Me: Alright guys you ready? Let's do this LEEEERRRROOOYYY JEEEENNNKKIIINSSS!
Sasu: What the hell are you even talking about anymore?
Me: Honestly…I have no idea oh but I do want to tell everyone I got a puppy well she's basically a dog now I got her like in May but she was already 8 weeks then. She's a Chihuahua Pomeranian mix and her name is Roxy
Naru: Yeah mainly because if she were a he kyu would have named her Roxas.
Me: heheheh well anyways disclaimer here. All I own is this jacked up laptop.
Also my heart goes out to all the family members of 9/11 victims. God bless.
-I almost gave up but a power that I can't explain fell from heaven like a shower now-
-Still in Naru's POV-
It was better then graduation day: the day my part-time job was over. I had safely cleared $2oo after taxes. Enough for dear old Minato to buy a sparkling new tennis racket and a new can of bright neon-yellow tennis balls.
I felt a little melancholy as I picked up my sweater to leave Hokage Travel, my check safely in my purse. Anko gave me a huge hug, a real hug, not like Shizune's porcelain baby-doll hug.
I waved good-bye to Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower, and the Hawaiian Sunset.
"Feel free to come back anytime!" Anko said. "I'm really going to miss you. You're one of a kind, Naruto."
"You are, too!"
She really was, and it was nice to finally bonded with someone who was different from the average Konoha citizen.
"Some day you'll find a one-of-a-kind guy who is just like you."
"Heheh thanks, Anko."
It was the most tender thing anyone had ever said to me.
-End Naru's POV-
-I smile, even though I hurt see I smile-
Naruto placed his paycheck on his night table, and curled up in bed, happy that his prison sentence was over and that he could cash the check tomorrow and proudly hand all his earnings over to Minato. But of course he couldn't sleep. He laid awake all night, wondering what his one-of-a-kind guy would look like. He prayed he didn't wear plaid pants like most golfers in Konoha.
Then he thought about the guy at the Mansion and wondered if he'd already met his one-of-a-kind guy.
-I know God is working so I smile-
"What are you so smiley about?" Sai asked Naruto the next day after lunch. He couldn't help but smile, even to Sai. He was that happy.
"I'm retired." Naruto beamed. "Now I can just live off the interest!"
"Really? Congratulations. But I got so used to seeing you in your cute secretary outfits. You can wear them just for me now," he said, leaning in close.
"Get off," Naruto yelled, pushing Sai away. "You're not going to spoil my day!"
"I won't spoil your day," he said standing back. "I'm proud of you." He smiled a gorgeous smile, but it was mixed with underlying evil. "Now you should have enough money to take me out. I like horror films"
"But they're to scary for children like you. I'll call you in a couple of years."
Naruto laughed and walked on. This time Sai didn't stop him.
'Guess he wasn't going to spoil my day after all…' Naruto thought.
-Even though I've been here for a while I smile-
Eighth period was finally over. Naruto quickly went to meet Deidara at his locker for an after-school ice cream and Mansion plan update. There was a crowd of students standing around Naruto's locker. Deidara tried to lead him away, Naruto pushed past him, through the gawking students.
As he approached, the students stepped back.
He looked at his locker , and his heart fell to the floor. Hanging by rope attached to silver duct tape was Minato's Prince tennis racket and a sign that read, GAME OVER! I WIN!
His head started to spin like in The Exorcist. Sai had kept the racket the whole time. Could he have somehow gotten it the day Creepy Man came to school?
His body shook with fury. All those ringing phone lines, all those angry customers, all the boring faxes, the sickening taste of envelops. Watching people fly, drive, and ski their way out of Konoha as he handed them their tickets to freedom. All because Sai had been waiting for the right moment to return the racket.
Naruto let out a scream that started in his boots and ended echoing off the walls. Several teachers ran out to see what had happened.
"Naruto, are you okay?" One of them asked.
Naruto didn't know if the crowd had dispersed or was still hanging on; he only saw the tennis racket. He couldn't breathe, much less speak.
"What happened?" Another teacher asked.
"Are you choking? Do you have asthma?" They continued.
"Sai Hotaru-" Naruto began through gritted teeth.
"Yes?"
"He's been beaten up. He's in the hospital."
"What? How?"
"Where? When?" the panicked teachers inquired alternately.
Naruto took a deep breath. "I don't know how or where!" He turned to them, his body fuming and his head ready to explode. "But I'll tell you this-it'll be soon!"
The puzzled teachers stared back.
He grabbed the tennis racket with all his might, yanking it so hard the duct tape ripped off a band of green paint from the already grungy locker.
He bolted out of school, thirsting for blood.
Students were scattered on the front lawn, waiting for rides. When he didn't find Sai, he marched around the back.
-Naruto's POV-
I spotted him at the bottom of the hill on the soccer field. Waiting for me. He was surrounded by the entire soccer team.
Sai had planned this. He had patiently waited for this day as I impatiently worked. He knew I'd come for him. He knew I'd be fuming. He knew I'd want to fight. And now he could prove to his buddies that he was king again, that he had gotten the Goth boy, if not by the tree, then by the racket. And he wanted all his buddies to witness it.
I moved quickly, charged with a bloodthirsty rage. I stormed down the hill to the soccer field, thirteen jocks and one proud antagonist staring at me. Everyone waiting for me to get the bait, and the bait was Sai.
I pushed past the soccer snobs and walked up to Sai, clutching Minato's racket, ready for the kill.
"I had it the whole time," he confessed. "I chased that freaky butler dude down that day after school. He wanted to give the racket back himself, but I told him I was your boyfriend. He seemed disappointed."
"You told him you were my boyfriend? Gross!"
"Even grosser for me, babe. You'd be going out with a soccer player. I'd be going out with a freak show!"
I pulled back the racket to take a swing.
"I was going return it sooner, but you looked so happy going to work.
"You're going to have to wear more than a golf glove when I get through with you this time!"
I swung at him and he jumped back.
"I knew you'd coming running after me. They always do!" he announced proudly.
His crowd of puppets laughed.
"But your running after me, too, aren't you, Sai?"
He stared at me, puzzled.
"It's true," I continued. "Tell your friends! They're all here. But I'm sure they knew it all along. Tell them why you're doing this!"
"What are you talking about, freak?" I could see by his expression he was ready for a battle, but he wasn't expecting to play this kind of game.
"I'm talking about love." I said coyly.
The whole crowd laughed. I had a weapon better that better than any two-hundred-dollar racket: humiliation. To accuse a soccer snob of being attracted to a Goth boy was one thing, but to use this mushy gushy word in front of a sixteen-year-old macho guy w as sure to bring the house down.
"Your really freaking out!" he shouted.
"Don't be so embarrassed. It's rather cute, really." I said smugly and smiled at the goalie. "Sai Hotaru loves me. Sai Hotaru loves me!" I sang.
Sai didn't know what to say
"Your on drugs." Sai declared.
"Lame comeback, Sai." I looked at all his smiling soccer snob friends, then glared at him. "It was so obvious the way you felt, I should have known it all along."
Then I said in my loudest voice, "Sai Hotaru, you're in love with me."
"Right, you clown! Like I have a poster of you on my bedroom wall. You're nothing but a skank."
The skank bit hurt, but I let the pain fuel me for the next round.
"You didn't go to the woods with a poster. You didn't dress up like a vampire to impress a poster. And you didn't hide my brother's racket so you could gain the attention of a raging poster!"
The soccer guys must have been impressed by my argument, because they didn't attack me or defend Sai, but instead waited to see what would happen next. "None of your friends here give me the time of day," I went on. "It's 'cause they don't care about me, but you care. You care like crazy! You're telling me the time every day."
"You're crazy! You're nothing but a drugged-up, freaked-out loser, and that's all you'll ever be."
Sai looked at Sasori, who only coolly smiled and shrugged his shoulders. There were snickers from his other mates and whispered words I couldn't hear.
"You want me so bad," I shouted in his face. "And you can't have me!"
Sai came at me, everything swinging, and it was a good thing I had my brother's racket to defend myself against his punches. There must have been something pitiful about a furious jock trying to attack someone as cute as I. Hah! Yeah right. Maybe Sai's gang of soccer dudes secretly enjoyed seeing him humiliated, because they pulled him back and Sasori along with the goalie, stepped in front of me like a handsome barricade.
Just then Asuma blew his whistle for practice.
There was no time for thank-yous to Sasori or the others or "Gee, this has been fun-we'll have to do it again sometime." I ran back up the hill triumphantly. I couldn't wait to tell Deidara.
Did I really believe Sai was in love with me? No. It seemed as unlikely as the existence of vampires. Mr. Popular loves Mr. Unpopular. But I had made a good case, and the important thing was, everyone had bought it.
I was finally free.
-You look so much better when you smile-
Me: Well this was fun
Naru: It was. I enjoyed trolling Sai x3
Sai: . . . -stare-
Naru: UMAD? XD
Me: Naruto stop being mean.
Naru: Hmpf. His fault. He called me a skank.
Me: Anyways I have good news something we can ALL celebrate.
Naru: ?
Me: After the next two chapters we will finally see Sasuke!
Naru: O_o You serious?
Me: I am! I am!
Sasu: And it's going to take two chapters before I show up? Aren't we already on thirteen? Your telling me it took you fifteen whole chapters for me to appear
Me: eheh…well I mean you had like two cameos in some other chapters
Sasu: -glare-
Me: Waah! Gomen gomen! -hides behind Naru-
Naru:-sweat drop- well anyways cya next chapter! Bye-nee!