Confidant
By Amphoterus

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
Author's Note: Happy holidays and a merry Christmas to everyone!

A loud thud jolted me out of my day dream. I squinted my eyes and looked up to see who was grinning next to me... damn, I knew he was always evil. I slowly sat up and turned my head towards him, "What is it, Lee?"

"Naruto! It's not good to sleep during class and waste away our youth!"

I shrugged and faced the window. Advisory... the greatest yet most pointless class ever. Great because it wasn't for a grade and we never did anything important but pointless because we could be out twenty minutes early from school! Besides, advisory was either an all boys or all girls class and that was sorta a drag.

Huge droplets of rain softly padded on the classroom window, the sky darkening to a gray hue and I knew a thunderstorm would be arriving soon. The teacher cleared his throat... he just so happened to be my guardian, Iruka-sensei, which wasn't bad for a class like advisory. I looked over in his direction as he smiled warmly to the class.

"The teachers have all decided to have a secret Santa for each senior advisory class! Please write your name on a piece of paper and a wish list... the budget will be $15!"

A few murmurs went around the room, some didn't care for the idea and others thought it was stupid. I passed my slip of paper to the first person in the row and Iruka-sensei put them all in a jar. After shaking it for a few seconds, he proceeded to pass out random slips of paper to each person in the class. I waited anxiously... who had my name? Who would I get?

Iruka-sensei passed me a piece of paper and walked down the isle. I quickly unfolded the paper and scanned what was written in pencil and in elegant writing.

Uchiha Sasuke.

I flipped the paper over upside down so no one would peak and snuck a glance at the raven haired boy. He was reading a book and had his slip of paper neatly folded in a little square next to his binder and mechanical pencil. I looked away. Sasuke and I were friends in middle school. Key word: were. We're not anymore.

We were best friends by the end of fifth grade and once middle school started, we unfortunately had all different classes. The years went by and by the time eighth grade was half way over, we drifted apart, had different groups of friends, and never really talked to each other anymore besides the occasional greetings here and there. We don't do that anymore. It was both our faults... we never really tried to mend things between us.

The bell rang and I picked up my back pack to get to my next class: consumer economics. Sasuke didn't have a wish list written down... I couldn't help but wonder whose name was written on Sasuke's piece of paper?

Over the course of the next two weeks, a few people had been hinting at who they were giving gifts to but no one has given me a clue yet. A part of me wants to know but then another part of me wants it to remain a secret. Sometimes things are more fun that way. I looked around the room at all the boys in my advisory class... any one of them could have my name!

I turned back to face the front and put my head on my scrunched up sweatshirt, burying my head in my hands. There was no use in thinking about who had my name, I would find out in a few days anyway. I bit my lip thinking of what's coming ahead... the last day I would have advisory would be on December 18th. December 19th through the 21st, I would be taking my finals for each class (excluding advisory, of course) and then I would be on Christmas break. I only look forward to receiving my secret Santa gift and the days off of school but definitely not finals.

Today was the 16th and I still hadn't gotten Sasuke anything. I could always just not get him anything. I mean, nothing was written down his sheet... but deep down inside, I want to. I want to get him something but I just didn't know what.

Today is the 18th of December. The day I have anxiously been waiting for because in advisory we would finally figure out who our secret Santa's were! When I arrived to class, a lot of people had already exchanged their gifts with whoever they were assigned. I sat in my seat and turned to talk to Kiba.

"Hey, Naruto! How are you?"

I gave him the biggest grin I could, "I'm fine... who was your secret Santa?"

"Neji! He got me a winter cap with dog ears!" Kiba actually put on the hat over his head... I thought about my sleeping cap and smiled at him.

"Did you actually write that down on your wish list?"

He shook his head at me and asked, "Who did you have to give a gift to?"

I was about to reply but someone tapped me on my shoulder. I turned around to see Shikamaru standing beside me, "I got you these." He handed me two small rectangle slips of paper.

Free bowl of ramen at Ichiraku's Ramen Bar!

A grin spread over my face as I jumped out of my seat and thanked Shikamaru. "Do you want to come with me? I have two tickets!"

He shrugged but gave a small smile, "Troublesome... but I'll go. Who did you guys buy gifts for?"

Kiba pointed at a boy sitting across the room, "I got him some oil paints." They both turned to me and I laughed nervously.

"Sasuke."

Shikamaru raised his brow and Kiba frowned a little, "But he doesn't have a gift..."

I shrugged and looked away. "He didn't want anything."

I knew Kiba would have asked more questions but thankfully the bell rang and I fled out of the room, catching a glimpse of a scowling Uchiha.