Chapter One; Sweet Sixteen
Naruto sped along the path inside the woods on his blue motorcycle laughing with pure excitement. "Come on Sasuke, you're going to have to better than that if you expect to beat me!" he exclaimed before all of a sudden Sasuke's black motorcycle sped fast him.
"Eat my dust you loser!" hollered as Naruto just simply scowled.
"Oh really? Well we'll just see about that!" Naruto snapped before pressing down on the clutch and speeding up. "Yeah! Feel that wind!" he cried.
"Woohoo!" Sasuke called out as Naruto finally caught up to him and grinned.
"I've never heard you say that before in your life." He told him.
"I know, but you're the one who taught me how to let loose and have some fun remember?" Sasuke questioned him.
"Well you're the one who taught me how to drive a motorcycle so I guess that makes us even. Now come on Sasuke, let's see what these babies can do!" Naruto exclaimed speeding past him.
"Right behind you Naruto!" Sasuke cried before pressing down on the clutch even harder and speeding past him again. "Oops, sorry, I meant in front of you. Later loser!" he called back over his shoulder at him.
"Grrr! I'm going to get you Sasuke!" Naruto hollered while racing after him.
Meanwhile Sakura was busy walking down the street when she suddenly ran into Hinata. "Hi Sakura."
"Oh, hello Hinata." Sakura said while stopping to smile at her.
"I wonder where Naruto and Sasuke are." She said.
"Oh, I'm sure that they're around here somewhere. Sasuke told me that they were going out for a bike ride. Of course usually that winds up with them trying to challenge each other to who can go the fastest." Sakura told her with a grin. "So what are you doing out and about?" she questioned.
"Oh, I'm just going to the grocery store to shop for Sasame's birthday party this weekend. I can't believe that she's going to be sixteen already." Hinata responded.
"I know. Tell me about it. It seems like it was just yesterday that I was giving birth to her. Poor Sasame isn't too happy with me right now." Sakura explained.
"Really? Why's that?" Hinata wondered.
"Well, I told her that while I was gone she had to watch Hiro. However, what I didn't tell her was the reason why. Sasuke's going to kill me for this but she has been asking for a kitten." Sakura explained.
"Aww,.. I love kittens. They're really cute." Hinata told her as a wide grin stretched across Sakura's face.
"I know! I especially love the little mews that they make." She told her. "The only problem is that Sasuke hates cats or basically anything that isn't a dog." She said.
"Really? Has he ever even petted one?" Hinata asked her.
"Probably not. He's very reluctant to try new things which causes a problem for Hiro around the dinner table when he absolutely refuses to eat his vegetables. I'm sure that Sasuke would like cats if he just gave them a chance. Especially an adorable little kitten." She told her before both ladies rounded the corner and entered the pet shop. Hinata gave an excited gasp as she bent down and placed her hands upon a glass case filled with a litter of puppies.
A spotted black and brown one with long floppy ears and a tiny white belly leapt up on his hind legs and placed his two front paws up on the glass and barked excitedly wagging his tail. "Aww,.. he's so cute." She said. "Ever since Yoshi died Naruto's been telling me about how much he wants another dog, and I'm sure that the children would love a cute little puppy around the house." She said but Sakura wasn't paying attention.
"Hello I would like a kitten for my daughter as a sixteenth birthday present." She told the man behind the counter.
"I see mam, is there any particular kitten that you have in mind?" he asked her.
"Not really. As long as they're cute." She replied smiling brightly at him.
"Well that's pretty much a safe guaranteed bet. Come on, this way." He told her before he led her into the back room.
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Naruto collapsed on the ground lying flat under his back underneath the maple tree. "Alright." He began breathing heavily. "Alright I give up. You won." He said as Sasuke sat down beside him and grinned.
"Come on Naruto, we were racing bikes. Not running a marathon." He told him.
"Oh yeah? Well it sure felt like it." He said continuing to breathe heavily as Sasuke laughed.
"Are you okay?" he questioned him.
"Relax. As soon as you give me that bowl of ramen that you promised to treat me to I'll be as good as new." He told him.
"Alright, give me your hand." Sasuke told him before he reached his own hand down towards him. Naruto quickly grabbed ahold of it before they both pulled each other to their feet. "Now before we go I need to ask you a favor." He began.
"Sure buddy anything. You name it." Naruto told him while still trying to catch his breath.
"Well as you already know Sasame's birthday party is this weekend." Sasuke continued.
"Yeah, I know. Boy sixteen, what a tough age." Naruto said.
"I know. Anyway we've already rented the place where we're going to have the party the only thing is that we don't have a DJ yet. So I was wondering if_" Sasuke began before Naruto quickly interjected.
"Are you kidding me!? Of course I'll do it! Wow Sasuke, I never thought that you would ever ask me to do something for you that was that cool!" he exclaimed.
"Me neither. But I 'm desperate." Sasuke told him.
"Wait a minute, are you saying that you think that I'm a lousy DJ?" Naruto questioned him suspiciously while pointing a firm finger at him.
"Well I'm afraid that I can't actually answer that yet on the grounds that I've never actually heard you. I'm just going by what Boruto and Himawari have said about you. And since they are my niece and nephew if they really think that you're that good then I'm just going to have to trust them." He told him.
"No problem Sasuke! You can count on me!" Naruto exclaimed with a proud grin and an excited giggle as he pointed a thumb backwards to himself but Sasuke just simply shook his head and rolled his eyes.
"You really are the number one hyperactive knucklehead ninja do you know that? I still don't have a clue where you get all that energy." He told him as the two boys turned around and started heading back towards their bikes together.