I've had the idea for this story for quite awhile, and now I've been able to start this story and submit it for all of you to read! I hope you enjoy!
Summary: Kakashi is late as always, but this time it's for a good reason. He is going to be taking Sakura, Sasuke, and Naruto to a place called Disneyland for an entire week. The question is, what's going to happen once they get there?
(Disclaimer: I do NOT own Naruto. Enough said.)
Team Seven Goes to Disneyland
Chapter 1: We're Going on a Trip!
It was a beautiful, warm sunny day. There wasn't even a cloud in the sky (good thing Shikamaru was busy on a mission). It was this day that found Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke waiting, as they always did, for Kakashi. So far, they had been waiting for almost two hours, with absolutely no sign of their Sensei.
"Oh, come on!" complained Naruto. "What can be taking him so long?"
"You make it sound like he's never been late before," Sasuke said calmly, though he was also very irritated with Kakashi's tardiness.
"Oh, come off it! Why don't you give him a break for once, Sasuke," Sakura said, shocked to find herself standing up for Naruto and telling off Sasuke, all in the same breath. "We all know Kakashi can't ever be on time to save his own life, but you can't blame us for hoping he'd change that, can you?"
'Wow!' Naruto thought. 'I can't believe Sakura just said that! She didn't just defend me, but she defended me against Sasuke! Score!'
It was at that same moment that something came falling out of the sky and landed on top of Sasuke. "Ouch!" came Sasuke's muffled voice from underneath Kakashi.
"Oops!" Kakashi exclaimed, jumping to his feet and reaching out his hand to help Sasuke to his feet again. "Sorry about that." Sasuke disregarded the hand and got up on his own.
"About time you showed up," Sakura said, with a hint of annoyance in her voice.
"Yeah…about that…" Kakashi said, trying to avoid the dagger-glares that he was receiving from his students. "See…the thing is…"
"Let me guess," interrupted Sasuke, "you got lost on the road of life again, right?" He was still looking rather angry about Kakashi's entrance.
"Actually, nope," Kakashi replied. He held up a finger so as to better emphasize the importance of what he was about to say. "I had to make a stop by the Hokage's office to pick up a certain set of tickets before making my way here to meet up with you."
"Tickets?" Naruto asked, his ears perking up. "Tickets for what?"
"Ah! You must learn to be more patient, Naruto." Kakashi replied. "I was just getting to that…You see, we have been given four tickets to go a weeklong trip to a place called Disneyland in California."
"Disney-what?" Sasuke and Naruto both asked at the same time, each with a look of confusion on their face.
THWACK! Sakura had smacked the two boys upside the backs of their heads. "Don't you two know anything besides training?"
"Uh…nope," came Sasuke's reply.
"Ooh! I do! It's called ramen!" was Naruto's response.
"Ugh! You two are utterly hopeless!" Sakura muttered, half to herself. "Disneyland is the happiest place on Earth!" she stated, as if it was the most obvious thing ever. Of course, she only knew about it because she was always reading the latest magazines, and it just so happened that there was an article about Disneyland in last week's edition of Teen Shinobi.
"Uh…I always thought Ichiraku Ramen was the happiest place on earth," Naruto said. Sakura just glared at him.
"You're both so stupid," chimed in Sasuke, before Sakura could manage to start yelling at Naruto. Everyone looked at him, waiting for him to explain himself. "There is no happy place on earth, not while Itachi is still alive." The others just stared at him, eyebrows raised.
'I wonder if I shouldn't get Sasuke a shrink to help him resolve his issues with Itachi…' Kakashi thought. After a moment, he shrugged. "Well, no matter. Whether it's the happiest place or not isn't important. Happy or not, we're leaving first thing tomorrow morning, so I suggest you get packing." With that said, Kakashi left so that he could get a start packing his own things.
"We're going on a trip! We're going on a trip!" Naruto sang, bouncing around his teammates.
'Why me?' Sasuke thought to himself. 'Why, of all people, did Naruto get put on my team?' He was getting rather tempted to punch Naruto's lights out, but decided against it. It wasn't worth the effort. Instead, he just rolled his eyes, sighed, and walked away without saying a word.
"We're going on a trip! We're going on a trip!" Naruto continued to sing in his annoying singsong voice.
"Uh…Naruto?" Sakura interrupted Naruto's song. "Is it at all possible that you could stop singing?"
"Nope!" Naruto grinned and started his song where he'd left off and continued his bouncing. "We're going on a trip! We're going on a trip!"
Sakura sighed as she also decided it wouldn't be worth the time to beat Naruto to a pulp to get him to shut up. He'd more than likely just continue singing anyways, even if he had to do it through a bloody nose. Instead, she turned around and headed home to start packing her things. It would probably take her all night, so she wanted to get started as soon as she could.
"We're going on a trip! We're going on a…trip?" Naruto stopped his bouncing and singing once he noticed he no longer had an audience. He shrugged his shoulders and left for Ichiraku Ramen. He didn't care what Sakura and Sasuke had said. Ichiraku Ramen was still the happiest place on Earth!
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After he had consumed some twenty or so bowls of ramen, Naruto decided it was time he packed up his stuff, so he made his way home, his stomach now very content.
Naruto was just about to walk in through his front door when he discovered a piece of paper was taped right in the middle of his door. He took it down and went inside, closing the door behind him. As soon as he was in his bedroom, Naruto unfolded the piece of paper to find that it was a note from Kakashi.
Naruto,
Forgot to mention that by "first thing tomorrow morning" I meant five o'clock in the morning. Already told Sakura and Sasuke. Don't be late.
Kakashi"Don't be late?" Naruto said to himself. "Who is he to be lecturing about tardiness?" He shrugged his shoulders, crumpled up the paper, and chucked it at the closest wastebasket. The paper missed the basket, so Naruto had to walk over and pick it up and toss it in the wastebasket again.
Now that he was full and knew exactly what time he was supposed to meet up with the team, Naruto set to packing the stuff he'd need for his weeklong trip. He also started singing again as he shoved all of his stuff into a bag. "We're going on a trip! We're going on a trip!"
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Meanwhile, Sasuke had already finished his packing and was back to training so that he was ready to defeat Itachi when the time came. 'Maybe Sakura's right,' Sasuke thought to himself. 'Maybe I do train too much…Nah! Not a chance! She just doesn't do enough training.' With that thought cleared from his mind, Sasuke got back to his training.
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In the mean time, Sakura was still packing her own stuff. She was having a rather difficult time with it and was beginning to get frustrated. "Which of these outfits should I bring?" she moaned, shuffling through all of her clothes and not really getting anywhere. She just had so many clothes!
Finally, after about another two hours of staring inside her closet, Sakura had a week's worth of clothes folded nice and neat inside a bag. She couldn't wait to go to Disneyland! It was going to be so much fun!
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The next morning, Naruto jumped out of bed and was all ready to go by about 4:15. He was so excited about going on the trip, even if he didn't know anything about the place they were going to. "We're going on a trip! We're going on a trip!" he sang as he opened his front door and started on his way to meet up with Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi. He knew he was going to be there very early, but that didn't matter. It wasn't like he had anything better to do. Plus, he was just too excited to sleep any longer.
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Sasuke also woke up early and did a few morning exercises before he walked out of his own front door at about 4:15 as well. However, Sasuke didn't really care all that much about this Disneyland place. He had just decided that the sooner he showed up, the sooner they could leave. The sooner they left, the sooner they could get back home. And the sooner they got back, the sooner Sasuke could get back to his training so that he could defeat Itachi.
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Even Sakura woke up bright and early. She couldn't wait to get to Disneyland! It would be a nice break from all the missions they'd been doing lately.
Once she was sure every hair was in its proper place, and she was sure she had absolutely everything she needed packed up, she walked out through her front door, also around 4:15 that morning.
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All three of them arrived at the meeting spot at the same time. As soon as they got there, they all took a look around to see if maybe, just maybe, Kakashi would be early too. Of course, not to anyone's surprise, he was nowhere to be seen.
"Good…m-morning," Sasuke said, trying to suppress a yawn, though he was only half successful at it. 'Why am I here this early again?' Sasuke thought to himself. 'Oh yeah! So that I can get home sooner to beat the pulp out of Itachi!'
"Mornin'," came Naruto's cheerful reply. He was too excited to be tired enough to let even the tiniest of yawns escape.
"Good morning," Sakura said, giving a cheerful wave. It was difficult to tell who was more excited about the trip: Naruto or Sakura. "Any bets on when Kakashi is going to get here this time?"
"Not this morning," Sasuke answered. He wasn't in the mood for such trivial things right now. He needed to concentrate his thoughts on defeating Itachi.
"Nah," Naruto said. "I've lost too much money making bets like that. Besides, I'd like to keep Gama-chan (his wallet) nice and plump so that I can buy loads of souvenirs!"
BOOM! In the blink of an eye, it was Naruto's turn to be down on the ground with, believe it or not, Kakashi right on top of him, just as he had crashed down on top of Sasuke the day before. All Sakura and Sasuke could do was stare at Kakashi as he stood up and helped Naruto to his feet, Naruto joining the others in staring at Kakashi. "What?" Kakashi asked, not quite sure why everyone was just staring at him.
"Who are you, and what did you do with Kakashi?" Naruto finally asked, pointing an accusing finger at Kakashi.
"What do you mean?" Kakashi was still very confused. "I am Kakashi."
"You can't be," Sakura said, still shocked by Kakashi's presence.
"And why not?" Kakashi asked, the whole situation getting rather old now.
"You're on time!" Sasuke said. "No, wait, you're actually early!" Even cool, calm, and collected Sasuke was shocked.
"Um…yeah…So? What of it?" Kakashi really didn't seem to know why they were making such a big deal.
"Since when are you ever early for anything?" inquired Sakura. "Or for that matter, when are you ever on time?"
"Believe it or not, this isn't exactly the first time I've been on time for something, you know." Sakura, Naruto, and Sasuke just continued to stare at Kakashi in disbelief. Kakashi was starting to get a little irritated. 'Really,' Kakashi thought, 'from their reactions, one would think it was illegal for me to be on time!' The truth was, Kakashi was just as excited about going to Disneyland as his students were, or at least two of them. "I just wanted to make sure we made our flight on time, that's all. After all, if we miss our flight, there won't be a trip to Disneyland. So let's go, shall we?"
And with that, they all made their way to the airport with Naruto singing "We're going on a trip! We're going on a trip!" the entire way.
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After about five hundred versus or so of "We're going on a trip! We're going on a trip!" from Naruto (Sasuke and Sakura had both smacked him until he finally shut up), they arrived at the airport.
"Ooh!" What's that?" Naruto said, pointing to something that looked like a very odd bird.
"That," Kakashi said, grinning at how clueless Naruto was, "is an airplane. It's what we'll be flying in to get all the way to Disneyland."
"We're going to be flying in that?" Sasuke asked. He seriously didn't think anything that big could even get off the ground, let alone fly them somewhere.
"Yes, we're flying in that," Kakashi answered. 'These two boys really need to get out more often!' he thought. "Come on. Let's get onboard before the plane takes off and leaves without us." He then led the way to the gate that their plane was at.
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After waiting at the gate for about half an hour, they were finally allowed to go aboard the plane and get themselves seated. They were seated based on the seat numbers that were given on each of their boarding passes. Turned out that Sasuke got a window seat with Naruto sitting on his right. Sakura was seated on the other side of Naruto, and Kakashi sat next to Sakura in the aisle seat.
Once everyone had put their carry-on luggage up above their seats and sat down, a voice came over the intercom. "Welcome ladies and gentlemen. We are glad you chose Shinobi Airlines for your travel needs today. Please buckle your seatbelts and make sure that your seats and trays are in the upright position. Please pay attention as the stewardesses review the safety instructions as we taxi out to the runway." With that, the tree stewardesses came out and spread themselves down the aisle and then went through the emergency information as the plane made its way down the runway to prepare for take off. As soon as they finished, the stewardesses also took their seats and the plane then took to the air.
"We're flying on an airplane! We're flying on an airplane!" Naruto began to sing as soon as they were flying through the air.
"Naruto!" yelled Sasuke.
"Huh?" Naruto looked at Sasuke.
"Please allow me to keep my sanity at least until we land!" Sasuke demanded.
"I'll try my best," Naruto sighed. "It's just that I'm so excited!"
"Yeah, I think we all got that memo yesterday as soon as Kakashi said we were going on this stupid trip," Sasuke said before turning to look out the window.
Naruto set to twiddling his thumbs for the next half hour. 'Man! This is so boring!' He knew better than to try and strike up a conversation with Sasuke right now. He'd probably bite Naruto's head with the mood he was in right now. 'Maybe Sakura isn't too busy,' Naruto thought. "Hey Sakura. Whatcha doing?"
"Just reading a book," she replied, looking form the book she had indeed been reading.
"Why would you want to do something like that?" Naruto asked.
"To keep myself from losing my mind with boredom," Sakura said, turning the page.
"Oh," was all Naruto managed to say as he went back to twiddling his thumbs for about another fifteen minutes before he spoke up again, "What's this Disneyland place, anyway?"
"What do you mean?" Sakura asked, snapping her book closed. "Weren't you listening when I told you yesterday?"
"Yeah, I was listening, but all you said was that it was the happiest place on Earth. You didn't explain exactly what it is, though," Naruto pointed out.
"Oh! That's right, I didn't." Sakura looked straight ahead as she thought of the best way to explain it. "Well, let's see…how do I explain this? Have you ever heard of an amusement park before, Naruto?"
"Umm…" Naruto paused for a moment, trying to think if he could recall ever hearing about an amusement park before. "Nope, doesn't ring a bell…"
Sakura sighed. "Well…it's a place that has a lot of fun rides…um…that you can ride on. And this particular amusement park has rides mostly based off of movies a man named Walt Disney created."
"Oh, okay." Naruto was still a little confused, but he figured it'd all be cleared up when he got there. "Sounds like fun!"
"Oh, yeah! It's lots of fun!" Sakura said, now completely forgetting about her book.
"So, you've been there before?" Naruto asked.
"Well…um…actually…no, I haven't. I've just read a lot about it before in magazines and such. But it does sound like a ton of fun!" Sakura replied.
"Oh," Naruto said, sounding a little disappointed. "I guess it'll make for a great adventure for all of us, then!" He grinned as he thought, 'This is so cool! I'm actually having a conversation with Sakura and it doesn't involve yelling at me, hitting me, or talking about Sasuke!'
'Wow!' Sakura thought. 'Who would've thought I'd actually have a conversation like this with Naruto? I actually can't say I've been annoyed once this whole time! It's actually kind of nice, for a change!'
The rest of the flight, Naruto and Sakura talked all about what they thought would be at Disneyland, with Sakura telling Naruto a little bit about the rides she had read about. Sasuke continued to look through the window, though it was quite obvious that he was listening pretty intently. Kakashi also listened to the conversation, though he caught it in bits and pieces as he turned the pages of his book the entire flight.
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Finally, after a long flight, Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke, and Kakashi walked off of the plane and climbed into a cab that would take them to the Disneyland hotel, where'd they'd be staying during the duration of their vacation. Upon arrival, each staked out their own bed and fell asleep as soon as their heads hit their pillows. It was getting quite late and it had been a long day. They had decided it was best to get their rest before going to the park tomorrow, a day that would turn out to be as busy as this day had been.
So, what did you think about it? Please review! And if you have any ideas, feel free to let me know. I will definitely take them into consideration as I continue to write this story.
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