Ideal Life
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This is kind of what happens between me and my best friend when we're reading. Except with much stranger arguments.
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"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."-Mark Twain
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Naruto leaned back onto the headboard, closing the electric blue eyes. He had a large stack of comic books easily in reach, on top of which sat Gambit Legends, one of his favorites. Contrary to popular belief, Naruto
did like to read. He just couldn't sit and read the enormous, fat books that Sasuke always read. Speaking of which…
"Ne, Sasuke, aren't you bored with that big book yet?"
Sasuke showed no sign of having heard him, although Naruto knew that Sasuke was going to finish his page before looking up. And sure enough, a minute and a half later, the brunette looked up and said, "No and it's not all that big, dobe."
Naruto raised an eyebrow in disbelief. "That's not that big? It's huge!"
Sasuke only responded with a deadpan look.
Naruto considered something and asked, "How many pages?" then, after an afterthought, added, "Counting the epilogue and prologue."
Sasuke flicked to the back of the book, his obsidian orbs glancing up and down the pages quickly before turning another page. "549."
"You're not serious." Naruto crawled to where Sasuke was sitting opposite him and scanned the page that Sasuke pointed to.
"The next couple of pages are the Author's Note."
"That author's got a lot to say then."
Sasuke's lips quirked in a slight smile. Naruto cheered mentally. Sasuke rarely smiled, so Naruto always won a private victory whenever he did. There was a long, comfortable silence for a long time, Naruto searching through the stack and pulling out Harley Quinn before plopping down and reading.
"…Ne, Sasuke?"
"Hn?" That was weird. He didn't usually answer right away.
"What's that book about anyways?"
"A guy gets sent to this military school in outer space way in the future and he's a genius there and nobody tells him that whenever he's playing this simulation, it's what's really happening. He becomes this great commander and that's how far I've gotten. Why?"
The blonde shrugged and looked over at him. "Dunno. I just kinda wondered what could be so interesting that you're able to read 549 pages of it."
Sasuke smirked and Naruto just knew an insult was coming. "You don't have the attention span for these books.'
Naruto half pouted, half frowned. "I do so. I just don't like most of those. They take forever to get into the storyline."
"You pick the wrong books. This one only takes like three chapters to get into the story."
"I have and excellent choice in books, teme." Naruto gestured to the stack.
"Gambit and Harley Quinn? Really, dobe? Is that the best you can come up with?"
"They are awesome, okay?" Severe annoyance was creeping into Naruto's voice.
"Whatever makes you happy."
The next thing Sasuke knew, his book was snatched from his hands and there was an ache in his skull that had not been there previously.
"Did you just smack me over the head with my own book?"
"Damn right I did."
Sasuke reached behind him and grabbed the even heavier book he'd brought with him just in case he finished the other one and threw it at his blonde friend. Naruto ducked and it slammed into the wall. The two froze at the crash it made and met each other's eyes, each thinking the exact same thing: Oh shit.
"Sasuke, what was that crash I just heard?" called Kakashi, Sasuke's adoptive father.
"Nothing!" they replied too quickly and in perfect unison.
They continued staring at each other and then began laughing uncontrollably. Sasuke tried his hardest to hold it in, but that feat would have been impossible for some inexplicable reason. Then Sasuke sobered up as he realized something.
"You lost my page."
Naruto, who had stopped momentarily to hear Sasuke, started laughing all over again.