"Sasuke! Wake up we're gonna be late! Get your ass outta bed!" A boyish but manly voice could be heard passed my door. I groaned knowing it was Naruto and managed to drag myself out of my bed.
My nose perked as I could smell the bacon and eggs being made. Looks like the doofus is making breakfast yet again. He'd make a good housewife.
It's been 4 years since I moved in with Naruto. What I thought was a miserable life turned out not to be too bad. Not only did we grow really close but he even changed my view on school and life, well not entirely but hey that's my charm I guess. Once I enrolled in the same middle school as him and met some of his friends it didn't seem as bad anymore. Getting up early was still a pain in the ass but even so, I managed to survive middle school with him by my side. He didn't allow me to have any time to be sad. As much as it still plays over in my mind the loss of my parents didn't hurt as much anymore. As for family, I didn't see them for years but it's to be expected it didn't bother me as much as before. It's all thanks to him, I'd never admitted it to him though.
I got up and dug through my drawers looking for a pair of pajama pants. Even though it's just us two living here and we're both guys I'm a little self-conscious about my body. I was pretty slim, I mean lean. I am somewhat active. But when I'm around Naruto shirtless I can't compare. He's the jock type and he works out a lot not to mention he's at least a head taller than me. It's natural I'd feel like a shrimp right? I found a pair of dark blue pajama pants and a black t-shirt after putting it on I exited my room and made my way downstairs. As I approached the kitchen I could hear the bacon sizzling. The smell was enough to make my mouth water.
"And the prize to the best housewife of the year goes to…"
"Ah shut up you ass, I guess that means you don't want any huh?" He retorted to my sarcastic joke.
"I'm joking relax." A smile grew across my eyes. "I wouldn't say anything but c'mon dude, do you really have to wear the pink apron every time?"
"Hey, Granny Tsunade bought this for me. It's manly"
"It's pink."
He did his signature look. He closed his eyes. Whenever he does that he looks like a fox especially seeing how he had whisker-like scars on his cheeks.
"Yeah yeah hurry up and take a seat I just finished the eggs, the bacon done and the toast is about pop up right now." He said almost on cue. The toast popped up from our four-hole toaster. I took a seat at our round black marble table. He set down a dish in front of me and him filled with delicious looking food.
I'm not much of a cook, last time I tried I nearly killed us both so Naruto does most if not all of it. I would clean if anywhere got dirty but surprising for two teenage boys we were pretty tidy. Before he sat down he took off his sissy apron only wearing blue and orange checkered pajama pants. He was shirtless. Why?
"Thanks for the food and all but do you always have to parade around the place half naked all the time," I said pushing a fork full of eggs into my mouth.
"I'm sorry I forgot I live with a lady." He rolled his eyes stabbing his bacon inhaling it.
I couldn't help staring at him he looked like an animal, the way how he ate, the way how his body was sculpted like a professional athlete. I'm so jealous.
"Man today's going to be a pain in the ass." I said. He looked up realizing what I was talking about.
"Right? Schools always a pain but high schools going to be hard."
"Just don't fail like last time." I joked snickering. Naruto's face turned red.
"I didn't fail I had a D average."
"D's important, you can't spell dumb ass without the D." I laughed.
"Suck my D you smart ass. Either way, since we're in the same class this year I'll just copy your homework."
"Yeah my ass you will, you know how hard I study to get my marks!"
"Sasuke. You don't study at all, not even before exams. You even have a A average." He wasn't wrong, for some reason everything in school is really easy. Apparently, I'm a genius. "So just send the homework over whenever you're done when we get it k?"
"Hell no. Do it yourself."
"You owe me though, I let you look at my abs all morning." He had a smug look on his face.
"I didn't ask for that! Besides I'm not even gay. You're not either!"
"You don't have to be gay to admire beauty." He flexed his large bicep and kissed it. What a cocky bastard.
"I'm going to start getting ready. I suppose you already showered so I'll be using it now." I packed up my eating utensils and put them in the sink. I made my way upstairs as Naruto yelled at me to wash my dishes.
Our uniforms didn't look too bad. After I dried off I put on a pair of black dress pants and a black hoodie with the arms cut off. Over the hoodie, I wore the dark red blazer that was lying on my bed but I left it open for fashion reasons. I tied up my black converse and made my way downstairs. Naruto was already ready waiting for me at the door. He wore the same dress pants and blazer but he pulled back the sleeves revealing his black spandex long sleeve. He buttoned the two middle buttons on the blazer to show off his muscles. He wore the same black dress pants with running shoes.
"Hurry up Cinderella let's go."
We locked up and headed out. Konoha city wasn't really all that big, it's more like a town actually. The streets were peaceful so it was an ideal place of peace. The school was at least a ten-minute walk from our house. Since we lived on the main road we could see all of our fellow students. We didn't recognize any of them except for a certain pink haired girl that was running straight for us.
"Naruto! Sasuke!" She yelled out in a hyper happy girl type of way.
Sakura Haruno. She's our age and she's been Naruto's friend since they were young. She's a kind energetic girl. She's like Naruto in a sense that they were both really athletic even just looking at her you can tell. She wore the usual blazer fully buttoned up so there wasn't anything flapping around. Her hair a bit past her shoulders but he keeps it in a sporty ponytail with a few strands being used as bangs. She also wore a dark red miniskirt with black biker shorts that stretched out to her mid-thigh with a black pair of track shoes.
"Oi Sakura!" Naruto ran to her. They did the usual ran up to each other pretending they're in slow motion and jump the air and hug each other. People would assume they were dating but they would assume wrong. They're like brother and sister, yes yes I know people say that all the time but I once watched them seriously get nauseous over the idea. Sakura threw up.
"Hey, Naruto." She greeted letting go. She turned over to me. "What's up Sasuke?"
"...Nothing much Sakura." I muttered averting my eyes. As nice as she is I can't be open to her. Naruto introduced me to his friends years ago. I'm assuming he told them my situation because of how nice they were to me especially Sakura but I couldn't open up just yet. Before I moved to this town I was in school, the kids there would bully me all the time and as much as I wanted to fight back I had to pretend like I didn't care. When you don't have friends or family you tend to wanna keep to yourself. I'm only really open to Naruto.
"Aw, the cold shoulder again today. Don't worry I'll get through someday." She smiled. This was our routine. Naruto, however, wasn't so impressed and punched me in the head.
"Can't you atleast say hi properly!?"
"Says the idiot reciting a sign to a movie!" I punched him back but he didn't surrender. Sakura laughed.
"Even on the first day, you guys have to show how close you are." Her smile quickly turned into a face of a demon. Naruto and I stopped. "But knock it off it's embarrassing. CHA!" Sakura knocked the fuck out of Naruto. He flew at least 5 meters. For a girl, she's crazy strong. Actually, she's stronger than most guys.
"WHY IS IT ALWAYS ME!?" Naruto cried rubbing his head, well his second head. An egg-sized bump appeared on top of it.
After the commotion, we headed to school together making small chat. Conversations with us three usually go along like this. Sakura and Naruto bring up something, they try to get me excited about it I shut it down and they call me a Debby-downer. I'm like this with Naruto's other friends also. For some reason, they found it appealing but then again they're a weird bunch themselves. They somehow accepted me but I guess that's just because of Naruto, they are good people though I just don't know how to react to them. I'm pretty sure all of them are attending this school too.
The school was odd, yes it was nice looking but weird as hell too. The front gate was a large wooden wall with two tall doors that were open. The school was shaped like a dome. The building was brown and there was plants and flowers all over it. It gave the place an 'old fashioned' type of feeling. Naruto rushed ahead of Sakura and I, he said something about wanting to be the first one in class so he can sit in the back. Sakura and I were left in the dust running after him.
We got to our classroom 1-E Naruto, Sakura and I went to the back of the classroom and sat down Luckily because of his high energy we were the first ones there.
"Hehe. See running pays off." He folded his arms and sat back in his chair. Sakura and I rolled our eyes. We watched our fellow students walking to the class. We saw 3 of Naruto and Sakura's friends walk in and ran towards us. Ino, Choiji, and Shikamaru.
"Sick! We're in the same class!" Choiji ran up to Naruto and the belly bumped. It almost sent Naruto flying which was funny. Choji's a big guy but don't let him know that. He might kill you. He almost killed me once because of I but quickly stopped when I gave him the rest of my pizza.
"Hey, Naruto! Hey, Sasuke!... Sakura." Ino greeted well except for Sakura but then that turned into laughed and they hugged each other. Sakura and Ino are best friends they met each other before they could even walk. They always say they're rivals. Sakura is pretty athletic but so is Ino. In our old school, they were the stars of the volleyball team. Anytime they missed a game we would lose but anytime they were both on the court there would be hell.
"What a drag. I get stuck with all the loud ones. Well except for you Sasuke." Shikamaru sighed. He's probably the laziest out of all of us and that's saying a lot. He probably hates loud things more than I do. They all chatted loudly for a while not caring about anyone else looking at them. I sat and stared out the window beside me.
Is it really okay to be here? I hated school and being around people. If Naruto wasn't here I wouldn't be either. Now that I think about it most the things I do are because of Naruto or at least I'm with him most of the time. It's weird. We're like brothers I guess but not entirely I mean even if we were like that how am I supposed to tell I never really had a brotherly bond and neither has he. I turned my head to look at the idiot as he was talking to everyone else I see him every day almost every hour of that day for that matter if he doesn't go to the gym and honestly his face was glowing from happiness. He must be excited about school and being with everyone. I guess since he's always been alone being around people brings out the best in him. I smiled to myself. He's such a simple guy.
"Yeah yeah, enough talking please everyone please sit seated." A monotone voice came through the door. The door opened revealing a tall white-haired man with a cough mask over his mouth. Is he sick? "Hello everyone I am your homeroom teacher Kakashi. But please call me Kakashi Sama." He instructed us. The class went quiet and he sighed. "It was a joke, people. No sense humour this morning? Just call me Kakashi-Sensei. I have a small surprise for you. A pop quiz."
"WHAT!?" The whole class yelled out well except for Shikamaru and I and a couple of others. He handed out the papers with a smile forming underneath his mask.
I looked at the quiz and it was barely anything like one. It was just questions about ourselves.
What's your favorite color?
I wrote down blue.
What's your best quality?
I laughed. I wrote down 'my sarcasm'. Take that you eHarmony like test. Yeah I'm a loser.
What do you want to change about yourself?
My body. I want more muscle mass. I wrote it down with a bit of a blush.
The last question was the weirdest though.
Who is your favorite person on this planet?
It took me a while to think about how I was going to write this without ripping up the paper. It's obviously Naruto but that's too embarrassing. I wrote down an idiotic Uzamaki. I guess it doesn't sound so bad that way right?
"Is everyone finished? See it wasn't so bad. I just wanted a reaction from all of you." What a trolling bastard. "Now switch the person beside you.
… What? I looked to my right and met eyes with Naruto. He smiled.
"Why do you look so embarrassed Sasuke it's just a quiz." It's almost as if he knew.
"It's nothing. I can't trade I didn't write anything down." I turned my head towards the window. I felt his hand grab my arm that was hiding my paper. He lifted it and took it before I could even protest he slammed his paper down on my desk. Loudly. Before I could even protest everyone looked back. I just decided to accept my fate. Might as well get this over with.
His favorite color is obviously Orange. I checked and I was right. Well yeah that's all he wears. His best quality about him was everything apparently. He wants to change his study habits. For his favorite person I bet he's going to write down an athlete or something. He does love sports.
"... Really?" I said out loud quietly.
Who's your favorite person on this planet?
Sasuke Uchiha
"Well duh. That goes without saying. You fucking live with me you idiot." Naruto said almost offended. "Man for a snarky bastard you have some low self esteem. I don't even need to read yours to know."
"Oh why's that? You already read nine anyways you took it!"
"No I made you think I did. It's in your desk." I looked and sure enough it was in there face down. "Let's see." He closed his eyes. "Your favorite color is pink. Joking obviously it's blue that's all you wear. You must've said your sarcasm it's the only non related school thing you're good at. You must've said something about your body. You're pretty scrawny."
"No I'm not! You're just too big! "
"Yeah yeah and let's see your favorite person is none other than yours truly." He smiled again. Looking right into my eyes. My soul. I looked away.
"You got three out of four things right. I said an 'idiotic Uzamaki' it could have been anyone even a mangaka. So don't get full of yourself." I looked out the window. I heard him snickering and the others asking him what's so funny he just replied saying nothing. I had a hint of a blush on my face I was embarrassed but a little happy. I always just thought he saw me like everyone else. I was glad that I was wrong for once. The might have been the only question in a class that idiot got right too.
"Okay now class I want you to hand in the papers to me and I'll read them outloud hand them in with your partner's paper files together."
"WHAT?!" I yelled out. Everyone turned to me surprised and a bit curious. I could see the evil gleam in Kakashi-Sensei's eyes.
"Hm. You sure seen enthusiastic how about you first?" I froze. I looked towards Naruto for help but he was laughing and he pulled my paper from my desk and handed it to me.
"Excuse me sir, can I please be expelled?"
"Sorry but no, you may not now hand over your papers please." I walked up and gave it to him. I want to die. He read them briefly and cleared his throat. "Which one of you is Sasuke?" I raised my hand. "I suppose the blonde kid next to you is Naruto then?" Naruto nodded. "Let's see, Sasuke's favorite color is blue while Naruto's is orange. Sasuke's best quality is his sarcasm. Hm how creative. Naruto however is flawless so that trumps yours Sasuke." Everyone laughed, I couldn't help but to laugh either. Naruto had a face full of pride. "Let's see, Sasuke wants more muscle mass while Naruto wants to improve his studies. I see I see. Oh, this is surprising. It appears you two are each other's favorite person." Kakashi looked right at us. I could hear everyone's shocked chatter, well not everyone. Our gang didn't batter an eyelash they weren't surprised I thought they would've been offended or something but nope no reaction. The other students didn't even think we were friends because of our different temperaments. Others were going on about us being gay. While same though we were just fraternal twins. Kakashi cut the silence. "Although it's none of my business I asked purely off curiosity. What's the relationship between you two?" Kakashi raised an eyebrow.
"Well uh you see because of circumstances we sort of… Live together. Just us two. We're not dating or gay though. I guess we're just friends." I somehow muttered out
Everyone quieted down. Kakashi waited for a minute before saying 'okay I see next person' I sighed in relief. Naruto was killing himself with laughter beside me. I glared at him and turned to the window again uninterested in everyone else.
The day went on like your average first day would. We went to our classes saw more of Naruto's friends. We realized all of our classes were together and then the last bell rang for everyone to go home. I gathered my stuff and left. Naruto followed behind me.
"Hey favorite person." He joked I rolled my eyes.
"You're still on that? Get over yourself. You're just the only person I can tolerate that's all."
"Tch Mr tsundere. Why are you so grumpy Sasuke Chan?" He said poking my cheek. I slapped it away.
"You know people might just talk right? They might just call us gay if you do shit like!" I argued back but Naruto had the same carefree expression.
"You know I noticed something. You're really different when it's us two compared to when you're around everyone."
"It took you like four years to notice that? It's not my fault I'm not comfortable around others."
"Not yet at least. Besides I'm always there even if I'm not you'd find me I'm your favorite." He pinched my cheek and I fought him off.
"Like I said they'll think we're gay!" I argued back but Naruto shrugged.
"So what if they do I mean I know I am and you know you aren't so who cares we'll never be together." He said. "Let's hurry up and go home I wanna kick your ass in some Tekken." He started running and once again I had to run after him.
"Wait you idiot!" I called out to him. Y stomach didn't feel so well it felt as if I got punched in it and my chest hurt a little bit. In some way this pain felt familiar. When I go home maybe I'll get this idiot to make me some soup or something.
This was the very first time Naruto has hurt me. But this was also the first time I never knew what it was either.
THANK YOU GUYS FOR READING. SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG I HAD SOME REALLY BAD WRITER'S BLOCK BUT IT SHOULD FLOW OUT OF ME NOW. PLEASE REVIEW AND LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK =) BTW NEXT CHAPTER WILL BE LONGER I'M HORRIBLE AT WRITING LONG FIRST CHAPTERS.