Of all the Shades of Blue, Black, and Orange
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, Adobe Photoshop, Paintshop Pro, or Microsoft Windows Makers, (and other programs), and I highly doubt I ever will.
Warnings: Probably a lot of OOCness, so don't hurt me… –hides in a corner–
A/N: Awesome, I got some reviews and a bunch of alerts! Lol, thanks a bunch! I shall give you all virtual packs of pocky XD.
Ergh, sorry about the late update, school is being its evil self and I had a limited amount of time planning everything out –sigh- Oh wells, I hope you enjoy Chapter 2 !
-Miharu (:
(---) – Means a short time skip
Full Summary: Alternate Universe. He was the school's film and photography major, and he was just the new kid in town. How could one minuscule accident impact and start something so immense? SasuNaru.
Chapter Two: Emphasis
After the Leica incident, the next day started off as a regular and normal March Monday morning; traffic jams, tired souls, and an extreme amount of homework… to the students of Konoha High School of Art and Literature at least.
Sasuke, Shikamaru, Chouji, and Neji all began their classes with third period oil painting (yes, oil painting), and by fourth period, they all met up at the lunch room and took their regular seats by the vending machines in the back of the cafeteria.
"So, photography class is next period…," Chouji began, as he took out a salmon sandwich out of a brown paper bag and took a bite, "What –chew- are you gonna –chew- do?"
Sasuke leaned back from the bench he was sitting on, so his back was leaning against the wall. He merely shrugged his shoulders.
"Che, Kakashi's probably too busy reading that perverted book of his to not notice the projects were due today," He said, grabbing his bottle of Aquafina and taking a sip out of it, "He did that a few times already."
Everyone, excluding Sasuke who just gave a small smirk, laughed.
Before they could enjoy themselves a bit longer, two familiar girls approached the guys' table.
"They're heeere!" Chouji exclaimed in an exaggerated sing-song voice as he took another bite out of his sandwich.
Shikamaru stifled a laugh as he scooted near Neji for the girls to sit and placed his elbow on the table, and rested his head on his palm.
The raven-haired teen completely ignored them, and the incoming female juniors.
"Good Morning Sasuke-kun, Shikamaru, Neji, Chouji," The girl with amazingly genuine bubble-gum pink hair and emerald-jade eyes sweetly said as she and her other friend with long blonde hair walked over.
"Hey Sakura, Ino." Chouji greeted as he stuffed the last pieces of his fish sandwich into his mouth.
Shikamaru and Neji gave a small hand wave while Sasuke just nodded in acknowledgement.
The two girls smiled softly before plopping down on the white colored lunch benches.
"So, are you guys gonna enter the competition?" The blonde pony-tailed girl asked after a moment of silence as she placed her elbows on the table and tucked her bangs behind her right ear.
"Oh right, the competition… when's that again?" Shikamaru asked with semi bored-ness while fiddling with a bendy straw in a can of coke.
Ino sighed with annoyance and began to explain as if she had rehearsed it numerous amount of times before. "It's next Friday, and if you want to sign up go ask Kurenai-sensei before this Thursday, tickets are going to be sold out by then."
"Tell me why it's going to be sold out? Isn't it just an art show and a few painting competitions?" Chouji asked, as he stuffed another slice of salmon sandwich into his mouth.
"Well Chouji it is just an art show, well part of it is, but the competition is going to be crazy!" Ino exclaimed, "It's going to be us against the school in Kaminari no Kuni!"
Sakura nodded, "The students there are fierce competitors, and I heard that a lot of them are going to compete against Sai!"
"Sai?" Neji asked, "You know no one can beat him in those painting competitions."
"Yeah, what makes you think these students from Kaminari no Kuni are gonna beat him?" Shikamaru added.
"We didn't say they were going to beat him. But these people look pretty tough; they've got scholarships from around the country!" Sakura slightly defended.
"That sounds pretty –munch- interesting actually," Chouji mused.
"Well we hope to see you guys there, we're definitely going; already bought tickets!" Sakura exclaimed happily.
The guys nodded tiredly at the girls before Chouji noticed his brunette-haired friend take a sip out of a brown paper bag?
"Neji, are you drinking that drink?" The teen asked, before grinning semi-evilly.
"No, what makes you think that?" Neji defended, wiping his mouth with a napkin, "Err, anyways what do you think about that guy? Naruto was it?"
"Oh right, kinda forgot about him there." Shikamaru said tiredly.
"Naruto? Some new kid?" The blonde haired girl asked.
"Yup, new to town, crashed into Sasuke over there and broke one of Kakashi-sensei's cameras." Chouji said with a mouthful of sandwich.
"You mean that camera? The Leica that he always lends you?" Ino exclaimed.
Sasuke's eyebrow twitched at Ino's words before muttering a 'yeah, that's the one'.
"That's a shame…" Sakura whispered, "I wonder why he's entering the school so late, Naruto I mean. School's going to end soon anyways."
There was a silent nod before the bell rang for the next class.
"We better see you next Friday!" Ino stated before grabbing Sakura's free arm and exiting for their next class.
"-Sigh- These girls are too troublesome…," Shikamaru mused before grabbing his books off the table and getting up.
Sasuke smirked before getting up as well and strapping on his messenger bag.
"Let's go Neji, and stop drinking that energy drink already!" Chouji exclaimed taking the paper bagged beverage away from the brunette.
Neji frowned but went on to follow his fellow classmates to their next class.
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The Film and Photography class was probably one of the most 'regular' classes of the entire school. The class was usually dim, due to the odd working lighting and the work in class was usually easy. The class was filled with rolls of developed and undeveloped film and a rack full of expensive professional and digital cameras, a row of ten flat paneled computers with programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Paintshop Pro, Windows Movie Maker, Windows Media Player, and other programs needed to edit pictures or videos, along with group collages of photographs taken by previous Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors.
The room usually smelt like freshly brewed coffee since our dear Kakashi-sensei usually had a large cup of brewed coffee at the edge of his desk every day. Hm, what could you say about him? Many students thought he was sort of strange in a cool way. He was usually seen leisurely sitting on the edge of his desk, face in one of his infamous explicit orange and occasionally red Icha-Icha Paradise/Tactics book. He wears the regular teacher's uniform… whatever the teacher's uniform looked like. Well, I guess you could say a neat workable suit with the jacket, the trousers, et cetera…
The students of his could never figure out why he wore a ski-like mask that covered half of his face, but the students and teachers who had that one in a thousand chance of seeing his face said he was actually quite handsome, despite his mismatched eyes and his amazingly silvery-gravity-defying-spiked hair.
But anyways, when the incoming class entered and got themselves settled and undivided, Kakashi, who apparently was still glued to his book calmly asked everyone to take out their developed pictures and a piece of paper.
"Alright everyone, analyze your pictures and try to see if you have any Principles of Designs: Emphasis, Unity, Balance, Variety, and so on and so forth in them. If you do, then jot it down on your looseleaf paper, and when you're done, place them into your folders along with your photos and I'll collect them by the end of the period…"
Rustles of papers and folders were heard as everybody worked on their assignments.
Sasuke, and the others were sitting in the near back beside the windows and the collages of pictures taken by previous classmen.
Before everyone could continue, or rather even start their work, a light knock was heard, along with the School's Assistant Principle and Nurse, Shizune, who entered the classroom.
"Ahem, Kakashi-san?" She asked softly, catching Kakashi's attention.
The tall sensei looked over to the woman before greeting her with a small wave.
Shizune smiled before walking over and whispering to Kakashi.
He quickly nodded before Shizune walked over to the front of the class and received the class's undivided attention.
"Good morning everyone! I have some good news for you all," She said, motioning someone to enter through the door, "We have a new student today and I hope you'll all be nice to him."
Sasuke's eye twitched at the last sentence as he immediately looked up at the door.
"Could it be him?" Neji whispered.
The door slowly opened to reveal no other than the young blonde from yesterday.
"This is Uzumaki Naruto, and he just moved here yesterday from the upper side of Konoha," Shizune introduced.
Young Naruto was wearing headphones around his neck, an obnoxiously dirty-orange colored hoodie with sleeves rolled up, along with a pair of blue jeans, a dark blue bag that slung around his left shoulder, and the school's uniform which hung on his left arm.
He gave a friendly smile and a wave before walking over to Shizune.
"It's him alright," Shikamaru whispered back.
"Naruto will be taking Commercial Art, the Music Program, and Painting, along with other things, so I hope you won't make Naruto feel too foreign." She said.
"Alright Naruto, why don't you take a seat…," Kakashi began while analyzing the room, "Why don't you take a seat in front of Uchiha Sasuke and his little groupie?"
Naruto's eyes slightly widened at the name, audibly gulped but calmly walked over to the vacant seat in front of the raven-haired teen.
The class which included a seriously energetic and optimistic green-wearing teen, seemed a bit enthusiastic about a new student and greeted him before sitting down.
"Hm, it looks like he'll fit in quite well." Kakashi said before returning his gaze to his book.
Shizune smiled before sighing at the silver-haired sensei.
"Honestly Kakashi-san, you should be focusing more on the class's final tests and not to mention the final projects instead of reading that book of yours. Tsunade-sama wouldn't like that." She slightly lectured.
Kakashi closed his book and slid off the desk, "I guess I'll read this later then."
Shizune took a last glance at orange wearing boy before leaving the room and Kakashi to his class.
"Alright everyone continue what you were doing," The silver-haired man said as he plopped a large stack of worksheets on his desk.
As Naruto finished getting acquainted with a couple of his new classmates, he turned around to face— err rather stare at the raven-haired teen.
"Idiot, why are you staring at me like that?" Sasuke asked, staring directly back at the slightly awed Naruto.
"W-well because I didn't know you were an Uchiha?" Naruto questionably asked.
"Almost everyone knows Sasuke's an Uchiha, how come you're so surprised?" Chouji asked.
"Because my father is working for you," Naruto said bluntly.
Shikamaru and Neji whistled one of those whistles as if a bomb were about to fall down and explode everything in its radius.
"Really," Sasuke said stiffly, 'Well this is interesting…'
"Uh, anyways here's your hundred Ryou," Naruto said brushing the subject off, reaching into his pocket and slamming the crisp paper money on Sasuke's desk.
The stoic teen was about to take the money but was cut off by a sharp voice and a dark hovering shadow…
"Sasuke, what do you think you're doing?" Kakashi asked sternly yet curiously.
"Don't tell me that you're perhaps betting? No wait, gambling?" He asked, arms on his sides.
"Why would you think that we're gambling Kakashi?" Sasuke asked, half cockily.
"Ah Sasuke, you and your cockiness," Kakashi sighed, "I'll see you and Mr. Uzumaki after class to explain your punishment."
With that Kakashi walked over to Naruto and placed a stack of worksheets in front of him.
"Well Naruto, here's all the work we've done so far; it's just a sum up of the history of the camera, the uses of it, the types of cameras, and other things you need to know."
Naruto fell silent and quietly thanked him.
Kakashi calmly walked back to his desk, flipped his explicit book open and resumed his daily readings.
"Man Sasuke, you never have detention," Chouji whispered.
"Like I didn't know Chouji…," Sasuke slightly retorted.
"Maybe you should have told Kakashi-sensei about the camera Sasuke," Shikamaru suggested while paper-clipping his picture to his folder and finished paper.
Sasuke didn't respond.
Naruto didn't move.
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'Great, dad's gonna be happy when he finds out his only son got detention on the first day…,' Naruto thought as he waiting alongside the raven-haired teen in the now empty photography classroom.
'Hmph, at least this'll make me different from… him,' Sasuke mused.
"You do know that I was just kidding about the 'punishment' right?"
"Huh?" Two very perplexed teens exclaimed in unison.
Kakashi 'smiled' before placing his book down on his lap.
"It was a joke, a lame one in fact… but anyways I just wanted you, Sasuke to help Naruto out, tour him around and stuff. And I also want you two to do an assignment together."
The two teens looked at each other before turning their heads to Kakashi.
"Why me of all people?" Sasuke asked.
"Well Sasuke, you are a Film and Photography major," Kakashi started, "And this will be counted as Naruto's first mini-project and your extra credit for college."
Sasuke let out a frustrated groan.
"I won't be THAT much of a bother ya know," Naruto said, narrowing his eyes at the semi-pissed Sasuke.
"Alright, that's enough you two," Kakashi sighed, "Since you two both have a free period right now, I want you guys to go down to the basement and use the large room where they usually have the photo shoots for the students, models, whoever it is and take four frames that of you both that represents: emphasis, contrast, balance, and unity."
"After you're done taking four frames, I want you to edit some of it with the computer and hand it in by tomorrow… now off you go!"
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After a couple of minutes later, the two teens arrived at the large photo studio that was filled with tons of different drop screens, green screens, props, a lot of lighting, a computer that flashed the school's logo, and other things needed for a professional shoot.
"So which one do we do first?" The blonde asked while staring at the extremely large studio with awe.
There was an awkward silence.
"Contrast." "Balance."
"Eh?!" Naruto exclaimed.
"…Why don't we do emphasis first?" The blonde suggested.
"Why emphasis?" Sasuke asked curiously, placing his bag on an empty chair.
"Dunno, sounds cooler," He said genuinely.
"Do you even know what it means?" The raven-haired boy asked.
Naruto thought for a moment before shaking his head.
Sasuke snorted, "Gods Naruto, you've got to be one of the most interesting guys I've ever met."
"At least my hair isn't as interesting as yours, Sasuke."
"What?"
A/N: Bwahaha, that was a weird chapter... I really have no clue where I'm going with this. And I'm not even sure if that's what you do in photography class… haha. I hope this chapter isn't confusing o.o; If it is, then I'll try to straighten everything out in the next chapter. And I don't know where I got the salmon sandwich from. I guess it's because my mom was cooking salmon…
Thanks for reading!
-Miharu (: