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Its Christmas time and the white frosty snow covers everything in the city of Konoha, while everyone is sitting inside of their homes (Unwrapping presents, drinking eggnog, etc), Sai Saici drives his Mazda RX-7 on top of the dangerous Mt. Konoha.
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007.
Mt. Konoha; 11:35 am.
With Sai Saici….
*SCREEEEECH*
*VROOOOOOOOM*
The sound of tires screeching and the engine revving disturbed the peace as I made my decent down Mt. Konoha, the city workers managed to plow all the snow off the roads, but I still had to be careful.
The roads were still wet and slick, one false move and it's over for me, I've been training nonstop since 5:00 am.
Trying to get used to driving in dangerous weather conditions like this is hard, I managed to put some tires on my ride that were made for any type of conditions (rain, snow, summer-like weather), so far I was halfway to the bottom of the mountain.
"Alright, hopefully I won't spin out this time." I thought.
I pressed my foot down on the accelerator as I sped down the straightaway at 165 MPH, when a turn came up I press my foot on the brake pedal to slow down a little, this made drifting around corners a lot easier without doing all the heel-and-toe up shifts and downshifts.
On the more difficult turns I would use the handbrake to lock the back wheels up, I didn't hold on to the handbrake forever though, otherwise if I pressed down on the accelerator I wouldn't go nowhere (if the handbrake was still upwards).
If the turns were casual and easy I would usually slow down by letting my foot off the gas pedal temporarily, either that or press my foot on the brake pedal, most of the time I would also drift around these type of corner at full throttle.
I put the RX-7 in fourth gear as I sped down the straightaway again, snowflakes would hit my windshield and melt after a few minutes, when I sped past the trees on the side of the road the snow would blow right off of them.
At times I would pass a civilian vehicle or two, most of them were driving too slow for me but that's because of the weather, suddenly I approached another corner and this one was gonna be extremely difficult to drift around.
I decided to pull off Ping's signature move (the gutter run), it was really the only solution I could think of, my tires wouldn't be able to grip anything if I tried to drift around this turn.
I dropped the inside tires (on the right side of the car) into the gutter and went speeding around the corner, "Maybe I should have raised the RX-7 up a little bit more." I thought.
I unhook the RX-7 from the gutter and continued speeding down the two lane roadway, it was nothing but smooth sailing as I finally reached the bottom of the mountain, I let out a huge sigh and began reducing my speed.
I took a quick glance at the stopwatch: 4:25.32, "Damn it, I'm still slow!" I said, not only was I training but I was also trying to beat "someone's" best time Hinata's to be exact.
Hinata's time on Mt. Konoha was 3:15.45, that's the most fastest time so far, not to mention it's the most difficult to try to beat.
"Man how the hell does Hinata do it?" I wondered, "I completely customized the engine to the hilt, I increased the horsepower and decreased it, I installed two turbochargers, reduced the weight, put stiffer suspensions and still I can't beat her time."
Naruto's house; 11:37 am.
With Naruto…
"Typical, Sai Saici went up to Mt. Konoha." I said, as I walked into the garage, well I guess my brother will get his present later on (I got him a Mazdaspeed racecar jacket).
Christmas music was playing in the background as I walked back into the living room, the Christmas tree was heavily decorated, and the room was nice and warm thanks to the fireplace.
I walked into the bedroom to see Hinata still sleeping, I sat on the edge of the bed next to her, she looks cute sleeping so peacefully.
I moved a few strands of hair away from her face and gave her a nice soft kiss on her left cheek; this made Hinata stir slowly from her slumber, her white/lavender colored eyes made contact with my blue colored ones.
"Morning Hinata-Chan, and Merry Christmas." I whispered.
Hinata blushed and smiled, "To you as well Naruto-Kun."
Little New York; 11:39 am.
With Sai Saici…
Little New York is a district (just north of Konoha) that pretty much resembles New York City, there were taxi cabs all over the place, people doing Christmas day shopping, people hanging out at deli's and much more.
The most unique thing about Konoha is the roads, there are certain areas in the city that will allow you to drive on the right side and the left side, Konoha is also a very diverse and a very large city.
I slowly drove the RX-7 inside of the garage and got out; there were two people that were inside fixing on their vehicles, one of the vehicles was a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 6 and the other one was a Nissan 370Z.
The owner of the Evo 6 was a male; he was 16 years old and has a very wild (but unique) appearance, while clearly human he has several physical traits that are akin to animals. He has messybrown hair, sharp black eyes with vertical slit-like pupils, pronounced canine teeth, and nails that almost look like claws. He also has the distinct red fang markings on both sides of his cheeks (as of all his family members).
He had on some blue colored Air Force One's, dark grayish baggy pants, and a grey hooded fur-lined coat that had the word "South Pole" on the back of it.
It was none other than Kiba Inuzuka, a longtime childhood friend of mine and a friend of Naruto and Deangelo, the owner of the 370Z was also male he was 15 years old.
He's tall, has dark bushy brown hair, pale skin and wears dark sunglasses (all the time almost). He was wearing a sea-green hooded jacket, black Evisu jeans, and New Balance sneakers that were colored green and black.
His name was Shino Aburame, Hinata and Kiba's friend (and teammate), the garage that we were in is owned by Kiba's mother who is involved in rally car racing most of the time.
"Let me guess: you didn't beat her time huh?" Kiba asked, as he stopped fixing on his car for a moment.
I gave a nod.
"I told you, you couldn't beat her time." Shino said, not taking his eyes off of his car.
"Well shit, it wouldn't have hurt if I tried," I said, "I mean, how can I still be so slow and I got a powerful rotary engine underneath the hood! I tell you, there's something probably wrong with this car!"
"Maybe the problem is not the FD3S (that's what the RX-7 is called also), maybe the problem lies with the one who is driving it?" Shino said.
A scowl came across my face as I slowly turn my head towards Shino, "What's that supposed to mean man!" I asked angrily, as a vein was throbbing on the side of my head, "You trying to say my driving sucks or something!"
"Calm down Sai Saici, and for the record no your driving doesn't sucks, now you can beat Hinata's time your FD has been tuned perfectly. But the problem is, you see Mt. Konoha as a series of turns and don't see the entire course as a whole."
I scoffed, "Please Shino, I know Mt. Konoha like the back of my hands!"
"I'm pretty sure of that, but next time when the weather is okay, just take a walk through Mt. Konoha you'll see things on foot that you wouldn't see driving."
Shino continued working on the engine of his 370Z while Kiba and I just looked at each other, our faces had confusion written all over it with what Shino said, we just shrugged our shoulders and went back to working on our rides.
With Naruto and Hinata…..
Hinata and I spent most of the time unwrapping a few presents, I got Hinata a nice pair of diamond earrings, a heart-shaped diamond necklace (with a picture of me and her inside it), and some nice sexy lingerie (he-he, that's for later on tonight).
Hinata managed to get me a very nice Rolex watch that had orange and blue colored diamonds, some brand new pair of Jordans, and a orange custom made jacket from Coogi.
I wrapped my left arm around Hinata as we both sat on the couch, today (and later on tonight) will be the last day I spend any time with Hinata, tonight she's gonna be racing on Mt. Konoha.
I know Hinata is gonna win that race hands down, but after the race is over her and her teammates are heading to Tokyo for the championship finals.
I'm not gonna lie, I'm worried; I'm extremely worried about the conditions in Mt. Konoha. The race officials could've at least have the race held tomorrow or next week, there have been reports on the news that there is supposed to be more snow coming tonight.
"Naruto-Kun." Hinata said softly, as I snapped out of my thoughts.
"Hmm?" I replied, as I looked at her.
"I love you."
I couldn't help but smile, both Hinata and I leaned in and gave each other a soft but passionate kiss, both of us broke away and looked at each other eye to eye, "I love you too HInata-Chan." I whispered.
With Sai Saici…..
Standing outside of the balcony, I continued to stare at Mt. Konoha and its snow covered trees, I heard that Hinata was gonna be racing in Mt. Konoha.
I don't know why but something came over me, there was this feeling in the air about the race tonight, this negative feeling that something bad was gonna happen.
I've had this feeling for quite some time, I don't know why really but I do, "I need to stop, I'm just being paranoid that's all." I thought.
Part two of the flashback, coming up next.
