Of all the Shades of Blue, Black, and Orange
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, and I highly doubt I ever will.
Warnings: Probably a lot of OOCness, so don't hurt me… –hides in a corner–
A/N: Well, most of the things in the beginning of this story have actually happened to me a couple of days ago, and I do take Art, I am in High School, and I have made a weird video with my friends including an energy drink and posted it on YouTube. This is my first time writing something like this, and to me, it's a pretty challenging thing to do (especially if you're using the main characters from an awesome anime in a fanfiction and to try to make it non-OOC as possible). So yeah, I hope you enjoy Of all the Shades of Blue, Black, and Orange. –Miharu (:
Summary: Alternate Universe. When you mix a broken Leica, a Film & Photography Major, and a new kid in town... you'll definatly get a crazy mix. SasuNaru.
Ryou - The Currency in this story.
Chapter One: Tints and Shades
It was a semi-rainy spring day, when four high school students were standing outside a very common drug store within a mini outlet in a semi-populated part of Konoha.
By first impression you would think these teens were just normal high school students making a plain old video for YouTube. But with a second impression, you would want to forget your first.
These students were dressed in the regular school uniforms for the Konoha High School of Art and Literature; a stand-up collar with a long jacket and loose trousers. Interesting right?
I guess not… but these certain type of students that are in the school of Art and Literature were mostly envied in some parts of Konoha, not for their clothing, but for their talents and sensibility in the fields of Art, Music, Dance, and Literature.
Students that have graduated from this school have been successful and are now living very comfortable and nice lives as either a famous film maker, a famous oil painter, or a professional advertiser, if that's possible…
Ah, alright, enough about this, let's get back with those 'oh so normal' high school students…
A tall seventeen year old male with navy blue-tinted black hair that spiked to the back was standing in front of three other seventeen year old males, while holding up a thin platinum colored digital camera.
"Ready Sasuke?" A calm yet bored voice asked.
The navy blue-tinted raven haired teen, now dubbed as Sasuke responded with a simple 'hn' before pressing the play button on the digital camera.
When the camera started to film, another tall seventeen year old student with a high spiked ponytail which made him look like he had a 'pineapple head' or so they say, held up a beverage.
"So, we just purchased this wacked-out energy drink called RUST...," He said calmly.
Sasuke shifted the camera to his right and continued to film.
The teen standing next to the high spiked pony-tailed boy, who had a pair of unusual pupil-less, but milky ivory colored irises, took hold of the energy drink and turned it to the camera, so the logo was seen.
"And… we're going to try it," He said smoothly.
The pupil-less teen handed over the grunge designed drink to the other friend, who was a bit plumper than the others; his soft brown hair spiked into two directions and he had two small pinkish swirls on each side of his cheeks.
The said teen, carefully opened the canned energy drink and took a small sip of the grape smelling drink.
After a few milliseconds later, his face began to twist up as if he had tried a whole entire bag of sour skittles in one shot, and he looked like he was about to hurl, but managed to swallow the beverage disdainfully.
"Oi, Chouji you alright?" The pony-tailed teen asked, stifling a small laugh, as he watched his friend smack his lips and wipe his mouth with a hand.
"Whoo… it tastes like an acidy diluted grape lollipop drenched in soda," He said, eyeing the can of grape energy drink.
The pupil-less boy looked at Chouji with a bit of awe at his description of the drink, but paid no mind to it after a few seconds.
"Alright Neji, why don't you try it now?" Chouji asked, handing him the can of the acidy diluted grape lollipop drenched in soda tasting drink to him.
The long brunette haired teen, now known as Neji, narrowed his eyes at the energy drink but took it anyways and took a sip.
After a couple of seconds later, Neji cocked his eyebrow and somewhat frowned.
"Was it that bad?" Chouji asked, laughing slightly.
"Actually, it doesn't taste that bad at all, it's just acidy…," He said.
"You wanna try it now Shikamaru?" Neji asked, turning to the teen.
"No way, I'm not into energy drinks, and besides what kind of energy drink is 'RUST'?" He objected, as he placed his arms behind his head, "And do you really think an energy drink that says 'After you've drank this you can feel like you can skate, snowboard, and surf at the same time.' will actually make you feel like you can skate, snowboard, and surf at the same time?"
Chouji looked at Shikamaru before he burst out laughing, "Hahaha, oh man Shikamaru, I didn't know you were that against energy drinks!"
"I'm not, I'm just saying," He defended.
Sasuke gave a sigh of annoyance before pressing down on the button, making the filming stop.
His friends looked at him with confusion before he spoke up… or at least tried to.
Before the stoic teen could explain, he was shoved by a certain someone, making the digital camera fall out of his hands and ending up as an explosion of machinery on the floor.
Sasuke could feel his temper rising, and so did Shikamaru, Chouji, and Neji.
Before he could yell his lungs out, the person who bumped into him stopped and turned around.
"I'm so, so sorry!" He apologized as he slightly bowed down in apology.
"Sorry? Dude, you broke a digital camera, you know how expensive that was?" Shikamaru said, crossing his arms.
When the person looked up, Sasuke felt his temper lowering and his face somewhat flushing a shade of pink.
'Oh crap…' he thought as he looked at this person.
The person looked around Sasuke's age, had messy spiked blonde hair, a pair of monochromatic shaded blue eyes and a pair of whisker like marks adorned on each side of his cheeks. He was wearing a light colored orange hoodie, sleeves rolled up, with a small red swirl on the front of the shirt, along with a pair of black jeans.
"I could pay you back, I swear! How much was it?" The blonde exclaimed.
Sasuke noted that the blonde didn't want to be in deep trouble than he was in already and he tried his best to block it out, I mean he broke an expensive camera!
"It's 2,500 Ryou, dobe," Sasuke said, shaking himself out of his semi-blushing stance.
The blonde's left eye twitched at the name—err insult… whatever it is, and puffed out his cheeks.
"Don't call me that! It's Naruto! Not dobe, teme!" The blonde exclaimed.
"Che, whatever. You still owe me 2500 Ryou for the camera... loser," The raven haired boy said stoically, completely ignoring the nickname.
Naruto ground his teeth together before sighing in semi-defeat, "Yeah, I know, but it might take me a while to give you the money, since I just moved here and all…"
Sasuke cocked an eyebrow.
"I can give you 100 Ryou, for twenty five days and by then you'll get the payment for your camera," Naruto said, scratching his head.
Without thinking, a smirk formed on Sasuke's lips as he accepted, "Fine, twenty five days, no later."
There was an awkward silence before Naruto spoke up.
"Uh… how can I give the money to you exactly?" The blonde asked.
"What school are you going to?" Neji asked, looking at the teen.
"Well, I'm going to that high school not too far from here—"
"—Konoha High School of Art and Literature," Shikamaru, Chouji, and Neji finished for him in unison.
Naruto sweatdropped before smiling awkwardly, "Yeah, I guess I'm going there, for uh, the Music program and for Commercial Art."
"That's cool, then maybe you'll be in Commercial Art with us!" Chouji said happily.
Naruto smiled, but before he could talk any more, he glanced at a clock at a nearby bank and yelped.
"Well, I've got to go now, got to meet my dad at the Konoha Enterprise LTD Building, he's getting a job there or something."
Shikamaru, Chouji, Neji, and Sasuke all watched as the blonde encounter dash off to the Enterprise Building.
Chouji looked down at Sasuke's feet and stared at the broken camera before looking up at him, who was apparently still staring at the direction where Naruto left.
"Oi Sasuke, what are you going to do about that film project due tomorrow?" Shikamaru asked, "It's worth 80 percent of the final grade."
"Yeah, and how are you going to tell Kakashi-sensei about the broken 2500 Ryou Leica?" Chouji asked, pointing to the broken mess.
Sasuke sighed before picking up the broken camera and stuffing it into his black messenger bag, "I'll think of something… Let's go back to where ever we were before, I hate doing these stupid film projects anyways."
Shikamaru and Chouji sighed before they followed Sasuke out of the mini-outlet.
Neji took a look at the energy drink and took a sip.
After a couple of seconds later, he cursed to himself.
"Oh gods, I feel like I can skate, snowboard, and surf at the same time…"
A/N: Ta da! So how was it? I hope it wasn't too out of character, which I think it kinda was, but at least I tried? Lol, and yeah, I've tried this type of 'drink' before, and it does taste like an acidy diluted grape lollipop drenched in soda lol. Oh well, I hope you liked this weird, cheesy, yet hopefully decent first chapter of, Of all the Shades of Blue, Black, and Orange.
Thanks for reading!
-Miharu (: