A little present for those who are graduating or already graduated this year.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
All the family members and friends of the students were packed onto the football fiend in simple white fold-up chairs. They were coming in one by one, even though some stayed in big groups so they wouldn't get separated by the seating arrangements. The field was becoming more and more filled, there was slight fear that they might need to find and fetch more chairs.
A girl of pale blonde hair peeked out from behind the bleachers, trying to spot her parents. With no luck, she turned around and ran back into the building with the rest of her graduating class. Once passing by the many teachers and students in the hallways, she reached her group of friends at the very end of the hall inside the gym.
"Did you find them?" Her male friend, a tired looking boy with his short brown hair down so his cap could stay on properly. He leaned back on the gym wall in his white cap and gown.
The blonde shook her head. "Too many people." Her loose curls bounced to and fro as she leaned next to him. She looked down at her golden gown, inspecting for wrinkles. "I can't believe this is really happening."
"We had a good run in his room," The boy looked around the old room. The climbing rope was tied to the ceiling, the basketball hoops were up, one set of bleachers were out for them to sit on, the wooden floor perfectly polished for this occasion. "in this entire building." The blonde nodded.
"Hey you two!" Another blonde with tan skin and ocean blue eyes came up to the pair. Behind him was a female, who very pale with navy blue hair and clear pupils, and a male with dark hair that matched his eyes and went mysteriously well his with pale skin. "How's it going?"
"Hey Naruto, Hinata, Sasuke." The male nodded them off. "We're just remembering all the times we had here, and how this whole thing is hard to believe."
"Yeah," The blonde, Naruto, nodded along. "but I'm shocked you didn't graduate earlier, Shikamaru. Why is that?"
"I wanted to end out my senior year with little to no activity whatsoever. Ruining that and leaving junior year would've sucked. Besides, I agreed to heading out with you guys, and I'm keeping that promise."
"Aw, Shika! You do care about us!" The female blonde jumped up, hugging her friend. "And you said you always hated us."
"Please let go of me, Ino. I would like to make it through this alive, thank you." The girl let go on command.
"Have you seen the other four?" Sasuke spoke up, his white cap in his hand. "We've been looking for them everywhere."
"Oh, Sakura's looking for her parents like I was before. Kiba's getting some last minute hookups in, Shino is…somewhere, probably in a dark corner being socially awkward like he normally is, and where do you think Choiji is?" Ino smiled at the dark-haired male. He smirked at her last comment.
As if on cue, a dot of pink hair under a golden cap was seen at the gym doors, running toward the group. She was slightly panting once she reached them. "Did you guys really have to be so far, jeez."
"You were on the track team, Sakura," Naruto looked down at her. "we should be hearing no complaints from you about being 'so far'."
"Shut up!" She regained her composure and looked at the silent girl next to her. "Oh, Hinata, I saw your cousin. He's here with his other two friends."
"Neji's here? Alright!" Naruto fist pumped in the air. The other two boys just smirked.
"What about my father? Did he show up yet?" Hinata turned to the other girl.
Sakura shook her head. "I didn't see him yet. He might be getting here soon, though. The event's about to start soon."
"Oh my gosh, guys." Naruto spoke up again. You're not gonna believe what I just remembered."
Sasuke grunted. "What is it, dobe?"
"Remember when we had the gigantic food fight junior year?"
"Oh my God, yes!" Ino jumped up again. "I remember you throwing pizza in my hair. Jerk." Naruto laughed.
"That was a good day." Shika nodded his head slowly as he began to remember the hot day in May last year.
"Do it dude. Do it. Do it!" Sasuke pressured the blonde with the tomato.
"We will get in so much trouble!" Naruto stood stiff with the vegetable in his palm.
"Who cares? It'll be fun. Some girls look like they need some water on them anyways."
"That was just gross, Sasuke." Shika spoke from the other side of the blonde.
"I'm not doing it." Naruto shook his head, placing the tomato back on to the table. Sasuke shook his head in disappointment.
"I expected so much from you."
"It's not that big of a deal, Sasuke." Shika scratched his forehead and went back to leaning on the table.
"I know, I'm just saying, the self-proclaimed 'class clown' would do such a stunt like this."
"Just drop it, teme."
"I'm not gonna drop it unless you start something in here. Until then, I'm not-" He was interrupted by a sudden gash of red flying toward his face. The wide smirk on Naruto's face said everything.
Some of the students around them stared in shock as Sasuke slowly wiped the smashed tomato from his face. He gave Naruto one look and mirrored his look. As if on cue, both boys screamed "FOOD FIGHT!"
Shikamaru ducked underneath the table as apples, pizza, milk, soda, any kind of food imaginable was being thrown around in the room. The teachers moved swiftly as they dodged numerous chunks of meat to get security.
Over the course of 7 minutes, more food was thrown that eaten that entire day. The principal barged in with all the security available and punished everyone who took part of the altercation. Ironically, Shikamaru was the only student there who did not face a month long detention.
"Yeah…" Naruto smiled, nodding his head in approval. "those detentions were wonderful."
"That's because some random girl was all over you. Do you even remember her name?" Sakura crossed her arms across her chest.
"I don't even remember what she looked like."
"On a lighter note…" Ino trailed off, trying to change conversations before something inappropriate came up. "remember out proms?"
"Oh my God!" Sakura squealed. "Best nights of my life!"
"Especially for Hinata," Shika smirked. "since she managed to have a better night than all of us."
The girl blushed. "I wouldn't say that…"
"Oh please," Sasuke chimed up. "This idiot over here couldn't keep his hands off of you the entire night."
"Hey!" Naruto yelled, a slight blush creeping on his face. "Let's keep it PG Rated over here."
"Whatever."
"At least I had a good time Sasuke, what were you doing the whole night?"
"Shut up." He rolled his eyes.
"Anyways," Sakura pulled on the collar of her gown. "is it time to go out yet?"
"Nope, about 5 more minutes." Shika looked at his watch.
"Attention graduates!" A teacher yelled from the room doors. "I need all of you to come outside in the hallway and arrange yourselves like in the rehearsal!"
The swarm of seniors moved toward the doors as they lined up in the hallway one-by-one. The lining, unfortunately, was in alphabetical order, so everyone had to hurry and finish their conversations.
"I'm so nervous!" Ino moved through the gym doors and planted herself on the wall next to them. "This is like, the most important day of our high school life."
"Not to mention it being the last." Sasuke stood next to Shika. "As much as I hated this place, and I always wanted to leave, I'm really gonna miss it." The group nodded in agreement.
"I just remembered something!" Hinata smiled, making everyone turn toward her. "Remember when we first came to this school? Our first times in these hallways?"
"Now that I think about it," Shika repositioned himself. "it wasn't that long ago."
"Yeah, like 4 years isn't a long time ago." Naruto scoffed.
"No, I mean…it feels like it was just yesterday, we were all freshman, with our big backpacks and two packs of pencils, so excited to come to the 'big school', meeting new people, experiencing a new scene in life."
"It's weird now all of that is behind us and we're leaving forever." Ino played with a strand of her hair as the small group now became silent.
"Line up everybody!" The same teacher from before came back and the rest of the stray students moved into line with the rest. "On my signal, we walk out slowly and wait for instructions from the principal."
The whole entire area suddenly became tense. Everyone was nervous for this day.
"Psst! Ino!" Naruto whispered loudly from in front a few people. The blonde looked forward at the call of her name. "You ready for this?" He shot up his famous thumbs up sign.
The female let out a deep sign and then smiled. "Yeah." She turned around and sighed again, playing with the material on the gown. 'This is it.'