Looking into the box, Naruto gasped. It was a suit! And there was a pair of cool sunglasses to go with it! To top it all off, the black tie was already tied in a Double Windsor. “Thank you, mysterious shopman!”
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In another dimension, the shopman sneezed and looked over his shoulder, rubbing his nose as he smiled.
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Down at the bridge where they always met for team meetings, two thirds of Team 7 were there and waiting.
“Why is Kakashi-sensei always so late?!” Sakura said angrily. “And where’s Naruto? He’s usually here by now.” (Inner Sakura: Grrrr! I’ll kill them both in their sleep!!!)
Sasuke looked up from his favorite angst spot on the ground. “Hn…”
Suddenly a blonde man in a black suit wearing sunglasses walked up and greeted them cheerily. “Yo, Sakura-chan, Sasuke-teme! What’s up? Where’s Kakashi-sensei?”
Sakura stared at the newcomer in shock. “Wha-?! Who the heck are you? (Inner Sakura: …You yummy morsel of manliness.)
Sasuke just glared in the newcomer’s general direction.
The man in the black suit simply grinned and replied, “Don’t you recognize Konoha’s #1 most surprising maverick ninja? It’s me, Uzumaki Naruto.”
Now Sakura was glaring at him. “Naaaaruuutooooo…”
Naruto blinked behind his sunglasses and sweatdropped. “What? What’d I do?”
A second later, Naruto found himself six feet under in a Naruto-shaped crater with a large lump on his head. “…Itaaaiii…”
Sakura was standing over the crater panting. “THAT’S FOR HAVING THE NERVE TO LOOK COOLER THEN SASUKE-KUN!!!”
Sasuke’s eye twitched. ‘No way. She thought the dobe looked cooler than me in that suit?’
Naruto crawled out of the hole, rubbing his head. Amazingly, his suit didn’t have a speck of dust on it. AS if to make up for it, though, his cool shades were shattered. “Aww, man, you broke my sunglasses! Oh well.” At that he reached into his inner pocket dimension and pulled out another pair that looked exactly like the ones he had before. In one smooth motion, he snapped the sunglasses open with a flick of his wrist and slid them on. “Whoa. That was the first time I ever got the cool wrist snap thing down….Uh oh.”
The ‘uh oh’ was because Sakura was glaring at him again.
Sasuke chuckled darkly. “You better start running, dobe. I don’t think she’ll give you that second you had earlier.”
As if in a self fulfilling prophecy, Sakura summoned a chakra construct of a giant hammer in her rage and smiled sweetly. Naruto began backing away quickly. And so the chase began, Sakura still smiling and swinging that hammer at Naruto and Naruto screaming, running for his life, and dodging every blow by millimeters. Sasuke, of course, was watching with disinterest when Kakashi finally showed up.
Kakashi, in turn, watched for a few seconds before sweatdropping. “Do I even want to know?”
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