Naruto Primer: Uchiha Sasuke
Ninja Pebbles
Sasuke arose from his slumber one weekend morning, nice and refreshed. He went into the kitchen and went to retrieve his favorite cereal of all, Ninja Pebbles.
He poured himself a big bowl and then added milk. As he sat down and started munching on the tasty morsels while looking at the ads on the back of the box. Usually, he would just ignore the ads and search for some mazes that he could do, but today, he spotted an ad for a watch. A NINJA watch. But this wasn't just ANY ninja watch. This particular ninja watch had a ninja star where the twelve should be, the hands were shuriken, the face of the watch had the Konoha Village symbol and the straps were decorated with all sorts of hand seals!
But…most important of all was the button pressing action. Upon pressing the button, the watch would spout out things like, "Kagemane no Jutsu!!" or "HI-YA!!!" and various other awesome sound effects that Sasuke could not go without.
All he had to do was send in four proofs of purchase and that watch would be his. He would be the coolest kid EVER (not that he isn't already but now he would just be the man) if he had that watch and could just walk around pressing the button any time he wanted to.
Someone would say, "Hey Sasuke, what time is it?" and Sasuke would roll up his little arm warmers and look at the watch, making sure the random person without the watch could see it. The person would gasp and say, "Wow! That's the coolest watch ever!!" And then Sasuke would just act like he always does when people tell him he's cool or something he can do is cool and then he would just tell him the time and…walk away.
He NEEDED that watch. It wasn't just a matter of wanting. It was a matter of life or death.
He looked in his secret stash of proofs of purchase but found that he only had two for Ninja Pebbles and, if he added the proof of purchase from his current box then that meant he had three. He needed one more. But he couldn't just WAIT until he got another box of Ninja Pebbles, especially since the store was closed at this early in the morning. He couldn't wait at all.
Sasuke knew that he could get one from anyone just because he was Sasuke. So he clothed himself and went outside. Since he lived next door to the Hyuuga clan, he went there first. At least one person in the entire clan HAD to have at least one box of Ninja Pebbles that they could surrender their proof of purchase to him.
He pressed a little buzzer on the big gate leading to the Hyuuga complex and, after impatiently waiting for a moment or two, Neji came to the door. "What?" he said. It was pretty early so he was still in his PJs and had sleepy hair. He didn't look very happy about having to walk outside.
"Do you have a box of Ninja Pebbles that you could give me the proof of purchase of?" Sasuke asked.
Neji didn't answer.
"I need the proof of purchase." Sasuke said.
"Is that why you're here?" Neji said, looking annoyed. Sasuke nodded. "Out of all seriousness, that's why you made me get out of bed and come to this gate?"
"It's eight thirty on a Saturday morning." Said Sasuke. "You should be up. Now tell me, do you have a box of Ninja Pebbles?"
"What are Ninja Pebbles?" Neji said questioningly.
"Only the best cereal ever." Sasuke replied.
"Oh, well, we Hyuuga only eat Hyuuga Flakes." Neji answered.
"You guys have your own cereal?" Sasuke said with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah." Said Neji as if every clan in the world had their own cereal.
"Okay then…" said Sasuke as he turned to leave. He didn't bother saying sorry or thanks anyway to Neji since the fact that the Hyuugas had their own cereal seriously offended him. That was another reason why he was just SO much better. His clan wasn't petty enough to just make their own cereal to prove their greatness.
Well, except for Uchiha O's. But those were cool.
But anyway! He really had to get that proof of purchase. He walked around for a little while until he finally came to a house that he assumed would definitely have Ninja Pebbles in it.
He rang the doorbell.
And waited.
He rang it again.
And waited.
Then he pounded on the door.
And waited.
He must have waited for a good five minutes before the door finally opened to see Shikamaru standing there with the sleepiest hair EVER and the sleepiest face. Gosh darn, he just looked SO bedraggled that even Sasuke looked a little apologetic for waking him up.
"Sasuke…" Shikamaru said in a murderous tone. "Why have you come to my door so early in the morning?"
"I need to know if you have a box of Ninja Pebbles." Sasuke said, getting right to the point so that Shikamaru could get back to bed.
"You woke me up at the crack of dawn to ask me if I had Ninja Pebbles?!" demanded Shikamaru.
"It's only eight thirty…" Sasuke said.
"IT'S ALL THE SAME!!" Shikamaru yelled. Then he pointed to a little nameplate in the shape of a little fish that was hanging by the door. "What does this sign say?!"
"Er…Nara Residence?" Sasuke said.
"Exactly." Said Shikamaru. "It's practically screaming to be left alone! How can you look at a sign that says 'Nara' on it and then knock the door at 8:30 in the morning anyway?!"
"Uh…" Sasuke said, kind of on the defensive. "So uh…do you have them?"
"Ask me again at noon." Shikamaru said, slamming the door shut.
Sasuke decided to pretend that that didn't happen and just leave it at the fact that he was better than Shikamaru. He may be a chuunin, but that certainly didn't mean that he was better.
He approached the door to the next house and knocked on it, obviously not learning his lesson from the previous two encounters. He heard a few thumping noises and crashing and then loud barking. Out of the corner of his eye, he spotted a face in the window and then it quickly disappeared. Then the door swung open and Kiba was standing there.
"You're not supposed to knock on the door." Kiba said.
"What?" said Sasuke. "Was I supposed to ring the doorbell?"
"DEFINITELY don't ring the doorbell." Said Kiba. "That will just send chaos throughout the entire house."
"Then what am I supposed to do?" Sasuke asked.
"Just wait, we were coming to the door." Kiba assured him. "Now what do you want? Why are you here? It's a good thing you caught me, though, because I was just going out to play with Akamaru."
"I need to know if you have any Ninja Pebbles." Sasuke replied.
"Ninja Pebbles?!" Kiba said excitedly. "I love that cereal!! Who DOESN'T have Ninja Pebbles?!"
Sasuke had to keep his composure and keep himself from getting overly excited like Kiba was. "Well…I was just wondering if you could give me the proof of purchase to your box…" he started.
"Sure!!" said Kiba. "AKAMARU!!" Akamaru ran around the corner. "Hey, Akamaru, do you think you could go and get the Ninja Pebbles?" Akamaru barked and frolicked off, soon returning with the box of Ninja Pebbles in his mouth. Kiba picked them up and ripped off the proof of purchase without even hesitating for a moment or asking why. "Here you go!!"
"Uh…thanks." Said Sasuke, pocketing it. "I'm going to leave now."
"OKAY!!" said Kiba, giving Sasuke the thumbs up. Sasuke then left and returned home where he placed all the proofs of purchase in an envelope and put a stamp on the envelope and wrote the address on the envelope.
Thankfully, he caught the mailman before he drove off and handed him the letter. It was only a matter of time until that watch was HIS.