That next week went by awfully quickly. Tenten and Lee can come and Tenten's driving her mother's car which conveniently seats 5. I kept my stamina up by taking a mile run each morning. This is what happens when you have Gui as a PE coach. Naruto and I went out to see the Giver Tuesday. Look, I know there are more books in the series but that ending was suspenseful and unsatisfying. Wednesday I got a phone call from Itachi. The strange part is that I don't get calls or texts too often. In fact,I'm often the one to start a conversation. It seemed like he was going to say something important but after about 5 seconds, my phone decided to be stupid and disconnect. Poor Itachi... He probably thinks that I hung up on him or something. Later that day I actually went to the mall with Ino-pig. I walked there. I'm almost ready to get my permit though! Anyways she scolded me on hanging up on Itachi. We bought some stuff for Disneyland that is tomorrow. Then Thursday- or yesterday rather, Naruto baby sat out neighbor's kid, Konohamaru for the day and I arranged for the tickets and packed the backpack that Naruto and I were sharing. We had all arranged to pay me tomorrow when they got here today.
I groggily got out of bed at 6:20. It wasn't brilliantly planned. I still had to wake Naruto and get dressed! The first thing I did was get Naruto up and out of bed. "Naruto!" I shouted and entered his room. Naruto snored. "Narutooooooo!" I tried again... only to get the same reaction as before. "Ramen." Naruto then woke up.
"Ramen? Where?" Naruto said.
I laughed. Naruto gave a sheepish smile then looked at the time. "Oh, my god, Sakura, why didn't you wake me earlier! We have 10 minutes to get ready!" He said. I gave a sweat drop.
"Yeah, I'm going to get dressed now." I said and left Naruto's surprisingly clean room. I got into the bathroom to brush my teeth and floss and all that jazz. I then went into my room and put on my regular yellow short sleeved shirt with my sleeveless red shirt. I put my navy blue skirt that came down to my knees on before putting on my charm bracelet and watch. I was too lazy to put on make up. I then went downstairs and fried a couple of eggs for Naruto and I. I do suck at cooking but it's not that easy to ruin fried eggs. I put some bread in the toaster. I was grabbing a plate when the doorbell rang. "Naruto! Can you grab the door?" I shout to Naruto.
"Sure thing, Sakura-chan." Naruto said coming down and putting on his white shirt that had a red spiral in the middle of it. I finished the egg for Naruto and put it on the plate and started the second one. "Hey, Lee, Tenten," I heard Naruto say.
"Naruto, your egg's ready!" I said. Then the toaster went off. I walked to the refrigerator to grab some butter. Naruto, Tenten, and Lee entered the kitchen. Tenten was wearing her informal pink T-shirt that resembled the top of a chinese dress and wore some shorts. Lee on the other hand wore his green shirt and baby-barf colored shorts and had yellow socks on. I looked up at Lee and Tenten. "Hey. Lee, what's up with um.. The socks?" I asked.
"It's luck to power my youth!" He said enthusiastically.
"'Kay!" Naruto said and grabbed a fork and handed me a butter knife.
"Thanks," I murmur and spread some butter on both pieces of toast. "Cinnamon sugar?" I offered. Naruto nodded his head 'yes'. I got out the cinnamon sugar from the spice cabinet and gently sprinkled it over the bread and placed one piece of toast on each plate. "Here, Naruto." I said sliding the plate over to him.
"No offense, Sakura, but I thought that your cooking sucked," Tenten said, slightly confused.
"It does," Naruto answered for me as I placed the other egg on my plate. "But it's hard to mess up a fried egg and toast." Tenten laughed.
"My blossom, Sakura! It is so youthful that you cook for both Naruto and yourself!" Lee exclaimed. I smiled awkwardly and began to eat my egg and finish my toast. "Let us help you experience more of your youth while we can! We will help you with the dishes!"
"I- er.. You don't have to.." I said. Buuuuut, Lee took the pan that I was using to fry the egg and vigorously started to wash it in the sink. Tenten, Naruto, and I gave a sweat drop.
Then the doorbell rang again. I went to open it this time. It was Ino-pig, Shikamaru, and Choji. "Hey," I said happily and moved out of the way to allow them to enter. Ino was in her brown shirt that was laced towards the top. It had a green stripe running along the seams and long white pants. Shikamaru wore a baby-barf green turtle neck and dark dark blue pants. Choji wore a purple turtle neck and black pants.
Ino must've heard Lee shouting stuff about youth because she asked, "Lee?" I nodded.
"Tch.. Troublesome.." I heard Shikamaru mutter. I smiled at Shikamaru's classic behavior and went back into the kitchen. That was where I saw Naruto and Lee at the sink, both washing dishes vigorously.
"Do I want to know what's up?" I asked Tenten. She shook her head and then buried her face in her hands.
I sighed and finished my plate and gave it to them. Hey free service. Why not? I then headed to the living room where everyone else was. They were making small talk. Then the doorbell went off. I went to the front door and opened it. Sai. "Ugly," he said with his fake smile. At least I know he's joking. When we first met him last year he was this nearly emotionless creep that always used fake smiles. After getting into a fight with Naruto he understood what true emotions were. I'm not sure what happened between the two but hey, he got a bit better. Please note the bit part. He then started to give offensive nicknames- well.. Except to Ino-pig... At some point I punched him to the ground. Hm... Now that I think about it, Sai didn't get better. Oh, no.. We just got used to his stupid actions. I stepped aside so Sai could enter. After I shut the door, he awkwardly lingered around the entrance. "Hey um.. Ugly? Where do we-" I walked away and he cut himself off and followed me.
I walked into the kitchen to see if Naruto and Lee were still cleaning. Surely enough they were. "Idiots.." I muttered under my breath. "Guys, if you scrub any longer- or harder it's going to break! And Naruto, you know how mom is with the plates." I said. Naruto froze and gently put the plate in the correct spot in the dishwasher. I trusted Naruto to get Lee to stop so I headed back to the living room. Half way there, I heard the doorbell ring.
I walked to the front door again and opened it. This time it was our final driver, Neji, Hinata, Kiba, and Shino. Neji wore a white shirt and some grey shorts. Hinata wore her lavender and white jacket and some black had his cool-guy black jacket on. He also wore a white shirt and black pants. Shino wore a white jacket- turtle neck so it covered his face- as usual. He wore some dark brown pants. "'Kay sweet, we have everyone!" I said happily and side stepped to let them in. I closed the door behind them as they took off their shoes.
I walked with them to the living room where everyone was sitting. "Okay, we have my mom's van that Neji's driving and Tenten's car that she will be driving." I reminded them. "Now I hate to do this but-"
"The money," Naruto blandly put it. Everyone gave me the money that the tickets cost.
"Thanks. Okay well.. I propose that we meet at the front gates of Disneyland just beyond the entrance. I think there's a whole bunch of flowers." I attempted to explain. "Eh, you'll see it when you get there. I suggest if a few of us don't want to ride we split up and go on a different ride and then meet at the original ride, or wait at the exit of the unwanted ride. Lets go!" I said happily. I was in my mom's van. Naruto was in the smaller car along with Choji, Lee and Ino. That's... going to be one interesting car ride. By deductive reasoning, Hinata, Shino, Shikamaru, Sai, Kiba, and Neji are in the van with me. Obviously, Neji was driving, Shino was in the back with Kiba and Sai, Hinata was in the passenger seat and Shikamaru and I were in the middle row.
Neji opened the garage door and began to back out from the driveway and Hinata set the navigation system for Disneyland. Off we were to Disneyland!
•••
We were just past the entrance and were waiting for Tenten's group to come through the park gates. I yawned. "Hey, Ugly, how can you be so tired? You napped most of the way here!" Sai commented.
"Shut up.." I muttered.
"Sai, don't be so rude to Sakura," Hinata lightly scolded Sai. "She did organize this for us." Sai was about to open his mouth but then there was Naruto.
"SAKURA-CHANNNN!" Naruto shouted.
"MY BEAUTIFUL BLOSSOM OF YOUTHHHHH!" Lee shouted. I embarrassedly stood behind Neji for he was taller than me.
"Guys, not so loud, people are staring." Tenten said, also embarrassed to be seen with the two very loud teens.
"How was your ride over here, forehead?" Ino-pig asked.
"Good?" I said with my voice going up in the end.
"Okay, let's go!" Naruto said leading the rest of Konoha "13" through the park. "Anybody up for the Matterhorn!" Naruto asked-screamed from ahead of us.
Most of us shrugged except for Kiba and Lee. "Race you!" They said and started to run towards the Matterhorn. I sweat drop with the rest of the Konoha 9.
•••
"Man, love that adrenaline rush!" Kiba said once we got off the sled ride. Ino, Shikamaru, Kiba, and I were the first set of four for the bobsleds.
I smiled in agreement. "Hm... Where now?" Ino said.
"Well, first we have to wait for the others." I said, giving the no dur andwer.
"Well no dur, forehead." Ino said, playfully sticking her tounge out at me. I smiled and rolled my eyes.
"Indiana Jones?" Kiba offered.
"Sure," Shikamaru said. "Lets see what the others have to say about it." I uneasily leaned back against the fence. Indiana Jones... Yeah, not particularly my favorite ride. On my first time that I went on it with Naruto and mom, we got stuck in there... I'm not sure which was worse, getting stalled in Its a Small World for 20 minutes or stalled in Indiana Jones for 10. I'm not much of an Adventure sorta person. Anyways, I know that Naruto and I aren't really going to want to go on the ride. Unless I have Naruto pegged all wrong.
The next group which consisted of Hiniata, Naruto, Neji, and Tenten, soon came off. "Aah, that was great! Wasn't it, 'nata?" Naruto said, slinging his arm around Hinata's shoulder.
"Y-yes Naruto-kun." Hinata said quietly.
"We were thinking of going on Indinana." Ino said. There was a faint murmur of excitment/agreement. Hinata muttered something to Naruto. Naruto smiled and muttered something back after quickly kissing Hinata's forehead. I casually looked at the next group which was everbyody else.
"Up for Indiana?" Kiba called out.
"Heh, yeah!" Choji shouted and pumped his fist up once. The bobsled slowly turned a corner and was met with the proctor of the ride. They got out of the sled and joined the rest of us.
"Sakura! My beautiful flower! That was the definition of youth wasn't it!" Lee said.
"Okay Indiana!" Kiba shouted and lead everybody towards Adventureland.
I walked with Naruto and Hinata. I listened to them talk quietly to each other. I looked around at other happy families. I heard the occasional wailing child because he either didn't get what he wanted, he was frightened or he didn't want to leave. We walked back through the castle and the bridge. After we passed a long line leading up to Pocahontas. I remember waiting in one of those lines with Naruto and Mom once. We were waiting to take a picture with Eeyore. He was- is one of my favorite characters. Then we turned right towards Adventureland.
"-chan? Sakura-chan!" Naruto said, snapping me back into reality. I glanced at him. "Are you really going to go on the ride?"
"Nawh. I'm probably going to go to that store across the 'street'. You?" I asked.
Naruto shook his head. "I'll come with you."
•••
We quickly got to the Indiana Jones ride. Every body else, except for Hinata, Naruto, and I went through to get on the line. Instead we went to the store across the 'street' from Indiana. A cheerful violinist played outside of it. He was conversing to a long blue-haired girl who looked to be 10. And people say that my pink hair is weird.
I looked at the pins the store had on a wall to the left. I have a habit of picking up one pin for each time I've been to Disneyland. Quite fun, actually. I carefully inspect all of then but ultimately one with Thumper and Bambi on it caught my eye. I checked the price on the pin. It turned out to be a blue pin, which is the cheapest kind.
I picked it up and whipped around to find that I almost ran into someone. "Oh I didn't expect you here." I said surprised.