"Sai I can't believe you re leaving," the blonde boy whined.
"It can t be helped. Danzo has to switch to different office building." Sai said his step father s name with a voice full of venom making the blonde wince.
"But Sai, I'll miss you."
It was Sai s turn to wince this time before staring into the cobalt blue of the blonde s eyes. "I'll still come back to visit you Naruto. Don t worry."
"You promise?" Naruto looked rejected making Sai sigh.
"Yes I promise."
"Awesome!" Naruto grabbed Sai into a bear hug smiling like no other.
"Fags!" Sai pushed Naruto off him and looked at the asshole that dared to yell that word out.
"Look who's talking tomato head," Sai snapped at Gaara.
Gaara merely shrugged and fell into step with them. "Kiba's not coming to school today."
"Why not?" Naruto asked moving to walk on Sai's left forcing him into the middle.
"He's taking a trip to drop off a dog to it s new foster parents three cities away. He might be back for lunch if his dad drives fast enough."
"Oh well ok."
Sai of course hated these awkward moments of silence. He also hated being around the two boys in general. Though he really didn't understand why the two boys acted the way they did around each other. Naruto always goes silent and moves away while Gaara just looks at the ground with an even more serious and disgruntled look on his face. When Sai had asked Naruto what was going on, he merely frowned and shrugged then said, "None of you business." After that, Sai didn't bother to prod at the issue again.
"How troublesome." All the boys turned their heads to look at the lazy boy as he came into step with them.
"What s troublesome?" Sai asked being curious at the early use of the word.
"Naruto and Gaara of course. Seriously you two need to get over it." Both Naruto and Gaara tensed up at this statement and Sai just walked between them confused beyond reason.
"What is he talking about Naruto?"
Naruto snapped out of the babbled state in his head and smiled slightly. "Nothing at all."
"We'll need to talk Naruto." Gaara looked at him calmly and Naruto frowned more then possible.
"When?"
"Now preferably." Gaara glared daggers at Sai and Shikamaru.
"W' ll be going then. Enjoy your discussion." Sai grabbed Shikamaru as he mumbled "troublesome" and continued on to school. "What do you know that I don't?" Sai stared angrily at the lazy boy.
"If Naruto didn t tell you then I sure as hell won t." He looked up at the clouds and Sai was forced to let the subject drop.
Sai looked back at Gaara and Naruto and was more shocked to see the red headed boy blushing. Out of all the things to hate about the blonde, him being sad was the worst of all. His chest swelled at the thought and he turned his head forward to watch where he was going.
They were already approaching the school and more students were beginning to come into sight. One girl in particular came into view more since she stood off to the side pinching her index fingers together like her usual shy self. She looked up to meet Sai with her gray eyes and smiled weakly before slowly walking up to him.
"W-where's Naruto?" She asked in her usual whispered tone.
"He's conversating with Gaara at the moment so he'll be over before first begins."
"O-oh ok then."
"Troublesome I say."
"Good m-morning Shikamaru."
"Morning Hinata." The cloud watching boy walked on forward into school grounds and towards the big school building ignoring all the chatter of the morning.
"Shall we?" Sai waved his hand forward to give her the go ahead.
"W-well I was g-going to wait for N-Naruto." She looked down at the ground while a rose colored blush formed on her cheeks.
"Then I ll wait with you. Don t need Neji biting my head off for letting you wait for the knucklehead."
She giggled at the mention of her older cousin. "Thank y-you."
Sai just shrugged and leaned against the wall of the entrance. Hinata did the same and they just watched as more classmates walked by. Some looked at them raising their eyebrows or winking then continuing on laughing at some unsaid joke. Sai just ignored them and pulled his little notepad to start sketching a picture.
He hadn t gotten too far into the sketch when he heard the loud blonde. "Sai, Hinata, come on before we're late!"
Sai looked at him and saw a huge grin on the blonde s face then a small smirk on the red head. "Hurry up then."
Sai let Hinata go in front of him then followed after her while the other two flanked wither side of him. He looked at Naruto and saw him looking at Hinata with a blush forming on his cheeks. Sai arched a brow at this and went unnoticed by the blonde. Them a picture formed into his head and he quickly started sketching out the picture as they approached their classroom.
They all stopped at one door saying bye to Hinata then went two doors down to their classroom. Sai felt an arm stop him and he looked up from his sketch to see why he was stopped. He caught the goof ball smile on Naurto s face then looked at Gaara questionably.
"Don t be mad ok Sai," Naruto said clapping his hands together and closing one eye pleadingly.
"What did you-" He was cut off when Naruto opened the door and the class erupted into a loud sheer of "Sai we'll miss you!"
He walked into the classroom giving Naruto a silent threat, but couldn t help but smile at all his friends. "Thank you everyone."
"You're welcome. Now get over here." Kiba said with a wolfy grin. On his face,. Apparently, he really didn t take that road trip with his dad.
So as it was, Sai was subject to a going away party. He was still mad at Naruto for making it a surprise, but after a while he forgave the boy. Many of his classmates had gotten him gifts and he was hugged many times by the female students. He didn't like that too much, but he was never going to see them again, hopefully.
"So Sai, like the party?" Naruto beamed while refilling his cup with orange soda.
"Yes. Thank you Naruto."
Naruto looked shocked but then settled into a smile. "You're welcome."
The rest of the day was filled with many goodbyes from everyone. Even Gaara's older siblings came by during lunch to say goodbye which was odd. Nobody hardly ever saw the two since they both liked to go off by themselves to their group of friends outside.
All too soon the school day ended and the boys were heading home slowly. Naruto was the most depressed out of the bunch and Sai frowned. The other boys were smiling and laughing while recounting many of Sai s embarrassing moments. Each boy began to fade away as they walked on until it was just him and Naruto.
"I'll come visit you," he said putting a hand on his friend s slumped shoulder.
"Yeah I know." Naruto looked up at him when they stopped in front of his house.
"I better go. Danzo s waiting." He looked at the moving truck in the drive way and Danzo as he was locking the door.
"Don't forget me."
"I could never ramen brat."
Naruto smiled hard then gave him a bear hug. "I'll miss you."
"Same to you." Sai hugged him back then tore a sketch out of his notepad handing it to him. Don t torture the new neighbor too much.
"Never!" Naruto took the sketch and watched as Sai left to get into the truck.
He watched as the truck pulled out of the drive way and waved at Sai. He waved back and Naruto stood on the side walk and watched as the truck faded away into the distance. He looked down at the sketch and felt his face get hot.
"That damn pervert!" He folded the paper and stormed into his house utterly pissed off at Sai.
