Disclaimer: I was going to sue Masashi Kishimoto for the rights. Then my lawyer decided to point out that I don't actually have a case. -.- Damn.
Sasuke awoke the next morning to the loud buzzing of an alarm. He groaned into the pillow at the noise, then it stopped. He rolled over and was momentarily confused as he faced the unfamiliar room with the unfamiliar half-naked man in it. Oh, yeah, now he remembered.
Now back to the half-naked man.
Naruto was rummaging around in the dresser in just his boxers. His flame boxers with 'HOTT' written all over them. Stupid boxers aside Naruto definitely had an all-over tan, and he definitely had very defined mucles. Sasuke shook his head and looked at the alarm, it was eight. Sighing, he got out of bed. He was also in only boxers, but his were a normal dark-blue plaid and they had no words on them.
The raven walked over to the dresser and grabbed clothes for the day. Just boxers, a t-shirt, and shorts since he had to wear that big, horrible, furry suit anyway. He also grabbed a towel, he needed to shower and there was a bathroom right down the hall. He saw Naruto gathering all the same things out of the corner of his eye. Sasuke debated for a moment whether he should put clothes on, but the bathroom was only a few feet away and besides, all the girls were the next floor up.
The two walked out of their room together and into the bathroom. The bathroom was set up as typically as Sasuke had expected. A row of urinals on one side, a row of stalls on the other. Walking further in you turned a corner into a big tile room with many shower heads. Of course. A communal shower. People were in it too, Sasuke was horrified to find as he set his towel down on a bench outside the shower. He walked in, going as far away from the pony-tailed man as he could. He was relieved to see that Naruto spaced himself equally between Sasuke and the other guy.
'Good,' Sasuke thought, 'At least the yellow wonder knows shower rules.' The main shower rule being that you don't go to the shower head right next to someone else unless absolutely necessary. Sasuke started his shower and quickly started cleaning himself, he was determined to spend as little time in there as possible. As he began to shampoo the sound of one shower stopped. He assumed the other guy was done as he could still sort of see Naruto out of the corner of his eye. Sasuke quickly rinsed and turned the shower off. He padded across the now wet tile floor and grabbed his towel from the bench. Once he'd dried himself off and gotten at least his boxers on he rubbed the towel against his head. Satisfied that that was good enough he quickly ran his fingers upwards through the back so it looked neat, it would dry sticking up, and his bangs would dry straight. He quickly threw on his blue t-shirt and black Adidas shorts.
Back in the room he stared at his Chipmunk costume with a sort of forced determination. He had to put the stupid thing on. But the huge grin and eyes were the most obnoxious things he'd ever seen.
He immediately took that back.
Naruto bounced into the room singing "I Just Can't Wait to Be King" out loud. He was wearing black Nike shorts and an orange t-shirt. He didn't hesitate in getting the large furry body of the costume on, and he grbbed the head and headed for the door. "Come on, Sasuke!" He said when he saw Sasuke just standing there looking at him with a blank expression.
Sasuke sighed with a 'might as well' air and put on the furry suit. Once he had it on the already overly warm room's temperature went up another ten degrees. He carried the head under his arm and left the room. They walked down to the lobby where the guests of the park gave them odd looks. Up ahead they saw Goofy walking out the door.
Once they'd left the hotel they put on their heads. Sasuke felt absolutely ridiculous. He found himself wishing he'd gotten a summer job flipping burgers like normal soon-to-be college students. But no, his guardian had conviced him that he'd get more out of going down to Florida to spend a summer in a big furry suit. More money maybe, but he sure didn't think he was getting a whole lot else out of it.
"So uh, where do we start?" Naruto asked, his voice extremely muffled after carrying through his and Sasuke's heads(1)
Sasuke looked at the park map that was conveniently placed right outside the hotel doors. After glancing through it once he spoke, "It doesn't really matter where we go. We just have to walk the park." With that they began wandering around, able to be doing whatever behind the big head because the big stupid grin was permanent. There was the occasional little kid that yelled "Hi!" to them. And then the ones wanted pictures with the oversized chipmunks. However it didn't take long for Sasuke and Naruto to realize that they weren't quite in as much demand as some people. They passed a crowd of little girls in princess hats and tiaras that wanted their pictures taken with Cinderella.
"It's like the ninth layer of hell in these suits," Naruto grumbled as they both waved to a little girl in a mismatched outfit and mouse ears who had yelled a greeting to them.
"Don't be dumb, the ninth layer of hell is way cooler than this." Sasuke said. He could feel the sweat dripping down his face and back. It was disgusting.
"What time is it?" Naruto asked.
"Oh yeah, I'll just check the clock on the inside of this huge-ass chipmunk head," Sasuke spat.
"Sorry, I forgot." Naruto would have scratched the back of his head if he could.
"Of course you did, loser."
"Hey! You don't need to be so mean."
Sasuke rolled his ebony eyes behind the huge happy eyes that were showing to the world. Nearby he saw a clock, it was only ten-thirty.
"I vote we take our break. I'm dying of thirst." Naruto said, eyeing the nearby drink and food booth.
Sasuke agreed and they walked over to the booth, a red-haired girl behind the counter gave them odd looks as they walked over and took off their heads. "How may I help you?" she said, blushing a bit as she saw Sasuke.
"Can I get a large Coke?" Naruto asked.
She grabbed a large cup off the stacks next to her and turned to Sasuke, "Bottled water." he said, he was more health concious than Naruto.
The girl set a bottled water on the counter and started to fill Naruto's cup with Coke and ice. Handing it to him she said, "We don't charge workers at this booth. Anywhere else all you get is a discount. And there's a bench on the side you can sit at." The two walked on and she turned to the next person in line.
Sasuke collapsed onto the bench, making an oddly muffled thud because of the costume. He opened the water and gulped half of it before drawing a breath. Looking to his right he saw Naruto was almost done with the large Coke. The raven's eye twitched: The obnoxious yellow wonder was just full of surprises. Most of them involved completely useless talents or things that made him even more obnoxious than usual, but still, surprises.
Finishing his water Sasuke tossed the empty bottle into the nearby recycling bin. Naruto threw his own cup into the trash and they stood up, both putting their chipmunk heads back on. "Time for six more hours in hell." Naruto grumbled.
xXxXxX
That night at around 7:00 there was a knock at Sasuke and Naruto's door. Naruto opened it to see a silver-haired man standing there with upturned 'u' eyes. "Hello," The man said in a cheery voice.
"Hi," Naruto said with slightly furrowed brows.
"I'm Kakashi. I'm the supervisor of this floor."
"Supervisor?"
"To make sure you don't get out of hand, have any wild parties, or try and sneak up to the girl's floor. Just to keep you in check. But tonight I need you all down in the lounge at the end." Kakashi pointed to his right, Naruto peeked out the door and saw at the end of the hallway a room with furniture in it. "I have a couple more people to talk to, if you could just make your way down there." He walked past to the next door.
Naruto turned to Sasuke to see that he was standing right behind him, "Let's go then." The raven muttered.
They wandered down the hallway, within a couple minutes they were in the lounge. They saw a bunch of guys around their own age in there. A tall boy with shaggy brown hair was talking loudly to the pony-tailed boy Sasuke had seen in the shower that morning. "Yeah, I live on a farm in Illinois. We've got about ten dogs."
"Illinois?" Naruto said, "Dude, I live in Missouri!"
"We're like, neighbors yo!" the brunette said.
"I'm Naruto Uzumaki!"
"Kiba Inuzuka!"
Sasuke was raising one eyebrow slightly, wondering how there could be anyone else that annoying. As he wondered this he saw that the pony-tailed guy was raising an eyebrow too, and yawning. He looked at Sasuke, "Loud, aren't they? Kiba's in the room next to me too." He paused, "Shikamaru Nara, by the way."
"I share a room with Naruto. Sasuke Uchiha."
"Ooh, damn. Roommates." Shikamaru glanced at Naruto who was animatedly talking about something or other from Missouri. "I didn't think there were roommates."
"We're Chip and Dale."
"Oh, I'm Sleepy." He said.
Obvously, Sasuke thought. He felt someone grabbing at his arm, a second later he realized it was Naruto. "This is Sasuke, my roommate. He's from Jersey." Naruto said to Kiba.
"Sweet! What characters are you guys?" Kiba asked, "I'm Goofy."
"We're Chip and Dale."
"Who's who?"
Naruto paused for a moment, "I'm Chip, he's Dale. Like you can even tell."
"Shit man, I don't even know half the characters here. I don't like Disney movies. One of my friends- he's here now- SHINO!" Kiba yelled to a dark-haired teen who had just walked in. His hair was spiked and he was wearing round, dark sunglasses. "He was working here and got me into it. He's one of the dwarves, Happy."
At this point there was quite a group of guys in the lounge. Kakashi walked in, "Good, you're all here. So uh, names. You're going to be living here all summer, you should know your neighbor's names." His eyes were again upturned 'u's. "We'll go around the room, give your name and character. I'm Kakashi Hatake, no character."
The person at his right, a redhead with eyeliner framing his light green-blue eyes spoke in a low voice, "Gaara Sabaku, Grumpy."
The next guy had brown hair and eyes, "Kankuro Sabaku, Pinocchio." "I'm little Gaara's older brother!" He got the redhead in a hug. Gaara gave him a look that promised death, Kankurou barely faltered.
Shino was next in line, "Shino Aburame. Happy." There were some raised brows at this, this kid did not look happy.His face was completely blank.
"Kiba Inuzuka. Goofy!" He did say he had ten dogs.
"Naruto Uzumaki, Chip!" Naruto said brightly, with a grin.
"Sasuke Uchiha, Dale." He said in his usual uncaring monotone.
Sasuke looked to his left and almost jumped. There, with a bowl cut and bushy eyebrows, wearing green from head-to-toe (Okay, not completely, he had orange sneakers) was the most enthusiastic-looking person Sasuke had ever seen. The guy was seriously bouncing a little as he introduced himself, "Lee Rock! I am Dopey!"
On dope maybe, Sasuke thought.
On his left was a much more subdued person, he had long black hair drawn back into a loose ponytail and creamy white eyes. Yes, white eyes, "Neji Hyuuga, Doc." He recoiled slightly as Lee beamed at him.
To the left of Neji was a rather chubby guy, he was also pretty tall. "Chouji Akimichi, Sneezy." He was the last guy in the room, but at that moment the elevator door had tons of people pouring out.
"Kakashi!" A woman's voice yelled, "Think you could talk to the girls about the rules?" The voice was coming from a purple-haired woman. She was followed by a group of girls.
"Anko, that's your job. Girls aren't even supposed to be on this floor." Kakashi sighed.
"Yeah but I have other stuff to do," Anko said. "Come on, it's a stupid rule anyway. What does Tsunade think they're gonna do? Have sex and get preggo?" The woman turned, "Thanks Kakashi!" She was on the elevator before Kakashi could protest.
"There's an elevator?" Naruto said. They hadn't seen that, which meant they'd been walking up and down stairs for no reason.
"Right, take a seat girls," Kakashi sighed. "So, we've already covered that girls aren't allowed on the boy's floor, and boys aren't allowed on the girl's floor. The management insists on this one. I honestly don't care, but if I catch you I'll stop you or I'll get in trouble." He said. "No partying. Nothing loud anyway. And no drinking, none of you are legal and I'll be in deep shit if you get alcohol. Everyone will think I supplied you with it. You have to be quiet by eleven, I mean it. The walls are thin, some of you have probably already had incidences with that." He paused for a moment, thinking, "No doing anything in the showers. I don't care of you're with a guy or a girl. People don't need to walk in on that."
"Why would anyone walk in?" A pink-haired girl sitting near Sasuke asked.
"Oh, I forgot the girls get bathrooms in their rooms."
"They do?" Naruto yelled, "That's not fair! That' so freakin' sexist!"
"I know that, but the manager's a woman," Kakashi said.
"Women are so troublesome." Shikamaru sighed.
"Excuse me?" A girl with curly blond pigtails said, "What did you just say?"
"That proves my point."
The girl glared at him, "I oughta castrate you for that."
"Temari," Kankurou said, "Stop being so feminist!"
Kakashi sighed, "Well, that's all. Now if you'll excuse me," he pulled out a book and went to the elevator, pressing down.
"Hi, I'm Sakura Haruno," the pink-haired girl said, pushing right into Sasuke's personal space.
Sasuke looked at her with s slightly raised brow. "That's nice," he said.
"I'm Ino Yamanaka!" A slightly familiar blonde said, also invading Sasuke's personal space.
"Good for you," Sasuke muttered. Why was it that girls always had this strange idea that he actually wanted to talk to them? He didn't really.
"Sasuke, stop being such a bastard!" Naruto said.
"Oh, Sasuke?" Ino said.
"Ino! I was here first you pig!" Sakura yelled, glaring.
"Whatever, forehead! Like Sasuke here would actually want to talk to you!"
The girls began trading insults. It ended in Ino getting slapped. Sasuke and Naruto slipped away in the slight chaos. They found themselves sitting between Shino and Kankuro. Kankuro was talking to Gaara, and Shino was talking to- Yeah, not talking actually.
"Yo, Naruto and Sasuke right?" Kankuro suddenly said to them.
"Yep," Naruto said brightly.
The brunette looked just over Naruto's shoulder, "And you're Kiba?"
"Hells yeah I am!" Kiba said. He flashed a grin.
"So where you two from?"
"I'm from Missouri."
"Illinois."
Kankuro looked to Sasuke who answered, "New Jersey."
"Dude! We're from Ohio. That's like, the middleground!" Kankuro said, "Right Gaara?"
The redhead next to him looked at him dully. He didn't see the excitement in living near a bunch of obnxious people. Sasuke was okay though, Sasuke didn't talk as much as the others. Sasuke didn't yell "dude", "yo", or "awesome" every other word.
"You know," Kiba said, "I think this could be the start of something sick."
Sasuke and Gaara had feelings that Kiba didn't mean it in the way they were thinking.
Woot! It onmly took over a month! I was actually waiting for my beta on this but I haven't gotten it back yet and I decided that you guys have been waiting more than long enough. Sophomore Slump's last chapter is also coming.
Your reviews make the author smile and cry with joy. So review. Because she needs all the motivation she can get now that school's started back up. -cry-
