Mikoto kept tapping her foot, with her arms crossed. She stared at the two boys in the hospital bed. One with blond spiky hair and blond eyes and the other with dark hair and eyes.

"And exactly how did this happen!?" She demanded.

"honestly, we don't really know what happened..." The blond one answered first.

Mikoto huffed. "Fine, start from the beginning then."

"alright! its like this, we were walking in the parking lot and-" The dark-haired boy interrupted his friend.

"shut up dobe, I'll tell the story, you'll make her misinterpret it," Then blond scowled, but the his friend just ignored him and proceeded to tell the story.

...

"Freedom at last!" Naruto yelled across the abandoned parking lot, flailing his arms wildly in the air, laughing hysterically at the sky. Causing to eventually connect with Sasuke's face.

"AW FUCK-" Sasuke stumbled backwards, and forced himself to stay on two feet. He Pinched the bridge of his nose, and made a mixture of a grimace and a growl like sound. "Damn it Dobe!... Would you Be more careful Idiot!"

Naruto glanced back at Sasuke with an apologetic smile, scratching the back of his spiky blond hair. "Sorry dude didn't see yeah there,"

Sasuke just glared at him more, trying, once again to comprehend his friends stupidity."Whatever," Sasuke mumbled.

Sasuke barely noticed Naruto rolling his eyes, from the shadows of his bangs. Pfft Naruto should just be grateful that he had given him a whole three syllables. Sasuke decided to ignore it and continued to follow behind Naruto at a safe distance.

The two crossed the parking lot, stepping over littered can pops and chip bags, and remaining puddles of water from this mornings rain. When they were close to their car (or as Sasuke likes to refer to it as 'Black beauty') Sasuke reached into his hoodie pocket, grabbing a hold of the familiar metal and plastic object and unlocking the car.

As Sasuke reached for the driver side door, he couldn't help but notice Naruto wincing as he opened it. Unable to ignore his friend's abnormal facial expression, Sasuke let out a very sharp harshful "what?"

Naruto nervously glanced at Sasuke then to the keys, then back at Sasuke. "Um... maybe i should drive this time," Naruto said suggestively.

Sasuke narrowed his eyes. eh? What's this idiot saying? Is he insulting Sasuke's ability to drive? Because for your information Sasuke was an Excellent driver! SO he ran over a few red lights, stop signs, and the occasional speed limit! Those were more like guidelines anyways! That doesn't give Naruto the right to even imply that Sasuke's a bad driver. But then maybe he should have some fun with his blond friends stupidity. Amused by his own thoughts, Sasuke began to grin, which caused Naruto to cringe and make a rather loud gulp, which caused Sasuke's widen even more.

Putting on the most nicest face he had Sasuke asked innocently, "And why is that? is there something wrong with my driving Naruto-kun?" Sasuke always wanted to try this on someone, he couldn't help and enjoy people's dumbfounded expression, which is exactly what he got from Naruto.

Um... what?

Did he just hear that right? Cuz Naruto's pretty sure he heard Sasuke just call him... Naruto-Kun? Did Naruto's hit to the face cause Sasuke internal bleeding or something?

Naruto has heard 'Idiot', 'Moron', 'Stupid', 'Dumb ass', 'Dobe', 'Derp' and the occasional 'Duffus-face' (wow he has a lot of nicknames that start with 'd' at least he never got douchebag, that was always one of Sasukes nicknames) (excuse me) (fine it was Itachi's nickname, Yeah pleased with that king of all pricks) (very.). But never has he ever gotten... 'Naruto-kun'.

Taken aback by his dark-haired friends new nickname, Naruto's words got a choked up and choppy. "um no,.. what? Wait- yes-"

"but i thought you mean't you do want me to not drive? Sasuke chimed.

"Ah.. no, yes the answer is no,"

"So you do want me to not let you drive?"

Naruto blinked and thought about what he said for a moment. "Yes! WAIT- no that's not it? I meant me!- i think..would you stop!" Naruto's head was about to explode.

"oh i get it! your saying you want me to stop you from stopping me on letting you drive?"

"Exactly!"

"ok then ill drive since you asked so nicely, Naruto-kun!" Sasuke gave him another innocent smile before entering the driver's side.

"wait? what!?" Naruto enter the passenger side, with his eyes and eyebrows all scrunched up, trying to figure out what the hell just happen. He finally realized what happened once he saw that familiar evil smirk appear on Sasukes face

Fuck.

"You're an Asshole, you know that," Naruto claimed, quickly buckling his seatbelt.

"you just figuring that out," Sasuke replied, before gunning the engine and jerking the car towards the parking lot exit and onto the highway where he proceeded to speed up to a definitely non-safe speed.

"GEEZUS! SASUKE!" Naruto bellowed.

Sasuke had admit, he was purposely driving more reckless the usual just to piss off Naruto. It was Naruto's fault for insulting Sasuke's amazing driving skills in the first place (Its fun to see Naruto getting mad, and so easy to with that hot-headed temper of his) (HEY!) (Shut up you know its true). And someday these awesome driving skills will save his ass one day. Since he wants to become a police officer one day, of course there will be times when he'll have to chase down douchecanoes. so naruto should be honored to be in the presence of the futures best car chaser person.. thing... is that even a real thing?... cuz if there was, Sasuke would win first place.

"GEEZUS! SASUKE!" Naruto bellowed.

Sasuke smirked, "what is it, Naruto-kun?"

"Stop it with the 'Naruto-kun'! It creeps the hell out of me! and it's not what i want to hear before i die," Naruto growled.

And there he goes again! insulting his driving! wasn't there more trust and kindness in this brotherly bond the two had!) Just for that, Sasuke swerved back and forth into the other lane, followed by a loud yelp from Naruto.(...brotherly bond? i think that's either the most kindest or creepiest thing you've ever said...) (take it or leave it dobe)

"GAH! I DON'T WANT TA DIE!" he pleaded.

After several minutes of just scaring Naruto shitless, Naruto flipped out his phone and started pounding on the key pad.

"What are you doing?" Sasuke asked curiously.

"i'm saying goodbye to my cousins before i die, what do you think genius," Naruto snapped sarcastically, slamming the iPhone to his ear.

Sasuke rolled his eyes. He was probably just calling one of them back for something. Sasuke couldn't care less (Then why'd you ask, prick) (Cuz the sounds of key pads annoyed me, duffus-face) (Rainbows and happiness annoy you Teme..) (shut up dobe, im telling the story now)

As Sasuke heard the phone buzzing and soon the voicemail, he spotted a car pulled over in the distance. and it wasn't even pulled over on the side it was just sitting there in the middle of the road, with its hood out. Pffft and people say Sasuke's a reckless driver.

Not wanting to crash and you know damage his car, Sasuke pressed down on the brake, awaiting for Black Beauty to react to his action and slow down, but... da'hell?um what the hells happening? the brakes? why aren't they...

"Damn it! voice mail again, I'll just leave a message-" Naruto stopped in mid sentence and he squinted his eyes, just noticing the car ahead of us, " Hey Sasuke, there's a car over there,"

Sasuke's eyes narrowed, "no shit captain obvious, i can see it,"

"then why aren't you slowing down?"

Sasuke remained silent, and tried the to press the brakes again, this time pressing all of his weight into it. when that didn't work he tried to just move out of the way, but the steering wheel didn't work now either. At a last attempt to stop the car that he knew wouldn't work, he pulled the keys out of the ignition, startling Naruto with his sudden actions. As he predicted nothing happened.

"SASUKE! SERIOUSLY PLEASE STOP IT! THIS ISN'T FUNNY!" Naruto demanded.

"I'm not playing around! the brakes th-th.." Sasuke choked, beginning to freak out as well now, (which he mentally slapped himself for) (Teme, its ok to be afraid) (shut up idiot, not the right time to put your input in), "the brakes aren't working!"

Naruto paled. "Thats not possible...WE JUST BOUGHT THIS CAR!"

"THEN TAKE IT UP WITH THE RECEPTIONIST, BUT FOR NOW..." Sasuke, reacting quickly threw off his and Naruto's seatbelt and opened his car door, "JUMP!"

And with that they jumped. They did a head tuck and roll, before they were slammed against the hard pavement. Even though it hurt like a bitch, Sasuke didn't move an inch from his spot, as he felt the vibrations of the two cars colliding. Sasuke whimpered a bit as he saw pieces of his precious Black Beauty flew around him.

Once down Sasuke unwrapped his arms from his head and pushed himself up from the ground, and limped over to his now destroyed brand new car, which was of course up in flames as well.

This fact made Sasuke pissed! Like seriously, volcano erupting, dinosaur roaring in the background pissed. His Black Beauty, Which he in fact slaved over for a year to buy her himself in the first place, was now destroyed in less than 2 weeks. It was in ruins, the front of his precious mustang was where the backseat was supposed to be, and the airbags had come out, and had ripped open from impact (it wouldn't have been like that if someone didn't speed) (i won't have speed as much if someone didn't imply that my driving skills sucked) (well i won't have- wait, did you just say 'as much'?) (...no...) . Sasuke was absolutely positive that if they had stay in that car they would have been as good as dead. (Sasuke took not to give propes for his quick sly thinking) (and while your at it, give propes on your amazing ability on being humble bro, cuz being conceited is a flaw and you have none, right?) (damn straight.)

Sasuke jumped a little when he heard a rather loud and painful sigh beside him. He snapped his head and faced Naruto. He still looked rather pale, and he was holding his arm and had scratches all over his face. Sasuke assumed he looked as bad as Naruto did.

"I'm just going to go out on a limb here, and guess that you don't have Insurance do you?" Naruto presumed.

"Nope." Sasuke sighed.

Silence broke out through the two of them, until Sasuke felt a small tug on the corner of his lips. Now that all the adrenaline rushed out of his body, the sudden realization of him almost dying, came sinking in. And for some reason, amused the boy so much he burst into hysterical laughter.

HOLY SHIT! LAUGHTER! Sasuke was laughing and not a let-slip laugh. this was a full growth joyful laughter. (and that laughter will hunt me for the rest of my life *shiver*..) (shut up, Dobe you were laughing to) (yeah at least my laugh doesn't sound like a crazed psychopath!) (hey! wasn't it you who told me to have more laughter in my life) (yeah... near death experience doesn't count bro) (What! yeah it does) (no it doesn't) (yeah it does-) (WOULD YOU JUST FINISH THE STORY ALREADY) (sorry...)

The two boys kept laughing which seem like for hours, but really was just a minute.

"Dude dude, we almost DIED! HAHAHAHA!" Naruto yelled.

"I KNOW RIGHT!" Sasuke yelled back, now holding his stomach. As much as Sasuke was enjoy this, there was something at the back of his head that kept nagging him. Trying to tell him something really important. not able to ignore it, Sasuke looked up at the cars again. Something about them was very vital... but what, he scanned over the cars twice before he saw what was so important. The gasoline tank was smashed and there was fire...Shit.

"NARUTO, WATCH OUT!" Sasuke did a full on football body slam into Naruto. As if on que both cars erupt sending a full force of air towards them and pushing the two back several feet. The heat of the explosion felt like it was peeling the flesh from his back, it intensified the pain of ever scratch, bruise, and bite he had on his body. Once the to boys slammed on the pavement, it only intensified his pain.

Sasuke opened his eyes when he realize that he had them close to withstand the pain, but everything was blurry and his ears were ringing like crazy. He could feel someone moving from underneath his arm, guessing that it was Naruto.

When Sasukes vision and hearing cleared a bit, he could see Naruto beside him with a worried expression, and could only hear bits and pieces of Naruto yelling out his name and asking him if he was alright. (yes Naruto because blurry vision and ringing ears makes me perfectly ok, right) (well sorry for being worried about your well-being).

He saw was Naruto pulling out his phone, then Sasuke vision started to fade again. the last thing he heard was Naruto yelling into the phone.

"COME QUICKLY, MY FRIEND HE- HE PROTECTED ME FROM THE EXPLOSION A-AND HIS BACK! oh gawd his back...!"

"And that's what happened," Naruto concluded.

Mikoto, with hands now on her hips but her foot still tapping, stared down the boys, which made them shift uncomfortably in their beds.

After several long agonizing minutes, Mikoto gave in.

"alright, alright, i believe you," the both of them let out a breath of relief, "I'm just glad the both of you are alive, I'm just going to explain this all to your father so you two rest up and heal. The doctor told me Sasukes burns weren't as bad as they looked, so you don't to worry about it anymore Naruto, but they will scar a little near your shoulder blades, just-, just be careful around there, Alright?"

Sasuke rolled his eyes, "Its fine, mom, i'll think of it as my battle scar,"

Despite what he said, Mikoto gave his son another worried glance.

"ok, then i leave you two then." but before she left the room, she said something else. "oh and when you're done here in the hospital we'll be going on a cruise,"

Sasuke's shoulder tensed, but Naruto reacted with excitement.

"what really! That's Awesome!" Naruto jumped up and down excitedly.

"well after everything you've been through, a cruise would help you to recover, once Sasuke's back is heal, we'll leave!" and with that she left the room.

For some reason this made Sasuke suspicious. When did they exactly plan this? And why does it feel like she doesn't believe us? it's not like they randomly thought up of the idea once they heard that those two have been sent to the hospital because of a car crash/Explosion. And it sounded almost demanded when his mother mentioned it, like they had no choice in the matter. And a cruise... come to think of it, Sasuke remembered seeing a brochure of a cruise on the kitchen table two days ago...Something written on it was very... important..

"i don't think she believes are story." Naruto claimed, causing Sasuke to snap back to earth.

Sasuke stared at him questioningly, "how do you-"

"Come on Sasuke I'm not that thick-" that's an understatement "- you probably thought the same thing too. Mikoto probably thinks that you got wasted and crashed," Naruto explained.

Sasuke blinked. "what? why would she think that?"

"oh she found your secret stash a few days go, didn't i tell you? on top of that we both got wasted last year and tried to steal that car remember, she probably thinks were just a bunch of delinquents."

pause...

"WHAT THE FUCK NARUTO!"

Naruto jumped. "what!?"

Sasuke cradled his head. "I may have been drunk at the time, but i remember what she said 'one more time, if it happens again one more time I'll send you both off'" and Sasuke now knows exactly where they'll being sent off too.

One Week Later...

The two boys stood there staring up at the giant ass boat, or more like staring at the sign at the entrance of the boat.

Naruto began reading it, "Konoha's summer boat camp for...Deliquents!?"

"Bye kids! Have Fun!" The two turned their attention back to their family's Van, which was currently leaving the dock, with waving hands coming out of the windows.

"And there goes are ride..." Sasuke sighed.

They both looked back at the boat. with another loud sigh, the two men came to the conclusion that Freedom had never been with them in the first place.