Naruto Primer Lost Chapter: Carnival

Team Kakashi

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"All right," said Kakashi to his students as he paid the correct amount of money to get them into the carnival. "This is supposed to be a fun break time experience but I don't want you three two wander from each other."

"How is this going to be FUN if I have to hang out with Sasuke?!" demanded Naruto, pointing at Sasuke.

"Nothing will be fun with an attitude like that." Kakashi said as they entered the park area.

"The carnival is just an excuse to squander money and eat junk!" Sakura said with a sigh.

"Let's play the games first." Said Sasuke.

"OKAY!" said Sakura happily.

"But games are lame!!" said Naruto. "I want to go on the Salt and Pepper Shakers!!"

"No way!" said Sakura. "I hate fast rides!"

"You'll all have to accommodate each other." Kakashi said.

"Hey, this is a teamwork building thing, right?" said Naruto.

"Yes." Said Kakashi. "Just be lucky I'm not making you engage in another competition with the other teams and I am, instead, being kind and generous and allowing you to go to a carnival."

So the first thing they did was go to the games.

"Step right up!" called the man behind the counter who was operating the game where you have the milk bottles and the baseball… and you have to throw the baseball at the milk bottles…but there's some kind of magnet or the bottom bottles are glued down or whatever…

"I can beat this one." Said Sasuke, handing the man some money.

"Wait, step aside!" said Naruto. "Me first, I'll show you how it's done!"

"Yeah right, Naruto." Said Sasuke, pushing him aside. "It's my money."

"Fine!" said Naruto, handing the man some money. "Just watch this!" The man handed Naruto a baseball. Naruto hurled it at the milk bottles but the milk bottles didn't budge. The baseball just bounced off and landed on the ground.

"Oh, too bad!" said the man. "You want to try again?"

"This thing is so rigged!" said Naruto. "I hit those right on!!"

"Watch THIS, Naruto." Said Sasuke.

"Go Sasuke!!" cheered Sakura. Sasuke wound up and threw the baseball at the bottles. The bottles didn't get knocked over…instead, they just shattered into a zillion pieces and littered the ground with glass.

"Oops." Said Sasuke.

"Great job, Sasuke!" said Sakura. "What prize are you going to pick?"

"He doesn't get a prize!" said the man behind the counter as he picked up his little sign that said the prices. "Look, it says you get a prize if you KNOCK OVER the bottles, not if you smash to them smithereens! Sorry, sonny, you don't win! Better luck next time."

"What?" said Sasuke. "Are you saying that that doesn't qualify as winning your game?"

"Nope." Said the man, putting down the sign. "So you don't get a prize!"

"Hey guys! What's going on over here?" said Kiba, walking over.

"This man here says that I don't get a prize because instead of knocking over his milk bottles, I shattered them!" Sasuke said, sounding more and more appalled by the minute.

"Well that's too bad." Said Kiba. "You should know that the games here are rigged. We bumped into Lee, Neji and Tenten having a really similar problem on our way to the Ferris Wheel! Isn't that crazy?"

So, without even waiting for a response, Kiba beckoned for Hinata and Shino to follow and they all frolicked off. Except for Shino who just thought he was all that and a bag of chips and was WAY too cool for frolicking even though he's only twelve.

"Geez, Sasuke, calm down!" said Naruto, noticing the Sasuke was getting WAY too angry.

"Yeah, let's just go on a ride." Said Kakashi.

Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura paused.

"Wait, you're still here?" said Sakura, looking confused.

"Well fine." Said Kakashi as he walked off.

"Okay, so what ride should we go on?" Naruto asked. "Oh!! The Zipper!! Let's go on the Zipper!!"

"Look, Sasuke!" said Sakura excitedly. "The Tunnel of Love!"

"And?" Sasuke said with a raised eyebrow.

"Um…" Sakura said quickly. "How about we go over there and see if anyone we know is getting on the ride?"

"Yeah right, Sakura." Said Sasuke. "Don't insult my intelligence."

"Sorry!" said Sakura nervously.

"Sakura, I'LL go in the Tunnel of Love with you!" said Naruto.

"NO!" yelled Sakura.

"Fine!" said Naruto, crossing his arms. "Then let's go on the Zipper!!"

"I already told you, Naruto!" said Sakura. "I don't like fast and scary rides!"

"Then how about…" Naruto started, looking around for a ride that Sakura might like. Then he spotted the haunted house that they sat in a cart and rode around in at a very slow pace. That would be a very good ride because then, if Sakura got scared, she would jump on him and scream and he would protect her. "Let's go in the House of Horrors!"

"Naruto, you know that that place is the cheapest and most low budget ride in the entire park." Said Sasuke.

"Yeah but Sakura doesn't want to go on a fast ride!" said Naruto.

Sakura was having a similar thought process that Naruto was having except she decided that she would PRETEND to be scared and seek comfort in Sasuke.

"I want to go in the Haunted House!" said Sakura.

"Well I'm not going." Said Sasuke.

"We played that stupid game like you wanted to!" said Naruto. "So now you have to come in the House of Horrors…or are you scared?"

"I'm not scared." Said Sasuke, scoffing.

"You're sure acting like you are." Said Naruto.

"Fine, Naruto, I'll go only to prove to you that there's nothing scary in there at all." Sasuke said as the three of them got in line.

Then Naruto started to feel stupid. If he had just gone on the ride with Sakura then he would have been on the ride with Sakura. Without Sasuke. And it was a slow ride in the dark where girls would surely get scared. So he slapped his forehead.

They all wedged into one cart with Sakura in the middle and the ride started moving forward at an excruciatingly slow pace.

"This is so dumb." Said Sasuke, crossing his arms as they went by paintings and wax statues of 'scary' things that would light up after the cart passed a certain line.

Sakura and Naruto sighed since their plans weren't working. Naruto knew Sakura wasn't scared and Sakura didn't want to look like the stupidest person on earth by being afraid of the stuff in the haunted house so now they were being tortured.

The last thing to light up in the ride was a painting of a guy standing over a heap of dead bodies while holding a sword. It was on Sasuke's side and as he glared at it, he suddenly had many a horrible flashback.

He stuttered a little bit so Sakura and Naruto leaned over to see what was freaking him out so much. They looked at the crappily drawn painting just as the light dimmed out.

"Yes…this painting is very scary." Said Naruto sarcastically as the cart came out into the light again.

"Sasuke, it's all right!" said Sakura, noticing that Sasuke was shaking slightly. "It's just a ride! It's not REAL!"

"He's not actually scared, is he?" Naruto said, getting out. "That's so lame. Wow, I sure showed him!"

"I'm going home." Said Sasuke as he pushed past Sakura and Naruto and started making his way towards the exit. Naruto and Sakura chased after him while telling him to stop but he would have none of it.

"Sakura!!" came Lee's voice as he ran over to Sakura and stopped her. "I had no idea you were at this carnival too!"

"I was actually just leaving." Sakura said, trying to step around Lee.

"Why?" Lee asked.

"Sasuke got freaked out from the House of Horrors." Naruto said, pointing at the ride that was a little ways back.

"Is it really that scary?" Lee said.

"We have to go." said Sakura as she quickly chased after Sasuke.

"WAIT!!" Naruto yelled, chasing after Sakura.

Sasuke was on his way out of the park when he caught sight of a caramel apple stand. He looked behind him and figured he was far enough ahead of Sakura to get himself a caramel apple and be out of the place. So he quickly got in line, thinking only for that painting that loomed over him. It was Itachi.

"Hi Sasuke!" Sasuke turned around to see Ino standing there and just when he was going to scoff at her, Sakura came out of nowhere.

"Back off, Ino!" she said. "Sasuke isn't feeling well!"

"Well enough to get a caramel apple!" said Naruto.

"I want a caramel apple." Said Sasuke. "But then I'm leaving."

Sasuke got to the front of the line and paid for his caramel apple. Without uttering another word, he hurried off. Naruto and Sakura followed after him while Ino and Chouji argued about something petty…like caramel apples.

"Wait, Sasuke!" said Sakura as grabbed Sasuke's arm just as he got outside the gate of the carnival. "Is something wrong?"

"I just don't want to be here anymore." Sasuke said, taking a bite of his caramel apple and turning away from her.

"Well, now we can't get back in." said Naruto. "THANKS A LOT SASUKE!!" he called after Sasuke. But Sasuke wasn't listening. He was concentrated too much on his caramel apple and the scary dreams he was going to have that night of Itachi killing the clan.