A/N: And here is sequel to my beautiful story! Enjoy your staying!
Chapter 2.
Friends or Foes: They are bad… or good?
Neji stared out of the bus window, and Naruto sat beside him. He couldn't stop thinking about that boy from this morning. He and his older brother were sitting two places in front of them on their left. Naruto fidgeted in his seat and started humming for himself. He closed his eyes, but picture of smirking raven couldn't get out of his head. He opened his eyes and fidgeted again. It was fifth time in the row that he moved and it was now starting to irritate Neji. When Naruto made move to fidget again, Neji snapped:
'Will you stop fidgeting?!'
He looked at Neji little scared. Neji sighed.
'Please, be still. You are making me nervous too.' Naruto smiled and naturally stopped fidgeting.
Neji looked again through the window- they were bypassing some of big buildings, parliaments, theaters and libraries. Neji made mental note to check in. And then, he felt like somebody was watching him. He closed his eyes and turned his head towards Naruto. Naruto was currently playing with his fingers, so it wasn't he. He slowly started to look around the bus, and in a brief of a moment, he thought he caught the glimpse of the red and black. He blinked and looked again at the raven brothers- both of them were looking straight.
"I'm starting to be paranoid over them" pondered Neji. He sighed and crossed his arms in front of his chest.
After few more minutes, they came at their new high school. It was big yellow-white building. The front yard was filled with students and they were talking and laughing. Neji looked at his brother- he was staring at all those students in colorful uniforms. Neji smiled- it looked that Naruto liked his new school. They entered big building and stopped. The hall was incredibly big and then Neji realized one thing: he didn't know where principle office is. He looked around for some sign but he didn't found anything. He saw some girl in green uniform and asked her:
'Excuse me, can you tell me where principle office is?'
The girl eyed him carefully and then smiled:
'You're new here, aren't you?'
Neji nodded.
'Go to the end of this hall and on your left you will see one corridor. Down the corridor, on the very end of it, it's principles office. You will find it very easy.'- explained girl.
Neji smiled and nodded;' Thank you for your help.'
'You're welcome!'- chirped the girl and run off. And Nejis' ears still hurts.
He turned around to find Naruto. Luckily, Naruto was standing in one spot, surrounded by bunch of blushing girls. Neji laughed quietly and approached:
'Sorry for ruining your party, Itoko, but we must get going. Excuse us ladies.'- he said in apologetic and sweet tone.
Girls went deep red and squealed. Naruto laughed nervously and followed Neji.
'You sure are starting to get fan girls Naruto.'
Naruto smirked.
'What can I do when they can't resist me!'
Neji laughed at that and Naruto pouted.
'So where are we going?'
'To principles office. We have to get our schedule and numbers of our classrooms.'
'Oh, right. I forgot.'
'I don't blame you. Everybody would forget what they were doing when bunch of hormonal and blushing girls surround them.'
Naruto just elegantly blushed, which made Neji smirk.
In less than a minute, they were in front of principles office. Neji knocked and they entered.
'Sorry to disturb you, sir, but we just transferred here and we came to get our schedule.'
Principle smiled at them.
'Oh, so you are the new ones?'
Both Naruto and Neji smiled and nodded. Principle smiled and handed them two papers with their schedule and numbers of classrooms.
'Now of you go and don't forget to study hard!'- reminded principle.
Naruto and Neji nodded and exited the office.
Neji looked at his list. He was taking his classes on the second floor of the building. His sensei was Asuma Sarutobi. What a name. He looked at his cousin and saw big glare.
'What the hell they mean buy "might Guy"??? Can someone have a name Guy? Doesn't Guy mean male...'
Neji raised his eyebrows at that. Really, how can somebody have name Guy? Naruto let out hard breath.
'Well, see ya Neji; I have classes on the first floor. Have a nice day.'
Neji smiled back:
'Yeah, you too Naruto. See ya later.'- and they separated to go to their prospective homerooms.
With Neji;
He just climbed to the second floor. He saw bunch of boys and girls wearing blue uniforms. He straightened his uniform and stalked through the mob. Guys were looking at him curiously and girls were giggling and ogling him. He smiled and walked up to his homeroom. He entered and all chattering stopped. He looked around- everyone was staring at him wondering what the hell he was doing here. Before he could ask something, gruff voice emitted from behind him:
'AH! New transfer student! Welcome! My name is Asuma Sarutobi and I am your sensei. Class, we have new student. Please young man, can you introduce yourself to the class?'
Neji smiled and nodded:
'My name is Hyuuga Neji and I'm coming from Konoha.'
'That's very nice name Neji!'- Chirped one girl from behind blushing.
'Thank you'- said Neji politely.
'Do you have a hobby?'- asked some boy from the left.
Neji nodded:' Yes, I'm playing an electric guitar.'
Whole class OWWW and AWWW –ed and they started murmuring,
'All right. That was enough. Uchiha, raise your hand. Neji you are sitting beside him on his left.'- said Asuma.
Neji nodded and looked around. When he saw who the Uchiha was, he almost got a heart attack. It was the same guy from the earlier. The tall, menacing raven. Neji swallowed hard and walked to his seat. it was then when raven recognized him. He first frowned, but then smirked. It will be fun to bully newcomers.
Asuma saw the look on Uchihas' face and threatened:
'Itachi, don't even try to molest him.'
Ravens smirk just grew wider:
'I will not, Asuma-sensei.'
Asuma frowned:
'Then, why is your look telling me that you will.'
Uchiha just smirked and didn't answer the question, because he WILL molest the new one.
Neji didn't like the tone of said Itachi. He just wished to get out from the school in one piece.
With Naruto:
Blonde boy was standing confusedly in the frame of the door. He stared at the students in the room. They stared back…
They were staring at each other for some time before the whole class burst in to laugh and Naruto with them. He was still giggling when many of guys and girls came to greet him, introducing each other. They were in middle of some mindless chat when deep voice said:
'Great. You are in my homeroom. How wonderful.'
Naruto froze on that voice. He still couldn't forget the raven from bus station and now, he was in same homeroom with that bastard. He noticed that whole class went silent when he came in. Naruto came to conclusion that he was some kind of a bully and that everyone was scared of him. Well, Naruto wasn't scared and he still hadn't paid that bastard for that insult on the bus station. He turned around ever so slowly and looked smirking raven straight in the eye.
'That was the same thought that came to me when I heard your voice.'
Raven cooked an eyebrow.
'You aren't scared, are you? You acted like a coward at the station.'- smirked raven taunting.
Naruto frowned: 'Well I can't really oppose to my brother, can I?'
Ravens smirk grew wider:
'Oh, so you are obedient dog, aren't you?'-snorted raven.
'I can say same thing to you as well.'
Smirk from ravens face faded instantly.
'What did you just said?'- threatened raven.
'I didn't know that you are deaf.'- mocked Naruto and few of the students snickered. But only one ice glare from raven shut them all up.
'You have guts to stand up to me, Blondie. You don't know what can happen to you.'
But before Naruto could answer to that, high-pitched voice rang out:
'GOOOOOD MOOOOORNIIING KIIIIDS!'
The students all cheered and yelled back in greeting. Naruto was, simply said, confused.
But then' he noticed a very weird looking guy- all in green with bob cut black hair. What was more weirder was that he had orange tips on his clothes- both legs and arms.
When he noticed Naruto, he grabbed him in bear hug:
'AH! New student! How wonderful! Absolutely fantastic!'
Naruto could hardly breathe in that gigantic hug of his. But he managed to gasp out 'Can't breathe…'
'Oh, sorry little fellow, I didn't mean that. Kids, as you probably noticed this is our new student. Please, say your name to class.'
Naruto nodded:
'Hi! I'm Uzumaki Naruto and I'm from Konoha."
'Nice, Naruto. Now, your seat is beside Gaara. Yo, Sabaku, raise your hand!'- yelled sensei.
One lazy hand shoots up in the air and Naruto walked up to red headed boy in the back. He was totally preoccupied with his weird looking companion (tattoos on the head and big black circles around the eyes can be really distracting), that he didn't noticed raven-haired boy on his right. But he did acknowledge him when he sat down and looked around himself. He groaned quietly: it wasn't his lucky day today...
With Neji:
Neji was intently listening to the lessons. History was one of his favorite and Yuhi Kurenai was very interesting sensei. Well, he would listen carefully to her if there weren't that longhaired bastard on his left that was constantly talking and getting on his nerves. Kurenai-sensei didn't even bother to warn Uchiha about his behavior, she was probably used to that. But Neji wasn't; he always liked to work in peace and quiet. However, he didn't wanted to risk and fight with raven Uchiha in the middle of the class- he wasn't that stupid. That was his opinion until he heard lazy voice from behind him:
'Yo, Uchiha shut the hell up…'
Said boy stopped talking and turned around, asking in very dangerous voice:
'What did you just said Nara?'
Boy rolled his eyes:
'I said to shut up. I can't hear.'
Uchiha glared at the boy and his gaze was diverted at Neji who was looking emotionlessly at Itachi.
'And what do you want?'- asked Itachi annoyed.
'Same.'- said Neji simply.
Glare of the Uchiha turned in to ice.
'And what that supposes to mean?'
Neji sighed irritably: 'It means to be quiet. If you don't want to listen, don't bother the rest of us that want.'
If look could kill, Neji would be dead already, but lucky him, it can't. Uchiha growled lowly in the back of his throat and returned to his conversation with some boy in front of him.
Neji sighed. This is going to be long day…
With Naruto:
Naruto was scared out of his mind. He really wondered if he entered the right school in first place. He also wondered how Neji was doing because he was currently trying to ignore perverted innuendos of this longhaired sensei Jiraya. He didn't mind perverted innuendos, but he did mind them when the most of them were directed at him. They were currently reading 'Romeo and Juliet' and somehow this perverted sensei was talking about lack of fluffy scenes in the book and how Shakespeare didn't know how to write. And then he tried to convince Naruto and the rest of the class that most suitable person for Romeo was Naruto himself. Naruto tried to convince this weird sensei opposite, but naturally, it didn't work. Instead of that, Jiraya continued babbling about how wonderful is to MAKE LOVE.
Naruto just wanted to disappear…
Lunchtime:
Neji was truthfully exhausted and they were only passed three classes. It was now lunchtime and he dragged himself to cafeteria on the first floor. At the door of cafeteria was moody Naruto. Neji raised an eyebrow and walked up to his cousin.
'What happened to your mood Itoko?'- Asked Neji half-smiling.
Naruto looked up and glared:
'First of first- I have freaking classes with that freaking bastard from the bus station, then I almost got suffocated by bear hug of my sensei and at last whole class is snickering because some perverted sensei tried to convince whole class that I'm perfect Romeo!'- he spat out yelling.
Students that were passing by looked at him curiously, while Naruto tried to catch up his breath from yelling. Before Neji could answer to his brothers yelling, red-haired boy said:
'Don't let that molest you, Naruto-kun.'
Neji and Naruto looked at the newcomer. Naruto recognized him from his classes. Red-haired boy stated calmly:
'Jiraya sensei is always acting like that, so don't let it bother you.'
Neji looked amused, but Naruto glared:
'But it wasn't you that he was talking about.'
Redheaded boy shrugged.
'He was once, but I didn't even bother to acknowledge him. After some time he gave up.'
Naruto looked puzzled, but then smiled.
'If that's the way for handling old man, I have perfect solution!'
Neji glared at Naruto:
'Don't you even dare!'-he threatened.
Boy was confused and looked quizzically at Neji.
Neji smiled back at him explaining:
'He meant that he will oversleep all of his classes.'
Guy snickered. Neji frowned and looked at Naruto who was blushing furiously.
'By the way, I'm Hyuuga Neji, Narutos' brother.'- said Neji holding out his hand.
'I'm Sabaku Gaara. Pleased to meet you.'- answered boy politely, accepting hand from Neji, shaking it.
Neji smiled and then eyed the boy carefully. His red hair was little spiked and he had dark circles around his eyes. He also had tattoo on his forehead. He looked little creepy to Neji even tough boy was slightly smiling.
They entered cafeteria and got in to the lunch line. Neji looked around as his brother was chattering with his new friend. He wondered where that son of a-
'Move, your blocking the line o-nii-san,' warned Naruto.
Neji snapped back from his thoughts and nodded moving forward in the line. They all got their lunch and looked for the seats. Unfortunately, all seats were taken. Naruto sweat drooped:
'Neji, where are we gonna seat? All seats are taken.'
Gaara then interrupted:
'You can sit with me and my sister. She is over there.' and showed towards one table where one blonde haired girl were sitting, grinning and waving towards Gaara. Gaara waved back and went towards her. Naruto and Neji shrugged and followed him.
'Hi Temari! Doing well? These are new students Naruto and Neji.' explained Gaara. Temari smiled and waved:
'Hi there.'
Naruto and Neji smiled and nodded as they sat down. Naruto then continued to fuss around about perverted sensei and Temari laughed. Neji complained about menacing big-mouthed raven and how he was unable to listen to classes. Temari then explained:
'That Itachi is future president of 'Akatsuki' company. They say that he is so rich and clever that he can buy and rule one small country.'
Naruto choked on his lunch and Neji spitted out his juice. After shock, he smirked and wiped juice from his chin.
'That doesn't make him king of the world.'
Temari gave him weird look. Gaara looked uninterested. Naruto was still in shock.
Neji smirked on their reactions:
'And I will teach him lesson of respecting others and their opinions. He can't sit around doing whatever he wants.'
'Is that so?' interrupted voice from behind.
Narutos' eyes grew wide and Temari scowled. Gaara looked very passive at the moment. Neji sighed, closing his eyes, continuing to eat.
'Of course it is. There is nothing special about him.'
Naruto gulped.' N-Nii-san…'he stuttered 'Ummm… behind you is… Ummm… hehe…'
Neji blinked
'innocently' and looked behind him. There was standing menacing,
longhaired raven.
'Oh, it's you. Hi.' and he turned away.
Raven was steaming.
'Hi!' he growled out. 'Is that all you got to say?'
Neji turned towards him and smiled nodding eagerly. Itachi clenched his fist dangerously.
'Do you think you're funny Hyuuga?'
Neji looked at him half concerned. 'In this situation, probably not, but you have to look at life with bright eyes.' Said Neji half smile tittering on his face.
Itachi smirked. 'You definitively look at life with white and bright eyes.' Neji snorted at that. 'If you think that you can insult me about my white eyes you are terribly wrong, because I'm already used to it.'
Narutos' face saddened and Temari looked surprised and worried in same time. Gaara was frowning. He suddenly said:
'What do you want Uchiha?' Itachi looked surprised at that. 'I didn't…' started Itachi but Gaara interrupted: 'I wasn't talking to you.' Itachi frowned and everybody looked behind Itachi.
There was standing another raven, emotionlessly staring at the redheaded boy.
'Nothing from you Sabaku.' Answered Sasuke coldly.
'Then why are you staring at me? I don't have three eyes in my head.' Sasuke snorted and looked at the blonde who was now frowning. 'I'm here to call my brother, but it seems that he was having, oh, so much fun, so I decided to join you.'
Naruto snorted.' The only place where you can join is library with the bookworms.'
Sasuke glared at him: 'It's better with them than with you.' Naruto glared at Sasuke: 'Why do you have to be such an asshole?'
Sasuke smirked: 'And why do you have to be total moron?' Naruto clenched his hands in fists, but released them soon after that.
'The only moron will be you.' Said Naruto confidently. Sasuke raised an eyebrow at him and then his eyes widened. The rest looked at Naruto not believing their eyes. Naruto was fisting handful of pasta in his hands.
'Naruto, don't you-'started Neji but it was too late. Naruto already had thrown pasta at Sasuke. Unlucky Naruto- Sasuke dodged it easily, but instead of him, he hit pink girl behind him. Girl turned around dangerously. Her emerald eyes glowered with anger and she cracked her knuckles:
'Naruto…' she growled dangerously. Naruto sweat dropped:' he he he… Sakura-Chan…' She grabbed pasta from the nearest plate and threw back at Naruto. He crouched to dodge pasta and he succeeded in that. Instead of him, pasta ended on hair of some blond girl in deep blue uniform. She jumped in surprise and swirled around yelling:
'Who did this?' pointing at her hair. Naruto yelled: 'I didn't! She did!' he said pointing at the pink girl. Blonde girl growled:' Sakura, you BITCH!' and she grabbed pasta and threw at the said girl. But pasta had hit Itachi, who was showed mercilessly by Temari who was still yelling at him. Pasta landed right on his face. Everybody stopped yelling. And they had one hell of a reason!
'Ino, what's the meaning of this?' snarled Itachi. Ino looked terrified.
'Gomen-nasai, Itachi-san! I didn't mean it! I was aiming for Sakura!' she tried to explain. Itachi glared at her and grabbed a napkin from beside table. And then his gaze fell on Neji- who was laughing his ass off! Itachi glared at him:
'I take it from your laugh that this is funny to you?' Neji just nodded and clutched his stomach and continued to cackle. Itachi wiped his face and threw away napkin, and then picked up plate from the table, balancing with it on one finger, the other hand on his hip. Neji looked up curiously at him. 'And you are planning to do…?' asked Neji ever so innocently. He exactly knew what Itachi was planning to do. Itachi frowned and swung his hand at Neji- but Neji was ready. He succeeded to grab Itachi's wrist but, pasta ended up on his hair and his back.
"Well, I managed to prevent pasta to fall on my face" thought Neji bitterly. Naruto sweat-dropped on the scene and moved from his brother- he knew exactly how was Neji when someone messes up his hair.
The plate fell on the floor, along with Itachi who was pushed and pinned by Neji.
'It seems that you have thing for my hair, Mr. President,' snorted Neji as he pressed his hand on Itachi's throat.' But, then again, I don't let anybody to touch my hair without my permission.' Itachi send him heated glare and struggled to free himself. Nejis grip was pretty strong. Who would've thought that someone thin and lean like Neji would have grip strong as that.
But it wasn't long before Itachi actually flipped Neji, changing their positions drastically. He smirked:
'When I want to do something I never ask' he said self-confidently. Neji frowned; he squirmed a bit and managed to draw his legs up to his chest. Itachi frowned and Neji smirked:
'I always wanted to do this' and he pushed Itachi with his feet, sending him flying backwards and falling on the table. Neji then got up, wobbling a little, panting harshly. He shook his head to free it from pasta in it while Itachi struggled to get up. Naruto cackled and taunted:
'Need any help, Mr. President?', but as soon as he said that, somebody punched him. HARD.
He fell backwards, knocking out Gaara with him. He cursed silently and looked up. It was that damn raven that punched him.
'What the hell was that for!?' yelled Naruto. 'I wasn't even talking to you!' Sasuke frowned: 'Do I look like I care?' Naruto scowled and stood up, clenching his fist and aiming for Sasuke. In corner of his eye, he saw Neji holding Itachis hand while his other hand was hold by Itachi. Naruto succeeded in punching Sasuke in stomach, only to be grabbed by him and thrown at the table beside. Girls screamed. Naruto saw that Sasuke was preparing to punch him, so he held up his hands to guard himself from the punch…-that never came. When Naruto looked up, he saw Hatake Kakashi, teacher of the physics, holding Sasukes hand that was aiming him. On the other side of the room, Jiraya was preventing Neji to beat living days out of Itachi who was smirking at longhaired boy.
'I think that was enough, Sasuke-kun. No need to fight anymore.' Naruto whipped blood from his mouth- they were badly cut by punch, and stood up. Naruto looked then at Jiraya who was leading Neji like prisoner, both of his hands behind his back, who was glaring at Itachi who was following near by, smirking.
"And he tells me to calm down and not to fight… He doesn't see himself…" thought Naruto bitterly. Kakashi sighed:
'All four of you are now seeing chancellor. Is that clear?' Everybody nodded… except Neji-he was still busy glaring at Itachi. They all picked up their stuff and exited lunch room.
At chancellor:
'I thought I said something about picking up fights in time of lunch ITACHI!' yelled Iruka. Itachi winced a little and his eye twitched. Other three sweat dropped.
Iruka then turned to Sasuke: 'Same goes for you!' he spat out angrily. 'I can't believe that our best students are attacking without reason new students!'
Sasuke frowned and looked down at floor. Iruka looked at Naruto and Neji. Neji was glaring at Itachi- he perfectly didn't minded that chancellor was looking at him, while Naruto was teary-eyed. Iruka eyed new students: Neji was in total mess. His hair still had pieces of pasta and ketchup and his shirt was out of his pants as he was dragged towards office. Naruto was similar, only he didn't have pasta in his hair. He had big cut on his lip though, and his collar of shirt was little ripped. Iruka sighed:
'Naruto, Neji- since this is you first day in school, you won't have detention.' Neji looked at chancellor in disbelief and Narutos eyes grew wide.
Iruka then looked at two brothers who looked bored:
'On the other hand, Uchiha brothers do have detention. This isn't their first time to start quarrels in time of lunch.' Sasukes eyes widened at this: 'WHAT!?'
Naruto looked at Sasuke and smirked: "bastard is getting what he deserves" he thought happily. Itachi didn't look delighted but his facial expression didn't show anything more.
'Naruto, Neji, you may go. But next time if you don't behave, you will get detention as well.' Iruka said and two boys exited room- with Naruto smirking and Neji still seething in displease.
TO BE CONTINUED…
A/N: PHEW! It took me, like, forever to finish this bloody chapter! It has over 4000 words god damn it! Anyway, reviews are most welcomed. If any of you has some ideas, write it in review and I'll consider it over. I'm planning this story to be the most remarkable work of mine, and I sincerely want to make you pleased with my writing. So, give me some ideas and I will ponder over them and try to fit them in upcoming chapters. See ya and please REVIEW! JA NE!
