"Wow, everyone's here. It's been so long since I've seen this many of us together."
Naruto Uzumaki hadn't expected to run into so many friends just by having dinner with Team 7.
For some reason, everyone had suddenly chosen to go out for dinner today, and they had all come to the barbecue restaurant.
The barbecue restaurant had been fairly spacious, but with so many people piling in at once, it instantly became much more crowded.
"Sakura!"
"Naruto."
"Over here, over here."
The barbecue restaurant suddenly became much noisier.
Everyone was busy exchanging greetings.
"So loud." Sasuke Uchiha frowned.
It wasn't that he was unwilling to talk to everyone here, but all this commotion not only interfered with conversation, it would also upset the other customers.
Before he could speak, however, Shikamaru Nara had already made arrangements with the staff.
Soon, the barbecue restaurant arranged a large private room for them.
The Konoha 12 chatted as they headed toward the private room.
Once everything was arranged, everyone sat wherever they pleased and began chatting.
Hinata moved cautiously as she sat down beside Naruto.
She placed her shopping bag by her feet and rested her hands neatly on her knees, her gaze falling on the grill, though she occasionally stole a glance at Naruto beside her as he ate mouthfuls of meat.
"Naruto, are you that hungry?" Kiba asked curiously from beside him as he watched Naruto wolf down his food.
How long had it been since he'd had a proper meal? He couldn't even spare the time to greet everyone.
With his mouth full of meat, Naruto said indistinctly, "I just got back from a mission outside the village. I was hungry the whole way back. I don't even have the energy to talk."
"Oh, right, Hinata, order whatever you