Description:
When Akatsuki high might have to close, the Akatsuki High boys are not impressed at the prospect of being transferred to rival school Konoha High. (This story has lots of yaoi pairings and some straight ones. No random smut. There is some violence and swearing, but it's not that bad. Main: Kakuhida, narusasu, sasodei, itakisa, Kankiba, Kakairu, Peinkonan)
Boarding Schools
Chapter 1
Naruto sat in the front of his brother's car next to Iruka, who was driving. School didn't start until tomorrow morning, but the boarders and teachers all had to arrive the night before, if they had gone home for the holidays. Iruka didn't actually have a house, as he worked and lived in Konoha High, as one of the year seven dorm supervisors. This year though, he had saved up enough to take Naruto to Spain on holiday.
Naruto had never been abroad before, and he hadn't wanted to go back to school but, although going on holiday with his brother had been great, he had really missed his boyfriend, Sasuke. Iruka did not know about their relationship, nor did anyone else, as much as Naruto loved and trusted his brother, he didn't want to risk loosing him. Sasuke and Naruto had decided not to mention it to anyone yet, because they had only been together a month and didn't want to tell everyone incase they weren't OK with them being gay. This was mostly a problem for Naruto, as Sasuke had no other close friends; he was always apprehensive about making new bonds as in his life they had been broken too often. He preferred to remain distant and cold; if he hated everyone then he wouldn't care if they hated him back.
Naruto on the other hand was probably one of the most popular boys in school, along with his best friend Kiba. He cared about his friends as well as his reputation and could easily loose both if anyone discovered he had a boyfriend. Especially Sasuke. Most of the girls would probably be ok, girls are in general less likely to be homophobic and they all saw Sasuke as a kind of mysterious genius as opposed to a loner, mostly because of his looks. The boys however were a different story. To them Sasuke was a complete looser, the kind of boy they would talk about if they ever felt the need to take the piss out of somebody. Naruto was his only real friend, and most people thought he should just ignore him. But Naruto was persistently kind to anyone he thought needed it, and eventually Sasuke just had to give up on ignoring him. He couldn't just pretend that he didn't care this time. He did, way more than he would have liked.
From there, their friendship got stronger, and even though it took longer than it probably should have for the Uchiha genius to work out why Naruto was acting even stranger than normal around him, he eventually did. And after Sasuke figured that out, there was not much to stop him mentioning that he maybe felt the same way. It was a month now and there was no longer a "maybe" about it. Soon they would have to come out of the closet publicly or they never would.
The small car entered the school gates and Iruka found a space in the staff car park. The brothers left the car and grabbed their large bags from the boot.
"Hey Naruto" Iruka said, watching his younger brother struggling to carry his large orange suitcase. "Do you want some help getting that upstairs? I could carry it for you. I'll get mine later."
Naruto agreed gratefully, he didn't want Sasuke to work out that he could only just lift his bag. It would be better to pretend that Iruka had insisted on helping him.
"Perhaps next time you shouldn't pack so much ramen. The food from the canteen is perfectly edible, why can't you eat that instead of junk food all the time?"
"Ramen tastes better. I needed to pack it."
"This bag is almost as big as you. You should only have your school books in there; you left your uniform and other stuff at school. How much ramen did you bring?!?!"
"But Iruka, I had to bring that much, it will run out otherwise. I couldn't live without pot ramen, believe it!
Iruka sighed and began walking towards Naruto's dormitory block, the bulging orange bag in his arms.
