Neji. They were the blue team.

By this point in time it was just down to Naruto, Itachi, Neji and Sasuke. “Ha!” Sai laughed, pointing at Neji. “Dickless got you!” Sai snickered.

“Naruto! I’m on your team!” Neji smacked Naruto outside the head.

“Hey! Watch it Hyuga! I’m trying to beat the teme brothers!” Naruto shouted, ducking Neji’s strike.

“Heh,” Sasuke shot a glance at his best friend-slash-archrival. “You’ll never be able to get both Itachi and me, dobe,” Sasuke said, thumbs and fingers slamming buttons.

“Sasuke, you have a sticky bomb on you,” Itachi muttered.

“What!?” Sasuke’s eyes grew wide when he noticed the plasma bomb stuck to his shoulder. Naruto cackled as it blue Sasuke apart. “Fuck!” Sasuke shouted, and was about to throw the controller at the TV when Itachi grabbed his brother’s wrist.

“Don’t,” Itachi growled.

“Say bye-bye weasel-teme!” Naruto shouted, sniping Itachi.

Blue team wins! The game announced.

“Ha-ha! Take that! Uzumaki Naruto still has it! I beat the so-called ‘Champions of Halo’! Ha-ha! I’m the King of Halo! Nenerneenerneener!” Naruto shouted, dancing around before Sasuke slugged him in the gut.

“If you think you’re so hot dobe, let’s play a slayer round,” Sasuke smirked. “Free-for-all, first one to reach twenty-five kills wins,” Sasuke challenged, knowing the slayer free-for-all was Naruto’s weakest aspect of the multiplayer part of Halo.

“You’re so on!” the blond agreed.

The shout of no was heard all the way to the outside sundeck. Eight girls opened their eyes and looked at each other. “What’s going on?” Tenten asked.

“The boys are just having a rather intense game of Halo,” Sakura pushed her sunglasses back up her nose.

“Bet Shikamaru is getting his ass handed to him,” Temari smirked.

“Yeah, by Suigetsu!” Karin agreed. Temari and Karin snickered at the fates of their boyfriends’ gaming careers, because those two were the worse at the sci-fi FPS. “So, how do you think Itachi and Kiba are doing Hana?” Karin asked.

“Getting served by Sasuke, I bet,” Sakura chimed.

“Nah, Itachi has Sasuke beat at that game,” Hana countered. The two girls giggled.

“Okay, but Kiba is getting pwned by at least one of them,” Sakura amended.

“True,” the Inuzuka girl agreed.

“Oi, Hina-chan! Go get some more ice cream, please!” Matsuri asked. Hinata looked up from her vampire shojo manga she was reading.

“Um…o-okay,” Hinata set the book down and went off to get the ice cream.

Hinata passed the living room, where Naruto and Sasuke were battling it out; both were dead even, each with twenty-four kills. Everyone was on the edge of their seats, and the two battling best friends-slash-archrivals were gripping their controllers so hard that everyone feared the plastic might break. Hinata walked up to Naruto, hoping that the Uzumaki would win.

Naruto had a beam sword, while Sasuke had his favorite combo, duel needlers. Hinata fidgeted, as she watched Naruto run around looking for the Uchiha. “Uh…N-Naruto-kun…” she whispered shyly, but neither boy noticed her. Pouting, Hinata boldly grabbed the controller from Naruto, jumped over Sasuke’s character, only to turn around and kill Sasuke with one strike of the beam sword.

The room was dead…silent. Hinata blinked, mumbled an apology as she blushed furiously. She had played the game, making it her own personal hobby other than manga. She had played it against, Neji, Sakura, Hana, Temari and Karin. Hinata hurried off into the kitchen.

Sighing the shy Hyuga girl grabbed the chocolate ice cream and was about to leave when she was stopped by Itachi and Sasuke. “Uh…Naruto-kun isn’t mad at me is he?” Hinata asked.

“Not…really,” Sasuke frowned. Truth be told, Naruto had been moonstruck, only to babble about how cool Hinata was.

“Oh…okay, that’s g-good,” Hinata hugged the slowly melting ice cream and tried to push pass the imposing figure of the brothers.

“But your good,” Itachi added.

“Too good,” Sasuke’s eyes narrowed.

“Wh-what?” Hinata gulped. “Hey!” Itachi snatched the ice cream from Hinata’s arms. “I was sent to get that ice cream!” Hinata protested as Itachi shoved it back into the freezer.

“We want to see how good you really are, so we talked Naruto into agreeing to do a sudden death round with you, one weapon, one chance, one kill, got it?” Sasuke looked at her.

“B-but…” Hinata stumbled over her words.

“Great!” Itachi and Sasuke dragged her out of the kitchen without much fuss, though the Hyuga girl was red as a cherry. Hanabi stared at her older sister, before going back to color with Konohamaru.

By this time the girls had gone down stairs to see what was taking so long and to meet up with their boyfriends. “She did what!?” Ino shouted, causing Sai to flinch.

“Ino, chillax,” Karin sighed.

“Hinata beat Sasuke!” Matsuri informed the others.

“Really?” the girls looked at the brunette.

“With what?” Tenten asked, leaning over Lee’s shoulder to get in on the conversation.

“The sword,” Sakura gasped.

“Figures,” Karin shoved her glasses up on her nose.

“Why do you say that?” Suigetsu asked.

“Because Hinata is the best with that thing,” Hana smirked.

“Yeah, she’s untouchable with it,” Temari agreed before poking a dozing Shikamaru in the head. Everyone looked at the big screen TV when Itachi and Sasuke appeared with Hinata, looking like she rather crawl under a rock and die, than be subjected to this.

“Sudden death! Hinata vs. Naruto!” Itachi announced as Sasuke shoved a controller into Hinata’s hands, and then the brothers ran to their girlfriends.

“Naruto is as good as dead,” Hanabi told Konohamaru, for they too, had come out to see what all the fuss was about.

“C’mon Hinata!”

“Yeah! Kick his ass Hina-chan!”

“Girl power baby!”

Groaning at the shouts of encouragement from her friends, Hinata chose the Elite Arbetor, while Naruto went with Master Chief. Hinata chose the sword while Naruto went with the rifle. “Ready?” Naruto looked at Hinata, who wasn’t even shy or timid any more, but cool and…dare he say, badass.

“Let’s do this,” Hinata smirked.

The game began, and skipping the traditional ZOMFG! RUN! HIDE! Method, Hinata charged at Naruto, and easily sliced him to bits.

“TODLJA!” the seven girls shouted, Hanabi smirked as Konohamaru forked over three chocolate chip cookies.

Everyone looked at Naruto. “Hinata marry me!” Naruto shouted.

“Eh…?” Hinata fainted.

“What!?” Neji shouted.

Hinata woke up in the kitchen, Nightwish’s End of All Hope rocking through the house. Nightwish was a common love everyone shared, despite their wide range of music, Nightwish for some reason everybody just loved and it was all thanks to Hinata, who adored the band. Naruto was sitting there eating ramen.

“Oh! Hinata! You’re awake,” he grinned. “I uh…was just kidding about getting married,” he added.

“S-so…uh…y-you…a-aren’t mad?” Hinata whispered.

“About losing to a girl…nah, now if it was Sakura-chan then yeah, but you…nah. It’ll be nice to have a girlfriend that actually likes to play video games,” Naruto slurped his noodles.

“G-girlfriend?” Hinata felt like passing out again.

“Dattebyo!” Naruto nodded, as he walked over to Hinata. “So…whaddya say? Tomorrow, you, me, and a movie?” he asked.

“Y-yes!” Hinata nodded, smiling.

“Great,” Naruto kissed her, and Hinata flung her arms around Naruto’s neck. The door opened and the two lovebirds could hear the chorus of the song.

Neji’s eyes nearly jumped out of his skull. “HAND OFF MY COUSIN!”

Heh, I know I said I was going to update this on my birthday, but my mom had a student-lead conference with my sister today that I didn’t know about so I’m by myself and I felt like posting this. For Hyphinated’s prompts!

Yes, I myself have played Halo (all three of them in fact), but it was always the multiplayer version. I have been at a Halo party my brother hosted at our house. It gets loud, my mom always makes banana muffins for the event. My favorite weapon is the beam sword, and I actually killed my brother a couple of times when we played the game together with it.

This is different than I originally wrote, but I liked it. Kinda cute. Heehee. Enjoy!

R’n’R if you don’t want kyuubi to eat you!

DJ