First off: I had this on ff before but it was put on hiatus so I just took it off. Recently, however, I've been inspired to restart it. The first two chapters will probably be the same but ya never know :]
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, none of the characters, yata yata yata...
enjoyy ;]
People pushed and shoved through the open air train station. Not many had courtisy. It showed as they used any means possible to get onto the train. Especially the old ladies, they elbowed and wacked people with canes just to steal a seat. Amongst all the chaos there was a blonde, leaning against a brick pillar.
Uzumaki Naruto. He had a distant look in his usually cheery cerulean eyes as he stared at the sky. Melancholy filled his being, but why he felt that way was a mystery to him. All he knew was that he couldn't forget what had happened. How could he forget it when it kept running through his mind?
--Flashback.--
Naruto escaped into the hallway and ran after the raven-haired boy halfway down the hall. "Sasuke!" he called. The older boy didn't turn but kept walking. What the hell was up with him? He'd been ignoring Naruto since the announcement of said blonde's moving and had stormed out of the classroom as soon as lunch break had started. It was nearly impossible not to hear Naruto so why the hell wasn't the other teen turning around?
"Oi! Sasuke, why didn't you stop?" The blonde asked, finally catching up to the raven.
Sasuke continued down the hall with the same indifferent face that he had perfected over the years. "What?"
"What do you mean' what'? I was calling you," he retorted, beginning to grow annoyed.
The raven said nothing.
A few akward moments passed before Naruto spoke again. "Sorry for not telling you about the move..."
"I don't care,"
"Huh?"
"Are you deaf? I said I don't care,"
"Ah...uh...well..." Naruto himself wasn't quite sure why he thought it so important to apologize to the other boy for not telling him about moving. The two had never been on the best of terms, always bickering with eachother, but they were friends all the same. Just friends. Still, Naruto couldn't help feel the slightest bit hurt at these words.
Sasuke turned cold onyx eyes to the other teen. "Exactly. I don't care what you do, so have fun where ever it is your going,"
His cerulean orbs widened as he felt a small sting behind them, tears threatening to come out. "W-Wha..?"
Sasuke let out a frustrated sigh and raked a hand through his dark hair. He stopped and face the blonde, "I'll say it one more time, since you can't seem to get it through your thick skull: I-Don't-Care. About what you do, where you go, I don't care. I don't care...about you," With that, he turned and continued on his way down the hallway. "Ja,"
Naruto stood alone and stared at his beat up sneakers with stinging cerulean eyes. He didn't know if he should laugh or cry. The person he thought to be his bestfriend...even if they fought and got into arguements every other day, they were still bestfriends. And, to find out that his bestfriend, of all people, didn't care? He'd had enough of it in the past, he didn't want it now. Especially from Sasuke.
"Che," He angrily wiped a tear from his cheek. Maybe he really was stupid. Stupid for thinking Sasuke cared, stupid for feeling the twisting in his stomach and the emptiness in his heart--Geez, he sounded like such a girl.
As he walked, he silently thanked Kami-sama that it would be his last day at the school. He wouldn't be able to face Sasuke after that incident. Then again, if the blonde didn't have to move maybe the whole thing wouldn't have happened. Either way, it was to late now. He cursed inwardly and exited the school, a peircing feeling lingering in his heart.
--End Flashback.--
Naruto sighed and looked around the station. Iruka was late, something that usually never happened. The only reason he had to move was because Iruka got a new job Gensoka[1], it had better pay and Iruka's boss had told him that the education there was better. Later, Naruto found out the truth by asking Shikamaru. Apparently the Gensoka schools were worse than the one's in their current town, especially the highschool where Naruto would attend the next year. And it turned out that Gensoka high was the brother school of Konoha high, the highschool he would've attended if he didn't move. Oh well, atleast he could slack off at his new school—not that he didn't at his current one.
He really didn't mind moving. He would have to leave behind his friends but there were always new ones to be made. And leaving the town itself didn't matter much to him, he'd never taken a liking to it in the six years that he lived there. Besides, change was good and Iruka was really happy about his new job. The blonde refused to take the happiness away from the only person alive who truely cared for him.
Taking his mind off of difficult matters and pushing the scene with Sasuke to the back of his mind, Naruto decided to wander around the station until Iruka came. As soon as the blonde stepped into the steady throng of rushing people he was hit from behind and nearly knocked to the floor. He opened his mouth and whipped around ready to tell off whoever ran into him but instead froze when he saw an old lady of no more than four and a half feet, standing in front of him.
"Watch where you're going kid," she grumbled.
"Uh..."
"Got something to say?" She raised her wooden cane, pointing it at Naruto who smiled nervously and shook his head. "That's what I thought," She walked away muttering something to herself about disrespectful brats.
Deciding it was safer to stay to the side, Naruto leaned against the brick wall once more and waited for his care taker. Luckily, he didn't have to wait long. Five minutes later he saw a brunette with chocolate brown eyes running through the crowd of people, apologizing so often when he bumped into people. Once, he bumped into an old lady who just smiled at him and continued on her walking. Naruto was slightly annoyed—Why was that only he had to deal with the cranky old women?
Iruka stopped in front of Naruto, panting. After catching his breath, he finally spoke. "Sorry for being late Naruto. I had to go pick up some transfer papers,"
"Don't worry about it Iruka," The blonde said smiling.
Iruka returned his smile then turned to face the lines of people waiting to get on the train. "Our train is going to leave soon, our luggage is already on it. Are you ready?" he asked turning back to the teen.
Naruto nodded and followed the brown-haired man to the line to board the train. He was really leaving this place, now it finally hit him. He would probably never see his friends here again considering that the two towns were a fairly far away from eachother…He'd never see Sasuke again. This hit him the hardest. Even though the raven had left him with such harsh words, Naruto couldn't help but think he was going to miss bastard. They'd always fought endlessly and Naruto always acted as if he hated the other teen but he didn't...
Only now as Naruto boarded the bus did Naruto realize what this emotion was. He stopped right as he stepped onto the train and looked amongst the crowd. For a moment he could've sworn he'd saw a head of dark hair and onyx eyes hidden in the many people but a moment later the person was gone. The blonde shook his had and smirked pitifully at himself. Why only now did he realize his feelings for the bastard? Well at least now he could leave the town without confusion, he knew the answer to the question that had been lingering in his mind since his fallout with the raven. He didn't hate him, no matter how much they fought and no matter the insults that were always thrown between the two. No, he loved Sasuke.
"Ja ne Sasuke," Naruto whispered to the air. After taking one last glance at the town, he got onto the train, leaving behind everything.
Sasuke ran through the countless number of people in the train station. He pushed through anyone and everyone who got in his way, promptly ignoring the curses aimed at him.
Sasuke glanced down at his watch, it read 8 on the dot. The woman at the ticket desk had told him that the only train going to Gensoka was train F and it was leaving at 8 a.m. The raven searched the trains for the letter F and the crowds for the blonde blob of hair. He'd been so stupid saying those things to Naruto, but had refused to admit it to himself until this morning. Reality had hit him hard, more like beat him mercilessly with a sledgehammer. If he didn't see Naruto now and tell him how he really felt, chances were that he would never be able too.
Just then he caught sight of the letter 'F' mounted in steel on the side of a black train. It had just started moving and was slowly chugging on the tracks, beginning to accelerate. Sasuke picked up his speed, trying desperately to catch up with the train. He was an Uchiha dammit, he shouldn't be chasing after trains! It was his only chance though and he'd thrown away his pride as soon as he had stepped into the train station, hoping to find a certain dobe.
Sasuke was at the very back of the train, running after it when he saw familiar blonde spikes through the window. Naruto stared out the window with distant blue eyes. The raven hoped fruitlessly that he would look back at him. He pushed his legs to the limit, if only he could get a slight glimpse of the blonde...if only he could apologize and state how he really felt. Sasuke was close, only a few yards behind the blonde's window. He felt himself reaching out towards the train, as if he could touch it...
The train, as well as the blonde, was swallowed by the darkness of the tunnel in an instant. Sasuke came to a halt, his every limb feeling heavy, not from running but from mixture of overwhelming feelings that filled him. He stared at the dark tunnel where the train had gone. A few moments later he turned and started walking towards the exit. He had been too late and he couldn't help but beat himself up for the words that he had last spoken to the blonde. But he wouldn't, couldn't, feel remorse. He was an Uchiha afterall...
Meanwhile on the bus Naruto sulked in his horrible seat. No, he hadn't gotten to sit by Iruka, who had gotten placed beside a nice middle-aged woman who was now offering him hard candy, but instead was stuck with a cranky old woman who stole his armrest and threatened him with her cane.
Hopefully, this didn't have to many errors because i actually reread it this time GASP. I'm very proud of myself :3
Nehh, review will encourage me to click the publish button for the next chappy since it's already typed up, so if ya want it review. ukukuku ..
Ja.
