Chapter 2: First Day
AHHHHHHH! I'm so sorry. I'm in band, so I have so much practice...plus work...plus a 2 week vacation without internet...I was dying! NO INTERNET!...so...I'm terribly sorry about the freaking late update...I'm not giving up! I promise! I have a whole week of nothing but watching an empty house...so I should do better...Hey, DC was fun for July, 4th though!...anys...
DISCLAIMER: I do not, sadly, own Naruto…I do, however, own 50 posters in my room. 20 of which are Naruto…
Warnings: Not much...AU...maybe some OCs...idk...not much...if any...
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939
"DUDE! WAKE UP!" somebody yelled from above Naruto. The blond opened his eyes and looked around him. People were standing around him looking at him oddly. The guy who shouted was kneeling down next to him. Naruto looked at the boy. He had short brown hair and brown eyes. What Naruto noticed most were the upside-down red triangles on his face. "Finally, dude. Why the fuck did you sleep out here?" The boy said to Naruto, helping him up. He noticed the slight flinch when he reached The blond's arm, but he just ignored it. When Naruto was standing up, everybody else but triangle guy left. Naruto noticed a medium sized dog standing next to the boy. "What's your name blondie?"
Naruto gave a light-hearted glare at the boy. He was to tired to give his real glare. "Naruto, not blondie, dog-breath. Yours?"
"Kiba, not dog-breath, blondie. Nice to meet ya. But seriously, why the fuck did you sleep out here?" Kiba asked, looking at the blond, who just shrugged. Kiba laughed and hit Naruto's back. Naruto would have winced, if not for the fact that his back was already tingling. "Oh well. But seriously blondie, there's like 10 minutes until school starts. You better hurry." Naruto nodded and slowly walked off. Suddenly, he stopped. He turned back around and grabbed Kiba's shirt.
"Are you fucking serious? Shit!" Naruto yelled. He ran over to his bag, stripping his shirt off, tossing it next to his bag. He dumped out the contents and grabbed the first shirt he saw, which was an orange one with a black swirl on the back. He tugged it over his head quickly, making sure the swirl was on the back, and that he could see it. He stripped off his shorts and pulled on the first pair of jeans he could find, which was a pair of super dark-blue jeans with chains that connected the buckles that lined the jeans randomly down the legs. There were about 5 zippers per pant-leg. He threw all of his stuff into his bag, zipping up the backpack and throwing it to the side of the hallway.
He did this streaming cuss words and when he did, he looked at Kiba, who was looking from his watch to Naruto and back to his watch. For the first time, Naruto took a breath. "2 minutes and 12 seconds. Nice. Beat my record of 2 minutes 29 seconds. Let's go." Kiba said, leaving the field area and walking toward the south.
"I'm hungry though!" Naruto said, jogging up beside Kiba. He pouted and Kiba looked at the blond. Kiba shook his head.
"Okay. You can't wear that and pout like a five year old. It just won't happen, blondie." Kiba said. He looked away from the blond, glancing back momentarily. Naruto was still pouting. "They serve breakfast here. Grab a snack bar on the way out. Seriously, you look five when you pout." Kiba said. They walked past a snack bar table, and Naruto grabbed a handful. They walked to the next table and grabbed his schedule.
"What's first blondie?"
"I have music first. Guess they like my singing voice. I don't. Oh well." Naruto said, laughing. He decided to leave out the fact that he didn't find anything good about himself.
"Oh. Well, I have Pet Training. See ya around. Wanna eat lunch later?"
Naruto looked at Kiba with a strange look before he smiled. "Sure!" he said before running off toward the music room. He ran past different people with different ethnicity, not surprising to him. It was a world renowned school after all. He found the building and rushed in, breathing hard. He found his room and went in. There were chairs scattered around the small stage. There were people sitting around in the chairs. He just took a random seat in the back. Naruto may look like any other idiot in the room, but he wasn't that social. If you got to know him, or met him like Kiba did, you'd see his guard let down. Now, however, his guard was up and barricaded. The bell rang and a woman came up on stage. She was pale and had black hair that reached her shoulders.
"My name is Yuuhi Kurenai. I am your vocal music director and instrumental music director. Let's get strait down to business. Today, we're just going to have each person sing a random song. The lyrics are karaoke style, but this shouldn't be treated as karaoke. Sing the best you can. Now, first up is..." she paused, looking down at her roster. "Raphael Adis. When you come up, introduce yourself, home-country, language, and then the name of the random song on the screen."
Naruto laughed at some of the songs people got. The first person had gotten 'Everytime We Touch', which just had people laughing their asses off. Naruto was memorized by some people. He didn't think he could stand up to any of them though. Everybody had such amazing voices. Finally, after almost an hour, it was Naruto's turn. He stood up and walked to the stage. He looked at the screen behind everybody. He sighed. The one song he didn't want to sing is the one he has to. He looked at the crowd.
"Well...I'm Naruto Uzumaki. Born in Japan. Speak Japanese. And the song is Broken." Naruto said.
Naruto looked at the class before focusing in on a random dot on the back wall. He didn't need to look at the lyrics. Sure, this wasn't his style of music, but he new the song like the back of his hand. The music started and after humming the first few lines, he opened his mouth to sing. It sounded a lot like his favorite band, Simple Plan. He let the words slip from his lips, singing softly at the beginning of the song. He stood at the mic, gripping the stand and mic ever-so-softly. He didn't look at anybody, feeling that their smiling faces would throw him in a fit of hysteria that he was always on the verge of.
If you can take away all my love, what do I need you for?
If you can take away all these words, there's no meaning anymore.
You can take away everything, leave me lying on the floor
All those sorrys, we can't go back to the start
You can't fix me, I'm torn apart.
I wanna run away from love
This time I have had enough
Everytime I feel your touch
I'm broken
Shattered all the pieces of parts
Never thought I'd fall so hard
I'm putting back together my heart
It's broken
After the first chorus, Naruto took his hand off the stand and put them both on the mic. He found familiar raven eyes staring at him from the door. Naruto found himself staring, so he looked away, not letting it get to him.
You can take these photographs, and watch them fade away.
You can throw away all these letters, I don't care about what they say.
All those sorrys, there's a million reasons why
You can't mend me, don't even try.
I wanna run away from love
This time I have had enough
Everytime I feel your touch
I'm broken
Shattered all the pieces of parts
Never thought I'd fall so hard
I'm putting back together my heart
I'm broken
When he reached the high point, he couldn't control his curiousness. His eyes moved to stare into the dark abyss of the raven's. He picked up the mic and left a hand on the top of the stand. He kept singing. He was lost in the song, staring into the raven's eyes.
I know it's gonna take some time,
to finally realize
I've got nothin' left inside
Nothin' to hide
I'm broken!
I'm broken!
I've had it all, Whoh!
I'm broken!
I'm broken!
There's nothin' left inside
No, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Save me!
I wanna run away from love
This time I have had enough
Everytime I feel your touch
I'm broken
Shattered all the peices of parts
Never thought I'd fall so hard
I'm putting back together my heart
I'm broken
Save me!
Save..me...
I'm broken...
He put the mic back and put a fake grin on his face, smiling to the clapping crowd. The bell rang right after the music came to an end as if on cue. Kurenai-sensei appeared beside Naruto and looked at everybody.
"Okay class. That's all we have for today. We'll finish tomorrow. Goodbye." She said. Everybody looked at her momentarily before they stood up, grabbing their bags, and walked out the door. Naruto looked up right as he exited the door, just in time to avoid a collision with Sasuke. He looked at the smirk and looked away, not really wanting to deal with a teme right now. Of course, said teme had to say something.
"Nice voice dobe." Sasuke said, smirking. I kept my eyes downcast.
"Shut it teme!" Naruto yelled back. "Why are you here anyways? I have class to go to."
"Hn." Sasuke said, following the blond.
Naruto kept to himself until he was nearing his next class. He didn't need the raven to know his every class. "What is your deal? Following me?"
"Dobe. Ever thought I might be going to the same class"
Naruto kept to himself. He didn't want to admit that he was right. He didn't think of that. Naruto glanced at his schedule when he walked in the room to see who the instructor was. Hebi Orochimaru. It didn't faze him. He didn't know who the guy was. He sat at one of the black tables that sat two. Nothing was bothering him until Sasuke sat down next to him. Naruto internally groaned when he did, because girls where all over him in seconds. The only way to safety was for the teacher to walk in. The world must love Naruto today, because not only did the bell ring, but the teacher walked in. He had sickly pale skin, like paper. It was 20x paler than Sasuke's and his black hair hung to the small of his back. He ran his eyes over the class. His yellowed eyes stopping momentarily on Naruto, which made the blond grip his pants ever-so-slightly. He loosened his grip almost immediately, but Sasuke took notice.
"I am Hebi Orochimaru. Call me what you will. Today, we will be doing genetics. Take out two sheets of paper. On one's front, write down your physical traits, and on the back, write your parent's physical traits. On the second one, figure which genes you got from which parent, and if they may be recessive or dominate. Go!" He said. Naruto shivered. His voice was practically like his last name. Maybe this day wasn't so good.
The room filled with paper rustles and pencil taps. Naruto put down his pencil after five minutes, practically at the same time as Sasuke. Orochimaru was walking around, checking the work of the students. He stopped by and looked at Sasuke's paper, nodding in approval. His eyes glanced at Naruto's and then looked to the boy.
"Is there a problem? What's your name?" he said. Naruto's pointer finger and thumb pinched his thigh lightly. That voice sounded so familiar to him and he didn't know why.
"Uzumaki Naruto. And there isn't a problem." Naruto said, trying to get the snake away from him as fast as possible.
"Then why have you only filled out your traits. Do you hate you parent's or something and won't fill out physical traits of them?"
Naruto looked at his desk. He would have to lie through his teeth to get out of this one..."No. I just have some things on my mind. I apologize for it getting in the way of my work sensei. I'll try to do better tomorrow."
Orochimaru looked at the boy in amusement. "Okay. Be prepared to have a make-up assignment though."
"Yes sensei." Naruto said. With that, the snake walked away. Sasuke glanced at Naruto. He was really curious as to why the boy hadn't done the assignment in the first place. He wanted to ask, but that wasn't his thing. Nope.
Naruto found stuff to do until the end of class. He kept dodgeing questions of Kiba, who sat across the isle from him, and Orochimaru, who was constantly breathing down his throat. He even swore the man brushed his back with his hand. Nothing he couldn't handle though.
Naruto sat under a tree. He had run to his 3ed hour, getting lost. Only to be found at the end of the hour. His math teacher led him to his next hour. From what his math teacher, Sarutobi Asuma, said about the guy, he wouldn't have shown up anyway. The guy, Hatake Kakashi, apparently never even showed up to the first day of school. Or the second, and continued to be late the rest of the year. Naruto liked his math class. He actually understood stuff. It wasn't that hard. He had forgotten how to get back to the dorm for lunch, so he had no lunch. He go lost until he ran into his panicking history teacher, Umino Iruka, who was chasing papers lost to the wind. Naruto had helped him, and in return, the teacher hadn't counted him tardy. He just go out of his language class, taught by an English woman. Elizabeth Mustang. She had had long black hair, pale skin, and green eyes. She seemed to know the same languages as Naruto, but that was because of her memory. She also taught the Memory classes. Her last hour, language, was her only one. Naruto, again, got lost on the way to the dorm coming back from his language class.
So, here Naruto found himself. Sitting under a tree, gazing at the clouds go by. Wow. He sounded almost like his new friend Shika who was in his history class. His real name was Shikamaru, but Naruto was to lazy to call the lazy, cloud-lover by his full name. He shortened it to Shika. Anyway, he found himself sitting there, sighing to himself in frustration. Why in the world did he have to be cursed with such bad direction skills. It was probably why he had ended up in Ohio when Jiraiya had found him. That was the only time he was happy he was cursed with bad direction skills, all other times, it was just that. A curse. It was a good thing that he lived in a three room apartment. Bedroom. Kitchen. Bathroom. Though he still found himself wandering into the kitchen pantry when he was trying to get to the bathroom. Sad. It was only a 350 square foot apartment for god's sake.
"Blondie!" A voice yelled from behind him. Naruto snapped out of his daydreaming to look at his first friend in the school. "What are you doin' all the way out here?"
Naruto wondered if Kiba had good direction skills. "I...um...got lost." He said, sticking his nose slightly in the air. Kiba laughed at Naruto. "What about you dog breath?"
Kiba had to get his laughter under control before he answered. "Looking for you blondie! You had like, what, 2 granola bars for breakfast! I didn't see you at lunch, and you missed dinner! I was getting worried! But to know that you were lost is great. I didn't think that you would be that blond. Kinda sad actually."
"Shut up! I'm not that-wait. Did you say dinner is over? What time is it?"
"It's 7. That's why I was worried. School ended at about, 4. So you were lost for 3 hours? That means you haven't eaten since, what, 8?"
Naruto stared at his friend. He jumped up and grabbed Kiba by the shirt. He got really close to the other's face, despite that he was a bit shorted than the other. Only an inch though. He glared at the other like he had just told Naruto that he would die tonight. "Where. Is. The. Dorm?"
"Dude. Chill. Knowing a blondie like you, I could get you lost again and you wouldn't know what to do!"
"Take me to the fucking dorm! I'm starving my ass off and if I don't have any ramen in the next 15 minutes there will be blood shed. So lead the way dog breath!" Naruto shouted.
"Fine. Calm yourself blondie. I was joking anyway. Your not that far. It's over that hill."
Naruto looked at Kiba oddly. He climbed the rest of the way up the hill. "You have to be kidding me." he mumbled. Kiba laughed. Sure enough, the dorm was on the other side of the hill. It was a ways, but how Naruto managed to not only get off campus, but get about a few miles away was enough to confuse the two.
"How did you get out here?" Naruto asked Kiba.
"I was looking for good dirt-bike hills. I thought there would be some out here, so I thought I would multi-task. Find Naruto and hills. I found both. No sweat. I should be asking you the same thing, blondie."
"Ahh, but that is for me to know and for you to find out, young grasshopper."
Kiba looked at Naruto and laughed. "I'm older than you ya know."
"Whatever dog breath."
Naruto was panicking. This was his first night. Not any first night, but the first night he's gonna share a room with somebody since he left the house in New York. What if he had some weird sleep habit now. He always new how panicked he was after a nightmare, and the only thing that helped him was that he was alone in his apartment. Now? He didn't have that anymore. The night before, he was outside. Nobody there. Now? He would have somebody in the same 13 x 13 square foot room. Would he be okay?
He sat down on his bed after getting out of the bathroom. It was an adjoining bathroom, because he was moving into Sasuke's actual room, which had the only adjoining bathroom in the whole dorm. He was glad about that. He knew, for a fact, that he wouldn't be able to shower in something that open. He was barely able to shower in the private bathroom, that was locked. He had on orange sweatpants and a black tee-shirt. He looked up when Sasuke walked in with a basket and a paper, wearing black sweats and a navy shirt.
Naruto looked at the basket and practically drooled. The dorm had stopped serving food after dinner, and Naruto would normally have to wait till 11:30 for the snack bar to reopen, but Sasuke decided that letting his first roommate starve wouldn't look good on a resume. He could get anything, seeing as how this was his house, and these where his hired staff. Naruto wouldn't know that it hurt Sasuke to see the blond idiot in pain. He didn't know why, but he didn't. He dropped the basket of food onto the blond's bed. It barely hit the bed before it was attacked by a starving idiot.
"Dobe. Here."
Naruto looked at the paper taking it in his hand. He saw that it was a map of the school. In Japanese this time. Naruto held the paper to his chest while shoving a Reses Cup in his mouth.
"I'm in heaven." Naruto said between shoving another cup in his mouth.
"Hn." Sasuke grunted, sitting on his bed.
Naruto looked at the raven. He swallowed what was in his mouth and while he eyed the raven suspiciously. "Is this a habit of yours?"
Sasuke looked at Naruto like he was crazy. "What are you talking about dobe?"
Naruto set his basket of snacks on the floor and put his map under his alarm clock. "I'm asking if doing something nice then acting like a total asshole is a habit of yours."
"Hn. What's it to you idiot?"
"Teme! Don't call me that! Tell me if that's a habit of yours."
"I'll tell you if you tell me why you only did your traits in science today." Sasuke said. He just new that he would be an idiot and fall for the bluff.
"Fine!" score. Naruto glanced down at the floor. He had to make something up really quick. "This was my first day of school. I've been doing internet school since I was 13ish. It was weird to get into the flow of things. I wasn't focused."
Naruto thought he had done a good job. Of course he wasn't going to tell the teme that he was an orphan and didn't even know what his parents looked like. It wasn't the whole truth, but it wasn't a lie. Sasuke didn't buy it at all.
"Hn." he said before lying down and facing the wall away from Naruto.
"Teme!" Naruto shouted before huffing and lying down to face the other way. The bed was much comfortable than the hard ground and he was exausted from his near food-less, getting lost day. He closed his eyes and lost himself to sleep.
"Naruto." the man said as the sat next to Naruto. Naruto looked at the man. He had unruly brown hair and crazy brown eyes. His skin was yellow in the nightstand light he flipped on when he sat down. Naruto stood up quickly and tried to get off the bed and to the door. A hand caught his foot that lagged behind on the mattress, causing him to fall haphazardly to the floor. He scrambbled to get up and get away, but his young body was no use against the 38 year old man that was still holding onto his foot. "Silly child. I locked the door when I came in." With that, he let go of the blond's foot. Naruto tried to run, but he found that the man was right. The door was locked.
He knew he was cornered when he felt the man come up behind him. He felt a grip on each arm, air passing by his body, and the mattress under him once again.
"Please no. It just stopped hurting today. Don't do it again. I don't want it." The 8 year old Naruto begged the man standing next to him.
"Okay. You just have to let me see your hand. I think it tweaked in that fall." the man said, suddenly kinder.
Naruto gave his left hand to the man, but he struggled when he felt fabric. He couldn't resist the large male, and soon, both of his hands were tied to the iron-gate headboard with the man's belt.
"No. Please. Just leave me alone to-" Naruto started his begging again, but was silenced when the man's tie was suddenly in his mouth, being tied behind his head. Naruto had tears rolling down his cheeks. He wondered for a second if there would ever be a time when his tears would just stop.
The man climbed on top of Naruto. "You think I would let a child like you boss me around? You know your place don't you? You are a servant to us. Doing what the other kids can't. Your special child." his voice suddenly changed. "Be grateful we took you in. If it wasn't for us, you would be dying alone on the street."
Naruto managed to get the cloth out with his tongue. "I'd rather be on the streets than here." Naruto cried out. A punch to the side of his face was the response, along with the gag being replaced.
"Don't you fucking talk back to me you piece of shit!" the man yelled, punching Naruto in the gut. Naruto was crying again.
Suddenly, without Naruto realizing what was happening, like every night when it started, his pants were ripped off. "Ah. Look how beautiful you are Naruto. I want to fuck you so bad. I'm growing hard just looking at you. Your struggling is just making my dick get harder. I'm going to fuck you now till your senseless." the man said. He stood, stripping off his pants and crawling back onto the struggling blond. He spit on his hand and covered his dick with spit. "Just keep crying. Nobody will hear your screams. Your stuck here." he said. He grew even harder at the touch of his own hand and the sight of the struggling blond. Naruto didn't want it at all. He never wanted it. Why couldn't his mind just blank out? Naruto's legs were lifted up and spread open, despite the second wind to struggle against the man. Tears were falling even harder now. He just wanted to get away from this hell. The man, without preparing the young blond, thrust into him harshly.
Naruto screamed and started thrashing in his bed. He kept screaming and thrashing, tears falling down his face. He felt a hand shaking him from his side and he finally opened his eyes and saw a half pissed off, half concerned raven looking at him. Naruto's breathing was uneven and he was shaking.
"I think we need to talk." Sasuke said while Naruto sat up. He saw that it was 2:36am. He sighed and stood up, pushing past Sasuke, forcing himself to walk on his shaky legs. He knew he was way to used to the feeling.
"Go away and leave me alone." Naruto said as he walked out the door. He knew where he was going. The center field. He had to look at the stars. His only grip to reality. He didn't want to deal with anybody, and he ignored all the tired faces peering out the doors of their dorm. All of the guys took one look at Naruto and assumed restroom break. They went back to their beds to sleep. Sasuke shut the door, but couldn't go back to sleep. He watched out the window as Naruto layed down on the grass and gazed up at the stars.
"Hn." Sasuke said, staring at Naruto's tense form. He knew the blond was hiding something. Something big. And he wanted to know what. Uchiha's got everthing they ever asked for and more. Naruto would tell Sasuke, even if the raven had to force it out of the blond. For now, he would wait for a few weeks. Wait to see where it takes them. Where they may end up in a few weeks was all up to the fate he had never really trusted. What was it with the drama that seems to come with life anyway?
Sasuke and Naruto both fell asleep where they were. Naruto on the cold, hard ground, and Sasuke leaning against the window, the headboard jamming into his side. They both stared at black for the rest of the night in their dreams. Better than a nightmare and better than a dream. Both loved the idea of just having to stare at dark than succumb to the imagination of their beaten down subconscious.
Well? Do you like it? Was it worth the wait? I hope so. I put my heart into this...and that's hard to do on a very turbulent plane when trying to type in your ipod's notes...which shouldn't be tryed...fyi... I hope you all liked it...I know that this was mostly about Naruto, as was last chapter, but I'm going to lead into Sasuke in the next chapter...ya drama!...oh!...this was the longest by far. Over 5,100 words!...okay...it was 5,108...oh well...I hope you all liked it!...REVIEW!...Peace out...^_^...
