Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Just A Car Crash Away ❯ Chapter One ( Chapter 1 )

Everything had been going fine until that moment. That one little moment caused everything for him to go downhill.

 

“Whaddya mean I have to redo the whole damn order?! It took me forever just to do this one!” Naruto Uzumaki ranted, clearly pissed off about his new order. Who could blame him? Although Sukiyaki was relatively easy to make, preparing thirty orders of it was quite time-consuming.

 

“They want Unagi Kabayaki,” Teuchi Ichiraku stated while looking at a slip of paper he used to write down the order and costs of the meals.

 

“WHAT?! You've gotta be shittin' me! There's no way I can make all that in time! The dinner's in what? Half an hour!?”

 

“It's not my fault, Naruto. I got orders from Uchiha himself. Now, if we get started right away, we should be fine.”

 

“It's just impossible!” Naruto shouted and slammed his fist against the counter, sending a bottle of soy sauce to the floor. Pieces of glass glitter the floor, mixed in with the dark substance.

 

“Naruto! I have had it up to HERE with your idiotic behavior!  Get out of here, you're fired!”

 

“What!? NO WAY ! You can't fire me! Where else am I s'posed to work?!”

 

But Teuchi ignored him, instead going about instructing the other employees as to what to cook.

 

With one quick swipe of the hand, Naruto ripped off his apron and threw it to the ground,

 

“Fine!! I'm sick of this fuckin' place anyway! You and that Uchiha can go to hell!” His rage ended with a loud stomp of his foot, sending even more condiments to the floor. Before his instructor could lecture him one last time, Naruto had made his exit.

 

 

“God damn it!!” Naruto shouted, pounding the steering wheel with his palm. After regaining control of his anger, he let out a sigh, “Now what am I going to do?”

 

Hearing a loud honk from the car behind him, he realized the once red light had turned green. After giving the source of the honk a few choice words, he stepped on the gas, continuing on his way.

 

“Where am I going to work now? I worked at that place for three years and he fired me just like that!?” He snapped his fingers indicating how quickly he was canned. “It's all that Uchiha bastard's fault! He and his stupid `rich-person-banquet' can just go ta'—”

 

Continuing with his rant, he didn't notice the shadowed figure making its way across the interstate. Too late he noticed the figure and swerved to the left to miss it. Although he was successful in avoiding the figure, he was unable to return to his own lane before the lights of an oncoming vehicle met his gaze.

 

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A bright light shined, causing Naruto to flinch his eyes shut in a desperate attempt to avoid it. The sound of cars driving by filled his ears. In confusion, he opened his eyes, only to close them immediately.

 

He cradled his face in his hands, “The light! It burns!!” After rubbing his abused eyes, he opened them again to find that he was lying by the side of a highway. “What the hell?”

 

The blond stood up and looked around. Judging by the sun, it was almost noon. The cars that awoke him had come and gone, leaving the area devoid of life. Searching for any kind of civilization, he overlooked the missing clumps of grass below him once a sharp gleam of light caught his attention.

 

Upon reaching the source, he found a raven-haired male lying on the ground.

Everything had been going fine until that moment. That one little moment caused everything for him to go downhill.

“What do you mean that it's 7:30!? I thought you told me it was eight!?” Sasuke Uchiha shouted into his mobile phone.

“Foolish, little brother, I know I told you 7:30. You were probably too busy fending off that pink-haired bimbo that's so infatuated with you.” There was a soft and barely audible chuckle from the other end, but Sasuke caught it.

“Whatever. I'll be there in twenty minutes.” With that said, the brunette shut his phone.

“It's safe to say we're fashionably late, I guess,” the `pink-haired bimbo' commented, gazing at Sasuke from the passenger seat.

“…”

Inside, Sasuke was boiling with anger. He knew for a fact Itachi had told him the banquet started at eight. Thinking he would have plenty of time to get ready when he arrived, he had just hung his jacket in the back seat, leaving his tie loose around his neck, shirt undone.  But Itachi had found yet another way for Father to look down on the younger sibling.

“Sasuke, do you realize you're going WAY too fast?”

“Sakura,” he gritted out, almost mimicking her, “do you realize that if I don't get there in the next twenty minutes, my inheritance, rather what's left of it, will be flushed down the toilet?—for lack of better terms.”

Sighing, Sakura fastened her seatbelt, just to be on the safe side. For a long time—eternity almost—the two in the car didn't speak. Then, “SASUKE,
WATCH OUT!!”

Sasuke slammed on the breaks and all they saw were bright lights.

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The first thing Sasuke heard when he awoke was a voice mumbling in the
distance.

....Along with a consistent nudge in the shoulder.  He thought of just playing dead; maybe whoever was bothering him would let him sleep longer. But his plan didn't seem to work.  In a sleepy voice, he said, “Go away.”

“Hey!” the voice cried out, “Are you okay?”

“Not with you shouting in my ear…” he groaned, keeping his eyes closed. Briefly, he wondered why the ground was hard beneath him.  It definitely didn't feel like his bed.

“Fine then! Die, see if I care!” the voice shouted through his thoughts.

`That's not Sakura…' Sasuke thought as he sat up and finally opened his eyes. He found the owner of the voice walking away from him, so he stood up and dusted his pants off.

“Hey,” he called out while glancing around.  A couple trees here and there; a long stretch of highway to the left; bright green grass, torn from the ground in some places. Why was he outside?  The last thing he remembered...to be honest, he couldn't exactly remember.  He was with Sakura, driving somewhere.  But where?

“What do you want, bastard?” The guy turned around, irritation written on his face; it even showed in his blue eyes.

The thought of apologizing left Sasuke's mind.  If the blond-haired idiot wanted to be that way, then fine by him. “Where are we?” He asked in an icy tone, dark eyes glaring.

“Like I know,” said the blond as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

Sasuke let out a sigh, “I guess you're too much of an idiot to know anyway.”

“And what's that s'posed to mean!?” By the time this was said, the blond had made his way back to where Sasuke was standing, taking up a fighting stance.
“You wanna go?”

“And not only are you an idiot, you're a reckless idiot.  Look how you're standing; I bet a six-year-old could take you down with that stance.”

“Try and say that after I destroy your face!” The `reckless idiot' took a swing at Sasuke's head. Sasuke dodged it with ease, and in doing so, it sent the other boy to the ground due to poor balance.

The nameless boy released a forced grunt, “Lucky move.”

“Now that that's behind us, where are we?  And who are you?” He looked down
at the boy with a hand on his hip and a glare on his face.  A shadow cast over the blond as Sasuke towered over him.

“I don't have to tell you nothin'!  I've already tried being nice, but you took it for granted like the bastard you are!” The boy closed his eyes and jerked his head in the other direction, crossing his arms over his chest.

After rolling his eyes, Sasuke muttered, “I thought you were someone else. You both sound…” `annoying'  “…alike.”

After a few minutes of silence, the boy spoke up, softer than before, “Naruto Uzumaki.”

“What?”  He had heard him fine, but the boy—Naruto—had spoken so soft, Sasuke had been taken by surprise.  Just by the first impression, he figured the boy talked only in a loud voice.

“That's my name!  Naruto Uzumaki!!” he shouted, reverting back to his loud voice, hurting Sasuke's ears.

“Oh. My name is Sasuke; Sasuke Uchiha.”

Naruto whipped his head around faster than you could imagine, “Uchiha? Your
name is U-CHI-HA!?”

Startled by the accusation in the boy's voice, Sasuke spoke, “Do I know you?”

Naruto had finally stood up, facing Sasuke and yelled in fury, “Your rich ass got me FIRED!!”

“What!? I don't even know you! How could I have gotten you fired!?”

“You and your stupid banquet, that's how!! Changing the damn menu on me a
half an hour before it's suppose to be served is how I got fired!!”

And Sasuke remembered the banquet he was supposed to be at.