The Prom Night that Changed their Lives
Chapter 1: Why don't you ask her to dance?
A Prom Night is being held in Konoha High for the junior and senior year of high school. It was a slow night for Uzumaki Naruto, a junior, since almost every one of his friends were dancing to the slow music in the background with their respective dates and he ended up staying at their table to watch his friends' belongings. He was slouching in his chair, playing with his cell phone and looking up occasionally from it to check the things on the table.
"Hey Naruto, shouldn't you be dancing right now?" A voice asked. Naruto looked up from his phone to see who the person was.
"Choji!" Naruto exclaimed.
"Hey. I couldn't find you on the dance floor so I figured that you must be at our table. Why aren't you dancing?" Choji asked.
"Who am I gonna dance with when there's no one to dance with." Naruto said sadly.
"Where have you been?" he asked, quickly changing the subject.
"Bathroom." Choji said then sat down beside Naruto, dropping the subject. Naruto went back to playing with his phone while Choji went to the buffet table to get something to eat.
When Choji came back, Naruto looked up from his phone and saw Choji's plate almost full. He started laughing.
"What?" Choji asked, bewildered at Naruto's sudden laughter.
"Hahaha! You just got out from the bathroom and now you're eating again. Hahaha! I'm sure after awhile you're gonna go to the bathroom again to let that all out. Hahaha! Fa—" Naruto put his hands to his mouth to cover it from the word that is absolutely taboo around his 'big boned' friend.
"What did you say, Naruto?!" Choji started, looking angry. Naruto tensed up a bit.
"U-uh.. N-nothing! I just sneezed. Haha." Naruto was nervous. Choji seemed to buy it since he stopped being angry and began eating his food.
'Whew, that was close.' Naruto thought and let out a sigh. The two didn't talk and went back to their own businesses.
After the song ended, their friends went back to their table and sat down. All of them were happy. Naruto just looked up and smiled at them to acknowledge their presence then went back to playing with his phone.
"Oi Naruto, until what time are you gonna do that? The dance had already started and your still here. Even Lee danced already." Shikamaru spoke. Neji, TenTen, Ino, Choji, Lee, and Kiba looked at him.
"Until this prom ends and until I go home. There's no one to dance with anyway. I shouldn't have come here in the first place. I would've stayed home until you talked me out of it and I stupidly believed you." Naruto told him then went back to playing with his phone.
"Come on, Naruto-kun! You should dance with the youthful girls out there! It's also to prove how youthful you are!" Lee cheered on. Naruto and Shikamaru paid no attention on their fuzzy-browed friend who continued ranting about youth.
"Hey! This is for your own good! I am actually giving you a chance to ask her to dance with you, a chance that you would miss if you didn't go here, and what's the big deal about asking her to dance? She's your friend anyway. Why do you chicken out now? When you ask her on a date on a different occasion you don't chicken out." Shikamaru retorted.
"You know what? Either I go here or not, it wouldn't make much of a difference since one, I couldn't even get myself to ask her, and two, how could I even ask her if Sasuke-teme is always with her, huh?" Naruto said, almost angry.
"Hey! Hey! Break it up, you two! You can't ruin the nights of all the people here just because of that little argument!" TenTen spat out, Neji nodded in agreement.
The two boys immediately stopped and didn't talk with each other. Naruto went back again to playing with his phone's games and Shikamaru went to the drinks section to get Ino and him a drink. The others went back to chatting with each other.
"Naruto, can I ask you something?" Ino asked.
"What?" Naruto said, not bothering to look at her and continued on playing.
"The girl Shika-kun is talking about, is she.. forehead?" Ino asked quietly.
"Yeah. Isn't it obvious?" Naruto answered, still not looking at her.
"That forehead girl! I knew it!" Ino exclaimed. Some of her friends looked at her briefly then went back to chatting. Ino went back to her thinking while waiting for Shikamaru to return with her drink.
As the next music played, Naruto caught a glimpse of the dance floor and saw a pink-haired girl in a beautiful black evening gown dancing with a raven-haired guy wearing a tuxedo. His heart sunk 'coz they seem to be sweet with each other, both smiling at each other sweetly while dancing gracefully across the dance floor.
'I wish I was him.' Naruto thought to himself, then shrugged off the feeling and went back to his game.
Shortly, Shikamaru returned with his and Ino's drinks and sat down beside Ino while looking at Naruto. He didn't want to see his best friend like this. So he decided he's gonna do Naruto a favour as payment for what he did so that Ino would agree to be Shikamaru's girlfriend. He turned to Ino.
"Hey, you think you could help me on something?" Shikamaru whispered to Ino. Naruto didn't see this because he was too busy with his game.
"Sure. What is it?" Ino whispered back, curious about the idea of his genius boyfriend.
"Get Naruto to dance with Sakura." Shikamaru briefly whispered back.
Ino thought of it for awhile then answered Shikamaru,
"Sure. I've also been thinking about that and I've got the perfect idea. Leave it to me." Ino said then was getting ready to stand up when suddenly, a red-haired girl wearing a red gown approached their table, heading for Naruto. All of the people in the table saw her coming and immediately looked at her with a disgusted look on their faces.
The girl ignored the disgusted look of Naruto's friends and continued walking with poise, but when she was nearing Naruto, she lost her poise and yelled, "Darling!" in a high-pitched voice, and accelerated her pace. Naruto looked up from his phone and put on a disgusted and annoyed look on his face.
'Shit! That girl again! Why can't she just get away from me?!' thought Naruto while he looked at his friends as if to say, "Help!" but no one noticed, everyone was trying to shoo her away by looking at the girl with disgust painted all over their faces but it doesn't seem to stop her.
She was nearing and was about to throw her arms against Naruto, but his reflexes acted quickly so he stood up his chair and walked to the side. The girl couldn't stop so she fell face flat on the floor. Naruto and his friends laughed their heart out. Even Neji joined in the laughter. The other people who saw laughed also and yelled, "Loser!" to the girl. The laughter didn't cause much noise because the music overpowered the laughter so the administrators didn't notice the laughing students. The said girl on the floor stood up and screamed but the laughter continued on, all of the students on that side of the gym were laughing hard. After a few seconds, the girl stopped screaming and the laughter began to die down. The said girl composed herself and looked at Naruto, who was back in his chair and was chatting to Choji. No one on that table seemed to look at her. Everyone was being busy with their own conversations. She shrugged it off and turned to Naruto,
"Darling! Aren't you going to dance with me?" She said in her usual high-pitched voice.
"Kim, Can you give some respect, please?! I'm talking to my friend!" Naruto said irritatingly, and continued to chat with Choji.
After Choji's reply, Kim positioned herself in the middle of Choji and Naruto. Naruto looked irritated and Choji looked annoyed.
"I'm not going anywhere until you dance with me." Kim said.
Naruto looked irritated than ever. Before he can answer, Ino butted in,
"I'm sorry but Naruto's fiancée is gonna have to wait. He just asked me to dance and I was just talking to Shika-kun to get permission from him." Ino said.
"Shika-kun's okay with it, Naruto. You could dance with me now." Ino said. Naruto was puzzled to say the least. He didn't remember asking anyone to dance, especially Ino, since Shikamaru and her were inseparable since the start of the prom. Even though they became close, he would never do that. He was still sitting in his chair while taking in the information until Ino spoke again,
"I couldn't wait all night Naruto. I also have things to do, you know." Ino said, and Naruto went to her extended his hand to her.
"Sorry to keep you waiting." Naruto said, smiling at her.
Before they could head to the dance floor, Kim stopped them,
"Get away from him, slut! That's my fiancée you're flirting with." Kim said while grabbing Naruto's free arm.
"Hey! Don't talk about my girlfriend like that or you're gonna get it! Even if you're a girl, or even Naruto's fiancée, I won't hold back on you!" Shikamaru said angrily.
"I'm so scared, lazy ass! You couldn't even hit a fly." Kim retorted back.
"Shut up, bitch! Don't talk about my best friend or my best friend's girlfriend like that! Even though my father selected you to be my fiancée, I don't love you and you will never compare to my friends!" Naruto said angrily, turned his back from her, and walked away with Ino to the dance floor.
Kim couldn't even speak up. She was so upset about it that she couldn't even move from her position. She was about to go when she caught a glimpse of TenTen looking at her with a contented face.
"Serves you right, bitch!" TenTen teased.
"Uuuuuggghh!!" Kim screamed through gritted teeth and walked away from them. The people on the table were all smiling.
My first fanfic! I hope you liked the first chapter. Please review. I will update soon, maybe on Saturday, depending on my schedule. Thanks for reading!:)