All Hearts

Part 2

The first ray of sunlight hit the dry streets stretching across the village at the time of dawn. It slowly made its way through the shadows between buildings as the sun rose higher into the sky.

At the entrance of a dark alley way, the first hint of light dropped upon a section of the guy's shoulder, who was sound asleep, and the small section of light began to spread its way in all directions, driving the warmth right into and through the body as well as revealing his body from the shadows into the daylight.

A drop of clear water fell from one of the roofs, hitting the guy's cheek and making his eyelids twitch before slowly opening them, revealing unfocused, blue crystal jewelry eyes that reflected the fine morning village under the cloudless skies.
The guy roughly rubbed his face and ran his fingers through his hair before continuing to raise his arms to score a good stretch to loosen and wake the cramped muscles wide awake.
He warily stood up, sleep still visible upon his face as he cranked his neck while walking out of the alley towards the open streets.

By the time he headed towards breakfast, his consciousness was fully back into gear and running, his eyes flashing full of life. That kind of wake and full awareness was what he needed to do the usual "nick-and-run".
So to the usual stores he goes, although not that he had many to choose from since this was a small village that only had a few to begin with. He just chose different shops in a cycle, getting way to used to this kind of living life.
He took a step into the store, his blood already pumping and starting to get excited and ready for the "morning dash".
He lingered around the packaged and sealed breads, pondering on what flavor to buy today before picking a couple in hand.
It was a well too known chase of predator and prey, and it the nicker doesn't feel great about categorizing himself as the "prey", but he knew when to run and succeed at it, giving him the adrenaline rush, making this whole process enjoyable.

Problem today was, the excitement is put out with an extinguisher, and they guy felt the surprised as well as disappointment. The shopkeeper gave the action-wanting prey no action, or rather, not even paying attention towards the guy trying to walk out of the store with unpaid food in his hand.

He just had to walk back to the shopkeeper who noticed his presence and then stare at each other for a long moment while the guy couldn't help but think of a particular person in mind.
Making his presence well known, he casually walked out of the store, still half-expecting the shopkeeper to scream and chase after him and his stolen food.

Tch! That idiot! What is he up to now?he thought as left with the breakfast for himself and the two kids in the alleyway as always, he walked around the whole village trying to find Sasuke.

Did he go and pay every shop in this village?he mumbled in his mind as he took the bread into his mouth.

The day was almost over. It was already 6 o'clock in the evening and guy was so exhausted. He had been running around the whole village trying to find this particular person in mind but with no luck. Sinking down onto the side of a street to rest, he played with his wrist band while trying to compose his breathing. Running around just itself was enough to be sweating buckets full, but this weather was draining his energy down to the feet making sweat roll down his forehead one after another.

Where the hell is he!? …. Not that it matters to me... Why am I trying to find him anyway? I'm not worried about him… … Damn!

"Where the hell are you, Sasuke!" the guy shouted angrily at the sky flicking his sweat in the opposite direction.

"…Here?" the said Sasuke replied, confused.

The guy jumped up a meter from shock.

"Whoa! Don't do that!" he gasped aloud while he held a hand against the pounding heart of his.

"Don't do what?" Sasuke asked, crouching down in front of the guy.

"Don't creep up on someone from behind!" he retorted, calming to his regular heart beat.

"…."

"What?" he growled, noticing that Sasuke was still staring at him.

"…Why were you looking for me, Naruto?" Sasuke asked.

"…. Ah, be-because y-you… I-uh… does it matter?" he stammered, stumbling all over his words.
The truth was he didn't actually know why.
Before he knew it, he was searching for him and when he did, he just didn't know what to say to him. The type of guy who would startthinking of plan A, forget plan B, and go ahead with it without completing the plan.

"Where the hell were you anyway!?" Naruto growled roughly, making sure he doesn't sound worried, making it far more obvious to Sasuke how he was trying to hide his emotions.
He was an expert at reading emotions off an emotionless someone, so it wasn't hard at all to read his.
A small smile tugging at the edge of his lips, Sasuke pulled out a hand towel from his bag and threw it at Naruto who caught it with his face.

"I was at school, Naruto," Sasuke said.
The towel peeled off by the force of gravity and revealed Naruto's confused face.

"Why the hell would you want to go there for?" Naruto took the towel in hand and wiped the sweat off his face while asking.

"School? Never been to one? It's a place where all kids are supposed to compulsory go to get educated," Sasuke answered, giving Naruto a hand before they started walking.

"Yeah, learn what?" Naruto snorted. Sasuke looked at Naruto, and then sighed.

"Such as Mathematics, languages, Science, History, et cetera," Sasuke said before turning his head around to face Naruto and ask, "you know additions and subtractions, right?"

"Are you trying to offend me?" Naruto grumbled, "I ain't as dumb as I look."

"Multiplication and Division?"

"Yo, if you're trying to mock me-" Naruto started.

"Statistics and Calculus?"

"Excuse me? star-tactics and Calpis? Are we still talking about Maths here?" Naruto asked, throwing question marks above his head when he heard unfamiliar vocabulary and Sasuke sighed deeply.

"How do you come up with something so random?" Sasuke said exasperated.

"You're asking me? You'rethe one who came up with it!" Naruto grumbled with a few more question marks floating above his head.

"Fair enough. I was just testing to see where your level of mind is up to," Sasuke said.

"Well does Calpis and all the other shit become so important and useful in life after you leave school? Know different languages and history and whatever the fuck you're learning there?" Naruto sneered.
To that, Sasuke shifted his eyes towards Naruto before facing forward again.

"No, in most cases it doesn't actually."

"Then what the point in going?" Naruto groaned flailing his arms about, completely disoriented in where this was going and Sasuke's point of argument.

"They say its to get used to society and environment with many people that are variably, differently yet at the same time, similarly raised," Sasuke explained as he walked up the stairs with Naruto following shortly behind him, "And also be able to socialize with many different people."

"They say? Who says?" Naruto asked trying to process Sasuke's words as he watched Sasuke pull out his keys and unlock a door.
Sasuke sighed before turning towards Naruto.

"It's a figure of speech."

Sasuke opened the door and walked straight in and Naruto was right behind him, fuming in puzzlement.

"Figure? Figure?" Naruto continued and by this time, Sasuke already decided to give up and ignore the idiot.
"Why the fuck would 'speech' have a god damn figure if it doesn't have a fuckin shape in the first place!?"

Only after the front door slammed shut, did Naruto register where he was and widened his eyes. He looked around the place as if he felt alienated by the environment before he found that he still had the ability to speak.

"…Uh, where am I?" Naruto asked, lost.

To that, Sasuke answered short and simply the obvious.

"My apartment."