The alarm clock played the same monotonous tone over and over again. Refusing to stop Naruto sat up in his bed and reached over to his bedside table and started tapping with his hand. After several seconds of groping he managed to find the off button and promptly pressed it. Ruffling his hair Naruto threw the blankets off of him and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes. "Haku," Naruto said, shaking the boy in the bed next to him,"Haku, it's the last day, get up!"
"Uhhhh, go away," he groaned, pulling the sheets further up and over his head.
"You know I can't let you just sleep in, we've gotta finish off our exams, it's important, now get up!" "Fine, just gimme a sec' and I'll be up." Haku groaned, rolling over.
Naruto passed into the kitchen of their small dorm room and poured a small cup of coffee from a steaming pot on the counter.
"I really shouldn't have stayed up so late last night," Haku groaned, getting up ou of the bed and pouring himself a cup of coffee.
"Yea no kidding," Naruto replied.
"But still, one hell of a party." Haku sighed.
"who are you kidding?" Naruto asked,"You stayed up all night watching freaky porn movies."
"Exactly." Haku replied slyly.
"Oh God." Naruto said, apalled.
The pair walked out into the main building of the dorms, passing a ping-pong table, a pool table, and a foosball table, all with hungover sleeping students on them.
"Well, guess there really was a party." Naruto said.
"I told ya so." Haku replied.
They continued their walk through the door to the parking lot outside on the M.I.T campus, they came to a lime green Viper parked next to the sidewalk.
"Y'know, it's been a year we've been going to school here, and for a year I've been bumming a ride off you and for the life of me I still can't believe you have this car." Haku said.
"And for the hundreth time I told you it was a high school graduation present from my senile grandfather." Naruto replied.
Naruto took a set of keys out of his pocket and unlocked the car, Haku sat down in the passenger seat and both set their bags in the back. Naruto put the key in the ignition and the V10 engine roared into life, and in that moment, Naruto felt at peace.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX "Now I'm sure you're all very excited about Summer break," Kakashi said, pacing about the room while talking,"But I can't stress enough the fact that you should not rush on your exams."
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX "Uhhh finally!" Naruto groaned stretching out, "I thought that test would never end."
"So what happens now?" Haku asked.
"Oh I think you know." Naruto said.
The pair stood there for a little while not saying anything, then, identical grins crept onto their faces as they simultaneously said,"ROADTRIP!"
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX "Okay so here's the plan," Naruto said pulling a map out of his bag and spreading it across the dash of the car,"We will first retrieve Gaara because he lives on campus, Shikamaru lives in the same house as him so we can kill two birds with one stone on that one." Naruto motioned to a red circle on the map. "Temari lives a little further away so we'll pick her up after that." He then traced a line to another red circle on the map. "The real trouble is when we pick up Sasuke," Naruto motioned to a final circle on the map, "As everyone knows Sasuke lives with his older Itachi who somehow managed to get a stick in the mud shoved up his ass while rolling out of the wrong side of the bed on Friday the thirteenth, in other words, he is a PAAAAAIN."
"Okay, everything seems in order, but I've got just one question." Haku said.
"And what's that?" Naruto asked.
"Why the map?" Haku asked.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX "Gaara, Gaara!" Naruto and Haku yelled while throwing rocks at the upper dorm room window, "Gaara, get your ass out here!"
"WHAT?!" Gaara yelled, poking his head out of the window.
"Come on, we're goin' on a trip!" Naruto yelled up to the window.
"Where?" Gaara asked.
"Roadtrip." Naruto said.
Gaara was down in front of the house in an instant,
"Okay, let's go!" Gaara replied.
"Hang on, we've got a couple of people and things to pick up." Naruto said, calming Gaara down. "Where's Shikamaru?"
"Where do you think?" Gaara asked, "He's upstairs sleeping."
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Naruto and Haku crept into the room where the boy Shikamaru was sleeping. The two slowly inched their way into the room, crouched on their haunches, moving ever so slightly. Haku brushed by an end table that had an ashtray teetering on the edge, when Haku hit the table it fell and shattered, spraying glass shards all over the floor. Naruto winced and gave Haku a dirty look.
Shikamaru shuffled in sleep and groaned slightly but in the end still did not wake. "Oh seriously," Naruto said, "You've gotta' be shitting me."
Haku and Naruto wrapped Shikamaru in a blanket and carried him down the stairs and put him in the back seat of the car.
Gaara just looked at Naruto and Haku, he just shook his head and sighed.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Shikamaru was having the most pleasent dream, he was with his crush, Temari, they were sitting on a beach, he had his arm wrapped around her shoulders and she was leaning her head against his chest. Then she started rubbing his back, he leaned into her hands and she started rubbing harder, then it felt like she was hitting him, HARD, and she kept on until... "Look who's awake." Haku said.
"What the shit?" Shikamaru asked,"Where the hell am I?"
Shikamaru was lain across the back seat, the pulsing feeling in his back was actually the bumping of the road in the car.
"We're going on a road trip." Gaara said.
"And you didn't even ask me if I wanted to go, you just kidnapped me?" Shikamaru asked.
"Yea, pretty much." Naruto said from the driver's seat.
"Oh jeez, quit your complaining!" Temari said, turning from the passenger seat.
"Hi Temari," Shikamaru whispered, blushing.
"Alright so where are we going now?" Temari asked.
"Sasuke's." Naruto replied.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX The five people sat in the lime green car outside the tall Uchiha house wathcng the events inside. It appeared as though Itachi was yelling at Sasuke and Sasuke wasn't in the best situaton.
"Hold on, I have an idea." Naruto said.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Naruto went up to the door and knocked, Itachi answered the door red faced and flustered,
"What do you want?" Itachi snapped.
"Is Sasuke there?" Naruto asked.
"I'm afraid he can't come out right now, we're having a bit of a, discussion." Itachi said.
"No, I was bringing him papers that Kakashi didn't get the chance to give him," Naruto said.
"Hang on, I'll get him." Itachi sighed.
Sasuke came to the door in a depressed demeanor and asked,"What do you want?"
Naruto just gave him the paper he was holding and mouthed, 'read it'
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX "O' four hundred, the team is outside the Uchiha residence prepared to make the drop and recieve the package, we are on standby ready for the signal." Naruto narrated the current situation.
He looked to Sasuke's window and sure enough at midnight a rope fell down from Sasuke's window and soon enough Sasuke himself followed. Naruto returned to the Viper and started the car, it creeped along for a while waiting for Sasuke to cross the road.
Naruto looked into the living room of the house and saw Itachi in a bathrobe crossing in front of the window just as Sasuke was passing by.
"Shit." Naruto whispered.
Their cover blown Naruto revved the engine and dropped the car into first gear pulling out of their hiding place. Sasuke ran toward them, Itachi in hot pursuit, Sasuke got parallel to the car, first tossed his bag into the open window, then jumped in himself. Naruto pulled away, cycling through gears, leaving Itachi in the dust, swearing up a storm.
At that moment everyone realized this was going to be a great summer break.