The Dream Machine

by Bullwinkle's Lady

"Talking."

'Thinking.'

On Screen.

In Living room.

Part 4

Naruto watched her uncertainly for a moment, before he grinned and nodded. "Hai." His eyes turned back to the screen, a tiny blush tinting his own cheeks. "I think that the next one's starting."

Tape:

A young man jumped down from a roof top, landing crouched down so that his hands could rest against the road. The air was dark, the single source of light being the full moon in the sky.

A black ANBU tattoo upon his felt shoulder, the man wore a hawk's mask on his face. He slowly straightened his knees as he muttered, "C'mon."

He was suddenly surrounded by those who had been pursuing him. Each figure of a man was an identical shadow, as a dozen of them charged at him at once.

Long hair swishing with his movement, the ANBU captain's elbow smashed a man's nose, as his fist collided with another's stomach. In a matter of moments, he was surrounded by dead bodies, each of which he had taken down in seconds.

With a sigh, the man pulled off his mask, to reveal a tired-eyed, weakly smirking, Hyuuga Neji. Hanging his mask from a holder on his belt, he brought his pointer fingers flat together, the remaining ones intertwined, before he disappeared into a swish of air and a poof of smoke.

-And reappeared within the kitchen of the Hyuuga main house.

"Ever since I killed off the head family, life couldn't be better," Neji sighed, opening the refrigerator.

Living room:

As Hinata cringed slightly, everyone else gave Neji odd looks. The Hyuuga prodigy meanwhile smirked proudly at himself on the television.

Tape:

Neji pulled an enormous salami out of the refrigerator, sinking his teeth into it, but freezing when he heard someone address him from behind.

"You're going to spoil your dinner, dear."

Unlocking his jaw from the slab of meat, Neji slowly turned around to look at his doting wife, Tenten. Beside her was his father Hizashi (who had been revived by science), and his perfect son, who was identical to himself, Neji Jr.

"Hai, hai." Muttered Neji, throwing the salami back into the refrigerator, before approaching his wife to give her a soft kiss on the forehead.

Living room:

As everyone in the room stared, twitching, from Hizashi to Neji Jr; Tenten blushed faintly, playfully punching Neji in the shoulder. Neji's eyes, however, remained on the screen.

Tape:

Neji turned to his eight-year-old son. "How's my boy doing?" he asked.

The child frowned, lightly biting his bottom lip. "Otousan..." He said. "I failed math."

Neji chuckled lightly, patting the boys head."That's a good one," he muttered. "Because if a son of mine ever failed in any way, he would have to die," Neji continued to chuckle as he turned to his own father. "Isn't that right Dad?"

"You've got it, son," Hizashi responded, smiling pleasantly.

The grown-ups took little notice to Neji Jr who had burst into tears and run out of the room. "So what's for dinner?" Neji asked Tenten.

"The same thing we have every night," said Tenten. "Ice cream!"

"Yay!"

Living room:

Neji continued to receive many odd looks (none of which he noticed) when his dream had ended to him, Tenten, and Hizashi scarfing down globs of chocolate ice cream.

Lee was horror-struck. "Wait Neji..." he said slowly. "Where was I in your dream!"

Lee was left sadly ignored.

With his foot, Naruto managed to nudge Sasuke in the shoulder. On the ground, the Uchiha sent a glare up to him, taking little mind to Sakura, who was resting her head on his other shoulder.

Resisting the urge to tease him, Naruto felt the need to hiss, "That was twisted," He twirled one of his pointer fingers around his right ear, with the other one pointing at Neji, in a 'He-is-PSYCHO' type gesture.

Sasuke glanced away. "Hai..." he said uncertainly, feeling that Neji's dream had been perfectly rational. Bits and pieces of his own dream were beginning to slowly come back to him. He bit the inside of his cheek as he wondered how violently the others would react.

Looking at Neji for just a moment longer, Tenten sighed, as she turned back to the television screen. 'That was...nice?' She thought, unsure of whether she was supposed to feel flattered or offended being dream-Neji's wife. With a small frown, she watched as the next dream began.

Tape:

"Good job today Neji." Tenten mentioned as she gathered up her kunai. "You didn't miss even one! ... As usual," she frowned slightly.

"Of course," Neji responded, in his usual blunt tone. His back was turned on Tenten, and he had taken out a small mirror to fix his hair. Still not giving the kunoichi a glance, he stuffed the mirror back into his shuriken pouch, momentarily rolled his shoulders, and began to walk away. "Meet me here tomorrow at dawn," the Hyuuga mentioned over his shoulder.

Tenten frowned. Wait...where had she gotten that axe?

Living room:

Everyone in the room jumped. Kiba again fell off of the ceiling, and Lee hopped into a stunned Neji's arms. They stared in shock at Tenten, who's dream self had just stuck the blade of the axe into dream-Neji's back.

"Woah," breathed Neji.

Tape:

Neji squawked (yes, squawked) in pain as he fell on his face, his butt sticking in the air. With the axe still in his back, Neji's eyes began to water. "T-Tenten?" He stammered, unable to move.

Living room:

As everyone else stared in horror, Sasuke had accidentally burst into sadistic laughter, which earned him a few stares. He quickly stopped, before glancing away, and attempting to look indifferent.

In his lonely corner, Shino was violently twitching as he also tried not to chuckle.

Neji meanwhile, had turned blue, his eyes wide, and his face shocked. Tenten had begun to edge toward the exit of the room.

Tape:

"Pl-please stop!" Neji sputtered pathetically, releasing a high-pitched sheik when Tenten wrenched the axe out of his flesh.

The weapons mistress had an insane look in her eyes. She kicked Neji so that he rolled over onto his back, and raised the axe a second time. "WHY - WONT - YOU - APPRECIATE - MEEE!"

Living room:

While Sakura, Ino, and Hinata found themselves covering their eyes, Sasuke bit his tongue in an effort not to giggle, and Naruto found his eyes watering from the gorey nastiness. Lee's face had turned green (much like Neji's), and the spandex-clad man was soon running out of the room, covering his mouth, as his stomach heaved.

Tenten continued to edge toward the exit unnoticed.

Tape:

The legless and bleeding Neji was attempting to crawl away with his arms, when he heard an angry sheik coming from behind. He released a fearful scream, right before the blade of a certain axe came down on his skull. Hyuuga brains splattered everywhere.

Blackness.

Living room:

All was silent.

Tenten had frozen near the door, her face pink, as she tried to figure out a way to explain her horrible dream to the others.

Neji's face had alas become as pale as his eyes. He clutched his chest, deeply breathing, for his life had just flashed before his eyes.

And then Naruto decided to break the silence. "Awww. You guys dreamed about each other."

"SHUT UP!"

"And lastly, Sasuke's dream," Kakashi quickly said, making sure not the catch crazy-Tenten's eyes.

The Uchiha shifted uncomfortably.

Tape:

There was pink. Lots and lots of pink. And flowers. Butterflies. Sunlight. Cherry blossoms...

Living room:

Those who had been traumatized from Tenten's dream had frozen in surprise. And slowly, very steadily, evil laughter echoed throughout the air. Naruto fell off of the couch, pounding the ground with his fists, and fearing that his chest would explode. Choji meanwhile rolled around like an enormous beach ball, before releasing an immense fart.

Even Neji seemed to have been struck out of his daze. "U-Uchiha?" he spat, feeling darkness close in on all sides, as his laughter took place of any oxygen that might have gone to his genius brain.

Sakura looked around, blinking.

...Sasuke had mysteriously disappeared.

Tape:

The scene was soon revealed to be a garden, where Uchiha Sasuke resided, laying back in a beach chair, wearing navy swim trunks, and surrounded by-

Living room:

The laughter abruptly stopped.

"I'll-kill-him!" many voices spat in unison.

Tape:

Sasuke was surrounded by Sakura, Ino, Hinata, and Tenten, all of who were wearing only ity-bity-tiny-winy, too-small, string bikini's. As Tenten fanned Sasuke with an enormous leaf, Ino gave him a foot massage. Hinata meanwhile rubbed his shoulders, as Sakura took to feeding him grapes.

Living room:

Naruto, who's eyes had become red, Neji, veins popping up on either sides of his eyes, Kiba, who's eyes had turned to slits, Shino, who had taken off his sunglasses to reveal that he didn't even have eyes, Choji and Lee, who had fire in their eyes, and Shikamaru, who just looked high, ran out of the room, baring pitch forks and -cough- axes. "Kill the Uchiha!" they screeched.

The girls meanwhile simply blushed as they continued to watch Sasuke's dream; Kakashi actually grabbed the remote to turn up the volume, all while thinking, 'That kid's got promise,' he wiped a tear out of his eye.

Tape:

"You are so handsome," said Ino.

"I know," mentioned Sasuke.

"So strong," Tenten swooned.

Sasuke sighed. "I know," he repeated, a smirk growing across his face.

"So glorious," murmured Hinata.

"Yeah. I am," responded Sasuke.

"I love you Sasuke," whispered Sakura.

The Uchiha swallowed grape before looking back at her. "Me too," he muttered softly.

Living room:

When Sasuke's dream had come to a close, the remaining occupants of the room simply stared as the tape ended and the television screen went fuzzy.

Tenten blinked as she turned to the other girls. "So, do you guys wanna...go kill Uchiha?" she asked as she whipped out a weapons scroll, and headed for the exit.

Shrugging, Ino and Hinata followed crazy-Tenten to the door, pulling out their own weapons.

Kakashi watched them leave and sighed, ejecting the tape, before running off to show it to all of his friends.

And Sakura simply sat there on the ground of the living room, faintly blushing, with a weak smile plastered across her face. "Jackass," she mumbled, standing to her feet and exiting the room as she dug through her weapons pouch to find something appropriate in which to maim Sasuke.