Birthday Disaster

Chapter 2



A scream in the night that faded to only be replaced by the boom and crackle of the light display. Different shades of blues, reds, yellows and mixtures of those broke the velvet night sky. Blinding those watching of the natural lights of beauty that decorated the sky. The light show bathed the village in bursts of light revealing those who celebrated the death of one and the curse of another.



"Nobody remembered." Naruto whispered, looking down at the glowing village from the hokage mountain. "They're all probably at the festival now, cursing my very existence." Naruto sighed and pulled his knees close. "A twice cursed birth. Once for the Kyuubi attacking and being implanted inside of me. Secondly my losing my family."



Laying back on the grass he looked up into the sky and located the red star that his friend in another village cared deeply for. Slowly he started humming the very song that he had heard during that mission, normally doing this would make him remember and calm down but it wasn't working this time. It just hurt too much. His friends should have come, instead they chose to go to Ino's party that celebrated the downfall of Kyuubi and the beginning of his curse. It was a betrayal whether they realized it or not. One that he would not forget or forgive any time soon.



Something was wrong and that was all Sasuke could think of as he took in his two teammates. It wasn't him because he was still being his regular 'bastardly self' as Naruto constantly reminded him. It wasn't Sakura. She had come up to him, flirted pathetically, and had insulted Naruto when he came walking up. That was when it went wrong. The dobe didn't walk. He ran, he skipped, but he didn't walk. The only walk he knew was similar but it was full of pent up energy, his steps were pure excitement at whatever was going to happen that day. So it was very bothersome that he was just simply walking to the bridge. Then Naruto had just leaned against the bridge, which he normally did but not before insulting Sasuke and taking a beating from Sakura for saying something typically stupid. And now he was being completely silent. It was so out of character that Sasuke had even activated his sharingan to make sure it really was him and not some sad excuse of an impostor trying to spy on their team.



"Yo!" Kakashi appeared as he usually did, randomly with that perverted orange book in front of his face.



"You're late!" Sakura shouted out, her voice ringing out without Naruto's joining it.



"The pathway of life has many turns and today I took the one less traveled and got lost while trying to help an..." Kakashi began to be interrupted by Sakura shouting out the traditional 'liar' but when Naruto didn't join Kakashi actually looked up from his book to look at the boy. "Naruto...how are you today?"



Naruto focused his eyes on his teacher's and Sasuke felt a small chill go down his spine. The normally cheerful blue eyes they were cold and hard to look at. "I am fine Kakashi. Can you please tell us what the point is for us meeting here today?"



Now even Sakura was looking at Naruto as if he grew an extra head. Kakashi scratched his head. "Well...I thought it would be a good idea to train on your own today..."



Naruto huffed and turned to walk away. "Then you didn't need to waste our time by calling us down here. You need to stop this crap."



"Naruto!" Sakura gasped in surprise. "You should apologize! He is our sensai and he should be treated with respect."



"You get treated with respect when you earn it and maintain it. Calling us down here under false pretences isn't the way to maintain respect." Naruto pointed out. "Now I am going to go."



"What has gotten in to you today?" Sakura asked, then her eyes seemed to light up. "It doesn't have anything to do with us not going to your little party yesterday was it?"



Naruto froze and glared over his shoulder. "You chose to go to Ino's party and not mine."



"Oh my...grow UP Naruto!" Sakura rolled her eyes. "I had already promised to go to Ino's earlier that day. She always has the best festival parties. Yours was just thrown together at the last minute. Besides you were invited too, you could have come. I mean even Sasuke came for the festival. You brought it on yourself."



"I have planned my party for a whole month and I am growing up. One of the first things I've learned that comes with growing up is that friends are not worth it." Naruto snapped before flitting away with a surprising show of speed.



"Naruto!" Sakura shouted out and seeing that he wasn't coming back she turned around and looked at the two males left on her team. Both of them were just staring in surprise. "I don't know what has gotten in to him."



Kakashi frowned. "What was this about a party?"



"Oh Naruto threw a party on the day of the Kyuubi festival and thought that we were going to come to his party instead of attending Ino's. I mean I don't remember saying I would go." Sakura said rather snobbishly. "Ino's party is the biggest event of the year and you are considered a loser if you don't go to it. Naruto should have realized that he could never compair to her party."



"You didn't go to Naruto's party." Kakashi said almost with a tone of surprise. This caught Sasuke's attention alone but naturally Sakura didn't notice.



"Of course not." she said crossing her arms. "I'm not a loser besides Sasuke-kun was there and I couldn't leave him at Ino's mercy."



"Tell me you got him something." Kakashi continued.



Now Sakura even frowned. "Of course not. Why would I? He didn't deserve anything."



"You don't realize what you have done do you?" Kakashi closed his book and put it away. "I should have realized, but I thought you guys would have gone to his party at least, this isn't good."



"Kakashi. What is wrong?" Sasuke spoke up for the first time startling their sensai out of his spell.



"We didn't really know Naruto for the first eleven years of his life and for the last four he has either been out training, on a mission or out chasing down Sasuke. This year was the first year he has been in Konoha and all of you were here. I was out of the village with Tsunade, Jiriya, Iruka and a few other jounin for a meeting with the danyo so we could not attend." Kakashi started before Sasuke pointed out he was rambling. "Oh right. What I'm trying to say is that yesterday was Naruto's birthday."





TBC