[RECAP: "But we don't want to head back yet. Is it illegal to want to explore?" Shikamaru naturally narrowed eyes penetrated me and seemed to pick me apart easily....

Natalya: "You know!" I had an epiphany, "...Instead of exploring in this heat why not go cool our heads and drop off the ninjidiots-who-still-are-out-cold and go chill out by the beach nearby..."]

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Episode 23-> Drop Everything At The Shoreline

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The moment Hinata and I stepped out on the beach I took a cleansing breathe. On the breath out I yanked my top clothes off. Although not planned it was awesome that my undies were matching today! (^w^) My bold move seemed to startle everyone who had seen but I wasn't fazed. This was normal for me in summer time. Underwear could easily be mistaken as a bikini!

I swiftly but gingerly placed my Kpop shirt and capri shorts in the bag from Anna along with my ahem, special DVDs. I run my fingers deeply through my hair, all the way to the tip and removed my hairband. I worked my hair into a even higher ponytail and retied the hairband. My ponytail flipped and swayed before I grabbed it and worked it in a messy bun. 

I struck a pose, a Natalya star that stretched out to the sun. The rays soaked into my skin and painted my tanned skin a shiny gold. The fresh seabreeze danced energetically around my body, caressing me and enticing me. The salty air tickled my nose and made me giggle. 

"This is the frickin life I swear!" 

I turned to Hinata. She gave me a smile in return when I grinned broadly at her. Her smile turned into an awkward half smile as I kept staring at her with the same grin. She started sweating when my carefree grin turned mischievious and a bit sleezy.

"Kukukuku.... Now it's your turn!!"  I had her before she could get away and she screamed while sheilding herself.

"Come ooooon~! Let me help you with that!"

"N-No! I'm not wearing a bathing s-s-suit under th-this!" She shot back nervously as I grabbed at her clothes.

 We struggled as she fought me off by dodging my grabbing fingers and wruggling her body to avoid being stripped.

"Underwear is just as good. It's time to show Naruto the goods! Show him what you got, Hinata! Whoooaa! Take it off!" I teased as I got behind and lifted her shirt as much as I was allowed at the moment.

"N-No" She chirped with her cheeks cutely flushed. "I won't be able to get married!"

She suddenly twirled out of my grip. 

I swore she was gonna go Gentle Fist on me...! 

So I dropped low looking like a human counch shell of protectiveness. 

I peeked up. 

She was hiding behind Naomi who gave me a "Staph itt!" look.

Oh poo.

Not not one to be deterred I stood back up and dusted sand off my legs. 

"What's the matta' Hina-chan~!" I called out. She seemed to study my poka dotted undies/bikini substitute skeptically. She blushed sheepishly as she met the gaze of the onlookers. However awkward it was to be in front of a crowd of ninja guys in my undies I was in a better mood and more myself. The boys stared at our exchange with their curiosity piqued which made me slightly embarrassed also but I just laughed it off and scratched the back of my neck. 

"I won't strip." She swore in a an her tone affirmative yet small and sweet as always. I stopped laughing and I rose my eyebrow at her refusal before I placed my hand on my waist like a disapproving mother.

"Why heavens not? You remembered your undies right?" I stepped toward Hinata, and Naomi, but Hinata, using Naomi as a human shield, dodged my advances.

"Of course!" Peeking out from Naomi's back she answered. 

"They're just like a swim suit its all in the perspective!" I said like some weird perverted guru. Her attention was divided between responding to me with this pointed look and nervously glancing at the others. "Believe me, I am the islander here."

"So am I but I don't even do that. You're just the oddball, Nattie-boo." Naomi butted in and I gave her a dirty look. Human shields shouldn't speak.

"Shh you!"

She rolled her eyes at my childishness.

"UNDIES EQUAL SWIMSUIT!" I yelled out just to be loud.

"B-But it feels different... It feels like I'll be going naked."

"That's just your mentality. Like I said before, change your thinking, your perspective! Open your mind!"

She pouted stubbornly.

"There is no shyness between twins. Like, we took baths and all together back in the Hyuga compound--" She gave me a clear 'no we didn't' look making me grin in my mishcievious way.

"Listen, twin sister knows best, STRIP I SAY!!" I launched at her and shoved Naomi out of the way in the process. She was sputtering out sand when she sat back up.

I started pulling and tugging on Hinata while she's squealing and struggling to fend me off. I found this so hilarious I was dying of laughter. Yet, epically, I still managed to strip her down. Hooray for me! I'm a shirtless bandit! I think we both were being oogled truthfully but for my piece of mind I'll just say she's the only one the boys eyes were set on. Hinata was standing there covering her chest and I heard a whistle come from Naomi. 

"Didn't know this shy girl was hiding all of this!" Naomi fawned over her and Hinata turned scarlet, a darker blush than she already had been.

"This is not weird at all..." Shikamaru remarked sarcastically standing off to the side with Choji.

"Noooo, that shi+'s normal..." Choji replied to his bestfriend with the sarcasm just as thick.

Of course I pretended not to hear but I couldn't help the smile as the butterfly tornado swirled in me at the sound of his lazy drawl. I lost myself as my mind wandered back to my talk with Naomi. I blushed. Gyah... I can't believe I said all of that... So embarrassing! Jeez... But now I had a grip on my feelings and apparently I feel less awkward around him... I wondering when I'll be able to talk to him freely like the others?

I giggled bubbling with a girly feeling and anticipation. [A/N: That's the bae, aye. *wink* *wink*]

"Natalya-sama." I heard my name and spinned around my heart filling with both guilt and glee.

"Yay! Shino is awake!" Its about d@mn time! Stupid ninjidioits left me for narnia when I needed them! 

I skipped over to him not paying any mind to the way he seemed to cringe when I was beside him as if he remembered something unpleseant. I wonder why.... lol I'm being sarcastic! I stood almost chest to chest to Shino and smiled up at him.

 He looked like he wanted to say something and I silently urged him on.

He sighed in a kind almost playful way. "She definetly can't marry now that you abandoned her after you undressed her."

I bursted out laughing. So the bug boy has jokes. "If you were awake since then why didn't you stop me?" 

"I thought it was a dream originally..."

"What a perverted boy you have to be to be having this kind of dream, Shino-kun~!" I teased sweetly not missing a moment to mess with Shino.

"What a pervy girl you are to actually execute something like this in real life, Natalya~sama."

Although his voice was stoic it was impossible to miss the taunting tone. I guess he wasn't going to bring up the Anna Homo-Ero Collection. Maybe its selective amnesia, haha! All for good! (^3^)

"But all jokes aside, you really shouldn't let your pranks go this far. Why? You should consider the feeling of the other party. It may not occur to you but please refrain from stripping Hinata in fron--" 

I gripped the waist of his shorts before he could finish his lecture, not that I was listening, and pantsed him. This abrupt surprise caused the flustered bug boy to stumble and fall to his butt on the sand with a dull thump. He gazed up at me in utter disbelief.

"Heeheehee..." 

I took the pants, folded it over my arm and stretched my arm out to him. My hand was not outstretched to help him up he realised all too easily. Instead I was reaching out so he would hand me the shirt he was wearing.

Shino complied and pulled the shirt over his head and off of his body. I nodded appreciatively and took it from his hand.

"Oh and please remember not to lose my brother's Hater Blockers, thank you!" I then skipped away merrily. 

The others hadn't missed it and were now laughing. I heard Naruto laughing the loudest. He was also awake. I had the urge to stripe him next.

"Narrie-kun~!" I squealed in a sing song way. I glomped him. Batting my eyelashes at him as I stared up in his face I pressed my body against the peach colored skin of his arm. 

"Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!" His eyes bulged out of his head in horror. I don't know if it was because he knew what was next, or he remembered what he saw at Anna's or both but his face lost a lot of color.

He hollared.

I grinned mischieviously and cringed slightly at the sound of his loud voice.

"AH! NO! AH!" 

I clutched onto his pants with both of my hands when he tried to make a break for it.

"Lemme help you undress yourself!"

"NO WAY! I'LL DO IT MYSELF!" Naruto screamed at me as he ran for his life with me being dragged along-- considering if I let go now I would be flown into the sea from the momentum. 

"That's not weird at all..." Shikamaru repeated to his bestfriend Choji, my teddy-bear, with a dry sense of humor.

"No, that shi+'s normal...." He answered back sarcastically, not missing his cue, and crunched away on some chips.

"You think she'll come after us?" The Nara asked observing a hysterical Naruto who was trying to spin fast enough to send me flying off of him.

"I wouldn't put it past her. Nat-chan is very mishcievious at time."

"It seems you've gotten to know her well?" Shikamaru's brow rose in question as he stared onward at Naruto and I but his brow jerked up higher when he saw Naruto suddenly turn into a human top.

"KYAAAAAAAAAAAA~!!" I screamed and screwed my eyes shut in this sudden carnival ride aventure. Naomi was trying to tell Naruto to put me down. Hinata was fretting and also trying to get him to stop. Shino was smirking. Gaara was no where to be seen at the moment and so was Kiba. Akamaru was chasing fish at the shoreline.

"Well yeah..." Choji slowly replied as Naruto spun out of control and spiralled their way. He and Shikamaru took a simultaneously huge step back and Naruto sped pass 'em. "...We have been here since last week and she was our caretaker the entire time."

"...I see." 

"Whoa! Naruto! NARUTO!! I-I-can't-take-anymore-whoa-whoa-waaaaa!!! I'll quit it! Uncleee~! Stop. Spinning. ME!"

"I've lost control!"

"WHAAAAA?!"

Oh no! RUN AWAY UZUMAKI!!!

At that moment Naruto's foot met a rock in the sand and in a comic moment he tumbled and we both landed in the sand.

My world continued to spin.

"I would strip all of you--!" I gagged. "Don't you forget it! Shirtless bandit: out! I think i'll go rest... over  there." I pointed in a random direction and followed my finger. I wobbled over to a shade of sand and hey, I found Kiba. I dumped my rump next to him on the sand.

I closed my eyes and when the spell of dizziness finally faded I reopened them. 

At first I gazed at the scenery, the sparklingly blue sea and the birds running on the beach and taking flight and such but somehow my eyes wandered down to Kiba's sleeping face.

"Gyah! I could rape this boy!" I fan-girled and couldn't resist... I ran my fingers through his hair. Soon I was cozily sitting with Kiba's head on my lap and playing in his hair to my hearts content. I relaxed and settled in while enjoying the feeling of his hair brushing against my roaming fingers.

🇧🇸To be continued...