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The clattering of plates and the clings of the steel spoons, the munching of crisps, followed by satisfied deep swallows. Gossips flying from all directions, jokes hovering in the air and the best of it, laughter ringing in the ears. The perfect environment for a perfect lunch period. And also the perfect opportunity for a blonde lover to look at his raven lover. Lunch time was a blessing for this young love bird as it was the only time during school whereby he got to see his 2 year older lover, who would be chatting and chuckling along with his popular, stylish and rich schoolmates and allowing girls to hang off him and coo and swoon over him.
All the while the young blonde would be staring at his love, daydreaming about things that were quite impossible in his position. Meanwhile, the other half of this secret relationship would not even bother to spare this blonde a single glance as it was an unsaid agreement between the dropouts and the popularities that one was not supposed to interfere with the other party's life.
"Off you go, staring at our Sakura with that lovesick smile plastered on you face. When are you going to change Naruto?" a dog look-alike asked the blonde, who was known with the name of Kiba.
"Kiba! Please I don't want to hear it!" Naruto retorted. He was sick and tired of people exclaiming the fact that he was in love with the beauty queen of the school, Sakura. His relationship with Sasuke had made people believe that Naruto was heads over heels in love with Sakura. His constant glances at the popular group, his not-so-secretive moves to spy on the popularities and the attempts to fall in that circle of schoolmates had forced people to believe that Naruto was in love with one of the members of that clique and it so happened that Sakura was in that clique whom he once had a minor crush on
"You and I, both, know the fact that she is not single anymore and to compete with the Mr. Ice Cube is not a joke and frankly you don't stand a chance against him, so, forget her." Kiba said, placing a hand on Naruto's little shoulder before getting himself something to eat. Another thing that Naruto didn't like was the fact that his friends like to compare him with Sasuke whenever the topic of Naruto likes Sakura comes up. It depresses him so much to know that Sasuke is so much superior compared to him and it makes him think that he is not worthy of Sasuke and he should not be a having a affair with him behind the world's back.
Naruto sighed; all this made him think that the world is so unfair. Why did he have to be an orphan, why did he have to be a drop-out, a dead last, why did he have to fall in love with him? Sometimes, he didn't feel like living anymore.
"Yo, foxy," a gruff voice called out. 'Foxy' a term used to address our Naruto, so as to say, in an informal manner. After being addressed, Naruto whipped around to come face to face with boy with a uniquely painted face, commonly known as Kankuro. Kankuro Sabaku, related to Temari Sabaku and Gaara Sabaku, also the eldest heir of the Sabaku family, one of the richest and respected family in Japan who carried out business with sand products. Kankuro's character is somewhat hot tempered, someone who likes to pick on people, someone who wants things to go his way. And someone who hates a certain blue-eyed blonde with a pet name of foxy.
Naruto felt like making a face at the tall boy but he refrained himself from doing so as he knew the consequences of such an act as this was not his first encounter with the boy.
"My, my, foxy, did you mommy pack you lunch?...Oh, wait! You don't have a mommy now, do you?" Kiba said with an overly dramatic voice and began to laugh loudly, throwing his head back. His merciless laughter had gather the attention of all students in the canteen as one of his jock friends stepped over to snatch the lunch box that Naruto had hurdled to his chest protectively, the same lunch box that Sasuke always gave him in the mornings since Naruto could not afford lunch at school.
"Hey, give that back!" Naruto yelled, flailing his arms. The boy holding the box gave out an amused chuckle and a roll of his eyes, throwing the box to his friend. The group of rowdy boys began to throw the lunch box to each other almost as if playing basket ball with it. Naruto attempted to reclaim his lunch box but his attempts were futile as the boys were much healthier, much bigger and much more powerful compared to the lithe Naruto, who couldn't even jump to their height.
"Come on, Foxy, take it," Kankuro teased, waving the box at Naruto. But as soon as Naruto neared the box, he tossed it to one of his friends, who did that same thing that Kankuro had done. This pattern continued for several minutes and Naruto was having his energy sucked out rapidly due to the lack of nutrients in his body. Naruto kept on looking towards where Sasuke was seated, who seemed to be staring uninterestedly at what was happening.
Shocked by the uncaring act displayed by Sasuke, anger rose in Naruto's baby blue eyes as he gazed towards Sasuke, his eyes begging him to do something since he had every power to stop the bullying boy. But as soon as Sasuke's and his eyes connected, Sasuke looked away and began to chat with his friends, sparing occasional glances at the scene as if he had nothing to do with what was happening.
Upon seeing the unconcerned look that Sasuke had given him, the tears pricked his eyes as he tried to hold them in.
"No one is going to help a pathetic bitch like you," Kankuro said, which finally made Naruto release his tears which leaked out and rolled right down his pale cheek, straining them as they rolled further. He couldn't believe that Sasuke had turned his back on him during a time of need.
"Aw...is the wittle baby cwying?" Kankuro spoke in a childish voice before breaking into a string of hysterics as he played around with the box.
Naruto had no energy left in him anymore as his vision began to blur and the canteen floor seemed spin and before anyone could blink, Naruto's body met the cold floor as his world went black.
Seeing this the bullies stopped, each of them with a satisfied smirk well placed on their faces as they began to clear out of the scene, leaving the unconscious body for someone else to deal. They moved out, dumping the lunch box in a dustbin, dusting their hands as if they had done today's job.
There was silence for some moments after the bullies had left, Sasuke had his eyes focused on the unconscious boy, worry clearly present in his eyes but he made no move to help his young lover after all wasn't it obvious that pride always came before anything else for Sasuke?
Shuffling of feet soon rang in everyone's ears as Kiba came forward to the laying body and scooped the poor boy into his arms and went through the canteen's door to the nurse's office.
The canteen had gained its previous atmosphere back however Sasuke's eyes lingered at where once laid his blonde lover.
Love, devil.
