Disclaimer: All of the Naruto characters belong to Kishimoto-sensei. (Sadly)
A/N - The second chapter! I wrote it in a bit of a rush, so I'm sorry if it's not as good as the first. Hope you like it! ^.^
Sasuke pointedly glared away from Naruto, who was glaring directly at him. Unfortunately and unintentionally, Sasuke's glare ended up on Shizune, Tsunade's secretary, who paled a few shades when she glanced up at Sasuke from her desk.
Being sent to Tsunade's office was not on Sasuke's to do list today. Neither was punching someone for that matter. He had just wanted to ignore the world until school was over, go home, shower, do his homework, eat and go to bed.
He did the punching without thinking. A reflexive habit that always acts up when someone was too close. His mind just shouted the words at him and he reacted accordingly. Sasuke didn't like people close to him, in his space. He didn't trust people enough for that.
So, he punched him.
Which caused an uproar, and Kakashi sending both of them to Tsunade's office. Sasuke had been to Tsunade's office a few times before, and it wasn't a pleasant experience. So, as far as Sasuke could tell, his presence here was entirely the fault of the idiot klutz sitting next to him.
"We've called both of your guardians," Shizune said from her desk, where she was sorting through papers. "They should be here by the time Tsunade is ready to see you."
"What?" Naruto said, shifting his gaze to Shizune. "You called my guardian?"
"Standard procedure." She told him. "This school has a strict no violence policy. We don't give out warnings, we immediately contact parents and give out strict punishments."
Sasuke huffed at this. It wouldn't take his guardian too long to get here, and it wasn't like he didn't know what was going on, he'd witnessed the entire thing.
Naruto groaned. The last thing he needed was that guy showing up here and making his first day worse. And as if Naruto's thoughts had summoned him, Jiraiya walked through the door.
"Naruto!" He said, his voice torn between humor and scolding. "Of all the things I expected, being called in to the principals office on the first day was not on my list. I thought you could make it a few days before I had to show up here."
"It's not my fault." Naruto whined. "Before I knew what was happening, this guy," Naruto jerked his head in Sasuke's direction. "Had punched me in the face for no reason."
Sasuke swiveled his body in his chair and glared at Naruto, who looked pointedly away. Jiraiya sighed. "Naruto, you need to take responsibility for you own actions, not blame other people."
"I am taking responsibility." Naruto told him. "By telling you that it was an accident and that guy overreacted."
Sasuke was practically glaring daggers at Naruto now.
"If this is anyones fault," Sasuke said, in a low, seething voice, "It's yours."
"How is this my fault?" Naruto snapped. "You completely overreacted. You didn't even give me a chance to apologize."
"As if you..." Sasuke started, raising his voice, but was cut off my Jiraiya.
"All I know is you too interrupted me when I was just about to get my publisher to agree to finally go out and drink with me! So as far as I can tell, you're both to blame for ruining my date!"
The door behind Shizune's desk banged open. "Why is it so loud out here!" Tsunade said, walking into the outer office. She glanced at Shizune, and then the two boys sitting in the waiting chairs, and then at Jiraiya.
"EH?!" Jiraiya and Tsunade said at the same time, pointing at each other.
"You!" They said in unison, before bursting out into laughter.
"What on earth are you doing here?" Tsunade asked, "I haven't seen you since college!"
"I heard that there was an extremely attractive principal here and thought I'd try my luck!" Jiraiya said, waggling his eyebrows suggestively. "I always wanted to try the teacher-student thing."
Tsunade rolled her eyes and Naruto, who had sunken down into his chair, groaned in embarrassment. This was the problem with having his guardian called. The man hit on everything that moved. Sasuke was ignoring the entire room, to the best of his abilities, when the door from the halway opened.
"Yo." Kakashi said, causing Sasuke to stiffen. Yes, another annoyance is just what he needed. "Sorry I'm late."
"You're always late, Kakashi." Tsunade said, waving her hand airily. "Now would someone mind telling me what is going on here?"
Shizune jumped to her feet. "Sorry, Tsunade. I didn't get a chance to inform you since you were in the middle of a phone call, but these two," She motioned toward Naruto and Sasuke. "Were sent here for fighting. I already went ahead with the standard procedures and contacted their guardians."
Tsunade looked at the two in question. "Uzumaki Naruto! You again? What did I tell you just this morning?!" She regarded him with narrowed eyes.
Naruto held both of his hands up in surrender. "I didn't hit anyone this time!" He said, "That guy is the one who hit me."
She looked at Sasuke. "Is that true?" She asked, crossing her arms over her rather large chest.
Sasuke spared her a glance before looking away defiantly. She sighed.
"Then would you all mind stepping into my office?" She asked, "Though Kakashi, you've been through this with Sasuke before and lunch is about to end, so I suppose you can just go back to class."
"Whatever you say." He said, before walking out. Sasuke started to get out of his chair and go after him when Tsunade caught him around the wrist. "Not so fast, Uchiha. I never said you were dismissed."
Sasuke narrowed his eyes at her.
"Don't look at me that way. I still have to give you your punishment."
Sasuke glared at her even more.
"So, Tsunade" Jiraiya said, as the walked into her office. "How has life been since college? I just know you've spent everyday thinking about me with longing and remorse that we never went out before graduation."
Tsunade scoffed as she closed the door behind them. Shizune let out a sigh of relief as she was left by herself, the tension in the room reduced to none.
Those Uchiha's really made things tense
Naruto sighed as he collapsed on top of his bright orange comforter. A months worth of detentions with that guy. Not a week, not two weeks, no, a month.
He grumbled angrily before getting up to go shower. He caught a glimpse of his face in the mirror, and saw the huge bruise that covered most of his right cheek. Great, he thought, as if this is going to help with the making friends thing.
The rest of class had not been a fun experience. Naruto could feel all of the girls glaring at him every chance they got, and the guy who sat in front of him, who's name he had learned was Sasuke, had pulled Naruto's chair out from under him just to spite him. Yeah, things at this school were going to go just great.
By the time Naruto had gotten out of the shower, he could hear Jiraiya yelling that dinner was ready. With a sigh, he went to his dresser and pulled out some pajamas. Pausing momentarily to stare at the picture of his parents, who were both smiling brightly. His heart clenched at just seeing their faces. He slammed the picture face down before even thinking about it.
He'd told Jiraiya he didn't want any pictures of his parents in the house, least of all in his room, on his dresser, mocking him for the mistakes of his past.
He didn't need to be reminded of what a screw up he was, he already knew.
Sasuke woke up with a feeling of dread washing over him, and it took him a moment to remember why. He had a months worth of detentions because of that idiot. He glanced at the clock. Six-thirty in the morning. He had time to train before going to school.
He crawled out of bed and got in the shower. The water was soothing on his knotted muscles, relieving all of the stress that had been worked up the day before.
Sasuke pulled his uniform on with practiced ease, and headed outside, grabbing a bagel from the kitchen on his way.
An hour later, he was exhausted and panting, laying on his back in the yard. After only two shots? No, he could do better than that. He climbed to his feet, and closed his eyes to focus, holding his hands out in front of him.
"Chidori!" Little flecks of lightning began to build around him palms. More, he thought, more! The flecks of lightning began to grow and multiply.
"I told you that twice was your limit."
Sasuke jumped. He'd been so absorbed by what he was doing that he hadn't even noticed Kakashi's presence. He turned around to look at his guardian, who was leaning against their back door, regarding him with eyes the clearly implied he was in for a lecture.
"I also told you not to practice outside."
"Yeah, and not in the house. Only at school." Sasuke glared. "How am I supposed to get stronger if I can't practice?"
"You practice two days a week. At school. Which is the only place you should be practicing."
Sasuke glared at him. "And you know better than to try for a third shot. I've told you already, it won't happen. You're lucky you can even get two. Lightning manipulation is too dangerous and too complicated to mess with haphazardly, Sasuke. It could kill you."
"I think I'll survive." Sasuke snapped. "If I'm going to be limited to two shots for the rest of my life, I'd rather die. Such a weak attack won't help me kill Itachi."
"Sasuke," Kakashi's tone was growing more dangerous by the word. "You're lucky you even have a Kekkai Genkai at all. It's rare for two members of immediate family to have an ability. Itachi had one, so you're chance of getting one were down to nothing. But you got two, the sharingan and lightning manipulation, don't be so selfish."
Sasuke resisted the urge to roll his eyes. He'd heard all of this too many times before. The whole one-ability-per-generation-be-thankful speech. He was willing to bet his eyes he knew what was coming next too.
"And developing your abilities for the sake of revenge won't get you very far anyways. Revenge, however it important it may seem to you, isn't going to help your growth go any faster. You have time, Sasuke, so don't waste it."
Yep. Someone owed him another set of Sharingans.
"You're gonna be late. So get to school."
"What about you?" Sasuke asked, knowing full well what was coming next. "You're going to be late too."
"I have something to do."
Right again. He'd lived with Kakashi too long.
Naruto sat down at his desk and pulled out his books, trying to blend in as much as possible. Which he knew wouldn't work. It never worked.
"Hey."
Naruto looked up from his books and saw the pink-haired girl he had noticed yesterday standing next to his desk. She didn't look angry, exactly, but she didn't look friendly either.
"Hey." He said back, mainly because she was looking at him expectantly. "Um....?"
"Haruno." She said. "Haruno Sakura."
"Nice to meet you." He said uncomfortably. "So...?"
"What was it like?" She demanded suddenly, bending down and putting her elbows on his desk. "Was it amazing? I bet it was amazing. There's no way it could have been bad."
"What? What do you mean?" Naruto asked, confused.
"Kissing Sasuke-kun, of course!" She said brightly. "I was totally jealous at first, but it was an accident, so I decided to forgive you."
"Well, thanks. I guess."
"So was he a good kisser?" She asked
"Er..." Naruto said, shifting in his seat. "I really didn't notice one way or the other."
"What?!" She looked at him in shock. "How could you not notice? You were kissing the Uchiha Sasuke!"
"Well, I was a bit distracted by being punched in the face."
"Oh, right!" She laughed, "I forgot about that. How's your cheek?" She reached out her hand and twisted his face all the way toward her. "Well, that's not too bad."
Naruto noticed a green glow from the corner of his eyes. It seemed to be coming from her hand. "There!" She said. "All fixed!"
Naruto was confused for a few seconds, but then he realized the aching in his cheek had disappeared completely. "How did you do that?" He demanded, eyes wide.
"It's my Kekkei Genkai! Part of it, anyways. I just focus my energy to my hands and it heals, depending on what energy I use. I have two. If I focus my other energy to my hands, I could level this building with one punch. It's the whole destruction-rebirth thing. Healing and breaking. Yin, yang."
She talked a lot, Naruto noticed. "Kekkei Genkai?"
"You mean you seriously don't know?" She looked amazed. "I can't believe no one explained it to you, especially since you were around the government. The officials love talking about it." She sat down in Sasuke's unoccupied chair, and turned to face him. "It's the whole reason you're here. A Kekkei Genkai is an ability passed down through DNA. Usually only one person per generation gets one, but sometimes it's two or three people who have it. Like the Hyuugas."
Naruto didn't know if he was supposed to know who the Hyuugas were so he just did a kind of half nod. "Everyone on D-Block has a Kekkai Genkai, which is why this is the Kekkai Genkai unit of the school. The rest of the school is totally normal. Anyhow, basically everyone on this side of the building has a special ability, and some are really dangerous, which is why violence is so against the rules here."
"Oh." Naruto said, comprehension dawning on him. "So what I have is a Kekkei Genkai?" He asked.
"Yep." She smiled. "You were sent to this school because they teach you how to handle it here. Some of the students have known about it since birth, though usually abilities don't develop until around puberty. The Hyuugas and Uchihas are old noble families who have passed down the secret for generations. The rest of us found out about ours by accident and were sent here by the government. Just like you were."
"How did you know I was sent here by the government?" Naruto asked. He could hardly keep up with everything she was saying.
"Well, there's no way you couldn't have been, I mean, after what happened two yea...."
"You're in my seat." Naruto stiffened as he realized Sasuke's presence. "Move."
"Kya! Sasuke-kun!" Sakura jumped to her feet. "Sorry, I didn't realize I'd been sitting here so long."
"Whatever."
"So...um...I'll talk to you later then, Naruto." Sakura said as the bell rang, and she resumed her usual seat on Sasuke's right. Sasuke looked out the window to his left for the entire twenty minutes it took Kakashi to arrive, and continued to look out the window after he did and class started. The only classes he paid any attention to were the ones on Wednesdays and Thursdays. The rest were useless to him, considering he'd learned most of it before he was eight.
Naruto glanced at Sasuke a few times throughout class and noticed the tense set of his shoulders, and the aura of hatred and annoyance he was emitting. It seemed like Naruto wasn't the only one he had a problem with. He just didn't like anybody.
Yeah, Naruto thought to himself, you especially. And you get to spend two hours locked in a room with him.
Oh yeah, detention was going to be fun.