note.
To fully understand this chapter:
Sakura was depicted as Orihime whereas Sasuke was Hikoboushi in the official set of Tanabata cards released. And Susanoo's appearance in the series is based on the tengu.
Don't know if anyone has noticed, but I've also started naming my chapters! Hopefully it'll make it a bit easier to find previous chapters you'd like to re-read anything that way =]
track 22.
To Sakura's disappointment, uniforms nor traditional dress were chosen. Instead, Naruto's recommendation of hosting a cafe with a folklore theme had been picked out of the hat in the form of a twisted yellow post-it note. To be perfectly honest, she could only be grateful that they weren't dressing up as animals. Sometimes she wondered just how lucky someone could get when she looked at Naruto. He always seemed to get his way with when things were up to chance, if he were to enter the lottery - he'd probably clear out the jackpot.
Preparations took the form of of everyone in the class deciding their characters through a nominations system and having to prepare their own costumes, while the menu was up to the three of them to draft up. To Sakura's delight, since the class was willing to spend a fair bit more because it was their last year in high school, the generous budget allowed them the freedom of attempting a slightly more luxurious menu.
"I want caramel macchiatos! We can then use a coffee foam machine to draw different patterns on them."
"Noted."
"We could make omurice! If we used normal rice inside the omelette, but wrapped cherry tomatoes inside inside of mixing in the ketchup, when you cut in - it would look like it's bleeding!"
"Noted." Sasuke continued scribbling, writing 'omurice - blood' on the class notebook.
Naruto and Sakura were having a blast deciding the menu, and despite Sasuke's supposed boredom, both could tell that he was excited for the coming weekend as well.
Taking the opportunity that Sakura left when she went to get drinks for the team, Naruto scooted closer to Sasuke. "So, do you know if she has someone she likes?" He spun his pen around before proceeding to colour in the corner of the page currently open.
"She already has her eyes on someone." Sasuke shut the book to keep Naruto from filling the edge with black, knowing that it would bother Sakura's almost obsessive compulsive tendencies.
"Is it the guy she's been talking to on the phone?"
"No, that's her friend from back in middle school. It's a girl."
"Hmm..." Naruto held the pen between his nose and upper lip since its previous activity became forbidden. "Then maybe it's me? I should just confess during the festival dance." He scratched the back of his head, absorbed in his daydream of confessing during the round dance around the bonfire, fireworks blooming atop of them. "Sakura-chan only hangs out with us and the band, so she doesn't really know a lot of guys..."
Sasuke raised an eyebrow as if to say 'really?', and Naruto laughed, obviously having been joking.
"But seriously, I didn't know Sakura-chan had girl friends as well. She's always hanging around the guys." He paused, remembering the reason. "Can't blame her though, the other girls don't really like her." That was news to Sasuke. He had forgotten how frighteningly perceptive Naruto could be when it came to other people; he just never seemed to see it when it came to those close around him. "Most of the girls are just jealous that she's close to us."
Jealous? He had thought that she just preferred to not associate with their childish schemes and focus on her studies.
"You don't realise how popular we are do you?" Naruto laughed. "Well, me more than you though."
Sasuke hit the back of Naruto's head as he saw him about the fall off the chair, bringing the blond back to his senses when the footsteps along the corridor crescendoed. "Hey!"
Holding up a roll of paper in one and three cans of coffee in the other, Sakura excitedly trotted back to her seat between the boys. "I just got the character list from sensei's office. Don't you want to know what your characters are?"
"Uzumaki Naruto." She said as Naruto demonstrated a mock salute.
"Yes, ma'am."
"Kitsune." Sakura pretended to draw whiskers along the dimples of his face. Tilting her head to the left to study her work after messing up Naruto's hair, making a note to bring in some hair gel on the day.
"How many tails though?" He grinned, flashing canine teeth. Hoping to be the most powerful of the category. "'Cause there'll be nine if it isn't specified."
"Uchiha Sasuke." She paused, waiting for Sasuke's own salute. Of which, he grudgingly performed as he came to the conclusion that they would be there all day if he didn't.
"Yes, ma'am."
"Tengu." Handing the role to Sasuke, Sakura then waited for her own name to be called out. "Ooh, you're so lucky you get such a cool one! I bet the girls just wanted to see how you'd look in wings." Naruto shot Sasuke a look at that, as if it proved his earlier point on girls.
Sasuke didn't bother calling out her name though."Orihime."
Sakura blinked. Not believing. "That's not a yokai though."
"We're not doing a yokai theme! There was even someone that got the Hotu-puku and another had the Loch Ness Monster! " Naruto argued, crossing his arms to defend his theme as the one who had originally recommended it. "Orihime is also a being from our traditional folklore. I thought you were the smart one Sakura-chan." He ruffled her hair, taking revenge for earlier.
"Fine. Fine. I lose." She laughed, adopting a more feminine tone, she clasped her hands over her lap after pushing the drink his way. "Here's your coffee, Naruto-sama."