My Metaphorical and literal rollercoaster life
Written by Ghostsammeo
Disclaimer: I do not own anything to do with Naruto (Or Universal Studios on that matter) and make no money from this story.
A/N haven't been to Florida for years so don't mind too much if it's all a bit wrong, thanks for reading!
Summary: 'The Jurassic Park ride isn't the most romantic place to fall in love, but at least it will make a funny story' – Sasuke's life turns into some romantic comedy fanfiction when he gets a job at Universal Studios.
The Jurassic park ride isn't the most romantic place to fall in love, but at least it will make a funny story some day.
It all begins at my older brother Itachi's house in Florida. He lives with a bunch of friends in some nice little white house on a road right near the beach. He and his friends all work for Universal Studios (The one with the globe... Yeah, you know the one) and Itachi managed to get me a job there as he's pretty well respected. Well that and the fact there's a sort of clearance sale going on with the staff where a bunch of them are getting fired to be replaced by some young, 18-19 year olds with minimum pay like me.
So here I stand in Itachi's room, looking in the mirror at my new uniform. Itachi stands on one side and my best friend/room-mate in my flat, Naruto is on my other. Also this guy called Tobi is in the corner struggling to pull on some trousers for some reason but that doesn't matter. (Though Tobi is a weird guy I would love to elaborate on, he wears this weird mask which apparently is uniform for the ride he supervised and once he got it he never took it off, Itachi can't even remember his face!)
"This will be so cool Sasuke!" Naruto yelps with excitement, "I've already bought my year ticket so I can visit you anytime!"
"Maybe instead of visiting me at my job you could get a job of your own to help out with rent," I say back.
"Sasuke, I have constantly visited you at all your jobs in the past, why should your theme park job be any different?"
"Because you have to pay to get in," Itachi reminds him.
Naruto simply shrugs, he doesn't care; he's used my money to buy the ticket anyway.
"Yo Tobi, I'm leaving for work, if you want that ride you better come now yeah!" Some guy called Deidara shouts from downstairs, Tobi hops out while pulling on a sock.
Itachi raises his watch and nods, "Yes we should get going, you want to make a good impression on your first day Sasuke,"
"Right," I nod and me and Naruto follow him out.
There are four cars outside brother's house, obviously needed for transporting the mass of people in the house to work.
Me, Naruto and Itachi's friend Kisame step into Itachi's little red car and soon enough we've hit the roads.
Kisame in the front next to the driving Itachi catches my eye in the mirror and attempts to make small talk, "So, you excited Sasuke?"
"Hn," I grunt. Why do they ask me questions like I'm five years old, I'm not five, I'm Sasuke Uchiha!
Kisame smirks to himself then realises Naruto sitting in the back next to me.
"Have you got him a job here too Itachi?" He questions, his eyes narrowing.
Itachi and his friends aren't big fans on Naruto's part you see. I've brought him around a couple of times when visiting and I think he made the wrong impression on them all, in-fact I think they all just refer to him as 'Sasuke's annoying friend'.
Itachi glances in the mirror, "No," he answers.
"Then why's he coming," continues Kisame.
He's got a point. The park won't be open for another hour after our arrival, Naruto will have to wait outside.
"I'm here to give Sasuke support!" Naruto exclaims.
Eventually we arrive. Quickly Naruto is pulled back from following is inside and I follow Itachi and his friends into the staff lockers the start of the park to the sounds of Naruto shouting.
I feel like a complete idiot as I stand there like... well, an idiot; watching everyone get on with their normal routine.
"Sasuke," The only female in Itachi's house, Konan (I know, it worries me too) calls my name.
I look over to her and she nods at a red locker high up, "That's yours,"
After managing to look like I know what I'm doing for a minute I soon fall back into my newbie-like ways as everyone else buzzes off, knowing what to do next.
Luckily for me, Pein, supervisor of everyone else, pulls me to one side.
"The boss would like a word before we start," he explains and I follow him out the building and into the blistering sun.
Standing in the centre of the path is a tall, long, black haired man with a pale complexion and next to him a strangely white/blue haired kid about my age.
I grimace, why are we meeting up in the middle of the path where the sun is shining down on us, why not in a building or in the shade? They've even got me standing so the suns going into my eyes... the bastards.
"Sasuke," The man I assume is the boss smiles and takes my hand to shake... well he moisturises.
"Sasuke this is your boss, Orochimaru," Pein on my side explains.
I'm about to just say "Hn," and shrug but the expectancy in Orochimaru's eyes want more.
"It's good to meet you," I nod, pretending like I've actually heard of him, "Itachi's told me about you,"
"Hmm?" he seems confused.
Wrong move?
"Oh... Oh yes Itachi, nice fellow; good at his job, beautiful eyes," ... weird, "You're his brother aren't you?"
"Yes," I nod.
"Well I'm sure Itachi's taught you about machines and rollercoaster's," He starts to get to his point.
That's true, the reason I got this job is partly because of my knowledge of machines and such.
"However my young friend I feel for this first week until the new employee's come, you'll have to start out vending gaming stalls,"
My face immediately drops, I don't think he cares but he notices. Pein nudges me so I bring my 'pleasant' face back on.
"Yes, it's not particularly the most fun sounding job, just ask Suigetsu here," Orochimaru grins and puts his hand on the guy to his sides shoulder. "But somebody's got to do it. Suigetsu here will take you down and show you the ropes, off you go now,"
Once Orochimaru turns his annoyingly flirty voice to Pein Suigetsu nods for us to leave.
"Orochimaru's a bit weird, but you get used to him after awhile... he's a nice guy," Suigetsu says as he leads me through many themed lands of the park.
"Hn," I nod.
As we walk suddenly we are both cut short by a shout.
"Suigetsu where have you been? I had to set up the SpongeBob stall all by myself!"
"Sasuke," He mutters to me, "I'm sorry, I wanted to avoid this; I let you down... this is Karin,"
A girl our age is running over to us, her eyes looking pretty angry under her glasses as she stomps into Suigetsu's face.
"I was with Orochimaru," he states back at her which is true enough.
"Well you could have told me," she hisses then her eyes soften as she notices me. Damn.
"Who's this?" She asks as she starts straightening her red hair with her fingers.
"This is Sasuke; I'm showing him the ropes,"
"You?" I can tell she's hatched a plan, "You don't know the first thing about this park, I'll bring Sasuke around,"
"I think the fact Orochimaru chose me for this speaks louder than any of your arguments, come on Sasuke," me and Suigetsu start walking off as Karin shouts at us.
"He didn't choose you! I bet you just happened to be there!"
"That's Karin," he says to me dryly as we walk, "I think its best you stay out of her way and come to me and my pal Jugo if you need anything,"
I will, I've taken a liking to this Suigetsu fella.
"Hn," I answer.
Finally we arrive at this random plaza sort of area, with some big-ass rollercoaster behind me where I think I can see Sasori starting it up.
"So, there's not much to know about stall vending is there," Suigetsu says as he hops onto the counter and pulls out a drink from God knows where.
"Guess not," I shrug and poke this big cuddly toy.
"Well I gotta fly Sasuke, I would stay longer but my stall is on the other side of this joint, cya around pal,"
"Yeah, cya," I nod and watch him leave. Well at least I've made one friend here now.
Soon enough I hear word the park is open and sit there, ready for the children to arrive (albeit it would be a while since- "SASUKE!"
"Wah!" I yelp and fall off my set. Damn Naruto interrupting my trail of thought, and how the hell did he get this deep into the park so fast?
"How's this stall work?" He goes on, chucking a dollar or two onto the counter.
"Get lost Naruto," I hiss, handing him some balls to throw at the targets behind me.
"Sasuke I told you I am... awh I thought I had that one... Anyway I told you I'm always going to visit," He laughs as he plays the game.
"Well at least-"
"I win, that big fish please Sasuke," Naruto points over my head.
"Well at least you can give me some company, I mean how boring is vending a stall," I converse as I take a big bear hanging on the roof of my stall.
"True. I was kinda hoping to visit you controlling a rollercoaster and you'd let me have a go," Naruto nods as he hops over the counter and replaces his prize for the fish he asked for.
Eventually Naruto leaves and the day drags on. As my days at the park continued I started turning sourer and sourer.
It became a chore to lift up and give a child the prize they don't even deserve. (That's right I'm angry at children now) Well at least my two friends Suigetsu and Naruto liked each other. Naruto would often follow us into staff only places when we went for our breaks (much to the dislike of Pein) and him and Suigetsu bonded over having sharp teeth... go figure.
I met Jugo on my fourth day working. He's a quiet guy, but nice enough. He would sometimes cover for me when I went to the toilet. Naturally Karin, the psycho, would catch me every time I stepped into her zone. Did I mention its apparent she's got some weird, unhealthy crush on me.
Itachi's friends haven't been very supporting. When I let loose how boring working at a stall was straight away the reaction was to boast about operating rollercoaster's... dicks.
One Friday, I have had a very long day. There is no activity around my stall so I decide to whip up a can of soda while playing on my Nintendo DS against Naruto on Mario Kart. (Lame I know but I was seriously bored and Naruto bought the DS to cheer me up... only problem is he bought it with my money)
Suddenly strolling up to my stall is Pein. Quick as a flash I chucked the DS to Naruto and handed a fat guy walking past my drink.
Pein's eyebrows arch suspiciously as he regards me and Naruto.
"You again, staying in legal places I hope," He mutters with distaste as Naruto nods vigorously. Pein turns to me.
"Pein?"
"Sasuke, you're in a bit of luck," he smiles- which is weird cuz he doesn't smile much and its funny to watch all his piercing move up with the grin.
"Oh?" I enquire.
"Since the new employee's are coming in come Monday we thought now, being Friday would be the best time for you to get time to practise working a coaster.
"Yahoo!" Naruto celebrates for me.
"Which rollercoaster?" I ask him.
"Well it's not quite a rollercoaster; you're familiar with the Jurassic park boat ride?"
No! Damn it, he's gonna get me doing the tour on the boat. What makes him think I'm good at talking about dinosaurs, I'm a very quiet person, hasn't he got that from all the "Hn's" and grunts I do?
"Oh, that's not a rollercoaster," Naruto pauses.
Pein glares at Naruto, "Basically you'll be doing the tour guide roll on it, Hidan can't do it anymore but he's up there right now to give you a tutorial,"
"Right," I nod.
"I'll cover your stall for now, you should go," Pein explains.
I start to leave and here Pein telling off Naruto for distracting me... which means Pein saw me playing Nintendo DS and sipping Sprite.
I make my way across the busy park towards the Jurassic park themed area. The ride is closed for now, and I meet Hidan nearby it.
He gives me a quick run through (Apparently I'm not supposed to say 'Here's the pussy herbivores' and 'oh fuck we're going into the carnivores area!' which is nice of him to remind me)
At around three I'm finally doing it myself. I hate talking in-front of crowds. Especially when we're on a boat talking about crappy fake dinosaurs (I lie they're actually reasonably realistic)
"And... this is a herbivore," I mumble down the microphone. A few people are tutting at my crappiness, but I don't care.
Just before the boat is about to turn into the dark tunnel... I see her.
She has this cool pink styled hair and these beautiful emerald green eyes. She's sitting next to her blonde friend, laughing and really not caring about my amazing tour.
You know that phrase that time stops when you're in love? Well whoever said that is fucked up. What really happens is totally opposite, you see the girl, palms soaked with sweat suddenly and then you're blabbing something incoherent into the microphone making everyone give me funny looks.
I spit out some words of apology then forget the stupid and sit down, just looking at her.
She notices near the end of the ride, and when finished her and her friend run off laughing.
"No way!" Naruto gasps once I've told him the story back at our messy flat.
"Yes," I nod.
Well I'm lying actually. I didn't tell him the whole story; I replaced the love bit with 'really fit girl'. Why? Because I'm a man!
"Dude you should find her and tap that thing!" Naruto squawks.
"Hey shut up, besides I don't know where she is or who she is," I say, shrugging his hand off my shoulder.
"Well she'll probably be back at the park soon; nobody just goes once to Universal Studios BF! I'll find her for you!"
"Don't call me BF. It sounds like you're calling me boyfriend," I sigh.
The following Monday as I push my bag into my locker – "SASUKE!"
"Wah!"
It's Naruto! How did he get here? Its staff only and the parks not even open!
"I think I've found her," He begins.
"Get out," Pein walked past and says glumly, I hate to think how many times he's had to say that.
"You got it!" Naruto salutes him then ignores the order and turns back to me, "Listen I've found her,"
"Found who?" I shrug like I don't know he's talking about pink-haired girl.
"Just through there," He nods to a door behind us, "Suigetsu in there with a surprise,"
"Get out loser," I mutter and push past him.
My heart is racing from his news. I'm eighty-three percent sure Naruto was indicating pink-haired girl is through this door.
I go through and step next to Suigetsu.
"Sasuke!" he grins, "Look we've got a new army of workers, and your gonna show them the ropes just like I did for you last week!"
There's a lot of them: There's a fat guy, a pale black haired boy who looks like me, a guy with a high ponytail who's about asleep, a guy with weird white eyes, a girl with weird white eyes, a guy with red hair, a guy with a weird hat on, a girl with four scrunched up buns of hair, a girl with two brown buns, a dude with bushy eyebrows, some guy with sunglasses and a hoody waving to some kid with a dog outside (New security guard?), pink-haired girls friend and to round it all off it Universal Studios uniform... pink haired girl who I love.
Shit.