Man, its been a while since I've written any fiction of the fan variety. I just had February vacation, so I got working on this. Yes, a kinda pseudo-sequel to the Oddest Birthday. This time Sasuke gets to star, but relax. Naruto and Hinata will still be featured prominently, as well as many other characters which you've grown to love. Enough of my prattle, read on!
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The alarm clock rang brazenly in the still morning air. Sasuke rolled over, fidgeted with the sheets for a minute, and shut the loud machine off. He stretched and scratched his chin before opening the shade and looking out at the morn.
"Stupid morning," he grimaced. Sasuke began his morning routine of taking a shower, being emo, combing his hair, moping about his family, eating breakfast, and checking the mail.
"Bills, bills, fan mail, bills, jury duty...hmm?"
He stopped at the garishly pink envelope, which hurt his eyes to look at. He pulled out a kunai and sliced the letter open, peering inside and seeing two tickets along with a letter. Sasuke pocketed the tickets and read the letter aloud.
"Dear Sasuke-kun, I have managed to buy two tickets to the beautiful tropical island of Afijiji for your birthday! Turn around so we can discuss this?" Sasuke questioned, turning around to see Sakura smiling not 1 foot away from him. He leapt onto his nearby bookcase and tried to catch his breath.
"What is wrong with you?" he panted.
"Hi Sasuke! Do you want to go on the vacation?" she asked, not at all deterred by Sasuke's reaction.
"Can't you at least let me finish my mail?" Sasuke glared, climbing down from the bookcase. Sakura sighed and took a seat on the couch. Sasuke ruffled through the rest of the letters before being blinded again by a rainbow envelope.
"Geez. Who's this from?"
He slashed this one open as well, just to find two tickets and a letter. Sakura wandered over and fumed.
"Oh no she didn't..."
Sasuke decided to read this one aloud too.
"Hi honey-muffin!"
He stopped to hold back the vomit that was crawling up his esophagus and continued.
"I bought two tickets to the gorgeous tropical island of Afijiji just for your special b-day! Come see me in the town center so we can talk about it! With love, Ino."
Sakura glared daggers at the letter, while Sasuke just contemplated. It was his birthday soon, wasn't it? Well, he shouldn't pass up a free trip to the tropics, no matter how annoying the girls were. He could always avoid them when he got to the island. Speaking of girls...
"How did you get in here anyway?" he asked, turning to Sakura.
"Oh, I've stalked you long enough to figure out where you keep the spare key. Third rock on the left!" she grinned, pulling out Sasuke's spare key. He snatched it back and reminded himself to find a new hiding spot.
"So, you are going to go with me, right?" Sakura hopefully asked, clasping her hands and giving Sasuke puppy dog eyes. Sasuke shrugged and opened the door.
"Ino spent a lot of money, so I can't just ignore her..."
"MORNING SASUKE!!"
Sasuke leapt into the air again for the second time that day, this time landing atop the Uchiha hedges. Naruto grinned and waved.
"Ready to train?"
"I hope you two get cancer." Sasuke muttered under his breath. He clambered down from the bush and started walking to the town center. Naruto hopped along beside him like some overly happy dog.
"So, you wanna spar? Huh? Do ya?"
"Sasuke, don't you want to go with me on this trip?"
Sasuke just kept walking, attempting to drown out all of the noise with his emo thoughts. Yeah, those emo thoughts would always comfort him.
After an undisclosed amount of time, the trio were in the town square where Ino was calmly waiting. She frowned at Sakura, then turned back to Sasuke.
"So, do you want to come to the island with me?" she winked.
"No, he wants to come with me." Sakura sneered back.
"Island?" Naruto wondered, exceedingly confused as he usually was. Sasuke sighed.
"These two want to take me to a tropical island for a magical birthday getaway. It doesn't sound so great."
Ino and Sakura stopped leering at each other to pout at Sasuke.
"But Sasuke, we already have tickets! Will you at least look at the flier?" Ino waved the pamphlet in his face. Sasuke reluctantly took it and lazily scanned the pictures. Some nice looking beaches, a fancy hotel, jungle, a five star restaurant...
His eyes darted back to the picture of the restaurant. In the foreground was a chubby chef holding a nice looking shellfish dinner, but it was the background that really interested him. There, clearly serving some people their meal, was Itachi. No mistaking it.
"We're going." he stated, standing up.
"With who?" the girls chimed.
"Both, I don't care. I'm going to go pack my bags." he briskly walked away and left the other three behind.
"Aww man, looks like I have an extra ticket..." Ino whined.
"I'll take it!" Naruto said, hopping up and down.
"Hell no." Ino and Sakura declined. Naruto would totally ruin any vacation. A bit defeated, Naruto shuffled back home. The girls put their heads together for who else to bring.
"What about Shikamaru? I mean he is your teammate..." Sakura suggested. Ino brightened up.
"Yeah! I could make him use his jutsu to paralyze Sasuke so I can rape him!"
"That's...not what I was implying."
In the bushes, Naruto schemed. He hadn't really gone home, just far enough away to not be noticed. He sat crossed legged and put his noodle to work.
"Okay, so they're going to an island. I don't want Sasuke to spend too much time with Sakura. They won't give me the extra ticket. So...um...I should..."
A bird chirped in the distance. Naruto's brain was starting to hurt a little bit.
"Buy my own ticket!" he yelled, leaping up. "Naruto, you're a mastermind." He charged to his house to get his things.
In bushes elsewhere, Hinata watched Naruto run off to his house. She couldn't believe what she just heard. Naruto was going away? For how long? This was worrying her so. She needed to spend her summer with the blonde youth, she just had to! After some deliberation, she decided maybe she should try to get on to this plane as well. Hinata nodded to herself and set off for her own house.
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Meh, not the best opening chapter I've ever done, but trust me, it gets better once it gets rolling. Review if you feel like it!