Ski or Board?
by thepragmatist
Pairing: SasuNaru, NejiGaa, ItaShi
Warnings: Shounen-ai, swearing, crappy and rushed writign.
Author's Notes: Yeah, sorry for the late update. But I've been having difficult cranking this out. Not that I don't have enough ideas. Thanks for the suggestions, but I already have an idea on how I want this to go. So uhh yeah, thanks, but no thanks I guess :)
Neji had to smirk when he saw Sasuke walking into class with a huge scowl on his face.
"Glad to see you too. What's the matter? Run in to your favorite strawberry-headed sweetheart again?"
To Neji's pleasure, Sasuke's scowl deepened. Neji knew Sasuke hated strawberries, and Sakura. Most likely because the girl used to be infatuated with him.
"Shut up, clear-eyes. You know I hated going out with that girl last year."
Yes, Sasuke had gone out with Sakura. But not because he liked her. Oh no, because Naruto did.
He smirked to himself just at the thought of Naruto's heart-broken face.
Sasuke had dumped her cruelly, but to his utter horror, the pink-haired girl seemed to find consolation in the bustling blond. Therefore, Sasuke was forced to take Sakura back in for another few months before breaking it off gently. Neji had teased Sasuke endlessly for all the trouble and drama he was forced through. But, everything was better now. Sasuke was in a new year and he planned making it his best.
Sasuke leaned back in his chair, gazing at the board lazily. He knew he wouldn't find Naruto in this class. It was much too difficult for him. His eyes widened when he saw the redhead from homeroom walk into the class lazily. Narrowing his eyes, he remembered why he was scowling earlier.
"Neji." Sasuke spoke softly, so no prying ears would hear.
"Hn?" Neji had been scribbling away at some drawing, his eyes glued to the paper.
"There's this new kid."
"So?" Neji glanced up at Sasuke. Sasuke never showed interest in anyone.
"And he's friends with Uzumaki."
Ah.. so that's why.
"What does he look like?" Neji asked, he was interested in whoever was brave enough to make friends with Naruto.
Sasuke motioned languidly.
Neji followed Sasuke's eye and froze.
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Gaara had retreated to the furthest back corner of the room when he felt two pairs of eyes staring at him.
He looked straight back at the source and was shocked to see light lavender eyes. Scowling Gaara glared at the two ice princes before returning to staring out the window.
As the teacher walked in and began the class, Gaara felt Neji staring at him.
After half an hour of being stared at, Gaara gave in and looked toward the Hyuuga. He was surprised by the smile that Neji shot toward him and nodded in recognition.
Seemingly satisfied that Gaara finally noticed him, Neji redirected his attention to the teacher who was getting annoyed with the lack of attention in the room.
Sasuke leaned over and whispered to Neji. "Why were you staring at him?"
"Hmm?" Neji said absently.
Sasuke rolled his eyes. "The new kid. You were staring at him for half the class, why were you staring at him?"
Neji looked away slightly, knowing it would be difficult to lie from his best friend. "He's…interesting."
Lucky for him, Sasuke bought it, leaning back and smirking. "He is, isn't he?" Flashing his pearly white teeth, he turned toward Neji. "This should be fun."
Suddenly Neji realized what was happening. Sasuke wanted to torture Gaara the way he had tortured the others who had gotten too close to Naruto. Grimacing, Neji knew he couldn't stand back and watch.
"What? You gunna try and drive him away?" Neji asked, knowing the answer. But before Sasuke could answer, Neji continued. "Why Sasuke, I didn't know you were so possessive."
Sasuke glared at him. "I'm not. I don't care. He just looks like a loser."
Neji rolled his eyes as the bell rang and the two princes rose languidly.
If Uchihas ever stomped, Sasuke would have. He stepped only slightly harder as he walked to his next class. He sat down, scowling. Stupid Neji. He was NOT possessive. The loser just didn't deserve any friends.
Sasuke saw the familiar bob of red hair enter then room and rolled his eyes mentally with exasperation. Seriously, was this guy in ALL his classes? He glared angrily as the redhead sneered at him before sitting down.
Seething, Sasuke felt a surge of defiance. Who cared what Neji thought, as long as Sasuke got his way, he didn't care what others thought.
His first matter of business would be sending the redhead a warning. So when the teacher entered the room, Sasuke wrote a small note on a piece of paper and threw it at a girl.
The girl, being oblivious was hit on the head. She opened the note and flushed. Looking shyly towards Sasuke, she found him to have disappeared. Instead she saw Gaara.
Sasuke smirked from under his desk where he pretended to have lost his pencil. Whatever reaction the girl offered would be hilarious.
As he sat back up, he was delighted with the situation. Turned out, the girl had sent a note BACK, only to get it intercepted by the teacher, who was now in the process of reading it out loud in front of the class. Sasuke snickered mentally.
"Hey cutie,
I'm glad you think I'm hot and sexy.
I'd love to go over to your house and let you do naughty things to me.
P.S. Oh, and I like BDSM too. Maybe sometime I can be the master. –wink- "
The teacher promptly crumpled up the note, face flushed.
Unable to utter a word, she just pointed a shaky hand to the door. Gaara only raised an eyebrow at the woman. Finally she stuttered out.
"Principal's Office…The two of you…Now"
"Wha-"
"NOW!"
Gaara glared coldly at the shaking woman before rising slowly and angrily from his seat and strolled toward the door.
Lazily. Sasuke stuck out his foot and…
BAM!
Gaara went down.
Gaara pushed himself up angrily and turned toward the smug Uchiha and without even thinking, Gaara pulled back his fist and slugged Sasuke.
The whole classroom seemed to freeze as Sasuke slowly looked back up at Gaara, his eyes flickering dangerously. No one had been stupid enough to hit Sasuke since… Since Naruto.
The teacher seemed just as horrified as the students.
"S-Subaku! O-Office! Now!" Eyes still fixed on Sasuke, Gaara walked out of the room, leaving a resounding slam of the door.
Inside, Sasuke was furious. The girls in the classroom were fussing over him. As one girl accidentally got too close and touched the bruise, Sasuke winced.
Damn, that new kid had a hard left hook.
- - - - -
Meanwhile, Gaara and entered the principal's office only to be told to wait. He sat down in one of the all too soft and squishy chairs and waited. Suddenly he saw a big blur of yellow jump in.
Everyone in the room seemed to sag at the blond's presence. All except the blond.
"Hi everyone!"
Naruto beamed at everyone. Gaara scoffed, he could see how fake the smile was.
Suddenly Naruto noticed Gaara.
"Hey! It's my bestest buddy!" Naruto clung onto Gaara. "How's your first day of school going?!"
Gaara looked at him. I'm in the office you moron. How does my day LOOK like its going?
Naruto seemed the catch the hint and grinned sheepishly. "Oh yeah, well I'm in here just cause…cause… I don't know really. But I don't think my teacher likes me much."
Gaara's only response was to roll his eyes.
"But anyways!" Naruto chimed. "What're you in for?"
Gaara spoke indifferently to the boy. "I punched the Uchiha."
"Really!?" Naruto seemed to perk up at this. "Did you hit him hard?! Did you make him cry?! Oh I hope he cried!" Naruto laughed joyously at the thought.
Gaara just looked away from the bubbly blonde.
A loud voice rang from the office. "Subaku Gaara!"
Gaara stood languidly and walked into the smaller room. He went to sit down only to notice that his seat was taken…by Naruto.
Giving Naruto a 'wtf?' look, he sat down in the other vacant seat. He looked up to see a woman with overly large breasts glaring at the two of them.
As she also looked at Naruto, he waved his hands dismissively. "Don't worry about me, I'm here to support my bestest buddy."
Gaara had no idea what the blond was smoking. Apparently the principal bought this and redirected her attention to the redhead.
Gaara relayed what had happened, slowly and with monotone as Naruto awed at how much Gaara had said in one setting.
Principal Tsunade groaned. Turns out Naruto had made a new friend, and the Uchiha was determined to take him away from the poor boy. Usually Sasuke wouldn't have to resort to this and the friends would automatically leave Naruto as soon as they found out what they were facing.
Sasuke held a large amount of power in the school, over both the students and the faculty with his rich father. The only teacher not under his control was her, and she was the reason Naruto still passed.
But this time, perhaps Naruto had made an actual friend that wouldn't be peer-pressured into leaving him.
As the bell resounded into the office, Tsunade sighed.
"Ok brats, you're free to go."
Gaara looked curiously at the woman before being dragged away by Naruto.
"Ano sa, Ano sa! What do you have now?"
Gaara looked down at his schedule. "Lunch."
Naruto looked thrilled. "Me too! Let's eat together!"
For once Naruto looked to Gaara for approval. Usually by now none of his "friends" would have wanted to stay with him.
Seeing the desperation in the blond's eyes. Gaara nodded slowly but surely.
Naruto beamed and hugged the redhead. "Thank you, thank you!"
Thank you… for being my friend.
- - - - -
Sasuke was livid. Not only did his plan backfire, now he gets out of class to see Naruto hugging the stupid new kid.
Growling to himself, Sasuke stalked off to the lunchroom. That redhead had to die.
Neji walked out of his class, bored to death. However the sight that greeted him did not make his day any better.
He was glad that Gaara was still in one piece. But did he have to be embracing that…that…someone who wasn't him!? The blond knew him for one period and now they were hugging? Gaara and him never hugged and they spent the entire day together!
Scowling, Neji walked past the two roughly bumping Naruto away from Gaara.
Naruto would have been thrown to the ground if Gaara hadn't grabbed his hand and prevented his head from hitting the ground roughly. Gaara pulled Naruto toward him and looked toward Neji, confused and annoyed.
Naruto noticed Gaara's gaze and smiled. "Don't worry about it. That's Neji. He's Sasuke's right-hand man. Here, I'll tell you more about him during lunch."
Gaara nodded again and followed Naruto to the lunch room.
As Naruto got his instant ramen and Gaara got something indistinguishable from the school lunch, Naruto proceeded to point out the cliques in the school.
"Oh look, those are skiers. You can tell from the way they dress. All rich and preppy…"
"Hey! Those guys try to ski, but they don't do very well."
"I'm not sure about those people, they're kinda the people that worship the skiers."
Naruto continued to point out random people until he reached this one table.
"Those guys are…pretty nice actually." Gaara looked at Naruto. So far all he had heard were the groups that liked to trip him, liked to tease him, and other mean and insulting acts.
"Yeah…" Naruto scratched the back of his head. "the dog-boy and the freaky eye-brows kid do both skiing and snowboarding, so they're ok sometimes. Kiba, the dog-boy can be nice, but only if no one else is around. And Lee, well he's always nice. The only reason he isn't beaten up is cause he's wicked good at fighting and an insane skier. And the one slouching next to them is Shikamaru. I think he's really good at both also, but… well… he mostly tubes."
Gaara looked at him incredulously, well as incredulously as he could.
"Yeah, I know! But I think it's cause he's so lazy…" Naruto sweat-dropped.
"And finally the snowboarders."
Finally! Gaara thought.
"That's us." Naruto beamed at him. "Yeah, not many people board here…"
Gaara groaned inwardly. Perfect. He had to get stuck in some prep school where everyone was a skier.
Great just great.
"Oh and I almost forget. The kings of the school. Sasuke and Neji." Naruto pointed at the table where only a couple people sat. "Yeah, they don't like many people near them. Some girl a while back learned that the hard way." Naruto snickered.
Gaara looked at the two. Suddenly Neji looked toward him. Gaara looked back toward Naruto.
"Yeah I assume you know Sasuke since you punched his face in." Naruto gleefully noted the purplish bruise on Sasuke's face. "And Neji was the guy who pushed me. I don't know much about him, but he does basically whatever Sasuke does. The two of them are really close. Which sucks for me cause Sasuke hates me. Sasuke's pretty nasty but sometimes Neji can be nastier, just because he rarely shows emotion while Sasuke is slightly more impulsive. Not to mention, Neji pulls the worst um…" Naruto trailed off, wincing.
"Worst what?" It was the first time Gaara had spoken during Naruto's commentary.
Naruto looked down slightly. "N-nothing really. It's just that…last time, he planned this whole…thing. A-And, I sorta had to go to the hospital."
Gaara was up in a flash. "What?"
Naruto looked away. He knew Gaara wouldn't want to be his friend after knowing he was sent to the hospital from the cruelties of Sasuke and Neji. But he was surprised when Gaara pulled his collar up toward him and growled.
"What did they do to you?"
Naruto was shocked to find anger in the pale green eyes.
"A-Are you s-still gunna be my f-friend?"
Gaara released his hold, confused. "Why wouldn't I?"
Naruto smiled a relieved smile and proceeded to hug Gaara again, who just rolled his eyes and allowed himself to be glomped by the ecstatic blond.
Author's Notes: Yes, I know Sasuke's really posessive. and yeah. Neji's a doofus. And ItachixShishui hasn't come in yet. I really want to write this pairing though. and not an angsty one either. I've been reading too much angst xD
Next time: Sasuke goes a little far with his prank and Naruto get's angry.