It was Sasuke Uchiha birthday.
And somehow every one of his fan girls found out.
Presents stacked up on his front porch, wrapped in bright paper and frilly bows. Letters upon letters had been dumped around his mailbox, the heavily scented paper making any passerby sick. Worst of all, boxes and boxes of chocolate piled high in front of his door, so many boxes that he couldn't get out of his house.
It was ok though, Sasuke was calm. Only slightly agitated, it had happened before on Christmas and Valentines Day. Having a pile of presents in his way was something Sasuke could handle; all he had to do was use the back door to get out of the house.
Fan girls though, that was an entirely different matter. Groups of giggling girls pounced on him pouting their lips trying to get at his face, and he had to use a replacement jutsu to get away. It was amazing his clothes were still in tack with all the pulling they did.
Their many attempts to give him a birthday kiss or hug on his way to training turned his only slightly agitated mood into a raging anger. Something was going to get severely mutilated at training today… if he could control himself that long.
To put it simple, Sasuke Uchiha was pissed. Super. Tremendously. Majorly. Pissed off. And as he ran on top of buildings trying to avoid his mob of followers, he couldn't help but curse the world for having birthdays. His aura screamed 'I want to kill somebody,' as the tenth group of girls dragged him down.
Finally the bridge appeared ahead and he almost, almost, ran to reach it faster. Surprisingly his two teammates were already there… with his sensei. Kakashi was never there on time. Sakura and Naruto were smiling and waving, happier than normal.
Oh god, Sasuke inwardly groaned, of course they know about my birthday, and of course they are going to want to do something to celebrate it. Especially Sakura, she was on of his fan girls and he knew she had a major crush on him.
I will kill the next person who mentions birthdays, Sasuke thought, and so help me god if it is Sakura. I don't care if she is a teammate.
"Good morning Sasuke-kun!" Sakura called out as usual when she saw Sasuke near the bridge. She had a bright smile on her face and was waving.
"Good morning Sasuke-teme!" Naruto shouted. His voice sounded louder then normal. Impossible, Sasuke thought, there is no way Naruto could ever get any louder.
"Good morning Sasuke," Kakashi said not even glancing up from his book.
So far so good, they haven't screamed 'Happy Birthday!' given me presents, or forced me to eat cake, Sasuke thought, maybe they might have forgotten. That thought cheered him up a little bit.
Until…
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY SASUKE!"
Sasuke swore that they could have been heard in the Sound village.
That was when Sasuke's thin strand of patience with birthdays finally snapped.
"What the hell is so special about my birthday? I don't really care so why does everyone else? I wake up to find my house covered in frilly presents, letters, and chocolate. And then I get harassed all the way here by raving fan girls! I arrive here just wanting to train and you guys have to remind me about this horrible day! I don't want to celebrate my damn birthday, there is nothing to celebrate!" He yelled at the three, trying to catch his breath. Yelling at them made me feel better, Sasuke thought, now they might drop the whole birthday thing.
His team stood in shock, Naruto and Sakura's mouth wide open and Kakashi looking up from his book with one eyebrow raised. After a few minutes of them not closing their mouths (Kakashi's eyebrow was still raised) Sasuke asked, "What?"
"Nothing," Kakashi muttered looking back down at his book, "We had better start training I guess."
"Um… ok," Naruto said looking from Sasuke to Kakashi. For once he wasn't jumping up and down to start training.
"Sure," Sakura said weakly. Her bright smile that she had on earlier was replaced by a forced one and while she tried to appear happy her eyes looked crestfallen.
Training went on like normal. Sasuke beat Naruto, Kakashi read his book, and Sakura practiced on her chakra control and on her own. Soon it was over, and it took awhile for Sasuke to figure out why he had the weird feeling something was missing as everyone left.
Sakura hadn't asked him the usual 'Do you want to do something?' question. In fact Sasuke could see her sakura blossom colored hair turning down a corner and out of sight. And Naruto hadn't started challenging Sasuke to a fight and yelling that he could beat Sasuke any day and he was going to be the hokage. He wasn't anywhere in sight, and of course Kakashi wasn't anywhere either.
They left really quickly, Sasuke thought, oh well, I need to go train some more.
Several hours later Sasuke returned to his house after training on his own. He walked up to his door, past his mailbox, unlocked his door, opened it, closed it, took off his shoes, and dropped off his training equipment inside the front door.
Wait a minute, Sasuke thought, I should have died when I walked by my mailbox, and had to have dug through a mountain of chocolate and presents to even reach the front door. Let alone open and close it without the whole pile collapsing into my house.
There weren't any presents on the front porch, no chocolate, or letters in the mailbox.
Upon further inspection of his house Sasuke found no remnants of his awful fan girl's presents, letters, or chocolate. Nothing.
Who the heck could have?…Sasuke's thought was interrupted by the sight of three wrapped gifts sitting upon the kitchen table.
When he went to take a closer look Sasuke didn't die from perfume fumes, and the wrapping paper wasn't bright and girly. Best of all it wasn't chocolate.
Not many people knew but Sasuke didn't like chocolate.
Couldn't be a fan girl's, so who are they from? Sasuke wondered. One was a simple medium sized box with plain black wrapping. The tag read From Kakashi. Next was a square box with blue wrapping, the tag said From Naruto. Sasuke could guess that the last present, a flat square box wrapped in red paper was from Sakura.
They gave me presents? And cleaned up my house? Even after I yelled at them this morning? Sasuke thought surprised.
Sasuke hadn't gotten a real birthday present from someone other than a squealing fan girl in a long time, a very long time. A small smile formed on his lips as he picked up Kakashi's present and started to peel back the paper.
The next day at training Naruto was louder then usual, Sakura smile was huge, and underneath Kakashi's mask was a grin.
Sasuke fought Naruto with a brand new set of kunai, especially made by Tenten to fly straight and hold chakra, tried a new fire jutsu off a scroll pulled out of his chunnin vest, and had Sakura clean and bandage any injuries he got with a new medical kit that healed extra fast.
Maybe birthdays aren't so bad after all…
A/N: Did you like it? I haven't written for awhile… sorry if Sasuke was OOC. Please review!
