The life of Uzumaki Naruto, one would say that it was flawless. He had a great family, wealthy too. He was good-looking, says his high school female population. He was always surrounded by both female and male friends. His personality was as amazing as everything else. Naruto would agree too if anyone told him that his life was great. But not flawless. He would always feel like something was missing, his life puzzle was unfinished. An essential piece missing. His friends would usually laugh it off as him needing a girlfriend.
It's not like he hadn't girlfriends before. He had, tons of them actually but not once had it felt right. He had a crush. His pinkette friend, Sakura.
She was his dream girl. As he would simply put it. But words couldn't describe it. He was planning to ask her out in the next month, before the term ends.
Today was his first day of his second year of high school, he was officially a sophomore now. He ate breakfast and rode his sports car, heading to Konoha High School. There, he met his friend Kiba, who just stepped into the school grounds. Walking slowly, he crept towards his brunette friend and tackled him.
"Morning Kiba!" He greeted, grinning.
"Geez, Naruto. How can anyone be so hyper on a Monday!" Kiba yelled, annoyed.
Naruto just grinned.
Then, both friends entered the school to take their schedules.
As they were heading towards their lockers, Naruto and Kiba checked their schedules.
"We only have Algebra II and History together!" Kiba exclaimed, feigning shock.
Naruto, on the other hand, feigned despair. "What shall we do, Kiba!"
In front of them, their other friend, Neji, rolled his eyes.
"You two really are a bunch of idiots," He said shaking his head.
"Long time no see, Neji!" Naruto yet again tackled his other friend.
"Yeah, yeah. I'm not lending any of my notes to you, I'm warning you from now." Neji informed him.
Naruto's eyes widened, " But neji-kuuuuun~" He whined, knowing his friend's reaction.
Said brunette turned and walked away with a "humph."
Naruto snickered.
"Well, Naruto," Kiba turned to face him, "This is goodbye. I hope I meet you at lunch alive," He saluted him.
Naruto saluted back.
"Aye, Cap'n."
Naruto walked along the corridors until he found his locker. What intrigued him was the locker next to his, the last one of this section. It was tainted black and papers were glued there, written in them 'emo!', 'fag!' and 'Go Die!'.
Was there someone who was bullied and hated this much in his school? Naruto tried to remember someone, but his mind was blank.
He ignored it, took his books and headed to his first class.
Sasuke, was on the other hand, had a life completely opposite of Naruto. H had no family, no friends, well he had one, who was Gaara. They were friends in middle school, but once Gaara met new people and became friends with them, he completely forgot about Sasuke and ignored his as if they didn't know each other at all. This angered Sasuke, but mostly hurt him. He felt betrayed. That made him vow not to trust anyone. The world was filled with back-stabbers, was Sasuke thought.
For the last time, Sasuke checked himself in the mirror. He wore black skinny jeans, a black t-shirt with skulls drawn on it, and a white and black jacket.
He also had put on eye-liner and a bit of eye-shadow.
Sasuke bit his black painted nail and tried to remember if he forgot anything.
When he made sure he had everything he needed, he headed outside and walked to school.
As Sasuke stepped into the school, he was greeted with sneers and jeers.
As usual, he simply ignored them and headed to receive his schedule. He then walked to his locker to see it filled with hate comments.
Sasuke tore them all off and opened his locker, put his unwanted books in and took out what he needed.
After locking his locker, he headed to his first period.
At Naruto's lunch table…
"School's a drag" Naruto proclaimed, falling into his seat, exhausted.
His friends just laughed at his normal behavior.
As time passed, Naruto's table was loud with discussion of latest news to gossips.
They kept talking and remembering stuff until the bell rang, signaling the end of lunch break.
The group waved each other off and every one of them went to his next class.
Naruto walked with Kiba since, as Kiba proclaimed, his locker was close to Naruto's. As they neared Naruto's locker, Naruto spotted the boy assigned for the locker next to his. He could only see his back, but Naruto definitely knew that he was one of those emo outcasts. It wasn't that he hated or despised outcasts, but it was very rare to see one in Konoha HS.
He nudged Kiba in the ribs and whispered to him,
"Who's that guy?"
Following Naruto's gaze, he saw the guy he was talking about.
"That, my friend, is Uchiha Sasuke. You could say he's like the target of most of the bullies of the school." Kiba informed him.
He nodded then walked towards his locker, not forgetting to wave to his friend who turned left, going to his own locker. One of the jocks walked passed the Uchiha, as he came close he jeered,
"Hey, fag! It's not Halloween yet!"
Laughs and snickers erupted the hallway.
Either that Sasuke didn't't hear or he just ignored it. Naruto was positive that it was the later.
Then, Naruto unlocked his locker. Murmurs erupted the hallway.
After taking the books he needed for his next class, which was biology, he turned to be face to face with the Uchiha.
The first thing he noticed was the Uchiha's eyes, which were the color of blood. It was surrounded by black eye-liner. The Uchiha was also shorter than Naruto, he mused. He barely reached Naruto's shoulder.
Blue eyes met bloodshot red ones.
"Hey." Naruto greeted.
"Hn". was all he received.
Shutting his locker, the shorter of the two walked past him to his next class.
As Naruto turned around to leave, he was confronted by Shikamaru, another one of his friends.
"Hey, Shika! I haven't seen you in lunch. Where were you?" The blonde asked.
Shikamaru scratched the back of his head.
"I was taking a nap on the roof. Too bothersome to go to the canteen."
Naruto sweat-dropped.
"Well, gotta go! See ya after school." Naruto waved to his friend and walked away.
Ten minutes later…
"Holy shit!" Naruto yelled, panicked, he had took a wrong turn accidentally and found himself on the other side of school. Now he was running like his life was in danger. Well, it was in some way. His Biology teacher was Orochimaru, and he was scary as hell.
As the biology room door reached his sights, joy ran through his head, until he realized he was late, joy turned to depression.
Taking a deep breath, he opened the door to hell, as he put it.
There, standing by the white board, was Orochimaru, who raised a questioning brow at him.
"And why are you fifteen minutes late, Mr. Uzumaki?"
Naruto scratched the back of his head sheepishly,
"Uhh, I got lost?"
The class erupted into laughing fits.
Orochimaru rubbed his temples and sighed,
"Fine, I'll let you for today since it's the first day. But next time," He crept towards him and looked at him frighteningly, "You'll be punished."
Nodding timidly, Naruto stepped away searching for an empty seats. He saw Neji sitting next to a boy he knew called Choji.
"Hey, Choji, change with Naruto told Choji as Naruto passed by.
"Don't wanna. I don't want to sit next to Sasuke." Choji whined.
Naruto looked at the back of the room to see Sasuke seated by himself in a table isolated from the rest, it was in the middle in the back, no tables near it.
"It's fine." Naruto waved Neji off, walking to the last table. It was placed in a weird way. The tables were arranged in two rows, in each sides were six tables each had two students sitting on it. But the thirteenth table was placed a bit further back but not on either sides, it was between the two rows. Did the students set it this way? Naruto thought.
The eyes of his fellow classmates followed his every step. It was like he was going to some kind of hell-like place or something.
When he reached his table, he put his books down and sat on the other chair. Turning around to face the other occupier of the table. Their eyes met.
"Well, it looks like we're partners now, ne?" Naruto grinned.
"Hn."
"Well, you're a talkative one." Naruto remarked sarcastically.
"And you're annoying. Just shut the hell up."
Naruto's eye widened.
"You do know how to speak!" He placed his hand on his cheek, feigned shock.
Sasuke rolled his eyes.
"Just shut up."
Then, the raven haired rested his head on his palm and stared ahead.
Naruto, realizing that Sasuke will no more talk , turned back to the teacher.
After a while…
Naruto couldn't handle it anymore, he was so freakin' sleepy.
Just a little nap won't hurt. he thought.
Eyelids feeling heavy, he succumbed into deep slumber.
It was a very nice dream Naruto was having, until it was ruined by a poking in his shoulders.
His eyelids opened then closed, it took him moments to adjust to the room's lighting.
His blurry vision cleared up to see Sasuke resting his head on one of his hand, while the other was holding a pen, poking Naruto's shoulder.
"What?" He asked, irritated that his sleep was spoilt.
"The teacher is coming."
Looking up, he realized Sasuke was saying the truth.
He propped himself upwards and stretched his hands.
Moments later, Orochimaru passed their table, stopping next to Naruto.
"You haven't slept yet Naruto, have you?" He asked in his weird snake like way.
"Of coarse not." Naruto replied as casually as he could.
Glancing at the blonde for the last time, he slithered away.
Naruto sighed deeply, then turned to Sasuke.
"Thanks, man, I owe ya!"
Merely glancing at him, Sasuke turned back to the board.
Naruto sweat-dropped.
He then looked at the clock. His eye's widened. He slept through most of the lesson, and there was only five minutes left. He hadn't written anything since the start of the period.
Nudging Sasuke in the ribs he whispered to him,
"Can I copy your notes?"
Sasuke rose his brows, "Why don't you ask your friend over there?" Sasuke's gaze turned to Neji, who was staring intently on the teacher.
"I can't ask him, nobody should know that I slept during class, especially not him." Naruto pleaded.
Sasuke pondered for a few minutes then reluctantly agreed.
"Fine, but if you do anything to it or write random shit in it, you'll regret it."
Naruto contemplated why Sasuke said such thing, then it clicked that some people might write shit about Sasuke in his notebook such as what's written earlier in his locker.
Naruto turned to him,
"Hey, don't put me in with those fucktards who write random shit about people. In fact, I don't see why they even pick on you, I mean seriously, nothing's wrong with you." Naruto explained.
Surprise was written on Sasuke's face, then turned to amusement.
Sasuke smirked.
"Acting like a gentleman, are we?" Sasuke mused.
Naruto flushed, embarrassed.
"Also, could you tell your friend not to glare at me every five seconds?" Sasuke asked.
"Huh?" Turning to look at Sasuke's stare direction was Neji, who was glaring intently at Sasuke. The brunette then looked over at Naruto, his angry eyes turned into surprised ones. He then smiled at him.
"Fine." Naruto said as he turned back to Sasuke.
The bell rung, issuing the end of the period and the start of the last period.
Sasuke left before Naruto could say anything to him.
Naruto took his stuff including Sasuke's notes, then he headed to his locker organized his things and sprinted to his next class. He was excited. Last period was PE. His favorite period.
He reached the changing room in record time, as he opened he looked around to see that no one was there yet. That was what he thought but as he turned to take a locker by the end of the room he saw something he least expected.
There was someone by the end of the room, he was pulling his shirt off, pants already changed.
As the shirt was stripped off, he was face to face with his raven haired biology partner.
Naruto smirked.
"Well, that's a surprise."
Naruto admitted, he thought Sasuke was skinny, but he was wrong. Sasuke had some muscles he would give him credit for that. Yet, he still looked thin.
Sasuke put on his PE shirt, disappointing Naruto.
"What're you staring at?" Sasuke inquired.
"Y'know Sasuke, You're kinda cute." Naruto smirked. Naruto, realized what he said, was about to apologize but then he looked at Sasuke.
A blush adorned the shorter male's face.
"D-don't talk shit." He murmured and turned around then left.
As Naruto changed, he couldn't help by smirking.
The changing room was filled within minutes.
A group of guys stood close by Naruto and were snickering, Naruto didn't mean to eavesdrop, but he was close enough to hear what they were talking about.
"So, let's steal that fag's clothes before he comes.
They stopped by his locker and started to unlock it.
Before they could open it, Naruto placed his hand on said locker and glared at them.
"Hey, what do you thin-" They were cut short when they turned around to face Naruto. Naruto was popular but he was also feared.
"Listen, if you touch this locker, I'll cut of each and every one of your fingers off." He threatened.
They nodded shakily and scattered away.
Murmurs erupted in the room. Naruto checked that the locker was locked, then headed outside.
They were playing soccer today in the field. The two teams were shirts and shirtless.
Naruto was in the shirtless team, and he enjoyed the attention he received for his body. He wasn't like those over-muscled people he had a strong built and had abs, overall he looked hot.
He looked around to see Sasuke in the shirts team, it disappointed him for reasons unknown to him.
The match finished half of it, but it seemed that shirtless were winning.
One of the shirtless members yelled,
"Hey fag! Catch this!" He kicked the ball with full force.
Naruto panicked, he was a bit pissed at the guy but was mostly worried about Sasuke, he couldn't make it to him in time.
Sasuke, on the other hand blinked at it as it came by at a quick speed, turning slightly, he kicked it when it reached him, making it fly back, through all of the members, it reached the shirtless goal, and scored a point to the shirts team.
No one defended the goal, all astonished to see the Uchiha's playing.
Half-way time finished, and Sasuke switched with another team member and sat on the bench.
After school…
Sasuke started walking to his house, mind filled with multiple thoughts. As he entered his apartment, he went to his bedroom to study. Hours later, Sasuke made dinner and then went to sleep.
All the time Naruto was at home until he went to sleep, one thought buzzed in his head. It was how Sasuke blushed when Naruto said that he was cute.
"Ack! I'm a guy! I just met him! I'm not in love with him!" Naruto yelled to no one.
Naruto sighed deeply and tried to come up with an explanation to what happened.
Maybe it's because he rarely gets complimented. Naruto Thought.
"Yes! That's it!" Naruto exclaimed, even though deep down he didn't believe it.
The Door opened to reveal Nagato, his twenty-five years old brother, who stared at him with a questioning raised eyebrow,
"And exactly what is 'it'?"
"Uhh...Umm…Nothing!"
"Whatever, just keep it down."
Naruto sweat dropped.
After dinner, Naruto headed to sleep.
Author's Note:
Well…That's in for the first chapter! Thanks for reading it all! Compliments and critiques are welcome!
P.S. : Nagato looks like Yahiko but with the piercing, not like the red-headed one.