I don't own Naruto or any of his friends. Heck i don't even own any of the manga. I just watch the show and i have friends who read the manga so I am going to try to match the character up to the current Naruto episodes on Cartoon Network. I won't be using some characters for manga reasons (won't spoil it for you) and i won't use some because they are just not in here.
It was a slow morning over the Hidden Leaf village as citizens began to move the streets as the shop owners opened that morning for business. People walking with baskets and children running around with empty jars helping their mother with chores. The children could be heard through every shop which gave the shop keeper a smile to his face. Ebisu had been strolling the streets waiting for the shops to open. He had been wait for the first cream donut of the day.
"Oh Ebisu," the baker turned to the ninja waiting at his stand with a plate full of donuts, "I have your favorite right here with extra cream."
Ebisu reached out with his hand and grabbed his donut, "Put it on my tab alright."
"You know that i don't allow tabs," the baker was now giving him a snaring look as he was now holding out his hand.
"I come here everyday. You know I'm good for it," Ebisu rested his elbow on the counter giving the baker a smirk.
"Careful you might knock over the donuts," moving the donuts away from the Ebisu's elbow, the baker placed them safely in front, "I'll write you up a tab just move along."
"Thank you" he took his donut and began to move away as two blurs went past him, "What the!". The blurs passed and were followed by a massive wind that tossed Ebisu right into the baker's shop crash landing on the donuts.
"THATS GOING ON YOUR TAB!" the baker was fuming over his crushed shop as he kicked the ninja with the sunglasses.
The blurs the streamed pass were Sasuke and Naruto.
"I'm totally going to beat you!" the two were racing to meet Kakashi for training and orange streak appeared to be in the lead.
"Ya. Till Yahichatri." Sasuke's last words confused Naruto as he gazed back at him.
"Till wha..." Naruto was quickly cut off as he hit a tree head on.
"Ya hit a tree," moving faster, Sasuke landed at the bridge, where their meetings with Kakashi Sensei. Sasuke seemed to be the first there till he looked over the side of the bridge. Kakashi was standing on the belly of the bridge with his eyes shut as in a slight slumber.
"Hey Sasuke, looks like you the first again today," Kakashi disappeared and reappeared right in front of Sasuke. He gave Sasuke his smug smile and pulled away to sit down on the bridge guard.
"Nice one, Naruto," Kakashi turned to see what Sasuke was talking about as a boot came swooping to his side and nailed him in his ribs. A poof of smoke appeared and Naruto was interlocked with Sasuke's foot.
"How did you know it was me?", Naruto asked as he held Sasuke put, "Was it the under the bridge thing or was it my jutsu was off? Come on tell me."
"First tell me why your here so early and why you used that clone earlier," Sasuke kept his balance perfectly while on his one leg and questioned Naruto.
"Oh yeah! Well I wanted to see how long I could hold my shadow clone jutsu and how long I could keep other jutsu going. So far I'm 3 hours in," Naruto gave Sasuke's foot a shove and pulled his arm to his side as a silent cheer.
"Wow, your a bundle of energy," Sasuke looked at Naruto in surprise because this was spastic even for Naruto, "What's the story on that?"
"Okay, first of all its the Love Cherry festival," by the look of it, it seemed like Sasuke somehow forgot, "Second, my horoscope said I'd find true love this week." Looking somewhat disappointed in
Naruto, he wondered if Naruto made the connection that the Cherry Festival had a part in the newspapers prediction just to sell more papers.
"Naruto did you even check the other horoscopes?" probing at his lead he got what he expected.
"No, why?" Naruto was clueless to the paper's ploy.
"Sasuke...Sasuke!", a pink and red blur could be seen coming towards the bridge. It was Sakura waving a newspaper at Sasuke. Ino wasn't far behind her and seemed to be doing leaps and bounds past Sakura till she noticed.
"OH NO YOU DON'T INO-PIG!" Sakura was in fury mode as she rolled up her paper and mad dashed right next to Ino running. The two were face to face moving to the bridge, pushing each other out of the way best they could. Both of them seemed to lose track of where they were going as the intersection hit Naruto sending him flying into near by trees.
Naruto charged back and scowled at Sasuke, whom was ignoring him.
"He looked so smug that I could just clobber him," Naruto's anger began to build as he looked at his rival.
"Darn that INO! Darn that NARUTO! THEY SHOULD GET THE HINT AND AMSCRAY," with her words pointed inward, Sakura's temper seemed to boil as she stared at Ino then glanced at Naruto. The two were in her hair and felt like they were pulling roots.
"Why can't you two idiots just leave!" Sakura's words seemed to escape her mouth on that pull of the trigger.
Naruto was as naive as ever and Ino just gave Sakura a dull, yet charmed smile, "Leave? Okay, Sasuke I guess we'll be going then."
"He wasn't the one I was talking to Ino," Sakura ,again at nerves ends, held her composer the best she could for being in front of Sasuke.
"Good then you won't mind if we leave since you weren't talking to him," Ino looped her arm around the disconnected Sasuke and began to pull away but was stopped by Sasuke.
"Sorry, I can't," Sakura gave herself a mental peace sign on that one, "I'm waiting for Kakashi," then was shot back down. Naruto was still propped up on the railing staring at his rival like a hawk. It ticked him off how he was so calm. He avoided anything people said to him and still had ladies crawling on him.
"Hey! You never told me how you knew it was me? It was your Sharingan, right?" Naruto was now badgering Sasuke while on his toes, furious about the delay. Smugging him off like he always does, Sasuke toned out Naruto and his blabber but then decided to pick the quicker way to silence.
"Kakashi is never that early," Sasuke kept his back to the forest as he listed to Naruto his flaws in his trick, "Kakashi never shows off his power unless its popping in to startle us and of course my Sharingan."
"Thats a pretty big list there," Kakashi had rested his hand on Sasuke's head as he entered in early but not that early. Sasuke was stunned by Kakashi's awkward entrance.
"Now anything else you want to add?" Kakashi's face was priceless as he smiled through his bandanna, "Okay then. Kakashi showed up early and said we have the day off because of the festival." Sasuke was pissed, he couldn't get a look at the double and now that he fell for it he knew Naruto would just laugh it up. The clone popped but Naruto wasn't laughing.
Sakura was the first to speak up to Naruto, "You think thats funny, Naruto!" Naruto was looking a little dazed but not by anyone's words but rather the release of the jutsu. Not noticing, Sakura slugged Naruto right in the back of the head.
"Naruto, how many clones do you have out?" concerned about Naruto and mostly the people of the city, Sasuke asked Naruto carefully.
Springing back up, Naruto had new life in him as he started talking back, "What's it to you? I can do some early morning training if I want. I was perfecting my shadow clone with jutsu control and well."
Sakura gave him another smack with her argument, "End that jutsu right now." He gave her a ticked look and gazed down ticked. Ino was looking at Naruto like he was an idiot. She of all people knew what lack of energy could do to a jutsu.
"Hey, Naruto," Ino tried to reason with Naruto the best she could, "Its a holiday so come on lets get to the festival. Almost everyone has the day off so lets go see who's around."
"What are you up to Ino?" Sakura moved towards Ino in a method to interrogate her. Ino shooed her away with a flicker of the wrist. Everyone looked like they were agreeing ,minus Sakura but she joined, too. Making there way to the village, Naruto looked hazed with the others a step ahead of him. The small band of the four of them didn't seem to stick out as they made way to the early celebrations of the festival. Hinata was even there with the rest of the rookie nine.
"Oh Naruto," her voice could barely be heard but it none the least was heard over the crowd. In the rush of things, Naruto heard her first and was waved over. The others followed and found themselves at a booth run by Hinata, Shikamaru and Chouji.
"Oh crap she found us Shika," Chouji seemed to be munching on what looked like corn chips but couldn't really be seen because they stuffed into his mouth so quickly. He was always a heavy eater but it looked like her was on overdrive with his nerves.
"Chouji, we don't have anything to worry about. She plain and simple didn't want to be apart of this plan because she was going to spend it with Sasuke and Sakura. They were friends once you know," Shikamaru calmly explained to Chouji that there was nothing to fear although that wasn't necessarily true.
Ino stood next to Sasuke and secretly began to hoop her arm around his as they rested in his pockets. Sakura could be seen doing the same thing on his left but both retracted as the other burned a hole through the other's arm with just their glares.
Naruto was the first to speak to the other group and started asking questions right away, "What are you doing at the booth?"
"Naruto thats a stupid question," Sakura pulled forward to explain, "They're here to run the booth."
Snapping back Naruto said, "Well I noticed that, but what are they doing? Like what is the booth for?"
Sakura paused for a moment and peered up at the sign above. Nothing was written on it.
"Hey what's up with that Shika?",Ino cut in and asked, "I thought that you were going to do a dunk tank with Iruka sensai."
Shikamaru just scratched at his head and gave the reasons behind their problem, "Well, I gave the request for a booth to the Hokage and it was approved but only after I grabbed two helpers. Iruka wouldn't help because he over heard my plans through Chouji here. He was bribed with steak. So I had to find another second and since you wouldn't help me no one else wanted to be part of my booth. I had to change the idea when I grabbed Hinata her," Hinata was smiling a happy little grin when he pointed her out and Chouji just sunk back into his body, " Well I couldn't dunk Hinata because she was kind enough to be a part of my booth and Chouji would probably drowned because of a cramp."
Chouji joined in his defense, "I came up with the idea of a kissing booth," Ino went a little red when he said that, ",but Hinata and Shikamaru voted against it."
Ino's thoughts ran though her mind asking, "Why Shika didn't go along with the Kissing booth? He could have made a fortune. I understand Hinata and being shy for Naruto but what's Shikamaru's excuse."
"What are you going to do?" Naruto cut Ino's thoughts in half.
Hinata stepped into the ring to push in her ideas, "We could do a restaurant."
Thanks for reading now review. Flames are welcome because otherwise the slave monkey will never learn to stop throwing crap around. Oh its not Mature yet but it may end out to be.
