Exploring the Darkness by Sasukelover154
Chapter 2: Classmates
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Naruto's classes were all very simple, too simple in fact. History, math, English, gym, science. Was there even a point in giving him a schedule? Okay scratch that he needed to know when and where his classes were, but the point was that it was all very generic. The classrooms were all clearly labeled, and students were filing past him to get to them before the bell. His locker number was number 232, and it was in the third hallway. The lockers weren't very big, about half the width of his shoulders, so he just kept his pack strapped firmly on his back, he had seen other kids doing it, and so he figured he could too.
His first class was English, ugh. He already knew the basis of grammar didn't he? How much more could there be to learn, was it not enough that he could speak coherently and people could understand him? Apparently not. The teacher was a kind faced man, with his chocolate brown hair pulled back into a high ponytail on the crown of his head, a gentle gaze from equally gentle eyes and a thin scar across his nose. He smiled warmly as Naruto entered the class, and approached him with a book entitled "English 11" on the cover and side. The book was heavy and he covertly wrinkled his nose at it but returned the teachers smile with one of his own.
"Hello Naruto." The teacher greeted. "I am and this is English 11 as you no doubt have noticed. You may sit right there." He pointed to a desk that was in the front row, towards the middle. "That's Sakura," a girl with short bubblegum pink hair and jade green eyes looked up at the sound of the name, "and Hinata." A girl with short blackish hair and pale violet eyes looked up, locked eyes with him, and blushed a bright red that made Naruto want to snicker. "They don't bite." He laughed a little and gave Naruto a nudge towards the assigned desk in the middle of the two girls.
Naruto sat down at his appointed desk and dropped the book down in front of him. The sound that spread from the collision caused several people in the class to jump in surprise or sleepiness. Naruto smirked. He grabbed a pencil from his bag along with an orange notebook. He opened the notebook to the first blank page that he came to. The bubblegum haired girl, Sakura, looked over at him curiously. Glancing over at her quickly, he realized that she was actually a cute girl, and looked as though she could be kind if she wanted to. And it looked like she wanted to be nice to him, so he could be nice to her back.
Sakura smiled at him a little and then turned her attention back to the front of the class where was now standing and smiling at them fondly, did he think they were his children or something? Probably. The guy looked nice but he sort of came off to Naruto as a guy who was secretly a pedophile and who wanted to rape them or the kind of guy that became a teacher because he wasn't able to have children. A shiver ran quickly up his spine. He looked down at his notebook and tried to get his mind away from mid-twenty-year-olds raping little kids, and news reports of teachers having "innocent" relationships with their students. That was just wrong and he didn't want to be thinking about it in class, or really just ever.
The class seemed to drone on. When it finally ended, with a bell that sounded like it had nasal congestion, Naruto practically sprinted to the door with his book bag in hand, and out into the throng of kids milling about the halls and to their next classes. It was a sea of unfamiliar faces, each with their own unique features, but you could tell those that were from the same families, they looked a little similar. Naruto had five minutes to get to a class that was just down the hall. With no friends yet to distract him he didn't have stop on the way.
His next class was, ugh, the dreaded and ever useless history class. How many of them were actually going to go into a field that involved history? He didn't even bother to pay attention in that class; he didn't even bother learning the teacher's name, really what was the point? He would probably use the hour to sleep in the later days of the year, who actually did anything in that class anyway? The classroom alone smelt as if it had been erected one hundred years ago not to mention the boring curriculum itself. It reeked of that gross combination of old people, dust, and cheap teenage perfume.
By the time it was third hour, Naruto was thoroughly bored with his new school. He had Algebra 2 and he was now able to identify some students in his other classes like Sakura, the human gum ball, who seemed to be in all of Naruto's classes. They were covering material that Naruto had covered in the previous school he had been in. It was incredibly boring to study material that he had already studied…but it did make things easier, after all he already knew it, therefore he didn't need to do anything in class. How dull, another hour with nothing to do.
Lunch, every boy's favorite time of the day. The time of day where girls "innocently" try and flirt with the opposite sex, or same sex if they're like that, guys fling whatever is on their plates at each other's faces, and nerdy weakling's trip over a jocks foot and their trays go flying, some time's into someone's face. How much of a classic sitcom cliché is that? But that's exactly what it was like walking in to the cafeteria of the high school. He only just missed getting attacked by a half filled plastic lemonade bottle chucked in his direction when he entered. He growled in the direction that it had come hoping to scare whoever had thrown it.
"Naruto! Over here!" someone yelled through the masses of high school students once he was out of the line with his food. Turning in the direction of the voice he saw Sakura waving a hand over her head and smiling at him from across the cafeteria. Raising an eyebrow he walked swiftly over to where she was sitting. She was sitting with a group of students that he recognized from a few of his morning classes. They're names were all fairly simple when Sakura introduced them but Naruto didn't want to pay attention at that moment. It was lunch time, he was hungry and he had food, what person could actually get a guy to focus at a time like this, let alone Naruto?
The other students were naturally curious about him. They asked him questions, which he politely answered through bites of the moderately edible school food. Usually Naruto was the kind of guy who would talk a subject to death when ever given the chance, but at the moment he found himself answering the questions as vaguely as possible, leaving out major details, and skipping over parts that didn't matter. What was the matter with him today?
He wasn't usually so…bitter. This Naruto was not exactly acting like he was supposed to. Usually he smiled constantly, laughed at the smallest things, and made friends, and wanted to be friends, with everyone. Unceremoniously he blamed it on the move. Moving from one city to the next so suddenly and frequently, just made him become a little distant at first when meeting people, it was just better in case he had to move again soon. In due time he would be more friendly, but not the first day. Never the first day. The first day was always the hardest and most boring of all.
Lunch soon ended and Naruto slipped away from the table quickly with ease. With his bag slung back over one shoulder he made his way out of the cafeteria and in to the gymnasium. It would be so much fun, having gym right after lunch for the rest of the year, nearly puking because of the forced physical activity after eating. Naruto entered the gym and crossed to the door labeled "Boy's locker room". He pushed open the door and his toe caught the unusually large door jamb. Naruto stumbled forward the five or six feet to the lockers and collided with another human body, a boy to be specific.
The boy was, Naruto noticed right off the bat, shirtless and in the process of taking off his pants to change. Also Naruto noticed it was the same boy from that morning. The boy who obviously lived in his apartment complex. The boy who was now pinned under his body against his gym locker with his jeans around his ankles, shirtless, and a threatening growl working deep in his throat. For some reason Naruto felt his heart hammering against his ribs, and a very faint pink working against his whisker marked cheeks. What was wrong with him today?
"You…You're the guy from this morning!" Naruto gasped, and his eyebrows rose. "The ass that shoved me away this morning after I tripped!" he remembered the way the boy's darkened eyes looked when they glared at him, the way the dusky brows angled down over his eyes, no doubt the exact way he would have been looking now given the chance. The perfect expression of loathing. Naruto settled into glaring at the back of the boy's head, it was not nearly as intimidating as the other's, and he cursed himself for not being able to be as threatening.
"Get the hell off me you fricking pervy klutz!" the boy shoved himself away from the locker and pushed his bare back into Naruto's chest. "I know you're new here and all but you should try to not rape someone when you meet them for the first time, it's not very polite." He growled, stepping out of his jeans and pulling on navy mesh shorts. "And just by the way, doors are meant for walking through, and lockers are meant to hold your shit, not smashing people into." The boy smirked a little and turned around to pick up his white t-shirt. At that moment a crowd of guys entered through the door.
Naruto walked away from the boy scowling and got a locker as far away from him as he possibly could. What the hell is that guy's problem? I didn't do anything to him! It was a fucking accident! It's not like he's permanently injured or anything, I didn't traumatize him for life! He stripped off his pants and shirt and donned his bright orange shorts and a black t-shirt. I fucking hate that kid. He slammed the door of his locker ferociously and turned back to face the door with a scowl set on his features. "Bastard." He muttered stepping out into the gym.
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Sasuke crossed his arms over his chest as he waited for class to begin. In his peripheral vision he saw the blonde boy exit the locker room and stand as far as possible from him. "Dumb ass." Sasuke murmured as the teacher began roll call. That kid is such a freak! Where does he get off yelling at me? He's the one who practically broke my ribs twice in one day! Sasuke seethed in his head. I fucking hate that kid. He's become such a pest and it's only his first day!
"Here." Sasuke called in a bored voice when his name was called. Was anybody ever really gone? They were told to run a few laps around the gym just to get warmed up. Then it was time for the real torture of the day. Basketball. It wasn't that Sasuke wasn't good at basketball, he was good at practically anything and everything, he just didn't like the sport very much.
Thankfully Naruto was on a separate team from Sasuke; the downside was that they still had to play against each other, as opponents. Sasuke had to admit it: Naruto was a great basketball player. Maybe not exactly the right height, but he was definitely had a good jump shot, and damn that kid was fast. Was he secretly the Energizer Bunny in disguise or was he simply a grade A spazz? Probably the latter.
The other team, Naruto's team, was made up of: Naruto, Sai, Kiba, Shikamaru, and Sakura. Sasuke's team was: Him, Ino, Shino, Neji, and Rock Lee. Surprisingly, they were pretty well matched. The game was mostly played by Naruto and Sai, and Sasuke and Neji. They seemed to be playing tag with the points. Right after one team would score a point so did the other. It was getting quite intense when the class started winding down.
Naruto and Sai kept passing the ball to each other. Sai was also very swift and could weave through the players easily, while Naruto always seemed to be in an open spot within a second. The two made a great team by themselves, they could have whipped half of the class's ass by themselves.
Sai was a boy who everybody knew was gay, he didn't bother to hide it, he had told everyone, not bothering to keep it a secret, he really didn't care. Today in gym he was wearing a skin tight white t-shirt, accentuating a well defined chest and stomach, and hot pink mesh shorts that were too short and tight on the butt for a straight guy to be wearing.
Finally at the end of the gym class they were forced to call it a tie. Sai gave Naruto an all-too-affectionate hug and they walked to the locker room together, chatting with small smiles on their faces. Sasuke bounced the basketball in his hands absentmindedly as he strode over to the cart with the other balls. After replacing it in the bin he made his way into the locker room to get dressed again.
Sasuke dressed quickly and stalked out of the locker room, he heard most of the boys behind him laughing as they followed him out into the hallway. As he walked he unconsciously rubbed his ribs, they were still sore from being slammed into his locker. His heart rate multiplied and the muscle began pounding against his surely bruised ribs as he saw Naruto and Sai pass him, still chatting happily as if they had been best friends forever rather than just meeting. Sasuke assured himself that it was just a delayed reaction of the game, and the burning feeling that had begun to bubble its way up his throat at the sight of them just heartburn, surely caused by something he had eaten at lunch.
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"Hey Naruto?" Sai asked curiously as they walked into the classroom of their fifth hour, they had the same one. The teacher hadn't arrived yet, so Naruto sat in the only empty spot with Sai sitting on top of his desk casually. "Since you're new in town I'm guessing you haven't been to our movie theater yet, have you?" the class around them was talking loudly and Sai had to lean down a little to be heard by Naruto.
"No I haven't." admitted Naruto. He leaned back in his chair and rested his forearm against the back turning more to face Sai. "Why? You got something in mind?" he asked. He tipped back, balancing the chair on its hind legs as he spoke.
"I just wanted to maybe take you to a show tomorrow, as a welcome to town gift from a new friend." He smiled warmly. "But you don't have to go if you think it would be like awkward or something." Sai looked completely sincere in his request.
"No! I think that would be fun!" Naruto grinned. "Where's the theater, and what do you want to see?"
Sai gave the address of the theater. "You can pick the movie, if you want." He offered.
"Nope, you invited me; you're already supposed to have a movie picked out!" Naruto teased with one of his classic grins.
Sai laughed. "Alright alright." He chuckled. "How about we go see that new scary movie, everybody here's been talking about it for months." His voice dropped until it was just below a whisper, Naruto had to lean forward a little just to hear him. "It's supposed to be so scary that you won't want to leave you're house for a month."
Naruto raised his eyebrows appreciatively. "Is that so? Well I can't wait!" Naruto exclaimed as the bell rung over head. "Hey…don't you want to go to your seat before the teacher comes?" he asked looking at Sai curiously.
"No." Sai laughed. "'Mr. Hatake doesn't ever come in for at least ten more minutes with some lame ass excuse about why he's late, so don't worry." Naruto beamed up at him, and laughed along.
They conversed for a little while longer until, a tall man with an, and Naruto usually didn't say this sort of thing, gorgeous face. This man was their science teacher! He had dangerously spiked silvery grey hair, and dark eyes, but a surprisingly kind smile. Another pedophile perhaps? Naruto snickered a little under his breath and stifled it behind his hand.
The class soon ended and Sai meet Naruto at his desk after the bell rang. They walked out of the door, and Naruto shared with him his theory of the two teachers being pedophiles, he had to stop several times because he was laughing.
"Actually," Sai began. "Those two teachers, Mr. Umino and , are gay. They actually live next door to me; I see them on my way to school every day."
"Oh really?" Naruto gasped obviously shocked, Sai looked over at him a little too seriously for the present atmosphere. "Sorry, I'm not homophobic or anything, honest." Sai seemed to brighten up a little at this.
"Anyway, yeah and I guess they have been for a while now. As far as I know, they moved in to 's house a couple of years ago, when I was in the 9th grade. People have gotten used to it by now, but occasionally there will be one set of parents who won't let their kids be taught by them because of how they chose to live." He sighed. "It's a little sad that some people think so old fashioned like that." Naruto agreed. "Now a days it's not uncommon to see to random boys making out in the park!"
"Well, it's their own fault for not accepting someone the way they are. Take you for example Sai!" They were entering their next class, which again surprisingly they had together. "I wouldn't care if you were straight, gay, bi, or even a cross dresser! You're my new friend, and I don't care who or what you like." He smiled and took a seat, not bothering to see the teacher. If he was told to move then so be it.
Sai also smiled as he took his seat.
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AN:
So again this chapter is short but I did like it, mostly because of Sai's flirting and just obnoxious gayness! Naruto ended up being bitchy in the beginning and I'm sorry, but towards the end he gets better, which is good. So what will happen on their movie "date"? Stay tuned to find out!
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