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Chapter 2: The Kiss

My alarm goes off making me jump slightly. I rub my eyes and slam my hand down on it a couple times before it stops making the annoying sound. I rub my eyes throwing my covers off and swinging my legs over the side of my bed. I stand up and drag myself over to my door and into the bathroom down the hall to take a shower. When I finished, I got out and wrapped a towel around my waist. I go back to my room and quickly get changed.

I wasn't in the best of moods today so I didn't feel like wearing jeans, so instead I put on some of my baggy sweat pants and a t-shirt.

I go to grab my bag, but then I remember that I never got it from my locker the other day. I leave my room with a sigh and go down into the kitchen. I grab a bowl of cereal and quickly eat it before I get a piece of ham for Kurama. I slip my shoes on and go to the backdoor grabbing the handle.

"I'm leaving." I say in a mumble, but it was loud enough that my mom heard it. I then turn the handle stepping out the door. Kurama lifts his head and perks his ears to see who it was. When he saw it was me his tail started to lazily wag. He forced himself up stretching and yawning before trotting over to me. "Hey boy, sleep well?" I hand him the ham and scratch his back. "I'll take you for a walk tonight, alright?" Kurama finished the ham and barked his approval. I smile and walk down the steps. "See you tonight."

XXXXX

I didn't see Shikamaru walking in the halls this morning like I usually did. I wonder if he slept in, it wouldn't surprise me if he did. I take out a pencil and my notebook and start to draw. Draw what? I don't really know. I look up after a little while noticing that Gaara wasn't here either. I shrug it off considering it my lucky day and continued to draw. When I dropped my eyes back down to my notebook, I noticed that I was drawing those eyes that I saw two days ago.

"Class, we have a new student today." The teacher says loudly to get everyone's attention, I don't bother looking up though. "Please introduce yourself."

"Sasuke Uchiha." I stop drawing and my eyes shoot wide open. Slowly I look up to this so called Sasuke boy. His voice was so ... familiar.

He wore black jeans that were faded slightly in the front turning them gray and a chain on his belt loops that hung law past his hip. He also had on black combat boots. A Black shirt with some white and gray words on it that I couldn't read, and he had black wrist bands on that covered from his elbow to his hand. He also wore a that necklace looked like a ping-pong paddle. Overall, there was a lot of black on that boy.

My eyes make it up to his own, and that's when everything felt like the world was in slow motion. Sasuke looked over to me as soon as I looked at his face. My heart ached for some reason. The look in his eyes was the same as my own. What could have caused him so much pain that he would put that hidden pain in his eyes. Those eyes didn't look like that the last time I saw them. This couldn't possibly be the same person, could it? Wait. If it was the same person, he was hanging out with Gaara. Why?

Sasuke looked away from me and takes a seat near the back. Nearly all of the girls were fawning all over him. Even I have to admit, he was pretty attractive. He kind of looks good in all of that black too.

After a while the bell rings making me lose my thoughts. I close my notebook setting it in the pile of others on my desk and pick them up, leaving for class.

XXXXX

The first half of the day was horrible. Whenever we had to speak out loud to either give an answer, or to read something aloud. Everyone always picked on me to do it. When I read out loud I stutter from all the nerves that build up within me and everyone laughs, even the teacher laughs. But now I'm at lunch with my two best friends, so none of the earlier things matter anymore.

"I thought you weren't coming to school today, Shikamaru." I say as I sit next to them forming a triangle.

"My alarm didn't go off this morning, so my mom ended up having to wake me up." Shikamaru lays back in the grass closing his eyes.

"Hey, Naruto. I heard you got some new guy in your homeroom." Kiba says making my head snap over to him.

"Yeah, I think I've ran into him once before too."

"Really? What's he like?"

"I don't know. He seemed kind of mean when I first met him, he was also hanging out with Gaara that day. Then just this morning he seemed really sad. It didn't seem like he had a mean bone in his body."

"People change, maybe something happened to him earlier. But the most important question," He pauses for a dramatic effect. "Is he cute?" I should have been expecting this question. I just roll my eyes at him. "Oh come on Naruto, you need someone who will make you happy."

"Kiba, how many times do I have to tell you that I am perfectly happy now. Anyway, he doesn't look like the type of guy to date people. Especially another guy. I've also told you that I don't even know if I like guys like that. I told you I'm still confused."

"I could help you with that confusion." Kiba smiles making me furrow my brows. I'm getting a bad feeling about this.

"I'm probably going to regret asking this, but what do you mean?"

"You could kiss me to see if you are gay."

"You're just doing this to get in his pants." Shikamaru sighs.

"I am not! Did I say anything about sex Shikamaru? No. I didn't. I just offered to let him kiss me."

"Wouldn't that be a little awkward? Especially afterward?" I start to mess with my shoe laces getting slightly nervous. Kissing my best friend?

"Only if you make it that way." I look up at him, then to my shoe laces again thinking about his offer. This would be so awkward, but I am sick of not knowing.

"Okay."

"You'll do it?"

"Yeah, but I have to bring Kurama. I promised him a walk."

"That's fine. You can come over to my house after school today."

"A-alright."

"Look, don't be so nervous Naruto. You'll be fine, I promise." Kiba smiles as the bell rings so was all get up and go to out next class.

XXXXX

I hate sitting in the front of the class. I feel like everyone is watching me. I have Kiba in this class, although he sits in the complete opposite side of the room. Guess who else is in my class, you guessed it, Sasuke. He sits all the way in the back too. Two seats away from Kiba. For some reason, I feel like Sasuke is staring at me most of the time, including right now, but I don't dare look back just in case he actually was looking. Then we would make awkward eye contact and I'd be even more uneasy than I already am right now.

The teacher walks in a few minutes after the bell rings, which is weird since Asuma is never late. I look up from my desk to see none other than Kakashi. I arch a brow. What is going on? Where is Asuma?

"Good morning class." Kakashi cheerfully said as he walks to his desk. When he stopped he looked to me and smiled through his mask. What kind of teacher always wears a mask to school anyway? Kind of made me curious to what his face actually looked like. "I am Kakashi, I'm going to be filling in for Asuma."

"Where is Asuma?" Ino blurted out.

"He had somewhere he had to go, but that aside, let's get started shall we?" Kakashi as a replacement teacher might not be to bad. "This is your history class, and Asuma told me that he was just about to assign you all a project." It's like you could hear the eye rolls coming from the class.

"Can we have partners?" Sakura asked in her usual annoyingly so called 'innocent' voice.

"Yes, b-"

"Oh good! In that case I pick Sas-"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa hold on Sakura." Sakura looks back at Kakashi with an eyebrow raised. "I'm going to pick your partners." Her smile transformed into a frown, as well for everyone else's smiles in the class. My heart beat quickened. I hate when teachers do this. I get so nervous that I'm going to get paired up with someone that hates me, so practically the whole damn school.

"But, why?" Ino pouted.

"Because I want it to be fair, that's why. I'm going to be putting people together that I think will work well together."

"But you don't even know us."

"That's where you're wrong Tenten." Tenten was surprised when Kakashi said her name. "I actually know you all pretty well, granted I do know some better than others."

"So who do you know the best?" Sakura asked not really curious, she just wanted to distract Kakashi and waste our time.

"That doesn't matter, now does it?" Sakura huffs crossing her arms. "Okay, now to get on with class. The first pairing is Shino and Kiba." Well it looks like I'm screwed right off the bat. "Ino and Tenten, Choji and Sai, Sakura and Neji." There is still Hinata, she was always nice to me whenever we talked. Although we didn't talk very much, but still. "Hinata aaaand ..." Kakashi looked around the room stopping on the raven haired boy. "Naruto." I could hear the people around Hinata say something to her. Something about being sorry for her. "There you have it, go to your assigned partner and I'll be around with the requirement paper."

"Uhm ... Kakashi sensei, you didn't give Sasuke a group." Sakura says sitting herself next to Neji.

"I know this." I glanced back to Sasuke, he was glaring at Kakashi.

"He can join us."

"No, he will be quite fine. He has Gaara after all." I look behind me to see Hinata walking over to me. She offers a warm smile as she slides a desk over next to me.

"Sorry about you getting partnered with me." I glance at her once more then down to my hands on the desk.

"D-don't be silly, Naruto. I-I actually kind of wanted to be your partner." I raise my head with a confused expression clear on my face, then back down.

"You don't have to try and make me feel better by lying."

"I'm n-not lying Naruto, I-I wanted to talk to you for a long time now." Does that mean she wants to be my friend? My eyes widen a little at the thought and she slightly blushes.

"So you-"

"Here you go you two." I was interrupted by Kakashi handing us a paper.

"Thanks." Hinata and I both say simultaneously. I smile slightly and look down at the paper frowning a bit.

"Hinata."

"Y-yes?"

"If you become my friend, won't everyone hate you too?"

Hinata looks over at me with a sad expression. "Naruto, no one will care."

"You don't know that."

"Nothing will change for you i-if no one steps up to help."

I look up to her a bit surprised. I couldn't help but smile my biggest smile at her making her blush like crazy. "Thank you, Hinata." I look back down to the paper. "Let's see what we have to get done." I scan the requirements and sigh deeply. "What do we have to do a presentation on?"

"S-since it doesn't say that we have to do it on a specific topic, w-we could ... maybe do it on Napoleon. I-If you want to."

"Sounds good." I smile and lean back in my chair. I see Hinata glancing back for the third time this class . "Uhm ... Hinata?"

"Y-yes?"

"Why do you ... uh ... keep looking back?"

"O-oh, well every time that I look back, Sasuke is looking over here." My eyes widen. So he was looking over here.

"Why?" I didn't dare look back since Sasuke could still be looking over here.

"I'm not sure, but he is intently staring at you. I think that he has something to say to you." I moved my eyes back to look at him, but I moved my eyes back to Hinata before I could get a look at him.

"Why do you think he wants to talk to me?"

"His gaze is directed right at you, you should go talk to him after class."

"Wha-, n-no way!" My whisper came out a little louder than I intended, but I didn't worry about it.

"O-okay, never mind. I-I don't want you to do anything that would make you uncomfortable, b-but what I said about Sasuke wasn't a lie."

"I know." I smile slightly. I turn my head glancing back over my shoulder. There he was, sitting there, head resting in his hand, looking at me with a far off look in his eyes. As soon as I looked back, Sasuke decided to look away. So he was looking at me.

XXXXX

I walk through the back door to my house and take off my shoes. "Mom?"

"What?" She sounds angry, but then again I guess she always does. I walk into the living room where she was sitting on the couch reading.

"Can I go to a friend's house to get some help?"

"What friend and what do you need help with?" She looks up from her book to glare at me.

"Shikamaru, he's gonna help me with my math." She studies me to see if I was lying. After a couple of years you tend to get pretty good at something, so now-a-days she can almost never tell if I'm lying. If it's not anything major that is. She rolls her eyes at me and drops her glare back down to her book.

"Whatever, just don't take too long." I don't know if I actually wanted her to say I could go now or not.

"Thanks." I quickly leave her and put my shoes back on and leave before she could change her mind. Kurama never needed a leash when I took him on walks. He never went far from me. As soon as I left the house he started following me. "We're going to see someone today Kurama." Kurama looked up wagging his tail. "Akamaru and Kiba, fun right?" He barked a couple times and jumped happily. He hasn't seen Akamaru in forever so of course he'd be happy. I shove my hands in my pockets smiling, and my backpack hung on my shoulder. When we got into the part of town with a lot of people I cast my gaze to the sidewalk so I didn't meet anyone's harsh glares.

I don't know why but for some reason I had the sudden urge to look up, so of course I do. There, walking towards me from some distance away, was Sasuke. He had that same sad look in his eyes that he had in school today. Maybe I should say hi to him or something. I confidently smile, ready to say his name to get his attention, but someone opened a door from inside of the store I was next to and the door hit me. I quickly stumble backwards almost tripping on my dog.

"Sorry!" I turn to face them giving the person an apologetic look then backing up right into a cart making some things fall. "Sorry!" I step to the side to pick up the items but I hit someone else. "I'm really sorry!" I look at them and turn back around starting to run. I ran right into Sasuke. I stood there an inch from his face, for a lot longer than I probably should have. He glared at me with the worst glare I've ever seen. I quickly back up and fumble with my hem of my shirt.

You remember when I said I have yet to meet anyone who has a scarier glare than Gaara's? Yeah, well I think I just found one that tops his ten fold."S-sorry, I-I didn't ... uh ... see-"

"Shut up and watch where you're walking dumbass." My eyes widened as he pushed past me into the chaos that I have created. Kurama was growling at him the whole time. He hates me. He really hates me. I drop my head to the ground and see Kurama growling still.

"Kurama, come on ... let's go." I say in such a quiet voice I'm surprised that he heard me. I trudge up to Kiba's door and knock. I quickly shake my thoughts away as Kiba opens the door.

"Naruto." He looks down and smiles. "Kurama too, come on in." He steps aside as we step in. He closes the door behind us and brings me to his room. Kurama ran away to find Akamaru the moment we stepped in the door. I couldn't help it but my heart was beating really fast and I felt extremely nervous. I've never kissed anyone. I never did anything even close to a kiss before. What do I do? What is Kiba thinking? Is he going to kiss me, or am I going to have to kiss him? Apparently it showed on my face that I was thinking too much because I heard some laughter.

"Naruto, calm down." Kiba chuckles and takes my backpack setting it in a corner. Kiba then sits on his bed and pats the empty space next to him. "Come sit." I swallow my nerves and take the spot next to Kiba. "Calmed down?"

"I think so, yeah." Kiba puts a hand on my chest and smirks.

"You're still nervous." I blush slightly and look to the ground.

"So I'm nervous, anyone would be if they were like me." I look at Kiba who was smiling. "Aren't you?" Kiba takes my hand and puts it to his chest. I could feel his heart, it was beating just like mine. I look up from my hand to him. "If you're so nervous then how are you so calm?" He let's go of my hand and I rest it on my lap.

"I'm not sure, but it takes a lot of skill. Something you don't have." Kiba joked making me roll my eyes and smile. "So, do you want to start? I figure your parents don't know you're here and that they want you back as soon as possible." I sigh and look at the ground.

"Yeah."

"Then if you don't mind." Kiba gently turned my face to his so our eyes met. "May I?" I take a moment before slowly nodding. He starts to lean in closing his eyes. Just when I though that my nerves were almost gone, they came back ten times worse. I close my eyes just as our lips connected. He started to kiss me, so I did my best to kiss back. He pushed into me slightly, opening his mouth so I do the same. He then pushes his tongue into my mouth, which I must say, surprised me a little bit.

I felt something click in me as Kiba pushed me back against his bed. Dominance. I pull away for a minute and push Kiba off from hovering over top of me. He lands on his back next to me with widened eyes. I quickly straddle him and look down at him, again connecting our lips. I push my tongue into his mouth this time. He puts his hands around my neck pulling me closer.

I start to pull at Kiba's shirt, and when he didn't object, I slid it off of it's owner throwing it behind us. Kiba quickly slides my shirt off as well. I trail my hands down his stomach, grabbing onto his belt loop and pulling a little. He grabbed my hand causing me to snap open my eyes. I realize what I was trying to do so I quickly jump off of him blushing like crazy.

"S-sorry, I guess I just ... uh ... I uh ... got a little ... uhm ... caught up in the moment." Kiba sits up grabbing his shirt and sliding it on.

"It's fine, you weren't the only one." Kiba chuckles. "But you're definitely gay." He pauses handing me my shirt and I slid it on. "And I think that I could help you get a boyfriend." I look up at him with a glare.

"Really Kiba."

"How about the Uchiha?" He completely ignores my annoyance and continues with his own thoughts. When I realize when he said my eyes bug out of my head for a second making me shiver at the thought.

"What's wrong?"

"If I even tried to date him he would probably kill me, bury my body ten feet deep in his backyard, and I wouldn't be found until 200 years later. Then his great-great-great-great grandkids will say 'This is that guy that our great-great-great-great grandpa killed for trying to date him.' " I look down to Kiba to see a very dumbfounded look on his face.

"What are you talking about, Naruto?"

"Well ... uh ... I don't think he likes me very much."

"Why?"

"On the way here, I kind of bumped into him."

"And?"

"Well, he called me a dumbass, and he looked like he wanted to kill me. Granted I did run into him."

"Is that where you got your little scenario from?"

"Indeed."

"Okay, so not the Uchiha. Got it."

"I should probably go though, you know, before my mom actually does kill me for real." Kiba stands up nodding. He grabs my backpack and hands it to me. Kurama and Akamaru come running to us and we go to the front door. He smiles and opens the door for us.

"I'll see you in school tomorrow." Kiba says as we pass him.

"See you in school." I walk to the sidewalk with Kurama and I hear Kiba whistle.

"Nice butt, Naruto!" Kiba's little outburst caused me to shake my head and smile like an idiot.

Sorry if you didn't like the kiss since it was with Kiba, but I had to have Naruto finally realize he was gay somehow and that was the only idea I came up with xD.