Naruto had an ice cream cone.
It had three different flavors of ice cream stacked on top of it, minty chocolate to vanilla. It looked delicious, melting and smooth in the summer sun, and normally that would be all that occupied Naruto's mind. After all, when the blond boy got a hold of food of any kind that usually occupied his focus until the food was successfully in his stomach. Given that Naruto had a short attention span, this was some feat. Knowing all this, one would assume that Naruto's ice cream cone had all of the teenagers attention, but that was not the case. How could he focus on his beautiful ice cream when he was in the middle of a theme park? Even worse, how could he focus on his beautiful ice cream when there was a gentle hand on his arm pulling him away from the clearly visible roller coaster? Naruto was yanking back, but the hand didn't yield, and he nearly spilled his cone. Letting out a low growl as he pulled the treat to a balance. He could feel a vein on his forehead swell slightly with the effort of keeping his cone upright despite the, now obnoxiously strong, hand tugging near his elbow.
"Sakura-chan!" Naruto whined, not turning to look at the girl clutched to his arm. He had a suspicious feeling she wasn't paying attention to him. Naruto tried to keep his eyes on the large roller coaster, but the arm was steering him away. The blond leaned back slightly as he walked, hair on the back of his neck scratched to an uncomfortable upright position as it made contact with the collar of his black jacket. He shifted his shoulders slightly, both to try to shake off Sakura's guiding hand and to try in vain to shake off the light material. He should have known that the weather was too warm for a jacket. Naruto longed to strip down to the bright orange tee shirt he had on beneath, but there didn't even seem to be enough time to stop for that. Sakura's soft had continued to force him on and, at this point, he was losing sight of the magnificent roller coaster.
"Sakura-chan!" Naruto whined again, but she didn't hear. She was a bit busy keeping up a monologue to Sasuke, the third and final member of their group. The dark boy was also being dragged behind her, but on her other side. She had grabbed his hand as he began to fall behind and she kept up a one sided conversation. She rushed on, pulling lightly on Naruto's elbow to keep him from wandering. Seriously, if it wasn't for her she was sure that they would fall to pieces. Their little triangle of friendship seemed to be held together by her will at times, between the boys fighting with each other and running off she started to wonder if she was fighting a loosing battle. So while pulling her boys along with her the pink haired girl kept up a monologue, partially made of murmuring to herself and partly talking to the two teenaged football players behind her.
"We need to find somewhere to eat, it is almost noon. Over there is a shop. No, wait, there is no food in there. Oh! Look at that coaster. Naruto, you would love to go on that, huh? We will have to come back to it. We have to come back to the marry-go-round over there. I haven't ridden one since I was a kid. I think it was when my dad took me to a park when I was about five. Right before we met. You guys, look! There is a farris wheel here too! We have to come back to this section, some of the things off my personal check-list are here. But first we have to find food, focus Sakura. Gods, I wish there was a map somewhere. I was sure that we had one, but I cant find it."
Sakura staggered as she seemed to trip slightly, the blue eyes of Naruto and dark ones of Sasuke slid over to her on their own accord. The owners barely picked up that their eyes had done this action before they decided she was fine, as she was already recovering, and slid back to their original focus. For Naruto that was behind them, at the roller coaster that disappeared behind some trees and for Sasuke it was Sakura's missing map. The dark boy barely payed attention to the rest of her rant as he searched for a good restaurant, somehow able to put one foot in front of the other with grace despite Sakura's continued tugging on his unoccupied hand. Even though he wasn't paying attention to it, Sakura's rant still played in the back of Sasuke's mind.
"Ouch! Stupid sidewalk, they should really smooth it out. I hope I didn't scuff my converse or catch my knee-highs. Gods, these things are so annoying, but they look so good with these short-shorts, I just had to wear them. Oh, I'm starting to sound like Pig! This is horrible. I hope she isn't rubbing off on me. Next thing you know, I will be correcting your guys' clothing choices, not that I can. You guys have a great sense of fashion. Hey! Look, a restaurant!"
Sasuke registered her last words and his black eyes flicked up to comb the crowd in front of him. There! A little burger joint that wasn't too crowded. Naruto would complain that there wasn't any ramen, but it would do. Sasuke felt his stomach contract at the now distinguishable scent of a well made burger wafted to his nose. He was famished after being dragged by the wild pair next to him up and down the theme park that they were still nowhere close to covering all of. Sasuke couldn't help but wonder if they would manage to cover all of it that day. The next thing he knew he was being dragged into the little burger shop. As Naruto started in he was quickly smacked over the head by the little pink haired gymnast. She hissed an insult and Naruto yelled back indigently about his ice cream cone and its protection. Sasuke just smirked and pulled on Sakura's hand until he had indirectly dragged the two into line.
They were always connected and together. That is what they get for growing up together so closely that they had three-way calls at four in the morning when one of them couldn't sleep. There was never a time that the names 'Sakura' 'Sasuke' or 'Naruto' were uttered without adding on one or more of the other two. And to be honest, team seven liked it best like that. Because none of them could survive without the other, not since they were placed at the same table in Kindergarten. Table seven became a team, and so they earned their famous nickname as Team Seven. Even when the three had gotten to high school they were almost never seen without each other. The three teens would be heading back to Konoha together the next day. They would start their final year in high school together. Then they would all go to the same college, as they were all accepted to the same colleges and they wanted to stay together. Not one of them wanted to think further then that. Because they were the infamous Team Seven, and they wanted to stay that way.
Because Naruto had the brawn to fight off those who threatened them, and Sasuke had the brain to outwit anyone, and Sakura had the heart to keep them together for better or for worse. They belonged together, and that is the way they would stay.
So Sasuke put up with the fight for the few moments before Sakura won, as she always did. Then Naruto sulked, still attached to their human chain, before they were told to order, when he forgot all about it and ordered the biggest burger meal they had with a Mt. Dew, as Sakura and Sasuke knew he would. Sakura then ordered a Garden burger and a small milkshake, as the boy's expected. Next Sasuke ordered a hamburger with extra tomatoes and a water, just how the others knew he liked it. They waited for the order, grinning and giggling in a cluster. They stayed that way until they were called to pick up their food, then they worked together to get it to a table. Over a meal of burgers they had one of a million happy conversations. Just like always. Just like forever.