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Chapter 2: Have my food!

"Ay, pass a pen." Sasuke said with a dead, flat tone to the blond guy who just sat next to him. He was grinning at Sasuke for a second, and then he rummaged though his backpack pulling out two pens.

"Here you go!" He said, his voice bright and ringing.

Man, this dude's clearly happy. Sasuke thought as he took the pen. He observed the boy's actions and features carefully. He had blond hair, and it was in a spiky hairstyle. Sasuke looked up at his sky blue eyes, wide open and crinkled on their sides from his broad smile. He examined his clothing and thought to himself:

Tch. He's okay, I guess he's not too rich. If I tried hard enough… he may become my friend. Not that I need any to function.

Sasuke was talking to himself in his mind again while staring at the boy. He had whiskers (Or whisker-like scars?) on his cheeks which made him look really cute, only adding up to his appearance. But the raven couldn't help but notice that he was also looking pretty hot for a dude, considering that he was straight and also that he hasn't been interested in anyone before.

Glancing to the door, Sasuke saw his new teacher getting in the classroom and glaring at every student who was not on their seat. They shot scared looks at their old friends and rushed to their seats. 'Man, so strict already?' Sasuke guessed that those were their thoughts.

"Alright," the man spoke up, "this is your first year in high school. It's harder than middle school, but don't worry, you'll get…" Sasuke found it nowhere near him to care what the guy was blabbering about and he turned to examine the boy next to him. What draws his attention to him anyway?

Was it the blond hair in the color of the sun, or the azure eyes? Maybe the cute whiskers, or his perfect smile? The boy decided not to become so gay and ruin the chances of making a new friend.

And whatever you do, you must not know let him know your thoughts. To him, you will just be the cold friend that doesn't speak a lot; Sasuke lectured himself in his mind again.

It was always been like that, and Sasuke was quite fine with it. It was now in his nature to distance himself from people.

Naruto was listening to the new teacher talking about high school, but he couldn't help but notice that the guy who was sitting next to him, who asked for a pen as the first thing he said to him, was staring at Naruto with glassy eyes.

What the fuck? Naruto thought, made a face and shook it off. He was probably just looking because I seem weird to him. That's the reason most of the times; Naruto continued his internal monologue.

He had been rejected in school from the moment he walked into that damned institution. From the looks of it, this dude felt the same. Though, he looked really, really poor… Naruto knew that there was a VERY poor orphanage down the road from your house, but he never bothered to check in that VERY poor orphanage if there were any decent kids. His mother always taught him that there are bad kids in orphanages, but this one seemed quite decent.

The blond decided to poke him. Stretching out his finger, he touched his (warm) shoulder and the raven turned around. His hair get into his eyes, and he pushed it out with long, pale fingers. Naruto could not do anything but stare in awe. His hair seemed silky, black as the fate, the burden life put on his shoulders.

Sighing, Naruto thought to himself:

I've become a sad, love-struck poet lately. I'm so weird.

Feeling a soft poke on his shoulder, Sasuke turned to face the blond. He smiled at the raven and said boy almost smiled back at him, but he resisted. This was not him. This was not how an Uchiha would act, and Sasuke swore to himself that he must keep family pride at all costs and in all situations.

"What is it?" Sasuke asked in a quiet tone.

The boy spoke up: "I was wondering, do you mind if I sit next to you on the other classes, too? Since, well…" He looked down. "I know no one here, and people keep rejecting me. I try." He had a weird, almost broken look on his face, but it vanished in an instant, being replaced by the wide smile. Sasuke almost felt sorry for the guy, but he knew he had it worse.

"No. Feel free." The boy said steadily, in a monotone. A sigh escaped the blonds' lips, as he put his whole hand on Sasuke shoulder. He suddenly felt like that's too much and pushed the blond's hand off his shoulder quickly.

"Ah! Sorry." He said and turned his attention back to the speaking teacher.

A ring of the bell signalized the end of the first period and Sasuke quickly gathered his things and walked out of the classroom. He realized that he didn't use the pen the boy gave to him, but still put it in his backpack walking to the next classroom. When he got there, Sasuke sat on the far right, and just as he put out his books, whiskers sat next to him and closed his eyes, leaning on the back of his chair.

"Man, I'm so hungry! Should have eaten more at home." Sasuke heard him say but chose to ignore it.

The day went on, the seconds, the minutes and hours slowly dragging by in the monotone that was the first school day. Introductions, names, required materials, the same thing in every period, and you both got bored before lunch break.

The bell, ringing, signalizes that lunch break has begun. Sasuke made his way to the school canteen.

Naruto was feeling excited because he was about to try the school's ramen for the first time. Jumping on the way to the canteen, he saw the guy who sat next to him since the morning and yelled after him, laughing.

"Hey, you! Black hair, raven eyes!" Sasuke turned his head, along with several others who were just interested in why the blond was yelling in the middle of the hallway. Apparently, the raven chose to ignore Naruto and kept on walking. "TEME!" Naruto yelled as he started running after him.

"EY!" He said as he reached Sasuke. "Why'd ya ignore me like that?"

He kept on ignoring Naruto, and soon the whiskered boy gave up trying to make him talk. They both got to the canteen and Sasuke went to one of the tables and sat. Naruto ran after him.

"Can I sit?" After Naruto's words, Sasuke looked up and nodded. "Okay, I'll be right back!" The blond said and ran off to the line that was forming in front of the counter. He bought himself some ramen and got back to the table.

The boy sitting there was already eating something – it looked like it's old bread and a slice of cheese. In front of him was a glass of milk. Naruto sat across him and shook the table while doing so, which caused the glass to fall over and the milk spilled. Suddenly, cold eyes examined the situation, and then he looked up at Naruto with anger and disgust mixed on his face.

"Dobe. That was my only glass of milk for this week. And now I can't drink it. Tch. You're so clumsy."

"YOUR ONLY GLASS OF MILK?!" Naruto yelled, surprised. "I'M SO SORRY!" His smile was gone as he started cleaning up the mess he made. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry…" Naruto's voice faded away bit by bit, and something was clenching his throat. Was he that poor? Only one glass of milk A WEEK?

"What's your name?" He suddenly asked, as if nothing had happened before.

"I'm Uzumaki. Uzumaki Naruto." The boy carefully sat down. "And yours?"

He smirked, and then:

"As far as I know, it's Uchiha Sasuke. Or, that's what that woman told me." That woman? What woman was he speaking of?

"May I ask… what woman?" Naruto's stubborn curiosity bested him and he muttered the question while digesting ramen with inhuman speed.

"Tsunade. The owner of the orphanage. And, dobe. You've got ramen on your shirt." Naruto looked down, cleaning his shirt and thinking, I was right. He smiled at the other happily and pushed the bowl with the ramen to him. "No, I don't want it." He refused, but then Naruto heard his stomach grumbling.

"Take it while you can!" The blond pushed the bowl even further and the raven slowly took it.

"I hate ramen." He started eating it, despite what he just said. Dude must be really hungry. Naruto mustered an apologetic smile and managed to say "I'm sorry for you" under his breath. Sasuke didn't seem to notice – he was too busy eating the ramen Naruto bought for himself.

*bows* i'm so sorry for such OOC! i'm sorry for boring story! i promise i will try to do better as my reviewer said, make it more lively! it's just the beginning i promise. there's better coming. *sobsob* please be patient!

and, chapter 3 will be in about a week or so! *waves*