[A/N: For those of you who have read this before, I'm rewriting this story. I'd only just started anyway, so it's not like I killed it. The pilot hasn't been altered much, just a few changes of wording and a tense change for the second half. For those of you just joining me, disregard all I've just said xD Enjoy!]
He cuts an interesting figure against the bright blue sky. Head held high, shoulders back, yet seemingly relaxed and in no hurry, he seems too confident to be a new student, much too comfortable and at home with his surroundings. But the unmistakable first-year symbol displayed on his blazer marks him as a newcomer to the university.
The boy—truly still a boy, not quite a man—brushes a blonde bang from his face and peers more closely at the map in his hands. He nods to himself once and makes for the tall building just ahead, but before his hand reaches the door it is pushed open by a girl with shocking pink hair.
"Oh!" she says, surprise written all over her fine features.
He starts, nearly unbalanced. "Um-," he begins awkwardly. His confidence has been rocked and now he can't think of anything to say to this new face.
"Um," she echoes helplessly.
"Sorry," he mumbles.
He takes a step to the right and she shifts the same way. Blushing, she tries to go the other way and he moves with her. Looking very embarrassed now, the girl places her hands on the boy's broad shoulders and spins them around.
They stand like that for a tense moment and he can't help but notice the brilliant emerald shade of her eyes.
She grants him a small smile, red still tingeing her cheeks, and walks off. He gapes after her for a second and then, recollecting himself, he turns his attention back to entering the building.
It was brick and six stories tall. A dorm building, he tells himself. He opened the door and stepped into the cool, air-conditioned hall just inside.
Sasuke sighed, the first of many to come in the upcoming year. He leaned back in his chair and glares impatiently at his laptop, which insisted on being unusually slow. Serves me right for wanting to be conservative.
He had just decided to throw his beer bottle at the screen when lips brushed his left ear and a low voice rumbled, "So what's got your panties in a bunch, teme?"
"GAH!" Sasuke did the natural thing: stop, scream, and crash to the ground.
Passing by in the hallway, the R.A. paused head cocked, as he detected a muffled thump coming from inside the room. Probably fell off his chair, he decided and moved on. He wasn't paid enough to help someone that stupid.
Meanwhile, back at the farm, Sasuke gaped, horror-struck, at the face of his former best friend. Uzumaki Naruto, nickname "Dead-Last." How the hell did he get in Sasuke's dorm room?
Naruto grinnned at him and gestured around the room. "Nice place," he said. "Which bed's mine?"
Sasuke blinked. And blinked again. "You-," he started, eyes wide. "You can't possibly be-,"
"Long time no see…" Naruto leaned in to the petrified Sasuke and, with a wink, delivered the final blow: "Roomie."
The sound that was dragged from Sasuke's mouth resembled that of a dying Uchiha. Purely coincidental, of course.
"I cannot believe this," groaned Sasuke, now retired to his bunk and fervently pressing an icepack to his bruised forehead. "Just when I thought I was rid of you, you actually decide to do something with your life and pass the entrance exam to Kagedaime University!"
Naruto grinned and leaned back in Sasuke's chair. "And here I am!" he announced cheerfully.
"Oh, God, don't remind me." Sasuke took a good look at Naruto. "You're hair's longer," he pointed out. "And you got your ears pierced."
"Yeah, well," shrugged Naruto. "I can't stay the same forever. But you know-," here Naruto paused to lean closer to Sasuke, "This is what I've always wanted. Spending my days with my best friend and brother."
Sasuke found he couldn't meet his friend's cerulean blue eyes and looked to his hands, clasped loosely in his lap, instead. "Naruto…" he muttered, embarrassed and touched at the same time. But-
"Those times are behind us now," Sasuke said. "Things have changed." He was, of course, referring to the distance that had developed between the two boys when Sasuke had moved away. In spite of Sasuke's constant put-downs and Naruto's frequent attempts to start a fight, the two really had been close. It had sucked so hard when Sasuke's guardian had to transfer jobs.
Naruto straightened his shoulders and locked eyes with Sasuke, who finally managed to meet his gaze. A glint of light sparked from the corner of his iris.
"Well then, I'll just have to change things back."
[A/N: So yeah. This is gonna be more dramatic then what I usually write, like... soap opera on paper. Screen. Whatever. :D Salute~!)