A/N: First off I want to thank those of you who reviewed added this story to your favs and alerts it means a lot to me guys. Here is Chappy number two. Hope you enjoy it's a little shorter than the first chp, but I feel it ended in a good place.

DISCLAIMER: Don't own the NARUTO Franchise. Though I wish I did.

Playful kiss

Chapter two: Fates laugh

Naruto

I felt like crying as his words resonated in my head like a mantra. Why did this have to happen to me? The murmurs of other people's voices were getting to me.

"Did she really just confess to Sasuke-kun?" one girl whispered to another.

"She must have major guts to do such a thing." Another responded.

I felt so bad about this. My eyes felt watery. His words like a knife to my heart.

"I hate, stupid girls." He said in a cold tone.

Why did I have to write him a stupid love letter?

This is how it started.

~~'~~

That morning I looked over the letter about a dozen times to check for grammatical mistakes. I really tried hard to impress him. I prayed that deep down he would be impressed with the thoughtful words of heart put into the letter, but no I was dead wrong.

I placed the letter in his locker that morning I made sure that I put my name on it and my cellphone number. I didn't want to lose faith that this would work out and Sasuke-kun would be mine.

I waited almost all day for his response. I was nervous as butterflies swarmed my stomach. I didn't even know if he had read the letter yet.

It was during lunch time when I was sitting with Temari and Hinata that the worst day of my life happened.

Sasuke passed by and my stomach was instantly in knots. He didn't stop though as he made it up the stairs. Temari puffed at the bastard and started yelling my name like she had the other day.

"Namikaze Naruto!" she started. "Namikaze…!" she paused. "Naruto!" she yelled again. It was on her fourth yell that Sasuke turned around when he was at the top of the stairs. He placed his arms on the bar at the top balcony looking down. He looked so cool and I couldn't help the blush that spread my cheeks.

He pulled a paper out of his pocket and walked down the stairs again. When I looked at the paper in his hands it was the letter I had wrote to him. I had chosen the best paper I had. I cringed at the expressionless look in his eyes.

"Did you write this?" he asked me and I stood up in hopes that maybe he felt the same. I nodded my head once as a yes. I couldn't open my mouth as much as I wanted to ask him what he thought.

He handed me the letter back and my hopes soared that maybe he wrote his response back.

"Should I read it now?" I asked him.

He nodded his head yes. I gave him a smile and opened the letter. My smile fell when I looked at the piece of paper. "What is this?" I asked in disbelief. It was now that I realized that there was a group around us looking at the events taking place.

It was when Ino walked up to me and snatched the paper out of my hands and began to read. She started laughing so hard. "Oh my god she wrote him a love letter and Sasuke just corrected it as if it were a test paper." She laughed again. "He gave her a D-"she laughed again. My face had to be red from embarrassment.

"I hate, stupid girls." He said and I felt my world crumbling as I didn't know what to do in this predicament. All I could hear were the murmurs of the girls.

"How dare you?" Garra said as he snatched the letter from Ino. "Who told you that you can embarrass my Naruto-san like this?" Garra said sticking up for me. "Apologize to her." He demanded to Sasuke.

Sasuke just glared at Garra with his onyx orbs and was going to turn around to go back up the stairs.

"I said apologize to her you jerk." Garra said getting impatient as he swung a punch at Sasuke. Sasuke dodged the punch quickly and quirked an eyebrow. "You cocky son of a bitch, apologize to her for humiliating her like this."

"I don't want to." Sasuke said coldly.

I felt my heart sink to my feet. How could this be happening to me? It wasn't supposed to be this way.

"Why you bastard, Come on let's fight." Garra said bringing up his fists, before the fight could even begin principal Ōnoki walked into the room. The principal looked at the two who were going to fight.

"What is going on here?" Principal Ōnoki said. When he saw that one of the students involved in the commotion was no other than Uchiha Sasuke he stopped and smiled. "Sasuke why don't you go on ahead to study hall and I'll deal with the bad apples." He said giving Sasuke another smile.

Sasuke nodded his head in understanding, but still acted like his indifferent self.

"Why are you letting him go like nothing? It isn't fair." Garra said looking at the major turn of eye that had just happened.

"Sabaku no Garra this being your first year at this school and you are causing a lot more trouble than is worth. Uchiha Sasuke is a prized pupil. I know he isn't the type to get into fights. Unlike you and what is written in your record." The principal explained.

It still wasn't fair. All Garra tried to do was defend me. I still felt like crap and his act of chivalry only added to make me embarrassed. I just hoped everything would get better after today.

~~'~~

I was extremely depressed. I got turned down by Sasuke in front of the whole school. I knew that for a while my life was going to be tortured. The stupid girls will never let me live it down.

Temari and Hinata didn't want to let me come home alone so they joined me. Garra being Garra followed as well and now we were in my house. Thank goodness it was the weekend and I wouldn't need to deal with the drama until Monday.

"Naruto I am glad your home." My dad said with a smile.

"Hello Namikaze-San" Temari and Hinata said respectfully and curtly bowed. Garra did the same, but addressed my father in a different way.

"Nice to see you again Tou-san."

"So what do you guys think of the place?" My father asked them. They looked around taking in the new house.

"This place is amazing. It's so western." Temari said looking at the western looking house.

"The place is really nice Namikaze-san." Hinata said.

"Naruto it's perfect." Garra said with a smile. I wondered what was going on in his mind.

"I am glad you decided to bring your friends today. I made tons of food." My father said while leading us to the dining room.

It was as if my father knew I was having a bad day. On the table was a major spread of all my favorite foods. Not to mention my dad's award winning noodles.

"Man I felt like I haven't had your dad's noodles in a year." Temari said eyeing the table.

"Help yourselves guys. I am grateful to you guys for being such good friends to my little girl." Dad said proudly.

"Dad!" I said in happily that at least he knew how to make this day just a little better.

We were all sitting at the table. It was a very nice thing for my dad to do.

"Wow these are amazing noodles. I know good noodles too, my granny chiyo has a noodle shop back in Suna. These have to be up there." Garra said enjoying the taste of the noodles. "Do I taste a hint of squid ink in these?" He asked.

"You have a sensitive pallet." My dad said with a smile.

"Is it just me or is the table a little slanted?" Temari asked as she placed her cup on the table and it slid a little.

"Of course not, why would the table be slanted?" My father said brushing off the idea of his perfect house being slanted.

There was a small tremor that hit the house, making the house release a creaking sound.

"Is the house supposed to creak like that?" Hinata asked.

"This house is sturdy as ever. It's built better than the other houses on this block." My father boasted.

It was when the tremors became larger that I started to panic.

"Dad there is an earthquake, we have to get out of here." It was when the house started to have beams falling down and the walls crumbling.

We all ran out of the house trying to escape the death trap. It was when my dad slapped his head and ran back into the house.

"Dad whatever it is let it go!" I yelled at him, but he brushed me off and ran into the house.

"I have to get Kushina." He yelled as he disappeared in the falling building.

I felt like I was falling. It was possible that I not only lost my home, but a possibility of losing my father due to this earthquake. The police and firefighters were on their way to the house.

"DAD!" I yelled calling to him. I wanted to run into the house just to make sure he was okay. Garra saw the distress on my face as the tears were falling. He ran into the house like a lunatic and wasn't giving up.

"That little brother of mine is insane." Temari said as she watched the act of lunacy here brother just did. Hinata hugged me trying to give me a comfort.

When the firefighters finally managed to get in the house Garra had already pulled my father out who was holding mom's shrine. I ran to my father and hugged him. He had scared the living day lights out of me. I really thought I was going to lose him.

The moment in where we were screaming for joy over the near death experience was recorded by the local news crew. We looked around the block to see that the only house to actually receive devastating damage was ours.

"We'll figure something out." My father said as he hugged me tight.

"Dad I was so scared that I was going to lose you." I told him through tears. He hugged me tighter.

"I am fine." He reassured me.

That night we stayed in a hotel. I wasn't so sure what was going to happen with us from now on.

~~'~~

(Monday morning)

"What are you guys going to do? Your dad practically spent all his savings on that house." Temari said as she and Hinata met me up so we could walk to school.

"I am really sorry for that Naruto-neechan." Hinata said with sympathy.

"Well dad got a phone call from some old friend. His friend offered us to stay in their house." I told them.

Click, click.

"What was that sound?" Temari asked. We all looked around to see a women wearing a scarf on her head as well as dark shades taking pictures with a camera.

"Looks like your famous already." Temari joked. I just glared at Temari as we continued to make it to the school building.

"Give a donation of love!" a guy's voice yelled over a megaphone. "Anything at all will help Namikaze Naruto. She lost her home." The voice said again.

My face turned white. This was not happening to me. My luck seemed to be getting worse and worse by each passing day. When I saw who organized the rally, my face turned bright red.

"Garra!" I yelled at him as I walked over to him and grabbed him by the collar. "Stop this! I don't need all of this!" He was pushing my limits. I wasn't some kind of charity case.

It was like more bad luck was going to hit me when Sasuke started coming closer. I hid behind the pillar. I wasn't ready to see him not after what happened with the love letter. It would be too embarrassing to face him.

"Hey! Uchiha bastard this is all your fault!" Garra yelled at Sasuke. I face palmed myself at his bluntness. He didn't always used to be so blunt.

It seemed Sasuke had ignored him.

"I am talking to you Uchiha bastard. It's all your fault that my precious Naruto-san is having such bad luck. You cursed her didn't you? After you declined her all these bad things happened. She even lost her house." Garra continued.

"Are you saying I am the cause of a level five earthquake?" Sasuke said sarcastically.

"You might as well have been after you placed a curse on her. All this bad luck came upon her. You should at least help out in her cause." Garra said motioning one of the boxes in where they were collecting money in.

"All I have to do is give some money and you'll leave me alone?" Sasuke said taking out his wallet. That was where I stepped out from behind the pillar and walked over to them. I stopped him before he put the money in the box.

"Keep your money." I said angrily. "I don't need it. You are using that as an excuse to look down on people. I may not be as smart as you are, but I know that I can do anything I set my mind to." I told him proudly. If there was one thing I was proud of that was being able to reach limits I had been told were impossible to reach.

"Really, how about we make a bet?" Sasuke said. I looked at him and thought hard I could do anything I put my mind to.

"What do you have in mind?" I asked him.

"Next terms test. You pass and I'll personally carry you on my back a lap around the school. You fail and you don't ever bother me again." He said threateningly.

"Deal, I will pass the next exams and make it into study hall. I'll prove that to you. A student from class 3-F can make it into study hall. Then you can't call me stupid." I told him with a humph.

"Deal." He said and turned on his heel and towards the school.

What the hell did I just get myself into?

~~'~~

"Who is this friend we are going to stay with? And why haven't I met them before?" I asked my father as we were in the van on our way to his supposed friend's house.

"He's my best friend. We used to live together before like a family and everything." My father smiled as if savoring the nostalgia. "He and his family moved away when we were still teenagers, so after that we lost touch. He saw the news when our house fell and he immediately recognized me and offered to let us stay with him and his family, such a nice guy." My father smiled once again.

"Seems like you loved this guy more than you loved mom." I joked and his face turned sour.

"Fuga was always the serious one of the two of us. Not to mention he met your mom as well. I almost fought him for your mom's love. But obviously we know the winner in that one." My father added boastfully.

"Dad your kind of lame when it comes to picking up women." I told him honestly.

"Well not everyone can have great looks like me. Unfortunately for me, my social skills with women is subpar." He said with a sigh.

"Are you sure you know where you're going?" I asked him.

"Of course, I know these streets like the back of my hand."

"Are you sure? These streets look really dark." I said looking at the darkened streets.

"These are the exact directions Fuga gave me. I am sure he wouldn't give me false directions. Looks like this is the house." He said stopping the van in front of a house.

"This guy must be loaded by the looks of this house." I said while admiring the huge estate where we stopped the car.

My father parked the van and got out going to the houses intercom. He pushed the button and the video turned on.

"Hello?" a female voice said sweetly.

"Umm yes is this Fugaku's home. I am Minato." My father said politely.

"Oh yes Minato, we've been waiting for you. I am so excited to have you living with us. I just unlocked the gate so come on in." The woman chirped happily.

"Okay thank you." My father said ending the intercom call. "Looks like this is the place, I'll take this in now so try taking in what you can." My father said as he walked onto the property.

I walked over to the back seat of the van getting my book bag and my stuffed fox. "Looks like we're starting in a new place Kurama," I told the stuffed nine tailed fox.

"Is there anything you need help with?" a voice came from the gate.

"No I think I can handle everything." I said politely. I turned to look in the direction of the voice and I screamed dropping not only my bag but Kurama. "What are you doing here?" I said with shocked eyes as I pointed at the person.

It was just my luck. I had to have done so many bad things in a past life to deserve such a shitty new one. I looked over at the plaque near the intercom. On the gold plaque was written the surname of Uchiha.

I had walked right straight into my enemy's home. How was I going to survive living in the same house as the love of my life? Holy shit!

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