Little Moments: A Team Seven Drabble Collection by Japyra

Dislcaimer: All canon characters and/or recognizable material are not mine. If I owned Naruto, would I be writing fanfiction or the next episode/chapter?

Summary: Little Moments…that make them human. A series of inner scenes between the four members of Team Seven. Pairings vary on my mood, so forewarning.

"Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny."-Carl Schurz

Their mission had been long and hard in the way that genin—children—are unable to cope with even with their extensive energy levels. It had been dirty and gray and terribly sad. As a result, their trek home had been tailored by Naruto declaring a break and hurling himself on the ground. Silently agreeing, his teammates followed suit against their sensei's half-hearted reprimands.

Somehow during the night Sakura had ended up using the blond as a cushion and Sasuke had moved within arms-length of the pair while Kakashi used a match to read while sitting in a tree.

The stars hovered above them tantalizingly, and he reached his orange-clad arm out, pretending to grab one. "Look Sakura-chan, I have a star for you!"

In spite of herself, the girl giggled at his excitement.

"Dobe," Sasuke commented, smirking in the darkness.

Naruto growled. "Teme, you're just jealous because Sakura-chan is using me as a pillow and not you!"

"Idiot, you practically jumped her."

"Did not! She wanted to! Right, Sakura-chan!"

Not wanted to endure their bickering, she let out an exasperated sigh and pointed to the heavens. "Do you guys know what stars are?"

"Eh? You know what the stars are?! You're the best, Sakura-chan!"

The pink-haired girl rolled her eyes in exasperation and tried to stifle her smile.

"Someone" His voice was so soft that anywhere else and they wouldn't have caught it. Not gentile and warm; but a brittle whisper in the starlit night. "...once told me that our fate is written within the stars."

Naruto blinked, surprised by this bit of volunteered information from the reserved shinobi. "Our… fates?" He looked up at the sky.

She gazed at the stars, and suddenly felt a tight clenching in her stomach. So many… so little…

Suddenly, her human pillow shifted and she yelped in surprise as she caught herself with her forearms. Angrily, she rounded on the boy. "Naruto, what the—" The words dried in her mouth.

He was standing, a boy-man with untamed golden hair wavering slightly in the chilled wind and infinite blue eyes catching the moonlight as he stared defiantly back at the celestials.

"Well, screw that!" He shook his fist. "I'm writing my own destiny!"

"Dobe, you can't control fate." The Uchiha muttered darkly.

The Kyuubi struck the ground with his foot. "Shut up Teme! I'm going to rewrite the stars into the ending I want! Just you watch!" He whirled back around, as if challenging the stars themselves to contradict him. "I'm not going to submit to any fate or destiny shit."

And standing there, silhouetted by silver and simply overfilling with light; she believed him.

"And what are you going to do?" Sakura whispered, a smile forming on her lips. "Become Hokage?"

He grinned at her. "Of course! But that's not all!"

She looked bemusedly at him. "And what else is the great Uzumaki Naruto going to do?"

Sasuke gave a dark chuckle and Naruto glared at him before continuing on. "I'm going to make sure that we're always together. Team 7! With me and Sakura-chan…" He hovered over the dark-haired boy and stuck his tongue out. "…and even you, bastard."

Sasuke blinked, covering his surprise and turning to the side. "Whatever loser."

Sakura grinned slightly, tracing invisible lines through the heavens with her finger.

"Team Seven—Forever." She closed her eyes, smiling at the boys. "Right?"

"Yeah!" Naruto punched the air and barely there but still real; she heard the faintest,

"Ah."

Next chapter: It seems like everyone is trying to get her to choose between Love or love; but Sakura doesn't understand why she can't have both.

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