The boy closed his dorm room door with a sigh. He'd just moved into his new private school dorm room for the year and was exhausted. He had and his adopted father had moved all the things he'd need, and want, for the year into the room. He now had his side of the room plastered with band posters to make it look like his room at home, all his clothes he'd need for his days off were in a dresser, his uniform was waiting for him on the end of his bed for the next day, they'd changed some pillows and blankets out, he had his laptop sitting on the top end of his bed, and all his books and everything were in his backpack sitting on the floor at the end of his bed for the next day. All the room was really missing now was the boy's roommate, which he figured would be coming soon.
There was a knock at the door, which the boy was leaning on, and he jumped a little. He turned and opened to the door hoping to finally meet his new roommate, but it was only his adopted father. "Didn't think you were leaving without saying goodbye, did you?" the man asked. The boy grinned.
"Of course not, Iruka, I was just checking my room out from the doorway," he half lied moving a piece of blond hair out of his face.
"I know you better than that, Naruto," Iruka said with a smile. "You're just eager to get settled in and use to things." Naruto nodded and Iruka's smile grew. "But before you do that you should say goodbye to me. I'm not going to see you until Christmas break after all," Iruka told him his smile going to a slight frown.
"Of course I have to say goodbye! I'd feel guilty if I didn't!" Naruto told him in a voice just above normal volume. Iruka laughed as his adopted son moved closer to give him a hug. His eyes started to tear up.
"I'm going to miss you, Naruto," Iruka said in a whisper in his son's ear. Naruto's eyes started to tear up too.
"I'll miss you too, but this isn't forever. Like you said, I'll be back at the breaks," he told him sniffing. "Don't cry or you'll make me cry too."
"I better leave than, because I'm about to," Iruka told him laughing again and pulling away. Both Naruto and Iruka whipped their eyes. "I'll be off than, have fun at your new school," Iruka said. Naruto nodded, and his dad turned and headed back down the hallway.
Naruto closed the door, went over to his bed and lay down. He laid there for a few seconds with his face in his hands before deciding he'd calmed down enough, and sat up. His roommate still hadn't come, and the room looked bare on the other half. He wished whoever would be sharing the room with him would come soon so he could finally have someone to talk to. Naruto pulled his eyes away from the other side of the room, and moved down his bed to the end his uniform was at. He laid it out for a better look. It consisted of a white dress shirt with the school logo on it in black which was an odd looking leaf, a dark gray button up sweater with the school logo in red, black dress pants, and a red and black stripped tie. Naruto also had to wear black socks with a black dress shoe, but had been told he could wear another shoe as long as it had a good amount of red on it or was black. Naruto had chosen a pair of red and white converse. He wasn't into dress shoes or looking dressy at all, but that's what he'd chosen by picking this school over the other school he could have gone to.
The other school that he was able to go to was a public school that his friend, Gaara, and his siblings, had gone to. It was a rough school that had a lot of bad people and things surrounding it. Gaara had begged Naruto to come to this school with him, but Naruto had declined. He didn't want to deal with the trouble there, or get into any trouble. He wanted to play it safe and go to a nice, peaceful, more private school. He'd begged Gaara to reconsider and to choose the nicer, more expansive, school over the rough public one, but in the end Gaara had chosen not to go. He wanted to be with his older brother and sister, and told Naruto that after they left he might switch to the private school for a year.
Naruto had met Gaara and his siblings in his orphanage. They'd lost everything when they were younger. They're mom had been murdered and their dad had disappeared. They were friends in the orphanage for a good few years. They'd gone to the same school that the orphanage had chosen, which was a cheap elementary school on a bad side of town. While there, Naruto met his adopted father. Iruka was a grade five teacher at the school, and one of the only adults Naruto trusted. After a few years of being together when they could and getting to know each other better, Iruka had chosen to adopt Naruto.
At the end of elementary Gaara and his siblings were still parentless. They'd been to many different homes, but never together. They'd been split up several times throughout elementary, people seemed to only choose one or two of the three, but they found their way back to each other and the orphanage each time. Finally halfway through their first year of Junior High they'd been adopted all together. After all those years their real father had come back into their world in treas. He apologised to them many times for leaving them, and had asked their permission to take them back before adopting them. They happily agreed, and once again they were one happy family. They stayed at the school they were attending with Naruto, and over the rest of their three years in Junior High their father and Iruka had become great friends making Naruto, Gaara, Kankuro, and Temari even closer.
But now, at the start of their High School years the group had been separated. Partly because of Naruto being too scared to go to the rough public school, although he'd been in them all his life, and partly because Temari and Kankuro had gone to that public school thinking Naruto and Gaara were sure to follow. Gaara was torn between his best friend and his family, and in the end chose family. But neither of them was too upset about it. They had their cell phones to text each other whenever they could, and they had their computers to talk on after school and on weekends. They'd still see each other on holidays and during the summer, which were the only times Naruto was allowed off school grounds, but for now they just had to get use to not seeing each other every day.
Naruto jumped and looked up from his uniform. He'd heard someone at the door, and hoped it was his new roommate this time. He quickly went back to the head of his bed and laid there acting like he'd been starting at the ceiling bored the whole time.
The door opened and Naruto looked up. The back of a raven haired boy was now standing in the door way. He had a backpack over one shoulder, and was dragging two small suitcases with him. Naruto raised an eyebrow wondering where his parent, that should have been helping him, was. He sat up, crossed his legs, and held his feet. "You want some help with that?" Naruto asked still staring at the boy. He ignored him. Naruto cleared his throat, as the boy backing into the room, thinking he might not have heard him. "Hey, do you want some help?" Naruto asked a little louder. The boy came all the way into the room, and then slammed the dorm room door closed with his foot. Naruto jumped. The boy turned slowly to face Naruto, and Naruto swallowed hard.
"I heard you the first time," The boy told him his voice a little cold as he headed towards his side of the room. Naruto took his answer as a no.
The boy dropped his bag and suitcases onto the floor, and lay down on his bed. Naruto swallowed hard again and searched his head for something to say. He wanted to start some kind of conversation, but this boy didn't seem to want to even try to have anything to do with him. Naruto sighed and just went with the first thing that came to his head, which wasn't always the best idea. "So, are your parents coming with some more of your things?" he asked. The other boy didn't say anything. "Are they coming to say goodbye?" No answer. "So they just dropped you off at the parking lot and left than?" No answer. Naruto blinked and went wide-eyed. "Oh I'm sorry, I forgot to introduce myself. My names Naruto Uzumaki and I guess I'm your roommate for the year. What's your name?" he asked.
Naruto's new roommate looked over at him slowly with a cold stare. Naruto bit his lip and wanted to look away from him, but didn't. The other boy opened his mouth. "So I guess you're the kind of person that doesn't know how to shut his mouth?" the boy asked. Naruto didn't answer because he knew it was a rhetorical question, and the other boy didn't give him time to answer anyways. "I don't suppose you'll change rooms to a broom closet, or something, so I can have the room to myself, will you?" The boy's voice was cold, and Naruto didn't know if he was supposed to answer the last question or not. When the other boy didn't say anything else and just kept staring at him, as if he was waiting for an answer, Naruto blushed slightly and shook his head. The boy sighed and looked away a little disappointed.
After a few minutes of silence and Naruto just sitting on his bed staring at his roommate, he finally got the courage to speak again. "So, uh, are you going to tell me your name, or at least unpack something?" he asked in a quiet little squeak that he wasn't expecting. He quickly covered his mouth with his hands turning a little redder in embarrassment. The other boy turned and looked at him with a questioning look, and then sighed.
"I suppose I have to do both, don't I?" he asked, another rhetorical question. "And while I'm at it I can at least reward you for being quiet so long by answering your other questions. As you can see, my parents aren't coming with more things or to say goodbye. They also did not just drop me off in the parking lot, that was my older brother, because it's impossible for them to drop my off anywhere. And finally, my name is Sasuke Uchiha." When he'd answered the last question he got up from his bed and started to unpack things. Naruto sat there on his own bed processing what he'd just heard. He wanted to ask why it would be impossible for his parents to drop him off anywhere, and why his brother hadn't helped him. But he didn't know what reaction the questions would cause.
As Sasuke fixed up his side of the room by putting up his own posters, putting blankets and pillows on his bed, and putting his clothes away, Naruto couldn't help but watched. Something about Sasuke interested Naruto, and made him feel like he had to know him better and needed to get closer to him. It wasn't just a random want to make a friend anymore. It was need to get close to this boy. Naruto examined Sasuke from his bed taking in every detail about him as he could. He didn't know why, but something made him wish this boy would take more interest in him. It was a feeling he got once in a while when he saw a boy he was interested in, but it was never this strong. The feeling he was getting with Sasuke was a feeling of need, not want. Something that made Naruto wonder, where had this boy been all his life?
A long while later Sasuke pushed his suitcases into a corner and stood up with his back facing Naruto. "That's one bad staring problem you have," he said with and emotionless tone. Naruto blushed dark red and bit his lip. He looked turned away from Sasuke and lay down on his bed looking up at the ceiling not saying anything. Not because he didn't want to defend himself, but because Sasuke had made him unable to talk without sounding ridiculous.
Sasuke went back over to his bed and lay down like Naruto. Naruto moved his eyes and looked at him out of the corner of his eyes. He couldn't figure out why he hadn't mentioned him starting sooner. "Will you stop looking at me? You're making yourself seem like a creep," Sasuke said. Naruto looked away and turned on his side to face the wall. Sasuke hadn't made a hint of eye movement. Naruto couldn't figure out how he'd known he was looking at him.
A few seconds later Naruto felt light breathing on his neck. He froze. Then he heard a light laugh. "If you want me you'll have to do better than this," Sasuke's voice told Naruto in a whisper. Then the breathing disappeared. After a moment's hesitation Naruto looked back over at Sasuke. He was in his bed, and it was like he hadn't moved at all.
"I thought I told you to stop staring at me," Sasuke said in a clod mumble. Naruto knew he was as red as he could get now, he felt his face burning up.
"I need some air," Naruto said getting up quickly. He grabbed his key to the dorm room off his dresser and headed for the door.
"No need to announce it like you're asking permission, I don't really care what you do with your free time," Sasuke told him now in a bored tone and Naruto closed the door behind him. Maybe he'd imagined the voice and the breathing.