A/N: As usual, this NaruGaaNaru fanfiction is a highschool one, like most. If you see something in it that happens to be a little familiar, and it looks like something that was in "High School Called: They Want Their Drama Back", it's because that's the fanfiction I was inspired to do this by. So no flamming because of similarities you might find. Get it? Got it? Good.
Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, Naruto & Gaara and Obito & Kakashi would be more than just best friends. Oh! And not just Obito, but Asuma and Hayate would still be alive. As well as Deidara, Sasori, Kakuzu, and Hidan, for that matter. (Hidan wouldn't have been neutralized!) Besides, my first name isn't Masashi, and my last name isn't Kishimoto.
Prologue: The Group's New Member
Naruto's POV
"So, what're we doing tonight? Random crap, again?" My best friend Kiba asked me, while we walked down the hallway to our homeroom class. He was making it seem like we never really did anything. See, on Friday nights, my group and I would go out and do things. And it's Friday. So, obviously, we'll all be going someplace, tonight. Wherever that may be.
"I guess." I shrugged. "I really don't think about stuff like that until after school, you know?" I sighed. Kiba was always trying to be the first one to be ready, when our group went out. He never was, though, because Lee was always first. I swear, Gai must help him get ready, or something. I mean, whenever it is we get there, he's not only always the first one there, but he brings a freakin' watch with him, just to see how long he would be waiting for everyone, person by person. Then, he finds out how much time it's been, from the time he got to our meeting spot, to the time it takes for the final person to arrive. Of course, that person is normally, and naturally, Shikamaru. He always said he fell alseep, and had to get ready at the last minute. Usually, someone has to call him on the phone, asking him what he is doing. That's usually sitting on the couch, watching T.V, if he didn't fall alseep. If he didn't fall alseep… on the couch.
Kiba and I walked in silence, from then on, until we got into homeroom. Right then, Lee zoomed up to us. He was grinning merrily at us both.
Oh, great… I thought. Does he already have something planned for tonight…?
"Guess what!?" Lee said.
"What?" Kiba asked, casually, pretty much thinking the same thing I was.
Amazingly, we were both wrong.
"No!" Lee laughed. "I got Gaara to join our group!"
"What!?" I half yelled. If I had been drinking something, I probably would have spit it out. The problem was, Gaara was the kid I liked. If he hung out around me, he'd surely find out. And the only people I allowed to know I liked him where the ones I trusted most; my closest friends. People would be all over me if they found out I was gay. Or bisexual, or... whatever. Besides, I didn't even know if Gaara liked me back.
"Isn't it great!?" Lee asked, still excited.
"I guess…" Kiba muttered. "Lee, that guy shows no emotion. Why would he start now?"
"Er…" Lee even looked confused at this. "I guess heeee… had a change of heart, or something like that?" Kiba and I sighed. Lee was still obviously happy. Anyone could see that. He suddenly smiled so wide, the people across the hallway in the room over there could probably see almost all of his teeth.
"Oh, now what?" Kiba asked.
"I think we should go to a skating place, tonight! Or, no! Maybe… we could go gambling?!" Lee said, as he rambled off. He kept considering a bunch of things, not even letting Kiba nor I answer. Shikamaru suddenly walked up next to us, with Chouji, who was finishing a bag of potato chips.
"So, Lee." Shikamaru said. "Where are we going, out of all of these places?" He chuckled slightly.
"Um… I think I should ask Neji." Lee answered quickly, obviously unable to decide what to choose. It always ended up that way. Lee always ended up asking Neji, who never even bothered to think of a place. Neji always ended up asking Hiashi for ideas. That was bound to happen again. It was a normal thing; I was definitely used to it.
"What about me?" Neji asked, walking up to us.
"Can you decide what we should do, tonight?" Lee asked, innocently, making it seem like he never even bothered to try and choose something.
Yeah, and he's the one who was suggesting every possible thing.
"I'll ask Hiashi." Neji sighed. "You know I can never think of anything to do."
"You just don't bother." Shikamaru said.
"Well, maybe." Neji said thoughtfully.
The bell rang for homeroom. The six of us sat down in our seats. I sat behind Shikamaru, and in front of Chouji. Kiba sat to the left of me, while Neji sat at the right of me. Lee was diagonal from me, in front of Neji. The others were all scattered around. Gaara was somewhere in a corner. Sasuke was in the front, on the far right. Sakura was also in the front, but she was on the opposite side as Sasuke, in the far left. She kept glancing at Lee, every day. The others were scattered around somewhere else in the classroom. Kakashi was our homeroom teacher, and he was also the teacher for History.
"Hey, Naruto." Kiba said, nudging my shoulder with his. "I don't think you have anything to worry about."
"Huh?" I asked, turning my head to him. "What're you talking about?"
"Gaara." He whispered to me, sounding like he was trying to tell me some amazing secret nobody else knew. "He keeps taking small glances at you. I think he likes you."
"How would you know this? Unless you're staring at him?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I'm looking back at him, for you, just to see if there's any hints of him liking you. I don't like that kid. I don't like anyone in this school, actually. Guys or girls."
"Okay, but... just because he glanced at me doesn't mean he likes me." I said, casually.
"But he keeps looking at you! I think he sighed once or twice, too."
"What would he have to sigh about?"
"He probably thinks your straight, since you're always around Sakura."
"Who, obviously, likes Lee. Everyone in our homeroom class, at least, knows it, too. I'm sure Gaara knows, since he is part of everyone."
"Well, just because she likes someone, doesn't mean you can't like her."
"Oh, whatever! You just want to be complicated, huh?!" I sighed.
"'Course." Kiba smiled, and laughed.
The bell for first period rang a little while later. Science with Maito Gai. The most active and probably explosive class. Gai always tried to show everyone a new "Fantastic" experiment, but it always failed. Some teacher he is. Lee is the only one interested in what he does, for the most part. Gaara has this class with me, and he hates having the class at all, too. Probably even more than I do. More than anyone else does. He always tuned out Gai's 'lesson', and when Gai found out, he would zoom right on over to the table Gaara was at and smack a ruler down on the table. Shikamaru could never sleep in Gai's class. Gai was way too loud for anyone to sleep in his class. The teachers next door to him sometimes had to even come over and nearly plead for Gai to keep his voice down. Shikamaru actually wouldn't even dare sleep in Gai's class. I was tuning out Gai's lesson for the most part, too, (like most people) and going over what Kiba told me about Gaara in homeroom. I was snapped back into reality when I felt myself being poked continuously by none other than Kiba himself.
"Naaaruuuutooooo..." He said, while poking me. It was just five minutes before the bell was going to ring for second period. Gai always let his class talk five minutes before the bell. Honestly, that was the only good thing about his class.
"What?" I asked, turning my head to him. He sat next to me in Science, too.
"Gaara. He's staring at you." He said, pointing his finger at Gaara, just enough so only I would see he was pointing.
"He is?" I questioned, looking behind me to the table closest to the right corner. Right when I did, he slightly blushed, then quickly looked away. "Okay, yeah, he was staring at me." I said quickly, and also turned away quickly, blushing.
"See? I told you." Kiba said, shaking his head and laughing. When he was done laughing, he looked back at me and said, "You should ask him out to the dance, next Friday. Most people already have a date, but he doesn't seem to, and you don't, either."
"Kiba, you're not one to be talking. You don't have a date, either." I said, accusingly.
"Well, I'm just not going. Besides, my mom is going out somewhere next Friday, anyway. My sister's going out, too, with friends, so I'm going to be at my house alone. I was told I could invite any friends who weren't going to the dance, though. So if you really don't want to ask Gaara out, you could always come to my house and find something to do. Shikamaru and Chouji are already planning to come over, since they don't have dates, either."
"Even though he doesn't like her, why doesn't Shikamaru just ask Ino to go with him?" I ask, pretending I didn't hear him say anything about me or Gaara.
"Ino is going with Sai. Sakura with Lee. Unless Tenten is going with Lee, then I don't know who Sakura is going with. Definitely not Sasuke, 'cause I heard Sasuke already found a date. Don't know who, but I've heard he asked out a guy. Anyway, now that I think about it, Neji's probably gonna come to my house, too. He doesn't have a date, either. You'll be the only one in our group who goes to the dance, actually, if you do ask Gaara out. And if you really want to come to my house, there's always Matsuri who Gaara could go with."
"But Gaara's gay, isn't he? Why would he go with a girl, then?"
"Oh, I dunno. But you just basically said you should ask him out." Kiba laughed.
"N-No I didn't!" I stammered. "I'm just saying he probably wouldn't go with Matsuri, since he's gay."
"Matsuri does have a crush on him, though."
"Yeah, I know. Well, I guess I'll... think about it."
"Don't worry, Naruto." Kiba laughed. "People love who they love. That's just how people are. The ones who won't admit what their sexual orientation is are the ones who are gay, though. Like, uh, you."
"Like, uh, only me?"
"And Gaara."
"Okay, him, too."
"So, uh, since you're both gay and won't admit it..."
"We should go out, right?" I asked, knowingly, rolling my eyes, but laughing.
"Yyyyep!" Kiba exclaimed, as the bell rang for next period.
Gaara's POV
When lunch time came around, I did what I always did and just sat at any old table. I never bothered to get lunch at school. I just ate at home. (If I even bothered eating then, that is) The food at school tasted horrible, anyway. How could anyone eat it?
I was, as usual, the first one in the lunch room, since I didn't bother going to my locker. I just got everything I would need that day, so I wouldn't have to go to my locker. Eventually, I spotted Naruto and Kiba coming out of the lunch line, and looking for a table to sit at. The popular girls always took the front, left-hand table, so they already had that table out of the question. How would I know? Because none of the guys really wanted to sit at that table. Not with the snot-nosed popular girls. (And I'm sure they wouldn't want to sit next Sasuke and his boyfriend) I had hoped Naruto would choose my table, and guess what? He did. He sat right next to me, too, with Kiba sitting on the opposite side in front of him.
I pretended not to notice either of them, as I just stared down at my books lying on the table in front of me. Of course, that didn't last very long, because the next thing I knew, I had Naruto waving his hand in front of my face, trying to get my attention.
"Helloooo... Earth to Gaara! Calling in!" He said, still waving his hand in front of my face. I guess he was trying to talk to me, when I was staring down at my books. I can't believe I didn't even notice.Well, that sure made me an idiot, considering his voice is a little on the high pitched side, and he talks a lot. Worse yet, I like him. And I didn't even notice he was trying to talk to me.
"Gaaaaaarrrrraaaa..." Naruto said, still waving his hand in front of my face. "You didn't fall asleep with your eyes open, did you?"
"No." I said, pushing his hand away from my face. "What do you want?"
"Well, someone's not in a good mood, huh?" He said, poking my shoulder a few times.
"I'm fine." I said, sounding a little rude. I must've been insane, acting this way to someone I've liked for.. what? 3 years, now?
"Well, you don't sound it." He mumbled. How cute. I just love that little pouting face he makes when he's joking around.
"Okay, so... now that you got my attention, what did you want to say to me?" I asked, once again, rather rudely. There really must have been something wrong with me, me still being so rude.
"Uhm, I was gonna ask if you had anyone to go to that dance with, for next Friday..." He said, blushing a little.
"Why does it matter to you?"
"Because, well... I have nobody to go with, and... I wouldn't mind going with you, if you don't have anybody to go with..." He said innocently, and rather sweetly.
If nobody else had been around right then, I would have definitely kissed him; probably even would have made out with him. Him talking so sweetly to me, despite me being pretty rude to him, and that sweet look on his face practically made my heart melt.
"No, I actually don't have anybody to go with." I said, sounding pretty disappointed. Yes, I could have gone with Matsuri, but if Naruto ever saw me with her, he'd probably think I was straight, and that I didn't like him.
"Then... would you mind going with me?"
"I... guess not."
"Well, give me your phone number and I'll talk to you about it on the phone, after school."
"Alright." I said, ripping a piece of paper out of one of my notebooks. I wrote my number down for him on the paper, ripped it in half, handed him the pencil I was writing with, then said, "I want yours." It actually came out a little rudely, but he didn't mind. He smiled and took the pencil from me, and wrote his number down. He smiled again and handed me the half of the paper with his number on it, and I gave him my half.
The bell rang a little while later, and Naruto and Kiba hurried off to their next class.
If only I could have been in Naruto's next period class, too. Lucky Kiba. (And anyone else who was in his class)
Okay, so I have the first chapter done. Phew...
In this chapter, since it's the Prologue, I had it written with things like "Said", instead of, "Say" or "Says". I'll start with that in the next chapter.
I'm also planning to have others POVs, from people in Naruto's group. And maybe Sasuke and some others. Depends on the situations, I guess.
I also mentioned Sasuke asked a guy out. You'll find out who when the dance comes around, or when I get to his POV, if I do Sasuke's POV.. ;)
Remember, NO flaming! O.O
Well, R&R!
