A boy sat at the dark wooden counter top of a chic coffee shop staring out over the bustling streets of the city. His glasses began sliding down his nose as his mind slipped from the thin line of consciousness to nowhere. Thoughts bounced around from here to there like a crazy storm brewing. He needed to get a grip on reality and he needed for this stupid barista to get his order finished within the next fifteen minutes or he was going to get up and ring her manicured hands around her own neck. A triple shot espresso mocha coffee was not that hard to make. He gripped the edge of the rosewood table which sat higher up to look down over the street agitated. He had things to be doing and places to be going. He did not like down time. He did not like time to think. It didn't bode well for him. Bad things happened when he was left alone to his thoughts. Of course the blonde beside him knew this and reached over smirking. His fingers brushed the edge of the raven's nose shifting his black rimmed nerd glasses back up where they belonged. The raven paused mid-thought looking up at the blonde who sat upright in his bar stool grinning down at him. His crystalline oceanic eyes glistened like orbs behind the sun which silhouetted the window behind him. He frowned. He always frowned when the blonde did things like this. The boy was always so damn happy and Sasuke would be damned if he wasn't hell bent on making him smile just as much.
"Come on. Stop glowering at the street like you can crack the concrete with your x-ray vision." Naruto chipped from beside him.
"I'm no glowering." He snapped back rubbing the end of his nose agitated. He hated when Naruto was this upbeat and he was not.
"You are glowering. You are staring at the street like you could set it on fire and melt the office building to the ground across from it." He patted the raven's head like a cute dog. Sasuke battered his hand away annoyed making a slow ticking noise in the back of his throat.
"Will you stop that!" he said with a vengeance in his voice that made the blonde laugh gently.
"Alright, alright." He chuckled hearing the raven's name called for the coffee.
"Oh god finally!" Sasuke sighed shifting up from his chair just as Naruto was going to run his hand through the other's black locks. He sighed watching as Sasuke strode with a purpose to the counter grabbing his coffee from the college girl's hands. He practically made her piss herself in front of everyone turning with a satisfied smirk on his pale face. That face. Naruto swore he could stare at the other boys face for hours. It was too bad that Sasuke never got the hint that Naruto was trying to move in on him. He chuckled to himself watching as Sasuke took his seat again making that tchk noise sipping his coffee.
The two boys were roommates this year at University after graduating from Konoha High. Iruka had ensured that both boys applications had been done to college and Kakashi had requested they room together to which neither boy had been particularly happy. Kakashi was a counselor at the high school who'd been dead seat on making the boys stay together. He'd been aware of them constantly getting into fights in school but was insistent that their constant nagging of one another meant that they had shared a close bond and would be better off staying together in college. Iruka was hesitant to room them together afraid that the raven would kill Naruto while he slept. Which, over the past two first weeks of class Sasuke had contemplated due to the loud obnoxious snoring the blonde did the moment he fell asleep. Naruto had come to the University after prodding after he'd realized that even though the kid lacked turning in his homework he made straight A grades on all of his tests. He knew that the boy did not have parents to push his butt into gear and had claimed himself from the state at sixteen, Naruto had started working after school to save up for a car. Iruka was proud of him and tried to bring the kid over as much as humanly possible to feed him and keep him company at night.
Sasuke was a different story. He lived by himself and he liked it that way. He hated people coming over and constantly ignored Kakashi's dogging questions in their sessions together. He also refused home visits from the state and Kakashi. He did not like people in his house. The less people in the more he could avoid what had happened when he was a child and the less people that could be hurt should it ever occur again. The one person he couldn't get off his front porch most days in high school was Naruto. The dumb idiot had refused to leave and even stayed on the porch in the middle of a thunderstorm to be soaked until Sasuke had let him inside begrudgingly. Stupid idiot. Sasuke had been a problem for the state case workers that were set to check on him. He had been watched for minor drug problems and on the rare occasion that they had gotten him into a session he'd given them the silent treatment. He didn't like talking about his childhood. There was nothing deep and dark hidden there. There was nothing rooted in his childhood that would trigger him to grow up to become a manic killer. He knew what had happened and he was not going to ever let anyone around him get hurt…ever…again. No one he loved would get killed. No one. He distanced himself from others for that purpose. He hated his brother and he hated his father, because of them both his life had turned into hell. His mother had always been innocent. She stayed in his memory like a shining angel of which could not be touched by the evil and blood that haunted his memories of the others.
"You're doing it again." He sighed heavily his eyes sliding from the corner to Naruto sitting beside him.
"Doing what dobe?" he growled out like a grumpy bear.
"You know? I never knew that someone could make the geek nerd look scary." He winced letting a steady stream of cuss words fly from his mouth when Sasuke smacked him in the back of the head.
"I am not a geek." He snapped standing up scraping his chair along the floor to push it back under the table. Naruto scrunched up his nose making a sour face at the grumpy raven. He stuck his tongue out at him which only served to earn him another smack to the back of the head.
"Will you STOP that!?" Naruto yelled before Sasuke let the glass coffee shop door swing shut behind him.
He was late for class. He was flat out sprinting to the doors of the third campus building which was ten minutes away from the main building to the left and up a hill. Naruto gritted his teeth cussing angrily. If Sasuke had woken him up that morning he wouldn't have overslept. That stupid idiot had two morning classes before Naruto even had to get up for his first one and he hadn't woken him up. He tripped slipping on a rock in a patch of gravel over the sidewalk sliding a bit until he caught his balance. He sighed slowing his pace before he tripped and smashed his face off the pavement in the road. The last thing he needed was road rash and getting run over by a student driver. His chest was heaving puffs of air in and out as he fought his way to the other building reaching the doors. He stopped for a moment trying to catch his breath so he didn't walk into the room looking like a crazed maniac. His hand shook just a little over the door handle. He knew his professor was not fond of students who came in late and normally assigned them an extra paper. Letting the breath out that he didn't realize he was holding he yanked the door open and went to walk inside. He stopped. Eyeing the room carefully he surveyed it and sighed before smacking his face. There was not a single person in this room. A piece of paper hung on the board stating that class had been cancelled and to enjoy the rest of the sunny day. He grumbled a bunch of words under his breath as he trudged his way to the plaza by the main building to sit on a bench under a tree.
"Eh dobe, why are you out here? Don't you have class?" Sasuke stared down at him his bangs graming his face a few strands dangling in his eyes. Naruto felt his heart beat faster at the sight of Sasuke looking over the edge of the bench down at him. He'd laid down stretching his legs out and had to recline his head to look up at the other boy properly.
"It got cancelled." He whispered licking his bottom lip. It would only take a fraction of the foot between them for Naruto to reach up and grab those bangs bringing his face down to his to kiss him. He could feel the soft caress of those thin lips against his own and the soft tresses of the raven's hair in his fingertips.
"Naruto….?" Sasuke said raising one eyebrow delicately looking at him like he had lost his mind.
"You're blushing idiot."
"I am not!" the blonde snapped crossing his arms over his chest shifting to sit up quickly angry that he'd snapped back. Smooth. Real freaking smooth Uzumaki.
"Yes you are." Sasuke stated blandly shrugging. "But if you don't want to explain why fine by me. I don't need to hear about the weird girl fantasy going on in your head." He yawned and Naruto glanced at him oddly. Weird girl fantasy? As far as he knew Sasuke was straight. He'd caught the idiot twice now with that pink haired girl from high school in his bed at the dorm. Oh that was so annoying. He hated that girl. He hated the noises she made and the way she breathed when Sasuke's fingers trailed up her sides and down her skin to grip her hips. He especially despised the that bitch said his name…and the way Sasuke responded by leaning down to whisper hers against the shell of her ear.
"Whatever, why aren't you in class?" he gulped trying to get the images he had in his head of the times he'd walked in on Sasuke and Sakura.
"I'm not in class because I already went dobe. What is wrong with you today?" he quipped sitting beside him. He leaned back on the bench stretching his arms out on either side of himself. "Besides, I'm waiting for Sakura to get out of hers. I think we're getting lunch." He closed his eyes leaning his head back. His hair fell back from his face letting the sun fall on his pale skin.
"Nothing is wrong with me." Naruto huffed rubbing his face in his hands. This was pure torture for him. He needed a distraction from the raven or rooming with him was going to drive him nuts. This was college right? He could find a boyfriend…or a boytoy…he hoped…or he'd end up showing the raven just how much he couldn't stop paying attention to him.