--- Lea and Aki’s Summer Challenge!! ---
~ Introduction ~
“Tsunade-sama! We have a proposition for you!” A girl with long crimson hair bounded into the Hokage’s office, followed closely by a slightly shorter girl with hair the colour of bubblegum. The Hokage looked up from the book she was reading and raised an eyebrow. “I’m... Listening...” She said warily. The redhead smiled widely and sat down. “We’ve spoken to everyone on the various teams of Konoha, and our group would like to request... Y’see, we need a break, and it’s summer and all... We wanna take one week off with no missions, no training, just fun!! We’re teenagers; we need it, Hokage-sama!” Lea pleaded with the woman. A dark smile crossed the Hokage’s face as a brilliant plan formed in her head. The teens would have their week of summer, oh yes... But they would be exhausted, yet content, by the time it was over. Hell, she could make a challenge out of it.
“I’ll grant you your week of fun...” Tsunade began, and Lea and Sakura had already begun to celebrate with each other. “With certain conditions.” Both girls froze, and turned slowly to stare at the Hokage. “You two can set up all the activities... But you must do one thing every day of the week. No lazing around, no goofing off, no killing each other. Normal summer activities, like camping, pool party, sleepovers... And a different one every day. If by the sixth day, you still want to go on with this, I will provide a venue for a party for you and your friends, complete with everything you’ll need. Do you accept?”
Sakura had started writing down what Tsunade said as soon as she began mentioning the conditions. She stared at the list, and nodded slowly at Lea, who was already cheerfully accepting. She hadn’t listened to a damn thing the Hokage had said, she was just happy that their proposition was accepted. With a “G’bye, Hokage-sama! Thank you~!” Lea had fled the room, dragging a confused Sakura behind her.
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Back at Lea’s house, the two girls were bent over a large notebook, concentrating hard on the activities they were going to plan. “I think tomorrow, the first day, we oughta do a beach thing! It’ll be awesome! We can swim, play sports, build stuff in the sand, eat... Show off our smokin’ bods!” At the last statement, Sakura hit her palm to her forehead. Lea could be a little odd like that sometimes. “But seriously! Write down beach as the first one! We can plan the rest of the activities the night before! Like, tomorrow night, we’ll decide what comes next! It sounds like an amazing plan. That’s what we’ll do.” Lea insisted. Sakura sweatdropped, knowing there really was no point whatsoever in her arguing with Lea. When the Mizusaki girl had her mind made up, you’d have to be insane to go up against her.
“Anyway! I’m gonna go call everyone to invite them to the beach tomorrow! You go out shopping, get some chips and soda and stuff like that!” Lea chimed, skipping off to her bedroom. “Wait! Shouldn’t you make a list? You might forget someone - !” Sakura warned her. Lea turned around and stuck her tongue out playfully. “Don’t insult me; I’ve got a GREAT memory!” She shouted back, and then, whipping out her cell phone, disappeared into her bedroom, shutting and locking the door behind her.
