Author: Oh gosh please, PLEASE more reviews!
The next day, Sakura was still snoozing at 11am in the morning.
Her mom had given up trying to wake her.
All of a sudden, an alarm clock in form of a blonde boy started "ringing"…
"WHAT THE-!"
Sakura was woken up immediately by Naruto's smoothing voice…
"NARUTO! SINCE WHEN DID I ALLOW YOU IN MY BEDROOM? AND HOW DID YOU GET IN, DAMMIT!"
Sakura was seriously pissed off.
"Through the window." Naruto grinned. He didn't seem to be offended at all.
"Well, what do you want? I'm sleeping here."
"Kakashi told us that we're going to Death Springs for training 2 days after…"
"My foot."
"I know your foot's hurt, but Kakashi says that this is no excuse. You'll still have to go."
"That unfeeling old man!" Sakura cursed under her breath.
"What did you say?"
"Nothing. Okay, so can you leave now?"
Naruto looked hurt. "Can't I stay around for a while?"
"Why would you want to stay?"
"Because…"
Naruto blushed. "Be-Because….I… can't say."
Sakura slapped her forehead, sighing. Note to self: Close the window every night…
"Ten!" Sasuke said in a muffled voice as he wolfed down tomatoes.
"Eleven!"
"Twelve!"
Then his face turned blue and he hit his chest with his hand to get the twelfth tomato down.
Eating tomatoes is Sasuke's way of relieving stress. A weird habit of his.
And now, he hoped, he could eat his thoughts about Sakura away.
He knew it wasn't working when he had finished all twenty tomatoes. He still has Sakura on his mind, and a bloated stomach to boot.
"Sigh… Do I really have to except that I'm actually developing feelings for that girl?"
Then he blanched, and his face turned green.
Out went the tomatoes he ate…
Still, after the vomiting, Sasuke did not give up.
"I am NOT developing feelings for Sakura, and that SETTLES IT!"
After two days, Sakura was dragged out of bed, moaning and complaining, by her mother to go for the "Death Springs" training.
"Yo, Sakura!" Naruto waved to her at the side of the bridge. "Foot okay?"
Sakura shrugged. It WAS better now, to tell the truth.
Then she spotted Sasuke.
"SASUKE! SASUKE! HI!" Sakura waved frantically.
Sasuke turned around, glared, and went back to staring at the river below.
Sakura was shocked.
"Ehh?"
Then she felt disappointment.
I'm such an idiot… I actually thought that he'd like me…
After 3 hours of waiting, Kakashi came.
"Ha-ha, sorry guys! I had to search all over the place for my cat… He went missing… Yeah…"
"SINCE WHEN DO YOU KEEP A CAT!"
"What, you guys don't know?" Kakashi faltered when he saw their looks…
"Ahem. Right. Follow me."
Kakashi led them to the outside gates of the village.
"Wow! What are we gonna do? What do you think, Sakura?"
"Shut up." Sakura snapped.
"Sasuke, why are you so gloomy? You should be happy, you know."
"Shut up." Sasuke snarled.
Without warning, Naruto burst into a song.
"We are brothers… Going on a j-o-u-r-n-e-y…"
"Shut… UP…" Sakura and Sasuke muttered.
"Like a happy family…"
"SHUT UP…" They were really pissed now.
"Very, very happy!"
"KAKASHI, SHUT HIM UP!"
But at that moment, however, Sakura, Sasuke and Naruto's mouth went wide open with shock when they saw a huge tour bus right in front of them.
"Well, climb on in!" Kakashi said pleasantly as he beckoned them to get on the bus. "The driver's waiting!"
"Kakashi, why-why are we traveling in a bus?" Naruto stammered.
Kakashi smiled evilly. "Why do you ask?"
Everyone sweatdropped.
"Oh… Nothing…"
"This is getting fishy…" Sasuke thought as he got up the bus.
"Hinata?" Naruto asked when he saw the shy girl on the left-hand side of the bus. "Why are you here? And you're from Lee's…" He looked at Tenten.
Naruto-Kun! Hinata thought happily.
"Neji? Lee?" Sasuke muttered.
"Right, guys on the right, girls on the left," The bus driver, an old man with grey hair and lazy eyes said. "Come on."
Everyone went to their seats…
The bus started moving.
"Eh? Kakashi isn't coming?" Sakura asked.
Kakashi waved from the outside and went off.
"Um… Hinata, why aren't the others in your group here?"
"Ah…I'm not sure…I-I- I was the only one wh-who was asked to-to come-come-along…"
"Ha-ha…" Sakura didn't know how to respond to her stammering.
Tenten sighed. "I wonder what this Death Springs place is like."
"A training ground, probably." Sakura said absentmindedly.
"I think it is not as simple as that, somehow."
"I wonder if there's ramen there, eh, Sasuke?"
"Shut up."
Sasuke was beginning to regret sitting next to that idiot.
He stole a glance at Sakura's direction.
She was talking to Tenten…
Her beautiful eyes… Her pink hair...
TWANG!
A knife just fell to the place where his right leg had been moments ago.
"What the-'
Without warning, knives began shooting out through the back of the bus, heading straight towards him and the others…
"CRAP!" He ducked a chopper.
"WHAT-THE-HELL!" Naruto yelped as he nearly got struck on the leg.
Sakura screamed as a knife went into her seat.
"SAKURA!"
"HINATA-SAMA!"
Sasuke, Naruto and Neji all yelled at once as they reached for the girl of their dreams…
Tenten looked particularly annoyed as she ducked the knives easily. Then she noticed the transparent plastic covering the driver's area, protecting the driver, so that the knives couldn't reach him. He was grinning and pressing another button. Tenten leapt forward and made a threatening gesture at him.
"Stop it right now."
She took out a sharp kunai to prove her point.
"Brats."
The driver was scared of Tenten; she WAS a ninja after all…
The shooting knives stopped.
"Everyone alright?" Tenten asked.
"OF COURSE NOT! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?" Naruto screamed, annoyed at Sasuke had gotten to Sakura first. Sure enough, Sasuke was holding Sakura protectively in his arms.
Tenten raised an eyebrow to see that Neji was doing the same to Hinata.
Boys in love…She thought.
"Hinata, are you okay?"
"Y-Yes…" Hinata said, blushing furiously.
Neji gave her an encouraging smile, went over and cracked the plastic wall into half with his fists.
"Why did you do that?"
"T-Test. Your teachers modified the bus and all I had to do was to p-press a button."
"So are we still going to Death Springs?"
"Y-Yeah."
"Are we reaching there soon?"
"Y-Yeah."
"Okay. If you aren't the driver, you would've become a pile of meat and bones now. Remember that."
"Y-yes."
"Good."
Author: Aah… This fic is so weird! Should I continue this at all...