A/ N: This is Maxie here to present the 2nd chapter of our story! (if you wonder who we are, please check our profile kudasai.) Please remember to read and review because every single one of them counts. Plus they make me happy and smily ... not counting flames...I don't like flames, they make me sad... so no flames please, although we accept strong critiques and suggestions. Oh yeah, Hiroki is an original character, not based on Haku and also this story will be in Naruto's pov.

Disclaimer: We do not own Naruto because if we did, the fillers would have stop right when it started and Sasuke and Naruto would have kiss more than once.

Warning: Although it's not evident in this chapter, this story will contain shounen-ai (boy love) so if you start reading and stop suddenly in the middle and think, " Omg, are they gay? ewwwww." then I suggest you press the back button now. remember no one is forcing you.

Chapter 2: Naruto

Boiled water. Check.

A pair of chopsticks. Check.

A jumbo cup of seafood flavor ramen that's just begging to be eaten. Check.

… And a starving stomach that has been growling ever since lunch. Check.

I quickly walked over to the stove where the kettle of hot, steamy water stood and picked it up by the handle with careful hands and I cautiously positioned it over the opening of the ramen cup.

I watched as the water fill up the cup and stopped when it reach the line.

I love ramen. I thought cheerfully as I let out a hearty sigh.

I closed the flap over the cup as I sat down and waited another three painfully long minutes.

My name's Uzumaki Naruto and I live a simple life.

I live in a simple apartment with simple furniture and wear simple clothes.

I've been living by myself ever since the start of high school and work part time as a waiter in a noodle restaurant.

I love working in the noodle restaurant.

You get discounts and plus the boss was nice. Well, most of the time but sometimes, she would let me bring home some leftover ramen. How wonderful is that?

"Ramen-san, are u done yet?" I said as I pouted.

Instant ramen is god. Still, do we really have to wait so long for it to be done cooking?

As I bit into the delicious delicacy, I thought of what has happen today morning.

"..."

It was dead silent. You could literally hear a pin drop upon the floor and hear the sound as it echoes through it.

"Oh boy…" I muttered under my breath as I walked over to where the clueless Hiroki stood with a giant smile on his face glad that he got a person out.

All eyes were on him.

"What? She was wide open when her rage was directed towards Uchiha," he said as he shrugged.

Well, you see, this is the trouble of being the new kid.

You don't know the inside rules of the school.

There are many, many rules in Konoha Academy such as to never sneak a peek in Kakashi- sensei's pocket-sized orange book. You never accept Lee's offer to 'jog a few blocks in the morning for the sake of our youth' or in this case to never hit the head cheerleader, Haruno Sakura, with a big, red, bouncy, ball.

I put my hand on Hiroki's shoulder preparing for the outburst that Sakura was going to release for blemishing her 'precious body.'

I look over at Sasuke from the corner of my right eye to see what his reaction was.

He's rolling his eyes!

…And is that a scoff?

How can you roll your eyes and scoff when you know your fellow classmate is going to be under the wrath of your evil girlfriend?

Do something, Sasuke-teme! I screamed in my mind.

Oh wait, Sakura's moving.

She's came closer and closer as if death was inching upon us.

She stopped right in front of us.

What is she going to do now?

She looked at Hiroki with a blank look on her face.

Sakura looked at him for a good five seconds and scoffed as she walked out of the gym.

The atmosphere was tense as the spoiled princess failed her arms in frustration.

He got off lucky…

The smile is wiped off his face.

Hiroki looks totally oblivious as to what happened.

The whole class started to whisper and talked about the incident.

Even Gai looked slightly amused and jotted something down on his student planner before he blew the whistle and ordered everyone to pick up where they left off.

I quickly whispered a short summary of who Sakura was and what he just had done.

Hiroki looked like a confused, little puppy.

I stayed with Hiroki for the rest of the day.

Well, I only have three periods with him.

Ding Dong.

I wonder who that could be.

I walked over and look in the peephole and saw a cheerful Hiroki with a picnic basket.

Wait a minute!

A picnic basket!

I let him in.

"Hey... What's up? What's with the picnic basket?"

"Well my dearest friend, Naruto… This isn't just any old picnic basket! It's our first picnic basket so that means we're going on a picnic right now to celebrate my first day, surviving Konoha Academy!" Hiroki concluded in an enthusiastic tone.

My ramen cup is in the kitchen and it's half eaten.

Should I accept his offer?

I saw how happy and eager he looked so I accepted his offer and put my ramen in the fridge before grabbing my jacket and walked down to the park.

We sat down under the shade of a large tree and I looked on with eager eyes as he pulled out all sorts of delicious looking food.

"Wow Hiroki. This looks delicious," I commented.

I dip a sushi in the cup of soy sauce and tasted it.

"Wah, it tastes so good. Where did you learn to cook like this?" I said and continued to eat with star crossed eyes.

"Thank you but it's nothing really. Hehe. I just threw a bunch of old things together. Besides, you helped me a lot by showing me around the neighborhood, telling me the rules and everything."

He grinned and put his hand on the back of head as he looked at me eat.

"Eat some! Here have some sushi." I picked up the sushi and dip it in the soy sauce before I brought it up to Hiroki's mouth and pressed against it. I watched as his mouth opened up and closed as the sushi disappeared into it.

Oh.

My.

God.

I just fed a guy.

Oh god, what if he thinks I'm queer or something? It's not an everyday thing for a guy to feed another guy!

Immediately, I lowered my head.

I was afraid that he would look at me in disgust or something.

A good few seconds pass before I sneaked a peek and saw …a blush?

He's blushing!

This is kind of awkward.

I look past him and saw Sasuke walking down the road. Phew, I let out a sigh of relief glad I had some distraction.

"Sasuke!" I shouted, I hoped that he would hear me and that, he did.

He walked over to us with his dark, silky, bangs that framed his face while it moved with the autumn breeze.

The elegant air of an Uchiha surrounded him as he looked over at us with his curious, dark orbs.

"Sit down." I said as I patted the ground beside me.

Even though Sasuke's my greatest enemy, he's also considered as one of my closest friends in some sort of twisted, weird kind of way. It's like I would know what he's thinking about and what mood is he in... most of the time anyway.

He has this inquiring look and raised a perfectly arched eyebrow as if expecting me to answer his unasked question before even saying anything else.

"We're having a picnic." I stated as if that would've answer all of his questions.

I could've sworn that he muttered a 'dobe' under his breath.

"Sasu-chan. Have a rice ball." Hiroki said as he passed over the fat, plump, molded, triangular rice ball.

He called him Sasu-chan?

What kind of guy calls another guy chan?

…And we're talking about Sasuke here!

No one, I seriously mean no one ever called him Sasu-chan, not even Sakura, his girlfriend.

I looked over to see his reaction.

It was just as I had expected, Sasuke looked kind of irked and glared at Hiroki.

Hiroki, being the clueless person that he is, looked on animatedly as if he was testing Sasuke's temper.

"Thanks but I already ate." Sasuke laid the rice ball down and prepared to leave.

"Leaving already? You just got here!" Hiroki really didn't know whom he was dealing with as he tried to persuade to let Sasuke stay.

"Ha-ha. It's ok. We could finish all the stuff anyway, right? If Sasuke doesn't want to eat your cooking, then that's his lost. Don't worry about him." I gave him a reassuring smile before I offered to walk Sasuke down to his house, which was right down the road.

I told Hiroki I'll be back in five minutes.

So it's was just the two of us, Sasuke and Naruto; Naruto and Sasuke.

"You know... I didn't think that there's actually a bigger idiot than you out there and here I thought that it was impossible." Sasuke glanced over at me as he smirked.

"Hey! I'm not an idiot and neither is Hiroki. He's just new around here and obviously didn't know you're the 'ice prince' who's incapable of being friendly for even two minutes," I retorted.

"That's the perfect match. An idiot with another idiot! I could just imagine your conversations," Sasuke continued smirking before he started to mimic my voice;

"Is that a butterfly? I wonder why they call it a butterfly."

Then he quickly switched to match Hiroki's voice which was very high and pitchy as he so thought of it;

"I have no idea, Naruto. I always thought it was butter that have wings!" Sasuke looked very amused.

It surprised me on how amused he can get while insulting me whereas the funniest of jokes didn't even leave so much as a small grin on him.

What am I?

His source of amusement or something?

He makes me so mad sometimes.

"Well, have fun with your date, Naruto," Sasuke smirked even more as we stood in front of his house.

"A date! Me- uh Hiroki? What? Date? Of course not!" I stuttered on as he opened his door.

"If you say so..." Sasuke winked before closing the door right in front of my face.

What? Da- da- date?

Is that how the picnic looks like?

No of course not. Idiot, teasing me, grrr Sasuke- teme.

Hiroki welcomed me back and we finished up our food and went our separate ways home.

It's was peaceful night.

It was so calm and serene...

Then out of nowhere I remember Sasuke's wink...

He used his left eye.

It was a fast, teasing wink... with a fast, teasing smirk. I put my hand on my cheeks and feel it slightly warm.

Oh my god. Am I blushing over his wink?

What's wrong with me today?

Well, first I fed Hiroki, and then I blushed because Sasuke winked at me?

Ahhhh! Well they look like girls anyways so it doesn't matter. Nope, it doesn't mean a thing at all.

For some strange unknown reason, I replayed Sasuke's wink in my mind many many times as I drifted off to dreamland...

(For a non smiling jerk, Sasuke actually doesn't look half bad...)

Where's Hiroki?

It was lunch time and Hiroki was no where to be found. How strange…

I tried texting him, calling him, and asking people if they have any idea where he is...

If it were any other person, I wouldn't have mind this much if I can't find them during lunch but this was Hiroki we're talking about.

In one day, he managed to piss off two of the most popular kids in school. I just can't let him out of my sight.

What if some bully decided to start a fight with him?

Hiroki can't fight! He doesn't believe in violence and all that junk.

Oh god... I opened the gym door and couldn't believe what I saw…

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