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It's Love

Chapter Two


BEEP, BEEP, BEEP.

Naruto opened his eyes and immediately ripped the plug out of his wall. "I hate that sound," the boy grumbled to himself, sitting up and running his hand through his messy blonde hair, which now, looked even worse than usual. He turned his head and looked at his alarm clock. "Wh-?" he began, staring at the blank spot where the number should have been. He looked down and realized he was still holding the plug which he had yet to put back into the wall. "Oh, right." He shoved the plug back into the wall and checked the time. "7:05 AM… Alright! I'll get ready then!" Naruto thought, jumping out of bed.

Meoooooow!

Naruto looked at his door as he heard it slowly creep open. "Ah! Kyuubi!" he shouted, kneeling down to pick up his small black cat with a smile. Mrow! was the kitten's happy response, with a quiet purr as the boy scratched the small animal on the head.

Naruto set Kyuubi down and looked at him. He had wanted a fox, but his dad told him that was a stupid idea and that it would probably destroy everything and attack everyone, so Naruto settled for a cat. He looked at Kyuubi. "Who do you remind me of?" he asked the cat, directing the question more toward himself. "Ah!" was the sound he made when a certain raven popped into his mind. "Him! What was his name… Sasuke, right?" The blonde shrugged and stood up, walking over to the door and slamming it shut before pulling off his shirt and tossing it into a basket that contained just about everything he'd worn the past week or so.

The boy pulled the gold-colored handle on his dresser and rummaged through the t-shirts in the drawer. Everything in the drawer seemed to have to do with ninjas, foxes, the Leaf, or was just plain colored (mainly just oranges, blues, blacks, and whites… mainly orange). He pulled out a plain black t-shirt and pulled it on before shoving the drawer shut and pulling out the one right under it, which was full of shorts. He grabbed a random pair, which happened to be orange basketball shorts. He put them on and grabbed a comb; he quickly brushed out a few tangles in his hair and threw the comb onto his nearly empty desk, and ran out the door. He jumped down the stairs and threw on his blue sandals.

As he dropped down onto the sofa in his livingroom, Naruto heard a voice call, "Naruto, come eat something. You can't keep skipping breakfast!"

Jumping up from the couch, Naruto shouted in response, "Fine! Coming!" He darted into the kitchen to see his dad leaning against the counter, drinking a cup of coffee, and seemingly waiting for whatever he had put in the toaster.

Opening the cabinet, Naruto eyed everything on the shelves carefully. Well, at least he was pretending to. It was obvious he was going after one thing: instant ramen. Upon spotting the small cup of Japanese noodles, he snatched it from the cabinet and began to open it, but was stopped by his dad.

"No!" Minato, Naruto's father, said rather loudly. "You are not eating ramen for breakfast; eat something else for once."

"Why not?! What's it matter, anyway?" Naruto questioned his father, obviously upset.

"It's unhealthy. If Kushina found out that you barely ate anything other than ramen, she would be angry…" Minato informed his son.

Naruto whined, "What could she do? She wouldn't know, anyway."

Minato looked at Naruto very seriously and said, "She's like a ninja, Naruto. She knows everything. It's dangerous." Naruto blinked and stared at his dad, slightly confused. "And I'm the one who she'll kill," Minato whispered looking a bit scared.

"Uh… Huh…" was Naruto's only response, looking at his father.

Minato cleared his throat and stated, "Anyway. You can't eat ramen. Make toast, pancakes, eggs, waffles, or whatever. Anything else." He snatched the cup of noodles away from his son and shoved it back into the cabinet, closing the door.

Naruto sighed and grabbed a banana. "Happy?" he asked, eating the piece of fruit. Naruto began to take the second bite of his banana, when he smelt something.. burning? "Hey, Dad… what's that smell? Is something burning?" he asked, turning toward his dad.

Minato's eyes widened as he turned to see his toast, which he put in the toaster several minutes ago, burning and smoke rising from the toaster. "CRAP!" he shouted, yanking the plug out of the wall. "...I put it in for too long."

Naruto smirked and chuckled at his father, "I'm glad I don't learn to cook from you… I'm leaving now, so bye!" Naruto tossed his banana peel into the garbage after finishing it. He turned and jogged out the door, grabbing his bag as he ran by.

Jogging along the sidewalk on his way to his school, Naruto looked to the side and saw a convenience store. Slowing down to a stop, he shoved his hand into his school bag and pulled out a wallet and checked how much money he had. "$30… Good enough," he thought, putting the money back into his wallet and walking into the small store.

Looking around, Naruto walked over to where they kept cans of pop, juice, and energy drinks. He pulled out a small red can from the shelf and turned to walk toward the cashier, when he noticed a familiar face. "Sakura!" he thought happily, looking at the very pink girl-she was dressed head to toe in pink. Pink hair, headband, shirt, skirt, and shoes. Even her schoolbag was pink! Well, at least she looked good in it.

Naruto smiled as he began to run up to Sakura, but stopped when he noticed another familiar person. Sasuke walked up to the counter and handed the cashier a bottle of pop to purchase. Sakura smiled brightly when she noticed him; she ran up to him and shouted, "Hi, Sasuke!"

Naruto hid in an aisle and peered around the edge of a shelf. He watched as Sakura happily clung to Sasuke's arm. Sasuke dropped the money to pay for his drink on the counter and took the bottle from the cashier as he was dragged out of the store by the girl. The raven had an obviously annoyed look on his face as he shoved the girl away. Naruto didn't notice Sasuke pushing Sakura away; he was too busy angrily buying his drink.

After arriving at school, Naruto trudged straight to his locker. "Stupid Sasuke," he thought to himself. "What gives you the right…" He turned the lock, carefully watching the numbers as he attempted to get his combination right by memory-which he successfully did. As he opened his locker, it made an irritating creaking sound. shoving his bag into his locker, he slammed his locker shut and headed toward his classroom.

Stepping into the room, Naruto instantly spotted his desk and plopped down onto the hard seat. He turned to his left to see an annoyed Sasuke sitting there, and two seats ahead of him, just in front of Ino's desk, a depressed Sakura.

Iruka walked into the crowded room and cleared his throat loudly. "Everyone, sit down."

Everybody listened and sat as the teacher had told. "As a welcoming gift to this school, on the second day, you will have homework," he told them, smiling at the boos he received in response.

"And, a common excuse I get from students for not doing their homework would be that they simply didn't know what they were supposed to do. But someone has to know what it is, right? So right now, I want everyone to get at least five phone numbers from your classmates. That way, if you don't know, you have a few people to call up and ask." With that, everybody jumped up and ran around looking for the specific people they just had to get the phone numbers of.

Naruto didn't get up. He already had several phone numbers from that class, after all. Hinata, Sakura, Kiba, Ino, and Chouji are already five (though he already had more than five). He looked next to himself at Sasuke; all the girls were trying to give him their numbers and get his, but he ignored them.

Iruka looked at Sasuke for a minute then walked up to Naruto. "Give him your number, at least," he whispered to Naruto.

Naruto glared at the teacher. "Yeah, right… Why should I? Make someone else!" he grumbled.

Iruka smirked. "Do it, or I'll tell your dad about the time you-"

Naruto cleared his throat loudly, interrupting the man. "Fine," he said, ripping a piece of paper out of his notebook and jotting down his number. He'd known Iruka all his life; Iruka had taken care of him when he was just a baby, and he was also his fifth grade teacher (though now he teaches high school, obviously).

Naruto slapped his number onto Sasuke's desk and told him, "Throw it away if you want, but Iruka told me to give it to you."

Sasuke barely looked at the boy before the bell rang and Naruto was out of the classroom. He picked up the slip of paper and left the room as well, following after the crowd of people shoving through the doorway.


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5-30-14