A/N: Read and review people! ^~^ Hope you like it.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Naruto or Junjou Romantica characters.
Warning: Yaoi (malexmale), crude language, sexual content
Rated: NC-17
Pairing: Nowaki Kusama x Naruto Uzumaki
Summary: Falling in love while oncoming danger was literally riding your ass was kind of hard if you asked Naruto. Good thing Nowaki was a pretty strange guy, but then again, so was he.
Books are Boring
Chapter 2: Old Friends
Naruto ran down the hallways looking for his stupid homeroom class that he was currently having trouble finding. He passed several rooms until he reached the one he was looking for and refrained from doing a happy dance. The blond yanked it open and stepped inside, immediately kneeling down and putting his forehead to the ground.
"Gomen, sensei! I am sorry for being exactly forty-five minutes and thirty-two seconds late! Please, do not kick me out of your class! It will not happen again! I promise!"
Naruto didn't care if he looked like a fool, he didn't care if the entire class was laughing at him. No, because he needed this class, he needed to pass and get his degree. Naruto heard steps coming towards him and he instinctively shut his eyes, readying himself for any oncoming blows. Suddenly, the stepping stopped and he peeked up hesitantly.
"Hm, you must be Uzumaki Naruto I assume?"
"Yes sir!"
"I'll let this tardiness slide this time, seeing as though you really want to stay, but please do get off the ground Uzumaki, you look rather pathetic." Naruto quickly shot up off the ground and dusted himself of, smoothing any wrinkles he had on his plain white dress shirt. He had taken his dark blue jacket off before going inside the building and it was stuffed inside the bottom of his backpack.
"Thank you so much sensei!" Naruto thanked him, bowing slightly at his brown haired teacher who in return just closed his eyes and nodded, waving him off to go and take his seat.
"Sit down anywhere you like." Naruto looked around the room before going to sit down. The only seat that was not already vacant was the one next to a brunette with wide, green eyes. He seemed to be the one amongst the crowd not laughing at him, but he was among the ones that were openly staring at him. Naruto took off his backpack and sat down. He rummaged through the book holder and took out his journal and a pen, placing it on top of the desk.
Misaki couldn't believe this his eyes and he inspected the blond closer and realized that the the guy who lived down the hall from them was in his class. If he was here than that must mean that this Naruto kid was around his age. If that was true then what was he doing with that little boy earlier this morning? He couldn't have had a child at such a young age and live in such an expensive apartment.
"Like I was saying, my name is Kamijou Hiroki. I am Miyagi-san's assistant and as you can see he is not here this morning, and whenever he is not here I will take his place. You will do what I say, when I say it. If I say jump, you will not ask why, you will ask how high, got it? We will not be easy teachers, so be ready." Hiroki said menacingly, glowering down at the teenagers. All the students gulped except for Naruto, who was furiously writing down notes on his journal.
"Also, I expect everyone, and I mean everyone," Hiroki stressed while looking pointedly at Naruto, "to be on time and ready to learn. If you're not here, the-"
"Hiroooooo-chaaaann!"
Their teacher's eye twitched and a scowl quickly formed on his face. The cause of his rude interruption came from the door. A handsome man with jet black hair and dark-violet eyes had come in. The newcomer walked in and waved at them cheerfully, a huge shit-eating grin on his face.
"Good morning class! I hope Hiroki-chan over here isn't being such a prick!" The man bellowed jovially while patting the disgruntled brunette's shoulder. Some of the students snickered and out right laughed. Hiroki turned red with anger and he glared at this co-worker with malice.
"Miyagi-san! How many times have I told you not to do this every time we have new students?" The brunette growled while shoving the hand away from him. Miyagi ignored his words and proceeded wrapping an arm around his shoulders while smiling at the bemused students.
"I'm Miyagi Yo, but you can just call me Miyagi, it's nice to meet you all!" No one gave him a response, well, except for-
"Ohayo, Miyagi-sensei!" Naruto's smiled never faltered, not even when Hiroki's venomous glare was directed at him. Miyagi smiled at him and walked towards him.
"I've never seen you around campus before, what's your name boy?"
"Uzumaki Naruto, sir." The blond replied with a Cheshire grin threatening to split his face. Miyagi rubbed his chin in thought and tried to recall where he had heard that name before.
"Uzumaki Naruto…" The raven muttered, repeating the name under his lips and tried hard to remember. He heard that last name before, but he just couldn't remember where for the life of him. He shrugged his shoulders and decided to look more into it later. Right now, he had a cute blond to embarr- I mean to talk to. Nothing suspicious with that right?
"You're kinda short for you age aren't you?"
Hiroki slapped his own forehead. That idiot…
Naruto's smile twitched and looked a bit strenuous on his face but continued on smiling. Before he could lash out at the man the bell rang. The blond stood up and grabbed his journal, putting on his backpack with a roll of his shoulder. Miyagi chuckled and ruffled his already untamed hair fondly. The raven practically bounced back to Hiroki who was announcing something to the class.
"Tomorrow, you will need a journal and a pen! Be ready to write."
After that, Naruto began to leave. He took out his schedule and looked it over. Hatake Kakashi in Room 205 for College Algebra.
"Matte! Naruto-san!"
The blond stopped walking and turned around, noticing he brown haired boy he had sat next to was running towards him. The stranger finally stopped in front of him and looked at him nervously.
"Hi, I'm Takahashi Misaki, I live right next to you." Naruto blinked owlishly at him and his eyes suddenly shone, enlightenment clear in his hazy mind as he remembered the boy from this morning.
"Oh! You were the kid from this morning! I'm sorry we didn't properly get to greet each other, I was just so busy." Misaki smiled and nodded in understanding.
"It's alright. Oh, um, you forgot your pen." The brunette held out the smooth, black pen to the blond and Naruto took it from his grasp.
"Thanks so much! Well, I wish I could talk to you more but I have to go to class." Naruto said apologetically. Misaki took out his own schedule from his pocket and skimmed it over.
"What class do you have next?"
"College Algebra with Hatake Kakashi in Room 205."
"Cool, me too. I'll go with you."
They made their way to the room, seemingly a bit easier for Naruto since all he had to do was follow his possible new friend. When they arrived, the teacher had yet to come so they just sat down in the back where there was no one there. A few minutes later, most of the class was already seated and chatting happily amongst each other as they continued to wait for class to begin. The bell rung and the teacher still wasn't there.
Naruto tapped his index finger on the desk impatiently.
"Where is he?" He growled while looking around anxiously. Misaki shrugged his shoulders and continued to drum his fingers against the wooden desk. Naruto opened his journal and started to doodle agitatedly.
"You wanna hang out after school, Naruto?" Without looking up form his doodling, Naruto shook his head as a negative.
"Can't. I have to look for a job after school."
"A job?"
"Yeah, I need to pay for food, clothes, bills, and supplies. You know, the usual."
Job.
A job.
Of course Misaki knew what a job was. He had just been lucky to never need one. He had been too young to work when he was with his older brother, Takahiro, but now he lived with Usagi-san and that pervert took care of all the bills while he just cooked and cleaned. So, it kind of made sense that he didn't have to have a job, but Naruto…..
"Who was that little boy that was with you this morning?"
"He's my little brother." Misaki blinked astoundingly. So, Naruto didn't have a son, but still, why was he with him if he had to go to school? Couldn't his parents have done whatever Naruto had to do with his little brother?
"If you left for school at the same time I did, then why were you late?" Misaki didn't mean to be nosy, but he was extremely curious.
"I went to drop him off at school."
"Why couldn't your parents do that?" Naruto abruptly stopped doodling and his eyes glazed over as he looked blankly at the stick figure he had drawn fighting an alien. The blond gulped and proceeded on with his doodling.
"We don't have parents…." Misaki flushed and his heart suddenly felt heavy.
"G-Gomenasai, Naruto! I didn't know!" The blond smiled and shook his head.
"It's alright, Misaki." The brunette cast his head down so that he bangs over-shadowed his eyes, a sudden wave of guilt, sorrow, and understanding washing over him.
"I too lost my parents in a car crash."
"I'm sorry."
"It's alright, at least I have my big brother, Takahiro." Naruto smiled softly at the mention of Misaki's older brother.
"You must be really lucky to have someone to support you." They stayed silent after that.
So Naruto had to support his brother as well as himself without any help at all? That was a lot of responsibility to handle. He was lucky to have a strong-willed brother and a loving, perverted, rich boyfriend. Now that he thought about it, he hadn't had to work a day in his life. Only one word popped into his self-conscious.
Lazy.
"Okay class, settle down!" Naruto threw his hands up in the air.
"Finally!"
A smoky gray eye lazily looked at him blankly before disregarding him altogether and running a hand through his hair as he looked up at the mass of students sitting in their seats.
"Anyway, I am Hatake Kakashi and I will be your College Algebra teacher this semester. We'll go down the row and introduce ourselves. For example, you already know my name, I don't have many hobbies, my dreams are none of your business, I don't like many things, and I dislike…..all of you."
Everyone looked at him, befuddled. Kakashi pointed to a girl in the front who had pale blond hair.
"Go."
She rolled here eyes and sighed exasperatedly, but stood up nonetheless.
"My name is Yamanaka Ino, my hobbies are dating, partying, and taking care of plants. My dream is to be a world famous botanist, I like flowers and cute guys, and I dislike people with huge foreheads." The blond girl said while looking pointedly at a girl with pink hair who was sitting a few desks away from her. They glared at one another and she growled ominously.
"You, pineapple head, go." Kakashi said while taking out a small orange book from his back pocket.
The silver haired man was sitting at his desk, his mask-covered nose was buried in a little orange book. Naruto recognized it was one of Jiraiya's 'works of art'. Pervert, the blond thought briskly. He went back to watching the rest of the students. This time, it was a boy who had his head on the desk and was snoring softly.
"Somebody wake him up." Kakashi said lazily, still not looking up. Ino rolled her eyes once again, and elbowed the brunette seated next her. He grunted and slowly raised his head, his eyes squinted as the bright light burned his sensitive orbs.
"What?" He hissed at the girl while rubbing his eyes with the backs of his hands. Ino, already used to it, just glared at him.
"Introduce yourself, lazy-ass." He gave a heavy sigh and slowly stood up.
"My name is Nara Shikamaru, my hobbies are sleeping and watching clouds. My dream is for everyone to leave me alone and let me go to sleep in peace, I like sleeping and I dislike it when women start nagging at me." He sat back sown and immediately went back to sleep.
"Next."
The time, it was a chubby boy who was eating a bag of potatoe chips.
"My name is Akimichi Choji, my hobbies are eating. My dream is to be one of the world's greatest chef. I like all kinds of food and I dislike people who call me fat." He sat back down and resumed eating. Kakashi waved his hand and a guy with brown, spiky hair and two red, upside down triangles on his cheeks stood up.
"Hiya! My name is Inuzuka Kiba, my hobbies are-"
The sound of a door being opened cut him off. Everyone turned towards the entrance way.
"Sorry I'm late, my plane arrived late." A deep velvety voice said spoke as he entered the class, closing he door behind him softly. Ino and the pink-haired girl gasped and squealed in delight. Naruto's eyes widened and he was almost tempted to jump out the window. Kakashi finally looked up from his book and waved lazily for the stranger to take a seat.
"You must be Uchiha Sasuke I presume?" The raven nodded in affirmative and calmly walked to the back, his dark coal eyes trained solely on the blond who was looking around for a possible escape. Naruto looked around frantically for another empty seat other than the one right next to him. He groaned when he saw the only other empty seat was right next to the pinkhaired girl who was currently making goo-goo eyes at the raven.
"Mind if I sit here?"
Naruto froze and his eyes widened. Misaki looked worriedly at him before looking up at the new student and nodded.
"I'm sure he wouldn't mind." The raven nodded and sat down next to the blond teenager. Naruto didn't even dare move an inch as he tensed up. He droned out his classmate's voices in favor of concentrating on his hands that were currently resting on the desk. All he recalled was that guy with dark glasses was named Aburame Shino and he had some kind of infatuation with bugs. Then there was this girl who kept glancing his way and blushed each time they made eye contact, her name was Hyuuga Hinata. The pink haired girl that kept on ogling Sasuke was named Haruno Sakura.
"Naruto, it's your turn."
The blonde snapped out of his musings when he heard Misaki call out his name.
"What?"
"It's your turn." The brunette repeated.
"Oh."
Naruto got up and ignored Sasuke's gaze, licking his suddenly dry lips before speaking.
"My name is Uzumaki Naruto, my hobbies are….working? Yeah, working and taking care of my little brother. My dreams are…I don't have any dreams. I like ramen and my little brother, I dislike it when my little brother cries."
Naruto sat back down at the same time Sasuke got up without a missing a beat.
"My name is Uchiha Sasuke, my hobbies are reading and watching out for someone….special to me. My dream is to take over my brother's business. I like tomatoes and I dislike people." The raven sat back down and everyone was silent. The bell suddenly rang and everyone got up. Kakashi put away his reading material and stood up.
"Tomorrow we will get down to business so be ready."
Naruto hurriedly picked up his stuff and grabbed Misaki's hand and quickly ran to the door. They ran down the hall and around the corner and through the crowd of people before the blond halted suddenly and tried to catch his breath.
"What's wrong Naruto?" Misaki asked, raising an eyebrow. Naruto smiled at him reassuringly.
"Nothing's wrong, I just thought that we should get to class a little bit early." They had checked each other's schedule and noticed that they had all the same classes except for their third, fourth, and fifth period. Misaki held his gaze but let it go, choosing not to pry any further. The two went to go inside, but sudden pale had grabbed Naruto's shoulder, preventing the blond from moving.
"Naruto." A voice hissed as the grip on his shoulder tightened. Naruto tensed and laughed nervously before slowly turning around and smiled sheepishly up at a glowering Sasuke.
"Haha, hiya Sasuke. Long time no see, huh?"
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