Your Story
AN: this is very special! um.. not much to say. i hope you like it chuck!
disclaimer: i do not own naruto (and sadly cannot even read at my own house TT)
Chapter one: Somebody to Love
"Can anybody.. find me..." A quick hand reached out almost stealthily, as if it were hunting down it's toothbrush, and capturing it. The prey was brought to the hunter's mouth as if it were a microphone of some sort (poor thing). The young boy in thought breathed in deeply, finally "singing" loudly, "SOOOME-body to LOOOOvveee! Oh!" The blonde kid known as Naruto dancing almost merrily about his bathroom, humming along with the radio that sat on the toilet seat, as he began to rabidly brush his teeth.
"I wok har! Eferyday! I try an' I try an' I try...!"
He quickly spat out the mixed saliva and toothpaste into the sink, quickly dropping to his knees dramatically and holding an air guitar.
"But everybody wants to put me down, they save I've gone crazy-"
"That's because you have."
Naruto immediately jumped to his feet, spinning around and almost falling at the speed of which he did so, blushing deeply as he regarded the other boy leaning against the doorframe, his arms crossed smugly.
"Sasuke! How the hell did you get in my house!" Naruto yelled, pointing his microph- I mean toothbrush at him accusingly. The calm boy simply smirked, turning away and entering Naruto's room. "...The door was wide open. Some stealthy fighter you are, dunce." Sasuke murmured, and Naruto fumed, quite literally at the mouth, and snapped off his radio. He couldn't say much after that, except ponder how cold it had been that night, now he knew the reason why.
"Don't call me a dunce!" The frustrated blond answered, obviously not coming up with a good comeback as he also entered his room. "And I know what you're here for!" Naruto snapped, almost embarrassed for being such a klutz, but hey, it was in the profile. He immediately began rummaging through his drawer, allowing Sasuke to stand there with a cool stance, watching Naruto run around for the object.
Naruto seemed to track it down for a while, and he seemed somewhat frustrated with his drawer, almost angry at it for leaving his door wide open. "Finally…" He mumbled, sticking his toothbrush in his mouth and pulling out a kunai that was wrapped. "Her' ya go." He tossed it at the ebony haired boy, and he caught it swiftly.
Sasuke looked it over, expecting to find something weird on it, but satisfied, he finally shoved it in his holster that was on his right leg then looked up to see Naruto in his bathroom, where he belonged. He remembered his place, being not welcomed, but that didn't mean he'd never been in it. Some stupid science project where he was paired off with Naruto. Sophomore year was tough, especially if you were the new kid, like Naruto.
Naruto grumbled as he watched his expression in the bathroom mirror, spitting out his toothpaste and rising out his toothbrush, then proceeding to smooth back his golden locks, but they wouldn't stay down. "Aw, who cares."
Sasuke had seen it before, when Naruto and him started talking, that Naruto liked to practice the fighting arts, mainly shinobi. That's when they both became sparring partners, everyday training after school. Aside from training partners, they were just friends. Naruto, the school reject, and Sasuke, the most popular kid in the school. Neither of them had any friends, which was surprising for Sasuke
"Come on, hurry up, first day of junior year is starting soon." He absently murmured, now pacing through the doorway and standing next to the blonde as he dried off his face with a towel. "I simply cannot wait." Naruto sarcastically answered, flashing Sasuke a grin and walking past him to grab his bright orange jacket off his bed, pulling it on and hiding his black shirt with it.
"Why are you so earnest to go?" Naruto added, grabbing his keys off his bedside table as well. "I want to get out of this dump." Sasuke smirked, watching, as Naruto grew red with anger. "No wonder you didn't get robbed." Sasuke muttered as he left the apartment, Naruto following him and closing the door behind him, bringing the key up to the lock.
"You're such a bastard." Naruto growled, not thinking much up to say as he fumbled with his lock.
"Hn."
Sasuke silently turned away, looking off into the busy street outside of the halls of the apartment place, thinking over what the first day would be like.
"Alright, now listen." A tired voice came to Naruto's ears; making him look up to the gray-haired man he had known since he came to the school, the teacher Kakashi. He was sitting on his teacher's desk, slouching over his lap as if bored, his elbows holding him up.
"This is a very important year for you... Junior year. This is where your grades could effect-"
"Blah... blah, blah." Naruto muttered, using his hand as a puppet to imitate his teacher. Kakashi sighed at the front of the room, placing his tired eye on the one who interrupted him. He sighed again, clearly not surprised.
"How mature you've grown, Uzumaki." Kakashi spoke clearly to the disturber, crossing his arms as he sat up.
"I take that as offensive, Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto answered back rudely, and everyone snickered slightly. Kakashi pointed to the door. "You know what to do." Naruto mumbled in fake anger, glad to get out of class as per usual, trying to fight the temptation to skip down the stairs to the front of the class.
Ino scoffed, as she watched his act, turning to the boy that sat by her, Shikamaru. "He's such a jackass." She mumbled. Sasuke, in the row in front of her, heard this but said nothing.
"Don't you think so too, Sasuke-kun?"
Sasuke turned his head to acknowledge her. "Not really. You're just like him. Spreading gossip. How mature." The dark haired boy answered smoothly, wanting to smirk but retained composure to the fact that Ino had her point brought down. Shikamaru chuckled as low as he could, which knowing Shikamaru wasn't much effort, for Kakashi's attention was brought down on them.
"Boys." A sharp voice that claimed authority, making both of the boys tense and snap back to attention. The cloth that was always there hid Kakashi's smirk, but what was shown was that curve of his closed eyes, looking happy. "You both can join him."
"This is all your fault, Naruto! Now my arms hurt... How tiring..."
"That's because you're weak! You can't even hold buckets straight, you lazy bum!"
"Argh you little-"
With a big splash and a cry of surprise and agony, the contents of Shikamaru's pail of punishment was now happily soaking Naruto's whole upper half of his body. Naruto glared at him with daggers in his eyes, his eyebrow twitching.
"Ah, much better, my bucket feels much lighter."
"Now, now, boys. Just because you have one doesn't mean you have to be one." Sasuke added with a slight smirk, maybe this wouldn't be so bad after all. Naruto scowled at the both of them, growling at Sasuke's comment slightly. Naruto was surprised though, usually Sasuke wouldn't say much.
Shikamaru shrugged. "Well I'm not so sure if Naruto has one-"
"THAT IS IT!" Naruto yelled finally, burning up again as he grabbed one of his buckets with both hands, throwing the water at Shikamaru with all of his power, a crazy cow look on his face.
The lazy boy had seen it coming and ducked down into a crouching position, looking up as he did so to see the results. Sasuke, who had been standing on the other side of Shikamaru now had been full-blown in the face by the cold water. Naruto laughed nervously, raising an arm and placing it to rest against the back of his head. Sasuke brought a swift arm to his face, wiping off the water there. He immediately shot a cold glare after doing so.
"Idiot."
At that exact moment, both Naruto and Shikamaru broke out laughing, Shikamaru holding a hand to his forehead and Naruto leaning against the corridor wall to support himself. Sasuke growled, picking up both of his buckets and pouring them on the other boys. Shikamaru yelled out in surprise, jumping to his feet while Naruto was unfazed, seeing as he was already wet and whatnot.
"Ugh, it's in my boxers, how troublesome..."
"I feel bad for that water." The devious blonde added, then fell laughing over to Sasuke, leaning on his shoulder while giggling madly as Shikamaru fumed angrily. Now Sasuke couldn't help but smirk, now the comfortable air of joking was hilarious. This was way better than doing equations. Maybe they all were even friends. Yeah right, and angels flew out of Naruto's dark places. He shoved this though aside, and also stepped aside, making Naruto fall to the floor.
Shikamaru stomped over to Naruto, who was sprawled on the floor face downwards, and prepared to kick the blond in the ass, but falling on his own ass as he slipped in a puddle of water.
"BWAHAHAHA!" Naruto choked on his laughter, pounding a fist on the ground. Shikamaru sighed tiredly, looking up at the ceiling.
"I think the water would like it, it's very pretty."
"Yes Naruto, you hurt it's feelings." Sasuke murmured sarcastically, receiving an amused look from the now wet genius.
"Aw... I'm sorry, I swear." Naruto answered between giggles, unlike Sasuke who knew how to suppress such stupid things as laughter.
"Tch. Think what you will." Shikamaru replied in his natural tone, though he knew what he said about the water was a joke. They all stood up straight, shaking the water out of their hair and holding the buckets straight.
"It's very simple Hinata, just take the same number..." Kakashi picked up his pencil, jotting down the same equation and showing her how the first number was done, looking up at her to see if she understood. The quiet girl nodded shyly. "But...why is it that number?"
"No questions, it's too simple. Try not to overcomplicate it." The rest of the class around them bustled about in their groups that Kakashi assigned them as, Sakura joining Ino and Choji just for the day because both of her partners were out in the hall and their group was missing one as well. Kiba and Shino worked silently next to Hinata and Kakashi, patiently waiting for them to be done with the tutoring session and listening as well.
"Ano...Kakashi-sensei..."
"What is it?" Kakashi answered in the usual bored fashion to the quiet girl's insecure question.
"Don't you think Naruto has been- I mean... Naruto and the others have been in the hall for too long? They're missing out on the first learning session..." Hinata asked, twirling a strand of hair about her finger, not looking Kakashi in the..er... eye. Kakashi raised an eyebrow, remembering that the class was too quiet for Naruto to be there.
"Only for you." He murmured, pushing his seat away from the table. She blushed and smiled at him. Kakashi sighed, pausing at the door for a moment to regain himself.
"No anger. 1...2...3..." With a shrug, he slid open the door, taking a step out and walking down the hall. Spotting the three at the end of the hall, all in a perfect line, and it was dead silent.
"Well what do you know?" Kakashi said to nobody in particular, continuing to stroll down to them, now he felt more at ease seeing as they were perfectly normal, but yet something seemed odd about it. "You all can come back now, your punishment-" He slipped in a puddle, but regained his balance before landing on his face. "What the-" The man muttered, watching the puddle, then immediately his eye was on the three of the boys.
"Explain."
"Well I tripped, and I got all wet!"
"I tripped as well."
"So did I... Twice."
Kakashi continued glaring at all of them, truly not believing that Sasuke could have possibly tripped twice. "You guys are lucky I'm not taking you back to the class for your sake." Shikamaru shrugged, Sasuke scoffed as if what Kakashi had commented was a threat, and Naruto still didn't understand what was going on. Nevertheless, the sloshing and the squishing commenced, the sound echoing the halls when they followed Kakashi, entering the class silently as well.
A loud cry of happiness was heard as they did so, and unsurprisingly, Sakura dashed to the front of the room, and Shikamaru went back to his group as Kakashi told him to.
"Sasuke-kun! I was having trouble with this one math equation-"
"You? Math? Trouble? Doesn't belong in the same sentence." Naruto sheepishly grinned, obviously complementing the girl that now looked at him unbelievingly. Sasuke simply was better off by the fact that Naruto had taken her attention off of him for the moment, at least.
"Naruto, I don't care!" Sakura seethed, using her hands to smooth the creases out of her dress as she prepared to get "help" from Sasuke. She turned towards where Sasuke was standing, opening her mouth to speak, but he was gone. She pouted, and turned back to Naruto, and he was there, grinning at her. Sakura scowled, and with a scoff and a flick of her pink hair, she was off towards the table where Sasuke was working quietly.
Naruto sighed sadly, looking down at his feet. He then looked up at the clock on the side of the room. "This period sucks..." The blonde suddenly brightened as he read the numbers on the clock. "Only five minutes! Sweet!"
"This won't be easy." A beautiful woman at the head of the room said quietly, her voice silencing the rest of the class. "A few writing assignments will be due in a few months...But all of what is to be done shall be explained momentarily." The sound of her heels echoed across the room as she made her way to the front of her desk, then leaning against it.
"My name is Anko. I shall be your teacher for writing class this year..." Anko nodded her head to them all.
Ino leaned towards whoever happened to be conveniently sitting next to her and whispered, "A newbie."
Just by sitting quietly, Sasuke could see that everyone was getting a vibe off of this new 'writing' teacher. A hand shot up into the air behind Sasuke, and the woman who sat smugly atop of her desk nodded, regarding him. "Your name?" She asked, fingers taping on her notebook. He nodded at her as well.
"My name is Rock Lee!" Lee stood up, introducing himself with a bow. "And your question?" Her voice drawled quietly, as if it were nothing. "I don't understand what you mean about the assignment! What are we doing exactly?" Anko sighed as if he was an ignorant child, and pushed herself off of the desk.
"You are humans, right?" The class started laughing quietly, and Naruto questioned himself, thinking of her question as a trick question.
"You have emotions. You feel, and you think." Anko explained, and Lee nodded. "I want you to write a short story about a person you love- a mother, a little sister, a friend, someone you look up to...Even someone like a girlfriend, or a boyfriend." Everybody nodded, smiling to each other as if they all knew who they wanted to write about.
Sasuke froze stiffly in his seat, mouth slightly hanging open as he stared at the teacher in disbelief... and in his own thoughts. 'Somebody...to love?' He thought, tracing his own memory for a person that he loved. Nothing. As if. His family was gone already, and his brother... It made him mad just to think of it. He quickly began to think about the first thing that came to mind, retracing the steps of his morning. The last thing he wanted to do was reflect on how Itachi had abandoned him at the start of sophomore year. An annoying tune that got stuck in his head. With the voice of... Naruto's? Air guitar, bathroom floor…
'What's so important about that stupid song?' He thought over what he remembered of the lyrics. It didn't really click what it meant to him. Anko brought him back out of his trance, speaking to the class again. "The story should be about why you love the person, or what the person is like...there are many side stories like this one that are all due on that day. You choose the one you would like to read to the class."
"But-" The class bell rung, signaling the next period.
"Come in class next time with all the supplies on the supply list!" Anko noted as they all bustled out of the doorway.
"So," A voice behind Sasuke rang happily. Sasuke turned around, facing a pleased kitsune. "I only have math and writing with you? Thank God!" He joked, nudging the scowling Sasuke.
"Che. You have 5th free with me, dunce." He answered, leaving the room with the blonde on his heels. Naruto chose to ignore the slight insult about him being a dunce, and continued grinning, as he seemed to have everlasting happiness. "I already knew that, jerk!" The blonde chuckled casually shifting his books to his side. Sasuke raised an eyebrow, watching his happy features.
Surely he wasn't happy about the essay like everyone else? Was he? Well, why else would he be? "I bet you know exactly who you're going to write about. See ya 5th."
"What?" Naruto asked, but before he could make Sasuke answer, he had already disappeared in the crowd.
Sasuke looked down at his feet, ignoring the screams of his usual fan club. "Tch."
AN: so, didja like it? argh my brain is fried! I worked so hard on editing it! I give ya five bucks if ya find something wrong with it .