When his eyes opened, Sasuke was inside a class room, early for his first class the following day and the sound of students could be heard coming down the hallways... Sasuke had done his best to hide his bruising, his bangs shadowed over the purple patches on his face.
He kept his head down as other pupils entered the room, trying to remain invisible.
"Excuse me... Sasuke?" It was that chick with the strawberry pink hair again. "Can I sit with you?" She was fascinated by him, she still wasn't sure why but she felt enchanted by those brooding eyes, drawn in. She looked sideways at him, blushing. Sasuke let out a sigh of exasperation. "Sakura... is it?" He asked, giving her attention at last.
"Sorry, but I'd like to sit by myself today." He said in the politest tone he could muster - which was a push. He knew he couldn't be rude, not after - he cringed at another crippling memory that had been added to his long selection last night. No, he wouldn't think about it.
She accepted what he wanted but felt a pang of disappointment shoot through her. "Oh right, well! That's understandable I suppose... if you need any help with anything at school, just ask me and I'll show you." She was being polite to him which he appreciated especially since she knew when to leave him alone on being asked, unlike Naruto... Sakura removed herself and went to sit beside Kiba.
"I'm not Sasuke's left over's..." Kiba could be heard muttering, apparently the boy's in the class felt a bit intimidated by the effect Sasuke was having on the girl's.
Naruto was late of course; he'd stayed up playing video games into the early hours of the morning eating junk food and about ten can's of soda, it was a miracle he was quite toned - luckily for him he had an athletic streak.
It was their first official day today which meant they were all wearing their uniforms, Naruto however had made his more interesting. He practically fell in the classroom with a flushed expression from the run to school...
Sakura rolled her eyes from beside Kiba. "You really need to start getting here on time, it's only day two of the new term, Naruto!"
"Yeah, yeah..." Naruto muttered in response rubbing the back of his head as he made his way through the single, square desks. Until he reached his confirmed destination... Sasuke.
"Hey.. uh, so... Sasuke right? I just wanted to say sorry for yesterday... it was really uncool of me and I acted like a dick. I hope I didn't get you into too much trouble with your parent's." He said sheepishly with an awkward grin, not having noticed anything odd about Sasuke yet, he didn't know the raven well enough to pick up on anything weird.
"Hn." Sasuke simply grunted and looked away from him. Today he really didn't want to be bothered. He was concerned someone might notice the bruising under his bangs and he hadn't yet concluded some story about how it had happened.
He brushed Naruto off and hoped he would get the hint today that he really did want to be left alone. But when he felt something slide in beside him he twitched and kept his gaze the way in which Naruto wasn't.
Sakura was seething from her seat - how did Naruto get to sit next to Sasuke and she didn't? Naruto was may more annoying than her to Sasuke.
"Naruto!" Sakura screeched. Standing up at once and storming over, pointing her finger in his direction. "What do you think you are doing?" She snapped. She watched with hands on hip's as Naruto turned to face her.
When Naruto looked up, his cheeks were dusted with pink - he'd known Sakura since they were little, he'd gone through nursery and primary school with her in their little town. He'd watched her grow up and with her strawberry pink hair and bright green eyes she had become such a beauty - a short tempered beauty but a beauty none the less.
"I'm sitting down!" Naruto yelled in defense.
Sakura grabbed the front of his shirt and yanked him to his feet. "Don't be smart with me! You don't get to sit next to Sasuke! If I can't, no one can! You got that?! Sasuke doesn't want to sit next to you!" What a typical girl... How annoying.
Man, she was scary sometimes... Naruto pulled a pained expression. Was it really worth the argument? Even though he wanted to get onto good terms with Sasuke, especially after a long evening talking about Sasuke over dinner with his Dad the day before.
"GOT THAT?!" She repeated louder bringing him back from his thoughts and gave him a shove, he fell back into Sasuke with a crash. The collision caused Sasuke's head to snap around in alert, his hair blew out of his face revealing the horrendous purple and brown marks all over his ivory skin.
The class gasped and fell silent.
Sasuke stood up for a moment, clenching his fists. The temptation to run away and remove himself from this situation seemed like the best option - but he couldn't. If he did he would be reported for skipping class.
He sat back down in protest and turned to look at the class. "Do any of you ever stop talking? Fuck, you are all so annoying." He snapped. "Stop staring at me, and leave me alone - I don't concern myself with your pathetic existences so don't concern yourself with me. I am not interested in any of you." He returned to his previous position, turned more towards the window beside him and hid behind his hair once more. His face had only briefly been on show and he didn't give anyone a chance to question him or ask him - that would have to wait until they were outside class so he had time to think. Because somehow he knew someone would come asking at some point, they always did.
"Morning children..." The teacher said when entering the room. "Can you all please sit down..." She said, noticing that the majority of the students where on their feet and looking at the direction where Sasuke was.
Lady Tsunade was one of Sakura's favorite teachers, they shared a lot in common so she hushed up the moment she stepped into the room. She didn't want to disappoint her or cause commotion.
"Miss?" Came a voice from the back of the room. "Yes Kiba?" She answered. "I just wanted to let you know I've done my assignment early... Do you want me to give it to you after class?" He tried to sound cool about it when really he was attempting to flirt with a teacher.
Kiba had always behaved in her classes too. He was probably one of the worst roughneck's and yet for her he acted like an a star pupil - it didn't help that she had quite the temper and a lot of student's had been reduced to tears from her lectures when misbehaving in the past.
"You've so got a thing..." Shikamaru hinted.
"Shut up man, that's not cool." Kiba snapped back with an irritated flush.
Naruto had seen more of Sasuke's face than anyone else in the room and he couldn't get the image out of his mind even as he sank back into his chair and class began - it'd definitely shut him up that's for sure and isn't that what Sasuke wanted? Still, Naruto sat fairly rigid beside Sasuke and for some reason it unnerved him, the idiot had already seen too much...
Once they were told their task of the lesson and got handed fresh, new books to begin working in they were allowed to mutter amongst themselves and Naruto took the time to glance out of the corner of his eye to study Sasuke.
"Did you get into a fight with someone?" He whispered causing Sasuke to freeze, the dreaded question he'd heard a thousand times... it didn't take the blonde's curiosity long to peak and ask.
Sasuke could kill him. He didn't even have the courtesy to wait to ask until they were outside of classroom. What kind of fucking idiot asks you personal question's outright when you're in a room full of people.
Sasuke had met some numptys in his time, but this was the first one to really take the biscuit.
"Yeah, you..." He joked, pulling out an old black set of postcards from his pocket that he'd help onto since he was a young child. He tore one of and wrote on it.
Get the hint, stop asking me questions and leave me alone.Before passing it over. He watched as Naruto took it and read it, then as he pulled out a pen to reply.
He didn't want a conversation. Thankfully the postcard was small so hopefully this wouldn't go on too long.
Naruto's handwriting wasn't as neat as Sasuke's who's was elegant and in italics. Naruto scribbled a quick note back in his orange pen;
I'm not going to leave you alone, I've said sorry so don't carry on being a bastard yeah? :) I was just wondering if you wanted me to beat up anyone for you that's all - Naruto
He'd covered the note in smiley faces and poked his tongue out as he passed it back over to Sasuke.
Sasuke quickly added to the note.
I can take care of myself thanks, always have, always will. I don't need idiot's like you slowing me down and irritating my day, all I want is to get through school and turn 18. You got it?
He made his writing bold so Naruto got the hint - at least he hoped - as soon as he reached age he could leave home that was the plan.
"Sasuke Uchiha is it?" Tsunade said, leaning over her student, her boobs looked like they'd fall out of that shirt she was wearing, buttons stretched open from the enormity of their size. Naruto was staring - Sasuke noticed. He rolled his eyes and took a sharp turn, praying Naruto had removed the note from sight in time and then he returned his focus to the women speaking.
"Yes?" He said, looking at her.
"How are you when it come talking in front of a group of people..." Sasuke remained silent. "I thought so, you seem like the quiet type." She returned to the front of the class. "Okay boy's and girls, your homework assignment - Since Kiba has already finished his - will be to perform a speech about something you feel strongly on and stand before the class to present it. I am here to help you improve your personal skills, which will in term give you more of a shot at surviving in this world."
"But Miss, that means we'll have two assignments on the go at once..." A blonde girl called Ino frowned.
"Blame that on Mr Inuzuka for finishing early, I can't let him go without any homework..." She cooed, Tsunade was a big tease.
"Punish him then.." Choji said under his breath, munching crisps.
"You stop eating in my classroom for a start..." She pointed out.
"And our newest classmate Sasuke can't have a backdated assignment, it wouldn't be fair... though I'm sure, from your transfer grades that you could handle it, you've got the top marks across the bored in every school you've attended." She pointed out, impressed - which made her wonder why on earth he was jumping from school to school - she didn't think twice about it though.
Sakura piped down when Sasuke was mentioned. "I suppose I don't mind..."
"Another assignment! Ack... this is the worst!" Naruto groaned in complaint slamming his head into the desk in front of him. "What the hell am I going to talk about... my favorite food?! Sport? The new game console coming out... aw man, this sucks so hard. I just 'wanna hang out with the guys at the basketball court on weekends... ugh."
Naruto was pretty popular, a bit of a class clown sure but he made everyone laugh, he was bubbly, the life of the party. With his tan skin and scruffy golden locks, he wasn't a bad guy. Naruto just wanted to have a good, fun life.
"What do you feel strongly about Sasuke, do you know what you're going to write about?" He asked hoping to get some ideas.
Sasuke sighed. He wasn't going to go away. Was he? He really couldn't care less. He'd worry about pointless things when pointless thing's needed be pointless in the moment.
"I don't know." He said bluntly. He kept that bored fed up persona and thanked the heavens when the bell rang for second period.
He needed lunch to hurry the fuck up so he could have some down time. These people were making his head hurt. He hated noise and commotion and with Naruto around that's about all he got.
He got up and rushed out of the class, not even waiting to hear what Naruto had to say. He hurried into the boy's bathroom and locked himself inside one of the cubical's - this was becoming one of his favorite places apparently.
When he undid his trousers he winced, noticing the bruising down his thighs, stretched purple and red around his back, and when he sat he ached. He wanted to stand up like normal to pee but it was just to painful to lean with those limbs. Sitting down wasn't much easier but it eased on his strain somehow.
When was this going to stop. His chest became tight as he replayed the moments of last night over and over in his head - maybe that idiot was good for one thing after all, distraction.
Was he really that inonvinient to his brother's life? Sometime's he wished his brother had just put him out of his misery too and ended his life. It was so cruel that he'd been the only one spared - simply to suffer the world off loss without his family, his parents. His mother... He couldn't; Sasuke grit his teeth...
Thinking about it caused anger to surge through the boy, his eyes flashed red at the sheer thought of what his brother was really doing to him. Why him? How had his once happy life turned upside down like this. Why.
When Sasuke eventually reappeared from the boy's toilets there was a coughing sound. To Sasuke's annoyance that fucking idiot was stood there lent against the wall outside the door.
"Took your time in there... jeez, did you start your period? I asked Miss if I could come and check on you to see if you were okay before our next class started." He stood up straight from the wall.
"Are you? ... - okay I mean? and before you shout, remember what happened last time, I don't want to fight with you, Sasuke."
Sasuke growled, looking either way to check no one was about as he walked towards Naruto, his threw his fist up and grabbed the collar of his shirt, dragging him into the boy's toilets and locking the door, slamming him against the cubicle wall.
"Just what is your problem? Huh?! Why can't you leave me alone?" Sasuke's face was dangerously close to Naruto's, baited breath lingered between them and his adrenaline shot through to his eye's as they narrowed. "Why are you suddenly so obsessed with me?!" Sasuke released his hand then, leaning back into the opposite wall of the cubicle and looked sideways. "Is it because you have a thing for me or something? His hand wound up in his bangs as he smirked sarcastically before making eye contact again, more subtly and calm this time. "Because you know, I don't do cock."
"Eh?!" Naruto exclaimed in alarm, "th-thing for you?! Are you crazy?" He couldn't believe Sasuke had come out and said that so seriously. They were both guy's of course Naruto didn't have a thing for him. "What the hell Sasuke? You're so weird..." He muttered shaking his head, completely dumbfounded by this new transfer student they'd never had anyone like Sasuke in this school before.
"Maybe it is weird that I want to be your friend so much but that's all it is Sasuke. I feel... I feel like there's something about you that you're keeping to yourself-" Sasuke seemed to flinch at the words, Naruto saw his eyebrows twitching. "Why do you get so riled up by me being nice to you?" Naruto added, frustrated he put a hand on Sasuke's arm. "You can't look me in the eye, even now. Whats with you Sasuke?!"
Sasuke pulled his arm away, still unable to look at Naruto. "Get off me." He snapped. Trying to calm himself.
"So what if there was something I wasn't telling you, it's not any of your business so why would it matter to you? I'm nothing to you, you nosy brat. What goes on in my life has no importance to you." Sasuke felt himself slipping, this idiot was getting under his skin. "Why do you care about someone you just met and why do you even want to know? So you can spread it around the school, maybe? Make fun? It's not like you can do anything to help you're just an idiot who doesn't know when to shut his fucking mouth."
Sasuke felt rage bursting through his veins. He wanted to take this boy's head and shove it into the cold hard wall.
He didn't want kindness. He just wanted peace. That's all he'd ever wanted.
"Why are you getting so angry?" Naruto snapped in frustration, raising his voice finally. "I'm not trying to piss you off, why don't you get it?"
He grabbed Sasuke's shoulders and shook him once. "I don't know why I care so quickly either but that's just who I am Sasuke, I can't change and I can't stop it can I?!" He grit his teeth, the sound of them grinding together could be heard inside his mouth. "I care about what's going on in your head so just stop being such a jerk about it!"
Sasuke pushed his hands into Naruto's shoulder's and slammed him back against the cubicle with a loud bang, making the whole wall wobble.
"Shut up! Just shut the fuck up okay." Sasuke's eye's traveled between their lips, looking up and down at his close panting, a little fear ridden features. Naruto seemed taken back but he wasn't scared. His expression turned from surprise to curiosity and confusion and his brow's quirked inwards.
Sasuke's hand's trailed up to Naruto's hair, tangling in the golden blonde locks. He realized that fighting him was not going to work.
"Stop asking me questions, stop speaking. That's all I want."
That bruise was more visible now he was allowing Naruto to look at him for longer than five seconds.
"One day you'll realize I'm telling you that I need you to back off for your own good." He released his hands then turning to open the cubicle door and letting himself out. "Better not be late for class..." Sasuke noticed something strange below, but brushed it off and pretended it wasn't there when he walked out.