How to win two hearts
Chapter 1
On a certain Monday morning, a raven-haired boy walked into the school. A new school for him. He had transferred there over the weekend when he had moved to another place in the city. Now normally said new kid in school would feel uncomfortable. But Uchiha Sasuke already knew at least one person in school if he didn't count his brother in. And that person was now waiting for him by the lockers. Sasuke walked up to him.
"Hey." He said to Inuzuka Kiba, his best friend since kindergarten.
"Hey." Kiba said and smirked. "So what do you think of it?" He gave Sasuke a slight hit on the shoulder, as a greeting.
"It's ok. But I haven't seen much of it right. There's still the people I have to get to know and teachers I have to annoy." He said with a sly smirk on his face.
"Aaah true." Kiba said and then grabbed someone's arm, from someone who was just walking by. He pulled him to them and turned his face towards Sasuke. "This is Shikamaru by the way, a real asshole, thinks he can get all the girls with his ridiculous IQ from 200 or something."
Shikamaru looked at Sasuke lazily. Sasuke stared back. What kind of person was this? An IQ from 200? He looked more like one with an IQ of 'minus' 100. Sasuke and Shikamaru shook hands.
"I'm Uchiha Sasuke." Sasuke said and Shikamaru simply nodded.
"What do you mean I 'think'. I 'know' I can." Shikamaru said and looked at Kiba like he didn't care either way.
"Tch, I get a lot more girls then you do, you sucker." Kiba said, slightly pouting. "Sai!" He suddenly yelled, to a guy that was opening his locker. It took some time, but finally, the guy made his way over to them.
"Hello." He said, putting up some kind of strange smile. "I'm Sai." He looked at Sasuke now, holding out his hand. Sasuke was looking at the guy who seemed...quite similar to him. Not as handsome of course, but he had black hair and black eyes. He shook his hand.
"Uchiha Sasuke." He simply said. Was that a fake smile?
"Nice to meet you." Sai said, still smiling like that, while he dropped the hand after he had shaken it.
"So Sasuke, did you already hear of the group making thing, or the gangs, from here?" Kiba asked, looking at Sasuke.
"A little." Sasuke said. "My brother told me about that. So what's the deal with that anyway?" He asked as he gave Sai a brief smile. That guy just made smiles look creepy.
"Ah well, it's quite simple." Kiba said. "Don't mind to talk to people from other groups and you'll be fine. Unless they are all friendly to you. And your 'gang'. There are a few gangs here which you have to stay away from though."
"Like which ones? I'm not really planning on getting scared for them you know." Sasuke said.
"Sometimes it's better to be scared then get beaten up." Shikamaru simply said as he was staring at the ceiling. Sasuke raised an eyebrow at him.
"Indeed." Kiba said. "And, for example, the one with the nerds, for your reputation, or the one with the 'pretty big guys'. They beat you up for nothing. They're not just pretty, they can be 'pretty' scary too."
Sasuke smirked. "Nice joke Kiba. You should be a comedian. Anyhow, I don't think nerds will do much for my reputation since I actually 'do' my homework unlike others near me." He grinned at Kiba. "And the big guys don't really get to me either. Besides, they're my brother's friends."
"You serious?" Kiba asked, with an eyebrow pulled up. "How do you know that I'm talking about them then?"
"Because they go to this school and they're not the smallest persons here. By far." Sasuke said and smirked.
Kiba nodded. "Well, lucky you then." He said. "Oh crap, the bell. Are you in room 53 too?"
"I don't know, I don't have any schedule." Sasuke said, shrugging. "I guess I'll just go see the principal and see from there."
"Hm, alright." Kiba said. "Well, see ya!" With that, he walked away, together with Sai and Shikamaru.
Sasuke shook his head with a smile. Kiba was such a weirdo. Sasuke now turned around and walked past the bathroom. 'Maybe I should fix my hair first.' He thought to himself and went in. He walked to the mirror and grabbed his brush and gel. If anything should be perfectly done around Sasuke, it was his hair. One bad hairday and he was not going to school or anywhere near the door outside.
At that moment one of the toilets was flushed and a brown haired guy walked out. He walked to the spot next to Sasuke and started washing his hands with some soap now, while he looked at his mirror image.
Sasuke stared at the guy as he was brushing his hair. That was one hell of a handsome boy. Pale skin, long, silky brown hair and a good body. Yes, Uchiha Sasuke was gay.
The guy dried his hands now and brushed the hair out of his face and frowned. Then he turned to look at Sasuke, focusing on Sasuke's eyes with his own white ones. Not something very common.
"Hey, can I perhaps borrow your hairbrush for a second?" He asked.
Sasuke stared into the boy's white eyes. They were big and pretty, just like the boy in general. Then Sasuke nodded. "Sure." He said and handed the guy his brush. He then started to put gel in his hair.
Neji nodded to him. "Thanks." He said, as he took the hairbrush and then loosened his hair, which had been in a hair tie before, and started to brush it.
Sasuke stared at the boy through the mirrors. He just couldn't stop staring. "Hey, do you maybe know where the principals office is?" Sasuke asked. Would be a good thing to start a conversation with right?
"Sure, it's two rooms next to the auditorium." The guy answered, looking at Sasuke. "Are you new? I haven't seen you before." He kept brushing his hair
"Yeah, I moved here over the weekend. It's my first day." Sasuke said and looked back at the guy as he was spiking his hair some better with his gel.
"Oh, that's nice." Neji said. After a few seconds on silence he looked at Sasuke again. "Do you have a brother? There's another new guy in my group of friends and he looks a lot like you. Itachi was his name, I believe."
"Yeah, that's my brother. You're in his group of friends?" Sasuke asked surprised. Funny. He didn't remember him coming to their house like.. ever. And he wouldn't forget such a pretty face.
"Yeah, since a few months." Neji said. "I moved in here myself a few months ago. I'm Hyuuga Neji by the way."
"Ah. I'm Uchiha Sasuke. Where did you move from?" Sasuke asked as he washed his hands. Gel is hard to remove.
"Oh from a little village, I'm sure you don't know it." Neji said.
At that moment the door opened and a silver haired guy stood in the doorway. He looked irritated.
"Neji." He snapped. "Are you coming or are we gonna be late for class because you had to brush your hair for the fifth time in one minute?"
Neji turned around to look at him.
"I'm just socializing, Kabuto." Neji said, while he put the hairbrush through his hair another time. "I'm coming."
"You'd better. It's not polite to let your boyfriend wait." Kabuto said and gave Sasuke a look as if telling him Neji was taken. Sasuke turned away and looked in the mirror. That guy was one of Itachi's friends too, he was sure. That Kabuto guy came around in the evenings a lot. Sasuke never felt like involving into Itachi's choice of friends.
"You know how long I take before I'm finished, you don't have to wait you know." Neji said and then gave Sasuke his hairbrush back. "Thanks for borrowing."
"You're welcome." Sasuke said as he pushed the brush back into his bag.
"Just hurry it up Neji. I don't 'like' waiting." Kabuto said and narrowed his eyes at Neji. Sasuke looked at him confused. Were they supposed to be this...'nice' to one and other? Neji looked at him for a moment and then he let his hand go through his hair another time.
"Well, good luck." Neji said to Sasuke, nodding. "Bye." With that, he walked towards the other guy, to Kabuto.
"Bye." Sasuke said as Kabuto shot him another glare. He wondered what was going on there, but he wouldn't worry about him. He'd first have to get his life on his new school on track.
Meanwhile Neji arrived at Kabuto's side. "I'm ready." He said.
"Good." Kabuto said, and swung his arm around Neji, pulling him with him. Sasuke sighed. This was one weird school, he was sure of that.
After Sasuke had gone to the principal (which he was for hours, or at least so it seemed) he had to go see his new mentor, Hatake Kakashi and get the right books, schedules and the key to his locker from all over the building. He had taken so long that it was during break he finally had time to rest and find Kiba again. He walked into the cafeteria and looked around. He found Kiba with Sai and Shikamaru, talking loudly. Sasuke walked up to them and sat down next to Kiba, hitting him on the arm. "Scooch over idiot." He said and smirked.
"Can't you at least ask?" Kiba asked with a smirk, while he made some place for Sasuke.
"Nope, sorry, I was never taught to be polite." Sasuke said as he sat down some better. "Seriously, did you all get dragged to everywhere in this school? Can't they just give it to you in one turn. I spend two hours gathering my stuff." He whined.
Kiba snorted. "Don't whine you idiot." He said. "We all go through the same pain." He put his arms in the air for a dramatically effect.
Shikamaru gave a smirk at Kiba. "You really are an idiot do you know that?" He said as he looked at Kiba. Sasuke laughed. "It doesn't get to him. He's too stupid to even understand what you're saying." He said and smirked at Kiba too.
"Tch." Kiba said, smirking. "At least 'I' got the charm, instead of the brains. Like Shika."
"Why are those guys making such loud noises again?" Sai asked, a bit irritated, looking at the group of Kabuto and Neji.
"Who knows. They're probably planning on beating someone up or something. Ignore them. And that just proves girls like brains a lot better then your so called charm ey." Shikamaru said and kicked Kiba's leg under the table. Sasuke turned to look at the group Sai talked about. His brother was in there too. And so was Neji. "I met him today." Sasuke said to the others.
"Who did you meet?" Kiba asked, ignoring what Shikamaru had said but kicking him back under the table.
"That guy. Neji. I met him in the bathroom, he wanted to borrow my hairbrush." Sasuke said as he pointed towards Neji.
Kiba snorted. "Jeez, that guy really loves his hair." Kiba said. "And what do you think of him?"
"He's pretty." Sasuke simply said and smirked at Kiba. "And he should love his hair."
Kiba snorted again. "As long as you don't try something with him hm." He said.
"Why? Because he's taken? I don't think that relationship will work out very long, from what I've seen." Sasuke said.
"What did you see then?" Kiba asked, while he drank a bit from his Coca.
"That Kabuto guy wasn't very nice to Neji. He just snapped at him to come and got all angry about it." Sasuke said as he turned to look at Neji's group again.
"Hmm." Kiba said. "Yeah well, they don't have a good relationship indeed. I don't even get why Neji is with that guy, he could get so much better. Do you know it, Shikamaru? Since you know everything." He sweatdropped.
". Funny Kiba. I do know stuff. Just not why he decided to get with Kabuto." Shikamaru said lazily as he rested his head on his hand.
"Hmm.. you got no ideas either?" Kiba asked. "Because I sure as hell don't."
"Of course you don't." Shikamaru smirked. "But no, I don't know either. He seemed pretty normal and nice when he got here. Sane too. I got 'that' wrong, I mean, he's with Kabuto. You can't be sane if you're with Kabuto." He said.
"Yeah indeed, he's in that whole drug business too, it seems." Kiba said.
"No surprise there." Sasuke said. "My brother's on them too. Like, the entire time. Not a real pleasure." Sasuke said. "Anyhow, explains the gangs then. I have just seen one of them, not including this lousy excuse for a gang of course." Sasuke smirked as he looked around his table of four persons.
"Oh well, there is another one, with those girls." Kiba said. "I did two of them." He added with a smirk.
Sasuke laughed and shook his head. "Congratulations." He joked. "They seem ok though."
"Until you had sex with half of them." Shikamaru said with a bothered face.
"Tch, shut up Shikamaru." Kiba said, annoyed.
"Jealousy's a bad thing Kiba." Shikamaru said and smirked.
"Would you two stop competing?" Sasuke said as he laughed again.
"They are always jealous of each other." Sai said, with his fake smile again.
"Not true Sai." Kiba said, his head high in the air. "And for the other gangs, I don't really know them because they are not interesting."
"No, they don't have holes where you can put your dick in. That makes them a lot less interesting of course." Sasuke said sarcastic and smirked. "By the way, schedule check here. It would suck big time if I wasn't in your class." Sasuke pulled out his schedule and placed it in front of Kiba.
"Tch, jeez." Kiba said with a smirk and looked at Sasuke's schedule. "Ah, you're in my class. And at Sai's too. Shikamaru here is on one class higher."
Shikamaru faked a smile at him. "And you would just love me in your class wouldn't you?" He said.
"You two are terrible." Sasuke said as he put away his schedule again. Well, at least he was with Kiba. That would make it a little easier.
"I'd love to see you suffering from my victory." Kiba said, smirking, and let out an 'evil' laugh. Sai still had his fake smile on his face.
"'What' victory, you never 'had' a victory." Shikamaru said and smirked. Sasuke in the mean time stared at his brother's group. Or rather, stared at Neji. He really was pretty.
"Yo Sasuke, keep your eyes off him, will you?" Kiba said, ignoring Shikamaru.
"I know that you are gay, but please don't try to get this one." He added, looking a bit concerned.
"Why? His relationship won't last long." Sasuke said as he turned to Kiba again. It seemed important since he 'was' ignoring a comment from Shikamaru for once.
"Well if Kabuto notices that you're after his boyfriend, he won't be happy you know." Kiba said, looking at Sasuke.
"And what would he do? Tell me to keep my hairbrush to myself?" Sasuke said, raising an eyebrow. That whole Kabuto guy didn't seem so threatening to me.
"He's got connections you know." Kiba said.
"But if you don't believe it, perhaps you'd see it yourself then hm." He added.
"Maybe. We'll see." Sasuke said and stared at Neji again. Damn. Nice ass.
"...Sasuke don't stare at his ass." Kiba said, sweatdropping. "Go on for a while and you're drooling."
And Sai put on his fake smile again.
"Let him watch if he wants it." He said. "Only looking isn't bad, right?"
"Grabbing wouldn't be that bad either." Sasuke said and smirked at Kiba and the rest.
Kiba snorted. "Jeez." He said. "You could try." He laughed after that. "Jeez, you are terrible."
"Thanks. I know." Sasuke said, and then the bell rang. "Damn, I don't feel like going to class. Too bad I can't have my first impression to be that from someone cutting school. Like I normally do." Sasuke said.
"Ah yeah, that sucks hm." Kiba said, smirking. "Let's go."
Sasuke nodded and stood up, grabbing his back. He just had to get it over with. Hopefully, math wouldn't be as terrible as it was on his old school.
After three more hours of babbling Sasuke hadn't picked up anything from and introducing himself three times in row, Sasuke was biking home. His first day had gone rather well, but he was glad to be going home. Sasuke was deep in thought when he was biking home, until he saw a person with long brown hair walking ahead of him. And he sure as hell recognised the ass. Sasuke drove a little faster and once he reached the figure, he slowed down so he was biking next to him. "Hey. Neji right?" He said and smiled.
Neji looked at him now and smiled slightly too.
"Yeah." Neji said. "Sasuke right? From the hairbrush?"
Sasuke laughed a little. "Yeah, from the hairbrush." He said and got of his bike to walk next to Neji. Wouldn't be bad to just get to know him right? "Where are you going?" Sasuke asked.
"To your house." Neji said, with a slight smirk on his face. "Your brother invited the whole 'gang'. You're going home, I presume?"
"Yeah, wow that sounds weird. Hearing someone I barely know say he's going to my house." Sasuke said and smirked at Neji. "I'd better run upstairs as soon as I get home though."
"Why then?" Neji asked, a bit surprised. Why would Sasuke go upstairs?
"I'm not very into my brother's friends. They're pretty much morons, no offense." Sasuke explained.
"Hmm.." Neji softly said as he looked away, in thought. His hands were in his pockets and he didn't had any emotion on his face, so it was hard to guess where he was thinking off.
Sasuke was silent for a while before speaking again. "Am I bothering you? Because I could just bike home too." He finally said. It didn't look like Neji was a whole lot interested in him.
"Oh no, not at all." Neji said, looking at him again. "I'm just a bit in thought. Did you make friends already by the way?"
"I already had my best friend there, so it was ok. His two friends didn't seem to mind me around." Sasuke answered, glad that Neji wasn't bothered by him.
"Alright, that's nice." Neji said. "Your brother knew a few people here too."
"Yeah. Practically your whole gang. Why did you get into that one anyway? You don't seem like them at all." Sasuke said curious.
"Well then you got that wrong, I do like them." Neji said, a bit too quickly. It didn't sound like he meant it.
"..Oh. Sorry." Sasuke said and rolled his eyes. That sounded sincere. If sincere meant the opposite.
"Doesn't matter." Neji said. "This is it, right?" They arrived at a flat now.
"Yeah it is." Sasuke said and pushed his bike into a sort of small garage. He locked it again and then opened the doors into the apartment. "Can I get your cell phone number?" Sasuke asked Neji. He was never really the shy one and if he wanted something, he would just ask. Like now.
Neji looked at him surprised, again.
"Why?" He asked, a bit curious. Why was this guy asking his phone number like that?
"Because I collect phone numbers." Sasuke said and sweatdropped. "You seem interesting idiot." He smirked at Neji as he pushed the button for the elevator.
"You know that I have a boyfriend right?" Neji asked, looking at him. When the elevator arrived, he stepped in. He had to admit that the guy was hot, but he wouldn't cheat either.. right?
"Yeah. So? Does that mean you can't have other friends?" Sasuke asked as he stepped in the elevator too and pressed the button to the third floor.
Neji softly laughed. "Oh you mean it like that." he said. "Sorry, I thought you wanted to date me or something. I'll give you my phone number then." He brought out his mobile phone now.
"Well I wouldn't mind a date either, but considering you have a boyfriend I figured that wouldn't be wise hm." Sasuke said and smirked at Neji as he pulled out his mobile phone too.
Neji looked at him for a moment, before giving Sasuke his number. Hm.. what did this guy really want? Not sex or something, else he would've put the elevator on stop long ago. Not that he'd mind. The guy was hot after all.
Sasuke took the number and smiled. "Thanks." He said and then the elevator stopped. Sasuke walked outside to his door and unlocked it. He already smelled all the drugs in there. Great. That would be another day of watery eyes. "Well this is it." He said to Neji as they walked inside.
"Alright, thanks for walking with me." Neji said, while he pulled off his jacket.
"You're welcome." Sasuke said and turned around facing Kabuto. He didn't seem so happy. "Neji. What's this?" He snapped angry.
"What is what?" Neji asked with a frown, while he hung up his coat. Damn Kabuto smelled like he just had some alcohol or something. And strong alcohol too.
Sasuke put up a face before he started walking to his room. He didn't feel like getting involved with that.
"Coming in here with another boy." Kabuto snapped as he pulled Neji with him roughly.
"Hey easy will you." Neji protested. "And nothing happened you know."
"Oh yeah sure, you know what the deal is Neji. You come here alone, or with me." Kabuto snapped as he pulled Neji on his lap after he sat down. Sasuke in the mean time had gone to his room, but could hear the conversation going on (just like he could still use drugs in his room by just sniffing the air).
"...Kabuto you should stop acting so jealous." Neji said, while he sat down a bit better.
"You should stick to our deals or you won't have a very happy future Neji. You should keep that in mind." Kabuto snapped and then suddenly kissed Neji.
"Ey Kabuto, easy OK." Itachi suddenly said, as he saw them kissing. "He just came in with my brother."
"That's still another boy." Kabuto said as he kissed Neji again, this time harder, crushing their lips together.
"Oh come on." Itachi said, sighing.
"..Kabuto please, you taste like alcohol.." Neji muttered, after he broke the kiss by turning his head away. Damn, he hated alcohol.
"Damn right I am, now shut up because there are a lot of other drunk guys in here that follow my command." Kabuto snapped and grabbed Neji's cheeks tightly before kissing him again.
"Kabuto, respect it that he doesn't want it ok." Itachi snapped. These people were his friends, but he didn't like this. He knew Neji didn't like alcohol, at all. And Kabuto wasn't the nicest person, and if he was drunk he was even worse. Perhaps he'd just pull Kabuto away or something.
"Itachi, man, relax." Hidan said, slightly smirking. "Nothing's happening ey."
"Exactly, so shut up." Kabuto said before kissing Neji once more after taking a zip of his wodka.
Sasuke in the mean time was hearing all this. Strange. Neji had to have a reason for being here. Something that had to do with what Kabuto was saying. But what was it?
After a few minutes of silence, Neji broke it.
"Itachi where is the toilet?" He asked, when he broke another kiss.
"Why hm? You're staying right here Neji." Kabuto snapped, taking another zip of his drink.
"Can't I even go to the toilet?" Neji asked, sounding a bit angry.
"..It's the first on the left in the hallway." Itachi said, looking at Kabuto warningly. Neji nodded and then just stood from Kabuto's lap. He was getting a bit crazy of this.
Kabuto growled a little but let Neji go for once as he took one more zip. He was probably too drunk to even get bothered by it a whole lot.
But Sasuke saw his chance now, as he sneaked out of his room and into the toilet. He would figure this out.
Neji walked out of the room now, closing the door behind him.
He walked towards the toilet and then opened the door, spotting Sasuke.
"..Oh hey." Neji said.
"Hey. So. Your boyfriend's...different." Sasuke said, getting to the point immediately as he washed his face. That had to be done anyhow.
"..Have you been listening?" Neji softly asked, afraid that Kabuto would hear.
"Yes. It was a little hard to miss." Sasuke answered as he turned to look at Neji.
"Oh.." Neji softly said. "Well.. uhm.. do you need to go to the toilet, or..?"
"No. I need to know what's up with you being with that Kabuto." Sasuke said as he leaned against the sink.
"Why do you need to know?" Neji asked. "And I can't tell you with them sitting there you know..."
"Because? They can't hear us if you close the door." Sasuke said and crossed his arms. "And I need to know since you come over at 'my' place too, so it would come in handy to know who I'm dealing with."
"...It's none of your business." Neji said now, while he walked towards the living room again.
"Are you always this rude?" Sasuke asked softly as he followed him. He got a death glare from Kabuto that moment, but he ignored it.
"I'm not being rude." Neji said towards him, while he turned around, giving him a look that clearly said 'shut up else you or I will be dead in a few seconds'.
"Hey Sasuke." Itachi said. "Do you want something to drink?"
Sasuke sighed. "No thanks. At least not what you're all drinking. Don't get drunk. And next time, open a window." Sasuke lectured before he walked back into his room. Something really was up. And he would find out 'what' too.