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Warning: Yaoi. SasuNaru but not too much. There will be more…err… I'm not sure how to put it. Basically the rating will need to be M in later chapters!

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CHAPTER 1: New Kid On The Block.

Uzumaki Naruto woke up from a deep sleep, with sunlight playing across his face. Closing his eyes again he leant back into his pillow messing his already spiky blonde hair. Somewhere in the back of his mind he could hear a banging noise, frowning he turned onto his stomach trying to get rid of the persistent knocking.

Slowly becoming aware that the knocking wasn't inside his head he pushed the bed covers off his tanned body. Groggily he dragged himself out of bed and made his way down the corridor. Unlocking the door, he simultaneously rubbed his eyes, yawned and looked to see who was bothering him so early.

Suddenly eyes shot wide and the yawn died in his throat as he saw Uchiha Sasuke standing in his doorway. Looking pissed off. Very pissed off.

"Shit," he mumbled, remembering why Sasuke was there. "School starts today doesn't it?"

Sasuke stood there and for a second, though it felt like an eternity, and simply stared. Naruto had obviously just got out of bed and the sight made Sasukes mouth go dry. The blonde looked…amazing.

Tousled hair stood up at odd angles, a rumpled white t-shirt was scrunched up over his flat stomach and… black boxers had slipped down evvvver so slightly showing the most delicious bit of exposed skin. Shaking himself out of his blatant lustful state and silently cursing he replied, "Yes Uzumaki, it does and you're la..." trailing off as the Dobe turned and ran back down the corridor toward the bathroom calling over his shoulder,

"Just give me a sec. I'll be quick!"

"Hn." Was the only reply he got as Sasuke leant moodily against the wall. This was not the way he had wanted the day to start, not at all. He had promised himself that Naruto would not get under his skin, let alone affect his mood. 'Typical' he thought to himself glumly, as he heard the shower turn on. 'He had to come to the door looking like that didn't he!' feeling a build up of frustration he told himself wasn't there he shouted, "God Naruto! Why can't you ever just be ready?"

"I'm sorry Sasuke." called Naruto through the bathroom door,

"You have no idea." The Uchiha muttered trying (and failing) not to imagine Naruto in the shower.

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A remarkable 10 minutes later Naruto was sat in the Uchihas black sports car, moaning about how hungry he was.

"Naruto..." Sasuke began irritably, "It's not my fault you're too much of a idiot to get up on time. I mean come on we're in our senior year! If you can't get up on time how are you supposed to do anyth..."

"Stop moaning Sasuke. So what I got up late, I'm up now...although" he said cutting though the raven-haired boys lecture with a wide yawn "I wish I was still in bed. I can't..." he continued, oblivious to the reaction he was causing.

Sasuke's grip had tightened rather uncomfortably on the steering wheel as he heard Naruto talk about being in bed. 'God…' the Uchiha groaned to himself, 'Shut up, shut up shut up!!!'

"Hey Sasuke. Sasuke? You in there?" Naruto called as the raven-haired boy gripped the steering wheel and looked dead ahead. Bringing himself out of the recesses of his mind for the second time already that day Sasuke nodded. Happy again Naruto continued to blabber on about nothing, usually Sasuke could just about bare this incessant noise, but today wasn't one of those days. He was already stressed about school and now he was frustrated, partly with Naruto but mostly with his lack of self-control. Naruto was his friend for god's sake! It was nothing short of pervy the way he kept thinking of the blonde. This knowledge just made him feel like a weirdo. 'Great' he told himself 'I'm a stressed out, frustrated pervy weirdo. What a combination.'

Hearing Naruto moan again about being hungry, Sasuke glanced at the clock and turned the car sharply into one of the side streets.

"How come we're going down here?" Naruto asked as Sasuke pulled up outside a little café.

"I thought you said you were hungry." He said simply as Naruto looked out of the window and saw that the café sold Ramen. Naruto turned to face Sasuke and grinned, his blue eyes lighting up and causing Sasuke to smile despite himself.

"I officially love you!" Naruto cried as he jumped out of the car.

Feeling heat rise in his face Sasuke turned away with a "Hn. Just hurry up."

He watched Naruto enter the café with haste and looked back again at the clock only to jump out of his skin as the blonde's face appeared again, pressed up against the drivers window. Rolling it down slowly he merely looked at the sheepish grin on Narutos face before reaching into his pocket and handing the blonde some money. "Dobe." He muttered closing the window before Naruto could so much as thank him. Pulling a face Naruto disappeared in to the café again, and several minutes later returned with, quite possibly, his entire weight in Ramen.

He got into the car awkwardly and laughed at Sasukes gob smacked expression. Reaching over to the Uchiha, Naruto gently closed Sasukes open mouth and patted him on the cheek. "Come on bastard, get going or we'll be late for school." Laughing again as Sasukes expression turned from shock to death stare, Naruto began eating.

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Sasuke and Naruto arrived, parked in the senior's car park and sauntered into school just as the bell went. It almost looked like they had planned it. They were greeted by the majority of the students as they walked down the hallway to their form room (same as a homeroom).

Both boys noticed the friendly looks, all the longing stares and both responded to the attention in different ways, Sasuke nodded occasionally, being too cool to say much to just anyone while Naruto grinned, laughed and in some cases playfully punched his was through the crowd.

Entering their form room they headed for their usual seats at the back of the class, sitting in the quiet classroom both felt completely comfortable in the silence that stretched between them.

"You should smile more Sasuke." Naruto stated breaking the blissful peace.

"Why?" Sasuke asked, eyes closed, head resting on the wall behind him.

"You just should. As it is, you already get too much attention but think of how many more… people would join your fan club if you acknowledged them occasionally." He teased, knowing it would annoy the hell out of the Uchiha. He was going to say think of how many more girls would join the club but realised that a lot of guys would probably jump at the chance.

"Stop talking out your arse Dobe." was all Sasuke said refusing to react to the blondes teasing. Opening one eye Sasuke saw Naruto pout and stick his tongue out at him, and he smirked.

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The class slowly began to fill with the regular students. Holiday stories and gossip were swapped with relative excitement, in very high pitched squeals. New looks were commented on, friends hugged and yes...more high pitched squealing.

Sasuke just sat there, listening to the blonde next to him. Naruto was talking in such an animated way that Sakura, who had a wary look on her face, began to edge further and further away from his hand gestures as if she were afraid he would accidentally hit her. But her fear gradually diminished and anger took its place as she heard that Naruto had spent almost his entire summer with Sasuke. "Did you do anything else? Without Sasuke?" she enquired tartly, crossing her arms over her chest.

"Well there was that one week where we only hung out like… 4 times or something. Right Sasuke?" The blonde continued obliviously.

"Hn." Naruto frowned at Sasuke's lack of response, they weren't going to slide back into this non-communication thing again were they?

"Yeah but that's cos the bastard had to sort out some presidential, school election thingy." Naruto dismissed with a wave of his hand.

"By saying, 'some presidential school election thingy' do you mean my only chance to become class president again?" Sasuke asked coldly.

"Yes. That." Naruto grinned, having finally got Sasuke to join in the conversation. "I still don't know why you are the class president, you don't like anyone in the class. Why does it bother you?"

"It sounds good." The raven-haired boy said simply,

"HA! It sounds good!? You're such a vain bastard!" Naruto cried loudly, altering the class to their discussion.

"No I'm not, I would have said it looks good, if I was vain. Idiot." Sasuke continued, defensively.

"Well… it does look good." Naruto said casually. Sasuke nearly choked and the whole class gaped at him. 'He thinks Sasuke looks good?'… 'They spent the whole summer together'… 'Naruto and Sasuke are gay!' were just some of the thoughts that raged through the small group of people.

"I mean on like job applications and stuff. It will look good but that doesn't mean you have to do it. Do you even enjoy it?" Naruto continued oblivious to the momentary mental breakdown he had caused in Sasuke.

"Errr" he began but was saved as their teacher, Iruka-sensei, walked in and welcomed them back.

"So… Hi everyone. Welcome back! Sorry I'm late I had to go and pick up our new student! I'd like to welcome Ga…" he stopped looking at the empty space next to him in a confused sort of way. "Umm. Where is he?" he said to no one in particular. Moving to the open door he poked his head into the corridor and grabbed something with a "Get in here!"

Standing in front of the class, looking really out of place was a tall slim boy, with flaming red hair, unusually shaped green eyes and a tattoo of the word love on his pale forehead.

"Class, this is…"

"No. Fucking. Way." Naruto interrupted loudly from the back of the room.

"Naruto, language!" Iruka- sensei snapped.

"Sorry Sensei." Naruto muttered getting up and moving towards the redhead.

Sasuke sat up and watched the blonde, his blonde yes that's right his, stand in astonishment before the weird kid and stare at him in disbelief.

"No way." He murmured. Unable to believe that he was here. After so long. He was finally here. Suddenly as if he was possessed he found himself hugging the redhead tightly, muttering "You... fucking… why didn't you tell me. I've missed you...so much."

Sasuke watched jealously as Naruto hugged the new kid, whispering into his ear. Whispering things he didn't want the rest of the class to hear, things they didn't know. Things even Sasuke didn't know.

He saw Naruto pull away from the boy and look at him with a mixture of emotion. Astonishment, happiness, wonder even a little sadness. But all the Uchiha noticed was the affection, he knew he was over reacting but the way Naruto smiled when he looked at the teen made Sasuke hate him. His immediate dislike shocked him slightly, but he wanted Naruto to look at him like that, wanted him to hug him in front of the class and whisper into his ear…'Fuck I sound like such a girl.'

He cursed silently slouching back in his chair again as he heard the redhead say, "Hey Naruto. Long time no see." In a deep, slightly accented voice, his expression still slightly expressionless.

"You're telling me," the blonde replied quietly "Where have you been? No wait, first, why are you here?"

"Well I..." he began but was interrupted by Iruka-Sensei with a discrete cough.

"Errr boys can you finish this later?" he asked alerting them both to the other people's presence in the room.

"Yeah sorry sensei." Naruto nodded, rubbing the back of his head sheepishly, blue eyes still boring into green ones. Tearing his eyes away he made his way back to his seat, grinning from ear to ear.

"As I was saying. This is Gaara Sabaku, he's joining us this year. So make him welcome… Well say hello then." He shouted making everyone jump suddenly. After a chorus of 'Hi's' Iruka directed Gaara to sit in front of Naruto saying how the blonde could help him find his classes, to which Naruto readily agreed.

Naruto leaned forward eagerly as the red-haired boy sat in front of him and waited until he twisted round after Iruka had read all the class notices. "Gaara. It's good to see you." He continued. Gaara simply nodded.

"So how come you're here? I mean why didn't you… How long have you been here?" Gaara smiled, very very slightly at the blonde relentless questioning and shrugged. As if to say it didn't matter. He didn't want to talk about it, not here. 'And besides' he thought, glancing at Sasuke 'that idiots listening to every word Narutos saying. Hasn't he ever heard of privacy?'

"You haven't changed much have you," Cut in Narutos voice. It was more of a statement than a question. "You still don't talk then."

"Nope." Came the monosyllabic reply that earned a glowing smile from the blonde. Gaara smiled in return at Naruto's happy expression but glancing again at Sasuke it turned into a frown.

Naruto followed Gaaras gaze towards Sasuke and even his smile faltered at the look radiating from him. He looked ready to kill. Deciding it was time to introduce them Naruto cleared his throat nervously. He wasn't worried about Gaara (he knew all too well that he could take care of himself,) or Sasuke for that matter but more for his own health if he let the death stares continue. 'They already hate each other!' Naruto thought wearily, proving that he wasn't as oblivious to others feelings as some people thought. 'This is going to be fun…' he sighed turning to face Sasuke.

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"Sasuke," Naruto began calmly "this is Gaara. We used to errrr live near each other, when we were younger."

"Hn." Came the Uchihas reply to which Naruto raised an eyebrow, making it obvious that he wasn't happy with that response "Hi Gaara. Nice to meet you." He continued in a tone that implied anything but 'nice'.

Apparently satisfied that that was all Sasuke was going to say Naruto continued. "Gaara, Sasuke" he nodded towards the raven-haired boy, grinning. "We've… been going to school together for a while." He said unable to find the words he wanted, nervously bringing a hand up to the back of his head.

That was it.

No we spend nearly every day together, no I waited for years for him to acknowledge me. Not a word on how happy he had been when he finally did. No mention of how he thought of Sasuke every day, how he wanted Sasuke to…

Simply we go to school together.

Naruto looked at Sasukes stoic expression briefly, wanting so desperately for him to look shocked, hurt, even angry. But he got nothing. He only saw Sasuke, his best friend, concealed behind the mask. That bloody mask he had thought was gone forever.

Sasuke watched Naruto, black eyes never leaving the blonde's gorgeous blue ones. He saw a hint of pain flash somewhere deep within them and wanted to react. Wanted to show how much the comment hurt, wanted to show how much more he could be. But his mask was back up, he shrank back inside himself. Hiding from the one person he had never needed to.

Gaara observed the other two boys. Watched them stare at each other and sensed that Sasuke was more than just a friend from school. Sasuke lowered his eyes under Narutos gaze and the blonde leant forward raising a hand, only to drop it to his desk again- a pained expression clouding his tanned features. Gaara felt weird, felt an emotion he hadn't felt before. This always happened when he was near the blonde. Even though he hadn't seen him for years he knew he only felt things when Naruto was near. It was odd, years of nothingness melted away whenever he thought of him. But now there was this other kid. One who could make Naruto look like that. That wasn't good, not good at all. Raising his non-existent eyebrows Gaara realised the emotion that coursed through his veins was jealously.

Turning back towards Gaara, trying to cover the awkward pause, Naruto flashed that amazing grin. "What period do you have lunch?"

Gaara fumbled with his timetable scanning the day's lessons. "Umm fourth"

"Cool me too." The blonde continued smoothly, "Want to meet me? We can catch up." Gaara nodded casually, but jumped for joy in his head.

"Sasuke?" Naruto enquired pushing the previous uncomfortable scenario to the back of his mind. He watched as the Uchiha raised his onyx eyes to his and smiled as if in reassurance.

"Yeah. Same. But I'll let you guys talk. You've prob…"

"Shut up bastard." Naruto dismissed with a wave of his hand as the class bell sounded. Standing up and beckoning Gaara to follow him.

"You can come too." He called as he walked towards the door "You're my best friend teme why wouldn't you come?" and then he was gone, leaving Sasuke sat at the back of the class like a lemon.

tbc