First of what's going to be the format for the rest of this thing - accountable to Cultivate.
Naruto - Sasuke (although the way his mind wanders...)
Oh, and '-' means 'talking about', not 'pairing' pairings will come as and when they please.
It's a shame Sakura doesn't roller-blade any more.
Well, it's not like she stopped completely… she just doesn't seem to do it very much… or, like, as much as she used to.
Thing is it's how I first got to know her, y'see? 'Cause she used to skate up and down the riverside and round by the ramps and stuff, where Shikamaru hangs out.
Problem is, it all started to change one day when me 'n Sasuke were going down to the meeting place, so I could try out this awesome new spraypaint I got that morning.
Now, I didkinda drag Sasuke along that time, and he hadn't been down the bank before, but it doesn't exactly matter because he never wants to go anywhere! I swear sometimes he'd just lay in his roomall day staring at the ceiling if I wasn't there to get him up and out of bed!
Anyway! Where was I? Oh yeah, Sakura was skating up and down the riverside, and we were walking up past the street-performers (Rock Lee was out making some extra cash I think) and she whizzed by us and jumpedstraight over the end of this bench! Totally scared the crap out of this tourist as well, it was hilarious! (Mind you evenI'd be scared if someone dressed like Sakura with thisreally crazy pink hair came flying at me on a pair of roller-blades.)
"Ohmygod Sakura!! Wow!" I yelled, about to run after her and say hiproperly when some bastard tripped me up.
"You sound completely pathetic." Sasuke told me as I rubbed the end of my nose from where I fell.
"Bla-bla-blaaa," I went in a stupid voice (which I knew pissed him off) "you complain about everything, Sasuke, so calling me pathetic doesn't actually make any difference… to anything… ever."
He glared at me or something and kept on walking, bad friend that he is…
I'm not even sure why I call him my friend, maybe it's just because Kakashi thinks we are and always forces us into friendship building exercises because of it… because, uh, what was it, 'friendships are an invaluable part of a developing teenager's life and are needed to shape a healthy and functional…' yada-yada-yada, emotional cripples need something-about-teamwork and Kakashi's usual boring rants.
I mean,I've been in homes all my life and I didn't turn out too bad, did I? I never even knewmy parents – they just dumped me on the doorstep of a shelter and took off without a word.
Fine, so maybe I wasn't a very 'well' behaved kid, but that's not the same as 'bad'… 'cause besides, it's only because all those families who tried to foster me treated me like an add-on: I was just this neat little bonus they got every week for looking after disadvantaged kids.
And anyway, the homes are the only place anyone has ever acknowledged me, so naturally I do everything I can to stay there.
And a lotof that 'everything' was loads of fun as well! Like spraypainting all those symbols on the walls in one of my foster-houses… or putting sugar in the saltcellars or turning all the furniture in a room upside down.
Heh, maybe I'm just a rebellious type.
Although, Sasuke would probably go all emo on me and be like 'you are sonot a rebel…(looks at scars poignantly)' because, uh, well… he is an emo?
Thing with Sasuke is he's only been in the institution a couple of years, before that I think he had one of those happy-family deals (I've seen some pictures) – but yeah, something happened with his older brother and then his dad and finally there was just his mum left and I think she was hospitalised or something… because she visits him from time to time, but they never talk about him leaving here or anything (and she just looks sick in general).
So I was saying, a couple of years ago this kid Sasuke Uchiha turns up in Kohona kids shelter like a dark raincloud – he literally sulked for about three weeks, Iruka had to go in once a day just to make sure he ate.
Personally I couldn't care less, well, actually, I did care that Iruka was always going off and interrupting my counselling because the 'new kid' was breaking mirrors or beating up Konohamaru or something like that… I mean I had about five good sessions ruined because of that brat Uchiha.
But before I go on I might as well add that I like counselling, because it's just you and them and they do actually care about you and what you have to say, and what you think about stuff/life/what's on TV, or even the stupid stories and jokes you heard at school
So, maybe it's 'cause I'm an orphan or something, but basically I like having 'chats with social workers. Because even if it's not someone safe like Iruka or Kakashi, it's someone hilarious like Gai who you can just lead on and tell the most ridiculous crap (I once convinced him that I wanted to be a woman, he even promised to contact a surgeon for me).
So… uh… oh right, Sasuke was stealing my counselling and I realized something had to be done – so I marched myself up to his room one day after Kakashi hadn't turned up in the morning (he's always late, but he hadn't turned up at all this time) and more-or-less kicked the door down.
"Kakashi!! You are supposed to be taking us to the climbing wall!!" I roared self-righteously, standing in the doorway as my lift sat with a hand on this sad little huddled-up-shape's shoulder.
"Naruto, now is not the time…" Special K said quietly, but I had had it up to here with this kid's crap.
"You're Sasuke, right?" I demanded. No reaction from the thing in the skinny Linkin Park t-shirt. "Great. I'm Naruto. I hate to break this up but Kopy-K here agreed to drive me and the Konohamaru corps to the climbing wall this'morning… so if you wouldn't mind telling him to piss off I've got the mini-bus hotwired and we're ready to go!"
"…Leave me alone," a frail voice was heard to say, but honestly, did this guy know nothing about the system?!
"You're not gonna achieve anything by saying that!" I told him, "that's just screaming'I-have-issues-that-I'm-pretending-I-don't-want-to-talk-about-but-actually-I-do, now, what you have to say is…"
"I wasn't talking to him." The mood announced all high-and-mighty, "I was talking to you."
I snorted, as at the time I hadn't yet realized Sasuke was, and always will be, an arrogant prick.
"Real nice," I spat, "I don't really want to talk to you either, but you're hogging my ride so suck it up."
"Just go away…" he muttered and did a little 'curling up into a ball thing' on the bed, and Kakashi started glaring at me.
"Oh what?!" I protested, "he's being pathetic… pathetic, pathetic, emo!" I got a real reaction this time, as newboy uncoiled far enough to look at me (with kinda freaky eyes) and spat.
"Whatdid you call me?"
I grinned. "Emo!" I baited, "eeeemmmmoooooo"
"Naruto!" Kakashi said in his 'serious' voice, "that's enough."
"NO!" I cried, "I've had enough! He's been here almost a monthand all he's done is mope! You know what, dude? You're in a freaking home! Guess what?! Everyone here has problems! We just get on with them and try to have a normal life instead of wasting away like some pathetic little…"
"I'll never have a normal life." Sasuke said, in a sudden bout of talkativeness, "not after…" he sorta trailed off in a 'I don't want to talk about me emo problems which are emo' so I just said.
"You're pathetic."
He scowled again, but then oddly enough broke into a bitter laugh, "you have no idea" he told me all self-assured… and it was at about this point that I lost my rag.
"I HAVE NO IDEA?!" I screamed all of a sudden, Kakashi no-doubt pinning this down as one of my rages (for which I'm mildly notorious) "DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU ARE SAYING!!"
I'll admit he seemed a bit spooked by this point, after all, I had just gone somewhat batshit, however this was not going to put me off.
"You think you are so hard-done by being sent here?!" I roared, "you think I don't have a clue about what you're going through?! Well! You're right!!" Aha, now he looked confused.
"I do have no idea! But do you know what I have no idea about?! Do you? No, of course you don't… you've been too busy in your own little world to notice anything around you. It's family. Parents. A home that doesn't start with a capital H!"
"You don't" he went to interrupt me, but I was too loud and quick for him.
"You think your case is worse than everyone else's?" I said sarcastically, "Why don't you ask Kakashi to take you down to the office and have a look at my file! Or anyone else's as a matter of fact! This is a Home, Sasuke! Everyone is fucked up! So stop the crap and deal with it like the rest of us!!"
"Deal with it!" he actually shouted back at me, even going as far as standing up and coming at me in a half-hearted way, "You make it sound soooo easy!"
"IT IS EASY!" I shot back at him, "What you do is get the hell out of bed, put some clothes on, sit your arse in the mini-bus and goclimbing!!" however, something about the look on Kakashi's face and how I'm not technically supposed to be having these 'episodes' anymore made me think we might not be going climbing after all…
"You know what, forget it, Kakashi, we'll take the bus…" I grumbled, not 'seeing red' (Kakashi-buzz-word) anymore but still feeling like I wanted to punch through a wall or something.
So I turned around and left, about to head over to my room and pick up some lighter fuel and a piece of rug, when someone suddenly stopped me.
"I'll be down in five, Naruto," Kakashi said to my complete surprise.
"Well… uh…I…yeh, um…okay?" I hoped he couldn't read the pyromania in my head (sometimes I swear he can) and continued to stutter, "can I…just, uh, ask… um, why are you?" K leant down and smiled at me.
"That is the most coherent thing Sasuke has said to anyone since he came here," he announced in the calm voice, "and as soon as you left he expressed a desire to… wait, what was it you said? 'get the hell out of bed, put some clothes on, sit his arse in the mini-bus to go climbing'?"
(My thoughts at the time: uhhhh, what?)
"Seriously?" I gawped, wondering how going batshit on someone like him could actually motivate him to do anything, when the emo himself walked by like he couldn't care less.
"I'll show you who's pathetic." He said icily, but I just shrugged and ran forwards to leap over the side of the stairwell down to the ground floor – we were going climbing after all, so I could hardly complain about having someone to one-up and cut the ropes for.
Then when I got outside I found out he thought he was getting the passenger seat, and I was like 'uh, what the hell!' but he blanked me and turned the radio on so I started to…Wait… was this what I was supposed to be talking about?
I thought I… oh yeahhh, Sakura not roller-blading anymore…now the thing about that is…
What?! Out of space?! THAT'S COMPLETELY OUTRAGEOUS!! I CAN'T BELIEV
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