Finally! After what seemed like an eternity, I am now down with Chapter 2 of this story! Well, that's all I really have to say for now...I'll just let you get on to reading it!
(Disclaimer: I do NOT own Naruto...Enough said.)
Team Seven Goes to Disneyland
Chapter 2: It's A Small World After All
It was a quiet, peaceful morning. The only sound was that of the birds chirping outside the window as the sun slowly peeked in through the windows of the hotel room. Everyone was enjoying a nice, well-needed rest. That is, until Naruto woke up and decided he needed to wake up everyone else in the hotel with a very loud holler of "Wake up, everyone! We're going to Disneyland today!"
Suddenly, doors were slamming open and people all throughout the hotel were yelling, trying to figure who dared to wake them up in such a manner.
THWACK! "Naruto! What the heck is your problem?" Sakura yelled as she slapped the obnoxious blonde hard in the back of his head, knocking him clear to the floor.
"Ow! Watch it, Sakura. You could hurt someone!" Naruto whined, rubbing the bump on the back of his head. "And I don't have a problem. I simply thought I should wake you guys up so that we can hurry up and get to Disneyland."
"Well, you didn't have to wake everyone in the entire building in the process!" Sakura continued to yell.
"Well sorry, Miss Cranky-pants!" Naruto hollered back, not sounding all that sorry at all.
"Hey, settle it, you two," Kakashi intervened. "Since we're all awake now –"
"No thanks to Naruto," Sasuke mumbled.
Kakashi glanced at Sasuke before continuing, "As I was saying, since we're all awake now, why don't we all just get dressed and make our way to the park." 'Before the rest of these people figure out who woke them up,' Kakashi thought to himself as he walked away to get dressed.
Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke also set to getting dressed; Naruto being quite pleased with himself, while the other two were still very grumpy.
Finally, everyone was dressed and ready to go. They were just about to walk out through the front doors of the hotel when they heard a familiar voice come from behind them. "Yo! Kakashi!" They turned around to find Gai waving at them, with Lee, Ten-ten, and Neji right behind him.
"Oh, hello Gai," Kakashi replied, returning the wave.
"What are they doing here?" Naruto asked, looking up at Kakashi and pointing towards the other team.
"Didn't Kakashi tell you?" Gai said before anyone else could utter a word. "Your team wasn't the only one to get tickets from the Hokage to go to Disneyland." He broke into a blinding grin as he gave his usual thumbs-up sign.
"Well, that's rather obvious." Sasuke muttered.
Gai ignored him as he continued to explain. "Asuma and Kurenai are supposed to be here, too." He turned as if to see if they might suddenly appear out of a nearby hall, only to find no sign of them. He shrugged his shoulders and turned back to the others. "Oh well, I'm sure we'll run into them sooner or later."
There was a moment of awkward silence before Kakashi said, "So, are we all ready to head out and have some fun?" Everyone let loose a loud cheer and ran through the door, very much excited to get to the amusement park. Well, that is, everyone except for Sasuke and Neji. Neither one really cared all that much about Disneyland. At least, that's what they wanted everyone else to think. They had to remain cool and not lead others to think they might have lost their minds, which is what they would have thought had they shown their excitement.
A semi-long walk and tram ride later, the two teams arrived at the gates to the Disneyland park entrance. "Whoa!" everyone chorused. None of them had ever seen such a sight! It even caught Sasuke and Neji off guard.
"Well, where should we go first?" Kakashi asked. Suddenly everyone was jabbering away, trying to give their input on what they wanted to do first. "Whoa! Okay, stupid question. How about we just wander around and see where we end up? Let's start with that big castle over there, shall we?" And with that, the two teams set off towards Sleeping Beauty Castle not knowing what to expect during their great adventure.
Upon arrival, the two teams came across Asuma, Shikamaru, Chouji, and Ino. "Yo!" Kakashi greeted, giving a wave.
"Hey Kakashi! Hey Gai!" Asuma replied, returning the wave.
"So we're all here now, except for Kurenai, I see," Kakashi said, looking around.
"What do you mean 'except for Kurenai'?" a familiar voice came from behind Kakashi. Everyone turned to see Kurenai walking towards them with Hinata, Kiba, and Shino following behind. "I'm right here."
"Oh, well I take it back then," Kakashi replied. "So, now that we are all here, what –"
"Oh! What's that?" Naruto suddenly interrupted as he took off running towards a building that resembled a strange clock tower.
"Naruto! Get back here!" Sakura yelled. "Kakashi was –"
"Hey! Wait up Naruto!" Lee hollered as he took off running after Naruto.
"Lee! Where do you think you're going?" Ten-ten yelled at Lee.
"Wait up!" Chouji also took off running.
"Boys," Ino muttered under her breath as a blur that was Kiba zipped on past.
"Kakashi, last one there does 500 laps around the park backwards," Gai said, looking towards the spot Kakashi had been standing, only to find him already halfway to the strange clock tower. 'That's my rival,' Gai thought as he, too, took off running.
"Well," Kurenai said as she turned towards the girls. "Shall we follow after them?" With that, the girls ran after the boys, leaving behind Asuma, Shikamaru, Sasuke, Neji, and Shino.
"I'm surrounded by morons," Sasuke muttered just loud enough for the rest to hear.
"Join the club," Neji replied.
"Oh, come on guys." Asuma said. "We didn't come here to just stand around watching the clouds go by."
"You sure about that?" Shikamaru asked, looking down from the sky to his teacher.
"Yes, I'm sure," Asuma replied. "Now come on." And with that, Asuma took off in the direction the others had gone. Shino, Neji, Sasuke, and Shikamaru followed close behind with Shikamaru mumbling something about things being too troublesome.
Finally everyone was standing in front of the strange clock tower and staring up at a sign that read "It' A Small World".
"Um, is it just me, or does this not look anything like the world, let alone a small one?" Sasuke asked with a confused look on his face. Everyone around him nodded their heads in agreement. How could this odd-looking clock tower be called "It's a Small World" when it looked nothing like the world? It just didn't make sense.
"Hmm…" Kakashi opened up the park map he had picked up when they had first walked in. "Well, it says here that 'it is a ride for children and adults of all ages. It takes riders to all places around the world to show that is a small world after all'."
"Sounds like fun," Kurenai said once Kakashi finished reading the ride description. "Let's all get on, shall we?" And with that, the four teams started off walking to get to the end of the line. However, they came across no line to get to the end of. Instead, they found that they were the only ones to get in line for the ride so far.
"Cool!" Naruto, Kiba, Lee, and Chouji cheered as they jumped into the four seats in the front row.
"This will be fun!" Ino said as she, Sakura, Hinata, and Ten-ten filled up the second row.
"There has to be a reason we were the only ones in line for this ride, and it wasn't coincidence," Sasuke muttered as he, Neji, Shino, and Shikamaru unenthusiastically climbed into the third row.
"Nah! We just got lucky is all," Gai said happily as he hopped into the last row followed by Asuma, Kurenai, and Kakashi, who opened up his book as soon as he sat down.
"Kakashi, do you really have to read that…thing? Kurenai inquired as she looked over at Kakashi.
"Yup," Kakashi replied as he turned his page. Kurenai decided not to argue as she sighed and rolled her eyes.
Suddenly, the boat began to move. And just as suddenly, music began to play. "It's a world of laughter, a world of tears. It's a world of hopes and a world of fears; there's so much that we share, that it's time we're aware it's a small world after all. It's a small world after all. It's a small world after all. It's a small world after all. It's a small, small world. There is just one moon, and one golden sun, and a smile means friendship to everyone; though the mountains divide, and the oceans are wide, it's a small world after all." (A/N: Sorry, couldn't resist…just had to put all the lyrics in, hehe)
"Ooh! Look at that!" Naruto pointed to one side.
"No, look at that!" Lee gasped as he pointed to the other side.
The gasps and oohs and ahhs continued like this all the way through the ride, mostly coming from the two front rows. Sasuke, Shino, and Neji were continuing to try and stay "cool" by not getting too excited, while Shikamaru thought it was just too troublesome to get excited. As for the back row, Kurenai, Asuma, and Gai were also excitedly looking back and forth from one side to the next. Kakashi, however, simply continued to read his book, paying no mind to anything else going on around him.
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As their boat continued to take them to all places of the world, they were unaware that they were being followed. Not too far behind their boat was another – one that only had one passenger: Uchiha Itachi. He was still in pursuit of Naruto and decided that he just might finally get him this time. 'If only he didn't have so many people with him all the time,' he thought. 'Oh well, he's bound to be left alone sooner or later. Besides, this ride is actually kind of fun.'
However, after the second chorus of "It's a small world after all. It's a small world after all. It's a small world after all. It's a small, small world," Itachi began to get rather annoyed. "It just keeps repeating and repeating and repeating!" he muttered to himself as his eye began to twitch. The repetitive chorus and constant mention of laughter and hopes and other such happy things soon became too much for him to handle. He snapped! And soon shuriken and kunai were flying at all angles, hitting all of the small, singing children-animatrons. However, it was all to no avail. Though the everything was more or less obliterated, the singing just continued. "Is there no way to make it stop!" Itachi yelled as he looked around for the source of the very obnoxious song.
Suddenly, the boat came to a halt as a voice came over an intercom, "We apologize for the interruption, but we are having some technical difficulties. Please remain seated within your boats. We will do our best to get the ride started back up as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience."
Itachi looked ahead to make sure Naruto was still in his sight. However, what he found was an empty boat sitting at the end of the ride. 'Blast!' Itachi thought. 'They must've gotten out just before they stopped the ride.'
Suddenly, Itachi heard the sound of a group of people running in his direction. He turned just in time to see a man pointing in his direction as he hollered out to his companions, "There he is! Over there!"
"Crap!" Itachi muttered under his breath as the men continued running in his direction. He decided against cutting them up to pieces or using his Sharingan against them, wanting to avoid as much trouble as possible. Besides, he was in a rush to catch up to Naruto again. Instead, he simply hoped out of the boat and ran away before anyone had the chance to catch up to him.
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Meanwhile, our favorite Leaf-Nins were already making their way towards a big, white mountain in the not-too-far-off distance. Kakashi continued to read his book, while Naruto, Kiba, and Lee were singing "It's A Small World" at the top of their lungs, apparently trying to see who could sing it the loudest. The rest just followed behind, trying their best to ignore the three boys – or in some cases, trying their best not to beat the boys to a pulp.
So, what'd ya think? Please let me know via review. Also, any suggestions, feel free to let me know! They will be considered.
(Oh, and for those who are curious as to the title for next chapter, I'm afriad I haven't quite come up with it yet, so please just have patience. I am hoping to have it up faster than I had this one...Even already have a decent start on it, hehe.)