Chicken You Are Too Beautiful, Baby

"Let's all eat together!!!"

Ito Haowen didn't hold back, setting his lunch right in the middle of the group.

Then Ito Haowen turned to look at Yamanaka Ino.

"Arigato, Ino! This lunch you made looks as refined as you are. I'm sure it tastes amazing, too!"

When Yamanaka Ino heard those words, her heart gave a little flutter...

What did Haowen mean by that?

What did he mean, the lunch looked as refined as me...

Was Haowen saying I'm pretty?!

Ah!!! I'm so happy!!!

Just as everyone was about to dig in, Ito Haowen suddenly stood up, leaving everyone a little confused...

Meanwhile, Uchiha Sasuke noticed that Ito Haowen seemed to be walking toward him!

"Yo, Sasuke! Want to join us for lunch? Everyone brought lots of delicious food. Eating alone over here must be boring!"

Hearing Ito Haowen's invitation, Uchiha Sasuke was excited inside, but he kept up his aloof act...

"Hmph... I..."

"Come on, let's go!!!"

Ito Haowen knew Uchiha Sasuke's conceited act was kicking in again, so he grabbed Sasuke and hauled him over to the group.

At that moment, Uchiha Sasuke was excited, but his body felt unbearably awkward, especially with everyone around him staring...

"I... I..."

"Oh, what do you mean, 'I'?!

That stuck-up Sasuke's about to start acting cool again. Hurry up and eat!

Here!

This is the Naruto's Secret Burger made by the great Uzumaki Naruto himself! I'll give you one!!!"

The next moment, Uzumaki Naruto took one of his secret burgers and held it out to Sasuke.

Uzumaki Naruto was actually happy Sasuke had joined them. Sure, stuck-up Sasuke was always trying to steal Sakura from him!

But Naruto knew that, aside from the good friends he'd made, everyone else in the class treated him like a demon fox. The only exception was Uchiha Sasuke!

Sasuke wasn't his friend, and he was always calling Naruto an idiot, but he'd never treated him like a demon fox...

"Hmph!!! Idiot!!!"

Though Sasuke called him an idiot, he still took the secret burger Naruto had offered.

"Damn you, stuck-up Sasuke!!! How dare you call the great me an idiot?!! You stuck-up jerk!!!"

"Hmph! You are an idiot! Idiot Naruto!"

"Stuck-up Sasuke!!!"

"Idiot Naruto!!!"

"Stuck-up Sasuke!!!"

"Idiot Naruto!!!"

The two of them launched into a furious exchange of insults. Uchiha Sasuke was clearly gaining the upper hand, while Uzumaki Naruto was getting red-faced and worked up!

"Damn you, Sasuke!!! You villain! You scoundrel! Dare to duel me?!!!"

"Heh... idiot Naruto!"

"AAAAAH!!! Sasuke!!!" Uzumaki Naruto jumped onto his chair and began shouting with all his heart!

For some reason, Uchiha Sasuke, who'd been perfectly calm, seemed to have had some strange switch flipped by that shout!

He jumped onto his chair, too!

"Naruto!!!!"

"Sasuke!!!!"

"Naruto!!!!"

"Sasuke!!!!"

"Naruto!!!!"

"Sasuke!!!!"

"..."

Everyone was dumbfounded. In all their years at the Ninja Academy, they'd never seen Uchiha Sasuke lose his cool like this!

In fact, Sasuke had never once shouted in class!

But today... why was the usually aloof Uchiha Sasuke shouting back and forth with the scatterbrained Uzumaki Naruto like they were madly in love?!

Damn!!!

Was it a genjutsu?!

When did it happen?!!

Ito Haowen watched the scene and rubbed his forehead helplessly.

He'd already expected this when he pulled Uchiha Sasuke over. After all, whenever Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke got together, they were always overflowing with passion!

"Everyone, just ignore those two! They're both crazy, with something wrong in their heads! Let's eat!!!

Oh, right. My mother packed fried chicken in my lunch today, too!"

Uzumaki Naruto, who'd been shouting "Sasuke," stopped the moment he heard "fried chicken" and sat down in the blink of an eye!

"Fried chicken, fried chicken, fried chicken!!! Awesome, bring on the oil!!!"

Once Uchiha Sasuke saw Naruto wasn't going to shout back anymore, he sat down with his usual cool composure.

Then he stuffed the secret burger in his hand into his mouth...

"GAK!!! Damn it!!! What the hell is this?!"

Seeing Uchiha Sasuke's reaction, Uzumaki Naruto gave a cold snort.

"Hmph! You have no taste. This is the Uzumaki Naruto's Secret Burger, made with my special Uzumaki Naruto's Secret Sauce and more than a dozen ingredients!!!"

"Damn it!!! Are you trying to poison someone?!"

"Tch, you stuck-up Sasuke didn't die from it, did you?!"

"Damn you, Naruto!!!" Uchiha Sasuke shouted again...

But this time, Sasuke had miscalculated, because Uzumaki Naruto had no intention of shouting back.

For some reason, when he and Uzumaki Naruto had been shouting each other's names just now, Uchiha Sasuke had felt completely at ease!

But now Naruto wasn't talking to him anymore, and all he could see in Naruto's eyes was fried chicken...

What was fried chicken?!

Could it really be that good?!

Fried chicken... that was easy enough to understand. Wasn't it just chicken that had been fried? Could it really taste that good?!

Meanwhile, Uzumaki Naruto was crouched on his chair, sticking his butt out.

He rested one hand on the table and made it look like a little person. His two fingers were its legs, and he made them creep step by step toward the fried chicken...

"Chicken, you are too beautiful... baby... You come walking toward me, and I can hardly wait... One more look, just one more, and I'll explode..."

Whenever Uzumaki Naruto ate fried chicken, he sang this song.

And as he sang, he wiggled his butt...

He'd learned the song from Ito Haowen earlier, and Naruto thought it was really good!

Chicken really was too beautiful!!!!