Chapter 2

One Hell of a First Day

"You're… gay?" Naruto repeated as he stared dumbfounded at Kiba.

"I thought it would be best to tell you. You don't have any problems about it do you?"

"No, no. I don't have any problems about it." the blond said in a panic. "I'm just… really surprised though. You look, well uh, straight."

"Not all gay guys are girly, if that's what you're thinking." Kiba smirked.

"I know. But seriously… I didn't expect."

"I just want to be honest. As roommates, we need to trust each other. And I don't want to be hiding it. I've already had the whole middle school until high school of doing that. You're not homophobic are you?" Kiba asked, but by then instead of being nervous when he had just came out to Naruto, he managed to say it in a way of teasing the blond. His confidence in his sexuality has increased in college and with the help of his friends which was why he had little difficulty in deciding that he should tell it to the blond as early as possible.

"Of course not. But I can't say I have had gay friends before. I'm cool with them in school but I have never really hang out with a gay guy. So, I'm quite thrilled for this uh… new experience." Naruto said, trying all he could so Kiba wouldn't think he was some homophobic person.

"You're not just saying this so I won't feel bad are you?"

"No… I'm not."

"And just to tell you, you shouldn't be scared of me. As hot as you are, I won't do anything to you unless you want me to." Kiba said in a sinister tone. He then saw Naruto blush at this and he went inside the bedroom, unable to meet Kiba's eyes anymore.

"Good night." he heard Naruto shout from inside the bedroom.

"Good night."

Naruto leaned back against the door, able to feel his own heart beating.

'Did he just call me hot? Does that mean he actually is gay?' he asked himself in his thoughts.

'Calm down. It's not like you haven't met any gay guys before. And it's not like they made any advances on you so why are you getting scared? Just like he said, you shouldn't be scared. Come on, he's a very cool guy. You just have to set aside that single fact and everything would be as if it was normal. Yeah, you should just sleep for now.'

When Naruto was done reflecting with himself, he turned the AC on into a low cool, turned off the lights, set his phone's alarm to 6 AM, placed it on the nightstand and went to sleep.

…

Naruto woke up the next morning to the sound of his alarm and even though he wanted to sleep a few more minutes, he knew he had to get up 'cause being late was not an option. Even just a second of being late meant that he would have to serve a half more day of make-up duty for the hospital and he didn't want any more work. So he got out of bed to notice that Kiba was not in the room and he could hear that the TV was already on, it being on a news channel. He took a pair of his scrub suits and walked out the bedroom. When he stepped out, Kiba noticed him and greeted him a 'good morning' in which he greeted back. The way Kiba said it was so casual it was as if the last exchange between them had been forgotten.

He went inside the bathroom and took a warm shower, thankful for how the dorm room seemed to have all the commodities he needed. As he washed himself, the thought of what Kiba confessed sprung out his mind. But as he told himself the evening before, Kiba's being gay shouldn't matter and he needed to remember that.

After finishing, he stepped out the bath already dressed in his hospital scrubs uniform. He went back to the bedroom and wore his rubber shoes, his watch, sprayed some cologne and made sure to comb his wild hair for it to be at least presentable. But it was stubborn and since he wasn't a fan of wearing hair gel or wax, he just let it be. He took his orange back pack which contained all the necessary equipment he would need for PT and then went back out again into the living room.

"That was fast." Kiba remarked as he saw Naruto appear near him.

"Well, guys don't need thirty minutes to take their showers."

"Right you are. Anyway, I've told you that I jog in the morning so I'll be heading off then. Don't forget to lock the door and bring your keys when you get out." Kiba reminded and he went out the door, clad in a grey sweatshirt, black jogging pants and running shoes.

Naruto checked the time and it was already 6:25 which meant that he had at least 45 more minutes to find breakfast and go to the hospital. He turned off the TV and the lights and locked the door after going out.

On his way to the hospital he ate gyuudon on a shop along the way. When he reached the hospital, he punched in his time card, making a 7:07 mark on the first day of the month. He was glad that there was the orientation around the hospital two days before as he would probably have been lost trying to find the time clock. As soon as he was done with that he hurried himself to the Rehabilitation department of the hospital where he would train. On the way he bumped into his classmate Shikamaru, one of the two PT interns assigned to the hospital who were his classmates. He was a guy with some kind of pineapple hairstyle tied in a pony and was at the top of their class but was the laziest person Naruto has ever met in his life.

"Yo Shikamaru. I was almost sure you'd end up late on the first day. You're usually still asleep by this hour." Naruto greeted.

"Yo." Shikamaru halfheartedly replied. "It's such a drag to wake up in such an early hour but being late means additional working days and that would be much more troublesome."

"And that totally makes sense." Naruto agreed. And so the two made their way inside the department in which they greeted the regular PT staffs. Since the orientation was already given, Naruto had already been assigned to one PT staff along with a partner. His partner was a girl from a different school and her name was Ino Yamanaka. She had long platinum blond hair tied-back into a ponytail, light blue eyes and one of the sexiest bodies Naruto's ever seen.

The PT staff who would supervise and train Naruto and his partner was Ms. Shizune, a petite woman with short black hair with an 8 year experience in being a PT and was one of the senior staffs in the rehab. Her name was known through almost all who rotated in the hospital, even known to those who hadn't rotated yet. Naruto was tipped in his previous months that if he gets assigned to Konoha General Hospital that Ms. Shizune was someone he should pray not to have. But luck wasn't on his side and he was assigned to her.

So far, she has shown to be cheerful as seen when she further instructed Naruto and Ino on what their duties will be as PT interns. Mostly they will treat patients who aren't paying out of their own pockets meaning those with health cards and charity patients since it was a public hospital. Paying patients are treated solely by those with a license.

When the clock hit 8 AM, the rehab officially opened and Naruto's first day started. And what a gruesome first day it was. In the end all he could say was,

Shizune is evil.

…

Naruto's toxic day ended at 5:30 when he finished treating his 6th patient. It was overtime and Naruto still had a lot of take home documents to finish. He calculated that he probably wouldn't be able to sleep until 12 AM and that was if he started doing his work as soon as he arrived at the dorm.

He wasted no time getting out the hospital, passed by on the shop where he ate breakfast and ordered a take-out pork katsudon for his dinner. When he arrived at the dorm, he saw that the lights were on indicating Kiba was already home.

"Oh hey Naruto. How's your first day at the hospital."

"Ugh, it was horrible." Naruto cursed as he let himself fall down on the couch beside Kiba who was watching a cable show. "I had to treat six patients today. Three in the morning and three in the afternoon. Two of them are stroke patients, one has a spinal injury who weighs like 300 pounds, one was an old woman with Parkinson's disease who not only drooled on my arm but we literally took 2 and a half hours just to complete her session and I treated the last two patients simultaneously, one with low back pain and one with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Thankfully I had my partner Ino help me in preparing stuffs. I am so exhausted." he sighed.

"I didn't imagine a PT's job would be so, hard."

"You certainly haven't heard enough about it then. Sometimes I wonder why I took this course when I could have just taken something that's solely focused on sports like yours."

"The pay's good for therapist, didn't you say?"

"Yeah. But this internship is killing me. I can't wait till I get a license and practice as a sports PT and not in the hospital. Anyway, I already took home katsudon since I still have a lot of paper works to do. The PT assigned to supervise me asked me to do a full re-evaluation on two patients and she wanted it type written in a formal report, not just the checklist they use in the hospital and she wants it passed tomorrow at 8 o'clock sharp. So in case you wanted to go out for dinner, I won't be able to join you." Naruto said, almost apologetic.

"Don't worry about it." Kiba shrugged off. "I can just order some pizza and eat here too."

"I have to start typing these while you wait for pizza. Exhausted as I am, I don't feel that hungry yet." informed the blond and he went inside the bedroom. He took off his shoes, socks and his upper scrubs leaving him in only his white V-neck undershirt and scrub pants. He took out his laptop from his cabinet and set it on the table. He took out his notebook from his backpack containing the patients' information and treatment session details he needed in writing the re-evaluation documents and then proceeded to typing right away.

It didn't take him long to be immersed in his typing and after around 45 minutes, he was halfway done with the first re-evaluation which was faster than usual. But his focus had been broken when he heard his stomach growl.

'Looks like I'm wrong about not being hungry. Better eat something first.'

He saved his work, stood up and closed the screen of his laptop down. He went to the living room and coincidentally there was a knock on the door and the words, 'Pizza delivery' were heard.

"Good timing Naruto." Kiba stated as he stood up the couch and opened the door to reveal the pizza delivery guy. Kiba paid for it while Naruto on the other hand took his katsudon from the table and let it heat in the microwave for 2 minutes.

"I don't know your pizza preference Naruto so I just had them deliver an assorted pie." Kiba informed Naruto as he set the pizza on the smaller table in front of the couch.

"You didn't have to order pizza for me you know." Naruto said. The microwave 'dinged' and out he took the now hot katsudon, setting it also on the table in front of the couch.

"Come on, it's rude to order pizza and not share it." Kiba said as he took a slice of a Hawaiian prepared part of the pizza. "That's kind of why it's made this big and sliced into different pieces.

"Thank you then." the blond said and he too took a slice, getting the one with the pepperoni.

"So, how's your paperwork going? Seems like you're really 'engaged' in getting it done."

"I'm halfway finished with the first report which is kinda fast. I already learned from experience that it's better to start writing them right away than resting first then trying your goddamn hardest to get out of bed to do them."

"Experience huh? How many months have you been an intern anyway?"

"This is my 5th month. The 1st month I was assigned in the hospital near our school in my hometown. My second month I was assigned in an elderly care facility in order to train us in the elderly population. My 3rd month was the exact opposite and I had to deal with pediatric clients, most whom are special population. Now that really tested my temper into its limits and I'll tell you another time why."

"I think I can understand that. I for one don't like kids."

"It's not like I don't like kids but sometimes they can be a full."

"The 4th month, which is the rotation before this one was the best I had yet. It was a sports centered rotation and we worked with the varsity players of our university. We helped design their training programs and supervise them. We also accompany them when they have games to play."

"Really? That sounds awesome. That's what I wanna do that's why I took sports science. I used to be a basketball varsity in high school, the power forward of the team but sadly I wasn't the one chosen for a college scholarship. They gave it to our point guard who could literally pass through any opponents he faced, ankle breaking them like they were drunks in the court. I couldn't beat someone like that but I still play basketball as pastime." Kiba shared, quickly earning Naruto's interest. Basketball was Naruto's favorite sport and though he wasn't that gifted in playing it, he too also enjoys playing the game.

"Power forward huh? Are you able to dunk?" the blond keenly asked.

"Am I able to dunk? I even accidentally hit the ring with my head one time I was making a dunk."

"No way! What's your vertical?"

"Around 46 inches." Kiba told him, using his hand to give Naruto an estimate on how high it was by raising it at that height from the floor.

"That's amazing. What's your height anyway?"

"I'm 6'3"."

"You're almost like Kagami from Kuroko no Basket."

"You watch that show too."

"Yeah. I love basketball."

"You should play with us. My schoolmates and I will be playing this Saturday. We'd love to have additional players." invited Kiba. Naruto grinned as he really wanted to play ball and his internship has prevented him from doing it so far, but only until now.

"I'll join. I'm not varsity level but I can handle my own."

The two conversed more as they ate, Naruto taking in his food as fast but as safe as possible. He didn't want to make a fool of himself in front of his new friend by choking. But he did need to eat fast as he still had a lot of things to type. When he finished both his katsudon and share of pizza, he returned to his laptop and went on with his work.

When he was finished with the first re-evaluation document, it was already 8:15 and that was when he heard Kiba come inside the bedroom. He kept his focus on his work and Kiba didn't bother to disturb him. He heard shuffling on the bed and with curiosity, he turned to look at Kiba who was then laying down with his head on a pillow and reading a small book. Naruto couldn't read what it was as only half of the back cover was visible but he deduced it was a manga judging from the shape and kanjis written. It made him wonder what manga it was and if Kiba would let him borrow it sometime when he wasn't busy like in his next day-off. Who knows they might share the same interests in manga and anime.

Naruto finished by around 11:30 PM, the second re-evaluation taking longer to write. He felt that his head was going burst from how much thinking it had to do. It was easy to just type out stuff but making sense of the data he gathered from the patients, making diagnosis and prognosis, creating feasible rehabilitation goals and the treatment plan was nerve wracking. After making a quick check on both documents, he printed them and placed them inside his clear book and placed it inside his backpack so he would not make a repeat on what happened during the first month of his internship where he typed until 2 AM, only to forget to bring the documents in the morning because he was so sleepy.

When he stood up from the chair, he could see Kiba already asleep. He really hoped Kiba didn't mind that the light was on. Next time he needed to stay up late, he would transfer to the living room to continue his work when Kiba needed to sleep.

…

The following day, Naruto did almost the same routine in the morning. He arrived early and passed his paperwork to Ms. Shizune. She did a quick look on the documents and told Naruto that they would discuss it during her break but as Naruto expected for the second day, things were going still going to be toxic. Ms. Shizune presented him the list of his patients for the day, 5 of them and one is a new patient which meant he would need to do an initial evaluation and if what he did last night was hard enough, initial evaluations were harder as he needed to ask about the patient's history and it was not his strong point. Sure he was a talkative person who liked to converse with people, but to do it in a constrained time and to be able to ask all the necessary question was very different. He always missed important things but he was used to it anyway and so he just prepared himself for the coming wave of patients. He just reminded himself that after the first day and second day, he would likely be treating patients he met before because of the M-W-F and T-Th-S schedule of the patients.

Come afternoon, Naruto and his partner Ino had to treat a common patient because said patient was bedside and in a coma but most relevantly, huge. A single therapist wouldn't be able to handle moving the patient into different positions and moving his extremities to prevent muscle tightness for if or when he wakes up. Cases like this wasn't really predictable. They just give physical therapy to them for the first week to help delay loss of body function, prevent bedsores and pulmonary complications and then they'll teach what they do to the family members until they are deemed ready to do the patient care themselves without regular PT supervision.

Throughout their session, there was only one thing that Naruto could not fail to notice and it was that look that his partner gave him. The look that she wants to jump him and Naruto knew he had to keep his guard on.

He wouldn't deny that Ino was hot as hell, he already decided that the first time he saw her but internship was not the right time for engaging with girls in that fashion. He experienced it first hand when his now ex-girlfriend Sakura dumped him on their 4th month of internship, saying that their relationship wouldn't work when they couldn't even meet together since they were sent out to opposite sides of the region for their PT training.

At least that what Sakura reasoned out for the break-up. Sakura had been Naruto's dream girl since middle school and it even become a sort of reason why he took up PT as a pathway to becoming a sports trainer. Sakura wanted to become a doctor and took PT as a pre-med course and she was damn good at it too.

Naruto was not the sharpest tool in the box but he studied hard, surprising even his parents and brother when he didn't get any failing graded starting his 4th year of PT. He believed that it would impress Sakura and with his persistence in asking the girl out, she agreed to date him in the second semester of their 4th year.

They went out on dates, studied together and to Naruto's surprise, it was even Sakura who made all the first moves in taking their relationship to the next level. They did 'it' in just their 1st month of going out, which was only a week after when Sakura agreed to be his girlfriend. She proved to be a very sexually needy girl and they'd do it at least once a week, sometimes twice when their schedule permitted. Studying was a ton shit of stress and what better way was there to help relieve it?

But it all stopped when internship came and their relationship ended just a month ago. And because of that internship, there was also the fact that Naruto hadn't had any sexual relief aside from his hand since 4 months ago which brings us back to the situation with Ino.

From the looks of it, Naruto deduced that one day the girl was probably going to ask him for it. It wouldn't be the first time too because there was also this past co-intern girl who wanted to 'hang-out' with just 2 months ago in which he obviously declined since he was still going out with Sakura at that time.

But right now he was single and with the way Ino was looking at him, speaking with him in that sultry voice and purposely bending in front of him to show her defined ass when she reached for something on the floor, he felt that he wouldn't have the strength not to indulge in case that really was Ino's plan and not just Naruto's hallucinations.

When their treatment session finished, Naruto was so glad it was over and he made his way back to the rehab department to get ready for his last patient of the day, making it his focus so he would just forget what happened inside the patient's room. He decided then that pairing up with Ino when treating a patient when no other family member was inside was not a good thing to repeat.

…

When Naruto got home, it was only 5:15 and his roommate wasn't home yet. He finished all his treatment before 4:30 and was very happy about it. He only had to type in one document and he calculated he would finish it by 8 PM if he worked on it immediately after taking a quick shower and changing into cleaner clothes.

After his shower, he sat down again on that chair and proceeded to type on his laptop. He decided that he would just eat later. For two hours, he worked with focus. Even if he had done so many evaluation in the past 4 months, he still wasn't fast in making them. And it was at that time that he heard a call of his name from a familiar voice.

"Naruto, you here?" Kiba asked in a loud voice.

"I'm in the bedroom." Naruto shouted back. A few seconds later, in came Kiba wearing a black tank top and shorts and was sweating heavily.

"What happened to you?" the blond questioned. Since he was looking at Kiba, he saw a much better look at his arms which were now exposed since the tank top was sleeveless. The cuts were beautiful and the sweat on it only seemed to define them more. Naruto felt a bit jealous at the site. No matter how much he lifted weights from before, they only seem to grow bigger but not shaped sexily.

"Just lifted some iron at the gym before going home." Kiba then took off his sweaty tank-top and placed it on the hamper, giving Naruto the clear view of his bare chest and those, wait a minute, 8-pack abs?

"Naruto?"

"Naruto?"

"Hello?" Kiba waved his hand in front on the blond which seemed to shake him out of his stare. The blond had been fixed on admiring those 8-packs that he didn't realize he was staring at Kiba, in which the brunet didn't fail to notice.

"Like what you see?" Kiba said in a teasing manner. It wasn't everyday a straight guy looks at him like that and he wanted to see if he could push a few buttons on Naruto and see how he would react.

Naruto blushed at hearing that, also realizing that he'd been eyeing Kiba like he was checking him out. He wasn't gay and he definitely wasn't checking him out. It was just pure admiration he was doing. And then he remembered that Kiba was the gay one, making it laughable that he, the straight guy, was the one looking at him.

"Yes, but not in the way you're probably thinking." Naruto blurted out it a panic. "It's just I don't often see 8 pack abs, and my own are still a bit hidden within my baby fats."

"You sure about that huh?" Kiba raised an eyebrow at him with an evil smirk on his lips. Naruto was speechless and after a few seconds Kiba burst out in laughter.

"I'm only kidding. Don't mind what I said. Lots of guys get curious about how I got them too."

"Well I guess I'm curious." Naruto said, feigning a chuckle as placed one hand on the back of his head.

"I'm gonna go take a shower. Have you eaten yet?"

"No, I haven't. I have this one document I need to pass tomorrow and I decided to finish it off before eating."

"Another one huh? They sure are giving you a hard time."

"Not tonight though. I'm almost done with it, maybe in just half an hour."

"Well that's cool. We could go out for dinner again." the brunet suggested.

Go out for dinner? That phrase repeated its way in Naruto's mind a few times because uncannily it sounded as if he was asking him on a date.

'Of course he's not asking you out on a date. He may be gay but it's natural for people to go out for dinner with their friends. Stop overthinking things.' Naruto told himself.

"So?" Naruto was then for the second time brought back to Earth by Kiba's voice.

"Yeah, that sounds good. Any place you'd want to recommend?"

"There's this burger shop I've been wanting to visit again and after working out, I need the protein. You up for that?"

"Sure. I like burgers."

"We'll head out once you finish." And with that their awkward conversation ended as Kiba left the room and Naruto stared at the wall for about two minutes to dwell on what just transpired. Living with Kiba for two whole months was definitely going to be out of the ordinary.

A/N:

So I placed the basketball element in this story again. Well what can I do, I love basketball. My goal is to be able to dunk and that's really hard for me to achieve considering I'm only 5'5". It's not impossible but it will be hard and I know I'll be able to do it one day.

And there you are, chapter 2. Don't expect them to be all lovey-dovey this early 'cause I'm still building up the characters and the story. And since Naruto's straight, it explains why there might be a bit NaruIno in the story too. Just be patient and click the follow button if you want to read more of this story. I'll update regularly, every 2-3 days and the story ought to be done before May comes.

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