Chapter Three; Another Chance
All of a sudden Sasuke felt like somebody had punched him in the gut. For he knew all about what it felt like to be hated and completely despised. Not to mention the fact that his best friend was the joke of the village. Sasuke heaved a deep and heavy sad sigh while hanging his head.
"What's up with you all of a sudden?" Naruto inquired.
"Nothing. There's just something I have to do. That's all." Sasuke began. "Hey Sakura, Keiko, wait up!" he exclaimed before he hurried after them. Both of them stopped and then turned around to look at him.
"May I help you?" Keiko inquired.
"I just wanted to know something." Sasuke began again. "Why do you always feel the need to fight?" he asked her. "Is it because the other kids were mean to you when you were younger?"
"No. Nobody was ever mean to me." Keiko began with a shake of her head. "They were only ever mean to this one other boy. He was a childhood friend of mine from the sand village. We used to play on the playground together all the time back when we were really little. I was only four years old and he was only six. That's the whole entire reason that I learned how to develop this chakra in the first place." She told him.
"Hn." Sasuke began. "Really? No kidding." He said with a smirk. "When I was four years old I was still wearing diapers at night." He told her before Naruto dropped down onto the ground and started rolling around with laughter.
"You? In diapers?" he questioned him while pointing a finger at him and kicking his legs up in the air. "Now that's a sight that I would have loved to see!" he cried but Sasuke just simply rolled his eyes at him.
"That's right, just get it all out now you idiot." He muttered underneath his breath as Keiko giggled before he quickly spun his head back around and glared at her.
"Oops." She began while blushing beet red and afterwards placing a hand over her mouth.
"Look Keiko," Sasuke began. "You might be a pain, and trust me, I would know,.." he said while rubbing his head. "but I really am sorry for real this time since I feel like I didn't give you a fair enough chance. So, do you want to start over?" he asked her as Keiko thought it over for a few minutes.
"Okay. I forgive you." She told him as Sasuke grinned.
"Sasuke Uchiha." He told her while placing his fist out in front of his face while Keiko grinned back at him.
"Keiko Haruno." She responded.
"You know, I can also see the future." She told him.
"Hn. Yeah right. And I can shoot fireballs out of my eye sockets." He mumbled underneath his breath but that's when all of a sudden Keiko placed her hand over both of her eyes and covered them. To his complete utter shock and bewilderment he was able to read her thoughts. He gasped and dropped his jaw as he was able to see the future with him and Sakura together and with a little girl about Keiko's age.
"See." She began with a grin.
"I don't believe it, you really can see the future!" Sasuke exclaimed with incredibility and disbelief.
"Yep!" she cried with a nod before he picked her up and carried her back over to Naruto.
"Naruto, guess what. Keiko can see the future." He told him but Naruto simply just scoffed at him and waved a hand.
"Ha! Yeah right, that's a good one Sasuke." He told him.
"No, really, she can." Sasuke told him.
"Want to see yours?" Keiko wondered with a grin before she covered her eyes again. This time Naruto saw himself together with Hinata and a couple of children a boy and a girl.
"Wow, I don't believe it Sasuke! This kid really can see the future!" Naruto cried while pointing a shaky finger over at her and blinking a few times.
"See? What did I tell you?" Sasuke questioned him with a grin.
"Do you know what this means!?" Naruto cried before he wrapped a brotherly arm around him. "All three of us are going to be millionaires!" he exclaimed excitedly. That's when suddenly Keiko's eyes turned white again and a tiny pebble levitated off the ground. "Oh no! Not again!" he yelled.
"My powers aren't to be used for money!" she shouted angrily back at him before the pebble hit him in the back of the head.
"Ouch!" Naruto exclaimed before he placed his hand there and rubbed it. "Alright, alright already I get the point! I was just making a suggestion that's all." He told her.
"Don't worry,.. I have a plan." Sasuke muttered underneath his breath. "So,.. Keiko, before you and Sakura go back to the sand village for your father's funeral, how would you like me to buy you an ice cream cone just to show how sorry I truly am?" he asked before he finally set her down.
"Yay!" Keiko exclaimed excitedly while extending her fists up into the air and jumping up and down.
"Great plan so far Sasuke! I could always go for an ice cream cone!" Naruto exclaimed before Sasuke grabbed ahold of him by the collar of his shirt and pulled him in close to him.
"Shut up!" he snapped inside a hushed whisper. "Whatever you do, let me be the one to do all of the talking." He told him as Naruto gulped nervously.
"S-S-Sure Sasuke, whatever you say pal." He told him shakily still in hushed tones so that Keiko couldn't hear them.
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Sasuke picked Keiko up off the ground again and afterwards headed towards the back of the line with Naruto. "Now Keiko what kind of ice cream cone do you want?" Sasuke asked her.
"Cookie dough!" she exclaimed excitedly as Sasuke grinned at her.
"Hn. That actually sounds pretty good. I think that I will have one too." He began. "Two cookie dough ice cream cones." He told the man once it was their turn and adjusted his grip on Keiko with one hand, while fishing his money out of his pocket with the other hand.
"Hey! Just wait a second! What about me!? What do I get!?" Naruto cried.
"Your own ice cream." Sasuke told him as Naruto just simply folded his arms and scowled up at him.
"Here ya are. One cookie dough ice cream cone for you sir, and one for the little lady." The man from behind the counter told him with a grin before he passed them over their ice cream cones and then Sasuke turned around and carried Keiko over to a table.