Sasukec: Here's chap 3! Enjoy peoples.

The blonde approached table 8, wanting to run home and crawl under the covers for the rest of the day. If he'd known Sasuke was going to be there, he'd have called in sick. The table was becoming closer with each step.

Maybe he won't recognize me…

He looked down and remembered he had a nametag.

Great. That's great. What other Narutos are there? Er… None.

Once he got to the table with Sasuke and… Ino? The blonde was so tied up in keeping his cool that he hadn't noticed that Sasuke wasn't alone. They both looked as tense as he felt. The blonde wondered why Sasuke was with Ino. It didn't make sense to him.

Why the hell is Sasuke with Ino?

Naruto didn't have time to ponder why he would be with Ino – let alone a girl – because he was less than a few feet away from their table and had to say his usual greetings.

"Hello, my name's Naruto and I'll be your waiter for today," he handed them two menus and tried to deepen his voice to make it unrecognizable. Obviously, for Ino, it didn't work.

"Naruto! Hey, it's Ino! How've you been?"

The blonde wanted to crawl into a corner and die because of Sasuke's glare at that moment.

My God… I haven't felt this depressed since I was 8 when I found out Superman dies later on in the series… I should say something…

It took the blonde a few seconds to reply and keep a steady voice, "Uh… Yeah, I'm great. Just let me know when you're ready to order and I'll… Uh…" He brought his words to a slow crawl as he walked away from Sasuke's death glare. "Get those… Drinks."

Ino just smiled, happy as can be, not even realizing she forgot to tell him what drinks they wanted. The blonde hurried away then noticed that he forgot to take their drink orders. He guessed on what they would like and hoped that he'd be, in some odds, right.

The brunette huffed a grunt after Naruto walked off – more or less ran off. Ino noticed Sasuke's mood hadn't improved, only gotten worse. She put her hand on his arm and tried to once again gain insight into what he was thinking.

"Is it Naruto…?"

Sasuke acted as though he hadn't heard her and continued drilling holes into Naruto's back until he was no longer visible.

Moments later, he returned with a couple of drinks that the blonde guessed was what they would have ordered. He quickly set the drinks down in front of the couple, then pulled out a tablet and pen to take their order.

"Are you two ready to place your order?"

Naruto swallowed hard, impatiently waiting for them to say something. Although the blonde had his eyes focused on the tablet, he could feel daggers being stabbed through him by Sasuke's death glare. Naruto cleared his throat to maybe give a hint to Ino that he was painfully waiting. Luckily, the blonde-headed girl nodded then placed both their orders. Naruto thanked her as she handed back the menus, then said before walking off, "Your order will be out as soon as we can get it out."

15 minutes later, Naruto was bringing out their plates of food on a giant black tray to their table. The blonde usually had no trouble carrying the tray, but Sasuke's glare caught him off balance more than just a few times today. Naruto still wondered why the Uchiha had such a problem with him. With his focus lost, Naruto had let his hand lose its level of balance, and… There went the tray… All over Sasuke and Ino. The bad news: it was mainly on Sasuke, rather than Ino. Basically everyone within the restaurant turned their heads to view what had happened as the plates crashed onto the floor; the whole restaurant silent save for the TVs and music on the intercom.

Naruto froze, not knowing what to do – this wasn't in the training. Ino had a small yelp escape her lips while Sasuke sat motionless with pasta all throughout his hair. Naruto knew he should say something, it would make things worse if he didn't.

"Oh…My God… I'm so sorry." The blonde started to try and clean things up when Ino spoke gently, "It's alright Naruto. Accidents hap-"

The clattering of Sasuke's chair to the floor interrupted her sentence. The Uchiha was fuming mad, and it was not okay by Sasuke's standards. This was the straw that broke the camel's back for Sasuke. He obviously didn't want to remain any longer. And so, Sasuke stormed out after one last death glance toward Naruto, with Ino trailing behind him.

Ino looked back at Naruto before exiting with an almost apologetic look in her eyes. One voice turned into two, three, four… The customers began to return to their lives as Naruto just stood there.

I am so dead…

Sasukec: Hope you guys enjoyed! Reviews are welcome and chaps 4 and 5 (maybe 6) will be up next Saturday (May 15). Till then, my readers!